Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1936, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers late tonight, followed by gen- erally fair tomorrow; cooler; moderate southwest winds shifting to northwest to- morrow, Temperatures—Highest, (73, at noon today; lowest, 76, at 8 a.m, today. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Full report on page A-4. Closing New York Mar No. 33,765. FRENCH REDS YIELD TOOFFGALBANON ALSIE MEETIN Reports Germany Increases Frontier Guards Are Held False. COMMUNIST SESSIONS TO BE LIMITED TO 10 Rightists, Peasants and Catholics Join in Determined Move to Halt Even These. BACKGROUND— People’s Front government with Leon Blum at head came to power as result of May elections in France, and immediately faced | organized movement by értreme Leftists for radical social legisla- tion, increased wages and shorter hours. Communists, despite their sup- port of the Blum government along with the Socialists and Radical- Socialists, took the lead of wide- spread occupational strikes in French industrial establishments which continued through the Sum- mer. By the Associated Press. STRASBOURG, France, October 10. | . =—France’s Communist party, yield-| ing to stiff government cut its scheduled week-end mass meet- ings in Alsace-Lorraine to 10 tod but the concession failed to end state of feverish tension in*the closely- | guarded “lost provinces.” kets, Page 12 Entered as second class matter post office. Washington, D. C. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1936—FORTY PAGES. ## Boy Goes to School in Chains; - Stepfather dictates, | B With unconfirmed reports stating German frontier guards in some sec- | tions had been doubled, with scores | of squadrons of French mobile guards | pouring into the sector, with rumors | of marching peasants and a united Rightist plan to break up even lh‘e 10 “authorized” Communist meetings, general apprehension ran higher hourly. | The first test comes tonight when Communist meetings, authorized by ! the government, are scheduled to be held at Metz, Waldhambach and| Bischwiller. Doubling in Guard Reported. Reports reaching authorities here that Adolf Hitler’s black-clad “Schutz Staffel” men had reinforced the Ger-, man frontier guard were followed by word from Metz that the Lorraine| guard on the German side had been doubled. (Berlin denied that “S 8" men had been sent to the Alsace-Lorraine fron- | tier as border reinforcements, saying | the increased members of the forma- tion seen there were merely traffic police.) The Communist capitulation, re- ducing the number of planned gath-| erings from 52 to 10, came after bor- | der province authorities had backed | their ban on the 42 unauthorized meetings with armed force. In announcing they would hold the meetings to 10, the Communists, never- theless, protested the ban on the larger ‘ number as “contrary to the principles | of democracy and the program of the | People’s Front.” | Reds Reported With Arms, Embattled Rightists, peasants and Catholics joined in a determined move to keep their political foes from even | reaching the 10 authorized meeting places. In Metz, with a Communist meeting scheduled for tonight, there were re- | ports that Communists had received arms and that thousands of Rightist | peasants were planning to march on| the city, swinging pitchforks and| scythes. 1 The peasants planned a counter- demonstration for tomorrow. ‘The “front of True Alsace,” a union of Rightist parties, rushed orders to peasants in the fields to rally for mass counter-attacks, planned even against | the “authorized” Communist gather- inge. With more than 2,500 French mobile | guards being poured into the disturbed | reglons from other sectors, the Rightists were represented as promis- | ing not to fight the guardsmen, but to | concentrate on breaking up any meet- ing of the Communists. Won’t Withdraw Own Units, Along with the reports of German ! frontier reinforcements, French au- | thorities said they had no intention of | withdrawing their own augmented | armed units from Alsace-Lorraine. At Metz the French Social party of Col. Francois de la Rocque dis- tributed handbills appealing to the people to join in the projected counter- demonstrations against the Com- munists. The regional Communist Commit- tee, simultaneously, appealed for *discipline and order.” 