Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1929, Page 22

4 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. €, FRIDAY, MARCH 15 1929. TORREONLIK Y OFAVERAN WEST Always Strategic Center in Revolts—Hills Natural Barrier to Calles. By the Associated Press. | Torreon, haven of Mexican revolu-| tionists and the goal of federal forees, | followed Cortez, no solid forts or dwell- ing houses dating back to the Conquis~ tadores who pushed northward among the Indians.” Surrounding _geographical features, according to the description, are de- cidedly in favor of the rebels holding the city. It is in the midst of a hilly region, the rough, hilly desert country beginning close to the south of the | town—a natural barirer to the troops of | Gen. Calles, pressing northward through the state of Zacatecas. River at Edge of City. On one edge of the city flows the | {Mazas River, which is often a sizable stream. The city is of great importance as a mercantile and distributing center. From it great quantities of dry goods, groceries, hardware and machinery find their way into the surrounding country. “Torreon is alw a strategic c ter in Mexican revolutions,” it was today was described by officials of the National Geograp ty as a city a any a city wn that | plained, * e it is a railway junction {51 consequence, and lics midway between | Mexico City and important border gate- ways. To the northwest lie Juarez and it the palm as “the dustiest town in the world.” This results from the winds that blow almost constantly from the dry region surrounding the city, U. S. Influences Notable. American influences in the town, which seems, it was said, to have bor- | rowed the spirit of the Yankee rail- road men who were in it at its birth, are notable. The streets are wide, and American goods are displayed in the stores. Bustling with industry in It are soap factories, brewerles, brick plants and one of Mexico's largest factories for making rubber from the guay plant which grows in the semi-de: regions nearby. Much silver and coppe ore from the mountains to the south and west is smelted there. Base ball is the favorite sport of the | boys of Torreon, and in normal times they maintain good teams, playing a| gular seasonal series with teams from | the border towns. | Usually there is a sizable foreign pop- | ulation in the town: hotels are filled | with American mining engineers and | | executtves, and commercial travelers, lNATIONALISTS RATIFY KELLOGG ANTI-WAR PACTE Japan Only One of 15 Original SignatoTies of Treaty to With- hold Approval. By the Assoclated Press. The Chinese legation announced yes- terday that the Chinesc Nationalist | Rovernment has ratified the Kellogg | Trent, England, city council at the re- | the library of the boys' department of | yaza bat | cent city election, when 12 independent |the Y. M C. A. during a contest anti-war tresty, The Polish ratification of the treaty | expected to reach Washington by 5 special courler from Warsaw next’ Thursday and will be deposited at the State Department by the Polish charge d'affaires, Stanislaw Lapkowski. The ratification of the treaty’ by a | unanimous vote of the Belgian Parlia- ment earlier in the week leaves Japan the only one of the original 15 signa- | tories to withhold approval. All of the | original signatories must approve the | pact before it can become effective. - Socialists gained control of Stoke-on- | councilmen election, were defeated for re-| additional gifts to the library bring the total number of books available for members of the department to approxi- mately 5,000. Y. M. C. A. BOYS’ LIBRARY . INCREASED BY CONTZST 800 New Books Are Added—George | Stansfield Wins Week's Stay at Camp. ifts of 122 bocks, was awarded stay at Camp Letts, the . M. boys’ camp on Chesapeake Bay below Annapolis. Johnny Metz, | who added 68 books to the library, was Eight hundred new volumes of fiction | awarded a renewal of a year member- and non-fiction books were added to Ship in the junior “Y” organization. Budd Hammerlund won a regulation ographed by every member stlof the Washington base ball team at by | the time “Bucky” Harris was manager ended, it was announced today The He was responsible for the addition of James C. Ingram, hoys' director, George Stansfield, credited with nh-! 58 books. Others winning special awards were Edwin Rowher, Clifford | Herl and John Stkken. Many others | won honorable mention. | Woman Hurt by Fall. | Mrs. Lilly R. Preston, 30 years old, |of 2400 Sixteenth street, was- light:~ linjured yesterday afternoon nex, | Jostled by passengers alighting taom a motor bus at Thirteenth and F styeets, she stumbled and fell. She was treated |at Emergency Hospital by Dr. Leon {‘._nr:lnn for minor injuries to her right hip. El Paso. and to_the northeast, Porfirio s | Diaz and Eagle Pass. Through Monte- peeded by frey to the east, railway line the great Mexican cotton dis- | with Laredo and Matamore ng at its doorstep. | One feature of the ci however, t to most of the import should detract from the physical com- | ter for Chinese; but since the massacre re fort of the rebels in Torreon—globe- |of 1911, when several hundred Chinese otters who have fought the grit of | were killed or driven out, few are to be | Bagdad, Cairo and Teheran have given ! seen. grew up like a musk ways crossed on Ago. Its growth bound to or from the mines and cities farther south. There is a considerable colony of German importers and mer- chants. In the past, Torreon was a cen- JL.E.Cunningham Co7 314~316 SEVENTH ST..NW. IT°’S EASTER TIME AT CUNNINGHAM’S tAccepted Coat Fashions . ... Hundreds of Them Every Conceivable Style . . 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