SYNOPSIS
Leila Beton, young: and beautiful
and an expert on painting:!, la com
missioned to go over the collection
of paintlnsa In the home of the
wealthy Kellers In New York, where
a party Is In proBress. From her
window she witnesses a man in an
other room strike a woman. Short
ly after Mrs. Keller sends up word,
asklns her to Join the party at din
ner. Leila hastily dresses and Boes
down. She Is seated between Mr.
Deck, a critic, and Monty Mitchell,
a noted lawyer. Introductions fol
low. There are Mr. Harridan, Miss
Letty Van Alstyn, Mrsi Crane, Mrs.
Watkins and Prince and Princess
Rancinl, Buests. Leila finds she is
taking the place of Nora Harrlden.
Dan Harrlden leaves the table, and
Mitchell explains he has Bone up to
see how his wife’s headache Is. He
returns shortly. Deck, sayinB he
must put In a call, leaves. Upon his
return, he begs Leila to secretly take
a message to Nora “to take no steps
until I see you." Leila consents.
Leila finds the Harrlden rooms empty
and so Informs Deck. Coming out she
passes Letty. Harrlden asks Princess
Rancinl to run up and see his wife.
.The princess reports the absence of
Nora. Search Is fruitless. Harrlden
admits that he had a row. Anson,
maid, reports seeing Deck near
Nora’s room. Letty tells of seeing
Leila come from the room. Leila
accuses Harrlden of having struck
his wife. This Harrlden denies. From
the Harrldens’ window Leila sees
what proves to be Nora’s lifeless
body. A ghastly head wound caused
death. Dan says she was lying on
her bed when he went to dinner, and
when he ran up later the room was
dark. Thinking she was asleep, he
left without seeing her. Mrs. Kel
ler comes upon a pool of blood In
the closet. A diamond chain Is miss
ing. Donahey, police Inspector, ques
tions the guests. * Harrlden brands
Leila’s, story of seeing a man strike
a woman a lie. Anson tells of seeing
Deck outside the Harrlden door.
Deck says he passed by in seeking
a lost handkerchief. Elkins, a serv
ant, tells of overhearing Deck threat
en Mrs. Harrlden earlier In the day.
CHAPTER V—Continued
Donahey’s head was thrusting out
on his thick neck like a turtle’s.
"Well, Mr. Deck?”
Bis silence agonized me. An'd then
he said, "I don’t remember,” and
his lips twitched In a mockery of a
smile.
“You don’t remember?”
“Not a word. I was quite tight
before dinner. ... I haven’t the
faintest recollection of anything
said downstairs.’’
Donahey ground out “Yet you re
member that you went up early to
your room, you said?”
“Oh, I remember that,” Deck said
Jauntily. “I got to my room all
right,” he went on, “and the cold
water revived • me. But everything
that went on downstairs Is Just a
total loss.”
“Do you happen to remember,”
said the Inspector with terrible sar
casm, “any reason why yon could
have said the words you have no
recollection of saying to Mrs. Har
rlden?”
Deck was silent
“What was between yon?" Dona
hey shot out
“Friendship,” said Deck.
i Know mat i reit l could not
bear to look at Harrlden, and yet
I looked at him and saw him stand
ing, like a man of atone, his grim,
blunt profile toward that younger
man. The sheer beauty of Deck
seemed somehow Insolent and flaunt
ing before that husband’s haggard
eyes. I felt a sharp cleavage of
sympathy . . . terror for Deck and
angutsb for that bereft man’s pain.
It was the easing of a physical
strain when Harrlden turned and
walked out of the room.
I remember a dull surprise at
finding It was only half-past two
when I was In my room.
I was so spent emotionally that I
was conscious of nothing but a
crushing depression. There was no
denying the reality of Elkins’ high
strung words.
And I had my own corroboration
of Deck’s desperate message, Take
no steps.
For all my exhaustion I could not
sleep; my thoughts kept milling
about In confused conjecturing. Had
Deck been the man at the window
had be followed her up to finish the
quarrel there?
It might have been Deck, I
thought. He might have slipped
away when he heard Harrlden come
tn the next room—she might have
promised to meet him as soon as
possible In' the gallery. Then she
did not come. Perhaps her husband
had stayed too long In the room.
What was their quarrel about, I
wondered, my temples throbbing
heavily against the pillow. Was she
threatening to leave him—was be
mad with Jealousy? The sorriest
woman on God’s earth. . .. Had he
gone up from dinner to carry out
bis wild threat?
