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Show NOW ARRANGING -. FORJLS. FUNDS GEN. CANTU SAYS THAT LOWER CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BE SOLD TO UNITED STATES Oppohents of Obregon Regime Plan" to' ; Strlko In Lower California As Governor Ybarra r' Quits Office , ' :," El jCcntro, Cul'.-'-Gcnoral Es'tnbntl Cantu, former governor of Lower California Cali-fornia Is In New York arranging flnurir clal backing for-n now; rqvoljjtlon ngulnst tlio Obregon ,govcrniiit, According Ac-cording to his. nsspclatcs Jiero Thurs- uay. "The rcvolntlon," Is tnlkcd constant-:ly-Jn Mexican. Th'c present goyernoi', .Eplgmclo Ybarra, nas'ketnhe-Vob'eTs5 down because of personal popularity. lA when he leaves office- the storm, It ,ls .expected, avIH break. Ybnrnv went to Enscnda' Thursday to confon xvU federal officials regarding tho situation. situa-tion. He will dopart for Mexico .Cjji; (is soon as Jobc Lugo, Hie npw, .governor, .gover-nor, arrives at Mcxlcnll to replace'hlni. if Cantu can get tho money Clicking' he Is nftor, lie plans to have the' re-liolllon re-liolllon sweep over nil Baja California,' Sonorn and other northern states, until un-til It can extend southvnrtl and; drive Obregon out of Moxloo City. Sonorn and lower California are much favored by revolutionaries as cfnfrvti In wlitrli tn st.irt 1-nVOllltloilS. The now governor, formerly nn un-dor un-dor sccrotary of the department of tlie Interior In Mexico City, Is unknown to the pconlo of the Northwest and Cantu figures on launching his blow before tho now executive has fairly taken hold of tho reins of office. Much mystery surrounds tho Iden. tlty of tho financial Interosts which are roported to bo bncklng Cantu. "Cantu would like to be a big man, but he's not," Governor Ybarra said just before leaving for Enscumln. "He is known to ,10,000 Mexicans In this area, but 15,000.000 outside never heard of him." Asked whether Mexico would sell Lower California to the United States, Ybarra replied : "Would you soil Florida Flori-da to Mexico?" |