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OBREGON WILL LET CARRANZA LEAVE MEXICO Rebel Chief Arranges To Give President Opportunity To ' Get Out of Country, He Says. IS BEING SURROUNDED

(By Associated Press) EL PASO. Tex., May 14. Definite announcement by General Alvaro Obregon that -President Carranza wus still at liberty, but was being closely pursued by revolutionary forces surrounding him at Rinconda, Puebla, was the outstanding subject of interest in revolutionary circles today. According to a message received direct from Obregon by Roberto V. Pesquira, revolutionary financial agent, Carranza will be given an opportunity to leave the country in safety.

Mexican rebel forces have apparently won the first phase of the battle V against troops still loyal to President

Carranza, which have been fighting in .desperate battle north of San Marcos, state of Puebla, for the past four days. Advices from Vera Cruz indicate a break in the Carranza lines and an effort on the part of the president's men to break through the rebel lines and march northward. The struggle Is still continuing and ;ew rebel reinforcements are report -;ed to have reached the scene,, coming up from the south. Britisher in Fighting. An International incident may be foreshadowed by the fact that W. A. Body, British consul for Vera Cruz, is in the camp of President Carranza. Advices give no details as to the rea-: son ior nis presence mere, nut it seems prooame ne accompanied the president in his flight from Mexico City. British and American authorities in Vera Cruz have arranged for a' Mexican naval lieutenant to go by special train to the battlefield and make an attempt to rescue the imperilled Englishman. French and British warships have made their appearance in the harbor of Vera Cruz, and four American fighting vessels are at anchor there. Negotiations for the surrender of Matamoras across the frontier from Brownsville, Tex., "are underway and it is expected the Carranza forces there will surrender without fighting today. VERA CRUZ, May 14. Rebel attacks against the position held by President Carranza near San Marcos, state of Puebla have been successful at b.Jiue points, but the struggle still j

Two more trains remaining in pos- Mr- Davison asked that congress imsession of the president have been i mediately appropriate not exceeding taken according to advices, a detach-! $500,000,000 for the use of the coun-

ment of his men is attempting to cut its way out toward the North and it is expected the main body of the Carranza troops will make an effort to follow. In the meantime new rebel reinforcements are being rushed to the scene of the struggle which extends over a front of approximately three miles. No further news has been received from Mexico City as to the situation there. Tampico reports tfte Mexico City wireless station is being used only for transmission of official messHges. LABOR IS AGAINST COMMUNITY CHAMBER ( Labor is against plans proposed for h community chamber of commerce, '.according to a vote taken at the regular session of the Central Labor Counicll In the Eagle's hall Thursday night. "The Central council favored the project at first hearing." said President Pentecost, "but because of warnings received from other labor organ izations throughout the country, the unfavorable action was taken." The council unanimously indorsed efforts of Richmond organizations to have the city school board rescind its decision for a 10-month school term next year. Delegates reported that a ! canvass of Richmond school patrons had been made and that fully 95 per c ent were opposed to the 10 months of school. Petitions to be presented to the Bchool board protesting against the 10 months of school but demanding the Increase In salary already granted be continued for the nine-month term are belng circulated in Richmond. One petition already has more than 2,000 signatures, it is said. Officials of the council say the organization will lend its aid to that of the women's cjubs to fight the increased term. CONDEMN KENNEL; NOW TASK IS TO CATCH HIM (By Associated Press LONDON, May 14 Mustapha Kemal, leader of Turkish nationalist forces in Asia minor, was condemned to death at an ordinary court martial held in Constantinople on Wednesday according to a dispatch from the Turkish to the Exchange Telegraph com-

Iany. As Mustapha did not appear j vard along the Lake Shore, was comior trial he was found guilty by de-! pleted today by the formal opening of fault. i Rush street bridge, spanning the Chi

STYLE MEN SETTING 'EM FOR WOMEN'S GARMENTS (Hy Associated Prissi CLEVELAND, O., May it. One hundred manufacturers of women's garments attended today's session of the 37th semi-annual convention of (he National Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers' association. Two hundred members are expected to attend tomorrow's session, when 100 women's garments for autumn and winter wear will be shown and the report of the style committee adopted.

