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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1920.
NO. 42
EXICAN REBELS CAPTURE Ci
iifl
WRANZA
i
iPICO
HANDS
WAR FLEET
Dreadnauqht Oklahoma and Fleet
can Waters to Await Eventualities Number of Americans in Mexico
Estimated Between Six and Seven Thousand Additional Force of
;.- 1200 Marines Dispatched on Transport Henderson Tampico Stir-
; renders to Rebels With Little Resistance Carranza's Guard to Vera
-: Cruz Attacked and Dispersed and President Is Reported Captured in
if ' Vera Cruz Villa Gives Up Banditry Now Carranza Is Eliminated.
CARRANZA'S SON-IN-LAW
IS REPORTED EXECUTED
BROWNSVILLE, Tex.. May
10. The evacuation of Monte
rey, capitul ot the state of
Nucvo Leon bv Carranza forces,
was reported in unofficial dis
patches here today.
Governor Dc Los Santos, was
said to bo en route to M'atomo-
ros, opposite Brownsville, where
the state government wii: be
established, tho report declared.
EL PASO, Texas. May 10.
Generals Cnndido Aguilnr, son-in-law
of President Carranza,
and Francisco Murtruia, have
been executed, according to an
unconfirmed report received here
today bv Hoberto V. Pcsnnneriii,
revolutionary financial agent in
the United States.
WASHINGTON, May 10 Ygnaclo
Ilonillns, former Moxican ambassador
to tho United States, has been cap
tured, according to reports in tlic
Mexico City noHspnners receive:!
hero today.
WASHINGTON, May 10. Capture
oi i'resiUcnt in ranji by the. Mexican
revolutionists is announced by the
Mexico City newspapers According to
reports received licro Into today.
WASHINGTON, May 10. The
ureadnaught Oklahoma was ordered
today to procoed from New York to
Key West, Fla., for posslblo duty in
Mexican waters.
The ship will stop onrouto at Phila
delphia to tako on a full company of
marines from League Island station.
She is expected to arrive there to
night: Tho Oklahoma should reach Key
West several days ahead of the trans
Port Henderson which Is now enrouto
to League Island to tako on an addi
tional force of 1200 marines.
Estimates of the state department
Place the number of Americans in
Mexico at between 0000 and 7000,
Including radicals and draft evaders
who crossed the border to escape the
'aw. The department had no addi
tional advices today from any of its
agents in Mexico.
HOUSTON, Texas, May 10. Tam
Pico, important oil town on tho Gulf
' Mexico capitulated to forces of
General Obregon yesterday, according
to radio advices received by local oil
Interests here early this morning. The
advices said the town went over to
the revolutionists without serious dis
order. "The city is quiet this morning and
Is well policed by municipal and mili
tary authorities," the message which
WILSON
PEACE INTO PRESIDENTIA
WASHINGTON, May 10. The
treaty of Versailles as it came from
aris has been thrown snuarclv into
J coming presidential campaign,
'resident Wilson formally has calico
"Pn the democratic party to "indorse
" support" the treaty and "condemn
tie Lodge reservations."
senator Lodge of Massachusetts,
em rpp"blicnn leader in the fight to
mend the document, hns accepted
J?e "resident's chnllenge and political
fi.Sf?ers ,lero regarded the issue as
nearly dra,wn,,
, VERA CRUZ IN
OF REBELS. II. S
DISPATCHED
American Destroyers Ordered to Mexi
was tiled Sunday, declared. Foreign
ers wore unmolested, according to
tho message, and operations in the
big oil fields around Tampico were
said to bo proceeding unmolested.
Carranza Captured?
EL PASO, Texas, May 10. Mex
ican revolutionists overtook and dis
persed the troops escorting President
Carranza in his flight from Mexico
City, "causing them serious losses,"
according to a message from General
Alvaro Obregon to Governor Do La
Huerta, supreme commander of the
liberal constitutionalist army made
public here today.
General Obregon detailed the cap
ture of Mexico City, confirmed the
report of a wholesale execution of
military prisoners at Mexico City by
General Francisco Murguia before tho
Carranza leader fled the capital and
told of further states to join the rev
olution and of the capturo of Puobla
City, ono of the largost In Mexico.
Among tho victims were Generals
Trlana, Lechuga, Artigos, Roberto
Cejudo and others, according to Gen
eral Obregon.
