Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1929, Page 4

CALLES IN FIELD | WTH LARGE ARMY | { ' Torreon Attack Is Expected. Movement in South Is Crushed. (Continued From First Page.) troops (presumably after the armistice) and march them across Mexican terri- tory to the nearest point where he could make a junction with other loy- al trooj The government, after praising Ra- mos’ defense of Juarez, ordered him to prepare for transfer with his men by train across United States territory | to Piedras Negras, across the river from | Eagle Pass, or Laredo. ANOTHER BORDER FIGHT SEEN. Air Attack on Nogales,, Sonora, Is Threatened by Federals. NOGALES, Ariz, March 9 (P.—A| {hreatencd aerial bombardment of | the revolutionary ern Mexico, by L al | Gen. Abelardo Rodrigu.z, °d upon today as an indic .\t\ul” wational border may wit- stronghold of federals was lool that the ne: nother battle. Rodriguez, who has been concentrat- ing fighting planes and loyal soldiers at Mexicali, border town and capital of Baja California, was reported to have nding field for 15 or s, on the Sonora-B Cali - Bulletins were to have been posted by federal leaders an aviators at | federals were said to have ten but two of these roy y a fire at the mu- nicipal airport there late last night. "The blaze started when mechanics were | tuning up a plane and a short circuil developed. Blaze Spreads to Bombs. The blaze spread to a box of bombs in a hangar and they exploded, causing great excitement and giving rise to &/ yeport that revolutionists had attacked | the town. Mrs. R. Fuentes, wife of a mechanic, was injured, The loss wa: placed at’ $12,000. The fire was not expected to greatly impede the plans of the federals, as Rodriguez has announced that more planes would arrive shortly. Rodriguez began his activities yes- terday when he sent a plane to drop thousands of handbills on Nogales. The federal plane caused great excitement, the rebels believing they were being at- tacked. Revolutionary soldiers ran to cover and did not fire on the plane. The handbills, appealing to the rev- olutionaries to return to the federal side, said: ‘Your army officers have led you into rebellion by spreading falsehoods among you. They are merely using you as the tools for the personal aggrandizement of selfish and merciless politicians. Turn again to the path of duty. Be patriotic and do not bequeath to your sons a leg- acy of shame and treason.” Gen. Rodriguez said he expected nine bombing planes to be delivered to him next week and that the next time he sent aviators to Nogales they would carry “something more deadly than cir- culars.” He declared he had 600 fed- erals at San Luis. San Luis Attack Intimated. At the same time, Gen. Fausto To- pete, Governor of Sonora and revolu- tionary leader, intimated that he might attack the federals at San Luis. Meanwhile, a battle appeared immi- ment at Mazatlan, Sinaloa, where Gen. Carrillo has fortified himself with 2,500 federals against an advancing army of fevolutionaries. Gen. Ramon F. Iturbe, leadinz the main body of rebel troops, was % ported late last night to be at Quila, but a few hours’ march from Mazatlan. The in- surrectionists had occupied Culiacan, Sinaloa, without opposition. The rebel forces in this sector were placed at 8,000. ' TWO AMERICANS KILLED. Juarez Quiet Today Following -Seven- Hour Battle. EL PASO, Tex, March 9 (®).— Juarez was quiet today following yes- terday’s seven-hour battle that took its | toll of Americans and left the key city of Northern Mexico in the hands | of revolutionary forces. Two Americans were killed and an- other wounded during the fighting. Lydia Roberta, 2 years old, was fatally wounded by a stray bullet while she | was playing in the yard of her home | here. Another American, Teddy Barnes, | a bartender, was found dead in Juarez after the battle. His body law beneath slain soldiers near the federal head-| guarters at the Hotel Rio Bravo. An- other El Paso child, 6 years old, struck | by a stray bullet, was expected to re- cover. Official casualty lists of the battles were not available, but it was estimated | that 13 federal soldiers and rebels were | killed and more than a score on each ! side wounded. On this side of the border 310 Mexican | federal troops and their families were | interned at Fort Bliss under the terms of a truce which ended the battle. The | truce was concluded at a conference on the International Bridge between Gen. | Matias Ramos, commander of federal troo) Gen. Miquel Valles, rebel leader, | and Brig. Gen. George