Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-23 | Page 1 | Bolivia Dictator Dies of Gunshot

I Bolivia Dictator Dict tor Dies of Gunshot t I. I LA PAZ Bolivia Aug 23 UP UPI UPI- President German B Busch sch youthful dictator of Bolivia died at p p. m. m today of a pistol wound officially of of- described as accidental The cabinet under General Carlos Carlos Car Car- los Quintanilla issued a decree confirming confirming confirming con con- firming provisional powers which it had assumed earlier in the day when physicians agreed that the year old chief magistrates magistrate's wound was fat fatal l. l Circumstances of the presidents president's wounding remained mysterious The rho presidential secretariat issued a stating tating Busch had I been the victim of an l I accident which occurred at dawn t. t today today The c said a at t temporary mp administration tion had been set up General Carlos Quintanilla as assumed assumed assumed as- as charge charrie of the government immediately immediate I appointing General Bernardino Bilbao as chief of the army The Thc new provisional pro president retained Busch's cabinet