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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Dr. Getulio Vargas Eecomes the New President of Brazilian Republic. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Gi:t;!'71'KD everywhere by cheering throngs and showered with (lowers, (low-ers, Dr. Getulio Vargas made a trium-. trium-. phal progress from southern Brazil, through Sao Paulo to Ilio de Janeiro, and assumed the presidency of his country. This was the culmination of the revolutionary movement which he had so skilfully led. The military junta that took over the government in Rio when President Washington Luis resigned under compulsion speedily speed-ily settled the impending quarrel among the various leaders of the rebellion and selected Vargas as the new Presl dent. He was a candidate for that office in the last election, in which Julio Prestes was victorious, and his supporters claimed he was defeated by fraudulent count of the votes. Following Vargas up to Rio were thousands of his revolutionary troops, mainly gauchos, rough cavalrymen, unshaven, un-shaven, tanned and clad In khaki and wide brimmed hats. The other armies of the movement also gathered In the capital city and plans were made for a great military parade on November Novem-ber 15, 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 Brazil without any promises and In accordance with the program of the Liberal alliance. The duration of Doctor Doc-tor Vargas' government, which will be as constitutional as possible, will be for an undetermined period, until the public life of Brazil has been reconstructed." recon-structed." The final hours of the revolution were marked by considerable violence and disorder. In Rio a detachment of troops tried a last resistance which was quickly quelled with bloodshed. There was mueh rioting in various cities, especially in Sao Paulo where mobs burned Cambucy prison and liberated lib-erated all the prisoners and also the gambling places and political clubs. WITH understandable Indignation President Hoover denounced as "Infamous" the oil shale land charges made against the Department of the Interior by Ralph S. Kelley who was an employee of the land otfice, which charges were declared unfounded by the Department of Justice after an Investigation. The President asserted the whole affair was "an attempt to charge odious scandals to this admin istration," and he was especially severe on the New York World which published Kelley's story in serial form. The publication, he said, was purposely pur-posely delayed to be made In the midst of the political campaign, though Kelley negotiated theale of his story to the World In the summer. "As a piece of journalism it may well be that the newspaper involved" was misled," went on the President. "It certainly does not represent the practices of better American journalism. journal-ism. As a piece of politics It Is certainly cer-tainly far below the Ideals of political partisanship held by substantial men in that party." In reply the World said: "The articles ar-ticles themselves were replete with specific facts, names, dates, and figures. fig-ures. They raised questions which seemed to the World at the time and still seem to the World to call for exhaustive ex-haustive Investigation. The only investigation in-vestigation which they have had Is a brief survey into Secretary Wilbur's department conducted by an agent of one of Secretary Wilbur's colleagues in Mr. Hoover's cabinet. This agent has denied the accuracy of Mr. Kelley's Kel-ley's charges. Mr. Kelley, speaking as the former expert of the government govern-ment and speaking on the basis of his 25 years of honest service to the government, gov-ernment, has repeated his charges. "It seems to us that these charges call for a moro thorough Investigation Investiga-tion than they have yet received by an agency whose motives are perhaps less partisan. Such an agency Is the public lands committee "of the seriate, it Is quite apparent that the public lands committee will Initiate an investigation inves-tigation as soon as congress meets. It will he time then, we suggest to Mr. Hoover, to determine precisely how reckless, baseless, and infamous' Mr. Kelley's charges are." COINCIDING with the celebration of Navy day In the United Stales, the London three power naval treaty was put into effect with the formal depositing de-positing of the ratifications of the signatory sig-natory powers in the British foreign oliice. Prime Minister SI. Donald. Foreign Minister Henderson, American Ambassador Dawes and Japanese Ambassador Am-bassador Malsuthiira took part in the ceremony, while the vrench and Italian ambassadors looked on. To mark the event, President Hoover and the prime ministers of Great Britain and Japan exchanged felicitations, which were broadcast to the world by ratlin. Mr. Hoover expressed the hope that the limitations effected at London would be followed soon by further reductions reduc-tions in naval armaments; and both he and Mr. MacDonald urged France and Italy to an agreement so the pact can be made a five-power treaty. FRANCO-ITALIAN relations were not improved during the week, for Premier Mussolini took advantage of the eighth anniversary of the march of the Fascist! on Rome to Indulge in another of his provocative attacks on his neighbors. He said Fascist Italy is surrounded by enemies and that a state of "moral warfare" already al-ready has been declared against It in preparation for military war. He displayed dis-played a little book in which, he said, "is noted down the day by day military preparations of 1027, 1928, 1929 and 1930 against Italy, long before my speeches at Leghorn, Florence and Milan. Here is a complete list of batteries bat-teries placed, forts constructed and armaments created and put In place." This, of course, referred to the formidable chain of fortresses and machine gun nests which the French are constructing on their easttrn frontier, recently described in dis patches from Paris. In the course of his speech the duce clearly revealed the fact that Italy has lined up with the