Van Horn Mose! commander of American forces here, after stray bullets had killed one child | and endangered the lives of other Amer- dcans in El Paso. Gen. Moscley, backed by civil author- itics of El Paso, told the Mexican gen- the fighting had to stop. They agreed to cease hostilities after Col. Kenyon A. Joyce, United States | bitter enemies. THE EVE TWO D. C. OFFICERS AT BORDER Maj. Finley and Lieut. Yerby Are With 7th U. S. Cavalry. Former, of Army Family, Was | Stationed at Fort Myer Four Years. Two Washington officers, Maj. J. R. Finley and Lieut. Everett D. Yerby, are with the 7th United States Cavalry at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Tex., which is being held in readiness to protect American life and property on the Mex- ican border as a result of the rebel at- tack on Juarez, just across the inter-| national line. | Finley comes from an old Army | His father was Col. Walter L. of the 1st Cawm who died here some years ago. His grandfather, Gen. Clement Alexander Finley was Surgeon General of the Army during the last year of the Civil War. For four years, from 1923 to 1927, Maj. Finley was stationed at Fort Myer, | Va., with the 3d Cavalry as c: the Headquarters Troop and known in Washington. He was com- missioned in the Army In 1916, serving at that time on the Mexican border. His READY TO PROTECT AMERICANS mother, Mrs. Louise D. Finley, resides at 2704 Ontarlo road. Maj. Finley is| unmarried. He was born in Annapolis, | Lieut. Yerby is a native Washingto- | nian, a member of an old Virginia fam- | ily. He received his education at St.| John's College, the Catholic University | of America and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Upon com-| pleting his course at the later institution | he entered the Army and served on the | Mexican boarder in 1916. He remained n the Regular Army after the World War. Lieut. Yerby’s wife and young daugh ter are at Fort Bliss. His wife w: formerly Miss Natalie Deltmann of San Antonio, Tex. Mrs. E. D. Yerby, his mother, resides at 2512 Cliffbourne place. Above: MAJ. J. R. FINLEY. Below: LIEUT. EVERETT D. YERBY. JUAREZ 1S QUIET Rebel Captors Are Jubilant, but Promise Safety to Non-Combatants. JAUREZ, Chihua hua, Mexico, March —Streets that but yesterday were the scene of fighting between rebels and | federals for possession of this strategic border post, today were trod by a gen- | eral who smiled and was stern alter- nately, who needed a shave, but whose boots and silver spurs were shining. He is Gen. Marcelino Murrieta, chief of the revolutionary forces in Jaurez, the key city of the Mexican revolution. Eight miles to the north on foreign soil three other generals, battle worn, weary and dejected, trudged the streets of Fort Bliss, am American military post. They had surrendered their gar- rison to rebels, one of their staff was dead; many of their soldiers were be- ing buried in unmarked graves 10 miles away. These generals are Matas Romas, | Ignacio Flores and M. J. Limon, Loyal to their flag, their country and their President, Emilio Portes Gil, of the republic of Mexico, they had been, Valles Exhibits Gratification. In the picturesque city of Juarez still another general was smiling, He is Gen. Miquel Valles, who led the charging rebel cavalry through the | streets of this city, which has been the | mecca of so many Americans in search of pleasure and color. But there were | no tourists when Gen. Valles entered | yesterday. He came with the roll of | rifle fire, the sharp staccato bark of machine guns, the boom of artillery. | Here and there a soldier dropped; | yonder & clvillan crumpled to the| ground. Everywhere was the cry, “The rebels have come.” The Hotel Rio Bravo, where the Blue Cross workers and surgeons worked | feverishly over operating tables, stands | deserted. Gone are the busy, dark-eyed Spanish girls, hurrying medicines and bandages to the wounded; gone are the | scurrying orderlies and aides. This was the headquarters of the federal chief, Gen. Ramos, now interned at Fort Bliss. Friends Once, Now Enemies. At the customs house Gen. Valles met Gen. Augustin de la Vega, who suffering from a slight wound, in- flicted, he told Valles, by one of his best friends, Gen. Ramos, com- mander of the federal forces. They had met on Lerdo avenue as the rebels, with Gen. de la Vega well up in the ead, entered the city. Face to face they stood, those dear friends, those Both drew their pistols and Ramos fired. De la Vega fell wounded. At the city police station, where that famous sign “Office