L.jl^ SUNOCO. WEDi^SDAY- II, 1958. GOOD EVEiMIKiG EVERYBODY: This was an all-America day in the news , and South America takes the lead, with the excitement of the short-lived revolt in Rio deJaneiro* Shortly after midnight three short, sharp toots of the whistle sounded from the Esk dock yard at Rio. President Vargas and his police had received warning of the outbreak only a few short moments before. But those few moments had enabled the President and the chief of police to get on the telephone and organize. The rebellion started in the navy and marines. Admiral Tagares, leader of the rebels, seized the building of the Ministry of Marine. There he barricaded himself with the main force of the revolterg. It was a Fascist affair, which rings strangely in our ears since one Y*re heard charges that the Vargas government LEAD - 2 itse 1 f* had become* Fascist^ Jhe cause of the uprising was the • v au l of “1*1 ey44en» Vargas^la suppressing the Greeii^hirts, the T,I^ltegralistas»,, as they call themselves* Admiral Tavares and his organized rebel force didnft last long in the Brazilian navy building. President 'l^k & • P] quickly summoned a force of loyal navy men. With rifles and machine guns they battered down all resistance^in four hours. he majority of the personal bodyguard of President Vargas revealed themselves as rebels. They made a fierce A •z& attempt to capture the palace includin^President Varga^ his wife and two daughters. Elsewhere the rebels ha*-managed to seize four of the most important radio stations in Brazil. They thejn broadcast to the world at large the news of the rebellion, coupled with the claim that it was already successful, that ftio >ras in the hands of the Integralistas, that Vargas had been taken prisoner. These A. broadcasts were heard in Montevideo, which was the first city to relay the news north to the United-States The rebels hoped that LEAD - 3 the false news of the success of the rebellion would cause It to soread throughout all the provinces. // ifee main centers of the revolt were under government jc-oJ^lodk control by six^^lTfbic^this-^morttl«». Then followed the job for the police of cleaning up. There was street fighting for several hours in the streets of Rio*#edNBHe4&». According to the latest reportst only twenty people have been killed, but fj^ve hundred are under arrest and the authorities are tracking down suspecte# people. So saii^’Captain Mueller, the chief of police in a telephone conversation New York late this afternoon. Said he; "The outbreak was confined to A- Rio deJaneiro and everything is under control." Among those arrested, by the way, is a prince, Don Pedro de Orleans y Braganza^ a descendant of the one-time Emperor Don Pedro and himself second son of the Pretender to the throne of Brazil. But he says he is not a rebel^ President Vargas. was on his way to the palace to defend BRAZIL The person who emerges as the most spectacular figure in the Brazilian melodrama is Vargas himself. t gtTrnnxrtTii nT^TTTh Bafam&Ww When the curtain rose with a bang, he was alone in his palace except for his family including two young daughters. The Rebels made a desperate attempt to capture the palace and the family. They attacked the building with hand grenades and machine guns . What" made e*«gy ^^ing -wor ge the-president was that a large part of his personal bodyguard joined Lineal the Rebels. Only a handful remain*#loyal. For six hours Vargas A walked from window to window of the Guanabara Palace, revolver in hand, calmly and with deadly traitor tor. had hustled aim pottAOC the guards who had turned his family into an inner room where they tfere barricaded and in xx fear of their lives* Eventually four loyal officers fought tueir way through the attacking rebels and joined their President. All this courage and calmness was typical of BRAZIL ~ 2 Getulio Vargas. So says Dan Campbell who was United Press manager at Rioin Nineteen Thirty-Five^ the year of the Communist uprising, a -faar more serious .affair than this one. But—Vargash watchad—ctioa.-Aaday jiays Campbell: nVargas was informed that he had been marked by the Communists for assassination. He cooly left the palace and drove to the scene of the hottest fighting, drove through a hail of bullets from Red machine guns. •Wlrth—the1 same |e stepped into the front lines^ ^here hr personally directed the fire of his artillery men as they pounded the barracks which the rebels had v\ seized. Bo it ean—be -scon eiwtt GbrtUTio Dornerres - vai '*uv *■ * *f " was born the son of a general, and was himself a soldier to begin with. Btft 4|e dropped the army for politics, became a lawyer, an editor, a party leader«==^iir came into prominence as the chief of the wild riding Gauchos of the Province of Rio Grande Do Sul, presldent in Nlneteen Thirty> He—hadn« t~been BRAZIL - 3 Today’s attempted coup d’etat had it repercussions in Washington*, Senator Key Pitman, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, thought it was the work of German organizations in Brazil