New York Times

Sept. 4, 1957. p. 3.

Batista Rejects Bid to End Press Curbs

HAVANA, Sept. 3 (AP) – President Fulgencio Batista has rejected an Inter-American Press Association appeal to lift Government censorship of Cuba’s press and radio. He told association representatives last night that censorship would be maintained “only as long as the Government deems it necessary.”

President Batista was asked by the association’s president, Gullermo Martinez Marquez and Jules Dubois, chairman of it’s freedom of expression committee, to abolish controls set up when the Government suspended constitutional guarantees Aug. 1.

Special to The New York Times

HAVANA, Sept. 3 – The Urgency Court of Havana today ordered D. Raul Chibas and Roberto Agramonte transferred to Santiago de Cuba, on the eastern end of the island, to stand trial.

They were arrested Saturday and accused of having joined Fidel Castro, rebel leader, in the Sierra Maestra of Oriente Province, and of having taken up arms against the Government.

The Havana court said that since the crime of which they are accused was committed in Oriente Province, it had no jurisdiction in the case.

Dr. Chibas is a leader of the Opposition Ortodoxo party. Señor Agramonte is the son of Dr. Robert Agramonte, president of the Ortodoxo party, who now is living in exile in Miami, Fla.