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VOL. XXII. NO. 75.
CARRANZA AT BAY. SAYS REPORT
UNDERWOOD HAS SMALL LEAD
HEFLIN IN LEAD
FOR SHORT TERM
SEITJJiM
O'Neal and White Refuse to
Concede Heflin’s Election
However, and Later Re
turns May Change Result
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 12.—In
complete official returns to the Birm
ingham News from 35 of the 67 coun
ties in the state early this afternoon
gave Senator Underwood a lead of
6,750 votes over L. B. Musgrove, the
union labor candidate, in the primary
for nomination to the Cnited States
senate.
Estimates from 21 counties give J.
Thomas Heflin a lead of approxi
mately 5,000 over his nearest oppon
ent, Emmet O’Neal.
Musgrove supporters, however, re
fused to concede the nomination of
Underwood in the absence of more
complete returns. Judge Samuel D.
Weakley, who ran a poor third, ac
knowledged his defeat.
Neither O’Neal nor White would
concede the nomination of Heflin up
to noon today, and it was possible
that later returns might change the
result in this race.
Underwood’s greatest strength
was shown in the northern tier of
Alabama counties and in extreme
south Alabama, according to the
1 News. Lauderdale was his chief
stronghold in the north and Mobile
apparently has given the senator a
majority of not less than 2,000. Un
derwood also is believed to have
carried Jefferson county by approxi
mately 750 majority. Mr. Mus
grove carried his home county of
Walker by a majority of about 1,-
000. The strength of Congressman
Heflin for the senate short term
was evenly distributed throughout
the state.
Unofficial returns also indicated
Alabama’s five congressmen wh</
were opposed for re-election have
re-nominated. George Huddles
«e*n apparently won in the Ninth
district; Fred L. Blackmon in the
fourth; W. B. Bankhead, in the
Tenth; S. Hubert Dent in the Sec
ond, and Henry B. Steagall, in the
Third.
W. B. Bowling, on face of sim
ilar unofficial returns compiled by
the News, won out over six oppon
ents in the fifth district for the
nomination to succeed Representa
tive Heflin.
One of the most spectacular
phases of the primary was the ap
parent victory of A. G. Patterson,
of Albany, over Sam P. Kennedy
and A. Coke Smith, for president of
the public service commission. Mr.
Patterson had more than doubled
the combined vote of his opponents
on the face of early returns.
Judge B. M. Miller, of Selma, ap
parently won one of the nominations
for judge of the supreme court, with
Judges Joel B. Brown and William
H. Thomas, neck and neck for the
other position. E. W. Barrett, pub
lisher of the Age-Herald, was nomi
nated for Democratic national com
mitteeman. Nominations in the
Democratic primary are equivalent to
election in this state.
Return's were still coming in slow
ly from the rural districts this morn
ing. On account of a system of first
and second choice voting, tabulation
of the results was made difficult In
all contests. It was possible that the
race for the short term senatorial
nomination would be decided by the
sceond choice votes. The ballot was
the longest used in an Alabama elec
tion in years, containing ninety
names in Jefferson county.
In addition* to the nomination of
senate and congressional candidates,
the voters also selected numerous
state, county and municipal officials.
President Wilson
Receives 2 Ministers
At the White House
WASHINGTON,, May 12.—President
Wilson today began receiving foreign
diplomats who have been waiting im
provement of his health in order to
formally present their credentials.
Arrangements were made for the
foreign representatives to visit the
White House in the order of their
arrival here.
Baron de Cartier de Marchienne,
the Belgian ambassador, whose ap
pointment was announced last Sep
tember, was the first to be received.
Later in the day the Uruguayan min
ister Dr. Jacobo Varela, who came to
Washington in October, saw the
president.
It was said the other diplomatic of
ficials accredited since the president
became ill, including Sir Auckland
Geddes, the new British ambassador,
would be received in the near future.
Mount Airy. N. C., 4,752, increase
908, or 23.6 per cent.
