Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1929, Page 1

WEA' (U. 8. Weather Mostly cloudy tonight and Bt Temperal THER. Bureau Forecast.) tomorrow, light shower; ture. t 58, at 1:45 p.m, ture—Highes! yesterday; lowest 41, at 7:35 a.m. today. Full report on page 3. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 nterad as seco No. 31,026. nd class matter post office, Washingion, D. A KILLED, 100HURT, SEVERAL ~ MISSING AS TORNADO RAKES ARKANSAS TOWNS One Community, Guion, Is; Reported to Have Beenf Completely Blown Away by; Forec of Storm. | RESCUE WORK HAMPERED | BY FLOODS AND DEBRIS; Death List Is Expected to Mount' as Searching Parties Comb Deso- late Areas of North Central Sec- tion of State—Hospitals Over- flowing. i | By the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 11.— Forty-six persons were lmownl dead, several missing and believed | dead and almost 100 injured in a tornado which swept through sec- tions of North Central Arkansas last night. Twenty-one persons were dead | at Swifton, 20 miles north of New- | port, and five at Guion. The] latter town was reported to hnve‘; been blown completely away. All | the) victims were white. ! Twelve colored persons were re- ported killed in the vicinity of Parkin. mThe list of dead included the follow- 2 Swifton community: Charles Defries, 45; his daughter Grace, 4; Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Bullard and their daughter Leona, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Butler and their daughter Zela, 9; Mrs. Ed Riley and three children, Bus- ter, Ruth and an infant; Mrs. Esther Riley, mother-in-law of Mrs. Ed Riley; Howard Wills, 6; Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Nichalson, Mrs. A. J. Rowlett, John Loy, Mrs. Russell Long and daughter Viney, 17, and L. E. Hudgens. At Guion: Miss Thelma Pierce, 30; Miss Thana Tilton, Claude Campbell and a mother and child. ‘The missing list_included two chil- dren of Charles Deffiés, at Swifton, Jack and Ruth Defries, and a son of T. C. Bullard. At the yillage of Lorade, 10 miles :fll’e‘g of Jonesboro, six persons were Hepry Lowthan, his wife and three children met death in the collapse of their home and Tom Adams was killed when his home was destroyed. ‘The Baptist and Methodist Churches and the schoolhouse were leveled. Pive. persons were injuved north of Baono, but none fatally. ue work was hampered by the rain-soaked soil, by debris which block- ed_the roads and by swollen streams. Rescue parties left Newport. Swifton and Batesville at dawn today in trucks and ambulances. The death list was expected to mount as the parties searched the desolate areas for bodies and the injured, which were being rushed to hospitals at New- port and Batesville. Hospitals in both towns reported they had long since been filled with the ‘injured which were brought in from Guion and Swifton and the communities of Sneed and Pos- zum Trot late last night and early to- ay. Thirty-two caskets were sent by train from Little Rock early today, together with stretchers and first-aid supplies and physicians and nurses. Families Crushed to Death. A vacant store building at Swifton was converted into a temporary morgue where mutilated bodies were placed, while attention was given the injured, most of whom were taken to hospitals in nearby places. . All the dead and injured in the Swifton section were farmers and their families. Several large families were crushed to death under the debris of their homes. The tornado disturbances affected an area within a radius of 50 miles of Swifton, rising out of the southwest about two miles from there. It moved slowly along a path some 300 yards wide over a serpentine course for a distance of about eight miles, ob- servers said. The worst destruction was along the Possum Trot-Sneed road, leading to Alicia, six miles north of Swifton. For a distance of two miles the giant cloud roared its way in a straight line along the highway, crumbling in its path some 35 dwellings situated on either side of the road. Hardly a family along the way escaped without the loss of one or more lives. As the tornado neared the Sneeds community it turned off to the east for a quarter of a mile and then followed & north- westerly course through Sheéeds for several miles toward Alica, where it crossed the railroad tracks and grad- | . ually disappeared. Trees were uprooted and tossed on the fringe of the tornado like splinters, along with parts of barns and dwellings and fowl. A trail of dead live stock was left by the storm. Hens and geese