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Davison Tells M. E. Men of f 'Terrible" Conditions in Europe

(By Associated Press) DES MOINES, la., May 14. Henry P. Davison of J. P. Morgan and company, chairman of the board of governors of the League of Red Cross societies, told the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church here today, that ,"oneof the most terrible tragedies in the history of the human race is being enacted within the broad belt of territory lying between the Baltic and the Black and Adriatic seas. In this area are the new Baltic states, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Ukralne- AuBV?' Hungary. Rumania, Mont tries of central and eastern Europe, Would Appoint Commission. He requested that congress call upon the president to appoi.Y- a non-political commission of three Americans, distinguished for their character and GERMANS WON'T PLAY AT SPA, THEY SAY LONDON'. May 14. The (Serman oKfmAf offop a full riicmiacfrtn txritli the ministers of the federal states, de-! cided unanimously that Germany should not send representatives either to the Spa or Brussels conference unless the French troops are entirely withdrawn from the main district by May 16, according to a Central News dispatch from Berlin today. Penniless Pasengers Wail Losses to Modern Pirates (Tly Associated Press) CONSTANTINOPLE. May 12. 1 Charges that the French steamer i Souirah could not have been robbed ;by Black Sea pirates on May 6 without connivance of persons employed ! on the ship were made by 300 indig' rant passengers of the craft who landed here today in a driving rain. Pennifess and enraged the passen gers joined In denouncing the British , passport control office at Batum, the ' failure of British authorities there to disarm the robbers before they boarded the Souirrah and then negligence of the steamship company in not maintaining armed guard. Above all the alleged abject submission of the crew to the pirates was hotly criticised. FROST TONIGHT, WARNS MOORE: COVER UP YOUR TENDER PLANTS Cover up your tender young plants, und put another blanket on the bed, warns Forecaster Moore. Frost will occur FViday night, he says. He hopes it Is the last for the spring of 1920. The temperature Friday morning was 39. GREAT BRIDGE DONE (By Associated Press) CHICAGO. May 14. The Michigan boulevard link, connecting this great thoroughfare with the North Boulecago river. This 510,000,000 project was started under Mayor Harrison in 1904 and developed by succeeding administrations. CONSIDER U. S. MARINE (By Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, May 14. Problems of the American merchant marine as they affect the foreign commerce of the United States drew the attention today of delegates to the seventh annual convention of the national foreign trade council in session I here.

