Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-07-15 | Page 11 | Gen. Obregon, President-Elect of Mexico, Has Wide First Hand Knowledge of United States

I Ge Gen Obregon President Elect Of Mexico Has Wide First Hand Knowledge of United St States tes Has Visited Northern Republic Republic Re- Re public Often Has Many Here HereBy By CLARENCE Chief of Associated Press Bureau Mexico City MEXICO XICO CITY July 14 AP- AP Mexico's presIdent elect General aro Alvaro Obregon has hai an extensive hand ot of the United States I Ho lies has been there thele more and has had more contacts with sith AmerIcans in their homeland than any other othel presIdent of This acquaint ance with the neighboring nation and with it its citizens ns as individuals Is expected to have an bearing upon the offIcIal relatIons ot of the countrIes President Call CalI s has haa had some lose close American cOntacts too He has an American law eon Thomas Thom Thom- as A. A Robinson ho was wita born In Michigan flew for France studied nt at Columbia lived In New York came to Mexico CIty went vent Into bUsiness and married the presidents president's dents dent's daughter Ernestina Canes Calles And no Ito president ot of Mexico has ever had relations with an American ambassador th than n Canes Calles has had hd with Morrow F nce th they Y first together on hAm and eggs KNOWS COLONEL WELL The president president to to- to tobe be calls the American military att SandY Everybody who knows Colonel Alexander Alex Alex- ander McNab 1 very velY we calls him himS S Sandy ObregOn h has S known thi th colonel tot for years They were pals paIs palson paIson on the bord border r when McNab was stationed at t close to Obre- Obre guns gun's MexIcan home It if ever before a presIdent ot of Mexico was thick enough with a a. United State Stat ll tary to him Sandy histOry has lost all aU r record cord of it ObregOn who Was elected July 1 to take office December 1 for a. a year six Mr term slI Calles also preceded Calles in office ottice having bar hav- hug ing been beel president from 1120 to 1924 He is b th the only mail mati since h Porfirio Diaz Dia who wa was dictator thirty years year to b be tWice elected I pre president of Mexico ONCE TAUGHT SCHOOL Obregon is a 3 soldier r arner poet business SS man hiat ri ri essayist In youth he was a a. day laborer labor r and tL a hired hand on a tarm Like Calles he was once a co country school teach teacher r. r He was II a poor boy bor th the youngest of Ii a family of eighteen children and greW up In the village G ot of If Huatabampo Huata- Huata state Pf of Sonora He Is n a made self man in every way Hc Be educated d while doing mah- mah ual labor for I ICes ss than 50 0 cents a day H He made himself a a. soldier and one of the best Meio has known He has gained a comfortable comfort comfort- able abIe store of the wOrlds wOrld's goods goodli Is probably the biggest farmer in the country and 1 Is a political second to none In hl hi l land nd One of his close Amerl American an friends Is Harry Chandler publisher Gf f the Los Angeles eles Times They lave have been associated ted together ire in busi- busi ness At different times when In Inthe inthe the United StateS Obregon talked with Pre President Wilson and ith varIous va va- rIous Washington officIals l During the World war Obregon in Washington Wash Wash- Ington to discuss discus Import arid export ex- ex port restrictions as they affected Mexico conferred a good deal with Herbert Hoover and hC hM publicly expressed bis admiration of him MADE OFFICIAL VISIT When Obregon was President s 's secretary or of war he vis- vis l ltd tM the United State Stat S lany Brig Brigadier dIer General Frank McCoy then United St States tes In Mexico Cl y was assigned to act as his tIde aide during the tour General Obregon vIsited United States training camps munitions factories and shipyards and received received re- re a a. revIew at West PoInt b being be- be Ing one of the few ns' ns who have had that dIstinction General Obregon and Am F s 4 dor dol Morrow have met frequently and there ther is reason to believe their relations personal and official will wUl willbe be cloSe and cordIal after Obregon Is presIdent Obregon has a a. reputatIon for personal per per- bravery which he has hils lived up to on many occasIons He h has s been wound wounded d s several veral times Umes ire In ac ac- thin lost an jn In battle 8 and nd attempts attempts at- at tempts to assassinate him have been made mad several times He dislikes beIng guarded It Is whispered that ho is' is always armed that he can pull his pistol a as quickly with his left hand as h he could with the right that was shot away ay RAILROAD STORY Railroad m men n love to tell tall of an n occurrence when Obregon before becoming president the first tIme had reaSOn to believe hIs life Was In danger W was s in MexIco City agaInst the advice of his closest frIends Enemies were determined d t tir kin kill him Escape seemed ethIc sIble ObregOn put on overalls and ande e workmans workman's cap borrow borrowed d a 0 brakeman's brakeman's brake brake- mans man's lantern sauntered to the railroad rail rail- road yards boarded a freight as ason on One of the creW and calmly rode away When he returned to the capital he was 5 virtually ruler of M Mexico xIco and he was still stUl we wearing rIng the same sam overalls The brakemen him an honorary m member of their union the story so Intrigued intrigued In- In the late Samuel Gompers that the American l labor bor lea lend r sought Obregon's Obregon acquaintance and they became dose close friends and continued continued con con- s so until Gompes Gompers' death While Obregon was riding along the prIncipal avenue Of f MexIco CIty when he r recognized Upon the sidewalk a notorious and desperate criminal who w was s beIng sought by the police pollee The president stopped his walked over and per perSonally arrested the tho cut cut- o t t. t who seemed too awe awed to resIst took hIm on to the national turned hIm over to 0 the police RODE WITH LINDY Obregon took hIs first airplane t ride with Lindbergh when the fa- fa flier mer was here last December It It wasn't as exciting as I expected expect expect- ed cd h ho commented G General Obregon's wile wife ha has a spirit no lees resolute th than n her husbands buS hus- bands When The United d States hiter- hiter in seemed t threatened threat threat- en ened d under presidency Obregon then secretary of War was wasat I at El Paso conferrIng with Generals Scott and ncI Funston of the United army A committee of Mexican Mexican Mex- Mex ican women asked Mrs l ObrEgon to joIn them In prayer that intervention intervention tion b be avoided She refUsed When hen ask asked d wily why she said r I do not want even God to See see me afraid