Evening star., 1933-02-17
CERMAK CONDITION
IS CHANGED LITTLE
Mrs. Gill Reported "HoIding
Her 0Wn'-Both Spent
RestfuI Nights.
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on Mrs. Gill's critical condition was
favorable with "red blood count but
slightly below normal and hemoglobin
at practically normal level"
Other victims of the wild shots of
the swarthy little immigrant who
bought an So pistol to demonstrate his
hate for all government were said by
hospital attaches to be resting nicely
and progressing. They were Miss Mar
garet Kruis of Newark, NJ j.; william
Sinnott of New York and Russell Cald-
well of Cocoanut Grove, Fla.
While the condition of Mayor Ger
max and Mrs. Gill was watched CLOSELY.
Zangara was held in a cell high up In
the Dade County Jail under close guard
against rurnors Of possible attempt to
kidnap and lynch him. He faced ar
raignment today.
The bulletin was signed by DR.. Karl
Meyer, Frank Jirka, John Snyder, E. s.
Nichol and T. w. Hutson.
DR.. Jirka and State Senator Richey
Graham of Illinois, sons-in-law of
Mayor Cermak, arrived here early today
by train. DR.. Meyer and William
Haberkorn, sergeant at arms of the IL
linois Senate, accompanied them.
Dr. Jirka and DR.. Meyer said Mayor
Cermak ioked with them in his room
and quoted him as saying, 'The only
time you doctors take a vacation is
when we get sick. had to get shot in
order for you to come down here"
Had Sinking Spell.
1t was DR. Snyder who made the
night had sinking SPELL She rallied
OF EFT, a%yoinietarad He
said she rested well and seemed holding
her own.
Certainly" he said. "she is not any
worse and she does not appear to be
much better"
Physicians plan to issue four bulle-
tins daily on Mayor Cermak's condi-
ton hereafter. A policeman guards his
room and one stands outside the hos
pital. The bulletins will be issued
at 9 am, noon, $50 pm. and II pm,
all Eastern standard time.
Mayor Cermak has received literally
hundreds of kilograms of sympathy.
Among the senders were Gene Tunney,
Jack Dempsey, the mayor Of Dublin,
the mayor of Prague, James A. Farley
and Gov. Horner of Illinois. who Is on
route to Cermak's bedside. Both are
Democratic leaders in their State
hastened to Miami.
The parents of Mrs. Gill, Mr.. and
Mrs. T. H. Jenkins of Dalla, Tex, left
there last night for Miami. Friends
and relatives kept up constant in
Quiries about her condition.
The bullet that Zangara fired into
the mayors body was still in his body
today.
An X-ray report said:
Films of the chest and abdomen
show presence OF a .32-caliber bullet
lying exactly in the midline of the
upper anterior margin of the body of
the eleventh dorsal vertebra. The
wound of entry was on the right side
posteriorly under the tip of the scapula
at about the level of the ninth rib.
There is no evidence that 1t fractured
the ribs at these points.
1T must have passed downward and
toward the midline and has apparently
lodged itself in the body of this verte-
bra. 1t has produced very little frac-
ture OF the body structure of this ver-
zebra; in fact, no displaced fragments
of bone are noted in this area
In estimating the course Of this
bullet, it Is evident that the spinal cord
would escape injury. 1t lies too high
to have effected the right kidney, but
it Is possible that in its course 1t passed
through the posterior margin of the
liver. The amount Of injury produced
will have to be observed from the
clinical findings"