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I could arragge for a permit to carry a gun after I
get the guns in the custody of the Customs. I will
get the permit at the Ministerio Gubernacion. I

now have the entire chain-vef commands diracted

toward the customs at the central clearing house at
Guatamala City. Now, if the guns were taken out of the
car at Barrios, I will have to reorsanize my requests
and probably have to make another trip to Barrios toa
get the guns in "hock' again so that they can be
delivered to the central clearing house in Guatamala
City. Next time I will bring a flipper.

This PeMe met Jon Ae Ibarra, Director useo
de Zoologia'y Historie Natural. He informs me he
could have handled the entire matter of customs had
he known I was coming. Ibarra is a very interesting
man and is, I beleive, sincerely interested in his
Work-he cones from a long line of Ibarra naturalists
He is not paid enough to live on and mst work besides.
He receives ~100.00 a month to operate the Museum.
His -mseum techniques are-compared to KU., very crude
With no budget, the needs of the institution can not
be met. His technique is at least 50 years behind that
of K.U. Most of his publications are newspaper art
icles and a few in magazines~all-are pasted in a scrap-
book, was surprised to see about’ a foot in length of
reprints from the sluseum of Nat. Histe, KU. He said
the suseum had been very kind in sending them to him.
if Hall can arrange for a scholarship for Ibarra, KU.
will benefit from the contact with this man and better
relations with his country. He has a wife and two
children ( 1-1/2 years and one but a few months.) He
was telling me of a ilark Ryan and wife from the U.S.
They called June-July and asked for work with the Museum
Of course Ibarra had no funds with which to pay help.
These two wanted 44,000 a year to collect mammals and
were going to get it or else. These two, he says, were
discovered to be communists and while the CG were in
power were trying to get Ibarro's joh. The Ryans
falsified a check for about $2,000 and during the over
throw of the GC. they disappeared with them.

Ibarra tells me of reports of two mammals,
living in caves, which do not have eyes-not bats.
these undoubtedly are exagerations and 8 product of
the imagination, tho will investigate. Ibarra has
several friends that he could make arrangements with
to accompany me to their habitats.

by-the-way, this morning 1 went over to the
office of dr. A.L.Bump who is the President of the
United Fruit So.-ahem ! and we had a chit-chat. His
Secretarie's boy friend is or had attended K.U.- a
ir. Cox-played basketball. I went to see Bump to @b-
tain authorization to collect on the United Fruit Co's
piantation-they own practically everything in tillable