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EL PASO HERALD HOME EDITION WEATHER FORECAST. El Paw and vest Texas, fair; New Mexico, showers. warmer in genth; Arjsaaa, fair, warmer in south. LATEST NEWS BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. SINGLE COPT PTVE CENTS. EL PASO. TEXAS, THURSDAY EVENING. MAY 13. 1920. 12 PAGES TODAY. DELIVERED ANTWHEBE. 70c MONTR. ILLS NEPHEW OF CALLE wH Ml I ifm II TODAY'S PRICES. Mexican bank notes, state bills, $5.2530; pesos, 77; Mencan gold, $50; naaouales, $2124; bar stiver, H. & H. quotations, $1.00; copper, 1919J4c; grain, weak; livestock, higher; stocks, irregular. CISTA K Hlil JOHNSOIjSrms Charges Rest On Forgery, m our ut IS 1 ED Senator to Speak n East and Middle West to Men of Business. TO COUNTERACT FOE PROPAGANDA) Flood of Literature Sent Out Calling Candidate Extreme Radical. NEW YORK, May IS Senator Hi ram W. Johnson will make a tour of the larger cities in the east and middle west between now and the date of the Republican conven tion in Chicago, with a view to plae- 4ne ms candidacy before busm in t n, it was announced at Johnson headquarters here today. It was said the itinerary would in clude New York. Philadelphia. Pitts burg: Ceveland and Chicagro. Senator Johnson's speeches on this our it was stated, would be designed to counteract a flood of literature dis-t-Tiinated among business men, pic turing him as an extreme radical. NEFF AND L0ONEY FILE FOR PLACES ON BALLOT Da.Ias Tex.. May 13 Fat Neff. of T an, and B. F. Looney. of Green Mile. hi.e filed with the state Demo ocratii, executive committee here ap plications for positions on the Demo cratic primary ballot other application rued are as fol lows J. T. Robinson, Austin, com 11 iisLoner of general land office; ". illi am Pierson, Greenville, Justice or the supreme court; W. A. Johnson, Memphis, lieutenant grovemor. F B. Martin, Longview, Judge of the court of criminal appeals. Sam H. Dixon, Houston, state commissioner of ag riculture; John A Baker. Crosby ounty, state treasurer, and Lynch lavidson. Houston, lor lieutenant goernor. JAP ADMINISTRATION. LEADS I RETtHAS FROM E LECTIO X 3-ionoIulu, T. H., May 13 Incom ; r'e returns from the election in . ,-)an shov the government party 1 ading according to a Tokio cable to Nippu Jiji, Japanese language news paper here. HEFF PLFDGES BECLIHT1 AKin. Tex.. May 12. Pat Neff, can didate for governor, here last night, declared if he iz elected he will do all in his power to have thousands of acres of worthless lands in Texas re claimed. He favors a system of con eerwng the flood waters of streams where they may be utilised for irri gation In tne arid and semi-arid sec tions. Neff defined campaign headquar ters of a candidate as a place where ii)v slush is handled, and said The campaign manager is the man v. 1 o makes promises to the faithful iw before election and tells the gov ernor what to do after election. Neff says he has neither headquar ters nor manager If I am elected governor, will not re-mit the squeal of a pig to be heard .tboie the sigh of a child." said Neff, aing there is a law to protect cat t t against ticks because cattle are ncf-th money: there is a law to pro-- hogs against cholera for the r .:n reason, but there is not law to 4 irnsn the protection which children oi the state are entitled to. Neff outlined his policy of legis Vt on as more general educational ad . actags for all classes, better r-arketicg conditions, reclamation of iands improvements in agricultural and industrial resources. Eugene V. Debs, Now Convict 2253, Nominated For President Of U, S. In Socialist National Convention NCW YORK May 13 Amid cheers and tears, Eugene V Debs, convict tll in the federal penitentiary at A tlan ta, Ga. was nominated for president of the United States by the national convention of the Socialist narty her toda His picture, in a large black frame, was on the stage. He began sen. trig ten years for vio lation of the war time espionage act April 13, 1919 Debs, 65 years old, has been giien the presidential nom ination by his party four times pre- 10-sIy. He was a Democrat before he became a Socialist. In the late '70s Debs served two terms in The Indiana legislature from Terra Haute, his home town. He was once a candidate for congress from lh fifth Indiana district. In 1894 from May to Noember, Uebs sred a sentence in Jail for con tempt of court, in an Illinois con spiracy case. His present imprisonment resulted from inves ligation of a speech In Canton. O, June 16. i&lS, which lea to his arrest two weeks later for op Big Treat For Herald Trip Winners