Mexican revolutionary headquar
ters hero in making public Obregon's
message za'.A it lent credenco to the
report of Carranza's capture 3 Obre-
"i said the Mexican president s
route to the port of Vera Cruz had
boen cul by reliel forces.
Carranza Is Missing
WASHINGTON1, May 10. With
Moxlco City, Vera Cruz and Tampico
in tho hands of the revolutionists,
American destroyers were enroute
today to Mexican waters to await
eventualities and to afford protection
to American lives in the Mexican gulf
ports.
Official confirmation of tho fall of
tho Mexican capital was received yes
terday by tho state department from
tho Amorican embassy which report
ed thero was no disordor in tho cap
ital. Tho American embassy report mado
no mention of President Carranza
and reports from Vera Cruz said a
search there had failed to find him. A
report that he had ucen arrested in
Tsperanza, state of Vera Cruz, was
without confirmation here.
licbels Tako Laredo
LAREDO, Texas, May 10. Nuevo
Laredo today was nuiet under control
of revolutionary forces who after a
brief battle with rederal defenders
yesterday took full possession. Gen
eral Reynaldo Garza, commander of
tfcn Nimvn Laredo military district in
tho Carranza government, was safe
in Laredo following an exciting nigni
frnm Nuevo Laredo in whicn ms
automobile was struck by 120 bul
lets.
iHnalnnss ononed as usual witn ine
exception of saloons which were or
dered closed until furtner nonce uy
(Continued en Page Two)
THROWS TREATY OF
IAL
Mr. Wilson's views were stated in
a tclcernin last night to G. E. Hnma
ker of Portland, Ore., chnirman of the
Multnomah county democratic cen
tral committee. With W. J. Bryan
insisting that the democrats accept
the reservations adopted bv n ma
jority of the senate, some observers
here expeted a sharp fight on the
treaty issue at San Kranciseo, wilb
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska prob
ably leading the . administration
forces. - - I
DICTATORSHIP OF THE
PROLI
BY
NEW YORK, May 10 De
claring for the "dictatorship of
the proletariat" and a "work
ingmcn's council in the govern
ment," the Illinois delegation to
the socialist nntionnl convention
today announced it intended to
fight to make the 1920 platform
"genuinely radical" and repre
sentative of "real socialism."
Led by J. Louis Engdahl of
Chicago, tho Illinois delegates
declared "too conservative" the
socialist platform outlined at
yesterday's mass meeting in
Madison Squure Garden.
CHICAGO, Mnv 10.Twentv
six members of the communist
labor party pleaded not guilty
when arraigned beforo Judge
Oscar Hebel todav on charges of
conspiracy to overthrow the gov
ernment of the United States.
TO
THE PRESIDENCY
DECLARES BORAH
WASHINGTON, May 10. Cam
paign expenditures wore the subject
of a lively tilt in tho senate today
botweon republicans and democrats.
Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana,
referred to stories published here
that republicans were planning to
raise $10,000,000 with T. Coleman
DuPont in charge securing contribu
tions. '
Senator Smoot, republican, de
nounced the report as without foun
dation.
The democratic party, he said, was
In better position to raise funds but
he had no Idea that either party
would attempt to raise as much as
$10,000,000.
Senator Borah, republican, Idaho,
author of tho ponding resolution for
inquiry into campaign expenditures
and contributions said it was appar
ent that certain influences in both
parties wore seeking domination thru
use of money.
'What we should do Is to expose
the coteries which propose to control
the conventions by use of money,"
said he.
LODGE SELECTED
TEMP. CHAIRMAN
rmrAGO. Mnv 10. Senator
TTonM ( iihnf. I.nrlirn. renn mean ot
ATncKnpliiisptlH todav was chosen tem
porary chairman ot tho republican
national convention to bo held lion;
unc 8.
WASHINGTON, May 10. Sena
tor Wndsworth's resolution proposir-g
to remove tho New York state barg
anal from government operation and
control was adopted today by the
senate.
RETAIL SALE TAX FOR
SOLDIERS GIVEN IIP
WASHINGTON. May 10. Republi
can members of the bouse ways and
means committee definitely decided
todav to abandon the proposed one
per cent retail sales tax for raisin?
part of the money for the proposed
soldier relief legislation. '
S. F. BANKER DIES. FATHER
RECENTLY PASSED AWAY
SAN FRANCISCO, May 10. I. W.
