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...Mexico City, burning passion for a black-eyed tailor named Sergio Silva consumed two ladies. Senoritas Sofia Mendoza and Maria de los Angeles Garcia. Early one morning a drowsy policeman beheld the two women facing each other, each with one hand to the black shawl around her shoulders, a blazing pistol in the other. As the policeman ran forward Sofia Mendoza dropped with a bullet in her breast...
First spark of trouble came from swart Communist Senator Maldonado. He rose in the Senate, condemned the monopoly, demanded that the Government withdraw it. Up jumped Senator Cueva Garcia to remind the Senators that if the monopoly were cancelled, Ecuador would have to repay Kreuger & Toll's $2,000,000 loan. That might be awkward. A melee followed. Somebody got a message to Garcia that a mob was waiting for him outside. Colleagues spirited him away to safety. The monopoly was withdrawn...
...just got under way. As unostentatiously as possible many of Mexico's lawmakers divided into little groups and stood near the exits eying each other. In the midst of an anti-de la Mora speech by Deputy Jose Manuel Chavez, two Jalisco deputies, Manuel H. Ruiz and Esteban Garcia de Alba, sprang up demanding to be heard. Ismael Lozano. President of the Chamber, denied them and immediately adjourned the session...
...lawmakers. Manuel Ruiz died on the steps of the speaker's tribune with eight bullets in his body. General Sebastian Allende went down in the fusillade with a shot through the spine which he insisted came from somebody's chauffeur, standing in the doorway. Deputy Esteban Garcia de Alba blazed away until a bullet through the hand sent his pistol spinning. From his dugout beneath the press desk the Associated Press correspondent counted more than 60 shots before hostilities ceased and the Red Cross and police rushed...
...died. Cuban revolutionists live longer. President Machado, General Menocal and Colonel Mendieta are all veterans of Cuba's War of Independence. Even Cosme de la Torriente, Cuba's grave member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, suddenly remembered his youth as an officer under Garcia and wrote violent articles last week, throwing his lot in with the new insurrectos...