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Twenty-eighth Year
MEDFORD, ORKGOX. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY
No. 287.
BUS CRASH TOLL
9 DEAD, 31 HURT;
FEAR fOR PLANE
Airliner With Eight On Board
Caught in Utah Blizzard
Auto Stage Fails to
Take Arizona Detour
RECORD COLD SNAP HITS EAST
:ld in holdup of autoist
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By PAVL MALL ON.
(Copyright 1934) .
Elephant.
The Washington end of the G. O. P.
elephant Is getting ready to do aome
kicking.
A smart publicity man will be ap
pointed within the next few days to
take charge of the kicks. The Idea Is
that he may do for the Republicans
what Charles Michelson did for the
Democrat after the 192B campaign.
It was Mlehelson's duty to spread
the evils of Hooverism before your
Vvery even.
Timing.
Congressional Republicans are be
hind the bestirring movement. They
figure It is time for them to do some
thing, else the congressional elec
tions in November will go Democratic
by default.
Likewise, they are not entirely satis
tied that Ogden Mills and the pals
of Mr. Hoover are presenting the best
front for the party.
They think it Is high time that the
pitliul national headquarters here be
whipped into efficient condition and
a marie to function.
They have selected a good moment.
The emergency phase of the govern
mental reform Is rapidly passing. The
necessity for non-partisan co-operation
will soon be over.
The administration really needs an
Intelligent opposition to keep It on
the right track.
Medals.
The house Republican leaders will
get no efficiency medals for the re
sistance they conducted against the
tax bill, v
After denouncing It for days, they
all voted for it.
The only real show of -fight they
made was in trying to restore 2-cent
postage. They selected that side Issue
because It waa the only one on which
they could muster any respectable
number of votes. But even on that
they could not muster enough.
As a matter of fact there was not
much else for them to do. They could
not resist the whole bill because most
of the Republicans on the subcom
mittee which wrote It were ardent
supporters of the measure.
They might have tried to center
their opposition against the commu
nity property provision, but they
would have received fewer votes for
that than, they did for 3-cent. post
age. They knew there waa no use to
offer the sales tax. They wanted to
fight for a sharp reduction. That
Is always popular. But they could
not do that and maintain their posi
tion for a balanced budget.
So they sat down and took it.
Fox.
General Johnson waa bitten by a
foic before he curtailed the scope of
tffl Nye resolution to NRA workers
10 Washington. The fox was a cer
tain Democratic senator. It hap
uny this way.
Senator Nye wanted to know the
business connections of all NRA em
ployes. His purpose was obvious. He
wanted to show that the industrial
ists controlled the key positions in
the NRA and were using the codes for
their own private business purposes.
Johnson is a frank man. He did
not want to conceal anything. He
, pot up the whole list of NRA em
ployes and was about to give It to
Nye When Nye introduced a formal
resolution in the senate calling for
the data.
A certain Democratic senator tele
phoned Johnson and suggested he
ought not to give such anti-NRA m;
munition to Its critics. The senator
and Johnson agreed to sidetrack the
resolution Into Senator Pat Harrison's
finance committee Tor security.
( Trouble.
It was then fixed up Inside so that
Johnson would go before the com
mittee and suggest that It would be
a lot of trouble to get the NRA em
plove remrd"! "frnm all over the coun
try." He Induced the committee to
limit the iMie to NRA employes here
In town! That sounded logical and
the committee fell for It. So did the
senate.
The trlrk about It ts that the NRA
employes who are supposed to come ,
.from hlntkest MR business arc on
'the code authorities. They are the
real manipulators In NRA now. Be-
cause they interpret the codes.
But the rode authorities do not sit
In wahtneton. and hence do not
logically come under the Nye reso
lution. 1 llrt lady.
