“the San Juan Star
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY Vol.
I
Tel 3-8400
No. 273
San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, September 21, 1960
Second-class postage ola at San Jean Phrerte Rice
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UN Assembly Vote Killer Escapes From Prison Van, Irishman Elected Big Manhunt Started In Ponce As Rioters Battle Police In Streets
By PEDRO ROMAN PONCE—A manhunt was u nder way last night in an 8,000 acre rural area near here for a twice-convicted murderer who esc aped from a prison van Monday night.
Segunde Rodriguez Mufioz, tentiary to the Ponce City. Jail where he was to be held
while he was visited by his family. as
Police
‘tvery
describe
him
dangerous.”
Police
said
that
his
capture
is being made difficult by the terrain in which he is believed hiding,
his
which
home
is
in
rel here.
land
Barrio
around
Cotto
Lau-
The area is hilly, den-
sely. populated, and -has many possible hiding places. Thirteen
policeman).-and son
about’ five -pri-
are
scouring
Seek
Revenge
the
area, May
The theory arose in police circles that he may be seeking revenge against people involved in
his imprisonment. Rodriguez was sentenced on Aug. 4, 1954 by now retired Judge Pelayo Roman Benitez
for the first degree murder’ of Marcelina, Maria Nazario, his mother-in-law
and
the
second
degree murder of Maria Haydee Santiagg.:! Haydee Santiago was a neighbor in the Cotto Laurel: section of Ponce where Rodriguez lived™ The victims were stabbed to death on April 12, 1954. He also attacked and left for dead (See MAN HUNT, Page 21)
32, was
being transported from the Rio Piedras Peni-
By
; UNITED
Bear And Beard Are Chummy In Harlem
WILLIAM
NATIONS
Khrushchev
arrived
at Hotel
back
Theresa
at
12:14
p.m.
into his limousine
| tely laid down a battle line they will persue in the momentous 15th session of the General
p.m.
and screamed in apparent approval as Khrushchev and Castro steod posing for iu Negro Harlem.
pictures
outside
the
hotel
that
is located
Each placed an arm around the other’s waist and waved the crowd. The stocky Khrushchev’s head barely reached Castro’s shoulder. Police formed a human chain to hold the crowd back _ pont leader left the hotel. There were 150 policemen
feated
to to
he
regarded
the
visit
as
a
gesture
set
Mrs,
fire
to
a warning dent,
in Cuba
where
he
serve
-.. assembly
belongs.”
president
(STAR reporter Harold J. Lidin recently visited Cuba for a first-hand look at the Castro regime. Here, in the first of four articles, Lidin relates his general impression of the Cuban revolution.) J. LIDIN
Copyright 1960 by ‘Star Publishing Corp., San
the Jian,
Cuba—and port, trio
P,
EB.
not only at the air-
where
a
is paid
to
Pedestrians after
Pleasant
but
without
a
master,”
guitar-strumming smile
dow
at
tourists.
and
couples
coo along the Havana boulevards until
10
contrast
pm.
to
Cuba
is
that
Fidel
Castro
of in will
be able to carry through with the the social and economic reforms streets of the new Cuba. It is that have already reached thousplashed across the wide banners sands and have thrilled most of that hang from the -hotels, the Cuba’s six million. stores and factories. ‘Overriding Fear’ The messages, raw and deThe one overriding fear of the fiant, all support the national- Cuban masses is that “counter-| ization of U.S. industry and re- revolutionaries” backedby Washpudiate U.S. “imperizlisni-” ington, scuttle the Revolu“Without a (sugar) quota— tion. the sign hung over World Trade Center
laugh
down the Prado to the chant “Cuba Si, Yanquis No.” The hope of the majority
{streets of the Batista era. But there is hate too in
Cuba today is an island of happiness and of hate, a land of hope and of fear. The new Cuba is a changing country. It is a different place than Cuba under Batista, and it: is different from the “democratic” Cuba before Batista. The smile abounds in Castro’s
hate is on the lips of the
greenshirted,
nightly—a
young
the
citizens
sullen
screams
the IBM show-win-
on 23rd St.
And
men
the
new
Boland
pres oi
Ire
civilization,
capped
a
day in the history of
diplomacy, i (See ASSEMBLY, Page 21)
Writer Knows Cub>
New Cuba Is A Changing Country HAROLD
from
Frederick
remarkable
Land Of Hate, Happiness, Hope
By
good ever-
land, that the assembly faced a severe test of its ability to pre-
smothe the firered with- wet towe andls said,
stayed
for
that the challenge would he ac cepted. The session’s opening, keyed to
of res-
a kitchen
Allen
“I wish he'd
candidate
strong world of former cclonial peoples. The opening Soviet statement made this clear, and a United States statement indicated
pect for the heroic man who faced Fulgencio Batista, the former Cuban dictator, “for the welfare of his people.” In Winston-Salem, N.C., Castro almost caused a rural home to burn. Mrs. Ersie Allen said she became so enraged watching Americans on television greeting Castro in a friendly manner that she forgot she had put bacon on the stove The bacon burned up, ignited the grease which blazed up and
Soviet
ready to do battle for the will of that uncommitted,
as on
was very much pleased with the conversation I had with Dr . Castro,” Khrushchev told reporters when he returned to his Park Ave. headquarters. said
the
president for this session. But Nikita S. Khrushchev’s forces indicated clearly they were
“I
Khrushchev
Assembly.
With the most spectacular diplomatic gathering of is his tory on hand, the assembly de
estimated by police as “in the thousands” shouted
A crowd
Soviet
zation may be at stake. But the Soviets immedia-
Escort-
at 1:05
(AP)—The
Union suffered a new setback yesterday in the United Nations in an historic meeting in which the survival of the world organi-
NEW YORK (AP)—Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev paid a 40-minute visit te Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro yesterday in the latter’s Harlem hotel. The meeting came without prior announcement. ed by Castro,he stepped
L. RYAN
and
militia
knife-carrying women
‘as
they
of
the
march
This fear is exploited by Cas-
tro to seture solidarity behind
him, and/ to regiment—activity by activity—the Cuban way of life.
Recently. Fidel presided ‘ over a Congress, called to unify the several
revolutionary
wonien’s
organizations into one Federa-
Harold J, Lidin knew Bat: Cuba well. He twice was de
ed
in
infamous
the
into one
himself the new
outfit, but stressed
the next step is to organize the baby-sitters. In industry, the solidarity of the Castro-controlled labor unions has facilitated the take over of both Cuban and US. firms. Along with this shift from capitalism to collectivism, has come a change in the Cuban character, Cuban Pete is the mass. man.
changing
into
He is more disciplined, more careful, and much more ideal-
Morncado
fortress. Lidim went to Cubi: las® month to se: for
tion of Cuban Women. The bearded leader applauded the grouping of these adult women
’s iim
worth
whether Cuba is
the
agony
of the civil war that tossed Fatista’s
regime
Liden,
35,
made
his
out.
has home
in San Juan since 1953 and worked for
the
lier
News
and
as
DorvilLetter
a
tele
vision news writer before joining the STAR. He is corre
spondent here for and Business Week
Newsweek magazines.
traffic
He formerly was a newspaper syndicate representative in Cen
laws, doesn’t litter the streets, assumes that public officials of the Castro regime are honest
tral America. His wife is the Flamenco singer and dancer Maria del Carmen who last week
when
gave
istic.
He
now
before
observes
he
(See CUBA,
believed
Page 20)
all
Lidin
girth
is
to
their
a native
third
caild,
of Cincinnati.