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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1950
Page
5
Rio de Janeiro reports French explorer Marcel Hou met claims discovery of ancient Mediterranean vestiges in northern Brazil including paintings rock engravings and pottery. He theorizes Phoenician visits from Africa to Brazil with a secret Atlantic route. A new company forms to develop Panama’s fishing industry.
Assistant Commissioner Mercer recalls Dr. Jan Czissar, a Prague trained investigator who arrived at Scotland Yard with a Home Office letter and quickly disrupts Mercer’s plan to push him to Inspector Denton. Czissar’s intervention exposes murderers in the Sarah Fallon Sea bourne case and unsettles Mercer.
Sir Herbert urges Mercer to meet foreign expert Dr Czissar about Brock Park case. Mercer insists on proper appointment while FBI style tension hints at Medley arsenic autopsy and a likely misstep by police. Tomorrow’s Globe installment promises more on the investigation.
In Venezuela a 2000 foot high mountain near Barcelona 11 miles long and a mile wide is said to be almost entirely iron ore. Preliminary tests show half the mountain rich in pure iron ore. Geologists hail it as the greatest iron ore discovery in history with potential to transform the American steel industry and economy.
Airmail service to Spitzbergen has been started by the Norwegian Arctic Society with the Norwegian Polar Institute and Weather Bureau. A Tromso plane now drops mail at multiple Spitzbergen sites, beginning with Longyear City where miners face a long cold winter.
The 307 member body spent two years 11 months and 17 days to pass the constitution. It comprises 395 articles with 17 635 amendments tabled during deliberations.
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