1 Metz, on the eve of one of the| scheduled Communist meetings, was tense but calm, with mobile guards, brought up to guard against disorders, held in their barracks. “The peasant population is deter- mined to prevent the meetings.” the (See FRENCH, Page A-2.) e BRUSH FIRE FLAMES FATAL TO MECHANIC Leesburg Man’s Clothing Ignites While Clearing Site for Gas Station. Erecial Dispatch to The Star. LEESBURG, Va, October 10.— Flames enveloping his clothing from & brush fire today fatally burned James Breckenridge, 42, of Hamilton, em- ployed as a mechanic in a Leesburg garage. He was burning underbrush to clear & site for a new gasoline filling station when his clothing became ignited. The brush fire was being fed with gasoline. With his clothing afiame, Brecken- ridge staggered about and tripped twice to fall into the blaze. Other workers stripped off his burning clothing. Seared from head to foot, he died shortly afterward at the Loudoun County Hospital here. - Breckenridge, a World War veteran, leaves his wife and one son. L | crete urns from the home of Mrs.| | residence. His clothes were intact and Bobby Feucht, 10, who went to school yesterday dragging a log chain padlocked around his neck, is shown with Deputy James Holden at the Findley, Ohio, jail, where he is being held while a new home is sought for him. Is Held in Jail ., P —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. INDLAY. Ohio, October 10 (#). —A stepfatifer charged with padlocking a 10%:-foot log chain around the frail body of 10-year-old Robert Feucht, insisted today, ‘I have always tried to be good to the boy.” William Leeth, general odd-jobs man, was held in jail today without charge while county authorities | sought a new home for his stepson, | who trudged to school yesterday drag- ging the 15-foot chain. Leeth admitted to Probate Judge Paul Capell that he chained Robert to a kitchen stove because “he ran away.” Robert, weighing only 60 pounds, ! told the judge Leeth locked the chain | around his neck because he went into the kitchen to get a piece of pumpkin pie denied him at meal time. URNS MAY PROVE SACK CRIMELINK Vanish From Home of Bos- | ton Victim—Suspect Lyons | Feared Slain. (Picture on Page A-3) By tl:e Associated Pre WEYMOUTH, Mass., October 10.—| The disappearance of two large con-| Gracye Asquith, 40-year-old widow, | identified as the Boston Harbor sack | victim, puzzled investigators today. At the same time police adv-ncedl the theory that John A. Lyons, 38-| year-old disabled World War veteran | and friend of the photographer’s| model, might have been slain, also. Lyons was missing from his Boston | a Government pension . check was| awaiting him. Third Man Sought. Police continued to question Oscar | Battalini, 50, a chef and odd-job man, | who said he last saw Mrs. Asquith; September 19. A third man—an en- gineer aboard a fishing boat—was sought. “This case isn't solved yet and it's far from being solved at this mo- ment,” Capt. John F. Stokes, chief of | State detectives, said. The cottage of Mrs. ‘Asquith was found blood-spattered after the legs of a woman were retrieved from Boston Harbor. Flesh Found in Plumbing. All available clues indicated she was the victim, police said. They were further convinced when pieces of flesh were discovered yesterday in the plumbing system of thé cottage. As- sistant District Attorney George Ar- buckle said he believed the woman’s body had been hacked apart in the bathtub. Investigators linked the unfound head and torso with the missing h | serted, has | *“I did not think it would do any | more harm for me to chain him than some one else,” Leeth said from his jail cell. “Robert would start and run off—and he lied. I tried to break him of it: sometimes he stayed away all night.” Officials said Robert told them fear of his stepfather caused him to run away from home. “I don't care what they do." Leeth said when informed the court might | place Robert in a home. Neither, he said. did he care when he was released | from jail. 8chool officials notified authorities when Robert came to school yesterday, the heavy chain padlocked around his neck and wrapped around his waist, with several links trailing on the ground. Italy on 60-Hour Weel:to Speed Up War Materials Naval Force Raised to 60,000—Build- ing Planes Rushed. Br the Associated Press. ROME, October 10.