The Washington Post
February 6, 1930

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i N np ae i ah Py et ae ee ek ay ce 5) 35 es 3 a i Pal teat es oe ‘ae qt. as Z as : ") %» slightly . colder morrow fair. Weather—Cloudy and bly ~followed by light rain tonight; to- Temperature — High- est, 44; lowest, 37. Details on page 10. todas, "NO. 19,593. ENTBRED AS SECOND-CLASS POSTOFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C. MATTER, WASHINGTON: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY. COPYRIGHT. 1930. BY THE WASHINGTON POST CO. 6. 1930. THREE CENTS. TNT, BETTER, AEUEIVES Vlall HUM HOOVER Retired Chief Justice Sits Up as Executive and First Lady Call. INVALID GETS REST; TAKES NOURISHMENT Holds Gain’ Made- Since _Arrival Even Though Recovery Doubted. TWO’SONS SUMMONED TO FATHER’S BEDSIDE President Cheers Patient; Gives Long Handclasp at Parting. (Picture on Page Three.) Physicians attending William How- erd Taft announced last night that he had “maintained the improve- ment noted this morning, has rested quietly and has taken more nourish- ment.” The bulletin was made public at the White House. It was signed by Dr. Francis Hagner and Dr. Thomas A. Claytor. Later, at 10:55 ‘o’clock, Dr. Hagner said the patient was rest- ing comfortably. Mr. Taft was able yesterday to re- ceive his friend, President Hoover for a few minutes. | Mr. Taft, for whose ultimate re- covery physicians have little hope, was sitting up and cheerful when the President called: Mr. Hoover took his hand and greeted him with @ smile and an expression of grati- fication’ that he was feeling better. Former Jurist Smiles. The former President smiled and feebly expressed his pleasure at, the visit, the first the two had had since before Mr. Taft entered a hospital here early last month for treatment and later left for Asheville, N. C., for three weeks of rest. : The President remained in the room for only @ little while, exchang- ing a few words with the “Sick man. As he tooy Ris departure, he again clasped Mr. Taft’s right hand, hold- it a little longer than would be cus- tomary in the case of an ordinary handshake. : Accompanied only by Mrs. Hoover and secret service men, Mr. Hoover drove to the Taft home on Wyoming avenue late in the afternoon. He re- mained for about a quarter of an hour. The visit was at the invitation of Mrs. Taft, extended during the forenoon after the physicians had found their patient to be in better condition than they Mad hoped for. Police Assigned to Home. Mrs. Taft greeted the President and Mrs. Hoover and introduced them to the doctors; Prancis R. Hag- ner and Thomas A. Claytor, who had arrived earlier to prepare their pa- tient for the coming of the Chief Executive. The doctors and Mr. Taft’s secre- tary accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Hoo- ver to the sick room. Mrs. Hoover goon joined Mrs, Taft in a room nearby. The President met them there later and expressed to Mrs. Taft his hope that the farmer Chief Justice would continue to show im- provement. A small police detail was at the Taft home, a three-story red brick structure located in a large plot on a. corner. Only a few persons beside photographers and newspaper men were gathered nearby during the visit, and the photographers were in- structed that there would be no pic- tures of the visit. Families Long Intimate. Long intimate friends of Mr. and Mrs. Taft, the President and Mrs. Hoover frequently had visited the Taft home in the days before they took up their residence in the White House. The President has valued the friendship of Mr. Taft and at times leaned up the former Chief Justice for advice and counsel. After an unusually restful night— the first under his own roof in weeks —Mr. Taft awoke yesterday feeling much better than on Tuesday, when he arrived from Asheville in a state bordering almost upon collapse. Dur- ing some of the day he was able to sit up in an easy chair. _ Visiting their patient early in the day. the attending physicians issued this bulietin just before noon: “The Chief*Justice is slightly bet- ter than yesterday. .-He spent a quiet night and is comfortable this morn- ing.” While Mr. Taft’s condition showed some improvement overnight, a t@ians had given up all hope cur- ing the complication of diseases from which heissuffering. The two the -old and preparing to come to W Polish Soldier’s Death Laid to Soviet Guards Warsaw, Feb. 5 (A.P.).—A report coming today from the Polish-Soviet ‘frontier nedr Dolznoiw asserted that a noncommissioned officer of the Polish frontier gua 1 corps had been slain by Soviet frontier guards. The incide=t will be investigated. i A ¥ “contest the Anglo-American move for fdon a total 62,200 to. escape prose- | paid to Gordon. Conference to Hasten Debate on Submarines Total Abolition to Be Advocated Tuesday at Pub- lic Plenary Session, With French Counter- Proposal to Humanize Operations Expected. By JOHN L. BALDERSTON. London, Feb. 5 (N.Y.W.N.S.).