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cestry going back to dark Haitian
French blood.
He was forever in need of re-
assurance from his associates. An
unnatural fear of death converted
him into a hypochondriac. Legend
also describes him as highly su-
perstitious, result of which was
to make him a keen student of
meteorological charts after local
witch doctor told him q future
hurricane would bring his death
sentence.
Need for Reossuronce
Probably never in their widest
dreams did Julia Molina Chevalier
and her husband. Jose Trujillo
Valdez, envisage one of their IL
children would absolutely rule
their country.
Jose Trujillo Valdez was a peace
full retailer dealing mostly in
poultry in and out of their home
town Of San Cristobal. He was
descended from a tough Spanish
military policeman and a mulatto
woman who ran a low-down hotel.
Julia Molina had a more re-
spectacle background. Her father
was a prosperous merchant, her
mother, a descendant of a Halt
ian military officer, was a school
teacher.
Jose Trujillo Valdez and Julia
Molina raised a family that came
in order: Virgilio. Marina, Romeo,
Rafael, Jose Arizmendi, Julieta,
An1bal, Pedro, Japonesa, Nieve
Luisa and Hector. Years later, a
twelfth member was added, Luis
Rafael, out Of a misadventure by
Jose Trujillo with some still un-
identified local belle.
The Dramatic Trimmings
From the beginning, Rafael Tru-
jillo seemed different. He exhib-
tied great energy and an early
love Of money and medals. At
the age of IA he received a filly
as a gift. He promptly dubbed it
Bank Note" (Papeleta). His first
daughter he named Flor de Orc
(Flower of Gold. His fondness for
bottle caps to dress up shirt fronts
earned him the nickname of
"Chapita."
Later he was to affect the dress
OF 10Th century war lords, plumed
hats and fancy uniforms with all
the gold and silver trimmings.
The American occupation of 1916
"a gave Trujillo the military back
ground that swept him to power.
He had quit his telegrapher
job to become a guard at a pri-
vately- -owned sugar mill near the
capital. Just what put him to
it is not clear from the records,
but on December 8, 1918, Trujillo
requested a commission in the
conStabulary. Exactly a week la
ter. Trujillo passed his physical
examination.
The Hama Military Academy
was created in 1921, and Trujillo
graduated second lieutenant at
the end of the same year.
Available records show Trujillo
was an outstanding officer under
the Americans. Promotions
swiftly followed.
With the departure of the oc-
cupying forces in 1924 President
Horacio Vasquez converted the
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police establishment into a mill
tary force in 1927 with Trujillo
at its head. Trujillo was to re-
pay him three years later by be-
traying Vasquez in his first step
toward the presidency.
Old Wife New Wife
In the meantime, as his per-
Sonal fortunes improved, Trujillo
decided he needed mate better
suited to his new surroundings.
He divorced Aminta Ledesma,
plain woman of humble origin
who had given him his first child,
Flor de Oro, and in 1927 married
Bienvenida Ricardo of wealthy
local family.
But it was obvious he acted too
hastily. He met and fell in love
with Maria Martinez, not only at
tractive but having sharp busi-
ness acumen. His ardour for BIZ
envenida cooled as it grew for
Maria. Ramfis, Trujillo's eldest
son, was born to Maria in 1929
while he still was married to Bien-
venida. The latter had failed to
produce an heir and Trujillo di-
vorced her in 1885. He married
Maria Martinez late that year.
Maria proved instrumental in
helping build up the familys vast
fortune, estimated in the neigh
borhood of $500 million. Bank
documents seized from the fam
ily's luxury yacht recently yielded
nearly $50 million in her name.
But Trujillo learned that mill
tary stature, in his particular
case, did not entitle him to cross
caste system boundaries dating
back to the days of the Con-
quistadores.
Blackballed by social clubs, Tru-
jillo bided his time and when he
came to power he ordered the club
names changed to Presidente Tru-
jillo.
In his vengeance on society he
named parks, institutions, bridges
and highways after his children.
A Peace Fair Queen
Angelita became queen of a fab
ulous peace fair Trujillo organ
lied in 1856. The show cost an
estimated $50 millions. The ma
tional budget that year was $122.7
millions. Two hairdressers were
imported from New York to do
Angelita's peace fair" hairdo, at
a reported cost of 1000 each plus
expenses.
Trujillo was no less generous
to himself and his brothers and
friends.
Upon himself he bestowed ex-
travagant titles. He was ad-
dressed as "His Excellency, Gen.
eralissimo Doctor Rafael Leonidas
Trujillo, President of the Repub-
lie, Benefactor of the Nation and
Restorer Of Financial Indepen-
dence."
He provided the diplomatic
springboard from which Porfirio
Rubirosa jumped to international
prominence as a famous lover.
Porfirio had married and divorced
Trujillo's eldest daughter, Flor
de Orc, but Trujillo remained
deeply attached to the Paris-bred
Rubirosa who provided the con-
tinental flair the generalissimo
felt his court required.
The court, now that it has been
Evening star., 1962-01-28
BY ROBERT BERRELLEZ
Associated Press staff Writer

