Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1932, Page 3

WAKEFIELD GIVEN TOU. S AS SHRINE Washington’s Kinsfolk Attend Ceremony, Then Return to Tilling of Soil. Postmaster General Establishes Office On Wakefield Estate By the Assoclated Press. As the Government formally accepted yesterday the recon- structed Washington homestead at Wakefield, in Virginia, Post- master General Brown announced the establishment of a permanent post_office there, to be known of- ficially as “Washington's Birth- place, Westmoreland County, Va.” Existence of a Wakefield post office in Sussex County, Va., pre- cluded giving that name to the post office on the Wakefield estate. Henceforth the thousands of tourists who visit the shrine may send from the estate cards and letters bearing the “Wash- ington’s Birthplace” postmark. No such facilities have existed heretofore. Miss Julia L. Washington, who resides at Latanes, 2.7 miles away, has been appointed acting postmistress. BY THOMAS R. HENRY, Staff Correspondent of The Star. ‘WAKEFIELD MANOR, Va., May 14. —A family group of Virginia farm folks down in the Popes Creek country—who might have been the American royalty if one of their relatives had held a dif- ferent political philosophy—gathered at the low brick manor house of their an- cestral estate yesterday. ‘The men had left their planting nndi crimson clover mowing and the women their kitchen work long enough to wit- ness the presentation of the ancient manor, with its restored mansion and its graveyard containing the bones of their long-dead kinsfolk, to the Nation as a precious heritage—the soil from which sprang the founder of the great republic. ‘They came to play their part in the transfer of Wakefield, birthplace of George Washington, to the ownership of the American people. Return to Farms. Some of the Popes Creek Washing- tons remained during the ceremony. Others just stayed long enough to have their pictures taken together and shake ds all around. Then they had to get back to the farm work. This is a busy season in Westmoreland County. | The coming of the Washingtons gave & singularly appropriate and homely | tone to the ceremony. In the features | of all of them there was something— however tenuous and intangible—re- | minding one of the man to whom the | race owes its distinction, and whose | 200th birthday anniversary the world| is celebrating this year. It gave the whole affair a domestic, family atmos- phere. It made it far easier—using the words with which Secretary of the In-| terior Ray Lyman Wilbur closed his ad- i dress of acceptance—"to think of Wash- ington as we think of one another.” A few years ago Wakefield was a bush-tangled waste in the midst of & red cedar forest, its history buried 80 deeply under the forlorn grave time had thrown over it that only an arche- ologist. could discover traces of it. The birthplace of Washington in two cen- turies had been about as completely wiped off the face of nature as Troy or Nineveh. Fire had destroyed the mansion. The plow had gone over the place. The bramble had claimed it. House Disappeared. The Washingtons were scattered, | although a considerable number of them still remaine¢ on farms in the close neighborhood. The family graves were lost. The tombstones were broken and scattered. Some of the Wuhmmml may have rebelled against this situa- tion. But they were poor folk. The Civil War had desolated the country. ‘They were living in an age too busy with building the future to be mindful of the past. So the home of John ‘Washington, the sailor who founded the family line in the New World, was | allowed to disappear. One little girl of the Washington line, reared in the neighborhood where Pope’s Creek empties into the Potomac, may have been born with more im- agination_or more sentiment than the others. She played about the Wake- fleld peninsula and explored the ‘bramble-covered fields of the old estate. She rebelled against the advance of oblivion. The dream of her life was to see the manor restored to its original condition—to an exact reproduction of what it had been that long ago Febru- ary night when George Washington was born in the mansion and during those long Summers when he learned to crawl and walk on the broad lawns that reached down to the river. Later she came into financial circum- stances which enabled her to realize her vision. She found the American people growing more sensitive to the past—especially after the Great War which seemed to have brought tre- mendous increases of patriotic senti- ment, wealth and leisure. The Govern- ment had taken over Wakefield—in part. Eleven acres of the manor was a national monument under the jurisdic- tion of the War Department. There was a monument there, rising through the bramble. Even that was attracting many visitors who braved the bad roads ___ SPECIAL NOTICES. GRADUATE REGISTERED NURSE WILL open rest home Just ist at Fairbaven. on Chesapeake Bas; modern house. Geo 1 WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY debts contracted by any one other than my- | self. A. J. HARGIS, 2610 F st. n.w. 1 WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY debts contracted by any one other than my- self | PETER GRANINGER. 