Evening Star Newspaper, April 4, 1929, Page 4

CHHUAHIA REBEL L0 STIPENDOUS Army Virtually Annihilated at La Reforma, Say Fed- eral Dispatches. (Continued From First Page.) and paralleling the railroad on each &ide le. Seven burned bridges between Jimenez and Santa Rosalia prevented the rebels esca by train. Wm‘th}; rebels were trying to repair bridges the federal cavalry closed in. Rebel Trains Bombed. Gen. Almazan brought the Presiden- tial Guards ent, containing In- fantry and Artillery, along the railroad track, and attacked as the Cavalry; charged. Federal airplanes dropped 75-pound demolition bombs on the rebel trains. The rebels abandoned their trains, but flight was impossible. Machine gun and rifie fire mowed them down like weeds whil shrapnel leveled whole squads. Little mercy was shown. Some sur- renders were accepted and the trains, bereft of their able-bodied, yielded 500 wounded who had been forced to remain in their frail shelter as the federal fire plerced and shattered the coaches and box cars. No estimates on the number of dead were available here other than the re- mark that the toll was “stupendous.” At Chapultepec Castle it was said 500 of the enemy were wounded and the num- ber killed was much greater.” whe for- mal report of Gen. Almazan to Gen. Calles, however, made no estimates of the casualties and the “500 wounded” was believed here to refer to the entire four days’ action, beginning at Carral- itos Sunday and ending at 2 p.m. yes- terday at La Reforma. Leaders Believed in Flight. A Chapultepec announcement said that the rebel leaders escaped. This was taken to mean Gen. Jose Gonzalo Escobar, Marrcello Caraveo, Francisco TUrbalejo and others. In his report Gen. Calles said the rebels fought with great bravery, but were abandoned “by their cowardly leaders.” In Mexico City it was believed the action at La Reforma would have the effect of ending the campaign in Chi- huahua. There was a chance, of course, that a part of the rebel army had preceded those slaughtered at La Re- forma and made their escape to Santa Rosalio. At the worst, observers did not think the movement could persist any longer outside o‘fl tl{n:d atalhe ‘:X Bnnor’n.h twher; segregate leral '00ps mig] Tul do'ne.:he insurgents almost at leisure. In Jalisco and Guanajuato, however, the so-called religious insurgents have, according to government reports, taken advantage of government difficulties elsewhere to occupy various towns. The federal commander announced he ‘was dispatching Gen. Saturnino Cedillo to the affected area at once with 5,000 troops to undertake a vigorous campaign re. Dispatches Tnterpreted. Dispatches from Juarez giving re- ports of rebel officials at Chihuahua City and others that the troops of Gen. Escobar had made a counter attack at Jimenez and were fighting in the streets of that city were believed to refer to the rebel counter attack of Tuesday morning there. At that time the insurgent cavalry made a desperate effort to break through the federal lines, but failed. Gen. Almazan's troops, according to apparently well founded information reaching Mexico Oity, not only held Jimenes today but had advanced to & porh:;‘ beyond La Reforma, 11 miles no; U. S. TOWN BOMBED AGAIN. No Damage Results—Battle at Naco Expected Momentarily. NACO, Ariz, April 4 (#).—The explo- sion of another Mexican rebel bomb on American soil and the increasing fre- quency of revolutionary air raids on loyal stronghold at Naco, Sonora, added 1o the tension on both sides of the bor- der here today. A decisive battle for the undisputed possession of Naco was expected momentarily. The American town was subjected to & second bombing last night when a rebel monoplane roared over the twin border towns and dropped three mis- siles, one of which fell about 20 feet north of the line. The two others fell establish a closer cultural relati between Latin America and the Ul States. rebels, reports from an Associated Press correspondent and from rebel head- quarters at Chihuahua City, received here late last night, said the revolu- tionists had launched s counter attack on Jimenez and were battling the fed- erals in the streets of the town. The mnews of the counter attack was the only information on the battle available at Juarez. Communication lines to Jime- nez, which were disrupted Monday by the explosion of a trainload of dyna- mite, still were out of order. ‘The reports from Jimenez to Chihua- hua City were dropped