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Show REPORT BERGDOLL TRYING TO REACH - MEXICAN BORDER Cleveland Bergdoll, wealthy draft evader, eva-der, who escaped from the custody of two non-com missioned officers of the army at his homo in Philadelphia May 21, is reported trying to reach the Mexican border, motoring with a companion com-panion and chauffeur, according to a mesago received by local depart- i ment of justice officials today from San Antonio, Te?;a:. All peace officers in seven counties . of Arizona wore at once furnished with descriptions of tho car and its occu- I pants and instructed to watch for them. The San Antonio dispatch Indicated the party had passed there and was heading toward Arizona, presumably With the Intention nf nrrlvlrc nnrnca the international boundry Into Mexico. Mexi-co. In Texas, tho Rio Grande would force Borgdoll, if he wished to take his car into Mexico, to soek bridges or fords which would subject him to federal inspection. Tho companion was described in the message aa a man of foreign appear-Jance. appear-Jance. sharp featured, medium weight : and wearing dark clothes. Tho chauf-j chauf-j feur was described as having black curly hair, dark complexion and sharp features. |