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J0 REVOLTERS DUE -INTORREON TODAY Early Battle With Loyal Mex- ican Troops Seems Imminent. Bs the Associated Press. EL PASO, Tex., March 11.—An emlyl conflict between Mexican rebel forces end federal troops seemed imminent THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. MEXICANS FEAR ADVANCE OF REBELS today with two trainloads of rebels en | Toute to Torreon, Coahuila, a rebel | stronghold. The trains, carrying about | 300 revolutionaries, left Juarez Saturday | night. They passed through Jiminez | late Saturday and were expected to | reach Torreon late toda; | Reports that two trainloads of rein- forcements for the Juarez garrison were | on their way north has not been con- firmed here and Gen. Marcelino Mur- riega, commandant of the Juarez gar- rison, indicated he did not expect ad- | ditional troops at this time. Gen. Murriega said the two troop trains en route south would reach Tor- reon today and unite there with the forces of Gen. Gonzalo Escobar, rebel commander in chief. ‘That the rebels were in command, at Jeast as far south as Chihuahua, was | indicated when a Mexican National | Railway train from that point reached | Juarez at 7:30 p.m. yesterday on time. | No soldiers and few passengers vere on the train. Delivery of mail from the * held up by the American as orders from the Mexic.... Ambassador | at Washington received here the | Mexican consulate closed all ports in ) Mexico, including border points held by the rebels, to international traffic. This placed an embargo upon shipment of ®oods as well as mail. Efforts made by Gen. Murriega to have the United States post office officials make special regulations regarding mail deliveries and other traffic across the border have re- sulted in no definite settlement. While American tourists swarmed through Juarez yesterday, residents ‘were greatly excited for a time by an extra edition of a Juarez newspaper which bore the caption “Calles Mureto?" (Calles Dead?). The newspaper story said that Calles had been reported cap- tured and killed near Lecheria, a few miles from Mexico City. Three hundred Mexican federal sol- diers, with camp followers, interned at Fort Bliss, present an interesting and picturesque group. Tobacco, cigarettes, stationery and candy have been supplied to the soldiers and their families. American officers who catalogued all the belonging of the Mexicans, added one item to their list when, to their sur- prise, they heard a rooster crow in a piles of boxes. Inspection revealed that the bird, which evidently had been brought along in the event of food shortage, had been cleverly concealed. One of the Mexican soldiers asked that milk be furnished to his wife so that their §-day-old baby could be fed properly. The father said that they needed the milk so they could put a little in the baby's coffee. SPECIAL NOTICES. ‘WASHINGTON RAILWAY & ELECTRIC M! % Redemption Notice. 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Mexican federal government being inspected for the last time at their garrison in Torreon before taking the field against Above: Infantry of CALLES SEES FALL OF TORREON TODAY Escobar Concentrates Heavy Forces as Mexican Gen- eral Advances. (Continued From First Page.) nightfall was expected. It was believea Gen. Escobar’s force of possibly a few thousand troops would be no match for Gen. Calles, and retirement from the city northward to Chihuahua was not improbable. Canitas Taken by Calles. Fall of Canitas to Gen. Calles yester- day was such as to startle even the most optimistic here. An aviator fiy- ing over the rebel lines reported he ;nw everywhere men waving -white ags. ‘The aviator communicated with the federal vanguard, which immediately established contact with the rebels, with the result that three entire regi- ments of 350 men each surrendered and were incorporated into the fed- eral ranks. Gen. Rancisco Urbalejo, command- ing the army, escaped with 30 of his followers, either for Durango, where he may have other troops, or w0 Torreon to _join Gen. Escobar. Thus without shedding a single drop of blood the federals gained possession of a railway junction, offering access to both Durango, and to Torreon, Chi- huahua, and points North. The government explanation is that the rebel generals have vwold their men they were fighting for the government and that they have been quick to re-l turn to their old allegiance as soon as they discovered their mistake. The federal commanders hope for further surrenders of this sort. Dispatches indicate a state of affairs not so