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TWO THAT INTERNAL PEACE IN MEXICO IS DRAWING NEAR, BELIEF U. S. GOV’T ccrar- l " r, ‘ """ Appointment of Francisco Carbajal As Minister of Foreign Affairs Means Huerta’s Retirement Within Few Days. Cap ture of Guadalajara Emphasizes Inevitable Triumph of Con stitutionalists Ver* Cruz. —General Huerta would bo willing to stop asldj from the presidency If a man agreeable to the various factions could be found to take Ilia place, according to Adolfo de Ift Lama, Mexican minister of finance, here today on his way to Europe. Ttie minister asserted that se cret conferences between repre sentatives of General Huerta and Venustlano Carranza were now In progress at. Now York and be had reason to believe unless an agreement was re,ached with Car ranza, Huerta would not eurren der the presidency. Washington Convinced. Wasblnoton- —A survey of depart monte In Mexico within tho last 24 hours has convinced of trials and di plomat* here that internal pence Is near at hand. The appointment of Jt-Mioinoo Carbajal as minister «>T for eign affairs means the retirement of General Huerta In hit* ~w f r “i’*' . vislonl president within a few days, ‘acoording to messages from the Mext ure of the constitutional ists of Guadalajara has ®™Pha»JMd that the military triumph of the rev elution is inevitable. This Is 111 tenor of the Information ranch lngeo & along With the news thatper sons prominently Wetumed wlth tne jssr Mr. widisr Composition of dlfferet.ee b^ween Gorranzs and Villa have solidified tn« constitutionalist mllUatY of U the‘'situation'"lalni a tnuch tnore beneficial result has f"* ue< | )T ln honest 55SSST. ~f rP from Torreon of theJ res , of Ca^n» C from e ßsitlUo that be tk-nd. To cam out to the letter the plan* strv'K" »'i ’•« tlon shall be lipid Then Resign. The belief presails in some quarters that Cwrinw would stay b U. order to become a candidate. con . AH h r °e! eH,natives of fersncea between W vanished, ”cpr'ung n, to private 'lres from coeds Huerta In tl • r , st Sab $£ today tt almost ‘a rewentatives here. “ the con oertalnty that the ) on y « „ tu , , ha nUtutionsUsts will l «»> r.uadabmpo acoaptance of tnepmn , r V thl federal terri •awa the bx the large 'SSISSSJSU army S. generally b* ju.wd Ue^ Maful occupation. A Peaceful occupaibm c* r t ‘ ty .&t arm it £ pointed out. would object JrC£ “nd sacking. •*AJTwmUSw administration to Snf to et the constitutional!* and HuU factions work out a solution of the problem in their own waj. City was predicted io dS* after* receipt Of advices front &r«m that the Internal peace con .sssue t.t hands and San Ults l’otoet be zyi sfjbbs: arrov of 20.000 holds domiv «<> tost, 34 hours by rail from Mixteo Gltv tB Hours Travel, the center Villas division oecu til*-« the country from Juarez to Aguas FXnte* 18 hours travel from the **4o the west General Obregon has stretched his lines so far as Ouada fa£ra .econd largest city In the re public and within *l* hour* ride by railway of the central goal Onee Pan 1 Alls Totosl Is captured, lha three military divisions will con verge on Mexico City, according to assertions today by both Carranza an 1 Villa followers When this comblna. tion la made CO.Odd men will be avail able for the movement It was predicted here that this con. centratlon would take place at Celaya, eight hours ride from Mexico City. This point Is a Junction of the rail roads front Guadalstara Aguar Pa Ilentes nd San Uu* Potoel The Three Armies. Before the three armt»s arrive there two or three etronglv fortified towns held by Huerta’s troops including Guanajuato and Sllao. must be cap tured From delay* the combined armies would have before them only one fortified oitv. This Is Querataro, po miles from Mexico City and the place where Huerta, according to geu ernl belief Intends to make his last stand General Obregon has advised Car ranza that his men in taking Guada lajara fifteen trorv, trains, eight can non, Heven machine guns, many rifles, a large quantity of rifle ammu nition and two carloads of cannon ammunition. OEITIeIELMS 111 LA GRANGE? Traveling Man Declares He Saw Missing Girl in Georgia Town Friday Night. LsGrango, Ga.