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2 Col. Arthur Wood* of New York, who la chairman of the President's emergency cornmltlee on relief of unetn-
p ,-nt :t Mr». Keith Miller of AtiHtriilln, veteran svlntrlx, at the eompletloii of her flight from Los Angeles
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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Dr. Getulio Varga* Become*
the New President of
Brazilian Republic.
By EDWARD W. RICKARD
fyRFKTED everywhere by cheering
vJ throngs and showered wdth flow-
ers, l)r. (letullo Varga* made s trium-
phal progress from southern Hrur.ll.
through Kao I’snlo to Rio de Janeiro,
and aasumed tha presidency of Ids
country. "’Ida waa the culmination of
the revolutionary movement which he
had ao skilfully led. The military
Junta that took over the government
In Itio when provident Washington
Lola resigned under compulsion speed-
ily settled the Impending quarrel among
the various leaders of the rebellion
and selected Vargas as the new Presl
dent, lie was a candidate for that
office In the last elect), n, In whhdi
Julio Prestos was victorious, and his
supporters rial mod he was defeated
hy fraudulent count of the votes.
Following Vargas up to Itlo were
thousands of his revolutionary troops,
mainly gauchoa, rough eavulrymen, un-
shaven, tunnei) and clad In khaki and
wide brimmed tints. The other armies
of the movement also gathered In the
capital city and plan* were made for
s grent military parade on Novem-
ber IN, the forty second anniversary
of the republic.
A proclamation Issued early In the
week said In part:
“The government headed by Doctor
Vargas will direct the republic of
llrnr.il without any promises and In
accordance with the program of the
Liberal alliance. The duration of Doc
tor Vargas’ government, which will lie
its constitutional as possible, will he
for an undetermined period, until the
public life of Hrar.il has been recon
•trurted."
The final hours of the revolution
were marked by considerable violence
and dls. rd r. In Hh. a detachment of
troops tried n Inst resistance which
was quickly quelled with bloodshed
There was much rioting In various
cities, especially In Sao I’aillo where
molts hurried Camhucy prison and lib
crated nil the prisoner* and nl-o the
gambling places and polltlcpr clubs.
less partisan. Such an agency la the
public lands committee of the senate.
It Is quite apparent that the public
lands committee will Initiate an Inves-
tigation ns soon as congress meets. It
will lie time then, we suggest to Mr.
Hoover, to determine precisely how
‘reckless, baseless, and Infamous' Mr.
Kelley's charges are.”
/"''olNVlDINO with the celebration of
^ Navy day In the I'nlted Stales, the
London three power naval treaty wa*
put Into effect will) the formal de
positing of the ratifications of tire sig
nntory powers In the Hrltlsh foreign
office. Prime Minister McDonald,
Foreign Minister Henderson, American
Ambassador Dawes and Japanese Am-
bassador Mutsndalra look part In the
ceremony, while the wrench and Italian
amhassador* looked on. To mark the
event. President Hoover und Hie prime
ministers of (ireat llrltaln and Japan
exchanged felicitations, which were
broadcast to the world hy radio. Mr.
Hoover expressed the hope that the
limitation* effected at London would
he followed soon hy further reduc-
tions In naval armaments; and both
he and Mr. MacDonald urged France
und Duly to an agreement *>> the pact
cult be made a five-power treaty.
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rMtANCD ITALIAN relation* were
r not Improved during the week, for
Premier Mussolini took advantage of
the eighth anniversary of the march
of the FaaelNtl on Rome to Indulge
In another of hi* provocative attack*
on Ills neighbors He Said Fascist
Italy Is surrounded by enemies und
that a slate of “moral warfare" al
ready has been declared ngainsl It In
preparation for military war. He dis-
played a little hook In which, he said,
“I* noted down the day h.v day military
preparation* of IP27, 11128, 111211 and
IIKKI against Italy, long before niy
speeches at Leghorn, Florence and
Milan. Here I* a complete list of list
terle* placed, fort* constructed and
armament* created and put In place."
