Show FiRE TO BAR EL l P PASO AS Of PAl Bullets Strike e Houses Hotel on American Side of f River EL PASO Tex Feb 12 Associated Asso elated Press Press Authorities Authorities today began an art investigation of a border gun un batti which sent bullets of Mexican rum um runners ripping along downtown thoroughfares and into houses house and a hotel on the American side ide of f th the rive river No cne one was wu injured red St a Stray bullets from toni river-bank river batties battles bat bat- ties s between border patrolmen and um runt runners have hao become so o corn com to downtown pedestrians In n recent months that the they occasion calon only casual comment Marksman Marksman- Marksmanship hip ship of oC th the rummel'S is notoriously poor One prisoner was as captured by the border order patrolmen in the battle yes yes- es erday The outburst of ot firing began when snipers on the Mexican side BIde of ot the almost dry Rio Grande Grand saw th the capture capture capure cap- cap ture ure effected Shooting over the heads leads of oC two other liquor runners crossin crossing the river tho the marksmen attempted attempted at- at tempted to rout the tho patrolmen b by a n heavy barrage barraro of oC rifle rUle fire and tho the two wo men in the tho river fled back to I Mexican soil son I Several Sc windows were shattered In n buildings near th the river ri front Including one In the Hotel Paso del delNorte delNorte Norte Carl Thomas Thomaa of oC Chicago was waR routed from his room b by a bullet which shattered the window Bullets also entered l the tho homo home of oC Mrs Irs Elenea Caseras Caserns alone with her baby but ut neither was Injured Border patrol authorities said Mid t thc hey ley expected to learn little from t the he man held as the river ll rum runners run- run ners ers ordinarily are arc small scale op- op |