Show news newa review of current C even events is H I 1 T L am R T R 0 armb num reich army enters ent ers vienna invasion forces to resign european powers thrown into panic by germanys germanas Germ anys startling coup united states to keep hands off secretary hull says A siw summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 0 western newspaper union coup amazes world with startling rapidity S STRIKING adolf hillers Hit lers motorized army crossed the austrian frontier seized vienna forced austrian chancellor kurt to resign and placed a full fledged nazi administration ad mints in command of the austrian government jittery european governments were thrown into a panic as they learned of the german leaders astounding coup britain and france sent hitler identical protests against the austrian invasion warning of grave reactions and several other powers were reported to have joined coined in the protest in washington secretary of state cordell hull announced a hands oft off policy toward the european crisis and noted leaders gave their opinion that there was no immediate danger of a general war although althou 94 they re garde the present situation as highly dangerous by p a unanimous vote the house of representatives began consideration of the billion dollar naval expansion bill hillers Hit lers austrian coup was a demonstration on of the rapidity of modern armed forces in less than twelve hours picked troops had advanced into austrian territory and had forced the fall of the government at 1015 at night the first mobile units crossed the border at 1 15 in the rn morning orning the advance guard seized the vienna police and telegraph stations and clamped down a rigid censorship sor ship complete surprise marked the movement this was in contrast to germanys germanas Germ anys movements in 1914 when five days were required lor for her armies to enter belgium faced with overwhelming forces broadcast the following message to the austrian people 11 the President of the republic has received from the german Retch fuehrer and chancellor an ultimatum demanding that his own candidate be appointed head of a new austrian government president Preside nl miklas asked me to tell you that the th policy of the austrian government is to recede from force so that no bogerman german blood shall be shed we have therefore given orders to our army that if it has occasion to meet german troops our soldiers will retreat 1 I yield to brute brate force we must avoid bloodshed our troops have been ordered to retire before german troops and await further developments may god protect austria it was announced the plebiscite had called for sunday to permit the people to vote on whether the country would remain independent or submit to nazi rule had been called oft the plebiscite had been denounced by the nazis as a violation of Aus agreement with germany arthur inquardt hillers Hit lers personal representative in the austrian cabinet assumed the post of chancellor and a new cabinet composed of nazis was announced meanwhile italis reaction to the german coup was watched with interest and it was believed to have placed a heavy strain on the rome berlin accords accord in 1934 italy massed troops on the border to prevent hit lers intervention in austria and preservation of the batters lat independence pen dence has beena been a major point in italian diplomacy however in view of shenew the new accord existing between italy and germany mussolini will be forced to abandon either austria or germany and since he has not completed negotiations with great britain and having few other european ties he be will be left leftin in virtual isolation should he break with hitler unverified reports stated italian troops were being rushed to the iffie brenner pass pass gateway between Ital italy yand and austria in london stock market prices slumped as the coup became public news mews despite the strong terms in britaina Brit ains note to hitler it Is lie be llevad in some quarters that a deal has bas been made with hitler whereby the latter has been allowed a free hand band in central europe in exchange lor or renouncing claims to colonies france already in the throes of internal disorders and without a cabinet stood helplessly by pre mier aler designate blum hurried consultations with political leaders tt riving to rally support and to tomilue the various opposing factions into a united group reverberations in czechoslovakia of nazi power in austria was the chief concern tn in france although the cabinet meeting in prague was said to be considering the situation calmly reports from froin bratislava Brat islava on the austrian czechoslovakia border about 40 miles from vienna said trains and automobiles arriving there were filled with refugees from vienna hungary was said to be strengthening and reinforcing the defenses along the closed austrian frontier following an emergency cabinet meeting I 1 TVA pot boils boik dolowy rET to td get the low down on the controversy among the directors ot 0 the tennessee valley authority president roosevelt summoned to the white house chairman arthur E morgan and his colleagues 4 david lill anthal and harcourt morgan it was believed in washington that if they could not compose their differences he might ask all of them to resign i sen ben byrnes y upon the outcomes outcome of this conference depe depended the action of congress leaders in rel relation atlow to the resolution calling for a senatorial investigation of the entire TVA setup sponsored by senators bridges of new hampshire and king of utah and senator norris proposal that the inquiry be conducted by the federal trade commission senator byrnes of south carolina put forward the suggestion liked by many that a single administrator be substituted for the three man board of TVA directors this one man to be selected by a joint committee of congress norris thought this plan had good features but would prefer a board of three business executives who in his opinion would be more capable of administering the project than engineers lawyers