Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-31
jUNTA SCRAPS LAW
IN PERU To PUNISH
LEGU|A ADHERENTS
Constitutional Rights SuS-
pended to Hasten Trial of
President and Others.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
LIMA, PERU, August 30.-Peru's new
military iunta bore down heavily today
on ex-President Augusta B. Legllia and
the adherentS of his 11-year admins
tration
Leguia and his son Juan are des-
tined to Imprisonment on San Lorenzo
Island, Callao Harbor, the former there
to await trial and punishment for his
acts in Office
Newspapers reported today the trans
fer from the cruiser Almirante Grau to
the island had taken place, hat later
1t was reported DR.. Mccormack. at
tending the ex-president, had advised
against landing him Immediately be-
cause of his ill-health, and the govern
meilt had acquiesced
DIR. Mccormack refused to make any
statement, and the reports could not be
checked from other sources.
Eioth Leguias will occupy the quarters
of former Leguia prisoner, Dr. Arturo
Osores, exiled in New York Their
guard is headed by another Leguia
prisoner, an officer released only with
the revolt
Evasion Is Thwarted.
The government decided to suspend
articles "a and 81 of the constitution
dealing with the rights of citizens in
order that accused former officials might
not take advantage of certain consti-
tutional rules to evade punishment"
Among persons the government in
tends to prosecute is an officer of the
American Naval Reserve, Lieut.. Comdr
Harold B. Grow. He headed the Peru
Wan Air Force under Leguia, and Lieut.
Col. Sanchez Cerro says he will be
prosecuted because of plan to bomb
Arequipa under the former Presidents
orders.
A newspaper dispatch from Lam
bayeque says that another American
held is Charles w. Sutton, in charge
of the Lambayeque Irrigation Works
under Leguia. He was arrested on a
charge of embezzlement when he at
tempted to leave the city by air, and
was imprisoned under charges of mis-
managing funds.
a Leguia project in public education
was overturned. The junta annulling
a reorganization ordered by the former
President shortly before his downfall.
In addition, the project of Lima orders
enforcement OF prohibition law which
had lain dormant more than 10 years.
This bars the sale of alcoholic beverages
on Saturday and Sunday.
Officials Being Replaced.
Lieut. Col. Luis M Sanchez Cerro
head of the Junta, continued to prepare
charges against Leguia adherentS and
to put new men in official positions.
The appointments today included
those of Naval Capt. Julio v. Goicochea,
named chief of the naval general staff;
Comdr. Arturo Jimenez Pacheco SUBJ
chief: DR.. Fernando Gazzani, former
member of the cabinet advisor to the
foreign office; Luis Antonio Eguiguren
mayor of Lima, and Alexandra Roldan,
mayor of Callao. Provisional councils
also were appointed for those cities. Dr.
Oscar Vasquez BenavideS was made
chief of the prisons section in the min
istry of justice.
A derisive poster directed at former
President Leguia today took the memory
of Peruvians back to an incident that
occurred FL years ago.
A few years ago the admirers of
Leguia placed bronze tablet bearing
the words, do not sign" on the pedes-
tai of the state here to Simon Bolivar,
the great South American hero.
They wished thereby to perpetuate
one of the incidents of the revolution
in 1909 during Leguia's first term as
President In May of that year the
President faced his first revolution and
group of rebels surrounded him on
the steps Of the Bolivar statue urging
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