—Premier Mus- solini stepped up the weekly work | schedule to 60 hours today in a labor order designed to increase pro- duction of war materials by 1,200 industries. On II Duce’s recommendation the cabinet raised the number of naval enlistments to 60,000 men. ‘The labor production plan, the pre- | mier said, was designed principally to’ increase the output of factories manufacturing supplies for the air force and the navy. The cabinet also decreed formation | of an Air Council, composed of the | highest military air authorities, out- | standing aerial engineers, manufac- turers and scientists, who will be called | into consultation to advise on perfec- | tion of the nation’s air defense. | Construction of airplanes, he as- “reached a satisfactory daily figure, but is not yet sufficient according to the pre-established plan.” Airplane Motors Speeded. He declared new large factories now are “completing their transformation in order to construct only airplane motors.” “The whole military preparation of the nation is being intensified with the best ‘results,” Mussolini ‘told the cabinet. He $aid the number of cadets for the air force had been doubled and an (See ITALY, Page A-2.) o S VSRS Women Making Shells. LONDON, October 10 (#).—For the first time since the great war, women are returning to work in the muni- tions factories. The official London Gazette an- nounced today that women over 18 flower urns. One was large enough to hold a body, they said. may be employed filling 3-inch mor- tar bombs in certain factories. Bill for Alcoholic Beverages Set at 8 Billion Since Repeal By ne Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 10.—The bill for alcoholic beverages in the United States since the end of prohibition was placed by the American Business Men’s Research Foundation today at $8,000,000,000, or $4,658.75 a minute. The organization said it used Gov- ernment figures and current retail prices for its basls in calculating the expenditure per family in post-prohi- bition's 40 months at $259.85. During the period extending from the relegalization of beer in April, 1933, to August 1, 1935, the organiza- tion placed the Nation’s drinking bill at an- average of $6708,000 a day. Purchases, the report added, amount~ ed to $46,960,200 a week and $201,- 258,000 a month. Liquor production was set at 4,507~ 859,428 gallons and per capita con- sumption at 35.49 gallons. Beer production was fixed at 4,498,- 384,704 gallons and per capita con- sumption at 1.14 barrels. Devoted to the collection and dis- semination of “information regarding alcoholic productions and their rela- tion to the well-being of the people,” the organization said internal revenue collected from the trade during the 40-month period was $1,387,481,432. The foundation figured the per capita consumption of “absolute al- cohol” in the various beverages at 2.48 FINAL RAIL LINK 10 MADRID CUT BY REBEL BOMBS Planes Attack Aranjuez, Severing Lines of Food Supplies. GOVERNMENTS HEADS’ ESCAPE IS CUT OFF High Command Indicates Proj- ected Troop Concentration Against El Escorial. BACKGROUND— Entering into its thirteenth week of bloodshed and menace to the peace of the world, Spanish civil war was divided more sharply than ever into two parts, domestic and international. Insurgent forces, which have captured Toledo, continued to press onward to Madrid with the high command reporting snapping of the final railway link from the capital to the east coast, cutting off the fjood supply for troops and citizens in Madrid and blocking escape of government officials in the event the city is captured. By the Associated Press. BURGOS, Spain, October 10.—In- surgent bombardment of Aranjuez, important communications center, 29 miles southeast of Madrid, has cut the only remaining railroad link between the capital and the eastern coast, Faseist officlals asserted today. Insurgent bombing planes attacked Aranjuez and the rail line running through it, the high command de- clared, causing great damage om the Madrid-Valencia Railroad. The attack was made with a double purpose, Fascist officials said. By cutting Madrid off, supplies of food for the capital and Socialist militiamen along the battle fronts would be blocked from the principal provincial centers along the eastern coast, In addition, the final railway avenue of escape for fleeing government officials—in the event the capital falls to the insurgents—would be destroyed. The only route left toward Valencia would be the improved highway running from Madrid southeast through Aranjuez. Two Towns Captured. Insurgent commanders announced capture of two towns in the sector south of Avila, where a Fascist “mop- up” squad