—J N. Mohr, of Wil mington, N. C., Saturday brought the Information to this city that a trav eling man, Joseph N. Hackney, had seen Beatrice Nelms, a man and an other woman in an automobile here on Friday night. Hackney, Mohr says, was well ac quainted with Beatrice Nelms. According to the story the woman described us Beatrice wore a green dress. (Several local people recall the fact that a woman dressed in green was In a restaurant hero Friday eve ning and was accompanied by a man and a woman. Mohr wired Mrs. .1. W. Nelms in Atlanta the Information ho had ob tained and received this reply: "Telegram received; locale them at any cost.” The Nelms have relatives at Salem, Ala., fifteen miles away. Not Thero. Columbus, Ga. A long distance tel ephone conversation with relatives of Beatrice Nelms at Salem, Ala., to night brought tlie Information that slip is not there. They declare they know nothing of her whereabouts* Salem, 18 miles from Columbus, is the eld home of the Naims family. A relative staled that Beatrice Nelms lias a sister living In Tuskegee, Ala., a Mrs. Kelly, and it is probable that she motored from I-a Grange, Ga., where she was seen Friday night, to Tuskegee. Not Justified Yet. Atlanta, Ga.—Agents of the depart, tnent of Justice today announced that no evidence thus far presented by Mrs. John W. Nelms on tho disap pearance of her daughter, Mrs Eloise Nelms Dennis and Miss Beatrice Nelms, Justified government action Mrs. Nelms made special pleas to the governor, tlio police and the federal authorities, to proceed in the ease hut there has been nothing definite upon which they could work. WARBURG WIRES ARE POURING IN Members of Senate Committee Being Urged to Confirm Banker For Rcservo Board. Telegrams and let. ter* favoring the confirmation of Paul M. Warburg, of New York, and Thou. D. Jones of Chicago, as members of the federal reserve board piled In on senators of the banking committee to day Troin all sections of the country Many came from individuals and fillers from organizations. The committee's adverse report on Jones will be presented next week. An effort will be made to consider it in open instead of executive Acting Chairman Hitchcock, leading tlie opposition, said he would welcome public discussion. Endorsed In Savannah Savannah, Ga. A special meeting of tlie directors of tho Savanflan Chamber of Commerce w as held today to endorse the appointment of raiil M Warburg of New York, as a mem her of the federal banking reserve board. Resolutions were passed urg ing the cotiTirmatlon of Mr Warburg by the United States senate. ‘Faint Hope' That Missing Man May Be in Atlanta Detroit, Mieh.—lnterest was renew ed here In the search IGr the Rev. Luts U. Patmont, the local option cam paigner. missing from his home here for nearly n month, when Chief De tective Calmer announced he haa a "faint hope” the minister may be !n Atlanta, iJjt. The officer said he based his hope on reports from Atlanta telling of "a Mr. Mack." sent there from River Junction. Fla, who does not remem ber his name and cannot tell wlis-e ho came from. He waa found In an open beat near the shore at Boy port. 1-ha. Palmer has written the Atlanta police giving them a complete descrip tion of Ihatmont. Balmont last spring disappeared from Ms homo In Ihanville. 111., snd was found In a cellar II days later. Hr said he hod been abducted by enemies who were not iu favor of his local option work. _ Scene at the Mineala Jail Upon the Arrival of Mrs. Florence Carman • & ‘—MUttS-'i* . ■*w - . . ~ - ... - Z MRS. CARMAN OCCUPIES 8-BY-10 CELL. „ The above photograph was taken at the time Mrs. Florence Carman, wife of Dr. Edwin Carman, in whose office Mrs. Louise Bailey was plain more than a week ago, was being taken into the Mineola jail at Freeport, L. I„ following tier arrest on a warrant issued charging her with the lißjrder of Mrs. Bailey. Mrs. Carman i 3 confined in a regular 8 by 10 foot cell. v 230 EXECUTED BY HUERTA IN WEEK Of These 170 Were Put to Death in Federal Penitentiary While 60 Were Killed in San tiago Prison Baltillo, Mexioo. —(Via. Laredo, Tex as.