Mrs. Roosevelt's name was men
tioned onlv one In the senate debate
on her Reedvil. W. Va.. project and
that was when Senator Neely of West
Virginia mentioned the fact that the
ftrot ladv favored the Idea. He ne
Clected to point out that she Initiated
It. Anyway, senate Democrats suc
ceeded In restoring authorisation for
her project, which had been elimi
nated toy the houe.
Notes.
Republicans were astonished when
they did not receive more totes for
2-cent postage. The answer was given
by a shrewd news observer, who said:
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Purle Kins" We .
BROOKLYN. N. Y, Feb. 24. (AP
Sam IJoyd, veteran "puzzle king."
died lat night In the Peck Memorial
hospital of pneumonia. He waa 60
jvmra eld. Lloyd, whose purelrs dial.
'need newspaper readers for more
than 0 year, one urn ted 10. 0"K) pur
lin by his own estimate.
By The Associated Press
Nine were killed and 31 persona In
jured In two motor bus crashes on
storm-swept Arizona and Kansas
highways Saturday and there was
growing fear tor the lives of eight
others passengers and crew of an air
liner missing in a blizzard near Salt
Lake City.
Search for the United Air Lines
transport plane, lost, since Friday
afternoon shortly after it took off
from Salt Lake City for Cheyenne,
Wyo., centered In the treacherous
Wasatch mountains, but waa ham
pered by swirling snow and lowered
clouds.
Nine were killed and 31 persons in
jured in two motor bus crashes on
storm-swept Arizona and Kansas hlgn
ways Saturday and there was growing
fear for the Uvea of eight other per
son passengers and crew of an Air
liner missing in a blizzard near Sa't
Lake City.
Search for the United Air lines
transport plane, lost since Friday af
ternoon shortly after It took off from
Salt Lake City for Cheyenne, Wyo..
centered in the treacherous Wasatch
mountains but was hampered by
swirling snow and lowered clouds.
"It looks bad mighty bad." said
the air line official, directing the
search.
Six women and a two year old girl
were killed and 27 injured near Agui
la, Ariz., when a motor bus failed to
make a detour and turned over In
rainstorm. The driver said the ram
had extinguished warning flares. The
bus was taking a group of Mormons
back to Home Gardens. Calif., after
a pilgrimage to a Mormon temple at
Mesa, Ariz.
In blinding snow near Bethel, Kos.,
a stage lines bus collided with a
freight truck, killing the bus driver
and two passengers.
The army air mall and the commer
cial passenger and air express services
were disrupted through the Rocjcy
mountain country and the midwest.
Snow drifts wore piling up on high
ways and railroad traffic was slowing
up.
The snowfall covered a wide area
from Canada south almost to Arkan
sas and was continuing. There was a
4Va inch fall In Kansas City.
New England was still struggling
with snow blocked highways and a
cold wave, and In southern California
heavy rains were regarded as a pos
sible flood threat in some sections.
ON PRICE OFFERS
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 24 (AP)
A deadlock exists between buyers
and sellers of the 1934 wool clip with
the sellers unwilling to accept cur
rent values, the Journal reported to
day. The situation la greatly complicat
ed by Increasing use of substitutes.
Foreign markets are rather firm and
even above the basis In this coun
try. The lack of desire on the part of
Vicrpmen to sell this year la the
chief reaaon for the dearth of con
tracting this year. Improved finan
cial condition of the sheepmen waa
said to be the reason for even tighter
holding than conditions warranted.
Dealera hestltate to make advanced
offers, believing they would lead
only to confusion and bring the de
sired volume, and perhaps result In 1
greater holding for future rise. I
Average ranch clips are nominally!
quoted at 25-27 cents a pound, but !
at the moment the Ideas of sheep
men appear fully a nickel above this.
FATHER OF WORLD
SERIES HERO ILL;
JAKES 01 LIFE
LYNN1. Maa. Feb 24. Patrol
man Thorn m F. Ryan. 54. father of
John "Blondy" Ryan. New York oiants
shortstop and hero of the last world
lertea, committed suicide .tonight In
the home his son gave him last fall.
