The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 25, 1929, Page 10

\ ~ FEDERAL ASSAULTS ‘Bloody’ Fighting in Third Day Finds Religious Insur- gents Still Alive ARE OUTNUMBERED 5 TO 1 Calles Offers Safe Conduct to Those Who Surrender, Death to Tenacious Mexico City, April = 25.—(?)— “Bloody” fighting between 1,000 so- called religious rebels and the feder- al army of General Saturnino Cedillo at Tepatitlan, Jalisco, was believed still in progress today after three days conflict. Shouting their battle cry, “Vive Cristo rey”—“long live Christ king” —the beleaguered rebel force was said not only to have repulsed feder- al attacks with hand to hand and bayonet fighting, but to have inflict- ed reverses on the government troops. General Cedillo, charged by Gen- eral Calles with “extermination” of the “Cristeros"—as the government terms the rebels—was quoted as ex- pressing confidence his superior num- bers-and better equipment would prevail in the end and that he would invest the town. He had 5,000 soldiers at his command. Calles Offers Peace News of the encounter came almost simultaneously with advices of a peace offer on his part, declaring a 20 day truce in the region affected by the so-called religious rebellion dur- ing which safe conduct to homes was guaranteed those who surrendered and relentless persecution promised the more tenacious. A proclamation by General Cedillo ‘said: “My soldiers’ right arms are cloaked with iron with which to de- stroy you, but their left arms, the arms of the ‘heart, are cloaked in white with which to pardon you.” Dispatches to La Prensa from Guadalajara offered the most com- prehensive accounts of the battle at ‘Tepatitlan. The dispatches said there had been numerous casualties. Huerta Follower Leads General Enrique Goroztieta, grad- uate of Chapultepec military acad- emy, Mexico's West Point, and form- er high officer in the army of Presi- dent Victoriano Huerta, was at the head of the rebels. He joined the “Cristeros” about two years ago. La Prensa dispatches described the battle as “bloody” and the fighting as most bitter. So heated had been the conflict at times that federals were forced to withdraw to some dis- tance from the town to reorganize their forces. The civilian population of the city were unable to leave and were confined principally in one of its most exposed sections. ‘The rebel force was said to be in contro! of strategical points”: near ‘Tepatitlan, which is only 50 miles east of Guadalajara, second city of Mexico, and about 35 miles west of Arandas, General Cedillo's headquar- York; Julian Codman, Boston; Col. New York, April 25.—(NEA)—As @ protest against convictions under the new Jones law, a group of lawyers By HORTENSE SAUNDERS ! H. T. Kingsbury, New York. the supporters of the outlawed bever- age liquor traffic are resorting to methods which, to put it very mildly, here has organized a Personal Liberty !are highly unethical.” Committee offering free legal serv- under the law.” The attorneys propose to fight this measure with the same vigor as was | displayed in the ‘50's in the case of the fugitive slave law, after the Dred Scott decision, Frederic R. Coudert, Jr., chairman of the committee de- | clared. “Since the sale of a glass of beer has been raised to the dignity of a felony,” he said, “carrying penalties similar to those provided in this state for assault and manslaughter, it was thought wise to form a committee to assist those who have done nothing condemned by civilized society and who might be subject to such severe punishment. To Restrict Services “We do not intend to offer our services for the aid-of the man who. is a wealthy wholesaler of liquor, or club, or to the fellow selling dena- tured alcohol, but we are going to fight to the limit for the poor devil who is in danger of five years impris- onment for putting a drink across the bar.” On the committee are seven for- mer government prosecutors of the Southern District of New York, who are ready to defend at their own ex- pense persons accused of violating the Jones Act. These are: Coudert, Frederic C. Bellinger, Edward Lum- bard, Carl Newton, Charles L. Sylves- ters. 2 Dig Own Graves Mexico City papers today published accounts of another occurrence in the affected - area. Dispatches said a band of 30 rebels led by Jose Guad- slupe Lopez captured an auto truck ‘with a chauffeur and three workmen near Dolores-Hidalgo, Guanajuato. A court-martial convicted the men of “stealing grain from small farms.” After being forced to dig a grave for themselves, they were stood beside it and executed. Fighting was believed already in progress in Sonora, where cavalry and infantry ‘columns of three federal generals, Lazaro Cardenas, Tala- mentes, and Jaime Carillo, were en- gaged in a movement against rebels extrenched at Masaica. Delayed dis- patches relating some delay in get- ting the movement under way re- Meved somewhat the Chapultepec castle tension which had arisen when nothing was heard from the conflict. The Old Soak’ Has | -|- ‘Wild Time’ on Eve | 4 Of Leaving Manila | Manila, April 25—()—“The Old Soak,” Secretary Stimson’s Chinese parrot, sailed. aboard the home in Washington, Nick Kaminiski, the Old Soak's @aretaker, declared the accomplished bird had a “wild time” the night be- fore his departure, destroying con- aiderable furniture at Malacanan Palace, the governor's residence, The looked positively sad and with several Chinese - 5 Hi i i é ter and Kenneth F. Simpson. Many other lawyers have volunteered their services. ‘The Personal Liberty Committee