DOYS, you haTe the chance yon have been waiting for, to attend the Y. M LCA. snntmcr camp the test two weeks in Jtxse. There will be not and cold shower baths, a regular baseball diamond, two tennis courts, and a bralchouse with a big fireplace, where boys can read and crack nuts. Camp Whatnsnalat will satisfy tfee wanderlust of any boy with enough spade to proenre 15 sew. ose-month subscriptions to The 1 Paso Herald. This offer is good to any boy of good moral character. The Herald will pa; your transportation to Mountain Park and return, also your meals and lodg mr for two weeks. . . For ftixther details, call to see H. H. Fris, drcnlatioa manager, El Paso Herald. Boys who ave in Arizona, New Mexico arid west Texas, who would like to join the CI Paso boys in camp, should write for our big offer to out-of-town boys. Power Of Daniels Testifies In Naval Row Coal Bar on Canada Asked in Paper Fight SHARON. Pa.. May 13. As a re taliatory measure for the pres ent Canadian embargo on pulp wood and ptfn wood paper, repre sentative Willis J. Hulings an nounced here today that he would Introduce a bill In congress shortly for placing an embargo on coal to Canada. He is gathering data now with that end in view, he said. IRISH ATTACKS AIM AT POLICE ALL OVER ERIN Reports Of Struggle Swamp Office In London; As At Easter Time. LONDON. Eng-, May 11. Reports of an unusual number of activities by armed and masked men in various sections of Ireland v. ere re ceived in London today. The reports oegan trtcKiing in eany in tne morn ing' and bv noon "fend reached the pro portions of an avalanche. As at ster time, police barracks were at tacked. li rraeks were attacked, and many of thvn destroyed. Host of the bar- raccs.were not oocnpiea oy tne regu lar poLca force, which had been sent to the larger centers. Income tax officials also were again attacked. Meanwhile, viscount French, the viceroy, was in London for a con ference with Andrew Bonar Law. the government leader in the house of commons, regarding the olfcy to be pursued to restore order In Ireland. 19 Barrack Raxed. Dublin. Ireland. May 13- At least 19 police barracks in various parts of Ireland were wiped out in the course of widespread destruction of public property and other activities by bands of armed and masked men in various parts of Ireland last night. Five income tax and customs offices i tJso were raided and papers found in them burned. HI IN ICE BEATS HUSBAND Cheyenne, Wyo , May 13 In Jack son, Wyo , at Tuesday's city election there were two tickets in the field. one of women, the other of men. and the women won. two to one, after a campaign In which sex was the only issue. One woman candidate for councilman, Mrs. Rose Crabtree. de feated her husband, Henry GraTstree. The other women elected are: Mayor Mrs, Grace Miller. CoundOmen Mrs. Mae Delonsyv Mrs. Genevieve Van Fleck and Mrs. Faus tina Haigbt- Jaekson, the community about which Owen Wtster wrote in The Virginian," has a population of about. 390, lies sonth of Yellowstone Na tional park and is surrounded by high mountains. The nearest railroad point is 75 RECOVER SOLDIER'S BODY; DROWNED SUNDAY IN LAKE The body of Pvt Foy Yancey, of the 19th infantry, who was drowned In the lake at the cement plant Sunday, was found early Thursday morning and taken to undertaking parlors at 110 North Campbell street, where fu neral services were held at 2 clock Thursday afternoon, and the body was taken to Plain View, Texas, for DBXiai. posing the war and urging labor to cece all activities which In any way tended to prolong tt. Bverr atom of influence and n- ergy in the Socialist party went into the fight to keep Debs ont of Jail, but each appeal was turned down. The American Federation of Labor in June, 1919. voted down a resolu tion favoring clemency for aim: The name of Debs as head of the Socialist party in America has gone around the world. Soviet Russia sought his release in appeals through diplo matic channels. With premier Lenlne, of Russia, he last June was elected an honorary president of the Korean labor congress. 