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Sent to stamp out Cuba's rebellion in Santa Clara Province, Dictator Machado's strong-arm man Major Arsenio Ortiz last week stamped furiously. Than catching and trying nimble rebels, he found it easier ?o shoot and hang any suspected person he could lay hands on. Such last fortnight were three guards of a U. S.-owned sugar mill at Jatibonico. Ortiz had them slaughtered on suspicion. The company's vice president posted off to Havana to protest to U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles. Soon Ortiz followed, talked with officials and flew back to the Santa Clara...
Suddenly last week Machado called Ortiz back to Havana again. This time he was asked to answer formal military charges of murdering the three mill guards. Under technical arrest. Ortiz retired to his home outside Havana, hard by Dictator Machado's country place...
Meantime, from the hill rebellion in eastern Cuba began to come names of leaders. One was Colonel Juan Bias Hernandez whose name showed brightly on Ortiz' posters offering $500 reward for his capture, dead or alive. Airplanes had failed to spot Hernandez' hill hideout. His mounted band knifed swiftly again & again at government troops, ripped off a few and swerved back into the hills. Last week he challenged them, "Come...
Meanwhile Ortiz went to work. He set two planes to scouting the coast every night, two gunboats to keep more rebels from landing. He started with 100 men, a crew of officers he had picked himself. Machado sent him 300 more men. He had carte blanche to do what he liked. The Government issued no reports but Cubans needed none to know how Ortiz would operate. Than he, no man in Cuba is more famed for murder. Half Negro, he is a big, bull-shouldered man with a plump, cheerful face, small, shadowed eyes. As military supervisor in Oriente Province...
...Ortiz is married to a white woman whom he took from a convent. Last week Cubans doubted the story that his two grown daughters, pistols strapped to their sides, were his aides-de-camp in the field...