DAILY, | EXCEPT SUNDAY Wel. I
a
San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, April 6 » 1960
No. 133
maths
Humphrey Leading K ennedy In Wisconsin. Primary Count
Fatalities Reach One-a-Day Pace
Nixon's Total
By BOB BONE And RALPH ANGLADA © | As Puerto Rico’s traffic aceident death toll for 1960 reached unprecedented proportions, the head of the Police
Way Behind MILWAUKEE sota’s Sen. holding
precarious
Massachusetts’.
nedy
last
ocratic yp
The
(AP)—Minne-... Sen.
night
Ken-
the’
Dem-
featuring
Presidential
The.
death
the
the
year,
an
one
death
a
358
14,666
of
JOHN KENNEDY
131,537
by
some
10,000
votes. .
The Massachusetts Senator presumably was gaining strength in the urban areas. Early
counting
reflected
/
| With a fifth.of the precincts reported, Humphrey had a lead of
almost
8,000;
at. the
one-third
mark he was almost 10,000 ahead and then .a reverse trend started
to show’
itself.’
No Press Meet For Ike. _ WASHINGTON
(AP)-Presi-
dent Eisenhower his weekly news
will not hold conference to-
day
because
gagements, nounced.
of
full
busimess
the White |
House
en-'
an-
HUMP
ne at ‘Leads
'
of
since
Present
almost
the
ar
to
budget for the current fiscal year, Both the departments of industrial promotion and tourism to Rito by
scheduled for increases in 144-page budget submitted
Fomento
Administrator
Teo-
doro Moscoso ‘to Legislative Committees. The economic agency’s commercial
development
depart-
ment is slated for a slight reduc-. tion. However, the largest increase: —$116,586— was requested for general administrative expenses,
which are- budgeted, to rise to $1,762,475 in fiscal 1961, Listed in this were increases
of $11,462to fill staff positions and $27,000 for the to improve’ mnowledge
campaign * of Puer-
Also
on the mainland. included was $6,000 for for
~ STAR Te Announce Ten Best Dressed’ A panel. ‘of 14 judges, all experts in the ‘world of fashion, has completed the STAR’s First Annual “Ten * Best Dressed .Women” selections, Watch for the aninouncement in the STAR of Friday, April 8, when
' stories and photos of Puerto Rico’s: “Ten Best Dressed | Wonisn" will be published.
Fomento/s
general
and. law libraries, and for replacement - of worn-out equipment. Fomento program
has
requested
$40,000 for in
the
its
an
ad-
research
develapment
of,
local industries. This ¥program, which is in progress, was undertaken
jointly with
Business
the WU. S. Small
Administratian
The | proposed
-budget
calls
for an increase in the Appropriation for industrial development department to $1,760,500, up $27,365 from 1960. | an
in
increase
ditional
incréase
field
of
this
of
category
was
$21,202
for
ad-
employes
and
an
$6,584
in| coniracts
for. consulting’ services. Also listed was $15. program ‘to- teach |; and offer—. technical
PR Hearings Asked
the present total with 25 days of
on
traffic April,
accidents eight
left
in
response in
.by
persons
the
end
less
than
the
month.
to
aroused
‘the
past
;
public
few
days,
Police’. Traffic Galo Segarra
Division .Chief Lt. released a state-
ment
to
seeking
from
blame
for
absolve
the
police
recent
up-
swing. in traffic-deaths this year. About
150
phoned
the
persons
have
department
tele-
concerned
about: automobile deaths recorded by police over Saturday, Sunday
purchases
ditional
average,
of auto accident number 358 by the
Confempt Cliations Of 13 Witnesses At |
driving
in of
reaction
its
are the
Rate
the same
{
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cons tempt preceedings were | yesterday recommended to Coligress | by the House Un-American. Activi+. ties Committee’ against 13 wit+— nessés‘ who: proved balky at. last November’s: San Juan hearings
In
, By FREDERICK HARMON Fomento: has sibealtted a proposed 1961 budget of $4,431,800 the Commonwealth Legislature, an: increase of $205, 445 over
‘Included
-
showed. that
year
end of this year, in Puerto Rico, as compared with last year’ s total of only 273. Last year, 86 persons were dead
[Fomento Submits ‘61 Bu get Of 34, 431,800; Upped 5 P t.
for]
the most part returns from the rural areas where the polls closed a half-hour earlier than the balloting stations in’ the metropolitan areas, | Still to be counted; apparently, were many votes from .Milwau-
kee.
HUBERT
» +. Traits
At one point ‘in the counting} Kennedy trailed Humphrey
At
the number deaths’ would
3,446
Kennedy 130,372 Nixon 112,058
the
average
day
“Maintaining
©
precincts in the state gave these unofficial totals: “Humphrey
for
began.
Prima-
On- the Republican side, Vice, President Richard Nixon was on the ballot by himself, from
count
was 94 yesterday, the 96th day of
ry.
Returns
followed a report which
for that month since the police began keeping records. °
over
John
in
contest
nenensin
lead
official's statement
q
death toll here of 34 people killed in accidents; in March is the highe t
Hubert Humprhey was
a
_
Department’s traffic division yesterday. placed ‘the: blame on “drivers who have lost their sense. of responsibility.”
and cial
Monday, said.
a
department | out
Absolves
Police
Replying to them, Segarra said yesterday that ‘‘the blame should not fall on. the police. Those who are
responsible
are
alleged
Puerto
Communist
A committee
spokesman suid :
the citations would pass Congress
“like water
through. a sieve.’ '
He said “there is no questian
that we have jurisdiction down there.” . He -was- apparently [re-
ferring to the witnesses’ refusal
to answer committee | questions on the grounds that, it lacked jurisdiction in Puerto Rico. | Contacted by the STAR in Washington, where he ag yesterday, Gov. Luis, Munoz
rin said that while Congressional committees have the night to in-
drivers) vestigate
the
attivity, in
Rico.
matters
in, Puerto
Rico
who: have lost their sense of res- to study possible Federal, legis(See DEATHS, Page 21) | (See CONTEMPT, Page 21) Sth
Gamble, Andre Reported Married NEW Gamble
YORK.
In Mexico City
(AP) <. Heiress
Benedict
and
her
Rou-
manian-born lover, Andre Porumbeanu have vanished. and reports
magistrate. Porumbeanu dered
day.
to appear
was (or-
in court Thurs-
But they can’t be found.
Gamble,.
20,
left
© Briardlift
they
were
married in Mexico City. Already a ward.of the
School at noon Monday, failed to keep a 6 p.m. appointment ani
court
did
because
Paris
here
yesterday:
of
said
her
flight
to
in- | with Porumbeanu last Christmas, Gamble’s arrest on a wayward
-| minor warrant
charge
was ordered
issued.
by
a
in a
Brooklyn
not
mother’s
show
home
Porumbeanu,
up
at, her
Monday
35,
had
grand--
night. ‘been
ving under an alias reportedly
i+
at