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UF's Captain George Eppelman appeared on NBC's "Hi Mom" program in EL CAPITAN George Eppelman de la UF en programa de TV de la NBC con 
January in New York with hostess Jane Warren; all about bananas. Jane Warren en Enero en Nueva York; sobre industria bananera. 
UF Settles Antitrust Suit 
BOSTON — A consent decree terminating 
the civil antitrust suit filed against United Fruit 
Company by the Department of Justice in 
1954 was entered February 4, 1958 by the 
United States District Court for the Eastern 
District of Louisiana, according to Kenneth H. 
Redmond, president of United Fruit Company. 
In entering into the consent decree the com¬ 
pany does not admit any violation of the anti¬ 
trust laws. The decree specifically recites that 
it is entered without any determination of 
issues of law or fact and without any admis¬ 
sions. 
The management felt that it was in the best 
interest of the shareholders to eliminate this 
extremely costly and burdensome litigation 
which would not have been finally disposed of 
for several years and would through a long 
period have required the close attention of the 
company’s responsible officers and personnel 
to the prejudice of their performance of normal 
responsibilities. With the antitrust suit settled, 
the company may now make such additional 
investments in Latin America as good business 
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may dictate and to continue its development 
and operations which have proved of such 
great value to the countries in which it oper¬ 
ates. 
By June 30, 1966, the company is required 
to submit to the court for approval a plan for 
the organization of a new subsidiary company 
to which it will transfer properties and assets 
reasonably calculated to enable the new com¬ 
pany to import 9 million stems of bananas per 
year. Within 4 years after approval of the 
plan by the court, the company will be re¬ 
quired to distribute the stock of the new com¬ 
pany to the shareholders of United in propor¬ 
tion to their stock holdings in United. There 
is no restriction on the retention of the stock 
of the new company by shareholders of United. 
In lieu of organizing a new company and 
distributing its stock to United’s shareholders, 
the company may elect to present a plan for 
the sale of assets reasonably calculated to en¬ 
able the purchaser to import 9 million stems 
per year or for the sale of a partial interest in 
the new company to a person willing to invest 
at least $1,000,000, and a distribution of the 
remaining interest to shareholders of United. 
The company has over 8 years within which to 
develop a satisfactory plan and up to 4 years 
after approval of the plan within which to 
complete its compliance. 
There are various other injunctive provisions 
of the type commonly included in consent de¬ 
crees. The company is given 8 years within 
which to dispose of its stock in International 
Railways of Central America. There are, how¬ 
ever, no provisions which seek to regulate the 
company’s operation of its properties and 
facilities in foreign countries or which other¬ 
wise materially affect its foreign operations and 
no provisions which deny to the company op¬ 
portunity for continued growth and develop¬ 
ment. 
Se Resuelve Litigio Contra la UF 
BOSTON — Kenneth H. Redmond, Presi¬ 
dente de la United Fruit Company, ha hecho 
la siguiente declaracion: 
Un auto para terminar el juicio civil fundado 
en las leyes que prohiben los monopolios, pro- 
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puesto por el Departamento de Justicia en 
1954 contra la United Fruit Company, fue 
dictado hoy por la Corte de Distrito Federal 
de Louisiana. 
La Gerencia consider a que fue en el mejor 
interes de los accionistas poner fin a tan costoso 
y gravoso litigio, que de otra rnanera no habria 
terminado en varios anos, y que al misrno tiern- 
po ha requerido atencion cuidadosa de los 
directores de la compania y de los empleados, 
en detrimento de la responsabilidad normal 
de sus actividades. Con la terminacion de este 
juicio, la compania estara en condiciones de 
hacer en Latinoamerica las inversiones adicio- 
nales que en bien del negocio sean recomen- 
dables y estara en capacidad de continuar 
desarrollando las operaciones que han sido y 
continuaran siendo progresivamente beneficas 
para las regiones en que trabaja. 
