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That afternoon a squad of police took Brother Gabriel in charge, locked him up in the Federal penitentiary. To Francisco Moreno Sanchez, chief of the Investigation Division of the District Attorney's office, he told his story again. Young Cacho Ramirez, he thought, had mistaken him for another man with whom the jeweler's son had quarreled earlier in the night. The gun had gone off accidentally. Witnesses at the tavern said they saw nothing...
...rdenas-Camachistas had busily pooh-poohed any danger of revolution. Government troops were patrolling highways, keeping a close watch on airports and railroads as a check on Almazánista movements. New troops were reported on their way to reinforce the 10,000 already in the capital. Graciano Sanchez had declared 80,000 trained members of his National Confederation of Peasants were ready to take up their rifles in support of Cárdenas and Avila Camacho...
Also running last week were two political freaks: Ramon de la Paz, a gay druggist of Mexicali, Lower California, whose only political asset was his name, which means "peace"; and General Sanchez Tapia, whose only expectation from the campaign seemed to be to get some advertising for his Jersey dairy farm near Mexico City...
Soviet posters and pictures of Stalin were stuck up by the Communists. Under its architect-director, Manuel Sanchez Areas, the Propaganda Ministry proceeded to cry down these vagaries with official posters exhorting civilians to evacuate Madrid, to bring food to Madrid, to be vaccinated, to stop talking and get down to business. All in all, no less than 4,000,000 posters have been printed in the lithographers' shops of Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona...
...morning last week in Orizaba, police, acting on undetermined authority, surrounded a house where Father José María Flores was illegally celebrating Mass. As his congregation of 58 women and four men began to leave, the police opened fire. Down dropped 14-year-old Leonor Sanchez and Orizaba's Catholics had a martyr...