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...Liberals lost. Mariano Ospina Perez, the Conservative candidate, won. Gaitan ran third. But he polled a stupendous vote (about 358,957), mostly in the cities where the workers liked his brand of rabble-rousing. In Bogota, Colombia's capital, which calls itself the South American Athens, and in the ports of Cartagena and Barranquilla (but not in Medellin -see below), Gaitan received more votes than Ospina and Turbay together...
...wherever he went: Caldas coffee farms are even smaller than those of southern Antioquia; the owners' families themselves pick the crop. Like the U.S., Colombia thus had a homesteading frontier. Social pressures had an escape; the free peasantry of the Cauca Valley counterbalanced the backward feudal areas around Bogota. To this free frontier is due the sensational increase in coffee production (1913-14, 600,000 sacks exported...
...China National Aviation Corp. DC-3 with 18 people aboard was long overdue on a flight to Chungking. In Colombia, another DC-3 airliner with 17 aboard disappeared on a flight to the Barranca Bermeja oilfields from Bogota. The bodies of four crew members and $2,000,000 in gold were recovered from a Philippine Airlines plane which crashed at Hong Kong. At Croydon Airport near London, twelve of 23 passengers were killed when another DC-3 crashed on takeoff...
...bright lawyer named Manuel Ramon Navarro Patron had shown the way. Sent to Bogota to lobby for Cartagena (pop. 100,000), he had campaigned so well that by last week the Government had agreed to channel to Cartagena a big chunk of the Magdalena River traffic that had lately overcrowded Barranquilla's docks. Lawyer Navarro also got Government backing for a modern $2,500,000 sewage system, plus promises of new Government buildings and a railroad to tap Cartagena's hinterland...
...State Spruille Braden. He declined, on the grounds that the U.S. had held the post too often. Chosen instead, to serve till 1947: Colombia's representative to the Pan-American Union, Antonio Rocha, whose country will play host to the Union's next big party, the Bogota conference, scheduled for early next year...