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2 CHANBER T0 LD ;. FLOOD AN Four Proposals for Control to 9 Be Put Forward by Com- merce Organization. By the Associated Press. A referendum on a proposal that 1 Government take over t jasissippi River flood control | problem has heen declded upon by | the United States Chamber of Com- mefce as a result of mmendatio by one of its committees which has Sust completed a survey of the flood area. Four proposals will be put forward: That the Government pay the enti:e €ost of construction and maintaining flood control works from Cairo to the Guif; that it assume responsibility for Tocating and maintaining such ‘works; that adequate funds be made | available when needed, b pi River with on its own me and distinct taking. , and sepn from any other Committee Tours Area. The committee, made up of mess men and engineers, has jus completed a_trip through the flovied | areas, on which it was accompanied | by Lewis E. Picerson, president of | the chamber. It ed the levee| breaks on both sides of the river and | conferred with Federal and State of-| flcials and engineers. business men | and others throughout the territory. | “We are convinced,” savs the co mittee’s report, “that the country's present wealth, our Increasing na- tional solidarity, the interdependence of various sections, the increasing im- | portance of our great arteries of | commerce and our quickened national eonsciousness call for removal of this flood menace. “The ecommittes has not attempted tq develop a plan of its own, but has directed its attention to defermining whether it is practicable to control floods at reasonable cost by a system of levees, spillways, outlets, etc. After listening to many proposals and se- euring the judgment of the highest engineering talent in the country, both governmental and civilian—Fed- eral, State and local—the committee is mpressed with the unanimity of view that adequate control of the Mississip- i River is practicable. Other Plans Supplemental. \ “The extent to which reservoirs, re- forestration, etc., on the tributaries and headwaters would assist in the control of floods in the lower Missis- sippi is a controverted question. The committee came to the conclusion that, even if such measures should prove helpful, not only would their accomplishment require many years, but they should be considered as sup- plemental alds contributing an addi- tional factor of safety in the future control of floods. “Unfortunately the demand for flood control, calling for higher levees and for other methods of flood control in the interest, not alone of the affected areas, but of the Nation as a whole, has outstripped the abllity of the flooded areas to pay. The history of the levee districts shows that in some instances districts have taxed them- selves beyond their ability to pay, Of the twenty-nir.> levee districts stretch- ing from Cairc ‘o the Gulf, many have reached thelr full legaltax limit. Meny mot only cannot pay further sums for the greatly Increased ex- pense required, but cannot pay their existing obligations save at great macrifice. Responsibility is Divided. “The committee has found that the tmnz arrangemegit, which calls for al eontributions and maintenance, results in a divided responsibility, and 18 destructive of siccess in plannng, €onstructing, and maintaining the works necess:cv for flood control. n o = inis great national problem in which the Federal Govern- ment must assume sole responsibility for its solution, and pay the entire cost of the project, the project itself must be definitely conceived and set part from all other domestic prob- lems. It must be singled out and the solution considered and financed free from any relationship with other na- tional or local problems. “We have recommended that sole responsibility for constructing the works to control floods be placed upon the Federal Government, and the pay- ment of the entire cost by the Federal Government. It is equaily iriportant that the plan of administration should ®e centralized. There should be a carefully formed organization adapted to carry on and complete a project bf such proportions, vested with ample power for the necessary research by way of preparation for the adoption in all matters of engineering, opera- tion and maintenance.” A traffic survey of the Mississippl and other inland water routes border- ing upon it will be begun this week by the Commerce Department. Sec- retary Hoover has designated U. 8 Titus, chief of the Commerce Depart- ment’s transportation _division, Bupervise the work, and with assist- ants Mr. Titus expects to begin his task at St. Louls, and follow up by further surveys from the Twin Citles 'to New Orleans. It will be the object of the investi- gation to determine what traffic avail- &ble now or potentially available for water carriage of the river, either through the inland waterway estab- lishment which the War Department i3 now-operating or through addition- 2l facflifies which the Government or private interests may provide. A con- siderable corps of Government agents, with co-operation from commercial or- ganizations Interested, will be needed, ad several weeks will be expended in the effort, The Inland Waterways Service, whichthe War Department now oper- ates, ‘asked for the aid of the Com- merce Department in determining the sttuation on the water routes and out- lining proposals for policy in the tature, “LITTLE MIDSHIPMAN” “STILL STANDING GUARD| Plgure Described by Dickens on Duty After Century and a Halt. @orrespondence of the Aesociated Press. | LONDON.