The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-23
Sonora Receives Back Its
Foremost Son, Pays
Last HonorS.
10000 AT oBREG0N BIER
Speech by Governor Only
Ceremony as Gun Victim
Is Laid at Rest.
BY JACQUES D'ARMAND
United Press Special Correspondent
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tCopyrlght 1928, by United Press
NAvOJOA. Sonora, Mexico, July
23.-Sonora today claimed for her
own the body Of her foremost son.
Caravans of Mexican poems and
patricians, Indians and white men
wended their day through the brown
hills Of Mexico from the tomb where
lay the body of Gen. Alvaro Obre-
gon, and left to the people of this
little agricultural valley their init
mate memories of a national leader.
In the dark of Saturday night the
former president and president-elect
of Mexico, victim of an aSSaSsin's
bullet, was placed in the crypt
while 10000 people from all ranks
of life stood in silence.
Speech Only Ceremony
No religious services marked the
final tributes to the strong man of
Mexico" for General Obregon so
had requested.
A speech by Governor Saenz was
the only ceremony. He paid high
est tribute to the man who had risen
from railroad laborer to the fore
most position in this southern re-
public.
Old servants of the Obregon fam
lily stood shoulder to shoulder with
members Of the Mexican aristocracy
under the low hanging stars of the
desert night as they buried their
leader.
There was utter silence as people
Of three races bowed at the bier.
Then the modulated voice of the
gogvernor welled out through the
night and into the hills that the
dead leader had loved.
Wealth Of Flowers
The Sabbath sun revealed the
tomb piled high with floral tributes.
The special train which brought the
body Of General Obregon from
Mexico City contained five carloads
Of flowers when it arrived at the
family home at Huatabampo.
The train reached Navojoa early
Saturday. As the cars rolled through
the hills they passed over rails held
down by spikes which General OBJ
regon had driven while he worked
as a section hand.
Saturday at 5 p. m. the train
started the final stage of the journey
70 Huatabampo, where the widow
and family of the slain general live.
The public was not allowed to view
the body.
Navojoa was filled with persons
who had come from far and near to
pay their homage to General Obre-
gon.
Village Is Crowded
Every hotel room was occupied and
residents of this village threw open
5heir homes to those strangers who
had been summoned by bonds Of
love and respect to the bier of the
foremost son of the state of Sonora.
BY noon Saturday five special
trains and one military train with
a guard of honor had arrived.
AS the brief services were con-
cluded, the thousands turned from
the tomb toward their homes.
Some walked. Others travelled or
horses and burroS. Many automo-
biles of finest make and others that
were old and worn by long miles
through desert sands and over rocky
hills carried the mournerS.
And over the caravans whirled
airplanes, rushing visitors back to
the United States.
The tomb where the body reposes
was designed by General Obregon in
1922. 1t is situated in an attractive
little valley, which is well cultivated
by the peasantry who were the
neighbors of Alvaro Obregon. All
about are the brown hills.