the San Juan Star
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY Vel. I
No. 141
San Juan, Puerto Rico, Saturday, April 16, 1960
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Castro Seizes Ferre Enterprise Property Revolucion Says Plant Was Aided By Batista
Police Hunt Kidnapers After| Peugeot Boy s Safe Release By
ULYS
H.
YATES
By HAROLD J. LIDIN ; The Castro regime has seized the partly Puerto Ricoowned Titan cement plant in Santiago, Cuba, according to the semi-official newspaper Revolucion. The plant, described as the largest of Cuba’s three
PARIS (AP) — Police ,roadblocks ringed the capital last night as authorities pushed a massive nappers
manhunt for the kidwho held for ransom
cement plants, is 29 per cent owned by local industrialist
and then released unharmed fouryear-old
Eric
and statehood leader Luis Ferré Enterprises.
Peugeot,
A close watch
was being
kept}.
:
The
at all airports and frontier points.
that
two
men
and
a woman
had been arrested for the kidnapping turned out to be a hoax. Eric, son of wealthy automaker Roland Peugeot, was let out |of the kidnappers’ from his parents
car
as
not far apartment
found
the
day
say anything about the lion france ($100,000)
crying
HAPPY PARENTS—Mr. and Mrs. on Thursday.
The
Roland Peugeot
boy, grandson
naire Jean-Pierre Peugeot, had ransom. (AP Photo).
Puerto PRIEST
Washington
in
Correspondent
WASHINGTON— Space scientists are planning to hand Puerto
While
Eric
-played
happily
Rico
tion’s
it was the only way to achieve what we wanted—the recovery of our child.” in
the ‘Peugeot apartment with the hew toys his family and well (See KIDNAP, Page 25)
Andres
are
said
yesternot
been
Bermudez,
comptrol-
a major
next
big
Sometime
role
in
satellite
the
na-
shot.
before
July
rocket
is
an
for
$100,000
To
well, servicemen will be receiving
some of their house-keeping orders from the United States by way
of
outer
Details
use
of
space. the
satellites
for
attempt
a military project in .cen-
to streak from its launching pad at Cape Canaveral carrying a
sored testimony released day by a House Defense
yesterAppro-
500-pound satellite cramméd with electronic equipment.
priations subcommittee. The initial test calls
Thor
scheduled
communication “courier” were
newest
for
use
Rico’s
traffic
fatality
toll for 1960 mounted
to 109 with
two deaths day.
late
The
deaths
reported
Thurs-
violations in the metropolitan area since
Francisco was
occurred
as
police,
in a stepped-up traffic campaign, reported. they -had handed out more than 500 tickets for traffic
Wednesday
Felix which into Km.
killed
night.
Alvarez when
Figueroa, car
driven
55, by
Gonzalez «- Jesus, 35, in Alvarez was riding; plunged the Naguabo River near 74 at Naguabo.
with
favors
Page
in-
25).
an
experimental
ground
sta-
program is under of the Advanced
Research Projects agency. The army signal corps is constructing the Puerto Rico base station. The
“courier”
series
payloads
will consist of a complex assortment of transmitters, receivers and
tape
(See
recorders.
SATELLITE,
At
least
Page
one,
25)
In the Espinosa section of Dorado, Santiago Berez Torres, 72, of Dorado, was killed when he hit
by
a
car
VANDENBERG
driven
by
AFB,
(AP)—Discoverer
XI
Caiif.
rocketed
spaceward yesterday in a new Air Force attempt to find a way to bring men safely back from future satellites. The missile roared up into the sky at 3:31 p.m. (EST).
A few minutes later the Air Force announced that the se cond stage had ignited on schedule,
kicking
tion of the
the
satellite
rocket
por-
southward
to-
ward an orbit around the earth’s poles. Air Force officers said later that the 19-foot long satellite achieved an almost perfect orbit,
circling
the
every 92 At the
earth’s
poles
once
the
1,700-
minutes. : closest point
today the second rocket, if orbiting,
on
the
satellite’s
17th
scheduled, trip
around
the
earth,
kick
out
a
which
300-pound
planes
from down
will
try
the air as it near Hawaii.
The capsule — package—contains
ments
for
tions
man
first,
goes
sules are Eventually, out, larger
into
to
snatch
parachutes a 300-pound only instr 1-
sampling will
to
capsule,
the
meet space.
cot di-
when
he
Later
JZap-
to carry monkeys. if the system proves packages may ! ‘ans-
(See DISCOVERER,
Page
ee
Wakefield's ‘sland’
Up To 109 was
Launched In | Recovery Try!
is
tion in Puerto Rico and a mobile communications unit on the mainland. The the direction
Discoverer Xi
Sometime stage of the
Shot
of
in
| pound satellite will be 109 miles from the earth, at its farthest, 380 miles.
Major
Highway Death Toll Now Puerto
them
SEIZURE,
Play
called disclosed
Force
showered
Satellite
If all goes Puerto Rico
to Air
of multimillio-
held
besides the cement firm have been intervened. Revolucion charged that the Babun brothers had close ties with the Batista regime which (See
In Big
By WALTER STAR
been
Rico
Role
out the aid of police,” he told newsmen yesterday. I, believed
here
of Cementos Nacionales. According to Revolucion, a half-dozen Babun_ enterprises
harmed
the boy’s father had paid the ransom in gold coins. Roland Peugeot would - only confirm that he had dealt with the kidnappers. “T acted absolutely alone with-
sources
ler
‘Shown aboard the French liner Liberte in July, 1954. Their son, Eric, 4, whe was kidnapped April 12 was returned un-
.-.as a baby
government
the plant itself has
as
to
ERIC PEUGEOT |
a
ing the Babun “individual” holdings in the cement factory. The source of information was given
50 milransom
demanded by the kidnappers. One report—not confirmed—said that
of
seized and that the Castro antigraft squad is merely investigat-
child and took him to a nearby cafe where police were called.
Family Refused To Talk The Peugeot family refused
part
But,
man had grabbed him from the children’s playground of a country club.
passerby
whose
crackdown on the empire of the Santiago industrialists, brothers Ibrahin and Teofilo Babun, Revolticién reported. The Babuns hold 71% of Titan stock.
early yesterday morning. Some 56 hours earlier a dark-haired
A
plant,
corporate name is Cementos Nacionales, was “intervened” by Castro’s Department for Recovery of Properties
Police were deluged with tips but - admitted’ they had little concrete information. One report
Titan
A. Ferré and his associates gee
Li-
berto Rivera Rivera, 21, of Dorado. A total of eight others were injured in traffic accidents Thursday.
To Resume Monday The
tion
of
“Island
STAR’s
Dan In
be resumed
seriatiza-
Wakefield’s
The
City”
will
on Monday
when the 11th installment will be published.