apparently was in action— San Juan de la Nava and Barraco. (Both lie directly west of the stra- tegic junction point of San Martin de Valdeiglesias, which fell Thursday to the Fascists.) The high command indicated a projected troop concentration would be centered against El Escorial, Social- ist-dominated stronghold south of the Guadarrama Mountains and 31 miles northwest of Madrid. Burgos reports declared the major- ity of action was taking place in the sectors uear Avila, including districts south and west of the Sierra de Gredos and Guadarrama Ranges. The capture of La Adrada, moun- | tain village west of San Martn, re- sulted in death for 15 Fascist warriors, the high command declared, while gov- ernment defenders were declared to| have lost 300 men. The Socialists, before retreating, were reported to have killed all of the town's residents suspected of Fascist sympathies. OFFENSIVE RENEWED. War-Weary Government Troops At- tack as Syndicalists Protest. MADRID, October 10 (#).—Bedrag- gled government militiamen fought furiously today in a renewed govern- ment offensive at Pelayos as Syndi- calists in Madrid charged “inactivity breeds demoralization.” Backed by artillery, the war-wearied Socialist troops concentrated a des- perate attempt to regain the strategic town of San Martin de Valdeiglesias from positions 43 miles due west of Madrid. The offensive was launched as Syn- dicalists in the capital criticized de- fensive operations, asserting: “Our forces should be sent to march on insurgent attackers in order to clear the whole central plateau.” The Socialist newspaper Informa- ciones caused a sensation in Madrid by asserting Fascists had claimed as- sistance, during the final drive, from & “fifth column nside the capital.” (Dispatches. concerning the ‘“in- side” column were cut drastically by the Spanish censor, although indi- cations were given mass arrests of Fascist suspects followed the news- paper’s story.) Shell San Martin. On thé Pelayos front, three gov- ernment six-inch guns rained steel on insurgent encampments along the eastern outskirts of San Martin. Opposing the attack were strong forces of Moorish Cavalry attached to the Facist column which clashed with Socialist militiamen in a deadly struggle on a foggy hillside. Smoke from the shells mixed with clouds banked low over the valley in which San‘Martin is situated while a government Tank Corps rumbled ahead sending machine gun fire into the insurgent lines. Government commanders asserted a Fascist column advancing from toward Navalcarnero was being supported by a strong squadron of “foreign bombers and fighters.” The column was declared nearing Valmojado, 6 miles southwest of Navalcarnero. Guide for Readers Complete Indez on Page A-2. Page Amusements C-16 liquor drinking had-incressed 18 per cent and beer dhinking 16 per cent in the fiscal year of 1936, as com= pared with the same period last year, while the amount spent by consumers had increased 21 per cent. It said Comics ......C-11 A-8 Editorial Pinancial A-12-13 Lost &Pound A3 Obitusry ....A-11 Pussles .....C-11 Society .. Sports .._A-14-15 ‘Woman’s Page B-8 Churches.B-5-6-1 ¢ > 3| the court they had “not had s fair A\ STATE IGUOR RULE URGED BY LANDON G. 0. P. Nominee Charges New Deal Threatens Those on Relief. (Text of Landon speech on page A-4.) By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, October 10.—Open- ing a three-day personal campaign for Ohio's 26 presidential ballots, Gov. | Alf M. Landon reiterated today a view that each State should “determine its own policy on liquor.” Terming prohibition “the great- grandaddy of all the red herrings,” the Republican nominee said the liquor question “is not regarded by | any one as an issue,” despite what he said was an administration effort “to | give the impression that I have dodged issues.” The Kansan's remarks on prohibi- tion, his first since accepting the nomination, were made from the rear platform of his train just after he had told a breakfast rally of party workers that the New Deal was “en- deavoring to coerce thousands of workers by threatening those on relief with destitution unless they vote right.” “It is trying to poison the minds of the public by a campaign of viclous misrepresentation,” he said, adding: “Oan this New Deal machine which under the cloak of idealism is oper- ated strictly on the old spoils system plan be beaten? *I say it can!" ‘Today, Monday and Tuesday, with a Sunday interval in