were (Continued on Page 3, Column 2,) WASHING WALTER JOHNSON, Tdol of Washington base ball fans, who returned from the Spring training camps with his Griffmen today. Walter posed for The Star camera man at his home near Bethesda, Md., with his daughter, Barbara, NATS' OUT-OF-TOWN GAMES TOGOONAR Contests Through Sta- tion WMAL. Following its policy of recent years, ‘The Evening Star will put on the air through station WMAL a graphic ac-| count of every week-day game played | out of town this season by the th-; ington ball club. | Denman Thompson, sports editor of | The Star for the past 12 years, and a | recognized authority on base ball, will | officiate at the microphone. Prom The Star’s own studio in its | building at Eleventh and Pennsylvania | avenue a detailed story of the progress of each game playéd on a foreign field | by Walter Johnson's revamped aggre- gation of pennant contenders will go over the air to the thousands of Capital fans who will be following tHe progress of the club with an interest that prom- ises to rival that displayed in the flag- winning combinations of 1924-25. First Game Abroad April 23. Starting with Washington's first game abroad against the Athletics at Phila- delphia on Tuesday, ‘April 23, fans of the District and vicinity will be kept appriseéd by radio of all activities on the field in each of the close to 70 contests scheduled for the Griffmen, exclusive of Sundays. | From the time the umpire ecalls| “play” until the final put-out is made every ball and strike pitched, every hit recorded and fielding play achieved will be recounted so that supporters of the Nationals will be able to follow their activities in a manner that next to actually seeing the games cannot be imprvoed upon. ‘Thompson, dean of the Washingtor sports writing fraternity and chairman of the local chapter of the Base Ball ‘Writers' Association. of America, has been following the Washington ball club, at home and abroad, in addition to all world series games, since the sea- son of 1916, and has a background of experience in writing about the na- tional pastime exceeded by none in this section. Account Over Special Wire, From The Star’s staff correspondent who will attend every game played abroad by the Griffmen will be received over a special wire from the press box of the distant city the intimate details of each game. These will be instantly relayed by Thompson so that'not more than a few seconds will elapse from the time a play is made until listeners- in hereabouts will be informed of not only what has happened, but how. With the Nationals this Spring ap- pearing more formidable than for sev- eral seasons past, and likely to make a sturdy bid for championship honors in the American League unprecedented interest in their activities is antici- pated. By means of the special equipment now being installed with the co-opéra- tion of station WMAL, with an an- nouncer of Thompson's experience and ability presiding at the “microphone, ‘The Star - believes it will provide the: very best service possible for base bail enthusiasts ungble to witness personally the Nationals’ out-of-town games, Bank Fails to Open. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., ‘April 11 (#). —The ‘Brotherhood 'State Bank, where Acting Cashier Thomas R. Hendricks yesterday committed suicide, failed to open its doors today pending an audit of its accounts by a State bank com- missioner. & | Fess to Ask Constitutional Chang; Giving ex-Presidents Senate S o i i A, By the Associated Press. A proposal to permit ex-Presidents | men to serve as ex-officio members of the Senate after they leave office was in- | League championship race. ervice He added that his proposed amend- would " evoke bitter op- rticularly t ition “in , pal A8 ved, because salary int Senators are paid.only $10,000 a year, but he said he was prepared to wage a —Star Staff Photo. GRIFFMEN RETURN INFINE CONDITION The Star to Give Details of'Meet Giants Here Today in First of Last Four Exhibi- tion Games. Today's Line-Up. NATIONALS. M Gos Harris, Bl Jud pires—Messrs. Van Grafian and Bren- nan, BY JOHN B. KELLER. After more than six weeks of train- ing under Southern skies, Washington's base ball club returned home today in fine condition ready for the big business ahead in the American In trim now for the flag fight, the Nationals have four more exhibition contests with | the New York Giants, beginning today. | tons of large cruisers, go ahead and ;.Ihe first two of which will be played ere. ‘The Nationals not only are home from their