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OAST0NIA1MILY OAZE
MEXICAN REVOLUTIONISTS
ATTAIN ALL OBJECTIVES
: SAVE CAKItANZA'S CAPTURE
Quiet Prevails in All Districts Held by Rebels -
: Rebel Forces Claini
ranza Matamonasy Across River From
"Brownsville, Texas, Expecting Rebel Attack.
(By Th Asoeiatt Press) .
Mrzit-an revolutionists seemed to bare
attained virtually all their objectives
'with the possible exception of the eap
' tore of President Carrania, who fled irom
(Mexico City late last week.
'. Advices from rebel sources say he has
fjeeni taken prisoner bat apparently the
iew4 - had not reached Vera' Crus last
eight. That city reported that near
an Marcos. 125 miles away, forces
Joyal. to the president were fighting a
jjainsrt rebels aent to capture ' Carranxa
Auwl gain possession of funds belonging
A the Mexican, treasury; which he is said
to have taken with him in his flight from
the capital
Bebel reinforcements are said to have
.i J v t u.'V. ...
tie. in the southeastern corner of ths
V rtate of Tlaxacala and it it probable the
issue of the struggle will not be long
delayed.
" Dispatches from Vera Crus will also
. fteem to throw considerable .doubt OB
reports of the assassination of General
Candido Aguilar, son-in-law of President
Oirranxa and governor of the state of
v yera Crux.
i . So , far aa known, quiet prevails in
districts of the country under control of
rebel ehieftains. The only part of Mexi-
' o that seems still to be loyal to the Car;
xaiusa regime is a narrow strip along the
tfulf. coast, although at borne point the
' ftbela are reported to be in control,
,vMHd'0 the Mexican town directly
Mcross the BJo" Grande from Brownaville,
" Texts expecting rebel attack? ni
several hundred Mexican soldiers and cus-
v toms and immigration . guards have been
. tnftbilixed, to repel any attempt by the
revolutionists .to lake the place.
", CABRANZA , TROOPS AWAIT AT-
' -;-" TACK. , ,
BROWNVHjLE, TEX May, 12. t
Troops loyal to President Carranza ' in
Matamoros, opposite here, the last large
. town in that section of Mexico not tin
"' der rebel control, awaited in entrench.
- -snenta early today for the expected attack
- by ' force of approximately 500 men,
" reported last night as 25 miles west of
the city.
YFrom reliable sources in Matamoros it j
. was .reported last night, however, that i
he City might capitulate without blood-
ehed It was.said there was a general I
desire anfong the army officers to avoid
a 'conflict.
Plf ACE RESO LUTIO N I N 'ENATE
iv-!-!' (By The Associated Press.)
''WASHINGTON May 12. Democratic
" attack upon the republican peace reso
. lution was launched today by Senator
'Hitcheock of 'Nebraska administration
' . spokesman who declared in addressing the
'senate, that the measure was futile and
inconsistent and inimical to the treaty fo
" Versailles.
"The mountain has labored and
' brought forth a mouse," he said. ".The
.' peace resolution is before us. It is not
xactly still born, but its feeble char
acter BVggests a disturbed gestation and
dubious future.
. - "Great expectations for an aet of
icongreas that would force a peace, set
tlement are to be disappointed. High
- hopes that a resolution by congress could
be made to perform the functions of a
peace treaty! are abandoned. Instead of
'. a 1 settlement to be forced by a res
olution of mandatory rquirements as to
the price of ' severing commercial rela-
' tions, we are merely to repeal the war
declaration, dclare the war at an end,
- and 'invite the president to negotiate a
' separate peace."
Mr. Hitehcodt cited three similar res
olutions which be said had been spon
sored since last ''November by Senator
'"Lodge," of Massachusetts, the republican
leader,' and 8enator -Knox,- of Pennsyl
vania, author of the pending resolution.