4 The proved circulation of The El Paao Herald is nearly twice that of nny other HI Paso paper. Organization, Cooperative Effort, Distinguishes Secretary Says "Under Oath by Admiral as Making Him "About Eeady to Jump Overboard," Not Only Was Not Signed by Him, but Was Unauthorized; Found in British Embassy. WASHINGTON. D. C, May 13. Charges that a cablegram produced before the senate naval investigation committee during the testimony of rear admiral oims bore a forged signature were made today by secre tary Daniels. He referred to a message which admiral Sims had presented as part of his criticism of the navy department and which purported to have been signed by the secretary. MSon!ewhere, somebody was gnSty of signing my name to an official dispatch which the original he reproduced shows I never signed, Mr. Daniels told the committee , "or of altering a dispatch by erasing the real signature and substituting 'Daniels,." The concluding paragraph of the cablegram read: In regard to convoys, I consider that American vessels having armed guards are safer when sailing independently." Found in British Embassy. Mr. Daniels testified that immedi ately on reading the admiral's tes timony he knew be never sent such a cablegram and he started an in vestigation. The secretary said he finally found the original dispatch In the British embassy, through which tt had been sent, and that the name signed to it was "A. F. Carter, by directions of the chief of naval operations. The statement that it was signed "Daniels is untrue," said the secre tary "No such telegram signed "Daniels ever was sant to admiral Stms. In his testimony he reiterated that this dispatch made Mm 'about ready to Jump overboard and that it was signed with my name, conveying the Impression that the civilian sec retary or the navy nd personally passed upon the Question of a particu lar method to protect shipping and was resisting the adoption of the con voy STStetn. I knew I never enter tained the opinion stated in the dis patch he displayed. Cnalleage to 51ms. Admiral Sims should produce the person who chanced the signature. Mr Daniels declared, adding the ad miral owed an apology to me ana to the country for the impression undertaken to be made by his test!-' monv based upon a false signature. Much of the secretary's testimony today was devoted to the controversy over convoying troop ships. He in sisted that he admiral's coarse re aardintr. ths protection of trooo shins caused the department "much anxiety1 and finally he -pittatiy- toldg 'ITsst 'Cfsff4usc tfns seflBsnal'V B safeguarding of YeeeeTts caxrytns; American nsswerx. Mr. Demlsls charged that admiral Sims withdrew the destroyer escort from the first convoy as soon as it arrived abroad, leaving the transports without nrotectioa for the return voy age. Admiral stms. he said, finally was instructed to protect the ships when they left Franea. Quotes Mms Message. Referring to testimony by Sims that the first troop convoy, sent ever in June. 1917, was not attacked by sub marines and tfiht there was no sub marine within 300 miles of the place where the attacks were said to have "Uncle Joe" Cannon, 84 Years Young, Tells Stories, Talks Politics, Plays Dominoes Without His Specs, And Does Not Smoke "A Big Black' Cigar" For An Hour WASHINGTON. D. C May IS. He came into the National Press club, his brown fedora set on one suie oz nis neaa, wnxsuxng nae a ooy. Tve been for a three-mile walk and it was great. The weather's fine. I got lest. This town is certainly growing.- It was "Uncle Joe" Cannon. 84 years young, and be was talking to nobody In particular. He sat down at the table nearest me and beaan to finger the dominoes, whistling as no looaea ax tnem, j&osi oz tne news paper men in the club at the time were eating or reading. Very few looked up, for "Uncle Joe" is a regu lar visitor. He walked over to the dining room and said: "Sam. Ill play yon a game of dominoes if you snot me SO "All right," said correspondent Sam Gray. T11 be out In a minute, "Uncle Joe" came back and sat down at the table. Gets Lost la Washington. "I actually got lost down by the department of Justice building,' he saidy as he looked over atne. u used to rent an" office Just across the street, but I didn't know where 1 was this afternoon. I asked a feller and he said it was the department of justice and that they had three guards around the place to keep "em from throwing bombs. "Maybe they win, but I don't think so do yon?" "We're Kot to get back to nor mal some way. he continued. "I don't know Jnst how, bat we will. Tbere Is remarkably little dis content In thla country consider ing how many people we have. "Why, after the civil war it was eight years before we got hack to anything like normal, and then we had to hare a panic to do it- It as 1873 when the panic came. "People turned Pop a list then Jnst u they say they are tnrnlng bolsheviut now. M hy. In Cleve land's second term X was the only Republican elected from Illinois think of that and I only got m bare 60O majority. The people thought they couldn't do any worse, so they all voted Demo cratic or Popnlistlc. f