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Finally the Mexican Congress elected Senor Emilio Fortes Gil (pronounced "heel") to be Provisional President of Mexico, a step necessitated by the assassination of President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30). A popular presidential election was ordered to be held the third Sunday of November...
...death of Captain Emilio Carranza, "Mexico's Lindbergh" (see p. 16), affected President Coolidge deeply. He had met and lunched with Captain Carranza just before going up to Brule. International feelings-of-state were commingled. President Coolidge sent a long telegram of sympathy to President Calles of Mexico. To Mexican Ambassador Tellez at Washington he offered the U. S. S. Florida to carry the body home. Mexico acknowledged gratefully but declined the Florida...
...Mexico City. Early the next morning a berry picker stumbled across his body, the remnants of his plane, mired in a New Jersey bog. Declining a warship, Mexico requested that a funeral train speed to the border, then pass slowly through the countryside with military escort, hearing Capt. Emilio Carranza, goodwill flyer, back to his Mexican bride...
Died. Harold Leslie Hamm, 21, footballer (fullback) and sophomore last year at Dartmouth; struck by lightning while on Lake Winnepesaukee. Died. Capt. Emilio Carranza, 22, Mexican aviator; near Chatsworth...
...Graciously, President Coolidge desired to accept a return consignment of goodwill brought from Mexico City to Washington by Captain Emilio Carranza, 20, Mexican flying ace. Forced by fog to land at Mooresville, N. C., in his Ryan monoplane, sister ship of the Spirit of St. Louis, Captain Carranza had refused nourishment, had mused: "I guess the people in Washington won't be so glad to see me now and my countrymen won't be so proud of me." President Coolidge determined to provide nourishment and dispel unhappy fears by a public mark of favor. He asked Captain Carranza...