The latter, Mr. Hitchcock said, is the
fifth peace resolution offered by, the re
publican leadership. ' '
- "In reaching this important conclu
sion,' be said, of the pendins; measure,
'the supporters sf the novel praa nave
stargered froas side to side over V sl
sag course for nearly jix BKti.' , v-
8eastor Hitcheoci, denied taat eoa-
to Have Captured Car-
CifiRMZA'S ARMY
FIGHTING DESPERATELY
(By The Associated Press)
VMRA CRUZ, May 11. President
Uarranza's army of 4,000 men, virtually
surrounded by rebel' forces commanded
by Generals Hill and Trevino, is fighting
a desperate battle between Ban Macros,
Puebla, and the village of Humantla, 10
miles northwest, in the state of Tlaxcala,
According to advices received here.. The
struggle went on all day today, but no
jat.n. nt fK. u i
" """" " ' uro'1""
Rebel reinforcements, under command
of General Porras, have been ordered np
from Cordoba, and,bave taken np posi
tlons at San Andres and Chajchicomnla,
southeeast of the scene of today's battle.
probably for the purpose of preventing
the escape of Carranxa, should he sue-ceed-
in breaking through the lines
thrown around him. Reports state that
t.h Carranza forces are entrenched along
the Mexican National' Railroad.
General Csndido Aguilar son-in-law of
President Carranza, and governor of the
state of Vera Cruz, has abandoned all
chance of escape from the country in an
effort to join his superior and join in
his fate, says dispatch to 1 Dictamen.
Kmissaries from Aguilar today conferred
with. General Banchet chief of staff, and
asked that their commander a permitted
to pass through the rebel lines toward
San Marcos. This request was granted
but it was stipulated General Aguilar
must be accompanied only by his general
staff and civilians, all of his soldiers be
ing barred. .
Paul H. .Foster, American consul here
has reported to the state department in
Washington that conditions are returning
tp normal; that the lives and property
of foreigners have not been molested and
that there is no reason- for retaining
I nited States warships iii Mexican wa
ters, where they may cause friction.
Felix Diaz, leader of a rebel group in
the state of Vera Cruz, has asked perinis-
sum to leave tiie country, promising he
will .take no further part in political
movements in Mexico. It is probable his
request will be granted.
gress has power to make peace although
it has authority to declare war. The
states voted unanimously against giving
congress peace making jurisdiction, he
said.
Senator Knox's recent argument that
the war actually was at an end was dis
missed summarily by Mr. Hitchcock, who
conceded the point and asked:
"Then-why this resolution f Hostili
ties ceased 18 months ago and our army
was promptly demobilized and reduced to
a peace basis. Since that time commerce
has been resumed. We have sold hun
dreds of millions of dollars' worth of
products to Germany and purchased
much from her. The war which the sena
tor from Pennsylvania proposes to end
by this resolution does not by his own
admission exist. His able argument and
historical citations prove that it ended
many months ago. "
4 What then is the nenator from Penn
sylvania attempting to do by this meas
ure, which he calls a resolution to-terminate
the warf He is making nutterly
futile and hopeless -attempt to amke a
peace setlement with Germany to take
the place of the eVrsallles treaty."
The pending resolution, Mr.. Hitchcock
asserted, was chiefly the work of Sena
tor Knox, "although it abandons some
of the proposals in his earlier attempts
at a peace resolution."
HINES GOES TO XUKOPE ?
.-. , , Oil CONFIDENTIAL MISSION
WASHINGTON, May. ll Walker D.
Bines, who retires Satsrdsy as director
geaersl of the tsilmd administratioa,
Is ts leave sooa fsr Europe a cen den
til! missis, fsr President WQsoa, '
MURDER OF CHICAGO MJL'i
REMAHiS A MYSTERY
Big Jim Coloaimo. Prominent in
Chicago Night Life Is Shot
Mysterioualy. ; -
CHICAGO, May 18 The murder of
Janutt "Big Jim" Colosimo, proprietor
of a restaurant famuifc in Chicago's
"night life and patron of muHie, re
mained a inntery today, despite exami
nation of probably a score -of suajvet-ts.