—Two hundred and thirty persons were reported executed in Mexico City last week by Huerta, according to news from the south received by enn stltuionallsta here today. One hunred and seventy of these were sald'to have been put to death in the federal peni tentiary and sixty executed in the prison of Knntiago Tialtelaloo. Most of the victims, it is asserted, were of ficials. Fighting is reported within the fed eral district, the constitutionalists having attacked Xnchlmiloo, San Pab lo and other small towns in the im mediate vicinity of the capital, and Huerta has ben advised that Pachuca will tie attacked shortly. Constitutionalists under Jpfe Banios are reported to he attacking the fed eral garrison at Esperanza. Malt rata and Orizaba. General Garcia Pena it waa said, left Esperanza with two strong column* to reinforce Mexico City. Huerta. It Is reported, intercepted a message from General Obregon stat ing that the latter would take Gundn lajnra before July jnth and had sent a rescue force which had arrived within about thirty miles of the city when it was taken. • GfIETHS RAVE HIS PERMISSION So Say the Magazine Men Ar rested For Taking Photos of Canal Fortifications. Ban Francisco.—The defense -of Chas K. Field, editor of the Sonnet Magazine, and oT the three others nc cueed with him of liaving disclosed military secrets by the publication of an illustrated article revealing Pana ma Canal fortifications will be that the pictures were taken and the aero plane flight across the Isthmus made with tlie [ ermlssion of Col. George W. | Goethale in command of the Panama lone. This was st»t*d w-hen the men appeared before a United States com mlssolner today. Field Robert Fowler, an aviator, Riley E Scott, author of the article, »nd Ray Dubem, a moving picture man were arrested yesterday, but re leased on their own recognizance. When the case was called before Francis I. Krull, United States com missioner, it was continued until Au gust 10th "Colonel Ooethals not only gave his permission,” said Fowler in pro testing his Innocence, "hut he wished us the best of hick and said he hojjed the pictures would turn out well." ON ROCKS WITH 257 ON BOARD Gorman Steamer in Dangerous Position on Argentine Coait. Warships to Rescue. Busnos Ayres, Argentina.—The Ger man steamship Mendoza went aaher* Saturday m a fog off Mogotea Point, on tlie Asgcntlmi coast. She has 387 people on board, including passengers nnd crew. Telegraphs by wireless th.it her position Is dangerous. The Argentinian gunboat Portrla and two tugs have gone to the assitaance of the Mendosa which is lying about five miles to the south of Cape Onr rlentes, where there are many aunken rocks near the shore. The Mendoza is a vessel of 3,BM> tons net. belonging to the Hajnhurg South American steamship Company, was built In 1884. THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. LEW TRACHOMA CJSESJN S. C. Results of Investigation in Mountainous Districts Made Public—Only 34 Out of 16,- 805 Examinations. Washington.—Results of an investi gation of the mountain districts of North and South Carolina to deter mine how prevalent trachoma is, were made public by the public health ser vice today. Tho survey was under the direction of Passed Assistant Surgeon Foster and shows the disease exists only In isolated local ities. Conditions were found to be better than in the mountain sections of Kentucky, West Virginia and Vir ginia. where the disease also exists. Of 16.803 persons examined in the two states only "4 were found to have the disease. Most of these eases were in the Cherokee Indian reserva tion in Swain County, N. C., twenty cases being located In that county, practically all of them traceable to the reservation school. The survey disclosed that negroes are singularly Tree from the disease. Foreign immigration does not seem to he responsible for the malaHv as Im migrants ore free from it and practi cally all the sufferers are native born. In the white and negro schools for the blind at Raleigh only one case of trachoma was found. Dr. Foster advises a strict treat i ment of all trachoma. SHUMAN BACK SALTILLO AGAIN U. S Vice Cousul Resumes His Duties. Villa to Get Coal For His Troop Trains. Saltillo, Mex.. (via Laredo.) —Short- age of coal for moving troop trains, from which General Villa is said to tave suffered recently Is to