Mexico plans vast ship railroad to link Gulf and Pacific
Dr Modesto Rolland promotes a giant 300 million dollar project to move ships in amphibious drydocks across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. The scheme would save 1600 miles versus a canal, using 1200 wheel–cradles, 24 rails, and electric locomotion at 18 mph, with American financing sought.
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Mexico
Gulf of Mexico
Pacific Ocean
Panama Canal
Puerto Mexico
Salina Cruz
Tehuantepac
Modesto C. Rolland
Free Ports
Los Angeles
Nylon Tubes Aid In Lung Surgery Heart Tests
Denver report describes a method using a 30 inch nylon tube inserted via the arm to reach the heart during preoperative testing. Patients pedal to lift weights while sensors record heart movements and pressures to assess surgical risk and tailor procedures.
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AP Newsfeatures
Denver
Allan Hurst
National Jewish Hospital
Hurst
Sidney Dressler
Marshall Plan boosts Iceland fisheries and protein supply
European Cooperation Administration fisheries specialist R. H. Fiedler said ECA funds aid Iceland by modernizing a fish processing plant and outfitting the herring industry. He called the expansion a lifeline for Iceland and a source of animal protein for Europe during meat shortages.
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Paris
Iceland
R. H. Fiedier
European Coopera
Tion Administration
ECA
Fiedler
Europe
Sword Swallower laments missing baronet saber in Lyon
In Lyon a police return of a stolen suitcase contains sabers once used by sword swallower Camille Pedebose. He quips that a baronet is missing and jokes that the baronet was his favorite and his preferred aperitif.
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Lyon
France
Camille Pedebose
Pedebose
Bankers Urge End of Credit Buying Curbs
American Bankers Association urged ending government controls on installment buying before a Senate banking subcommittee led by Maybank. T. C. Boushall backed by Edward E. Brown and W. Randolph Burgess argued deflationary forces lessen need for curbs, while Maybank favored standby controls and reserve cuts to free lending funds. The panel weighs extending consumer credit controls and permanent high reserve powers.
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Washington
The
American Bankers Association
Uping
Senate Banking
T. C. Boushall
Bank of Virginia
Boushall
Edward E. Brown
First National Bank
Chicago
W. Randolph Burgess
National City Bank
New York
Maybank
D-Sc
Brown
Burgess
Truman
Congress
Reserve Board
Polish Peasants Win Socialized Medicine Expansion
Poland broadens socialized medicine to 15 million peasants, guaranteeing all medical services for the poorest and disabled. Farm owners able to pay face 15 to 70 percent hospital charge reductions, while production coop members pay 20 percent. Parish Parliament notes hospital beds at 100,000 with 60,000 more planned in six years, and a postwar rise in bed ratio and health centers.
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Warsaw
Poland
Bastrop To Present Operetta "The Maid and the Golden Slipper"
Bastrop hosts the operetta The Maid and the Golden Slipper Friday at 8 p m in the Public School Auditorium. More than 200 elementary students perform with seventh graders in leading roles under director Mrs Cecil Long and the Bastrop ParentTeacher Association.
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Bastrop
Parent-Teachers Association
Cecil Long
LaGrange Graduation to Feature FBI Official Speaker
LaGrange High School plans its senior class graduation for Sunday May 22 with Gaylan Willis head of the Houston FBI office as principal speaker. Baccalaureate services precede at 11 a.m. Rev. E P Cummings will deliver the address.
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Lagrange
Gaylan
Willis
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Houston
LaGrange High School
E. P. Cummings
Blindness Threat Could Not Stop Cuban Dancer Alicia Alonso
Alicia Alonso, Cuba’s renowned ballet figure, rose from near blindness to lead a major dance company. After two operations in New York and Cuba, she formed her group, brought it to Cuba, drew large crowds, and now tours Latin America while being hailed as Cuba’s cultural ambassador. Her husband Fernando Alfonso runs the company and she works from morning till night to keep the venture afloat.
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Havana
Cuba
Alicia Alonso
America
New York City
Fernando Alfonso
New York
Local marbles tourney kicks off May 20
Veterans of Foreign Wars and the city recreation department sponsor the annual marble contest for Austin youngsters in grades one through six. Elimination deadlines fall on playgrounds and public schools, with city finals set for May 25 at the Coliseum. Winners in each bracket, plus their fathers, receive expense paid trips to Abilene for the state round. The national contest in Pittsburgh on July 26 offers a $5,000 scholarship and an all expense trip to Pittsburgh for the Texas champion.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
City Recreation Department
Austin
Helen Woodman
Coliseum
Abilene
Pittsburgh
New Braunfels appoints charter amendment committee
New Braunfels city commission announced the formation of a charter amendment committee to study the present city charter for potential amendments. The appointees are A. Liebscher Ed Eggeling H. C. McKenna R. H. Wagenfuhr Ed Badouh H. A. Triesch Ep Staats Bill Searcy and C. H. Bernstein.
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New Braunfels
City Commission
A. D. Nuhn
A. Liebscher
Ed Eggeling
H. C. McKenna
R. H. Wagenfuhr
Ed Badouh
H. A. Triesch
Ep Staats
Bill Searcy
C. H. Bernstein
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