or other experts bridges engaged in hot debate with administration senators he d defended e his investigation n resola aion in a long speech in which hel he made deta detailed floid charges against the TVA administration and characterized lilienthal Lili eathal as a hitler seeking to assert dictatorial powers over the tennessee valley diplomats shi shifted iffet S SHIFTING our diplomatic representatives senta tives in latin america president roosevelt sent to the senate these nominations meredith nicholson of indiana now minister to venezuela transferred to nicaragua k boaz long of new mexico tiow now minister to nicaragua transferred to ecuador antonio C gonzalez of new york now miri minister lster to ecuador trans feared to venezuela hoover sees hitler I 1 FORMER president herbert hoo ver in europe to study moll condi eions had a along long talk in berlin with adolt adolf hitler who expounded his views on an world politics and was entertained by other nazi notables at the close of his two day visit in the german capital mr hoover said only that he Is even more reinforced in his bis belief that progress in america rests in the principles of intellectual liberty and spiritual freedom a system of free economy regulated to prevent abuse and popular government wheeler in in adion action S SENATOR WHEELER of montana took the lead in opposing therill the bill for or a reorganization of the executive branch of the government and the debate took on many of the features of k the senate battle over the supreme ak J I 1 court enlargement j k measure last year supporting the reorganization kev bill warmly were sena tor byrnes of south carolina and others who backed the ill fated court scheme wheeler said that sen wheeler checler if congress approves the measure it ought to close up shop and go home lie he was assailing the pro vision of the bill authorizing the Pres president presided ideM to transfer regroup consolidate or abolish any gov government I 1 bureau or agency or the functions thereof we have got to recognize the tact fact said wheeler that under democratic institutions there is sometimes inefficiency in government certainly there can be more inefficiency although it Is not always obtained under dictatorships the american people have got to recognize that it Is necessary for them to pay the price in order to maintain their liberties I 1 say to the senate that it Is tar far better that we maintain the bureaus we now have than it Is to turn over dictatorial powers to the president of the united states and admit to the world that the congress of the united states overwhelmingly dem socratic in the house and in the senate is incompetent to function byrnes said that wheeler was imputing dictatorship ambitions to president roosevelt and that he even feared for the safety of the republic in replying to this wheeler intimated that he believed the republic would survive despite president roosevelt family fi firm rm tax killed GREATLY to the surprise of the majority leaders the house considering the tax bill adopted an amendment offered by mccormack of massachusetts striking out the surtax on timily or closel closely held corporations this so called third ba basket levy was eliminated by a vote of 0 to then the representatives voted to add 25 cents a gallon to the tax on distilled liquors chairman doughton of 4 the ways and means committee and fred vinson vanson who wrote the bill vainly warned the representatives that tha the president dent would veto the measure sunless unless that surtax were included democratic members of the com mitt gewere hurriedly called together to io study possible replacement nent taxes to make up for the loss in revenue due to this change and treasury officials pondered new sources of revenue but 1361 doughton sore from his first i defeat said the house would go ahead with passage of the bill and leave the problem up to the senate mccormack and his supporters all the republicans Republica fid and many southern democrats contended the surtax would penalize family owned corporations ultimately forcing thern them into the bands handsol of monopolists war pact rumors D DESPITE ESPITE official denials cheru the rumors that the united states and great britain have entered into a secret war aIl alliance lance persisted and were given credence when the houses of commons was told by the par parliamentary lla undersecretary of the admiralty that there was an agreement between the two nations under which the american navy will be permitted to use the facilities odthe of the great british naval base at singapore on payment tor for services given this privilege has been extended to no other nation secretary of state hull would not confirm the existence of the agreement but department officials admitted an understanding had been reached and that it would greatly increase the potential strength of our navy in the far east bast our navy base in the philippines has no dry docks large enough to accommodate battleships Clev elands cleanup clean up C CHARGES HARGES were made in cleveland by judge alva R corlett that chicago labor leaders raised in a plot to bribe a woman juror in the trial of dona don A campbell and john E mcgee alleged labor racketeers the two men had just been convicted of extortion they were sentenced by judge corlett to serve from one to five years in the penitentiary and were taken there at once to block their efforts toward release on appeal bonds the judge said he was informed of the bribery plot by eliot ness cleveland safety director whose investigation vesti gation resulted in the indictment of campbell and mcgee I 1 we take two islands LJ UNDER orders from the president secretary of the interior ickes added to the island possessions of the united states which he be supervises two latue bits of land in the canton and enderby islands in the phoenix archipelago their value Is as stopping places for transoceanic air flights to australia included in the presidents deAts order are lands in the antarctic first visited by admiral byrd and other americans |