Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1930, Page 5

3 AUSTRAWLLVOTE ONFASCST ECIE ., Fears Expressed Unconstitu- tional Rule May Follow. Defeat at Polls. ews Copyright, VIENNA, Austria, November 8.—The bulk of the population of Austria goes to the polls tomorrow to decide whether Fascism or Soclalism is to rule the eountry, or perhaps compromise between the two. : Today last-minute electioneering is producing considerable excitement. Two Issues Prominent. Two controversial issues prominent at the last moment lead to fears in some quarters that the Fascist Heimwehr, if beaten, may attempt to rule the coun- try unconstitutionally. One is the afte math of this week’s one-sided disarm: ment gesture. Austria has two private “armies,” the Helmwehr of the Fascists and the Schutzbund of the Socialists. They are equally illegal, but when Prince_Ernest Rudiger von Starhem- berg, Heimwehr minister of interior, with the backing of Chancellor Karl Vaugoin, decided at last to enforce the disarmament law, he naturally confis- eated only the Schutzbund arms. The Soclalists, understandably, are pretty hot about this. The second issue is not political, but s bound to have electoral repercussions —the continued expansion of Prince yon Starhemberg's power as minister of interior It is reported that he has ust appointed a man named Pegus as ison officer to help control the police. The police are technically under for- mer Chancellor Johann Schober, one of Prince von Starhemberg's political ene- mies. Herr Pegus is a German, was & member of Gen. Ludendorfl's staff, took rt in the Hitler putsch, and is said Em & character much under the in- fluence of Germian extremists. A hook-up between the Fascism of Germany, Italy, Austria, and perhaps Hungary, too, is fairly clearly fore- shadowed if the Heimwehr wins. Further Balloting in Sight. Unluckily for poor Austria, tomor-; row's election is only the peginning of | the vote contest, hecause by the terms of the new constitution the country ‘will have to go to the polls again with- in 10 weeks to elect a new federal President. If in the first presidential election no candidate gets an abso- lute majority, then there will have to be a second presidential election one ™ week after the first. adio to The Star and the Chicago B Reahy N right, 1930, ™ PLANS ARE APPROVED CAN B Mrs. THE EVEN OF PEAS PLACED ON TRIAL EFORE JURY OF HOUSEWIVES Harvey W. Wiley Heads Committee, Acting for Secretary Hyde, in Stand- ardizing Market Product. ht women sat around a table in rtment of Agriculture Building yesterdy, their attitude very scienitfic. The object of their attention was an unsuspecting can of peas. Finally a voice of authority posed two questions which projected the eight women into channels of deep thought. “If you purchased this article labeled simply as ‘peas,’ would you be satisfied with it for service at a usual meal in your home?” “If not, in what respects do you re- gard this can of peas as unsatisfac- tory?"” When Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, the widow of the famous food specialist; Mrs. Albert gs, the president of Housckeepers' Alliance, and their six associates answer the questions, the Secretary of Agriculture will study their concensus and inform the producer of that can of peas just how he shall ad- vertise his product. Standards of Canned Goods Sought. Secretary Hyde is authorized to es- tablish standards for canned goods un- der the canners’ bill of the last Con- gress, which requires that canned goods which enter Interstate commerce and are found to be below the standards oromulgated must be labeled with a :(!e»‘inm(lon clearly setting “forth the act. The bill specifically requires that the standards arrived at be such as to “pro- mote honesty and fair dealing in the interest of the consumer.” Secvetary Hyde, considering it necessary to have the consumer's opinion on the quality of canned goods coming under the law, called in the group of eight women who sat in judgment on the can of peas. With Mrs, Wiley and Mrs. Baggs were three associate specialists in foods and nutrition of the department’s Bureau of Home Economis. Dr. G. Adams, Miss M. Stienbarger and Miss R. Loughlin; Miss K. McCabe and Miss G. Bulman, dieticians of the Veterans’ Bureau, and Miss H. Jeffery, the proprietor of a cafeteria. Numerous canned foods come under the act and Dr. P. B. Dunbar, assistant chief of the food and drug administra- tion, announced that the opinion of housewives and other consumers will be sought as the products are studied. Opinion from the food industries, from well known food experts and from the administration’s officials will be com- bined with the consumer’s ideas in drawing up final standards. Since "\hel‘wdbmd ?xl;uu"llh act :‘I‘S