—The “Little Midship- man,” familiar to all lovers of Dick- ens, njay still be seen keeping guard Jpst inside the shop of a firm of nau- ital publishers in the Minories. » Dickens described him as a midship- man, but the figure is really that of a naval officer wearing the uniform of zlgezson‘z; time and taking an observa- on. The figure is about 2 feet high, ex- quisitely carved in wood and appro- priately colored. It is almost a cen- tury and a half old. It now bears a brass plate with “This is the original ‘Little” Midshipman’ immortalized by ghnrleu Dickens in ‘Dombey and on.” GOEBEL IN NEW YORK. CURTISS FIELD, N. Y., October 29 () —Completing a transcontinental flight from Los Angeles, Arthur C. Goebel, Pacific flyer, arrived today from Washington in his Woolaroc, ac- companied by John Phillips and Fred Hamlin, Goebel said he would fly back to Los Angeles after visiting in New York @ity for 10 days. » TC5-2 , alighting on the roof of a Newport News high sche ship. Lieut. T. P. Starkey was the pilot. TOBER 30, 1927—PART 1. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, 0OC REVOLT IN MEXICO FOMENTED Two views of the first intentional landing of a lighter-than-air ship on the top of a building. It is the dirigible 1, 60 feet above ground. The ship was brought to a standstill in a space 225 by 180 feet. Capt. Charles P. Clark, commander of the:19th Air Squadron, commanded the CAROLINA TEXTILE OUTLOOK IS BRIGHT Survey Shows Southern Mills Have No Accumulated Manu- factured Stocks. By the Associated Press. CHARLOTTE, N .C, October 29.— Carolina textile mills face the prospect of a period of continued prosperity | with a highly favorable reaction on | business in general indicated, accord- ing to information from the office here of David Clark, publisher of the Tex- tile Bulletin, after an extensive and thorough survey of the industry in the two States by the textile expert. “The textile mills of the Carolinas| have definitely and clearly entered upon a period of prosperity which promises to be sustained over a con- siderable period,” said the statement from Mr. Clark. “What the con- tinued operation of all the textile plants in this section means to the general prosperity of the Carolinas is easy to see,” it was pointed out. Going into the factors on which he based his prediction Mr. Clark pointed out that practically none of the mills have accumulated stocks of manu- factured goods in their warehouses, The survey conducted by Mr. C revealed, it was sald, that in t ast 10 days approximately a dozen North- ern textile plal had announced plans looking toward the development of plants in this section. “Unquestionably the position of both the textile worker and the investor in textile plants in the South is stronger and more to be desired than the po- sition of the textile worker and holder of textile stocks in any othe section of the country,” the stat ment concluded. COMMERCE BUILDING PLAN WAITS APPROVAL Public Projects Pass on Design for Huge Structure. I the Public Buildings Commission approves the design for the Com- merce Bullding at the meeting sched Commission to uled Tuesday the way will be cleared for the final step of preparing spec fications for this huge structure, which is to oceupy the area from E to B streets between Fourteenth and Fifteenth street t the west end of the triangle development. Plans for the Internal Revenue Building also will be considered by the commission at this meeting, and it the commission approves of the drawings both these buildings will be under way before long. It is not expected that the commis- sion will consider making an; at this meeting in the gene 3 of all the buildings that are to be placed in the triangle. FRESHMEN "VEIGH 14 TONS First-Year Class at Tufts Totals 28,384 Pounds. Correspondence of The Star. BOSTON.