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...McAlester, Okla., John Chapman went to look at his 39 chickens, found all but a rooster and two hens stolen, and this note...
Nervous. Iowa's cows and chickens were blase about ordinary airplanes. They had seen three other Register and Tribune monoplanes weave a zig-zag pattern in the Hawkeye skies. But they were vaguely uneasy about the flying windmill that landed like a monstrous rooster hopping down from a fence post...
...watching 18-month-old Carol Krieg when she crawled into a chicken yard in Hood River, Ore. one day last week. But a big Rhode Island Red rooster was soon angrily aware of the intrusion on his flock. Like daggers his big spurs flashed across the baby's head. A physician found the child's thin skull was fractured. Pneumonia set in and two days later Baby Krieg was dead. Hood River's Police Chief William Hart, the child's grandfather, ordered her murderer's execution...
Perhaps prematurely, jubilant anti-Machadoans hailed this as the beginning of the end. Ever since El Gallo (The Rooster) has been in power he has been scrupulously careful to see that Cuba's government debts to U. S. bankers, and the pay of his own soldiers, were paid on the nail no matter how long school teachers, or government contractors might have to wait for their money. Cubans insist and most U. S. bankers agree that the June 30 debt payment cannot be met. Despite feverish scouring of the treasury Army pay is already in arrears...
Grove Park lives bearded, socialite ex-President Mario Garcia Menocal, veteran of one unsuccessful revolution against Rooster Machado and still considered the one man able to displace him now-despite the fact that during Menocal's two terms (1913-21) he was accused of almost every crime now charged against President Machado...