Evening Star Newspaper, November 27, 1935, Page 1

(D. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain tonight and tomorrow; warmer tonight, colder late tomorrow afternoon and night; lowest temperature tonight about 46 degrees. Temperatures—High- est, 55, at 3:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 32, at 6 a.m. today. Full report on page A-9. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Closing N. Y. Markets, No. 33,447. JAPANESE TROOPS POUR INTO' CHINA; LEADERS IN NORTH SLOW T0' SECEDE 3,000 With War Equipment Reach Tientsin by Rail. Peiping Garrison More Than Doubled in Move. RAIL STOCK REMOVAL HALT DECLARED AIM! Gen. Shang Chen Quits as Gov- ernor of Hopeh Province, Ag-! gravating Northern Crisis—In- vaders Moving by Truck To- ward Paotingfu Headquarters. BACKGROUND— Spread of Japanese influence Vin Asia, gaining momentum with domination of Manchuria in 1932, checked effectively only in area of Russian influence, north and west of “independent” Manchukuo. Clash between two nations over influence in Mongolia, pro-Soviet province, and in Pacific Coast area, long in background. L 1 Southward, Japanese penetration became imminent with proclama- tion of “independence” on part of five provinces adjoining Manchukuo. Japanese troops massed near Great Wall, restrained by terms of Tur_xkhu Truce of May 31, 1933. Chinese central government ineffectively protests Japanese action. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) SHANGHAI, November 27.—Japa- nese troops moved into North China by trainloads today while Northern Chinese leaders wavered on the issue of succession from the central Na- tionalist government. Troop trains bearing 3,000 Japa- nese soldiers and war equipment ar- rived at Tientsin from Chinwangtao, treaty port of Hopeh Province. At Peiping, where the Japanese garrison has more than doubled in the | last 24 hours, Col. Tan Takahashi, | military attache, announced that the Fengtai railway junction, a few miles | east of Peiping, had been seized. Rolling Stok Reported Removed. Takahashi asserted the Fengtai oc- ecupation became necessary becsuse‘ of rumors that rolling stock on the‘ Peiping-Mukden Railway was being moved south, jeopardizing North| China communications and threaten- | ing to isolate the Japanese forces at Peiping. Public nervousness over the sharp- 1y increased Japanese military activity was intensified by news that the heavily-laden troop trains were arriv- ing at Tientsin. Traffic south over the Tientsin-Pu kow Railway was temporarily suse pended at the demand of a Japanese troop detachment which visited the ‘Tientsin offices of the railroad. ‘The Japanese protested that empty | trains were being dispatched for| transportation of Ohinese troops wj the north, to move against the Jap-| anese. Traffic was resumed only when | the Chinese agreed to move trains no farther south than Tsinan and Shan- | tung. Fengtai Depot Seized. , Railway traffic between Tientsin and Peiping had been disrupted when s small detachment of Japanese troops from Tientsin swooped down on Fengtai and seized the depot. ‘The Japanese, taking over a quan- tity of rolling stock and control of | the Chinese military telephone, first explained that the troops were only “holding exercises” and that the cap- ture of Fengtai was part of a mimic | battle. Takahashi, however, gave the sec- ond, more realistic and official Jap- anese version of the taking of the im- portant junction point. Gen. Shang Chen wired Nanking his resignation as Governor of Hopeh Province, accepting responsibility for the failure to check the North China autonomy movement. His resignation .aggravated further the northern crisis, which arose origi- nally from demands for self-govern- ment in the five northern provinces of Hopeh, Chahar, Shansi, Shantung and Suiyuan, followed by establishment of an autonomous regime in the demil- itarized zone, including part of Eastern Hopeh. ‘The unobstructed Japanese military movement into North China was de- scribed by some Japanese spokesmen as merely one phase of widespread maneuvers, Chinese sources, however, conjec- tured that the troop influx might be aimed at intimidating North China (See JAPAN, Page A-5. SUIT AND GUN CLUES IN GIRL'S MURDER Fresno Police Have Slender Hope of Finding Slayer of 14- Year-01d By the Associated Press. FRESNO, Calif., November 27.