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Truck Kills Errand ‘Mama, Makes Burly Dock Aides Cry By BOB BONE and
Then, as the day shift ended, -the old-lady would take up her post at the pillar to say goodA 75-year-old woman nick- bye or to thank workers for the named “Mama” by employees of small change they gave her. the Bull Lime’s Pier eight was It was against this pillar that struck and killed yesterday by she was pinned as the truck tractor-trailer as she stood at exited from the pier shortly bethe same spot she had frequented fore she was due to go home for RALPH
for about
ANGLADA
30 years
receiving
pen-
nies from her friends. Burly dockworkers broke down and
cried
when
they
heard
supper
the
big
yesterday
semi
The
turned
tractor
right,
of
the
trailer: didn’t quite make the
woman
was
in the
Action On Grievances
it, and
BULLETIN
way.
. SEOUL (AP) (Wednesday) President Syngman Rhee “Mama” was Puerto Rico’s has formally submitted his resignation, Foreign Minis‘> 123nd traffic death since the be- Hugh Chung announced today. ginning of this year. SEOUL, Korea (AP) — South Korea’s strongman in Arecibo at 3 p.m. yester-| Syngman Rhee’s 12-year rule was tottering near colla day, three-year-old Lourdes Cruz yesterday as Parliament, backed by thousands of. triumHernandez was killed in front of her house along Highway No. phantly uproarious student demonstrators, demanded Rhee resign as president of the republic he founded 12 ve: (See TRAFFIC, Page 24) ago. (In Washington the United States prodded the So out «
o
ices
the
er
news witnesses said. Following the 5 p.m, accident, the driver of the truck, Delfin de Jesus Montafiez,
54,
immediately
the people.”
to
Municipal
pick-
Hospital.
She
died on the operating .table. Petra Perez Marquez, who lived at 19 Olta St., had been a familiar
figure
the gate decades. regularly 3 p.m. to workers change,
next
to
the
pillar
of
to the pier for three She would show up at the pier at about run coffee errands for who let her keep the |
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PR Pineapple
Plant For Sale| By
FREDERICK
The
Puerto
Land
ity’ the
is considering the Government-owned
ple
canning
factory
company, David ecutive director ity,
said
to
By
Author-
Rodriguez, exof the Author-
yesterday,
highway No. 2, near Barceloneta. He said the concerns interested
in
acquiring
Corozal Canning ‘owned firm with rozal, and
the
plant
were
Co., a locallya plant in Co-
California
Packing
Co.,
of San Francisco. Cal Pak, a major U.S. producer of canned foods and juices, retails many of its products under fhe Del Mon-
te label. Entered
Business
In
1953
The Land Authority first en- tered the pineapple canning business in 1953. In that year, the Authority leased a small cannery near Manati and purchased all of the concern’s
equipment.
The
Au-
thority decided to enter the canning business to encourage de(See PINEAPPLE, Page 24)
fest-
of
os:
BERRELLEZ
(AP)
Institute
—
of
The
Na-
Agrarian
Re-
form (NIAR) has expropriated more than 170,000 acres of land of United Fruit Company in the eastern region of Cuba. The
a private
for possible sale situated just off
act
representatiy
ROBERT
tional
United
In an interview after his lunch-
two concerns of the plant,
And
HAVANA
sale -of pineap-
eon speech to the San Juan Chapter of the Exchange Club, Rodriguez said the Authority was in preliminary negotiations with
to
grievances
Cuba Grabs UFC Spread
HARMON
Rico
the
of the 14 Allied nations who fought in the Korean War v. called into a meeting yesterdoy to confer on the situation in Korea. In a joint communig'e they asked for a speedy d cratic solution to the Korear crisis.) All-Night Demonstrations After all-night demonstrations in Seoul against his government, the 85-year-old Rhee offered to resign the presidency, ordered new elections for president and vice president and promised to hand executive power over to a (See KOREA, Page 24)
ed up the’ woman and leaving his truck, sped with her in a taxi
Government
to “redress
TROUBLE IN KOREA—Shouting and gesturing, a pair of students attempt to harass Soldier a South Korean soldier during renewed violence in the capital city of Seoul. (AP photo.) wears gas mask and holds rifle with bayonet.
Democrats Yield To Cancio On Name;
Benitez
Scoffs At Claims
The pro-statehood Democratic Party faction here yielded yesterday 'to .an opinion of Secretary of Jtistice Hiram Cancio that the
The Cancio opinion was requested by Secretary of State Roberto Sanchez Vilella, who must rule
label
ed
“Democratic
Party’?
can-
on the legality by
32
of
of a petition
Benitez’
followers
tiny
Culebra
The
challenge
that the refusal of the Muftoz ad-
Governor Mufioz’s organization, the Popular Democratic Party. Benitez scoffed at the Cancio opinion, announced Monday, that the name Democratic might cona Voters.
movement, which will be known as the Democratic Party.”
Jast
on
not appear on the ballot here next November. But pro-statehood Democrat Jose)|A. Benitez voiced his belief ministration to permit the use of the name Democratic Party will “never. block the growth of our
island
sign-
to its legality
because
the
Party”
conflicts
term with
month. arose
“All Puerto Rico knows of
that the
the
United
States is unrelated with that local party called ‘Popular Democratic,’ despite the efforts of the present
administration to assault with its great
resources
‘‘Democratic
ganization
the name
Popular
of
Party
our
which Party
legitimate
antedates
in
Puerto
of
a
or-
the Rico,”
stated Benitez. Under
cover
“supposed”
democracy, Benitez added, serious violations of democratic practice have: recently ocurred in Puerto (See
DEMOCRATS,
Page
firm
NIAR
in
its
Monday
said
the
be
Of Conflict Democratic
States
here
con-
firmed it had been officially notified of the land expropriation. The expropriation was -based on the agrarian reform law which limits land possession to no more than 30 caballerias — a caballeria is -equivalent to 33.3 acres.
24)
permitted
announcement company
would
to retain 30 cabal-
lerias. The expropriation order, issued by a judge of the court in Mayari, in the’ Province of Oriente, does not include the
railway
lines nor the mill
equip-
ment.
Capt.
Antonio
executive stated
Nunez
secretary
on
April
Jimenez,
of
6 that
NIAR,
the
Unit-
ed Fruit Company would receive 6,118,407 pesos in bonds payable
in 20
years,
for
the
272,472
acres of land it owns in Cuba. The company has indicated the value of these lands and its properties
in
Cuba
is
$38
million.