SOUTH AMERICA: Presidents' Week: May 8, 1933

Brazil. President Getulio Dornellas Vargas went for an afternoon drive along Petropolis Highway near Rio de Janeiro last week. Down a steep embankment bounded a bulky boulder, crashed a window of the car. At one stroke it broke both the President's legs, one of his wife's legs and killed his naval aide, Lieutenant Alfredo Celso Pestana. Peru. To shoot at tough little Luis M. Sanchez Cerro was an old Spanish custom, to hit him was a fairly common occurrence, but to kill him was News. Martial law was declared throughout Peru last week...

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