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Ti San Juan Star 1: OAS Probe Supports Venezuelan Charges DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY
Vol. I
Tel. 3-8400 ,
No. 220
San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday,
July 20, 1960
Second-class
at Sam
postage
paid
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Rice
Juan.
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Anti-Trust Suit Hits IDR Shipping Try On Betancourt’s Boycott. Here Life Laid To Trujillo Cobian, Distributors Continues CARACAS (AP)—An investigating commi
ogee
4.
By DOUGLAS D. RICHARDS A $1 million anti-trust suit was filed in Federal court yesterday by four independent theater owners naming
Commonwealth
Management
Corp.
head
Rafael
Ramos
Cobian and 20 distributing agencies as defendants. The
suit
Corcelles,
ee Ree,
on
R.
submitted Hemry
Vazquez
by
Luis
Raul
Sotomayor
against the corn-carrying freighter docked along the Isla Grande pier in San Juan, marked the second
Cobian now pending in the court. The earlier, suit was filed one
time in two days that Puerto Rican longshoremen have _ refused to handle Dominican cargo.
Cae pena F A
fendants.
Named
along with Cobian in yes-
and
owners
Charged
ether
Violate
the
criminating
COBIAN
(See
ae ea en
the
defen-
agencies and conspiracy to
anti-trust
laws
,against
independents.
COBIAN,
Page
On
both
at
the
ocassions
respected
by
Ozama,
the
Puerto
boycott,
Rican
long-
By
WALTER
STAB
PRIEST
gated tempt mulo
Convention
CHICAGO—New
Bureas
.York’s
Gov-
ernor Nelson A. Rockefeller, the GOP’s reluctant Presidential dragon,
up
said
to
yesterday
Puerto
that
Ricans
to
it
was
decide
issues.
Syndi-
Wary would
ever,
pushed
usually
well-informed
officials
Asked
how
he
Puerto
Rico
the
Puerto Rico eman Gabriel
about
5ist
making
state,
Rocke-
feller replied:
‘‘That’s their deter-
Mination,
mine.”
not
Meanwhile,
insular
GOP
said they Gov. Munoz
dele-
Rich-
Nixon to use his influence to any gtatehood plank. How-
through incoming supporters following his speech to the Republican platform committee here.
felt
commit-
keeping a Fortaleza.
if to prevail pn Vice President
cuff
he
statehooders not put it past
state-
of any
say
they
have
letters from
party
not
heard
Munoz
on the
subject.
they
do
not
mittements hood plank
have
any
to force from the
firm
com-
council
The
OAS.
of the
council
a
as the
consulting of meeting
ministers
decide
to
cate of Dominican Workers in The Venezuelan Ambassador to Exile. BriFalcon Marcos the OAS, The 750-ton motor vessel, Venus, ceno, said here that his country which was boycotted yesterday in feels that the Venezuelan-DomiMayaguez,
was
rtedly
headed
Meanwhile, AFL-CIO ers
here
supporting
(See
BOYCOTT,
the
command.
He
discuss
Dominican
zuela’s
M. Pineiro were of the platform
De la Haba of the closed will
in
authorities
Dolores
Democratic
that
they
the stateGOP high
Insular
The
after
Republicans
(See
GOP,
Page
nando
praise
to
tell
their
but
of
States The
expected
21)
none
stories.
Tambroni way
came N.,
after
Page
Ferm
yesterday
resigned
a
new
with
three
pre
the
ties—the
to
govern
pledged
support
Democratic
Democratic
the Liberals cans.
make
Italian
minor and
par
Socialists,
the
Republi-
It promised to give the nation a stronger pro-western and antiCommunist coalition than Tam
broni’s
decision U.
for
ment of
(OAS). (See
(AP)—Premier
Tambroni
sented the resignation of his three-month-old Christian De mocratic government to President Giovanni Gronchi. The dapper 58-year-old attorney handed his resignation te President Gronchi at the Quirinal Palace.