(xtlottnno ivhm killed near the entrance
to Imh cafe late yesterday by a erson who
waK'il appareutly unseen. He usually
wan utteuded by it body guard, the K
lice said, and a pistol whs found in his
jKM-ket .
At least three theories were advanced
by the police: I lint Uoiosinio was a
"black hand" victim; that his death
marked a 'step in the labor and gunmen's
war which started with the murder of
Maurice ''Moss' Enright, or that one of
liis many enemies made during Colosi
tno's rise from railroad track laborer to
wealthy political and tenderloin leader,
was responsible.
The first person to be questioned after
the shooting was Mrs. Dale Winter Col
osimo, his young bride, formerly a sing
er at the" restaurant . She was at home
when her' husband was shot, the police
said.
W,!ERICA!I.V0:.!EH 0.1
BOARD LOOTED SHIP
(By The Associated Press.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 11. Loot
amounting to more than 1,000,000 francs
in cash and jewels was taken from the
passengers of . the steamer Souirah by
pirates on May 6, when they overcame
officers and crew and made a thorough
search of the vessel. A French destroyer
which visited the Souirau on May 7, ob
tained storiies from members of the
crew relative to the robbery. Several
American women - fleeing from Batum
were on board the ship at the time of the
robbery. The - pirates, numbering 25,
compelled the Souirah to aproach the
coast near Kopt, 45 miles south of Ba
tum, where the sailors were forced to
row the outlaws ashore. When land was
reached, the sailors said they found a
sailboat waiting for- themr-
Sailors interviewed declared the thieves
spoke Greek, Russian and Turkish.: Less
than a year ago the Russian volunteer
fleet ship Constantin was robbed by pi
rates in a like manner between Trebizond
and Batum, but no one was arrested then.
The outlaws on the Souirah demanded
the keys to the ship's safe, but the cap
tain declared there was no safe and as
result thefihip'x property was not
arrieil on. v, -i v '
UNDERWOOD WILL-
SUCCEED HIMSELF
(By The Associated Press)
BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. Mi.y 'J lie
turiut from yesterday's primary, gather
ed by the Birmingham Age-Herald from
fiO out of 67 counties, indicate the re
nominntion of Senator Oscar W. Under
wood to succeed himself and a close three
cornered race for the swit of the Late
Senator Bankhead. Representative Hef-
lin, Frank White and former Governor
O'Neal are the contenders for fie short
term with the figures ruuninsj vr close.
Returns available so far show only the
reuoinination of Representative Hudle
ston, of Birminghnm, for his seat in the
house of representative;; . The figures
respecting the other nine congressional
contests had not been gathered. Ac
cording to the Age-Herald returns, Mus-
grove, the Union labor inudidate against
Senator Underwood, developed unexpeet
edstrength in Underwood's home county
and in central and northern parts of the
state.
INDIANA REPUBLICANS -,
HOLD STATE CONVENTION
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., May 12.
Republicans gathered here todayfor the
state convention during which delegates
to the national convention in Chicago
will be chosen, a complete state' ticket
nominated and a party platform adopt
ed. '
Preceding the opening of the .conven
tion, which will be in session two days,
the members of the state committee, se
lected in district meetings yesterday,
were to meet and elect a state chairman.
Friends of Edmund M. Wasmuth, in
cumbent, were confident of his re-election.
- Today 'a session was to be devoted to
speeches, including addresses by United
States Senators James E. Watson, tem
porary chairman, and Harry 8. New,
permanent chairman; National Chairman
Will H Hays, Governor Goodrich and
Mrs. John Glover South, of Kentucky,
chairman of the women's national re
publican executive committee. .
' The real work of the convention will
start tonight, when the delegates neet
by districts to name the convention com
mittees and two delegates aad two al
ternates for each district to the nation
al convention. The delegatesat- large
to the national gathering will "be chosen
tomrrow. - . . -; " - ' ,
OPERETTA TO BE GIVEN
BY SCHOOL CHILDREN
Japanese Playlet, "The Land of
- Sometime, to Be Presented
Thursday Night bj Children
Central Graded School Un
der Auspices Music Depart
ment Proceeds to Buy Sons
Books For Auditorium.