Presidential Possibility

C. Sproul. regarded as a receptive candidate for In case Senator Knox should refuse executive ability, which should proceed at once to survey the conditions of these countries and to allocate materials to them without interference and by exercise of its own prerogative. , Mr. Davison said he was custodian of authoritative reports "recording, appalling conditions among millions of people living in eastern Europe." I believe, ho said, "that the apathy and indifference which prevail today are due alone to the fact that American people have not grasped the dreadful facts. HOOVER AGAiNST COMPULSORY LABOR ARBITRATION, SAYS (By Associated Press') . WASHINGTON. May 14. "The principal of individual freedom requires the open shop," Herbert Hoover declared today in testifying before the senate labor committee at a hearing of proposed legislation for the settlement of industrial unrestr Mr. Hoover, who was a member of President Wilson's second industrial conference, said he did not believe the relationship between employers and employes could be settled "by any form of legal repression, whether it be by injunction, compulsory arbitration or industrial court." "Fundamentally," he declared, "all such efforts lead inevitably to the use of jails as a solution for disputes as to respective participation of labor and capital in industrial profits and proceed swiftly toward compulsory labor, or compulsory wages, or martyrdom. "No one doubts that the moderate consolidation of the employers over a large unit of employes gives a very just and proper right for the organization of the employes slmiliarly into units for the exertion of equality In bargaining powers." STATE EPISCOPACY IS MADE BY METHODISTS DES MOINES, Iowa, May 14. The M. E. general conference today voted Indiana separate Episcopal area, with headquarters at Indianapolis. The special committee appointed to consider the report upon the plan of unification of the Methodist Episcopal church with the Methodist Episcopal church fiouth, expects to have its findings and recommendations ready to submit to the general conference some time next week, it was said today. BRITISH BUSINESS MEN WILL CALL ON DAYTON (By Associated Press) PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 14. Breakfast at a leading hotel, tea at the Pittsburgh country club and visits to Pittsburgh department stores and steel mills made up the program to be carried out here today for the party of British merchants, who are visiting this country. They were the guests of the Retail merchants association of Pittsburgh. From here the party will go to Dayton, O., leaving soon after a banquet which will be tendered them tonight. MORE STRIKES IN PARIS . By Associated Pres) PARIS, May 14. Employes of gas manufacturing companies will strike today in conformity with the order ff)m : the general federation of labor but all steps have been taken to provide the city with gas. It is rumored that postal employes will strike on Monday.

VOTE TRADES FAILED,

POLITICIANS' REASON FOR BOWMAN DEFEAT The defeat of L. S. Bowman for the Republican nomination for state auditor is attributed by Wayne county leaders to the failure of Harry G. Hogan, Indiana campaign manager of Major General Wood, to vote 110 Marion county votes solidly for Bowman in return for 25 Wayne county votes cast In favor of a resolution Instructing the "big four" to support General Wood in the national campaign. On the first ballot, 20 Wayne votes were cast for the resolution and five against, but on the next ballot 25 Wayne county votes went In favor of the resolution. When time came for Hogan to deliver the 110 votes that would have put Bowman over, he failed to produce. One Republican leader said he believed the supporters of Bowman had been "outgeneraled" oij the convention floor. Defeated by 84. W. G. Oliver obtained 796 and Bowman 712. Both men held their own districts. Bowman the Sixth and Oliver the Fourth, but some interesting votes were recorded in other places. Marion county split almost even, giving Oliver 78 to 79 for Bowman. Vanderburg also split, giving Bowman 26 and Oliver 10. St. Joseph went almost solidly for Oliver, giving him 31 votes to one for Bowman. 'while Lake reversed the procedure and gave her 48 ballots to Bowman. Mr. Bowman mounted the Etand after the vote was announced and pledged his support to Oliver. The successful candidate received an ovation when he responded to calls for a speech. Another explanation offered was that Oliver was able to make an extensive personal campaign over the state in behalf of his candidacy and that Bowman was held in Indianapolis by his duties as. deputy state auditor. INDIANAPOLIS. May 13. Indiana will send 10 delegates to the Republican national convention In Chicago next month instructed for Major General Leonard Wood, four instructed for Senator Hiram W. Johnson, of California, and sixteen uninstructed. This was one of the net results of the Republican state convention that adjourned last night after nominating a state ticket, adopting a platform and electing four delegates at large to the national convention. The only contest of the convention came over the adoption of a qualified resolution instructing the "big four" to support General wood, who won the plurality vote in the primary last week, as long as there is a chance for him to get the presidential nomination. The resolution was carried after a hard fight led by th "Marion county, (Indianapolis) delegation, by a vote of 753 to 746. The convention named U. S. Senator James E. WatsoA and Harry S. New, Governor James P. Goodrich and Former Senator Albert J. Beveridge as delegates at large and selected State Chairman E. M. Wasmuth, Mrs. Anne Studebaker Carlisle, of South Bend, Mrs. Joseph B. Keallng, of Indianapolis, and W. A. Gaines, of Evansville, a colored leader, as alternate delegates at large. Their selection was unopposed. Watson Leads Ticket. The state ticket includes: For United States Senator, James E. Watson, Rushrille, incumbent, unopposed; For governor, Warren T. McCray, Kentland, nominated in primary; For Ueutenant governor, Emmett F. Branch, Martinsville, nominated on third ballot over four opponents; For secretary of state, Ed Jackson, Lafayi c tte, incumbent, unopposed ; For auditor of state, W. G. Oliver, Franklin, nominated on first ballot, and for treasurer of state, Ora Davies, Kokomo, nominated on third ballot. BANDIT WHO STOLE $100,000 IS KILLED (By Associated Press) CHICAGO. May 14 One of the iribst daring train robberies in the middle west in recent years ended this morn ing in the death of a bandit who last night looted a mall car of the Illinois Central New Orleans limited, of currency estimated to total about $100,000. The money was recovered. One policeman, shot by the bandit, died later in a hospital. Another policeman was wounded dangerously. The bandit was identified as Horace Walton, aged 32, of Saint Joseph, Mo. rte fell with four bullets in his body 'after barricading himself in his apart ment and fighting with more than 100 police including several picked rifle squads. Walton boarded the train at Gilman, a few miles from Kankakee last night. As the flyer pulled out of Kankakee Walton stepped into the mail car. Armed with the clerks' keys, he pickil and rifled the bags, which contained shipments of money, remarking, "It's easy when you have inside information." When the train reached Englewood station, in South Chicago shortly before 1 a. m.. Walton leaped out. Meet Him on Street Fifteen minutes later, Patrolmen William A. Robeirts and John Kendricks met Walton. Walton fired through his coat. The officer fell, shot in the head and side. After an exchange of shots Kendricka dashed forward and grappled with the man. Walton dropped the bag and fled. Police rifle squads for more than an hour poured hundreds of bullets into Walton's apartment. He suddenly stopped returning the lire. Walton was found on the floor, dead, with four bullets in bis body. Housewives Boycott Sugar (By Associated Press) INDIANAPOLIS, May 14. A period devoid of candy and ice cream soda Is facing the members of the Housewives' League of Marion county, if the members obey the resolution adopted by the organization last night as an effort toward reducing the price cf sugar and increasing the supply.