nations that were Its enemies in the World war In their demand that the peace treaties be revised and the League of Nations covenant be reshaped. re-shaped. GERMANY'S Fascists in thereichs-tag thereichs-tag met with defeat when the foreign affairs committee rejected their motions demanding that Germany cancel can-cel the Versailles treaty and Immedl . ately cease all reparations under the Young plan. The committee adopted a motion presented by Doctor Daugh. representing the Germnn People's party, requesting the government to take all steps necessary to Induce other signatories of the Versailles treaty to fulfill the pledge to disarm. EUROPE, and especially Great Britain, Brit-ain, was deeply Interested In a conference in Angora participated In by President Kelam Pasha of Turkey. Premier Count Bethlen of Hungary and Premier Venizelos of Greece. While the parley was looked upon as a good augury for future peace In the near east. It also was thought the three nations might be getting ready to join the concerted action for r vision of the peace treaties. Gree.-c and Turkey, it was said, were discussing dis-cussing a treaty of naval limitation and would sign friendship and commercial com-mercial pacts. A DDIS ABABA, capital of Ethiopia ii better known to us as Abyssinia Abys-sinia was the scene of a gorgetius ceremony on November 2. Ras Tafarl self styled "Inheritor of the Throne of David, King of Kings Knd Anointed of God," on that day mounted the throne as Emperor Halle Selassie I being the KMjth sovereign of that empire. em-pire. A few days previously he had killed a lion, for Ethiopian tradition Is that no man Is fit to rule the state or command warriors until he has performed per-formed that feat. For a week or more deputations from other nations and tourists from many lands had been gathering and the state and religious ollielals bad been preparing for the great event Ras Tafarl spent 2,000,000 of his own money for crowns, robes, carriages, car-riages, triumphal arches and other paraphernalia, and the expenditures of the government were as much, so there was no lack of splendor or cn-terlalnnient. cn-terlalnnient. Many other rulers sent handsome coronation presents. President Presi-dent Hoover's gift. In accordance with the American custom, was an autographed auto-graphed photograph of himself. Modern Ahysslnians claim their first king was Ori, or Aram, son of Shem and grandson of Noah; and Emperor Selassie traces his descent from Solomon Solo-mon and the Queen of Sbeba, making bis dynasty the oldest royal house In the world. JS. IT WAS roughly estimated last week that funds totaling nearly a billion dollars had already been mobilized to relieve the unemployment situation hy providing work for the Jobless. Bisections, Bi-sections, the Pacific coast leads with about $475,000,000, and the Middle West comes next with $285,000,000. For its part the government Is pushing push-ing ahead many public works projects, ordered the employment of some 2fi0,-000 2fi0,-000 extra men by the Post Oliice department de-partment during the holiday rush and stopped the dropping of employees at naval stations. The President's emergency emer-gency committee on unemployment, headed by Col. Arthur Woods, Is hard at work co-ordinating the efforts of all governments and organizations. The size of the Job confronting federal, fed-eral, Ktate and municipal agencies dealing deal-ing with unemployment was Indicated In a forecast hy the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor that 5,000,000 persons were threatened by Idleness this winter. win-ter. On the basis of this estimate the federation said 20,000,000 persons one-sixth of the entire' population-were population-were threatened with acute need during dur-ing the cold months. t T EADING pharmacologists of the - world guthered In St. Louis and held a two-day celebration of the ter- y centenary of the first recognized use of quinine. The bark was used Id 1630 to cure the malaria of Juun Lopez Lo-pez Canizares, a Spanish statesman. Among those attending the meeting was Dr. M. Kerbosch, director of the government cinchona plantation Id Java and considered the world's expert ex-pert on natural sources of quinine. CAVAGE head hunters who inhibit the mountainous region in the center cen-ter of Formosa have revolted against their Japanese rulers and gone on the . warpath. Recent dispatches say they have killed many scores of Japanese and peaceful natives and destroyed some villages. The war office In Tokyo sent large detachments of troops to help the Island police, but they had a difficult job on their hands, for It was almost Impossible to get at the savages tn their strongholds. LJARRY PAYNE WHITNEY, one ol A the best known and best liked of America's wealthy sportsmen, died at his home In New York after an Illness of several weeks, at the age of fifty-eight fifty-eight years. Mr. Whitney Inherited a large fortune from his father, who amalgamated surface railways, and hy assiduous work increased this to a vast fortune possibly $200,000,000, He also devoted much time and money to yachting, racing and polo playing. His stable was one of the finest in the country and his horses won many Important Im-portant races. Others who passed away were Mrs. J. R. McKee, daughter of the late President Benjamin Harrison; Dean W. II. Mutton, of Winchester, England, (. a noted scholar; Rear Admiral C. W. I Dyson, U R. N., famous diisigoer of marine engines, and Edward II. (Snapper) (Snap-per) Garrison, once the premier Jockey of America. ""piUItTY men were killed hy an ex-A ex-A plosion In a coal mine at McAlcs-ter, McAlcs-ter, Okla., most of them being entombed en-tombed beyond hope of recovery. In Germany a similar disaster near Fried-richstahl Fried-richstahl was fatal to 107 miners. MRS. KEITH MILLER of Australia, an aviatrlx of much experience, set a new mark for women tlyers to aim at when she (lew from Los Angeles An-geles to Valley Stream, N. Y., In 21 hours and 47 minutes. One of this lady's previous flights was from England Eng-land to Australia. ((cl. 1930. Western Newspaper Union ) |