in the city by rebel airmen, who flew over the town. They stated oply that the rebels had launched the counter attack, apparent- ly some distance from Jimenez, and that they had driven the federals back into the town. The counter attack was described in the aviators' message as a success. The Associated Press correspondent located at Santa Rosalia de Camargo, 40 miles from Jimenez, reported that ' hand-to-hand fighting was in progress in Jinenes. His report gave no details, apparently because of the strict censor- ship established by the rebels. An unverified report in Chihauhau City said that Gen. Marcelo Caraveo, a rebel leader, won an important victory yesterday at Diaz, 20 miles north of Jimenez, taking many prisoners. It also was reported that a number of pieces of federal artillery were captured and several more destroyed by rebel air- planes during the fighting. It was reported here that the rebels have some 30 airplanes in the vicinity of Jimenez. Sixteen planes have been sent from Juares to Jimenez during the past few weeks. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. ‘The Potomac Palisades and Garden Landscape Club will meet, 8 o'clock, at the residence of Mrs. Robert Mancill, 5410 Macomb street. Dr. Earle White of the American Peony Soclety will talk of this flower. All persons living in the Potomac Heights community are especially invited. ‘Washington Academy of Sciences will meet, 8:15 o'clock, in assembly hall of the Cosmos Club. Austin H. Clark, United States National Museum, will deliver an address on “Evolution.” Dames of the Loyal Legion will meet, 3 oclock, at the home of Mrs. Hugh Carnes Smith, 4700 Connecticut avenue. ‘The auxiliary home board of Ruth Chapter, No. 1, O. E. 8, will hold a card y, 8 o'clock, at Brightwood ‘Temple. Rev. W. L. Turley, pastor of Mount Gilead Baptist Church, will preach a special sermon at the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, 8 o'clock, for the bene- fit of the church. Subject, “The World of No Tears.” The Male Chorus of Mount Gilead Church will sing. All welcome. Dr. J. Stanley Durkee of Brookl N. Y., will , 7:45 o'clock, at nyl. Congregational Church. Subject: “Love Triumphant,” {llustrated by the photo- the | play, “Glorious Betsy,’' 'featuring Do- lores Costello and Conrad Nagle. Kit Carson W. R. C, No. 11, will };l-:le a card party, 8 o'clock, at G. A. R. all. The Rebekah degree will be conferred on a class of candidates in Dorcas Re- bekah Lodge, No. 4, this evening in 0Odd Fellows’ Temple, S. N. Mallory, director. in Naco, Sonora. No damage resulted. All three missiles evidently had been aimed at the fortifications of Gen. Lucas Gonzalez and his 1,200 loyal troops. Cavalry in Skirmish. ‘The night air raid climaxed a day of ‘bomb dropping by both sides and a cav- alry skirmish just scuth of the town. Early in the day rebel planes dropped eight bombs on the federal garrison. No aj ble damage was done. One to explode. federal aviators retaliated with raids on the rebel camp, about three miles from town, scattering the insur- rectos but apparently doing no great damage. Shortly thereafter Gonzalez sent 50 federal cavalrymen out to at- tract the attention of the rebel forces. |, The federals succeeded in drawing about 75 rebel cavalrymen within range of a loyal machine-gun nest concealed just outside of town. The machine within ran; 5| with bullets. Several horses were seen 1o fall and the rebels retreated hur- riedly. - Loyal soldiers in the ison also fired at the rebels, but shots fell short. Message Intercepted. Gen. Gonzalez later said he had in- tercepted a message sent by Gen. To- te to Gen. J. Gonzalo Escobar,, revo- tionary commander-in-chief, report- ing casualties at one dead and one ‘wounded. ‘That some of the federal soldiers did not relish the situation at the was indicated last night when 10 of them, led by Capt. L. Flores Cooper, the border - and were in- terned here. Indications of & general northward movement of rebels in the eoupled with the increased activity by Ei.peu'l army, led to the belief here t & supreme effort soon would be to wrest Naco from the federals, | g clearing the border to the advan- tage of the insurrectos. . FEDERALS PURSUE MANZO. Lieut. A. P. Flagg, U. S. N., will de- scribe the growth and present status of naval aviation in a lecture at 8 o'clock before members of the D. C. Air at the legion headquarters in the In- ternational Building, 1319 F stree\ The public is