Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-19
MEXICO WELCOMES
KELLOGG APPROVAL
OF ARB|TRAL MOVE
Tension Subsidies NotiCeabIy
on Receipt of News of
Stand by Secretary.
GALES TELLS AGRARIAN
GROUPS REVOLT FAILS
No Need to Arm Them to Aid Fed
eral Troops, Executive Re
plies to Offer.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, January 1s.-MeX-
eco is breathing easier with the an
nouncement of Secretary Kellogg
willingness to submit the contro-
4xersv over the Mexican oil and land
laws to arbitration.
The immediate reaction 10 puon-
cation of the Secretary OF state s
views was a subsistence or the
extraordinary tension OF the last
week and expressions of hope that
the preliminary negotiations for arpl-
1ration would be conducted in con-
ciliatory spirit.
There was speculation as to which
side would make the official pro-
posaL President Gales having al
ready declared unofficially that ne
might consider arbitration to avoid
greater evil for Mexico.
Gales Says Revolt Fails.
ATTEMPTS bv "fanaticar' elements
tn carry out a nation wide revolution
have thus far failed. President Gales
declares in a reply to agarian com
n,Inities asking for arms with which
10 assist the federals in stamping
Sut the so-called Catholic rebeIllon.
since the Agrarian party ordered
It's members to cooperate WITH the
federal forces the presidential bureau
has been inundated with petltlons
from the agrartan communities
througout the country asking Tor
arms.
President Gales refuses the petit
tIons with the declaration that the
army is at present strong enough to
aueH the uprisings. Arms were OILS.
tributed among the agrarians OF
JaIisco and Guiana juato, he says, be-
cause Of the exceptional fanatlcat
activities there.
Report Sporadic Outbreaks.
Sporadic revolutionary activities
were reported yesterday In various
sections of the country. Federal
troons wern rushed TO reinforce the
= asyraria,ss defending EsiaufIas Pueela,
threatened by rebels under Victoriano
Barcenas.
rebel group entered Comonforf.,
Guiana iuato. after seizing arms, horses
and foodstasfs. Another group ell
tered Jalapa. Guerrero. Unexploded
dynamite cartridges were discovered
under two railway bridges on the
Pachuca line at Temascalapa.
The mystery as TO the whereabouts
of Bishop Pascual Diaz OF Taoasco
continues. with the department of the
interior asserting that it is without con-
firn1ation of press dispatches that ne
MAS denied admission to Guatemala
The bishop, who is secretary OF the
Mexican episcopate, was arrested IN
Mexico City a week ago and taken
away under guard.
MAY Be Sent to TabascO.
There are unconfirmed reports that
he is being taken to his diocese IN
the State of Tabasco. where he VIII
he prevented from participating IN
raf,oious activities. The state laws
OF Tabasco require clergymen to mar
~ and the bishops refusal TO comply
was given as the reason for his pro-
tracted absence from his diocese.
Archbishop Francesca OroZco Y Jim
inez of GuadaIajara is the central
figure for the moment In the reiIgious
controversy. The war department,
while not in possession of substantial
ton of the information 1t gave out
Monday that the Catnohc prelate Was
engaging in revolutionary actiVitfes
Of the head of a band of rebels in
the State of Jalisco, says 1t is certain
that he is in hiding somewhere in
fhe maintains of that state, surround
ed by followers.
The Catholic episcopate continues 10
DENY the war department reports con-
cerning the archbishop and news
naner statement that he has been
ioratad at the head of Rebel Cath
olfc Army" in the village of San Jose
de Gracias, Jalisco.
Progress i'm Two States.
Ja1isco and Durango. two states
where revolutionary activities have
been extremely pronounced. now are
' described by the war department as
being rapidly pacified.
TIA rahellious elements who were
defeated at Tepatftlan are reported
in special dispatches from Guadala-
lara TO have been reorganized at
AtotoniIoo, fortifying that town. Gen.
lFerreira. with 500 federal soldiers, at
tackled the rebels entrenched in hills
on the outskirts, but the combat was
s1spended at nightfall. the govern
rnent forces being unable to advance
unon the town. Ten rebels were
killed in the preliminary engagement
and an officer and a soldier We're
wounded.
II is reported that Ignacio Gomez
Medina, land owner. president Of the
Tecolotlan branch of the Union
ponuIar and leader of one Of the most
formidable rebel groups, has surren-
dered Internationally with the men
under his command.
An attempt by 80 rebels, headed by
Ricardo Anaya, to capture the town
of Lagos De Moreno has failed. The
small garrison of Is soldiers defended
:. the town until reinforcements arrived
when the revolutionaries fed
APPEAL TO PRESIDENT.