Tlic Laud of Sometime, a Japanese
0erettu in ttvo acts, will lw presented
at the Central school auditorium Thurs
day night at H o 'clock under the direc
tion of Miiw Edmee Smith, supervisor of
public achool music in the city school
faculty. 'The play is to be given for the
purpoHe of raining niouey with which to
purcliuse song Imoks for the school au
ditorium. General admission prices will
be 50 cents and 75 cents for reserved
seats.
More thau 200 children from the pri
mary and grammar grades will be used
in the presentation of the operetta whieh
is a charming story of Japan. Catchy
and tuneful songs will be interspersed
throughout the play.
SYNOPSIS OF story:
ACT I Japanese Garden.
Ia the Springtime in Japan the peo
ple hold a Doll Festival. The chil
dren believe that on this Springday
Fairies come to earth and grant all
their wishes.
ACT II The Court of Sometime ia
Japan.
Queen seated on throne. The Jap
anese, the Bugbears of Childhood, the
Little Travelers, the Little Bopeeps, the
crippled children of Tpyland, children
of Holland, the Busy Chinamen, the
Children from Ireland, Flower Spirits,
Country Cousins, Catawba Reservations,
Daughters of Uncle Sam.
The program of musical numbers is as
follows :
Japanese opening chorus 4th and 5th
grades.
Last Night Before I Went to Bod
4th and 5th grades.
Lullaby 3rd grade.
Choo-Choo song 3rd grade.
She is the Queen of the Luud of
Sometime Susie Stowe.
Greeting to Queen 4tb and 5th grades,
The Lament of Boo peep 1st grade.
Song of Holland Seventh grade .
The Wail of the Chink Seventh grade.
A 8ongof Ireland Second grade.
Scarf Drill 7th grade.
Song of the Rubes 6th grade.
Indian Hong 1th grade.
Uncle Sam Song 7th grade girls.
Star-Spangled Banner 1st to 7th
grades, inclusive. i
The cast of characters is an follows
Queen LouiiAt Wilson
Herald Francis Man gum
Baby Luc He Leaptrott
I Dishes Robert I'liarr, and narry Grier
Soap Dick Jacobs
llairbnutli Henry Haud Raukiu
Question Mark Dan La Far
Stiff Collar Dau Brawley
I'ie , .. Ned Harbin
Shorn JTom Brawley, Cleveland Andrews
School Boy , . John Burt Long
Cone lister Leaptrott
Jam Pot Billy Warren
Apple Tom Love
Bugbears, Dilapidated Rag Dolls,. . . 3rd
grade.
Guards, .... Rudolph and Frank Carson,
Henry Patillo.
Mist Louine Bcal is pianist.
The following teachers ha,ve rendered
valuable assistance to the supervisor:
Misses Blair Spencer, Ruth Blythe,
Esther Caldwell, Nancy Porter, Katie
Smith, dith Maxon and Annie Ulenn.
(Seats will be on Male Thursday at
Kennedy's drug store.
GERMANS OF ALL RANKS
TO BE BROUGHT TO TRIAL.
(By The Associated Press.)
BERLIN, May 12 Forty -six Germans
ranking from an army corps commander
to a simple private, figure on the allies
first specified ilst of war criminals to be
arraigned in the Leipsic supreme court.
Prominent among them are l'nnce
Ernst of Saxony and General vou Hne
low, commander of the second army corps
who together with some of their subordi
nate officers are accused of Cruelties in
the Namur district of Belgium. General
vou Kirchback and Colonel von Seyd
liU will be tried for alleged cruelties
committed at Kalisz, Poland,, and the
well known submarine commander Ar
nauld de La Pierre, for torpedoing' Ital
ian vessels. Three other submarine
commanders, Neumann von Nostitc, Wer
ner and fPatxig, will be tried on the
charge of torpedoing respectively the
'English hospital ' ships . Dover Castle,
Torrington and Llandovery Castle.
