DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY Vol.
I
Tel. 3-8400
No.. 154
San Jaan, Puerto Rico, Monday, May 2, 1960
Secend-class postage
paid
at
Rico
Sen
Juan,
Puerte
man: Die?
Will Ches
Awaits Answer Gas Chamber Beckons Today For Nint h Time By LEIF E RICKSON SAN QUENTIN,. Calif. (AP)—Caryl Chessman prepared yesterday for a suspenseful last night of vigil in the waiting room outside S an Quentin’s gas chamber. The hour set for his execution is today at 3 p.m. Puerte Rico time (10:00 a.m. California time). It is Chessman’s ninth date wit doom in 12 years. Seven California Supreme? Court justices will convene at 8
am.
California
time
(1
p.m.
Puerto Rico time) just two hours earlier, to give their decision on the
convicted
sex
last stay petition. voted, 4-3, three
kidnappers’
The court has times against
clemency. Chessman’s new serting innocence,
in
the
petition, asasked delay
execution
until
NEW YORK (AP)—The Russians marched soldiers, tanks and
attorney
general’s investigators could find three men Chessman declared
rockets
light
lovers’
bandit
The
MALDONADO Luis
Mufioz
land’s
Marin
warned late last night of a possibility that Puerto Rico may be controlled in private endeavor by outside interests because the is-
Mystery Bullet Kills P.R. Housing Official By
HORST
wound
in
office Saturday.
his
head
at
latter expressed fear that increas-
ing capital and outside influence
might
convert.
“policy
followers
tention
the
island
and
not
into policy
Proceed
Stressing he was not preaching the exclusion of outside capital and know-how, the Governor said Puerto Rico must proceed to “‘balance” the situation through acceleration of the island’s own pro-
gram.
About 250 -members of the Police yesterday were still investigating whether the shooting Puerto Rico Federation of Clubs (See MYSTERY Bullet, Page 12) , of Business and Professional We-
don’t
Hotel.
and
mund
largest
women’s
orga-
By
BETTY
Blood
sltce
(3 p.m. said. “I
myself
of
a plate
charity
affair was held April 22 at the Caribe Hilton Hotel to benefit the newly-formed league, but turned. out to be the most elegant flop
in recent San Juan social history. The League was called inte
up
Long
Wait
weeks
ago
Chessman
G. Brown’s
60-day
reprieve
AWAITS,
at
principals
mittee
Red
this
work to
formed, as
out
The
with
chairman,
cut
the
Friday
for
of
com-
Richard and
has
it accord-
chairman:
1. Meet with Dr. Guillermo Arbona, Commonwealth Secre-
tary of whether Bank
Health, a need
League
to determine for a Blood
exists
Kishi
in
ef-
China’s
here.
(The
League was incorporated 25, after the hal}
Apr.
these
Castro.
reigned
in
Peiping,
capital. and
other
cities,
mil-
Parades,
rallies
and
to
speeches
marked
the holiday. East German Reds Jack-booted troops and armored units of Communist East Germany’s 110,000-man army through East Berlin in
marched a parade
that U.S., British and French commandants in West Berlin declared in a statement to be “a threat to public order.” Mayor Willy Brandt of
West
Berlin drew cheers from 700,000 West Berliners at a rally in front of
the
(See
Page 12)
affair.
Red
lions turned out yesterday celebrate May Day.
Bank
meeting the
was
Santaella ing
a of
Fidel
Carnival
capital
in the gas chamber’s waitroom when Governor Ed-
question
Léague
Puerto Rico—the ‘charity for which the Imperial Ball was recently held—is under investigation by a “steering committee.” Ball, a $50
of
Ball's Blood
KNORR
Bank
10
(See WORLD
nization in Puerto Rico.
Imperial
issue
to
The was ing
The
intend
Just
is the
the
_in little pieces in the meantime.”
The Federation has about 800 members throughout the island
The
on
Nobusuke
Minister
In
until 10 a.m. tomorrow Puerto Rico time),” he
men heard the Governor’s speech at the San Juan Intercontinental
makers.” Must
his
it to bring in
dinner, the Governor cited a recent speech by banker Enrique Campos del Toro, in which the
BUCHHOLZ
Frederick W. Lang, assistant director for development of the Puerto Rico regional office of the Public Housing Administration was found dead from a bullet
need “forced
outside capital and know-how.” Speaking at a business women’s
Los
office said agents were around the clock trying
punishment, rated his chance to escape death a ninth time as the 50-50 odds of a coin flip. He said he was determined. to remain calm. “I don’t start dying
Industries By Outside Interests A. W.
general’s
Moscow’s
figy. Cubans thronged by the thousands into Havana to hail Prime
Chessman, convict-author whose fate has stirred worldwide at-
Munoz Fears Control Of P.R. _ By
Minister.
Petition
Saturday.
Davis, who has fought for years to save Chessman, said yes-
terday the State Supreme Court’s decision to wait until two hours before execution time today to issue its final ruling constituted “cruel and unusual punishment.” (AP photo)
_ Governor
Angeles
to check out the men named in the petition filed with the court
IROUE Uda EMR belt LULL
LONG FIGHT ENDED?—Caryl Chana: right, confers with attorney George T. Davis at San Quentin prison Feb. 20 when Chessman was granted a 60-day reprieve
by Gov. Edmund Brown.
Out
attorney
Angeles working a tamer
Los
lanes.
Checking
DULL
of
through
Square. Tokyo demonstrators hanged President Eisenhower and Prime
could prove he was not the 1948 ‘red
May Day Celebrated By Millions
old
MAY.
Reichstag
DAY,
building
Page
12)
Probed 2. If the meed does exist, conduct a study as te what type
organization it should be. 3. Submit a ‘report en the findings to the P. R. Medical Assn. If the association deems. the findings satisfactory, the committee will elect. a board of governors and begin a series of fund-raising activities.
“If the survey reveals that such an organization as the Blood Bank
(See IMPERIAL BALL, Page 12)