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...week the Nicaraguan Government put out a postage stamp depicting "the official map of Nicaragua." Honduras promptly demanded the stamp's suppression. Nicaragua refused and the rumpus began. Many Nicaraguan residents of Honduras were returned home by their legation in Tegucigalpa; orators of both countries broadcast bitter speeches; Honduran students, learning that Nicaraguan firebrands were urging war, declared themselves ready to fight back, thundered in a manifesto that "to die for the Fatherland is to open the doors of immortality...
...week's end Nicaragua retorted by banning an airmail stamp (allegedly showing the disputed border strip) issued by the Honduran Government in 1935. The decree warned that parcels and mail bearing the stamp would be returned to the place of origin...
America to the U. S. In the next seven years before he faced a 'Honduran firing squad, William Walker hoisted his own flag over "the independent Republic of Lower Californi," got himself elected President of Nicaragua, was involved in a fight with ten countries, became No. i U. S. soldier of fortune, alternately a hero, a joke and a villain. Told this week in The Filibuster, his story fills 350 large pages with an adventure story as absorbing, fast-moving and as incredible as any so far dug out of that period of sleazy brigandage below the Rio Grande...
Saturday was a busy day for the Times-Picayune's Photographer Hardy S. Williams. In the morning a Honduran rumrunner broke away from a deputy marshal, tried to smash Photographer Wil-liams's camera with his manacled hands. The alert cameraman sidestepped, snapped. In the evening Williams showed up at the Louisville & Nashville Railway Station with a flock of newshawks who had detected Huey Long in the act of trying to slip quietly off to Washington. (Supposed reason: to try to get revoked the appointment of Lawyer Paul B. Habans, whom he dislikes, as Louisiana manager of Federal...
Saturday was a busy day for the Times-Picayune's Photographer Hardy S. Williams. In the morning a Honduran rumrunner broke away from a deputy marshal, tried to smash Photographer Wil-liams's camera with his manacled hands. The alert cameraman sidestepped, snapped. In the evening Williams showed up at the Louisville & Nashville Railway Station with a flock of newshawks who had detected Huey Long in the act of trying to slip quietly off to Washington. (Supposed reason: to try to get revoked the appointment of Lawyer Paul B. Habans, whom he dislikes, as Louisiana manager of Federal...