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...
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