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Cartoonist Nelson Harding of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle made a sketch of the President-elect, right hand raised in greeting, hat held in left hand, and had it reproduced nine times, in nine panels of a strip cartoon entitled: "Anticipating the News Cameras-Pres.-Elect Hoover in Panama, in Colombia, in Chile, in Peru...
...Colombia. Of all the nations of South America only Colombia faces on two oceans. Strangely enough this does not mean that it would be easy for President-Elect Hoover to visit President Miguel Abadia Mendez of Colombia from the Pacific side. Short of flying it would be nearly impossible. For a chain of mighty mountains cuts off Bogota (see Map) from the Pacific Ocean, and the Colombian Capital is itself more than a mile and a half high (8,560 ft.). Even from the Atlantic side it takes longer to reach Bogota, by express steamer up the great Magdalena River...
Only recently have Colombia's adamantine mountains been conquered-by commercial air routes. Today the Scadta ("Colombian-German Air Transport Corporation") headed by smart, efficient Herr P. P. Bauer, is probably the only unsubsidized passenger and freight air service in the world which is showing a really handsome profit. All the great European air lines are state-subsidized and relatively cheap (Paris to Berlin-eight hours-$50). Colombians are glad to pay relatively dear ($200) to be flown from the Atlantic to Bogota in eight hours, when the boat trip ($80) takes from eight to sixteen days, according...
...House announced that the U. S.S. Maryland, new and fast, had been assigned. President-elect Hoover lost no time conferring with Rear Admiral Thomas Washington, commandant of the Mare Island Navy Yard (near San Francisco). The departure: at once, from San Pedro, port of Los Angeles, Calif. Probable itinerary: Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, then either over the Andes by train or back to Panama and through the Canal on the Maryland, to the Argentine, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela. Duration: two months. Object: goodwill, trade relations, discovery, experience, inspection of U. S. consulates and commercial attaches...
...Philippine Islands, Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Poland, Egypt, Union of South Africa...