—Results of the recently conducted physical tests disclose that the total welght of the freshman class at Tufts College is 28,384 pounds, or a_trifls more than 14 tons. class heavywelghts are Lester Moul- ton, jr., of Melrose, who weighs 23814 {re: pounds, and George MacCallen of Bel- mont, who tips the scales at 202 pounds. The two lightweight mem- bers are Adelson and Hurne, each of whom weighs 112 pounds. Only 68 of the 192 members wear glasses, less than one-half smoke and 171 have participated in athletica of some sort, . MAFALDA REFUGEE OWES LIFE TOSHOVE, HURLING HIM INTO SEA Italian Official _Sa.ys Some One Grabbed Gun and Pushed Him Overboard As He Was About to End Life. By the Associated Press. PERNAMBUCO, Brazil, —Somebody pushed Eugenio Gab; Italian vice consul at I board as the Italian liner Principes Mafalda was sinking and to that per son the vice consul sald today he owed his_escape. Signor Gabass age, reached her steamer Rosetti. who is 56 years of yesterduy on the He told of the trou- ble with the machinery aboard the Mafalda and how he went to the captain. The lattcr assured him there was no cause for worry, that the steamer would not founder. Pushed Into Ocean. Shortly afterward the Mafalda be- gan to list. Fearing the water, Gabassi remained on deck, half dazed, holding a pistol in his pocket, to shoot himself, he asserted. When, soon after 9 o'clock, the Mafalda bigan to sink fast, he put the revolver to his head. Some one came up behind him, seized the revolver and shoved him overhoard. Gabagsi found a plece of wreckage octover 29. | i | na, over- |four women and three children: one a | woman and a child, sald G to which he clung, u in the morning pick the wreckage along a boat early d him up. On with him were si, were swept from the wreckage by what he believed to be a shark. Rescues in Darkness. Capt. Denisson of the Rosettl pick- ed up an intercepted message from Rugby, England, telling of the Ma falda’s danger. He reached the s ing steamer just before she prired. The night was pitch d: he could sce little, but heard the wail ing, crying and shouts for help. There wers 1o searchlights, and the reacue was carried on in total darkness. The Rosetti patrolled the spot until 8 o'clock in the morning. An Italian woman, Rosa Zambrino, was found a mile or two from the wreckage. She was swimming, with her boy, 2 ye of age, close by her side. A purse was made up by the crew of the Rosetti, and presented to Rosa, who, with her boy, will join her husband at Buenos Aires. 9 Mother, Beset By Tragedy. Dies In Midst Of Struggle to Rear Family of Seven e struck its final blow at stout- hearted Mrs. Viola Proudfoot yester- day. The mother of seven children, who has kept her little family together for nearly two years on a mere pittance, is dead, the victim of tragedy and ha.d work to protect her children and - them properly. Stricken il sev. da z0, her stiength sapped by the tragedies which have darkened her life since the day her husband left home in February, 1926, to be brought home dead, the victim of an accident, Mre. Proudfoot died yesterday after- ncon at Providence Hospital. Funeral Il be held at her home, 725 treet northeast, Tuesday aft- rvices Second ernoon. Her death will not render fruitl her long struggle for her family. The grandparents of the Proudfoot chil- dren, Mr. and Mvs. John A. Behrle of 723 'Second street northeast, have taken into their home the seven chil- dren, ranging in age from 3 to 14 years. ‘The Behrles are Mrs, Proud- foot's parents. Six months after Mr. Proudfoot, who was a carpenter, was killed in a fall from a building, baby girl w born to Mrs. Proudfoot. The ch lived hut six weeks. Last January tragedy n visited the home, this time tak- ing the life of 7-year-old Kdna, who was killed when a hearse struck her while she was playing in the street near her home. Only a few weeks afterward 4-yearold Edward broke his arm in an accident. And a few weeks ago Kdward was struck by an automo- bile in front of his home. For days he lingered between life and death until finally the tide turned, and little Ed- ward vhile his mother, who made such a fant fight for her loved ones, lies dead, the victim of a broken heart and a real life tragedy. A nervous breakdown brought Mrs. Proudfoot to Providence Hospital a few days ago. Her health wrecked by the series of tragic occurrences which have darkened her life, facing dire poverty with little prospect of im- provement in the family's financial situation, she died yesterday. For more than a year she had kept her family together on $12.50 a week. TEXAS LEGISLATOR FALLS LEAVING CAB Former State Senator Is Taken to Hospital for Treatment for 8light Injuries. Reporting that he had fallen from a The two | taxicab in which he was riding with a soldler and two women, In attempt- ing to alight at Seventh and D streets last . night, former State Senator Thomas Johnson of Fort Worth, Tex. was taken to Casualty Hospital for treatment for bruises. A passerby who saw Mr. Johnson fall to the street reported to police of the fitth precinct that & man haddisorder. either fallen or had been thrown out of a cab. Police then went to the scene of the accident and held the driver of the cab for questioning. The other occupants of the cab could not be found, and it was said the driver would be released. In his room at the hospital, Mr. Johnson told Detective Clarence T: ley that there “had been no trouble, and that he fell when he “kicked the door open to get out.” Thysiclans at Casualty reported the ex-Senator’s injuries slight. Leaps 17 Floors to Death. DETROIT, October 29 ().