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submitted to it in accordance
with law.
This does not mean. how
ever, that the subcommittee
has no such power"
SEC Plans Tax
The SEC said last Friday
1t planned court action against
the Goldflne-run East Boston
Co. for failing to file its 1857
financial report by last Tues
days deadline. The SEC went
to court last year to force the
company to file its 1856 re-
port. The SEC previously had
fled other complaints against
East Boston, the first in 1854.
In the opinion Of the SUBJ
committee, the Supreme Court
decision in the Watkins case
last year does not apply in the
Goldfine proceedings.
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ing law, a claim can reason
ably be made that the SEC has
no authority to make inquiry
into the internal management
of a registered company or its
controlled subsidiary. 1t may
also be possible to claim that
the SEC had no jurisdiction to
police the financial reports
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-05
House Authorizes
Centennial Fund

NJ w NN1"0INN"W EFN1N
The House voted yesterday
10 authorize an appropriation
of $4,000 for the Civil War
Centennial Commission.
The measure now goes 10 the
Senate. Il was offered by rep
resentative Tuck. Democrat Of
Virginia. a member Of the COM
mission.
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Moon Rocket Moy Get
First Test Next Week
ny vERN HAUGLAND
Associated prsta Avlntian writer

Roy w. Johnson boss OF the Nations moon rocket program
indicated today that the st attempt TO put up lunar
satellite could come as early next week
Mr. johnson told reporter that the Defense Department
hopes decide this week the date OF the s lunar probe
The director Of the departments Advanced Research
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Congress Right Seen
Kelvin GoIdfine Case

contempt citation resolution against Bernard Goldne
will rest mainly declaration that the involves the
basic power Of Congress to investigate
This is the gs of the House Legislative Oversight Sub
committees formal report released late yesterday The report
accompanies the resolution presented in the Housprob-
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ably tomorrow - by Subcom-
mittee Chairman Harris.
The subcommittee, with the
unanimous backing of the Par
ent House Commerce Commit
tee, declares the 67-year-old
Boston industrialist and gift
giving friend of Sherman
Adams lacked legal and consti-
tutionai grounds for refusing to
answer % specific questions.
Sees Damage to Group
sThe effectiveness of the
subcommittee, we believe, will
be seriously impaired If Mr..
Goldfine is not proceeded
against in contempt proceed
ings" the report states. AL
ready our subpoenas are being
diseregarded. Sailing and re-
fusals to heed requests of the
staff for information are in
creasingly evident.
The subcommittee feels
that there is no reasonable
basis for Mr.. Goldfine's as
serted right to refuse to an
swer questions in a legislative
investigation Of regulatory
commissions on the grounds Of
relevancy and pertinency. Such
right, If upheld. would have the
direct effect of limiting the
power of Congress to investi-
gate"
Against "Hamstringing"
The subcommittee. in its
carefully drawn indictment,
also takes the position that Mr..
Goldflne should not be per-
mitted to ''hamString" its law
tul inquiry on a claim that he
is involved in a civil court case.
Most Of the % questions dealt
with fund Withdrawals he and
others made from the East
Boston Co. and the Boston
Port Development Co., both Of
which he controls. Prior to the
subcommittee hearings he be-
came involved in a civil suit
affecting those companies.
THE committees powers.
have adjudicated as being as
broad as those of a grand jury"
the subcommittee says. They
are not to be limited or diluted
by legal technicalities appropi-
ate to narrow issues raised in
q courtroom. Otherwise. there
would be little or no effective
ness to any legislative inquiry
concerning the independent
regulatory commissions"
Charges Blocking Of Probe
The subcommittee not only
rejects Mr.. Goldfine's claim that
the questions we're irrelevant
because they dealt with internal
affairs Of the companies, but it
also charges that the Boston
industrialist with trying to-
block the Investigation.
1T is a spacious attempt to
kill of pertinent questions ex-I
posing the evil Of exploitation
Of corporate assets by domi-
nant stakeholder" the subcom-I
mittee asserts.
UNFOLDING the position of
Chairman Harris and Chief
Counsel Robert w. Lishman
that the questions were perth
nent, the report notes that the
Securities and Exchange Com
mission, one of the regulatory
agencies within the scope Of
the subcommittee's investiga-I
tion, has some jurisdiction over
Goldfine financial reports.
May Take Action Itself
The subcommittee said the
SEC. having knowledge Of the
extraordinary financial trans
actions of the Boston Port
Development Co. and Of Mr..
Goldfine's enrichment. made
no inquiry and took no action
concerning same.
1T may 4 that undeeexist-
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President Hit
On Fund Curb