The elder Ryan waa found slumped
In a chair, a bullet through his head,
by his wife, who heard a plstolshot
shortly arte r he had gone to his room.
Blondy Ryan la with his teammate
In Miami, Fla. A daughter. Frances,
Ryan' only other child, is home.
Ftre weeks ago Ryan sustained sev
eral broken ribs while making an n-
ret and, alter being absent from duty
for two neck, returned only to suf
fer further injuries in a fall at his
home. In addition, he suffered from
heart trouble.
Tiie elder Ryan shared honors w.h
' i famous on last fr, w'nen the en-t.-e
c:tv ftd the rirn-.ng hero of
the vorld series.
When the wont blizzard In year etruek the New York area, traffic
wae tied up for hour. Here le a ecene at Stamford, Conn, ae citizens
tried to did their wav to work. (Aeioclated Preie Photnt
WILL BESTUD1ED
Rollin Johnson, Self-Accused
' Amnesia Victim, Presents
Puzzle Actions at Death
Spot Noted by Officers
ROSEBURO, Ore.. Feb. 24. (AP)
Psychologists who Tead minds even
abnormal ones will take under ob
servation Rollin Johnson, who sat
up late last night to scrawl an ad
mission to the belief that, during
periods of amnesia he slew two per
sons. Officers today announced plans to
send Johnson to the state hospital
at Salem for a month or two of ob
servation. There are two things to
be determined: Is Johnson a slayer;
and If he la a slayer, was he normal
at the time the s! a vines were done?
On three pages of ruled tablet paper
Johnson last night scrawled with a
pencil his belief that he killed his
neighbor. David M. Williams, aged
Rice Valley farmer, on February 7.
He also expressed the same belief
about killing hia father-in-law. F. J.
Zimmerman at San Jacinto, Calif., in
1931.
Nervous reactions following each
slaying were the basis of this belief.
District Attorney Guy Cordon said
Johnson declared. The acta them
selves Johnson said he could not re
call, but admitted an abhorrence for
the death trail and the place In
field where Williams was fourfd with
his skull crushed.
Praise for their work In developing
the case to Ita present stage was
liven Sheriff Percy Webb and his
force of deputies and to the co-operating
state police officers bv Dis
trict Attorney Cordon. He statrd
that never before In hla experience
had there been a homicide where
there was so little evidence upon
which to base an Investigation.
Inquiry Into the life history of all
Williams' neighbors revealed to offl-cers-that
Johnson had been ques
tioned concerning the death of his
father-in-law at San Jacinto, but later
relensed. Similarity of the two casea
ted to clrwer investigation and result
ing revelation of Johnson's apparent
homicidal mania.
.On the death trail which Williams
walked and at the spot where he fell
officers reported that Johnson trem
bled and finally attacked one of the
officers. Later Johnson said he could
not remember making the attack.
BIITTFP PROTOI
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 24. ( AP)
The business of making butter la
doing better.
Butter Is selling better than last
week, last month and last year, and
Is bringing a better price.
Bualness done by dealers In recent
weeks has made heavy raids on the
storage supplies. Incoming receipts
have been light, and well under Pa
cific coast requirement.
These facta were churned out of a
masa of statistic turned out by F. H.
Mf'Campbell. federal economist In
charge of the dairy market Informa
tion here.
WASHrNOTON7Feb. 24 (AP) Re
tall food prices on January 80 com
piled by the bureau of labor statis
tic showed an advance of 11.6 per
rnt over the level of a year ago
and Mi'tentha of 1 per nent over the
to week period ended Januu; 19.
TOUHY IN TEARS
INJOLIETOPEI
CHICAGO. Feb. 24. ( A P ) Roger
Touhy and two of hla gangsters were
taken to the Jollet prison today to
begin penitentiary sentences of 99
years each.
