HARRY TRUMAN LIBRARY Papers of NATHANIEL DAVIS line was busy. then started for the office, asking my wife to continue trykng to get Mr. Hubbard, get his address and phone it to Colonel Hughes, at the office.
On arrival at the office, found Colonel Hughes and Miss Yglesias awaiting me. My wife had not yet called and when we phoned her she said Mr. Hubbard line was still busy. Miss Yglesias said she knew where the Kannig lived and could direct us. When we reached the police lines, a major permitted us to proceed to our announced destination but advised a long detour around the zone of fire, warning us particularly not to pass Pass in front of the Valverde house as, he said, people inside would fire at anyone passing within range. Although was flying the flag on my car, it already was too dark for it to be distinguished at any distance. At about this point we discovered that Miss Yglesias did not know the Kanns but had confused the name with that of a family named Caln. We dropped her at her house and picked up Stocken of the Times and Reginald Wood of the Agsociated Press. We proceeded to the gouth end. of Dr. Valverde street where we asked the sentry to call an officer. When the latter came we explained that we were seeking an American baby that might be in the corner house, the guard having said that an American lady and her child lived there. The officer permitted us to pass. We found the house occupied by a Costa Rican family named Pucchi. The man of the house said that Mrs.
mellan Gain lived there but had moved to a safer spot earlier in.
the afternoon. Borrowing his phone, called Mr. Hubbard and got proper directions to his house a few blocks away.
He said that since his first call he had made a second appeal to the police and had been permitted to get the baby and all was well. We drove to his house to verify the facts and spoke to Mrs. Kann who was on the point of leaving with her child and friends for Escazú. She.
asked if we would rescue her two Costa Rican maids from her house but withdrew the request. We went back to the office.
Mr. Cohen had two messages for me from Dr. Facio who said he was phoning from the hospital. The first said that he had trustworthy information that there were several wounded persons in Dr. Valverde house and that the police had refused to permit an ambulance to go there to evacuate