Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1923, Page 4

FACTIONS ARRAYED FOR 1924 BATILE President’'s “Silent Com- mand” Masters Republican Situation. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Presidential battle lines for 1924 are now drawn. Contending forces face themselves in definite fighting array. The week just ended in Wash- ington clears the air In every impor- ant direction. Calvin Coolidge is out in tthe open; Hiram Johnson has chosen his issues; preconvention cam- paign managers on both sides are an- nounced; the tumult and the shouting may now begin, At the capital there has not been for four vears so significant a gath- ering of republican leaders from the four corners of the republic. The juxtaposition of the opening of Con- gress, the midwinter Gridiron Club dinner and the meeting of the repub- lican national committee was respon- sible for it. Among many facts of paramount bearing on the 1924 cam- _paign one stands out like Mars at perihelion. That 1§ the “silent com- mand” which Calvin Coolidge has taken of the republican party and its mechanieal organization. A - week ago Mr. Coolidge, while the titular leader of his party and an all but declared aspirant for its presidential nomination, was yet unknown equation. He had kept silence. He had maintained a masterly inactivity. He had made no moves on the G. O. P. chessboard. Todav. ~Savgb wo public word on the subyect has escaped him, President Coolldge is the indisputable master of the situation. Politicians recall no instance in which power was seized more unostentatiously, yet firmly, than the manner in which the scepter has been grasped by the un- dramatic man from Massachusetts, Power Stuns Upham. = “Now it can be told,” the Coolidge influence emerged with positiveness in connection with the selection of the convention city. Nobody was more stunned by its manifestation in that form than Fred W. Upham of Chi- £0, republican national treasurer. Upham had the committee votes amply in hand to send the convention to Chicago. In effect, the “Colldge —not the President him- alled upon Upham to stand and deliver. He did so unreservedly, in the spirit of organization lovalty. It was the less difficult for him to sur- render, because many national com- “for Upham" rather £0." High hotel rates erable number of them Chicago was getting to have rable monopoly of conven- They were glad to have a justification for supporting Cleveland's ambitions. But the point was that the “Coolidge leadership” had but to make a gesture, and the powerful, “hard-bolled” organization nstituting the national committee yielded handsomely. 1t showed the President’s friends that he is a com- manding figure among the responsible republican leaders of the country— the men who must organize victory in 1924, Noses Carefully Counted. Mr. Coolidge's supporters counted mnoses pretty carefully during the great gathering of the republican clans in Washfngton. Their author- ized spokesmem assure this writer that, while they are not already clalming assured victory over John- son, they belleve conditions are fa- vorable to the President in the utmost degree. They estimate that of forty eight national committeemen, except- ing the five from the territories, not fewer than forty-two or three can be counted for Coolldge. These men speak for the republican party of their states. They are the leaders of leaders. They brought tidings that the President’s conduct since he took office in August has been satisfactory to the rank and file of republican an tions. proper voters, and that his message to Con- | sress capped the sheaf of the good fmpressions he has been making. Coolidge leaders don’t underesti- mate the importance of Hiram John- son’s rivalry. They affect to feel no fear of the issues he chosen for himself—the bonus, the anti-world court argument, the opposition to the administration’s Buropean policy in connection with reparations, and the increase in _southern republican dele- gations. Coolidge partisans recog- nize Johnson's talents as a cam- paigner. They know his genius for capitalizing _discontent. They say there's no_ politician in America so @capable of “dressing a skeleton of an Issue with flesh.” They are aware of Johnson's appeal, as a westerner, to western vote among whom ‘lh(‘ most unrest over existing political and economic conditions