DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY Vol. I
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San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, May 10, 1960
Tel. 3-8400
No. 161
Gesend-ciass postage
paid
af
Rico
San
Jean,
Paerte
ir Reconnaissance i
_ Is ‘Extensive’
|Over Re 1 Territor ‘Traffic Victim Lies In Street Three Hours By
RALPH
Fs
Herter Says Probing {|Get Approval Flights Not Subject Of PR House To Ike's Permission WASHINGTON: (AP) TI Big Bills
ec
ANGLADA
By
A near-riot occurred at the corner of Puerto Rico Ave. and Buenaventura St., Santurce, peceriy where the body of. Puerto Rico’s most lay
in the
street
for
ment
corpse—a
lected at the body
the scene and voice
crowd
The House
Authorities
said
a
Attract
measure, described Finance Committee
said
.
borrowed was
on his way to a pharmacy where (See TRAFFIC, Page 4)
ment.
_Herter reported that the air missions were “normally of a peripheral.character but
on occasion by penetration” —presumably flights into the Soviet Union.
in™a report
per
cent
of
gross
these
invest
}
plane—shortly
report
might. re-}.
in local industries
and
busi-}:
nesses.
the
Also approved yesterday was a resolution appropriating $243,000 to the Police Department as a first
of
NEAR RIOT: yesterday at
Crowds grew angry the official indiffer-
ence accorded Elio A. Pereyra, 67, who was struck and killed by a truck.
Victim’s
body
was
in
the
street for three hours and 20 min-
Senate
Luis
traffic
also
Mufioz
violations.
approved
Marin
had
this.
The
Gov.
asked
a
total of $1,094,000 to add 318 policemen to the force. Among
approved
utes. (STAR Photo by Gunter Hett)
(See
other
by BIG
items
of legislation
the House BILLS,
4)
Plane Builder Says Soviets Faked Pictures Of ‘The U2’ BURBANK,
Calif.
(AP)
—
The designer of Lockheed Aircraft’s U2 single engine jet plane says he doubts that the Soviets have-shot ‘one down inside Rus:
sian boundaries. After
studying
pho-
“I think the crash photographs Russia
.of
are those
of
their
own
Beagle
bom-
bers,” Johnson said yesterday. “It would be very interesting:to know U2.”
Said Russian
tographs of the crashed aircraft, designer C. L, Johnson concluded that they are faked. . released by
one
why
they
have
hidden
the
U2.
Johnson:
“1—The ‘wing
section
in the
left foreground is definitely not that of a U2. The wing taper is wrong as is the structural pattern of the ribs and beams,
the
photo
(which
detail
than
reproductions)
original
shows the
not
wire-
better
newspaper
one
A.
. » - reveals
HERTER
spy
flights
Sf. Thomas Flood Leaves Mud, Debris St. Thomas ists tons
residents and tour-
yesterday were removing of mud and debris left af-
ter Sunday’s flash flood. The flood, which left at least a: dozen families homeless and buried some portions of the downtown area -under as much as six feet) + of water, was said to have caused
“2-_-The heavy structural element at the top of the photograph has no-counterpart in the “3-Using
CHRISTIAN
yesterday + Page
sin-
gle U2 part could be identi-
Senate
most
installment toward the cost of financing its crackdown on crime— particularly
after he and Central
_| Intelligence Chief Allen W. Dulles briefed «congressional leaders on the incident for 90 minutes. A debate had been raging on
income
The
companies
deep °
Herter issued. a special statement—commenting on the international furor set off by Russia's shooting down of an American
nary quantities of money’’ into Puerto Rico, calls for international companies to pay a minimal tax five
authorization,”
Secretary of State Christian A. Herter said in a state-
Funds
to the Commonwealth.
col-
Pereyra
legisla-
as capable of bringing “‘extraordi-
to stare at its indigna-
with
presidential
of
tion to the policeman who stood guard. Finally, someone cover-
ed the corpse blanket.
‘tion. .
Could
require-
a large
unarmed civilian aircraft have not been subject to
of important
do business on the island and to deposit their income in local banks.
of law.
Meanwhile,
ae attack on the free world. “Specific missions of these
against possible’
either final
preliminary approval, aims at attracting international, companies to
noon.
in “‘exten-
sive aerial surveillance” of Communist. territory to guard
Heading the list was a bill to establish Puerto Rico as a base of operations for international companies. The measure, which won
of Bidg. 2B, Block K-H, Capar- | ra Terrace, was reportedly run | down at about 8:40 a.m. yesterday morning by a half-ton. truck driven by Vicente Cardona del Valle, 52, of 227 Laguna St., | Santurce. 7 His body was.removed from the spot where he fell at about According to police, the interval was spent trying to loeate Assistant District Attorney Obdulio -Bauza ‘in order to obtain permission to re-
gave
z-The United States said yes-
civilian planes have engaged
or preliminary approval te 17
pieces
—apparently because of administrative malfunctioning. Elio A. Pereyra Pereyra, 67,
the
MALDONADO
the Commonwealth of Representatives
yesterday
three hours and 20 minutes
move
W.
nearer, House
recent traffic fatality of the
year
A.
; As the May 30 closing of the current session drew terday unarmed
af
ae Fe Ee
oT Sm
arteRw
~~ Po
aw
Ore
a
mow
|
more
than
$1
million
the island. In a special day, the Virgin
damage
to
ture
appropriated
session Islands
yesterlegisla-
$100,000
in
emergency funds for relief of stricken families and for use by the Public .Works Department to repair damaged city fa-
cilities. ~ fied in the wreckage. i Late yesterday afternoon, Gov. “4__Tf the wreckage of the U2 (See ST. THOMAS, Page 4) (See FAKED, Page 4)
of
floor
over
the
day,
with
a
the
viewpoints “Far from
issue
variety
expressed. being damaging
to
the forthcoming (Summit) meeting in Paris, this incident should serve to underline
the importance
to the
world of an earnest attempt to
achieve
safeguards
agreed
and
there
effective
against surprise attack
and aggression,’”’ Herter said. *
*
MOSCOW
*
(P—Premier
Nikita
S. Khrushchev said last night the flight of a U. S. reconnais-
sance plane shot down oyer the heart of the Soviet Union eight days ago was deliberately timed for next week’s summit meeting in Paris. Khrushehev spoke at a reception at the Czech Em-
bassy in Moscow. *
*
*
=
.
Ferter’s statement made it clear that Eisenhower, while not authorizing specific air intelligence missions, knew generally about the
tactics.
The
President,
the
statement”
said, acting in accordance with his duties, has issued directives since 1947
*‘to
gather
by
every
possible
means the information required to
(See HERTER, Page 4)