Touhy. once head of a powerful
gang; Albert Kator and Gustav
("Gloomy Gua") Schaefer were de
livered t the prison In handcuffs
ad leg Irons.
Police and deputies, armed with
machine and riot guns, sped from
Chicago ' In 11 squad cars to Jollet I
wltih the three prisoners at 60 miles
an hour, other cars patrolled the
road ahead.
The group left Chicago 36 hours
after a Jury had convlcbed the three
of th $70,000 kidnaping of John
Factor, wealthy speculator.
Touhy, who stood weak with ner
vousness to hear sentence pronounc
ed, was In team upon arrival at the
prison.
Efforts of their attorney. William
Scott Stewart, failed to defer the
prison sentence. He made a motion !
for a new trial, citing a decision
which the Illinois supreme court
made yesterday, but It was denied.
SENATE 10 PROBE
CHARGE WALL ST.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 fp) In
formation on the efforts of the New
York stock exchange to defeat the
pending bill for governmental regula
tion has been assembled quietly by
senate Investigators In an effort to
throw aome light on the controversy
arising from charges, vehemently ut
tered and vigorously denied, that ex
chsnge officlala have Incited a nation-wide
"propaganda campaign."
In New York, Ferdinand PecorA.
counsel for the" senate banking com
mittee, and hla staff made rendy to
place In evidence copies of a letter
by President Richard Whitney of the'
exchange to heads of corporatlona;
whOM! stock Is listed on the big board,!
together with other documents and
data on the publicity activities of the
exchange. ;
Chairman Fletcher of the commit
tee, author of the "propaganda "
charge, meanwhile declined to mane
any comment on Whitney's spirited
denial and counter assertion that if
public opinion back the Fletcher ac
cusation, then the right of free speech!
la "dead." I
lap to Heath
NATCHEZ, Mlas., Feb. 24 J.
D. Pate. a. Los Angelea parachute
Jumper, plunged 1 800 feet to his
death here today in an exhibition at
the opening of a two day air meet
sponsored by the Natches association
of commerce. Hla parachute failed o
open.
MADISON SQUARE OARDBN, Nfw
York, Feb. 24 (p In a blazing fin
ish which saw the first three men
fighting the last three laps almost In
stride, Glenn Cunningham, of the
University of Karma, came back to
the hflgh'ta tonight In the national
Indoor trak and field championships
to win the 1500-meters run and def-st
his conqueror of a week ago, Bill
Bonthorn, of Princeton.
Cunningham set a new world rec
ord of I minute 52 8 aeoondi In his
victory, one and one tenth seconds
under the universal standard Gene
Venzke established Juat a year ago.
Venrke. University of Pennsylvania
i..pbomor. waa third after setting the
pic for the first few Up.
Portland Lawyer Will An
nounce Platform Later-
Five Aspirants Already
Entry Long in Legislature
PORTLAND, Ore.. Feb. 24. (AP)
Stat? Representative Prank J. Lon
ergan late today announced his can
didacy for the Republican guberna
torial nomination.
The former speaker of the house
and prominent lawyer said he would
announce his platform later.
Lonergan said It would per.haps be
a week or ten days before the plat
form would be ready. Until that
time he declined to put his platform
oxit in "chunks." A (complete state
ment wilt be made In one piece. He
ts a, veteran of five consecutive legis
lative terms and was speaker In 1031.
Today's announcement brought to
five the number who have formally
announced their candidacy. State
Senator Sam Brown of Gervala and
W. E. Burke, Newberg farmer, have
declared for the Republican nomina
tion. Former State Senator Charles
Hall, now of Portland, Is another Re
publican candidate.
General Charles H. Martin's dec
laration of candidacy for the Demo
cratic nomination has not been fol
lowed by any other to date. The
general announced he would retire
from congress to run for the govern
orship. Attorney Lonergan was chief coun
sel for L. A. Banks, valley agitator,
in his trial for murder at Eugene
last May.
