Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1930, Page 12

(A-12 m' TRANSFER OF U. 8. SHOP IS OPPOSED = House Amends Prison Bill So Women Will Continue to Repair Mail Bags. ‘The plea. of woman workers in O,h: Federal Penitentiary would result in 500 Government employes being thrown out of work a of convicts has been answered in effect by the House. motion of Representative La Guardia of New-York, the Snell prison ol was amended to provide that no articles shall be produced for sale to or use by Government departments or independent establishments in penal institutions which at present are being produced by civilian employes. The effect of the amendment would be not t5 disturb the Post Office Department’s Tepair shop. Pnfinflnl out that the repair shop, Fifth and W streets northeast, em‘%loys nearly 500 women, La Guardia sl thought it “hardly fair to deprive free labor, although em in a Govern- ment department, of work by rea- son of competition with convict labor.” It was s2id the amendment had the approval of the Post Office Department and that an effort would be made to have its provision respecting the repair shop adopted by the Senate. Representative R. Walton Moore of Fairfax, Va.,, agreed with La Guardia’s | pla: statement and read in the House a let- ter from one of the woman employes of OPENING " AT AW P g the which said: “I am emj loyed at the shop mfl need the work. m are nearly 500 employes working and all would be thrown out of work by a lot of eonvtcum‘ o il b “The mean they thrown out if this legislation is en- acted,” Moore said. “If this policy be ted you will disturb the employ- ment of hundreds of thousands of peo- ple who have given the best of their lives to the Government.” SUBMARINE SAFETY TESTS TO BE MADE Mechanical “Lung” Is Designed to Permit Occupants to Escape Sunken Craft. By the Associated Press. KEY WEST, Fla., January 24.—Prepa~- rations went forward last night for con- ducting the second of a series of safety tests off this port with & new device designed to allow occupants to escape safely from sunken undersea craft. ‘The invention is a mechanical “lung,” tried out successfully here last year at varying depths. Improvements . have been made on the device since then, however. In tow of the Navy tug hl- con, the S-4, in which the tests will made, arrived here yesterday from New London, Conn. The submarine will set out for a point several miles off shore to conduct the tests. The submarine is the craft that sank in North Atlantic waters about two years ago, carrying a number of men to their death. Special bombs to be dmpped flom alr- nies to reveal where e found are being tested In the hernng fisheries on the north coast of Norway. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ATTACKS VALIDITY Petition for Annulment Claims She Was Wed to First Husband When Married Second Time. Challenging the validity of a decree of divorce obtained by his wife from her former husband, Van Wyck Wo- mack, 408 M street northeast, yeeier- day petitioned the District Supreme Court to annul_his marriage to Mrs. Rosette Walter Womack. According to the bill, the parties were married June 27, 1925, and separated July 21, 1929. ‘Womack, represented by Attorneys Raymond Neudecker and Willlam C. Ashford, alleged that his wife married Clifton Walker June 1, 1915, in Alex- andria, Va., and subsequently suéd him for divorce in Circuit Court 2, Balti- more, which court, on order of publi- cation, awarded her a divorce on Oc- Colds system i aste as Totics u':'fl-?:"" o' cold. Just tabe i ‘Tablets: tober 24, 1024, Womack claims certan | Jjurisdictional requirements, plmculu'ly relal to residence, were not tha was still the legal wife of Wllk!r when he married her. The husband claims the Baltimore court was imposed upon by the representa- tion_that the Tormer Mrs. Waiker, had resided there for two years before filing h:r suit and by the further allegation of desertan on the part of Walker on July 17, 1917, - Womack claims his wife misrepresented the facts and misled the court on these two matters. D. C, FRIDAY, KEEN HEADS CREDIT MEN. wmplled ::‘z: by his wife, and. alleges | 8. H. Talkes Is Re-elected Secretary OF WIFE'S DIVORCE == and Treasurer. Albert G. Keen of Kings Palace was elected president of the Associated Re- tail Credit Men of Washington at the annual meeting for the election of offi- cers in its headquarters Wednesday Eugene Beatty of Lansburgh & Bro. | was elected vice president. Stephen H. Talkes was re-elected sec- retary and treasurer. 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