favorable to the federals on the West coast. There the advance of the rebel army under Gen. Francisco Manzo had extended from Sonora down through the State of Sanola to Cuilas. Mazatlan, one of three sizable West coast ports was the object. Carrillo Defending Mazatlan, Defending Mazatlan from the rebels was a small force under Gen. Jaime Carrillo. A government announcement today said the advance had stopped, al- though it did not indicate when, where, or why. A possible explanation was found however #1 dispatches which told of withdrawal of some of Manzo's men for use on the Chihuahua front. Success of this rebel West coast ven- ture might give them a base of opera- tions for at least a threat against Mex- ico City, by way of the State of Nayarit and the city of Guadalajara. Such an offensive would threaten the rear of Gen. Calles’ army and probably divert some of his forces from the Northern front. From Canitas some 2,000 federal troops have been sent westward to Durango, capital of the State of that name. Only a small rebel garrison is believed remaining there and little diffi- culty is expected in capturing the city. Moving westward from Monterey, gov- ernment reports said, Gen. Andreu Al- mazan had between 6,000 and 8,000 men ready to aid in the attack on Torreon. Government announcements said an offer of surrender had been received from Gen. Jesus M. Aguirre, commander of the rebel forces in the state of Vera Cruz, who was forced to flee the city of that name after most of his force re- turned to the government banners. The general’s offer was made conditional upon his being allowed to make his way out of the country safely. Offer Is Refused. The announcement said the offer was refused and he was told he and his men would have to surrender unconditionally and submit to court-martial. It is said here the government does not intend to be lenient with the rebel leaders and that if blood doesn't flow on the battlefields it will at least run freely before firing squads. Thus far there have been three federal execu- tions: Gen. Jesus Palomera Lopez, Mex- ico City; Gen. Juan Lagunnas at Al- varado, Vera Cruz, and Gen. Ireneo Villareal at Parr: Nuevo Leon. If rebels have executed any it is unknown here. Meanwhile Mexico City remains calm. Aerial and railroad communication has been resumed with the United States and steamers are calling again at Vera Cruz. ‘The most serious effect of the revo- lution in the capital has been economic in nature. Business in general has en- tered such a dull period some concerns have been obliged to close down. Sal- ary slashes on a wide scale have be- come necessary. VESSELS PATROL COAST. Mexican Ships Seek to Prevent Escape | of Aguirre. VERA CRUZ, Mexico, March 11 (#). —Mexican naval vessels patrolled the coast south of here today to prevent possible escape by sea of Gen. Jesus Maria Aguirre, defeated revolutionary leader. The ships arrived yesterday from Tampico and immediately left for the south. REBELS CLAIM ESTRADA. Obregon War Secretary Reported as Joining Revolution. NEW YORK, March 11 () —Gen Marion V. Montero, representative here of the Mexican_revolutionists, sald to- day that Gen. Enrique Estrada, former the United States for the last five years, has been designated chief of operations in Zacatecas, Montero said. He added that Estrada had decided to join the revolution after determining the revolutionists were anxious to settle religious question on a liberal basis. Monterou said he had word that the forces fo Gen. Jesus M. Aguirre had been “strategically scattered” over the State of Vera Cruz to menace the rail- road and telegraphic communication between the capital and the sea. REVOLT ENVOY CHANGES PLANS. Trip to Washington Is Post- poned Indefinitely. NOGALES Ariz, March 11 (#).— Ignacio Soto, who had planned to leave here yesterday for Washington as envoy of the Mexican revolutionists, announc- ed that his trip has been postponed in- definitely. He gave no reason for changing his plans. BUILDING PLANES FOR MEXICO. Soto’s First Group of Corsairs Will Be Shipped This Week. NEW YORK, March 11 (#)—A fleet of planes destined for use by the Mexi- can government forces against the rebels is being turned out at the Vought air- craft factory, Long Island City. The first group of the planes, which will leave the plant fully equipped with machine guns and bomb racks, is ex- pected to start for Mexico this week. Chance Vought, head of the company, declined to say how many had been ordered, but said his plant had been working day and night to fill the order. They are the Vought Corsair type, biplane, with place for pilot and gun- ner, equipped with Pratt & Whitney 400-horsepower motors. They are simi- lar to planes used by American marines in Nicaragua. ‘The New York Times says that pilots who are to fly the planes South are being trained at the naval air station at Hampton Roads, Va. Brig. Gen. Juan' F. Azcarate, chief of the Mexican air service, who came to contract for the planes, is expected to fly one of them back. REBELS HEAD FOR MAZATLAN, Battle With Federal Troops in Strategic City Looms. NOGALES, Ariz, March 11 (®).