Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1924, Page 10

REBELS DEFEATED * INHIDALGO CLASH Turned From Pachuca by Force Under Gabay After Hour Fight. HUERTA PLANS ADVANCE Vera Cruz Report Says March on Puebla and Mexico. City Is to Begin. By the Assoclated Press. MEXICO CITY, January 3.—Rebel forces under 'Gen. Marcial Cavazos, which had been threatening Pachuca, ! capital of the state of Hidalgo, were defeated by the federals commanded by Gen. Pedro Gabay after an hour's fighting. Pachuca, fifty-five miles northeast of Mexico City, is one of the oldest mining towns in the republic, The rebels had torn up the railway ! tracks previous to their march on Pachuca. Simultaneous with Gabay's counter attack agalpst Cavazos, a military column was sent from Mexico City to co-operate with Gen. Gabay against the rebels, Raflway and telegraphic communi- cation will be repaired this after- according to Gen, Arnulfo ommander of the Mexico City n, who added that the milita »n throyghout the country was most favorable. Tells of Rebel Desertions. Gen, Gomez said that men contin- ually were deserting from the ranks of Gen. Figuero: who has been op- erating in the tate of Guerrero, Southwest of the capital. It was an- nounced here that airplanes again will fly over Guadalajara, capital of the state of Jalisco, dropping litera- ture regarding military conditions prevalent in the country REBELS PLAN ADVANCE. Sanchez in Command of Troops on Vera Cruz Front. , January 3.—The gen- " eral advance of the rebeis.on Puebla and Mexico City according to insurgent headquarter Gen. Guadalupe Sanchez, militar: Teader of the rebellion, has left this city to take command of the troops massed on the Cruz front. In conjunctioh with Gen. will direct the forward movement Federal and insurgent forces are reported to hav been fighting yes- terday around Puebla. The Obregon- istas have advanced to Tehuacan after a seri of unimportant skirmishes. Gen. Moran has assumed charge of the operations which have as their object the capture of Tampico. will begin today HAIL FEDERAL VICTORS. Mexicans ‘Pleased by Advamce To- ward Guadalajara. EL PASO, Tex.. January ftants of the area from which rebel forces are retreating before the ad- vance of Gen. Joaquin Amaro in b offensive toward Guadalajara, are showing much enthusiasm at the ar- rival of #the federal troops, declare passengers arriving in Juarez from the interior of Mexico. ! Gen. Amaro hus approximately 3.000 troops and is pressing Gen. I rique Estrada 4n Jalisco-state, th ~—Inhab- ~| Defacto Mavycotte, he | Society (Continued from Ninth Page.) Huxton, Miss Theodorea Pleadwell, Mr. Paschal, Mr. Hugh Cumming, M Edwards, Mr. Calin P. Bartlett and ar. Julian Green. Mr. amd Mrs. Thomas Bell Sweeney gave a dinner for young people and later entertained a box party. Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Atherton had a small company at dinner, taking their guests Jater to their box at the ball. Col. and Mrs. Morris Ernest Locke and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Denegre had a box together. Mr. and Mrs, Richard Emmett and Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Glover, jr., had a | box “together. ~Among their- guests were Mr. Arthur Hellen and Miss Mary Hellen. s, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke's box ‘was occupled by Miss Frances McKee, Mr. Bates McKee, Miss Sallle Henry ‘of Philadelphia, who fs visit- Mr. Parker Crenshaw and Miss El- lenita Crenshaw Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Dryden were hosts to a company of eighteen at dinner last evening precevding the ball, and later occupied their bo In the company were Mr. and Mr: Richard H: Wilmer, Dr. Mr: Robert Ransdell, Mr. and Mrs. W llam Flather, jr, and Mr. and Mrs. John F. Dryden. Among others at the ball were the charge d'affaires of Austria and Mme. Prochnik, the counselor of the Braziltan embassy and Mme. de Sousa Leao Gracie, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Kauffmann, Mrs. W. H. Bolling, Miss || Bertha Bolling. Maj. and Mrs. Goring Ihrrl\'lng say. Rebels are reported massing for a battle at Poncitlan, in defense of Guandalajara, it was de- || clared. Poncitlan Is about forty miles || southeast of the Jalisco capital on the National of Mexico railroad. | Gen.