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...SINCLAIR MARTIN Ancon, Canal Zone...
...point out that the Right Reverend James Craik Morris, native of Louisville, Ky., graduate of Sewanee (University of the South) and the University of Louisville, a pleasant memory at churches in Madison, Wis., Dallas, Tex., and Louisville and at present missionary bishop at Ancon, Panama Canal Zone, has recently been elected Episcopal bishop of Louisiana, and has accepted...
Aboard the S. S. Ancon from Panama, where a drinking spree had placed him in hospital, arrived in Manhattan last week James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin Jr., 28, son of the resounding Alabama Senator who professes mortally to hate and fear alcohol and the Pope of Rome. With the young Heflin was Senator Tom Connally of Texas. Obviously befuddled by the Prohibition question, Junior Heflin gabbled convivially with ship newsgatherers until Senator Connally took him to his cabin and locked him in. Upon the pier Junior Heflin announced: "I want to see Al Smith. My father...
...Treaty of Ancon (1883), which concluded the War of the Pacific, it was provided that a plebiscite be eventually held in Tacna-Arica, to determine its final sovereignty. The signal diplomatic defeat of the Coolidge Administration has been their failure to arrange the holding of this plebiscite, under the auspices of General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing. When local rivalries, dishonesties and backbitings were found to present unsurmountable obstacles, it was discovered that "Black Jack's" teeth needed expert U. S. attention (TIME, Jan. n, 1926) and he sailed for home. Subsequently appearances have been patched up by Secretary...
Brig. Gen. John Henry Russell, U. S. High Commissioner to Haiti, arrived on the Ancon, pointed to press reports of a Brooklyn gang murder, had this to say of the land of King Christophe: "You can go anywhere in Haiti and be safe, and that is more than you can do in some countries...