Show Q MEXICO TO m HA HAVE Vf DRY PRESIDENT I If ml HS P POST SI Minister of Interior Looms Looms Looms' as Successor to Calles CallesIS IS FRIENDLY TO U. U S. S Favors Enc Encouraging of Fore gi Investment By CLARENCE DUBOSE Associated Press Correspondent MEXICO CITY Sept 20 AP-A AP prohibitionist baseball fan and friend of the United States will be president of Mexico if Emilio Portes Gil who is among those strongly suggested to succeed Calles De Dc- cember 1 is selected by congress as provisional president Portes Gil pronounced heel Is Isa Isa a close friend of Calles Calies He Is a civilian a lawyer and since 1925 has been governor of the state ot of lie JIe recently became became be- be came minister ot of Interior In- In tenor in Calles' Calles cabinet OPPOSES GAMBLING lie He Is an enemy or of gambling and does docs not smoke or drInk Intoxicants Intoxicant He supports end and may ma- ma mabe be expected to continue It if he Is provisional president Calles' Calles pOlicies on all im- im questions His attitude on the religious question is The laws ot of the country must be enforced That Is the way Calles has defined his own attitude Portes GU Gil favors encouraging foreign for for- eln eign investments ju In Mexico but upon tho same terms Calles has pr prescribed scribed which In effect are that foreign capital must conic ome to M x- x lc not to the the- country and andi i 1 O pl ul to l te to harmoniously to obey Mexican laws and not to expect special that MexIcans themselves do not have Portes Gil advocates International good will and friendly Mexican Mexican- United States relations He has let It be known that lie he would be willing to go hat half way tray to meet Morrow in amicable adjUstments adjustments ad- ad of issues and in maintenance maintenance nance ot of frIendshIp between the two countries Meeting anYbody halt half way tray Is one ot of the best things the ambassador does It Is one ot of his Specialties so it would seem that the Morrow good will teamwork teamwork team team- work may continue it if the principals are Morrow Fortes GU Gil Portes ell Gil is a stock stocky man of sturdy frame and strong face a Student and considered unusually welt ell versed In the law At the At-the the same I time Lime he I Is an outdoor man and a aI devotee of sports He arises at 5 I Continued 0 on page 6 S MEXICO DRY PRESIDENT i IF GIL GETS POST j 1 2 Continued from page 1 O'clock most mornings rarely rarely later than 6 and walking horseback horseback horse horse- back riding or swImming lIe He loves baseball I which he learned on the Texas border and does everything I b he can offIcIally and personally to encourage all outdoor sports I i t Although as governor ot of pas lie be established Partial ion Hon in that state stat he does not Ind Indulge In- In d the dream of making Mexico dr dry because ho he is it would would- be a quixotic undertaking Impossible now of accomplishment I c What he did in was to close all in villages and k in the countr country Saloons continued open in towns and cities because public sentiment in the centers was against prohibition Portes Gil is a realist He accepted the situation Since all aIt he could do was to close z cantinas cantin as that was all he tried to do S t Also he stopped everywhere in the state the open Operation o of gambling gam- gam bUng bling houses He increased the number ot of schools In Tamaulipas and established a supported state Industrial for children the first In Mexico It cost pesos and has capacity for chil- chil dren He founded a state agricultural agri- agri cultural school and had enacted legislation leg leg- intended to improve living JivIng S and arni working working- conditions of Indus Indus- trial yes yes' arid and t to promote the government distribution ot of land to small farmers ELECTED IN 1924 Portes Gil was born n n Ciudad Victoria capital of Tamaulipas as a's in 1891 Ho He is matrid an and has one child He was elected t to the the na- na congress In 1917 1911 and served four terms In 1920 he was provisional provi provi- ot of for six months In 1924 h he was as elected governor for a four year tern terni He has several times held legal posts in In the war department and was an the department of 01 justice of the state ot of Sonora while Calles was governor governor- ot of that state He has been a member o the board I ot of directors ot of the n National National Na Na- I railways |