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...Public Health ordered them out last week because of sanitary conditions. Strikers said they would not come back, until Secretary Carranza and Stewardess Uranga had been dismissed. Before they would dismiss secretary and stewardess, replied the Board of Trustees, they would put the Mexico City Association and its Chihuahua branch into voluntary bankruptcy, send the Y. M. C. A. out of Mexico for good. Up from 3,400 Christian young men who had paid their dues to the end of the year went an outraged howl...
...hangover. This time he fights without regard for niceties. Prisoners of war he ties together and shoots down in lots of three, to save bullets. He administers a beating to Teresa del Castillo, sister of a haciendado who had supported Madero but refuses to support Villa. He takes Chihuahua by storm and executes General Pascal by smearing him with honey, feeding him to ants. He marches into Mexico City at the head of an army of 60,000. Rather than bother with a budget, he has $100,000,000 in bills sent over from the printers...
...Mexico City. Villa is not a success. He goes home presently to Chihuahua. He is buying a dozen pork chops for his newest girl when Don Felipe del Castillo, watching from a window across the street, leans out and shoots him dead...
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...
Died. Enrique C. Creel, 77, former Mexican Minister of Foreign Relations and Ambassador to the U.S.; of a lingering illness; in Mexico City. Son of a Kentuckian, at 17 he borrowed $300 to start a mercantile business, later established Banco Minero in Chihuahua, lost $7,000,000, the greater part of his fortune, in the Carranza revolution...