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...President of Honduras in 1932, twice extended his term without elections. Several times he put down revolts, left his prisons full of political enemies in spite of petitions from other Latin countries. Now he faced a growing storm of popular rebellion. Across the border of newly freed El Salvador, Honduran exiles were eagerly crowding, filling the free Salvadoran press with at tacks upon...
Died. Felix Philip Vaccaro, 77, youngest of New Orleans' famed, fruit-rich Vaccaro brothers; after long illness; in New Orleans. With his brothers Joseph and the late Lucca, bull-necked Felix built a fortune of many millions on the basis of a schooner load of Honduran bananas. By the '30s the silent Italian trio were powers in (largely Louisianian) orange groves, ships, chemicals, banks, presses, oil, ice, hotels, real estate, insurance...
...need for new ships-perhaps as transports to Hawaii and the Far East-will probably strip still further the service to Latin America. One fleet still untapped by the Maritime Commission last week was United Fruit Co.'s 52 banana carriers (26 U.S. flag, the rest Panamanian or Honduran). If these are requisitioned, the U.S. may have to subsidize some Central American republics, throw the bananas in the water. But if some more of the good-neighbor fleet is taken over, the South Americans may be roused into putting into service their share of the 85 Axis vessels still...
Last week the Plunkett, Gilmer and Paul Jones asked identity and destination of two more vessels off Tampico, this time Latin-American merchantmen: the Mexican tanker Cerro Azul, inbound in ballast on a coastwise trip, and the Honduran freighter Ceiba out of New Orleans. In a story from Tampico smelling rankly of Nazi propaganda it was reported that the ships were boarded by U. S. sailors, their captains questioned, their papers checked, their cargo registries examined...
...Honduras as umpire in that country's land squabble with Nicaragua. During the past two years both countries have been engaged in a battle of postage stamps bearing maps showing the disputed territory as part of their own domain. Last week the U. S. Government found Nicaraguan and Honduran passions running so high that with Costa Rica and Venezuela it offered its "good offices" to mediate. This offer both little states promptly accepted, slimming chances of any clash. Onetime Nicaraguan President José Maria Moncada denied he had said on the radio that he was going to lead...