exists. But, admitting all of these apparent John- son assets, they believe the Coolidge cause is safe. Opposite In Johnson Camp. In the Johnson camp, of course, atametrically opposite views prevail. One of the Californian’s official mouthpieces outlined them frankly to this writer. “People should not be deceived,” he sald, “by events of the week in Washington. between President Coolldge and Sen- ator Johnson will not be fought out in such an arena or such an atmos- phere as the meeting of the national committee presented. There sat men who, if not actually members of th® administration, are dependent upon the administration for political fa- vors and political existence. Among such men, naturally, Coolidge senti- ment is strong and overwhelming. But Hiram Johnson's chances lie not among these. They -lie among the plain people, remote from Washing- ten, who are not lulled by the as- surance that all's for the best in this best of all republican worlds. Johnson's Fleld of Action. “Hiram Johnson will not seek his fortunes for 1924 in the circles which are content with things as they are— the bigger business interests that for obvious reasons don’t want things disturbed. He will ask support out there where the dissatisfaction and distrust begin. Anybody who has crossed the country, east and west, north and south, knows where those regions are. They are far more nu- merous than the President's support- ers suspect. In them there is the dormant feeling that the east's grip is fastened too firmly on the affairs of national government; that the ather sections of the country haven't quite a square deal. Men and women in those sections think Hiram John- son will right some of those wrongs. To them his appeal mainly will be directed. Johnson's fulminations against the granting of greater convention strength to the “negro south” are found inconsistent by other repub- lican leaders. They declare he must know that it is mainly with regard to conditions in northern states—like New York, Pennsylvania, Ohlo, Ii diana and Illinois, to which there have been enormous migration of southern negroes—that the repub- lican national committee acted. .Had the southern negro republicans not been propitiated republican candi- dates of whatever name would have suffered, leaders say, and Johnson with them, In the northern regions, where tha .colored vote is now a Tactor. * (Copyright, 1923.) 5 The contest | 200 Workers Begin Campaign Washington's part in the campaign to raise $10,000,000 to complete the national Cathedral was launched form- ally at a dinner of the local campaign workers, held last night at the New Willard Hotel, when the project was hailed not as a bullding, merely, but as an enterprise which has in it “the germ of salvation of the life of this republ Today 200 campaign workers, who last night heard inspirational addresses, {are beginning the task of visiting per- sons throughout the city, in the cam- vaign to obtain the District's quota toward the completion of the great structure on Wisconsin avenue. The campaign here ends December 24. Visions of the completed cathedral, and the part it will piay in the life of the nation, espectally in its abllity to forward a revival of Christian faith in the United States, were given in words at the dinner by Senator George Whar- ton Pepper of Perhsylvania, natlonal chalrman ; John Hays Hammond, chair- man of the Washington committee; Rt. Rev. James E. Freeman, bishop of the Fplscopal diocese of Washington, and Newbold Noyes, local campaign man- a You will project the greatest re- liglous awakening in the history of this country,” Bishop Freeman de- red in the course of his address sending the workers forth on the project to which he has dedicated himself. World Needs Fuith, It is a growing conviction, Bishop Freeman sald, that no matter what legisiation may or may not do, the supreme need of the world today is a revival of the things of the Christian faith. There {s mighty little light on #=e horizon for Christian civilization “unless we can provoke a revival of sane religlon among the people,” he said. “Look to it that you exhaust the last energy you have to make DO sible this stupendoys undertaking, Bishop Freeman declared. “I dedi- cate all that I hawe to this under- taking, not for the glory of a single church, but because I belleve you have (o focus the