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican
Republic.-A light blue 1857 Chev-
rolet Bel Air sped westward from
Santo Domingo carrying a man
on date with destiny. 1t was
1915 pm. on a warmish night
of May 80, 1861.
Some five miles west Of the
Dominican capital, at a spot less
well-lighted than the rest of the
sleek highway, three cars closed
in on the Chevrolet. Machine gun
and pistol fire broke the tropical
stiffness.
At a nightclub some distance
away, dancing couples paused as
they heard the faint sound of
gunfire above the music. They
shrugged and kept on dancing.
There was nothing unusual about
these nocturnal shootings.
They were not to know until
much later this particular gun
fire had snuffed out the life of
GeneralisSimo Rafael Leonidas
Trujillo; that 1t marked the be-
ginning of the end of a 31-year-
old dynasty.
Rafael Trujillo died practically
within walking distance of his
destination that night. the town
of San Cristobal where he was
born SO years before.
The Humble Beginning
A half century earlier, as a
poor but aspiring telegraph op-
orator he had crossed very nearly
the same spot en- route to Santo
Domingo to assume new RESPONSE
bilities in the capitals main tele-
graph office.
He died not long after making
the usual nightly call on his aging,
ailing mother, Julia Molina Chev-
alier, who had not shielded from
close friends the ache in her heart
brought by gossip about her son.
The monstrous nature of this
talk had dimmed her early pride
in the achievements of this gifted
fourth son who raised her and
her family of IL children from
the edge of poverty to regal
wealth.
But she wept broken-heartedly
together with thousands of other
Dominicans the day Rafael Tru-
jillo was laid to rest at San
Cristobal.
Hundreds of thousands others
rejoiced quietly.
Why not universal joy or sor-
row over the end of the tyrant?
Trujillo was many things to his
people.
In the northern coast Village
Of Sosua, Alfred Rosenweig, 81,
a former Vienna textile salesman,
one of several thousand Jewish
refugees to whom the generals
simo offered sanctuary at the
outset of World War II when no
one else would, said:
"Trujillo did all he could for
his country. The poor were his
particular concern. He saved our
lives. AS long as a descendant
of the Sosua settlers lives our
gratitude to him will not die"
A fellow settler, Jacob Wein-
berg, 81, added: I'VE prayed he
would live 200 years."
Flora Aquino, q manicurist at
the Hotel Embajador. said she
learned her trade through schol-
Evening star., 1962-01-28
By WILLIAM r. FRYE
Contributing Writer

