Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-14
OLOGNE GAzETTE.-The trial
at Hamburg of the officers of
the German steamship Fake

~ L a..
at Hamburg of the officers of
the German steamship Fake
~ for a revolutionary project
against the government of
Venezuela has resulted in an acQuittal
1t will be recalled that the executive Of
ficer and owners of this vessel conspired
with certain Venezuelan reactionaries to
create q demonstration against the
Venezuelan authorities and obliged the
crew Of the steamer to join with them
in the manifestation. While not in
tended to be more than gesture of dis
approval Of Venezuelan international
policies and sentiments. the affair Gre
ated the utmost excitement, especially
when the participants donned military
uniforms and fired some blank shots
from the ships saluting battery and ran
up an alien flag in a Venezuelan port.
The court in exculpating the accused
parties indicated that the exoneration
did not necessarily carry with 1t an in
dorsement Of the behavior of these men
for thus voluntarily joining in an ex-
preston of protest against friendly
nation.
Wife Cannot Pledge
Husbands Credit for Cigarettes.
The Daily Mail, London.-Cigarettes
are luxury and not q necessity for a
woman. Judge Roope Reeve, K. c.,
gave this decision at the Worcester
County Court recently. and ruled that
a wife could not pledge her husbands
credit for cigarettes. Charles Henry
Downes, a grocer Of Kempsey, near
Worcester, who sued j. Phillips Of
Kempsey for payment for cigarettes
supplied Mrs. Phillips, said that usually
the cigarettes which the laSt-named
ordered each week were charged on the
grocery bill. In October last, however,
Mrs Phillips asked him to put them on
a separate slip, as check on the eX-
tent to which she was smoking. Mr..
Phillips said that his wife's purpose in
doing this was to keep her smoking
habit from his knowledge, as he was
very much against it.
Build Highway
To Provide Employment.
Neues Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna.-With
the idea of putting thousands OF idle
men to work. the government is enter
ing upon the project OF building two
new highways in the Austrian Alps.
One of these roads will lead through the
Gross Glockner Mountains. and the
other, called the Pack-Strasse, will con-
meet Klagenfurt to Kaernten Province,
with Gratz, the capital Of Syria.
While the first route will be OF bsne-
fit chiefly to AuStrians living in the
Salzburg, Tirol and Carinthian regions
the Pack-Strasse will be facile inter-
national highway between Austria
Hungary and Italy, and Is opposed by
certain anti-government papers, who
profess to see a pact with MuSsolini, or
at least Italian influence in the choice
of this route affording, as 1t will. new
and much more direct communication
between Italy and Austria. The Pack
Strasse, on the other hand. will obviate
the present necessity of Austrians hav-
ing to travel through portion OF
Jugcslavia via the former Austrian city
Of Marburg, when journeying between
Klaesnfurt and Gratz, as the new sur
We. is all in Austrian territory
To Aid Hotel Business.
FL Mercurio. iago,-The hotel
business in Chile Is expected to be
noticeSbly improved and promoted by
the formation of the National Hotel
Association (La Socicdad Nacional de
HoteIes). an enterprise with gross
capital Of 100000 pesos tSl2l5,000,
divided into 10000 shares Of 900 pesos
each. The funds of the organization
will be at the disposal; of shareholders
their present establish ments. or erect
new units. All construction work, UNI
der the bylaws of the society. will be
supervised by the ministry of public
works and buildings. The principal
function of the association, however,
will be to finance going bu7inesses,
which need money for expansion and