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THE SUNDAY' OREGOXIAX, FOUTXANIJ, MARCH 19, 1946. OUTLAWS BUSY' IN CENTRAL MEXICO FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS OF SCENES AT COLUMBUS FOLLOWING VILLA RAID. PLAN MAY GHANGE The Sayiil Method of Pursuing Villa De pends on Bandit's Course. Reports of Minor Battles With Carranza Troops Are Re ceived at Border. DO IT NOW PERSHING KEEPS SECRET AMERICANS COMING OUT Torreon Abandoned Because of Be lief That Intervention Hits Come and Resentment of Soldiers j Is Not Concenled. , EL PASO, March 18. Xorth Central Mexico, in the neighborhood of the former "Villa stronghold of Torreon and about Durango, today furnished re ports of battles between small bands of outlaws and constitutionalist troops. One of these bandit organizations in the fight near Torreon was credited with being a Villa organization. Noth ing was available tonight on the out come of this fight. Americans who said they dared not permit the use of their names arrived here today with details of the hard ships of their exodus. "We met last Sunday," said one of these Americans, "in a hotel room in Torreon. "Twenty of the Americans decided to stay behind and take their chances. Some of this number said they would have to remain until they could put their business into some sort of shape. Soldiers ShOTV Resentment. "On Monday there was no train. We tiecame very anxious. The officers of the commandancia were not discourte ous, but there was a feeling of resent ment among the soldiers that we did not like. On Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock we succeeded in making up a train in which the employes and their families from the Tlahualilo planta tion had one boxcar, the employes of the Continental Rubber Company, of Torreon, another, and the third boxcar was occupied by the employes of the Torreon smelter. "Without any accommodations what ever and sitting on the floor and on our baggage we began the journey northeast. At Pantano we had to wait some 20 hours to make connection with the train to Eagle Pass, while the ma jority of the refugees went up a few hours earlier by the Laredo route. "We left Torreon because" to us it looked as though Intervention had come. We felt that if the Constitu tionalists retaliated we would be made prisoners and we know that if Villa or his many sympathizers in Torreon were to take the city or murder the small garrison, we would all be mas sacred. Food Scarce In Torreon. "The food supply in Torreon is scant and the lower classes have little, if anything. They have no work to en able them to earn money and the sup ply of corn and beans is much drawn upon. The people with money can buy pretty much what they wish, but It takes money, and there are 10,000 un employed men in Torreon. "It is the lack of work that make3 the Mexicans of the lower. class follow soldiering at all. I know them well enough to know that they would much rather be engaged in peaceful pursuits. The middle classes in Torreon, as well as all Mexico are responsible for the state of anarchy and they are fighting not for any principle, but for their own protection. ' "In the party that came up from Torreon we had some 42 men, women and children. Of this number 22 were Americans, the remainder being Ger mans, French and English. At the junction point where one train went to Eagle Pass and the other to Laredo, we met coaches full o Americans and foreigners coming out of Mexico City and San Luis Potosi. All told the same ptory they thought Intervention had come and that it was better to be out of the country. "As to Torreon, it has only a small garrison and it is difficult to say how many of the men are Villistas. Villa is said to have told persons coming into Torreon that he would take the city by March 25 and if he wanted to It would be a simple proposition." VILLA BOAST RECALLED BAS'DIT HEARD TO SAY HE "WOULD FORCE INTERVENTION. I'nited State to Re Compelled to Pay for Its Recognition of Carranza, His Declaration. EL PASO, Tex., March 18. Villa boasted three months ago that he would force intervention in Mexico by the United States, according to a story told here today by Harry Williams, of Chihuahua, an American mining man. "Williams asserted that he had heard Villa make the boast on December 13 last, when he was a prisoner of the bandit. "I was one of 39 men emploved on the mining property of the Madera Company," said Williams. "We ware all arrested because the pay of the Mexicans working under us had not ar rived from Chihuahua. It amounted to $17,000, and the company was afraid to send it because they were certain it would be confiscated. "Villa brought us to Chihuahua, and I have never seen him in an uglier mood. "We did not know whether we were going to be shot or not, but we were not by any means too optimistic. He told us: 'I am going to force inter vention by the United States in three months. The United States has recog nized Carranza and must pay for it." "He demanded $31,000 from the com pany. I do not know whether it was paid or not, but we were released the next day, after being warned to keep off the streets. "I planned to leave on the train that . was made tip to take out the men of the Cusl Mining Company. Fortunately ' I felt sick and could not go. The next day I heard of the massacre of the 18 Americans on the train at Santa Ysa bel." Mr. Williams has spent 17 years in Mexico, but says he doesn't want to return. General Pershing Kinds Supplies. "WASHINGTON. March 18. One dis patch from General Funston tonight taid lhat General Pershing had report ed finding a supply of corn, alfalfa and "beef at an unnamed point in Mexico. "Whether the provisions had been aban doned by fleeing Villa troops or wheth er purchased or requisitioned by the American commander was not stated. Ya;res or "4 000 Increased. PITTSBURG-. March IS. Four thou sand employes of the MacBeth-Evans Class