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...third party and General Somoza, for all his kinship to the President, went out for the Presidency with all his U. S. guns. Two years ago Somoza's men assassinated his chief enemy, famed Rebel Augusto Cesar Sandino. Last month President Sacasa tried desperately to stall off his kinsmen by getting Nicaragua's two parties to agree to nominate only one Presidential candidate for Nicaragua's elections next autumn, first since the Marines left...
...Venezuelan public filed in politely, took one look, promptly went berserk. Men, women and children, whose kinsmen and ancestors had died in Rotunda, smashed everything smashable, lugged away everything movable, ripped locks out of dungeon doors, wrenched bars from window-slits. Exhausted by an orgy of rage against stone & steel, they filed out into the bright noon of Caracas...
...bury her in Little Sandy Cemetery near her Taylorsville home five miles away. Bitterly her son Hugh, 57, World War veteran protested that her dying wish had been to be buried in nearby Nazareth Cemetery. Overruled, he stalked into the night. Near dawn he returned, burst in among the kinsmen keeping the death watch, brandished a shotgun, picked up his mother's body and ran outside. He flung the body across the pommel of his horse's saddle and galloped away. A posse found him in Moody Swamp, his mother's body in a ravine. Police forced...
...Barrett. Five years ago he killed his 73-year-old mother. After pinking his sister he gave her such a beating with a gun butt that she died six weeks later. At Manchester, Ky. in 1932 he participated in a five-hour gunfight which cost the lives of two kinsmen. Last summer this prodigal career reached its cli max when Barrett, pursued by a pair of G-men for violating the Federal motor vehicle theft law, shot and killed Agent Nelson B. Klein at West College Corner, Ind. Last week at Indianapolis, as the first man to be sentenced...
Word came through to the Italian lines that not only had all Gugsa's lands and property within the Emperor's reach been seized, but a large number of his kinsmen had been put to death in Ethiopian revenge. Announcing to his 1,500 warriors that not only his but all their relatives had been slaughtered, Ras Gugsa exhorted his numerous personal followers to avenge themselves. General de Bono took a chance and gave them rifles, and away they streaked far in advance of the Italian columns which this week were driving toward Makale, whose inhabitants hoisted white...