—Rebecca Herstein, 47 years old, leaped from the window of a physician's office located on the twenty-second floor of tle Baton Tower here today, falling to her death on the roof of a four- story building. With her brother, Solomon Herstein, she had visited the office for -treatment for & mnervous | chairman of the Democratic national DEMOCRATIC CLUB 10 MEET TUESDAY Oldfield, King and Tydings to Speak at First of Pub- lic Series. The National Democratic Club will | begin to function actively with a public meeting at its headquarters in the Washington Hotel Tues: night at 8 o'clock. Men high in the councils of the Democratic party will speak, among them Representative William A. Oldfield of Arkansas, congressional committee, and Sen- ators William H King of Utah and Millard E. Tydings of Maryland. The meeting will be the first of a serios arranged for the purpose of intaining and further extending rest in a_more cffective politi »rgamzation for the Democratic par throughout the country. The mem- bership of the club, which is in- corporated under the laws of the is confined almost entirely s in every rughout the trict and nearby inia well repre- roster, according to cong Union, Maryvland and sented on its leader: The date: orporate existence of the club ot Al 5. It has been active, however politics since the earl) the first Woodrow Wilson Imporiance Is Stressed. club functions as a business It does not participate in prenomination campaigns, as its principal object is to assist in ac- complishing the election of the party’s duly designated nominees. In this connection it maintains an up-to-the- minute survey of political conditions in the so-called doubtful or border- line states. for in these localities Its greatest efforts are made, it is ex- plained. “When it is realized that the elec- tion of 21 additional Democratic mem- bers of Congress would have made the present Congress Democratic,” said L. Karlton Mosteller, assistant to John W. Hayes, president of the club, “and that their election could have been accomplished by rallying to the polls a comparatively small number of stay-at-home voters in the doubtful States through effective organization, the importance of this matter of main- taining an up-to-the-minute survey of political conditions in such localities may be more accurately and fully appreciated. Denies Being Minority Party. “Contrary to the general impres- sion, the Democratic party is not a minority party Many of the States are governed bty Democratic govern- ors and the record of the Democratic party in Congress is favorably com- parable with that of the Republican party. There are 22 States with Dem- ocratic governors, which give the Democratic party a majority of the with an electoral vote suffi- ci nt. 1In the United States there are 47 Democrats and 48 Republicans and 1 Farmer-Laborite. “A careful analysis of the last elec- tion results affecting the Congress strongly indicated that self-inflicted disfranchisement and general public indifference to politics and govern- ment explains why the Democratic party was not returned with a com- fortable working margin in both houses of Congress. In this connec- tion it is interesting to note that 80 per cent of the country’s voting capac- ity was exercised in the 1896 presi- dential election, while in 1912 the per- centaga had declined to 60 per cent and in 1924 the decline had been so great that it reached less than 50 per cent of the eligible vote.” . DENIES KNCWING REMUS. Ohio Prisoner Protests Innocence in Slaying of Sheriff. COLUMBUS, Ohio, October 29 (#).— Acqualntance with George Remus and participation in the murder of Sheriff William Vancam Brookville, Ind., in September, 1 was denied today by Eugene Webb, serving 25 years in the Ohlo penitentiary for bank rob- bery, when interviewed by P. E. Thomas, warden. The name of Webb and Burton Carter, his partner in the robbery. who also is serving a sentence in the Ohio_penitentiary, were brought into the Remus case yesterday, when it was claimed Remus murdered his wife to prevent her from revealing his alleged share in the murder of Vancamp. Authorities thought the two might have been working in con- junction with Remus, since Brookville authorities tried to implicate Webb and Carter during the trial in con- nection with the murder there. GERMAN LOAN PLANNED. $15,000,000 Reported Sought in U. 8. by Ship Line, BERLIN, October 29 (#).