Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26

most Of the federal forces stationed in
Rio de Janeiro, the capital, went over
to It; whereupon President washington
Luis resigned, and q junta consisting OF
military and naval officers took charge.
The dispatches are vague, but seem to
indicate a certain amount of mob vio-
lence in the capital; looting, burning,
wrecking of the plants of newspapers
which had been loyal to the overthrown
government. Apparently Sac Paulo, on
hearing of the development, at once
acquiesced. Ex-President Luis seems to
be a prisoner in a coast fort.
A few days prior to the above Presi-
dent Hoover issued a proclamation
declaring, under the authority conferred
| by q joint resolution Of Congress OF
january, 1922, an embargo on shipment
of arms or munitions of war to Brazil,
with the exception Of such shipments
to the federal government of Brazil as
may be approved by our Government
and such arms and munitions for
| industrial or commercial uses as may
from time to time be exported with the
consent of the Secretary of State"
On December II, 1881, there will be
celebrated with magnificent ceremony
the four hundredth anniversary of the
visitation, at Teyepac, now Guadalupe,
! near Mexico City, Of the Virgin Mary
to one Juan Diego The appearance
was reported by Diego to Juan de Yum
marriage, the first Bishop of Mexico,
but his reverence was skeptical and
demanded proofs.
Returning to the scene Of the vista
ton, Diego craved convincing sign.
Again obtaining audience of the bishop,
he unfolded his mantle, and 10, roses
Of ineffable fragrance, and still more
wondrous, the figure Of the Virgin
painted on the inside Of the mantle.
The mantle, with the painting still
fresh, is, believe, still to be seen on
the altar of the basilica erected on the
scene of the visitation.
A respectable authority furnishes us
the following statistics. The total pub
| lie debt of Peru, with a population Of
perhaps 5,500,00 is about $145, 000,-
900, whereof 112000,000 is foreign,
| having advanced to that figure from
about $5,000000 within 10 years. The
total public debt of Bolivia, with a
population Of about 100000, is about
| $40 900, 900, whereof about 100000 900
is foreign. In both cases, considering
the meagerness of the per capita wealth,
the per capita debt is much too large
In Bolivia a budgetary deficit is the
regular thing, and service of the debt
Is maintained with difhculty and pre-
cariously, the yields being exorbitant.
| The other day the Swedish Match Co.
obliged in return for a monopoly, and
still more recently resort was had to
an internal loan at eXtravagant in
| terest in order to maintain service.
Retrench, sisters, retrench.
~ +
UNITED STATES-Federal tax re-
| ceipts of the first quarter of the cur
rent fiscal year totaled less by $50, All
| 504 than for the corresponding quarter
of 1929
On october 10, of Gloucester, Mass,
| the American fishing schooner Gertrude
L. Thebaud of Gloucester beat the
BluenoSe of Nuremberg, Nova Scotia,
by about minutes over a 38-mile
triangle, in a 20-knot norweSter Thus,
| by two victories to none, winning the
speed championship of North Atlantic
fishing craft of the Grand Banks. The
BluenCse won the last previous series,
way back in 1922. She also won in
1921. Gloucester is happy.
NOTES.-Here Is almost the only
note of optimism heard for many a long
day. In its annual report the Danish
National Bank declares that the Danish
economy has not been very seriously
affected by the planetary economic
slump. On the whole, you know, the
Scandinavian countries are the best
managed in the world. We don't hear
much from that quarter Happy the
people whose annals are uninteresting. :"