Company were notified today of an increase in wages amounting to 10 per cent, effective April 3. F ' ' M V M - T ' -t 1 1 " -V-xv I " -v" ' . ',11 ' n I - I ? lr - Is n It ' fi i I ' i - - J V i - & , V ' ? I TOI RVINS OK COLVMBUS AFTER ilGHI lecti IS 0! Bandit Leader Plans to Make Joke of Expedition. SUPPORTERS MAY DISBAND Mexican Consul at El Paso Thinks Large Rewards Offered for- Cap ture Offer Best Hope Flyl inr Columns Favored. ( Continued From First Page.) nearly due south of the .American columns' present known positions and close to the Sierra Tarahumare Moun tains, so close to them, in fact, that if his reputation as a fox holds good during the American chase he should be able to make a puzzling disappear ance in these ranges with a few hours' hard riding. By all accounts he is more than 100 miles ahead of the Americans, about the same distance he has been out of their reach for a week, but with one possibly important difference that while heretofore the Americans have been riding on a somewhat cold trail, they are now nearing ground which Villa recently passed over and where they may have practical opportunity tv test the temper of the rural Mexicans, from whom they might receive valu able information. ": Villa Planning Joke.' The story that Villa Is gathering men and preparing to resist was re vived in constitutionalist circles to day and he was even said to have 10,000 rounds of cartridges and shells, many of home manufacture, secreted in the mountains, where he 'was ex pected to make a stand. DotihV that Villa would do any such thirg was expressed, however, by Andres Garcia, the Mexican Consul here, who asserted that Villa intends to make the Amer ican expeditionary force a Joke. Mr. Garcia declared he was convinced that the bandit had no intention of fighting Americans. "One of my men," he said, "who re turned from the Galeana district to day, brought me positive information that Villa was disbanding his men and intended to hide in the mountains with three or four of his trusted followers and defy the Americans to find him. An army might wander in that region for years and never find a- man like Villa, who knows every foot of the groundt "I am convinced that Villa intends to play hide-and-seek with the Amer ican soldiers with the intention of making their expedition ridiculous. He may make ..raids on communications or something like that, but he will never risk a real battle." Hope Seen In Biff Rewards. The large rewards which have been offered for Villa, dead or alive, in Mr. Garcia's opinion, are the best hope of ending the bandit's career. "The news of these rewards will flash through the region," he said, "and I should be much surprised if they do not bring some result. The Carranrista Consul has a plan of his own which he believes is the best way to capture Villa. "General Gutierrez," he said, "told me he expected to have 15,000 men on Villa's trail within a week. There are 4000 to 5000 American troops. I do-not believe that all these thousands of men with all their equipment are needed. "What is needed is about five columns of 500 picked men apiece, all well mounted and carrying the least possible amount of equipment. These columns should be in sufficiently close touch to be able to render assistance to any one of them that Villa attacked. If they moved fast and were the right men they would have a good chance to lay Villa by the heels." Mr. Garcia denied emphatically the repeated statements that the people ef FIRE BELOW RESIDENTS BANDIT'S BODY. Guerrero and Galeana are in sympathy with the fugitive. "Many of them are afraid of him, of course," he said, "because of the reign of terrorism he inaugurated there, but it must be remembered that the Villa of today is not the Villa of five years ago. In the early part of his career he was liberal with the people about him. If he got $500. say in a raid, he would give half of it away. But when he began to gather power he seized everything for himself. Those people among whom he is now have a long history of murders and attacks upon their women to avenge. The only hold he has on them is through fear." WASHINGTON IS KEASSUKED Dispatches About Mexico Laid Be fore Wilson in Person. WASHINGTON". March 18. Reassur ing advices came to both the State and War Departments today from Mexico, where an American army is following the trail of Villa and his bandit follow ers. The official reports indicated that the American troops thus far have en countered no Villa followers, though It was indicated a brush with them might be expected soon. The State Department's advices, which included a dispatch saying con ditions were improving about Tampico, were laid before President Wilson per sonally tonight by Acting Secretary Polk. Mr. Polk also conferred late in the day with Ellseo Arredondo, General Carranza's ambassador-designate, but neither official would discuss the sub ject of their talk, except to say that reference had been made to shipment of munitions which the de facto gov ernment desires' to get to Vera Cruz from New York. General Funston's request that the American forces be permitted to use Mexican railways for troop transpor tation was forwarded late today to Consular Agent Rogers for presenta tion to General Carranza at Queretaro. Officials here closely associated with the de facto government are under stood to believe that Carranza will be strongly advised by many o his fol lowers against granting the request on the ground that to do so might arouse public sentiment against the de facto government, seriously affecting the control it has established over the na tive, population. A development which was -regarded In Mexican quarters here as likely to do much toward assuring continued co operation between the Mexican de facto government and American troops was an announcement by the War Depart ment that the orders under which the punitive expedition entered Merfico did