Commandante” so familiar to American tourists, who have perhaps partaken a bit too freely, looms up, a new face was to be seen. {1t is that of Mayor Augustin Gallo, | who was reported tried by drumhead AFTER BLOODSHED, MINISTER IS CONVICTED ON 2 PERJURY CHARGES| Jury Refuses to Accept Plea of “Dual Personality” in Income Tax Falsification. By the Assoclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, March 9—Re- fusing to take cognizance of a “dual personality,” a Federal jury here yes- terday convicted Rev. Oscar H. Gruver of Alameda on two counts of perjury and making false income tax returns. The Rev. Gruver is treasurer of the California Lutheran Synod. The jury recommended leniency in the sentence. \ The minister was accused of tax fraud and perjury as an executor of the estate of Julius Bohn, Oakland capi- talist. He testified he had a dual per- eomality and that as trustee of the church fund and executor of the estate he could not explain the disappearance of $200.000 in bonds which he said Bohn gave him to hold in_trust for the church. ‘The pastor swore to an afdavit that he did not know where the bonds were, though as trustee he knew that the bonds were in his own safe deposit box. Fordham U. Records Quake. NEW YORK, March 9 (#)—Earth tremors more than 5,000 miles west of New York were recorded today on the seismograph at Fordham University. The first shock was at 6:30 am. The maximum intensity was recorded at 7 o'clock and the tremors continued until 9. | yesterday afternoon at the meeting of G STAR, WARHINGTON, D. C, MERCHANTS PLAN GOOD-WILL MISSION Annual Booster Trip of M. & M. Association Is Set for June. Bound on a mission of good will and advertising for Washington as a busi- ness center, members of the Merchants & Manufacturers’ Association in June will make their twentieth annual boost- er cruise, according to plans now under discussion, ‘William E. Russell has been appointed chairman of the outing committee for this year, and Maj. Gen. Anton Ste- phan, president of the association, will name the full membership of the gener- al committee. A trip aboard a specially chartered steamer again will be made, possibly to New York. A suggestion also was made that the trip this year be to Philadelphia by boat. Arrangements for the trip were discussed at length the board of governors of the asso- clation, over which Gen. Stephan pre- sided. Speak for Home Buying. The board also went on record urg- ing the passage of a bill similar to the one proposed during the past session of | Congress by Representative Treadway, | which would require the Government to purchase American made materials and supplies in making public improvements. The resolution declared that resist- | ance to factors which tend to under-} mine and lower national prosperity and | standards of living is an essential obli- | gation of government; that unrestricted influx of cheaply made foreign goods is a continuing menace to American wage levels, prosperity and high standards of living, and that under existing law the American Government in purcifises for public works does not give preference to American-made goods in competition with foreign-made goods of the same quality. Commends Stephan for Service, ‘The board adopted another resolu- tion commending Gen. Stephan for | his services gs chairman of the parade | committee of the Hoover inafigural committee, It was pointed out that the parade Monday, scheduled to re- quire two hours to pass a given point along the route, actually took exactly two hours and three minutes. The association governors adopted a code of principles of business conduct being fostered by the Chamber of Com- merce of the United States, of which the local association is an affiliated | member body. Two new members were admitted by the board—the Crew Levick Co. and Hooper & Klesner Co. EQUALITY APPROVED| The recent action of the general council of the Presbyterian Church, in- | terpreted as paving the way for ad- mission of women as ministers, evangel- | ists and elders, was indorsed on behalf of the National Woman's Party yester- day in a telegram to Dr. Hugh K. Walker, moderator of the General As- sembly of the church. ‘The message, signed by Mabel Ver- non, executive secretary of the Wom- en’s Council, commended the church body for “removing all discriminations | against women in the government of | your church. Your stand will have great influence on the thought of this country and will help in the endeavor of women to win complete equality with men in every pursuit of