Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-24 | Page 10 | Jacobs' Report Arouses Cubans

t Jacobs' Jacobs Report Arouses Cubans j HAVANA Dec 24 W The P Tha city eky buzzed with indignation over reports that Mike Jacobs New NewYork NewYork NewYork York fight tight promoter feared ear d Jo personal safety orf oil hi his recent Trait t here 1 Jacobs reached New York Mot Mot- day with reports that members rs c of the welcoming committee carried machine guns when he came Jurato liens iiri to Investigate the proposed hu heavy heavyweight heavyweight weight boxing match between JOI Louis of Detroit and Izzy lazy a Spaniard 1 The promoter postponed the fig e while in Havana then in New York said it was definitely of off He of being frightened by the of guns and mentioned the po K of 01 Havana newspapers deman demanded d. d government action to offset story of Jacobs which they called a shameless lie The Cuban tourS toor- 1st commission in a statement referred referred re U to the contentions of or Jacobs as absolutely false j Dr Jorge Echarte acting i sere j cre-j tary of or state said I I am ant surprised j Mr Jacobs should have said such things as have been attributed to him I was with him a great deal deil while he was here and he thanked me when he was leaving for the t the government and ever everY verj- everYbody body here had shown him i iThe The statements referred to tri Ill entirely untrue I shall investigate ta the matter thoroughly and will mw mwan mati I Ian an official statement on it later I