passed, glaring abuses e manu- facture of canned food products have become rare. “Border-line” ~cases among canned foods still exist, how- ever, and while these are not definitely 1lley they represent, according to the food administration, a degree of in- feriority of the foods, entitling the buy- er to full knowledge of their quality before money is invested. “The purpose of the canners’ bill," Dr. Dunbar explained, “is to authorize the formulation of such legal standards as will insure a product sold to be of at least' a standard degree of excellence, while an article which has reached such a degree of inferiority as to offend the purchaser, even though that article be perfectly wholesome and nutritious, will be definitely labeled to show that it is substandard, and therefore will not be bought at the ordinary price. Duty to Cofsumer Stressed. “It the consumer has the money to buy & standard g.ade article, she should be in a position to do so with full nowledge of the character of the product purchased. But if her means will not afford a product of that excel- lence, it should be possbile for her, under the operation of the canners’ bill, to buy a product which, while not so desirable, will nevertheless be pute and wholesome and carry a definite declara- tion of its substandard quality.” ‘While this is being done care will be taken that the designation required of the producer shall not be such a stig- matizing character as to convey the impression that the product is unfit for food. Dr. Dunbar pointed out that the canners’ bill does not legalize the distribution of adulterated or mis- branded canned foods. TEN PERSONS HURT INAUTO CRASHES Hushand, 68, and Wife, 67, FOR 3 SCHOOL PROJECTS District Commissioners Tell Clerk of Engineer Department to Advertise for Bids. '» _ Plans for three school projects author- fzed in the current lgfiroprhflon act ‘were approved by the District Commis- sioners yesterday and the chief clerk of the eer Department was instructed to advertise for bids for the work. ‘The Am‘ drawn by Municipal Arch- - L. Harris, call for the con- struction of a school at Northampton street and Broad Branch road at an estimated cost of $132,500; construction of the “Horace Mann' School, on the south side of Newark street between Forty-fourth and Fortyfifth ‘Wesley Heights, also 4t an' estimated cost of $132,500, and the construction of an athletic fleld for Western Higl Bchool, between Thirty-eighth, Thirty- ninth and S streets and River road, at an estimated cost of $96,867.66. D. C. Heads Approve $15,000 Deal. Are Knocked Down by Taxicab. A police report showed 10 persons, including a policeman, were given hos- pital treatment early today or late yes- terday as a result of automobile acci- dents. Mrs. Elizabeth Shoemaker, 60 years old, 4850 Forty-second street, was in Georgetown University Hospital today with injuries received when knocked down by an automobile driven by Wil- liam N. MacDonald of Bethesda, Md. The accident occurred late yesterday at Wisconsin avenue and Ellicott street. MacDonald was charged with reckless driving Pedestrians Struck by Taxi. August Walls, 68 years old, and Mrs. Anna Walis, his wife, 67 years old, of 2505 Thirteenth street, crossing F be- tween Pourteenth and Fifteenth streets about 5:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, were knocked down by a taxicab driven by Edward C. McConnell, 500 Fourth Purchase of property at 3900 Ninth w street northeast for use in connection with the reconstruction of the Monroe street viaduct over the tracks of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was approved by the Commissioners yesterday. The rty is to be bought from R, Mar- m‘shm;:, real estate dealer, for $15,000. DELANO TO FORM COMMITTEE TO AID D. C. UNEMPLOYED (Continued From First Page.) -—l e S S # fenants compelled to move. The Com- missioners could also go ahead with large bridge items, sewer construction Jobs, schools and the like, which are necessary, but which must be delayed for several years under the nt “pay as you go” system of municipal financing. AID FOR IDLE SOUGHT. Parties Concentrate on Attaining _PM- perity Once More. By the Assoctated Press. v With the distractions of élection time faid behind it, the Government concen- trated afresh today on improvement of business, reduction of unemployment and suffering. President Hoover himself gave the _word. He turned aside all discussion of the heavy political burdens entailed in election changes and pointed to the im- mediate goal _“The job for the country now is to eoncentrate on measures of co-operation for economic recovery.” Col. Woods Speaks Over Radio. Chairman Woods of the President’s Emergency Committee for Employment earried the word in a radio appeal last night to the heads of