Columbus, hn~“ don was scheduled to make numer- ous rear platform talks in the Buck- | eye State with the high point a major speech at Cleveland Monday night. Asking his rear platform audience | if this were not “the most cockeyed campaign you ever saw.” the Gover= nor predicted “this will go down In history as the ‘red herring’ cam- | paign.” | In referring to prohibition, he said | the New Deal had called attention to | “red herrings” in “a not too success- | ful effort to draw attention away | from the herrings of their own spawning.” Upon his arrival Landon was greet- | ed by Charles P. Taft, an adviser, who | presented his family to the Governor. At hotel breakfast, Landon ad-| dressed a crowd of party workers that | overflowed a 1,000 seating capacity. Here Landon expanded a prepared address, which he read, to “congratu- late Cincinnati on having the oul-K standing municipal government in the | United States” and on avoiding ma- chine politics. But on concluding, with a clinched fist raised, he said: “I have more respect for the ma- | chine politician than for the lilly-| (See LANDON, Page A-2) FOUR TERRORISTS GET TERMS TODAY Black Legionnaires Face as Much as Life Sentences for Kill- ing of Poole. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, October 10.—Four members of the hooded Black Legion appeared in court today to receive sentences for second-degree murder convictions in the roadside killing of Charles A. Poole which exposed the terroristic society in Michigan. The quartet, who face any sentence up to and including life imprisonment, includes Virgil Morrow, Thomas R. Craig, Albert Stevens and John S. Vincent, Seven other Black Legion members, convicted by a jury of first-degree murder in the “execution” of Poole as the result of a false rumor he mistreated his wife, were given life imprisonment sentences yesterday by Circuit Judge Joseph A. Moynihan. Two days ago a life term was given Dayton Dean, who pleaded guilty and then as a State’s witness told of shoot- ing down Poole as the former W. P. A. worker stood in a ditch along a lonely road last May. After sentence was pronounced yes- terday several of the defendants told k B \S'“‘F\‘\a\ ) ) \ Woman Killed, SonIsSeriously Hurt in Traffic Mrs. Holsonbake Vic- tim of Auto While in Safety Zone. MRS. LAURETTA E. HOLSON- BAKE AND HER SON, DONALD. Seven-year-old Donald Hardee lay in Sibley Hospital today, the victim of an automobile accident in which his | mother, Mrs. Lauretta E. Holsonbake, 33, was killed as they stood waiting for a street car in a rainswept safety zone in the 3200 block of Wisconsin avenue last night. Mrs. Holsonbake and the boy, a son by a former marriage, were struck a few minutes after leaving their home at 3026 Wisconsin'avenue. They were on their way to meet her husband, H. H. Holsonbake, at Mount Alto Hos- pital, where he is employed as a nurse. The Holsonbakes had been married about six months. Was H. 0. L. C. Stenographer. Mrs. Holsonbake, a stenographer for the Home Owners' Loan Corp., was taken to Georgetown Hospital in a taxicab. Physicians pronounced her dead on arrival. Her death brought the District traffic fatality toll to 64 for the year. The boy, after receiving first aid, was removed to Sibley, where attend- ants said he spent a “fair” night. He suffered a fractured leg and concus- sion. The family maid, Celeste Gray- son, 24, colored, Alexandria, Va., who was standing with them waiting for a street car, was treated at George- town for shock, cuts and bruises. Authorities sald the automobile was driven by John H. Coblentz, 34, Mid- dleton, Md. He was released under $2,000 bond, pending action by Cor- - | oner A. Magruder MacDonald. According to eighth precinct police, Coblentz said he was blinded by the (See WOMAN, Page A-2.) “S 0 S” of Yacht Off Honolulu Held Ruse of Drug Smugglers By the Associated Press. HONOLULU, October 10.