The Archive · 1929

Gomez to Control Country

Neo, SPECIAL SERVICE San Pedro, Cal., Dee. 28

A. DaBoss, representative of General Motors, arrived here from Venezuela to-day and declared that fat the present time General Gomez has become a dictator and arrested 150 students, holding them incommunioado because they resented the destruction of American textbooks.

He said that the destruction of books and the confiscation of all radio apparatus has become part of the Gomez programme for keeping a hold on the republie.—United Press.

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