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.-An
Indian diplomat made a startling
and revealing prediction here last
week.
IF we were to take action to
drive the Chinese out of Ladkh,"
he said in private conversation, "I
doubt very much if Russia would
give China any significant help.
"And one day, not too far off,
we just might do it,"
The comment was significant
for its hint Of India's intentions
in the border dispute with Pei
ping; but it was even more re-
vealing for its assessment of re-
lations between Russia and Red
China.
If my Indian friend was right
that Russia would remain neu-
tral in border war between India
and her own Chinese ally, then the
rift within the Communist bloc
is wider and deeper than even
the most optimistic Western ana
lysts have believed.
The extraordinary shift In the
world balance of power which
such a split would produce-the
additional freedom Of action
which the n-Communist world,
like India, would obtain - can
scarcely be overstated.
Comparison to Trotsky Doys
Janos Kadar, the Hungarian
puppet dictator. recently gave the
outside world a measuring stick
by which to judge the seriousness
of the clash. He compared it to
the Stain -Trotsky feud Of the
1920s, which of course was far
and away the most serious inner
contradiction" that world commu-
niSm has ever known.
Kadar was speaking of the ac-
knowledged theological clash be-
tween Russia and Albania. But
for Albania" in most Soviet doc
umentS these days it is possible
to read equally we'll Red China"
Kadar's comparison hinted at
the theological core of the current
struggle. Trotsky was the great
advocate of world revolution, con-
tending that it was not feasible
to build communism in one coun-
try alone. Peiping today demands
world Communism even If it means
war.
The Practical Differences
Moscow, on the other hand, ar
CUES that communism can safely
IIegoTlaJe an atomic truce with
the West and concentrate On inner
development, after which it can
bury" the West when the West
dies capitalism's inevitable"
death.
This theological struggle has
many obvious implications and
some which are not so obvious.
1t produces, and in turn is intensi-
fled by, differences on practical
issues such as these:
. The extent of Russian foreign
aid" to Red China; the pace and
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that-44 years after the Bolshevik
revolution-some are still more
equal than others in Russia's
supposedly classless society.
There are probably more domes-
tic servants and chauffeurs in
Moscow than in New York.
The Communist regime long ago
eliminated-through execution or
otherwise - the so-called upper
class" The counts and countesses
are gone. So are the feudal land
lords. Further down the scale,
even small Shopkeepers and indi-
vidual farmers have been collec-
tivized out of existence.
Thus, according to the official
line, only two classes remain: the
workers and the collective farmers.
MarxiSt dogma holds that So
cial class consciousness withers
away along with the destruction
of its economic underpinnings,
Party propagandists, when ad-
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arship given her by Trujillo.
"There'l never be another man
like him. He was magnificent to
everyone. 1t was the ingrates who
didn't like him."
A Different Story
The relatives of the thousands
OF DominicanS who disappeared or
were killed or tortured for oppos-
ing Trujillo tell a different story.
Almost speechless with grief and
bitterness, Mrs. Olga Despradel
Cedeno said "he was an indescrib-
able beast, an assassin. :" Her
words choked in uncomfortable
sobbing.
Her husband, Pedro Livio Ced-
emo, was one of nearly a dozen
men who plotted the assassina-
ton of Trujillo. Last November
IS. ostensibly for the purposes Of
re-enacting the crime, he and five
other accused plotters were taken
from prison never to be seen
again.
No one seems to have a pre-
else idea of what happened to
bodies of Trujillo victims, includ-
ing two of the most publicized
cases: Oregon pilot Gerald Muir
ply and anti-Trujillo Author Jes-
us de Galindez. There is general
Evening star., 1962-01-28
BY ERNEST CONNIE
'orth American NeWspaper Alliance