thought of the nation’ on an undertaking such as this.” Bishop Freeman said that if religion is taken out of life life be- comes chaotie. Restore true religious conviction, he stated, and all other things wiil take care of themselves. Senator Pepper declared that “thers is nothing we need in American life more than the spirit of serenity.” Unless a man is serene when the clouds gather, he continued, he is not living up to the stature of his man- hood. This came to him, he said, as he completed. in his imagination, the n. tional cathedral and then entered it. Its building, he said, is not the pur- sult of an artistic {deal, but “what we are engaged in is starting a drive for the development of the citizenship for which the country fs waiting.” Has Germ of Salvation. Declaring that the enterprise has in it “the germ of salvation of the life of this country,” Senator Pepper said: “You cannot save it from Capitol Hill. I am sick to death of this bunk that you can save this country by leg- islation. "All that laws can do Is give opportunity for the individual to find his own happiness.” Senator Pepper sald that as the Capitol stands as the symbol of gov- ernment, and the Union station as the symbol of restlessness, so the cathe- dral will stand as the symbol of peace. Mr. Hammond declared that an thing that tends to develop religlo; sentiment in a nation tends likewise to_ assure the perpetuity of Its insti- tutions, upon which depend the secur- ity of the natlon’s material welfare. “For this reason,” he continued, “the building of a great national cathedral appeals strongly to people of what- ever, religious bellef or denomina- tion Mr. Hammond sald that the cathe- dral will symbolize in its broad con- {ethical aspirations of the nation, and in the majesty of its architecture will serve as a counterpart to the public bufldings and monuments which grace the nation’s Capital. “The cordial response to the com- mittee's request for co-operation from men of affairs of many religious de- nominations justifies the prediction of the speedy realization of our hope to obtain the necessary funds for the completion of the building,” Mr. Ham- mond asserted. Country’s Eyes on Capit: “But the whole country is await- ing in confident anticipation Wash- ington’s ~approbation expressed in terms of a generous donation. It is for this reason that a great respon- sibility is imposed upon Mr. New- bold Noves and his zealous staff, and upon_the success of their endeavor the executive committee largely bases its optimism, We know you fully realize the important part you are to play, and that this is one of the rare oppor- tunities of a.lifetime to render a great national service. We wish you God speed in your undertaking.” ewbold Noyes, who presided, de- clared that the project in hand seemed to him one of the biggest things before the natlon today. “We need it to stand for our spiritual faith, whatever that may be," said.’ It is largely for this reason, the speaker said, that the workers owed it to Vashington and the nation to_make {he campaign a success. Mr. Noyes explained that not u cent collected in the campaign will be ex- pended for the cost of the campaign, I but that all such expenses have been met by outside contributions. ~He declared that the “cost plus” basis is the only way the cathedral can be {built at this time. He introduced { Clifford Pierce, campaign directo who told the workers the metho to be used during the ten-day cam- paign. Weekw Letter Read. A letter was read from Secretary Weeks in which the Secretary of War declared. that, he was glad to add his word to others expressing interest in the completion of the cathedral. “I sin- cerely wish you the greatest success in your plans,” Mr. Weeks said. ‘“Those of us who are mot communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church may well join with our fellow citizens of that faith in an expression of pride in the efforts being made to erect in the Natlonal - Capital a , great cathedral which will stand as & monument to the Christian religion. Most certainly such a monument should be a temple of great beauty and majesty.” Beginning Monday, the campaign workers will meet every day at 12:30 p.m. for luncheon at the Willard, when reports of the day's work will be made iand the progress of the campaign as. certained. The meeting will last J