—Two dubjous clues were all authorities had today to help their search for the slayer of 14-year-old Mary Louise Stammer, shot and stripped by a filend &t her home last Sunday night. First was a blood-stained blue serge suit left in a Fresno cleaning estab- lishment by a young man who gave & fictitious name and address and said he would call for the shit today. Second was a rifle of the same caliber, .22, as that used in the slay- ing. The rifle was found in a farm house about a mile from the palatial Stammer home after police-trained dogs led officers there. Police said no member of the family there was under suspicion, but that it was pos- sible the killer had “borrowed” the ) 1 | | Pages 11,12, 13 Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. BACKGROUND— Most important because of its ef- fect upon European international relationships, Italian-Ethiopian war has created definite test between League of Nations and aggressor na- tion, Italy. Forceful League policy has been directed by Great Britain; backing of most members hesitant. Meanwhile, fighting continues; Italian troops press from north and south toward singie Ethiopian rail- road line to sea; both countries claim victories in recent engage- ments. By the Associated Press, @h WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1935—TWENTY-SIX PAGES. EXTENSION OF SANCTIONS MEANS WAR, EUROPE TOLD New Defiance by Italy Seen as Con- flicting Accounts of Victories Come From Africa. Premier Benito Mussolini said force- ful resistance might be expected if the League of Nations pressed for ex- tension of sanctions against Italy. Recalled were two statements de- scriptive of the situation on the northern side of the Mediterranean Sea. One was that attributed to Mussolini only two days ago that the imposition of an oil embargo on Italy “would mean war.” The other was that of Henry J. Allen of Kansas, former United States Senator, who said six weeks ago after an interview with Il Duce that Mussolini was con- vinced “England means war.” On the East African front, Ethi- The Eastern African conflict be- tween Italy and Ethiopia engendered new European unrest today. Sources close to the government of opian reports—denied in Rome—of | victories on the southern front were | followed today with a communique at i (See ETHIOPIA, Page 5.) EAPORT QUDTAS | MORGENTHAL HrTS TALKED HERE AS NEUTRALITY MOVE Limitation of War Materials May Be Asked by United States. BACKGROUND— Strong anti-war agitation in clos- ing days of last Congress brought enactment of nmeutrality law ban- ning erport of “war materials” to belligerent nations. Practical eflect in Italian-Ethiopian controversy vital to former, unimportant to latter; falls in with League policy of sanctions against Italy. Key commodity is oil, necessary factor in warfare and produced in small quantity only in Italy. Despite policy, export increases noted; Sec- retary Ickes’ expressed hope of oil shipment curtailment, drew protest from Rome government. By the Associated Press. Showered by a mixture of praise and criticism for the course they have taken on the Italo-Ethiopian conflict, high administration officials are con- sidering a new step in the neutrality policy. The move under study, authoritative sources indicated, is a system of quotas which would be clamped on e of essential war materials, limiting strict- {ly the shipment of such things as oil, copper. scrap iron and steel to warring nations. It is believed Congress will be asked | to provide such a system, if the ad- ministration finally decides on it. The quotas probably would be designed to | limit trade with belligerents to a normal volume. It would be in line with the school of thought that argues that a war trade boom tends to draw neutrals into war. Some historians contend one reason the United States entered the World War was that it built up an enormous business selling muni- tions and materials to the allies. Thus, it is said, America acquired a “vested interest” in the allied cause and eventually had to get into the struggle to protect its stake. To Avoid “Extreme.” At the same time, it is believed, the administration seeks to avoid the extreme of cutting off all exports to fighting countries, a plan which Sen- ator Pope, Democrat, of Idaho will push in the next session of Congress. There have been signs, some com- mentators say, that the administra- tion’s attempts to discourage sales to Italy and Ethiopia by “moral pres- sure” were aimed at keeping such ex- ports down to normal until Congress | decides what further legislation it wants. If trade with the belligerents were kept down to normal, some ob- servers said, there would be no boom balloon for Congress to puncture by restrictive legislation, with possible damage to the Nation's economy. A State Department spokesman was stung to strongly-worded lan- guage by some recent criticims of the neutrality policy. These have in- cluded the charge, vigorously denied, that the United States was helping the League of Nations in imposing anti-Italian sanctions, and is now lessening its pressure against certain exports because of the League's de- lay in considering an oil and steel embargo against Italy. D. C. Motorists Face Increase In Automobile Liability Rate Report of Insurance Company Indi- BONUS ON RETURN FROM PRESIDENT Says Administration Views