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San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, June 27, 1960
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‘Havana Blast Brings Initial Report Of 50 Hurt; Powder Ignites HAVANA which
(AP)—A shattering explosion
authorities
tions dump
said
shook
night. Authorities: immediately sealed off the explosion site. Cars loaded with apparently injured persons still streamed from the area an hour after the blast. Windows were shattered over a large area of Havana and many persons were cut by flying
Tanner, Jovial lke Returns, Finds Backlog
severe than that which shattered the French munitions ship La
from
about
and a part of the Havaarea 100
last Mar.
jured
Prime
The
details
man three gang
which
home for
last
the
veteran the
of how
a patrol-
singlehandly fought off members of the five man invaded
week
and
unfolded
yesterday.
policeman
wounded a Mr.
were
first time
holdup
a Guaynabo
killed
men
The
two
of
and
critically
James
Morgan,
third. Mrs.
whose home on Los Filtros Rd. was the gang’s target, heard the full story for the first time yesterday from the patrolman himself
—Juan
Arzuaga,
49, who
dropped in for a visit.
.
The Morgans knew the story, but sketchily.. They were bound in the living room with a bedspread
were which
by
unable took
the
to
robbers.
see
place
the in
They
action, a
guest
room, out of their vision. This was the -story of the night as told by Arzuaga, a rugged, muscular man with the vigor of a young athlete.
—
pleading
the
took then
vilian clothes, and carried a gun
Fidel
Eas.
Ei-
Richard
M..
Nixon
and
Osvaldo
House to rest and put finishing touches on his 6:30 p.m. (Puerto
Castro,
Dorticos,
and
Rico
in.
a
powder
the Cayo Havana.
Page 21)
Cruz
Military
magazine
region
authorities
off
a section of Havana Harbor near the
major
Standard
oil and
refineries—Esso, Shell
—
with
warning that additional sions were possible.
to
the
30
nation
tries.
east
sealed
Radio-Television
report
tonight on his two-week, 23,000 mile journey to three Asian coun-
in
of
time)
minute
scene.
ated
the call from Mrs. Morgan, handed the phone to Arzua-
(See PATROLMAN,
sident
police
Officials at the presidential palace said the explosion origin-
in a holster under. ‘his sports shirt. Patrolman Antonio Diaz Davis
for
Far
senhower arranged with Vice Pre-
numerous officials of the government went immediately to
Of Killing 2 In Holdup Attempt Morgan
Minister
President
Relates Full Story Mrs.
good”
last night. Of these 21 were at other members of his White House staff for a full report on domesa first aid station at Regla, a tic affairs. I small town at the end of Hayana Then he went to the White Bay.
A GUEST REVISITS—Veteran patrolmaan joa “Avene of the Commonwealth James Morgan, police force, right, revisits his “host” of last Thursday night, whose home was under brief siege by armed gunmen when patrolman Arzuaga arrived to shoot two of the burglars dead and wound a third. With them is the Morgan’s German shepherd Asso. (STAR photo by Gunter Hett.)
help— called the Guaynabo police station, to which Arzuaga had returned after a day of delivering summonses. He wore ci-
“pretty
government . business. While still at the airport,
4 killing
persons,
in first reports from
a
tern trip, as he described it, and promptly turned to a backlog of
Fifty persons were listed as in-
|
a muni-
capital last
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Eisenhower returned yesterday
na port
By GUNTER HETT
from
glass. The blast appeared to be more
Coubre
Patrolman
was
the Cuban
the
explo-
The president was reported prepared to picture as a success his good will visists to the Philippines, Formosa and Korea. A scheduled
trip
led. He
also
to
to
Japan
was
defend
was
cancel-
reported
primed
admitistration
foreign
policy actions criticism from
against mounting Democrats.
8 Members Of Anti-Trujillo Movement Beaten Up By Mob (Part
of
STAR
the
list who. was Ciudad
York
information
in
last night from Charles
at the scene
Trujillo.
City:)
Wiley
recently
were
came
-
beaten up
and
their
established headquarters it was lear-
ned here yesterday. According to informed San
Juan,
was
obtained
by
the
to
San
action yesterday
Juan
en
route
PDM,
which
to
Francisco
sources Ramos
Rojas and Andres Ramos Peguero, leaders of the Popular Dominican Movement (PDM), were se-
The about
50
members
has
New
gathered
after
openly
establishing an office in Ciuded Trujillo June 4, has been blaring anti-government slogans from a loud-speaker headquarters.
Last the
Friday
loudspeaker
set
up
at
afternoon started
their
after protest-
ing the attempted assassination of Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt, a group of Trujillo
stormed the riously hurt and taken to the hos- supporters _| headquarters and battled pital with broken ribs.
the
anti-Trujillistas.
Eight
PDM
members were beaten up, accord-|
Several
timated
in ing to local sources, and two Tru-| police
+
destroyed last Friday,
in
story
W. Wiley, a free-lance journa-
of the mob
Eight men who have been openly trying to form an anti-Trujillo movement in the Dominican Republic
this
PDM
with
jillistas
received
head
hours
at
lines
later,
2,500
in
a
broke
mob
es-
through
attempt
an
(See DOMINICAN,
wounds.
to
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5 Die In Traffic Accidents; | Year's Total Now 183 Traffic accidents took the lives Albelo, 40, were killed on the of two pedestrians in Santurce, a south entrance to the Constitution 10-year-old in San German,
others this year’s 183,
total
weekend traffic
and two
pushing deaths
up
the to
Pedestrians Rogelio Santiago Arroyo, 35, and Carmelo Arroyo
Bridge morning
in Santurce Saturday when they were struck
by a car driven by Charles Rosado Bello, according to. police. Santiago,
(See
police
TRAFFIC,
cia
eT
postage
Juan,
Eh ult a
vn Juan Star 10¢ unitions E plo sion
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY
said,
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died
21)
in-