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...Last week President Hoover formally received Dr. Celeo Davila as the new Honduran Minister to the U. S. The President will have to be careful not to confuse him with Ambassador Carlos Davila of Chile, Minister Charles Davila of Rumania, Commercial Attaché Cesar Davila of Venezuela or Resident Commissioner Felix Davila of Porto Rico...
...Chinda de Mejia Colindres, wife of the Honduran president, being in need of a surgical operation which she thought could best be performed at Johns Hopkins Hospital, flew from Tegucigalpa to the U. S., held a Washington Hotel reception, proceeded to Baltimore in a White House motor car provided by President Hoover...
Plutarco Munoz announced that the Honduran rebels were backed by Nicaragua's Augusto Sandino, and "Communists," these from Havana...
Heaviest U. S. investments ($70,000,000) are in Honduras.* Besides the fruit companies, Tropical Timber Co., New York & Honduran Rosario Mining Co., West End Opetceca Mining Co., U. S. Continental Mines Co., Copper Consolidated and American Chicle Co. are extensive owners and operators in the country. Secretary Stimson quickly differentiated between "banditry" in Nicaragua and "revolution" in Honduras. He conferred with the Navy Department, had three big fast cruisers (Memphis, Marblehead and Trenton) despatched to Honduran ports to protect U. S. life and property. In the Navy orders, however, were specific instructions that U. S. forces should guard only...
...From Secretary Wilbur, last fortnight, President Coolidge heard that Augustino Sandino, the Nicaraguan "rebel" leader, in whose suppression the U. S. Marines have been engaged for nearly two years, had at last become discouraged and had "disappeared;" that his forces were retreating from Nicaragua toward the Honduran border. Two days after this Wilbur report came news that a squadron of five Marine airplanes had thoroughly "strafed" a rebel camp, near where Nicaragua ends and Honduras begins. ¶ In President Coolidge's name, congratulations were cabled to President Charles Dunbar, Burgess King of Liberia, on the 81st anniversary of that...