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Summit Parley Over: Big 4 Reach Impasse
Ist Constitution Change Long-Awaited Talks Would Split High Court For World Peace End 4
Te
On Note Of Bitterness
By HAROLD J. LIDIN Senators from Puerto Rico’s three political parties moved pesteniay to break the case jam in the Commonwealth Supreme Court, —and filed legislation calling for the first amendment
to the Commonwealth
Constitution since its adoption in 1952. A mo-
tion introduced yesterday by the chairmen
\
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eommittees,
and co-signed by the+
floor
leaders
ties,
calls
island’s
of-the
for
highest
three
par-
segmenting court
the
into
divisions, by majority
three
of its mem-
bers will be considered “as the verdict of the Supreme Court.” The high court now has seven members, but the number of justices in the Commonwealth Supreme Court might be upped to nine if the proposed creation of three divisions is adopted. Believes
Senator
It Will Pass
Luis
chairman
of
Alfredo the
Colon,
Senate
Penal
Committee, last night voiced his belief that the proposed legislation would. be passed inthis ses-
sion
and
that
amendment dicts
by
the
constitutional
needed to permit ver-
court
sections
would
be
voted upon in the Noy. .8 general election. The Commonwealth. Constitution, as now worded, requires that
Supreme Court decisions be reached
by
Thus,
a
majority.
of
the
a constitutional
judges.
amendment
amendment
must
the people dum. But
in a special referenPopular Party floor
leader
majority of the three juswho will compose each
court. division. Ordinarily,
a
constitutional
submitted
Negron
Lopez
to
said
last night that the vote on a constitutional change may be
The
rate
referendum
is decided
jority vote.
of
the
by
the
electo-
by
a simple
persons
who
ma-
cast
a
packaged into the November elec-
The suggested increase in the number of Supreme Court justices is an outgrowth of recommenda-
tions, if three-fourths of the members of both legislative chambers approve.
March by the Commonwealth (See COURT, Page 20)
tions
made
to
the
legislature
last
By
HAROLD
J.
LIDIN
What would be Puerto Rico’s first new traffic law in 15 years is expected to reach’ the floor
of the Senate within a week, Sen. Luis Alfredo Colon said yesterday.
Colon, chairman
The proposed stands, includes
Mary Maryland
1)
A
motorist
who
-victory
last
land
présidential
Kennedy
$200 fine the caught and a
first six-
of the Senate
month jail term the second time.
Penal Committee, heads a team of lawmakers drafting the pill.
2.) A point system, on which
scoreboard
votes,
and
Baltimore, Kennedy
Andrew
J. Easter
of
disgust”
ference get under way unless Eisenhower would apologize for
cides
and
fight
drivers
money
for the
accounting
ma-
(See
the that
Soviet those
plane Union respon-
sible would be punished. per-
present
the _ ticket
licenses
for
under 18 years of present, the statuto-
is 18, subject to
TRAFFIC,
intelligence
flights over and promise
complaint
the
to
ry minimum
of
American
law, a separate complaint ,must be made if a citizen de-
if the Budget Bureau okays the
study in . the - House.
Representatives.
Page
Eisenhower refused to go beyond a statement that such
flights are
over
the
Soviet
Union
ended.
The Western leaders met twice during the day, waiting for Khrushchev
to
appear.
He
re-
fused to do so until, as he put it, the United States gave him satisfaction. Last-ditch efforts by the British, through a meeting
between
Foreign
Andrei
Gromyko
Lloyd,
‘failed
passe, Finally,
20)
(See
Ministers and
to
Selwyn
break
at
10:30.
SUMMIT,
the
im-
pm., Page
the
20)
‘Religion Bill’ Is Dead, But Author Will Fight On By
A.
W.
MALDONADO
The ‘‘religious is dead.
The
instruction
Commonwealth
bill’
House.
Representatives
voted
31-6,
controversial
No.
to “‘table’’ 84
which
would
of
yesterday,
Bill
authorize
one
hour a week-time-off from public gehools for religious instruction. Voting
lar
as
Party
in favor
a
block,
all
31
-representatives
of a motion
Popu-
voted
to table the
bill, and held their position despite repeated parliamentary moves by Jose Luis Feliu Pesquera, the
OPENS SOON—This is a view of ~ new North Ave. road paralleling the Condado
and
looking towards Inter-
section Five which will be open ts the public “within two months,” according to the Department of Public Works.
The new Stretch will run from Intersection Five ‘to Ro-
| berto Todd Ave. at Stop 17. (STAR photo by Gunter Hett.)
til 3 am. yesterday, rendered a report recommending that “the
House take no for the present “No
death The
action”
action whatsoever on this bill.” this
committee
testify
in
three
hours
a.m.
yesterday.
for
my
bill,” he said. “I still have some moves to make. I will continue talking in favor of the bill. My bill has more lives than Caryl Chessman,””
The
House
Education
tee, after considering
Commit-
the bill un-
means
heard
his
12 a.m. The
Feliu
bill
for
till §
report
was
submitted to-the House just before the start of yesterday’s séssion. The report stated’that in order for religious instruction to be authorized
on
public
happened.
battle is not over. “I will continue fighting
of
from
his
representa-
had
behalf
tive who was the bill’s author. Later, Feliu told the STAR that
Party
session
for the bill.
all the religions should come to This, the report
Independence
looked
with 3,691. got around 70. per _ cent of the Democratic votes.
Ame-
needed
Under
under
re-
Far i the rear were a couple of habitual office’ seekers, Lar Dalz of Chicago, who had 7,033
“ticket
persons age. At
far
46,457
A
the
fense. Colon thinks the system could be operative by Jaguary,
190,811
Morse
3.)
and
all three parties- represented on the committee. A similar bill is
support
Fr
Kennedy
chines. sonnel,
in court. 4.) No
the
With returns almost complete.
porting, the like this:
an
“complete
drivers are scored according to the severity of their traffic of-
it has
ahead of Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Oregon). He won going away,
places
Eisenhower’s
what
called President
of
said
in a Mary-
1,322 of 1,356 poliing
by
plaint.
a is
piling
jumped
spokeman
will face time he
primary,
quickly
typified
rican
system,” with the ticket doubling as an automatic com-
up more votes than anyone ever had ‘received before
Nikita S. Khrushchev. The Soviet Communist leader, in turn, accused the American President of having torpedoed the conference. Khrushchev had refused Monday to let the con-
to drive after his license has been suspended or cancelled,
(?) —
night,
sides,
The conference which
was over.. + of the long- | for the position of Soviet Premier
awaited 1960 summit meeting but a wave of bitterness on both
continues
Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass. achusetts) scored an easy, lopsided
threatening the peace of the world. never really started Nothing remained
law, as it now the following:
Kennedy Wins! By Landslide in Maryland 1
Soviet attitude last night and gave up their attempts to get started with a four-power summit conference on issues
Traffic Bill Headed For Senate Floor ls First Such Measure Here In 15 Years
is needed to allow verdicts by a He
mere tices
Luis
be
By WILLIAM L. RYAN (AP) ~The Western Big Three denounced the
PARIS
of the Senate Penal and. Civil Judiciary
The might
school
time,
on. the island an agreement, adds, has not
report also states that it be unconstitutional to allow
children
to
receive
religious
in-
struction at the expense of the governtment, Public school teachers
would be paid for, the time that
the childrea are in church receiv-
ing. the instruction.