Oh. no. no. no! Only to see her.
to plow! with her. For he had sent
i
me np later to try to get word to
ber, to urge her to take no steps....
Ob, tool that I had been not to
speak out before! Then my story
might hare carried conviction, but
now it would seem a lame invention
of mine to save him.
Or had his sending me on that
errand been merely a ruse on his
part, to make it appear that he
still believed her in her room, when
all the time he knew that room was
untenanted and her poor body
shrouded in the shrubbery belowT
I did not know what to believe.
My min’d went round and round in
the mazes of its doubt... He had
been so long away from that table.
. . . But that bad been because be
was trying to reach her, my de
fensive heart instantly declared. He
had told me that her room phone
did not answer—of course, he had
gone to her door and knocked—
perhaps even tried it
I wondered if he had peeped in
and found darkness and ghostly cur
tains blowing in the wind. Or if he
had found the door locked—locked
by an unknown assassin who was
still inside
I determined to try to make Deck
confide in me. Since I already knew
so much, since I had proved stanch,
surely he would tell me the truth.
.. . But if his sending me had been
a ruse—T My mind wearied from
all this wondering. At last I slept
I woke very suddenly. I woke to
the instant impression that some
one was in my room. I lay there
with my eyes shut, not daring to
open them, trying to feign slep,
feeling in every nerve that something
was there—something Just within
the door. There had been some
sound, some indefinable sound that
had waked me.
Every instant the feeling grew
more terrible; I knew then that fear
could be paralyzing, for I lay there
literally unable to move or speak,
simply helpless and terrified, wait
ing for something horrible to hap
pen.
Then there was a creak at the
door and soft, muffled steps down
the ball. I knew I was not imag
ining those steps; I heard them,
though my own thumping heart
beats sounded louder to me. I sup
pose It was only a moment or two,
really, that I lay in the grip of that
helplessness, then motion and sense
came back to me, and I reached
out and managed to flash on the
night light with fingers that fum
bled frantically for the tiny chain
as if each Instant of darkness was
a danger. Then I Jumped up and
ran for the door.
I forced myself to look out down
the blackness of that hall. I saw
nothing. I heard nothing. I Hid not
go out and look down the stairs; I
dodged back and shut and locked
my door.
Shoal’d I call some one on the
house phone? I moved toward It
but hesitated, caught back bj the
fear of something hysterical and
panicky. It was easy for over
wrought nerves to play tricks and
In my half-asleep condition I might
have Imagined those sounds within
my door. The steps, though, bad
been real. But the steps could easily
be accounted for. Donahey had said
the house was guarded and very
likely one of the policemen was pa
trolling the hall and, finding my
door ajar, had paused to make sure
my room was occupied.
I persuaded myself that this was
so. What else could It be? Confid
ence had revived with the lighted
room and I told myself the rustling
had been only the night wind play
ing with the folds of my satin frock
left lying on the chair by the door.
My very excess of past terror and
my ashamed reaction against It
swept me now too far In the other
direction, for I did not phone.
It was not easy to get to sleep
again, but I did, ultimately, and
It was bright day when I waked,
with the sun streaming across the
dark, polished floor, over the white
fur rug, to glow on the rose-red of
the deep-cushioned chair. But no
sun could Uft the depression of that
past night or banish the pictures
moving before my eyes—Nora Har
rlden'a limp, gold-clad body In her
husband's arms . . . that husband’s
face, rigid, grief-smitten ... Deck's
defiant, high-held head and his bit
ter, tormented eyes.
I must get to Deck, I thought
excitedly, and hurried into a cold
shower, wondering what was done
about breakfast in that house, J
phoned the question and was In
formed that breakfast would be up.
Coffee was my chief need, black
and hot, and I welcomed it all the
more since the maid who brought
the tray told me that the Inspector
would like to see mo as soon as pos
sible. I
In the glass.
The halls
look at myself
downstairs,
empty} so, too,
t;'
was the big entrance hall, except
for a policeman at the front door.
In the drawing room Dohaney was
behind hla nsnal table. He nodded
In response to my good morning,
then Jerked his head toward a
conple of yonng men at a table at
the far end of the room and sent
me to have my fingerprints taken.
That was to be expected, I
thought, and certainly I had noth
ing to worry about, except that I
was rather Interested In the proc
ess of print taking, for I knew
something about the work, so I fell
Into chat with the two young men.
