Ponce Area Hit By New Floods — Houses Swept| Away, Families Evacuated many
washed
three,
more,
away
and
were
families
cuated from their homes
eva-
as heavy
rains swelled rivers and streams in the southern sector of the island
yesterday.
Civil
defense
officials
an all-night alert and ficials were standing to open
schools
homeless Ponce
were
to families
made
Juan
H.
Cintron said eight families had been taken to the CD control
center
aftér
high
Rico,
Sat urday,
rains
forced
them -from their homes 25th of January section
in the of Pon-
Families
of the Canas River on the
Ponce-Adjuntas
that na
highway,
the Jacaguas Diaz
lease
had
three
injuries (In
River
homes.
have San
No
been Juan
By HAROLD
and
The
in Juaat
two
deaths
or
Puerto Rico.
reported. late
south
central
The
portion
of
fuga
_
the
Santa
that
heavy
Federal
| It
is-
to
against
said
was
terday
Rainfall
FLOODS,
Bureau
4)
Car]
were
area
official of the office
of
Crouch’s
on
corruption
jin
Clemente
Ruiz
Nazario
of
the
Labor-Manage-
still
office is charg-
SAN FRANCISCO
(AP)
- The
California Court yesterday for the third time rejected a petition for
clemency for death row author Caryl Chessman, whose ninth
anti-racketeering
statute,
(La-
bor-Management
Reporting
and
Disclosure
of
the
Act
Bureau
fice
ba
Friday
Cofre. that
Miami
Chessman’s Late Appeal Is Rejected
ed with enforcing compliance here with the Landrum-Griffin
on the hunt for the third man in the $68,000 holdup of Pedro SilPabon, co-owner of El Headquarters reported
yesterday
and
yes-+
Crouch,
racketeering in both the San Juan and Ponce waterfront.
Third Gunman Still At Large Police late last night
out
crime
Judge
ment and Reports, a Federal agency, has arrived in Puerto Rico to probe into alleged
report from Page
Court
also disclosed,
-that
Miami
rains in the mountains north of Ponce cause the Portugués River to overflow.
reached
waterfront
District
high-ranking
Bureau
(See
fronts
J. LIDIN
government
yesterday ruled he had jurisdiction to decide on a demand by dissident members of the Dock Employes Union that ' monitors be placed over the Scandal-scarred union.
yesterday
afternoon the U.S. weather bureau issued a flood alert for the land from Isabel.
Federal
away
carried
paid ico
Miami Prober Arrives
Evacuated
He said three families were evacuated from the overflowed
banks
Second-ciass postase 4at Sse Juaa Puerto
iTeamsters Act Tough;
ce. Three
April 30, 1960
P.R. Waterfront
on
school ofby, ready
by floods. CD Direetor
Juan, Puerto
Feds Investigate
pos-
houses
San
in
San
Also,
an of
illegality,
1959)
opens
a
until
branch
of-
date with Monday.
Juan.
incident alleged
reported
labor
involved
a
union
supposed
as
death
is set for 10 a.m.
The vote was 4 to 3, the same that in which the court pre-
viously plea.
.rejected
the
clemency
they found the station wagon the trio used for their getaway
attack by Teamster members on a milk truck driver between
The court said the action “is final and forthwith, banning any
on Road 2 near’ the municipal crematory, but no signs of either
Bayamon and alleged victim
rehearing
the
fugitive
or the
money.
oJ
Two suspects arrested Thursday, Gabriel (Willie) Maldonada
TURKISH
Dipini and Luis M. Cestau Nieves, were still in jail in lieu of
New demonstration against Turkey’s Premier Menderes. violence broke out yesterday in three cities. See story page
$10,000 bail. Police said
a keen eye had alerted New York, Islands as a
they
were
keeping
on the airport but authorities in both Miami and Virgin matter of routine.
bh e
Harry Golden's Son
tanbul
2.
be much nicer to son, a professor.”’ Harry
Golden,
visit whose
with
a
column
appears in the STAR three times weekly, is also the author of “Only in America” and “Fot 2
Cents Plain.”
his
DRAWS pistol
as
GUN—A students
palicé officer iinn Ts: approach
him
during
Wirephoto.)
Baja. Felipe
The Ri-
STAR
WALTER
WASHINGTON Maritime
The were
Correspondent
—
The
Federal
Board yesterday
upheld
Board entitled
ruled
the
to higher
meet rising wage Commonwealth
carriers charges
to
Punta Las Marias Picked As Site For
“is
strik-
Driver Rivera was hospitalized WATERFRONT,
ing
East Coast and Gulf ports and Puerto Rico. The decision climaxed a three-
sular attorneys are considering whether-to contest the decision in
year battle, believed to be the longest in the board’s. history, between the Commonwealth gov-
Court
major
ernment
range
and four steamship
com-
panies carrying bulk cargo here. The gase involved the Bull Insular Line Inc., Waterman Steamship
Corp.,
Inc., and
Alcoa
Lykes
Steamship
Line
Agency
Co.
Inc.
The
of
Court
or
Page
20)
Commonwealth
of
importance
did
win
possible to ocean
as
fair
return
basis on
and
calculat-
investment
for
rather than “reproduction costs” in figuring the worth of ships. Values Reduced
two
In the case which carries
of the Buli Lines, more than half of
Puerto
cargo,
longfreight
Rico’s
non-owned companies’
lion. In
this
reduced
base’’ value of its ves$16 million to $7.6 mil-
addition,
(See RATE
the
Board
HIKE,
HARMON
luxury for Punta
hotel is Las Ma-
Trias in the northern part of Santurce. It would cost between $8.5
assets
trade
for
By FREDERICK
rate-making purposes. The Board also upset another ruling by using the “domestic market value”
rates.-In a precedent-setting move | the “rate the Board refused to include some sels from
$21 million worth of assets im steamship “rate base.’’
the
reflects Rican
$9 Million Hotel A 350-room being planned
the
Appeals.
points
to Puerto
government
cials had no comment on the ruling, but it was learned that in+ District
“rate base’’
serves
rate increases of 28.8 per cent on cargo shipments between the U. S.
Federal
This devoted
and other costs. offi-
petition.”
Teamster Brotherhood ing for recognition. (See
PRIEST
Washington
of the
vera, a driver for the Espasas Dairy of Bayamon, where the
28.8% Cargo Rate Hike Upheld By Washington By
wétiderful bustling island. It will
draws
(AP
New UPR Professor William Golden, son of columnist Harry Golden, has been appointed an assistant professor at the University of Puerto Rico. He is to report there Aug. 15. On being told of his son‘s appointment, Golden said, ‘I have postponed my visit to that
POLICE
Vega was
disallow-
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and $9 million. A group of three mainland investors holds an option for a long-term lease on a beach-front tract of about 20,000 square me-.
ters in that area. The lot, which is situated across from the Unien Church, is owned by members of the Haryey family. Present plans call for the hotel building to contain a restaurant,
night club, convention room or rooms; and a casino. The hotel will also have a commercial area and a one-acre parking lot adjaeent
to
the
main
building.
The sponsor group Isadore Yavers, of City,
president
(See NEW
of
consists of New York
Amco
HOTEL,
Finan-
Page 4)
sha
sibly
ROMAN
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