This, of course, referred to the
formidable chain of fortresses and
machine gun nest* which the French
are constructing on their east i rti
frontier, recently described 111 ill*
patches from Paris. In the course of
Ills speech the duee clearly revealed
the fact that Italy ha* lined tip with
the tuitions that Were Its enemies In
the World war In their demand that
the peace treaties he revised and the
League of Nations covenant be re
shaped.
A l T 1 I II llt.d.-rst , r, i a -1 . 'la! i"t
v v Pr* - dent Hoover denounced as
"Infttmeiis" the oil *hnle land charges
made against the Department of the
Interior tty Ralph S. Kelley who was
an employee of the laud office, which
charges were declared unfounded hy
the Department of Justice after an
Investigation. The President asserted
the whole affair was "an attempt to
charge odious scandals to this admin
1st ration." and he was especially
severe on the New Turk World which
published Kelley’s story In serial form
The publication, he said, was pur
poaelv delayed to he made In the midst
of the political campaign, though
Kelley negotiated the sale of hi* story
to l he World In the summer.
“As n piece of Journalism It may
Well tie that the newspaper Involved
wus minted," went on the President.
‘It certainly does not represent the
practices of better American Journal
lam As n piece of politic* It Is cer-
tainly far below the Ideals of political
partisanship hold hy suhstantinl nten
In that party."
In reply the World snld : “The ar-
ticles themselre* were replete with
specific facta, name*, dates, and fig-
ures. They raised question* which
seemed to the World at the time and
■till seem to the World to call for ex-
haustive Investigation. The only In
vestlgatlon which they have Mad Is a
brief survey into Secretary Wilburs
department conducted hy an Agent of
one of Secretary W'ifrqr's colleague*
In Mr. Hoover's cabinet Tlds agent
ha* denied the to curio v of Mr Kel-
ley's charges. Mr. Kelley, speaking
a* the former expert of the govern-
ment and xpenklrig on the ha-l* of hi*
2ff years of honest service to the gov
eminent, has repeated hi* charge*.
"It seems to os that the-. , :.urges
call for a more thorough Investlga
tlon than they hava yet received by
•n agency whose motlvee are perhaps
r"1 FILM ANT'S Fascists in the retell*
^ j tag met with defeat when the
foreign affairs committee rejected their
motion* demanding that tJcrmaoy can
eel the Versailles treaty and linmedl
atelv reuse all reparation* under the
Voting plan. The committee adopted a
motion presented !>v Doctor luiugh
representing the Herman People's
party, requesting the government to
take all step* necessary to Induce
other signatories of the Versailles
treaty to fulfill the pledge to disarm.
Run Tafarl apvnf *2 dot UK* l of hi*
own money for crowns, rotie*. car*
rlagas, triumphal arches and other
paraph •rnaliti, and the expenditures
of the government were as much, so
there wa* no lack of splendor or en-
tertainment. Many other ruler* Rent
handsome coronation present*. Presi-
dent Hoover'* gift, In accordance with
the American custom, was an auto-
graphed photograph of himself.
Modern Abyssinian* claim tliolr first
king wit* Orl, or Aram, son of Khem
and grandson of Noah; and Kmpernr
Selassie trace* III* descent front Solo-
natn and the (Jueen of Ktielm. making
hla dynasty the olde*t royal bouse In
the world.
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I’upll* of the moonlight school* of Hamilton county, Tennessee, ranging
years, visited President Hoover at the While llollMe ami presented him with
mountaineer* had never ridden on a truln before their trip to the Cupltal.
lug u box of *wect pot a toe* und preserve* to the Chief Executive.
lu age from sixteen to eighty four
a sheaf of teller*. Many of the H*!
Mr*. Fanny Clurk Is shown present*
Mescued From Sea;
Reveals Weird Pact
The Passengers in Ill-Fated
Steamer Tahiti Sign
Suicide Agreement
IT WAS roughly eatlmated Inst week
I that fund* totaling nearly a billion
dollar* had already been mohlllr.ed to
relieve the unemployment situation hy
providing work for the Jobless. Ity
section*, the Pacific const lead* with
about $47N,fM*i.(Mkt, and the Middle
West cornea next with I2HN,<**U**).