all the Nation's * communities, asking them to join in the drive. On the political front the same mes- sage was current. Seven Democratic leaders, outlining their party’s post-elec. tion stand, spoke of “a straight line to- # ward the goal of prosperity,” ing “out of the tempest with the t disturbance and the greatest speed consistent with safety.” Senator Watson of Indiana, Repub- co-operation to bring back prosperity to_the Nation.” Woods employed the radio to expand street southeast, and injured. They were treated at Emergency Hospital. Police charged McConnell with operat- ing his car with defective brakes. A collision between the automobiles of Mrs. Miriam Birdseye, Virginia High- lands, Va., and Charles Lee, colored, 2436 Vigrinia_avenue, occurring early last night at Thirteenth and B st:eets, caused Marian Joyce, 8 years old, of Virginia Highlands, occupant of the former car, to be injured. She was| treated at Emergency Hospital. Agnes Barnwell, colored, 30 years old, 1013 Nineteenth street, was knocked down at Eighteenth and I streets early last night by an automobile and her left leg injured. She was treated at Emergency Hospital. Alvin Burless, colored, 8 years old, | 2308 L street, received bruises yester- | day when knocked down by an automo- bile in front of his home. He was treated at Emergency Hospital. Car Crashes Bridge Rail. Willlam H. Redman, 23 years old, United States Naval Air Station, early | today lost control of his car while cross- ing Anacostia Bridge, causing the car | to crash against one of the guard rails of the bridge. Redman, who suffered a dislocation of the left shoulder, was taken to the air station. He said he was blinded by lights of an approach- ing car. Policeman Roy A. Cunningham of the Traffic Bureau received injury to his left knee in a traffic accident at Fourteenth and S streets last night. Cunningham, who resides at 4711 Brandywine street, was treated at Emergency Hospital. Prank Galuppo, 18 years old, 1323 North Capitol street,” and Lorenzo Capone, 17 years old, of 2606'; Georgia avenue, were injured yesterday when a truck in_which they were riding col- lided at Pirst street and Florida avenue | with the automobile of Willlam J. Dow, 1360 Iris street. They were treated at Emergency Hospital. . 'GYROPILOT WILL HAVE T0 PROVE EFFICACY Company Will Have to Show U. §. Robot Device Can Pilot a Plane. The gyropilot, gyroscopically control- | Jed robot. will have to prove itself to | officials of the Department of Com- merce, aeronautics branch, before it will long-distance telephone campaign he initiated to further the use of his organization as a clearing house of in- » formation. % City Heads Asked for Facts, He asked mayors and city managers to give him facts, write in what specific measures they are employing in the fight on unemployment, what industries 4n their terri are doing and what Joint efforts have been undertaken with gt spiekt 1 K,flgiég i E ment. Eastern Air Transport officials an- nounced yesterday that they had or- dered several of the gyropilots for in- stallation on planes of the line, follow- ing extension of nger service through this city to Atlanta on Decem- ber 1 and to Miami about the first of the year. ‘The y will have to demon- strate that the device, which has been ively by Arm i i iy 15 g =4 = SUICIDE FOLLOWS AS MAN LOSES J0B Bookkeeper Shoots Himself to Death at Office, in Center Market. Advised by his employers that he need not return to work today when, police were told, he appeared at his office yesterday in an intoxicated condition, George E. Rossen, 32-year-old book- keeper for the National Hotel Bupply Co., committed suicide by shooting him- self in the head in his company's office, at 9 Wholesale row, Center Market. at 3:45 pam. yesterday. According to Leon Arnold, member of the hotel supply firm, Rossen - drank frequently and Arnold previously had discharged him three or four to take him back in a few days. it , who lives at 103 Fourth street ‘northeast, was working in the office with Herbert L. Berry, another bookkeeper, of 1476 Newton street, dur- ing the afternoon hours. According to Berry's explanation, Rossen left his desk and began moving about the office, Sud- denly there was an explosion just be- hind Berry's back and Berry turned just in time to see Rossen falling to the ficor. The revolver used by Rossen was owned by Joseph Burroughs, son of a member of the firm, and kept in the office. Dr. A. L. Degrego of Emergency Hos- pital staff pronounced Rossen dead, ex- pressing the opinion that death was instantaneous. Dr. J. Ramsay Nevitt issued a cer- tificate of suicide. Rossen is survived by his wife, who lives at the Fourth street address, and his mother, who makes her home in Woodville, Va. He had lived in Wash- ington