* Ange] Ocon, former command- | | er of Villa forces at the border and || later with the federal government, has arrived in El Paso from Chihua hua, where he was detained by fed- | eral authorities for several days. Gen. Ocon was arrested in Juarez and con- fined temporarily in Fort Hidalgo. He later was taken to Chihuahua and after an investigation was or- | dered released. — Sixty-seven thou- sand rounds of ammunition purchased by the Mexican governmnet from pri- vate dealers in ¥l Paso were shipped to Juarez vesterday. This Is the largest ammunition shipment moved through this port since the revolu- tion began. _— REBELS CLAIM TEN STATES. | Government Huerta's, Says Consul, in New York. | NEW YORK, January 3.—Control of | ten Mexican states, including one ter- |ritory, as against seven states and one ry held by the Obregon goverr ment, and seventeen of the count {twenty-seven seaports, including Vera | Cruz, was claimed f5r the revolutio: jary fore | Enrique “consul general in New York for the provisional gov-| ernment of Mexico.” Mr. Seldner i sued a statement which he declare was a true comparative analysis of the strength of the two factions, Other states in Mexico he said v:ere partly occupied by the forces of each group. Seldner calls de la Huerta's the{ e facto government of Mexico” and President Obregon's the “imposition | {Rovernment.” He claims de la Huer- { ta's army is the stronger numeri | that he has the better milita {naval equipment and Is in possession {of the principal seaports aid most i densely populated states, Seldner also declares the Huerta party controls two gunboats and five || merchant ships, giving the present | government but one gunboat and six || | merchant ships, and asserts that t | revolutionary forces of 34.519 men outnumber the regdlar troops by 16.000. But of the 560 telegraph offices he admits that the revolutionary army controls but 168, while radio statio are controlled in equal numbers either side he says. All Midwinter Apparel ~ EVERY Frock Gown Coat Dress | Wrap Blouse Hat Skirt Fur Coat Fur -for Women i Prep -Girl S for Girls and Juniors—six to sixteen also included! Erlebaclher TWELVE-TEN TWELVE-TWELVE l-‘ STREET off Sweater Wrap Jacquette and Misses hop Apparel 7 Blisy, Mr. agd Mrs. Joshua Evans, Mr. Gonealves of the Brasilian em- bassy, Carolyn Nash, Miss Dorethe Heibes Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Williams, Ji Miss Nancy Hoyt, Col. William K/ Horton, Rev. Dr. Meade Bolton Mac- Bryde, Commander Charles Theodore Jewell and Maj. and Mrs. Samuel J. Turnbull, and Mrs. Montgomery gave a_dance last evening at Raus- cher's for their debutante duughter, Miss Ellen Blalr. Their guests num- D bered about 200 and the dance was preceded by & number of dinner par- Many of the young people went first to the charit Mr. and Mrs. Blair Mrs, thes. Blair and their daughter ro- ceived, Mru. Blalr wearing & gown of cloth of gold made on slightly draped lines and trimmed with® jets, Bluir was in cloth of silver made with close fitting bodice and & fall kirt of ‘white tulle trimmed with ostrich feathers. Miss Blalr was entertained at din- ner preceding the dance by Rear Ad- miral and Mrs. Willlam Dugald Mac- Mivess MacDougal, Fasa bt Jewbold, | Misses _MacDougal, e B crestpke Johil at the Chevy Chase Club. Dr. Tupper, Former Pastor Here, Married Last Evening, Last evening at 7 o'clock the wed- ding of Dr. Henry Allen Tupper and frs. Debbie J. Walton of Philadelphia was_solemnized at the residence of the bride, in Philadelphia. Dr. Tup- per was pastor of the First Baptist THURSDAY, -JANUARY 3, 1924. —_— BALLOU SAYS VITAL ALLEGED GUN TOTERS - SCHOOL ITEMS CUT ARRAIGNED IN COURT 2 J. H. Devers Pleads Guilty—G. W. Palm Beach, FI P Loss of $3,839,616 From Board Es- Harris Denies Charge and Asks Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Leiter entgr- 