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OBREGON’S murder, FURTHER DEVELOPMENT,. Australian Press Assn.—United Service VANCOUVER, Aug. 22. In connection with the forthcoming trial of Jose Tural for shooting tlie- - f Alexican President-elect Obregon, the Mexican police are submitting a signed statement by Ranhael Vidal, aged 22 years, a law student, confessing that Mother Superior Conception showed him pictures of youths executed for religious activities, expressing her determination to organise another group of martyrs. Her plan was to murder President Calles, as well as Obregon, with a bonjb in the Chamber of Deputies, and to blow up railway bridges. Tlie Attorney-General will ask for twenty years’ imprisonment for the Mother Superior. This is the supremo penalty for a woman in Alexico. AL SAHTH’S CANDOUR. NEW YORK, August 23.
Governor Alfred Smith’s nomination speech was delivered before a crowd of people estimated at one hundred thousand, as well as being broadcasted throughout the nation. The speech has received a mixed're- * eeption, the comment being generally divided along partisan lines. It is interesting to note, however, that Governor Smith’s opponents as well as his friends declare that his stand on prohibition is an unequivocal one. There is no mistaking the meaning of his statement on the subject. Various individuals and newspapers, however, question whether, as President. he can bring the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment any nearer, and declare that tlie system of modification which lie advocates would not lie any more enforceable than is the Volstead Law itself.
The item of most importance in the reception of Governor Smith’s views seems to he the enthusiasm with which he is acclaimed by the Democrats themselves. Individuals and newspapers of the Democratic faith take issue with his Prohibition views but they commend his honesty and his candour.
The independent newspapers editorially commend the high plane on which Governor Smith and Mr Hoover are conducting the campaign, and they predict a close fight.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1928, Page 2
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