Evening star., 1946-01-13
Oman Cabinet Named
By Haitian Junta After
-Four More Lose Lives
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PoRT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan
2.-The military junta tonight
formed a six-man military cabinet
to rule Haiti after four more persons
had been killed in another day of
the disorders which brought about
the custer of President Ellie Lescot.
The death toll since the uprising
began a week ago was estimated
at Is.
Mobs sacked and fired homes,
stores and factories of Lescot sup
porters during the day, while light
tanks and armored scout cars pa
trolled the city attempting to restore
order. The four were killed in a
melee when crowd broke into a
jewelry store, smashed showcases
and carried off loot.
The three-man junta decided to
form the cabinet after a lengthy
consultation with numerous political
factions seeking posts in the gov
ernment. A decree issued shortly
afterward said the multiplicity of
parties made the formation of a
National Union cabinet impossible
at this time.
New Outbursts Reported.
Ominous portents of trouble
emerged today with the appearance
of a liberal, civilian-led committee
of public safety which refused to &C
cept the dominance of the three-man
Junta. New outbursts of violence
were reported.
Crowds were said to have put the
torch to the residence of Gontran
Rouzier, former minister of infor-
nation and police.
Business houses which had re-
opened their doors warily closed
them again as the swelling crowd re-
sumed looting.
Col. Frank Lavaud, one of the
three men making up the junta, said
Lescot and his family were under
strong guard in their hilltop man.
sion, but refused to say whether an
immediate trial would be sought
for Lescot, who now faces possible
exile
Referring to the demand of leftist
and liberal groups for definite date
for the election of a congress, Col.
Lavaud said the elections would be
held as soon as possible.
Pillaging of stores and destruction
of homes which accompanied the
riotous celebration abated late I'M
the day as troops ssgained control of
TIE crowded streets, but scattered
shots still were heard throughout
the city in the at.-4snoon.
The junta, maue up of Col. La
vaud, Maj. Antoine Levelt and Maj
Paul E. Magloire, set itself up in
the Haitian Garde headquarters
which adjoins the presidential pal
ace. They promised widely repre- |
sentative junta cabinet which would
rule until free elections could be
held, guaranteed the safety of
Haitian and foreign institutions,
and pledged "all freedoms necessary
for establishing an entirely demo-
cratic government"
Front Withholds Support.
The leftist Front Democratique
Unite, the first political party to |
appear on the scene here in years,
still withheld its support from the
junta, but reports from the rest of
this tiny, mountainous republic in
dicated a large popular majority
favored the change.
One of the problems facing the
new government will be the franz
ing Of new constitution. Under
the present form of government the
president was elected by the sena-
tors and deputies. They in turn had
taken their orders from Lescot, who
was elected in 1910 to a five-year
term.
In 1914 the legislators had ex-
tended Lescot's term another sew
en- years, after he had served three.
Lescot's regime was looked on by
many as dictatorial The two pre-
vious attempts to unseat him re-
suited in bloody purges.
Hundreds of his political opponents
were jailed during his regime, and
Haitians suffered extreme shortages
of food and other necesSitiee