be reliev ed immediately. General Carranza has given orders to allow coal trains to be run from the Coabuila coal fields near Sabinas to Torreon. Re;orts were received today from Teuiblera*. Vera Cruz, that fully half the federal forces were ready to join the constitutionalieta. John R. Slliiman. the American vice consul, lias arrived here to re sume his duties. Tho commission of officers, dtvAlon of the northeast, which went to Torreon to smooth the difficulties between Carranzn and Villa returned today and immediately went Into conference with Carranza AVIATION Bill TO PRESIDENT Hav Measure Increases Army Air Service to 60 Officers and 260 Men With Increased Pay. Washington. D. C.—The H»v bill, or gnntiing a special aviation service In tho elzn.ll corps of the army waa final ly ngreed upon today In the house and now- goes to the President. The btU provides a service at sixty of ficers and 2*o enlisted men to have charge of all of the army's aviation work Pay of officers vnd m*n engaged in aviation work w-ould he ImVeased from 78 to 78 per cent of thetr regular compensation. 700 N. I GBPS AT I. IAIJ. MEET Mayor Forbids Urns Contain ing Ashes of Bomb Victims Bein'* Exhibited. New York.—Seven thousand persons, some professed anarchists and some members of the Industrial Workers of the \\ orld, the Free Speech League, and kindred organizations, gathered in Union Square Saturday afternoon for a demonstration In memory of the three men killed in the bomb explo sion of July 4. The ashes of the vic tims were not exhibited In urns, the mayor having forbidden it. Seven hundred police surrounded the square before the services were be gun. Alexander Berkman, anarchist, spoke from a stand decorated >with the an archistic red and the mnuHiing black. Surrounding the stand were banners executed in red and black. One pro claimed: "Caron, Hanson and Berg did riot die in vain.” Rockefeller Attacked. . Bterkman made a bitter attack on John D. Rockefeller. "These men may have been mur dered by agents of the capitalistic crowd,” he said. "If so, John D. Rocke feller is responsible for their death. He has committed many murders and would not stop at this. Or maybe the men were murdered because of their loyalty. They were either victims of a murder plot or martyrs to the cause of liberty. "1 hope they wer e martyrs nnd were killed by a bomb they expected to use against the enemies of labor. We are now ready to resort to physical force. We will get our rights by bloodshed. We are advancing toward a revolu tion.” The crowd cheered Berkman's speech and when he concluded gave three cheers for the dead men. IU, 000.000 FOR NATL FORESTS Last Purchase is 13,575 Acres in North Carolina. Total Now is 1,104,000 Acres. Wazhington,— Purchase by the gov ernment of 13,675 acres of forest lands In North Carolina was approved Sat urday by the national forest re*erva tlon commission. The acquisition em braces twelve tracts, eleven of them in Buncombe. Yancy and McDowell counties, with a total area of 12,400 acres and the other with an area of 1.175 acres in Macon county. All of the tracts adjoin federal reservation* previously acquired and most of them are wooded with poplar, oak, chest nut and other valuable timber. Now Total 1,104,000 Acr»«. Washington.—The national forest reservation commission Saturday also approved for purchase 6,803 acres of laud in West Virginia. The land 's In Tucker. Randolph and Hardy coun ties. The total acreage in West Vir ginia approved for purchase now amounts to 105,480 acres. 1-anda approved for acquisition by tk| government for national forest purposes in the East now total 1,104,- ono acres, having a purchase price of 85,600.000. About 12.000,00 of the orig inal appropriation remains available for further purchases in tho fiscal year 1915. Of the lands favorably acted on to date, are 971.000 acres In > arlous parts of the southern Appla ehlans from Virginia to Georgia. Near ly 400.000 acres were approved for pur chHse during the past year at an aver age price of $4,96 per acre. CARLOAD OF MAIL. Laredo. Texaa.