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Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday,
August
15, 1960
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| Guilty Plea ‘Normal
Says Pilot
UPR Teacher Named)
Can Not
To Head PIP Slate; Actress Put On Ballot of
University
PONCE-A
Deny Trip MOSCOW
Rico
Puerto
lot wife she him
biology prefessor was nominated yesterday by the Independence Party to run for gov-
n. Dr. Julio ernor in the November electio by acclamation in the
Garcia Diaz, 62, was nominated party convention held here at La Perla theater.
biology.
Over 2,000 delegates
close of the convention,
“He was the pilot of the plane,” the black-clad Georgia girl told a
Actress
news conference.
break
She
eould
STANFORD
The
BRADSHAW
JOSE, Costa Rica
(AP)—
Pan Americai, system
the
in
eastern Cuba. The disclosure (See
of
CUBA,
cobalt
can
is
that
one
of
the
gaining
paign
meeting
of
Although
institu-
(See
21)
OAS
QAS,
Page
as
during
commonwealth
his
‘operation
status,
but the two-
and-one-half-month-old Action Party.
= Christian .
Munoz
ministers.
the
issue
mountain range’ was not the Republican Party, not statehood vs.
tions in the world—the 21-nation Organization of American States, which is sponsoring the historic
plant
yesterday
the eastern end campaign trip
it now 21)
completed,
RALPH
ANGLADA
Princesa
The a
The trouble began woman-—the wife of
20—according
Roman
with an argument over Rene Roman Figueroa,
said
police;
Roman argued with Samuel Pagan Herhandez, also 20; Both men live in a rooming
house
at 909
Aruz
St., Rio
Piedras.
was shot in the. right leg and charged with felonious assault
possession
of a firearm. He
was
Roman
Pagan was illegal and
jailed at La
in
default
trouble
of, $3,000
continued,
telegrammed
his
bail.
police
said,
brother,
when
Domingo
Roman Figueroa, 21, of Las Marias. Domingo came to San Juan and visited his brother. Police
ta, the story. pieced together by .
he
had
a gun.
Domingo went to the room where Samuel Pagan, the man charged with the shooting, lived. He knocked on the door. Pagan’s cousin, Benjamin
at
mountainous areas that started
‘Vengeance Results In Murder By
Colon
trouble came
else could he plead?”
she
before
his
opens Wednesday note to the Amer-
her
Powers
bitterness,
embassy
(See
said
sadly,
that even
talks,
POWERS,
‘I
but
after
still
Page
feed
21)
Hernandez,
22,
answered.
to a climax.
(See VENGEANCE,
In Campaign
last Tuesday the island. The
were
Page 21)
The
at the western tip of
governor's
all
speeches,
basically
alike,
which
Republican party. His speeches started CAP,
stressing
three
that
with
points:
the any-
thatit is incompatible
to be a good Catholic and a Popular “‘is not telling the truth;”
the
Republicans
are
trying
to hide their record by using the statehood issue as a “curtain.”
covered
three issues: the Christian Action Party, the plebiscite law, and the
of the island, a one saying through rugged
A Door Is Opened To Death
ve
without
POWERS
On CAP By A. W. MALDONADO Gov. Mufioz’s number one cam-
taken could have on the future of unque
hoped
Munoz Levels Attack
to
;
most
BARBARA
- -- “What
Soviet
quickly
Republic.
The actions a vital affect
government
Page
Barbara
MRS.
tensions.
States
still
husband
ed flier, to attend his trial and te talk with Khrushchev.
both the problems of Cuba and the dictatorship in the Domini-
taken over control of the Moa Bay Mining Co., an American-owned, and
here
her
permitted to do so. Barbara and the pilot’s parents— Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Powers of Pound, Va.—were coordinating their efforts to see the imprison-
Meeting in San Jose, the foreign ministers will consider
BERRELLEZ
nickel
meet
see
she
ican Embassy saying no one would
control over Fidel Castro’s Cuba.
HAVANA (®—The Cuban government announced yesterday it has
$75-million
United
Communism
Cuba Takes Control Of Moa Bay Mine ROBERT
ministers
Caribbean
life and our future.”
said
be
At issue will be a warning by
faces
one of its severest challenges in history tomorrow when Western
By
foreign
discuss
my
do everything I husband. It’s my
espionage trial despite a Soviet
Stronger Pan-Am Ties Seen After San Jose Conference SAN
here to help my
husband,
tee remained to count the balloting for Senate and House nominees. The convention was presided: over by Independence Party floor leader of the House of Representatives, Rep. Party president Sen. Gilberto Baltazar Quifiones Elias. Concepcion de Gracia, present yesterday, was expected to be renominated for the Senate.
By
as she said:
“I’m can to
commit-
the election
5 p.m.,
‘‘That’s a matter
of record. So when he pleaded guilty that was normal. What else could he plead?” Her soft voice seemed about te
After the
the theater.
jammed about
pi-
spy charges.
Mona Marti was nominated to run for U. S. resident com: missioner. Garcia Diaz once held the post of dean of the UPR After the school was divided school of arts and sciences. into separate colleges, Garcia Diaz returned to teaching
;
(AP)—U-2
Francis Gary Power's Barbara said yesterday thought it “normal” for to plead guilty to Soviet
Munoz, on ly
in
focusing
his
the new CAP issue, responding to an
speech
was clearissue that
seems to have captured the chief interest of farmers and small town
inhabitants.
Reporters,
invited
last
week
te
spend a day with the governor, were surprised to see an unexpect-
that Puerto Ricans should keep in edly large number of yellow CAP flying from rooftops of mind when the clergy talks poli- flags tics “they talk as citizens,” and homes. (See MUNOZ, Page 21) that the history of other Latin countries gers” of
preves mixing
the “grave danreligion with po-
lities. Turning to the plebiscite bill, Mufioz stressed that it has taken the status issue from the cam-
paign. If the Republicans want to bring up the status issue next year through a plebiscite, Munoz
said, ‘‘then I will talk 20 hours a day on political status.” His
attack
on
the
Republicans
centered on their record in power during the 1930's. Munoz claimed
Happy Birthday . Dear Fidel HAVANA (®—Fidel Castre was 34 yesterday. With his health recovered and his vocal chords in shape again, he will start cele-
brating with
a radio-television
address tenight, final night of the “Week of Jubilation” im henor of the nationalization ef
American
properties in Cuba.