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28 BRAZLIAN WONEN | RENEW VOTE FIEHT | Constitution Grants Federal as Well as State Ballot, 3 They Contend. Br Cable to The Star. | RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil. March 13. ! —Woman suffrage has arisen to a| status of supreme importance here a the approach of the opening of th ‘Winter sesslon of Congress in Ma draws ncarer. The 20 States of th Union and the federal district are ri with discussion of the topic which only a few years ago occupied the attention of legislators in the United States. ‘The state of Rio Grande do Norte | econtinues to furnish the leadership in the movement for woman suffrage, with President Juvenal Lamartine exerting cvery effort to increase the registration of women and thus bring the question into focus in the entire nation. Many women have participated in state clec- were granted the right to vote in 1927, but women's votes for | A federal senator were thrown out | when the Senate met in May, 1928.| e state already has a woman mayor, | Mme. Alzira Teixeira Soriano, who is refcito” of the town of Lages. side of Rio Grande do Norte s eral women have been able to have their names enrolled as voters upon | obtaining court order to do so, but the | cases are rather isolated. Women have | succeeded in registering in Minas | Geraes, Rio de Janeiro, Ceara and Ba- | hia, but in these same states there have | been instances of refusals, each indi- | vidual judge handing down a decision according to his own interpretation of | the federal constitution. | In the state of Govaz there was one | case of a woman being registered. but | her writ was subsequently annulled. | There is no attempt being made by | suffragists to obtain a federal law pro- viding for votes for women, their con- tention being that the Brazilian consti- tution, adopted soon after the empire was overthrown and the republic pro- claimed in 1889, gives them the right to vote. The constitution refers to | citizens of 21 years or more” in pre- | scribing the conditions regulating the right to vote, and no mention of sex | is made. 4 THE FYENING STAR. TASHINGTON. D, . WREDNESDAY.” MARCH 13, 192 HOLLYWOOD STARS WORRIED BY INCOME TAX FRAUD QUIZ Br the Associated Press. i LOS ANGELES. Calif.. March 1 Anxiety prevaded the starry motion pi ture firmament in Hollywood today many film celebrities wondered how much they will owe Uncle Sam aft the investigation of their earnings, and whether they will be held responsible | for T any improper acts attributed by ‘ederal Income tax officials to J. Mar- rie Berger. grand of allg frauduiet income t; Government sisted in_de- frauding the Treasury out of more than $1,000,000 in recent years. The apprehension of the screen lebrities may not bew holly unfounded idenced by the announcement of States Attorney S. W. McNabb that several idols of the movie fans may THE MIRACLE | be named in conspiracy indictments, One thing which may save the film tars involved from criminal prosecu- s may be the difficulty of proving criminal intent in the submission of the x returns. In any event, said the Federal experts, the actors and actresses will be gald to pay whatever financial rather than face criminal prosccution. Figures of Rod Larogue. of Rob Laroque, as “approved” by Miss Berger. was $121,987. She made deduic- | tions totalling $43.870, leaving a net | income of $77.216, upon which a tax of | 810648 was paid. The Government | charged that Laroque’s gross income was $182,779. and that deductions | should have totalled on! 67, leav- ing a net income of 111, upon which a tax of $3: should have !been paid. 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