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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 29, 1928)
Events oj the Week in Pictures i .t'tA ' PRESENT AT SHOOTING OF OBREGON j AIDED IN BRINGING PARTY HARMONY TO DEMOCRATS Emerge From China f4 ', ysSri&S W.:: S J NOMINEE AT BEGlP-f OF CAREER Four o( the big guns of the Democratic national convention, leaders of the party, who helped to put the Houston convention over. Left to right the arc: Judge George Olvany, grand sachem of Tam many Mall; Senator William H. King, of Utah; Senator Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkansas, permanent chairman of the convention, and James F. Egan, of New York, secretary of Tammany. Another recent photo of General Alvaro Obrcgon, assassinated president-elect of Mexico, and nome of the Mexican notables pres ent at the banquet at San Angel, a suburb of Mexico City, when the shooting took place. Obre'gon is seen to the left. Standing beside him is Ricardo 1 opctc, Obrcgon leader in the Mexican congress, who sat at his right during the banquet. On the right, above, is Kobcrlo Cruz, chief of police of Mexico City, who prevented the diners from attacking the cartoonist who fired the fatal shot.' Cruz was later removed from oftlco by I'resident Calles. Below, right, is Aaron Saenz, governor of Mucva Leon, who sat at Obrcgon's left during the banquet. STATE REMEMBERS LINCOLN'S BOYHOOD IN PAGEANT CO:ED TO TEACH MOUNTAINEERS I'm , i'ir' e Scene from the pageant "Abraham Lincoln in Spencer County," at Rockport, Ind., July 4, in comment .orution of 14 boyhood years that the great emancipator passed in the state. The photo depicts the re turn of 'j'.iomus Lincoln, father of Abe, to Spencer county from Kentucky- with his second wife and, throe children. NICARAGUAN LIBERALS PRESENT CAUSE IN MEXICO .r,jp .: i- in. .... ..... .. 1 T. vnmcse revolutions nave a fascination for C. S. Hirsch, above, American adventurer and author. He has "attended" every revolution and incipient war in' China since 1920, and. has per sonally known every dictator from Dr. Sun Yat Sen to Chang-Tso Lin. Returning to the U. S. to recuperate, after the rigors of compaigning with the Nationalists, Hirsch declares the present in ternal warfare will last for at least 100 yean more. Fall Saves Her Miss Evelyn Haskins, 18, of Richmond, Va., owes her life to the fact that she stumbled and fell while fleeing from Sylvester Med ley, 17, an infuriated negro; after he had killed Samuel E. Grinncll, 16, with a shotgun and seriously wounded the boy's foster father, Henry Grinnell, and Mrs. Nellie Haskins, his mother, in seeking revenge for some fancied wrong. Miss Haskins stumbled and fell 'just as the infuriated man fired point blank at her. He was later captured by a sum ' o i? : m Some hitherto .unpublished photos of Senator Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkansas, Depiocratic nominee for the vice presidency, and Mrs. Robinson. Mrs. Robinson is shown in her wedding gown at their marriage in 1895. On the right, is the senator just prior to his marriage, when he returned home a graduate of the University of Arkansas law school. Inset is Rqbinson as a law student in 1893. DEMO CHAIRMAN RESTS ON FARM Notre Dame't Head , Mlss Esther Moycr, Ashland, Va., leaves far behind her the good , limes as a co-ed at Ohio Wcaleyan university, Delaware, 0., to tench at a high school In which nil the students are freshmen, for It opens for the first timo In Auguit. It is the Henderson settlement school . " Linda, in the mountains of Kentucky, six miles from tho nearest .' railroad. - 1 I r This photo was taken in Mexico City shortly after a large reception; fceld In honor of the arrival of Socrates Snndino, brother of the Nicarnguan liberal leader, Augusto, by liberal sympathizer. Above, left to right, Dr. Pedro Jose Zepeda, unrecognized envoy to Mexico of the Snndino government; Socra tes Cnndino and Gustavo Machado, one of the lenders of tho Mexican "Hands Off Nicaragua" com mittee. Sandino, coming from New York, met Machado in Vera Cruz. Machado has just come from the Sandino stronghold in Nicaragua. ' i C ml ; CD , A new photo of John J. Raskob, chairman of tho Democratic national committee, and chairman of the finance committee of th General Motors corporation, snapped in one of the rustic nooks on his fnrm at Pioneer Toint, Md. With him is his Chcsapcnke hay water dog, "Nop." , if ANTICIPATE U.3 S.TOKYO FLIGHT ! TEA ABOARD AN OCEAN DIRIGIBLE i VouthM Fluti.t - Vi. v.-.- , . ! jtt TiT Si 1 V? I , v "J?. rm i u -:jk. m a . js il I -I C 0 '"1 'O, xJl4 ''ivf f.iWf il 1 nf nf iffmimlaVi j-a Major Livingston Irving, American war are, left, ' and John .Kubota, Joponesc flyer, arc planning a good will (light from Call- fomla to Tokyo. About 7,000 miles arc to bo covered with Inter mediate stops at Honolulu, Hawaii and the Marshall Islands, in tho JsciflCf I I lutiit j Notre Dame university's new president,' the Rev. Charles L. O'DonnclI, C. S. C, above, writes poetry for national magazines and was a chaplain in France during the World war. . Ho comes to South Bend, Ind., from his home in Kokomo, Ind. - ' ' TAKE LEADS IN PASSION PLAY 4- ; n Members o the British parliament and their friends snapped ivhile enjoying an unusuol afternoon tea aboard the English dirigible, R-100, now nearlng completion at llowdcn, England, and which is designed for transoceanic travel. The new airship hat a capacity of 5,000,000 cubic feet of g snd is as luxurious as an ocean liner. Selected by Mine. Ethel Legin- ' ska- to piny first llute with th Boston Women's Symphony or- ' chestra, Miss Edna Ardcll Hop kins, IS, of Oil City, Pa., is be lieved to be the youngest girl in the United States to hold to im portant a position In a symphony 1 rcAcrtrV' - - & . 7i ir - - EngIneer, Chief . fitU - , ilVt If f;4V -!'! Captain Harry E. Yarnoll, for mer commander 6f the airplane carrier Saratoga, has been ap pointed chief of the bureau of engineering of the U. S. navy, succeeding Rear Admiral John Hainan. Jr. The rank of rear admiral goes with the appoint- "Chrislus," the central figure in the Pilgrimage play given this year, for the ninth lime, in the outdoor mountain amphitheater, near Los Angelo, Cat., is again portrayed by Ian MacLarcn. The play is given without profit by the Pilgrimage Play Association and ir non-sectarian. Above, MacLaren, in the role of the Christus, dtl Mary Forbes, chosen to portray the MagdaltA, f