training tour in splendid physical form, but also with high hope of bidding strongly for the pennant in the Barnard circuit. Well tutored un- der the direction of its new manager, Walter Perry Johnson, who for more than two decades had performed for it marvelously as a pitcher, the club has reasonable basis for this hope, too. team play and team spirit. Generally it is held to be Washington's best rep- resentative in the American League since 1924, when a pennant first came to the National Capital, and there are some critics who have watched it per- form for weeks who hold it even better than the 1924 aggregation. The Nationals are home with a won- derful record for their exhibition series. Of 13 games played in Florida with teams of the senior major league, John- son's charges triumphed in 10 to win the mythical championship of the grapefruit league as the combination of major clubs that train in the 'Gator State is called. Six games with minor league clubs were played in Florida and all finished in the Nationals’ favor. Then two of three tilts with minor aggregations in Alabama went the way of the Washington outfit. 20 Victories, 4 Defeats. After that came the series regarded , the most important test for the Na- tionals before entering the flag race ir their circuit, that with the Giants. Up to today three games have Eem played with the New Yorkers. The first two were won by Washington and yesterday only a last-inning rally enabled the Giants to deadlock a contest that could not be played to a decision because of rain and hail. All told to date the Na- tionals have a record of 20 victories, four defeats and one tie in 25 exhibition starts: No other major league club has approached this record this Spring. It’s something of a new team Wash- ington is putting on the field this year, but a likely-looking team in every de- partment. It is a team that can hit, run bases and perform impressively afield. Its pitching staff s not so strong in numbers, but well :above the average in strength of pitching ability. Wi ton has a catching staff that {lvblbly is the best in the American e. And, to a man, the team is| striving every minute for a manager who knows the game in every way and is an inspiring leader. Youth predominates in this 1929 Washington club. Of the 24 active players on the roster but five are more than 30 years old, the age held the dividing line between those nearing their prime and those waning in base ball. * Of these five but one is in the line-up daily. He is Joe Judge, captain of the club and still held one of the best-first basemen in the game. Muddy ‘Ruel, catcher, and' Sam Jones, pitcher, are veteran batterymen, but, despite pastime, are In reserve are t| Sam and John Stewart, both with plenty of base ball left in them, New Infield Around Judge. he (Wn,m;m’) T In- dividually, its players are capable, nndf there has been developed a remarkable | TO ENGLAND WARNED O END NAVAL RACE WITH WASHINGTON Viscount Grey Urges U. S. Be Conceded Right to Build as It Pleases. DECLARES GENEVA CLASH ON CRUISERS AVOIDABLE Leader of Liberal Party Faction Brings Cheers With Cam- paign Speech. By Radio 0 The Star. LONDON, April 11.—Dwelling at length on the subject of Anglo-Ameri- | ean naval competition, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, who as Sir Edward Grey was secretary of state for foreign affairs at the start of the World War, expressed the view yesterday that the British naval program should not take the United States Navy into account, but rather should back up the Kellogg pact with all its weight. In dealing with the subject of naval disarmament Lord Gray said the real obstacle had been a disagreement on the subject between the United States and Great Britain and that it was this that had brought about the failure of the conference at Geneva, a failure, he added, which might well have had djs- astrous effects not only on naval ex- penditure, but also on the political re- | lations between Great Britain and the United States. Lord Grey was sppaking at the an- nual meeting of the Liberal Council, of which he has just been re-elected {chairman. The council was formed in 1927 by a group of Liberal secessionists from Lloyd George Liberalism. Geneva Failure Discussed. “I must frankly say,” Lord Grey con- tinued, “that if the government had only power conference the statments which have since been made both by the prime minister and the first lord of the admiralty there would have been no failure at Geneva.” At this the 200 members of the coun- cil present—the “Old