is @ local departure from the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers, Inc., formed for the repeal ‘of the Eighteenth Amendment. That organization has representatives in all sections of the country. Carry Drive to Other Cities The voluntary committee of law- yers plans to carry its enforcement acts right into the heart of the dry territories, according to George Wes- tervelt, secretary of the committee, who said that he was in communica- tion with leading lawyers of Kansas City, Oklahoma City and Indianapolis at the present. Similar committees have been formed in Buffalo, Balti- more, Washington, Cleveland and Newark. Julian Codman and Alexander Lin- coln of Boston have a committee un-. der organization which includes C, 8. Rackmann, W. K. Richardson, Sam- uel Hoar, and Richard Story. James H. Winston and Mitchell D. Follansbee are forming a committee in Chicago, and W. W. Montgomery, partner of Owen Roberts who repre- sented the United States in the Tea- pot Dome and Elks Hills cases, is forming # committee in Philadelphia. High officials in charge of prohibi- tion enforcement are surprised and not a little grieved to hear that some attorneys are uniting against the ‘Strange,’ Says Dry Chief “I gather that the purpose of this very strange thing for a grou nah ee : ideal “ ® direct reflection y) Judges, because penalties under "the Jones law are entirely up to them. 4 Judge doesn’t nieed to give an offender more than $1 fine or @ day in jail. I yar cannes uraue a fanatical course.” ma set, ay Sema manasa: BALLOT RECOUNT IS FINISHED FOR TRIAL Battle Over General Election Results In Divide County ts Launched Crosby, N. D., April 25.—(4)—A re- count of the ballots cast in Divide county for candidates for state's at- torney, official newspaper, and county commissioners in the general election | last November has been completed in the election contest hearing now un- der way here and the introduction of testimony has been started. The plaintiffs have charged that to the proprietor of any disreputable | the defendants are guilty of violating the corrupt practices act, and testi- mony which is being offered before Judge Thomas H. Pugh of Dickinson pertains to this feature of the case. The recount resulted in slight gains for the defendants, due mostly to the fact that unstamped absent voters’ ballots, the majority of which had been cast for the plaintiffs, were not included in ,the tally. ’ The contests were brought by George P. Homnes against E. J. Mc- llrath for state's attorney, Divide County Journal against the®Divide County Farmers Press for official newspaper, and C. J. Clark against C. F. Bissonnette for county commis- sioner, CITY ELECTION AT MINOT CONTESTED Minot, N. D., April 25.—(?)—An ac- tion contesting the election of A. H. Kurth as city commissioner at the re- cent city election has been started by Bart Carroll, whom the official can- vass showed to be defeated by a mar- gin of 30 votes. Acting under an order obtained in | district court by F. J. Funke, counsel for Carroll, Sheriff W. E. Slaybaugh today took charge of the ballots and Poll books used at the election and impounded them in the office of the clerk of the district court. Carroll alleges that he received more votes than Kurth but that mis- takes in counting them made the. total for Kurth larger than was re- ported for him. Under the order obtained from Judge John C. Lowe the ballots and poll books are to remain in the cus- tody of the clerk of district court until the case is disposed of. The United States has 406 cities under the city manager plan of gov- ernment. Incubator Baby Here are some of the men prominently connected with the newly org anized Personal Liberty Committee, a nation-wide organization of attor neys who seek to protect the lesser of fenders under the Jones liquor law. At the right is Frederic R. Coudert, J r., of New York, chairman of the co mmittec. Next are Carl Newton, New SUSPENSION OF RATE ON POTATOES ASKED North Dakota Intends to Show New Tariffs Will Do More Harm Than Good Fargo, N. D., April 25.—(?)—Sus- pension of proposed increases in the freight rates on potatoes from the Red River Valley to points in south- western states and to eastern and central states and to eastern and central states which would be effec- tive May 19 under tariffs recently filed by the railroads is to be asked of the interstate commerce commission in a joint petition to be submitted by the North Dakota board of railroad commissioners, the Greater Grand Forks Traffic association and the Fargo Chamber of Commerce. This announcement was made here today by N. E. Williams, traffic com- missioner of the Fargo organization. Ben Rath, traffic expert for Leon- ard, Crossett and Riley, Moorhead Potato dealers, also announced that he would ask for suspension in a separate petition. “These proposed rate’ increases’ were the result of an order of the. interstate commerce. commission which was intended to bring relief from the present rates,” Williams said. T. A. Durant, traffic commissioner of the Greater Grand Forks Traffic association, declared recently that he Proposes to state to the interstate commerce commission, in asking for suspension, that the carriers, in pub- lishing the new tariffs “have violated the fourth section of the interstate. commerce act.” Williams, Durant and E. M. Hen- dricks, traffic expert of the state railroad board, are preparing exhibits to show that the new tariffs would increase potato rates in many specific instances. 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