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THE NEW YORK TIMES 
r>R. PEDRO CUE 
DR. PEDRO COE, 54, 
CUB AN JOURN ALIST 
Winner of Maria Moors Cabot 
Award, Retired Publisher of 
El Mundo in Havana, Dies 
HAVANA, July 13 (UP)— Dr. Pe- 
dro Cue, noted newspaper publisher 
and politician, died today of a 
cerebral hemorrhage at the age 
of 54.^ 
As publisher of El Mundo, one 
of Havana’s chief newspapers, Dr. 
Cue won the Maria Moors Cabot 
award for th« promotion of Inter- 
American understanding. He sold 
El Mundo to a syndicate in Au- 
gust, 1949, for a reported price of 
$750,000. He was a former Sena- 
tor and one-time Havana Univer- 
sity professor of law. 
His widow, Rosa, survives. 
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Defended Machado Opponents 
Bom in Santa Clara, Cuba, Dr. 
Cue studied law at the University 
of Havana. Prom 1918 to 1920 he 
studied at the University of Rome. 
In 1931 he entered politics as an 
attorney for the defense of a group 
of young men accused of plotting 
against the Machado regime. In 
September, 1932, he was obliged to 
seek asylum in the Uruguayan Le- 
gation in Havana. Subsequently, 
he made safe conduct to this coun- 
try, where he remained in exile un- 
til the downfall of Machado. 
After his return home he be- 
came a member of the national 
council that attempted to serve as 
a Provisional Government. Three 
years later he was elected to the 
Cuban Senate. 
Dr. Cue received the Maria 
Moors Cabot award “for distin- 
guished service in advancing in- 
ternational friendship in the West- 
ern Hemisphere” in a ceremony in 
the Low Memorial Library at Co- 
lumbia University in December, 
1043, from the hand of the late 
Dr. Nicholas ■ 
MRS. J. P. O’BRIEN, 
WIF E OF EX-M AYOR 
Aided Work of St. Joseph’s Day 
Nursery, Visitation Convent 
— Dies at Age of 70 
Mrs. Helen O’Brien of 40 East 
Seventy-fifth Street, wife of former 
Mayor John P. O’Brien, died yes- 
terday in Mount Sinai Hospital 
after a long illness. Her age was 
70. 
Born in this city, she was the 
daughter of Michael Stevenson 
Madigan and Ellen Eliza Callanan 
Madigan, the latter of whom was 
a journalist who wrote extensively 
for Irish newspapers. She was a 
niece of the late Lawrence J. Cal- 
onH vachts Tnan 