It was Just a formality, they said;
there was nothing to be gained
from all this print taking unless
they got the print of some Insider,
for all the household had been over
the room.
“Except Dick," said a heavy voice
beside us.
I started, and found Harriden
staring down at ns out of red
rimmed eyes. The man’s face looked
as If years Instead of hours had
passed; the deep lines In It were
accentuated till they seemed like
seams.
“Deck wasn’t In the room after
the murder—and don’t you forget
that," he admonished grimly.
I was Impatient to see Deck. I
thought of phoning to his room,
then I remembered that a police
man might be listening in—I
thought of getting in touch with
Monty Mitchell and trusting him
with a message. But Donahey de
tained me then with more ques
tions, and I had to go over what I
had said before and tell him more
about myself and how I happened
to be there at all. At the end he
told me I must appear at the In
quest on Sunday morning.
I went out In the hall and wan
dered about a little Irresolutely,
thinking that If I kept out In sight
I might encounter either Alan Deck
or Monty Mitchell without having
to phone and betray my eagerness
to the officials. As a pretext for
lingering I read the papers over and
over.
The headlines were sensational—
Society Beauty Murdered—and the
first pages were filled with stories
of Nora’s life, and there was one
account of the famous yellow dia
mond chain. The pendant on It, It
was stated, was a flawless Jewel
which had been worn on the tur
ban of a royal Turkish family, for
“I Think You Aro Wanted by the
Police."
generations; the last heir had given
It to Mrs, Harrlden Instantly upon
her expression of admiration—a
costly gesture, which her husband
had paid for, later, by persistent
losses at cards. The chain, so the
paper said, had been assembled by
Mr. Harrlden to match the pendant.
My eyes raced through the ac
counts of the guests; there was no
reference to Alan Deck except as
"a favorite In the Long Island set”
No reporter, I was sure, had been
able to get In the house; the pa
per had had to take the facts that
Dohaney had given out, and the
list of guests and do what they
could with their Imagination.
After the Inquest, I supposed,
Deck’s threats could no longer be
kept secret; the papers would make
what they could of that Luckily
he would have his own paper to
give a favorable version. But' he
would have to give an explanation
of his words—and I hoped fervently
that the night had brought him
counsel and Inspiration. Restlessly
I wondered where he was keeping
himself.
I began to think that all of the
guests were upstairs, gathered Inti
mately In the Kellers’ private sit
ting room, talking things over by
themselves; I felt so alone In that
house that It was a comfort to. see
the Prince Banclnl coming out from
the long lounge Just behind this en
trance hall. He looked at me with
the Latin’s quick Interest In his
big, brown eyes—a stalwart, hand
some fellow, with white teeth flash
ing in his brown face as he smiled
at me. 1 smiled back at him, and he
came up to me.
"A terrible business,” he said,
rolling out his r’s. Very fervently I
agreed.
To make conversation I asked
him If he had known Mrs. Harrlden
well. I knew that be had landed
only a day or so ago, but I thought
they had probably met abroad.
Instantly his eyes changed. He
looked at me narrowly as U ques
tioning what I meant "One baa met
-but who knows anybody r he
Mid, with a shrug of hla shoulder*.
I said, “Who, Indeed V In hla own
Italian, and at that he changed back
to smiles and began to spout Italian
at me. I felt so eager for some one
human to talk to that I told him
why I was there, and he declared
that he must see that famous gal
lery, he must learn something of
the ways of detecting frauds. He
would go with me to that gtfllery, he
said.
It was when I was saying, “But
when could we go!” that his wife
glided to my side.
Aloofly, the Princess Ranclnl mur
mured, “I think yon are wanted by
the police. They asked me to tell
you to come," and began to talk In
wearied tones to her husband as If
I was dismissed.
I thought, furiously, that she was
one of the most hateful women I
had ever met
I didn’t take time to wonder what
Donahey wanted now; I Just went
straight to the table where he was
Btandlng, with a little group about
him. There was a man In uniform, I
noticed, and the Kellers with Dan
Harrlden and Monty Mitchell. In the
midst of my “Good mornings," my
eyes fell on a dress lying over a
chair, Its folds training—my frock,
the ice blue satin frock I had worn
the night before.
I didn’t have time for anything
but astonishment when Donahey
spoke, measuredly. “Ton recognize
this dress, Miss Seton?"
