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The New OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, March 15, 1929 der General Otero which now can leare Saltillo In their rear as they proceed westward, atrong force nnder General AUnatan U Leaded toward Escobar's atronibold. ' SALEM PORTLAND, Two Stores EUGENE KLAMATH FALLS VANCOUVER LONGVIEW ABERDEEN EVERETT BELLINGHAM Genera! Calles Orders Army That Took Vera Cruz to Continue Campaign LlER SUFIVFY IS MEXICO CITT, Mr. J (AP) General Plutarco Callea, who Is directing the federal ot ernment operations in an attempt to stamp out the current rebel lion, today ordered soldiers who last week terminated the reyolt in the state of Vera Crux, to so to Irapuato. That town is an Im portant rail Junction In the state of Guanajuato. The task for these troops will be suppression of actiTities by In surgents whose motlTe, according t gorernment sources, is relig ious. Mention of that situation In the government bulletin gave the first prominence to that move ment since the military rebellion broke out in northwest and south east sections of the republic ten days sgo. The government bulletin said that Governor Ramirez of the t tate of Jalisco had organised two regiments .of volunteers which, with the troops brought from Vera Crus, would be ample to hold the Guanajuato dlitubances in check. The Jalisco and.Guana Juato religionists have been blamed by the government for trouble which has ' occurred in those mountainous states for more than two years. Northern Section rs Much Action Today's communique indicated that the most insignificant activ ities in the rebellion are taking place along the American bound ary of the stale of Sonora. That region has been considered a pos sible backdoor for the escape of rebel leaders in case their revolt failed. Yesterday's capture of Naco. an important intermediary rail point between the rebel forces of Sonora and Chihuahua, was said by the government to have been a heavy low to the rebellion. Imminent fall of Agua Prieta was predicted and it was said that this, vtaken with the capture Of Naco, would completely sever communications between the Sonora and Chihua ho a rebels. The government claimed that the rebel leaders have been thor oughly alarmed by this situation and that many of them have been transferring their funds to banks on the United States side of the border. The object of this would be to give them money for sub sistence when they are forced into exile by the collapse of the rebel lion. Federals Now Claim Saltillo The communique announced also that Saltillo, inr the state of Coahuila, was occupied by the fed erals this morning. The rebels had held the city for nearly ten days but - the government an uouncement said that they fled without firing a shot. General Ignacio Otero . com manded the troops which took possession of the city. The flight of the rebels voided an encircling movement by which the federal leaders had hoped to cut them off from the road to Torreon. It was surmised that the Sal tillo rebels were making their way toward Torreon where General U. Gonzalo Escobar, commander-in-chief of all rebel forces, has been concentrating troops to resist the advance of General Calles. The rebels have held Torreon since the start of the outbreak and are sup posedly strongly intrenched. The city lends itself naturally to a strong defense. It is sur rounded by high hills and if the ' rebels have enough men to occupy all those heights with machine guns and artillery, a heavy battle might result. Federal forces are converging on Torreon from all available di rections. Besides the troops un- TO COST JM DENVER, Colo, March 14. ( AP ) The cost o.r preliminary engineering work which must pre- cede the construction of Boulder Dam, will be financed from a spe cial appropriation of $210,000 made by the last congress for "In vestigation of reclamation : pro jects' Dr. Slwood L. Mead, Unit ed States reclamation commission er, announced at a conference of engineers here today. Because of the terms of the Swing-Johnson bill which provides for the construction of the damy by the government, the funds will not be available for use on Boul der Dam until June 23, six months after the bill was signed by President Coolidge and then only In the event that the six state pact Is In effect. Dr. Mead Is meeting here with 13 reclamation engineers for dis cussion of unfinished work which confronts the reclamation depart ment. v "Our present conference In Den ver Is to consider many details In the expenditure of our appropria tion of $11,000,000 for the fiscal year 1929-1930," said Dr. Mead. In our 20 years of service there have been left many projects still unfinished and as we are nearing the endof our ten-year program we want to clear all of them up. "Our next duty will be to con sider- project in the San Luis val ley of Colorado, for in Colorado we nave no unnnisnea projects and we may consider some new ones. The largest prohibition for the San Luis is the construction of the state line reservoir on the Rio Grande river on the Colorado-New Mexico state line. This will re quire a large dam and will Involve the expenditure of several mil lions." On Monday representatives of the Imperial valley (California) irrigation association are. expected to appear before the conference relative to preliminary survey work on the ail-American canal. Engineer Dowd and Attorney Childers who have attended all conferences on the Colorado river and Boulder Dam projects will be members of the California delega tion. Dr. Mead said. The Cofiefts Are Going 'to Celebrate ST. 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