Guard” of the Liberty Party, men who used to be fig- ures in the House of Commons, some of them in the days when Gladstone wss their leader—burst into prolonged cheer- ing. i !The conference broke down,” Lord Grey continued when, A | subsided, “because ‘we d - | ica’s claim to build the whole of their tonnage in large cruisers, but if the| words of the first lord of the admiralty (W. C. Bridgeman) conveyed the policy of the government, surely he would |have said to the United States: ‘We are not building in competition with you. If it suits you to have 300,000 | | i | build them; we want something differ- | ent. We shall build our small cruisers and you can build your large cruisers.’ Civilian View Stressed. “The declarations of Prime Minister Baldwin and of his first lord of the| admiralty were perfectly satisfactory'as| far as they went, but they should have been followed up and repeated by every member of the government. “This would have removed the im- pression in the United States and in | this country that we did not mean business when we said we were not engaged in competitive building with | the United States.” Lord Grey expressed the view that both governments were equally respon- | sible for the feeling which had arisen and that the trouble lay in leaving too much to meetings between naval ex- perts instead of giving to civilians the duty of interpreting what constituted jthe contingency of war and instruct- | (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) DRY AGENT’S WORD FAILS TO SWAY JURY Uncorroborated Testimony Is Not Sufficient for Return of Indict- ments, Is Decision. | By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, April 11.—The Federal Grand jury here made it known yesterday that it would not return in- dictments under the Jones law on the uncorroborated testimony of a prohibi- tion agent. It was announced that because of the heavy penalties provided in the Jones law for liquor violations no such indict- ments would be returned unless two or more prohibition agents give evidence of having bought liquor from the person accused. In five liquor cases the jury returned only two indictments. Persons involved in the three other cases were freed be- cause only one prohibition agent testi- fied in each. Commenting on the jury's position, United States District Attorney George Hatfield said: “The grand jury is simply taking the stand which I have all along advocated, that it will not indict under the Jones law on uncorroborated ‘buys.’” y D. . C, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, | “fi;fl&m&lm .when,_it. ““This report, together “with | NG EDITION 1929 —FIFTY PAGES. ¥% ,'I | W) ! " A‘"’h “h (] ) h | I The only evnnim in Washington Auoc. iated Press news service, Yesterday’s Circulation, 109,808 ) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. LONDON MAY OFFER NEW NAVAL POLICY Geneva Disarmament Circles Get Report of Impending Proposals. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, April 11.—As delegates to the preparatory commission for a dis- | Deen star foot bail players in the past.| genate agriculture committee was ap- translated into practice at the three- | armament conference began converging | on Geneva today, there were uncon- | Preme Court, who played center on the | yoover Jater in the day in an effort to | firmed reports in League of Nations elr-! Ambherst team back in the days when cles that Great Britain contemplates advancing some suggestion before the | Nas caused not only the President, but | British general elections on the naval | the other members of the medicine ball | question calculated to hasten an ar- rangement with the other naval powers, especially the United States. One rumor was that this suggestion may be advanced before the preparatory i “work onday. ispatches from Washington Indicating that Hugh S. Gibson, American Am- bassador to Belgium, is brln?tnt some new suggestion on the naval problem from President Hoover, has raised hope that something encouraging may be ac- complished at the session. One suggestion discussed’ in League circles is that the powers might agree to have two categories of cruisers, with | the privileges of transferring tonnage from one category to another in ac-| cordance with the specific needs of the particular power. For instance, Great Britain would have the right to transfer her allotted total tonnage of cruisers into small cruisers needed for her ex- tensive patrolling work. It is understood authoritatively, how- ever, that no definite agenda has been drawn up for the preparatory commis- sion. Its discussions may be expected to last for several weeks and to be mfhly technical and scientific in char- acter. Mr. Gibson, who will represent the| United States, is due here from Brus- sels Sunday night. .OFFICIAL COMMENT WITHHELD.. London Does Not Care to Prejudice Commission’s Wi ) LONDON, April 11 (#).