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Deal [Asks Envoy If Stand To Split Convention Votes Is Officially Backed
Benitez Turns Down By WALTER STAR
PRIEST
Convention
Bureau
LOS ANGELES—José A. Benitez said yesterday he turned down a deal to split Puerto Rico’s contested convention seats with his Mufioz-backed foes and restore harmony among insular Democrats. Benitez said the compromise was offered by Democratic Party officials anxious +to
Munoz Unveils Oil Of Priest Starting Cooperatives Here By
HAROLD
cooperative
spirit
I
wish
spirit
would
He
vernor
J. LIDIN
penetrate
cooperatives
of ‘go-
as the
fioz
said,
is’ the
goal
tion Serenity. The oil painting
a
portrait
of
MacDonald,
Father a
of
Operais
Joseph
A.
Catholic
donated
by a group
island cooperatives. Father MacDonald,
ed
the
founderof
modern
has it
cooperative
been since
closely he
island’s
movement,
identified
initiated
with
conferences
in 1945 on cooperatives at University of Puerto Rico. Since
ment
that
here
claimed
has
time,
the of
the
to
225 credit co-ops, mated enrollment
On hand yesterday for the dedication of the glass-paneled, $90,000
the
cooperative
center,
were
directors of the Cooperative (See MUNOZ Page 4.)
give
credentials Calvin
committee
Rawlings,
chairman
of Utah,
startled
observers by postponing until Monday
a
decision
two
opposing
on
which
groups
of
the
should
be
delegation,
was
not
U.
as
will
S.
cutting
the
State
what
of
he
steps
Castre
not
retalite
to the
sugar
quota
its
Department
However,
did
expects.
not
spell
Cuba
will
take.
say
that
Cuba
did
out
would
emerge victorious in its economic struggle with the United States. In the cg ning remarks on an island-wide television appearance, the bearded Cuban leader said his country will be victorious because “justice and history’ are on Cuba’s side. He
was asked what Cuba would do about the sugar quota reduction, but limited himself to these words:
have
“They
seen,
Bary
(the
wait
U.
S.),
as
we
until the revolutio-
government
does
something
—then they act.. And generally they are wrong. This kind of thing has been the practice of U. S. foreign
policy
Speaking
available for immediate comment. But Victor Gutierrez Franqui, for-
hour
mer Commonwealth Attorney Gen(See BENITEZ, Page 4.)
9
United
States?
A. “No. Women love the idea of a masculine President. There
a
with an estiof 80,000.
alongs
would
Benitez backers four of Puerto Rico’s seven votes. The colorful insular politician made his statement shortly after
the
128.000
people and some 350 operating co-ops. Largest segment in the local cooperative movement is the
faction
This
Q. Dona Ines, do you think a woman should be President of
move-
blossomed
membership
Munoz
Cuba
Minister last night
late
which
for
calmy, for
was
the
the
past
years.”
Castro
was
television
supposed
to
one
speech
start
at
p.m.
is
nething
than
a
woman
to see a man
likes
her superior
—provided he is.” Q. Do you think a woman
PLANITS tending
the
of
new
the
EMBLEM-—After opening
at-
¢eremonies
cooperative
center,
Gov. Luis Munoz Marin planted two pine seedlings im front of
the new building. by
Gunter
Hett.)
(STAR photo k
5
be
Governor A.
“No.
stanus was est
of Puerto My
more
answer
should
Rico? above
in this instance, too. Man
created to assume the highresponsibility, This is the
enly self.
way This
man can justify himis what women want
and
leve
in
man.”
Q.
made
If
Puerto
Rico’s
it feasible,
would
vor independence or if it were impossible
economy
you
fa-
statehood to make
the status of Commonwealth
per-
manent?
A. wealth more,
“I
believe is
I
that
permanent. believe with
CommonFurtheraH my
heart that the Commonwealth
of
Puerto
of
Rico
has
the
seed
greatness in itself. It is a form of Federalism, designed for a union
with
Cuba the
in
U.
its
S.
Assistant Secretary of State Roy Rubottom went into conference
bassador,
with
the aly
Antonio
Carri
Lo
Flores, shortly after noon to learn whether the remarks reflected the Mexican government’s attitude. The State Department at the same time reported that it was
inquiring
through
U.
S.
Ambas-
sador Robert Hill in Mexico City about the same speech. The Mexican envoy spent three quarters of an hour closeted
with
Rubottom,
cumment
The that
In
but
he
declined
reporters
Ambassador
he might
“I'd this
to did
rather’ time,”
he
said
not
have
as
know
whether
a statement
not say he said.
Newport,
R.
left.
further later.
anything I.,
at
President
Eisenhower conferred with Secre tary of State Christian A. Herter on the Cuban situation, and also on the statement by Mexican Congressional leader, Deputy Emilio (See MEXICAN, Page 25)
Gallery Tells P.R. Union Racketeers Must Be Eliminated
By NORY SEGARRA Mrs. Inés Mendoza de Mufioz Marin, wife of Puerto Rico’s Governor, thinks men will mature enough to solve the world’s problems “if there is enough time.” In an exclusive interview yesterday, the island’s First Lady ‘spoke out on politics, the home and woman’s role in the + world.
of
consider-
the
himself.
“Beni-
that
(®—Prime said late
Men Will Learn To Run World
The portrait, painted by Puerte Rican artist Francisco Ro-
was
and
with
from
HAVANA Fidel Castro
backs
dispute
Island's First Lady Thinks
cleryg-
man prominently identified with the cooperative school at Antogines, Nova Scotia.
don,
crat”
of the Munoz
Mu-
unveiled
each
No Comment From Durham Richard C. Durham, chairman
for a full and well-balanced life. life,”
identify
party.
economy should not be an end in itself, but “a responsible base” well-balanced
to
seated at the Democratic National Convention. Rawlings Said the postponement became necessary when “rather serious legal problems” arose over differing interpretations of the regulations governing Puerto Rico’s Democratic
“noblest form of private enterprise,” Mufioz said it was geared to his belief that the public
“The
declined
country
BULLETIN
the
committee.
Delegates
added.
Describing
before
the officials. He said the arrangement would see seating of three
is “the
into the whole framework Puerte Rican society,” .the
a battle
credentials
Gov. Luis Mufioz Marin yesterday unveiled a portrait of the Catholic priest who pioneered coopera} ives in Puerto Rico, and told a group of 200 people assembled at the new cooperative cenftr in Hato Rey He conperalive system blends well with Pese.: the Administration-inspired Operation Serenity. The
avoid
WASHINGTON de State Department called in Mexico’s ambassador yesterday for an explanation of a Mexican congressional leader’s assertion that his
Rear Admiral Daniel V. Gallery said last night that “if Puerto Rico is to acheve its manifest destiny it has got to eliminate Hoffa's gangsters and hoodlums from the island.”
In
a farewell
address
Hall, Gallery
said
that
liest
for
Puerto
danger
to see these racketeers foot in the door.” Neighboring islands times criticized here
of freedom said,
“but
at City
“the
dead-
Rico get
is
their
are ‘somefor lack
of the press, Gallery here
in
Puerto
Rico
where we are go proud of our freedom, we have seen these gangsters close down El Imparcial for 20 days and the San Juan
STAR
for two
freedom of the can happen.”
days. press
There where
is no that
Gallery said he had come to love Puerto Rico and regretted which is needed in the Mleaving today. “That is why I today. The Commonwealth hate to see something evil get of
people
of
diferent
tures, world (See P. R.’s First Lady, Page
cul-
9)
a foothold
here,”
he
said.