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COMMISSION 1 APPROVES CUT UTILITY RATES All Five Sanction Reduction on Lights: Vote 3 to 2 on Water. CITY MAIN BENEFICIARY f Decrease in Cost Equivalent to 2-Cent Tax Drop Is Granted. Public service commission approval has been given the Indianapolis electric and water rate settlements. Following a four-hour conference of commissioners Friday afternoon, it was announced the electric compromise and water suit was approved by a vote of three to two. Commissioners Howell Ellis and Frank Singleton, who launched considerable criticism of both orders during (he long debate, refused to approve the water settlement, i Singleton explained that he was { not in favor of approving rate increases without a formal hearing. The order raises rates for consumers using between 700 and 20,000 cubic feet a month. Text Is Changed Ellis said he expected to write a dissenting opinion in the matter. Singleton's vote was not secured for the electric order without changes being made from the original text as written by Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbertson. Cuthbertson had set a standard minimum rate for all suburban consumers using Indianapolis Power and Light Company service at $1.35. ■But at the conference he was required to insert a proviso that any consumer whose minimum now is lower than that can retain the old minimum by filing notice with the company before June 1. Some of the old minimums were as low as 75 cents a month and as high as $2, Cuthbertson said. The minimum in the city remains at 80 cents. City Chief Beneficiary Greatest benefit from the com-' promises comes to the city, with a saving in water and electric bills equivalent to a 2-cent tax levy. But no reduction will result in the present tax rates, as it is explained, the i city administration had anticipated a cut in making up the current budget, and if it had not been forthcoming, would have had to issue bonds to cover the deficit. So far as water and light patrons are concerned, the settlement already has earned the title of “Cuthbertson’s crumb.” Maximum possible saving to a water consumer would be 42 cents s a month, by reduction of the minimum from $1.50 to SI.OB, the old amount being 700 cubic feet and the new 500. Saving Is Small Maximum possible saving to an ‘ electric consumer would be 12 1 -i cents a month, or $1.50 a year, by reducing the first 50 KWH from 6% cents to 6% cents. No change was made above that amount. Both the Indianapolis Water Company and the Indianapolis Power and Light Company benefit by avoiding audits and appraisals on a reproduction basis at the present prices by making miniature sacrifices. The water company is shouldering only $55,000 of the $66,000 reduction in the city's bill, the difference being made up by the rate increases. Light company revenues will be reduced by $164,985.93 a year, according to Cuthbertson’s figures. The new water rates will be effective on April billings, the electric cut on the city bill beginning as of April 1, and the quarter cent reduction to consumers, April 15. RELIEF FRAUD CHARGF" | Cops .Arrest Laborer, Alleging “Big Family, No Job’’ Is Myth. Charge of false pretense, based on his representation that he had a wife and seven children when he applied for poor aid, caused arrest Friday night of William Howard, 38, of 703 South Capitol avenue. Howard, it is alleged, has no family. He had been receiving aid in the form of groceries since last summer. It is said he receives a government pension of $12.50 a month and is employed as a laborer. Republican Women Organize gj. Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., April 2. Perry Johnson, county chairman, presided at an organization meeting of the Hamilton county council of Republican women Friday at the armory. Approximately 200 women attended.

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VOLUME 43—NUMBER 281

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“My mistake and here’s $2,500 for it,” was the substance of an apology given Lewis B. Tebbets, above, St. Louis insurance man, by former President Calvin Coolidge, pictured below. Tebbets had sued Coolidge for SIOO,OOO, claiming that a recent radio address of the former President had injured his business. Coolidge had warned the public against the so-called “twister’ 1 who offers to save money by placing life insurance policies in another company. SPECIAL BALLOT DUE ON VESTAL Leslie to Call Election to Name Successor. Special election will be called by Governor Harry G. Leslie to choose a successor to Albert H. Vestal, Republican, representative in congress from the old Eighth Indiana district, who died in Washington, Friday. James M. Ogden, attorney-gener-al, and Fred C. Cause, Republican member of the state board of election commissioners, have stated informally that the election will be open to voters of the counties which comprised the old Eighth district, but there is a difference of opinion among other persons as to the locale of the election due to changes in congressional districts made by an act of the 1931 state legislature.

