Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1931, Page 11

THE EvenING 81 WASHINGLON, D. C, WiunmSDAY, D b i 9 1931, A—11 N. U. Plans Dance WABASH RAILROAD GOES T0 RECEIVERS Decline in Auto Shipments‘ Blamed for Road’s Busi- ness Failure. ‘ SENIOR PROM SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY. BYy'the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, December 2.—FPailing in last-minute efforts to obtain fi al sh Railway Co. today was ivers—the first casualty in railroad the stock market crash business lull t its operating expenses { drastic cuts in freight consented yesterday ent in Federal Court of Franklin, St clected president c the i Prank C. Nicodemus assistant general counsel of and subseq Unabl= to fevenu 1 t fa sy New York rigid control over others. It makes divorce legal in Spain, after centuries Zamora Elated to Be Made President—Church and State Separated. AR, i Ew of anti-divorce laws. It grants women the suffrage. It places education under | the control of the state, instead of the church, * | Revision Movement Begun. It 18 not without opposition. The Catholic Agrarian party and others of the extreme Right aiready have begun T |2 movement to revise the constitution, which was formulated by a Soclalist- controlled Assembly. “We disapprove of the constitution ™ said Deputy Beunza of the Catholic | Agrarian group, “and expect to start a revision campaign as soon as the in- is finally adopted and the strument paign.” Agrariap reforms are among the first supplementary bills the Socialists ex- | pect to rush through after the consti- tution is finally adopted. Others in- clude a civil .code, electoral laws and legislation designed to enforce the con- stitutional stipulation that “the dig- nity of labor” shall be recognized and small farmers protected. By the Associated Press. MADRID, December 2.—Spain's new Republican constitution, upsetting t ditions of centuries and altering dras- tically the legal status of the churck women, divorce and education, was ap- proved yesterday by the National As- cembly. Formal adoption of the count ‘!;mc code as & whole is expected Fri- | Zamora Held Selected. day, when the Assembly votes finall : ¢ ona revised draft of the insiament. | | The Catholic agrarians interpret the Next will be the Assoggbly's eloction | 8Ticultural reforms as an attack on of a President for the nation on De- | the right of the landed class and intend cember 8, it was offically announced. |0 offer strong opposition to any plan The new executive—probably Niceto | to confiscate and divide estates among Aleaia small farmers. government, grants us the right to cam- | the road Tie Firm Files Petition. Zamora, ~former provisional President—will take office the next day. Church and State Separated. The decision to elect a constitutional President, to succeed Provisional Presi- dent Manuel Azana, on December 8, was were named on petition Moss Tie Co., which road was “completely in- ased its action on a claim of $49,65 e road likewise defaulted est payments. smobile industry, from which much of its revenue by haul- biles and parts from Detroit blamed in rail circles, for The falling off in automo- facture and the use of trailers ew automobiles on the h'gh- Detroit manu‘acturers, cut y into the road's revenues accepting receivership the management made strenu efforts to obtain aid from the Pennsy vania Railroad, its present owner, its New York banking affiliations, and from the Government, but met with refusals on all sides. The failure also cost the road any benefit it might have gained from the Rt iy of the claimed the &olvent” ar Interstate Commerce Commission’s plan for & national revenue pool, to help HE senior class of the National University Law School will hold its annual Weaker roads. prom at the Willard Hotel Friday night. Last June's graduates will take advantage of (he occasion to stage their first reunion. Dr. Hayden John- son, chancellor of the university, will be the guest of honor. Other faculty members invited as guests include Judge Jennings Bailey, associate justioe of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, and Judge Charles S. Hatfleld of the United States Court of Customs Appeals. . Pulpwood Cutters Strike. HOQUIAM, Wash., December 2 (#) Five hundred men, employed as pulp- wood cutters in various camps in this section, were on strike today. 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