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Wilson Consented to Publication; Daniels Continues Sims Attack

(By Associated Press) WASHINGTON , May 14. White House officials old today that President Wilson's war time address to the Atlantic fleet and message to Rear Admiral Sims were laid before the senate naval investigating committee by Secretary Dane's with full consent and approval of be president. The British, admiralty was criticised ia both of the doeuments;"and reports published here said that because of this the president might reprimand the naval secretary for making them public. Rear Admiral Sims' "fallacious and baseless" charges that the navy deIRELAND QUESTION MAY BE APPEALED TO ENGLISH PEOPLE (By Associated Press) LONDON, May 14 Decision by the government to make an early appeal to the country by a general election in an effort to fix upon a definite Irish policy has been reached according to rumors current in London last night. In well informed circles, these rumors are ridiculed, however and as yet there has been nothing to confirm them. It is said the government feels itself wnfronted with two alternatives acceptance of the implied challenge of civil war in Ireland or acquiescence in the establishment of an Irish re public as a result of wide-spread disorders In the island, culminating yes-1 terday In attacks on barracks at 50 places in Ireland. Some newspapers infer from statements made- by Lord Birkenhead, lord high chancellor last night that the government has decided to send moffe troops to Ireland as the chani cellor Intimated that police officers in the future would be accompanied everywhere by armed soldiers. LEITRIM, Ireland. May 13 Police barracks near this city and at Keshcarrigan. Bally Farnon, Grevisk and Hillstreet were burned to the ground last night by bands of disguised men. The. barracks here, the finest in the country, were occupied by a sergeant and his wife, the former being ill. The couple was ordered from the building before it was set afire. The customs office at . Carrick-on-Shannon was broken into during the night and income tax papers were destroyed. RULES G. O. P. ISN'T PARTY IN FLORIDA DECISION (By Associated Press) TALLAHASEE. Fla.. May 14. In denying an application for a writ of nuo-warranto to oust Daniel T. Grow from the chairmanship of the Republican state executive committee, the supreme court held that inasmuch as In the last election the Republican party polled less than five per cent of the total vote It is not recoRnized as a party under the laws of this r.tate. The laws require that a party in order to hold a primary must have polled not less than five per cent of! the total vote in the previous elec tion. N. Y. MOTHERS CROWD TO ADOPT ABANDONED BABY NEW YORK. May 14 A two-weeks-old baby boy, deserted on a doorstep in Brooklyn, waited in a foundling hospital today for the courts to decide which of 21 would-be mothers should adopt him. Mrs. Eva Phillips, on whose doorstep the child was left, hurried to a Brooklyn police station with him late yesterday closely pursued by 20 of her neighbors, all of whom clamored for possession of the child. : "He's mine," she insisted; "I found him." 4

