Natalia Into Wife

Senorita Natalia Calles, daughter of President Plutarco Elias Calles is a devout Roman Catholic. So is her dashing sister, Ernestine (TIME, July 26). So is their mother. But President Calles has said: "No influence, national or international, including the grunts of the Pope, will cause the [Mexican] Government to vary its attitude [toward suppressing the Catholic clergy]."

Therefore, the Calles womenfolk were in a delicate position, last week, on the eve of Senorita Natalia's wedding to Senor Carlos Herrera, a minor government official. Would big, burly Papa Calles insist that his daughter should have only a civil marriage, demand that she live out of wedlock in the eyes of Roman Catholics?

Papa-President Calles resisted tears, supplications. Senorita Natalia Calles was united in wedlock exclusively by the Mexican civil power. Then, on separate trains, the bride and bridegroom sped to San Antonio, Tex. At Mexico City the Papa-President clamped down his censorship, forbade Mexicans to print that at San Antonio a Mexican bride and groom achieved union through the Holy Roman Catholic Church.