—To- tal abolition of submarines will be advocated by- the United States and Great Britain at a public plenary session of the London naval confer- ence which, the big five decided at a meeting today, shall be called in St. James Palace at 11 o’clock Tues- day morning. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald predicted today that the present con- ference will be followed by an inter- national disarmament conference to consider reduction of land and air as well as naval armaments. “I hope that at the conclusion of the five-power conference,” he said, “a further meeting of the prepara- tory commission on disarmament will be held which will enable the next assembly of the league to arrange for summoning. an international disar- mament conference.” It is a foregone conclusion that France, Japan and Italy will vigorously outlawing undersea craft. France is |expected to counter with a proposal | for a treaty humanizing submarine warfare, under the terms of which submersibles could not be used against merchant vessels, food ships or other noncombatant craft. The attitudes of the Americans and British, on one hand, and the Latins and Japanese, on the other, are so far apart on submarines that nobody expects any decision as to the future of these ships to be reached at Tuesday’s session. The dispute will be referred to a com- mittee for definite action later. Commencement of tentative dis- cussions of figures and ratios—and despite all reports such conversations exploratory—has resulted in displays of annoyance today by several navel conference delegations. Premier An- dre Tardieu of France made no at- tempt tonight to veil his annoyance with Secretary of State Henry L. Stim- ,son, who is blocking progress, he inti- mated, by declining to commit him- Continued on Page 3, Column 2. EXTORTION GhARGE + FILED IN RUM PLUT Warrant Out for Resigned Aid to Attorney General ~ of Oklahoma. ; SQUEEZED $2,200, CLAIM Oklahoma City, Feb. 5 (A.P.).—W. Oscar Gordon, who Monday resigned as assistant attorney general of Okla- homa, late today was charged with extortion after witnesses had testi- fied in the Pottawatomie County liquor conspiracy. trial in Federal court here that they had paid Gor- éution in conriection with thelr ac- tivities in. the widespread conspiracy. Soon after the Government rested its case in the trial of the 26 per- sons, including Randall Pitman, county attorney, and Frank Fox, for- mer sheriff, the complaint against Gordon was filed by Roy St. Lewis. United States district attorney. A warrant for the former State official’s aprest was placed in the hands of the United States marshal. The complaint against Gordon al- leges he demanded and received $1,000 from Homer Knappenberger, former Mayor of Earlsboro, paid at the State capitol June 21, 1928, in return for withholding information he had un- covered against Knappenberger and Clarenee Burdette, former Earlsboro chief of police. Burdette testified that Knappen- berger supplied the money which was In addition. to the $1,000 payment, they testified, two other payments of $400 and $800 were made. Knappenberger further testified that Gordon returned 8200 to him in Oklahoma City a week ago. The Government rested in the con- spiracy trial after the testimony, of Chester King, 16-year-old Earlsboro youth, who told of having purchased whisky at various places in the oil town. A flood of defense demurrers fol- lowed and rulings were deferred by Judge Edgar 8. Vaught until tomor- row, when introduction of defense tes- timony is expected to begin after the demurrers and motions have been ruled on. The number of defendants was re- duced to 26 today by four dismissals on motion of the district attorney. The four were John Reed, Jud Frank Willingham, Ira Lewis and Charles REAVRING ARRESTED IN FIGHT ON POLICE McPherson Quiz Witnesses Face Assault Charge After Battle. HUSBAND HURLS PEPPER Roy R. Heavrin, 39 years old, and his wife, Mrs. Anna Heavrin, 45, who were star prosecution ‘witnesses in the grand jury inqufry of the death of Mrs. Virginie. McPherson, were arrested On assault charges yesterday following a heated Dattle with two policemen in théir apartment at the Park Lane, Twenty-first street and Pennsylvania avenue northwest. Patrolmen. Irving. Rosenberg and R. S. Miller, of the Third Precinct, re- sponding to a telephone call for aid, discovered Mrs..Heavrin, on the verge of hysterics, standing outside the door of her first floor