Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-07
Senate Expels
Three Members

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MEXICO CITY, Oct. 7.-LRD-After
voting its confidence in President
Gales the senate expelled from the
national congress three Of its mem
bers who were reported TO have taken
the field with General Arnulfo Co
meZ.
Candor Quajardo, whose expulsion
vas also demanded because he was
considered a feTvent anti-re-election-
ist was not included in the expul-
~sionsion order, the senate declaring
10 only intended to punish those OF
its members who revolted and would
not punish a man merely because he
held contrary opinions.
MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Oct. -
Hl-Maneuvers by federal command
ers 10 force rebel troops under Gem
eral Arnulfo Gomez and Hector AL
mazda into battle positions were con
tinuing today, the presidential bu-
reau announced.
The rebels were hidden in and
around the slopes Of a large hill
ear Perote. in the state of Vera
Cruz, with the federals in the val
legs on either side. The government
troops, in two columns led by Gen.
erals Jesus Aguirre and Gonzalo
Eseobar, were trying either 10 sur
round the rebels effectively or force
them into a decisive combat.
With approximately 5000 men, the
federals considerably out-numbered
the rebels and the government pro-
fessed confidence in the outcome.
Government military commanders
in all the other states of the repub-
lie tranquil conditions, General Al
varez, president Gales chief of staff,
announced.
Yaqui Chief Gives Up
General Manzo. chief of military
operations in Sonora, reported that
the Yaqui general, Jose Matus and
four tribal chieftains, So infantry
men and Is cavalrymen had sur
rendered at Ortiz.
The presidential bureau declared
that there had been further seces-
sions from the Gomez rebel band.
Captain Leopold Cardenas Padilla Of
the 18th cavalry regiment, stationed
at Vera Cruz, which revolted, left
the rebels, with two other officers
and five men. returned TO the loyal
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Captain Padilla telegraphed Pres
ident Gales that he and his COM
panions were deceived into joining
the rebel movement, and that they
left their regiment as soon as they
discovered il to be engaged in a dis
loyal enterprise.
General Lucero, commander of the
10th took his regiment from Vera
Cruz city. allegedly acting on in
SEPARATION from Arnulfo Gomez, 20
join a rebel army which was sup
posed to be forming in the northern
part of Vera Cruz state. The regi-
ment now is part Of the rebel force
near Perote.
Federals Executed
Press dispatches say that Gomez
rebels executed General Manuel Cells
and two other unnamed officers who
attempted to leave them and rejoin
the loyal army.
The newspapers have reports that
three more federal officers have been
executed in Mexico City, charged
with implication in the revolt. They
are listed as General Jose Moran,
Colonel Enrique Barrios Gomez and
General Luis G.. Hermosillo.
Arrest of Felix +. P~alavincini,
author and journalist for investiga-
ton on charges Of implication in
the revolt is announced by the
presidential bureau. Senior PalI-
vicini for some years was director
of the newspaper FL Universal but
is not connected with IL at present.
He was taken to the Santiago
military prison but will not be court
martialed. being instead turned over
10 the city authorities. He is said
TO have been found hidden. and in
disguise in the home Of friends here.
Denial was made in San Antonio,
Texas, last night that General Ar
nulfo Gomez was leading a ~revolu-
ton. Amilcar Zentella. representa-
tive Of Gomez in San Antonio termed
the trouble a terrorist plot 70 re-
move General Serrano and Gomez as
presidential possibilities. He said
Gomez has 1000 men with him nea
Perote. Vera Cruz.
Say SerranO Not Captured
Mexican circles in Los Angeles,
Calf, announced receipt of adviccs
from the state Of Morelos, that Gen-
eral Serrano was not captured IN
open revolt, as announced by Pres
dent Gales, but was arrested in
Mexico City Saturday night, spirited
away to Cuerna Vaca, and shot %
death Sunday. These circles said
when the news Of the execution
reached Mexico City Sunday night
it precipitated the mutiny led by
General Almada.
None Of these reports which are
in direct conflict with Mexico City
dispatches, could be confirmed.
Enrique Breceda declares in an in
~terview published in a San Antonio
paper that General Eugenio Marti-
nez, who is enroute TO Chicago, was
hurried out of Mexico City by the
Gales government because il was
feared that IL Martinez protested
the execution Of Serrano, he would
carry the sentiment Of the Mexican
army. Some OF the Martinez troops