3 Trial by Jury. Y Blatr | talned u company at dinner last ede- timates Explained at o Jary ning in their New Hampshire avenue Confere John H. Devers and George W. home. Rarrls, charged with carrying deadly w.apons, were arraigned in the Police Court today before Judge John P. Me- Mahon, Devers pleaded guilt: charge and elected 10 be trisd > 1o case went over to enable the court to investigate some of the evidence Harris pleaded not guilty and d« manded & trial by Jury and the date was set for January 31, The trouble between the two men started some time ago, it is said, at Clinton, Md., when it is alleged Harris pulled a pistol on Devers. Yesterda Devers saw Harris-in an automobi at T. B, Md., with a woman who had been’ the cause of the original troub and followed him to Good Hope roa. southeast, where the two men got ou of their cars and, it is charged, both drew pistols. George Axman, wihe saw the trouble, disarmed Devers, | said, later returning the pistol over to the ‘police. —_— THE . EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Church, 16th and O streets, in. this city, for five years, having resigned on October 31 to give his time to lit- erary work. He is author of a num- ber "of books, “Around the World with Your Eyes Wide Open” being at the annual joint conferonce be- twgen the school boafd and repre- sentatlyes of various clvic organiza- tions last night in the Franklin Schvl. Items calling for 3,839,616, rep- resenting real pressing needs, were cut out of the board’s original esti- mates, Dr. Ballou pointed out. These included every appropriation for the extension of school playgrounds and eight new building projects. Despite the drastic cut from $5,031,750 to $1,687,500 in the provision for build- ings grounds, the superintendent explained that the appropriation for this item allowed in the budget Is $387,500 more than granted in the current District appropriation bill. Praises Co-operation. that we would get everything asked for in the original budget, which totaled $11,858,086." Efforts of Board Approved. At the close of the meeting the civic orgdnization representatives adopted a resolution approving the efforts of the board in the prep: tion and presentation to the Com- missioners and the budget bureau of the estimates for the next fiscal year. A motion by A, H. Gregory, repre- senting the” Stanton Park Citizens' Association, calling for indossement of the original estimates and urging the board to go before Congress and fight for the 311,858,085 appropria- tion was withdrawn when opposed by Mr. Greenwood. “T want to tell you,” declared Mr. Greenwood, “that the chairman of the budget committee of the board of education will do no such thing. I don’t propose to make myself ridicu- lous by going before Congress when there is a definite limitation set upon the amount the District can receiv. There i no chance of securing from Congress the items that do not have the approval of the bureau of the budget.” “onsiderable time was given to a cussioh of the question as to Ruth Hitehcock, Mis Mr. Thomas obertson. talned at dinner last evening in wom- pliment to Miss Caroline Lewis. enter- BLOW TO0 PLAYGROUNDS ball and later to dance. Mr, and |, Mr. Lawrence J. Heller has returned to the city after a visit with Mrs. i Heller and thefr young son, who are | E5Ychology of Pushing Budget spending the wirter in Asheville, N. C. Dr. Ballou. Incidentally Jauded the Topic of Mr. Nits VA T Pl e pic Greenwood. Commissioners and the bureau of the Evanston, Ili., formerly of Washing- § | budgetfor their cocoperation. with S r i scho officials e neces- ;‘i.”g.