Jackson, Mich., • 48,374, increase,
16.941. or 53.9 per cent.
Hornell, N. Y., 15,025, increase 1,408,
or 10.3 per cent.
Sagus, Mass., 10,874, increase 2,-
827, or 35.1 per cent.
Grand Refuses
To Indict Merchant
JACKSON. Miss.. May 12.—The
federal grand jury, by unanimous
- vote, refused to return an in
dictment against R. E. Kennington,
local department store proprietor,
against whom charges of profiteering
bad been preferred by agents of T.
J. Lockc. fair price commissioner
for Missisisppi.
COMMITTEE FIXING
TO “MISEH--L” IN
STATEJWS FLYHT
Blackburn to Call Attention
of Court to Action of Sub
committee in Declaring
Primary Result
With a view to having members
of the subcommittee of the state
Democratic executive committee cited
for contempt of court, the attention
of Judge B. F. Walker, of the War
ren county superior court, will be
called to the action of the subcom
mittee on Tuesday in declaring the
result of the presidential primary of
April 20 and awarding Georgia’s del
egates to Attorney General A. Mitch
ell Palmer.
Such was the statement made Wed
nesday morning by B. M. Blackburn,
representative of Thomas E. Wat
son, on whose petition Judge
Walker issued a temporary injunc
tion against the subcommittee re
straining it from making any ruling
to affect the state convention -which
will be held in Atlanta on May 18.
Mr. Blackburn declared that he had
not conferred -with Mr. Watson since
the subcommittee took action on
Tuesday afternoon, but indicated his
belief that the subcommittee was
clearly in contempt of court and ex
pressed confidence that Mr. Watson
would not permit the incident to go
unnoticed.
The subcommittee, continuing its
session on Tuesday afternoon, adopt
ed resolutions declaring Mr. Palmer
entitled to the Georgia delegation at
the national Democratic convention,
but Judge James J. Flynt, chairman,
refused-to acquiesce in this action
and declined to sign the resolutions.
He took the position that the sub
committee should do no more than
certify as to which candidate received
a plurality of county unit votes in the
primary, while the other five mem
bers of the subcommittee insisted
that the resolutions should declare
Mr. Palmer entitled to the Georgia
delegation.
Judge Flynt Talks
Judge Flynt was most emphatic in
his refusal to certify the resolu
tions to the convention, declaring'
that the subcommittee was exceed
ing its authority and “fixing to raise
hell in Georgia.”
“This subcommittee can only de
clare the result of the primary and
say which candidate received a plu
rality of the county unit votes,” said
Judge Flynt. “It is not within our
province to declare that Palmer is
entitled to the Georgia delegates to
the national convention. We can
only say what has happened. We
cannot anticipate. When you pass
this resolution you are going out
side your authority..
“I want to serve notice at this
time that I do not intend to sign
such a resolution as this, and will
not certify it to the state conven
tion. lam not going to bind myself
to anything that is not right—the
rest of the committee can do so if it
desires. But I tell you now that,
you are exceeding your authority and
are fixing to raise hell in Georgia.”
Text of Resolutions
The resolutions adopted by the
subcommittee after an all-day dis
cussion of the situation, follow:
“Whereas, after the consolidation
of the votes of the various counties
of the state cast in the presidential
primary of April zv, 1320, and after
the disposition of all contests, it ap
pears from the report of the secre
tary of the state executive commit
tee, as follows:
“That Honorable A. Mitchell Pal
mer caried the number of counties
herein below set forth with the num
ber of convention votes set opposite
said counties, making a total of 55
counties carried by Mr. Palmer, en
titling him to 148 delegates in the
convention to be held May 18.
“It further apepars that Honorable
Thomas E. Watson carried the num
ber of counties herein below set
forth, with the number of convention
votes set opposite said counties, mak
ing a total of 56 counties carried by
Mr. Watson, entitling him to 132
delegates in the convention to
held May 18.