716 Madison THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 15 1932—PART ONE. INCREASE OF LUMP SUM Wakefield Is Dedicated Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, former president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and Secretary of Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, who took part in the exercises yesterday at the ancestral manor of the first President. —Star Staff Photo. to come to this obscure corner of Vir- ginia. So Mrs. Harry Lee Rust of Washing- | ton, distant kinswoman of the first| President, organized the Wakefield Na- | tional Memorial Association. It was| comp-sed largely of patriotic women. | Funds were raised among the people. A | congressional appropriation was secured Archeological and historical research was financed. The extent of the old estate was determined and the land pur- chased—356 acres in 2ll to be added to the 11 acres already owned by the Gov- ernment. The bones of the old Wash- ingtons were found mouldering under their fallen tomb stones. Part of the foundations of the old mansion were excavated, and as the zoologist recon- structs an ancient animal from a few scattered benes so did the architects re- construct Wakefield 1t turned out to be 2 bigger job than even Mrs. Rust had imegined. ~The old Washingtons had been folks of quality, | carrying out in the New World within a | few miles of the unexplored wilderness to the westward the aristocratic tradi- | tions of seventeenth century England. | The Washingtons cf today hardly could believe that their ancestors had lived in so grand a style. Old wills and bills of | sale were found in the musty county records. They made it possible to de- | termine approximately what had been | in the house when Washington was| born. Mrs. Rust saw that it was refur- | nished in that manner. From the| neighborhood she secured what may have been duplicates of many of the| original articles. | From the first the intent had been to turn the property over to the Gov- | ernment as a gift to the American peo- | ple as soon as the restoration was com- | pleted. Every effort was made to get it done in time for the 200th anni- versary. Mrs. Rust saw the brush cleared away, the scattered bones rever- | ently gathered and reburied, and the mansion house, which had been de- | stroyed by fire in 1700, rebuilt pre-| cisely as it had been when George | Washington was a baby there. Given to Government. Then, almost at the moment of the realization of her vision, she died. The memorial association she had founded | provided revently the finishing touches | for her work. Everything was ready to | present the tompleted work to the Gov- ernment. Mrs. Rust's place in the ceremony yesterday was taken by Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, former president of the D. A. R., and an_enthusiastic member of the Wakefield Memorial Association With touching references to the work of the dead Washington woman, she formally turned over the property where the first President was born and spent the first three years of his life to Secretary Wilbur, who represented | the Government, and who, as head of the National Park Service, will have custody of it. It will be known as the George Washington Birthplace Na- tional Monument. Secretary Wilbur spoke of the influences which must have played a prominent part in shap- ing the life of the first President which | arose from the peaceful Lower Potomac environment from which he came. The countryside itself, he said, breathed an atmosphere of dignity, self control and strength which must have impregnated the spirit of the baby who crawled there and of the little boy who prob- ably returned there often from Mount Vernon up the river to visit his haif brother. Altogether it was only a small group assembled there—almost a family group. Besides the country people there were relatives of Washington among the ladies of the Wakefield Memorial As- sociation, dressed in Colonial costumes, who aided at the ceremony. The din-4 ner was served by women of the neigh- | borhood. Probably the scene was little changed from Washington'’s boyhood. Even then there was probably much the same thinned grove of red cedars cov- ering the Popes Creek blufl. The baby had probably crawled over a green lawn | N | scattered in May with the same yellow Also’ genuine nal into coats at present-day low price figures, 1800 Wisc. ave.. West 1254 HALP HOURS WITH GREAT MEN AND ook son. 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Even then there were probably well grown box bushes on the lawn and along the garden walk, fragrant with the dew of the Spring mornings | Peace Pervades Scene. | Far away seemed the military glory of George Washington, far away the call of bugles or the glamor of state- | |craft, far away the affairs of armies | and nations. Over the lawns and the low roof of the brick mansion was the drowsy peace of the cedars. Mrs. Cook turned over to Secretary Wilbur a bit of infancy—the tender vision of a little boy romping on a; Ereu lawn above the eternally flowing | ver It became today, as Secretary Wil- bur said, “one of the most valuable and sacred possessions of the people.” — = STAR’S PARENTS HURT Hurt in Auto Crash. HOLLYWOOD, Calif, May 14 (#).