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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1928)
Last Photo of Late President Obregon (This photo taken at the banquet at Mexico City in honor of the late President Obregon of Mexico was taken two days before his as sassination. He is shown at the left being presented with a memento of the occasion by a cow-girl which is much the same manner in which his slayer approached him. (Internatlonml Illustrated News) Sewer Tangle Enmeshes His Bride m Francis Phillips, son of the late “See Jack” Phillips of Queens •ewer scandal fame, kept his marriage to Helen Thomson (left) secret on account of the government's investigation. The government has now subpoenaed the bride and her mother, Mrs. Annette T. Thomson (right) to be sure to cover all angles of the case, (International Newereol) Colonel Williams, Suh! Cleans Up Plotters One of the latest pictures of President Plutarco Elias Calles of Mexico, who, following the assassination of President-elect Alvaro Obregon, massed the federal army and rurale units to run down anti-Obregon plot ters. He has announced he will remain in office only long enough for Mexico to choose a successor to the martyred leader. (International Newsreel) She’s just seventeen, is Marion Williams of Paducah, Ky., but she’s Colonel Williams, Suhl by virtue of a recent appoint* ment by Governor Flem D. Sampson. Her military rank was conferred because of her activity in aiding the work of junior agricultural boys and girls. <Iat*rn«tioD«l NiwirNlI Breaks Six World’s Records Piloting the navy flying boat XPN-12 with a crew of four men besides himself, Lieut. A. W. Gortop, U. S. N. (inset) broke six world’s aviation records: (1) the endurance record for that type ship; (2) range for type and load, covering 1,350 miles; (3, 4 and 5) speed for distance up to 2,000 kilometers, the plane averaging 83 miles per hour, breaking tihe record for carrying loads of 500, 1,000 and 2,000 kilograms, and (6) range for a load of 1,000 kilograms and traveling 2,150 kilometers. The above photo shows the XPN-12 during her remarkable trials. I InternatloD*) Illuatiatod N«w») WILL DARE ARCTIC IN THEIR CANOE - --—.- - ---r~ir----• ----— --’-‘r-'TLlgM »'9 Thrr* Tow* University students, Cord ■ Arm strong, left, John Fuller, center, end Max J. Kane, right, are on their way to make a trip \ 1 1- p by canoe north of the Arc*;c circle. They h.ivo certainly picker! a novel way to apemi their ■unimer vacation. (UiimucMi iUMUiUl N#»i| Ii"1 —'— »—■— "■ Plane Ride Does It George Porter, Jr., aged 8, of Revere, Mass., had been unable to talk since birth. Doctors had agreed that his vocal cords were perfectly formed, but he could not use them. His father arranged a thrilling plane ride for the boy, and after a long series of stunts a half mile in the air the boy was cured and spoke. 'Inlarmtlnnal Ntrtrnl) She’s Spry at 92 Mrs. W. A. Felton, of Cartes* ville, Ga., the first woman ever to be seated in the United States senate, celebrated the Fourth of July by wearing a new dress which she herself made by hand. She is 92, but kS active as ever. (Iatarnatlonal lllujtratad News) Noted Physicist 111 Disciple of strenuosity despite his 75 years, Professor Albert A. Michelson of the University of Chicago is thought to have overtaxed his strength in a re cent hard-fought tennis match. He is in the University Hos pital under care of physicians. {International Newsreel) Breaks Ocean Record When Captain S. G. S. McNeil locked the big Mauretania at New York he had broken all previous record! lor the voyage across the Atlantic. The ocean greyhound made the trip m J Uy 5 hours and i second*. Tram Pigeons for Night Flying Ordinarily homing pigeons released after dusk remain on the ground until daybreak before starting their journey. So F. W. Ivey, an Atlanta fancier, obtained the co-operat:on of the Air mail in releasing birds from the air to teach them night flying. The above picture shows Johnny Kytle, crack pilot, with two of the homing pigeons which now fly a3 well by night as by day, (lnt«tnat!cr.al liluatrated N«*i) Opens Trans-Atlantic Phone Service ms*. Judge John Barton Payne, chairman of the board of the Ameri can Red Cross, is shown making the first trans-Atlantic tele phone call to Switzerland. The Red Cross head talked for five minutes to headquarters of the organization in Geneva, (International Neerereel) I Recovers Memory After a year of wandering about the country, his mind a blank and his nearest and dear est lott in a fog of amnesia, Al fred Wills Moran, a shell shocked war veteran, is en route to Bogota, N. J., from Los Angeles. There he will be reunited with his wife and two children, who, for months, have mourned him as dead. Moran is the son of Howard Moran, vice-president of the American Security and Trust Co. of Washington, D. C. lUIMSU'MMl WlMIlW Lscape in Crack Up Bernard F. Gimbel (top) ana Charles V. Bob (bottom), who, with J. I. Bush and Sam Prior, had a narrow squeak when the Fairchild monoplane in which they were Hying over Specu lator, N. Y, crashed in the trees. Pilot Bill Winston • splendid airmanship is credited with saving the lives of bis passengers. IUintiwm