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FARLEY JOLD HIM
Postoffice Head Denies It,
As Climax Comes to Air
Mail Probe All Hands
Laugh at Disclosure
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. (AP)
"He's Jat a publicity hound."
That. Walter F. Brown slowly told
the senate air mall committee late
today, was the "personal remark" that
Postmaster General Farley made to
him recently about Senator Black
D.. Ala.) the committee chairman.
"But," Brown added, "he asked me
not to tell anybody "because I have
to get along with him. "
For a moment or two there was
deep silence. Then a roar of laughter
swept over the room. Everybody, even
Brown, Farley, and Black. Joined in.
When he could be heard, Farley
said clearly:
"I made no such statement."
It waa an anti-climax to a day of
tense debate over the cancellation of
the air mail contracts by Farley on
the grounds the awarda were made
during Brown's term as postmaster
general through collusion and fraud.
The postmaster general waa called
before the committee after Brown
testified that Farley made the per
sona) remark at the time that the
former postoffice department head re
turned missing mail files.
Just before making the remark,
Brown said that Farley commented
that he "had no sympathy with these
political Investigations."
HULL SILENT ON
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WASHINGTON. Feb. 24. (API
Secretary Hull declined to comment
today on press reports from Tokyo
that Foreign Minister Hi rota and a
member of the house of peers had dis
cussed the possibility of an agree
ment between Japan and the United
State for a division of the Pacific
ocean into two spheres of Influence.
IN MISTAKE DUEL
PORTLAND. Ort., Feb. 24. (AP)
Seven Ineffective shot were fired in
a "mistake" pistol duel here tonight I
between two police detectives and a'
man who thought he mas being held
up.
Joe Newhouee, 31, suffered cuta ;
and bruises when he dropped to hla!
knees to avoid return fire from the,
detectives.
The officers mistook him for a rob-1
her berausa he was earning a radto
under his arm, and barked up their
to question him. They were cut by
flying glass when he poured five bul
Itu into their car.
CHICAGO, Feb. 24 (AP) A pro
posal to merge Northwestern Univer
sity and the University of Chicago
has been rejected by committee
representing tha two institutions.
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4Ylf.fr LJk
These three young women, (lert to right) Jane Furlong, 21; Cath
erino Hudson, 20, and Kathleen Underwood, 18, were arrested in
Reno, Nov., and charged with robbing Troy Bruton on the highway
near Oakland, Cat. After allegedly striking him over the head with a
lack, the girls were charged with stealing his automobile and driving
over the Sierra. They will be returned to Oakland. (Associated Pr.
Photo)
CATHOLICISM SET
TO CONTEST NAZ
EDICT JfYOUTH
Pope to Decline Release of
Church Hold in Germany
Relations Are Strained
and Battle Royal Looms
BERLIN, Feb. 24. (?) A battle be
tween Catholicism and Nazi -ism, In
which the Issue. will be German youth,;
was regarded as inevitable tonight in1
German Catholic circles. 1
Pope Plus XI, they said, has accept
ed the challenge of Chancellor Hitler
and will decline firmly to release the
church hold upon Catholic young
people.
Hitler's negotiator with the Vati
can, Dr. Rudolph Buttmann, hna re
turned from Vatl'.an City without
coming to an augment with his
holiness and a two hour conference
between the chancellor and Cardinal
Karl Joseph Srhulte of Cologne also
failed to clear the atmosphere.
Indicative of the people's concern
over" the religious situation In Ger
many are the pontiff's placing of the
book. "The Myth of the 20th Century"
by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, the philo
sophic dictator of the new Germany
on the Index of banned books, and
hla Instructions to German priests to
cease attacking protestantism in or
der to conserve all their strength fcr
fighting paganism.
