Evening star

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quickly and cheaply, fleets of bargelike

ferries, powered perhaps with automo

bile motors, to dash across those water

gaps m the daylight hours and mala

port on the other side long before night

fall brought lurking submarines to the

surface.

A minimum number of planes patrol

ling the straits, and guns mounted on

the ferries, undoubtedly would discour

age submersibles during the light of day.

Ferry-T rains.

Once safely across, the ferry's load

would be transshipped to railway cars

or trucks waiting to carry It along the

land reaches, and the ferry would be re

loaded with produce destined for the

United States or another market, so as

to be ready at dawn to hurry back over

the water gap.

TugweU and Taussig would be the first

to admit that the scheme has its draw

backs. Some of them:

1. Transshipments increase costs and

delivery delays.

2. Not all the islands have adequate

road and rail facilities, this being espe

cially true of Hispaniola. More railway

roUing stock, what with war priorities,

is hardly to be had. Rubber shortage

soon will curtail transportation by

trucks.

3. Dock facilities are lacking at some

potential ferry terminals and would have

to be built.

However, the commission members

feel, radical measures are going to have

How ‘Deep in the Heart of Texas’?

Wide World.

DALLAS, Tex.—"Deep in the Heart of

Texas” came straight—clap, clap, clap,

clap—from the coast of California.

Of course, you’ve heard it. One Texas

radio station offered it seven times in

eight hours. Youngsters moan it. The

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1942). Washington, D.C., 1942-05-24. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1942-05-24/ed-1/?sp=34

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1942-05-24.