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Show CLOSEUP OF CUBA'S NEW PRESIDENT Bj t.Kiir.i.i: it W IlTKJIS , s(arf Correspondent. WASHiNOTOlrf, Iec. 7. Cuba ha-s jur.t elected . real president, probably the uitie republic's greatest and most faf-seelng stitebm'an, and ccrtaihTy on of the niOMi pre-eminent figures in. Cuban public life. The new president of Cuba is Dr. Alfredo Zayas.' th'N J-l J-l : r an of the West Indies, the dyed-ln-lhe-hldc Liberal leader, the father of the sect and the founder of the Liberal creed in i tuba. But the funny part about Zayas election, he didn't run on the Liberal party ticket, the party he founded but was the national league party's candidate can-didate Jose Miguel Gomez, who twi-e headed a revolution against the estah lishfd I'uhan government, ran on tho Liberal tiekot. Dr. Zayas had been de-fcated de-fcated on it in llilJ and 16. PU I Z V s IN R VCE. Alarm Mi-noi ;il m.v. president feared fear-ed Gomes would be elected, so he selected se-lected Zayas. whom he beat foi the office fmn e:ii" ago. to run against Oomo-.'.. Mans of the Liberals followed fol-lowed Dr. Zayas into the Conservative ranks, formings coalition party, which was railed the National league Cuba held her election November 1. and thr- new president tnke otfb May 20. It Is believed Dr. Zayas will bring about reforms In Cuba that will mako the little island's government a more tnorough-gon -republic. However, his election was about as hiR a surprise In Cuba as was the Republican abnormal landslide land-slide in the United States, as ev -erybodv was predicting that Cubans Cu-bans wanted a change and thut Gtimes would sweep tho island. The new president was bom in Havana Ha-vana February 81j 1 S 6 J . At the age of 21 h- b.ni alreadv the degree of doctor of phllOSOphl The son of a prominent lawyer Lt. Za.vas became a lawyer During Cuba's second war fin mik-pi-mUm r- it bo ono that America Amer-ica won foi- her). Dr. Zayas served 'as a di legato of the revolutionary part In Havana, was imprisoned by Spain asujtomJWKrtMMPsF' matt. m Dk.A.ZAr? S and sent to Ceuta. a Spanish fortress on the African coast. H 1TOR M WRITER. He is a noted orator and writer. H" Is also a poet, and has published many I books, Including a history of Cuba. When independence was declared, Dr Zayas was named lleutenant-ma-vor of Havana, he was elected delegate dele-gate to the constitutional convention in 1901, later became senator from HanSva and served as president of senate and for two years prior to 1911 he was vice president of the republic He resigned to run for president In 1912. Dr Zayas has .been married twice and has four child I n Major General Francisco Cai rlllo, j has been elected t 'li president, |