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Brazilian Army Stages Coup to Oust
President, Faces Navy Resistance
By FRED L. STROZIER «
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, M—
The Brazilian army ousted provi
sional President Carlos Da Luz
early today and asked Congress to
choose a new temporary chief ex
ecutive. The revolt seemed mainly
an effort to insure that President
elect Juscelino Kubitschek will be
inaugurated next Jan. 31.
The navy and the air force re
fused to support the Army coup,
led by Gen. Henrique Teixeira
Lott, and issued a joint statement
pledging loyalty to Luz, a dissi
dent member of Kubitschek’s So
cial Democratic Party. %
Radio Globo reported Congress
appeared ready to impeach Luz
and give the provisional presiden
cy to Nerao Ramos, 66, president
of the Senate and a social Demo
crat, but a member of a faction
which did not support Kubitschek.
Gen. Lott moved to prevent a
coup by a group of army leaders
who reportedly were planning to
prevent Kubitscheck’s taking of
fice. Luz was believed favoring
this plot.
Passing the presidency to Ra
mos is in conformity to the consti
tution, since the Senate president
is next in line for the office after
the president of the House of Dep
uties.
Cannon fire from Copacabana
Fort shook the fashionable Copa
cabana Beach district tfris morn
ing when the Navy apparently
sought to resist the army coup.
Witnesses said the fort’s big
guns were fired across the bow of
a warship heading out of the har
bor and that the ship turned back.
Lott issued a communique claim
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Ike Leaves Denver
Giving Thanks for
Aid During Illness
DENVER, UP)—An “eternally
grateful” President Eisenhower
left Denver for Washington today
after telling of his thanks to all
who have aided him in his illness.
Speaking from the ramp of the
Columbine III in raw, damp, 36
degree weather, the President said
that the misfortune of his illness
made him aware “of how good
people are.”
The President, looking surpris
ingly well, told an audience of Air
Force personnel and a small group
of friends and dignitaries, that the
force at Fitzsimmons Army Hos
pital and at Lowry A F B had
“earned my eternal gratitude.”
He expressed appreciation, too,
for the “messages of friendship”
and to the people around the
world who had “sent up their
prayers” for his recovery when he
was stricken seven weeks ago to
morrow.
The President spoke but briefly
after he and Mrs. Eisenhower
drove up to the ramp of their
plane to be greeted by a bi-parti
san group headed by Democratic
Governor Ed Johnson and Repub
lican Mayor Will Nicholson.
The President wore a camel’s
hair top coat and a brown hat.
Standing on the sixth step of
the ramp, he spoke simply and
with no word about any major
domestic or foreign policy.
“Again, it is time for Mrs. Eis
enhower and me to say goodbye,”
he began. “We leave under some
what unusual circumstances this
time.”
H
HIGH WINDS IN B.C.
VANCOUVER, Uft—A gale with'
gusts of more than 70 miles per
hour caused widespread damage
over the mainland of British Col
umbia last night and early today.
In Vancouver, a woman was in
jured when an ojbect was dropped
from a building by the wind. She
was struck on the head.
Deadlock Still on
As Big 4 Ministers
Set Adjournment
GENEVA, W>—The Big Four
foreign ministers decided in secret
session today to adjourn their cur
rent Geneva conference with a
final meeting next Wednesday.
The American delegation issued
this formal statement:
“The ministers at their private
meeting this afternoon, bearing in
mind their agreement at New
York that the conference would
last three weeks, agreed to organ
ize their work here so that the
conference could finish its work
on Wednesday.”
This will conclude the confer
ence one day short of the three
week target. The ministers have
spent 37 hours in formal session
here since they convened Oct. 27.
But they have found Soviet re
sistance to German unity through
free elections and to Western pro
posals on disarmament and East
West contacts as steadfast as ever.
Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov torpedoed any hope of
German reunification in a slash
ing speech Tuesday. Yesterday, he
took a stand on disarmament com
pletely unacceptable to the Amer
ican, British and French ministers.
Working groups on the third
item, opening up Russia to the
West with# mutual exchange of
travel, culture and trade, are in
complete deadlock.
The above picture was taken as the delegates to
the Alaska Constitutional Convention were ad
ministered their oath Tuesday by Judge Vernon
Forbes of the Fairbanks District Court. They
swore that they were not members of any sub
versive organization and that they would do
justice to all men equally. The capacity crowd
that jammed the University of Alaska auditor
ium can be seen. Spectators were seeded behind
the delegates. News-Miner photo by Jim Douthit
Hoover Leads
U.S. Observance
Of Veterans Day
WASHINGTON, Uft—F o r m e r
President Hoover called on Amer
icans today to keep seeking “last
ing peace, not for ourselves alone
but for all mankind.”
Hoover, acting for President
Eisenhower, led the nation in its
observance of Veterans Day as he
laid a wreath on the tomb of the
Unknown Soldier in nearby Ar
lington Cemetery.
“We dedicate ourselves to main
tain respect of nations for our
preparedness and our might to
defend ourselves against aggres
sion,” Hoover said.