For II* part the government I* push-
ing ahead many public work* projects,
ordered the employment of some 2.V),*
ikki extra tnen by the Post office de-
partment during the holiday ru*h and
slopped die dropping of employee* at
naval stations. The President's emer-
gency committee on unemployment,
headed hy Col. Arthur Woods, Is hard
at work co-ordinating the efforts of all
governments and organisations.
The size of the Job confronting fed-
eral, state and municipal ngetMie* deal-
ing with unemployment was Indicated
in a forecast by the American Federa-
tion of Labor Hint N.i**M**i person*
were threatened hy Idleness this win-
ter. t»n the basis of this estimate the
federation said 2ti,<**l,ik*i persons —
om-slxth of the entlie population—
were threatened with acute need dun
ing the cold niotiih*.
I FADIN'!! ph’ macnloglsts of the
world gathered In St. Lottl* ami
held a two-day celebration of the ter-
centenary of the llrst recognized use
of quinine. The hark was used in
Hilttl to cure the malaria of .Imtn Lo-
pez Cant rat res, it Spanish statesman.
Among those attending the meeting
was Dr. M Kerbosch, director of Hie
government cinchona plantation in
Java and considered the world's ex
pert on natural sources of quinine.
C IVAllK head hunters who Inhabit
the mountainous region In the een-
New York.—Another chapter of a
I moving sen epic was written when
I Mrs. Hetty Lilly, survivor of the ill
1 fated Tahiti, described the lust hour*
; on hoard the doomed Royal Mall litter.
And for Hie llrst time the story of
a weird suicide pact, Nlgned by six
passenger* of the •liiklng vessel, cattle
I to light.
The pact Itself wit* lost In the sen
the day the Tahiti sank. The pnsaen
gers who signed It have since sep-
arated and are now scattered all over
Hie globe. Hut Mrs. Lilly, one of Hie
six member* of the Tuhltl's suicide
elub, tell* the tHle.
Took Vow at Last Meal,
"It was ut our last bit# fnsi aboard
| ship, she explained. ‘‘Ae all knew
that the command to nhHiidon ship
would come In a few minute*.
“Near tye there were a doctor, a
scientist mid three other passenger*;
and 'Vv began to talk about the future
—wlmt would happen when the vessel
went down, and what death would
he like.
"Visions of horrible (hirst, of gnaw-
ing hunger, of lying for day* on the
Mistering bottom of a lifeboat, rose
before us—or the alternative, throw-
ing ourselves overboard to lie eaten
hy sharks,
"We nil decided Hint sudden death
would he a thousand time* better than
i perishing Inch Itv Inch of heat and
thirst, so we formed our suicide club.
"We agreed that once we were at
sen Jn lifeboat* and hope seemed gone,
vve would take poison am! die quick-
ly. The doctor and the scientist dealt
out veronal to ns, and we were pre-
wired for anything.
"Even while we were waiting to go
over the Tahiti's side we discussed
ink ng our drops, but we decided to
wait and sc" what would turn up.
It's a good thing we did, or the mod-
ern South sea epic would huve had
a different ending," site said.
Praia** Craw.
“It wns an epic, too," she went on.
"The officera and men- even the pa*
senger* of Tahiti—are heroes," the
Eagllslt woman declared.
"I have Hie signature of all the offi-
cer* here," and she held up a canvas
rectangle with name* • scrawled on It
in Ink. “Thl* la a piece of my life-
belt, which I wore for sixty hour*.
When we got to the Ventura I asked
the officers of the Tahiti to *lgn It."
Of the hysterics. Hie frenzied
prayers, the wild weeping that passen-
ger* of doomed ships are supposed to
give way to, Mrs. Lilly saw nothing.
