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Sand Boils Shoot Water Into Cairo
National Guard Moves In On Automobile Strike
POPE PIUS XI .
Pope Pius, Despite Suffering, Does
Not Heed Caution Physicians, And
Talks Eskimo Missions in the Arctic
{By The Associated Pr-^ssi
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 2, —
Pope Pius XI, brushing aside
the cautions of his physicians,
spent the day in talking about
widely varied subjects, showing
keen interest in the Eskimo Mis
sions. as he questioned Apostolic
Vicar of the Hudson Bay area,
about his work among the Eski
mos.
He was keenly interested in
northern Canada missions.
Arrangements
Being Made To
1 Sail The Ships
i
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, 'fBy The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2, —
Passenger and freight bookings
on long idle vessels kept shipping
offices busy as leaders of forty
thousand strikers reiterated their
predictions that peace would be
attained this week.
Spokesmen for the seven un_
ions said the membership vote
was scheduled for completion to
morrow and is apparently go
ing overwhelmingly in favor of
a return to work, while strikes
(Continued on Page Two)
Lindberghs Were
Landed at Pisa
fBv The Associated Press’
PISA, Italy, Feb. 2, — The fly
ing Lindberghs paused on their
sight.seeing tour, at the famous
leaning tower of Pisa, after mak
ing a round-about flight to avoid
“a terrific storm”, over the Ital
ian Alps.
They had been sought all ov_
er Europe yesterday after their
takeoff from England.
The Lindberghs landed here at
6 p.m. last night and were greet
ed by the manager of the Hotel
Victoria where they registered
under their own names. The man
ager quoted the U. S. flier as say
ing they landed here when their
gas supply ran low during the
long detour “we had to make”
to keep away from the storm.
It is believed Rome will be
their next stop on their trip to
Cairo, Egypt.
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I
TROOPS
MOVED IN
ON STRIKE
r‘<. • n». Associated pressl
FLINT, Michigan, Fob. 2, —The
126th Infantry of the National
Guard, 1200 strong, moved into
the Chevrolet Motor Company
zone last night following an af
ternoon of rioting. They carried
full combat equipment of rifles,
bayonets, machine and tear gas
guns.
They were ordered to clear all
persons from the area around the
plant and permit no one to en_
ter without a military pass.
Twelve persons were hurt in
the clash yesterday, two serious
ly during a union demonstration
which took place across the av
enue from the Fisher Body plant
number two, which has been oc_
cupied by sitdown strikers since
December 30th. The troops were
ordered not to interfere with
them. ,
Twenty-Three
Alpine Soldiers
Die Avalanche
(Bv The Associated Press)
CUENA, Italy, Feb. 2, — Twen
ty three Alpine soldiers were kill
ed in a snow avalanche while
reconnoitering in the Italian Alps
yesterday said reports received
here. The bodies of sixteen of
them have been recovered, it
was made known.
HE WAS CONGRATULATED ON BIRTHDAY BY NATION OF FRIENDS
Vandenberg Of
Michigan Said
Was Difficulty
•Bv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D, C„ Feb. 2,—
Senator Arthur Vandenbery of
Michigan, republican, sa d that
with the difficulty about relief
projects, it was “impossible to
tell what the ultimate costs would
be."
He cited the Matanuska Colony
projects saying that Harry Hop.
kins had originally estimated it
would cost one million nine hun
dred and three thousand dollars,
and that it “has flowered out in
to a five million dollar program
whose beneficiaries are threaten.
*
ing to stTike if they are not kept
on the WPA.
STARS FOR UNBEATEN BRONCOS
c * _
SAND BOILS ENDANGER
CAIRO WITH RISE
CONTINUING
i(»8 Dead, Nine Hundred and Fifty-Six Thousand Are
Homeless, Property Damages in Execess Of
Five Hundred 27 Million Dollars
(Bv The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Feb. 2, — Dread
“sand boils” bursting up in the
heart of beleagured Cairo, 111.,
forewarned defenders of the deep,
ly undermined conditions of the
barriers.
Emergency squads rushed to
the danger spots, dumping hun
dreds of sandbags on the minia
ture geysers, which number near,
ly fifty throughout the city.
In the mounting emergency,
forty additional coast guard
boats arrived to evacuate the
city’s remaining six thousand per
sons, with fifty five more vessels
and nine barges left if needed
to rush the evacuation.
Waves battered the hastily built
three foot seawall topping the
60-foot floodwall, this morning.
Disaster figures todate:
The known dead number 368*
homeless nine hundred and fifty
six thousand, damages five hun_
dred and twenty seven million
dollars in seven of the eleven
affected states.
The recovery of six victims in
the sinking of the New Madrid
floodway barge Saturday night,
disclosed there were twenty eight
more missing.
Asked Have The
Count
For Work Done
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D C., Feb. 2—
Delegate Dimond from Alaska,
asked Congress to make sur
veys on mineral claims in Alas
ka count as assessment work,
when the latter items amount to
one hundred dollars or more.
Dimond said this would reduce
the assessment work costs for
many prospectors who need the
surveys, preliminary to obtain,
ing mining claim patents.
President Sloan
General Motors
Is Embarrassed
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Feb. 2, — Sloan,
President of General Motors,
was surrounded by a shouting,
screaming group of union pickets
as he left the Broadway offices
of the company for his automo
bile, which bore him away.
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