NICARAGUA: Marines Killed

Six thousand two hundred rifles, 272 machine guns, and 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition were surrendered last week to the U. S. forces in Nicaragua by the Liberal and Conservative armies, heretofore engaged in a civil war (TIME, May 17, 1926, et seq.). Colonel Henry Lewis Stimson, personal representative of President Coolidge, supervised this operation, cabled: “The civil war in Nicaragua is now definitely ended.”

Next morning, at 1 a. m., a band of about 300 Liberal soldiers, not yet disarmed, offered resistance in the hamlet of La Paz Centro to a platoon of U. S. marines commanded by Capt. Richard Bell Buchanan. For two hours and a half the engagement continued. Captain Buchanan fell, wounded in the chest and arms, and died some hours later. Fourteen Nicaraguans were killed. The rest scattered, but not until Private Marvin Andrew Jackson, U. S. M. C., had been instantly killed by a shot through the brain.

In Chicago, Mrs. Nellie C. Everett, mother of Private Marvin Andrew Jackson, said:

“He was always such a good boy. And so interested in military matters. As soon as he got out of school he tried to get into the Marines. He was 6 ft., 2 in. tall and weighed 180 pounds, but the examiners were hard to satisfy. They turned him down at first.

“Then I helped him. My husband and I sent him to doctors and had his physical defects remedied. His tonsils were taken out. There was even an operation to correct a very slight flat foot.”