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Last autumn the first-class postal rate to every nation in the Eastern Hemisphere save Spain, which belongs to the Pan-American Postal Union, was upped to 5? for the first ounce in an attempt to bring first-class revenue closer to actual transportation cost (TIME, Aug. 31). Last week's announced increases raise the old 2? rate to Latin America and Spain to 3?. The Post Office department expects to gain $2,000,000 in revenue by higher rates...
...Pan-American radio stations at Cristobal and Miami broadcast the SOS. Six airplanes set out from the Naval base at Coco Solo, C. Z. The minesweeper Swan was ordered to patrol off Cartagena, Colombia. Pilot Herbert Boy, a German War flyer and chief pilot of Scadta air lines, searched from Barranquilla. For two and a half days there was no trace of the shipwrecked men; hope was nearly given up. Then a carpenter's mate on the bridge of the Swan sighted the drifting lifeboat...
...their ousted President Hernando Siles is now "somewhere in Chile." The revolutionary Government of General Carlos Blanco Galindo held a "Constitutional Election" last January, then vanished gracefully in March after staging the ornate inaugural of elected President Daniel Salamanca. He last fortnight pleased President Hoover by agreeing to seek Pan-American mediation of Bolivia's everlasting frontier dispute with Paraguay...
Investigation revealed the unportfolioed "Ambassador" to be John Barrett, Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias, Rotarian, publicist, onetime U.S. Minister to Siam, Argentina, Panama, Colombia, longtime (1907-20) director general of the Pan-American Union, quoter in Who's Who of how Theodore Roosevelt praised his work...
Hughes junketed to London in 1924 with the American Bar Association and Frank Billings Kellogg went to Cuba for the 1928 Pan-American Conference...