invited. FUTURE. A card party will be given in St Martin's Hall, North Capitol and T streets, tomorrow evening for the bene- fit of St. Dominic's Church hy Mrs. st&hknd Hyland and Miss Nellle Brod- The civics section of the Woman's Club of Chevy Chase, tomorrow, 11:10 am, in Chevy Chase brary. will speak on Home,” and Miss Maude Aiton of the Americanization department of the public schools will make an address. ‘There will be a card party tomorrow evening at 2400 Sixteenth street for the benefit of the Blessed Sacrament Parochial School at Chevy Chase Cir- cle. Mrs, Andrew I. Hickey in charge. Federal Chapter, No. 38, O. E. 8, will give a card tomorrow, 8 p.m., at the home of . Hilton, 4514 Connecti- cut avenue. The Ne Ladies’ Ald will serve a Norwegian luprr at the Holy Com= forter Chapel, 5714 Georgia aven! tomorrow from 5 to 7 p.m. ‘The National Press Club Post, Ameri~ can Legion, has invited the National Press Club to a night entertain- ment Saturday, 8:45 o'clock. and vaudeville numbers in auditorium National Press Club. interior, | the The National Genealogical Society will meet Saturday, 8 p.m., at the Mount Pleasant Public Library. Prof. H JERSEY CITY AN ACCUSED IN BLAST U. S. Agent Tells of Iron- worker’s Aotivities-in Al- leged Sabotage. By the Associated Press. Testimony to show that Michael Kristoff, iron worker, of Jersey OCity, was one of at least three German agents who participated actively in the explo- sion of the Black Tom terminal of the Lehigh Valley Rallway in 1916, was given today before the German Amer- ican Mixed Claims Commission, in its hearings on the $21,000,000 sabotage claim of the United States against the government of Germany. A story of how Kristoff returned to his aunt’s home, where he lived, the morning of the explosion and repeated many “My God, what did I do, what did I do?” was told by American Agent Robert W. Bomynge, The testi- mony was given to him he said, by Kristoff’s cousin, & Mrs. Chapman, ‘who lived in the aunt’s 3 Contradictory Affidavits, Bomynge also laid before the com- tradictory aMdavits ney of Hudson County, New Jersey. One Hy of these statements, which was pre- sented by the United States, implicated Kristoff. The other, filed by Ger- many, and sald to have been obtained lll;z. cleared Kristoff. . Bomynge dence to show that Chark ployed by Germany to make investiga- tion in connection with the case, and base the United States’ charges against Kristoff cn other evidence. Germany’s contention that the Black Tom explosion and the fire at the Kingsland, N. J., munitions assembling plant of the Canadian Car & Foundry Co. were due to some industrial mishap not charegable to Germany will be presented tomorrow by German Agént Dr. von Lewinski. Activities Related. Mrs. Chapman, and also Kristofl's aunt, related a series of activities by Kristoff, all indicating he was employed b‘y Germany in a program of destruc- tion Bomynge told the commission. Kristoff , charts and blueprints, it was said, and made fre- quent trips away from his home, some of which were followed by explosions in the places to which he had gone. He luce evi- WaAS em- ing the night of the explosion was dis- puted. A move on the part of Dr. von Lewinski, to tintroduce evidence to com: bat a of Bomynge's case was met by the announcement that the State Department would be asked to investigate German contentions which, it was said, amounted to an indirect charge against American Vice Consul Higgins at Mexico City. Dr. Lewinski announced that he would bring evidence by the police of Mexico m? to show that an affidavit filed recently by the United State_was obtained from a Mexican, Luis Portales, who did not understand English, who did not know the contents of his statement, and who was paid $20 “for beer” by American representatives after he signed with his cross mark. Identified Photographs. agent of the Juarez Hotel for the past 20 years, declared in the affidavit that the owner, Otto ' Pag- lasch, was a well known qurmAn and man agents. On_Portales’ affidavit hinges another T5t | filed by the United States, in which the photographs are identified by name as those of two admitted German agents, one of whom was employed at the Kingsland plant, and of whom are .named by the United States as active | participants in the disasters. y The German evidence in connection with Portales’ affidavit amounts to a charge against Vice Consul Higgins, American Agent Bonynge asserted, since Portales