— Mexican rebels continued to march southward through Sinaloa today, head- €d for Mazatlan, and an apparently in- evitable battle with federal troops stand- ing fast in that strategic city. Across the Gulf of California, other revolu- tionary forces from the lower half of Baja California also headed toward Ma- zatlan, Five thousand soldiers were declared by Gen. Francisco Borquez, rebel com- mander in Sonora, to be concentrating in southern Sinaloa and marching for the attck on Mazatlan. Declaring these forces ample to rout Gen. Jaime Caril- lo, federal leader holding Matzatlan, Borquez overnight brought 2,000 soldiers by train out of southern Sonora to move eastward into Chihuahua. They were not needed on the Sinaloa front, Gen. Borquez explained, and were destined to join the rebel forces threatened with federal attack at Torreon and in Durango. Sing as They March. Quila, Sinaloa, early today marked the advance line of the southward marching rebels. They passed through there last night, singing as they march- ed. The point is 100 miles north of Mazatlan and 30 miles south of Culia- can, approaching which concentration point was Gen. Roberto Cruz with 2,500 cavalrymen to join the attacking col- umn. Gen. Simon Jago, leading 500 Yaqui Indians, was reported to have come out of the Sinaloa hills and joined the rebel troops near Culiacan. ‘The Baja California, lower district revolt which occurred Saturday mid- night, sent 1,300 men by boat across the gulf, to join the March on Mazat- lan. These troops joined the southward offensive early today at Guayamas, Sonora. Reports reaching here this morning said the followers of Adolfo de la Huer- ta, former provisional President of Mexico, now living in political exile in Los Angeles, were aligning themselves with the revolutionaries. Gen. Enrique Estrada, said to be one of Mexico’s best known military strate- gists, and Huerta's former military chief, arrived at revolutionary head- quarters at Nogales, Sonora, yesterday. With him came his secretary, Gen. Jorge Laurens, who declared that prac- tically all the De la Huerta elements except their exiled leader himself were taking up arms against the Mexico City government. Expect to Confer With Leaders. Estrada and Laurens expected to con- fer with revolutionary leaders today and then move southward to “organize all the elements for the revolution.” With the reported arrival in Guay- amas, Sonora, of 1,300 rebel trops from the lower district of Baja California, Gen. Francisco Mauzo, rebel leader in charge of the movement of troops into Chihuahua, advised the Nogales head- quarters that Gov. Amado Aguirre of the lower district had not revolted, as | first stated. Gen. Manzo declared the 1,300 soldiers had deserted Aguirre and jeft Lower Baja California without vio- lence to those who remained loyal to the government. Gen. Fausto Topete, rebel leader, has | left Navajoa, Sonora, with 300 soldiers, horses and supplies, headed for the | concentration at Culiacan. He predict- ed the revolutionists would be in Gua- | dalajara, Jalisco, on the direct railroad | route to Mexico City, by April 1. Al successful_attack upon Mazatlan, or the | retreat from there of Gen. Carrillo, would open the way for a rapid advance toward Mexico City. The railroad at | present is controlled by the Mazatlan | feder: secretary of war under Obregon, had joined the revolution. 