Are Unchanged—Shuns Hazard About Veto. By the Associated Press. Just back from a talk with Presi- dent Roosevelt, Secretary of the Treas- i ury Morgenthau said today that so| “far as I know” the administration has not changed its attitude toward cash payment of the bonus. | The Treasury chief's remarks were | made at a press conference. Some of his listeners immediately inter- preted them as meaning any such legislation enacted next session of Congress would again get a presi- dential veto. Morgenthau, however, declined to talk on that point, although his in- terviewers had little doubt as to what he had in mind. He said: “The bonus question is not up at this time and I do not care to discuss it further.” Organizations May Unite. ‘The American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars both have declared anew for immediate payment of the bonus. Some seek to get the two big velerans’ organizations to unite be- hind one bill rather than to split as they did last session over the question of currency expansion. Both House and Senate last Spring passed the Patman bill, calling for the issuance of around $2,000,000,000 in-new currency to pay the face value of adjusted compensation certificates. President Roosevelt vetoed it, the House overrode his veto and the Sen. ate sustained it. The issue will be revived in the first days of the next session, for the House is to vote January 13 on whether it will consider the Patman bill. Budget Affect Studied. Morgenthau's comment was consid- ered particularly significant because he had just returned from a Warm | Springs, Ga., discussion of the budget. Unless the currency expansion method were used, bonus payment would han- dicap the decision said to have been reached to reduce the deficit next fiscal year. Informed of the Morgenthau state- ment, John Thomas Taylor, legislative representative for the American Le- gion, said “we are confident that a bill calling for the full and immediate payment of the bonus will be passed at the next session.” Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the majority leader, he added, had stated “absolutely and positively” that the Steering and Policy Committee of the Senate had voted to bring the bonus measure up for consideration by the Finance Committee by January 15 and that the proposal would be acted upon during the session. e TOKIO EXPECTS STORK ' Physicians Announce Birth to Empress in Few Days. TOKIO, November 27 (#).—Court physicians announced today the birth of a child to the Empress is expected within a few days. cates Procedure Unless Accident Toll Is Checked, Safety Council Is Told. Traffic Deaths to November 27—99; Same Period, 1934—116 Although Washington today enjoys one of the lowest public liability in- surance rates in the United States, local motorists face an increase in rates for both liability and property damage insurance on their cars uniless the local street and highway death and accident toll is checked permanently, according to reports received by The Evening Star Safety Council. Only three cities in the United States now have a lower automobile liability rate than Washington, ac-& cording to the figures submitted to ‘The Star Council. This is regarded as & direct index of the relative frequency of automobile accidents here and in other cities, the premium rate on such insurance being based upon the amount of claims paid as a result of accidents. ‘The report, which indicates ‘the Nation-wide interest focussed on the local safety campaign, was prepared ance Agency, fully with presen! only has signed up all of its own per- sonnel, but also is sending safe driv- ing pledge cards of The Star Council to every person for which it writes an automobile policy. Although Mr. Hyson pointed out that the rural sections of the various States have rates varying from 50 to 60 per cent less than the cities, the table shows that the Washington rates are only & little higher than those of Virginia towns and as & whole. “You can readily iate,” Mr. « 5 ). AS SLAIN WOMAN ISFOUND N HOME Switchboard Operator Shot. Coroner Discounts Sui- cide Theory. SMASHED CHAIR AND REVOLVER NEARBY Roomer Who Reported Finding Body Has Police Record—Says He Brought Her Home. Miss Elizabeth R. Lynch, 35-year- old switchboard operator, was found shot to death under mysterious cir- cumstances early today at her home, 918 Fourth street northeast. Her body lay sprawled on the kitchen floor near & smashed chair when dis- covered by a man who lived at the house. A bullet, entering the left cheek and lodging in the back of the head, had caused death apparently several hours before the body was found. There were no powder burns on the face to indicate the shot had been fired at close range. A .38- caliber revolver, full except for one empty cartridge, was on the floor near the woman'’s feet. ‘Two men, William