Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-02
Ten Natives Killed and Score
Injured in Fighting About
PaIace-President Arose
mena Resigns Office.
AMERICAN REPORTER
SLAIN SEEKING NEWS
State Department Sees Interven-
ton Unlikely if Order Is Main
tained-Provinces Yet to Reveal
Stand Toward Uprising in Re-
puhlic's Capital.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PANAMA CITY, January g.
President Arosemena, overthrown
in a sudden revolt this morning,
this afternoon named Harmodio
Arias premier of Panama, then
resigned as President, leaving
Arias at liberty to form a new
cabinet.
This arrangement was reached
in a conference between the Presi-
dent and the revolutionary lead
ers. It leaves Arias and his party
in full charge of the government.
Premier Daniel Ballen also re-
signed, but the status of Vice Pres
ident Tomas Gabriel Duque was
not Immediately ascertained.
The revolutionists captured police
headquarters and established their own
patrol of civilian guards. Another at
tack was directed against the palace
which surrendered after brief Skin
mish
At Least Ten Killed.
At least 10 persons were killed and
a score or so wounded in the fighting
about ire palace and the police station.
Hartwell r Ayers, an American news
pareI correspondent of Atlanta, Ga,
was critically wounded and died later
at Gorgas Hospital.
While political leaders ind repre-
sentativeS Of Spain, Italy, Cuba and
Costa RIGA conferred with Roy Z. DAVIS,
the United States Minister, reports
came from Colon that the governor OF
that province had dispatched 500 Colon
police to support the Arosemena gov
eminent but that the Panama Railway
refused to carry the armed body.
Revolt Is Minimized.
The Colon governor minimized the
Importance of the revolt, attributing 1t
to a comparatively small group OF NAL
contents headed by DR.. Harmodio AriaS,
head of the junta government. He as
serted that all the nine provinces OF
the republic we're loyal to Arosemena.
United States troops were guarding
the legation and patroling the border
but after the first furry Of fighting
there was little disorder.
Francisco Paredss, one OF the leaders
of the revolt, characterized the move
ment as 'lamentable," but declared 1t
had the backing of public opinion
which regards the revolution as an at
tack upon graft and political tyranny.
Ex-President Arrested.
This afternoon the revolutionists ar
rested Rodolfo CHAR. former President,
and generally regarded as a candidate
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CHAR. aide to President Arosemena and
a son of the former President, also was
arrested. They were lodged with other
political prisoners at police mead
quarters.
Minister Davis, with his coat of and
his collar open, was one Of the busiest
men in the city today. He maintained
uninterrupted contact with other mem
beers of the diplomatic corps and rep
resentatives of the revolutionary gov
eminent.
He declined to talk for publication
beyond saying that he and the rest CT
the foreign representatives were OBJ
serving the situation
The rebellion was sponsored by the
"Accion Communal" patriotic organl-
cation which has violently criticized
what it called the corruption" OF the
government under both Presidents
CHAR and AroSemena.
Several other government officers
we're placed under arrest, including
Archibaldo Boyd, governor Of the Prov
tnce of Panama, and Ricardo Arrange,
head of the police.
The whereabouts Of Vice President
Tomas Gabriel Duques was not known
but it was believed that he had escaped
to safety. The second vice president
Carlos Lopez, also was believed TO nave
escaped to the Canal Zone.
After the first attacks had succeeded
armed civilians associated with the
revolutionists patrolled the city undel
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