4 .Estrads, who has bgery an exile in Gen. Manzo, who arrived in Nogales, Sonora, late last night with trooj whigh are being moyed eastward in & 1S TOSEND 1000 RIFLES T0 MEXICO War Department Assembling Surplus Arms—News En- courages Officials. By the Assoclated Press. More encouragement over the situa- tion in Mexico was drawn today by administration officials from the latest dispatches from that country, but they still were keeping a close watch on events south of the Rio Grande. Acceleration of efforts to assist the Mexican government in putting down the revolution was one development of the day, the War Department assem- bling 10,000 Enfield rifles with large quantities of ammunition, for which the government to the south has asked, from surplus stores in this country. Explaining that the details of the supplies requested by Mexico are mili- tary secrets which should not be di- vulged, Secretary of War Good declined to amplify his previous announcement on this subject. He said the American Government might be criticized if it should make public information which the Mexican government regarded as a military secret. Interned Troops Discussed. Disposition of the 300 Federal troops and their families from Juarez, who were given asylum last week at Fort Bliss after they had crossed into El Paso, formed the subject of conferences between State and War Department officials. It was disclosed that Brig. Gen. George Van Horn Morely, com- manding at Fort Bliss, hac. reported that he had made no agree/nent with the Rebels, which would prevint the re- turn of the Federal force to Mexico at any time. It was regarded as likely, however, that action by the Mexican government would be deferred pending communications from Mexico City. State Department officlals said there had been no decision as to what atti- tude the United States would take in event the Federal forces advancing from the south should force some of the Rebels into American territory. They added, however, that the probabilities were that they would be interned in ac- cordance with the provisions of the 1928 Havana convention, which has been ratified by Mexico, but which still is awaiting action by the United States Senate. Secretary Kellogg stated emphati- cally that the rebels had not been rec- ognized as belligerents by the American Government and that no such recogni- tion would be extended. He reiterated that there was no indication that any Americans on the American side of the border were assisting the revolutionists. Federals Well Entrenched. Most of the dispatches to the State Department contained no information supplementing that in press reports from Mexico last night, but one from Mazatlan indicated that the rebel ad- vance southward toward that west coast port had been halted temporarily with the scouting forces returning to the rebel base at Culiacan. The American consul at Mazatlan reported that condi- tions in the city were becoming normal and that the federals were well en- trenched. Notice was recelved from the Mexi- can Ambassador that all of the Mexican border ports in the states of Sonora and Chihuahua and the seacoast ports of Sonora had been closed to exports and imports. This step was taken to pre- vent the rebels from coming into pos- session of customs duties which would materially assist them in financing their movement against the federal govern- ment, The port of Vera Cruz, closed when the rebels seized it, now has been re- opened under federal jurisdiction. ACCUSED OF VIOLATING D. C. COMPENSATION LAW C. E. Pangle, Arlington Painter, Arrested on Charge Filed by Injured Employe. One of the first arrests for alleged failure to comply Wwith the District workmen's compensation act was made today when Charles Edgar Pangle, 47 years old, a painter, of Arlington, Va., Was brought to headquarters under a warrant charging him with failure to secure payment of compensation to Carl Spitzinger, 919 North Carolina avenue, severely injured December 5 while said to have been in Pangle’s employ. Pangle told police that Spitzinger was working on a painting job with him in the 1300 block of Gallatin street when he pitched from a ladder to the ground. ‘The injured man was removed to Emer- gency Hospital, where Pangle says he visited him and offered to render all the aid he could afford. Spitzinger was dis- charged several weeks ago from the hospital. Detectives E. E. Thompson and ‘Thomas Nally made the arrest at Pan- gle’s home inn Arlington. X quick shift of rebel forces, declared that Carrillo attempted to withdraw from Mazatlan several days ago. He found a raflway bridge destroyed to the south, Manzo stated, and was forced to turn back to the gulf city. Dispatches from Culiacan to the Nogales Herald said the state of Nayarit, south of Mazatlan, was up in arms, assuring the revolution- ists that if Gen, Carrillo retreats he 5, will be forced tgyfight his way toward B Mexlco Cit D. C. POCKET VETO RIGHT AT STAKE IN GOURT) Supreme Bench Remains in Session to Hear Argu- ments on Status. By the Assoclated Press. The Supreme Court remained in ses- sion today after delivering opinions, especially to hear arguments in the pocket veto case, on which it is called for the first time in history to reach a decision. ‘The court will