S 1923 3 Ibs. for ception the spiritual life and the high ' For Capital Cathedral Fuid|™ REL Inspirational Addresses Delivered ' at Dinner Formally Opening Effort to Raise Share of $10,000,000 Needed. one hour. No definite sum has been set for the District's quot The local organization of the cam- Washington Cathedral committee to |CTuited in Guadalajara from the popu- paign follows: John Hays Hammond, chairman; Admiral Cary T. Gray- son, vice chairman: Corcoran Thom, treasurer, and Newbold Noyes, cam- paign chairman, Division “A,” Dr. L. W. Glazebrook, leader Team No. 1—George R. Wales, cap- tain; Steven E. Kramer, Henry Blair, Capt. Sheridan Ferree, Peter Bisset, George De_ Wilde, James Eckloff Team No. 2—Arthur Burt, captain Col. George H. Finney, H. D. Aml; Dr. A. T Gregory, J Holdsworth Go don, G. A. Lewis, J. C. Dulin. Team 3—Frank S. Hight, captain; Dr. Harry Hurtt, B. H. Howard, Gorham Marshall, W. B. Patterson, Isaac Gans. Team No. 4—Col. Fred C. Cook, captain: L. Whiting Estes, Stephen Ford, George A. Howard, John G. Hodges, John B. Morey, George P. Sacks. = Team No. 5—Frederick H. Brooke, captain; Blair Lee, Capt. John H. Gibbons, Richard W. Hyn- son, Paul Wilstack, Y. D. Harbaugh. Team No. 6—Harry K. Boss, captain; R. W. Bolling, W. L. Beale, A. §. Phillips, Frank Stetson, Jesse H. Hedges, Edward S. Hege. Team No. 7—Mrs. David Meade Lee, captain: Mrs. Louls Mackall, Mrs. Charles Henry. Mrs, L. 'W. Bugster, Mra atson F. Clark, Mr G." Jobe, Mrs. J. C. Davidson. Divislon “B," Mr. C. C. Glover, jr. leader: Team No. 8—H. L. Rust, captain; William Tyler Page, Hlndllpl H. Hagner, Arthur Carr, Clifford Bangs, Maj. Willlam L. Browning, E. H. Bachschmid. Team No. 9—Robert V. ¥leming, captain; Y. E. Booker, ir. . G. Hoskinson,” G. H. Warrington, John L._Edwards; loworth J. Roberis, Team No. 10—Commander Herbert S. Howard, captain; Christian Herter, Richard S. Emmet, Andrew Wylle, James Crawford, E. Lee Jones, Capt, Emory 8. Land. ‘Team No. 11—Richard Wilmer, captain; Kinslow Van De- vanter, " Franklin ' H. Ellls, Harry L. Rust, Jr.; T. A. Scott Thropp, Wiillam H. White, jr.; Edmund D. Rheem. Team No. “12—Commander C, T. Jewell, captain; M. LeRoy Goff, Wil- liam Waller. Charles F. Yauch, Harry L. Wrenn, William J. Moore, Spencer Gordon. 'Team No. 13—Francis C. Wallace. captain; George A. Em- mons, James Chaney, E. L. Stock, P. J. Seltzer, Joshua Evans, ir. Team No. 14—Mrs. Walter R. Tuck- erman, captain; Mrs. Robert Hollister Chapman, Mrs. Ekengren, Mrs. James Carroll Frazier, Mrs. Charles Foulke, Mrs. James E.'Ives, Mrs. Cabot Ste- vens, Miss Frances Hampson. Division " Charles F. Wilson, leader: Team No. 15—John F. Dry tain; Dr. Robert.C. Ransdell, Lieut. Commander Theodore Wiikinson Chester Lockwood, Frank Wathmey, Arthur T. Brice, Robert Stead. Team No. 16—Stuart B. Marshall, captain: C. R. Barker, Horace L. Bell, F. B. Crow- ther, Charles P. Hill, Benjamin B, Hunt, W. Parker Jones. Team No. 17 —Richard Shands, captain; Augustine Todd, Tilghman ' Sharp, Warren R. Birge, Albert W. Walker, Frank -Li Yates, Henry W. Ravenel. Team No. 18—Leonard A. Block, captain; James Weir, W. B. Hardy, W. G. Meirs, Carl Kurts. Team No. 19—W. M. Mackall, captain; Mrs. Ambler H. Cardwells Mrs. Sidney Thomas. Mrs. Edwin D. her, Thomas Hopkins, Harold N Marsh, James M. Durant, jr. Team No. 20—Herber Glesy, captain: W. B. Clarkson, C. T, Clagett, Maxwell Du- rant, jr.;'John T. Love. Sidney Swarts, L. H_Denit, W. W. Riley. Team No. 21—Mrs. H. L Boltom, captain; Mrs. John Hanna, Miss Bertha Looker, Mrs. Amy Talbot, Mrs. Cassie Armstrong, Mra. W. R. Turner, Miss Marjorie Critten. Division . cap- “D,” Coleman Jennings, —Arthur Hollen, cap- ingleton, David E. Fin- Brant, George Wilson, Light,” Harry C. Davis. 23—Morgan ~ Thompson, captain; Thomas L. Huse, jr.. James L. Karrick, jr., Stanley Carr, Hugh Webster, Jasper Du Bese, Chauncy Parker. Team No. 24—George Weaver, captain; B. A. Bowles, Earl M. Mack- intosh, F. B. Weaver, D. F. Weaver, Harry Middleton, C. Bowdoin Craig- hill. “Team No. 25—Frank F. Rogers, captain; Howard Moran, Col. Leroy W. Herron, Walter C. Coates, Marshail Exicles, Lieut. Commander Horace L. Rouzer. Team No. 26—Dr. W. Sin- clair Bowen, captain: Emmons S. Smith, Dr. Camp Stanley, Col R. U. Patterson, James Dulin. Dr. Willlam M. Spriggs, Dr. Richard L. Siivester. Team No. 27—David Mead Lea, cap- tain; Charles R. Waters, Delos H. Smith, J. B. K. Lee, John Wate D. W.'Cail. Team No.'2§—Mrs. Frank- iin Ellis, captain; Mrs. Charles Bell, Miss Caroline Nash, Mre. McClintock, Mrs. McCook Knox,” Miss Cora Barry, Mrs. Gouveneur Hoes. WOMAN JURORS DEMAND NON-SKID SHOES ON TRIP Fair Pittsburghers Fear They Will Fall on Icy Walks in Country. S. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa., December 15 Three women, members of a murder jury, demanded non-skid foot cover- ing 'of the court yesterday before they would leave the courtroom to visit the scene of the crime in a re- mote section of the county.: feared falling on the icy walks, they said. The trial judge dispatched a court messenger with $3 to buy overshoes for the trio. ENGINEER GIVEN MEDAL. NEW YORK, December 15.—John ‘William Lieb of New York has been awarded the Edison medal for 1923 by the Edison medal committee of the American Institute of Electrical gineers, it was announced today, “for the . development and operation of electrical central stations for {llumina- tion and power. R Mr. Lieb, sixty-three years old, is vice president of the son Company.- For several years he was assistant to Thomas A. Edison, He is the thirteenth man to receive the award. 'WINS 20 POULTRY AWARDS. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., December 15.— R. H. Anderson of this city this week won twenty awards at the Chicago Poultry “show out of (thirty-two en Crop 1 10 Ibs. for $2 1332 F St. N.W. They | VISIONS CATHEDRAL IGIOUS REVIVAL Bishop Freeman Says It Will Be National Means of Re- turn to Faith. Visualizing the cathedral as the means to one of the greatest re- liglous revivals in the country, Rt. Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, told the members of the take hold of the project and work for it to their utmost in an address at the home of Mrs. Gibson Fahne- stock, 2311 Massachusetts avenue, yesterday afternoon. The committee meeting was the first annual gathering since the death of Bishop Harding. The organiza. tion fs the first of the cathedral committees and was organized thir- ty-five years ago. “This is not a local project—it is a national one—and the cathedral will be as nearly a national cathedral as there ever will be in this coun- try,” Blshop Freeman He com- mented upon the Interest shown in the project by all types of people, among whom Were the nation’s lead- J‘There s no religlous edifice in Washington equal to the beautiful bulldings erected for secular pur- poses,” declared Bishop Freeman, Who “said Washington was impov- erished in the way of a great struc- t rl'; !(l'l, God. ‘Perhaps the, catedral may be the means of bringing about the co-ordi- nation of tht_dismembered links of the djvided Christian faith,” he de- clared, urging the people, especially of Washington, to give to the point of sacrifice. Bishop Freeman spoke of the in- terest of other denominations and de- clared the Roman Catholic Church is building its beautiful shrine at the Cahtolic University. “I bid them god- speed in their work,” he said. “There 18 no competition or spirit of rivalry in_these undertakings." Dean Bratenahl of the cathedral presided at the meeting and told the members that the $3,000,000 of the $4,000,000 already subscribed to the cathedral fund was due to the efforts | of the Washington committee. He told of the library to the cathedral which is soon to be built and predict- ed the completion of the entire edi- fice in five years. A rising vote au- thorizing the drawing up of a me- morial to the late Bishop Harding given by the members. THE WEATHER For the District of Columbla—Fair and slightly warmer tonight, lowest temperature about 25 degree: row increasing cloudiness and warm- er; gentle to moderate southerly winds. For Maryland—Fair and slightly warmer tonight; tomorrow increas- ing cloudiness and warmer; moderate southerly winds, Fair For Virgini warmer tonight; tomorrow and ing cloudiness and warmer; moderate | northeast winds, becoming variable. For Kentucky, West Virginia, Western Pennsyivania and ~Ohio, mostly cloudy and warmer tonight and Sunday. Records for Twenty-Four Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m., 33: 8 p.m., 30; 12 midnight, 25; 4 a.m,, 23; 8 a.m., 22; noon, 30. Baromater—4 p.m., 30.63; 8 pm. 30.72; 12 midnight, 30.78; 4 am., 30.81; 8 am. 30.84; noon, 30.82. | Highest temperature, 33.3, occurred at 3 p.m. yesterday; lowest —tem- perature, 21.5, occurred at 0 a.m. oda; o emperature same date last year— Highest, 46; lowest, 34. Condition of the Water, erature and_ condition of the watar et s am Great Falla—Tem: perature, 40: condition, muddy. