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Tricky weather and minor difficulties had dogged the tails of the big ships, which were five at the start. At Tampico, the second stop after the take-off on Dec. 21 from San Antonio, Tex., the St. Louis broke an oil pump and burned out its motor. Another motor was fetched and installed, the other planes waiting. Leaving Guatemala City, the New York made a forced landing and lost its ground gear.* Taxiing out of Balboa harbor, off for Colombia, the San Antonio was snagged on a coral reef and the St. Louis had engine trouble. The cripples were mended...
...TAMPICO-Joseph Hergesheimer -Knopf ($2.50). To a forest of oil wells, peopled by Mexican bandits, derelict Yankees, greasy drillers, dollar-brained exploiters and always, always, their perfumes clinging, their bodies twining and hinting as only a close observer of exotic flesh could make them twine and hint, women of extreme temperature waiting in cafes, hotel lobbies and upper chambers, Govett Bradier, oil baron extraordinary, returns to complete the theft of an associate's wife, Vida Carew. He is convalescent from malaria but chronically passion-ridden. What time he hangs around Tampico, small bright knives slip out of sheer hosiery...
Edward L. Doheny, formerly a miner, made his fortune in oil near Los Angeles sortie 30 years ago, and later made a great strike in the Tampico oil fields of Mexico...
...progress of the Mexican Civil War (TIME, Dec. 17 et seq.) during the past week favored the Rebels. ¶ The Rebel blockade of Tampico, after being protested by the U. S. State Department, was lifted or modified so that now the Rebels do nothing more offensive than to warn merchant vessels that they enter the port at their own risk. This lifting of the blockade occurred about the time that the U. S. S. Richmond arrived on the scene. ¶ The Rebels gave notice that they were about to mine the ports of Vera Cruz, Frontera and Puerto Mexico...
ARTICLE THIRD?All merchant vessels desiring to take refuge in the Port of Tampico are given three days' grace to do so, and all vessels desiring to leave said port are hereby given six days' grace, the time to be counted from the date upon which the blockade begins. After this time elapses vessels that wish to either enter Tampico or depart thence will be considered as enemy vessels. Such a declaration affecting Tampico could not fail to injure the interests of the U. S., as most of the oil from American oil companies in Mexico is shipped from that...