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LOST GIRL FOUND WANDERING STREETS
ANOTHER GOVT, S ANDAL IMMINENT
ANOTHER GOVERNMENT
SCAN DAI/ IMMINENT
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 — The
determination to explore every
one of, the naval airplane and en
gine contracts, awarded without
competitive bidding, spread among
the members of the House Naval
committee, which has already been
informed that under one non-com
petitive bidding contract for en
gines the manufacturer netted 50
per cent profit on a ten million
dollar order. The committee swung
ahead with the probe to see if
other such discrepancies could be
found.
DECISION RESULTS
IN JAIL DELIVERY
lBy The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 — By un
animous decision the supreme
court held all pending federal pro
h bltiou caeca must be wiped off
the docket. Thousands of cases,
growing out of the old dry law
Nhich are still not disposed of,
must be quashed. These include
'qet only those in which Indict
ments have been returned, but
those in which convictions have
been obtained and appealed.
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SpLLAR DRLAVUATIGN
PRODUCES NO EFFECT
(By The Associated Pres*)
SAN FRANCiaoo, Fet|. « — The
dollar devaluation of last week pro
d|ced little if any effect on wages
of prices In three far week trade
lepders Mid.
ELEANOR MJRNELL HOME
(By The Associated Press)
TACOMA, Feb. 9 — The 15 year
old Eleanor Durnell is back home
after wandering the Seattle streets
ever since she left home myster
iously last Sunday. A widespread
search took place because of fears
that she was kidnapped and put to
death. No explantlon was given
why die left home.
TROOPS SEARC H FOR GIRL
(By The Associated Press)
TACOiMA, Feb. 8 —Army troops
are searching Fort Louis Post for
missing 15 year old Elenor Durnell
1 missing from her uncle’s home
since Sunday.
She is the neice of Capt. and
Mrs. Chas. Perfect. All efforts to
truce the missing g'rl failed. Fears
are expressed that she was lured
to a secluded spot on the reserva
tion and killed and the body hid
den.
AUSTRIAN SITUATION
GROWING WORSE
(By The Associated Press)
VIBNNA, Feb. 7 — With two
provincial capitals, Innsbruck and
L'n*, occupied by Fascist troops
bearing drastic demands. Dollfuss
departed to see Premier Julius
Goemes, of Hungary, leaving Vice
Chancellor Emil Fey in charge.
The Austrian situation is growing
more serious.
KKE.MKK RETURNED
BY KIDNAPPERS
(By -The Asypclatyd Press)
ST/ PAUL, Feb. 8 .— Edward
Bremer, kidnapped January 17,
and held for two hundred thou
sand dollars ransom, was return-'
ed alive. The federate announced!
that-' they did not know whether!
the ransom was paid.
PGJ4UK OOCUPI
SOCIALISTIC CENTERS
i Jjy Thy Associated Press)
VIENNA, Feb. 8 — Steel hel
nieted police with fixed bayonets,
occupied Socalists centers as the
government cpntinud Its drive as.
Ppp'nat the Naxi forces. Socialists
entered the dr|ve.
BUSINESS PROSPEROUS
IN DETROIT
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(By The Associated presa)
DETROIT, Feb. 6 — Two men
fre at work in the factories for
•very man employed last Novem
ber, reflecting the come back of
that city that was almost literally
flat broke ten months ago. The
aato Industry set a fast pace and
growing orders of mountain •m
Indicates that the climb will he con
tinned. I
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS
ACCUSED OF EXTORTION
(By The Associated Press)
AUGUSTA, Feb. 6 — Merlea
Hnghes, Robert Brown and Gerald
Towle, high' school boys, are In
jtall accused of a plot to extort
$20,000 from William Biles, a
prominent jAugusta and Boston;
resident, thru threats against his
children. The police say that the
boys confessed.
SHOOTING STARTS
IN FRENCH CAPITAL
(By The Associated Press)
I’ARLS, Feb. 6 — Firing began
' tonight at the Palace de La Con
j corde, near the chamber of deput
ies, with one mail falling dead
and one woman perhaps fatally in
jured. after a crowd of hundreds
shot time and time again with
scores of people being injured.
In the meantime some distance
away at the Palace de Lopra, a
group of French Facists shouting
started to parade to ^the palace de
Concorde, marching with arms
raised to the Fascists salute and
singing the Marseillaise. At the
same time heavy fighting and riot
ing between the communists and
socialists broke out in a square *q
front of the ci'y hall, with the
pol ce swinging clubs. Soon young
royalists joined, swinging tradition
al canes and shouting. In the mean
time the new Daiadier government
was given two votes of confidence.
Troops were called when police
failed to control the mob after ela
borate plans to meet the situation.
FAIRBANKS IK
DIVORCE TANGLE;
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(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Feb. 6 — Douglass
Fairbanks 8r„ was served with
notice that was named as a core
spondent in a divorce notion in
stituted by young Lord Ashley
against the doll like Lady Ashley.
She was the former Sytvla Hawkes
of the stage. They were estrange
ed 9’nce Jan. 1928.
REVOLUTIONARY UIO$
AGAINST FRENCH GOVT.