(In a speech today Pope Plua ie
nounced a "modern Initiative leading
to the errors and horrors of pagun
life" and declared a "terrible men
ace" exists "to soul of people, es
pecially the young." His address wa
interpreted as referring to Oermsn
laws and movements )
According to well-informed Catho
lic circles Pope Pius Is ready even :o
abrogate a concordant signed with
Germany on July 8. 1033.
A further Indication of strained re
lationships between Narl-lsm and
Catholicism waa seen at Delsenhofen,
near Munich, recently when the ent.re
Catholic clergy absented Itself from
an addreaa by Minister von Schemm,
head or the Bavarian department of
culture. "
OKLAHOMA BLAST
LOSS A MILLION
SEMINOLE, Okla., Feb. 24. ( AP)
The Crlsso gasoline plant of the Car
ter Oil company, with Ita 14 tanka
containing 280.000 gallons of fuel was
wrecked by a series of exploslona late
today. No one waa Injured. Firemen
estimated the Ios at upward of
1,000,000.
The fire started when a propane
tank blew up from an undetermined
cause.
MIRY HAND IN
SANDERS OUSTERjwjMs PLAY TEST
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. (AP) A
quiet effort to shelve Everett San
ders as chairman of the Republican
national committee waa read today
by political observers Into the un
precedented decision by senate and
house Republicans to fight next fall
campaigns "on their own."
In tha derision, many an observer
thought he could see the political
finger of McNary of Oregon, the aen
ate Republican leader.
BALKM, Ore., Feb. 24. (AP) Sain
H. Brown of OervaU. despite the
nomination tn Portland of W, K.
Burke a ft candldat for governor
on e Progressive-Republican ticket,
will conttnue his own rare for the
Republican nomination, he announc
ed ycaterdiy.
LDING SPURT
;T
OE
CHICAGO. Feb. 24 (Predict
ing a building boom In the next two
years, A. D. Theobald, director of edu
cation and research for the American
Savings, Building and Loan institute,
today said the building and loan as
sociations may not be able to msct
the demand for funds. Theobald fore
cast a demand for 800.000 building
units a year.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. The
American Railway association todny
announced freight traffic last week
was the heaviest since the middle of
last November. Total loadings were
508,806 cars, a gain of 20,302 over the
preceding week and of 81,367 over tha
same week In 1033.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. P Dfl
partment of commerce statisticians
today allowed factory snles of automo
bile increasing from 84.152 in De
cember to 181,008 in January.
CHICAGO, Fob. S4. P) United
States Gypsum company off'clala said
the vol time of business in January
and to date in February waa larger
than for the same period of 1033.
NEW YORK, Feb. 24. P) iMoody'
index figures for freigflt car loadings,
electric power production and steel
Ingot output during the past week In
dicated a rising business tendency.
The Index figure for the combined
statistics during the paat week waa
72.4 compared to 70.6 for the previous
meek and 57.1 for a year ago.
BY SMALL MILLS
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SPOKANE. Wash , Fob. 34 fp)
Western lumber dealers demanded tn
a resolution passed here too ay that
"small, native sawmills" be forced to
adhere strictly to the NRA manufac
turers', code.
The resolution waa among a half
dozen passed at the cloning session of
the annual convention of the Wost
ern netall Lumbermen's association.
H. W. Trask, Missoula, Mont., waa
elected president of the association,
and Tacoma waa selected aa next
year's meeting place. Traak aucceed
W. W. Anderson of Ogden. Utah.
The resolution demanding the small
saw mills adhere to the NRA code ms
passed with only one dissenting vote,
that from W. B. HuAsman. op. .'a tor of
a small saw mill at Cottonwood, Ida
ho. Ho insisted the small mill owner
cannot adhere to the code and oper
ate profitably.
The aame resolution demanded thit
the amal! mills, when selling At re
tail, adhere to the retail lumber and
building materials code.
