Evening star., 1941-10-09
Nazi Leanings
Laid 10 Arids;;
wChiefSworn
First Successor
Quits, Another Is
Named; Paper Closed
BULLETIN.

HAVANA, Cuba (P).-Arnulfo
Arias declared here today he
was greatly surprised" by his
replacement as President Of
Panama and that he had eX-
pected to return.
BY the Associated Press.
PANAMA, Oct. 9.-Panama's
reputedly Nazi-minded President,
DR.. Arnulfo Arias, has fed the
country, and the Mayor of Pam
ANA, Nicolas Ardito Barletta, re-
garded as the strong man of his
administration, has been arrest
ed in shift of the executive
power.
City police were held in their
barracks late today against a pos
sible surprise uprising against the
change.
Not single policeman appeared
on the street and there were no
reports of incidents to mar the at
mosphere of seeming calm.
The staff of the newspaper La
Tribuna was reported arrested this
morning at its editorial Offices and
the entire plant closed. This paper
was Arias' organ.
Successor Quits.
First the Panama Supreme Court
swore in the republics Second Vice
President, Ernesto Jaen Guardia,
who promptly appointed a cabinet.
Then within few hours that
cabinet issued a manifesto declar-
ing that Jaen Guardia had resigned
and that Minister of Government
Adolfo De La Guardia, who held
that Office both under Arias and in
the new cabinet. had been called
on by the cabinet to assume the
executive power.
The manifesto said the Supreme
| Court had administered the oath of
Office to De La Guardia. He was
the ranking member of the cabinet.
He retained the same cabinet
that Jaen Guardia had appointed
| except that Habramilo De La
| Guardia assumed the portfolio of
government and justice which the
new President vacated. The re.
mainder of the cabinet follows:
Octavio Fabrega, foreign affairs.
Victor Florecion Goytia, public
| education.
J. A. Sosa, finance.
Manuel Pine, public works and
hygiene.
Ernesgo Fabrega, commerce and
| industry.
Arias fled in secrecy, apparently
under political fire of a faction
favoring collaboration with the
United States. So secret was his
airplane flight at $50 am. Tuesday
that his departure was not revealed
until Jaen Quardia was sworn in.
The court swore in Guardia after
holding that the first vice president,
Jose E. Pezet could not be found.
In fact the court was about to
| swear De La Guardia because of
the absence of all three vice presi-
dents. The third vice president Is
Anibol .Rios.
Guardia Shows Up in Time.
Guardia. however appeared. He
had come from Mexico.
The Supreme Court said that con-
sidering:
First, that DR.. Arnulfo Arias,
President of the republic. has ab-
sented himself suddenly, leaving
vacant the post he had held:
| Second. that it has been unable
to ascertain the whereabouts of the
First Vice President who should as
sumo the executive power;
Third, that it is not possible or
convenient for the interests of the
country that the post of Chief
Executive should continue vacant,
(the COURT agrees: To call the
Second Vice President in order that
he may assume the executive power
and discharge its duties in accord
ance with the constitution"
Neither Arias' motives for leaving
the country nor events leading up
to the development were clear, but
the little republic was quiet.
His foes accused him of being
(see PANAMA, Page 2-X0