Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1928, Page 16

16 PLOTTER AGAINST MORRDW IS TAKEN Mexican Insurgent Leader, Credited With Two Kidnap Attempts, Under Arrest. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, December 28.— Maximiliano Vigueras, insurgent leader, credited with two attempts to capture United States Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow, was under arrest today. He was captured in the town of Chalco and sent to Mexico City for trial in compliance with the new ruling against summary executions of insurgents. Depredations laid to Vigueras have so affected tourist travel that the Na- tional Highways Commission had of- fered a reward of 5,000 pesos ($2,500) for his capture. Planned to Surrender. Vigueras told newspaper men that ypon learning President Portes Gil had promised a fair trial for every one, in- cluding insurgents, which he styles him- sel, he decided to surrender. He was en Toute to Ayotzingo to meet & man who was to arrange a private meeting for him with the governor of the state for the purpose of negotiating his sur- render. One of his relatives, a lieu- tenant in the Home Guard troops at the town of Chalco, however, captured him, but four companions succeeded in escaping. Vigueras added that he had been an insurgent since 1910, fighting against all governments, but that he admired Portes Gil and wished to return to a peaceful life. Police announced that letters on the stationery of the League for Defense of Religious Liberty were found in Vigueras' pockets and that these in- structed him as to the manner in which he was to carry on his campaign against the government. The letters were signed “Chief of the special commit- tee directing the army of liberation.” Both Attempts Failed. ‘The first attempt to capture Am- bassador Morrow with which Vigueras is credited occurred about five months ago on the highway between Mexico City and Puebla, when the Ambassador ‘was returning from Puebla. Although a number of automabiles were stopped on the road about the time the Morrow car was due to pass the Ambassador’s ‘automobile got through safely. A second attempt was made on the Cuernavaca highway when Mr. Morrow was returning to Mexico City after spending a week end at Cuernavaca. Vigueras’ men attacked the town of Huitzilac on the highway and they were credited with intending to capture the Ambassador when he drove through. ‘The Home Defense Corps, however, rallied and drove the insurgents from gedtovm before the Ambassador ar- ved. KLOTZ SANITY TEST PLEA l Coolidge Host HOWARD E. COFFIN, Detroit manufacturer, is host to Pres- HOOVER TRIP SEEN AS BAR TO GRITIGS Left No Weapons for Radical Agitation Against U. S., Is View. BY MARK SULLIVAN. By Wireless to The Star and the New York Herald-Tribune. Copyright, 1928. ABOARD U. S. 8. UTAH, December 28.—To understand the effectiveness of Mr. Hoover's visit to South America, several aspects of that continent should be borne in mind. Its total population is about half that of the United States. Even at home any widely advertised ceremonial visit from an important per- son to eight of our leading cities would familiarize half our population with the personality of the visitor and with the nation represented by him. For several reasons this is far more true with South America than with the United States. Of the total population fully three- STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1928 curacy that the entire political power of the country was held by less than 1,000 persons. Still’ another fact to be remembered is the importance of the capital city in each country. In practically every case the capital is also the metropolis and as a rule there are no other large cities. The consequence of all these conditions is that in each country Mr. Hoover’s visit brought him substantially into contact with and in view of the whole population. Think in Terms of Men. The most important fact of all is that South America does its political thinking chiefly in terms of men rather than of parties. During campaigns the parties often take on the names of their leaders. - The party counts little and the man very much. South Amer- icans rely on the man rather than on the party. To persons of this habit of mind, Mr. Hoover is the party in power in the United States. To their method of political thinking, if Mr. Hoover is a man of good will, then the United States is all right. ‘When Mr. Hoover's journey to South America is seen by our people in the light of these South American condi- tions, the importance and the success of it can be the better realized. To the conditions already recited add the further fact that, according to all testimony, Latin Americans have e: event, one could see the process go- ing on. Smiles Express Confidence. 1In the parades and among the crowds one could see that quick, penetrating look at Mr. Hoover, then the smile and | the lighting up of the eyes that ex-! pressed confidence, and finally the nod- ding of heads by neighbor to neighbor as if to say, “He's all right.” The result of Mr. Hoover's visit is, among other effects, that it will be dif- ficult for any South American equiva- lent’ of our own Mayor Thompson of Chicago to make political capital out of agitation against the United States. And it will be difficult for the radical press of South America to persuade the people that the United States, as sym- bolized by Mr. Hoover, is anything other "han a benevolent and dependable Na- tion. PERU TO HONOR HOOVER. Special Ambassador to Attend President-Elect’s Inauguration. | LIMA, December 28 (/) —The Peru- | vian government will send an ambassa- dor extraordinary to witness the inaugu- ration of Herbert Hoover as President of the United States, March 4, it was | announced yesterday. | Gen, Cesar Landazuri, chief of the general staff, has been named for the | place. Claims Mate Spends $13 aWeek on Horse; She Gets Only $2.10 By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 28.—Mrs. Simon Koslof wants to know if there is any justice in her husband's spending $13 a week to support his horse and only 30 cents a day o sup- port Mrs. Koslof. Koslof is a bread peddler earning $35 a week, his wife said in answer- ing his petition for divorce, He spends $13 a week on the horse, she said, while limiting her to $2.10 a week for the support of herself and by a former marriage. ern Kansas town now accepts the auto- mobile as superior to the horse. 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