Bryan was reauy a ropuiist wnen he got the nomination on that "cross of gold speech of his at Chicago, and he played for the Populist vote throughout bis campaign." Bryan to Mes I3ia Fp. "Bryan is going to make a mess of things out at San Francisco, too, or Tm no Judge of things." "Will there be any trouble in the Republican convention at Chicago?" I asked. "No, I don't think so." said "Uncle Joe." "Js this league of nations business going to cause any trouble'"' T asked. "Uncle Joe" sat perfectly still for a second or two, looking at his dominoes- Then, as if nothing had been asked him. he said: ! heard a good story lodaf. An Englishman was talking to an American, bracglne about his country. The Englishman saldi That Cablegram Described occurred, the naval secretary pre sented messages from admiral Sims giving accounts of such attacks. The first of these messages was dated June 30, 1917, and said: "First group attacked by sub marines, longitude 25 degrees, M, be fore rendezvous. "Second group attacked longitude 8. Strongly believe that enemy obtained information by intercepting and de ciphering dispatches sent rae in naval attache's code." "On the next day. July 1, ltl7," Mr. Daniels said, "admiral Sims sent this cablegram "It is practically certain that th enemy knew position of first rendez vous and accordingly sent a subma rine to intercept before Juncture with destroyers. " Believes Report Correct. "We had no reason then and have no reason now to doubt admiral Simss statements, made at the time that the convoy was attacked: the reports of admiral Gleaves and the official report of the French general staff to the same effect." Mr. Daniels also testified that ad miral Sims had objected to the use of former German liner Leviathan as a trooo shlD on the ground that her great length made her a better target tor torpedoes tnan smaller vessels. He also said the admiral had con- tended that The ship should be oper- atea to uverpooi. razner tnan to Brest, because of better facilities for handling her cargo The department, the secretary said, followed the admiral s advice, with the result that the Leviathan had to await an entire lonar month at Lrver- Kttr ReanltM at Brest. Later the Leviathan operated out of Brest, where her turn arouna -was measured in hours instead of weeks and she broke all records in the num ber of troops transported." Mr. Daniels presented various offi cial documents to support his conten tion that the convoy system was orig inally sponsored by the American navy and that it was not adopted fully antii several months after the United States entered the war and had sent many destroyers and other craft overseas, thus Providing the ships to make the operation of the 4 convoy system possible. By G. A. MARTIN. To Keep People From Burning Up Hotels By G. A. MARTIN. WASHINGTON. D. C May 11. As fire chief John Wray says so often, the carelessness of people costs a lot of money. In three of the big hotels I have stopped In lately, the waste paper baskets have been of tin or steel. I asked the manager of the Washington if it was for economy. He said it was for safety "So many men and women throw lighted cigars, clgarets and matches into waste paper baskets that it is necessary to provide metal ones to guard against fires," he asserted. "In this respect, men are not the only ones who trouble us. A woman who smokes, and there are a lot of them, too. is more careless with her cigareU and matches than a man is." The suss never sets on English SOIL The American replledi ?V I suppose God Im afraid to tract you English In the dark." ' Uncle Joe" did not say whether the story was apropos of anything or not. What Is Chance I had been reading the New York Tribune and I said. "I see the Trib une aa s the people are spending more for luxuries this year than ever before." "Yes," asld "Uncle Joe, smiling. There Is a story about a negro asking another If he would change a ten-dollar bill for him. 