Miami Hurricane, December 12, 1958

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Prof’s Boat Seized In Cuban Arms Raid
Feds Grab Arms Cache, 8 Men In Keys Resort
ROTC Group Behind Clothing Drive For Needy Dunbar Sdiool Children
By MARCIA FREEMAN HvrricsM Staff •afartaf
The Reserve Officers Association has initiated a clothing drive for under-privileged students of Dunbar Elementary School Id Miami.
Mrs, Clara M. Pearsall, principal of Dunbar, appealed to UM a short time ago. Dunbar is a large elementary school located in the center of Miami's slum area.
Mrs. Pearsall said "every morning before school opens students climb up to my window sill and beg for clothing, usually pants and shoes, to replace that which is hanging from them.”
The neediest of these pupils are from about 75 families, each having
from 8 to 14 children.
Mrs. Pearsall believes that the lack of decent clothing gives these boys and girls a sense of inferiority which sometimes leads them to acts of vandalism and other malpractices as adolescents and adults.
Once the children have finished the »ixth grade they can get jobs, she said.
In the past, UM students have given clothing and canned foods to Dunbar almost every year.
There have been cartons placed in the women's dormitories and in the men's halls for discarded clothing. Both Associated Women Students and Men's Residence Halls Association are helping in the drive.
By I.ARRIE SCHMIDT Harricm Ntm («tar
A $13,000 cabin cruiser owned by UM professor Dr. Pedro R. Hiribarne was seized by customs agents Wednesday morning in the Florida Keys. Eight Cuban rebel sympathizers were arrested and an estimated $250,000 arms cache was confiscated. Agents arrested the Cubans before^
Shown above is $13.000, 32-foot cabin cruiser. “Capehom," owned by Dr. Pedro R. Hiribarne that 10 Cubans used in an abortive attempt to ship $250,000 in arms to Fidel Castro. At left is part of the arms cache which included dynamite, mortars, rifles, pistols machine-guns and uniforms.
Hazards Cited In Safety Drive
Safety posters, displays and pamphlets sprinkled around the UM campus herald this week as the second annual UM Safety Week.
Other activities include a safety theme contest among freshman English classes, the display of a wrecked car in front of the Student Union and an exhibition of safety rescue techniques by the Coral Gables Police Department.
First prize for the poster-slogan contest was awarded Wed. to Xi Gamma Iota, veterans’ fraternity, for a poster depicting a race between a skeleton of death and a stork. The stork was saying: "With him and me it's neck and neck. . . but you can help, GO SLOW, by heck."
Second and third place in the contest went to the Cavaliers, independent men's club, and Sigma Delta Tau, social sorority respec-1 tively.
A questionnaire to test the stu- j dent’s knowledge of safety is now j available in the information booth I of the Student Union. A first prize' of $25, second $15, and third $10 will be given by the Undergraduate Association Council for the best answers.
Completed questionaires should be brought to the UA office, Room 5 on the second floor of the SU.
Near the wrecked car which has been placed on the south lawn are three crosses in the ground, in memory of the three persons who lost their lives in the accident.
Safety Week ends Sunday.
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dawn as they were loading weapons on the boat at Key Colony Beach, an island resort near Marathon, 105 miles southwest of Miami.
The arms were destined for Fidel Castro in his mountain stronghold in Orier.te Province, Cuba.
It was one of the largest hauls ever made by agents in South Florida.
Dr. Hiribarne. j of 9333 Abbot HIRIBARNE Ave., Surfside, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, said he had last seen ; his 32-foot craft, the Copehom, last 1 Sunday when he took his family to the resort for an afternoon’s outing.
He sternly denied anything to do | with the smuggling attempt.
He said he drove back to Miami with his family at 6 p.m. leaving the craft in the care of his boatman. Enrique Casado Cuerbo, 970 S.W. 7th St., who was arrested in the raid.
“My friend Casado took the boat which I bought Nov. 12 from Miami to Key Colony Beach two weeks ago while my family and I drove down in our auto,” Hiribarne told the Hurricane. “The weather was bad so we returned, deciding to leave the boat docked at the beach under Ca-sado’a care.
“Then we returned last Sunday and spent the afternoon boating on the ocean, hut the weather turned had again so we came in late in the afternoon.
"Before departing for Miami at 6 p.m. I checked the boat over and there were absolutely no arms on it. The first I heard of the attempted smuggling and arrests was this morning (Wednesday) when a news-
paperman approached me for information after one of my classes."
As the Hurricane went to press Thusrday afternoon, customs agents had not questioned Dr. Hiribarne but said they would do so.
Arrested with Casado were Diego Febles Landeira, 29, of 1452 S.W. 5th St., Alberto Pedroso Quintana, 30, Angel Fontanills, 22, Edelberto Mar-ban, 24, and Ramon Fragoso, 35, all of 1260 S.W. 7th St., and William Gonzalez, Key Colony Beach.
Felix O. Pino, 48, 296 S.W. 7th St„ also held, was described by agents as "one of the most important figures” in the vast business of smuggling arms to Cuban rebels.
Two women, Teresa Gonzalez and Giida Isidra, were also arrested but were permitted to remain at the ocean-front duplex where the group had stayed to take care of a small boy living with them in the house Of the eight men arrested, seven pleaded guilty to illegal export of arms and possession of automatic weapons.
The eighth, Febles, pleaded innocent and claimed he was a mechanic who had been brought by the others to check the boat’s motors.
Informed sources at the resort said the group had rented the duplex a month earlier from a Marathon realtor.
Dr. Hiribarne's boat was impounded and taken to Key West.
According to Charles E. Wyatt, supervising customs agent, his men had been watching the Cubans around the clock since Dec. 1 from a third floor room of a motel only a few hundred yards from the duplex.
Agents hid out in a mangrove swamp on an island lying approximately 200 yards off the shore from (Continued on page 2, col. 1)
SYMBOL OF U. S.'s growing fatality rate is this smashed auto sitting outside the Student Union as a reminder to students that without safe driving habits the forthcoming holiday could be the last one they’ll observe.