“It further apepars that Honorable
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Sentiment Today Points to
McAdoo as Democratic
and Lowden as Republican
Nominees
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.)
WASHINGTON, May 12.—Political
events of the last twenty-four hours
have emphasized the improbability
of a reconciliation between the vari
ous factions in both the Democratic
and Republican parties who have
taken their respective attitudes to
ward the peace treaty and League of
Nations during the past year.
Three divisions exist in each party
and by virtue of their similarity they
appear now to be the nucleus of
three politcal parties. President Wil
son’s letter to the Oregon Democrats
asking for the unqualified indorse
ment of the treaty and league, fol
lowed as it was by the announce
ment of Republican Leaders in Chi
cago that they would stand on the
Lodge reservations, has now been
attacked by the so-called “irreconcif
ables” led by Senators Johnson and
Borah, who hint at a bolt from the
Republican party unless reservations,
league, treaty and all are condemned.
The outlook at present for the presi
dential nominations therefore would
appear to be this:
Republican—Lowden, Wood or
Hoover on a platform of Lodge res
ervations and their chances about in
the order named.
Third Party Support
Democratic—McAdoo, Cox or Pal
mer on a platform written by Presi -
dent Wilson advocating unqualified
adoption of the treaty but accepting
Interpretative reservations such as
those of the Hitchcock resolution.
Independent or Third Party—Sen
ator Hiram Johnson or Senator La-
Follette on a platform opposing the
entire treaty and a league and- reser
vations.
Support for the third party will
come from friends of William Jen
nings Bryan, who will probably wage
an unsuccessful fight .in the San
Francisco convention against the
Wilson platform, though- Mr. Bryan
himself would be prevented from
supporting a third party which con
demned the treaty and the league in
asmuch as he himself is ready to ac
cept the Lodge reservations in the
• interest of a start toward peace.
Support for the third party will
also come from those Democrats,
particularly of Irish extraction who
think article ten of the covenant in
terferes with the prospect of Irish
freedom and they are lining up sol
idly behind Hiram Johnson.
Major Parties Worried
Os course Republicans fond of
Johhson will join a third party if
some one of his viewpoint heads a
third ticket. The new party will ac
quire strength from th e so-called lib
eral or radical wings of the two big
parties.
This readjustment or realignment
of political forces is causing no lit
tle concern to both Republicans and
Democrats. The Republicans are su
premely confident that the defections
will not be considerable. The Demo
crats think the departure of Johnson
and his following from the regular
Republican party will make the
reservationist program easy
to attack and that the real friends
of the league will see the Democratic
platform as the only means of bring
ing about an early partnership of the
United States in the present League
of Nations.
But irrespective of,, the treaty is
sues, the personal questions in each
party are getting more and more
vital. William Gibbs McAdoo has
the edge on the Democratic nomina
tion. By insisting on uninstructed
delegations and keeping himself out
of the office-seeking class by maneu
vers of receptiveness only, he has
impressed Democrats in the capital
here as a shrewd politician.
McAdoo Long in Game
Mitchell Palmer is well liked and
probably has more strength among
the members of the Democratic na
tional committee than has McAdoo,
but the latter was in the game before
Palmer began. Delegates were tied
to the McAdoo band wagon when that
individual was secretary of the treas
ury and director general of railroads.
He got an early start. Added to
this are the mistakes made by Pal
,mer —or rather the group he has
rightly or wrongly antagonized. He
is under attack for failing to reduce
the cost of living, for alienating la
bor by his policy in the coal injunc
tion suits, and for his wholesale raids
on so-called “reds.”
The last charge influences probably
only the radical wing of the Demo
cratic party which, in any event,
would not stick with the Wilson kind
of Democracy no matter whether
Palmer, McAdoo or any other heir of
the Wilson policies were nominated.
This group still holds Mr. Wilson re
sponsible for Postmaster General
Burleson’s repression of “liberal”
periodicals and considers the treaty
and league objectionable as not being
liberal enough, not containing more
of the doctrines of internationalism.