apartment.and talking excitedly with Wilmer C. Ruff, manager of the building. Complaining that her husband had beaten her, threatened her life, and ejected her from the apartment, the | policemen said Mrs. Heavrin request- ed them to errest her husband. As the door of the apartment was opened by the manager, Heavrin greeted the policemen by hurling a handful of red pepper in their eyes, police say, and then attempted to take their batons from them. As he was blinded by the pepper, Rosenberg reported, Heavrin downed him on a bed, biting, scratching and kicking him. At this stage of the buttle, it was reported, Mrs. Heavrin united with her husband and began pulling the policemen’s hair. When a detail of policemen arrived at the battle-wrecked apartment, Rosenberg and Miller had succeeded in subduing the Heavrins, they re- ported. The two policemen and Heavrin, who was cut and bruised in the melee, were treated by Dr. Leon- ard McCarthy at Emergency Hospital and Heavrin was then transferred to Gallinger Hospital, where a police guard was detailed over him. Mrs. Heavrin was lodged in the House of Detention. Testimony of the Heavrins play- ed a prominent part in the return of a first-degree murder indictment against Robert McPherson, jr. 21 years old, following the first grand jury investigation /of the death of his wife, Mrs. Virginia McPherson. The Keys. Continued on Page 3, Column 5. She Alleges Dancer Pictures ‘Wedding’ Earle Faked City and Fooled Her Artist Put Her Through Bogus Ceremony at Mexico on $15,000 Marriage ee Dolores Salazar Tells nyt Los Angeles, Feb. 5 (A.P.).—Dolores Salazar, Spanish dancer and actress, testified today in her sult for $30,000 damages against Ferdinand Pinney (“Affinity”) Earle for alleged breach of contract that the artist took her to a church in the outskirts of Mexico City in 1827 where a “fake marriage cere- mony” was performed. “I thought it was a real marriage,” the dancer said, “but it was a fake ceremony There was a priest there— apparently part Mexican and part In- dian—dressed in a black rpbe and wearing the usual clerical coMar, He read the ceremony, and I signed what I thought was a marriage certificate. Later 1 learned it was simply a worth- less piece of paper. I also signed x book in which were recorded the names ,of persons married there.” ~ The suit alleged that Earle prom- ised Miss Salazar work in a motion | picture he was producing and a $15,- 000 pank account as a pledge of good faith. The actress said she waited at a bank while Earle was inside sup- posediy depositing the money in her name. She said later she found he had made no deposit. During the morning session Miss Salazar, interrupting her testimony frequently by sobbing. described Earle’s exotic lovemaking. She said on New Year’s eve, 1926, Earle took her into his garden at his Hollywood home, where a party was being held. and at the stroke of midnight re- peated a marriage- ceremony from memory and said, “Now we are ‘man and wife in the eyes of God.” Before this episode, the girl testi- fied, Earle purchased an engagement ring and trousseau for her. In Janu- ary, 1927, she said, Earle came to her, hia face scratched, and said he had been to see her family. “Your father turned down the $15,- 000, He says ‘his daughter is not for Continned on Page 9 Cotame 8 NUGVER NAMES UAUSBY Ad ONE have hitherto been only vague and | - Taken to Whip Capital Into Model City. GENERAL TO DEVOTE HIMSELF TO POLICE Selection Is in Line With Executive Demand of Dry Enforcement. NO COUNSEL TAKEN ON ANNOUNCEMENT Akerson Is Believed to Have Originated idea of Army Man. By CARLISLE BARGERON. In line with his determination to make Washington the country’s model | city, President Hoover yesterday defi- nitely announced that he would name a military man, Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby, chief of Cavalry. as Commissioner after he retires March 21. that the President had offered the place to Gen. Crosby, and the Presi- dent's statement yesterday followed his acceptance. In naming him, the President not only departed from what hefetofore | has been looked upon as the spirit, | trict Commissioners, but also the practice by which the Commissioners have divided the work among them- selves. Gen. Crosby goes In as Police | the Nation shall be free of organized crime.” Didn't Want Post. Gen. Crosby does not “wish w de- come presiding Commissioner.” the | President said, vote himself” to thé police, fire and) traffic services. Selection of Gen. Crosby follows and is’ in line with the President's demand for a more effective and air- | tight dry law for the District. Sen- ator Howell, of Nebraska, has such a | bill pending now and in the prepara- | tion