New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 20, 1928, Page 2

— MEXICAN CONGRESS | T0 MEET JULY 3[] ¥ill Hold Specml Session to D& termine Obregon's Successor Mexico City, July 20—P—A congress, made up mainly of sup- porters of President Elect Alvaro Obregon, will meet in special session on July 30 presumably to settle the question of presidential succession | raised by his aseassination. It is generally expected that a way will be found to continue President Calles in office. Meantime a nine day period of mourning is to be observed throughout Mexico for the siain war- rior president-elect, Blames Catholic Clergy General Antonio Rios Zertuche, installed as chief of police to handle the Investigation into the killing, an- nounced “that responsibility for the crime lies with the Catholic clergy.” Police were continuing their in- vestigation in an effort to find those “Intellectually responsible.” Twenty Catholic nune from the town of Villa Guadalupe, where the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico, is situated, were arrested and their convent clos- ed. Police charged they were ope®- ating secretly in violation of the religlous laws. They were held at po- lce headquarters where the slayer, | Jose De Leon Toral, is incarcerated in & dungeon. “You Are Avenged” A placard bearing the words “you are avenged” was found on the tomb of the Priest Miguel Pro Jaurez, | executed last November in connee- tion with the attempt to assassinate General Obregon with bombs. Po- | lice mid a picture of the dead priest was found on the assassin, The newspaper I fico maid police were igating | reports, the source of which was not revealed, that some of the former leaders of the league for the defense | of religious liberty recently were | involved in a plot against Obregon. | The league had been most active in expression of opposition to the Mexi- can religious laws. It was sup- premsed by police about two ycars | ago and its subsequent activities, if any, have been clandestine. A number of relatives of the four men, including Pro Juarez, who were executed for the were summoned to police headquar- ters for Interrogation. Calles Closely Guarded President Calles today was under | a heavy military guard. The pre- | cautlons were taken at the hehest of | friends, although Calles has rejects | ed any idea that his personal safcty was i ‘danger. Some of his friends thihk that the président has rashiy exposed himself to the danger of assassiiftlon, espetlally By mareh« ing n the Obregon funeral prokcss sion. He has almost gone without sleep since the crime, participating in the investigation as well as tak- ng part in the funeral and its pre- liminarics. Special police guards were placed | around the residences of all promi- nent supporters of General Obregon, The guards were stationed after a suspicious character found loitering near the hame of Scnator Thomas A. Robinson, Obregonista leader, had been arrested and questioned. A slip of paper found on the as- sssin bore among other words “Robinson” at that time it was as- sumed that these words were the names of men singled out for death. Reporters See Prisoner Police Chicf Zertuche exhibited De Leon Toral to a group of Mexican and foreign newspaper men in police headquarters to put an end to re- ports that he had been executed or | had been mutilated by torture, The | slayer was paraded up and down the | chief's office. He sat down in a chalr and arose again as instructed. Then the chiet asked “Can you talk 7" 4 The prisoner replied in Spanis “I think eo.” He was then taken out without the reporters heing allowed to ask him any questions. The slayer's left eye was awollen, there were a few bruises on his face but all tr: of blood had been hed It was intimated that the bruise iad been sustained in the scuffle which followed the assassination, The youth's face » of extreme weariness lack of sieep. He clean shaven. He wore a wrinkled light brown sult. His eyes were evasive and his expression wae stolid and rathe ullen, les May Indications were of Obregon wor tinue an expression and betrayed & collarless but w pporters 1 attempt to con- Prestdent Calles as the head of the state, if it could be done with any shadow of legul sanction. The plan was said 1o be to propose Calles for the presidency pro tem. not as president, thus climinating violation ©¢ the constitution which forbids the chief execonti succeeding him- self. Politi felt that this course of 4 be entirely ‘within th v wonld at the same time avoid precipitating the country into a political situation Nurse Conoon Calls Sykes Comfort Powder “A Healing Wonder” Franklin, N. Y.—“I am 2 gradu- ate nurse of Binghamton State Hoo- 7R ital and have vsc horie acid, rice por \ der,andmanyothc: in my work, but jhave mnever four: anyt.hmg equal tc "u Comfort Powder tc Vheal the skin. Thi little baby’s sore, chafed skin wer quickly healed by Comfort Powder after everything else had failed. In fact, I find Comfort Powder ‘A Healing Wonder."’-Mrs.I.W.Cohoon, Franklin, N. Y. The reason Sykes Comfort Powder is 50 successful in such cases is be- cause it contains six healing, antisep- tic ingredients not found in ordinary ms. For twenty years it has been used and endorsed by physicians and mothfl. and nurses call it *‘A Heal- ing Wonder.”” AT aw oavcaieTs CONFORT POWDER CO., BOSTON, MASS. bombing attempt, | which some | chaos. + Strong for Obregon Newspapers polled members of s0n congressional bloc and 1 that at present they were to proclaim Calies their chief Obregon. The Obregoa ral committee which managed | 1\\« presidential campaign, met and solved to continue in existence feared might cauee ‘A\\:\mng developments and taking action as the circumstances might | require. Friends of President Calles believe that he doce not desire to comtinue in his post. They feel that he has been anticipating with much pleasure his vetirement to private iife as a dairy farmer. He has been told, however, by the men respon- sible for the clection of Obregon that the country needs his leadership and that orderly government is in danger unless he agrees to carry on. The country has settled down to every outward appearance of tran- quillity, Censorship which became ef- fective the night after the slaying was lifted. DRYS PLEDGE TO BEAT ‘AL’ SMITH Scatter to Homes to Carry Out Promise N. C, Asheville, July 20 ®— | Having pledged themselves to defeat Governor Smith, delegates to the conferenee of dry southern demo- crats separated today to carry to their home states the campalgn against the nominee. Before adjourning, the conference adopted a statement of its aims and principles. This attacked the New York governor for what was termed “his repudiation of the Houston platform on prohibition,” his selec- tion of a wet republican’ as chair- man of the democratic national | committee, his *“wet record,” and his relation to Tammany Hall. 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Commenting op the result, 8ir Ar- | exactly what every one who had fol- lowed the case expected. “Thinking] over what happened and whay] might have happeped, it flla cu with horror,” he said. “It is mo clearly the duty of the governmeny to consider compensation and it must be in proportion to the wron done. taut Conan Doyle said: *“I am naturally very glad, but I do not ®ee how there was any possibility of any other decision. I think the crown conducted the case with great dignity and moderation and the whole proceedings were quite satisfactory, 1 hope some good will come of this case, by resulting in various responsible offictals, who for years have refused to do anything in the matter, being pulled up very sharply.” Ramsay MacDonald, the labor leader, sald that the decision was An- Clyde, said that re- evidence the judges Slater's arrest JAY-COBBS GIRLS' OUTING The girl employes of Jay-Cobbs, Inc, held an outing yesterday ay Rockwell Park, Bristol. 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