— The mother and father of Sally Eilers, movie actress, were injured today when | the Eilers' automobile collided with a | | car driven by Albert McNeely, real es- tate man. | The actress rushed to the hospital | with her husband, Hoot Gibson, and Pyrofax Gas Equipment | ve, Cabinet and Installation reduced to O ook with a sralie 1 Or odor, THOS. J. CROW I Authorized Distributor, N. Ave. ¥ 1 me North 1101, found Mrs. Eilers suffering from a pos- | sible fracture of the shoulder, and Mr. Eilers with a broken rib. | Sally Eflers herself was in an auto- | mobile wreck last Saturday night, after | which estranged relations with her hus- | band were healed. ‘ BAR DELEGATION TO COAL FIELDS FOR FEAR OF MOB (Continued From First Page.) ville, Walter B. Smith, Bell County at- torney and others, and told it would be dangerous for them to enter, the delegation was warned to leave within four hours. No Demonstration. f Sheriff W. H. Steele, who delivered | that warning, sald “there might be trouble” if the visitors did not heed it. He did not explain. Crowds gath- ered on the streets here, but there was | no demonstration as the group departed | late today. It was announced coples of the suits would be sent to Barbourville and Pine- ville by mail for service against the de- fendants. Hays said each member of his group would file similar suits if this one “went through.” Feeling in Bell and Harlan Counties against outside investigators and visi- tors had been described before Federal District Judge A. M. J. Cochran, who last night denied the injunction the Civil Liberties group sought. Witnesses from the two counties said the residents would forcibly prevent such visits, fear- ing they would arouse certain elements among the miners who were on strike last Winter and lead to bloodshed and destruction of property. Given Statement. Mayor Brooks handed the visitors a written statement on meeting them at the Bell-Knox County lines, in which he said: “In denying you a permit to hold a public mass meeting in our city today we do so in the spirit of not preventing free speech and free assemblage. Our community has a right to prevent and suppress such meetings in order to pre- vent violence and the protection of our citizens and the preservance of peace.” County Attorney Smith then drove up and told Malone and Hays “if condi- tions were otherwise it would be per- fectly all right for you to enter.” Charges that “Democracy has com- pletely broken down” in Bell County, and that today's events proved “mobs and dictators are in control,” were made in a statement issued by Hays on his return here. In the coal fields, he charged, there has been “set up a complete system of facism which is as | 8T dangerous to our institutions as com- munism,” and “there is Yeason to be- lieve the officials are often part of the mobs and facism.” Hays said a transcript of the evidence in the injunction hearing would be presented %o the Senate Committee which next week resumes its examina- tion of witnesses in the case. BUILDING PERMITS RISE April Figures Offer Ground for En- couragement, Says Bradstreet's. NEW YORK., May 14 (#).—April figures on building permits showed a marked improvement over March and gfford ground for some encouragement, says Bradstreet's. The permits recorded a gain of 26 7 per cent over the previous month as against a normal April gain of 6 to 7 per cent. The April total for 215 cities was | 847,741,687 which compares with $37.- 676,746 in March. The decrease from April last year was 68.6 per cent. Many low-priced automobiles are being sold in Belgium this year. ISISSUEIND. C. SUPPLY BILL House Injection of Question Through Appropriation Measure Puts It Up to Senate Subcommittee. This is the eighth of a series of ar- ticles on the District of Columbia appropriation bill for 1933 as passed by the House. ARTICLE NO. 8. Y transferring & $3,000,000 charge against the Federal Gov- ernment to & charge against the local taxpayers, and thus re- ducing the Jump sum to the un- precedented low figure (in relation to the total amount carried in the bill) of $6,500,000, the House has placed the lump sum issue before the Senate Sub- committee on District Appropriations. ‘The Senate consideration of that issue, in connection with its study of the Dis- trict appropriation bill, will be of ex- traordinary importance this year to the people of the District. Strangely enough, the same issue, but in another form, is awaiting disposal by the Senate's Legislative Committee on the District of Columbia through its pending study of the Mapes bill for abolition of the fixed ratio. The Fed- eral payment to the District is fixed by unrepealed law, and any change in the Federal payment would ordinarily be settled after a legislative commit- tee's study of the equities and other matters bearing on the question. The House has made the appropriation bill its vehicle for reducing the lump sum by application of the “Holman rule” however, and reducing it below the compromise figure of $9,500,000—the amount agreed upon, pending study of the fiscal relations issue by both Houses of Congress, in the closing hours of the Seventy-first Congress, after the Senate had held out for a larger increase in the lump sum. Legislature Study Pending. The study of the equities involved in the lump sum, the amount that should be paid in proportion to the total, etc., will later come before the Senate Dis- trict Committee, of which Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas is chairman. Before that committee considers it, however, the Subcommittee on District Appropriations will be called upon to fifi'fud" it through the appropriation It will have before it, in connection with consideration of the amount of the Federal contribution that should equitably be made to the District, not only the Senate's traditional stand in favor of the fixed ratio and against reducing the annual lump sum, but the report delivered to the Mapes Com- mittee of the House by the Bureau of Efficiency, which went into the subject exhaustively and found that the lump sum should at least be $10,183391— which is $3,683,390 in excess of the amount recommended by the House. ‘Would Probably Be Larger. The bureau made that recommen- dation, however, for the fiscal year 1932. and, according to the formula upon which it was based, the amount would probably be greater this year than last The bureau's basis for computing the size of the Federal obligation was a valua- tion of Federal real, tangible and intangi- ble personal property, and the amount of hypothetical taxes that would be paid on this valuation if the Federal Gov- ernment was a taxpayer—these “taxes” being estimated for that year at $8,865,- 722. In addition, the bureau estimated that the loss of revenue (to the munici- pal government) occasioned by the fact that Washington is the National Cap- ital—a figure arrived at by estimating the tax on the excess of ordinary real property that is exempt from taxation here—amounted to $733,581, while ex- traordinary expenditures occasioned by the fact that this is the Capital amounted to $466,000, and the cost of excess park development, that rightly should be borne by the Federal Gov- ernment, amounted to $77,588. Not an Actual “Tax.” Of course, the Bureau of Efficiency did not propose that the Federal Gov- ernment would tax itself on its prop- erty here—an erroneous interpretation which proved confusing to some mem- bers of the House. The bureau merely attempted to reach some basis of esti- mating the amount that the Federal Government would contribute to the District if it occupied the status, in this city, occupied in comparable cities by large, dominant industries. The Citizens' Point of View. The Citizens' Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations Between the United States and the District of Columbia, in its petition and argument to Con- ess, has held that the correct fiscal relationship should be as defined in or- ganic law; but while the lump sum practice remains, the lump sum should be increased. It has taken the view that there is a special equitable obli- gation upon the Nation to maintain and develop the Capital, this national obligation being extraordinarily heavy under each of two heads: First, the obligation arising from the circum- stances of the creation of the Capital; second, the obligation that is coupled with and measured by the Nation’s ab- solute control of the Naton’s city. The true basis of the Nation's obli- gation of proportionate contribution toward the maintenance and develop- ment of the Capital, the citizens have argued, is not solely or primarily the un- taxed real estate, though a substantial and continuous obligation does arise in connection with such ownership, as pointed out by the Bureau of Efficiency. The strongest obligations, it has been contended, are equitable in their na- ture and based primarily on the cir- cumstances of the Capital's creation and the treatment of the Capital by the Nation ever since the birth of the city. Reasons for Increase. In the argument accompanying the | petition to Congress by the Citizens’ Joint Committee, the general and m-[ OueComtaDey Brings $100 a Month Over One-half Million Dollars Al- ready Paid in Cash Benefits. 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That existing substantive law au- thorizes increase of the $9,500,000 lumj sum payment up to an amount equal to 40 per cent of ‘the total sum car- rled by the bill if the appropriations subcommittee and committee wish to recommend it. . 2. That the amount of the annual Jump-sum payment should be increased in some roughly approximate relation to the increase of the District budget. If justice require the Nation to contribute so much when the District’s annual budget is so much, the same justice requires it to contribute more when the District budget is doubled. The practical suggestion is that the amount of the fixed payment should be read- justed if there is any notable increase in the National Capital's annual ex- penditure. An immediate increase of the basic lump-sum appropriation of $9,500,000, for example, would be in just relation to the steadily increasing current taxes and annual expenditures. Increase Specifically Lump Sum. 3. The amount of annual payment should be increased specifically in pro- There are several other National or semi-National projects which, as a re- sult of appropriations on the District bill to finance them with an inflexible lump sum National contribution, have been in effect paid for solely by District taxpayers. Included in this list are the appropriation of the accumulated sur- plus of local taxes, without any corre- sponding contribution of any kind or amount from the