The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 30, 1946, Page 4

Brazil’s Man AP. -Newsfeatures ‘ RIO DE JANEIRO. — Brazil, land of many political para- doxes, is witnessing one of the strangest in its history — the re- turn to public life by Getulio Vargas. , Vargas. was deposed by a mili- tery coup last «October» after t @s president 15 years, the eight of which he governed with Sweeping dictatorial powers. His “New State,” which he ereated in 1937, abolished the congress, established special courts and gave him a constitu- tion with authority equal to that ef any European dictator. The midnight revolt against him last October 29, led by ome of the same military ‘Weaders who brought him to power by revolution in 1930, retired him to his. farm in Brazil, he sat on ‘his farm ver: anda sipping mate (tea made from | herbs), his former War Minister, General Eurico Gaspar Dutra, was elected president and Var- gas became a senator. Two states—Sao. Paulo and his native Rio do Sul—sent him to the senate with a heavy vote. The congress awarded him the Rio Grande seat because that state gave him more votes. » ‘When he returned to Rio, so many thousands crowded the girport shooting fireworks and a welcome, that he to elude the crowd in a a. day he went to congress to take his seat, pblice had to Keep order among the throngs packed the streets and the ries. He took his oath quietly and sat down. Ag he ‘returned to his seat, Otavio-Mangabeira, leader of the National, Democratic. Union — a coalition formed last year to fight the Vargas regime — arose and a resolution giving thinks to the armed: forces for their action on October 29. “The motion: passed 135 to 131, Other parliamentary attacks fol- lowed. s \ The subject of these dis- @ourses meanwhile calmly ‘ -about his business, al- followed by hundreds here. Whenever a crowd s.,downtown) someone re- “It must be Getulio,” Girl Scouts Meet’ Wesley House irl’ Seouts Troop: No. 8 will mheet tomorrow :at the Wesley House at 3:30 p. m., Scout Mis- tress Dorothy Sands announced téday. All members are urged to be, present. Will Vacation In New York On Friday, Aug. 2 Mrs. Racheld Sanehez and’ daughter, Miss Rachel Sanchez and Mys. Oscar Partila will leave over the high- way for a months visit in New York with relatives and friends. Miss Lopes Returns To Havana Home - Migs Eneida Lopez, after a month’s visit in the Island City, will leave Friday for her home in Habana. She is very much de- lighted with her trip here and wants to return feal soon. SENIOR DANCE TONIGHT A Senior High School dance will be held tonight at the Raul’s Club, it was announced today. Thunderclaps Come In Alarming Proportions BALTIMORE. —(AP)— A cooling summer thundershower got the police department all hot and bothered — by sounding seven burglar alarms in 30 min- utes. Sgt, George Mintiens of the De- tective Bureau, summoned five extra radio cars. Then he found out the alarms were all false. The American District Tele- graph Protective Services ex- plained the thunder jarred build- ing windows and broke the tin- foil electrical contact surround- ing them to set off the alarms. The ancients believed man’s strength was located in his hair, Puretest These Women... Britain’s WVS Aids Education By ADELAIDE KERR ¥ AP Newsfeatures Writer Ordinary women working to- gether to keep ordinary families happy and content in their daily work may be a stronger force than governments in maintaining world peace, says the Dowager Murchioness of Reading. * ‘The tall dark-eyea British lead- er, who founded the Women’s Voluntary Services (of Great Britain) hends it in an extensive peace- time program, is making her first visit to the United States in ten years. “We are working to, establish decency ‘and freedom of living, and happiness and content’ in deily work,” she said during a New York visit, “These are the things people want. When we get them we shall have contented people and families, and they miake contented states which do not’go to war to settle economic troubles. I don't believe it is working on the level of nations that is going to do this job of making world peace. I believe it will be done by making happy contented families. in wartime and still; Then swiftly Lady Reading, sketched: the work 800,000 peace- time. WVS workers are doing to better the lot of ordinary families. . “In England we have a great- er food shortage than we did during the war,” she said. “So evolved a scheme to meet it. We select a worker from each village and city street: They are taught the funda- mentals of nutrition, instructed what foods are in short supply and given recipes using more - Plentiful foods, After they have tried out the recipes, they call on every woman in their dis- trict, confer with Her on her nutrition problems and. give her the recipes and instruction which meet her needs. “To meet the clothing shortage we conduct household repair classes. and ‘run clothing ex- changes where mothers can trun in a garment her child has out- grown and receive another in larger size. To help families whose furniture was destroyed during the war, we collected 9,980 tons of furniture in 13 months and distributed it. We do work with the aged and in child’ welfare and have 1,000 wo- Anthony Eden, Out Of Cabinet, Is Still In Styl AP Newsteatures @ LONDON. — Publishing a pic- ture of Anthohy Eden’stielling dn Whitehal) Tailonsena wiper, the British tailors’ biblé said he had lost none of the style whieh brought him the title of “the best dressed politician in.the world.” Editors of the weekly magazine conceded that Ernest Bevin, who succeeded Eden as foreign secre- tary, might be his equal asa statesman, but added that as” fashion leaders “we are obliged to place»Mr. Bevin a very poor second.” . E\at even the impeccable Eden, in black hombirg and chalk- strpied lounge suit, did not satis- fy the editors. “His jacket seems to ‘drag’ somewhat at the buttonholes,” they wrote, “but whether this is due to the fact that he is walk- ing, has too much in his pockets or has put on a little weight since he was measured is difficult to say. Neyertheless, the general ef- fect is pleasing.” rr I) and Viceréy of India. In 1932 she established the Personal Ser- vice League to aid the unem- ployed. In May, 1938, at the re- quest of the Minister of Home Security, she: founded ‘the WVS, which welded one million wo- men, exempt from the call-up, into an efficient service of part- time workers who operated mo- bile canteens, rest centers and in- quiry posts, aided the homeless, distributed household goods and did other needed wartime chores.’ It has-been called “the army that Hitler forgot.” Lady Reading is no “mahog- any desk executive.” She trav- ‘els eight days out of 14 and: talks to the people she sees.’ Many of them don’t know who she is, for she wears the same plain green uniform a cook in athe service wears. She labors . like a dynamo, keeps a dicta- tion recorder in both town and | country houses so as to be able men working for the troops over-!' to continue work when she, seas.'In other words, we try to| leaves her office. help ordinary people with their Her work does not stop with pressing problems: The people of , the WVS, She has just been ap- every country have ‘their own) pointed to the board of govern- préssing problems’ and in every, ors of the British Broadcasting one, woman can help solve them.” | Corporation: where her knowledge Lady’ Reading has had a bril-!of women and their. needs will liant and diversified career. Be- | be wought into play..She. is also | fore’ her’ marriage ‘in 1931, she'a mémber of the. central housing was confidential secretary to’ the cémmittee of the Ministry of late Marquess of Reading who Health and.a member of the fac- served his country as Long Chief tory, and welfare. board. of , the Justice, special ambassador to the | Ministry.of Labor. , United States (during World War DANCE Every Saturday Night Fleet Reserve, Branch 56 9:00 p.m. to 1:00.a:m. Featuring... RUDY SAWYER’S COLORED ACES Members and Guests Invited must stand. W PLENAMINS tiny capsules gontain ALL VITAMINS i known to be essentis| to human ff) putsition, plus liver and iron. “GARDNER'S PHARMACY buses can keep to the: schedules getting their important des’ yone YOUR BUS WILL STOP AT THE FAR CORNER J. W. 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Indercover Men Foil Frauds : And Stop Stickups | By FRANK 5 AP Newsfeatures WASHINGTON. — “This out-|—-increase in mail-truck and mail- |ed by books in Greek fit’s a phoney,” said the money clerk in a small eastern Post of- fice, : The ex-WAC, trying to send vai to a “school” which prom- ised a sure-fire:job when she had finished its course, took back her money. ‘Now a money order clerk is not. usually supp Ao bptt into this business, ‘but ithe ‘one who did happened to be a‘tlose friend of ‘the girl’s family, and he had just hearg fiom ‘a: visiting Us; Postal inspettor that “this parti- cular racket"! was about to be! busted under federal mail-fraud laws. Roscoe E. Mague, general su- Perintendent of the Post Office Inspection Service, tells the story to illustrate what he considers one of the most vicious “gyps” practiced against ex-service men and women. He hastens to add there are plenty of reliable and authenti-| cated correspondence schools ex- tending themselves to aid vet- erans. He’s after the frauds pat- terned after the old “diploma mills,” ‘They promise to find a veteran a high-pay job at the end ofa course caléulated to take’just alout all his separation ahd mus- tering-out pay and then tell Him he flunked the examinations. Large-Scale Fakery’ Full figures )are. not available, but in just 89 of the 3,455 mail- fraud cases handled™ last year more than $31,800,000 was filch- ed from the public in all types of sharp practices. Mague says there has been a gradual—but so far not alarming I. WELLER Sports Writer — | train holdups, another responsi- | bility of his service. A registered | mail sack is snatched here and there. The incidents are growing in! number, Mague says, as unem- | | ployment grows and prices rise. |He has alerted the inspectors | ‘against repetition of the bold} | forays which followed World War ‘J, such’, as _ Gerald Chapman’s | stickup of a mail truck for a mil- |lion dollars in New York. t+ Mague,says post office burgla- ries are. starting up again but ‘that so far most of them are by small fry hoodlums . . . nothing like in the early ’20’s, when burg- lars got the biggest haul in postal \ history, $250,000 in stamps from }the Pawtucket, R. I., post office. | They were captured and ‘sen~ \tenced to 10 years in jail. Check Thefts “Sniping” of g overnment checks from mail boxes. is giving postal inspectors their biggest headache. Thefts have risen from 969 in 1944 and 1,546 in 1945 to what looks like something near. 2,000 in 1946. ! At first it “was carried on principally by -blacksheep - boys and girls who’ seemed satisfied with just enough to finance a night: itt'.a jive dive. Now, Ma- gue says, there is evidence that older’and wiser heads are direct- ‘ing organized depredations. PRESSE» Tc A Small Matter Clarence Littleneck—Thinking of you all day has ‘given me absence of mind. " Dolly Dill—Don’t worry, You'll never miss Copyright 1946, The American Tobacco Company QUALITY OF PRODUCT IS ESSENTIAL TO CONTINUING SUCCESS Nes! LUCKY STRIKE . Meas tine Wobagcco... So smoke that smoke of Fine Tobacco- ‘LUCKY STRIKE ° 4 Babs Palate ns _ FAIR tin. Survivor of days when cler were also teachers, he has ht | young aristocrats for 70 years.) With blindness. overtaking him, however, he was forced recently to send away his last pupil. - Of the aristocracy he says, “They are the most decent peo- ple on earth. The really snobbish people are the working class.” ‘BUSY WOMAN INMAN. Kan. — Mrs. 0. P, Strousz, farm wife, makes every minute count. After driving a truckload of wheat to the eleva- tor, she peeled potatoes while waiting in line for her load to be dumped. 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