McAdoo Improves Chances
But on the whole Mr. 'vlcAdoo by
keeping out of public office since the
armistice has seemed to improve his
chances with the rank and file of
''the Democrats, while Mr. Palmer has
been under fire right along. Gover
nor Cox. of Ohio, is a serious con
tender, but just now Mr. McAdoo is
in the lead. That is not an individ
ual opinion. It is the concensus of
the Democrats who are on the inside
of things and who know what the
leaders of delegations are apt to do
on the final count at San Francisco.
As for the Republican nomination.
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ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1920.
ENGLUND HELPLESS
ID POINT OF PUNIC,
WILSDPi TOLD SIMS
Said Admiralty Was Slow to
Protect Convoys Reply,
Daniels Says, Was Com
posed of Generalities
WASHINGTON, May 12.—A confi
dential cablegram from President
Wilson to Rear Admiral Sims in Lon
don, sent during the war, was read
to the senate naval investigating
committee today by Secretary Dan
iels. It expressed surprise- that the
British admiralty had failed to “use
Great Britain’s great naval superi
ority” effectively against the sub
marines and called on Admiral Sims
for oomments and suggestions based
on "independent thought” and with
out regard to “judgments of any one
on that side of the water.”
The admiralty was “helpless to the
point of panic” in the face of the
submarine situation, the message
said.
/ “Every plan we suggest the re
ject for some reason of prudence,”.
Mr. Wilson added. “In my view this
is not a time ’of prudence, but for
boldness even at the cost of great
loss.”
In conclusion President Wilson
asked Admiral Sims to advise him as
he would give advice "if you were
running a navy of your own.”
Admiral Sims’ reply, said Secre
tary Daniels, who presented the
president’s message in connection
with his answer to Sims’ charges
against the navy department’s con
duct of the war, was “a long tele
gram of generalitites of what the
British admiralty was doing.”
President Wilson’s message to Ad
miral Sims follows:
‘From the beginning of the war, I
have been greatly surprised at the
failure of the British admiralty to
use Great Britain’s great naval su
periority in an effective wpy.ln the
presence of the present submarine
emergency they are helpless to the
point of panic.
“Every plan we suggest they re
ject for some' reason of prudence. In
my view ihis is not a time for pru
dence, but for boldness even at the
cost of great losses. *
Flans Not Good
“In most of your dispatches you
have quite properly advised us of
th© sort of aid and co-operation de
sired from us by the admiralty. The
trouble is that their plans and meth
ods do not seem to us efficacious. I
would be very much obliged to you
if you would report to me, confi
dentially, of course, exactly what
the admiralty has been doing, and
what they have accomplished, and,
added to the report, your own com
ments and suggestions, based upon
independent thought of the whole
situation, without regard to the
judgments of anyone on that side of
the water.
“The admiralty slow to
adopt the protection of convoy and
it is not now, I judge (protecting)
convoys on adequate scale within
the danger zone, seeming to keep
small craft with the grand fleet.
The absence of craft for convoy is
even more apparent on the French
coast than on the English coast and
in the channel. I do not -see how
the necessary military supplies and
supplies of food and fuel oil are
to be delivered at British >orts in
any other way within the next few
months than under adequate con
voy. There will presently not be
ships or tankers enough and our
ship building plans may not begin
to yield important results in less
than eighteen months.
“I believe that you will ' keep
these instructions absolutely and
entirely to yourself, and that you
will give me such advice as you
would give if you were handling and
if you were running a navy of your
own.”
Mr. Daniels also read a letter
from Admiral Sims to former Am
bassador Page at London, written
August 7, 1917, which in part said;
“in this connection I have sug
gestion to make. I have received
word, practically directly from the
president, that he was much dis
pleased with my reply to his cable
gram; that .it did not change his
opinion at all: that he regards me
as owned by the admiralty and so
pro-British that he seriously consid
ered the advisability of replacing me
by some other officer.’
