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October 7, 1927

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2 MORE MEXICAN GENERALS AND 13 LEGISLATORS SHOT IN CALLES WAR ON REVOLT; QUIJANO BRAVE TO LAST Capital General Directs Firing Squad and Calls Good-Bye to Reporters. 3,000 SEE HIM EXECUTED Ice-Cream and Candy Vendors Ply Trade Among Crowd and Band Plays Lively Airs. REVOLT REPORTED GROWING Serrano Did Not Rebel, but Was Shot to Give Color to Plot Charge, Friends Say.

By Copyright, 1927, by the New York Times Company.special Cable To the New York Times

A R Quijano executed after conviction of rebellion by court-martial; conflicting repts of spread of revolution; V Gonzales and 13 members of Legis of State of Morelos executed; new version of execution of Serrano; his burial

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YANKEES WIN AGAIN AS YOUTHFUL PIPGRAS BAFFLES PIRATES, 6-2; Pitcher, in His First World's Series Battle, Holds National Leaguers to 7 Safeties. TWO RALLIES DECIDE GAME Three-Run Attacks in the Third and Eighth Rout Aldridge in Second Contest. RUTH FAILS TO GET A HIT 44,000 Cheer When Babe Fans in First -- Lloyd Waner Scores Both Pirate Runs -- Play Here Today. Yanks Defeat Pirates, 6-2, in Second World's Series Game Before Crowd of 44,000

By James R. Harrison.special To the New York Times.by James R. Harrison

Yankees win 2d game

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Notable Births

Al Martino

1927Al Martino, American singer and actor (died 2009)[†]

Jasper Cini, known professionally as Al Martino, was an American traditional pop and standards singer. He had his greatest success as a singer between the early 1950s and mid-1970s, being described as "one of the great Italian American pop crooners", and became known as an actor, particularly for his role as singer Johnny Fontane in The Godfather.

R. D. Laing

1927R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author (died 1989)[†]

Ronald David Laing, usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness—in particular, psychosis and schizophrenia.

1927Demetrio González, Spanish-Mexican film actor and singer (died 2015)[†]

Demetrio González was a Spanish-born Mexican film actor and singer of ranchera music. Born in Asturias, Spain, he is sometimes called El Charro Español. He has starred in ranchera-music films from 1955 to 1968. Dos Corazones y un Cielo (1959), in which he co-starred with Rosa de Castilla and Eulalio González, is one of his most notable films. He died after a stroke in Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico in 2015. aged 87.