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...President radioed to Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico his happiness over the latter's escape from assassins' bullets (TIME, Aug. 1).* In Kansas City, Mo., the Secret Service arrested one John Dean, 65, for enclosing clippings of the attempt on Governor Winship's life in a letter to President Roosevelt which said: "Don't you take a chance. I feel that I must come to Washington to kill you for my country is at stake and I love my country passionately...
...Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico went to Ponce last week with 100,000 other visitors to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the U. S. Occupation. With native officials, members of the Insular National Guard, officers from the U.S.S. Enterprise and a U. S. destroyer, he mounted a stand to review a gala parade...
...bullets were round and their motion through the barrel resembled that of the screw ball thrown by Pittsburgh's Cy Blanton, and when the bullet left the end of the barrel, it had a sharper curve than Dizzy Dean's They went straight for a certain distance and then broke sharply like a pitcher nipping the corner of an imaginary plate...
...Vincent Byrne, opened up 15 birth control stations. The Bishop's roars soon drove him to cover. Last week Bishop Byrne was roaring again because both houses of Puerto Rico's Legislature had just passed a bill permitting physicians to tell their patients about birth control. Governor Blanton Winship's predecessor, Catholic Robert H. Gore, began his term by announcing that he trusted in God to control population. Governor Winship, late of the Army's Judge Advocate General's Department, was expected to side with Science, sign the bill...
...Blanton heard three shots some time after her husband's and son's departure. No more were heard. By last week the indignation of citizens of San Perlita was at boiling point. The men did not come home that night, or the next, or the next. They sneered at their own Sheriff William Cragg, who offered a reward of $250 for the return of the Blantons "dead or alive." Citizens gathered with arms and would have invaded the King Ranch had not Texas Rangers appeared. Captain William McMurray of the Rangers persuaded them to declare a three...