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Uruguay sent Dr. Hugo Fernández Artucio, its No. 1 anti-Nazi sleuth, out to continue his work abroad. A onetime professor of philosophy at the University of Montevideo, Dr. Fernandez started his investigations in Uruguay as a labor of love, published a book of his findings, aroused the Government to squelch Nazi organizations. Recently he conferred with Government officials in nine Latin-American countries. Last week in Washington he testified at the trial of the German Transocean news service, which was found guilty of operating an unregistered propaganda outlet (see p. 17). Next he goes to London...
...Argentina last week scientists had discovered a new child prodigy, a nine-year-old chemical wizard named Jorge Fernández...
...school in one month at Reconquista, in the province of Santa Fé, where he was born. Then his father took him out of school, bought textbooks, let Jorge go his own way. Three years ago the boy began to scribble strange, cabalistic signs. Father Santiago Fernández thought he had suffered a nervous breakdown from too much study. But a local doctor told him his son had picked up some elementary chemical formulas, was trying to analyze and combine them...
...Guatemala President Jorge Ubico, elected in 1931, held a plebiscite in 1935, extended his term until 1943. In El Salvador Vice President General Maximiliano Hernàndez Martinez took office in 1931 after an Army revolt had deposed President Arturo Araujo. Refused recognition by the U. S., he resigned in 1934, ran for the Presidency, was elected in 1935. In 1939 a constitutional convention extended his term until 1945. President Tiburcio Carias Andino of Honduras took office in 1933, has suppressed at least five attempted revolutions since then. In 1939 Congress extended his term for ten years. In Nicaragua President...
...twin motors ticking over rhythmically, a big Heinkel transport moved into position on Rio de Janeiro's Santos Dumont airfield one day last week, began loading up for its regular Sāo Paulo run. Up the steps walked the passengers: Cuban Minister to Brazil Alfonso Hernández Catá, Rockefeller Foundation's yellow-fever researcher Dr. Evandro Chagas, Norwegian Consul Alexander Stabell Grieg, Sebastiāo Leme Salles, nephew of Rio's Cardinal Archbishop, eleven lesser wigs. Heading into the wind, the VASP airliner roared across the field, lifted easily into a climbing turn...