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...most brilliant successes in the Nicaraguan campaign," President Hoover awarded the Navy Cross to Lieut. Samuel S. Jack, U. S. Marine Corps, of Glendale, Ariz. In April 1931, Aviator Jack had bombed a rebel camp at Puerto Cabezas, later directed a relief patrol to the siege of Logtown, all under heavy fire...
Nicaragua, U. S. citizens and other aliens in the little towns along the Mosquito Coast waited breathlessly for a repetition of the bandit raids which caused the slaughter at Logtown fortnight ago (TIME, April 27). In Washington Secretary Stimson stood firm under the lashings of Big Stick Advocates. The new Hoover-Stimson Nicaraguan policy was backed up by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson with an announcement to the effect that Britain, too, will not attempt to protect her nationals in Nicaragua's interior...
Puerto Cabezas, with its 300 U. S. residents, was panic-stricken at the news of the Logtown raid. Next came news that Sandino's bandits had fired Gracias a Dios, 60 mi. north along the Mosquito Coast. Puerto Cabezas knew it would be next. Women and children crowded aboard the Cefalu. In the harbor civilians armed themselves for the town's defense. The night was wild with rumor. Welcome indeed were the lights of the U. S. gunboat Asheville steaming in with a detachment of Marines. These were gingerly put ashore, thereby relieving a slim force of native Guardsmen...
...their property by force of arms wherever under the sun they happened to be. Last February the Hoover Administration announced its intention to withdraw all U. S. Marines from Nicaragua by Jan. 1, and to leave the Marine-trained native guard to police the country. The murders at Logtown raised for President Hoover the acute question of whether the U. S. would now reverse its withdrawal program, go deeper into Nicaragua and avenge the outrages with more blood, or whether it would get on out. Mindful of the insistent clamor in the Senate that Nicaragua be left to the Nicaraguans...
United Fruit did not have to wait long for its answer. Exactly one week after the Logtown outrage?over the weekend, as is customary in Latin America?civil war suddenly erupted in Honduras just north of Nicaragua against the government of President Vincente Mejia Colindres. Rebel forces under Generals Diaz and Ferrera fell upon the north coast towns of Tela, Progreso and Ceiba, were repulsed by loyal troops, seized fruit company locomotives, cars, tracks. Standard Fruit (Honduras holdings: 164,000 acres in bananas; 250 mi. of railroad) and United Fruit ordered its ships to stand by at the ports...