By R. Hart Phillips
Special to The New York Times

HAVANA, Nov. 1- A plea for suspension of the elections next Monday in various municipalities of Oriente and Las Villas Provinces was rejected by the Superior Electoral Board of Cub late yesterday. Violence is flaring in the five provinces as the rebels led by Fidel Castro try to disrupt the elections called by the Government of President Fulgencio Batista.

The petition was presented by the presidential candidate of the Opposition Free People’s party. Dr. Carlos Marquez Sterling. He alleged that the elections could not be held in certain districts “owing to the grave situation.”

The tribunal also rejected a request from another Opposition Presidential candidate, former President Ramon Grau San Martin of the Cuban revolutionary party, for appointment of two inspectors at each precinct to watch over the counting of the votes.

Meanwhile, despite strict censorship, reports reached Havana of interruptions of highway and rail traffic and of fighting between rebels and Government troops. Senor Castro has ordered his insurgent to halt transportation in the three eastern provinces, where the rebels are firing on every vehicle and train that moves.

The train running between Santo Domingo and Caibarien in Las Villas Province, was derailed Thursday. Yesterday it was fired on by rebels and some casualties are said to have resulted.

Trains have almost stopped running in the northern part of Las Villas during the last few days, one traveler said, because the crews refuse to operate outside of cities.

Señor Castro?s radio at his headquarters in the Sierra Maestra of Orient said last night that the rebels had staged a surprise attack on the military post of Barrancas, just south of Bayamo, field headquarters of the Government troops. The rebels reported heavy army casualties.

Army headquarters here reported yesterday that there was heavy fighting at El Cristo, not far from other sources said fighting also occurred near Banes, in that district.

Lester L. Miller, reported to be an American, died in the hospital at Santiago de Cuba. He had been picked up on the road near El Cristo with a bullet wound.

Telephone and telegraph service is nonexistent in Oriente owing to sabotage. There has been no telephone communication between Havana and Santiago de Cuba for fifteen days.

Señor Castro?s 26 of July revolutionary movement distributed circulars in Havana urging the people not to vote.

The people in Cuba face a period of great uncertainly after Monday?s election.

They will choose a successor to President Batista, governors of the six provinces, a full Senate and House of Representatives and municipal officials. Just how many will vote is a moot question.

The elections are being held under a suspension of constitutional guarantees and with thw press, radio and televison subjected to rigid censorship.

The underground Civic Resistance Movement has appealed to the people of the island to remain in their homes on Election Day and not to vote as a sign of protest against what is termed ?farcical? elections.

Dr. Grau San Martin and Dr. Marquez Sterling have urged the people to vote. Both have accused the four-party Government coalition, whose Presidential candidate is Dr. Andrés Rivero Aguero, of seizing voting permits from people particularly in the three eastern provinces, in an attempt to rig the election.

The Government has taken extensive precautions to see that the elections are held. Voting permits in rural zones have been consolidated and moved to towns where military forces are in control. The Government does not have sufficient troops to protect the 8,363 normal voting precincts.

If the Government coalition wins, as is considered almost a certainty, the revolt in Cuba will continue. Nor will the rebels be pleased if an Opposition candidate should win. Señor Castro has expressed his disapproval of all Presidential candidates.