—Boerse circles are informed that the North German Lloyd will shortly float a $15,000,000 loan in New York, the pro- ceeds of which will be devoted to carrying out the company’s plans for building new ships and acquiring foreign tonnage. The loan, it was rumored, is not connected with the impending adjust- ment of the German shipping claims against the United States Govern- ment. The North German Lloyd's build- ing program contemplated the con- struction of passenger and freight ships totaling 186,000 gross tons, among which the liners Europa and Bremen are expected to negotiate the Bremerhaven-New York route in six days. The cost of the projected ex- tension of the North German Lloyd fleet is estimated at the Boerse at $4.000,000. campaign. The organization. The Bank that Make Yo a Loan with a Smile The te are simple and practical and fair —it is n anaccount at this Bank to borrow. For each $60 or Jraction borr you agree to de- it $5 a month n an account, the note when due. Deposits be made on a weekly, semi- monthly or $540 $45.00 $1,200 $100.00 $6,000 $500.00 MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Treasury 1408 H Street N. W., Washington, D. C. BY OBREGON. EDITOR DECLARES Exiled Publisher Says Coun-! try Is in Grip of Dictatorship. Palaviccini Tells of Arrest After Campaign Against Re-elections. BY MEIGS 0. FROST. 2W ORLEANS, La., October 29.— | Mexico’s greatest publisher of new: papers and magazines waved sorrow- ful farewell today over the rail of the | Munson line steamship Nunamar as it | cast off moorings and headed down | the Mississippi River out of New Or- leans, Havana bound. Felix F. Pala- viceini was going into exile. A month ago he was a millionaire in Mexico City. All Mexico viewed 1 as a sort of combined Lord North- litfe and William Randolph Hearst. They spoke of him in Mexico son what as Americans speak of Horac Greeley and of Dana of the New ¥ Sun. He had heen decorated by six great world powers for his serv the allied cause In the World W had built and supported the greal hospital for newspapermen in Mexico “ity. He had launched the child wel e movement in Mexico. He had| founded and was publisher of El Uni- versal, great City of Mexico daily newspaper. He had founded, publish- ed and edited a great string of other newspapers and m nes. He had been the idol of Mexico's fighters for liverty, one of them since in 1910 he| joined Francisco Madero and fought | to overthrow Porfirio Diaz. He was a liionaire, a spoctsman, a world t And now he Says Obregon Is Supreme. But_before he sailed he stopped in New Orleans long enough to give his first and only interview since he reached the United States at the La- redo gateway an exile. And in switt, vivid sentences, for he speaks only Spanish, Pelix Palaviceini painted an unforgettable picture of conditions in Mexico toda “Mexico has a population ot more | than 15,000,900 souls,” he sald. “But today one lives in Mexico only at the pleasure of one man-—Alavro Obregon. President Calles is his tool. “The widely-advertised ‘military mu- tinies' in Mexico in September znd October were fomented by Obregon and Calles to give them a chance to eliminate by firing squad and exile all other candidates running for I'resi- dent of Mexico against Obregon, “Mexico has been fighting 20 yeurs against any man's re-election to (he presidency. And in those 20 years Mexico has. traveled front an absolute ictater—Potfirio Diaz—who Aat least vas honest and efficient—to a dictator- ship of butchery. “There is no more law in Mexico. There is no more constitution in Mex- ico. There are no more courts in Mexico. The shell of these institu- tions remain in Mexico. Dut it 8 a hollow sheil. There is nothing but the arbitrary whim of Alvaro Obie- gon and Pluwaicho Klias Calles, back- ed by the firing squads that are their weapons. “I was horn in Mexico. My family has lived there 120 years—Ilonger than the families of Obregon and Calles put_together. I can claim with trath to be a Mexican if any man can. Yet I was arrested by soldiers in Mex. ico City, confined in a military prison, rushed to the border under guard and exiled without ever facing judge or entering court. The writ of habeas corpus my lawyers obtzined from the Federal district judge in Mexico City was flouted by the military authori- ties. Which means President Calles. Opposed Re-election. “My crime, as nearly as I can learn from telegraphing my friends in Mex- ico since T reached the United Staltes, is that I opposed editorially the ve- election of any man to the presidency | of Mexico,” said Mr. Palaviccini. “My exile is an absolute violation of Mexico's law and Mexico's constitu tion. Under our constitution no Mexi- can citizen can be exiled. Oniy ‘per nicious foreigners' can be exiled under article 33. But now I am a member of the Thirty-Three Club, too. Like that famous Irishman whose lawzer told him he couldn't be jailed for what he had done, and who retorted: ‘But, damn it, I'm in jail now,’ I couldn't be exiled, but T am “Alvaro Obregon, ex-President of Mexico, is mad for power again. He 1s more sinister than Calles. Can America not read between the lines of what has happened in Mexico in the past two months? Francisco Serrano and Arnulfo Gomez were putting up splendid political campaigns for the presidency. Serrano is dead, reported captured and shot in the field at the head of an army of revolution. But Calles made the mistake of exhibiting the body. Serrano was clad in a gray business suit, with white collar, neck- tie and scarfpin in his tie, and wear- ing patent leather shoes. He was a soldier. Would