Para el 30 de junio de 1966 la compania 
debera someter a la Corte para su aprobacion 
el plan para organizar una compania subsi- 
diaria a la cual sean transferidos bienes en can- 
tidad suficiente que la pongan en condiciones 
de importar nueve millones de racimos de 
banano por ano. Dentro de cuatro anos, des¬ 
pues de que la Corte haya aprobado el plan, 
la compania debera distribuir las acciones de 
la subsidiaria entre los accionistas de la United, 
en proporcion a la cantidad de acciones que 
poseen en dicha United. No hay restriction 
para que los accionistas de la United conserven 
las acciones de la nueva subsidiaria. 
En lugar de organizar una nueva compania 
y distribuir sus acciones entre los accionistas 
de la United, la compania puede elegir pre- 
sentar un plan para la venta de bienes en can¬ 
tidad razonable que ponga al comprador en 
condiciones de importar nueve millones de 
racimos de banano por ano, o un plan para la 
venta de parte de las acciones de la nueva 
compania a una persona capaz de invertir por 
lo menos un millon de dolares, extendiendo el 
resto a nombre de los accionistas de la United. 
La compania tiene un plazo hasta de ocho anos 
dentro del cual va a desarrollar un plan satis- 
factorio, y un plazo hasta de cuatro anos, 
despues de aprobado el plan, para llevarlo a 
cabo. 
Hay algunos otros requerimientos de los 
acostumbrados en autos de esta naturaleza. Se 
le da a la compania un plazo de ocho anos para 
disponer de sus acciones en la International 
Railways of Central America. 
No hay, sin embargo, indication que tienda 
a regular las operaciones de la compania en 
las propiedades ni en las garantias de que dis¬ 
pone en otros paises, o, que de otra rnanera, 
afecte materialmente sus operaciones en el ex- 
tranjero, y, estipulacion alguna que le impida 
aprovechar las oportunidades para seguir cre- 
ciendo y desarrollandose. 
La aceptacion de dicho auto no implica que 
la compania ha violado las leyes que prohiben 
los monopolios. El auto recalca especifica- 
mente que la aceptacion no implica que hayan 
sido determinados asuntos legales o de hecho. 
Hartley Rowe Retires 
BOSTON — Vice President, Chief Engineer 
and Director of Research Flartley Rowe, one 
of UF’s most distinguished officers, has retired 
after 32 years with the company. He has 
been a member of the Board of Directors 
since 1950. 
Mr. Rowe achieved special distinction dur¬ 
ing World War II as a technical advisor to 
Hartley Rowe 
General Eisenhower in the European theater, 
and as consultant to the director of Los Almos 
laboratory in connection with the design and 
procurement of the atomic bomb. Later, 
President Eisenhower appointed him to the 
General Advisory Committee of the Atomic 
Energy Commission on which he served from 
1946 to 1950. 
Mr. Rowe holds the nation’s highest civilian 
award — the Medal of Merit — awarded in 
1948 by President Truman. The White House 
citation made special mention of his develop¬ 
ment of amphibious cargo carriers used in 
landings in the European and Pacific theaters. 
Hartley Rowe was in England at invasion 
time and made several dangerous crossings to 
the continent after D Day. He was awarded 
the Bronze Star. Another gratifying honor 
came to him in 1947, an honorary doctorate 
of engineering from his alma mater, Purdue 
University, Indiana. 
Hartley Rowe was born at Goodland, In¬ 
diana. When young Hartley graduated, his 
ambition was to work on the Panama Canal 
project. In 1904 he joined the project as a 
civil engineer, and there followed 15 tough 
but exciting years for him in the canal zone. 
After serving as an engineering and construc¬ 
tion consultant with the Lockwood Green 
Company in Boston, he joined the United 
Fruit Company as chief engineer. 
Flis 32 years with the company have been 
packed with achievement —land recovery pro¬ 
grams, flood drainage schemes, systems of 
flood fallowing — and the overall engineering 
systems he developed for UF are still funda¬ 
mentally the same. 
Mr. Rowe married in 1908 the former Inez 
Oswald, whom he had known since their 
childhood. They have a daughter, Mrs. A. W. 
Ghirardini, and two grandsons, Rowe and 
Wayne. 