The Bellvlew Grange, presenting
"The Dear Departed." by Stanley
Houghton, won the Jackson county
dramatics contest at the Junlo high
school here last night. The mem
bers of the cast will leave this week
for Corvallis to present the play in
state competition at the Oregon Con
ference for the Study of Home In
terests. Other groups competing here last
night were the Eagle Point and Jack
sonville Oranges. Musical numbers
wer contributed to the program by
Cyril Sander. Wm. Joe Nee and Wil
liam Ryan. Judges of the play were
Mlsa Louise Howard, Rev. Wm. J.
Howeil and Dr. Arthur Taylor. The
winning play was dirfted by Mri.j
Cellt Andiewi,
TO TAJOENNA
Rumor Dolfuss Will Yield
City Plastered With Pic
ture of Hcimwehr Leader
All Reports Indefinite
My WAliK UDKMill
(Cnpright, l:tl. by the Associated
Press)
VIENNA, Feb. 24. ( AP) A "march
on Vienna" by the pro-government
and fascist hcimwehr waa reported
Imminent tonight as dozens of
froshly-fuolcd trucks carrying home
guardsmen rolled out of town for
an unannounced destination.
Rumors were that heimwehr lead
er would concentrate their men In
outlying towns and enverge on the
capital to sel7.e the government reins
tomorrow, witli Chmiccllor Doll fuss
acquiescing to the movement as
King Victor Emanuel did when
Benito Mussolini marched on Rome.
The fact that Vienna was plas
tered with green and white portrait
posters of Prince Von Strhemberg,
helimvher commander, and Vice
Chancellor Emil Fey, a heimwehr
chieftain, was considered aa atrength
enlng the reports.
The home guardsmen had orders
to carry rations for three days, but
were not told In advance what their
objective would be.
There were comments they might
bo bound for the Austro-German
border, as a precaution against the
massing of nazls In Germany, but In
quiries at frontier points revealed no
concentrations.
An official statement Issued In eBr
Un said reports published In Austria
and the United States regarding the
gathering . of nazla on the border
wore "the purest fabrication and
represent one of the customary con
temptible attempts to bring the Ger
man relch Into disrepute."
Every public telephone booth and
every street car In Vienna had pos
ters of Fey and Von Starhemberg.
Shop windows, billboards, buildings,
stations and other structures bore
the placards.
Meanwhile, there were many ru
mors which were described as noth
ing more than rumors.
QUELIAGITATORS
LONDON. Feb. 24. ifp) Nearly 18.
000 foot and mounted police will bo
on duty tot morrow to handle trouble
maker during a big unemployed dem
onstration In Hyde park, where 2.000
"hunger marchers" will hear speeches
of protest against unemployment leg
islation now before the house of com
mon. Three thousand officers wll be
massed in the park, London' politltal
forum, where a crowd of 50.000 march
era and sympathizers la expected, and
other policemen will be held In re
serve In central London.
Scotland yard officials Indicated
they expected no disorders, but more
elaborate precautions have been taken
than last year, when serious rioting
occurred .
The Weather
Unsettled with rain west portion
Sunday; Monday rain; snow In moun
tain; moderate temperature; moder
ate to fresh southeast and south wind,
offshore, increasing by Sunday after
noon. Will
ROGERS
LONDON GIRDS TO
WASHINGTON, Feb. W.
Heading of Smidino'i death in
NicnniHiia. There is one thing
that lie npd I always agreed on
iiikI that was that American
armed torees had no riffht
down there.
As to whether he was a
(ieorcn Washington or a Jesse
Jnnies, that's fur his own peo
ple to judge mid while the na
tion's mind nt the present
seems to be on aviation, I want
to tell you that some of the
greatest flying ever done by
army, navy or commercial, was
done by the marine aviators in
their flights through those
mountains after this same San
dino. I spent a week there with tho
marines, arriving just three
days after the Jlanagua earth
'liiake, and I flew with them
over the Sandino country, drop
ping supplies to marine camps
hundreds of miles up in the
mountains.
I nm glad we didn't find him
that week.
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