The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-02
President of
 Panama Seized
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revolutionaries who slipped into the presidential palace from the balcony of an adjoining house and descended on the loyal police guards from the rear.
 The rebels met Arosemena on the second floor. taking him prisoner and holding him under guard in the palace.
 "I have not resigned and I will never resign" was the statement which Arosemena gave the United Press after the palace was captured. A truck load of United States sol- diers arrived from the Canal Zone to protect the American legation. Amirecan Minister Roy T. Davis conferred with Arias. who was pro- claimed head of the provisional government. Arias is not a member of any political faction.
 Military police guarded the palace | outside and civilian guards occupied the debris filtered and, in some places blood-stained, interior. Wild l'shots damaged the presidential pal ace.
 The movement against the Arose. mena regime was carried out rap- idly during the night by youth full ! insurgents, many of whom did not even know how to handle their rifles. Thousands of persons stood on balconies in their nightclothes, wachtng the frantic gathering of rebel forces in the district where the presidential palace was guarded by police, armed with machine guns l The offices of the Banco Nacional in the presidencia were not molested
 chairs, the safes and papers being untouched.
 | General Preston Brown of the United States army was at the Am erican legation but no troops except military police were on duty in the city. The capital was quiet and stores were being opened, but border guards prevented the departure of Americans from the Canal Zone to Panama City.
 !! The American newspaperman se- verely wounded in a crowd in front of the presidential palace was Hart we'll Ayres, correspondent for Con- solidated Press association and for mer correspondent for the New York Sun. He was shot in the neck, abdomen and hip and removed to the Gorgas hospital in a critical con dition. He is 0 brother of Colonel Harry Ayres, publisher of the An niston, Ala, Star.
 The revolutionary movement ap- parently grew out of wide political dissa tisfaction manifested in recent months. Arias, a non-partisan, has demanded reform of the electoral laws to permit better representation and overthrow what the propositions ists termed "the dictatorship" of the liberal party.
 The revolutionary movement was
 organized and carried out by the Communal Association of Young Men, an organization founded sever years ago for civic improvement. Il
 has about 1000 members. | Believing that United States in tervention - such as has occurred
 previously would be harmful, tho
 leaders planned carefully to take
 possession of the government wher vigilance and the opportunity to take possession of the goverenment Wher
 vigilance and the opportunity tt summon American soldiers from tho canal zone was diminished. The
 revolutionary movement was said tt
 be independent" of the better-knowr
 opposition leaders.
 Minister Davis announced that nc
 United States troops would bt
 brought here unless disorders devel
 Oped. General Brown, who was n
 the legation with his staff. Is com
 manding general in the Panama Ca
 nal department. Governor Harr! Burgess of the canal zone Is now il New York.
 | Will Not Intervene | Washington, January 2 - CUP. I-The state department said toda,
 the United States would not inter
 vene in Panama unless the need fol
 such action to restore order wa! clearly established. Development!
 so far, in the view of officials, dc
 not warrant intervention.