KENTUCKIAN BACKS STUDENT PROBERS

Merchant Flays Bullying Tactics Used by Mob Led by Prosecutor. £>;/ United Press MIDDLESBORO, Ky., April 2. A Bell county business man has sided with eastern college students in their protest of treatment received during an attempted investigation of the coal mining region in this district. H. R. Giles, city commissioner and prominent merchant, denounced Walter B. Smith, prosecuting attorney, for his examination of the students at the state line and the courthouse here. Giles said he was on Cumberland in when the student bus was .. and the students ordered out by Smith “so that we can see what these things look like.” “Using rocks as breastworks, men behind them were armed with enough big guns, pistols and ammunition to have battled successfully a whole army of thugs,” the commissioner said. “If that gathering of around 2,000 hecklers and ruffians from three counties —including many of the worst characters, who had been deputized. filled with liquor and armed to the teeth, constituted law and order and Kentucky bravery and chivalry, then I don't know what rank cowardice and lawlessness is.” Giles charged a deputy. John Wilson, cursed and struck a boy student w’ho attempted to recover the notes the deputy had snatched from a girl member of the delegation. New York Stocks Opening ißv James T. Hamill & Cos.) —April 2 Am Can 60‘j Lie & Mvers 8.. 52Vi Air Red 49’* Mont’v Ward ... 7** Atchison '. 62%|N Y Central ... 25% Anaconda 5% N American ... 28% Am For Pwr 4 Natl Cash Ree.. 9** Am Tel & Tel. .110% Penn R R 15V Auburn ........ 66Vs Packard 3 Cons Gas 57*4 Radio 6 Bvers A M 11%!R K O 3% Case J I 32%! Cons Oil 5% Ches & 0hi0... 17% Std of Ind 15 Fox Film A 3 Std Oil of N J.. 27% Gen Foods 34% Texas Coro 11% Gillette 18% U S Steel 39% Gen Mot 15% United Coro ... 6% Gen Elec 17% Un Aircraft 11% Gold Dust 16%‘Un Carbide 27* Chicago Stocks Opening <Bv James T. Hamill & Cos.) —April 2 Bendix Avia .. 8% IMo Kan P Line % Borg Warner... 7% Middle West ... 1% Cent So Wst.. 2'; NAmP & L 9% Cities Berv .... s%‘Natl Std 13 Cont Chi com.. J3 *4 Swift <fc Cos ..... 16% Com Edison ... 80 USRadArTel.. 5% Houd Hersh <Bi 2% Ut & Indus com 2% tnsull com %Ut & Indus pfd. 8% Insull 1# '40.... 4 Walgreen Strs.. 91a

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1932

ITALIAN TOWN, ON HILL, SINKS INTO CAVERN 2,000 Are Left Homeless as Ground Gives Way, Houses Collapse. PORUS EARTH BLAMED Infiltration of Water Is Believed to Have Enlarged Cave. By United Press NAPLES, April 2.—Two thousand i men, women and children whose j homes caved in as the town of Santa Stefano sank from a hilltop to oblivion in an underground cavern, lived in a tent city today. They hurriedly left their sinking homes, took all the household goods and other possessions they could carry and migrated into the tent town set up by troops dispatched to the region. Although the first indications of the fate of the town came suddenly with the unexpected cracking of numerous houses, the inhabitants were evacuated in safety. It was believed that infiltration of water into the porous ground on which Santa Stefano was built cause the formation of a huge cavern directly beneath the town. There appeared little hope that much of the town would be left standing. A number of houses in Leonina street were the first to go. They began to crumble and crash suddenly. There were no casualties. The destruction spread to other parts of the town. Soon there scarcely was a residence left inhabitable. The residents were thrown into momentary panic, but soon realized that the process of sinking was so slow that they could escape with safety. Premier Benito Mussolini sent orders to the prefect to do everything possible for the residents. He ordered dispatch of troops, food, medicines, and field hospitals to the scene. The town is about fifty miles from Cassino, in Terra di Lavor province, and about halfway between Rome and Naples. Experts believed that the original cavern under the town, now enlarged by the infilitration of water for many years, might have been dug out after the Roman epoch to extract tufa, a substance used extensively as building material in many districts around Rome. today Tiling deadline Applications of Candidates Pour Into State Office. From all points of the state there poured into the secretary of state’s office today applications for filing for judicial, legislative and congressional office —all striving to beat the noon deadline today. The office of the county clerk will be open until 1 p. m. today for candidates for county office in the May primary.

Poker Game By United Press OFFERLE, Kan., April 2. This wolf didn’t stop at the door. He dashed right into the dining room and crouched beneath the table. Mrs. Jake Reinicke. the housewife, snatched a poker and dispatched the frightened animal, quarry of hunting farmhands.