decide the validity of pocket vetoes as applied by the Presi- dent at the close of any session of Con- gress except the final adjournment every two years. For many years it has been the practice of the President to kill legislation objectionable to him which reached him less than 10 days before the adjournment of the session by taking no action upon it, a practice generally referred to as a pocket veto. The fate of the Muscle Shoals bill, which was pocket vetoed at the close of the first session of the last Con- gress, and of 119 other measures pocket vetoed from the beginning of the prac- tice were at issue, including the case of the Okanagan and other Indian tribes in Washington, which was used to test the practice. Counsel for the Indians asserted that when the President failed to sign the bill passed in the closing days of the first session of the Sixty-ninth Con- gress authorizing the Indians to sue the Government in the Court of Claims over land alleged to have been taken from them without compensation, it became law without his signature. Representative Sumners of Texas, ranking Democrat on the House judi- ciary committee, was permitted by the court to file a brief and participate in the oral argument in support of the stand taken by that committee against the validity of pocket vetoes. Attorney General Mitchell filed a brief urging the court to sustain the construction given by various adminis- trations and contended that should pocket vetoes be declared invalid chastic conditions would follow. ENGINEER OFFICEI?S AFFECTED BY CHANGES Acceptance of Capt. Whitehurst's Resignation by President Revealed in Orders. Several orders of local interest, af- fecting officers of the Army Corps of Engineers, were issued at the War De- partment foday. One shows that the President has accepted the resignation of Capt. Her- bert C. Whitehurst, assistant to the Engineer Commissioner of the District, to take effect at oncas. His successor has not yet been named. Other orders directed that Capt. Roy D. Burdick, instructor of the Ohio National Guard at Cleveland; Capt. Charles H. Swick, stationed at Fort Bragg, N. C.; Capt. Marshall J. Noyes, at the State College of Washington, at Pullman, Wash,, and First Lieut. John C. Arrowsmith, at the Carnegie Insti- tute of Technology, at Pittsburgh, pro- ceed to this city to take a course of instruction at the Army Industrial School, in the Munitions Building, be- ginning in August. They will report to Gen. Jadwin, Chief of Engineers, for duty in his office in connection with their studies. RAILROAD OFFICIALS MAKE FLIGHTS HERE Pennsylvania Heads Fly in Ship ‘Which Will Connect Rail Lines. An effort to make officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad “air-minded” was begun today in a series of flights from the Naval Air Station by a 14- passenger transport plane of the Trans- continental Air Transport, which this Spring will join with the Pennsylvania line in operating a transcontinental air-rail service. A series of 20-minute flights was made with officials of the_ railroad as pas- sengers this morning and the flights will continue tomorrow and possibly Wednesday, after which the plane wiil be flown to the Pacific Coast. The plane is one used by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Col. Paul Henderson, former Second Assistant Postmaster General in charge of air mail, as a flying office. Among the visitors who arrived, by air at local flying fields today were Vincent Smith, who landed at Hoover Field in & Travelair plane en route from New York to Langley Field, and S. D. Eurich, manager of a Hagerstown, Md., manufacturing company, who landed at Washington Afrport in a Challenger plane used by his organization for fast traveling. FARMER’S BODY FOUND. Man Slain and Burned by Robbers, Police Believe. WATER VALLEY, Miss, March 11 (#).—Officers advanced the theory to- day that Steve Hubbard, 58, a farmer whose charred body was found in a wooded section near here late yesterday, had been killed by robbers and his clothing set afire to destroy evidence of the crime. Hubbard, who had been missing from his home for five weeks, apparentiy had been slain by a blow on the head. He lived alone on a farm. VWill Rogers Says: NEW YORK.—Juarez has been taken over by one side or the other, but that don’t mean anything. That was just like the border States go- ing Republican last Fall. They will switch back next time if the other side makes 'em a better offer, and that's the way with Juarez. Shots are coming over into El Paso. The Senate will investigate now. Pass a law to “make a bullet light In the same country it started from.” The Senate might advo- cate “wider rivers between the two countries.” P. 8.