St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 17, 1929

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BANKERS TO qHDANER TABLE city Fron Chair After Meal at Home With Wife and Daughter—Had Not Been ffl Previously. ———— ee RVING SECOND FOUR-YEAR TERM na! jurist Had Become Known hoe Reversing Decisions on Appeals—Governor to Judge Taul A. Gayer of the Court of Criminal Correction died ynexpectedly at his home, 4561 Harris avenue, at 6 o'clock last * evening. He had jyst . finished an early dinner when he fell from his chair. His wife and dayghter, Miss Ethel Gayer, strove to lift him, but he died before a. physician could be called. While a heart attack is supposed to have occurred, he had not been ill previcusly. He was 62 years old. Besides his widow and daughter, Judge Gayer is survived by his mother, Mrs. Margaret Gayer, who Ives in Kirkwood. | | Judge Gayer was elected last November to a second four-year term on the bench of the Court of Criminal Correction, Division °. His death ledves a. vacancy whieh .*. Caulfield will have to fill, aia the appointee will serve LE se ea. aaa, FAIR TODAY, TOMORROW; RISING TEMPERATURE THE TEMPERATURES. 12 noon ail ok ok Sl 3 Ps Re Tic ca th A te es OO eS Pree BA. og ie eee +741 eS. WESC S a ee ee *4) 2 ee Se we Or. Mee kk *40 Do DP. Micepecese 4% 33 midnicht *40) 8 p. m, ; ay Wea s *39 — 41 *Indicates street reading. , onerogy 8 | Niet 44 15 vp. m.): low v& (10:15 a, m Official forecast NY SHAMROCNS) for st. Louis and GROWING ON | vicinity: Fair to- ART HILL? day and tomor- row; rising tem- perature. Missouri: Gen- erally fair today and tomorrow; rising tempera- ture today, and | in east and south es portions tomor- row, Tilinois: Gen- erally fair today and tomorrow; rising tem pera- ture. é Sunset 6:10. Sunrise (tomor- row) 6:07. Stage of the Mississippi, 24.9 feet, a rise of 3.6. This Week's Weather Outlook. CHICAGO, March 16.—Weather outlook for the week beginning Monday: Upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys—Occasional periods of precipitation in southern portions, but mostly fair northern portions; variable temperature, but mostly near seasonal normal. INDIAN GUIDE SEEKS TO NAME FLO LEEDS IN $500,000 SUIT Beauvais Would Make Woman Co- defendant in Slander Action Against J. A. Stillman. By the Arsociated Press. NEW YORK, March 16.—Fred 9 nificance, RESERVE BOARD HEAD WARNS PUT NEEDS OF TRADE BEFORE SPECULATION Problem Not Alone of Na- tional but of World Sig- Gov. Young Says — Higher Discount Rates as Last Resort. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, O., March 16.— Roy A. Young, Governor of the Iederal Reserve Board, which for more than a month has been trying to restrain the use of Federal Re- serve credit in speculation, said to- night that speculative demand for credit may go to a point where it will be “ta serious deterrent to busi- ness.” He warned lenders to see first that. business gets credit at reasonable rates” and to let others get what is left. Speaking before the Cincinnati Commercial Club, Gov. Young said that already all lines of commerce and business have felt the effect of increased credit charges resulting from high rates offered by specula- tors, and told his audience that the fina] cost of the speculative de- mand for credit ‘‘may involve the impairment of the prosperity of our commerce and industry.” This, he pointed out, would be caused through the _ § increasing credit rates having a bad effect on the trade of foreign countries, two of which he said already have in- creased their rates to prevent mon- ey being attracted by higher rates in this country. No Occasion for Excitement. Gov. Young’s address was the first public utterance he has made on the credit situation since the Board issued its warning to mem- ber banks Feb, 6 that speculation was causing board members con- cern. He told his listeners that th-re FALLS DEAD JUST AS WOMAN CALLER ENTERS fils OFFICE: P. C. Floyd, President of _ Three Fertilizer Compan- ies, Succumbs in Arcade Building. DEATH CAUSED BY ent at End. a Pleasant C. Floyd, president of three ‘ilizer companies, died of heart disease in his office in the Arcade building, Kighth and OMe Stre,", at 5:30 o’clock