signed it at the American em- bassy in Mexico City, in the vice con- sul's presence, and with his assistance. GERMAN APPROVAL OF YOUNG’S FIGURE EXPECTED IN PARIS (Continued From First Page.) ment in Berlin to the effect that he is hopetul of & settlement. It is pointed out here that this is much further than the chief German spokesman allowed himself to get in his conversations with the other delegations and is interpreted as indicating that Dr. Schacht actually sees the possibility of arriving at com| and that when he has held out long enough to satisfy German pub- | years, uesce. lic opinion he will acq ; If the Young memorandum is finally accepted as the backbone of the agree- ment Germany’s annuities will begin at a comparatively low figure as com- pared with the present annuity of 2,500,000,000 marks ($625,000,000) and will pyramid up to & peak which will be reached between 20 and 37 years from now and then will fall off to the lower amount again. Annuities May Vary. ‘This will be possible by ha all Lbeup:nunumpdd(orvmi:fl years total war debts payable to the United States Crea and ,000, or 1,300, m obvious to o | Engine Makes 4,350 Fed to Firebox by Mechanical Stoker Delta Phi luncheon tomorrow, 12:30 p.m., at Hotel Gordon. Brightwond Chapter will sive & caparet ve a mnnmqmm April 11, at 8:30 The President Pierce, a passenger locomotive of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, steamed into Union Station & | marks ELLOGG TREATES PRAIED BY WALSH Should Be as Binding as War Pacts; Catholic Associa- - tion. Told. The Kellogg peace treaties were: de« scribed as a notable step in the direc- tion of world peace by Senator David 1. Walsh of Massachusetts, speaking be- fore thie Catholic Association for Inter- nationsl Peace, at Catholic University yesterday afternoon, . 1s no valid reason, Senator Walsh Insisted, why a treaty to kesp peace should not be as on a nation as & contract for war, ies to make war under specified - clrcum- stances, he sald, always ha ded as morally_binding “&mmmw:l;‘n;u. world peace than !'De‘l” before, Church Now Freer. the past, he said, “the church existed only on the sufferanice of ml:hm_mm often has In which ary repol tions bet America and the United Staf which ‘it points out that some most troublessme differences can be un- derstood only in the light of different social philosophles and historical de- velopment. = ¥ ‘The object of the North American colonists, it is inted out, from the first was to establish a white civilization, enslaving the natives, driving them back or putting them on reservations. The fundamental idea of the Latin Ameri- can colonists, however, Was not to estab- lish a white but a’ mixed civilization, educating and absorbing the Indians and, later, the negro slaves. This was not a clear-cut policy, however, and evolved only with many interruptions. Process Still Going On. ‘This melting pot process is still going on in Nura\:m gnut?’ finmu. the report pointed out, an T for much of the misundersf also stresses that Latin America en enthusiastically into the liberal and mechanistic movement of the nine- teenth century lacking the tesources of North America and Europe, with the result that no great business structure was erected. lu'g:m of committees were received on relations between the United States and Asia and the effect of world- wide agricultural conditions, particular- ly as reflected in the drifts from the country to the cities, on international relations. Sty 123 BRIDGES DESTROYED IN STATE OF SINALOA Officials of Mexican Line Say Re- placement Will Cost $500,000. MEXICO CITY, April 4 (P).—Officials Southern Pacific mlgn“n} here hfldgu were destroyed on their lines north of Mazatian, Sinaloa. ‘The cost of replacing these bridges alone will be upwards of $500,000 and the rail destruction, which has been very complete, will entail a further high 'nse. "Ednmthzwotu:esoumm Pacific in Sinaloa, it was said that the os of replacing bridgce, Tas and road of g bridges, ral - beds tn"whmh and Chihuahua. FIERRO COMF;ANION SAFE. Mexican Ace’s Observer Reaches Federal Lines on Foot. MEXICO CITY, April 4 ( Almazan, commander of the troops near Jimenez, last night the safe arrival in federal lines of the observer who was with Lieut. Col. Roberto Fierro when the latter’s plane was forced down in rebel terri- tory on March 31 The observer, like Col. Pierro, reached the federal lines on foot. The pilot made his way to safety the day