for 15 years, having come here from the Virginia town. ROLAND REUTLINGER LEAVES HOSPITAL Treated for Exposure and Shock After Falling Into Ford in Rock Creek Park. Roland 8. Reutlinger, 41 years old, of 4701 Connecticut avenue, was dis- charged from Georgetown Hospital last night following treatment for exposure and shock, suffered early Priday when he fell, unconscious, into the shallow water of a ford in Rock Creek Park at Broad Branch road and Blagden avenue, Mr. Reutlinger, who is vice president of the Hessick Automatic Stoker Co. told Headquarters Detective H. E. Brodle that he had been weakened by & cold of several weeks' duration, and that he fainted while driving his auto- mobile through the ford. He was found by a passing motorist, Julian Smtih of 4601 Forty-seventh street. Assisted by his brother, Smith put Reutlinger into his automobile and drove him to the hospital, Reutlinger had parked his car at Unlon Station Thursday morning, leav- ing by train on a business trip to Philadelphia. Returning late Thursday night, he got into his automobile and was on his way home when the mishap occurred. Reutlinger's car was found stalled beside him in the for u CAULKING There is a crack about Y% of an inch around 95 per cent of all win- dow and door frame: that are set in masonry. This crack varies tract when they set. you know' that this small crack square feet? out the cold . and dust. the painted G STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SA PROPOSAL 10 LIMIT CONSCRIPTS FAILS German Move at Geneva Arms Parley Is Defeated, 12 Votes to 6. 3v the ASsociated Press. GENEVA, November 8—The Pre- paratory Commission on Disarmament today rejected by 12 votes to 6 a Ger- man attempt to incorporate ‘the princi- ple of limitation of the annual con- tingent of conscripts called to service into the projected draft disarmament treaty. American and British representatives on the Preparatory Commission ab- stained from voting. Germany, China, Russia, Norway, Sweden and Holland supported the proposed limitatjon. France, Italy, Japan and other nations which rely upon compulsory military service joined in defeating the German move. With the German proposal out of the way, the commission voted its approval to the principle of limitation of the period of service for conscripts, put into motion form by Lord Cecil of Great Britain. Massigli Gives French Views. Rene Massigli, speaking for France, reaffirmed his government’s opposition to limitation of the annual contingent called to the colors, recalling that this project had been rejected on the first reading of the draft convention now under consideration. Such limitation, he said ,would do away with the prin- ciple of universality of obligations so much prized by many democratic coun- tries. Herr Rutgers of Holland reported that observation of this so-called democratic principle would result in all conscript | armies being very large. The German proposals, submitted by Count von Bernstorff, precipitated re- newal of the decbate which already has been waged -In cisarmament circles for years as to the status of trained re- serves in any disarmament or limitation program. Sato Speaks for Japan. M. Sato voiced the Japanese opposi- tion to the German project, comment- ing that such limitation would meet complex difficulties in Japan, where, in the different branches of the service, conscripts are called up for varying pe- riods of service. Lord Cecil said he regretted that Ger- many had raised the question of lim- iting the total number of conseripts and that limitation of the total number of :men in any army inevitably would limit the number of trained reserves. He suggested that it would be neces- sary to agree upon the relative military value of the conscript and professional soldier and he agreed with M. Sato that ' the professional soldier, with his long period of service, was a better fighting man than the conseript. DECLINES TO ANNUL MARRIAGE OF GIRL, 15 Justice Hitz Dismisses Suit Brought by Mother of Maryland Bride. Justice William Hitz of the District Supreme Court yesterday dismissed & suit for an annulment of marriage brought by Margaret Mary Dale, 15 years old, 419 W street, against Thomas ‘W. Dale, 19 years old, 305 Rhode Island avenue, to whom she was married in Maryland August 8 last without con- sent of parents. The suit had been instituted for the wife by her mother, Mrs. Annie M. Holohan on the plea that the marriage was illegal under the Maryland law. ‘The husband employed Attorney Philip W. Austin to oppose the efforts to annul the marriage. Austin called the attention of Justice Hitz to the fact that the Maryland law, unlike the provisions of the code of the District of Columbia, does not in. validate a marriage between minors without consent of their parents. He pointed out that the only provisions of the Maryland law are that a pen- alty is imposed on the clerk of the court if he should issue a marriage to persons under age limits set by the law, and also penalizes a minister who should perform such marriages. The District law says such marriages shall be invalid, but, it is claimed, the Mary- land statutes are silent on the question’ of the status of such marriages. 