yest- *-y afternoon, Ile had been waiting for the daughter of a former em- ploye whom he was helping to get & position and who had just ar- rived and was standing in the door- way when he collapsed. The young woman, Miss Marcel Wright, v° lives_at the East St. Louis Y. W. C. A., was questioned at police headquarters and placed under bond as a witness for the Coroner. “I have known Mr. Floyd for some time,” Miss Wright told police. “‘My father used to work for him, but my father and mother are separated now. T had an ap- pointment with Mr. Floyd for 5:30 19,000 HOMELESS INALABAMA FLOOD: $200,000 NEEDED National Guardsmen Res- cue 5000 Citizens From Two Inundated Towns —Water Going Down. 15 PERSONS DROWN, OTHERS ARE MISSING Qt Survivors Suffer From Want of Food and Sani- tary Conditions Are Bad —Property Loss Is Big. By the Associated Press, MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 16. —TFlood waters that engulfed sev- eral southeastern Alabama towns tonight had begun to subside and rescue work apparently was near- ing a successful termination. Fifteen persons thus far are known to have drowned at Elba and else- where, but more fatalities are feared. night that he believed approxi- mately 15,000 persons had been made homeless and that some $259,900 was needed to maintain them until rehabilitation could be effected. The little Coffee Count; seat of Elba, shut off by the waters of the Pea River and two creeks for the last two days, was virtually de- serted. Most of its 2000 inhabi- tants had been removed to Troy and Opp, neighboring towns, by boat and automobile. Several hun- dred were said still to be in the Gov. Bibb Graves said to-, ANT-SALOON BODY INCLUDES ST.LOUIS IN WIDE CAMPAIGN Women’s Clubs, Churches, Sunday Schools and W. C. T. U. Counted on by Dr. F. Scott McBride. CITY IS CONSIDERED ONE. OF WET AREAS League Ready to Send Field ton if Needed—Will Seek Larger Funds. ‘Covright, 1929.) WASHINGTON, Mareh 16.—A vigorous drive to make St. Louis dry; a drivein which-thousands of St. Louis men and women will take part, is down on the program of the Anti-Saloon League of Amer- ica and soon will be worked out in detail under the direction of Dr. KF’, Scott McBride, the league’s gen- eral superintendent, in co-opera- Workers From Washing- | GIRL WHO CORRECTED TAFT IN HOOVER OATH —International Photo. HELEN TERWILLIGER HE quick ear of this 13-year- T old Walden, N. Y., radio listener detected in the inaugural oath administered to Mr. Hoover by Chief Justice Taft a variation from the version given in her civics book at schoo!, so she wrote Mr. Taft about it. The Chief Justice admitted he varied the text, but not just as the schoolgir! said she heard it. But REBELS QUITTING TORREON — AS CALLES’ ARMY CLOSES IN, — MEXICO CITY ANNOUNCES — AVIATORS IVE. EAGER DETAILS. OF MOVEMENT Federals Have 30,000 Men and Defenders Under Gen. Escobar Only 5000, Government Says. LATTER MAY MOVE TO CHIHUAHUA mane Official Bulletin Charges Shipped Family and $100, Over-Border. By the Associated Press, MEXICO CITY, March 16.—. Meager reports reaching here to- day indicate that Gen. Jose Gon- zalo Escobar, rebel commander in chief and his forces are evacuat- ing Torreon, the limit of their earlier southward drive and their last important stronghold in Cen- Insurgent Chief Has. ¢ | eT ee it peti Ma 9-9 soos ee ae vent i teal pO Ze Sil ie A ee Sing A ab eta ‘until the next:State election, in|, », ae Pe | nage ali . * November, 1930. Se en eee WHO Greed coniceae’ aaa peters Psat to talk about a position he was yee although in no immediate | tion with dry leaders in Missouri. | gound film and the transcript of| tral Mexico. ’ 42 _ 2 : S Joh Ce Luly SAL eet C ia 1uUS; goij > ge a r. “ ‘ 3 THAT SO.-'T WASNT ALL Widely Known as - Hes | proceedings in 1922 filed in Su-|far the increased rates to com- re soe Moo densi, in the The last two drow.