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partment delays prolonged the war four months unnecessarily was "practically the only charge of unfavorable results from the many alleged sins of omission and commission," the officer had ascribed to the department, Secretary Daniels today told the senate naval investigating committee. It was fully refuted, he added, by the admiral's own testimony. "The charge of the prolongation of the war was a definite and serious one," said the secretary. "It was made with reckless disregard of the facts and the reasoning and statistics adduced in its support are those which one might expect to find in the fantastic tales of a Baron Munchausen." Admiral Sims based his estimate of an unnecessary loss of 500,000 lives on an average loss for the allies of 3,000 men a day. Mr. Daniels said. Asks Correct Figures t. . u . I ho lnfts rr : i ml k tnm -i dn r nr . .. . . m.u o iui four months falls short of half a mil - lion, but, of course, half a million - .,1..-., utau wo us - uuuuufu uu rage iweivej Socialists Turn Down Soviet, But Want Own Party Up (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, May 14 Consideration of committee reports concluded the business of the national convention of the socialist party today. The delegates will go to Washington tonizht j'iO participate in a demonstration to morrow in behali of amnesty for political prisoners and the release from jail of all conscientious objectors. The party yesterday nominated Eugene V. Debs for president and Seymour Stedman for vice president. One of the most important reports is that of the committee on international relations, which proposes that the party be placed on record as opposing any such formula as "dictatorship of the proletariat in the form of Soviets and "favoring the union of all Socialist forces of the world in one in ternationale". MISS JAMES NAMED DEMOCRAT CHAIRMAN Miss Ruth James, 1050 North B f-treet. Friday accepted the position of woman chairman of the Democratic party for Wayne county. Miss James, ?2r rSTwnan 'n a former newspaper woman. She will attend the Democratic state convv tion Wednesday and Thursday of next week She will begin an energetic camlo- , .v. ...... iu vihuui.tj the county as soon as possible. Weather Forecast For Indiana, by the United States

Weather BureauFair tonight; prob-idays, which was suspended. The erably light frost in north and central ' vices of an interpreter were required portions. Saturday fair and slightly j to conduct the case.

warmer. Temperatures Yesterday Maximum 58 Minimum 39 Today Noon 53 For Wayne County, by W. E. Moore Fair tonight and Saturday; frost tonight. General Conditions The cool wave whose center is still over southern Canada has increased in size and now controls the weather east of the 105th meridian. It will cause cold weather to continue tonight and Saturday morning, followed by slowly rising temperatures. The storm over the Rocky mountains continues to develop and Is now causing rain over the states of Texas, Arizona, Colorado and Wyoming.