General 8trenger of the infantry, stands
charged with ordering that prisoners and
wounded taken by his brigade be put to
death. A further number of officers,
non-eonunissioned officers and privates
are accused of inhuman treatment of
British prisoners in the different camps.
General Kroska is practically charged
with spreading typhus among prisoners
la th Cassel camp, while aa army sur
geon, Dr. Oscar Mkbelsohn, is accused
of causing the death of sick aad wound
ed in his charge by systematic ill
treatment. General von Owes, former
governor of Met will be tried for atroc
ities alleged to' save been committed by
troops under bis eommand in the village.
vf eastern rranes. - -- 7
WILSON ADVISED;
TO ADMIRAL SIMS EVEN AT
COST OF GREAT LOSS
Secretary Daniels Makes Public Letter From'
President Wilson to Admiral Sims In Which
He Deplores Attitude of British Admiralty
Advised Him to Act As If He Were Running
Navy of His Own. '
'By T; e Associated l'rsa.)
WASHINGTON, May 12 A confiden
tial cablegram from President Wilson to
Rear Admiral Sims in London, sent dur
ing the war, was read to the senate naval
investigating committee today by Secre
tary Daniels . It expressed surprise that
the British admiralty had failed to "use
Great Britain's great naval superiority"
effectively against the submarines and
called Admiral Sims for comments and
suggestions based on "independent
thought" and without regard to "judg
ments of any one on that side of the
water. " 1
The admiralty was "helpless to the
point of panic" in the face of the sub
marine situation, the message said.
"Every plan we suggest they reject
for some reason of prudence," Mr. Wil
son added. "In my view this is. not a
time for prudence but for boldness even
at the cos of great loss. '
In conclusion President Wilson ask
ed Admiral Sims to advise him as he
would give" advice ' ' if you were running
a navy of your own."
Admiral Sims reply, said Secretary
Daniels, who presented the president's
message in connection with his answer
to Sims' charges against tbs navy de
partment's conduct of the war, was "a
long telegram of gereralities of what the
British admiralty was doing . "
President Wilson's message to Sims
follows: ' 1: , yj
' FiroST the beginning sf the war, : I
have been greatly surprised""at'th'efail-
ure of the British admiralty to use Great
Britain s great naval superiority iu an ef
fective way. In the presence of the
preseut submarine emergency they are
helpless to the point of panic.
' ' Every plan we suggest they reject
for some reason of prudence. In my
view this is not a time for prudence, but
for ItoldneMS even at the cost of great
lowes .
"In mottt of your dif putclieM you have
quite properly advised us of the nort
of aid and co-operatiou desired from us
by the admiralty. The trouble is that
their plau, ""l methods do not iseem to
us ellicuciuuM. I would le very much
obliged to you if you would reort to me,
confidentially, of course, exactly what the
admiralty has Itecn doing 'and what they
have accomplished, and, added to the re
Krt, your own comments and suggestions,
based upon independent thought of the
whole sit nation, without regard to the
judgments of any one on tlmt side of
the water.,
"The admiralty was very 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
couvoy is even more apparent on the
French coast thau on the English coast
aud in the channel. 1 do not see how
the necessary military supplies and sup
plies of food and fuel oilare to lie de
livered at British port in any other way
within the next few months than under
adequate couvoy. There will presently
not be ships -or tankers enough and our
shipbuilding plans may not begin to yield
important results in less thau eighteen
months. v
' ' I believe that you will keep these in
structions 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 Ambassador
Page at London, written August 7, 1917,
which in part said:
'In this connection I have a sugges
tion to make. I have received word,
practically directly from the president,
that he was much displeased with my re
ply to his cablegram; that it did not
change his opinions at all ; he regards
me as owned by the admiralty and so pro
British that he seriously considered the
advisability of replacing me by some
other officer." .
