The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-05-10
CARRANzA IN
HIDING; U. S.
SENDS SHIPS
Battleship Oklahoma Ordered
South for Possible Mexican
Duty as Fabric of Carranza
Government Crashes Down.
vILLALAYS Down ARMS
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 10 - The
dreadnaught Oklahoma was ordered
today to proceed from New YORK 10
Key West. Fla, for possible duty in
Mexican waters.
The ship will stop enroute in Phila-
delphia to take on a full company of
marines from the League Island sta
ton. She is expected to arrive there
tonight.
The navy department announced
also that the destroyer flotilla sta
toned at Key West had been ordered
to Tampico, Mex, which is in rebel
hands
Official conformation of the fall of
the Mexican capital was received yes
terday by the state department from
the American embassy, which re-
ported there was no disorder in the
capital incident to the transfer Of au-
thority. Tampico and Vera Cruz also
were reported quiet.
Where Is carranxa, Asked
The rapidly changing situation in
the southern republic had developed
even another important question to-
day and that concerned President Car
rama The American embassy re-
port made no mention of the presi-
dent and reports from Vera Cruz said
that the search in that city had failed
to find him.
One report was that he had been
arrested in Esperanza, state Of Vera
Cruz, but this was without confirma-
ton here either in official dispatches
or through advices to revolutionist
agents.
HOUSTON, Texas, May 10.-Tampi-
CO, important oil town on the Gulf of
Mexico, capitulated to forces of Cen
eral Obregon yesterday, according to
radio advices received by local oil In
terests here this morning.
The advices said the town went
over to the revolutionists without Sc
rious disorder. The message received
here was filed with the United States
gunboat, Sacramento, at Tampico, by
an official of the Mexican Gulf OIL
company and was addressed to the
Gulf Refining company at Houston.
The advices stated that revolutionist
troops entered the customs house Sun
day at 4:30. The military commander
escaped on the government steamer
Jalisco, with files and records, it was
said.
JUAREZ, Mexico, May 10.-Francis-
co Villas days of banditry and con-
slant menace to all attempts to estab-
lish stable government in Mexico and
to the relations between this republic
and the United States are ended, ac-
cording to reports reaching here. The
leaders Of the new revolution display
ed visible relief at the announcement
that Villa had laid down his arms and
turned his men over to General Igna-
cia Enriquez. revolutionary command
er Of the Chihuahua district.
Since the revolution swept out of
Sonora with increasing momentum.
what Villa would do or what would
be done with him had been a source
of much speculation.
1t was reported that. with the best
interests of his country at heart, ne
would seek to be permitted to re-
main neutral and settle down on
plantation, and still later he proffer-
ed his services to the revolution, and
had been declined.
Would Constitute Menace.
Agents of the new regime admitted
that If Villa decided to oppose 1t, he
would constitute the greatest menace
credited with leading a band of but
little more than a personal guard.
The announcement that Villa had
laid down his arms and guided his
follower into the ranks of the revo-
lutionists came from General J. G.
Escobar, commander of Juarez. Villa
also notified the Mexican Central rail
way. Escobar said, that guards of sol
diers would no longer be necessary
on trains
Villa was one of President Carran-
za's first supporters and later one of
his most troublesome enemies. He
also was personally responsible for
American troops crossing the border,
his most serious offense against the
United States probably being the IA
nous raid on Columbus, N NJ, on
March 9. 1916, when II persons were
killed and several buildings burned.
Ell PASO Texas. May 10.-Gen-
eral Murguia, CarranZa military COM
mander at Mexico City, before leav
ing the capital, which is now in COM
p!ete possession of the revolutionary
forces, carried out wholesale slaugh-
ter of political prisoners held there,
according to a bulletin issued at revo-
lutionary headquarters here.
Mexican revolutionists overlook and
dispersed troops escorting President
Carranza in his flight from Mexico
City. causing them various losses" &C
cording to message from General
Alvaro Obregon to Governor De la
Huerta, supreme commander of the
constitutionalist army made public
here today.
General Obregon detailed the cap
ture of Mexico City and confirmed the
report of wholesale execution of
military prisoners.
LAREDO, Texas, May 10.-General
Cara, commander of the federal
forces at Nueva Laredo. fled to the
American side of the lines, following
the defeat of his troops and capture
OF Nueva Laredo by revolutionists.
GALVESTON, Texas, May 10.-The
Federal garrison at Vera Cruez went
over to the revolutionists, according
,a unofficial a1yjcaS received here