President Eisenhower wa
charged today with operating
"still on a pre-Sputnik baSis'
after indicating he may moi
spend all the money Congress
authorized for new atomic prof.
ects.
Democratic Senator Ander-
son Of New Mexico made the
charge after the President
signed a S3e6.7 million author
ization bill. with the comment
that some OF It's provisions were
undesirable"
Senator Anderson was one
Of the chief participants In
drawing up the bill. which
nearly doubled the Administra-
tons request for atomic prof.
ects and called for $50 million
more than was asked for re-
search facilities.
Russia Catching Up"
Senator Anderson. vice chair
man Of the Senate House
Atomic Energy Committee. said
1.-THE Russians are catching up
with US on basic research. and
the committee believes that
these programs should be &C
tolerated"
The President. however. felt
Obliged TO urge Congress Il
guard more vigilantly against
the ever-present tendency tc
burden the Government with
programs such as those ! have
here described. the relative
urgency and essentially Of
which have not been solidly
determined"
He objected to a provision
Of $l45 million for an addi-
tional plutonium production
reactor on the ground "the
necessity for more plutonium
for military purposes is moi
established"
Opposes Electric Use
He also objected TO making
the reactor convertible fol
generation Of electric power in
addition to producing pluto
mum.
The President further OBJ
jected to time limits set for
Acc negotiations with indus
try for construction of a ssh
million gas-cooled power re-
actor. Terming the limits ''un-
duly restrictive" he warned
they could we'll force the Gov
eminent into an avoidable
capital investment of ISL mil
lion and large operating ex-
penditures for years to come. "
Mr.. Eisenhower suggested
withholding appropriations for
construction of the gas-cooled
power reactor until next year
Diario las Américas., 1958-08-22
OPPOSITION KEEPING
PRISONERS IN JAIL,
SOMOzA DECLARES

MANAGUA, August 81. UPI).
President Luis A. Somoza r~eiterat-
ed that his government will re-
spect freedom of the press in Nj.
caragua, when he was asked about
1t in a press conference.
Said Somoza: 81 want to maintain
this freedom (of the press, which
i have given since l assumed the
Presidency, as l am the principal
defender of it. No one can take
that banner away from me, and l
expect the cooperation of the press
in order that freedom prevails
within the norms of journalistic
honor.
Then referring to a "pro-pardon
or AMNESTY Committee, which was
recently formed in Managua, Some
"a said that he would consider any
petition brought before him eff
they speak in a proper manner
and never in the violent tone which
they have used before. He added
that 1T is the opposition which
keeps these prisoners in jaiI".
He referred to the persons ar
rested on charges of acts against
the government,
Diario las Américas., 1958-08-22
Vice President Election
in Colombia Brings Crisis
Within the Liberal PARTY
POLIO VACCINE SENT
TO NICARAGUA BY
CARDINAL SPELLMAN

MANAGUA, August 81. CUPID.
= Nicaragua received 10000 units
of Salk Anti-polio vaccine sent by
the Archbishop of New York,
Francis Cardinal Spellman.
The vaccine was donated by the
Knights of Malta through Cardinal
Spellman, who, in delivering the
medicine, said in a brief state
ment that catholics in his Archi-
diocese wanted to express in that
manner their solidarity with the
Catholic people of Nicaragua.
The shipment left Immediately,
for delivery to the Archbishop of
Managua, Mons. Alexandra Coma
Lee Robleto, who will put it in the
ands of President Somoza.
Cardinal Spellman said in a let
ter to Somoza:
Il have learned of the great
number of Nicaraguan Children
suffering polio and l am sending, :.
III tne name OF the Knights of NAL
ia, Salk vaccine sufficient for ten
thousand children.
Our heart is deeply moved by
the suffering and pain caused by
this epidemic and we assure you
that we will pray to God for his
benediction to your people and
to free them from that sickness
and its devastating effects"
Diario las Américas., 1958-08-22
EDITORIAL
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN PARAGUAY,
A PROBLEM OF AMERICA

