MEXICO: Morrow’s Good Name

In Mexico City, Lieut. Joaquin Garcia Bolanos of the Mexican air force died last week defending the good names of President Portes Gil and U. S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow. Returning home late at night, Lieutenant Bolanos saw some rough-looking men pasting up posters insulting to the President and the Ambassador. Lieutenant Bolanos went home and told his father. They returned to the scene, remonstrated. Aviator Bolanos rushed forward and attempted to wrest the offensive posters from one of the men. The billsticker drew a pistol and shot him dead. Despite the sacrifice of Aviator Bolanos, police next morning discovered hundreds of insults to Ambassador Morrow pasted about the city.

Meanwhile the Mexican revolution (TIME, March 11 et seq.) was rapidly petering out. The diminished rebel army under General José Gonzalo Escobar retained control of only one state, Sonora. Federal General Juan Andreu Almazan was collecting an army of 10,000 men to complete the mopping up.