Evening star., 1933-08-20
CUBAN VIOLENCE
BREAKS OUT ANEW
0ne Is Killed as Dock Work
sas Resist Mediation
Efforts.
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undetermined number Of enlisted men
awaited investigation Of their army rec
ords under Machado, while at Principe
Prison were some half hundred alleged
'Porristas," members of the Machado
strong arm squad. and former Secretary
OF the Interior Octavio Zubizarreta with
his son.
ZubiZarreta appeared at the general
staff last night to ask that he and his
son be gotten safely out of Cuba. Lieut..
Col Erasko Delgado refused, placing
them under arrest.
Three men high in the ranks of Ma
chados liberal party, Senator Carlos
Guas and his two sons, former House
President Rafael Guas and Represent
ative Gregorio Guas, got safely away
from Cuba early today aboard the
United Fruit steamer Turrialba
Secretary of War Demetrio Castillo
Pokorny said council of officers will
be named shortly to investigate charges
against the army men under arrest. If
evidence of guilt is found, he said, the
accused men will be submitted promptly
to court-martial.
Ortiz Ordered to Return.
Secretary Castillo also confirmed, for
the first time, reports that Maj. Arsenic
Ortiz, now in Europe, had been ordered
to Cuba and, failing to return imme-
diately, would be declared deserter.
Ortiz, once charged in Santiago
civil courts with participation in at
least 5 of the 40 and more political
assassinations occurring in Oriente
Province during 1881, when he was mil
jtqrV C1lnprViSnr there pOt from
Cuba July IA.
Lieut.. Col. EraSmo Delgado. investi-
eating Ortiz operations against rebels
in Santa Clara in May of this year, re-
ported that the tall, burly officer had
had three watchmen executed at Jati-
bonico, Santa Clara. Ortiz sailing for
Europe was generally admitted to have
been decided on to avoid the necessity
Of court -martialling him, since Amer
lean employers of the dead watchmen
had protested vigorously to United
States Ambassador WelleS.
Secretary Castillo said Capt. Manuel
Crespo, former captain of the palace
guard stationed at Atares Castle also
would be declared a deserter within a
day or so.
Crespo fled with President Machado
to Nassau by airplane after the army
coup that toppled the former from his
seat in the presidential palace.
10000 at Funeral.
Despite a constant downpour. ap-
proximately 10000 persons gathered
at Colon Cemetery this afternoon for
the funeral of Felix Alpizar, student
Margarito Iglesias, labor leader. and
Miguel Angel Hernandez. army SER
geant, whose bodies we're found yester-
day at Atares Fortress in search made
by members of the A B c and army off,
GERS. Traffic in streets nearby the
cemetery was blocked
Soldiers digging at Atares found the
bodies Of four men who had opposed the
Machado regime and paid with their
lives for it. The digging went on to-
day, efforts of the Workmen being di-
rected by chart in possession of the
a c which, it was reported. were
obtained from prisoners formerly held
at AtareS
Welles Asks Public Order.
United States Ambassador WelleS,
who intimated mediatory proceedings
that preceded Machado'S downfall, to-
night issued statement in Spanish de-
claring the chief present needs were
maintenance of public order and guar
antees for life, property and all indi-
vidual rights by authorities of the
government"
He recommended that none but legal
means and civil courts be employed
to try and punish persons accused of
homicide or misconduct in the dis
charge of their duties.
The security of the Republic of
Cuba cannot be assured until public
opinion insists that only tc the gov
eminent of Cuba does the maintenance
of order and punishment of the guilty
belong" he said.