—Sus- pecting smugglers, three Government agencies joined forces here today to seek the source of distress calls which sent two Coast Guard cutters far out on the Pacific on a fruitless errand of mercy. Army, Navy and Federal communi- cations officers investigated the pos- sibility that the plea for aid by the supposedly disabled yacht Margaret Payne was a hoax to lure the cutters Itasca and Tiger to sea while narcotic smugglers landed their contraband in Hawaii. They also considered the possibility the messages might have been sent by a prankster. After a three-day search in an area 500 miles south of here, the Itasca and Tiger turned back toward trial,” while one, Harvey Davis, charged that Prosecutor Duncan Me- Crae “is a member of the Black Legion and it was a perj trial.” Prosecutor McCrae vigorously denied Davis' accusation, hrn;l it s “He X their Hawaiian bases. Doubt was expressed here that a yacht by the name of Margaret Payne existed. Mariners were unable to find the, name listed in Hawaii ship registers. (#) Means Asse PRESIDENT MOVES Talks in Omaha Tonight. | Discusses Trade in St. Paul Speech. (Text of Roosevelt speech on page A-7.) | By the Assoclated Press. ABOARD ROOSEVELT TRAIN EN | ROUTE TO OMAHA, October 10.—| President Roosevelt hit the campaign | trail to Nebraska today after a night | | speech at St. Paul in which he as- | serted figures on “growing consump- | tion and better farm prices” proved the New Deal reciprocal tariff program was benefitting American industry | and agriculture. The presidential special laid a southern course through Iowa en route to Lincoln, Nebr., for a two-hour aft- ernoon stop before proceeding to| | Omaha, where the Chief Executive will deliver an address on agriculture at 8 pm, Central time, tonight at the “den” of Ak-Sar-Ben, a civic or-| ganization that gets its name by spelling Nebraska in reverse. It will be the first nationally broad- cast speech of his 5,000-mile Western stumping tour. En route to Lincoln the special was to pick up at Afton, Iowa, Senator Norris of Nebraska, Republican inde- pendent supporter of the New Deal. Trade in Two Directions. Addressing & huge outdoor crowd | from the steps of the Minnesota State capitol last night, the President | | declared “trade” meant commerce flowing in two directions. Col. Joe | Nelson of the Minnesota Nmoml! Guard estimated 30,000 persons heard | the President. “It is not a one-way street,” the | President said, adding every American | | ought to remember the “home truth” that when America and other nations “jacked up” their tariffs and imposed embargoes and import quotas, farm prices throughout the world dropped to their lowest and world trade al- most “ceased to exist.” Without referring to the recent speech at Minneapolis of his Repub- | lican opponent, Gov. Alf M. Landon, (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-2.) AMNESTY CALLED OFF Philippine President's Action Due to Recent Violence. MANILA, P. I, October 10 (A).— President Manuel Quezon disclosed today he had withdrawn plans for amnesty to political prisoners be- cause of a brief wave of violence a week ago. He had planned to ask the As- sembly authorization to extend general amnesty to all political prisoners, in- cluding many Sakdal extremists con- vited in the 1935 rebellion which | claimed 52 lives. Simultaneously, the interior de- partment reported it had been in- formed there was great unrest in some provinces, allegedly because of radical activities, The Governor of Cavite said he and two town presidents in his prov- ince had been threatened with death by Sakdals convicted for sedition. Sakdalistas, Communists and other organized radical elements denied any connection with the unrest, or with bombings and fires in Manila last Saturday night. However, Coast Guard officials in San Francisco said a yacht by that name left Alcantars, Brazil, Au- gust 16. The distress signals, first received last Saturday, said the yacht was in distress somewhere about 500 miles south of Honolulu. Reports later said it was drifting, helpless, about 100 miles a day. It was thought here there were six persons aboard. The messages were vague as to the trouble and did not give accurate informa- tion as to the yacht’s position. Officials here were at a loss to ex- plain how the yacht, which a check disclosed had not passed through the Panama Canal, could have journeyed from Brazil to mid-Pacific in such a short time without & navigator capable of giving the vessel's position ac- curately in the messages. The signals were heard only by ated Press. INTO NEBRASKA Army wireless operators at Schofield Barracks on the northwestern end of this 1sland, Oshu. ' Yesterday’s Circulation, 135,934 (Some returns not yet received.) TWO CENTS. PRIVATE AUSTRIAN! ARMIES QUTLAWED BY SCHUSHNIG Chancellor Acts to Unify Military Power in Own Hands. FASCISTS’ HEIMWEHR WOULD BE DISBANDED Unofficial Armed Forces Are Ore dered Consolidated With State Militia Organization. BACKGROUND— Rise of Fascism in Austria under example from meighboring Italy marked by creation of various pri- vate armed forces, chiefly the Catholic militia and the Heim= wehr of Prince Ernst vom Stare hemberg. Slaying of Chancellor Dollfuss by Nazis in Summer of 1934 brough to power Kurt Schuschnigg as chancellor with Starhemberg as vice chancellor. Latter’s influence has waned since last May when he was removed from the cabinet by Schuschnigg. By the Associated Press. VIENNA, October 10.—Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, seeking to cone solidate Austrian military power in bis own hands, ordered dissolution of all private armed forces today. The chancellor's sweeping command, which was approved by the cabinet after a 30-hour session, would disband the Fascist Heimwehr of former Vice Chancellor Prince Ernst von Starheme berg and Schuschnigg’s own Catholie militia, the Ostaerkische Sturmscharen. United With Militia. Upon dissolution the private armies were ordered consolidated with the Austrian state militia, which the chane cellor planned to make a branch of the regular army under his control as min= ister of defense. Schuschnigg, in decreeing the re- organization, apparently turned flatly against a reported demand from Pre- mier Mussolini of Italy that Von Starhemberg, his close friend, be placed at the head of a reorganized and unified Fascist armed force in Austria. ‘The order met strong opposition from two cabinet members known as “Starhemberg’'s cabinet representa- tives.” Vice Chancellor Eduard Baar- Baarenfeld and Minister of Finance Ludwig Draxier handed their resigna- tions to Schuschnigg. They were joined by Hans Pernter, minister of public instruction, a member of the chancellor’s Catholic militia. ‘Three Quit Meeting. ‘The three ministers walked out of the cabinet meeting, and while they were absent the dissolution order was voted. Afterward Schnschnigg gave them back their cabinet positions as private individuals but not as private army representatives. The chancellor made clear his min« isters were to be cabinet members whose primary loyalties must be with the country and Schuschnigg and not to private armed forces. His declaration was interpreted as 8 demand for what amounted to oaths of loyalty from the ministers. Progress in Battle Seen. Observers agreed the reconstitution of the cabinet, even with the same personnel, was another forward stride in his battle against dualism in governe ment which he started by ejection from the ministerial list of Von Stare hemberg last May. ‘Two companies of heavily-armed “alarm police units” were summoned to guard the chancellery, where they took up positions with six machine guns. Schuschnigg left for Budapest ime mediately after the cabinet session to attend the funeral of Premier Julius Goemboes of Hungary. Disbanding of the private armies— besides consolidating military control in the chancellor—was expected to end completely political strife threatening to split the nation by a personal quarrcl over Heimwehr leadership between Von Starhemberg and Maj. Emil Fey, former Vienna Heimwehr commander, Starhemberg Challenged. The dispute, which has been growing in intensity since the aristocratic young prince was thrown out of the cabinet, recently brought a duel challenge from Fey to Von Starhemberg. (Fey charged Von Sharhemberg with making slurring remarks concerning the major’s activities during the Nazi putsch of 1934 when former Chan- cellor Engelbert Dollfuss was assassis nated. (The prince declared Fey's conduct was “never satisfactorily explained,* alluding to Fey's action in negotiating for safe conduct of the Nazi killers to the border. Fey has asserted he had no choice but to speak on behalf of the Nazis. (The challenge has not been accept- ed formally, and Fey has threatened to sue Von Sharhemberg for slander.) Observers agreed the next question depends on the manner in which both ‘Von Sharhemberg and Fey received the dissolution order. The prince once said such action would be accomplished “only over my lifeless body.” By the order, the armed forces of Austria would be increased to ap- proximately 158,000 men, including the co-ordinated militia, the army and the federal conscription service, —_— SEED IN HIS LUNG 16-Month-0ld Child Recovering in Richmond. RICHMOND, Va., October 10 (#).— Surgeons at Memorial Hospital probed into a lung of 16-month-old George Allen Broughton and pulled out & watermelon seed. It had been thers four days. The child, a son of Mr. and Mrg