{‘"lff""h'fi“ ::‘}‘l:;duymr:ndnm!;z; A comparative \analysis of the|sary revisions in the board's origi- O'Hare, at their suburban home, Lin- | board of cdwemtion’s budget for the |nal estimates. “The Commissioners den Grove. Mrs. Pollard is’ well [next fiscal year before and after the | Nerg Vo', Smpathetic” ' he ' said, known in Evapston in musical and |Commissioners and the budget b ‘and the bureau of the budge club alrcles. She will visit relatives get bureau | everything it could conscientiously in Virginia before returning to her |had edited it was given by Superin- |do under the circumstances. homa in Evanston tendent of Schools Frank 'W. Ballou| “The psychology of pushing the e —_— |school budget through the District|whether the playgrounds, municipal Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Porter of St. . building and the budget bureau” was|as well as school, should be under the Catherines, Ontario, Canada, are at|at the Grace Dodge Hotel, in compli- | described by Ernest Greenwood, vice | jurisdiction of the school hoard. The Wardman Park Hotel. They are ac- |ment to the matrons of the various |President of the board and chairman |action by Congress in dealing sym- companied by their sonm, Lawrence|chapters for the past year. The|of its budget commit At one | pathetically with appropriations for ae % guests numbered about forty. period in the budget's “stormy voy- | municipal playgrounds and denying atd i age,” said Mr. Greenwood, “all items | the board of education's pleas for ad: | st Mrs. Tillie Chauncey, grand| Miss Stella Shaw of Frankfort, [ for new buildings were thrown over- | ditional funds for school playgrounds matron of the Order of the Eastern |Ky. is visiting Miss Christine Levin board. After all, we got more than|nccessitates some centralization of Star, entertained at luncheon toflay | at her home in Woodridge. we expected. It was absurd to think | jurisdiction, it was argued. Miss white and - their daughters, who the entertained o Louis imprisons first offenders e at its workhouse, so they can't come in contact with the hard-boiled “old- | timers.” Another Sens\a':tional Sale Tomorrow of 3,500 “Priscilla” Economy Dresses Ol'lr Entire Second Floor ® Dress Section Given Over to This Gigantic_Sale Plenty of Extra Large Sizes A complete range of sizes, including regular sizes, 36 to 44, and extra large sizes 46 to 52, the latter in two stylish models, designed for larger women. Plenty of the extra large sizes— nearly a half of the dresses are in sizes 46 to 52. Every Dress of Good Quality’ Fast Color Gingham Acéurately Cut—True to Size—Clever New Styles The biggest Dress Sale that we have ever attempted—the biggest not only in the vast quantity of garments involved, but also in the tremendous economies that buying such quantities has allowed. And a boon to the tidy housewife who appreciates the joy of ample changes of home dresses. : Made in All Sizes Large Sizes Crisp dresses in new styles, correctly cut in size and amply full; and in the face of the advances in the price of gingham, the material alone would cost you more than the price of the dresses. Come carly and benefit by our large assortnrent. All of Fast Color Ginghams Such as Universal, Vogue, Puritan and Ameskeag: ; 14 -Wanted Styles In a gorgeous array of ever-popular large or small checks and plain colors. AWl Trimmed . —with excellent quality organdie, dotted Swiss, dimity or chambray. ; All Cut Full e And splendidly tailored, with round, square or V neck —all with pockets and sashes. Extra Space—Extra Salespeople—Plenty of All Styles. Crisp Dres/se_s in new attrac- tive styles, correctly cut in size and amply full; and in the face of the advances in the price of £ gingham, you could hardly make such dresses yourself at this low price. Tomorrow we duplicate a recent successful sale of “Prigcilla’’ Economy Dresses—with thpnsands of brandmew, fresh and charmingly simple Dresses of Gingham at a price that will bring crowds to ourSecond Flogr tomorrow. : ’ 5 : e S. L."liofil:‘;n & Co., ll%ew York, said to be the world’s largest dress",]:l‘.oducers—hhve solved the pr?hlem of redpcmg' costs Jhrough quantity production. Amoskeag, Renfrew and other good ginghams are used and there is considerable chgrm in the st.yleg and trimmings. * And such dear, fresh colors—pink, blues, greens, browns, gold, black and white. . Checks, stripes and plnu.x colors. gt Thtee thousand five hundred dresses—all at one low price. Dresses that every woman needs to slip on mornings and while performing house-