'Change ten dollars t said the one requested for the favor. Say. nigger, don't you know ten dol lars In efeanee taese omr" This led one of the correspondents to tell "Uncle Joe" one that made him chuckle "A Hebrew." said the correspondent, 'asked a Washington bank the price of a safety deposit vault for keeping his Liberty bonds. The bank quoted him a rate of 918 a 3 ear Vext daj the Hebrew re turned and asked if he could borrow money on $5000 worth of bonds. They told him he could and he turned In the bonds and said he wanted to borrow $5 The let him hav it and figured up the interest. It was aoout 18 cents for three months. He ex acted a promise that the bank would permit him to make renewals every three months for a year Then the banker asked him what was the idea of borrowing S3 on JavOO worth of bonds. The Hebrew said Yoa wanted to charge me $1& a ear for a safety deposit box to keep them in. I can 'soak 'em to you for 7: cents a ear ' "Uncle Joe" Plays -Wicked Gaine." By this time the domino same was ready and "Uncle Joe" entered into it with the zest of a boy. Not once did he put on his spectacles and he was always able to seo eiery domino, Best Job Lasts a Day. DETROIT, Mich, May M. For one day Robert C Hooper, of Connellsvllle, Pa-, held the best job in Detroit. Robert was hired to poor wine Into bottles In the laboratories of the Frederick Stearns Drug com pany, but poured so much into himself that he was found Wednes day evening unconscious in a gut ter near the plant. Judge Marsh fined him 18. which hardly covers the cost of the materials involved. RAIL CRISIS BRINGS PERIL TO INDUSTRY 235.000 Cars Tied Up Or De layed As Factories Face Production Cut. WASHINGTON. D. C May 13-Im-perative necessity for concerted action to relieve the freight con gestion on American railroads and to prevent serious curtailment of pro duction engaged the attention today of all government agencies which deal with the national arteries of transportation. Reports from Impor tant terminals agreed that the situa tion still threatened a slowing down of Industry. Shortage of ears was given by most authorities as the principal eansA of congestion, with lack of adequate personnel and motive power as important contributory causes. The fact that the strike of railroad employes still was tn progress in some districts had depleted train and yard crews at important gateway connections. The committee on car service of the American Railroad association esti mates 235,000 cars are tied up or de layed In transit. Break In Strike Ranks. Pittsburg. Pa, May 13. Six hun dred shopmen, yardmen and trainmen of the Pittsburg & Lake Erie rail road, who have been on strike at the important terminal at Dickerson Ran. Pa returned to work today. It ibrh roesc important sreiK in tne ktw raaSts staea tie strike was cadted. a moBtA age. TWO PAYING PENALTY FOR VISIT TO CANADA Omaha, Neb, May IX. DavM and John Ooertzen. farmers and Mennos ttes. of Henderson. Neb, who were found guilty of going to Canada, in 1918. and who wers arrested on- their return, as slackers, tne nrst or tnis year, are now working on the live acre tract of land at Fort Omaha, teaching the soldiers how to farm. nn tht tahle and. dancinc nn occa sionally as "the boys," as he called them, came around to see how the play was going, he recognised every man and called him either by his first name or some nickname. "Uncle Joe lost the first game and won the second. As the second was finished, he chuckled and said: That first game was Just one of lock. The His comment frequently was. when his opponent played: "So that's the 'way you feel about ltT" He chose to change It occasionally, frequently dropping in a swear word for good measure. Comment, as He Play.. 1 wouldn't like money if I didn't take that ten," be said once when he had an opportunity to make that many points. "He reads tbem from the back and. besides, he ain't honest, boys." said "Uncle Joe" at a point in the gun when bis opponent blocked him. -Ifs the most irregular game I ever played," he exclaimed at another point. Tve got seventy thousand." he de clared, as he pushed bis hand forward on the table at one point when his opponent had "played out." He did have 75. which, of course, the op ponent counted. "He Dlaved it in a way I despise." said "Uncle Joe" at another time In the game when bis opponent blocked him. "Oh. you go to the beneyard!" he exclaimed at another time when his opponent had to draw. Illdnt Smoke Ills Clear. When they had finished the two games. Mr. Gray had to go. so "Uncle Joe" then sat in a four-handed play for a oeuple of games. Just as the last play was made, he yawned a big yawn and the dock on the wall chimed :U. Ifs bedtime, boys." said -uncle Joe." as he got up and pulled bis hat down. "Good night." and he walked out. He didn't put a cigar in his mouth as he went out and he didn't come into the place smoking and he didn't smoke nor chew while be was play ing, and he was there almost an hour and a half. Headliners In Todays Theaters ALIIAMORA Paatages, Vaudeville. tlljou "The Dead Line." KLLAN'AY "In Search of a Sinner." Con stance Talxaadge. f.KECIAN "The Sea RWer," Harry Morey. ftlALTO The Toll Gate." William S. Hart. UNIQUE Varied program. WIGWAM "The