"Foul Purpose"

Looking pale and slightly shattered after the worst Atlantic storm in 50 years. Plutarco Elias Calles, onetime president, most potent of Mexicans, stepped from the Bremen to Brooklyn last week, was welcomed by 50 Mexican officials including Manuel C. Tellez, Mexican Ambassador to Washington, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Mexico's President-elect. An unexpected damper to the official welcome was the announced intention of one John A. Vails, District Attorney of Laredo, Tex., to arrest Senor Calles for the murder seven years ago of two Mexican officers whose bodies, handcuffed together, were found floating in the Rio Grande. Wires from the State Department hastily announced that ex-President Calles had a U. S. diplomatic passport, could claim immunity. In Laredo, District Attorney Vails was unappeased.

"No amount of evidence will convince me," said he, "that my government would deliberately invest with diplomatic immunity a fugitive from justice for the foul purpose of enabling him to evade arrest."

To counteract untactful Attorney Vails., Laredo businessmen held an official welcome for Senor Calles when he passed through their city on his return to Mexico.

In Manhattan, President-elect Rubio was lunched by Morgan-Partner Thomas W. Lament and United Pressman Karl A. Bickel, conferred with Mayor Walker, Police Commissioner Whalen.

"We Mexicans," said he at a luncheon of the Mexican Chamber of Commerce "those of us who love the United States know that this is the school for Mexicans."

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