Show TO SUCCEED I 0 0 c f Reported in wide Nation Fr Freight ight Jam l KilliNG OF PRESIDENT CONFIRMED Assassinated at Early Hour Friday Frilay by Col CoI Rodolfo Herrero Obregon Reports in Official Dispatches By Dy Service Iee San Antonio Tex May 22 Twenty-six Twenty national senators of Mexico today held a a. caucus in Mexico City and unanimously agreed to support De la Ia Huerta for provisional president and adopted the plan of Agua Prieta Mexican congressmen at the capital capital cap cap- ital also circulated petitions urging urging ing lug all members to support his candidacy These facts were contained ed in inan inan inan an official telegram m to the local junta from the department of information in information in in- formation at Mexico City today De Do la Ia Huerta will probably be chosen president Monday according according ac ac- cording to the advices By Zy Associated s. s Lt Pm t. t E L j P PASO ASO Tex 1 May 22 Venus V Venustiano Venus Venus- enus- enus Carranza president of fet 1 Mexico co and head of the tho seventy sec ond government go that country bas lias had since 1821 was assassinated at 1 3 a. a am a.m. in Friday by hy Col Rodolfo Herrero an and 11 his s soldiers at Puebla accor according ing to messages received here from Gen Alvara Obregon dated at ate Mexico e ico Cit City ity today There were t found und six or seven moro more bodies of or the men in Carranza's party part said one message from Obregon It ItIs Itis Itis is not stated whom these men might be Herrero J In E I Ex-I Ex I tI r l Officer I Reports given gl out o by the revolutionists revolution revolution- said Carranza was assassinated by his own men Herrero was described as ns an federal ex-federal of officer ticer Ho Mo was once an of officer ricer in the Mexican army under President Diaz who was forced to tu tule le Mexico in 1911 Carranza was made a a. prisoner and cowardly assassinated at the the cr cry of ot Viva Obregon b by Col Rodolfo Rodolto Herrero Herrero Herrero Her Her- rero and his men violating the hospitality hos hos- that th had been offered to him himi i by Herrero according to a message I from his chief followers to Gen Germ Pablo PabloI I Gonzalez quoted In his message o to revolutionary agents here I j Scathing r Obregon answered his message InI Jn In n 1 I scathing terms He declared if It the Carranza followers who signed the themselves themselves them then n- n I selves solves numbering more than thirty men an l Including Juan Barragan chief of ot staff Ignacio Bonillas former former former for for- mer ambassador to tho the United States Continued on Page 3 DE LA HUERTA MAY SUCCEED CARRANZA Continued from Page Pac 1 whoso whose candidacy for tho the presidency brought on the latest revolution and other prominent leaders had ball died dc defending defending de- de fending your our chief chic you would bo at rest with your our consciences am and escaped the shamo shame o of your cowardice Obregon told tho the they tho were sufficient In number to have done their duty to have saved Mr Carranza's Carranza's Carran Carran- zas za's life liCe If as QS you U state ho he was as assas as- as sas I Safety On repeated occasions said Obregon Obre- Obre gon President Carranza was notified of ot tho guaranty which would bo be given clyen him if It ho he would be willing to leavo leave the danger zone one but ho refused to ac nc accept accept ac- ac this offer because ho considered considered consid consid- ered ored It an undignified act of ot a a. man manot man manof manof of ot honor to save savo himself leaving his companions In danger This This- net act ol or of Carranza revealed tho the dignity and rind good fellowship you ou failed to I ate I First report of ot U the e assassination of ol Carranza was filed tiled by Obregon Friday night The The message o did dill not reach hero until toda today This message said Have Just received the following message from state of Puebla signed by y Col L L L. Hernandez M General advises me from Villa Juarez that tho the troops of at the ex- ex x- x federal officer Rodolfo Herrero killed President Carranza at 1 a a. a m m. m at a place called Il There The were found six or seven more bodies of ot themen tho the thomen thomen men In Carranza's part party It Is 19 not stated elated who these men mon might be I will wire details later Rodolfo Herrero Herrero Her- Her rero surrendered last bat March t to General General Gen Gen- Gen Gen- eral and had been an officer under General Rebels Rebel Wash Hand of Deed Derd Re Revolutionists today wore were eager In their attempts to show sho Carranza was vas not killed by revolutionists but by y his own men Tho The department of or propaganda and Information at Nogales Nogales No- No gales bales sent a a. message to the tho commercial commercial commer commer- cial agent of or the de do facto government go hero her urging that the news bo be given to tho press with particular stress atress on the ho ho fact tact that tho the happening occurred far away from the field of ot operation of ot our forces From the wording of or the Obregon telegram skepticism was expressed hero here hereby b by man many persons parsons In close touch with the revolution concerning the tho affiliations affiliations af ar of ot Herrero The anxiety of the Mexicans on the tho point was led to the concern over what the attitude o of ot the United d States might bo be J If the re reported reported reported re- re ported assassination was laid to the revolutionists l Mexico co Is Shocked At Assassins Assassins' Act By ny m e. e Sp Special cla Rsc Radio Jo h. h Mexico City May 22 The Tho entire po population of Mexico City without dis dis- 18 of ot political creed was deeply deeply deeply deep deep- ly shocked today when word was re received re- re that Venustiano Carranza had been assassinated by Rodolfo a n. former officer In to tho the federal arm army who was accompanying th the tho presidents president's party part In Its flight through tho the Puebla mountains A s special train ain was waa hastened to Berlat n Puebla to bring In the bodies of ot tho the former president and the others who wore were slain Its return Is expected hourI hourly Carranza's corpse will bo be received with full ull military honors because he was In theory tho the president up to the moment of his death I It will bo be kept at tho the national palace before burial J. I Carranza and his party parts were murdered murdered mur mur- dered sleeping at go CO In tho state of or Hidalgo on Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day night with forty or fifty men surrounded Carranza and his hla small party Part and began beSan a fusillade of or rifle bullets Carranza is believed to have been Instantly killed while ho slept Tho The assassins fled leaving tho the corpses where they lay Peons who chanced to pass tho the spot discovered them Tho of ot several villages wore were notified and troops were dispatched dispatched dispatched dis dis- patched to tho the to recover the tho bodies r |