-n 3 oc- cities,” ca De. nee be pe ree Srerwe ype pare Tho Geperameny weeny ne" " > or : : 2 mw © , . . . A LOTTA THINGS 1 DONE THO- | Sitee vet Guess licen adits | amended complaint by which he |@ deterrent to active operation. office. He was fumbling with his | 2 W@sen in which J. D. Burgess, 4} trenches which the prohibition law wowed Boe neath etn tions by aviators. The evacuation RRR IR emer be rence Corgcrensg hs in G300,c0r cst | meen of curbing specmigats Geng | Mat and Ted & sort of lank stare) rae ean hn | caforegmene advocates suet am not sosm peetieiel SE . ts | ee oriid ; werueey. ee = "ye : ed- | on his face. are idn’ rere ; Was We Aaland take. We have take » f HAT YOO DONE ONTIL YOUR oe owen ve ogeintnag city | for slander he has filed against | it fails, the board may be com-| see me until fates Tatias sie beiabe. inte thw riven ~A sceond| two lines et isencnes pong chr bulletins for several days. If to- mnmsOD oETS FRESHEDO (jO—~ . 6. pO James A, Stillman, banker. The pelled in the end to resort to and spoke. “He started ané said. son in the wagon seized a limb the rural and smeller communi- day’s news is true it indicates that Escobar has decided that the five D SHE AINT THE ONLY ONE. THAT DONE DIRT. —— | OW, I'LL ONE. }i uP. \T : AND ' A BLUE as 4 ONE ONE LooK BETTER A” ~ ' ae c A OOM =| o pet | g _ : h, aH / - ‘ Y / [aN \ | Cl § 7 —_ SHE i. GOING “TO TAKE WOU WITH HERI ’ eevee @ SOR —y o's lice witnesses and throw out cases in which he held some necessary element of evidence to be lacking. Electe¢ “irst in 1924, Judge Gay-. er still was comparatively new to the bench when the present ~>- lice Board, headed by Col. A. C. Orrick, took office in 1925, and when Mayor Miller named C, C. Beck and H. P. Rosecan as judges fof the City Courts. The Police Board ‘tarted a vigorous clean-up movement against disorderly res- orts and hangouts of crooks. The , new Police Judges, under the May- | or's instructions, began a policy ' of heavy fines for traffic violations. In the endeavor to reduce the uth and inju.; rete from motor casualties. When the persons arrested in raids. were taken before Judge Gayer, and when the traffic fines reached him on appeal, there were Many reversals of the Police Board and Police Court policies. The dis- migsals and reversals were accom- panied by lectures from the bench, some of them directed at police- men, and some aimed over the po- iieemen'’s heads at their superiors and at the Police Judges, ls Dragnet Arrests, ths an interview printed in the ost-Dispatch in July, 1925. Judge | Gayer declared that he was in sym-| — with the public demand for | enforcement, and that he was ® accord with the Saféty Coun- eee etign to reduce traffic “= S9qamm But,” he added, “they tpettage people in«my court seth ety have the evidence.” ena ca in cases thrown out eat iquor raids haa been made Out Warrants, or that he con- Sdered the circumstances other- = na and he denounced lawlessness” and dragnet = raiding Situation became less a Ut Judge Gayer's friction © Police Courts over traf- we mat ened, and complaint Makin at his leniency was Atlan traffic enforcement | Se ag freeing numer- | Police i had been convicted | ourt of driving while | ike sees’ Gayer admitted,,| Wt werkea that his policy had | Mure + Well, and said that in| © would impose workhouse the Owever, he soon resumed Nay discharging of appel- ag Rose as Rondsman. Gayer accepted Louis beads ine of judgments, on the ls court after Judges of Court had refused him, “cepted Sam Arky. an- In the der of judgments. 04 tp Ptimary of last August, © November election, had the indorsement Louis Bar Association ation and re-election. Sper tagle in St. Louls. and = me SOh00)] teacher and a. ide me her before. in, middle ‘stars aed law. Helwas As- 'Y Counsclor and Police Utor for five years, elected to the bench. j ald be . ag MenOmin ie ‘tore detng | Six prisoners Stillmans have since become rec- onciled. Beauvais alleges the letters in- troduced in the Stillman trial were forgeries made by agents of Still- man, Florence TI.eeds, and John Doe and Richard Roe. He does not know the ren? names of Doe and Roe, but wants to make them co-defendants. The complaint charges that the four persons conspired against him because he refused to testify false- ly against Mrs. Stillman and that when he scorned their proffered bribes they slandered him so that persons of wealth who formerly employed him to act as guide for their wives and daughters no long- er trust him. Stillman has been ordered to show cause on Monday why Tio Leeds, John Doe and Richard Roe should not be named co-defend- ants, 6 PRISONERS LASHED, FOUR 40 TIMES, TWO 20, IN DELAWARE Whip “Laid on Well” as Law Di- rects in New Castle County , Workhouse. By the Associated Press. WILMINGTON, Del., March went under lash today in the New County workhouse. 