CHINESE REPULSED Japanese Scatter Guerilla Bands in Manchuria. By United Press > CHANGCHUN, Manchuria, April I 2—Japanese troops scattered Chi- j nese “guerillas” today in a deter- j mined attack to drive off irregulars who had beseiged Nungan for a i week. The attackers were classified by the Japanese as bandits and by some Chinese as loyalists opposed to the new independent Manchu regime headed by Henry Pu Yi. The Chinese had taken part of Nungan, but were driven out last i night by heavy Japanese bombard- I ments. DROP FEDERAL SUIT IN CHAIN TAX SUIT Dismissal Paves Way for Test Action in Circuit Court. Dismissal in federal court of the Midwest Petroleum Corporation’s I test suit against the state tax board I today paved the way for filing an amended complaint in circuit court in the battle of oil companies to ; exempt filling stations from provii sions of the chain store tax law. The suit was transferred to fed- | eral court in January, and, failing ; to have the case returned to Marj ion circuit court, the company moved for dismissal in federal court. The case is based on AttomeyI General James M. Ogden's ruling that filling stations should pay the j chain store tax the same as other retail stores. *

Baby Flier By United Press FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, April 2—Rudi Lang, 5Vi years old, expects to be the first child to croar. the the Atlantic in an airship, and the youngest passenger to make a 7,001-mile flight from here to Buenos Aires by airship and airplane. Rudi will fly here in a passenger airplane from Stuttgart Sunday and board the Graf Zeppelin for Pernambuco, Brazil, early Monday. He will fly from Penrambuco to Buenos Aires, where his parents will meet him.

RADIUM DEATH PERIL FACING WEALTHY MEN Mayor Jimmy Walker One of Many Influential Citizens Taking Treatments. By United Press NEW YORK, April 2.—Prominent citizens in many communities, including Mayor James J. Walker of New York, were listed today as users of radium water solutions now under federal and medical investigation as result of Eben M. Byers’ death. An autopsy late Friday definitely revealed that Byers died as result of radium poisoning, Dr. Charles Norris, chief county medical examiner said. “And it will take two months to determine exactly how it affected him.” Fates decreed that the wealthy should be listed almost exclusively as users of the compounds involved, whereas in the radium poison case which attracted nationwide attention a few years ago, only the poor workmen who painted watch dials were affected. Lives of hundreds of users of the radium water solution are endangered, experts declared. Doctors and experts have termed radium solutions poisonous, and have warned against their use. Medical associations revealed they have been fighting use of the compounds for months. Walker Taking Cure Mayor Walker revealed thta he haa been using a form of radium water for his “rundown condition.” He intended to continue it, he said, for he did not believe it contained radium salts. Only the deposits of salts in the body, experts said, was dangerous. Treatment externally by competent physicians as in cancer or tumor treatments was termed "safe.” “Somebody told me about a machine that treats regular drinking waher by means of radium emanations. I had one sent to my apartment,” Walker explained. “No actual radium or radium salts get into the water, and I consider the effects beneficial. I’ll continue it, for I’m satisfied I haven’t given it a fair trial. I am satisfied it is harmless,” the mayor declared. Perils Are Pointed Dr. Harrison S. Martland, Newark, who forecast death for victims of radium dial paint, has warned of danger in the use of certain radio-active waters. Dr. Martland, Newark city pathologist, was one of the consultants in the Byers case. He became nationally known after his discovery that many girls employed in painting luminous watch dials had contracted radium infections. He wrote names of fifty victims in a notebook. Since then he has crossed out the names of eighteen who died. Dr. Martland told the United Press the human body is normally radio-active. “In my opinion, based on research in more than a score of cases, the normal radio-activity of the body should not be increased by any means,” he said. Several Dangerous Types He particularly warned against waters containing radium or mesothorium in solution. Dr. Martland specified Radithor, the patent medicine which Byers used. Another radio-active water Dr. Martland warned against is known as the Emantor or Activator, a type which contains radium gas. Martland also said he had received a sample of Germai candy containing radium, accompanied by advertising matter declaring it would cure a variety .of ailments. Examination of the sample showed, Dr. Martland stated, that it did contain some radium and undoubtedly was dangerous.