300-FOOT LIMIT IS SET IN NAVY DIVERS’ TEST U. 8. School Depth Is Greater Than Attempted in Any Other Na- tion's Classes. ‘The Navy has decided that 300 feet is about the limit its divers need to go. ‘The Bureau of Navigation, Navy De- partment, said tcday in its bulletin that a large part of each class at the Deep Diving School at the Washington Navy ‘Yard qualifies for depths up to 300 feet —a greater depth than has been ‘at- tempted by any other divers’ school. “These men could go deeper,” the bureau asserts, “but there would be little profit in so doing, since the incum- brance of the various lines from the surface hampers activities increasingly at great depths; and the long time re- quired for the ascent in order to avoid caisson disease reduces the usefulness of such dives to the vanishing point.” Divers at the Washington Navy Yard are instructed nct only in diving opera- tions and underwater seamanship, but also in the use of devices useful in rescue and salvage work. Weatherstripping and Caulking Saves its entire cost in one season in width as the frames shrink and the walls con- A crack Y& of an inch wide may not impress being serious, but do you residence with 30 windows is equal to an opening of 6 WEATHERSTRIPS Made of heavy braded bronze and built to last a lifetime and keep Can be installed in any ty) the sash or having a big muss of work. window or door vings or marring Estimate Made Without Obligation MDONALD DENIES SPLIT IN' CABINET Premier Declares Rumor of Division Over Unemployment Policy Is “Quite Untrue.” By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 8.—Prime Min- ister MacDonald officially put his foot down today on reports that the Laborite cabinet was split over certain features of proposed unemployment remedies. A statement issued from No. 10 Down- !ing street referred to the reported at- titude of three cabinet members toward suggestions in the recent Liberal memo- randum on unemployment and declared | that the idea that the cabinet was di- vided on this issue was quite untrue. Reports which have been published mentioned Philip Snowden, chancellor of the exchequer, as declining to agree to development of a loan to finance un- employment relief work and national reconstruction. This was a big feature OVEMBER 8, 1930. of the The ly of his gested the on this issue, in which case We Benn, secretary of State for India, A. V. Alexander, first lord of the ad- miralty, would go with him. When asked today about the reported division in the cabinet, Mr. Alexander replied, “I know nothing of this alle and I feel certain that my other colleagues know nothing about it.” Sl A St R $51 AND RING STOLEN Empty Pocketbook Found Later in ‘Waste Basket. A pocketbook containing $51, gold ring and valuable papers was taken from the desk of Miss Prances Rollins, 1223 Siienherd street, in the Census Bu- reau, yesterday afternoon. The empty pocketbook was found in a waste basket in the women’s rest room in the build- ing. Mrs. Clara Briggs, 3150 Seventeenth street, last night reported to the police that an unsuccessful attempt was made to snatch her pocketbook, by a young colored man at_ Sixteenth street and Columbia road, shortly before 9 o'clock. Ten Arrested in S;(i;ley Disorders. SYDNEY, New South Wales, Novem- ber 8 (#).—Cemmunist celebrations of the Russian revolutionary anniversary developed disorderly scenes yesterday. Ten persons were arrested for particis pating in an unlawful celebration. tion T2 MYSTERIOUS FIRE ALARM IS CLEARED ; Alexandria Police Say Volun- teer Fireman Has Made Written Confession. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, November 8.—A written confession that he turned in a false alarm of fire Thursday night has been obtained from Emmett Stout, 21, of 716 Queen street, a volunteer fire- man attached to No. 5 Company, ac- cording to local police. Conviction cal ries & fine of not less than $25 and a Jail sentence of not less than 10 days. Stout was traced when police became suspicious of the call reporting the fire, due to the large number of false alarms which had been turned in. Records of the telephone company showed that the call came from Stout's address, ac- cording to police, and_he was taken into custody by Sergt. Padgett and Fire Chief James M. Duncan, jr. 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