of it has gone further than ye! Department of Justice proposed, that he would make it lawful. for) agents to search a_ private residence | if they saw lLquor being carried into it. It may Or may not be significant, too, that the general's selection {ol- | hart, of Iowa, that Maj. Gen. Smed- ley D. Butler, of the Marines, be) given the job of drying up Washing- ton. Although Butler's atesdapt te dry up Philadelphia was admittedly | a failure, Brookhart has insisted it | was because he did not have the co- | operation of the city's wealthier | citizens. What President Said. Here is what the President said in | making known his selection of Gen Crosby: “After Maj. Gen. Crosby has Continued on Page 2%, Column 6. re- COMMISSIONER Military Disciplinarian Is It has been known for several days | at least, of the law governing Dis- | Commissioner as a “guarantee to both | the official and unofficial residents | of the District, and especially to the | Nation at large, that the Capital of | “and prefers to de- lows the demand of Senator Broox- | AOOVER PLEADS AS RESIDENT OF GITY FOR Gita! President Tells Value of the Organization in Radio Talk. STRESSES SPIRITUAL SIDE OF MOVEMENT $603,000 Must Be Raised Today if Campaign Is to Succeed. $1,183,296 IS TOTAL OF CONTRIBUTIONS 1930 Drive Is te to End Today as Prospect of Fresh Effort Looms. | “Speaking “as a citizen of Washing- tom rather than as the President of the United States,” President Hoover 'yesterday made a direct appeal for support of the Community Chest, _which now faces the necessity of | raising about $603,000 in ome day if it is to complete its quota of $1.786,- 737.07 by the time the 1930 drive for unds ends tonight. The Chief Executive’s address was delivered to about 150 Washing- tonians in the east room of the White House, the purpose of the as- | semblage Being to form an advisory committee to the special gifts com- mittee of the chest. In addition, his talk was broadcast by radio stations WMAL and WRC. , Mrs. Hoover remained practically throughout the meeting. but the President, because of the pressure of other business, could stay only long eriough to deliver his appeal. Text of President’s Talk. Pollowing is the full text of Pres- ident Hoover's address: . . “The Community Chests in our value . and importance in adfninistration of the multitude of charities necessary within, pur great municipalities. They represent our greatest advance in the administra- tion of charity. Their great purpose is the handling with large vision. of | the obligations of a whole city to the less fortunate residents. They guar- antee integrity and efficient conduct of charitable administration. They 'assure skill in administration, free- m | dom from prejudice; they give sup- | port to charities of vital necessity, ' yet of less emotional appeal; they | free the administration of our char- itable institutions from anxiety and | the diversion of their time from pri- mary duties to the constant collec- } tion of funds. They give assurance Te- j | of continuity; they make for | lief of the residents of a eOmmunity from constant supplication and un- | certainty. “The Community Chest stands for jhe sense of charity of the city. And charity is the obligation of tha strong to the weak; it is the practice of a _ spiritual impulse; it is the restraint “lof selfishness; it is the expression of ‘the confidence of mankind. Works of | ' Continued on Page 3, Column 4. Woman Is Confirmed To TaxA ppeal Board hetealial Mathews Gets| ' Approval of Senate for $10,000 Job. (Asserciated Press.) The dream of a Georgia school teacher that she could fit herself to hold an important the Senate confirmed the appoint- ment of Miss Annabe] Mathews as 4 member of the United States Board of Tax Appeals. Having entered the Government service at a salary of $900 a year, Miss Mathews now assumes «& judi- cial position that pays $10,000 annu- ally. She had prepared herself for the post through study of law and of tax matters while a Government clerk. She will be the only woman member of the board of sixteen. ville, Ga.. on December 31. 