life.” ‘This action on the part of the church council, Woman's Party officers believe, will be seconded when the General As- sembly of the church meets next May. First Lady and Interior Sec- retary’s Wife Co-eds at Same Time. 0ld Injury May Prevent Par-| ticipation in Society of Capital. By the Associated Press. Mrs. Ray Lyman Wilbur, wife of the new Secretary of the Interior, probably will be Mrs, Herbert Hoover's closest friend in the Capital. Their assoclation began when they were co-eds together in Leland Stan- ford University, and Mrs. Wilbur feels | her chief joy in coming to Washington is the renewal of this friendship of | many ' standing. It has never | been disrupted, but the span of a con- tinent has separated them from each | other during more than a decade except for infrequent visits. | A misfortune of Mrs, Wilbur’s, how- ever, will bring them closer tcgether than they would be otherwise in the | swirl of official soctal life. IIl health, | hich she has suffered since she fell | from a horse and broke two vertebrae of her neck seven years ago, probably will keep Mrs, Wilbur from most of her social duties. But it is expected to make | more intimate the Frst Lady’s attentions to her friend. | Sees Zest in Stay Here, | | | | Because of these circumstances, Mrs. Wilbur said today, she looks on the four-year period with zest. She V»llli remain, at least for a time, in the hotel suite to which she came last week end, and she will attempt to participate in some of the official ceremonies, although it will be imj ible for her to be as active as will be most of the other cabinet ladies, During the first five years after the accident, she explained, she continued “really strenuous” duties of her role as the wife of the university president. “My friends said my New England conscience made it possible,” she added, “but I found it comparatively easy.” ‘The injury suffered in the fall was a fracture of the spinal bones. Mrs. Wil- bur’s survival of it has been marveled at by physicians. For five years after it occurred she felt comparatively well, except for an occasional lameness. Then she was totally incapacitated. Several months ago her physicians operated, cutting away the spinal bones | and cytting the covering of the cord. | Five years ago this, an unusually deli- | cate operation, physicians say, would have been impossible. Improvement Forecast. “In nine months or a year,” Mrs. | Wilbur said, hope to be much | stronger.” For the present, though, she will spend most of her time resting. Mrs. Wilbur's own, as well as her | hushand’s family, have been prominent in medicine and in other professions. Her interest in science was one of the | things which gave her a ground of | common interest on which to meet the former Lou Henry. Mrs. Wilbur was Miss Marguerite May Blake. One of her three sons is a physiclan of the Mayo Clinic at| Rochester, Minn another recently | began the practice of surgery in Cali- fornia, and the third and youngest is | studying to enter the profession. The' "1™ F a¥p G STrEETS "Woopwarp & LoTHROP { which Mrs. Hoover has professed much SATURDAY, MARCH MRS. RAY LYMAN WILBUR IS SEE AS MRS. HOOVER'S BEST FRIEND!FUUR ARE INJURED N AUTO AGCIDENTS Child, 8, Struck by Car,| Treated for Lacerations | of Scalp. ‘ Struck by an automobile driven by | George A. Parks, 1502 D street south- | ! east, while she was crossing the street in front of Parks’ home, 8-year-old | | Cora N. Allen, 413 Fifteentn street south- east, was rushed to Casualty Hospital last night and treated for lacerations of | | the scalp. She will be returned there | , this afternoon for further mination. | A young man and a young woman | i riding in an automobile driven by George N. De Neale, 32 years old, of 516 A street northeast, received minor injuries last night when their car col- iided at East Capitol and Fifth streets with a machine operated by Charles F. | Suter of Rosslyn, Va. | The injured are Miss Elsie < | 22 years old, of 1324 G street southeast, and Norman Birkett, 23 years old, of | 11217 E street southeast. They re | | treated by Dr. F. Vernon Atkinson of | 516 A street northeast. Miss Helen Soyer, yea old, of || 1806 L street northeast, was cut about | her face last night when a car driven by Vernon V. Johnson of Los Ange! in which she was a passenger, collided in front of 703 H street northeast with the automobile of William H. Lytle of 1211 C street northeast. The injured woman was taken to MRS. RAY LYMAN WILBUR. ~—Harris-Ewing Photo. older daughter of the Wilburs is the wife of a young orthopaedic surgeon Of the California redwood trees, for | mobile. feeling, Mrs. Wilbur also spoke admir- ingly. “We have a Summer cottage among them and we will go back to them next Summer, for our first vacation.” s . At Cambridge, England, next Sum- mer Harvard Schools of ' Architecture and Landscape Architecture will g a serfes of courses in co-operation with Cambridge University and the Cam- Five Eskimos Safe After 6-Day Battle For Life on Floe scape Archifecture. ‘WoODWARD Hunting Party Caught| Without Food on Drift- ing Ice, Reaches Land. | By the Associated Press. | OTTAWA, Ontario, March 9.