Strenuous Cuba

Police confiscated the entire issue of the Havana newspaper El Heraldo which had been attacking the Machado government. The Government had refused to honor a bill for $1,107,966.22 presented by a certain company for installing pavement and a sewage system in the city of Matanzas. Carlos Govea, a member of the contracting firm, is editor of El Heraldo and had been saying what he thought of the government until the Interior department ordered his paper suppressed.

Next morning at 1 a.m. Armando Andre y Alvarado, owner of the newspaper El Dia was motoring home. Like Senor Govea he had been a vigorous opponent of the Machado administration. In fact Senor Andre, who was Captain of port police under the Zayas administration lost his job the day the Machado administration took office and on the same day began to attack the administration through El Dia. As he reached his home shortly after 1 a.m. last week, a white man and a Negro suddenly shot him down on the sidewalk. His murderers were sought.