NEW YORK.-A Soviet profess
sor. accused Of kidnapping" his
granddaughter from his sons es-
tranged wife, explained matter-of-
factly that Il want to bring up
my granddaughter. have a grand
piano and a servant. NV
daughter-in-law does not"
This incident, reported in the
Soviet press. highlights the fact
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dressing the outside world, would
have us believe that class dis
tinctions have, in fact, all but
disappeared.
Con Still Dreom
In Russia, so goes the refrain,
everyone has an equal chance at
a college education. Every factory
worker can dream of becoming
the plant manageE
To show that the state holds
the lowliest of workers in high
esteem, pig tenders and milkmaids
are regularly elected to the So
Wet Unions rubber-stamp legis-
lative body, the Supreme Soviet.
However, as anyone who has
lived in Russia can testify, the
reality is a far cry from the dream.
The old classes were, indeed, OBJ
liberated. But new vested interests
and new class lines-Communist
style - have cropped up to take
their place.
II Doys Below Deck
AS in Western societies, people
are sorted out according to money,
position and family. It's easy to
IND Recommendation for this con-
clusion in the Soviet press. For
example:
A worker in the south of Russia
wanted to take his son on a trip
TO Moscow via leisurely cruise
up the Volga.
AS fourth-class passengers, they
found they were not even entitled
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The outhor hos just returned from Mos
COW where he wos correspondent for
the MeGrow-Hill Publications.
Milford chronicle., 1962-07-13
RAY CLEARYsS
AUCTION
CARROLL'S SALE
Dover, Delaware
Friday July 1911 A. IA.

Your Inspection Invited Thursday Evening Till 1000 p M
This week we featuring terrific combination over
200 antique pieces and the complete home fur
nshed in the finest of classical This furniture is in new
eondition-ol upholstered furniture in dir foom
Serpentne Front sectional nylon over IA
long
Beautiful gold lounge chair
2 Twin Chairs, club style in beige and gold
2 Green Brocode Swivel Tub Chairs by Castro
2 Brown Metallic Tweed Reclining Chairs
2 Beautiful End TobIes with marble tops
o-pc. Dining Room Suite, inoid, beauty
opc Cherry Mahogany Bedroom Suite. air foam bedding
o-pc American Walnut Bedroom Suite beds and
triple dresser
Entertainment Unit by General Electric so" long with 81" v
AMFM Radio Stereo Mono
Chysler ArtemP 3/4 ton Air Condioners, flush mounting
RcA Whirlpool Twin Washer and Dryer, beauties
GE Refrigerator double door, freezer top
Beautiful Broodoom Rugs, all sizes.
AS for the ANTIQUES there is wonderful collection Just
to mention q few
Several pieces of Cranberry gloss pattern glass in clear
amber and vosolne, Delft pieces satin glass bowl plates
in Delft Wedgewood Beehive, etc. Orentol pieces including
Cosne uster pitcher lot clocks Stoishre cows beoUt
fu Overoy bowl lot eeIy including Diamond ring and birth
rings mony bross pieces, buckets also wrought ron
Several needeponts oval walnut fromes very fine chid
mopIe rocker lots TO mention.
Milford chronicle., 1962-07-13
PUBLIC SALE
OF VALUABLE
Real Estate

THE UNDERSIGNED, will offer for
sale on Thursday afternoon, July 26,
1862 at two O'Clock pm, in front of
the premises,
ALL that certain lot, piece or par
eel of land situated in the Village
of Magnolia, in South Murderkill Hun
dred, Kent County and State of Del
aware, bounded on the east by the
County road leading thru the Village
of Magnolia to Dover, on the west
by lands now or late of George w.
Collins, on the north by lands of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and on
the south by lands now or late of
Sallie Hickey, laid out and supposed
to contain one-half (12) acre of land,
be the same more or less, the inn
provements thereon being a 212 story
frame dwelling house containing eight
rooms and bath
Property will be sold to the highest
bidder, subject to acceptance or re-
lection of any and all bids.
Terms of Sale: 20s6 to be paid on
day of sale, balance within thirty
800 days from date of sale payable
upon delivery of deed conveying a
good marketable title free and clear
adjusted as of day of settlement.
Ernest V. Keith, Attorney, Dover,
Delaware.
Raymond w. HalIman, Harold T.
HaIIman owners
Auctioneers: Carroll Bros, Dover, Del.
Attorney: Ernest V. Keith, Dove r
Del. 7-13-2tp
Milford chronicle., 1962-07-13
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Sealed bids will be received by the
State Highway Department State
Delaware at the office of the Motor
Vehicle Commissioner Groom 101) Ad-
ministration Building, Dover, Della
ware until 200 pm. DIST. July "a,
1862 and thereafter publicly opened
for a contract involving the following
approximate quantities.
CONTRACT MV-1-63
Furnishing preparing and delivering
100000 temporary license plates as per
specifications.
Attention is called to the special
provisions in the proposals, the speci-
fications and the contract agreement.
Bidders must submit proposals up
ON complete forms as provided by the
department for bidding purposes.
Each proposal must be accompan-
led by a guaranty in the sum equal
to the amount of at least 10% (Ten
Percent) of the total amount of the
proposal.
The envelope containing the propos-
al must be marked Proposal for the
State Highway Department, Contract
MV-1-63''
The Contract will be awarded or re-
jected within thirty 600 days from
the date of the opening of proposals
The right is reserved to reject any
or all bids.
Prospective bidders may o b a i n
contract documents from the office of
the Motor Vehicle Commissioner,
(Room 101) Administration Building,
Dover, Delaware.
Russell w. Whitby
Motor Vehicle Commissioner
7-13-2t
Milford chronicle., 1962-07-13
PUBLIC NOTICE

