Tooting a shrill goodbye on its whistle, the cruiser U. S. S. Rochester carrying President Hoover's commission to investigate Haitian politics, put out from Port-au-Prince, returned to Miami. Barefooted Haitians in floppy straw hats returned to their homes to mull over the week's events.
With the cabled approval of President Hoover, 65-year-old Eugene Roy, broker, former President of the National Clearing House, was chosen to serve as temporary President of Haiti from the retirement of President Louis Borno (May 15) until a properly constituted presidential election is held "at the earliest...
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