Vampire," Dorothy Dalton. (Read Amusement Ads on Page 7 in PLANAPRROVED sy eon Faoorable Action T alien on Recommendation of City Planning Commission. DRIVES TO BEAR HISTORIC NAMES Ten Thousand Dollars Now Available for Improve ment of Park. PLANS for the Improremeat of Me morial park, in Manhattan Height, as recommended by the cttr plan nlas eommissloB, were approved by the city council Thursday. Vote on acceptance of the plans was unani mous. The nlans were aanetleaed by tie committee at a special meeting at the chamber of commerce Wednesday Bight and the matter taken up with tne city uuwnues oy ue commu tes Thursday Drlte, and By-Pathx. Memorial park will have an area of 0 acres. It formerly was known as Castle Heights, flans as arawn by W. E. StockweU. the city planning commission's engineer, call for many winding driTes and lanes and by paths. Each of these thoroughfares will have a name taken from some battle or locality or war lame. Tne main drive, for instance. wiU be the Xeuse-Argonne drive. Another drive will be known as Belleau Woods road. One smaller path will be Cantigny path and another Sonune path. Trees of a species best suited to this c'lmate will be planted with con siderable profusion to afford shade. Grass also will be planted over the entire park. Handjitana In thaler. In the center will be Soissons circle. In this circle there will be a band stand. The trees and grass are to be planted this fall, provided the city accepts the recommendation. A sum or iio.seo is now avauame for the improvement of Memorial park. XRW MEXICO RAISES QUOTA FOR rrBUC HEALTH SERVICE Santa Fe. X. M . May 13. New Mex ico is the second state to make its quota of membership in ths American Public Health association. mm OYi Washington. D. C May IS. Con firmation of former governor Hunt of Arizona, to be American minister to Siam. was recosamend today by the senate foreign relations committee. 11 to - Four Republicans and seven Democrats supported the nom ination and four Republicans opposed It The vote was delayed pending in quiry into the charges that Hunt had express sympathy with the L W. W. VETOES BILL GIVING CONGRESS RULE OF ALL PUBLICATIONS Washington. D. C- May IS. Presi dent Wilson today vetoed the legis lative, executive and Judicial bilL He said he returned the bill because of the section potting under con grsional control all publications. This section, the president said. would give congress a "censorship" encroaching on executive runcttons. As soon as the veto message was received at the capital and before it was presented to the house, chair man Good, of the appropriations com mittee, conferod with other Repub lican leaders, with a view to under taking a vote on the veto late today 14 NEW BISHOPS ASKED IN M. E. CHURCH REPORT Des Moines. Ia Hit 13. The Methodist Episcopal church will elect 14 new bishoDS. if the report of the committee on Episcopacy ready to be presented today, is adopted. The committee's resort recommends seven new residences.- All except one are in the foreign fields, where the church has had an almost phenomenal growth in the last few years. . ... . i BARNES CALLS MEETING , , ON WORLD GRAIN TRADE. Washington, D (i. May 13. Julius H. Barnes, wheat director, today asked government officials, leaders of congress and representatives of trunk line railroads to meet him In confer ence here May 19 to consider plans to stabilise the world grain markets after the termination of the United States grain corporation, June 1. INDIANA a 0. P. NAMES w-lw vrr-rrnirTTlv. .-. i lid UCLLUAiCa Al LAttUC Indianapolis, Ind., May 13. Senators James v. vtatson and Haray S. ew, governor James P. Goodrich and for mer senator Albert J. Beveridge to day were elected Indiana's delegates at large to the Chicago convention. HIGH SCHOOL 2IISTOR1 CLASS - KLHCTS McADOO PRK3IDBNT William G McAdoo was elected president of the United States by a majority vote of 10 over Gen. Leon ard Wood at "W ednesdays mock elec tion held by a history class at the H Paso h'gh school Party nominees had been elected Tuesday and Wed nesday's election -vas conducted un der the direction of Alvin E. Null, head of the history department. The primary elections were closely contested, with governor Ed wards running a close second on the Eemo cratic ticket, and Hoover. Wood and Johnson close together on the Re publican. CHINESE LIBOR FLEA SPLRNED. Chicago. Ill May 13 The national board of farm organisations h. on record today as opposing any change In Immigration laws to permit whole sale immigration of Chinese laborers (WOULD CD WAS w i PARKIFUGITIYE PRESIDENT AND