Anywhere in America that there is an eclipse of public
freedom, a problem is presented to the whole continent,
because the life OF the countries of our Hemisphere which
forms the Inter American System is so close among them
that nobody can be indifferent before the political tragedy
OF one of them, and nobody in one way or another, escapes
the harm resulting from such a tragedy.
America is a single unit, and one only is its destiny of
freedom and grandeur. And whatever affects that freedom
and that grandeur, even if it is in a single country, hurts
the prestige of the others. For that reason, the lack of
freedom of expression in Paraguay has shocked the whole
continent, and for that reason, in a very special manner, ON
the occasion of the inauguration of a new term of the Para.
guayan dictatorship On the Is of this month the Inter
American Press Association has renewed its protest againt
the persecution of which the press and the radio are vic
tins in that South American country.
The IAPA, cooperating with the Inter American
BrOadcaSterS Association, in accordance with the provisions
OF the Panama Doctrine, by which both organizations
agreed to a joint struggle for the free expression of
trary acts of Governments, has advocated once more, on
the occasion OF the August Is ceremonies, in favor of
Radio StentOr" and its owner, which are victims of the
faraguayan military dictatorship. The owner of that
station, because of political persecution, is in exile in
MOntevldeO, and his company is closed.
The political support to the regime of Asunci6n must
pc very weak, when to remain in power it needs to suppress
free press and radio. History demonstrates that, sooner or
and that when deSpOtc regimes fall, the newspapers and
radio stations which have been prosecuted, return once
more to their democratic posts in the picture of national
life. Naturally, the free press and radio constitute pro.
blemS for relationships, and that is the reason for the recent
events In Paraguay, as 1t is also i'm Nicaragua, where on
the evening Of August 5, procurement mobS attacked
the Radio MundiaI' station causing damages for more
than one million c0rdObaS and many wounded, among them
the owner, who was seriously hurt.
The Inter American Press Association, in opening
once more the sad case of Paraguayan democracy, has ac
struggling for the establishment of free expression In
that country and, besides, to return to the air, to &C.
compLsh its mission of d~ivulgatiOn and culture, Radio
Stentor", arbitrarily closed on November s, 1856.
Diario las Américas., 1958-08-22
HEMISPHERE EVENTS
De GouIIe Sending
Special Mission
10 South America


PARIS, August 20 (UPI)- Pre-
mier Charles de Gaulle is showing
his interest in the Latin American
countries by sending his State Min
lister minister without portfolio)
Louis Jacquinot, and a group of
officials on a special mission to
Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, and
Uruguay
Jacquinot will carry a personal
message from the General to each
one of the Presidents of the coun-
tries which he will visit.
The object of the trip is to es-
tablish direct contact with the
Chief Executives of each country
visited and to strengthen the re-
lations between them and France.
Jacquinot will be accompanied
by his wife, the Director Of the
Cabinet, M. vinel and the technic-
al advisor Jean Ponsolle.
The travellers will leave Orly Air.
port, near Paris, on Thursday and
will arrive in Rio de Janeiro, going
Diario las Américas., 1958-08-22

all of which is prohibited by the
United Nations Charter and by the
most elemental laws of interna-
tional rights"
Nunez Portuondo asked:
Can a government, legally re-
cognized by all the members of the
United Nations, including the So
Wet Union request military aid of
a friendly nation, when it is the
object of a foreign aggression which
endangers more than its %terrotir-
ial integrity and sovereignty, its
very existence as a state, such as
happened iii the case of Lebanon,
and not receive it, because the
Security Council was unable to
stop the aggression, more intense
and serious every minute, due to
the veto exercised by the Soviet
representatives,"
And, answering the same; 'The
day that the General Assembly de-
clares that legitimate governments
do not have this right, it would
concede to any large power the
faculty of doing as they wish to.
the territorial integrity and soy
ereignty of any small state without
any kind Of risk to the agressors."
DR.. Nunez Portuondo recalled
that the Cuban Foreign Minister,
DR.. Gonzalo Guell, made public
statements approving the mea-
sures taken by the Washington
government to defend the territor-
ial integrity and political in
dependence of Lebanon"
Meanwhile, the Brazilian Am
bassador, Cyro Freitas Vale, stat
ed that his country, as we'll as the
rest of Latin America, is deeply
interested in the Near East pro-
blem.
In his speech Freitas Vale said:
"We are determined to take an
active part, not only in debates
which take place in this interna-
tional parliament but also in the
decisions and measures which re-
suit from our deliberations"
Diario las Américas., 1958-08-22
Government Speeds up Measures TO
Complete Normally in the Country