Similar patriotic ceremonies
were set throughout the country
on this second annual Veterans
Day—a dedication to the more
than 1,000,000 Americans who
died in war and the 22,000,000
living veterans.
The yearly tribute* with its
one-minute period of silence for
those who gave their lives for
their country, used to be known
as Armistice Day, in observance
of the date the guns were silenced
in World War I. Congress rededi
cated the occasion last year to
honor those who served in all our
wars.
In many places throughout the
nation, including the capital, it is
a legal holiday.
Margaret Truman Plans
Date With N.J. Governor
TRENTON, N.J., ItfV—Gov. Rob
ert B. Meyner and the girl with
whom he has been romantically
linked—Margaret Truman — have
a date tomorrow at Princeton.
Meyner and the former Presi
dent’s daughter will see the Yale
Princeton football game. The gov
ernor, who shies from questions
concerning his relationship with
Miss Truman, has said he is not a
confirmed bachelor.
Convention Delegates Wrangle About
People’s Right to Hear Groups at Work
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Youth Entering Service
And Five Others Killed
When Train Strikes Car
GLENCOE, Minn., CP)—An im
promptu farewell party for a
youth going into the service Mon
day ended in death for the six
teen-aged participants last night
when their car was struck by a
Milwaukee Road passenger train.
Sheriff Leon Odegaard said the
car was so badly smashed “I doubt
if a junk yard would want it.”
Odegaard identified the dead as
Robert Luedtke, 18, the boy who
was going into the service, and
Roger Frauendiest, 17, both of
nearby New Auburn; Milton Brel
je, 16; Margaret Fuller, 15; Maur
ice Olson, 14; and his sister, Kari,
16, all of Plato.
Officials Doubt Satchmo
Will Get to “Bruise
Them Russian Cats”
WASHINGTON, UP)—American
officials said today it is doubtful
that jazz king Louis Armstrong
will have a chance to, as he put it,
“bruise them Russian cats with
the happy music.”
iBatchmo told newsmen Sunday
in Geneva, where he was playing
an engagement, his group had
been planning “a little Russian
sleigh ride” for some time.
Government officials here said
that would be a wonderful idea
under East-West impulses lately
to have a freer exchange of artists
and scientists. But they said the
Russians probably would say no
to him. They gave these reasons:
Jazz is still generally consid
ered decadent in Russia, although
Satchmo’s trumpet is not un
known because of a thriving black
market in jazz records. Further,
jazz is blamed as a contributing
factor toward “hooliganism,” the
Russian term for what Americans
call juvenile delinquency.
*' FAIRBANKS, UP)—In a day of
compromises, ‘delegates to Alas
ka’s Constitution Convention yes
terday adopted rules of procedure,
established key committees, and
wrangled about the people’s right
to know.
The delegates idled today in ob
servance of Veterans Day while
the convention chairman, William
Egan of Valdez, drew up commit
tee lists.
Most of the words were bandied
about over a Rules Committee
proposal to close all committee
meetings to press and public.
After much argument over the
people’s right to know as balanced
against possible interference with
committee work, it was decided to
let each committee make its own
decision regarding secrecy. The
committees must also take cogni
zance of requests by the public for
admission but the rule didn’t say
that cognizance included approval.
The delegates also ruled that
the convention secretary, Thomas
Stewart, must announce all com
mittee meetings in advance and
give time and place so requests
for attendance may be made.
Stewart was the subject of a
loophole inserted in another rule
when it was voted to forbid hiring
hereafter of any persons as per
manent employes of the conven
tion of they are relatives of dele
gates. The “hereafter” was insert
ed because Stewart’s father, B. D.
Stewart, is a delegate.
The president was authorized to
appoint committee members and
chairmen after some discussion
was heard over whether commit
tees should name their own gavel
pounder.
The following committees were
established before adjournment
for the one-day holiday:
Rules; administration; style and
drafting; resolutions; ordinances
and transitional measures; pre
amble and bill of.rights; suffrage,
elections and apportionment; leg
islative branch; exeutive; judicia
tion; resources; finance and taxa
tion; local government; direct leg
islation; amendment and revision;
resolutions and recommendations.
The committees vary in mem
bership from seven to nine.
The press freedom issue brought
extended discussion.
Victor Fischer of Anchorage
told the delegates that the conven
tion was being held for the people
of Alaska and he hoped that they
would be able to attend “and not
have to spend most of their time
sitting in a lobby waiting for a
closed meeting to adjourn.”
“It is our responsibility,” he
said, “to give the public the op
portunity to watch us work.”
A differing view was taken by
Mildred Hermann of Juneau, who
said “Let’s not burden the public
ear with trivia. It’s a matter of
efficiency and getting lesser im
portant details ironed out in com
mittee.”
Delegate Frank Barr said the
public sessions would distract the
delegates and allow lobbying. And
Warren Taylor, Fairbanks, also
urged against allowing the public
“to come indiscriminately into
committee rooms.”
Finally, the convention passed
the motion of the Rules Commit
tee in watered-down form.
As the rule finally was approved
by a voice vote, each committee is
to decide each time it meets
whether its proceedings will be
open to public and press.