—The British foreign office today declined to com- ment on reports from Geneva that new British proposals on the naval ques- tion were being rumored there. It was emphasized that the Geneva agenda had not been fixed and that the air was full of reports of what the delegates to the preparatory disarma- ment conference have in mind. It was felt in Downing Street that it would be likely to be more helpful to the cause of disarmament not to make any comment at this moment ‘whoch might prejudice the commission’s work. It was learned authoritatively that there was no reason why new suggestions should not be made prior to the British general elections. SHIP ESCOR.T_ASSIGNED. The Navy Department was advised by the commander of the French cruiser Tourville, which is bringing Ambassador Herrick’s body to the United States, that the ship would arrive at Nantucket Lightship, 200 miles from New York, at 6 p.m. tomorrow. The Tourville will be escorted from the lightship to New York by the cruis- ers Marblehead and_Cincinnati. The ‘Tourville will fly the French and United States flags at half mast. Lopez Hops for Guatemala. MEXICO CITY, April 11 (#).—Lieut: Col. Oscar Morales Lopez, Guatemalan aviator, left Mexico City at 7:30 o'clock gu morning on a flight to Guatemala ity. asked more than any during this, the season for outdoor sports. They will be answered tl;;;xit:k!y and thor- oughly each afternoon “SPORTS FINAL” EDITION OF e Chening SHtar RIGHT UP TO THE MINUTE AND READ " THE “SPORTS FINAL® Ty : Who Won the Feature Race? These questions are now, and will be, other in Washington in Stone’s Strength In Medicine Ball Menaces “Cabinet” |[President Knocked by Justice’s Tosses. If President Hoover has any intention of enlarging the membership of his medicine ball cabinet it is very likely that he will not recruit those who have Associate Justice Stone of the Su- | Calvin Coolidge was an undergraduate, | cabinet, of which Justice Stone is | member, to realize that a game is much | nieer if the ball is not thrown by a | former college athlete. | Justice Stone is said to heave the \medicine ball with more force than is | relishéd by those who are expected to | catch it. On numerous occasions when pounds behind the throwing of the ball | the man on the other end has been | toppled over. President Hoover is un- derstood to have withstood the justice's tosses, but he has felt more than one good jolt and several times has had his wind knocked out. Hugh Gibson, Am- bassador to Belgium, caught the ball once on tHe end of his nose and he car- ried the marks from the blow for sev- eral days. .Whether the President and the members of the medicine ball cabi- net ever remonstrated with the justice because of his speed ball is not known. But it is known that most of the play- ers would derive more fun out of it if the distinguished jurist would put less speed behind his throws. One member of the cabinet remarked today that he he was a boy. | AMERICANS CONFER suit of Nicaraguan Outlaws Given Hearing. By the Associated Press. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Aprili11. —American and Honduran representa- tives conferred today at Las Mancs, Honduras, as to maintaining inviolabil- ity of Honduran territory during pursuit, of Nicaraguan outlaws by United States Marines, The conferences_took place after va- rious incidents which Honduran officials charged were encroachments on this country’s sovereignty. The most serious Limas allegedly was bombed by a Marine Corps airplane. Honduran au- thorities heard the town caught fire after the bombing, and was almost com- pletely burned. Msrines at Managua said one shack was burned. ‘This government yesterday filed pro- test at both the American and Nica raguan legations in connection with the incident, alleging also that American soldiers had crossed ‘into Honduras from Nicaragua on three different occasions in the last few days. Two citizens of Honduras were said to have been killed rand a number wounded. Maj. Joseph A, | Rossell represented the United States { Marine Corps at the conference at Las Manos. The Hondurans there were Jose Blas Henriquez, undersecretary of the interior, and Gen. Jose Antonio Sanchez, commanding the Honduran border troops. AVIATRIX KILLED. LONG BEACH, Calif., April 11 (#)— {Mrs. C. C. McWhinney, society leader and a licensed pilot, was killed this ! | she .and husband were flying | crashed at the Municipal Airport. Mr. iucwmn’nqey. a lawyer, was injured . McWhinney had more than 250 fiying’ hours to her credit. 