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 Velez was sure that it had been a written document and that Col. Andrew Summers Rowan had "sealed it up in an oilskin pouch, strapped it across his heart,'' carried it to Garcia.

In San Francisco old Col. Rowan, now retired, heard of the search, declared: "The message is not lost because there was no message to lose; I carried it in my head." Protested General Garcia Velez: "But certainly there was a written message. I remember it distinctly." Finally the War Department located Col. Rowan's report on the mission, announced that it felt sure that there had been no written message to Garcia.

Wrote Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London: "Our difficulties are nothing compared with those of the bishops and clergy, for instance, in China, where brigands break down their houses and even capture their persons, or in the West Indies, where typhoons will lay a diocese waste in a night. The Bishop of Persia showed us at the Lambeth Conference a photograph of brigands attacking him, which he had taken with his left hand while he tried to hold off his assailants with his right."