Evening star., 1933-08-12
Soldiers Kill the
Head of Secret
Unit.
HERO OF COUP
SPURNS OFFICE
HeraldO De Cuba
Is Burned by.
Throng.
BULLETIN.

HAVANA, Aug uSI IL 'Hl.-h
mob celebrating the ousting Of
President Machado sacked the
lower floor of the presidential
palace this afternoon.
Another mob set fire to the
building of Heraldo de Cuba, a
newspaper which had support
ed the government. The inte-
rior was destroyed.
ThrongS of demonstrators
raided the grounds of the pal
ace, stripping the gardens OF
shrubbery and flowers, with
which they paraded about.
The general staff ordered the
army to occupy Havana and to
patrol the streets for the pur-
pose of restoring order.
All political factions had
agreed earlier that Carlos Man
uel de CeSpedes, former AmbaS-
Sador to the United States,
should be the new President of
Cuba, to succeed the OuSted
Gen. Gerardo Machado.
BY the Associated Press.
HAVANA, August 12-Presi-
dent Gerardo Machado'S resist
ance to combined military and
civilian demands that he sur
render his Office collapsed utterly
today.
While Havana enthusiastically
celebrated the end of the Ma
chado regime, Congress was
called into session this afternoon
to pass on Gen. Machado's re-
quest for a leave of absence.
1t was a fOregone conclusion
that the request would be speed
lily accepted and the way paved
for a chief executive acceptable
to all parties.
In celebration of the success of the
anti-Machado movement, climaxing
efforts that have gone on for years
and that have cost numerous lives,
thousands of Havana residents surged
toward the presidential palace, de-
manding to enter.
The heavy police guard refused to
tomlL tnem.
Col. Jiminez Killed.
One Of the most hated men of the
Machado regime-Col. Antonio jim
inez, chief of the beaded porra. the
Machado secret police-was killed.
Jimenez wounded a man celebrating
the anti-Machado victory and then
turned his gun on group of soldiers.
The soldiers shot him down.
United States Ambassador Sumner
WelleJ, prime mover in the plan O.;
mediation based on the ouSting of Ma
chado, conferred this afternoon with
political leaders over the problem of
selecting a provisional President.
The army, which made possible the
collapse of the Machado regime after
having been its mainStay for years,
took the unusual course of demanding
that the successor to the chief execu-
tives post must not be a military man.
Most groups considered the outstand-
ing possibility to be Col Horacio Fer
rer. who retired from the army in 1928
and is more identified with his pro-
fession of medicine than with military
affairs. But the colonel told the ASso-
ciated Press that he did not desire the
place.
On dependable authority it was
learned that the designations of all
members of the Machado cabinet had
been presented.
Named to Serve Two Hours.
The throngs at the presidential pal
ace denied entrance by the guards,
placed ito rent" sign on the building
and seemed satisfied.
The maneuverings to legalize the sue
cession to the presidency were intricate.
OF war, was named secretary of state
to serve for the two hours from 10
am. until noon, with the understand
ing that then he would yield to a new
president.
The resignation of the Secretary Of
State as well as the President was part
OF the American peace plan in order
to permit the appointment Of a new
Secretary of State acceptable to all
factions who should succeed to the
highest office.
The Presidents decision to retire
from Office followed closely on blood
less coup d'etat by the army last night
in which military units seized fortresses
and other strategic points in Havana
and demanded that Machado get out.
The police, hitherto loyal to the Ma
chado regime, began flocking to the
at the Maximo Gomez Barracks.
Gen. Enrique Loynaz del Castillo
Cuban minister to the Dominican Re-
public, headed a movement aimed al
the selection of Maj Perdomo as thu
new chief of police to replace Chief A
B. Ainciart, who was nowhere to bt
found today.
Army units throughout the islane
shifted to the anti-MachadO forces q!
emphatically as the Havana garrison
The battalions stationed in the Prov
inces of Santa Clara, Matanzas ant
Pinar del Rio officially communicated
their adhesion to the movement to tht
general staff. Similar word was ex
pected from Santiago and Camaguey.
The army's display of strength ir
uptown Havana was withdrawn at mid
night and policemen alone remained
People, happy at the turn OF events
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