Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-13
Both Sides in Sac PauIo
Claim Victories in Advance
Guard Clashes.
WASHINGTON TOLD CITIES
ARE SAFE FOR AMERICANS
Result Gu 200-M;ie rroMt may Give
Rebels Edge or Prolong
Civil Strife.

By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, October 49,
Dispatches received at Pazo de Los
Libros, Argentina, from Uruguayan
sources today said that Brazilian
revolutionary forces had captured
the important coastal city of Flo
rianapolis, in the state of Santa
Catharina.
BY the Associated Press.
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, october 10.
A battle for the State of Sac Paulo,
richest prize of Southern Brazil, ap-
peared today to be in its initial stages,
with both insurgent and federal armies
clair1ing victory in advance guard
contacts.
Gen. Miguel Costa, rebel commander,
reported that troops of his right had
taken the towns of Ourinhos, Singues
and Punto Ribeira, and were advancing
on Itarare, RAJ ay head of direct
line to the City of Sac Paulo.
He said rebel forces, on his left had
had skirmishes with federals at
Jacarezinho and San Jose Da Platina,
State of Parana, but that the federals
fed without fighting. At another point,
unnamed, the rebel leader, Atalviva
Leonel, crossed the Parana border into
Sac Paulo.
Federal Version Differs.
Rio de Janeiro dispatches, quoting
the minister OF justice, gave an entirely
different version of the encounters,
saying 1000 insurgents had been re-
pulsed at Punto Ribeira and Itarare.
1t also was claimed that in fighting at
JacareZinho federal column of 1000
volunteers had repulsed a rebel attack
and had begun march into the interior
Ca Parana toward Colonia Mineira.
But from the statements from both
quarters 1t was believed here that the
federal and insurgent armies were in
actual contact over a 200-mile front in
an engagement which may mean a
decisive rebel advantage, or prolonga-
ton of the conflict while federal
columns carry the conflict into the
wilds of Rio Grande Do Sui
DR.. Getulio Vargas, President Of Rio
Grande do Sui, left Porto Allegro yes
terday to assume entire charge of the
revolutionary forces, probably making
his headquarters at Curityba, capital
of Parana. He left the state govern
ment of Rio Grande do Sui in the
hands of Osvaldo Aranha, Liberal poll
tician.
Two Other Operations.
Two major movements appeared to
be under way today elsewhere in the
republic. Capt. Juarez Tavora, who
Saturday week ago took Pernambuco,
has taken Alagoas. and its capital,
Maceio, with his army of 5000 and
was advancing into the State of Bahia
PeTnambuco and Parahyba.
Ill -
Brazil northeast of the Rio Sac Fran
cisco was in rebel hands, and that he
was advancing into the state of Bahia
He announced also that the president
of the State OF Ceara, Mattos Peixoto,
had been taken from aboard the steam
ship Alfonso Penna.
The principal other revolutionary
movement was of detachments out of
the State of MinaS Geraes into the
States of Bahia, Espirito Santo and Rio
de Janeiro. The President of the State
OF Minas Geraes in messages to Porto
Allegro claimed to- have captured Cara
vellos, southern Bahia port, and to
have overrun northern Espirito Santo,
with an advance on Victoria, capital of
Esptrito jSanto, next in order.
Rio Disputes Claim.
Rio de Janeiro dispatches disputed
the claim of capture of CaravelloS and
said an attack of the Minas Geraes
rebels had been repulsed and three of
their leaders and many of the ranks
taken prisoners. Other Minas Geraes
dispatches relating establishment of
cutposts in the loyal State of Goyaz
were countered with a federal story of
police defeating a rebel volunteer COL
umn led by Pedro Ludovico. He and
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