treaties regarding this matter that
are now in effect.
Conservatives criticized the Min
lister and stated that a new policy
had been adopted, that of maint-
aiming that asylum should not be
given to military men on active
service.
The Minister said Colombia con
tinueS to be loyal to her policy
about asylum and that inclusively
she has granted safe conducts to
persons who can not be considered
as political delinquents. (This was
a reference to fernando Rodriguez,
alias eel Borugo." ex-secret agent
who took asylum in the Embassy
of Nicaragua.)
Last week the Colombian For.
eign Ministry gave safe conducts
to the officers who took part in
the abortive armed revolt of last
May the End, and who had taken
refuge in Latin American Embas-
sizes. Colombia, nevertheless, took
the matter up with the Inter Anne
rican Juridical Organization in or
der to discuss whether she should,
or should not, give asylum to the
military rebels.
Minister Turbay recalled that.
this thesis was supported by Co.
lombia since 1889 and that even
though she has been complying
with it, she has given safe con-
ducts since she respects the right
OF the country giving the asylum
to classify the crime.
Diario las Américas., 1958-08-22

BoGoTA, Aug. Fl CUPID Lib
eral ex-President Dario Echandia
was elected by Congress as
Vice President of the Republic.
Six hours before his election,
which brought him for the second
time to that high position, Echan-
dia was swofn-in as Governor of
the Departmnt of Tolima, and an
nouncd a peace and rehabilitation
plan for the region, which has suf-
fered much violence within the
last few years.
Echandfa thus becomes the first
ex.President to accept a relatively
minor post, as Governor of a
small Department, in order to help
President Alberto Lleras Camargo
in his task of returning the coun-
try as soon as possible to institu-
tional normally
President LleraS Camargo con-
tinueS studying reports from all
sections of the country, in order
to determine where he can de-
cree a quick lifting of the state of
siege in accordance with an
nouncement he made at his inau-
gural speech August 7.
Echandia was elected Vice Pre-
sident in a short and solemn joint
session of Congress, after his NOM
nation had been approved by
both parties The Colombian Con-
gress holds joint session only
twice: for the Inauguration of the
President, and to elect a Vice Pre-
sident, as it did today.
The nomination of Echandia pro-
voked a crisis within the Liberal
Party, which is still without solu-
ton, but according to reliable
sources, it will be solved within
the next few days. The National
Director of the Party, Carlos Lie
ras Restrepo, who expected to be.
chosen for Vice President, resign
ed his post and announced he
would leave the Senate and would
retire from politics, after ex-Presi-
dent and Conservative leader Lau-
reano Gomez disregarded his name
and approved Echandia for Vice
President.
Liberal members of Congress, in
a special meeting, ratified their
confidence in Lleras Restrepo, and
asked him to continue as head
OF the Party. Lleras Restrepo said
he would study the request and
would give his decision within the
next few days.
Diario las Américas., 1958-08-22
Cuban Delegate Defends Small
Nations Right 10 Request Help
When Threatened From Abroad

UNITED NATIONS, August q
(UPI)--The Cuban Ambassador,
Emilio Nnhez Portuondo, stated
to the Emergency General Assem-.
bly, that the landing of US and
British troops in Lebanon and Jor.
dan, respectively is not the prin.
cipal theme but something which
logically can be classified as an
accessory question"
He believed that the main pro-
blem was "to discuss the Complaints
presented by the Legitimate gov
eruments of Lebanon and Jordan
OF the interference, from abroad,
in their internal matters, which
created the problems and gravely
threatened their sovereignty, the
territorial integrity of those states
and, as a consequence, the stability
of their respective governments,
Diario las Américas., 1958-08-22
Mexicuns Purchase
U. S. Interests in
Mexico's largest
Phone company

