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Missing Witness. One witness did not appear at the trial. In Bucaramanga, Colombia, on the night before he was to board a plane for the U.S. to testify, Arturo Regueros Peralta, a member of Colombia's Congress, publisher of the liberal newspaper El Comunero, was shot. The pro-Nazi section of Colombia's press said it was suicide. Dispatches from Colombia reported it was murder...
Publisher Regueros Peralta dropped Transocean Service when he began to suspect it was doctoring U.S. news. Transocean offered to subsidize El Comunero with cash and discounts on newsprint, if Sr. Regueros Peralta would continue the service. He refused...
...opening night, Bogotá's exhibition attracted 600 distinguished Colombians, including President Eduardo Santos. The audience quickly found a favorite in Eugene Speicher's elegant portrait of Katharine Cornell, delighted in a realism U.S. films had not taught them to expect. Said Bogotá's El Tiempo next morning: "The exhibition opens a new phase in U.S. relations with Latin America which till yesterday had been a vain exercise of rhetoric...
...250th Coast Artillery went a challenge to the 110th to a 15-mile marching race. Wrote the 250th: "If we don't finish first without having to write our Congressmen, we'll let you yoo-hoo at us." At a bathing-beauty revue at the El Paso (Tex.) Country Club, brimstony Major General Innis Palmer Swift, commander of Fort Bliss (and one of the judges) watched the girls prance by, and owlishly hooted "Yoo-Hoo." And out of the Memphis Incident came World War II's first nickname for a U.S. outfit: the 110th's marchers...
...Minnesota), who at the 1937 championship made the old loggers look like sissies; and 28-year-old Jimmy Herron, boom man for a Longview (Wash.) lumber mill, who was crowned "King of the White Water" at the last championship meet in 1938. Champion Herron, who once doubled for Cinemactor El Brendel in the log-driving scenes in God's Country and the Woman, had a tough time defending his crown. He won the first fall in 9 min., 2 sec., but lost the second in 3:10. On the "toothpick," with the count tied, the hardy old Tiger...