Evening star., 1932-09-30
CUBAN STUDENTS
|. AND POLICE BATTLE
Gun War Waged on Streets
Follows Sayings Three
Days Ago.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAVANA, September 30-Police and
students engaged in a gun battle today
on the street in front OF the residence
OF Cuban senator. just three days aft
er the assasSinations of four prominent
political leaders by gangs of gunmen.
Two woman bystanders tainted, but
no one was injured The shooting
broke out in front of the home of Sen
ator Wifredo Fernandez and became
a running battle along the streets.
Spread Of rumors that schools were
to be bombed today caused numerous
parents to keep their children at home
It was recalled that today is the
second anniversary Of the death of the
so-called student martyr" Rafael Ire
jo, which was marked on its first an-
niversary in 1881 by various bombings
Official denials were issued to news
papers that the aSSaSSinS of DR.. Glenn
ente Vazquez Bello, president of the
Cuban Senate, had been captured. -Four
unarmed men were being held in con-
nection with the Staying. and it had
been previously said that indentifica-
ton of the Slayers was being concealed
pending the capture of accomplices.
DR.. Octavio ZubiZarreta, secretary OF
the interior, who announced last night
the arrests had been made, said the
men would be accused Of having as
SasSlnated the prominent Liberal leader
who was shot down by bullets from an
automobile which roared past his car
last Tuesday. The names OF the men
were withheld.
The police previously had arrested
Luis Arturo Belt, son of Jorge Belt
register of deeds of Havana. and it was
understood that Belt gave information
that led to the arrest of the others.
Asks for Passports.
Carlos Manuel de la Cruz, leader of
the opposition to President Machado
in the Cuban House of Representatives,
asked for passports yesterday following
upon the outburst of political violence
Tuesday which resulted in the assassi-
nation of one government and four op-
position leaders.
Meanwhile police asserted they had
uncovered a huge dynamite bomb capa-
BILE of inflicting wholesale DEATH in
Colon Cemetery near the spot where
it was originally reported that DR.
Clemente Vazquez Bello would be
buried.
Had he been buried in Colon Gene
terry there would have been a large
gathering of high government officials
near the place where police said they
found the bomb.
Cemetery Employees Arrested.
The reported plot to bomb govern
ment officials in Colon Cemetery re-
suited in the arrest of all employees OF
the burial grounds. Subsequently, how
ever, the prisoners were released, with
the exceptions of Enrique Martinez, en-
gineer; Alfredo Pe.la, supervisor, ano
Manuel Escarza. watchman.
Explosive experts said they had un-
covered % separate mines containing
more than 300 pounds of dynamite. al
controlled by an electrical switch hldder
eight blocks away in Chinese ceme'
terry. ,
This set-up was sufficient to blow tht
entire funeral cortege to death, the ex'
perts declared. They said they nae
found evidence that the mines had peer
| laid for some time, and on this evidence
| they predicated theory that the killing
of DR.. Vazquez Bello was part OF
nlot to wipe out at one blow most O.
| the leaders of the government wh'
| would have been present at the grave
yard ceremony. =. ~,
The body Of the President OF tn
Senate was taken to santa cara, nl
stead of to Colon Cemetery, LOT puriai