Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-03-31
Train Is Ready but Nothing
Has Been Started From
Juarez by Railroad to Gen.
eraI Pershing
Widest RUM0RS ARE
CIRCULATED AT Ell PAS0
Villa Believed Moving Toward
ParraIi One Story Says
Bandit Was Badly Wounded
at Columbus,

El Paso, Texas, March 30.-The
problem of forwarding supplies to
the American base at Colonia Dublan
hv way Of the Mexico Northwestern
railroad has changed from the per-
picking to the mysterious tonight.
General Bell apparently on receipt
Of instructions from Washington SIM
liar to those sent to General Funston,
announced that he could give no in
formation to the press regarding the
situation, and other officers and Of
ficials were equally uncommuni-
catiNe.
The one definite fact is that no sup
plies have been sent as no grain
has left Juarez in the past two days.
!. O. Crockett, vice president Of the
Northwestern railroad. said tonight
that he knew of no arrangements for
sending out of a train or of sup
plies but that he had train ready
any time it was needed.
Trucks Taxed to Capacity
From the little that could be
learned here it appears that the
question of gasoline supplies is the
one that is causing the military au-
thorities the greatest anxiety lhe
motor truck trains are taxed to their
capacity to keep an adequate quan
titv of food and forage moving Tor
ward The amount of gasoline re-
ouircd BY the trucks themselves, ana
for the aeroplanes, is very large and
constantly growing in volume. me
fluid is, of course, the key to the
whole supply situation.
AS far as the actual pursuit of VII
Ia is concerned the absence for sev-
eral DAYS of any definite news has
given a new birth to the wild rumors
and fantastic stories which flooded ri
Paso up ii a week ago. The band1t
chief has been reported in every
conceivable place on the map and IN
number that are utterly inconceN-
able. II all the stories that are eur
rent on the border are to be believed
he has fought in the last Few days
more battles than Alexander the
Great and has had more hair-breadlh
escapes than jesse James.
Yarn Peddler Arrested
one of the wierdest tales peddled
among the newspaper men here was
promptly nailed by the police TO-DAY
when they arrested Eduardo Perez
the father of the yarn, as a vagrant'
Perez had a marvellous story of ms
adventures which included an ac-
count of how Villa himself was des-
perately wounded in ,he raid on CO.
lumhlls and was now in hiding on a
ranch three miles from the border
He confessed the fabrication When
confronted with letters received lFy
him at San Antonio, during the
very period he claimed to have been
throwing dice with death in Mexico
The most reliable Information
about villa places him somewhere
in the Businesses of the great con
tinertai divide many miles south or
Namiduipa, and fleeing in Westerly
direction with Parral as his ooJec-
tive.
Lieutenant Joseph w. Allison, Jr''
who died here yesterday from pneu-
monia contracted at the front, was
given a military funeral preparatory
60 shipping his body to West Point
where il will be buried. The hearse'
surrounded by cavalry with drawn
swords and preceded by the Eishth
cavalry band, wound slowly through
the streets, which were lined by
great crowd of spectators Joseph w.
Allison, Of Dallas, Texas, the father
Of the officer. followed the eortese II,
an automobile. 1t was the SECOND
funeral of son that he had attehden
in the last six months