that had been suppressed by President Vargas. However, Captain Mueller, Rio chief of police, says ”so far as c an be ascertained no foreigners were involved or implicated in this uprising." There was an amusing Washington reaction at the Brazilian Embassy. This was one time when His Excellency, Ambassador Brando, had the laugh on the correspondents. He said to them:- "For months I*ve been telling you gentlemen that there was nothing Fascist about the Brazilian government. Maybe now you’ll believe me. ’’ FOLLOW LEAGUE The League of Nations is still in a dither today about Ethiopia. And the subject of Geneva brings to mind a fascinating thing that I've read lately. It concerns the President of the League —- the Ago Khan, There has been endless talk about that fabulous religious potentate of India, who gets his weight in gold each year from the believers in his sect, and who has twice won the Derby in England. There hardly seems anything new and strange to be said about the Ago Khan. So, it might be called news to find something. Of late I've been reading a magnificent book — "A History of the Arabs" b£ my friend Professor Hitti of Princeton, a most erudite scholar and Qrientalist. One point struck me so vividly that I've written an article about it for LIBERTY — and I'll tell you one point of it now. Professor Hitti writes about that terrifying secret society of medieval Islam — the Assassins. With them murder was a fine art, and, a religious duty. They frightened the Crusaders, with their chief whom the Knights of the Middle Ages called - the Old Man of the Mountain. Well, the Assassins continued their reign of terror until their power was FOLLOW LEAGUE - 2 overthrown by the Mongols of the time of Genghis Khan, But the sect of the Assassins continued to exist. It exists right now - as a mild Mohammedan brotherhood. The modern successors of the Assassins are called the Koja Ismailli. They have a supreme spiritual leader. This absolute religious chief of theirs is a lineal descendant of the last grand master of the Assassins — and he is — the Aga Khan, President of the League of nations. So there Is a fantastic page of history, strange as the Arabian Nights — extending right on down into this modern world LOST CHILD There’s still no trace of has been lost since Sunday in Pennsylvania^ The search for her now has spread out to tfe® three surrounding states. The Pennsylvania police consider it possible^that four year old Margery West may have been kidnapped. £H=T&6ma3£J' West Virginia, was seen a motor car with & Pennsylvania license, a motor car with a man and a &fcfc±i* child who resembled the missing ffrlt tIw girl* So the police -of West Virginia and-Ohio . . uH — as well, have been asked to look out for that car. Blood hounds weri put on the trail today but without success s REUNION -x?dr There was a touching family reunion in New Jersey today. The story begins thirty-five years ago when a brother and sister said good-bye to each other on a pier in Hoboken. The brother was sailing for a visit to the old family home in Bavaria. After that, for thirty-five years they saw nothing of each other, lost A track,completely. The brother, who is now sixty years old, fell upon hard times. For a while he was on relief ^nd then got a W.P.A. job, H# saved a hundred and twelve dollars out of his earning sthen he found himself in need of A another job. He was afraid that the relief he had obtained a couple of years ago would tell against him. So he took a hundred dollars of his savings and sent it to Administrator Harry Hopkins• The story broke in the newspapers and caught the eye of the man*s sister now living in Secaucus, New Jersey. She asked the chief of police of her town to investigate. Thus she found out that it is her long lost brother. f FRANKLIN One wonders what good old Ben Franklin would say if he were in Philadelphia today. In the studio of an American sculptor he oould see a statue, a statue seventeen feet high. It’s the statu^ of good old Ben himself. ^Seventeen feet high, even though it represents Poor Richard sitting down. It weighs a hundred and twenty^^^^^r^hattg=ggtng to be one of tff 3 u*% ty of Brotherly Love. It will be the new landmarks of the City < ja dau uivc:i.Mjr jjuvc ^ unveiled some day in the middle of June and will be one of the ill new sights to see recovery Republican Congressmen^t*d-~«ieir«Fcr**ok*to«Uky-^«^ f President Roosevelt1s recovery program. They said it was a menace to the solvency of Uncle Sam. They declare that the program wonft cost four and a half billion, as the President j SJI outlined. It is really only part of a broat^ program which in 1^L their words, "involves a new draft of six million dollars upon $ the treasury of the United States.” The Representatives go y- If) * as far as ask^Bg for a congressional investigation of Mr. A- Harry Hopkins’s W.P.A recession We’ve seen the worst of the recession Department of Commerce has been making a survey of business all over the countr^=*^ a result u£—U±«g^t Secretary