Hellman,- prominent San Francisco
nd Los Angeles banker, died her.?
horllv before noon todav after a
lengthy illness . His father, Isnins
W. Hellman. banker of nation-wide
reputation, died here recently. i
8 KILLED
IN ELECTRIC
R. R. WRECK
Two Electric S. P. Passenger Trains
Collide Sunday Near Portland
Blame Placed on S. K. Willett.
Motorman. Who Was Killed In
Smash 38 People Are Injured.
None Seriously Public Service
Commission to Investigate.
PORTLAND, Ore.. May 10 Dr.
Earli Smith, coroner of Multnomah
county, was preparing todav to bold
an inquest over one or moro of the
eight victims killed yesterday when
two electric passenger trains on the
Southern Pacific railroad collided
head on near here. Officials of the
railroad company already have placed
responsibility for the wreck snuarclv
on the shoulders of Silas K. Willett
the motorman of one of the trains, de
daring that he violated orders when
he ran past Bertha station. Willett
was killed in the collision.
The state public service commission
also was preparing to investigate the
wreck in an effort to fix responsi
bility.
Of the 38 persons who were In
jural, five were considered todav to
be in a precarious condition. Anion,;
them was Miss Cuinillc Dosch,
ciety editor of a newspaper hero iiiul
sister of Anio Dosch-Fleurot, notoj
war correspondent. Both of her leiss
and one arm were fractured.
Coroner Earl Smith nhnounned to
day that an inquest would bo held
tomorrow night and would bo in the
nnturo of a joint inquiry, tho Oregon
public service commission pnrticipat
ing. Of thoso injured, one was re
ported to bo in a precarious condition
today.
n of m
SALEM, May 10. The fishing in
dustry on tho Columbia river will bo
tied up and farming operations in
eastern Oregon will bo seriously han
dicapped unless there is relief from
the gasoline shortage, according to
appeals recolvcd today by Govornor
Olcott from Astoria and The Dalles.
Governor Olcott said that doubt
less the conference in Portland today
attended by O. P. Hoff, state treasur
er and 'State sealer of weights and
measures, W. A. Dazlel, deputy state
sealer and representatives of the fuel
companies would decide to waive for
a time tho operation of tho law re
quiring a specific gravity of 56 for
gasoline used In the state.
MAYGET U.S. AIRPLANES
EUGENE, Ore., Mav 10. The re
cent announcement of tho war de
partment that there are no nvailnbli
men for airplane forest patrol in the
northwestern states this summer doc.
not entirely kill Oregon's prospects
for forest patrol this season, accord
ing to a letter received by E. C. Sim
mons, chairman of the avintion con.
mittce of the Eugene Chamber of
Commerce, from Colonel H. II. Arnold
commanding the uir service of the
army for tho western department.
By increasing the personnel it mnv
be possible to extend the service to
begin in California Mav 10 to include
Western Oregon, says Colonel Arnold
in his letter.
Beckett Knocks Out Wells.
LONDON, May 10. Joe Beckett.
the (English heavyweight lioxcr.
knocked out Bombardier Wells, an
other British pugilist, in the third
round of a match for the heavyweight
championship of England tonight.
IS GIVEN
LIFE IMPRISONMENT
LOS ANGELES C,al., Mav 10
James P. Watson, who con
fessed tho murder of seven
women, was todav sentenced to
life imprisonment at San Qucn
tin prison bv Judge Frank R.
Willis of tho Los Angeles coun
ty superior court. The sentence
followed Watson's plea of guilty
to murder of Nina Lee I Money,
entered last week. Sentence was
pronounced at 11:125. Watson
applied for n stay of execution
until Mav l." which was granted
by Judge Willis.
The sentence was passed on
the recommendation of District
Attorney Thomas Lee Wool
wine, who told the court that
conviction could not havo been
secured, a view in which the
judge said he concurred. Ilo
complimented tho sheriff and
district attorney on their conduct
throughout tho entire case.
INTIMATE FRIEND
OF COL. ROOSEVELT
PORTLAND, May 10 Oscar S.