Zebrugge Flan
Admiral Sims’ reply to the presi
dent told also of plans for a com
bined sea and land attack to turn
the German right flank and cut off
Zeebrugge as a provisioning case.
Mr. Daniels said.
“That was the kind of ’bold and
audacious’ thing the President and
the navy department had been urg
ing from our entrance into the war,”
declared the secretary. “But even
then, Admiral Sims said, it had not
been definitely decided on by the
war council, though the daring and
successful attack on Zeebrugge
came much later. It might have
been a very different story if it
had been undertaken earlier when
the navy department was i rging
some such bold plan, all of which
Admiral Sims thought “impractica
ble’ when urged by the navy de
partment.”
Admiral Sims told the president he
had been shown studies of the de
partment’s plan to prevent the
egress of submarines, Mr. Daniels
said, and that he considered the
scheme impracticable. j
“He evidently sought to discredit
the navy department’s plans by
saying that these same suggestions
and many similar ones had been
made by people of all classes since
the 'beginning of the war.” said Mr.
Daniels. “Instead of accepting the
department’s suggestions of great of
fensive plans or originating some
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SMALL CAPITAL DF
BOTTLERS YIELDED
HANDSDMEPRDFITS
Secretary Rainwater, Con
cluding Coca-Cola Testi
mony, Reads Amounts
Paid Stockholders
The taking of testimony in the
injunction proceedings of the so
called parent bottlers against the
Coca-Cola company, of Delaware, was
concluded Tuesday afternoon with
the appearance of C. Veazey Rain
water, secretary of the Coca-Cola
Bottling company, before Commis
sioner Harvey L. Parry.
The hearing was held in the of
fices of Candler, Thomson & Hirsch,
of counsel for <he Delaware corpora
tion. Mr. Rainwater was summoned
by the defendant corporation, and was
on the stand throughout the after
noon. Counsel 'for the bottlers did
not permit the opportunity to escape
of cross-examining Mr. Rainwater,
and when the hearing was ended,
counsel for both sides evidenced
keen satisfaction with the facts dis
closed in the testimony.
Mr. Rainwater’s examination and
cross - examination developed the
usual number of objections, counsel
for the defendant company, especial
ly, noting objections to what they
termed immaterial and irrelevant
testimony. They also voiced objec
tions to statements by Mr. Rain
water which they said were conclu
sions.
Summoned as a witness for the
defense, although he is an officer of
one of the plaintiff litigants, the di
rect examination of Mr. Rainwater
was conducted by Attorney W. S.
Thomson. His associates Harold
Hirsch, Clifford L. Anderson and Rob
ert C. Alston, however, made occa
sional suggestions.
The cross-examination of the wit-'
ness was conducted by Attorney John
A. Sibley, of counsel for the plain
tiffs, ' with occasional suggestions
from Attorneys Ben Z. Phillips and
Charles T- Hopkins.
Besides the counsel, the hearing
was attended by C. Howard Candler,
chairman"- of the board of directors
of the Coca-Cola company, of Dela
ware, and Samuel Candler Dobbs,
president of the corporation.
Capital $5,000
The defendant Coca-Cola company
sought to show that the plaintitf
bottlers really began business on a
“shoestring,” as it were, but that
with the development of the Coca-
Cola enterprise its profits have been
surprisingly large. Mr. Rainwater
stated that the original capital of
the Coca-Cola Bottling company, of
which he is an officer, was $5,000,
and that this capital has at no time
since its organization been increased.
Attorney Thomson caused the wit
ness to refer to the books of the
company, for certain months in
1919, and Mr. Rainwater admitted
that during some of these months
his company disbursed dividends of
$40,000.
The dividends paid by his com
pany, each month in 1919, from Au
gust to December, inclusive, were,
according to Mr. Rainwater, a_> fol
lows.