A. (Dutch) Kap- pel, 34, a roomer at the Fourth street residence, who found the body, and Leo Cullen, 31, of 718 Fourth street northeast, are being held for investi- gation in connection with the shoot- ing. Both have police records. Brought Her Home. Kappel, who said he is employed as an iceman, told police he brought Miss Lynch home early this morning. He saiC she refused to let him enter the house and he left. Later, according to police, Kappel said he returned to the house with Cullen and found the body. Fully clothed, the woman lay on her left side near a table in the kitch- en. The broken chair, detectives said. was too strongly made to have| been so badly damaged by Miss Lynch as she fell. The back and seat | of the chair were splintered and several rungs were knocked loose. The woman's body bore no bruises or marks to show she had engaged in a struggle, investigators said, and other than the broken chair there was no sign of a fight. The house was | being repapered and painted and was in general disorder. Physicians who examined the body said rigor mortis had set in, indicat- ing death had occurred some hours before police arrived. Suicide Theory Discounted. Asked whether he thought the girl had killed herself, Coroner A. Magru- der MacDonald said emphatically, “No, I do not.” The coroner spent more than an hour closeted in the house with mem- bers of the police homicide squad. De- tectives said their first step in the| investigation would be to determine| the ownership of the revolver. Kappel and Cullen were taken to the ninth precinct station, where they were to be questioned later in the day. Cullen is employed as a pressman by a morning newspaper here. Miss Lynch, an attractive brunette whose hair was streaked with gray, had been employed as an operator at the Potomac Electric Power Co. service station, Tenth street and Florida ave- nue, since 1925. Several weeks ago she failed to re- ' port to work after she was understood to have been beaten about the face in a fight at home. A Divorcee. She and Kappel had been going to- gether, according to neighbors, who were under the impression that he was her husband. Police said Miss Lynch was a divorcee. Her parents died within the last year. Her father, John J. Lynch, who years ago had a blacksmith shop on| Ohio avenue, bequeathed the Fourth | street house to his daughter when he died, soon after the death of his wife | in December, 1934. Mrs. Eugene Brooke, 717 Kentucky avenue southeast, sister of Miss Lynch, was prostrated when she was notified of the shooting. She said she had not seen her sister since their father died. As police were putting Kappel and Cullen into the patrol wagon the for- mer threatened photographers and kicked at them until pulled away. Kappel's record reveals he has been arrested more than 20 times since 1913. The charges varied from viola- tion of the child labor law to assault with a dangerous weapon. Sent to Training School. He was committed to the National Training School for housebreaking when a boy. After being apprehended for several other law violations several years after his release, he was arrested in 1926 for assault with a dangerous weapon and was held for the grand jury. The charges subsequently were nolle prossed. Kappell was fined on numerous oc- casions for disorderly conduct and once for conducting a disorderly house. Charges of assault, carrying & con- cealed weapon and destroying private property were brought against him last year, but all of the charges later were dismissed or nolle prossed. Cullen also has been arrested a number of times. His record dates back to 1918, when he was put on pro- bation when arraigned in Juvenile Court for disorderly conduct. Six years later he was sentenced to pey $10 or serve 10 days for petit larceny. He forfeited collateral six times on disorderly charges and once for in- toxication. (Pictures on Page B-1,) DIAMOND RUSH STARTS GEORGETOWN, British Guiana, November 27 (#).—Discovery of a 15- carat diamond on the alluvial wash- ings at Enachu has & rush of prospectors from the Mazaruni diamond flelds. Scores of the the Christmas holidays on the coast and ‘'have left, instead, for the in- 3 j TWOMEN QUIZZED | - LAVAL GOLD STAND MAY SAVE CABINET Premier Eases Political Ten- sion by Clinging to Present Standard. BACKGROUND— Dependent upon support of Par- liament for maintenance of his coalition government, France’s Premier Laval apprehensively awaits return of legislators. Always fear- ing Germany and caught in middle between British-Italian controversy, Laval's worries increased with un- settlement of currency, flight of gold. Backing of Socialists, Leftist faction, wooed by plea to save franc and threat to dissolve such nationalist groups as Croix de Feu, veterans’ organization. By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 27.