JERSEY CITY, N. J. - August
81 (UPD- Eloy Vallina of Chi
huahua, and Carlos Trouyet of Me
xico City, signed here the docu.
ments by which Mexican interests
acquired IS per cent of the stock
in the largest telephone company
of Mexico, the TelefOnos de Mexi-
CO.'S. A.
The transaction, which means
approximately SOS, 1000 900 was
carried out in the offices of the
First National Ban of Jersey City.
They sold the International Tele-
phone and Telegram Corp. and TIE.
leric Inc, a subsiderary of LIN.
Ericsson of Sweden.
The rest of the stock belongs to
Mexican stockholders, thus this is
the first public services company
of private ownership which passes
completely into Mexican hands.
Mr.. Vallina and Mr.. Troyet head
the group Of Mexican businessmen
who made the purchase. Many of
them are important stockholders
in the Mexican Commercial Bank
(Banco Commercial Mexicano, S.
A. of which Vallina is President.
He also presides La Celulosa de
Chihuahua, S. A. and has interests
in lumber, mining, steel, cement,
and wood veneer industries. F..
Trouyet heads the principal in
vestment firm of Mexico, which
bears his name. and he actively
participates in many companies in
association with us capital which
operate in Mexico, such as General
American Transportation Co., and
Sanborn's, the we'll known Mexi-
can store which is associated with
W%algreens. of the US
Diario las Américas., 1958-08-22

pons, held up the French-Italian
Bank in the neighboring town of
San Justo, taking four and a half
million pesos.
The criminals entered the bank
moments after the doors were clos
ed and while many customers were
still there. The thieves entered
through a small side door by which
the people were leaving and took
the revolver from the guard first.
They fled in an automobile.
HOLD UP IN SAN JUAN
SAN JUAN, Aug. 10 (UPI)-
A lone holdup man took one mil
lion six hundred thousand pesos
from the Credit Association of
Cuyo, a private Jewish concern
dedicated to banking operations.
The thief threatened the 40 EN-.
ployes of the company with a
fire arm, forced one Of them to
give him the large sum, and fled
in an stolen automobile which he
later abandoned.
Diario las Américas., 1958-08-22
Latin American Finance
and Trade News Reports

sibilities that may profitably be in
vestigated.
The oil excitement that follow.
ed upon the overthrow of the Ar.
benz Government in Guatemala
and Union Oils Disappointing dis
covery well along the Costa RIGA.
Panama boundary has settled
down to the more proSaic business
of finding oil. Three years of geo.
logical and geophysical research
are now being put to the acid test
OF drilling, and the companies that
have persisted have their fingers
crossed with respect to the actual
presence of oil and the political
climate. Developments in the pro.
vince of Darien in Panama are far
advanced, and the results of drill.
ing should be watched.
Early this year, the Honduran
government enacted a new petro-
leum law which, it is hoped, will
pay off, particularly if oil is struck
in Guatemala. The new law will
have to be tested before the ef-
fects of its restrictive provisions
are known. Oil concessions will,
for example, be granted only to
Honduran nationals on offShore
acreage and on lands within 40
kilometers of the coast and the
country's international boundaries.
Much of the more promising acre
age lies within these restricted
areas. To be classified as Hon.
duran, only 80 per cent of the
stock ownership and of the direct
crate of any company need be
Honduran.
Except for routine exploration
for bauxite there is little current
activity in metal mining. Kaiser
Aluminium has been granted a con-
cession in the province of Chiri-
qui in Panama and with Alcoa and
reynolds, holds exploration per-
mlts for large tracts in Costa Ri
ca The manganese potential Of
central America received a body
blow when the ambitious opera
tons in Colon ran out of CONNER
clal ore and shut down. Promising
results are reported, on the other
hand, by North American - Cos
ia Ricsn interests in western Cos
Ia Rica.
Nicaragua has passed a natural
resources law that is little more
than an enabling act, to be sup
plemented by specific legislation
II exploration turns up something
OF commercial value.