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President Mejia Colindres broke an ancient Honduran precedent. A Liberal (Red), he announced the victory of General Carias' Conservative (Blue) party. Previously it was customary to announce the election results only if the Administration party won. The President's unorthodox action so shocked his Red supporters that they revolted anyway and for three months Honduras enjoyed a Red v. Red-&-Blue revolution. Last week Rebel General Jose Antonio Sanchez had fled to Nicaragua and the revolution was over...
...supreme in its field. Last week it was apparent that United Fruit has lost none of the aggressive spirit which has so firmly entrenched it in Central America. In Honduras the company was building a rail-road through the banana country, acting on a concession granted in 1912. The Honduran Government decreed the concession had been cancelled by failure of United to comply with certain terms, ordered work stopped. When United's engineers showed no signs of abandoning the project, President Vincente Mejia Colindres said that Honduran honor and sovereignty had been violated, that force would be used if necessary...
...station at Belize was wrecked by the hurricane and tidal wave which struck the town. In water up to their armpits the station crew salvaged their emergency equipment, worked all night setting it up, began functioning next morning-the only means of communication available to the Honduran Government...
...Havana announced that there was a big blow brewing in the Caribbean. No one at Belize paid any attention to the warning. Instead, one afternoon last week the citizenry turned out to watch a parade of school children marching in a pageant to celebrate the 133rd year of Honduran independence from Spain. While the children, black and white, with happy faces and stiff white clothes, filed up the sunny street, a whirling havoc of wind was winding up over the southeastern horizon at a deliberate gait of 35 m. p. h. Then the wind increased in velocity, contorted, smashed into...
Pertinacious Honduran-Repeatedly balked from a New York-Honduras flight by his superior officers, by revolution, Captain Lisandro Garay of the Honduran Air Force last week at Floyd Bennett Field loaded a Bellanca monoplane with 360 gal. gasoline and Bert Acosta "to make a test flight." Unseen Supercargo Acosta sneaked away; Captain Garay took off, headed for Tegucigalpa, reprimand, glory, or death...