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WASHINGTON
wage
PRIEST
package
Correspondent
— The
minimum
proposal
agreed
to
between Gov. Mufioz Marin and the AFL-CIO: .\won. the endorsement
yesterday
of a House
Labor
subcommittee. But the Commonwealth lost the first round in its battle to prevent
“unreasonable
of making|
in
an
eve
of
a
series
of
on
the
public
hear-
ings starting this morning called by the joint House and Senate committees on _ the plebiscite. The
hearings,
called
for
10
a.m.
if
necessary.
extension of the Fair Labor Standards Act to new categories of workers in Puerto Rico.
“What do the gentlemen of the Republican Party want?” the Governor asked. ‘To deny the
These workers, which the proposed bill would cover, are mainly in large hotels and in retail stores.
people of the a plebiscite?”
As
handed
sion
to
a
close-door
of the full House
Education
and Labor Committee, the promise ~ Roosevelt wage
would
sescombill
apply a $1 hourly minimum
to the island’s new covered workers. Employers would have. a to-
tal of 150 days after the President: signs the legislation to file a pro-
test
to
the
Secretary
of Labor.
The bill provides that the Secretary of Labor may, form a spe(See
ROOSEVELT,
Page
Looking For is “evident,”
“It
swered the
initiative
his
own
Republicans
to
order
Excuse Muioz
question, are
i an-
“that
looking
for
an
excuse—entirely. transparent-
to
avoid
have
the.
been
Mufioz.
plebiscite
clamoring
said
would
“naturally”
issue
of
the
for.”
_ plebiscite
éliminate
the from
status
political
they
the current political campaign. This, he added, would permit
33)
(See MUNOZ,
Page
33)
funds
and
WASHINGTON
with
the
Allan
cen-
ered in Miami, Fla., had been xtended to here and the Virin Islands, came with the comletion
1
local
of
a
two-week
airfields
survey
and
cials.
of
flying
j
G.
Juhl,
head
of
the
district immigration office said yesterday the control is! a precautionary measure because ‘of Puerte Rico’s “geographical proximity” to Cuba, adding it-did | mot mean that illegal «flights
«See paawes jee
33)
°
contribution.
Pre-
of conPresi-
proposal, conprinted Pages,
of to
that
here
visit
to
America.
Revisions
Study
searching
made
the United highlight of
But it contained which started Western
(See
to
revisions diplomats determine
just what had been then proposed
a
and
real
whether step
it
ahead
back. What
(See
Senator
siles at any bases from which planes violate > Soviet airspace. 1 wants to start a war which he Secretary of Defense
mas
S.
Gates,
Jr.
gave
Tho-
this
opinion at the windup of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s inquiry into the
assessed
the
new
threat
By DOUGLAS RICHARDS as a-bluff, because he said he States has extended to Puerto Rico its did not “believe Mr. Khrushchev designed to prevent illegal flights and ir exports of arms to Cuba. : The program requires pilots: BULLETIN mn non-commercial flights to or ever Cuba | /to submit NEW YORK (AP)—The viblight details to ‘the -U.S. Im-4— rant melody of Broadway was nigration'-and Naturalization services by immigration offi- stilled last night by the first as
word
reworking
Diplomats
war bluff a new Russian threat to hurl mis-
The United ontrol program
well
Premier
represented or
immediately
NIKITA,
five
steps
impressed
Page
33)
— The USS. Defense Chief yesterday dismissed as a cold Williams Backs Kennedy WASHINGTON (AP)
Gates
as
satel-
addressed
American
Khrushchev’s.
material for disaster: stritken
orphans’
a
(AP)
mit talks two weeks later.
Aviation Agency. that the program,
first
the
last September Nations as the
Gates Calls Russian Rocket Threat Bluff
downing of a U. S. spy plane
erviceé
the
with
was
wanted children in Rio Piedras, gives $25 check to Chileanborn Desiderio Alvarez, a San’ Juan businessman heading a drive to collect
inside Russia on May 1 and the foundering of the sum-
ederal Word
move,
Khrushchev
In essence the tained in) eight
ORPHANS’ DONATI TO CHILE— Miss Sally Olsen, director of the Rose of Sharon Home for orphan s and un-
The money was the at the Capitol, are ‘scheduled to ‘Chile. Chilean aid story, Page 3.) run through Sunday and longer,
space
dent since the mid-May _Paris summit conference fell apart.
effort
came
surprise
It was tact
to a¥oid the political status plebiscite. Mufioz’ attack
and
bases,
mats in Moscow, including sident Eisenhower.
excuses” | and
“rationalizing”
rockets
a
cover
sea-going
a letter to the leaders of all countries represented by diplo-
accused}
Republicans
the
So-
would
from
Nikita’ S.
Speaking at) a news conference held at La Fortaleza, the Governor
proposal
launchings
ogg Clamoring. for.”
Roosevelt Bil Would Extend
(AP)—The
viet Union proposed yesterday a ban on all means of launching nuclear weapons.
total strike in 41 years. The league of New York Theaters closed all 22 Broadway ‘stage shows in retalation for a ‘hit-and-run strike Wednesday night by Actors Equity. A bitter deadlock over actors’ pensions was at the root of the con-
itract dispute.
will knows country.”
Under agon
(See
agreed
indications—which
GATES,
Page
Kennedy
Democratic presidential minating convention.
the ‘Pentthere
F.
of
Williams of Michigan, head of a 51-vote delegation to the
his
of
end
the
questioning,
chief
strong
be
John
Massachusetts yesterday won the support of Gov. G. Mennen
no-
This declaration by Williams
were
strengthened
he
Kennedy’s
claim -.
to a long lead in the nomination race.
33)
Senate Passes Toxic Drug Bill Okaying Limited Sales The uKaying Senate yesterday approved a new toxic drug bill which, approved by the House in 1957, was amended 128 times by the Senate before it was given final) approval. Sen. Francisco Anselmi, chair- , drug that can be sold without man of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, explained, yesterday that under this bill Pharmacists are authorized to sell certain drugs without a physician’s prescription. The se; eretary of health, Anselmi said,
will regulate the
quantity
of
a
prescription. The bill does
. not
regulate
the
sale of penicillin. It allows phar-
macists to sell certain drugs without prescription in quantities not to exceed the “normal adult dose for a 48 hour pe a! (See SENATE, Page 33)
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