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PRESENT AT SHOOTING OF OBREGON j AIDED IN BRINGING PARTY HARMONY TO DEMOCRATS Emerge From China
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. '
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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
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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
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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
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TAKE LEADS IN PASSION PLAY
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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-
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Boston Women's Symphony or-
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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
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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,
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