Admiral 8ims reply to the president
told also of plans for a combined sea
and land attack to torn the German right
flank and, cut off Zeebrngge as a provia:
ioning base, Mr. Daniels said. : v
. "That was the kind of .'bold and au
dacious' thing the president aad the navy
department had . been urging from our
entrance into the war,' declared the see
retary.', "But even then,-Admiral Sims
said, it had not been definitely decided
Ion. by the war council, though the dar
ing and soccer rul attack on Zecrrj-f
BOLDNESS
came much later . It might have been sv
very different story if it had been un
dertaken earlier when the navy depart
ment was urging some such bold plan,
all of which Admiral Sims thought ias
practieable' when urged by the navy de
partment . " '
Admiral Sims told the President he
had been shown studies of the depart
ment's plan to prevent the egress sf
submarines. Mr. Daniels said, and that
he considered the scheme impracticable.
CAPTURE OF ODESS -IS
REFC.1TED
(By The Associated Press)
WARSAW, May 11. Polish aad Uk
ranian forces have struck s mighty blow
a the Bussian bolsheviki front fas
north of Kiev, and have driven the ene
my back along the Berssina river. Bet
chitsa, an Important Dneiper river cross
ing, has been captured and serious loss
es have been indicted on the soviet anay.
Fighting is now going on over a front
of approximately 420 miles. '
Necessity of straightening the Polish
line after the capture of Kiev is said to.
have led to the new offensive, which ex
tends from almost directly west of Tit- -ebesk
to below Kiev on the Dneiper.
Polish forces have crossed the Beresin
river, at several points and have takm
"yVielatlsch after heavy fighting. '
. Northeast of " Morir the bolsheviki .
have been forced across the Dneiper. ,
Attempts were made by the enemy to "
destroy the railroad bridge at Bctckitaa,
but Polish units prevented this move ,
and captured a large number of prison-
ers. Announcement is made that two
soviet regiments, were annihilated ia tbs
righting around this town.
From Kiev northward to the month '
of the Pripet river, a distance of about
50 milds, the reds west of the Dneiper
slowly are falling back and are build
ing bridges to facilitate their escape be
fore the main body of he Polish army
reached the stream.
Latest advices indicate the bolsheviki
have been driven back out of the Kiev.
bridgehead. Before this retirement was
forced heavy artillery fire was maintain
ed on Kiev, often taking the form of a
barrage, intended, apparently, to pre- '
vent the Poles and Ukrainians from
bringing up reinforcements and supplies.
Terror prevailed among the people in
the city during the bombardment, the
sound of shells passing overhead toward
the roads leading toward Kiev from the '
west causing consternation when shells
were not bursting iu the city streets.
Capture of Odessa, the most important
Russian port on the Black Sea, is re
jHirted. Official advices of the taking
of the city have not as yet been received
according to the communiques dealing
with events of some days ago, apparently
as they tell of the capture of Tultsehin
and Bratslau, on the Bug river, some dis
tance north of Odessa.
FIXES PROFIT ON SUGAR
AT 2 CENTS A POUND
BOSTON, May 12 Attorney General
Palmer today set the margin of profit;
to be allowed on sales of sngsr at on "
cent a pound for wholesalers and 2 cents
a pound at retail. In a" telegram to
United States Attorney Thomas J.
Boynton, the attorney general ordered
that steps be taken immediately ts pros
ecute persons taking larger profits.
The attorney general's order will aet
have the effect of standardising prices'
either at wholesale or retail, according to
Mr. Boynton . - v
Dealers obtained their stocks at differ- ,
ent prices and as a result sale prices
will vary, but in no case can profits ex
ceed the margin allowed.
0 PANIC IN SIGHT - .
SATS JOSEPH X. ' HEDGES
WASHINGTON, Bay 12 Joseph E.
Hedges, of New York, general counsel
for the Association of life 'Insurance'
Presidents, told a convention of insur
ance lawyers here today that if the life
insurance business was an index there
was certainly no panic in sight in the
United States. - V .-. v
m. AIST 4,753.
J WASHINGTON, May 12 1'
Airy, N. C, 4,752, increase """, rr
per cent. 1
- Jackson Tens., lS.PD i
or 19.5 per cent.
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