Straus, close intimate of tho lute
Theodore Roosevelt, -Secretary of
Commerce and Labor and ambassador
to Turkey during tho Hoosovelt ltd
ministration, and tho progressive can
didate for governor in New York
state in 1012, has sent the following
telegram to tho editor of tho San
Francisco Chronicle, a Johnson sup
porter :
"I understand the supporters of Hi
ram Johnson claim that in his oppo
sition to the League of Nations with
the Lodge reservations or in any form
that Johnson represents tho position
and ideals of Thcodoro Roosevelt,
Permit mo for the information of the
people of California and in justice
to Roosevelt to state that any such
claim i.i without foundation. Tho fact
is that Roosevelt was not only in
favor of the Leaguo of Nations, but
was the first among the world's fore
most statesmen in our generation who
advocated a strong League of Nations
or Leaguo of Peace. In his Nobel
Prize address in Christinnia on Mnv 5
1!)10, he said: 'It would be a muster
stroko if thoso great powers honestly
bent on peace should form a lengue
of peace not only to keep the peace
among themselves, but to prevent bv
force if necessary its being broken
by others.'
When the league to enforce peace
was formed at first he did not np
prove it, believing that its proposal
for the use of force was not suffi
ciently effective. Subsequently, be
fore his last illness when the amended
provisions wero explained to him ho
unproved of the league and so stated
to me and also if I mistake not m
stated to Tuft. On December 21. 1018
I sought his advice regarding inv
going to Paris as European chairmun
of tho league for the purpose of advo
eating a leaguo of nations, lie om-
phatcnlly advised me to go. The fore.
going facts I feel justify me in suvlna
that he would havo approved a strong
League of Nations with power to en
force its decisions and that Johnson's
violent opposition to a league in iinv
form does not represent the views of
the visioncd and immortal Roosevelt
"OSCAR S. STRAUS"
FOUND NEAR SALEM
SALEM. Ore., May 10. Aided by
bloodhounds u posse that has been
searching since Saturday noon for
Mrs. Albert Frank, age 48, who dis
appeared Saturday piorning from her
lonely i'ann home fourteen miles
soiuneast ot .-iiiiom, found Her hoily
at one o clock Siindnv morning ,a
quarter of a mile back in the timber
behind her home. Investigation by
the coroner and authorities revealed
the fact that she had drunk poisoti.
rnends and neighbors who bore in
timate relations with Mrs. Frank arc
at n loss to establish n motive for suicide,
SECRETARY DANIELS SAYS
SIMS COVETED PLACE IN
IHt URIIISH AUMWY
Long-A waited Reply of Naval Secretary to Admiral Sims Charaes Proves
a Devastating Broadside Declares Sims Worshipped England and
Only Found Criticism for America Indiscretions Numerous Attack
on Irish People, Givlna Publicity to Benson's Statement Inexcusable
Breaches of Good Faith Claims U. S. Naval Officers 10 to I Aaainst
Sims' Charges, and Even English Naval Men Would Not Agree With
Him Only Man Dissatisfied With American Record Is Sims.
WASHINGTON, May 10. Seei-c-tarv
Daniels, before tho senato invos
t:gating coonmiitteo todav mado his
long-awaited replv to tho criticisms of
Rear Admiral Sims on the navy's part
in tho war.
Tho naval secretary let go a broad
side which included charges that Sims
lacked vision, that ho belittled the
work of the American navy in con
trust to the British, coveted British
decorations and aspired to become an
honorary member of the British ad
miralty. He declared that officers
supporting tho Sims' charges wcrt!
largely "people with a grievance."
The testimony of other officers, in
possession of first hand knowledge,
Secretary Daniels testified, should
he accepted bv all open-minded men
as an nbsolute refutation of virtu
ally all of Admiral Sims' charges."
Six Deficiencies
'.. Sims,. Secretary Daniels told the
committee, did not inoasiiro up to
expectations in various ways, of
which ho mentioned six, as follows:
"Ho lacked vision to sco that a
great and new project to bar the
submarines from their hunting
grounds should bo promptly adopted
and carried out, no matter what the
cost or how radical tho departure
from what ultra-prudent men re
garded as impracticable.
"lie seemed to accept the views of
tho British admiralty as superior to
anything that would come from Amer
ica and urged those views even when
the navy department proposed plans
that proved moro effective.
"In public speoehes and other ways
ho gnvo a maximum of credit to Brit
ish efforts nnd minimized what his
country was doing.
"He coveted British decorations
and seemed to place a higbor value
on honors given abroad than on
honors that could be conferred bv the
American government.
"lie aspired to become n momber
of tho British admiralty nnd wrote
complainingly when tho American
government declined to permit him lo
nccept such n tender bv tho king of
England.
