Son-in-Law

"Yesterday Curtis B. Dall, son-in-law of President Roosevelt, shot himself in the White House in the presence of his estranged wife and Mrs. Roosevelt. He died later in the day.''

If such an event were so briefly reported in the U. S. Press, neither readers nor publishers would be satisfied. Yet almost an exact parallel of that tragedy occurred in the Hotel Continental apartment of Premier Gaston Doumergue last week. Mention was limited to a few slender paragraphs in New York newspapers and a close-mouthed silence on the part of French officialdom.

Friends for many years, Gaston Doumergue married a widow, one Mme. Jeanne Graves, in 1931, twelve days before the end of his term as President of France. An attractive daughter who bore the name of Marthe Graves was a student in the Sorbonne where she met and married Enzo de Bonze, excitable young son of an Italian general, who had fled Italy at the coming of Benito Mussolini. The de Bonzes had three children, were divorced in 1930. Recently Enzo de Bonze sought a reconciliation with his wife. Calling on her on Friday the Thirteenth, he shot himself right before the eyes of his horrified mother-in-law. He died later in the day. A heavy police guard was placed over the Premier's apartment. No one would give any interviews.

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