not authorize occupation of any Mexi can cities. It was said the purposes of the expedition did not necessitate any such occupations which border dis patches have indicated might be un derstood by the Mexican public. BORDER IS EXPECTANT LULL IS BELIEVED TO PRECEDE ORDERS TO ADVANCE. Lieutenant Makes Record Run In Auto to Join Regiment and All Corre spondents Held In Rear. COLUMBUS. N. M., March IS. The Columbus military camp enjoyed a lull today. Certain troops have been dis patched "somewhere" and "certain others" have "arrived" and taken the places of those who have gone into the sand waste lying south of the railway track. The aeroplanes have been tested out and seem to be waiting for the word to start. The big special motor trucks used with the aeroplanes to follow the flights are Just now busy with the more prosaic duties of carry ing fodder and other supplies. Reveille was blown at 6 o'clock this morning over in the cavalry camp, but when the people of Columbus turned out of bed, they found nothing but foot and hoof prints and littered sand In what had been a populous corner of the camp. An automobile record between Den ver and El Paso, a run of 890 miles, was made by Lieutenant A. M. Gra ham, of the Eleventh Cavalry, in an swering the call to be with his regl- OK NEW MEXICO LOOKING AT SLAIN merit in Columbus by Thursday. He was on the road 55 hours, with seven hours' sleep. He made the run alone. The correspondents who have gone into Mexico with the expedition re mained silent today on account of the censorship. It was said that most of them were under polite corral along toward the rear, with the infantry. While this could not be verified, it was a fact that the only members of the correspondents' party whose presence has been definitely reported were far behind the vanguard at last reports. If any newspaper observers are among the leading columns the censor has succeeded in hiding their movements much more effectively than he has cloaked the position of the troops. GRESHAM PLANS BIG SEWER Indebtedness Limit May Xot Permit Use of General Fund. GRESHAM, Or.. March 18. (Special.) If the Gresham charter will allow it an 18-inch storm and sanitary eewer will be laid on Main street from John son Creek to the High School building and the improvement will be paid for out of the general fund. Herbert Nunji, C. H. Whitmore and H. B. Chapman, of the! county road department, discussed the question with the City Council. Mr. Nunn said that the proposed sewer would be large enough to accommodate the drainage of the town for many years. The Council, however, has not yet ascertained whether the city can spend the 1500 and remain within the limits of indebtedness. Coos-Curry Cheese Men Unite. MARSHFIELD. Or., March 18. (Spe cial.) The Coos-Curry Cheese Associa tion was formed at a convention of factory owners in Coquille. The ob ject is to create a higher standard of cheese and maintain a selling agency similar to that of Tillamook County. The local association will maintain an inspector, who is expected to be L. B. 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What General Pershing's plan is, however, has not been revealed and will not be, if General Funston can prevent It. Every effort will be made to keep secret the movements of troops if it becomes necessary to abandon the direct line of pursuit with the units of the little army practically intact. When General Pershing led the ex peditionary force over the boundary line into Mexico the Juncture of troops which has taken place near Casas Grandes was planned witli little expec tation that Villa would be sighted be fore -this time. It was realized that the onlv chance of the Americans to catch him at that stage of the oper ations wag that he would gather his forces and resist their advance. Reports of Whereabouts Vague. General Pershing's scouts may have brought him information as to Villa's whereabouts, but such information as has been received at the general head quarters here makes an assertion on the subject little better than a guess. There is reason to beireve that Villa has retreated as the Americans ad vanced and that he is now somewhere in the Galeana district, south of Casas Grandes, near where a cavalry force under Colonel Dodcl rested today. In formation received by General Funston from Chihuahua indicated that he was at Colonia Gracias, but most of those reporting contented themselves by placing him in the mountains, from 60 to 100 miles south of Casas Grandes." To force Villa to fight or to trap him in one of his many hiding places has now become the object of General Pershing's plan. Tenxion Is Relieved. V Unofficial reports that General Per shing did not insist on sending into Casas Grandes the advance cavalry force after General Gavira had inti mated such entry would meet resis tance, relieved the tension at General Funston's headquarters. General Fun ston was convinced that General Per shing would not pass his troops through any Mexican town unless he regarded it as a military necessity, but in case of such necessity he was pre pared to indorse the action of the man on the spot. " General Funston replied to thousands of petitioners from scores of towns in Texas where the inhabitants wanted troops for protection that it would be impossible to grant their wishes. In all cases he suggested that if they felt the need of protection it might be well if they were to organize local defense forces. TROOPS WANT RAILROAD CARRANZA ASKED TO PERMIT SHIP MENT OF SJ.PPLIES. Only One Line Now Available, Villa's Action in Burning Bridge Having Cut Communication. "WASHINGTON, March 18. The State Department received today frfum Gen eral Funston through the War Depart ment a request-to arrange with the de facto government of Mexico for per mission to ship by rail from El Paso supplies to the expeditionary forces in Mexico. 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