ARMY BATTLING OVER 5-MILE FIELD Former Lieutenant in Federal Army Shoots Capt. Car ter G-. Calles; Starts Counter Eevolution of His Own; Victim Has American Wife; IT. S. Troops Sent to Guard Yuma Pumping Plant; Eumors of Villa. IN an engagement with troops of Gen. Reyes Marquez. several for mer high officials of the Carranza regime, who were fleeing with the president were slain, according to a telegram from Gen. Alvaro Obregoa, now in Mexico City, to R- V. Pes- Snerla, financial agent for the revolu lonists here. The statement said that others have been captured be tween Aplsaco, and Apam. In the state of Pnebla. Telegrams from various points in dicate that only a few remaining Car ransa bands are active and that pub lic utility service has been restored In Mexico City and elewhere where the revolutionists have gained control. All departments of the new govern ment. It Is stated, are moving smoothly and already the various of ficial positions are filled with pro visional officers of the new regime. Cumtro to Have Command. News dispatches received in Juarez Indicate that the turnover of Tor reon took place when Gen. Cesaro Castro was a prisoner and had no other alternative than to Join the revolutionists. It Is said that fol lowing the fall of Chihuahua City. Castro intended going to Monterrey with 2000 men which he was com manding, but the Insistence of 'his other officers, who wished to Join the revolutionists, kept him inactive until be finally consented to Join the revolutionists. It Is understood that Castro is' to be given a command under the new government in north ern Mexico. Conflicting reports regarding Fran cisco Villa, were received in Juarez Wednesday and local Villa sympa thisers deny that he ever surrendered his troops to the revolutionists or that he disarmed any of them. They conceded that Villa gave his promise not to interfere with the revolution ists, bat went no further Given Safe Conduct. Eduardo Guerra, formerly mayor of Torreon. arrived In El Paso Wednes day and will remain here for some time. He was given safe conduct to the border, following the turnover of tht; town Pablo Delgado, former captain of the Juarez district fiscal guards, was (Continued on page Z eolontm 5.) m battle Washington. D. C, May 13. A threatened baxtlo between federal aad revolutionary forces near Monterey. capital of Nuevo Leon, was reported today from Monterey, the state de partment announced, it was said ef forts were being mads to prevent a Gen. Santos, federal governor of Monterey, with his forces, was said I to have Joined with 609 troops under GenMIreles, of Ssltillo. Facing these were Obregon forces from Nuevo La redo and other points. Other advices to the department said that revolting federal detach ments under a lieutenant had liber ated 26 prisoners from the peniten tiary at Yucatan. From Sablnas, state of Coahuila, It was reported that forces under CoL Gones had Joined the Obregonistas and that they were repairing the rail road between Piedras Negras and Sal tillo. with prospect of resumption of train operations on that line within four or five days. Complete order was reported in Pi edras Negras. The customs house . us. v iulucu ictuisj UUCiUCOa JW terday In a proclamation issoed by Obregon's representative at Piedras Negras yesterdav. all reraa-aea fn Mexico were invited to return, with full guarantees. AT MONTEREY Divorced Wife Offers Police Aid In Solving Mysterious Murder I Of Big Jim Colosimo In Chicago CHICAGO. 111. May 13 Mrs. Vie-1 sender buckles were adorndw , V '"'l ?'"."! " f idik tiiuit DiDsimo, wno was WW bl restaurant h. la" Tuesday, Is in Los Angeles, according .w . vuitv uivriuag mper Police here had been searching for her. as the renult of a rumor that h nan arriyea in cnicago the day Co- wff s"ot i Mt- ald she was ready to return to ( h'csiko ami aid the authorities In l solving the mjatery of the shooting, ' Hi. w,Vw. f r:.i;rKri- . singer m the cafe, who married 'olo,,ni0 at rnch Lick, Ind.. three weeks aru. way aiiAatioiiMl hv nnlfia but released. Police aav rnlnnimn'a death was oted a decade ago by the Mafi. but lor various reasons the murder was postponed from time to time Colosimo s love for diamonds was disclosed when police examined the clothing he wore at the time of the murder On each garter clasp wero three diamonds of a carat each. His sua- Found-' "Greatest Show on Larth " NO, IT ISMT Baranm aad BdOej tie versatile press azeats of that great tnjtitntion ta the ceatxary BetwitfcitiBdmg. G. A. Martin, raaaaeiag edttar of The SI Paso HeraM, has found the "ireatest show as earth" right in