5 balance, $379,413,259.94. New York cleating house balance, $126,000,000. he has put the full weight of his 220 | looked wpon this half hour of medicine | ball throwing about as strenuous as! anything he has participated in since | 'AT HONDURAN BORDER| 1Clurgel of Encroachments in Pur-| of these occurred recently when Las) SEEK PRESIDENT'S " FARN AD VIEWS "Breathless Several Times Five Senators Delegated ioé Make White House Call, Headed by McNary. | | | | By the Associated Press. | A delegation of five members of the | pointed today to confer with President | 1‘ obtain his views on specific provisions of | the new farm relief bill. The ‘delegation will be headed by | Chairman McNary and the other mem- | bers will be Senators Norbeck of South | Dakota and Capper of Kansas, Repub- | | licans, and Ransdell of Louisiana and | Heflin of Alabama, Democrats. ‘One of the main purposes of the visit to the White House is to seek the Presi- |dent's views on the export debenture | plan_advocated for a number of years I by the National Grange. A number of | members of the Senate committee desire 0 incorporate this plan into the McNary bill, which otherwise is satisfactory to the entire committee. At the same time Chairman Haugen of the House agriculture committee an- | nounced that the five members of the subcommittee had unanimously agreed upon a new farm relief measure. Bill Discussed at Length. _The decision to request a conference | with Mr. Hoover was reached at today’s executive session after lengthy discus- sion of the McNary bill, which devel- oped that the general provisions of that measure were satisfactory to a | great majority of the committee. Senator Caraway, Democrat, of Ar- | kansas suggested. however, | bill would not be effective wtihout some | | specific provision for defraying the cost | | of controlling crop surpluses, and sug- gested that the export debenture plan be added to the McNary bill in such @ way that the proposed Federal Farm znrd could invoke it whenever it saw A number of administration support- ers on the committee immediately took | the position that the President would eto a farm bill with the debenture plan in it, snd when some other mem bers contended that he would not. the suggestion was made to appoint a com- mittee to confer at the White House on this and some other minor details of the bill. ‘The new House measure wil be sub- mitted to the full committee tomorrow or Saturday. Chairman Haugen said tails of the bill should not be made public until the measure had been sub- mitted formally to the whole commit- tee. Seen As Constructive. The chairman added that he and | the other members of the committee | believed “that the bill as drafted is a sound and constructive measure and that it is besed upon the testimony of witnesses who appeared before the com- mittee at its recent hearings.” The House subcommittee which drafted the bill 15 composed of the five ranking members of the committee, in- cluding Chairman Haugen. The four other members ar Representatives Pur- nell of Indiana and Williams of Illinois. Republiogns, and Aswell of Louisiana and Kincheloe of Kentucky, Democrats. { While the details of the measure were not disclosed, it is known that in general j it will follow the lines indicated by the | Republican platform and by Mr. Hoover !in his speeches during the presidential ;clmpllln. ‘These call for the estab- lishment of & Federal farm board, with ! a large revolving fund at its disposal jto be used in making loans to co- | operative marketing agencies and to stabllization corporations which would be set up on the request of commodity | groups when warranted by unfavorable marketing conditions. Representative Tilson went over the 'situation with' the agricultural commit- the subcommittee had decided that de- | NEW PLOT T0 KILL “GALLES IN' TRAIN BOMBING REPORTED Planned in Jalisco Few Days Ago, Mexico City Garrison Chief Says. U. S. WILL MOVE 1,500 SOLDIERS TO BORDER (Wil Go to Arizona and New Mexico Points—Rebels Converge on Naco From Three Sides. MEXICO CITY, April 11 (#).