—A carload of mail from Europe destined to Mexican points crossed the Rio Grande to Nouvo Igiredo here lat* todev. It was said some of the mall had'been held In New- York for several weeks because of lack of railroad communi cation In Mexico. CARRANZA REITERATES , INTENTION OF CARRYING OUT -GUADALUPE PLAN EYE WITNESS OF MURDER? Has Been Found, According to District Attorney. Negro Maid Spirited Away. Mineola, N, Y.—An eye witness to the murder of Mrs. Louise Bailey, shot down in the private office of Dr. Edwin Carman at Freeport, has been found by District Attorney Lewis 1. Smith, it was reported tonight. Mrs. Carman is in the Nassau County jail charged with the crime. The one other important develop ment in the case today was the decla ration by George Levy, counsel for Mrs. Carman, that Cecilia Coleman, fife Carman negro maid, who has play ed an important part as a witness for the defense, had been spirited away. Mr. Levy charged that the maid had been kidnapped by private detectives. District Attorney Smith denied any knowledge of tile affair. WILE CONTINUE TALKS Kansas City Delegation to Be Received By the President Wednesday. Commendatory Letters. Washington.—President Wilson will continue this week the conferences with business men begun when bo talked with J. P. Morgan, Henry Ford and a delegation from the Chicago As sociation of Commerce. A group of men of large interests from Kansas City is to be received probably Wednesday. They asked to talk with the president on business conditions and trust legislation. The president's statement in support of Paul Warburg and Thomas V. Jones, nominees for the federal re serve hoard, in which he stated that men should not be refused confirma tion merely because they were con nected with “big business,” was sail today by White House officials to have brought forth commendatory letters from a large number of business men, OAR SECTION OMNIBUS BIEL Clause of Clayton Anti-Trust Measure Thought Establish ing Too Dangerous Legisla tion Precedent. Washington—ln reviewing the Clay ton omnibus trust bill as it passed the hquse, the senate judiciary com mittee today struck out section three, which would make it unlawful for an owner, operator or transporter of the products of any mine, oil or gas well, reduction works, refinery or hydro electric plant, or for any person selling such products, to refuse arbitrarily to sell the prod get to any responsible person applying for It. It was held by the committee that such a provision established a dan gerous precedent in legislation, par ticularly because it strikes at one gen eral line of industry. Other amend ments are planned to the sections re ■ latlng toprice discrimination, price fixing and labor. The Interstate eommerec committee hoped to have the railroad escurities control bill completed by Monday. GEORGIA GIRL KILISJATHER H. Preston Powe Found Dead in Bed. Daughter Confesses Freed; Justifiable Homicide, Whigham. Ga.—Mrs. Clifford Grit fin, lil-year-old daughter of H Pres ton Powa, a widely-known Grady County Farmer, who was found In his bed yesterday morning dead from a gun shot wound, told a coroner's jury today ahnt she had slain her father, as he slept, because of repeated at tacks on her. She declared that her father had repeatedly attacked her and had come to her room after midnight yes terday. She followed him to ’ his room, she said, and when he slept. Tired into the hack of his zkull with a shot gun. killing him instantly. She was freed on a verdict of jus tifiable homicide, and her brot.ijr. Howard Powe, aged is, who had been arreated, was released. "No Alternative." Lame, Ireland—"if It be not p«n-c with honor, It must be war with honor,” tald Sir Edward Carton, the miter Un tonlat trader, addreealnfl the Central Antrim volunteer! here today. 'There la no alternative." Sir Edward declared the Heterltea had told the government they never would he turned out of the Imperial parliament, end by that declaion they would eta:.J SiTprn»T jitit Cons titutionalis t Firs 1 Chief Says He Will Struggle to Establish Peace and Im mediately Call Elections Throughout Republic Torreon, Mexico.—The conven tion agreed Carranza was the su preme leader of the revolution and Villa chief of the division of the north. In regard to a com plaint that General Carranza had not assisted Sufficiently the di vision of the north with ammu nitions, a resolution was adopted which called for all divisions of the army to “receive from the first chief all the elements that they may need.” To Continue. Saltillo, Mexico.