40 lashes, and the others 20 lashes each. Elmer J. Leach, “laid it on well,” as the iaw. directs, before a simnall crowd in the workhouse yard. Roy Holland, Negro, who shot.a man in a robbery last week, was the first to be shackled to the whipping post. He was followed by James Pryor, an accomplice in the robbery and shooting, and Grant Grown. both Negroes. Dan- jel Jones, the only white man among the six, was next whipped. George D. Butler and John Ied- wards were next with 20 lashes each. LINDBERGH PLANS 36-HOUR COAST-T0-COAST SERVICE Pittsburg Paper Says Only One Night's Travel in Train Is Provided in Proposal. By the Associated Press. PITTSBU RG,@Pa., March 17.— (Sunday)—The Sun-Telegraph, {2 a copyrighted story today, says that it has learned authoritatively that Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is working out plans for a coast to- 16. the a traveling time of 36 hours be- tween New York and Los Angeles. Under the plan, which the paper says is sponsored by the Pennsyl- vania Railroad and the Transcon- for tinental Air Transport, Inc., which Lindbergh is advisory en- gineer, only one night—from New York to Columbus—would be spent on atrain in the coast-to-coast journey. | Only one stop is planned for the planes between Columbus and Los Angeles, and that for refucling. probably at Dodge City, Kan., or Las Vegas, N. M. higher discount rates. “We are all cognizant that rates are much higher for all kinds of credit than they were in August, 1927,” he said. nore there has been an unusual demand for a form of credit that can properly be termed speculative: in fa** the unusually high rates that prevail in that field make it evident that the demand has pressed hard on the supply. Hew- ever, vw" on the funds were not forthcoming from the banks, the speculators made the rate so at- tractive that corporations and in- dividuals, both foreign and domes- tic, supplied the funds, Rates Not Yet Harmful. . “The unusual demu. “for this particular form of credit has had an effect upon the ccs «. all oth- er forms of credit so that practi- cally all lines of commerce and in- dustry. have been affected to a certain degree, although from all I can observe at this time, the in- creased rates to commerce and business have not so far been a deterrent to active operation. “There are many people in the United States who feel that, be- cause of some power that I am frank to confess is unknown to the Federal Reserve Board, low Castle | merce and Four received | minted coast air-rail passenger service with | rates could be maintained to com- industry indefinitely, even though the speculators pay higher rates. , “I want t¢ remind you that there are approximately 27,000 bankers in the United States and while, from what I have been able to observe, théy take’ care of local needs, when they have funds to employ outside of their own com- munity and aré offered call loans at rates from 3 to 4 per cent above credit based upon production and distribution, obviously, they ex- tend that credit which brings the best rates. “This forces the commercial bor- rower to make his offer more at- tractive, with’ the yesult that in the course of time everyone pays higher rates. This process of lifting may go to a point where it will become a serious deterrent to business, and it is that phase of the present situation with which the reserve system most concerns | itself. Other Nations Affected Too, “Nor is this problem a local one. It is not alone of national but of international significance. High rates have drawn, credit and goid from many quarters of the globe to satisfy the appetite of the epecu- lative borroaver. Two foreign banks of issue already have had to raise their rates to protect their own po- sition. If this continues, others will no deubt have to follow and “For six years or | _— those countries will go through the experience of lifting rates around a circle until they may get to a point where they will not only | have a bad effect on the trade of the foreign countries, but would seriously interfere with the exports of this country. To put it baldiy, | the final cost may not be.reckoned Continued on Page 3, Column 1. ‘Hello, Marcelle.’ Then he clutched at his breast, and without saying another word toppled over. I called 'a doctor from a nearby office. The doctor said he was dead.” Floyd was 54 years old and lived lat 7135 Northmoor drive, Univer- sity City. He is survived by his Widow, a daughter, Virginia, 19 years old, and a son, John,- 18. Both children are students at the | University of Missouri. At his home it was said that he had suffered a severe heart attack a year ago. He was president of the Floyd Plant Food Co., which operates a plant at Monsanto, Ill., just south of East St. Louis; the Western Fer- tilizer Products Co., at Stailings, Ill., near Granite City, and the Ev- ansville Fertilizer Co., at Evans- ville, Ind. Dr. A. J. Griot, Coroner’s physi- cian, performed an autopsy and an- nounced that death was caused by chronic heart disease. SEEKS $20,000 STAKE OF GAMBLER WHO DIED AT TABLE Widow Wants Sum That Accrued Because Her Husband a , Died. Specia! to the Post-Dispatch. PARIS, March 16.—From _ the Riviera has come a gruesome gam- bling story of a fortune made at one of the principa! casinos which is now being disputed by the widow of the player and the gaim- bling resort. The newcomer took a seat and staked $40 on a number, The number won. Since the player made no sign, the croupier left the original stake on the Saine number with a portion of the winnings making the maximum. When his number won again the player still remained motionless, clasping his head in his hands. The lucky number came up repeat- ediy in a long series until the win- nings totaled $20,000. | Then some one nudged the silent ambier. He was dead. The | ame stopped while the body was | taken out. The widow later came } g is 'to elaim the winnings, but the casino refused to give them up, de- ' elaring that if the player had been alive he would not have left his money on the same nummber all the time. A lawsuit is pending. THREE SAFE ROBBERS FLEE AFTER BINDING WATCHMAN Frightened From Feed & Coal Co. Office After Knocking Com- bination Off Strong Box. Three men, who entered the store of the James McNicol & Son Feed & Coal Co., 6236 Easton ave- nue, at 11:15 o'clock last night. bound and gagged the night watch- man, B. Kahn, 8908 Windom ave- nue, and. knocked the combination off the safe. They were frightened - away, Kann told the Sheriff's office, as they were preparing to blow the safe. Kann freed himself and. re- perted the Incident. and was rescued by an unidentified man who breasted the swift cur- rents to bring the boy to land. Geneva, directly south of Elba, still was flooded, but most of its ! . inhabitants were reported safe at » Samson. Food Needed at Brewton. Brewton, in Escambia county, near the Florida line, was not con- sidered in immediate danger, Ad- jutant-General F. Eugene Butler said, but food is needed. The town, of approximately 5000 inhabitants, in the Conecuh River basin, was engulfed by the over- flowing waters of Murder and Burnt Corn creeks. Information from the guards- men was that food was the prin- cipal need at Flomaton, another town in the lower Alabama water- shed. Airplanes had dropped sup- plies considered sufficient for a day or so. A carload of provi- sions was on the way from Mo- bile. While direct communication had not been established with Castle- berry, Garland, Pollard, Keego, Pera and several other towns part- ly submerged in the basin, rescue work was being directed to all those places. High Water at Montgomery. While the rise apparently was halting in the southern part of the State, the Alabama River at Mont- gomery was still approaching a crest. The backwaters of the Alabama, Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers tonight had driven approxi- mately 4000 from their homes in Montgomery County. A 57-foot mark, the flood stage, was predicted for the Alabama fiver at Montgomery tonight. Elba, with water from Pea River Choctawhatchee tributary, 25 feet deep in its main sections, was the scene of a great exodus last night and today. The Alabama National Guard established a relief camp on Cemetery Hill. between Elba and Big Creek, and took out 1500 per- sons within 24 hours. There were still several hundreds who had) little or no food since Wednesday. | Among them were about 100 | children, marooned in a_e school) house. Currents prevented boats) from reaching them until noon to- day. Evacuation began in Geneva last night before the worst of the water from Pea River arrived, and the 3500 citizens were removed to nearby town on high ground dur- ing the night and early day hours. 