after the accident, but the observer did not figm until 24 hours after his chief. name of the observer was not stated. exceedingly high figure of 1,000,000,000 ($250,000,000) annually were agreed upon for reparations for 37 , this, added to what would be re- wg!ormdehh.'wldbflum ’s peak of annuities only to some- where in the neighborhood of 2,300,000,- 000 marks ($575,000,000). Once reparations extras , have been disposed of at the end of 37 years Germany’s annual its would drop to 1,600,000,000 marks ($400,000,000) or even lower, since the maximum of war debt payments to the United States in any one year is $401,000,000. In the average annual war debt pay- ments in the concluding .and high years is only lll;hfil more than 1,500,~ 000,000 marks ($375,000,000). It wil be seen t.\:mfm"\‘e!l\‘ll; M oung's ic figures are e hmh of what admitted to ’s Miles on Coal Plerce, No. 5313 s one of thie 22 mwmmhm&::o&m service between THURSDAY, 'THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. i-' ! Former professor becomes ‘Cathelic Prof. Robert Howard Lord, = former imstructor at Harvard University and a convert to Catholi- cism, will be ordained to the priesthood Cardinal O’Conpell at the Cathedral the Holy Cross, Boston, on April 5. PRATT FINISHES MAJOR CHANGES Morgan Assigned to Duties| Formerly Performed by Burke. Reorganization of the administrative branch of the Police Department was virtually completed today by Maj. Henry G. Pratt, the new superintendent, with the transfer of Lieut. Joseph C. Morgan from the Detective Bureau to the ad- ministrative office. i Lieut, Morgan was assigned to the duties formerly performed by Capt. Frank 8. W. Burke, who was regently placed in command of the first précinct as successor to T. R, Rean, who was m-lomou to inspector. In his new ties Lieut, M will serve as the Service 1 with the Civil supervision over the’ complaint depart- ment. and have direct Lieut. Morgan has been connected | with the Detective Bureau for a num- of acting lieutenant to lieutenant March 1 last. A few other minor shifts in assign- ments may be made in the personnel of the force, but no outstanding changes are contemplated at this time. Henceforth in Paris ability to drive a car is to be a requirement of all police- APRIL 4. 1929 PROTEST ON FUEL | O RATES PLANNED Merchants and Manufactur- ers to Combat Railways’ Proposal. Members of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association todsy were organizing to place a vigorous protest before the Interstate Commerce Com- mission against the proposed boost in the freight rates on fuel oil hauled from Baltimore to Washington, which the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohlo Rallroads are reported to be seeking. Edward D. 8h: secretary of the local merchants’ lation, said today the body would formally and vigorous- ly protest the proposed increase on fuel oil from 10 to 13 cents per hundred . He sald the assoclation had informed that the two railroads planned shortly to petition the Inter- state Commerce to approve the boost in rates. Most of the fuel ofl consumed in Washington, Mr. Shaw said, comes to Washington from refineries in Balti- more. The toost in rates, it was felt, would result in an increased burden being placed on local consumers. The Merchants and Manufactuers’ Association today also forwarded a rec: ommendation to the District Commis: sioners urging institution of tion under police powers placing of labels on gas what brands of gas are thus being to motorists. The association has re- ceived complaints regarding tions through the use of tanks not definitely labeled. ‘The M. & M. urges the to seek enactment of legislation, re- quiring labeling of gas tanks according to the brand of gas contained, in con- formity with legislation now in force in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. In the meantime, however, the city heads are urged to make this effective by means of a eity ordinance. NOTED PORTI.JGUESE DIES. LISBON, Portugal, April 4 (#).—Joab Franco Castello Franco, for many years one of the most prominent political fig- ures in the old Portuguese monarchy, died today, aged 74. 8 regula- Senhor Franco was one of the most outspoken opponents of the Republican party. He was repeatedly president of the cabinet, occupying that post and the position of dictator in 1908, when King Carlos and the crown prince were assassinated. 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