National Treasury, and the I[:gropfllllcm solely from local taxes of the money to complete the parkway connection between Potomac and Rock Creek Parks. Another threat of imposing an_exr-aditure, equitably National upon the local taxpayers, is found in the compulsory substitution of the new Municipal Center for the pres- zlt D.i‘.i!trh;! Buicl!dl.n& This substitution made in order that the munici buildings may harmonize in D‘E cence with the new National public structures and involves an additional expenditure of over twenty millions of dollars. It is submitted that this excess of expenditure on the Nation's City over that necessarily expended for a similar purpose in the comparable American commercial city cannot in equity be exacted to the extent of three-fourths or more from the taxpayers of the portion to National projects included | Dyistrict, in the District appropriation bill, ‘Whether or not there is a general re- adjustment of the lump-sum contribu- tion there should be specific increases in that sum representing in each year the placing in the District budget of primarily National projects which it is conceded should be paid for wholly or in part from the National Treasury, but which by inclusion in the District bill and under the lump-sum payment plan as practically applied are paid solely by the District taxpayers from current taxes. A separate and distinct increase of the basic $9,500,000 should be made to prevent Congress from violating its own statutory provisions that the Nation shall contribute in large and definite proportion to the appropriations for certain great National or semi-National projects, as for example the -%l:roprh- tion for expenditures under the juris- diction of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. The law provides in respect to appropriations for this confessedly National project that the Nation shall pay its definite propor- tion of total expenditure. If Congress makes appropriations for this National project without providing for National participation in the cost on the sixty- forty basis, which is the existing statu- tory ratio of substantive law, or by making pecific lump-sum increase of the hasic lump-sum appropriation in lieu of the definite proportion which the law directs, both the letter and the spirit of the law will be violated and the inequity will result of exacting en- tirely from the local taxpayers funds for a National project. ‘The annual appropriations of more than a million dollars a year, authorized as supplemental and extraordinary ex- penditures by the District of Columbia Park Commission law, are directed by the law itself to be paid “from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the general funds of the Treasury in the same proportion as other ex- penses of the District of Columbia.” ‘The current ratio is 60-40, fixed in the substantive law by the new organic act of 1922, and still unrepealed. The wholesale exceptions to the 60-40 ratio involved in the temporary lump-pay- ment plan of 1926 and other years merely suspend the substantive law of 1922 for the year during which the exceptions apply and do not repeal or permanently amend the substantive law. Add $400,000 to Basic Lump Sum. ‘The Park Commission law clearly contemplates (and provides) that the authorized annual appropriation of a million dollars shall be made, $600,000 from the District revenue and $400,000 from the National Treasury. If the District appropriations for any year ‘were to be made at the 60-40 ratio in accordance with existing substantive law, this apportionment of the parks expenditure would result automatically. But since, tentatively and for only the year, a lump-sum payment is to be| ot substituted for the National 40 per cent contribution, the Nation’s contribution of $400,000, or thereabouts, ought law- fully and equitably to be added specif- ically to the basic lump-sum payment. ‘The Park Commission appropriation is made unmistakably as a supplement to the current maintenance and de- velopment appropriation, with its 500,000 of lump-sum payment in ac- cordance with the original tentative precedent. If the 60-40 ratio is not applied to the whole appropriation and if the lump-sum payment is not in- creased as suggested, it is generally recognized that every cent of the Park Commission’s million dollars per year (or whatever pert of this amount is appropriated) will come from the District taxpayers. Congress will not permit any tenta- tive juggling with the ratio of National and local community contribution to- ward Capital development to throw the whole burden of Park Commission expenditure upon the local taxpayers. The law specifically forbids this Home Sites Rock Creek Hills Fronting 16th St. or Rock Creek Park R.E.Latimer 1601 Jonquil Street Georgia 1271 Cost of metal and other materials never so low. We are in a position to make special prices. Call Our Expert Phone Nat. 7403 Exclude National Projects. 