he have worn that costume to lead an army in the field? He was arrested in his home in Mexico City, secretly taken to Cuernavaca and there shot with a group of his friends, almost all civilians. And Arnulfo Gomez is in the mountains in revolt. His friends warned him just in time to escape from the Calies-Obregon squads that night they arrested Serrano. Obregon will tolerate no opposition. And that ‘military mutiny,’ fomented by secret agents of himself and Calles, save! him all the pretext he needed to| climinate all his opponents by force of arms, by threats of violence or by exile. Should Obregon finally slug his way again into the presidency by these tactics, he will plant his banner of victory In a graveyard. Say Government Plotted Mutiny. “That widely advertised military mutiny,in Mexico was no surprise t the government that plotted and en gineered its outbreak, so happy for Calles and Obregon. But it was @ surprise to those of us who did no rms of Morris Plan Loans ot necessary to have had Loans are pass- * ed within a_day or two n]mlflling ap fi lication— with few excep- tions. MORRIS PLAN notes are usually made 1 year, though they may be given any t0 12 months. o have an esplonaze devotir in Mexico reak on leep, City, when just before day CALLES RECEIVES MORROW AS ENVOY Ambassador Presents His Credentials—Friendly Relations Urged. | By the Associated Press. | Dwight W | President first time n an offic.al capacity | | | { | | MEXICO CITY, October Moérrow, newly appe Ambassador, today Calles of Mexico for 29 American met the The Ambassador presented his credentials at noon. Hope of friendly relations between Mexico and the United States and a mutually agrecable solution of thei problems was expressed by hoth formal words, the Ambassador f cated the desire on the part of the United States for a satisfactory set tlement of problems wh'ch h between the two governme President Calles, in respons fully half way Large Crowd Gathers. Mexico's interest in Ambassador October ¢ I heard a loud pounding on | Morrow was shown by the gatheri: the door. Then I heard the order “Open, in the name of the President I sprang from bed hastily and st to throw on some clothes. I w fuily dressed when my bedroom door was burst open and Col. Talamantes, head of the special federal police of the City of Mexico, acting under not direct orders of President Calles, en-| the occ: tered my room. th him were but dressed in civilian hout a word of explan:- tion they took me with them under threat of death. | the arted | o owd of Mexleans ever assembled L is s, [ | | In an automobile 1| g the streets and In and around National Palace of the largest it for the presentation of the American diplomatic representative. The great audience hall of the Na tional Palace, open to the public fc on, was packed to capacity with Mexicans largely outnumberin: Americans, although members of the American colony turned out in large numbers. A cavalry of escort Presidentis | was taken to the military prison of |(‘uards accompanied the Ambassador's tiago Talatelolco in*Mexico City. 1 had the honor ol being thrust Into | National Paluce. one of the cells reserved for generals, | IN€ foreign ministe )i [chief of the presid “Not g word was said to me through this procedure. Five da and five nights I was held incom- municado in_ that cell. “Since reaching the United States, T have learned that my family put up a legal fight for me, and lost. In Mex- ico we have the ‘ley de amparo'—the same thing as your habeas corpus in the United States. The day I wus ar- rested, my family engaged a lawyer who applied for a writ of ampara be ore the federal district julge of exico City. writ, beeause I, a clvilian, srrested by military auth out any fudicial order. The m authorities ignored the wri Victim of Prison Trick. “My first day in prison I was t- ed by Capt. Kennedy, a Mexican in spite of his Irish name, and a member of President Calles personal staff. He brought with him a wig, a false beard and a false mustache that had been found when the ‘military authoriiies searched my home, It was an outfit had bee: I had used long months before at a|the other costume masquerade party. Capt. Kennedy also brought a photographer with him. There in prison he forced wme to put on wig, beard and mus- tache, and pose for a photograph. Then he forced me to pose for a photo- graph without those ornaments. You will do a lot of things with.a gun in your ribs. “And I learned at Laredo that the next day every paper in Mexico City published those two photographs side by side with an official government bulletin announcing that I had been arrested in the streets of Mexico City in that disguise. “That was my only visit while I was in that cell, until the night they came to take me away. “Then on the night of October 10, Col. Mayer of the department of police in Mexico City, called at my cell to remove me. They took me out un- der armed guard, put me in an auto- mobile, and rode me to the railroad station. My family