August $40,000
September 30,000
October 30,000
November 30,000
December 20,000
Mr. Rainwater informed counsel
that other dividends records tor the
year 191!’ were not then available,
but he agreed to obtain them and
they will be incorporated in the rec
orfi He told counsel, further, that
th® minute book of the company din
nor contain records of these divi
dend declarations. He said, as an
officer of the company, familiar with
its policies and financial conditions
at all times, he disbursed monthly
dividends himself.
Although the capital stock of the
company has not been increased, Mr.
Rainwater said large sums of mon
ey have been invested in its devel
opment and in helping subsidiary
bottling plants.
THE NEXT FIVE MONTHS WILL BE BIG
NEWS MONTHS
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Democratic and Republican parties will
soon be staged —
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ind enthusiasm—
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SENATOR SMITH IN
FAVOR OF DIVIDING
STATEDELEGATION
Declares, in Card, That Con
vention Should Disapprove
Third-Term and League
Without Reservations '
The Georgia delegation to the
Democratic national convention, at
San Francisco should chosen and
proportioned by the state convention
from among the friends of the three
presidential candidates who contest
ed in the recent preferential primary,
in the opinion of Senator Hoke
Smith. He holds that they should go
to San Francisco uninstructed.
This view was expressed Wednes
day morning in a statement issued
by Senator Smith. It is the judg
ment of the senator that the con
vention should be governed by lo
cal political conditions in Georgia
and should avoid doing anything
that might justly be considered as
unfair and cause discontent and dis
trust among the Democrats of the
state.
Senator Smith’s statement is pref
aced with the dclaration that near
ly 150,000 voters participated in the
recent primary and expressed their
wishes at the ballot box. The con
vention should, Senator Smith thinks,
carry out the wishes of the voters,
who, he remarks, declared against
the League of Nations as it was
brought back from Paris by Presi
dent Wilson, and against nominating
Mr. Wilson for a third term.
The statement follows:
“In the recent primary nearly 150,-
000 voters expressed their wishes at
the ballot box. No one can doubt
that the convention should carry out
the expressed wishes of the voters.
They clearly declared ’ against the
League of Nations as the president
brought it back from Paris, and
against nominating the president for
a third term. I think the conven
tion should, by suitable resolutions,
instruct the delegates to observe in
the national convention the wishes
of the voters on these most impor
tant subjects.
"Surely no executive committee is
authorized to control the votes of
400 delegates .representing in the
convention the voters of Georgia.
For a committee to assume such au
thority would be to set aside all
past party practices and especially
would this be true with reference
to action by congressional districts
where heretofore always district del
egates have selected the delegates
from their districts to national Demo
cratic conventions.
“I think the convention should con
sider conditions in our own state and
avoid doing a* vhing which mignt
justly be considered unfair and
cause discontent and distrust among
Democratic votehrs.
“In view of the situationl believe
it would be fair and wise for the
convention to elect delegates select
ed by the friends of each of the
three candidates as nearly as pract’c
able in proportion to their relative
strength.
“The delegation might well go to
San Francisco uninstructed as to
candidates, free, after consultation
with delegates from other states, to
select a candidate whose strength
would contribute most to the success
of the party. My interest from
the first in the action of Georgia
hoin no sense, been a personal one.
“I am deeply convinced that the
League of Nations as brought from
Paris should not be ratified. Geor
gia has decided against it. and. t
am now chiefly concerned to see that
t< -s action by the voters is faithfully
expressed by the delegates at San
Francisco.”
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Mexican Rebel Reinforce
ments Said to Have Been
Ordered to Scene of
Battle
WASHINGTON, May 12.—(8y the
Associated Press.) —Mexican revolu
tionists seemed to have 'attained vir
tually all their objectives with the
possible exception, of the capture of
President Carranza, who fled from
Mexico City last week.
Advices from rebel sources say he
has been taken but appar
ently the news had not reached Vera
Cruz last night. That city reported
that near San Marcos, 125 miles
away, forces loyal to the president
were fighting against rebels sent to
capture Carranza and gain posses
sion of funds belonging to the Mex
ican treasury which he is said to
have taken with him in his flight
from the capital.