4. I the lump-sum payment cannot be equitably increased to vide suitable National mrllellutlup:uh flnl'l‘: | cing these National or semi-National projects, then the Appropriations Com- mittee is asked to exercise its er to exclude these appropriations the District bill, where their inclusion re- sults in obvious inequity, and to finance them in some other supply bill, where the sharing of the expense, which the law or equity demands, can be speci- fically provided. And. finally, some action is asked 5. which will limit appropriations of Dis- trict money by Congress (the District’s legislature, in which it is not Tepre- sented) in the same way that Capital expenditures of National tax money are limited under the lump-sum yment plan. When the appropriations of local and National tax money for the Capital were by law and in practice in definite percentage relation, this limitation auto- matically resulted, and this check upon the appropriation of District tax money, unless accompanied by a related ex- penditure of National tax money, was :?;mmt‘l};n m:e derived by the District e def - Dation o proportionate contri: When for the latter plan, at the in- stance of the House appropriations cotmn- mittee, the Jump-sum payment plan was “#ntatively substituted, it was suggested that loss of this limitation upon Dis- trict expenditures and taxation ‘would be cured by permitting the District to participate so effectively in the raising and expenditure of its tax money that it could be extravagant or economical, as it pleased. But, fact, the District has no more to say about its taxation and the expenditure of its taxes un- der the lump-sum payment plan than under that of definite proportionate contribution. And under the inflexi- ble lump-sum payment plan Congress limits itself concerning e: on the Nation's city of t‘lx m‘;‘m tributed by the Nation, which it repre- sents, but removes the limit upon the raising and expenditure of the tax money by the District, which it does not represent and to which it is not at all responsible. And as a result we have appropriations from the District tax money abnormally swelling to meet whole-cost expenditures on National and semi-National projects. To prevent obvious injustice Congress should either (1) increase equitably the basic lump-sum payment, or (2) ex- clude great National or semi-National projects from the District bill and finance them on some other supply bill, so wording the items thus excluded as to set forth the exact method of financ- ing in relation to the amounts of con- tribution by Nation and Capitol that is thought to be ional maximum of contribution, or (4) by referendum or permit the local taxpayers to have some effective say in regard to the amonnt of local taxes and the pur- poses for which the tax money is te be expended. In appropriating and in legislating our legislators are urged to recognize by the wording of the law, and in con- John Drew | was a stage success from birth—while | the stage was set for Orienta’s success 47 years ago, and its fine performance has never varied. BROWNING & BAINES BAY STATE Covers more surface, wears more years than most paints Qt. 1 Floor & Deck Enamel 1. 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When the lump- sum payment plan was substituted ten- tatively for the 60-40 ratio this pledge was but it was that suggested an effective substitute for this pledge found in the declared determina- tax power to be extravagan economical, and to spend as much or little of their own tax money as they pleased. But Congress, in fact, limited its power to expend national tax money, and left undetermined the amount of local tax mone; that it could expend. And it has exercised this power without regard to the wishes of the taxpayers to raise and spend local taxes not only for strictly municipal purposes, but for semi-na- tional and primarily national projects. It is to correct this condition that Washington now urges the Appropria- tions Committees and Congress, either to abandon the lump-sum unjustly one- sided experiment, or to make the Na- tion's lump-sum contribution flexible and to increase it, or to permit the local taxpayers to have an effective voice in deciding how much they will raise in taxes and how they will spend the taxes when raised, or to restrict the kind and amount of appropriations on the Dis- trict appropriations bill, with the result of limiting arbitrarily the amount of the local contribution toward Capital up- building on the same lines as under the || lump-sum payment plan the national || contribution is limited. ‘INTERVENTION’ ROW ENDS RELATIONS OF MEXICO AND PERU || ued From Pirst Page.) accused the Communist Party of par- ticipation in the revolt. Among the documents seized in the raid, it was reported, was a letter from Victor Raul Haya de la Torres saying he had sent a communication into Peru in a Mexican diplomatic pouch. Supposed Letter Published. This supposed letter was printed by the newspaper El Comerci. Yesterday the same paper printed an article at- tributed to El Universal, a Mexico City newspaper, commenting on a statement made by the Peruvian Minister there and asserting that the Peruvian govern- ment had “charged the Mexican lega- tion (in Lima) as an accomplice in Communist maneuvers.” Minister Cabral sent a letter to El Comercio denying that any Mexican diplomatic pouch had been used for im- Pproper purposes. & It 'lg learned on good authority that the Mexican Minister and members of staff, each of whom had been de- clared no longer acceptable to Peru, left this morning by airplane for the North. 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