17 Planes Fly Over Flood. ties. Only the big cities remain. Our fight now is to dry them up, and we are going into that fight confident of success. “We know a majority of the good citizens of St. Louis want to see the prohibition law enforced. The bootleggers and the criminals don’t. The steady drinkers of boot- leg liquor don't. In addition, per- haps, theed is a small minority of honest citizens who believe that the law can’t be enforced. It can be enforced. And we are going to see that -it is enforced.” Outline of Dry Plaz. The plan in its broad, general scope covers the chief cities of the country and applied to St. Louis, includes the following major ac- tivities: Thorough and effective organ- ization of women’s clubs and as- sociations, including the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, to “follow through” on arrests = for dry law violations and see that prosecutions are prompt and vig- orous, The appointment of women's committees by the churches’ to visit the city’s courts, sit through the trials of dry law violators, ob- serve the effectiveness or laxity of justice and report to their various churches. Organization of male committees from Bible classes and other bodies including civie clubs to busy them- selves for law enforcement. This includes the selection and support of dry candidates for city. State and national office; and a fight on wet candidates at the polls. City and Statewide committee appointments by such organizations as the Parent-Teachers’ . Associa- tion the League of Women Voters, totary, Civitan and Kiwanis clubs to aid actively in observing the ad- ministrution of justice involving dry law violations, reporting mis- carriage of justice and taking ap- propriate steps to prevent the repetition of such miscarriages. Direction of relief and disease prevention was taken over at | Montgomery today, with Enter- | prise, Zroy, Dotham and the Na- | tional Guard base at Cemetery, Hill designated as refuge and sup | rly concentration e¢enters. Gov. Ribb Graves was in temporary, command of 17 army airplafies| from Maxwell Field, which flew | ovxer the various flood sectors with. food. serum and other supplies. | Returning aviators and news) correspondents told of desperate | | morale. Would Educate Public, A local “campaign of education’ for law enforcement in which churches, schools and clubs will co-operate. Appropriation of all funds nec- exsary by Federal, State and city governments toe enforce the proai bition laws in city and State, This includes an increase in dry law enforcement forces where meces- sury, more Judges if needed and arger forces in the offices of the District Attorneys and other prose- cutors. The Anti-Saloon League other dry organizations make secret of the fact that they are planning the final drive to car- ry prohibition enforcement over the. top Headquarters here arc humming with activity. Enact- ment of the Jones bill prescribing heavy penalities for violation and Hoover's tnaugura) address apprar and mo now to have added immensely to their Apparently they are de- lighted with the prospect and ke«™ and eager to get busy with the SPEEDING AUTO: Federal columns converging on Torreon are too strong for his troops. The Government has said that about 30,000 well equipped DRIVER ESCAPES Victim, About 55, Struck on Jefferon Near Chero- kee—Papers Bear Name of Abner Halteman. An unidentified man about 55 years old, was killed by a speeding automobile last night when he at- tempted to cross Jefferson avenue near Cherokee street. The auto- mobile which struck him, a brown closed