Chapter 364, Volume SO, Laws of
Delaware, recently enacted in the
law confers authority upon t n e
Public Service Commission of Del
aware to grant Grandfather
Rights" to motor carriers of freight
property and or commodities TO
hire within the State of Delaware
upon Application to the Public Ser
vice Commission of the State o f
Delaware All persons, firms or
corporations who were engaged as
common carriers for fire on July
L, 1861, who desire to secure
Grandfather Rights" under h S
law, must apply to the Public Ser
vice Commission of the State. o +
Delaware, Old State House, Dover,
Delaware, on or before October 16,
1862. Inquiries concerning eligibili-
ty under this legislation should be
addressed to the Executive Secre-
tary, Public Service Commission,
Dover, Delaware. 7-6-4t
Milford chronicle., 1962-07-13
N 0 Il / C e

Notice is hereby given that
Letters Testamentary were in due
form of law granted unto the un-
dersigned, on the End day of July
A. D. 1862, and that all persons
having claims against the estate of
the deceased must present the
same, duly attested, to the sa d
Mary Lena Lambert, Vreeland, Ex-
cutriX of the estate of James K.
Lambert, on or before the End day
of April 1868, or abide the Act of
Assembly in such case made and
provided.
Mary Lena Lambert Vreeland, Ex-
ExecutriX
Address
Lincoln, Delaware
RID. 1. 7-6-3t
Milford chronicle., 1962-07-13
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Public Notice is hereby given
that sealed bids will be received
by the Millsboro Board of School
trustees, Millsboro School No. %
until 200 PM, July 19, 1862, and
be publicly opened and read aloud
on furnishing and installing to
existing hot water system.
/. Boiler with burner
g. Booster Pump
Specifications may be obtained
in the school office, Millsboro, Del
aware.
w. Arnold Steele, Chairman
Millsboro Board of School Trustees
7-6-2t
Milford chronicle., 1962-07-13
7-13-1t
PROPOSALS

Notice of Letting State Board of
Education
Sealed Proposals addressed to
the Pupil Transportation Division
of the State Board of Education,
Room 1904, State House Annex,
Dover, Delaware, for the purchase
of 3 school buses normally refer
red to as 36 passenger buses equip
ped with special seating arrange
ment suitable for handicapped chill
dren, and small vehicles compar-
able to the 134" wheel base Interna
tional Metro or Chevrolet Step Van
equipped with minimum of IL It.
body designed for the transporta-
ton of school children with trade
in, (2) 1949 Studebaker 48 passen-
ger school buses, q 1949 Chevro-
let SO passenger school bus and
(2) 1949 Chevrolet Suburban carry
alls. Bids will be let in two parts:
l. 8 buses less trade in of 3 buses
2. 2 small vehicles less trade in
of Suburban carryalls.
Bid forms and specifications may
be obtained from the Transporta-
tion Division of the State Board of
Education, Room 1904, State House
Annex, Dover, Delaware.
All bids must be in by | O'Clock
pm. DIST, Monday, July %, 1862,
and at that time will be publicly
opened. The right is reserved to re-
ject any or all bids. 7-13-zt
Milford chronicle., 1962-07-13
FOUGHT FIRE
WITH TRACTOR