UNITED NATIONS, New York (AP)—The U.N. Security Council yesterday rejected Soviet protests and tossed Cuba’s quarrel with the United States over to the Organization of American
contained
platform,
was linked with lavish the Commonwealth.
that
ROME
of
interference
U.N. Turn Over Of Cuba Feud To OAS
endorsement
was
Rome Government Resigns To Make Room For Coalition
Republic
Hot Debate Marks
when Puerto Ricans want same pledge respecting
the
indict-
of the prisoners had claimed to be under pressure from prison
of island statehood as a_ desirable objective and a promise of support it. The
Vene-
its
officials. Venezuelan The informant said
is carrying a draft
Republican
but
that
the
without
namé@ members committee.
understood
ask
issues,
should be discussed first. The committee spoke with the prisoners detained in the assassination attempt of President Betancourt in Caracas’ model prison
plank, but has not dis its exact wording. It is
generally
both position
of the Dominican
ment
21)
and, Mrs.
BETANCOURT
of the The foreign ministers hemisphere have been called to
labor leadPage
situation.
Cuban-American
the
over
priority
issue deserves
nican
for San Juan 1 night with its cargo of 7,000 hundredweight sacks of corn still aboard.
self-determination national commitede la Haba said
to
fly
will
committee
The
foreign
Free
the Dominican
it where tomorrow Washington will turn its report over to the
the
.by dis-
make a
tee at the same time watchful eye on La
ard kill
as
to
yesterday.
the
the
supports
The committee has decided to close its investigation 24 hours he said. expected, earlier than
by-
21)
hood pitch to the platform
they want statehood; not him. The governor made the off-the-
statement
prepared
a commit-
said
is now serving pending body
of
which
that
_insti-
and
Betancourt,
member
tee
evidence
charges
the assassination atagainst President Ré6-
shoremen in the face of a reported order from the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) to work the ships, was mounted members
found
armed
Republic
Query
gates
has
Venezuela’s
Island GOP Delegates Have No Firm Plank Commitment
ae or
ae ame
SAT SCN Ne AAP
ee Tt
Statehood
independent
charge
dant — distributing exhibitors with a
Se
with a reportedly effeetive boycott
is one against
theater
am
ship-
ttee of the Organization of American
States
muscles
tors similarly situated” of two anti-trust suits
Conspiracy
ore
Republic
growing
Rio Ozama. The stoppage
Corcelles
wi
its
on behalf of themselves and “all other theater owners and opera-
terday’s suit are, Jack and David Odell, Victor. Carrady, Rafael G. Marti and Eugenio Camacho. Also the Film Board of Puerto Rico.
AE
Dominican
flexed
again yesterday 100 per cent
Carlos
year ago by':Pedro R. Armenteros, owner of the San Juan area theaters Delicias and Riviera, and names Cobian Theaters Inc. and two distributing agencies as de-
Rocky ] Ducks
By HAROLD J. LIDIN AFL-ClO-backed boycott
against
ping
Paredes,
and
The
latter,
two
21)
out-going in
regime.
addition
(See
ITALY,
to
The
his
Page
own
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Two Destroyers Collide; 12 Dead er
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP)—One Navy destroyslashed into the side of another in swirling fog off
the
Southern
were
killed
California
outright
A score or hospitalized.
more
or
coast
yesterday.
fatally
were
hurt.
Twelve
injured.
At
least.
six
men were
Navy,
the dead were The Ammen a.m. by the gaping hole
poured
forth,
hours
of
sifting
reports,
said
aboard the USS Ammen. was rammed on its portside
USS Collett. Water poured in in the engine room, flooding
leading
to reports
all
there
appeared at 9:44
through a it. Smoke
of a fire. The
said
Navy
was
about
none.
to
The
sink,
but
ship
listed
pumps
heavily
saved
it
and
and
it
was towed toward nearby Long Beach. The Collett, which had several injured, suffered serious damage to its bow. But it retained power
and
headed
for Long
Beach
on
its own.