—Say, Mr. Coolidge had an awful human article in the maga- zine, We haven't got any writers that call themselves authors that can do that good. UWseat SOt CARS 1928 Model “A” Ford Tudor, $450. HILL & TIBBITTS Open Sundays and Evenings 301 Fourteenth St. MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1929 16 NEW STREETS WILL BE PAVED Working Season Is Expected to Be Resumed About First of April. The working season for street pav- ing operations will be resumed about | April 1, the District Engineer Depart- ment announced today. The work at first will be chiefly on contracts inter- rupted by the Winter season. Recently the Commissioners approved new pav- ing work, to be paid for out of the gasoline tax, for a large number of streets. Today 16 new strects werc added to the list. On all these streets the work will consist of surfacing stone block | pavements with a smooth asphalt cover- ing to afford an easy riding surface. ‘The streets in this list follow: In the northwest scction—Second street from | Pennsylvania avenue to B street Louisi- | ana avenue from Sixth to Seventh| street, Twenty-sixth street from K to! Pennsylvania avenue, Twenty-ninth street from M to N street Thirtieth street from M to N streets, Nineteenth street from K to N street. Potomac street from M to Prospect avenue, Thirty-first_street from M to N sireet and from P to R stree!, First street from C to F strest, O street from Seventh to Eighth street, L street from Fourth to Fifth street. In the Southwest section—Virginia avenue, from Ninth to Twelfth street; C street, from Sixth to Seventh street: B street, from First street to Maryland | avenue. In the Southeast section—New Jersey avenue, from C to E street. Specifications for the work on these streets will be prepared and bids solicit- ed in the next month or two. SEVERAL VACANCIES CONFRONT LAMONT Secretary of Commerce Does Not Plan Any Change in Policy. By the Associated Press. Secretary Lamont of the Commerce Department announced today that al- though he must fill several major va- cancies in his executive staff, he would endeavor to conduct the department without change of policy. “This branch of the Government w: under President Hoover's direct personal control for nearly eight years,” the Sec- retary said, “and it behooves his suc- cessor to move very slowly in consider- ing any changes and to take ample time to study the situation. The First As- sistant ~Secretary is now Postmaster General Brown, but for the time being the post will be left vacant and I hope to have Mr. Brown's counsel on mat- ters which he formerly directed. “William P. McCracken, Secretary for Aeronautics, feels that he cannot much longer afford to devote his efforts to the public and has asked to be relieved, but there is no emergency. I understand that there are vacancies | on the Radio Commission to fill, with which this department is concerned, | though the matter is probably directly up to the President. “Dr. Julius Klein, chief of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, is in Europe in the line of departmental | duty inspecting trade-promotion offices and I hope to be able to urge his reten- tlon of his post after his return. The rest of my duty in the next few weeks will lie along the lines of familiarizing myself with the department and its ramifications and connections.” e ANe CONGRESS RELIEVES COURT CONGESTION Patent Office Cases Transferred From Appellate Tribunal of District. Congestion of litigation in the District Court of Appeals has been relieved in some degres by the recent action of Congress which divests that tribunal of Jjurisdiction to hear and determine aj peals from the Patent Office. So ex- tensive had grown this branch of the court’s work that it exceeded in number all the cases from the District Supreme Court, the Municipal Court and the Police Court. Under the new legislation, all such ap- peals will be heard by the United States | Court of Customs and Appeals, which is composed of five judges, and proba- bly will be able to devote more time to this work. ‘The change, however, does not mean that the work of the appellate court will be cut because there is gradually growing a nymber of appeals from the United States Board of Tax Appeals and from the Federal Radio Commis- CHICAGO, March 11 (#)—Several passengers were injured today in a collision of two Loop-bound elevated trains crowded with office workers. 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