"Thu passengers were culm—almost
too calm." she said, reliving the fate-
ful hours when she, with more than u
hundred others, faced death lu Hie
.South seas.
"It wasn't till we got to the Ven-
ter of Formosa have revolted against
their Japanese rulers and gone on the
warpath Recent dispatches say they
have kill.-.| many scores >,f Japanese
and peaceful natives and destroyed
some villages. The war office In
Tokyo sent large detachments of
troops to help the Island {aillce, hut
they had a difficult Job on their hands,
for It was almost Impossible to get ut
the savage* in their stronghold*.
DO 500000oooooooooooooooooo
I
turn Hint they broke up," *be de*
scribed, "then they wont all to pieces.
Streams, and wild laughter—yell*
echoed along Hie decks, hut It wa* alt
over then. They went to sleep, Htul
wh.'ti they woke up the world wa*
bright, and they were on their way
home."
She held up a sheet of cnrdttoard.
It wa* marked "Menu, II. M. K. Ta-
hiti. Sunday, August 17"—the day the
Tahiti sank. Frlnled when the boat
was going down. It was an ordinary
menu, except that at Its bottom waa
printed, "Hal Ora," Maori for "Fat-a-
ye well." It hears mule testimony ti»
the high morale on the water-logged
ship.
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Wanted—A Department
lloquiuin, Wash.- A civic oversight
will lie remedied here when the city
council creates a water department.
K. J. Austin wa* appointed water
superintendent last October, hut to
date no department has been created
for him to supervise.
Boy Hang* Self
Albert Lea, Minn.—Joseph Johnson,
fifteen, hanged himself in the base-
ment of hi* home here hy Jumping off
a chair after tying a noose to a beam.
Ills mother found the body.
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Plenty of Time on His Hands
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I'lill nil. ; I •■ < 1 e>q,', .iMy (.rent llrlt-
a In, was deeply Interested In a
conference In Angora participated in
by Fresldent Kelain I’ssha of Turkey,
I rentier fount Ret Men of Hungary
and Premier Velttzelos of Hreeee.
While the parley was limited Upon a*
a good augury for future pence In the
near east. It nN« was thought the
three nations might he getting ready
to Join Hie concerted action for re
vision of the peace treaties. flreeoe
and Turkey. It was said, w.re dis-
cussing a treaty of naval limitation
and would sign friendship and com-
mercial pHCt S.
A DIMS Alt A HA. capital of Ethiopia
i* lu-t-., r known to tts a* Abys-
sinia VV.'I* the scene of a gorge,«»*
ceremony on November 2. Ho* Tiifurl,
••elf styled "Inheritor of the Throne
or l >nv Id. King of Kings and Anointed-
of r;»d," on that day mounted the
throne as Emperor Halle Selassie t,
being the ICWth sovereign of ttiat em-
pire. A few days previously he had
killed a Ron, for Ethiopian tradition
I* that no man l« fit to rule the state
or command warriors until he ha* |>er
formed thnt feat.
For a week or more deputation*
from other nations and tourists from
tunny land* had been gathering and
the state and religious official* had
been preparing for the great event.
|_| ARRY PAYNE WHITNEY, one of
* ^ the best known atl'l best liked of
America's wealthy sportsmen, died at
his home In New York after an Illness
of several weeks, hi the age or if!y-
elghl years. Mr. Whitney Inherited a
large fortune from hi* father, who
amalgamated surface railways, und hy
assiduous work Increased Ihl* lo n
vift fortune possibly $'_t * l,l*NI,t*MI.
He nlso devoted much lime and money
to yachting, racing and p,,|n plityl.
Hi* stable was one of the finest In the
country and tils horse* won many Im-
portant races.
(itt,er* who passed away were Mr*.
.1 It McKee, daughter of the late
President Benjamin Harrison; Dean
W II Hutton, of Winchester, England,
a noted scholar; Rear Admiral C. W.
Dyson, lT S, N.. famous designer of
marine engines, ami Edward II (Snap-
per) Harrison, once the premier Jockey
of America.