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United tSates coast and geodetic survey.) Today—Low tide, 8:23 am. 7:57 p.m.; high tide, 1:46 a.m, 2 omorrow—Low tide, 9:1 9:52 p.m.; high tide, 2:41 3:14 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 7: 4:47 p.m. Tomorrow—Sun rises sets 4:47 p.m. Moon rises 12:43 p.m.; and and .m. and sets 12:00 Nittomobile lamps to be lighted one- half hour after sunset. ‘Weather in Various Citles. ez =5 B3 °5 Stations. Weater o gupanywas Abilene, Tex. 30. Albany ... 30.| Atlanta 30. Atlantic City 80 Haltimore . Birmingham. 30. Bismarck .. 80. Boston Buffalo Charlest Chicago Cincinnati. Cleveland Denver . i Detroit Cloudy Cl b Clear Clear Cloudy Clear 2238 SE2RRERSEILENINLERTRS Clear Clondy Cloudy P.clondy Pt.cloudy Huron, 8. Jacksonvil Kansas City. 80.48 Los Angel 16 Loutsville Miami, FI New Okl Omaha . Philadelp Pittsburgh. Portland,Me. Portland,Ore San_Diex 8. Francis 8t. Louts. St. Paul. Beattle 30.1 WRSHS 5.6 8. FOREIGN. (8 a.m., Greenwich time, today.) Station: Temperature. Weather. INSURGENTS CAPTURE KEY CITY IN MEXICO CONSULAR FUNDS PAID TO HUERTA, SAYS ULLOA AS ACTIVITY SPREADS |congu1 Who Tett Brownsville for (Continued from First Page.) Michoacan, and of Acambaro, in Guanajuato. The latter is an important rail- road center a few milés south of Celaya, and its control, according to the communique, will facilitate oper- ations by the divisions commanded by Gens. Estrada, Alvarado and Dieguez, The last-named general; the state- ment says, has been placed in com- mand of nine cavalry regiments re- lation of Jalisco. Gen Alvarado is in charge of an| infantry division, while Gen. Estrada has command of what s described as a powerful column of reserves. “The chiefs and officers of the new corps,” said the announcement, “were taken from the military academy of Guadalajara.” Evacunting Puebla. Gen. Andrew Almazan has begun the evacuation of Puebla because of the approach of rebel troops under Gen. Villanueva Garza on the Inter- Oceanic raflroad. Almazan, according to rebel headquarters, is concentrat- ing his forces in Mexico City. Railway traflic between Puebla and the na- tional capital has been suspended. “Gen, Pineda from Huiemanguillo, state of Tabasco,” continues the com- munique, “has joined the revolution with 800 men and controls the fm- portant region called Chontalpa. This force plans to attack Villahermosa. The insurgent leaders announced last night that the federal troops had evacuated San Marcos, where they had been expected to make a stand, retreating westward toward Apizaco. FEDERALS REGAIN CITY. Rebels Flee Zacatecas Toward Jalisco, Juarez Informed. JUAREZ, Mex, December 15.— Zacatecas is again controlled by fed- eral forces, according to a telegram received at Juarez military head- quarters from Gen. J. G. Escobar, former Juarez garrison commander and now chief of the Laguanw dis- tr Alfredo Garela, revolutionist, is fleeing toward Jalisco, according to Gen. Escobar, who stated the sit- uation was normal at Zacatecas when he arrived there, umerous deserters have come to me from the rebel forces” the mes- sage added. “Public utilities are reorganized and functioning. The people are taking up arms with the intention of defending the govern- ment of President Obregon. Gen. Garcia was influenced to re- volt Jast Friday, when the Sanchez- Estrada rebellion was launched through an_exchange of Correspon ence with Gen. Enrique Estrada, who is at the h of the uprising in Jalisco, the message sald. Gen. Gar- cia is a personal friend of Gen. Es- trada. .According to travelers from the south, Gen. Garcia, who was military commander in the states of Zacatecas and Aguascalientes, collected 50,000 pesos from the wealthy resfdents of the city of Zacatecas, rounded up all the available automobiles, seized 300 cases of gasoline and marched hi army to Jerez, west of the capital. He also held the railroad and tele- graph line cut at Canitas. Col. Manuel Contreras of Gen. Es- cobar's command arrived in the eity of Zacatecas at the head of the fed- eral forces Tuesday morning, after the raflroad line had béen repaired. He issued a proclamation declaring that residents of the city would be given the customary guarantee, re- gardless of political affiliation or na- tionality. HUERTA AGENT DUE HERE. Coming to Washinigton on Business for Revolutionists. NEW YORK, December 15.