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...last quarter century to go traveling out of the U. S. For the first 117 years of the country's history Secretaries of State stayed at home, conducted all foreign negotiations from the nation's capital. First to break this tradition was Elihu Root who attended a Pan-American Conference at Rio de Janeiro in 1906. Philander Chase Knox six years later toured Central and South America to soothe Latin suspicions of "dollar diplomacy." Robert Lansing attended the Paris peace conference in 1919, Charles Evans...
Spain is a member of the Pan-American Postal Union. Under that international convention U. S. letters carry only 2? postage to South and Central American countries. It costs no more to mail a letter from Duluth, Minn, to Punta Arenas. Chile, near Cape Horn than it does from Nogales, Ariz, across the street to Nogales, Mexico. Only South American exceptions to the 2? rate are Dutch and French Guiana, which, as non-members of -the Pan-American Postal Union, require 5? postage...
Died. Dr. Aristides Agramonte, 62, medical researcher; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. In 1929 he received a Congressional Medal of Honor for work with the Gorgas-Finlay yellow fever commission in 1901. He was president of the Pan-American Medical Association, recently made head of the department of tropical diseases of the Louisiana State University Medical School...
...Morrow at North Haven, Me., where they left Baby Charles Augustus ("Eaglet") Jr. Then they turned their low-wing Lockheed-Sirius, with its gasoline-laden pontoons, north to Canada. The hop to Ottawa was simple, gave Co-Pilot Anne Morrow Lindbergh opportunity to practice radio communication with the Pan-American Airways base near New York. West of Ottawa the pair had their first look at the wilderness over which they must fly on most of their course. Followed by flying newshawks, they spent a night at Moose Factory, remote outpost at the lower tip of Hudson's Bay; flew...
Other famed or inveterate air travelers: William Howard Gannett, 77, of Augusta, Maine,* retired publisher of Comfort who made a 19,000 mi. journey via Pan-American; Alden Freeman, 69, rich and eccentric philanthropist, "Honorary Consul-General of Haiti" (TlME, Feb. 16); Funnyman Will Rogers; Charles A. Levine, first transatlantic air passenger; George Nellis Grouse, Syracuse grocer, persistent Graf Zeppelin passenger and 'first flight fan" of domestic air lines...