"Ho placed protection of merchant
shipping as the main operation of
forces abroad, failing to appreciate
that the protection of transport
carrying troops to Franco was the
paramount naval duty until I felt im
pelled to cable him pcremtorily that
such was our main mission."
Secretary Daniels testified that had
ho known that in October 1018, Sims
had made statements reflecting upon
tho United States army nnd navy to
winning tho war to members of con
uross visiting abroad, he would never
havo recommended his promotion.
Denounced Irish
"Ho had not then attacked tho Trisli
people," Secretary DaDuicIs testified.
I thought then ho had only defended!
American sailors, a proper thing io
do, when attacked unjustlv bv what
PIRATES HOLD UP FRENCH PACKET, 3 ;
U. S. WOMEN WORKERS ARMENIA ESCAPE
CONSTANTINOPLE, Mav 9. (Bv
tho Associated Press) Pirates held
up the French packet Souirah, which
left Datum May 0 en routo to Mar
seilles and after robbing tho pas
sengers of the steamer went ashore in
boats which they compelled members
of the crew to man.
Among those on bonrd the vessel
wero Mrs. Haskell, wifo of Colont!
William Haskell, director general of
American relief in tho Near East, and
Mrs. Day and Mrs. Booth, whose hus-
bnnds are connected with rejicf wory
ho termed a lawless element in Cork.
If I hud known that ho proposed
to tell the story of what the navy
had dono overseas, to denounce tho
Irish people as ho did in his articled
in 'Tho World Work,' tho permission
would not havo been granted."
Secretary Daniels snid ho had never
publicly or privately criticised Admi
ral Sims for lack of enrlv vision.
"Although the department had dis
approved of soino of his recommen
dations," said Secretary Daniels "I
mistakenly Supposed that ho
had accepted nnd acquiesced, with
more or less gmco, ill the depart
ment's official actions, ns, n
loyal officer accepts tho decisions of
his superiors ." .
Tho investigating committee, Secre
tary Daniels said, had boen wearied
nnd tho public nausentod with "an
attempt to ferret out tho molo hills of
mistakes and exaggerate-, them , into
mountains."' . .t?t
"The navy's record in tho mat
stands untouched today and for. nil
time despilo criticisms from within
nnd without," ho said.
Itccord Is Praised . '
No such troop movement over so
great an expanse, of wntor had ever
been attempted as tho trnns"irting of
America's legions to Franco, Secre
tary Daniels declared, adding that "in
comparison to that essential to win
ning tho war nothing else counted. It
was well and expeditiously dono. That
fact nlono is answer to most of the
criticisms heard by vour committee.
Tho onlv man injured in public
esteem bv bis charges is Admiral Sims
himself," said Secretary Daniels. ,
"Tho evidence has had onlv ono ef
fect nnd that has been n fooling' of
deep reirret at Iho necessity of with- .
flt-nu-inrr flnnrnvrit fVnm Almi.nl U'ia .
and replacing it with doop and Inst
ing disapproval.
"The navv and its service- in tho
world war stand without a truce of
tho mud with which a fow have soue-ht, ,
to bespatter it." r
Lots C'nso Kent ' '-v
ro lar as ins own acta wore con- '
cornea, noorcuirv linniols said in1
would bo willing to let the caso rcsf.''
Tho judgment nnd ability of tho eleven
..ll.AM P I 1
had been brought under public criti-''
n.-tii, uy tiiiu ul tueir .own Ulllliucr,
however, ho snid, and these officers
looKeg to tne civilian secretary to de
fend them.
"There are twelve of these high
ranking officers charged with groat
responsibility," said Socrotary Dnn
iels. You have heard olcvon Ono is
tho nuthor of thoso critieismB, The
twelfth, Admiral Olcavos, who was in
charge of tho .troop ships that ear
ned our soldiers to France, is com
mander in chief of tho Asiatic fleet,
and I do not feel justified in ordering
him from his distant station to testify.
(Continued cm Page Blr)
in Armenia. They wore fleeing be
fore the bolsheviki advance nnd wore
forced to give up their valuables.
Tho pirates boarded tho steamer '
at Balum, either as passengers or
members of tho crew. On tho night
of May 6. fifteen men sprang from
various parts of tho ship covorcd
officers and passengers with pistols
nnd shouted warnings they would kill
any who opposed them.
A French destroyer took the Ameri
can women aboard nnd later trans
ferred them to the American destroyer
Lole, which, arrived here today,