(Ry The Associated Frees)
PARIS, Feb 7 — ■ Newspapers
estimated that more then fifty
men and women were fatally shot,
trampled to death, or mortally
•lashed by aahbys during the night
in revolutionary riots against the
government
Premier Daladier resigned, no
bitter was the opposition. Har
riot l« regarded as the most likely
to return to the bead of the gov
ernment
The premier resigned as the
Crowds began to gather again and
it appeared there would be more
bloodshed and further rioting.
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PANS RIOTS cum:
(By The Associated Press)
PA&S6. Feb. 8 — With France
admitting on all sides as being
close to a civil war or revolution,
former President Gaston Don
merge arrived to from a cabinet.
This seemed to end Paris’ two
day rioting and the reign of terr
or in which 12 died and more
than 200 were injured. Thousands
met Don merge as he returned from
retirement In an attempt to form
a new government.
Definite action to induce the cab
inet to resign crystalized at a
meeting of opposition deputies
headed by Andree Tirdieu and
Pierre Laval, both former prem
iers.
PRESIDENT MAKES
QUICK ANNOUNCEMENT
(By The Associated Press)
j PARIS, Feb. 8 — The 71 year
jOld former President took fifteen
minutes after his arrival to tell
President,. Labntn what lie mean
to do. He immediately started
to carry out his program as re
inforced bands of laborers went
to work cleaning up the debris
left from last night's conflict and
riots. The injured and wounded
were counted in thousands.
Douinerge’g route to the foreign
office from the President's pal
ace was a veritable triumphal pro
cession. He made the traditional
calls on the President's of the
senate and chamber of deputies
where he conferred with Daladier.
who is nominally still in office
'until the new cabinet is formed.
CABIN'KT KXPKCTKD BK
PORMKI) SHORTLY
(By The Associated Press) ^
PARIS, Feb. 9 —, Premier Dou- ]
merge expected to have his new
rab'net formed by the time the
communists, defying , the police j
planned to occupy the Palace dr'
Republlque, in the heart of the j
workers district. Company after
company of provincial forces bi- i
vouaoked in and around public ‘
buildings. Fourteen thousand po-1
lice braced for a fight. In the j
meanwhile participants and the
public vowed to handicap Dou* i
merge in his eBort to form a gov
ernment. This move is designed
to destroy the peace of France.
Radicals and Soc lists sent former
Premier Hefriot to' tell Doumerge
that they mipbt refuse to particlp
ate In his ministry unless they
were given a full share of cabinet
Ptptn.
Her riot resigned as heed of the
Socialists to accept the Commerce
Ministry in the new cabinet. Form
er Premiers Barrault, Laval, Tard- j
iue and BarthoVi, will be in the j
Interior colonies, navy and foreign
afairs * pouts, respectively. To
night's manifestations called against
the government “of parties and
faclsism.’’ Adding to this the ser
iousness of the immediate situa
tion was a 24 hour general strike
called for Monday.
TROOPS CONCENTRATE PARIS
PARIS. Feb. 9 —- Premier-elect
Doumerge struggled grimly to
bring about a political truce while
troops concentrated in Paris for a
threatened shock tonight. Threats
of strikes and riots were heard
everywhere. *'
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j DlMOND’S PIONEER, BILL
PASSES HOUSE
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(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Feb. 6 — The
House passed and sent to the Sen
iate Delegate Dlmond bill to turn
over certai,, abandoned federal
buildings at Sitka'to tfio territory
of Alaska for a home for the aged
sick and infirm pioneers; and also
a bill to convey certain federal
jlnda to the city of Nome.
The Houae Terr ‘ ' " r
th . t_
pending further
consideration.
{ Dimond’s bill contained de
mands to place the Alaaka Indians
on a par with those in the states
has the approval of Samuel Dodd,
chief finance officer of the bnreaj
of Indian Affairs, and Dr. Pan
Gordon, of Juneau, director of ed
ucation in Alaska for the Bureaa.
The Delegate is fighting for an
additional hundred thousand for
education and medical funds. He
told the Senate committee that* on
the basis of the number of In
diana in Alaska, they got only half
the aum used for Indians in the
States.
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ItOONHVKIsT'N POIJC1KH
HELPIXCi ALASKA
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Feb. 6— Roosevelt’s
policies put Alaska on a high road
to recovery, leaders of the terri
tory said,, A golden stream of
millions In bullion began to flow
from the minps to the government
on the announcement' of the new
gold price.
His financial policy proceeds ara
flowing into Other linea of indus
try. fVa policy of depreciating
the dollar brougth a measure ot
prosperity to the fur business. The
relief fnnda averted a grave un
employment sitnatlon and helpsd
Alaskans to keep their chins up
was the census of opinion.
MVANCJAL SHCHKTA^i'
»H«M lTfPlU4L 8TATKMKJVT
(By The Associated Press)
IAXUJON, Feb. 6 — A. Duff Cop
per. financial secretary to the war
office, said Friday, that Germany
wag justified in sending Edith Ca
vell, the English nurse who help
ed two hundred allied prisoners
escape, to, the firing squad. He
revived the world wide controversy
of 1915.
“Miss Cavell was a noble cour
teous woman whom the Germans
were entitled to execute accord
ing to the rules of war fare, but*
any politician could hare told
them that her execution was go
ing to arm hundreds of thousands
of men against Germany.” His
address was made before a group
of army officers.