How the Market Opened

By United Press NEW’ YORK, April 2.—Stocks moved irregularly lower at the opening on the New York Stock Exchange today, turned dull and held around the opening levels in the early trading. Losses were mostly fractional. Steel opened at 39 %, off %; International Telephone 6%, off %; Standard Gas 20, off %; Woolworth 59%, off %; Union Carbide 27%, off %; Lorillard 14%, off %, and Electric Power and Light 8, off %. A long list of issues held at the previous close, including Bethlehem i Steel, Public Service, Columbia Gas, | North American, Consolidated Gas. | American and Foreign Power and ! Montgomery Ward. Railroad shares were depressed , following their decline into new ’ lows for the average in Friday’s sesj sion. Action of the interstate com- | merce commission in holding up a ; loan for Baltimore & Ohio sent i that issue into new low ground at i 12%, off %. Union Pacific declined 1% to 67%. Pennsylvania held unchanged at 15%.

SENATE GUNS ARE TRAINED ON TAX DILL New Attacks Face Revenue Measure Passed by House 327 to 64. SALES LEVY PROPOSED Garner Angered by Mills’ Claim Yield Is Inadequate to Wipe Out Deficit. BY MARSHALL M’NEIL Times Staff Corresoondent WASHINGTON, April 2.—The tax fight shifted to the senate today with proposals to increase surtaxes on the great incomes and to kill the oil and coal tariffs as outstanding issues. Even before the billion dollar revenue bill is sent there from the house which passed it late Friday, the field of senate controversy fairly is well defined. An effort will be made to reinsert the sales tax in the bill. There will be a fight on the special leniency provision given estates of persons who died recently. The new levy on dividends will be opposed, as will the taxes on autos, conveyances and stock transfers. The postage increase also is a controversial issue. Senate finance committee hearings on the bill are to start next week. High Surtaxes Killed The house passed the bill, 327 to 64, after striking out at the last moment the higher surtaxes on the rich, which had been voted in to replace the mild levies proposed by the ways and means committee. These surtaxes, affecting the incomes of the big Republican and Democratic campaign contributors and other rich persons, were approved when the house was sitting as a committee ten days ago. But between then and Friday strong opposition arose, and on a record vote, the surtaxes were ousted by a vote of 211 to 178. Party lines were broken on the roll call. Sales Tax Fails Again The effort to re-insert the sales tax failed 235 to 160, with Republicans forming the backbone of the attempt. The oil and coal tar-tariffs were retained, 204 to 188. The bill as finally approved, is expected to yield $1,262,900,000, including $200,000,000 reductions in federal expenditures. This is $21,900,000 in excess of the $1,241,000,000 said to be needed to balance the budget in the fiscal year 1933. These are the estimates of the ways and means committee. Estimates of Treasury Secretary Ogden L. Mills are that the bill, as finally approved by the house, will yield $1,152,900,000, but this includes only $125,000 000 reductions in federal expenditures. This sum is SBB,100,000 less than enough to balance the budget. ‘Not Enough,’ Mills Says Mills’ attempt to show that the Democratic house with its special excise taxes had not provided enough revenue to balance the budget came as the house met Friday. Simultaneously the ways and means committee reported an amendment taxing stock dividends as income, to yield $88,000,000. The secretary’s statement that the congress would reduce experji/t----tures by only $125,000,000, as compared to the promised $200,000,000 to $243,000,000, caused Garner to explode with denunciations of all treasury estimates. Administration Flayed He charged that when the treasury favored anew. tax it figured the yield high, and when it opposed a new tax, it figured the yield very low. Beating a loud tattoo on his desk, Garner told newspaper reporters that if the administration would co-operate the government’s expenditures easily could be cut. He accused cabinet officers of running to the senate with cries that “you are ruining the government,” and demanding increases in appropriations after reductions had been made in the house. He declared the congress should, could and will reduce expenditures. In the Air Weather condition at 9 a. m.: Southwest wind, 37 miles an hour; temperature, 66; barometric presj sure, 29.30 at sea level; ceiling, high, ■thin broken clouds, unlimited; visibility, 25 miles; field, good.

Soviet Plans Eugene Lyons, United Press staff correspondent at Moscow, will present in The Times Monday the first of a series of articles describing the Soviet program for the second fiveyear plan and accomplishments so far in the first fiveyear plan. Lyons has written a vivid, dramatic word picture of the sacrifices and struggles of Russia’s teeming millions during the fight to make the first plan a success. He tells of the new and even greater sacrifices and hardships these same millions face in carrying out the second plan as outlined bySoviet leaders. Watch for the first of these articles in The Times Monday.

