People, Jan. 28, 1935

"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

In the cellar of the Cuban Embassy at Washington. General Carlos Garcia Velez rummaged through the last dusty stack of state documents. Then he mopped his dirty forehead, admitted failure in his search. For weeks, General Garcia Velez had been looking for the original Message to Garcia, made famed by the late Elbert Hubbard. In 1898, he knew his father, the Rebel Chieftain Calixto Garcia, received a momentous message from President McKinley asking his aid against the Spaniards. Like Writer Hubbard, General Carlos Garcia...

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