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Into the hamlet of Ruiz, State of Nayarit, there glided to a stop last week a funeral train from Los Angeles, Calif., and the Presidential Special from Mexico City. Deft, the engineers of these trains brought them to a halt in such a way that the salon car in which rode President Plutarco Elias Calles came to rest exactly opposite the funeral car in which the body of his late wife had been brought from Los Angeles, guarded by the President's trusted friend, onetime President Alvaro Obregon (TIME, June 13). The President and one-armed Veteran Fighter Obregon...
Archbishop Ruiz y Flores of Michoacan, Mexico, gave consolation last week to religious Mexicans who, although married according to civil ceremony, dared not be married by Roman Catholic rite. President Calles, enforcing his Mexican Constitution has forbidden this; and all Mexican girls could not afford to quit the country as did President Calles' own daughter (TIME...
Bishops Pasquale Diaz of Tabasco and Jose Zarrate of Hidalgo constitute with Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Florez of Michoacan, as everyone knows, the Triumvirate of pure blooded Mexican Indians chosen by the Papacy to direct actively the struggle of Catholicism against the anti-religious Calles régime in Mexico...
...Last week Archbishop Ruiz arrived at Mexico City, galvanized the indignation of even callous newspapermen with news of an atrocity. Five Catholic priests, declared Archbishop Ruiz, had been seized in the state of Michoacan by troops under command of General Mange. The priests were charged with inciting the populace to riot, were marched without trial to the Hacienda La Gua Yaba, were lined up against a stone wall and shot down by a firing squad...
Pursuing its policy of wiping out the non-Mexican clergy (TIME, Feb. 22, et seq.), the Calles Government notified Archbishop Ruiz of Michoacan that all churches in that state will shortly be seized by the secular arm for use as schools, libraries...