NEW GAS RISE

ASKED BY CITY GAS COMPANY Petition, Filed With Public Service Commission, Alleges Rate Valuation Is Unfair; Definite Amount Is Asked. GIVES PLANfHISTORY Gas rates in Richmond will be raised in the very near future if the Indiana public service commission takes prompt action on a petition filed with it by the Richmond Light, Heat and Power company. Re-valuation of the property company as a basis for financing its requirements and fixing rates for natural and artificial gas. is sought in the petition. The petition gives a -history of the company from its organization in 1855. It sets out that it believes a reasonable and fair value of the physical plant and property of the company, exclusive of any allowance for working capital, superseded and abandoned property, going value and deficiency of return and other intangibles is $634,000. More Than $850,000. "If a reasonable allowance be made for going value or deficiency of return and superseded and abandoned property and working capita, says the petition, "the total value of the property upon which it is entitled to a reasonable return, is in excess of $850,000." The funded debt of the company is $683,000, of which $188,300 is a bond issue maturing March 1. 1939, and $450,000 secured notes. The unfunded debt includes preferred stock. $85,000; common stock, $300,000, and demand notes amounting to $139,919. An order f the public service commission on April 2. 1919, authorized the extension of $450,000 notes, for a term of two years, and directed the C ompany to file with the commission Derore Sept. 1, 1920. a plan for a permanent financing of the notes and Aher obligations. The petition declares that in 1914 it insisted that the valuation of its plant was $1,143,846. On Sept. 9, 1916. ie commission placed a value of $450,000 for rate making purposes. The state tax board has placed a value of $658,597 on its property and the real estate is valued for taxation at $40,000, making-a total valuation for taxation of $698,597. Valuation Too Low The company says that the valuation of $450,000 set by the commdnii Is "inadequate, unreasonable and unfair, and if permitted to remain in force will operate to prevent peittioner from re-financing and from putting its financial structure on a solid basis as directed by the commission in its order of April 2, 1919. The petition sets out that the company will furnish natural gas so long as the Kiinnlv hnlrlc nut on a n.iti 1- a -. vuv. cauu io n liliui: ... . tu )vrmii me ruing oi artificial gas ! rates to be held in abeyance until the ! necessity for supplving artificial eaa . oecomes more imminent 3 YEAR PLAN FOR H. S, IS ANNOUNCED First steps In the reorganization of the high school program in Richmond were taken Friday, when W. C. Bate, high school principal, announced that the 1920 fall term would see the inauguration of the three year senior and the three year Junior terms. "It will be impossible," said Bate, "to have the new junior high school building completed by this fall. Therefore the ninth grade purils will be classified as junior high school btudents." Class of '23 to Change. "The graduating classes of 1921 and 1922 will not be changed. The 1923 claps, however, will be the first to graduate under the new plan." The school board announces that work is being rushed on plans for the rew junior high schools and work will be rushed on construction. Garfield school is then to be used as a grade school. it Moon Shines On" But World's Dark and Gloomy For Roenes; Fined $100 A moonshine still rests placidly at police headquarters and a local Hudt 'J. Roes. Unto hims'eU . . , ' ,. , 1 ' m iU . SJ.n fT ' ReneB was caught in the act of akl"Scrnf ,hlskJy JcerlJias' ! nng, Ketnenora ana Kenaan. 'I he po- : ,. . , .... .... iu.c luuiiu nururs uyciaung me bum which consisted of a tall tin can and a copper coll running Into another can. Several bottles of the finished pro duce and a large quantity of corn mash were found. In addition to the fine, the Hun garian was given a jail sentence of 30 Gertrude Sims Engaged to Man She Met in France Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sims, north of Richmond, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Gertrude Sims, to James Hodgson, of Dea Moines. Ia. The date for the wedding, which will probably not be before fall, has not been seL Miss Sims is now in Paris, where she has been in reconstruction work j for the Society of Friends for over ( n year. She is editor-in-chief of the ; "Reconstruction" magazine published in Paris, but will return to the States the latter part of June. It was in Paris that Miss Sims and Mr. Hodgson met. Mr. Hodgson is now at his home in Iowa. .4 . .