car, sped south on Jefferson without stopping. Papers in the dead man’s cloth- ing bore the name Abner Halteman 2323 South Ninth street. One was a letter from Pressmen’s Union No. 6 announcirg a meeting. Another, issued by Washington University Medical School dispensary, had the same name and address. The man was knocked 606 feet by the impact of the automobile, ac- cording to Patrolman Fruin of the Soulard street district who wit- nessed the accident. Fruin did not obtain the HNcense number of the automobile. The body was taken to the Morgue. He wore a brown overcoat, gray felt hat, blue coat and pencil- striped trousers and a blue work shirt. Herman Dicke, 79 years old, 4 cooper, 1447 North Broadway, was struck by an automobile driven by Paul Toelle, prohibition agent at Broadway and De Soto street last night. At City Hospital Dicke was found to be suffering from 4 pos- sible fractured skull and acute al- cholism. Toelle was taken to the Angélica street police station and released on bond. BARRACUDA BITES SWIMMER PALM BEACH, Fla., March 16. —Leroy Chadbourne, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Chadbourne of Greenwich, Conn. was attacked and injured by a large barracuda while swimming in the ocean here today. His shouts attracted his wife, parents and guests of the Chad- bourne home. They helped him to shor. in a Hfeboat and rushed | him to a hospital It was said the fish's teeth had severed a tendon in his right foot. Flyer Escapes Twice in Leap. WASHINGTON, March 16.—J. H. Tilden. commercial pilot of Alexandria, Va. escaped twice to- day when be jumped from a dis- caled plane at 260 feet altitude | epened parachute. The plane | +* paign, while Escobar was’ reported to have only 5000 followers, pait of whom are not well equipped. Only 20 Miles From Torreon, The Government communique on the evacuation came after a cay filed with unconfirmed that the rebels were withdrawing before the close approach of the Federal troops from the -ast, T's Government announced that some of its fighting units now were within 20 miles of Torteon, at San Pedro, and were advancing. Escobar was sald by the Government to be transferring his money to the United States and Canada, having already sent his family into the United States in ure of the rebel movement and to pave the way for his own ¢é¢.pe. It was declared that in one town he had abandone4’4 Federal -oldicrs found papers showing that he had deposited $100,344.89 in American money in the Bank of Montreal, Quebec. ; At Torreon Today, Calles Saya, Gen Calles telegraphed President Portes Gil today that he hoped to reach Torreon with his main army tomorrow. He said that some of his forces were then at Guadalupe Victoria, about half way between Durango and Torreon. : Government headquarters Was informed that the private car of Gen. Escobar was attached to an engine at Torreon ready for instant departure. The General was re- ported to have 3,000,000 pesos ($1,500,000) packed to carry with . him. The Conau!l at Fl Paso, Tex. in- formed the Government that trains from Juarez running southward through rebel territory had been unable to proceed beyond Jiminesz, Chihuahua, because af bombing by . the Federals, Possible Effect of Retreat. Gen. Escobar had »cccupied Tor- reon for nearly two weeks. He fell back to that city after a brief oc- cupancy of Monterrey and a longer stay at Saltillo, in both of which places he confiscated money and war supplies. : If he now fe falling back ‘oward Chihuahua, it may possibly mean that he has decided to draw the Federal forces farther tnto rebel territory where he will «'n added strength while the Federals are put to a disadvantage because of the long distance from their base of supplies. Leniency to All But Leaders. President Portes Gil teday ordered the Federal authorities in the State of Vera Cruz to free a)! and reac>ed the ground just as the | cone! prisoners below the grade ef machine crashed across his partly | yeytenant-colenel. It was under. ' _ Continued on Page 3, Column 2. | Continued on Page 2, Colump 2. | siruck vithin 10 feet of Tiiden.; Continued on Page 3, Colume 6. Federals are engaged in this cam-. rumors anticipation of the complete fall-- - * ee ee ee