Rebel reinforcements are said to
have been ordered up to the scene
of the battle, ine the southastern
corner of the state of Tlaxala, and
it is probable the issue of the strug
gle will not be long delayed.
Dispatches from Vera Cruz also
seem to throw considerable doubts on
reports of the assassination of Gen
eral Candido Aguilar, son-in-law of
President Carrazan and governor of
the state of Vera Cruz.
So far as known, quiet prevails in'
districts of the country under con
trol of rebel chieftains. The only
part of Mexico that still seems to
be loyal to the Carranza regime is
a narrow strip along the Gulf coast,
although at some points the rebels
are reported to be in control.
Matamoros, the Mexican town di
rectly across the Rio Grande from
Brownsville. Tex., Is expecting a rebel
attack, and several hundred Mexican
soldiers and customs and immigra
tion guards have been mobilized to
repel any attempt by the revolution
ists to take the place.
The onfy direct word received to
day by the government from its
agents in Mexico was in a radiogram
to the navy department from Captain '
Long, on the destroyer Putnam, at
Tampico. He reported that Tampico
was quiet that there ,had been
no further developments.
Captain Long also reported the ar
rival of the cruiser Dolphin, which
was sent to Tampico to afford asylum
to Americans should they find it
neeessary to leave Mexico.
President Carranza, hIS cabinet ad
visers and other adherents left Mex
ico City last Friday morning by train,
apparently going in the direction of
Vera Cruz, the state department was
advised today in messages from the
American embassy at Mexico City.
Carranza’s train was preceded by
numerous trains carrying troops and
equipment, supplies, records ana ar
chives. Artillery and supplies also
were held in trains waiting at the
railroad station some hours after
Carranza left.
The dispatches, which were dated
May 7, 8 and 9. and which were
held up by the interruption of the
telegraph lines, quoted an official bul
letin published in the Mexico City
newspapers on May 8 announcing
that forty-three cannon, ten trains
of equipment, supplies, etc., and one
train with funds, which had accom
panied Carranza’s train, had been
captured by the
The newspapers of May 8, the dis
patch said, published statements that
there was no confirmation of reports
that Carranza had been captured or
that General Aguilar. Murguia, Mar
ragan and Urquizo had been exe
cuted.
The dispatches told of a confer
ence between Generals Obregon and
Gonzales on May 8 at Tacubaya, just
outside of Mexico Oita, and said
General Gonzales had appointed Juan
Sanchez Azcon and Aurelio Memjivil
to, take temporary charge the for
eign office and the department of the
hacienda, respectively. They also
said Gonzales had appointed direc
tors general of posts, failways and*
telegraph lines.
BATTLE IS IMMINENT
OPPOSITE BROWNSVILLE
BROWNSVILLE, Texas, May 12.
Troops loyal to President Carranza
in Matamoros, opposite here, the
last large town in that section of
Mexico not under rebel control,
awaited in entrenchments early to
day for the expected attack by a
force of approximately 500 men, re
ported last night as 25 miles west
of the c'ty.
DR.TARRIS FLAYS
REPORT MADE ON
WILSON’S HEALTH
JACKSON, Miss., May 12. —In an
address before the Mississippi med
ical association today Dr. Seale Har
ris. olj Birmingham, sharply criticized
the statement recently issued by Dr.
Bevan, of Chicago, in regard to Pres
ident Wilson’s mental condition, and
declared that the Chicago physician
is "being used as a dupe by some
of the politicians who would stoop
to any act to prejudice the public
against President Wilson.”
Dr. Harris is a brother of Sena
tor Harris, of Georgia, and of Ad
jutant General P. C. Harris, of the
war department.
The speaker <ilso said the public
had been kept in ignorance concern
ing a serious operation performed
on the brain of General Leonard
Wood, and expressed the opinion that
this operation has not and will not
in sfny way affect General Wood’s
mental capacity.