Imperial Valley press., 1928-07-17
ASSASSIN
REP()R TED
CAPT T(JRE:D
Mexican Leader Shot
This Afternoon Near
Capital.
DETAILS II L A G. L r
Victim Recently Elected
President of Mexico in
UnOpposed Election.
By United Press Lensed Wire

Hy United Press Lensed Wire
MEXICO cITv. J"l- y. -
General Alvaro Obregon, pres
laent-elect OF Mexico, was as
sasslnated shortly after 2 p. III.
today near the town of San
Angel, close to the capital.
The assassins, who welH
unknown, fired five shots into
the generals body.
Obregon, the one armed hero
Of many MeXIc;l revolutions,
had come from his farm in So
nora, to hold a demonstration
he-L, where he expected to en-
tertain.
A train bearing 500 CT his ad-
herents enroute to the capital,
was attacked yesterday, but
there were no casualties.
obregon was the sole candi-
date for president to succeed
Plutarco Gales, his friend
two other candidates were ex-
ccutod during the campaign fer
alleged revolutionary activities.
Obregon was to have as umed
office December l and he had
announced that he would con
TIME the policies of President
Gales. including the religious
regulations of the government.
The president-elect held that
the Catholic clergy had OBJ
structed the revolutionary re
form program of his former ad-
ministration and Of President
Caller.
The shooting occurred in
cstaurant known us the Homb
la within the town of san Angel
few political friends of the prc>i
Wegc giving him a lunch
ON.
prcNdent Gales, wbon rotifie,
cf the assassination, started inn
Icdiatcly for san Angel, aceompau
ID 10y Immediate members Of h.
taft.
\ man known as Juan was
rrcstnd as the alleged assassin.
Several hours after the crime nC
rtailS were available, owing TO thO
rcat confusion
Police and military forces threw
Gordon around the center of tn,
lty.
President Gales is said to hav,
nlcrrd san Angel and gone direct
TO mtcrrogato the alleged aSsaS
m, said to be a cap,ain i'm the Mcxi
an army.
ObrcgoH according to information
rIaycd here, was almost instantly
He'd, the assassin having fired al
lose range.
The body was reported TO hay,
cen taken to the center of Sm
nigel bat all traffic entering tn,
ity, including the automobiles or
correspondents was halted on tn,
utskirts of the town.
Obregon was born in Siquisiva
onora, Feb. -, 1850, the young15
f a family of 20 children. He wa
ducated in the state schools an,
howcd carly ia his life an apti
udc for invention. He constructed
revolver said to be- of "quit,
'odcIn mechanism, - and patcntc'
cvcral agricultural implements.
In his youth he rented a piece o
and rs a farm and later savcC
nough money to bay it,
Cbrcgon came to the presidency
{ the Mexican republic in 1920
yer u series of bloody battle field,
18th the realization that in ten
ears Of actual presidents since Tia,
dictatorship Of Porfiro Diaz, tive
ad been murdered, one had die,
nd one was an exile in forcigr
lnds.
However the general remained il
over until 1921. He was Succccdc,
y Gales and the four years OF
is reign was for the most par
caccful.
san DIEGO, July H. Coy. Abe
lrdo Rodriguez of Baja California
4 long distance telephone inter
lew from McXicali said he had re
ciVed no official confirmation OF
he report that President Elect
oregon had been assassinated. "It
ill be a terrible blow to the MeXi-
nm people if the report is true,
odriquez said,