Uncle Dan Roper issued a statement today^ pii♦jgtrtet11 The recession has reached rock bottom.” But there is a string to it. He adds the igisx qualifying word "probably." BELIFF Relief may be In sight for people who have mortgaged their homes to Uncle Sam. The Home Loan Association has been executing a lot of foreclosures, and there is sen considerable distress in many parts of the country#^?o a group of congressmen Is taking/the matter. They are going to the White House to see If something can't be done about it. What they are going to ask is a moratorium on mortgages by the fi. 0. L. C, People,who are in default they say toroisfrig nsdb should not be turned out of their homes, they should be allowed to stay and pay a low rent, interest on their loan and property taxes. WHEAT Here’s an item from Canada that may interest agriculturists and others besides. The farmers^ef~t?anad^| are planting much less spring grain* this year. That’s an estimate from the Bureau of Statistics of the Dominion in Ottowa. The spring wheat acerage will be something like one million four hundred thousand acres less than at this time last year A perennial question in the sporting world is, "Do they ever really come back?" It's a question to which Joe Louis will find the answer next month and which Max Schmelling is already answering without a quiver. Another ex-champion is in quest of the^ reply over in Englandi Helen Wills Moody, for years undisputed queen of the tennis courts. She is playing in a tournament in north London and down to date is sweeping everything to the fourth round andj^Lost only three among the English is heavily in favor of before her. She has games. The Mrs. Moody‘S UjrtsvX , HELIUM The excitement about owp selling Helium to Germany came to a head today in Washington. Foy severoi weefrs-the^ Unclrfr-SguB - not to -l-e't' l>y» E e Ime v* -Be-th- The chief obstacle has Is-iT^-o been Secretary Ickes of the Interio^- ^»»-"ha^ put his foot dom. on the assumption that If we sold helium gas for commercial airliners it might be used for fighting dirigibles In time* of war. T^e. Issue was put up to the ^resident today. Mr. Hoosevelt said he was sorry he could do nothing. He had nsjt no power to intervene ) -uU. Lon %M c%o' A bverned oxtii^ strictly by act of Congress. Mone of our helium can be sold anywhere except by unanimous consent of the National Munitions Board that consists of the Secretaries of State, War, Treasury, Navy j HELIUM The excitement about selling Helium to Germany came to an end today in Washington, The chief obstacle has been Secretary Iekes of the Interior who put his foot down on the assumption that if we sold helium gas for commercial airliners it might be used for fighting dirigibles in time of war, The issue was put up to the President today. Mr. Roosevelt said he was sorry he could do nothing. He had no power to intervene, the questions being governed strictly by act of Congress. Bone of our helium can he sold anywhere except by unanimous consent of the National Munitions Board that consists of the Secretaries of State, War, Treasury, Navy, Interior and Commerce. Anyone of whom can obstruct it. And, it is presumed in Washington today that Mr. Iekes again put his foot down and that Germany gets no helium. BERLIN filed a protest with the German Government, It's about the decree recently promulgated by General Goering as tkm. Commissar of the Four Year Plan^ #ou~may-=FC^alri~'t3»tu S 1 £t require^ all Jewish people Wm register everything they own in Germany, that is everything worth more than five thousand marks. The State Department instructed kta* Ambassador Wilson to complain that this should not be applied to Jews who are American citizens PANTS Once again we have a familiar story, the story of the ambassador’s pants. There has been a great deal of curiosity as to what will be the costume of our new ambassador to the court of St. James’s, rugged Joe Kennedy of Boston, Would^aaggg#?^* ^ A Joe succumb to the effete custom of wearing knee breeches? the uniform tba& all civilians»*». are supposed to wear when 2 --- r\ ,&e«pgafciaome-^sfr=t^«i have complied, at few have 7^ A they bow to King A. stood upon their Americanism as rugged individualists. President i Theodore Hoosevelt, for instance, when he was special ambassador to the coronation of Edward the Seventh, declined to encase his lower limbs in satin knickers and silk stockings. He stuck to the costume popularly known as soup and, fish, the conventional iz black and white attire common to men of fashion and^head waiters. And those are the togs tha.t_BE®g»# Joe is probably wearing this A A identical minute as he stands before King George and Queen Elizabeth ^0 2 J at Buckingham Palace. A informed his august Mr* U.ord Chamberlain. A /A<~ A ^The Lord Chamberlain gave a gxMg grudging consent but added the-not* that no rugged Americantwaj would be .tolerated in Ambassador Kennedy': -.SV> ttjz ^ v-f attaches. 'PheyJr«l| wearing Acne e breeches or theyire not among those present^^t“'%C ^ ^ ?