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The Dominican Republic in the American Press: United States newspaper coverage of the island, gathered and translated for readers in both languagesLa República Dominicana en la prensa estadounidense: la cobertura de la isla en los periódicos de Estados Unidos, reunida y traducida para lectores en ambos idiomas
August 7, 19467 de agosto de 1946 · Washington, D.C. · The Trujillo Era & DictatorshipLa Era de Trujillo y la Dictadura

The Washington daily news

SourceFuente: The Washington daily news · Washington, D.C. · August 7, 19467 de agosto de 1946
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82016181/1946-08-07/ed-1/?sp=12

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The Trujillo Era & DictatorshipLa Era de Trujillo y la Dictadura · 1924–1960

Rafael Trujillo ruled for 31 years. US papers reported the 1930 hurricane that leveled Ciudad Trujillo, the 1937 Haitian massacre, sugar commerce, WWII U-boat sinkings, Tito Mella's Compañía Naviera Dominicana shipping fleet, and Trujillo's Washington lobbying.Rafael Trujillo gobernó durante 31 años. La prensa informó sobre el huracán de 1930, la masacre de 1937, el azúcar, hundimientos de submarinos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la flota de la Compañía Naviera Dominicana de Tito Mella.

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The Washington Daily News reported rising casualties from the Dominican earthquake and tidal wave, with twenty bodies recovered at Bajio Cabrera, six at Arroyo Delgado, two in Puerto Plata, and one in Moca. An estimated twenty thousand people out of a population of one hundred thousand in the disaster zone were left homeless. Relief operations mobilized swiftly, including U.S. Navy flying boats carrying medical personnel and supplies from San Juan alongside Dominican aircraft from Ciudad Trujillo.

*The Washington Daily News* dio cuenta del incremento de víctimas mortales provocado por el sismo y maremoto en República Dominicana, informando del rescate de veinte cadáveres en Bajío Cabrera, seis en Arroyo Delgado, dos en Puerto Plata y uno en Moca. Se calculaba que unas veinte mil personas, de los cien mil pobladores radicados en la zona del cataclismo, habían quedado a la intemperie sin hogar. Las operaciones de socorro se articularon con premura, sumándose hidroaviones de la Armada estadounidense con médicos y pertrechos desde San Juan de Puerto Rico a los aparatos dominicanos despachados desde Ciudad Trujillo.

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six bodies were recovered at Arroyo

Delgado, 16 miles north of Matanzas

on the northeast corner of the island,

Thomen said, and more may have been

washed out to sea.

Twenty dead were found in Bajio

Cabrera, a settlement on the north

coast; two were killed in Puerto Plata,

and one in Moca.

The area hardest hit by the quake

and tidal wave extended westward

from the northeast tip of the island to

Gaspar Hernandez. Of population of

the other hand, say Mr. La Follette

isn’t enough of a New Dealer, and i

that he has played ball with Sen. Taft

and others in the conservative wing

at Washington.

The Democrats here say liberals

should not follow the Senator but

should go into the Democratic Party,

so there could be a clear-cut two

party system matching Democratic

liberal thinking against Republican

conservatism.

100,000, one-fifth were believed to be

homeless.

Two Navy flying boats left San

Juan at 8 a. m. for Matanzas. Aboard

were doctors, nurses, some foods and

medicines, and rubber boats. Larger

seaborne relief parties were due to*

morrow. Relief planes also were fly

ing from Ciudad Trujillo.

Baker Day Atom

More Radioactive

Than Expected

By United Press

OFF BIKINI ATOLL, Aug. 7—The

Baker Day atom bomb saturated many

target ships with enough deadly radio

activity to make them dangerous for

a year unless they are artificially de

contaminated, Vice Admiral W. H. P.

Blandy said today.

Blandy, who directed last month’s

atomic tests here, said the shallow

underwater burst produced more lin

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The Washington daily news. (1946). Washington, D.C., 1946-08-07. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82016181/1946-08-07/ed-1/?sp=12

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