Show SEDITION dictator in bent 3 al f I 1 FULGENCIO BATISTA for hins him two events one ne blessed fulgencio Fulgen clo batista president of at cuba Is a study in contrasts in 1033 ho he organized a revolution squashed the rule of aristocrats at any time thereafter ho he could havo have become president ile he choso chose instead to accept promotion from army sergeant to colonel and head tho the army but under his behind attic thc scenes dictatorial regime cuban citizens had their civil rights extended schools were built peons geons given land and tho the national administration put on oil a business basis last year ba tista alsta decided to seek the presidency ile he could have seized the office with little trouble instead he resigned from the army campaigned in american style and gave the island its quietest election in history but there has been unrest in cuba and the crop of rumors of new revolutions have been on the usual weekly quota last s ummer summer when rotary international held its convention in cuba many delegates were so impressed by the rumors that they went to bed each night tion many of the delegates from the united states came home alarmed they told of nazi penetration in the island how newspapers openly confessed german subsidy how german lotteries were being operated with the winners impressed the largess came from the german government they said german U boats were being supplied along isolated spots of cuban territory the facts may be true or otherwise but many delegates were impressed through it all fulgencio Fulgen clo batista showed no signs of being alarmed then suddenly as this winters tourists were at their height one night they saw sandbags sandbars sand bags being erected around the presidential palace and machine guns being mounted on public buildings batista was holding conference with his leading military commanders batista announced that all civil rights were suspended the following day a cuban army plane landed at miami fla and there alighted col jose E pedraza chief of the cuban army col angel A gonzales commander ln in chief of the navy and col bernardo garcia chief of the national police with them were their families back in havana batista announced they had resigned after ho he caught them in certain unnamed seditious acts civil rights were returned to the people cuba was quiet again there was still more rejoicing the following day senora ellza eliza godl nez de batista Batt sta wife of tho the president gave birth to a daughter in the presidential palace president batista announced immediately that every child born on the island that day would receive a ten pesos apesos note and a five pesos apesos savings acco account in the cuban postal savings an average of babies are born each day in cuba STRIKE but not at once demands for vacations with pay rejected executives of 14 railway labor unions have notified president roosevelt that a vote to strike will be taken during february there will be no strike at once the existing agreement between tho tha unions and the nations class 1 railroads hiring about men provides for mediation machinery but even that period Is likely to be exceeded george al harrison head of a committee of union leaders er 9 said about 30 days will be necessary to take the vote should a strike be authorized by the ballot harrison would fix the date tor for it miscellany C L when jacksonville fla sees snow its a rare day until this year the last flakes were seen in 1936 since 1871 there have been just 10 days on which snowfall was recorded this year Is one for the record snow arriving in thin flakes on february 9 and continuing for almost an hour C e mr and mrs nick brown of fargo a N D became the parents of qu quadruplets quadruple adru ts As commercial offers c came ame in their father went into court and had the family physician and himself named guardians the court also will pass on iny ny contracts or agreements offered by agents C L the larkins and the Wei richs of memphis tenn like to keep their marriages in the family several months ago two of the brothers married two of the larkin larkan girls now hazel last of the larkin girls has married you guessed it virgil last of the delrich boys |