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Cuba. Newspapers suddenly charged last week that a Major Arsenic Ortiz, former military supervisor of Oriente Province, and Lieut. Felipe Valle and Corporal Jose Heredia were responsible for the assassination of 44 political prisoners at Santiago in recent months. Soldiers saved the life of Corporal Heredia from a riotous mob. Lieutenant Valle either committed suicide or was murdered. He left a note which approaches the height of understatement for a 44-fold assassin: "In a moment of weakness I have done things I am ashamed...
Persistent newspaper pressure forced President Machado to order Major Ortiz before a court-martial. Meanwhile the fiery major showered Havana editors with challenges to duels. Editor Pizzi de Porras accepted "when and if the major's legal status is cleared." Prudent Editor Jose Ignacio Rivero replied to the major's seconds...
Died. General Lazaro Chacon, 56, President of Guatemala who, stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage, resigned last December (TIME, Dec. 29); after a paralytic stroke; in New Orleans, La. He became Provisional President in 1926, following the death of President Jose Maria Orellana, was soon elected for a full six-year term. Quiet, businesslike, he governed ably, suspended the Constitution once, kept Guatemala's perennial rebels in check until his physical breakdown. Four Presidents have followed: Dr. Baudilio Palma, General Manuel Orellana. Dr. Jose Maria Reina Andrade, General Jorge Ubico...
...books, but officials and citizens instinctively realized last week that U. S. responsibility in a Nicaraguan disaster is precisely like that of Great Britain in an Egyptian disaster. Immediately after the 'quake, all available planes of Pan American Airways were placed at the disposal, not of homeless President Jose Maria Moncada, sleeping in a tent last week with his new Presidential Palace a mess of pink stucco on the side of La Loma. an extinct volcano, but of U. S. Acting Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke...
...uniform of a field marshal. Smart King. Soon all around King Alfonso rose, denser than usual, the heady perfume of praise. All his courtiers told His Majesty that he had just played superlatively well a most difficult hand at statecraft, finessing the Republican parties, easing out that old rebel Jose Sanchez Guerra whom he had "cleverly" called as Prime Minister (TIME, Feb. 23), consolidating the Monarchist parties, and finally setting up under Admiral Aznar the most thoroughly aristocratic Cabinet which even Spain has had in years...