—The story of how a hunting party of Eskimos fought hunger and exhaustion for six days on an ice floe in Hudson Straits was relayed to officials here yesterday by the government radio station at Not- tingham Island, where the five finally found refuge. The men set out February 21, ventur- ing several hundred yards out in search of game. The ice on which they were broke adrift from the shore ice on which were their dog teams and sup- plies. ‘The floe drifted about in the pack ice of the straits. They had only their alskin clothing to chew to appease their hunger and had to keep moving | constantly to keep from freezing. | Finally their floe touched shore and the men escaped to land and made their way through 30 miles of wilder- ness to Boucherville. They collapsed | on sighting the village, but they had been seen and were rescued and revived. The message from the radio station said all apparently would recover. the charm of ,THE very name is su charm caught in colors traditional edgings, tracings and ful shapes. Casualty Hospital in a passing auto- i bridge Schol of Domestic and Land- | with ARMS FOR MEXICO APPROVEDBY U.3. State Department Grants Government Request Also as to Planes. By the Arsociated Press. Developments here growing out of the rebellion in Mexico give no comfort to those who are seeking the overthro= of the present Mexican government. The State Department has approved a request of the Mexican government for surplus war material and will prob- ably supply such materials out of stores now held by the War Department. Sec- retary of War Good said that the Mex- ican government had asked only rifle and ammunition and that a survey wa now being made to determine the sur- plus and whether it would be sent by water or through one of the border towns, The Stat | a request. b | import _pri the Unile: Department also approved cican government to ly made airplanes from Reports from Yuma, Arizona, stated that bulletins had been posted by Mexican officials offer | American aviators $250 a day and tha | federal troops were preparing a landir San Luis, on the Sonora bord of accommodating 15 to 20 This was taken to mean an ack in preparation on the rebel | d of Nogales. Sonora. | ! ith approval given the pur- e of planes bv the Mesican govern- t went an embargo on unauthorize: ment of vpl-nes into Mexico, this being done presumably to prevemt the buying of aircraft in this country by {the rebel & L.oTHROP 10™ U™ F axp G StreeTs A New Tableware Fashion Floranada —Fine China that brings old Dresden ggestive of its charm— the mellowed, blended old Dresden. Gold kandles emphasize the loveliness of the softly-toned flowers that bloom on a delicate ivory body—accentuate the grace- Decorator’s Note Plain-color Carpets For an attractive setting Woodward & Lothrop uses “Floranada” on pastel green damask, with etched crystal glass- ware that cleverly introduces tin flower motifs in color. Ensemble dis ,-Played in China Section. 35-Piece Luncheon Set $72 In open stock from which you may select any desired pieces. Service for six CHiNa, F1rrs FLOOR. Army officer, told Gen. Ramos that his | court-martial and executed. But | troops could withdraw into the United | Mayor Gallo denied this. He sdid he States and be interned until the proper | was not executed, but is alive, and . ritics could decide upon their gffered to prove it. fon | "“My wife's prayers were answered.” fedcral troops and members of | was one of his comments. He is still | their families were in an girplanc hangar | presidente municipale of Ciudad Juar at Fort Bliss under guard of United | Gen. Murrieta admitted this. Three Mexican offi-| ~“Welcome to Juarez” was Ma ers’ quarters, | Gallo's greeting for American tourt: - “Come back again soon.” Schools to Reopen Monday. | MEDAL AND $12,000 GIVEN| _ schooi to Reopen Seonday. AS ADVERTISING AWARDS | Muricta expiained. 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