the San Juan Star
DAILY © EXCEPT SUNDAY Vol. I No, 143
San Juan, Puerto Rico,
Tuesday, April 19, 1960
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Dominican Ship Here Facing Union Boycott ~
Total DR Ban May 15 Talked By Dock Men
Castro Claims Guantanamo Aids Plotters
By
. By BOB BERRELEZ HAVANA (AP) — Prime Minister Fidel Castro yesterday charged U.S. authorities
at Guantanamo
Naval
|,
jillo regime
with
Base
said
nuel
in
Beaton,
Castro’s
rebel tra.
band
former
army
who
in
the
Sierra
a+}
Maes-
to Havana
ba,
where
last
week
the
from
eastern
Cu-
a search
for
prime
directed
in-your
despite
The das,
|
The ‘“‘pay-as-you-go” tax plan, part of which was adopted in 943, was developed by Ruml as
e said from the “personal and
to
a
Perez
work
UTM
vessel’s Co.
the
contract
local
Roa,
president said
agent,
president
of
yesterday
on
Dominican
all
firms
of
the
Bordas
he
was
dis-
sanctions
imports
were
dealing.in
provided
extended
to
Dominican
products. But he objected to the proposed ban on Dominican’ cement alone, which he termed “discriminatory” against his import-
ing
firm.
There is talk that beginning May 15, the dock unions may clamp down on all shipping between Puerto Rico and Santo Do-
mingo. The proposed boycott (See BOYCOTT, Page 4)
PR Migrants In Fla.
Develop-
sorrow.”
refuse
posed to “cooperate” in a boycott
the
ment Administration, a- member of the board for the Government Development Bank, and a member of the Finance Council, the Governor’s Advisory Body. A frequent visitor to Puerto Rico, he held the latter two positions up to the time of his death. Last night, Gov. Luis Mufioz Marin sent the following cable to Ruml’s widow: “To the great loss that the death of Beardsley Ruml represerits to the government and the people of Puerto. Rico, both of which he served With such devotion and effectiveness, is added the deep sense of loss of those of us who valued him as a good and trusted friend. Ines and I, along’ with the _people of Puerto Rico, join you
may
ship,
& Co., youthful Luis Manuel Bor-
Beardsley Ruml, a_ business executive who had served as advisor to the Puerto Rican ‘government since 1940, died at his home in Danbury, Conn, yesterday. - Ruml, who “Became nationally famous for his_ development of the pay-as-you-go income tax plan, succumbed after a brief illness. He was 65 years old. For Puerto Rico, he was a conEconomic
Cement
make an “official” statement on the situation this morning.
minister
Government Long
the
“Colon”
CIO)
Juan
Dies; Served PR
to
today
the UTM, said last night he would
Beardsley Rumi»
sultant
of
with the Bordas &
Castro made the eharge in an interview aboard a plane bringing him
start
line in front
Longshoremen belonging to the Dock Workers Union (UTM-AFL-
captain
heads
LIDIN
aboard.
to make a out of Ma-
a
may
a picket
bags
eastern ~ Cuban
Plotters ‘are trying revolutionary leader
J.
of the Dominican freighter Rio Haina, which docked here yesterday with 32,000
were connected with count-| errevolutionary plotters in eastern Cuba. : Castro
HAROLD
Direct action by Puerto Rican labor against the Tru-
Strike Over Wages PRINCETON, Fla. (® —’ About SITE OF VISION—This is the makeshift altar in the ruinsof an old home in Arro300 Puerte-Rican migrants struck yo where many people claim to have seen a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Unfor: payment of back wages on @ identified man points to cloth drapery where he said the Virgin’s head appeared. Outline of a body and haloed crown seem visible as result of light effects created by - farm here ‘yesterday, and isolated fist fights broke out among thd (STAR photo by Bob Bone.) cameraman’s flash.
workers. Workers: at the John Campbell Co. refused to pick strawberries until their back wages were paid,
Did The Virgin Really Appear? By PAUL ARROYO=They gin appeared last
RYAN say the Virweek in the
southern town of Arroyo which sits
nodding,
accepting
in its palms by the Who are “they?”
the
sea. Two
sun
chil-
dren who went to cut grass for their animals in’ the sugar cane
fields and said they Blessed Virgin Mary. Twelve-year-old
saw
Victor
the
Luis
humane desirability of removing Rivera told police he was on from millions of titizens the con: his hands and knees picking stant threat of unpaid tax debt.” ‘grass to feed to his . goat: and
pig when he looked over his shoulder and saw an apparition.
blurred.
His
are
10-year-old
sister
Violeta
was at his sife, a clump of grass in her hand. The ‘Virgin’ | spoke: “Be a good boy and don’t be afraid of me.” The vision then addressed the little girl. “Bring me ‘some bread and water.” Story Becomes Blurred And then? The apparition
and the story fades and becomes
fanindistinguishable. We
The
facts
and
the
Some said they $150 coming.
had
as
much
ag
Oris Burkett, farm superintendent, said 10 cents an hour ha been withheld from each migrant’ cynicism. The ‘Virgin’ -reportedly ap- pay, under an agreement. They peared to the children in the were to get the money ‘at the end ruins of an old sugar cane mill. of the. picking season. said they had = Workers She was silhoutted in one corner season would en the promised of a crumbling brick archway and supposedly spoke to the April 15. Fights erupted when a minorit children over a distance of 25of boys insisted they wanted feet. She appeared the size of go on picking. a small woman, they said. Burkett said the migrants wi The old sugar cane mill is be needed only for twe mor tasies
are
left
to
our
beliefs,
(See VISION, Page 20)
our
weeks.
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