EFFINGHAM, Ill. (AP)-Gerald
VanLast, his wife and three chill
dren were routed from their beds
to find the opposite end of their
ranch-style home in flames.
AS the blaze raced through the
house toward the wing containing
the bedrooms, VanLast looped a
logging chain around the burning
portion of the house.
Tying the other end of the chain
to his tractor, he pulled the burn
ing section away from the un-
touched wing and saved the bed
rooms.
Milford chronicle., 1962-07-13
N O T / C E (!

Notice is hereby given that a
special meeting of the Stockholders
of Del. Cape Fisheries, Inc, h a S
been called and will be held on
the Twenty-third day of July, AID.
1862, at One o'clock PM. for the
purpose of taking action for r
against the resolution adopted by
the Board of Directors that it is
deemed advisable and most for the
benefit of the Corporation that it
be dissolved and for the purpose
of transacting any other business
that may come before the said
meeting.
Margaret ID. Wolfe
Secretary
Milford chronicle., 1962-07-13
SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1862
10 o'clock Sharp
REAL ESTATE

10 o'clock Sharp
REAL ESTATE
(To be offered at I 'ocIock)
A beautiful old home on a large
lot, running from Walnut to Washing
ton Street, with a double garage
opening on Washington Street. This
house is heated with hot water heat
is completely remodeled, and is a fine
home This house is open for inSpec-
tion at all times and must be seen
to be appreciated. We invite your in
spection.
ANTIQUES
A beautiful hand carved teakwood
marble top table, other marble top
tables, marble top wash stands, 2
dresser with matching wash stand, 2
solid walnut chest of drawers, 1
dresser, carved glass front china clos
ct, bookcases, about 10 clocks, A
solid walnut matching cane bottom
chairs, pairs and singles of maple and
walnut cane bottom chairs, plank
bottom chairs, solid oak sideboard
inlaid table, pitcher and bowl set,
(complete), school master desk, jugs
and crooks of all sizes, solid oak
rocker, corner cupboard (pine), min
iature oak china closet, 3 ladies'
desks q maple and mahogany,
gate-leg drop leaf table. childs rock
er (cane bottom), 3 blanket chests
(pine), 3 library tables q cherry, 2
oak), hand carved love seat with 2
matching chairs, candle stand, lamps,
cut glass, pressed glass, old china,
etc.
FURNITURE
2-pc. living room suite, platform
rocker and stool, window FANS
large oak coffee table, small coffee
table, record cabinet, end table, what
nots, portable typewriter, coat rack,
barrel back chair, mahogany drop
leaf dining room table, Philco 24''
television set, radios, fold-away cot
several tables, bedroom suites, re-
frigerator 6reezer-top), electric stove,
5-pc. kitchen set, wringer-type wash
er and laundry tubs, kitchen STOOL
3 metal cabinets, waffle iron, toaster
iron, lamps, silver, pots, pans, dishes
and several things too numerous to
mention.
Lawn mower, electric mower saws
axes, hammers, planes, ladders, res
taurant equipment, coffee maker, ex-
haust fan, cash register, coca cola
machine, R.C. cooler, guns, and col
lection of items too numerous to men,
tion.
TERMS: Cash.
Carl and Christina Wattenbarqer,
Owners
Auctioneer: Burt Willis 7-13-2tp
Milford chronicle., 1962-07-13
FAIR WEATHER ACCURACY

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. (AP) =
The National Aviation Facilities
Experimental Center near h Ell e
flies an American flag with so
stars during good weather but flies
one with only 48 during bad
weather.
A spokesman said the>center was
overstocked with 4S-star fla G $
when the new one became official.