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Jugoslavia and Peru were elected for three years to the semi-permanent seats on the League Council vacated this year by Rumania and Chile. Poland was re-elected...
...measure the sun's heat every day. That was to enable a Dr. Abbot (Charles Greeley Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and director of its astrophysical observatory) to compare the sun's heat at Mount Brukkaros with its heat at Table Mountain, Cal., and at Montezuma, Chile, where the Institution has other solar stations. Last week Dr. Abbot informed Betty Jean's father that he would go to comparatively cool Washington and work in his astrophysical laboratory. Mr. Greeley could go to Table Mountain. On the way to relieve them from their servitude to Science were...
Midnight was the hour at which there came automatically into effect the new Tacna-Arica Treaty (TIME, May 27) by which the disputed province of Tacna-Arica is partitioned, Chile keeping Arica and ceding Tacna to Peru. To make this transfer doubly binding, doubly impressive, Government property in Tacna Province was divided into 138 parcels, each to be signed over separately. As midnight tolled, the pen-scratching tournament began...
...Santiago, Chile, there was no celebration-naturally. But in Lima, Peru, fireworks popped, cheering citizens snake-danced. Regiments smartly parading with blaring bands were reviewed by small, snapping-eyed President Augusto B. Leguia, indomitable dictator, famed "Bantam Roosevelt...
...presidential decree the holiday was Peru's "Day of Joy." Just 46 years prior she had lost the so-called "War of the Pacific" (1879-83), and victorious Chile then seized Tacna-Arica as war spoil. Negotiations begun with President Harding as arbiter, carried virtually to conclusion under President Coolidge, and topped off in the first few months of the Hoover regime, resulted in the present 50-50 compromise of giving Tacna back to Peru. Last week in Lima, maids and matrons deliriously dancing on "Joy Day" brought a crown of solid gold laurel leaves to bantam President Leguia, ecstatically...