— Premier Pierre Laval strengthened hopes of saving his cabinet from overthrow, informed sources said today, by pin- ning his government to the “golden franc.” The question of dissolution of na- tionalistic leagues, on which Leftist forces had intended to attack the government at the opening of Parlia- ment tomorrow, fell into the back- ground, superseded by financial issues. The powerful Radical Socialist group of the Chamber of Deputies agreed by a vote of 28 to 20 to give precedence to budget questions in the Parliament proceedings. This dominant bloc conditioned its granting of the premier’'s request that financial matters take priority, how- ever, with insistence that debate on action agailnst such nationalistic groups as the war veterans' organiza- tion, Croix de Feu, follow immediately. Fears Allayed. The cabinet was generally regarded as safe in its stand against devalua- tion of the franc and in favor of balanced budget, and the Radical Socialists indicated they were satis- fled with Laval's announced promise to attempt to curb political leagues. The Radical Socialists met with other Leftist groups today to decide their joint position in tomorrow's opening debate, and it was generally believed the entire Left would agree to the compromise. Premier Laval's radie account of nls stewardship of the nation, delivered last night, appeared to have made a generally good impression. “The fate of the franc will be de- cided Thursday,” the premier asserted. Sees Rise from Depression. He said Prance was rising from eco- nomic depression through the govern- ment’s economy drive and has reached a point at which, for the first time since the depression started, normsl government revenues covered all ordi- He declared himself absolutely op- posed to devaluation of any kind, as- serting he declined to accept responsi- bility for any such move and its “catas- trophic possibilities.” ¢ Confronted by a choice between economy and devaluation, Laval as- serted, the government decided on the former and was determined to abide by that decision. He called for a showdown with Par- liament, asserting: “If Parliament feels otherwise, let it say so clearly, for the country has a right to demand a clear-cut situation. ‘There can be no more urgent matter for debate. This question once settled —and it can be in a few hours—the government declares itself ready to be- gin examination of all political prob- lems.” ——e Six Slain by Bandits. MANILA, November 27 (#).—Sol- diers in search of bandits reported today they found the bodies of six victims in the cave of a gang near Dagatdagat, San Antonio. Readers’ Guide Pages. Amusements ...___._.__A-6-T Cross-word Puzzle Radio Serial Story - Short Story - Society Sports - ‘Washington Wayside .___A-6 Women’s Features ...._B-3-7 L] i 1'VE GoT IT! Tl IGNOREEM AND THEY'LL LET | Justice Employes Alone in Getting Afternoon Holiday Time Off Is Granted De-| spite Roosevelt Ban Yesterday. Because the Department of Justice goes in for initiative in a big way, employes there are enjoying a half- holiday this afternoon in the face of a Presidential ban, while else-| where in the Government, work is!| | going on as usual. Under the belief that the question ' | was an administrative one, a notice wa. sent through Justice yesterday over the signature of Brian McMahon, acting assistant to the absent Attorney | General Cummings, explaining that | all employes who could be spared could take the afternoon off to pre- | pare for Thanksgiving Day. Yesterday afternoon, however, Pres- ident Roosevelt was asked about a| general holiday, and said no. His fiat | | did not become generally known, and so Justice was off at 1 p.m. today. Other agencies hadn't heard of the | | ban, but took no action in the ab- | sence of—so far as they knew—specific word from Warm Springs. PRESIDENT WEIGHS AUTO SPEED CURB |Buchanan Proposal Urges | Factory Limitations to Halt Accidents. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staff Correspondent of The Star. WARM SPRINGS, Ga., November 27.—President Roosevelt today made | known he is considering a proposal made here by Representative Bu- chanan for limiting speeds of auto- mobiles at the factories. Mr. Roosevelt said his interest in the proposal is in keeping with The Evening Star’s safety campaign. Representative Buchanan, pointing to the growing number of deaths from automobile accidents which he feels are largely attributable to excessive speed, has suggested the advisability | of a Federal statute prohibiting ship- ment in interstate commerce of auto- | mobiles capable of a speed of .nore. | than 50 miles per hour. That, in the opinion of Buchanan, may be the only answer to the mounting auto- mobile death toll—a toll that has| accounted for more casualties already this year than the United States sur—‘ fered in the World War. Mr. Roosevelt said he had not yet been satisfied as to the constitution- ality of the proposal and he did not indicate how far he expected to go in considering it as a recommenda- tion to Congress. Works on Atlanta Speech. With his budget conferences out of the way for the moment, President Roosevelt today is devoting most of his time to the speech he will deliver at the mammoth homecoming cele- bration in his honor in Atlanta Friday afternoon. Mr. Roosevelt realizes that many are anticipating some utterance of political significance, but the President | himself has given no intimation of | (See ROOSEVELT, Page 3.) Madrid Students Hurt in Clash. MADRID, November 27 (#).