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Show CARllMANTS U. S. PHYSICIAN Wires for Expert Medical Authority to Come at Once t to Exhume Benton's Body. j MUST BE UNPREJUDICED K( Commission Prefers Selection v to Be Made From City Far From Border. j ; Kansas City, Mo., March 7. At- tempts to obtain tho services of at least one American physician whose field is far from the Mexican border j are being made by the committee ap-i ap-i .pointed by General Carranza. Mexican constitutionalist leader, to investigate the case of William S. Benton, a-ccord- Ing to an announcement today by I Senor Gablno Vizcarra, commercial I I agent hero of the Constitutionalists. Senor Vizcarra made public the following fol-lowing telegram received today and signed "General Ramon Fraustro, President Mexican Investigating Coin- i , inJttee." ! "Please Inform by wire If there Is any expert medical-legal authority- ; there would come at once to exhume hody. How much he would charge. f Referring to Benton case." "It is evident, said Senor Vizcarra, "lhat tho commission Is seoklng the services of an expert who will be en tirely unprejudiced an,d for this reason rea-son 'have preferred a physician from eome other than a border city." Senor Vizcarra said that from the j (telegram it was apparent that the i): Constitutionalist commission Intended 1 to exhume the body of Benton. Im-' Im-' mediately after receiving the telegram he made an offer to a leading local ' doctor, Chief Physician for a public utility corporation. |