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SEVEN DIE IN MASSACRE BY MEXICAN BANDIT GANG IN RAID ON U. S. RANCH

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Here is the first photo of Henry Ford at work on his much-dis-cussed new “V-8” engine. The new power plant, built in two banks of four cylinders each, has an S. A. E. rating of 30-horse power, cylinder block and crankcase cast in ont unit, aluminum alloy pistons, an intake manifold which pre-heats the gas before it is delivered to the cylinders, and pressure lubrication. The new downdraft carburetor is seei. above the engine.

75,000 QUIT WORK IN MIDWEST MINES

Back of the ‘Great Wall’ in Kentucky First of a series of three powerful articles on actual conditions in the coal mining region of Kentucky, where authorities are trying to solve an economic problem by suppression of civil rights, written by an eyewitness, will appear Monday in The Times. The series will include: 1. What those eastern college students would have found if they had not been barred from the coal fields. 2. How the miners live. 3. The strange manner in which business men and others of the mining region are trying to solve a tangled economic and human problem. Starts Monday in The Times.

REVUE INVADES MUSIC TEMPLE Scandals Will Play in Chicago Civic Opera. By United Press CHICAGO, April 2.—Wise-crack-ing Broadway will invade the i “temple of music” built to house the | Civic Opera this May. A tradition-breaking lease today ■ turned over the theater to George White’s “Scandals” for an indefinite ! engagement. Where the voices of Raisa, Muzio j and Schipa have sung to society’s j ears, Rudy Vallee will croon. Thirty-six chorus girls will tap | the boards previously touched only | by an aesthetic ballot. It will mean added revenue to the : hard-pressed opera and the "ScanI dais” hope to reap rich returns from the vast seating capacity of the house. FILES FOR PROSECUTOR George A. Hoffman Seeks Place in Race on G. O. P. Ticket. George A. Hoffman, 5140 East ; Washington street, who has been practicing law here since 1916, has filed for the Republican nomination for prosecutor. He never has held public office and pledged, if elected, to conduct j the office efficiently, economically and impartially. FILES ON WET PLANK Dr. E. L. Wiggins in Race for State Representative. Dr. E. L. Wiggins, 3119 College | avenue, filed today for the Demo- ! cratic nomination for state repre- ! sentative on a platform calling for repeal of the Wright bone dry law. Dr. Wiggins, who has practiced here since 1900. also declares for municipal ownership of public util- | ities without public service commis- ' sion control, equalization of utility rates in order to fit the changing economic conditions and a more j equitable distribution of the tax burden. *-

Hope for Agreement Still Retained in Illinois and Indiana. By United Press CHICAGO, April 2.—Quiet reigned ; over a large share of the nation’s i coal fields today—the quiet of stilled machinery and idle men. j Wage disagreements have thrown | 75,000 men ou tof work in Illinois, | Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia, j And in Kentucky a long-standing | dispute grew more bitter. : The traditional April 1 holiday | for union workers, celebrating inauguration of the eight-hour day, ushered in widespread pessimism over most of the mining territory, with the exception of Pennsylvania. Illinois union heads and operators prepared for the fifth week of negotiation for anew wage contract. The Illinois shutdown was occasioned by failure to agree on the basis of compensation for 41,000 refused a reduction from the old j union workers, who thus far have scale of $6.10 a day. Out In Indiana Indiana shaft mines were affected similarly, but unlike Illinois owners, Indiana operators contemplated continuing production with nonunion workers. Indiana block and strip mines will operate on the old scale. Union representatives claimed 25,000 men were on strike in the Ohio and West Virginia fields, where operators announced a reduction | which union miners refused to accept. A number of mines in this , territory already had closed and | conditions in some districts were re- ! ported acute. Hope was held out, however, both J in the strike districts and the Ulii nois-Indiana territory, where the conditions was described as merely a shutdown, that further negotiations between unions and operators would bring a satisfactory settle- : ment. Fear Kentucky Strife Harlan count, Ky., scene of bitter j violence, waited tensely for the next move in the strife between warring miners and owners. Special interest was attached to impending visit of a group of students from Commonwealth college, Mena, Ark. Te stdents plan an investigation of conditions and relief ! of starving miners. Other students with similar purposes and a party led by Novelist Theodore Dreiver have met stubborn resistance from local officials. HOGS CLOSE WEEK WITH UPTURN AT CITY YARDS Slaughter Class Cattle Show Lower Range for the Week. Hogs closed the week with a gain i this morning at the city yards, prices advancing 10 cents on several | classes. The bulk, 120 to 250 pounds, sold for $4.05 to $4.50; early top holding at $4.50. Receipts were estimated at 2,500; holdovers were 72. In the cattle market all slaughter classes were lower for the week, nothing much done today. Receipts were 50. Vealers were unchanged at S6 down. Calf receipts numbered 100. Not enough sheep were on hand to make a market. Supplies did not | exceed 00. Chicago hog receipts 4,000, including 3,000 direct; holdovers 2,000. Most quality plain, with scattered early sales around steady at Friday’s average. Hogs weighing 180 to 280 pounds sold at $4.50, while 280 to 310 pounders brought $4 to $4.10. Cattle receipts were 100; calves 100. market steady. Sheep receipts 7,000, market unchanged.