—Sev- eral students were injured today in a clash, attended by pistol fire, between Republicans and Fascist sympathizers at the Cardinal Cisneros High School. Police finally restored order. Some Return: ¥¥¥ (#) Means Associated Pr NEW FIGHT BEGUN ON UTILITIES ACT American Water Works Sec- | ond Corporation to Sue Here in Two Days. BACKGROUND— Regulation of utility holding com- panies, eventual dissolution of “un- necessary” ones, provided in New Deal legislation of past Congress. First test brought by Associated Gas & Electric Co.; Baltimore Fed- eral Court ruled legislation uncon- stitutional. Other companies seek- ing injunctions against operation of registration compulsion Decem- ber 1. Attorney General Cummings advised against Government filing numerous actions against com- panies, suggested concentration upon Baltimore case as quickest means of testing law. The second constitutional attack on the Wheeler-Rayburn utilities hold- ing company act here in two days was begun this afternoon when the Amer- ican Water Works & Electric Co., Inc., of New York asked District Su- preme Court to enjoin enforcement of the law and declare all its provisions | void. The company’s petition followed | closely the form of the injunction suit | brought here yesterday by the North | American Co., the holding concern which controls Washington's electric and transportation facilities. Advancing seven reasons why the act was unconstitutional, the Amer- ican Water Works & Electric Co. stated it will not register with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as required, since the damage result- ing to it and its subsidiaries from | registration would be “enormous.” Farley Named in Suit. The commission. Attorney General Cummings and Postmaster General | Farley were named in the suit as de- fendants. Admitting it is a holding company in the meaning of the statute, the company stated compliance with | the law would force it to divest itself of many of its holdings. Its investments are in excess of $105.- 500,000, the court was told. and 70| per cent of the total represents voting | stock of other corporations. Arguments offered against consti- tutionality of the Wheeler-Rayburn act were that it could not be sup-| ported under the interstate commerce | clause of the Constitution: that it was | an unlawful delegation of legislative authority; that it subjected the plain- | tiff to deprivation of its property without due process of law; provided for excessive fines; attempts to im- pose a Federal system of regulation on the plaintiff, thereby usurping powers of the States, and subjects ! the plaintiff to unreasonable search and seizure. List of Plaintiffs Mounts. The action added another name to the growing list of utility corporations that have taken legal steps to con- test the utility act, including the North American, Commonwealth & South- ern, Consolidated Gas of New York, Electric Bond & Share and United Gas Improvement. As a result of these suits, the legal staff of the Securities Commission was expanded today to direct the court fight over constitutionality of the law. Robert H. Jackson, general counsel for the Internal Revenue Bureau, was drafted as special trial counsel. The commission itself moved inde- pendently yesterday for its own court test, bringing suit in New York to | trict Yesterday’s Circulation, 132,151 s Not Yet Received. TWO CENTS. BRAZILIAN REBELS BOMBED FROM AR AS STATE MOVES 10 CRUSH REVOLT Government Appears to Be Winning Fight Against “Red Uprising”—Hangars Are Recaptured. FASCIST CHIEF OFFERS AID TO PRESIDENT Aerial Squadron and Two Navy Cruisers Sent North to Rein- force Loyal Factions in Final Drive on Insurgents—Leaders Imprisoned. BACKGROUND— Established after overthrow of monarchy in 1889, Brazilian Re- public has survived several at- tempts at revolution. Composed of 20 states, a federal district and one territory, the republic functions under a constitutic : modeled after that of the United States. Drawn in 1891, this document was amended in 1926 to give central government increased authority over state af- fairs. Present disturbance has be- ginning in application of this au- thority, break between President Getulio Vargas and Gen. Jose An- tonio Flores Dacunha, head of State of Rio Grande do Sul. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) RIO DE JANEIRO, November 27.— Loyal troops battled rebel soldiers in Brazil's capital today in a desperate effort to suppress what the governe | ment called a Communist uprising. Rebel forces were dislodged from Natal, which they had captured last Saturday, and the government ap- peared to be winning its fight through. | out the northeast, where the rebellioq broke out. One rebel group in the Federal dis« surrendered under an aerial bombing. Loyal aviators destroyed the hangars in the aviation schoo! which a rebel group captured early this morning. Enlisted men of the 3rd Infantry Regiment suddenly rebelled and gained control of their barracks, Loyal artillery shelled the establishs ment while loyal infantry detach. ments moved on the barracks with fixed bayonets in an effort to forcy the rebels’ surrender. President Getulio Vargas personally supervised the Loyalist action in Rie de Janeiro. He received an offer by Polinia Salgado, the Brazilian Fascist leader, of his green-shirted Fascist forcq which he claimed numbered 100,004 men “to combat the Communis{ menace” on the side of the govern. ment. Military Seizes Cars. Public automobiles and busses werq commandeered by the Federal troopy throughout the city to strike bacy at the rebels. In the early hours of the day, when laborers were going tq work, the city was virtually withonj transportation except for the Military A group of sergeants and privatey of Battalion 1, stationed at Villy | Militar, in suburban Rio de Janeirg, attacked the aviation school early in the day. They surrendered, howe ever, six hours later, in the face of an overwhelming attack by local troops. President Getulio Vargas observed the action personally. He accompanied the troops, after the surrender of the rebels at the Aviation School, to Praia Vermelha, the quarters of the 3d In. fantry Regiment, in the shadow of the Sugar Loaf Mountain. The barracks of the 3d Regimen} adjoin an insane asylum there. Vargay entered the asylum and looked dows through the barred windows at the rebels below. Fight Within Barracks. The rebellion at Praia Vermelhy | broke before dawn when Capt. Agildg | Barata, who was a prisoner in the bary racks, induced one battalion of the 3¢ | Infantry to rise. Part of the regimen{ remained loyal, however, and a figh{ immediately broke out within the bars racks. Other loyal troops were rushed from other barracks under the command of Gen. Eurico Gaspar Dutra and com- menced a cautious advance on the barracks after the rebels refused t4 come out and surrender. _E_lpt. Barata sent out pleas on the (See REVOLT, Page 3.) — IRISH PROPOSALS REPORTED ADVANCED Newspaper Says Association of force the big Electric Bond & Share Co. and five of its intermediate hold- ing units to register. ‘The commission left no doubt that (See UTILITIES, Page 2.) Science Perfects Sobering Gas For Drinkers Who Pass Out By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 27.—A new sobering gas for the man who passes out in the barrogm or at the highball party was in luced today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. A mixture of 90 per cent oxygen and 10 per cent carbon dioxide, the gas was announced by two physicians— Selesnick—as a treatmentyfor acute run of moderately intoxicated pa- tients.” The oxygen-carbon dioxide mixture is administered through an open-slot mask similar to that used for anes- thetics. To be effective, it must be admin- istered for at least a half hour. ‘The principle of the treatment is to help the body assimilate the alco- hol. The carbon dioxide increases excretion of alcohol by respiration and the oxygen increases oxidation of the stimulant. The gas was tried out in extensive experiments in Boston City Hospital, reported. the Free State and Ulster Is Included. By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, November 27.—New pro« posals for settlement of the ancienl Anglo-Irish dispute, including a re« publican form of government for the Irish Free State and a treaty of ase sociation with the British Commons wealth, were reported today by the Irish Independent to have been ade vanced. The newspaper said the proposaly contained a scheme for the association of the Free State and Ulster. It wag hoped the plan eventually would lead to federal association, creation of s moderately substantial Free State navy and evacuation of British forces from Queenstown and Berehaven ports, the paper said. The plan, it was asserted, was based on the Free State undertaking te maintain a navy of fixed strength with Great Britain to sell her the necessary warships at a cost of £5,e 000,000 sterling (about $25,000,000). Great Britain, the newspaper said would agree to wipe out sums now L < ‘\