the aatiesal capital It is nothing less nor more than a letaisn of caagraaa. An interesting story by Mr. Martin in the magazine section of The Week-End HeraM will shew haw and why 'plenty of laaghaWe things happen in the house and senate ef the United1 States. Mr Martin has found tea: many of the nation's lawmakers possess an unusual sense af humor so men, in fact, that he thiahx admission, war tar and an, evgkt to be charged for a teat in the gaBery. Many other good features in the lit, 'Keek-End Herald. American People XTUMA, Ariz, May 18 Capt. C-- X C. Calles. a nephew of Gen P Ellas Calles. was shot and htPf.. at his doorway in "San Luis, Sonoia. a small garrison tows. 26 miles boo ths International border, early tols. . according to a telephone message re osived here today, and later corrc -borated. According: to the message, a for mer lieutenant of the Carranza forces. then took charge of all arms and munitions at San Lnls and announced that be held ho place for tre Car ranza regime. The small detachment of tr-jos commanded by Capt Calles had bee aligned with the Sonora revoiut'o: tots. Gen. Calles Notified. Gen. Calles and governor Est ban Caatn. of Lower California, w re notified by telegraph of the c j' rence. Capt. Calles was well known on " American side. He had an America wife and three children, now l.i ,ij Tucson. The Yuma irrigation pdoje-t hs pumping plant valaed at S256.0o ner the border, opposite San Luis Un'te i States troops front the local ?arr soB were sent there as a precautior ary measure. It was repor ed her that the former carranctsta, who too. charge, was accompanied by on'v - half dozen former Mexican so'd.e- who had been on the American "id of the line, and crossed ovpr dur ' the night. Battle Over S-Mfle res. Veracruz, Mex.. May 13. F -Associated Press). Furious fir '- between rebel troops and forces -or-manded by president Vennst ano Ca--raaaa occurred yesterday at haM Tamariz. on the Mexican Nation railroad, north of San Marcos eta of Pnebla. according ts dispatches celved here. The area of the b'i field Is reported to be appro -five square miles President Carranza Is said in w r lass messages from Mexico C have personally directed the ope tkKaS of his troops for eight hours c - Terrifie storms have swen l - scene of the struggle and telegra? craunvnicauon nas oeen mzf-rruvt It is known, however, that - rebel reinforcements have he-i r to San Marcos by rebel chieftai The latter are making ever effo-t force the sorrender of Carra1- z. troops In what is believed vi 1 i final stand of the rebellion AcsBar Breaks Down. Gen. Caadtdo Agotlar. who 's lalpills, near Orizaba, is ak -g : -. rebel authorities for perrr! sslon re Join Carranza and share mis fa Gen. Aguilar Tuesday sent word ths rebels he desired to pass tro.j--the lines to San Marcos and p-1 sion was given on the cocdi -would lay dfore Carranza tr - situation. When this reply wo? r ceived by Gen. Aguilar. he broke ioTi and pleaded that he be peTiled t go to president Carranza and stae by his side to the end Gen. Obregon has given assri-ic--; to the press that correspondents foreign newspapers with Carranza wfll not be molested. He also "is declared he would not exrcs -- sorship over newspapers or i t-i graphic systems and that corrspop J ents may use wireless in coma u eating with the outside tro-.d 1 newspaper. El Dictamen of -his has a correspondent with te --1 forces which arrived at San nd-fi fight against the Carranza trocps Gen, FeHpe Domlnguez. who has been la centre! of government opera tions la the state of Tabasco, has Joined the movement. All the troops at Puerto Xexleo thus are aligned with the revolution. All the commanders of a 1 Mx -warships tn the nort of Verarui i J a meeting on board the gunboat .-ir goea for the purpose of detenniimg f Continued on page 2, column 4.1 carat stones Xianked by two or i carat each, while the. elastic s had been replaced by jold . r closely woven. Ho wore a -It. with a seen carat stone Colosimo had been known for a gem collector At the time divorce he gave nn first wife J In diamonds in part pa-mw ! alimony Wants Blc Jim's Eatatc. Los Angeles, Calif.. Slay L Victoria Colosimo has been h. here some time She said she uu return to Chicago at once, and wcj! there attempt to obtain the estate o James Coloeimo, from whero she -divorced. Mrs. Colosimo said she beiiei Coloslmo's second marriage u i valid because, she said, they n -re d vcrced in Illinois and he went to ' diana and remarried within .. sca the time which, she said, the Mlmo law provided must elapse l rn" z divorced person can remarry ltgJ