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The
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY Vol. I
No. 262
n Jan Star
‘Tel. 3-8400
10¢
‘San Juan, Puerto Rice, Thursday, September 8, 1960
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Under Control: Full Probe Is Asked Who Is To Blame For Island's Tragedy-It Anyone? By A. W. MALDONADO
Flood waters were under control throughout Puerto Rico yesterday, the Ci| vil Defense office reported, and authorities are working today to dredge up a clear
As Puerto Rico observed yesterday, in the words of
Gov. Mufioz, “a day of mourning and anguish,” the questions asked throughout the island were: who if anyone, was to blame for the
and
other
questions
The
answers
are
island | %
In day:
come
soon
|»
flooded ‘and that lives might be lost, had the authority to forcefully evict the families from
their
homes.
The secretary answered that question required an official opinion by him as attorney general, but that opinion can only be furnished upon the expressed request of a government official sar
Chief
Maj.
Gen.
Juan
(See
BLAME,
Nikita Says He (AP)—Soviet
investigation”
{
Te
of
the
job
from
police
estimates yesterday
outposts.
4. Upwards
of
100
= families
Estimate
of
Losses
Agriculture
with
the
passage
of
hurricane
Donna, resulted in a premature return to their houses of hum (See FLOODS, Page 20)
By MANUEL SUAREZ AND PAUL RYAN This town of 15,000 yesterday went about the grim business of cleaning up the debris left by the floods, sheltering the homeless, and counting the dead. Business opened as usual on: a bright sun-kissed day jand a few shoppers and
Doubts Ike MOSCOW
scale
were only unofficial of property losses
Operations Get Under Way
20)
On U-2 Flight
yester-
of land, crop and animal losses within a few days. Sugar, coffee and tobacco crops are expected to be hard hit. There
Humacao Stirs As Clean-Up
Ce
Constitution, Page
developments
Rivera Santos said his deent will have an estimate
Cordero Davila, The governor,
the Commonwealth
the
| 3. Secretary
such as Gov. Mufioz or Civil Defense
and*+
from
were being fed and clothed at performed by agencies concern- two community centers in the ed with the floods, their warn- metropolitan area yesterday as ings and rescue operations. hundreds of persons. were evaDeaths from island floods ranged cuated by the Civil Defense from up to 106 but there was con- flooded sections of Santurce, Haflicting information. Nobody to Rey and nearby Los Angeles knows how many people lost district of Carolina. their homes. In a telegram to Gov. Mufioz, 2. Gov. Mufioz assigned $1 Concepcion de Gracia charged million for emergency relief. that reports given to the publie {See story page 3.) that “the danger had passed”
from Attorney General Hiram Cancio. Can’t Give Opinion Secretary of Justice Hiram Cancio was whether the
National or the police, realizing. that the area was to be
human
“1. Independence Party Sen. Gilberto Concepcion de Gracia called for a “prompt and full-
inevitable,
may
the
loses
watery confusion.
tragedies and what can be]; done to prevent it happening again? The
of
material
Congo Rift Ends
idlers walked around the town plaza talking about the disaster,
occasionally mentioning baseball
Pre-
or some social event, but always getting back to the disaster. Few people could ‘avoid looking
mier. Nikita Khrushchev yesterday told U. S. Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson, Jr., he still} : , was net convinced that President | j Eisenhower had any advance}: knowledge. of the May 1 U2 flight.
A TIME
toward the south where the Te-
TO
GRIEVE—A Mass
for
the flood victims
at
the Church of the Sweet Christ in Humacao is unendurable to a grief-ridden man in the crowd. The Mass was said
yesterday by the Rev. *Landelin Robling. (STAR phote by Manuel Suarez)
a
F
Humacao
picture
in Assembly Vote
Backing 2 Leaders By ANDREW
BOROWIEC