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Show Democracy on Steady March in Old Austria By Universal Service. VIENNA, June 8. The magnificent magnifi-cent statue of Emperor Francis Joseph in Wiener Neustadt is to he melted and the money which the molten bronze will bring is to be used to buy food for Vienna's poor, the city council has decided. The council further resolved to change the names of all streets and squares named after members of the house of Hapsburg or former leaders of the late Austro-Hungarian army. By Universal Service. , COPENHAGEN, June 8 To put ! a stop to "coffin profiteering" in Moscow, the Russian government has taken over the manufacture and sale of coffins, selling them almost at cost. The typhus epidemic, which has been costing an average of 50,000 lives a month, ha-d encouraged en-couraged coffin manufacturers to raise the price on coffins as high as $700 for a plain wooden box. |