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...Santander a crowd of black-bereted Basques rose gasping to their feet as the great Belmonte was tossed, gored in the thigh by another bull. He was not seriously hurt, was able to finish the fight. Less fortunate was another veteran of Belmonte's generation, Ignacio Sanchez Mejia. Also attempting a come back at Manzanares, he was so badly gored that despite operations and blood transfusions, he died...
...mountain-rimmed capital of Honduras, chambermaids were busy last week dusting wicker chairs and a gold telephone, shaking out blankets, putting clean sheets on beds. On Feb. 1, barring further violence, Honduras will have a new President - General Tiburcio Carias Andino, burly, mustachioed farmer and reformed hotblood. President Vicente Mejia Colindres will retire to the bawdy seaport of Puerto Cortes, where he expects to practice medicine and raise cattle from a stock of three blooded cows impregnated by three blooded bulls presented to him by United Fruit Co. after the election last October...
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...
...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. Beech-Nut Packing Co. (bacon, coffee, candy, chewing gum) last week sold its subsidiary Beech-Nut Co. of Canada, Ltd. to Life Savers, Inc., owned by Drug, Inc. Chief item in the sale...
...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...