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The Dominican Republic in the American Press: United States newspaper coverage of the island, gathered and translated for readers in both languagesLa República Dominicana en la prensa estadounidense: la cobertura de la isla en los periódicos de Estados Unidos, reunida y traducida para lectores en ambos idiomas
December 9, 19479 de diciembre de 1947 · Washington, D.C. · The Trujillo Era & DictatorshipLa Era de Trujillo y la Dictadura

Evening star

SourceFuente: Evening star · Washington, D.C. · December 9, 19479 de diciembre de 1947
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1947-12-09/ed-1/?sp=12

In contextEn contexto

The Trujillo Era & DictatorshipLa Era de Trujillo y la Dictadura · 1924–1960

Rafael Trujillo ruled for 31 years. US papers reported the 1930 hurricane that leveled Ciudad Trujillo, the 1937 Haitian massacre, sugar commerce, WWII U-boat sinkings, Tito Mella's Compañía Naviera Dominicana shipping fleet, and Trujillo's Washington lobbying.Rafael Trujillo gobernó durante 31 años. La prensa informó sobre el huracán de 1930, la masacre de 1937, el azúcar, hundimientos de submarinos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la flota de la Compañía Naviera Dominicana de Tito Mella.

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SummaryResumen

The Evening Star reported that Manolo Castro, head of the Cuban Sports Commission, pleaded not guilty in federal court in Jacksonville to charges of illegally exporting weapons and explosives intended for an uprising against Dominican President Rafael Trujillo. Castro alleged that Trujillo's personal hostility was behind his indictment. Co-defendants Chester L. Miller and Percy H. Cyr also pleaded not guilty, while Hollis B. Smith entered a guilty plea to purchasing the munitions.

El *Evening Star* informó que Manolo Castro, comisionado nacional de Deportes de Cuba, se declaró inocente ante el tribunal federal de distrito en Jacksonville de las imputaciones por tráfico clandestino de pertrechos bélicos y explosivos destinados a una insurrección armada contra el mandatario dominicano Rafael Trujillo. Castro alegó que su encausamiento respondía al encono personal que Trujillo le profesaba. Los coacusados Chester L. Miller y Percy H. Cyr sostuvieron igualmente su no culpabilidad, mientras que Hollis B. Smith admitió formalmente los cargos de adquisición ilícita de armas.

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The passage where this article was found, copied from the newspaper page itself, reading errors and all. This is exactly what the summary above is based on.El pasaje donde se encontró este artículo, copiado de la propia página del periódico, con sus errores de lectura y todo. Esto es exactamente aquello en lo que se basa el resumen de arriba.

owners of the hotel, whose business

addresses are given in the 1400 block

of U street N.W. Mrs. LeNord is

represented by Attorney Arthur J.

Hill and.

Cuban Blames Trujillo

For Arms Plot Charges

By tht Associated Press

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 9.—

Manolo Castro, director of the

Cuban Sports Commission, charged

yesterday that enmity of Rafael

Trujillo was responsible for his im

plication in an alleged plot to export

arms to Cuba for use in an unsuc

cessful revolt against the Dominican

Republic President last summer.

Castro, who came to Jacksonville

for arraignment on an indictment

charging illegal exportation of arms

and high explosives from the United

States, pleaded not guilty before

Federal Judge Louie W. Strum.

The case was set for trial Janu

ary 5.

Not guilty pleas also were entered

by Chester L. Miller and Percy H.

Cyr, both airplane pilots of Has

brouck Heights, N. J. Hollis B.

Smith, Palisades Park, N. J.. who

is alleged to have purchased the

arms, pleaded guilty.

Smith was permitted to remain

under bond pending disposition of

the charges against the other de

fendants.

Bert W. Beatty, 58, Dies

BLUEFIELD, W. Va., Dec. 9 UP).—

Bert W.’Beatty, 58, Norfolk West

ern Railway conductor for the last

30 years,* clled in a hospital here

yesterday from a heart ailment.

He was a native of McDonald

Mills, Va.

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1947). Washington, D.C., 1947-12-09. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1947-12-09/ed-1/?sp=12

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1947-12-09.

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