Evening star., 1933-08-22
ClJBANS ACCLAIM |
: .EX|LES ON RETURN
Nendieta and Penate Hailed
! hy 4O,0OO-Port Workers
Return to Jobs. !
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HAVANA, August 22.-Forty thousand
persons gave a laundering welcome 10
Col Carlos Mendieta and Col. Roberto
Mendez Penate today when tney re-
turned to Cuba from the exile 10 Wnlch
they were sent Tor leading the QUICKLY
suppressed revolt against the Maciiaoo
government of August. 1881.
The return of the two revolutionary
heroes shared Importance with the re-
sumption of normal activity IN havana
Harber. where business hao peeh
psrslyzed by strike when started De
fore the ousting of President Macnaoo;
At Z am. all port WORKERS fetulheu
to their jobs. There were iew Slllait I'ai.
disorders at the Ward and United Fruit
docks but they we're quickly sup
pressed by the harbor police and there
were no arrests and no casualties.
Acclaimed by Thousands.
Col Mendieta and Col. Penate came
hack from New York aboard the MOTTO
Castle From the dock they went
straight to the presidential palace
where they embraced Machaoo SUE
cessor. Provisional President Carlos
Manuel De Cespedes.
With the President they appeared on
q palace balcony and great ShouIs "eL'
nm from the thousands of onlookers
Hhe presidential secretary. Raul DE
~Cardenas, addressed the crowd.
From the palace the returning exlleS
vent to their homes. followed by
caravan of lag-draped automobiies
which passed through lanes OF cheering
Cubans. Many persons had mace Pill
p1fnages from the interior 10 oe
present. ,o,,.,,s+o
Col, Mendieta's organ. reappeared TINS
morning and the edition was Qulckiy
exhausted.
concerning the strike OF haroor
vorkers-which had remained 10 pc
devil the new administration aiter tIle
general strike leading up to the ousting
81 Machado had been terminated
Port Capt. Arturo De Carricarte SAID
.Evervthing is quiet and do not an
tlcipate further trouble.
port workers at a union meeting lasl
night approved motion Gaining Lol
continued pressure to bring ABOUT tHe
deportation of Matthew Molanghy. an
of4iciaI of the United Fruit Co, and an
American citizen. This position was
taken on the ground that he mad stead
fastly opposed the strikers
The government today scrutnl1eu
other problems handed down py the
deposed Machado regime as wen as
Gerardo Machado and MS ioIlowels;
These had to do with mob actlVltles
against the persons and property OF
Machadistas payment Of salaries over
due to IA months. pressing nnanclal
problems and records OF the oFel-
thrown administration.
Members of the B c Secret Society,
soldiers and police continued round
ing up former Machado followers
while the War Department held 70
policv that all IN hiding should sur
render to authorities lest tney De VIC
tins of mob violence.
such a fate befell Julio Heredia. for
mer associate OF MAJ. Arsenlo CrIlh'
who was killed in Santiago, and Luis
sre Spavne. a policeman who was snot
an Palmo Soriano Maj. Ortiz, VINO
was accused of several political Killings,
lis now in Germany.
Former Governor Surrenders.
) Jose r. Barcelo, former governor OF
Oriente Province, surrendered TO SOL
diers who surrounded his house mere:
He was taken to army headquarters ana
questioned Only an A G guard
In Santiago prevented policeman Hech-
evarria from being lynched after ne
had been arrested.
Former Secreary Of War Alberto Her
rera cabled Provisional President de
Cespedes asking guarantees for his
property, but ABC members searcneo
his home for documents relating 10 tne
Machado regime.
They claimed they found papers IN,
dicating the fallen government planneo
to issue paper money to supplement
Cubas metal currency. ostensioiy 1or
paying governmental employees oacA
salaries
An effort to extradite Machado from
the Bahamas was considered lmml-
nent.
Guillermo Urrutia, former commls-
sioner of the Avana Central dlstr1ct,
committed suicide last night In Law.
ton suburb after ABC members and
university students, who accused him
of participating in terroristic acts our
ing the previous regime, surrounoeo LIE
house in which he had hidden.