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Show PARRAS' APPEAL IS REJECTED No Reversal in Boundary Award, Declares President Harding. Washington. President Harding personally served notice on the president presi-dent of the republic of Panama, on March 19, that the United States expects ex-pects the Panamanian government to end hostilities with Costa Rica and abide by the boundary decision of Chief Justice White of the United States supreme court. He dispatched a note couched in polite but singularly firm language to President Porras, after the Panama chief executive had appealed to him directly, over the head of Secretary of State Hughes to reverse the position taken by Mr. Hughes Thursday, when he demanded that Panama accept Chief Justice White's decision. President Presi-dent Porras. declared that Mr. Hughes' note to the Panama government govern-ment was "painful and humiliating." |