Evening star., 1935-10-15
.U.S.HUNT|NGPARTy
BELIEVED SAFE IN
MEXICAN UPRISING
Five Americans Reported
Disarmed by Raiders and
Allowed to Proceed.
MAYOR AND POLICE HEAD
OF SANTA ANA ARE SLAIN
Revolt Against Governments Re-
ligious and Agrarian Policies
Spreads Over Several States.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DOUGLAS, AriZ., October l5.-Five
prominent Americans on a hunting
trip in the revolt Mexican
State of Sonora were reported from
several sources today to be safe after
their guns and ammunition had been
seized by an armed band of Mexican
raiders.
Arthur D. Norcross. New York pub
Usher, who returned from the interior
yesterday, reported the encounter with
the rebels-a few hours after dis
gruntled agrarians had raided Santa
Ana and executed Presidente Manuel
Gaudile and Police Chief Manuel Diaz
against a 'dobe wall.
Members Of Party.
Norcross listed the party members
as
J. H. Durrell, vice president of the
National City Bank, New York.
James Bruce, vice president of the
National Dairy Products Co., New
York.
Lee PAUL, Wheeling, W. Va, insur-
uASC a6CuCy ucdu.
DR.. w. S. Fulton, Wheeling.
Jack Durrell, San Francisco repre-
sentative of the Chase National Bank.
The New York publisher, en- route
home, said the men had been stopped
by the rowing band which took their
firearms and ammunition and ordered
them to continue into the interior.
At Scarborough on the Hudson,
however, Mrs. Durrell today received
telegram from her husband report
ing the entire party safe outside the
revolutionary zone.
Reported Safe at Consulate.
| In Douglas a secretary to Lewis
Boyle, American consul, said: "I un-
derstand the men are all right" He
did not reveal the information on
which he based his belief.
At Wheeling. Carl o. Schmidt, at
torney for PAUL. said he and Mrs
PAUL had talked by telephone with
Norcross, and he had assured them
that the party had not been harmed
The telegram received by Mrs. Dur
rell was dated yesterday at Casa:
Grandes. Chihuahua, Mexico, after
having been relayed by pony from
Sonora the day before. 1t said:
| I'VE are safe at the Farnsworth
ranch, which is located far from the
revolutionary zone, and we will con-
tinue with the hunt as originally
planned. returning late in October.
Believed to Have Borrowed Arms.
Schmidt's conversation with Nor
cross from Wheeling. he said. con-
vinced him that the party had con-
tinued into the hills with borrowed
arms and ammunition.
He gave both of us positive assur-
ance," the lawyer said! That the
hunting party had continued and that
no harm had befallen them"
Town authorities of Sonora, just
across the border from the United
States, were described as doubling
their efforts to obtain arms \ for re-
pulsing possible attacks by the band
members of which were termed dis.
gruntled agriculturists aiming theil
blows specifically at State and mu.
nicipal officials.
Before he left by plane for New York
Norcross said he learned of the raiders
tactics when he himself fell into theil
hands on a 3o-day hunting trip into
the Mexican state.
He related that after guns and am.
munition Of the five Americans were
seized. they were told to continue theil
journey into Sonora's rugged noun.
tainS.
The New Yorker said the Ameri-
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