Capital EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Crtit

Stand Family Against Wall and Open Fire After Terrorizing Them. BORDER FEARS GROWING Wealthy Pioneer Residents Believed Slain in Effort to Obtain Cash. I! if I nitrd Press BERINO, N. M„ April 2. Military action was considered today after cold-blooded raiders crossed the border, swooped down on a defenseless, isolated ranch, stood the rancher and his family against the ranch house, then shot them down, killing seven and wounding one. The victims were members of a wealthy, pioneer, Mexican-American family. Three bandits, in an automobile, drove up to the big dairy ranch of Melquiadez Espinosa, near here, Friday night. The ten members of the Espinosa family were preparing to retire. The trio roused them, and, posing as New Mexican officials, gained entrance to the ranch house. Once inside they drew guns, terrorized the family, and demanded $5,000 in cash, Espinosa recently had sold a herd of cattle and the bandits believed he had the money hid<Ten on the ranch. Open Fire on Family They also demanded a bill of sale for another herd of cattle. Espinosa protested and declared the money was not on the ranch. Almost without another word, the three opened fire on the ten members of the family, huddled to- | gether in the big living room of the ;adobe ranch house. A few seconds later the place was ; a shambles. i Filomena Espinosa, 48, and her i five children, Louis. 32; Ilipolito, 26; | Andres, 23, Juanita, 12, and Felipa, ; 9, were killed with first barrage of ; shots fired by the trio. Vincente Espinosa, 19, dropped to the floor with four bullets in his back. He died later in an El Paso hospital. Melquiadez Espinosa, head of the family, saved his life when he feigned death after a bullet had grazed his head. He dropped to the floor and lay still alongside the bodies of his family. Like Old Apache Raids His mother, a blind woman, and his wife, both aged women, dropped to the floor and were shielded from the killers’ bullets by the bodies that lay massed about them. The three men escaped after the massacre that was reminiscent of the bloody Apache raids of a generation ago in the southwest. The raiders, in an automobile believed stolen, rode twenty-five miles into United States territory for the sortie. The Espinosa ranch, a great tract of land near here, is only ten miles from the largest interestate highway in this section. The raid apparently had been planned carefully. After the killing, the three men jumped into the automobile, and headed toward the Mexican border and safety. Troop Protection Asked Scores of officers from Texas and New Mexico cities arrived here today, but found little to indicate the identity of the three killers. Bullets taken from the bodies of the slain revealed they had been fired from three different guns, and Melquiadez Espinosa said the three men opened fire at once, and without warning. The elder Espinosa, sobbing over the tragedy which virtually had * wiped out his family, said the three bandits were Mexicans. “I never saw them before,” he told officers “They were Mexicans and they told me at first they were New Mexico officials and wanted to see about the herd I had sold, so I let them in.” The raid climaxed an outbreak of banditry which has struck terror in defenseless border cities in recent weeks. A week ago today, Mayor Louis Ravel of Columbus, m., demanded protection from * the marauding bands of bandits who, apparently emboldened by lack of concerted resistance, have made a half dozen forrays across the border near there in the last month. Border Region in Terror “We have been living in terror for a month,” Ravel telegraphed Governor Arthur Seligman of New Mexico, demanding protection of troops. It was at Columbus that Pancho Villa and his bandit mob raided, in his 1916 raids which led to the American invasion of Mexico by the army under command of General John J. Pershing. Adjutant-General Osborne Wood, son of late Major-General Leonard Wood, and a former United States army officer himself, head of the New Mexican militia, was reported in Columbus today, studying the situation there. Berino is about fifty miles east of Columbus. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 57 8 a. m 64 7a. m 58 9a. m.... 66 F