— General Carranzo, the constitutionalist chief, issued a statement here Saturday reiterating his intention of carrying out the plan of Guadalupe. He announced: I all continue to struggle to es tablish peace throughout the repub lic as soon as possible and will im mediately thereafter call elections which will result in the re-establish ment of constitutional order in Mex ico.” Carranza’s statement said: The Statement. i first chief of the constitutional ists, I have complied and propose .» comply until the end, to the plan of Guadalupe, which bears date of March last year. J n conformity with this Plan which was subscribed to bv tho chiefs and officials who surrounded me before I was acquainted with the usurper Huerta, I v then being governor of the state of Coahujla, and accepted by all the chiefs and officials of the constitutionalist army, I find myseif obliged to remove from the posts they occupy unlawfully all the usurpers of tne three powers—executive, legisla tive and judicial. Continue to Struggle. As first chief of the constitution alists. I shall continue to struggle to establish peaec throughout, the repub lic as soon as possible and immedi ately thereafter call elections which will result in the re-establlshmtnt of constitutional order in Mexico. For this reason the plan of Gaudalupe is not and will not be a program of gov ernment, nor a revolutionary plan, but rather, as it is, a political plan.” \ Carranza added he considers himself obligated to carry out the reforms which failed of consummation in th* brief Madero regime. His statement than continued: In a Few Days. “In a few days the three divisions of Generals Pablo Gonzales, Francisco Villa and Alvaro Obregon will advance simultaneously toward the capital of the republic. I believe that Huerta, the usurper, will not resist the advance of the constitutionalist forces. "If the columns of the northeast, the north and the northwest amalga mate, I shall take direct command of all those forces and will direct mili tary operaions in combination with the division of the center." Delegate for Each Thousand. Torreon, Mexico.—At the Carranza- Villa conciliation conference at Tor reon an effort to prevent Genera! Car ranza or any of the military leaders of the revolution from becoming can didates for the presidency or vice pres idency failed to be adopted, accord ing to a lengthy official statement is sued today. The motion was made by the Villa delegates. A motion was passed, how ever. demanding that the first chief, as president ad interim at the triumph of the revolution, should call a con vention composed of delegates repre senting the rebel army, every thous and soldiers to be represented by del egates selected by a committee of mi!-\ itary chiefs to be approved by this* general of the division which would fix the date and arrange for the elec tion. To Selsct From. A list of names was suggested to Carranza by the delegates from which he could select if he saw fit a pro visional cabinet or a consulting com mittee to act until the election of permanent officers. Resolutions also were adopted condemning what was declared the activity of the clergy In assitsing the Huerta government. This followed a fight in which the Villa delegates attempted to eliminate any military leader, including Carran za. from presidential possibilities. Those recommended as suitable for th? provisional cabinet were Inglesias Caledron, Luis Cabrera, Antonio Villa real, Miguel Sylvia, Manuel Bonilla, Alberto Pani, Eduardo F. Hay, Ignacio Pesciuclra. Miguel Dlaa Lombardo, Jose Vasconcelos, MiguaiAlessin Ro bles, and Frederico Gonzalez Garza. Ml 11 CONGRESS Washington.— Senate. Not In session; meet* Monday, House. Met at noon. Senate ,ameg|(lmenta to army aviation bill adopted. Debp,, was begun on general deficiency ap propriation bill. Adjourned at l:6B p. in., until nooa Monday. t v THE WEATHER “ Forecast. Washington, D. C.—Oenrgln and Font!* Carolina: Partly cloudy Sunday and Monday, probably loc&i thundershowers