had posted groups of watches outside the prison gate, relieving one another every two hours, so they might know when 1 was taken out. The automobile was fol- lowed to the railroad station. My family was notifled by telephone—not by the auihorities, but by its private d watchers, My son and syme of y friends rushed hastily to the rail- roMd station. They learned I was being sent into exile. Hastily they emptied their own pockets and gave me what small change they had. I was put on the train under guard of Luclano Trigos and Jose Arriaga, both armed plain-clothes detectives of the r of the int They guarded me all the way up to Laredo and when we left the train there they conducted me clear to the immigration station on the American side of the Rio Grande. I had just eight pesos in my pocket. With it I paid my head tax to enter into the United States. My passport, given me at Laredo by the Mexican Immigration authorities, described me as a political refugee. “Next day at Laredo I found that my family had telegraphed money for me there and forwarded my baggage. Will Write Book. “What shall I do in_exile? wait for my family. My wife, our son and daughter, and my son and two daughters by my first wife are now packing up in Mexico City. They will go to Havana by way of Vera Cruz. Then, when we are reunited, I shall settle down and write antoher book. ‘Twenty Years of Revolution in Mexico' I shall call it. T have been through it all \ | | | The judge granted this | o | America, | outstanding questions | party, which proceeded Se uto to the or Estrada, aci- Gen. Alvarez, fal staff, anl Rosenzweig Diaz, chief of protocol of the foreign office, wer: with the Ambassador when he was presented to the President. “I enter upon my duties with a ful consclousness of the honor which n Government has conferred on me," sald the Ambassador, “In intrustins to my hands the representation of ts interests in this great neighboring te. it i8 my earnest hop: that imated by a common desir: to p mote the welfare of the United Mex: can States and the United States o we shall not fail to adjust ith that die. nity and mutual respect which shold mark the international relationship of two scvereign and independent states.” Plea for Co-operation. The President, in reply, expressed hope of co-oneration, harmony . and frisndship in relations of the two gov- ernments. Ambassador Morrow read his remarks in Engl; President lles read his in Spanish. Each had heen given in advance a copy of what would say, and each had carefully considered his utterance. Mrs. Morrow and her daughter, Con- stance, who re escorted to the pal- ace hv government offieials, stood near- by as the Ambassador and the Presi- dent exchanged greetings. A Mexican military - hand played “The Star Spangled Bannzr' as the Ambassador entered the palace and the Mexican national 1i.them on his departure. After exchauge of formal remarks the President and the Ambassador seated themselves sid> by side and chatted for a few minutes through an interpreter. Alfonso City Club’s Halloween Dance, The first of u serles of major holi- day dances will be given by the City Club, Halloween, Monday, October 31, in the club's baliroom. Mrs. T. W. Barrett has arranged a special decora- tive scheme for the event. The City Club Syncopators, consist- ing of 10 pieces and the band's new vibraphone, will furnish the music, which is to be broadcast by WMALL. The dance begins at 10 o'clock. —— story should be told from the inside, “But I shall undertake no campaign against the Mexican government in th: newspapers during my exile, Even when I was deported by Carranza during the World War because I was proally and he was pro-German, I did not write against his goverument during my exile. Political activities of Mexicans abroa¢. are fruitless—u less they are exercised in Wall Street. And I have no influence there. I hope the day is coming when bal- lots instead of bullets will be what any bne has to face in Mexico who opposes * 3 government in power. “I was with Madero, opposing re- election, in the 1910 revolution. I was a Congressman in Mexico City in 1913 when Victorlano Huerta dissolved Congress and staged his coup d'etat. He threw me into prison and kept me th.re nine months. I stepped out of a priron cell to become President Car- ranza's secretary of public instruc- tion. I was elected a Delegate from the Federal District of Mexico City First, | to the Mexican Congress of 1917 when at “ueretaro we drafted the new Mexi- can constitution. I have been special Ambassador of Mexico to England, France, Belgium, Spain and Jtaly. I think I know something of Mexican politics and Mexican dictators. “I have made my fortune as & news- paper and publisher in 1 think it is time the Mex! Mexico. ave been looted by s in nower before this.” AUTOMATIC GAS WATER HEATERS (Instantaneous cnd Storage Types) 27 Sizes There is One for Every Need Sold by Your Gas Company, Your Plumber or EDGAR MORRIS SALES CO. Factory Distributors 1305 G St. N.W. . ’ »