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.
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SUPPORTERS MAY DISBAND
Mexican Consul at El Paso Thinks
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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-
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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.
Ziemer, from the offices of v the State
Dairy and Food Commission. The dairy
products of Coos County alone exceed
$525,000 yearly.
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SAN lANTONIO. Tex.. March 18.
Failure by Francisco Villa, on whose
trail more than 4000 United States
troops are marching, to make a stand
and fight before the end of next week
will radically alter the methods so far
employed by the commander of the
punitivo expedition.
What General Pershing's plan is,
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if it becomes necessary to abandon the
direct line of pursuit with the units of
the little army practically intact.
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Reports of Whereabouts Vague.
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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.
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in the Galeana district, south of Casas
Grandes, near where a cavalry force
under Colonel Dodcl rested today. In
formation received by General Funston
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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."
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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
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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.
General Funston's request was for
warded by the "Mexican Embassy here
to General Carranza at once, with the
suggestion that the de facto govern
ment, which owns the controlling stock
of the road, permit the use of the line
in accordance with the request.
State Department officials were in
formed today by counsel for Carranza
that the request in ail proDaDiuty win
be granted. Only one condition, it was
said, might prevent the de facto gov
ernment from acceding to the request,
that being the uncertainty of public
opinion in Mexico as to the use of the
roads by the American Army.
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of the two Mexican railways penetrat
ing the territory where the American
punitive columns are operating is in
shape to serve the Americans, if per-
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