Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-18
ARKANSAS MAN, AT
 HEARING TELLS OF
 MEXICAN ATROCITIES
C. l.. Gardener, Hot Springs, Relates Details of Rail
 Organization
JACK JOHNSON IS
 POPULAR MAN THERE
Mexicans, Forbidden by Consuls t, Testify, Will Cause More Exc
 cutive Sessions-CarranZa Agents On the Grounds

Agents On the Grounds
 San Antonio, Tex, Jan. Mexi- co.'s objections to MeXicans testify inVesti gating affairs in that country will result in an increased number of it's executive sessions. The i'm probability that any effort will bt made by the committee to compe any Mexican to testify was made clear by the committee today, bu Meyicans will be asked to testify ant in cases where the witnesses feal the results protection as a secre hearing can afford them will be of fered. A large part of the testi mony was taken today was in exec utive session and at least one wit ness was a Mexican.
 Mexican secret service agents hay, appeared here in greater number! since the hearings began and there has not been held one session a which the Mexican government wa! unrepresented, altho the represen tative was unannOunced and was present merely as one of the spec tators. It is known the Mexican consul has counseled Mexicans not to appear before the committee.
 Most of the testimony taken in z closed session related to robberies outrages and expressions inflicted upon Americans in Mexico, especially in the southern and eastern part oi the country. Those testifying ask ed the cloak of secret hearing ir order that they might return tc their holdings in Mexico.
 Arkansan Testifies.
 In the open hearings additional testimony regarding the harsh treat ment, often reprisals, accorded Amer jeans, and c. L, Gardener of Hot Springs, Ark, gave, the details o1 the working of the gran liga," [ radical railway labor organization that was organized during the latter part of Diaz's rule and which attain. ed greater strength under that o1 Carranza. It was largely to in fluence of that organization that he ascrbed the substitution of Mexican railroad men for Americans.
 Gardener was one of the few Amer jeans who continued to work on the Mexican lines. He was conductor and for time his run" was in the of hal he witnessed atrocities by the fol the committee instances of mounted Zapatistas overtaking young women and throwing them up on their hors- es and riding away with them into the hills.
 He also told the committee of the popularity of Jack Johnson, ex- heavyweight champion of the United States, in Mexico City.
 Part of the committees time was taken today in examining witnesses regarding the source of an Interna- tional News Service article that ori- ginated here, but was "killed" before publication. The writer cited Guil- lermo Hall as the one responsible for the statements made. Hall is the director of the Mexican trade bu- reau of the local chamber of com merce. The article questioned was that secret service agents of Mexico were Investigating the record of Sen ator Fall with the object og ascer- taining what business interests he has in Mexico, and the statement that he was said to be interested in the affairs of the Terrazas family Hall denied responsibility for the statements, altho a woman appeared as a witness, saying he had so in- formed her.
 The incident of the recent receipt by Mexico of arms and ammunition also received some atten- tion by the committee. There was placed before it information contain ed in a Mexican newspaper of Janu- ary 13, that IS carloads of arms and ammunition had reached Mexico from Pacific ports where it was disem- parked The shipment came from Japan and, the paper added, another that had been contracted for by Can dido Aguilar, was coming from Spain. The makeup of the shipment was given as 300 machine guns, 5000 mauser rifles and a million cart ridges.
 Quotes Official.
 The Monitor quoted anonymously a cabinet member as saying:
 "Now, indeed, I believe that seri- ous complications between our coun- try and the United States, not only because of Jenkins, and the closing of oil wells, but because there now are or the way two ships loaded with one from Japan and the other from Spain." The, credited statement was made, the paper said, prior to the arrival of the Japanese warship and the munitions loaded merchant ships at Manzanillo on De- cember 24.
 Senator Fall said his sole proper ty interest now in Mexico was $751; 900 worth of mining stock he had as his share in setting the estate of a former partner many years ago. He denied he ever had been the attor- ney for Luis Terrazas or any mem- ber of his family except on one oc- casion as a friendly act he had as- sisted in securing the release from jail of General Terrazas' son. The son had been held by rebels at Chi huahua.
 In making his statement, the chair