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“PR Democrats Vow All-Out Fight Se,:
Control Battle
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San Juan Star 10:
Goes Back To Committee By WALTER STAR
.
LOS
Convention
ning battle -Puerto
Vol. I
PRIEST run-
for control of
Rico’s
Democratic
the
Mufioz-backed
Benitez
fight
to
promised
win
an_
(See DEMOCRATS,
of
their
Page
Second-olass- postage
paid
at
Bicg
San
Juan.
Puerto
ws
all-out
recognition
San Juan, Puerto Rico, Saturday, July 16, 1960
ee
group
headed by Richard C. Durham and the Benicrat faction led by Jose A
217
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party during the next four years moves into high gear today before the new Demo¢ratic national committee. Both
No.
Kennedy Sees New Fron tier Challenging
Bureau
ANGELES—tThe
~ iF
ete
24)
;Says More Sacrifice Instead Of MoreBy DOUGLAS SecurityB. CORNELL Lies Ahead -
Late Comers Jam Collection Offices For License Renewals License plate deadline renewal day—as grueling and hectic a day
as
income
observed
sands
tax-deadline here
of
LOS ANGELES (AP)—John F. Kennedy gravely and gratefully accepted last night the Democratic presidential nomination and the challenges of a New Frontier —‘“a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils. ... at a turning point in history.”
day—was
yesterday
pushing,
by
thou-
grumbling,
weary, perspiring last minute applicants. The lines were still a block long
outside
the
various Treasury collection offices
partment night and
of the transit
Rafael
Perez
Public Works bureau, said
Delast |}.,
Fiz,
would stay open last night _they took care of everyone.
we
The man to whom the*‘Democrats have given their
head
Department the offices
‘highest honor
until
“We have to,” he said. ‘‘Because will not be open again until
next
Tuesday.’’
Monday
is a legal
/promise
holiday. The frantic last minute rush yesterday
tried
the
patience
of
beekoned to
}Americans of every political faith to come to his side, to pioneer this new frontier that he said “holds out the of more
stead of more The
the
one
sacrifice in-
security.”
great
question,
Ken-
most humble line standee and moved some of the more volatile ap-}
nedy said, is whether America can survive as a nation of free
plicants
men
to outrage.
he
beat
me,”’
moved
the
he said, thoroughly
coast
Coliseum
again
was
if I have to go through this.”
Other
arrivals for
a
cruised friend
the
lines
they
could
Among
the
those
most
who
pathetic
cases
reached
where
into
Florida.” arrived
at
driven
The ‘
at
the
6:27
p.m.
directly
on
huge
bowl,
huge
His
car
the
field.
which
seats
95,000, was less than half-filled. Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas,
step in front of. were
of
Kennedy
beaten.” I don’t care if I ever drive searching
world
neutrality and neutrals into hostility, and Communist influence “now festers some 90 miles off
“It’s the people sneaking in line that
a changing
he said friends have slipped
One suffering standee quit a line outside ef the Motor Vehicle office on the waterfront after ten feet in an hour.
in
crushed by Kennedy
windows
in a bid for
after two and three hours only to| ;
the presidential nomination and then offered second place on the
be
TRAFFIC JAM—This was the scene yesterday afternoon’
ticket,
dential
nomination
at
termed
this
told
something
lacking do
it It The
and
or
they
~‘er
would
was
have
to
all over again. happened often. day
(See
went
to
LICENSE,
the
Motor
Vehicle
Bureau,
San
Juan,, was
the
minute rush for license plate tags was on. ~The
the
quick
Page
of
standing on a deskt
ing traffic in the
24)
last
man
accepted
the
at
moment
nity
‘‘in these
times
Of
Kennedy,
he
p is a bureau worker Whowas direct-. office. (STAR phote by Gunter Hett.)
vice
presi-
what of
(See KENNEDY,
WASHINGTON
State
that
long
First Ruling Under New Labor Act :
—
The
yesterday
ex-
pressed confidence that the U.S. could prove conclusively before
the
United
Nations
that
Russia
deliberately shot down the RB-4T7 reconnaissance bomber July 1 to create an international incident. State Department spokesman
Lincoln
White
made
the
state-
ment while commenting on Moscow’s newest rejection of an American protest. White reported that the new Soviet note had not arrived, but
he
added: “We flatly
reject
the
Soviet
note.”
A
he
Page 24)
(AP)
Department
Moscow
dispatch
(See RB
opportu-
of peril.”
said
U.S. Rejects Soviet RB-AT Protest Note
reported
47, Page
24)
PR Interstate Commerce
Cid Draws Suspended Sentence Ruling Upheld By
DOUGLAS
D.
RICHARDS
The first person ever to be sentenced anywhere for violation of
the
Labor-Management
Act
passed
by
Congress
Disclosure in
1959,
drew a five-year suspended term yerterday in U. S. District Court ere
Judge Clemente Ruiz Nazario placed former* union official Guiliermo Cid Carmoega on_probation for five years for the embezziément
of
funds
from
the
admitted
taking
14
the
when
closure Act UDEM funds proximately
since:
Reporting
last
Sept.
and
went jnto effect. missing +totalled ap$14,000.
In handing down sentence yesterday Ruiz Nazaria. took note that ‘this is the first: case in the
history of this new fict which is brought in any court + the United States.’’
The
judge
sjtid
that
pre-
vious to the Act a gase like this would have been He praised the a lee asas providing needed reform of existing
Union of: Dock Employees (UDEMAFL-CIO), of which Cid was formerly secretary-treasurer. labor-management statutes The 35-year old union leader “the good of the laber leader from San Juan was arrested by for the good of everybody.” The Cid case, which sparked the FBI April 13 for theft of $1,075 in union funds which he tional interest as tha first of %
as
Dis-
for
and naits
kind, drew
Cid’s
a letter of commenda-
suspended.
tion from U. S. Department, of| Justice in Washington for the work
cedes by his sister
of
de
the
U.
S.
District
sentencing,
U. S. Attorney ta,
ized
who
four
arrest
treasurer,
has
no
Attorney’s
Davila
charges
office here. Prior to
Raymond months
of the told
prior
Assistant
the
L. Acos-
ago
author-
former court
police
UDEM that
Cid
sentence
two weeks Mrs. Maria
27,
of
pre-
the trial of Cristina Cid
Caparra
of falsification
on
of a $1,432
union check. The trial is scheduled to be held in Superior Court of San
Juan.
The alleged check forgery involved UDEM welfare funds, embezzelment of which is not cover-
led by the new Federal law.
record.
31,904 on April reau
announced
1, the Census in
a
Bur
preliminary
report on returns from the census. The population of Charlotte
in
1950. 4,112
Christiansted in
1950
eriksted rose from 2,174 in 1960.
to
increased 5,117.
ends—at house
Fred-
1,961 in 1950 to
D.
RICHARDS
pierside,
platform,
or
at
the
ware-
on
the
stock-
room shelves—was answered in a recent ruling of the U.S. Court of
Appeals
in
Boston
sustaining
an injuction by the Federal Court in San Juan. In what is considered by U‘S. Labor Department officials to a
“lead
pellate court
Amalie, largest city in the islands, was 12,740, compared with 11,469 from
DOUGLAS
The long-puzzling question as to where interstate commerce
be
Census Bureau Shows Y.1. Population Rise WASHINGTON (—The popula tion of the Virgin Islands was
By
U.S. Ruiz
labor
case,”
upheld
the
a ruling
ap-
by
District Judge Clemente Nazario that interstate com-
merce continues into the stockroom. Import of the ruling, entered (See RULLING, Page 24)