—A new plot to assapinate former President Calles, the second within recent weeks, was reported by the newspaper Uni- versal today. The newspaper said that a man and woman involved in the con- spiracy probably would be under ar- rest shortly. Quoting the chief of the local mili- tary garrison, the newspaper said that the unsuccessful plot was to bomb the fi.rnm hile mmn mimmufi: wi was t State of Jalisco a few days ago en route from Central Mexico to the Pa- cific Coast to take over the drive against the rebels in Sinola. El Uniyersal said that a man named Santiago Perez and an unnamed wom- man were sent to Mexico City recently by the northern rebels to secure ex- These were to be sent to { | rebel generals knew of the plot and that certain residents of Torreon also were implicated. ‘The garrison chief said that the plot was revealed when incriminating docu- | ments were found in a hotel room | where Perez was living. Became Aware of Plot. Beveral weeks ago during the move- ment of the federal forces in the Torreon vicinity the Mexican consul at El Paso, Enrique Lickens, informed the President at Chapultepec castle that he had become aware of a plot ‘to assassinate Gen. Calles at Torreon. The plot, it was said, then, was of the con- nivance of the rebel generals, who had left agents in the city when they evacuated it to earry out-their purpose. Gen. Calles left his headquarters at Bermejillo, north of Torreon, late lasi week and passed through Jalisco either late Sunday or early Monday en route to Mazatlan, where he has since taken active charge of the federal west coast cam) Jalisco is one of the states in which the so-calied ‘Criste; height, occupied a number of towns in Jalisco, Guanajuato and Durango. Gen. Saturnino Cedillo is engaged in a vigorous campaign against them now. U. S. to Move 1,500 Troops. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., April 11 (#).— Approximately 1,500 United States soldiers were ready today to proceed to Arizona and New Mexieo border points within a short distance of Somora, Mexico, where a major battle betwéen opposing forces in the Mexican revolu- tion appeared imminent. Orders for the movement of a thou- sand men, members of the 20th In- fantry of Fort D. A. Russell, 3 and the remainder of the 7th Cavalry, supplemented by a Fleld Artillery Ba talion from Fort Bliss, EI Paso, Te: were issued here yesterday by Maj. Gen. William Lassiter, commander of the United States Army 8th Corps Area. Six Days to Reach Goal. The troops from Fort D. A. Russell will go to Bisbee, Ariz., and those from Fort Bliss will augment the 200 cavalry- men dispatched to Hacrita, N. Mex., several days ago. It was estimated that it would take at least six days for the troops to march to their stations. Eighteen United States Army planes already are patrolling the border under orders to shoot down any Mexican K::m flying north of the international e. Gen. Lassiter described the movement of the troops as “a precautionary mea- sure to afford adequate protection to our border in possible emergency.” Ex- | plaining his action more fully, the gen- eral said: “Information as to the Mexican situ- ation indicates that the fight of the contending forces in Sonora may be greatly increased in the future. Problem Difficuit. “With this increased number of con- | testants in Sonora, the problem of af- fording protection to our side of the | border, already difficult on account 6f the proximity of the American and Mexican towns to 'h other, becomes Increasingly difficult. Gen. Lassiter said the assignment of the soldiers from Fort Bliss was “in the nature of a practice march, but this force will be in a position to return to its proper station or continue into Arizona in accordance with develop- ments of the situation.” Rebels Converge on Naco. NACO, Ariz., April 11 (#).—Mexican rebel troops were reported converging upon Naco, Sonora, from three direc- tions today, giving weight to the an- nouncement of revolutionary leaders that they soon expected to besiege the little federal garrison with overwhelm- ing numbers. Federal occupation of the Naco gar- rison, which is held by about 1,000 loyal soldiers under Gen. L ez, tee leaders upon his return to Washing- ucas constitutes the only immediate major (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) " (Continued on Page 3, Column 1. Kiig Genge Chats With OId Shigmate. Recalling ,Seafaring Days 50 Years Ago By the Associated Press. BOGNOR, April 11.—Two seafaring’ cronies looked over an old ship's. log book, examined faded pho- and discussed vanished said William after their interview, “and we laughed and ed of the days when we were young lads when to pull ashore in the cap- tain’s cutter.