Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-10
SOLDIERS CONTROL
HAVANA AS REBEL
CLASHES SUDS|DE
Martial Law D:creed In
Capital and Pinar
Del Rio.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAVANA, August lo-Martial Law
reigned in Havana and Pinar del re
Provinces today in the wake of a revo-
lutionary uprising against the regime
of President Gerardo Machado which
cost three Ives and threw the island
into confusion.
The President issued a proclamation
saying that military authority was SUI
preme until countermanded and that
all legal action was vested In the mill
tary courts. He also promised that
rebels. other than leaders, who laid
down their arms within "a hours would
be pardoned.
1T is intimased that rebels or sedi-
tious disturbers who cease in their hos
tile attitude, delivering their arms or
other implements of war and lending
obedience to legitimate authority within
"a hours of the publication of this proc
lamation," he said, will remain ex-
empted from penalty, except the au-
thors or chiefs of the rebellion and
sedition and disorder and persons re-
peating the crime"
Comb Seas for Menocal.
The armed forces of the government
sought bv land and sea the slender
figure of Gen. Mario @. Menocal, Cuban
President from 1918 to 1921 and alleged
leader of the movement.
Strict censorship prevented direct com
munication with the interior, but there
were rumors that there had been fight
ing in Pinar del Rio Camaguey and
off lie
the interior department and the palace
itself denied them.
In Pinar del Rio yesterday II men,
among them Menocal's brothers, Fausto
Guatimon and Serafin, and DR.. Ricardo
Dolz, law dean of Havana University
were arrested by rural guards just be-
fore they entered Pinar del Rio City,
allegedly with arms and ammunition In
their automobiles. They we're brought
to Havana and confined in Cabana
Fortress.
Others arrested during the day in
cluded Menocal's son, "Mayito" Santi-
ago Verdeja, former Speaker of the
House and Conservative member from
Havana province,
Clash Fatal to Three.
Revolutionary blood, almost the first
since the 1917 revolt, ran in Havana.
Plain clothes men who sought to
search the residence of Arturo del Pine,
in Luyano suburb, were met by hail
of rife and machine gun fire. When they
entered, after an hours battle, they found
Pine and Felipe Cabeza dead and two
women of the house seriously wounded.
A youth was killed by stray bullets.
Twelve policemen were wounded, three
probably fatally, and five passersby
hurt.
The theory was that Gen. Menocal
and two OF his aides were aboard the
yacht Coral, which sailed from the
Havana Yacht Club Saturday. Mai.
Carrera. chief of police, however, said
he believed Menocal was in Havana.
Arms Smuggling Linked.
Public opinion connected the revolu-
tionary attempt with the recent deten-
ton in New Jersey waters of many
Cubans suspected of having tried to
smuggle arms into Cuba. 1t was ru-
naored three boats actually arrived with
military supplies.
Col. Luis del Rosal, chief of the mill
tary district of Oriente Province, re-
ported that the situation there was
calm, but that district troops were be-
ing concentrated in Santiago to guard
against developments
The newspaper Camagueyanao said
the City and Province of Camaguey
were quiet. except for the arrest OF a
man who had so bombs in his possess
sion and was headed for Santa Clara