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Troubled with gallstones, Mexico's Boss Plutarco Elias Calles summoned Dr. Abraham Ayala Gonzalez, chief of the Federal Health Department, to his ranch in Sinaloa. Minister of Communications Rodolfo Calles chartered an airplane, flew with his father and Dr. Ayala Gonzalez to Los Angeles. There General Calles was operated upon, his condition afterwards declared "very satisfactory...
...that a Chinese named Jose Chong was robbed and murdered in Sinaloa State by Defendants Teodoro Romero and Paolo Cavada. Convicted, they have been fighting their case through higher and higher courts ever since, on the contention that a Chinaman is not a man in the true Mexican sense...
There were until last week about 15,000 Chinese in Mexico.* They are not coolies. Most of them are prosperous, hard-working shopkeepers and farmers. In the northwestern states of Sonora and Sinaloa, Chinese merchants own about 80% of the grocery shops and vegetable markets. Indolent Mexicans regard the affluent Chinese with sullen eyes...
Plutarco Elias Calles' son, Rodolfo, Governor of Sonora, looked on complacently as the Anti-Chinese Society, backed by local authority, gave orders for the expulsion of all Chinese from his province by Sept. 5. The adjoining states of Sinaloa and Chihuahua issued similar edicts. Chinese grocers had no time to dispose of their property but fled in terror. The Mexican wholesale chain-store, Juan Lung-tain & Co. and Fong qui Co. lost over $1,000,000 each. Long lines of fugitives formed at the border...
Married. Alicia Calles, 18, daughter of Plutarco Elias Calles, President of Mexico; and Jorge Almada, 22, scion of sugar planters in the State of Sinaloa; in Mexico City...