Infant Ha* Plenty
of Grandmother*
Warner, N. II.- Rita May
Freeman, Imro recently ut Con-
cord. ha* lots of grandmothers.
There Is Hrandmother Mil-
dred E. Annis, thirty-seven.
There Is Hreat grandmother
Norn C. White, fifty seven.
There Is tirntidiuother Mil-
dred Ella Lewis, seventy.
Ami there Is (ireat great-great
grandmother Laura Sweet, nine-
ty two.
Charles I’. Ruetlm-r I* the clock expert for the I'nlted states treasury In
Washington, t. 1* lit* duty to see Hist nearly !»*> clocks are kept In |ierfect
running order, lie I* shown in thl* photograph with a Clock that baa been
keeping good time for the treaaury since 1832.
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Model Playhouse Rise* on Site of
What Once Was Haunt
of Cutthroat*.
'TMIIRTY men were killed by an ex-
1 plosion In a coal mine at McAles-
ler. Okl*.. most of them being en-
tombed beyond tfnpe of recovery. In
(lermany a similar disaster near Frled-
rlchstahl was fatal to 107 miners.
A|ltS. KEITH MILLER of Australia,
iVJ „n nvlatrlx of much exper.ence,
set a new mark for women dyer* to
aim at when she flew from Los An-
geles to Valley Stream, N. Y., In 21
hours anil 47 minute*. One of thl*
lady's previous flights waa from Eng-
land to Australia.
i* t*i*. Wote* *iwtssssr Ciktl
London —Seven f ! tl», once the
hnunt of cutthroat* and Informer*,
now house* London'* newest and most
beautiful theater. The Cambridge the-
ater, recently opened with Beattie*
l.lllle and "Chariot's Masquerade.”
ha* risen on the »lte of shut waa
once a notorious slum.
In architecture a ,d modernity of
equipment It Is, Indeed, a theater thnt
can he ranked with tbe new Pigalle
theater b. Pari* and the Berlin I’fa
1Tb*versnm. The principal objects In
It* construction have been to provide
the maximum comfort and beauty. It
can seat 1,200 persona, all of whom
can see the stage.
It la rlulmed that the decorative
scheme la pne of the most modem
that designer* have bee* able to pre-
duee and yet there have been no com-
plaint* about It* being too eccentric
or tott futuristic. It ha* aptly been
described a* the flr*t thenter to be
produced here lu the "functionalist"
manner.
So completely ha* the comfort of
every patron been studied that every
alternate stall, as the orchestra seat*
are called here, I* provided with an
electric light and ash tray, enabling
one te study the program during the
performance when the house light*
•re out or dimmed. The entrance
halls, foyer* nnd bars represent the
last word tn luxurious appointment*.
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Warrant* Inquiry ’Jf'
Martlnsburg. W. V*.—William II.
Perry s expense accon.,t In hla cam-
paign for school commissioner showed
one Rem as follows: "(>m soft drink
for prospective supporter. *0.0(4"^
Swede* Send Son* Home
LTnowT^u°i^lDtoeater I
elgn legion, hut it Is made tip of eon*
of emigrants wba# wish their heirs
to keep the Swedish nationality and
therefore send them here to perform
their military service.
Some of these boy* hardly know
Swedish. Thu* a conscript by thw
name of Dahl, born In Tangier, I* now
enrolled In the Itoyal Sven liodyguard
and a Spanish born lad named Qlaa
la In the same regiment.
The machine gun company hat
three young Swedes, born In Finland,
and from Egypt there are always
some recruits. In Egypt there are no
taxes for Swedish subjects, dua to
the "capitulation" system.
Old Carvings Found in Russia
Irkutsk, Siberia.—-Carvings eatl*
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m„«>l I.) K-l.ntlaM I. b. at !->■[ 3u,. _
(If*) years old were found hy exesva- ™
tors near here. They are atatuettee of
mammoth bon*, representing female
figures, and possessing considerable
artistic mertL
ism
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