1883, and | lege, taught school im her home) State until she came to Washington | to enter Internal Revenue Bu- reau on M 4, 1914. Apt in her work from ¢he start. her advance in the service ,began. less than a year after she ' it, and she de- veloped into one of the outstanding experts on the huge sta employed by the Government. She received her law degree tn 1921. after which she was appointed an at- torney in the office of the general | counsel of the Internal Revenue Bu- reau. So expert had she become in) tax matters, especially those relating to double taxation, that she was se- | lected over the men of the office to’ Government | after graduating from Brenau Col- | : position came true yesterday when | ' : Miss Mathews was born in Gaines- | Harris Ewing. MISS ANNABEL, MATHEWS. | ‘attend international conferences on _ tax matters held abroad. Advancing steadily, she finally be, came attorney in the genera] counsel's office at a salary of $4,000 a year. It was her fourteenth or fifteenth salary [Stes Appian important ix cue PR Aydin mdi mgr Foy lig oe tee Pv. be en pabled oe eee of the inside a tS ce te le board. | Argentinian, drew a nine-shot. auto- -}sion from the home they had owned |Johmaon was cheplain of the Daugh- MEXI O’S NEW CHIEF WOUNDED IN JAW BY WOULD-BE ASSASSIN ae vv Underwood & Underwood. Senora Ortiz Rubio and the President of Mexico, both of whom were injured by bullets fired at the presidential car by a would- be kssassin in Mexico City. JILTED MAN SLAYS GIRL, SHOOTS otLE Another Woman Hit by Bullet. as Eight Shots Fly. in New York Crowd. NOON THRONG IN PANIC) New York, Feb: 5 (N.Y.W.NS.)—| Noonday crows #t Madison avenue and Thirty-first “street were thrown nto pabic today when Joe Arana, an matic and fired eight shots, fatally wounding ‘his sweetheart, injuring another girl who was passing, and finally firing two bullets into his own temple. The sweetheart, Miss Marie Car- pallo, 22, died later at Bellevue Hos- pital with six bullets in her body. The other girl. Miss Vera Bauer, 20, of the Bronx, is at the same hospital suffering with a painful wound in the thigh and from loss of blood. Arana tonight is umconscious at the New York Hospital and not expected to live. If he does, he will be charged 'which terminated the night of October 20. with murder. Jealousy and despair because she) would not marry him was assigned | as the motive for the shooting by Miss Carballo in @ gasping statement I" made to an interpreter just before she died. Miss Carballo whispered: “Tony was drunk. He said last Fri- day that he would kill me when I wouldn't marry him.” Madison avenue was jammed with people at the ‘luncheon hour when | Arana, with the bulky gun in his | pocket waited at the northeast corner of Thirty-first street for the girl to | return to her work at the Victoria | Petticoat Co. He was familiar with | the movements of Miss Carballo and | had haunted the factory recently | until, at the request of the girl, the mianagement had him excluded from | the premises. ~™ Miss Carballo and «a friend, Miss Georgiano Vego, presently came by and, according to Miss Vego, Arana approached them and began pleading with the Carballo girl. A quarrel started and she went on her way to the factory. . Bystanders said that Arana, appar- ently finding that he could make ' Continued on ‘Page 3, Column 5. ! | merous 'terious blonde” alibi \thers of the dead girl, ‘in her casket awaiting burial. DREYFUS KIN FEARED IMPENDING TRAGEDY Carl Fischer, Father, Inferms Grand Jury He Sensed Daughter’s Danger. KING LINK EMPHASIZED Pausing frequently to brush the tears from Ris eyes; Carl Pischer, gray-hilved’“tather *@%,.ts. Aurelia Pischer Dreyfus, yesterday told the] grand jury how, mioved by a vague sense of impending tragedy, he had pleaded with his daughter not to go to the Potomac Boat Club. dance, in her death on Mr. Fischer told the jury that on the day following the tragedy, Ed- mund J. McBrien, New York broker, who had escorted Mrs. Dreyfus to the dance, had attempted to take her au- tomobile from the Fischer garage. and, foiled therein by Mr. Fischer, that he had then taken a suitcase be- longing to Mre. Dreyfus in which, he told the grand jury, she had nu- lettefs and other papers, which, she had told her parents, con- tained important information about the unsolved murder of Dot King, ‘Broadway butterfly,” in 1923. Mrs. Dreyfus, who was the “mys- who established an for Albert E. Guimares, who had been arrested in connection with | the death of his sweetheart, Dot King, | later told her mother and sisters that in testifying in the King investiga- tion she had been forced to perfure herself, according to affidavits given to United States Attorney Leo A. Rover by members of her family. As Mr. Pischer left the grand jury room, a deputy marshal handed him the order for his witness fee. He | brushed the paper aside roughly. “What is this? Money for telling about this tragedy of my life?” he said. “No, no. I do not want it.” Other witnesses heard yesterday in- cluded the mother, sisters and bro- and family friends who testified that they ad seen bruises on her neck as she lay The Continued on Page 3, Column 6. Elderly Sisters Are Evicted From Home of 20 Years Two Women With Money at Their Call, Protest to Very Last and Call Divine Wrath Upon Those Who Force