Evening star., 1931-12-26

- tribunal for the defense of the
state of Belgrade has COM
i menced the hearing of the case
against Jovan Belinski and II
other accused. similar tribunal at
Smederevo has also commenced the
case against the police superintendent
Radoch Djiditch, who is charged with
a total of 96 cases of misappropriation
of public funds At MitrovitZa the tri-
bunal for the defense of the state has
sentenced Djuro Brkitch to II months
hard labor under the laws for such re-
preston.
Twenty Page Newspaper
Heralded as Event in London.
Daily Mail, London.-Recently for
the second time in a week, the London
Evening News was enlarged to 20 pages.
No other London evening newspaper
has ever had single issue comparable
in size with a 20-page Evening News,
and the feat of producing two in one
week is something new even in the
history of the Evening News itself. 1t
is a feat forced on it by its own sue
cess, for advertisers have demanded SO
much space ir the newspaper, which
dominates the field of evening jour-
0dlS, LldG IL HAS lldO W UC bASSCA
to preserve a true balance.
Municipal Charity
system Held Defective.
impartial. Observation-Disclosures to
municipal records, on September
e6 applications were made to the emer-
gency bureau of the Asistencia Publlca
Nacional for immediate assistance. OF
these, only SO proved to be cases OF
urgent necessity The rest of the appli-
cants were absolutely un1ustlf1ed IN
making such appeals and were simply
other instances occasioning a prejudice
to the proper relief of those actually In
need of supplies and other welfare at
tention. It appears that our system OF
municipal charity still remains very
defective.
Composers Refuse
To Play Fascist Hymn.
ITALIA, Paris: (Ex-territorial po-
litical sheet.) The desire OF Slgnor
Mussolini to have the Fascist hymn
PLAYED as a part of every concert or
operatic performance in Italy led to a
violent conflict between II Duce and
Prof. Arturo Toscanini at Bologna,
where the latter was afterward at
tackled by a Fascist mob on account OF
his refusal Eventually the conductor
was obliged to leave Italy because OF
the Fascists, who interpreted his un-
willingness to include this number IN a
program where it had no appropriate
place as an overt act of disloyalty to
the government.
A similar attempt to foist the senti-
of Elarn RI lei
and neutral audience has now been re-
ported from the City of New York,
where an American conductor, DR..
Egon Ebert, also refused to play Clio
vinezza" as this hymn Is entitled. dur
ing a series of concerts to be performed
in the Mecca Temple DR.. Ebert finally
Cancelled the concerts rather than in
clude this number, which, he explained,
had no propriety in purely artistic
musical program, and was peculiarly
impertinent and incongruous at a Ma
sonic social gathering, In view OF the
acknowledged antipathy Of Signor Mus
solini and the Fascists to the order.
1t is alleged that the suggestion OF
playing the hymn at these performances
came through the Italian government.
DR.. Ebert, In justifying his action,
stated there was just aS much reason
for playing the Communist "Interna-
tionale'' at the concerts. One selection
was equally as becoming as the other.
Woman's Argument
Defeats Sex Equality Bill.
A B G, Madrid-Among the dele
gates to the Constitutional Convention
of Spain there are two women, one of
whom Is a naturalized Spanish citizen
Of Hibernian extraction. Strangely
enough, this politically negligible femi-
nine contingent has already taken up
arms in opposition to one another, and.
more singular still, upon the question Of
the equality Of the sexes before the law.
A debate between them was precipitated
when Senorita Kent, who was born in