Though he has retired from UF, Mr. Rowe 
plans to continue in practice as a consulting 
engineer, and he will also serve on the Con¬ 
gressional Panama Canal Study Committee. 
Jubilacion de Mr. Hartley Rowe 
BOSTON — Vice-presidente, Jefe de Inge- 
nieros y Director de Investigation Cientifica, 
el Sr. Hartley Rowe, uno de los jefes mas dis- 
tinguidos de la compania, se retira despues de 
32 anos con la compania. El ha sido miembro 
del consejo Ejecutivo desde 1950. 
El Sr. Rowe se distinguio como consejero 
tecnico del General Eisenhower en Europa 
durante la Guerra II y como consultor del Di¬ 
rector del laboratorio de Los Alamos, rela- 
cionado con el diseno y elaboration de la 
bomba atomica. Mas tarde El Presidente 
Eisenhower lo asigno al Comite General Con- 
sultorio de la Comision Sobre Energia Atomi¬ 
ca, en el cual colaboro desde 1946 hasta 1950. 
El es poseedor de la condecoracion mas 
alta que la nation pueda otorgar a un civil: 
la "Medalla del Merito”. Al momento de im- 
ponerle la medalla en 1948, el Presidente 
Truman cito: "la conducta meritoria excep- 
cional del Sr. Rowe en el desempeno de so- 
bresalientes servicios a su pais.’’ Al propio 
tiempo el presidente hizo mention especial de 
su desarrollo de operaciones anfibias de trans- 
porte de carga en Europa y en el Pacifico. 
El Sr. Rowe se encontraba en Inglaterra 
durante la invasion, habiendo hecho varias 
travesias peligrosas al continente despues del 
"D-Day”. Fue tambien premiado con la "Es¬ 
trella de Bronce”. 
El es originario de Goodland, Indiana. Al 
terminar sus estudios, el afan del joven Hart¬ 
ley era el de trabajar en el Canal de Panama, 
lo cual logro conseguir por el ano de 1904, 
como ingeniero civil, y alii paso 15 de duro 
pero estimulante trabajo. 
Despues de trabajar con otra compania con- 
structora en Boston como ingeniero consultor, 
el Sr. Rowe ingreso a la United Fruit Com¬ 
pany. Durante sus 32 anos de servicio con 
la compania el ha tenido mucho exito en irn- 
portantes proyectos: tales como rehabilitation 
de tierras, sistemas de drenaje y muchos otros 
proyectos en que sus habilidades tecnicas han 
sido muy valiosos para la UF. En 1950 fue 
nombrado miembro de la directiva. 
El se caso en 1908 con Dona Inez Oswald, 
habiendose conocido ambos desde pequenos. 
Tienen una hija y dos nietos. A pesar de 
su retiro de la compania, el Sr. Rowe piensa 
continuar ejerciendo su profesion en calidad 
de consultor y a la vez servira en un comite 
del Congreso en un estudio sobre el Canal 
de Panama. 
Walter W. Schuyler Retires 
HAVANA - Walter W. Schuyler, vice 
president of the United Fruit Sugar Company, 
has retired after 45 years with the company. 
Mr. Schuyler, who is 69, is in excellent 
health and plans an active retirement as a 
farmer at Charlottesville, Virginia, raising 
pure-bred cattle on the 150 acres he owns 
there. He will also manage the extensive 
farmlands he owns in the vicinity of Wolcott, 
Indiana, where he spent his boyhood. 
Walter Schuyler was born near Mansfield, 
Illinois in 1889 and educated at Wolcott 
High School, Indiana, and Purdue University, 
Lafayette, Indiana, where he gained his civil 
engineering degrees. His first appointment 
was with the Illinois Central Railway. 
In 1912 he joined the United Fruit Com¬ 
pany in Panama as an assistant engineer, 
transferring in 1915 to Preston, Cuba, becom¬ 
ing chief engineer a year later. He became 
Preston Division’s superintendent of Agricul¬ 
ture (1919), manager (1924), manager of all 
Cuban divisions (1925) and general manager 
UNIFRU1TCO, January-February 1958 
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