- 'Pn(!r’ Martin Luis Guzman, chairman of the | committee on foreign affairs of the Mexican chamber of deputies, who revealed his presence here last night as the representative of Adolfo de la Huerta, will leave today for Wash- ington. The purpose of his mission in Washington was not disclosed. He said he had several duties to perform for the de la Huerta movement in this country and was in constant cable communication with his chiaf. The fact that President Obrezon was personally with ghe federal troops in the field was an Indication of the precariousness of his position, Senor Guzman said. Senor Guzr id he had been 'in seclusion here for three days to re cover from a nervous shock reccived at Nuevo Laredo when he was ar- rested by Gen. Hurtado as he was about.to enter the United States the day the revolution started. ‘ LABOR WITH OBREGON. By the Associated Press. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., December The laboring class of Mexico is rally ing almost a8 a unit to the standard of President Obregon, according to a communique received here last night at the Mexican consulate general from Acting Minister Saenz of the de- partment of forelgn relations, at the City of Mexico. One of the chief factors in arousing | the loyalty. to President Obregon among the working class has been the report from Vera Cruz that sup- porters of Sanchez and de la Huerta had executed the president of the labor syndicate in Vera Cruz, the com- munique sald. The first contingent of laborers, the majority of which was composed of spinners from the state of Vera Cruz, has departed from the City of Mexico toward the vicinity of Orizaba for the purpose of engaging the forces of Sanchez, the commu- nique continues. President Obregon, at the front of the military zone in the state of Jalisco, has raised courage among his troops, who are enthusiastic In be- hajf of victory as they advance to- ward Guadalajara, the communique stated. RAIL EMBARGO LIFTED. NOGALES, Ariz, December 15— The embargo on all passenger and freight service south of Mazhtlan, in Sinaloa, recently put In effect, by the Southern Pacific de Mexico rail- London, -England r Paris, ' France. cloudy cloudy cloudy clondy Part cloudy Raining Cloudy Clear Clear way was lifted yesterday, according to a dispatch from the office of the diyisional superintendent. The order, it was stated officlally here, was Indicative of a restoration of tranquillity in Nayarit, which was gystiun eaveral 'days &go by the rebel 50c $1 <4 $5 Chriétmas Savings Club of the “Federal-American”’ any amount from 50c a week up (for 50 weeks), we add 3% interest. a Week Will Give You a Week Will Give You a Wesk Will Give You a Week Will Give You $25.37 $50.75 $101.50 _$253.75 a Week Will Give You - $507.50 .. 1SI5 F Streat {sent the money, sympathizer here, i i i Havana Declares 26,000 Pesos Given Over. - December 15.— J. Alonzo Ulloa, Mexican consul at | Brownsville, Tex., who left there last Monday, arrived in Havana yesterday to joln the small Mexican revolu- tionary junta in Havana and to await orders from Gen. Adolfo de la Huerta, He declared that the 26,000 pesos which, it was charged, he took with him belonged to the state of Tamau lipas and that the military authori- ties at Matamoras favorable to Pres- ident Obregon seized it and sent it to him to buy munitions to use gainst de la Huerta. Soon after leaving Brownsville, he added, he in New York ex- change, to de la Huerta at Vera Cruz, as Gov. de Lara of the state of Tamaulipas had Jjoined the de la Huerta forces. Gen. Juan Barragan, a de la Huerta announced receipt of word from Vera Cruz that a con. xulate representing the revolutionary forces is to be established soon in Havana. —_— CONSULAR AGENTS IN U. . REFUSE AID TO HUERTA Overtures With These and With Military Leaders Reported Unsuccessful. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif,, December 15. —Overtures by de la Huerta support ¢rs have been made to all military leaders in Mexico and to Mex can consular agents in the United States, but with small success, according to ad °s received here yesterday from | Washington and Mexico City by Le-| andro Garza Leal, Mexican consul. Consul Jeal sald the repcris stated that the Mexican rebellion is con- fined to Vera Cruz and the Guadala- ara districts; that the west coast is quiet and that railway traffic is be- ing resumed via the El Paso port of entry and that the Yaqul Indians in onora_are peaceful. The report said Gen. Urbalejo, com mander of a body of Yaqul troops, is moving against Vera Cruz, while an- other body of Yaquis is moving on Guadalajara. The advices stated that followers of the late Francisco Villa have announced they are loyal to the government. —_— BREWERS FOUND GU|LTY IN THIRD TRIAL IN CASE Wealthy Officials of Standard Com- pany Escaped Through Jury Deadlock Twice. NEWCASTLE, Pa., December 15— | George W. Lamoree, president of the Standard Brewing Company; E. L. Haun, secretary, and Henry Gro- tefend, brewmaster, all wealthy men, were convicted here today after their third trial on charges of conspiracy and of manufacturing, possessing. H’;n!l;onlng and selling Intoxicating uor. Albert Grotefend, acguitted. @ two previous trials of the c: which has been a Lawrence county ensation for many months, came to naught because of jury disagree- ments. During the third trial twelve detectives were on duty, each one <shadowing” a member of the jury between sessions of court. Attorneys for the defendants sald they would appeal the case. DENIES SINGAPORE BASE PLANS ARE ABANDONED By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 15.—"There fs no_foundation whatever for the re port received yesterday from New York to the effect that the pore base has been abandoned, a note issued by the admiralty. engineer, was ing: says the secretary of A dispatch from London on Thurs- day announced that the cancellation by the government of the proposed visit of the Earl of Cavan, chief of the general staff to Singapore and the dominions, was interpreted in some quarters as recognition that its plan to spend £9,500,000 on a naval base at Singapore was not likely to materialize in view of the effect of the election on the government's political fortunes. Obregon, Under Fire, Inspires Mexican Masses to Loyalty By the Associated Pres EL PASO, Tex., December 15.— President Alvaro Obregon is on the firing line personally directing the troops who, under Gens. Amarillas and Amaro, are marching on Guadala- Jara, according to a telegram received by the Mexican consulate in El Paso from Mexico City yesterday. Aroused by the example of the executive, thousands of laborers have evacuated Vera Cruz for Mexico City to obtain arms with which to assist in the movement. Textile workers, released from Mexico City factories, have meanwhile received arms and equipment and left for the Vera Cruz front to fight the forces under Gen. Sanchez. At Teziutl. the major in command of the garrison tried to turn his °S OVer to the Adolfistas, but his thmmand refused to obey orders and e town is s yi o FAS oyal to the Obrego hile reports show tha i tary chiefs invited by de lntl:‘sll"r{:.“( » Join his forces have pledged their loy - alty to the gove nment, it has been confirmed that many desertions ars occurring in the Estrada ranks at Jalisco. "At the capital little cred| s given news from t v XNy 1 the revolutionars Working classes In Mexi, indignant over the death of the pree) dent of the labor syndicate at Vers Cruz and are rallying to the colore, as the rebel; blamed for his deat) ——— e T s death. SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE SEEK MEXICAN BERTHS New Orleans Flooded With Ven- turesome Men Trying to Get Into Fight. By the Assoclated Press. NEW ORLEANS, December 15 New Orleans is beginning to be the mecca for soldiers of fortune these days. Yesterday they began arriving | tionists, from various parts of the country, all with the same purpose—gett to Mexico as quickly as noesiins et into the fight on the best terms the could get Throughout the day, both at Mexican consulate and at t quarters set up by Teodoro Fre agent of the de la Huerta fac these venturesome personages Sough connection. Either faction—federals or _revolu Obregon or de la Huerta it made little difference to most «f them. What they wanted was to &t in the fight. 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