Them Out. Protesting to the very last and ~all- | ing upon the Lord’ of Hosts to vent His wrath upon those responsible for | their eviction, two sisters, Mrs. Anna | Morgan Johnson and mrs. Margaret Morgan Hillsap. cf 1372 Harvard street northwest, were removed yesterda~ afternon by police of the Tenth Pre- einct to Gallinger Hospital, while their effects were sent by deputy mar- shals to a storage company for future disposal. The pitiful scene and the circum- stances surrounding their disposses- and occupied for’more than twenty years, stirred the ympathy of the crowd attracted to the place and more than one tear-dimmed cye could be found among the curiosity seekers. some neighbors, others strangers, who OR Gnthares to wales tie lew ‘take its course. “Twenty and more years ago Mrs. é r ters of the American Revolution, while her sister was a teacher in the Dis- trict public schools. Mrs. Johnson was 4 divorcee, her husband and chil- dren now Hving in Chicago, wile Mrs. Millsap, a decade or more. ago, became a widow. Thirty or more years ago the Mor- gans were socially prominent in Vir- ginia. They borsted lin from Gen. Pierre G. T. Beauregard,’ of the Confederate Army. Affiuence, influ- ence and wealth were theirs. They knew no want; their friends Were For more than twenty years the two sisters were devout members of St. Stephen's and the - Incarnation Church. , ‘Sixteenth —- Newton streets. Priends entreated ‘hel. to pe up One of Six Bullets Hits Ortiz Rubio Two Hours After Inaugural. WILL RECOVER SOON, PHYSICIANS ASSERT Wife and Niece, as Well as Chauffeur, Also Slightly Hurt. IASSAILANT ARRESTED AT ONCE BY OFFICERS Acted on Own Initiative, He Says; Portes Gil Claim Vasconcelos Blot. Mexico City, Feb. § (A.P.).—An un- successful attempt was made upon the life of Pascual Ortiz Rubio, new President of Mexico, today, only two hours after he had been sworn ip as chief executive of the republic. The president was wounded in the jaw by one of six bullets fired by & youthful assailant who lay in welt for him at the honor gate of the nas tional palace. Rushed first to his home, and then to the Red Cross Hes- pital, the president was given ims mediate treatment for the injury. It wae found that the bullet pene- trated the left jaw and lodged in the mouth. It was readily extracted, Hospital authorities said the condi- tion of their distinguished patient was not serious. Dr. Jose Casauranc, head of the Mexico City federal district, was quoted this eve- ning as saying that the president probably would be back at his desk i the end of four days. lawet Jawbone Brokene 9-5 But Dr. Jose Perez Gil y Ortiz, whip attended the president, said thet the bullet had broken the bone of thie lower jaw. He said that after passing through the left jaw the missile lodged in the opposite cheek. It was fired from a 38-caliber pistol. ine Emilio Portes Gil, retiring presi- dent, and secretary of the interior in the new cabinet, seid tonight the at- tack was the outcome.of a plot by followers of Jose Vasconcelos, defeated presidential candidate, of the anti- reelectionist party. He told news- papermen that Senora de Ortiz Rubio had received an unsigned letter a few days ago threatening death to her husband. The assailant was surrounded by police, who were guarding the presi- dent. After questioning the author- ities decided that his name was Miguel Flores, 22 years old. He claimed to have been acting on his own initiative, but the police, acting on the plot theory, arrested seven other persons on suspicion. They said that Flores was not motivated by religious belief and that he was not a Communist. They announced that he had acknowledged sympathy for the Vasconcelos party. Three Others Wounded. Besides the president, three other occupants of the car were wounded by bullets. Senora de Ortiz Rubio was grazed by a missile which brought blood from her ear and scalp. A small niece of the president, Maria Rosh, also was grazed by a bullet. The hero of the presidential party was the chauffeur, Felix Galvan. He was wounded in the face by one of the bullets, but held on to the wheel, kept the car going through the ex- cited crowd that surged around the palace, and drove his master to the Red Cross Hospital. Other persons in the machine were’ cut by shattered giass. Senor Portes Gil followed up his -. earlier announcement with a signed statement tonight in which te said that the attempted assassination is proof that there are elements in the country who seek to cast the nation into chaos and ruin, regardless of the means employed. He assured the pub- lic, however, the government is able to handle any sitaution that might 5 NEWS of SUBURBAN Washington “ - and the Surrounding , States