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October 8, 1927

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HUERTA'S BROTHER SHOT BY FEDERALS IN MEXICAN REVOLT; Alfonso Was Put to Death, One Report Says -- Fell Fighting Troops, Another Declares. OTHER GENERALS EXECUTED Gomez in Retreat, Government Asserts -- Newspaper Founder Jailed in Capital. HUERTA NOW GOMEZ'S ALLY Former President, in Los Angeles, Declares He Is in Accord With Any Move to Oust Calles. HUERTA'S BROTHER SHOT BY FEDERALS

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

A de la Huerta killed by federals; rail and wire communication between Mexico City and Vera Cruz resumed; Gomez and Huerta allies; F F Pallavicini, ex-journalist, imprisoned as intellectual leader of revolt

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YANKS ROUT PIRATES, RUTH HITTING HOMER; PENNOCK INVINCIBLE; New York Wins Third Straight, 8-1, Before 64,000 as Southpaw Allows Only 3 Blows. PIRATES HITLESS TILL 8TH Babe's Mighty Smash in 7th Inning With Two On Climaxes Six-Run Rally. $209,665 GATE A RECORD Tops Best Previous Mark by $8,000 -- Gehrig's Triple Counts Two -- Meadows Deserves Better Fate. Yankees Trounce Pirates, 8-1, Before 64,000 for Third World's Series Victory

By James R Harisson.by James R. Harrison

Yankees win 3d game

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Notable Births

Jim Elliot

1927Jim Elliot, American missionary and translator (died 1956)[†]

Philip James Elliot was an American Christian missionary and one of five people killed during Operation Auca, an attempt to evangelize the Huaorani people of Ecuador.

CĂ©sar Milstein

1927CĂ©sar Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2002)[†]

César Milstein, CH, FRS was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels Kaj Jerne and Georges J. F. Köhler for developing the hybridoma technique for the production of monoclonal antibodies.