Evening star., 1941-10-17
Cuban Cabinet Asks
Congress 10 Declare
State Of Emergency
Mexican Labor Senator
Coils for Severance Of
Relations With Axis

cabinet extraordinary powers under
the constitution.
The request was generally inter-
preted today as a means to rush new
anti-espionage and defense laws into
effect.
President Fulgencio Batista on
October 10 emphasized that Cuba
needed to aid the Allies and or
ganize her national defense. 1t is
probable that Congress will be asked
to enact compulsory military train
ing.
Break With Axis Demanded.
In Mexico. Labor Senator, Vidal
Diaz Munoz, yesterday demanded
severance Of diplomatic relations
with Germany, Italy, France and
possibly Japan; resumption of rela-
tions with Britain and Russia and
recognition of the Free French gov
ernment. The Senate Foreign Re-
lations Committee took his proposal
under advisement.
Diaz Munoz accused the German
Legation in Mexico of abusing It's
diplomatic privileges and using
diplomatic mails to carry on in
sidious work" in Mexico in accord
with the semi-miltary Sinaquarista
organization that Is planning to
colonize Lower California.
He charged that the Sinaquaristas
were planning a march on Mexico
City similar to the march on Rome
which put the Fascists in power in
Italy in 1922.
Smuggling Plot Traced.
Spurred by the discovery of more
contraband mercury, three govern
ment departments worked today to
trace the ramiflcations of a plot to
smuggle the embargoed war metal
to Japan and to prevent further
leaks to destinations outside the
Western Hemisphere.
The navy department intensified
It's patrol Of the coasts and inaug-
urated new controls of small FISH
ing boats.
Illegal shipment Of mercury from
Mexico, In cases marked bronze
scrap first became a concern when
government officials at Manzanillo,
west coast port. discovered some of
the metal as it was about to be
loaded aboard the japanese steamer
Azuma Maru.
The investigation spread today to
Tampico. where mercury under the
same false label was found In a
railroad car due to be taken to
Manzanillo.
Youth Organization Dissolved.
Panamaa'S new government yes
terday dissolved an organization
called "Cachorros de Urraca," the
department OF education saying Its
similarity with juvenile institutions
of totalitarian tendencies does not
respond to the plan Of restoration
of democracy"
In Washington, Secretary Of State
Hull declared the United States
Government had no connection.
either direct or indirect, with the
Panamanian coup which overthrew
the Nazi-minded and now Jailed
President Arnulfo Arias last week.
The Panamanian Legation in WASH
ington denied that any foreign
nation was involved in the change
of Presidents.
In San Jose, Costa Rica, Ernesto
Jaen Guardia, Panamas s new Am
bassador to Washington. said Arias
had been given choice of remain
ing in Panama land taking the con-
sequences" or leaving the country in
exile.
Jaen Guardia stopped at San Jose
briefly while en- route by plane to
Washington.
Refers to Newspaper Article.
In condemning what he charac-
terized as an attempt to make po-
litical capital" out of the upset in
the Central American republic, Mr..
Hull referred particularly to an ar
ticle appearing in a Washington
newspaper yesterday under the
heading Probes Sought of United
States Part in Coup That Ousted
Arias."
He said he was profoundly
shocked by the glaring inaccuracies
and willful Misrepresentation" of
the article and asserted it was de
plorable that untrue statements of
this character should appear in
print, particularly when they are Of
a character to undermine our ma
tional reputation and give aid and
comfort to forces inimical to the
United States"
Official telegraphic reports re-
ceived from the United States EN-
bassy in Panama during the crisis
in that country show clearly, Mr..
Hull said, that the United States
Government "in no way deviated
from its basic and fundamental
policy Of non-interference in the
internal affairs of the other Amer
lean republics"
"One can only speculate" he add
ed, ION the motives Of uninformed
people who deliberately choose to
express a different Interpretation.
Plot Charged in Chile.
Confronting a restless situation in
SAlAlC, oAAC pOAAoASoA pal tACS WAllSll
elected President Pedro Aguirre
Cerda said they were united in their
determination to thwart "a Rightist
and NaA conspiracy which is under
way"
Nature of the conspiracy was not
disclosed, but the minister of in
terror complained that persons criti-
cizing him for allowing an anti
Nazi demonstration Sunday were
creating a pre-revolutionary at
mosphere."
The Colombian cabinet resigned
after the Chamber of Deputies voted
unanimously to investigate the war
departments sale for $4,000 of a
steamship said to be worth 5000, 900.
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