Seward daily gateway., 1933-02-17
EXTRA PRECAUTIONS
 MADE ID PROTECT
 PRESIDENT ELECT
CERMAK REPORTED TO HAVE PASSED THE CRISIS LATE
 YESTERDAY

MIAMI, Fla, Feb. IT, President Elect Roosevelt, saved from an assassin's bullets by the herolsm of a woman, departed Thursday for New York, leaving behind him, dangerously wounded, his friend, Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago.
 He arrived Wednesday night from a peaceful vacation to face a VOL ley of bullets and to see five per sons. one a friend, shot down by a man who said he hated all the rich and powerful.
 MT Roosevelt was unharmed, his life saved, many observers be- Iieved, by the attack of 100 pound Mrs. M. J. Cross, Miami housewife, upon the gunman. Seeing the gun pass over her shoulder from be- hind, Mrs. Cross grabbed the mans arm and forced it aside just as he started firing.
 Mayor Cermak was believed to have safely passed the crisis last night.
 IN CRITICAL CONDITION
 Mrs. Joseph Gill, wife Of the Florida utility magnate, was i'll critical condition and it now ap- pears that unless change for the better is seen today, little hope can be held for her recovery.
 Guiseppi zangara, B, dark and scowling confessed assassin, and his room mate, Andra Valentl, were held safely in jail after arous- ed Floridans had threatened Vlo- lence. Zangara was named III complaints charging assault and attempt to commit murder on four counts. He told officers he had planned to kill President Hoover this winter but decided to shoot MT. Roosevelt instead" He said he liked MT. Roosevelt personally but hated all kings and presidents.
 Mayor Cermak of Chicago, sent word to friends at home that I'm going to pull through for Chicago
 MT. Roosevelt is due to arrive in New York early this evening. He intended to go right on thru to his home at Hyde Park where he will continue his conferences on federal affairs which he in terrupted for mid-Winter vaca- tion trip on Vincent Astor'S yacht.
 VALET HAS THEORY
 Up at Ithica. for the second time within 24 hours, tragedy threatened the Roosevelt family when Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt narrowly escaped injury under the wheels of a backing train. Cross ing the railroad tracks to enter her automobile, Mrs. Roosevelt did not see the train which was al most upon her when Motorcycle Patrolman Edward Moore pulled her uncermoniously from it's path.
 I'm glad it was I and not you," Mayor Cermak whispered to MT. Roosevelt yesterday when the latter visited him in the hospital. !, Roosevelt replied: Get well; we need men like you'.
 Mrs. Cross, who struck up the assassin's arm, is referred to by newspapers as Americas new sweetheart"
 The colored valet of the Presl- dent-Elect planes the shooting on a red tie which his boss wore We'd nesday. Yesterday he put a blue tie on MT. Roosevelt.
 CONFERRED WITH JONES
 Acc panying MT. RooSe- welt on the special train to New York is Professor Moley, his close advisor. At Savannah he visited briefly with Jess Jones who is said 1 to be slated for the position of [ president of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
 The Miami court appointed council for Zangara yesterday and he will go on trial today. He said he did not want the services of council; that he was glad he ''got Cermak but had intended to kill Roosevelt" He showed no regrets for his act. Zangara is said to