“Of course. It’s mine.” For no
reason that I could name or help
my voice sounded defiant
He went forward and lifted a fold
of blue satin, disclosing the under
side of the skirt There, pinned by a
safety pin, hung a little sort of
bag, like a tled-up handkerchief.
“And you recognize this?”
“Why no—what Is It?” I stam
meriwl.
With slow deliberation he undid
the pin, and let the cloth drop in
one of his palms. From the opening
folds his thick Angers picked np
a chain strung with glittering
stones. He stared at It, then dangled
It before us all. It was a chain of
diamonds—yellow diamonds.
CHAPTER VI
I WAS too astonished to speak; I
stood staring at the dress, then
a recollection of the last time I had
seen it, lying over a chair in my
room near the door, swept my mind
back. In a flash, to those noises
in the night I blurted, “Why, there
was some one then—there was some
one there!”
Hurriedly I tried to tell them
about It, about my waking and my
fright and my conclusion that It
was Just the steps of a policeman
moving about outside, and as I
stammered out the story I saw dis
belief In their faces and could
hardly blame them for it Oh, the
Idiot that I had been not to have
phoned some one at once 1
It seemed too mad to put Into
words. Carefully I controlled my
voice which was shaking with ex
citement and said stiffly, “But you
must see what this means—that the
one who stole those diamonds was
In this house last night—that he
must be still hiding about—”
“We’ve combed this house with a
fine tooth comb, young lady,” said
Donahey, “and there’s no one In It
except those whose names we know.
Nobody has got out of here during
the night or this morning. It’s been
surrounded.”
“Then he’s here now," I said.
“He’s here, all right," Donahey
echoed with ominous finality. “And
he Isn’t going to get away."
Monty Mitchell said thoughtfully,
“A pity you have let this find be
known. The thief, whoever he was,
might have meant to hide the stones
only till the first flurry of searching
died down. He could feel reason
ably sure that Miss Seton wouldn’t
be wearing that dress tonight, too
light and gay and all that, so he
thought he had a good temporary
hiding place.”
I was passionately grateful for
his words and for bis coming and
standing by me, as If casually.
“Why do you imagine he chose
that dress for a hiding place?” asked
Donahey very slowly as If picking
his way.
“The position of the room, for
one thing,” said Mitchell. “It was
near the art gallery, and Its door
was visible from the gallery door—
later on the gallery would have
been a good lurking place till he
saw bis chance to nip In and re
trieve the Jewels. I rather think he
meant to retrieve them,” he went
on thoughtfully, screwing up his
black eyebrows, “for they are too
valuable to Ignore. . . . Ton said
the dress was right by the door,
didn't you” he asked of me.
“On a chair by the door,” I re
peated.
Donahey glanced up and said,
“Does it strike you as feasible, Mr.
Mitchell, that any one who com
mitted murder for those diamonds
would take a chance on losing them
afterwards t”
(TO BE CONTINUED)
The Turku b Ham*
The typical Turk lab home la de
scribed as a spacious square room
with a fireplace at one end and a
prayer closet and doorway at the
opposite end. As only men are per
mitted to go to the moeque to pray,
the women of the family use the
cloeet for prayer five times dally.
The large room la used for all pur
poses by day and at night Is the
family sleeping quarters. Ruga used
for beds are folded up and placed
on shelves in the daytime.
News Review of Current
Events the World Over
Congressional Quizzers Stir Dr. Townsend to Wrath—
Landon Has Big Bunch of Delegates—Guffey
Coal Act Declared Invalid.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
C Western Newspaper Union.
FOR two days Dr. Francis E.
Townsend replied mildly to the
questions of the house committee
investigating the activities of the
Townsend.
organization Denina
the old age pension
movement which
the doctor started.
Then the Califor
nian lost his pa
tience suddenly, re
fused to answer any
more “nonsensical”
queries, spoke of
"thick - headed con
g r e s s m e n,” de
nounced the com
mittee for Its “un
friendly attitude”
auu asserted tne administration was
a “hostile force” behind the inquiry.
He declared he would form a third
party after the November elections.
Finally Doctor Townsend told the
committee: “I am retiring from
this sort of Inquisition and I do
not propose to come back except
under arrest. And I do refuse ab
solutely to make any further state
ment regarding this movement to
this committee.”
Escorted by Gerald K. Smith,
former adherent of Huey Long, and
another man, the Californian fled
from Washington to Baltimore. The
committee decided to ask the house
to cite him for contempt.
When he was questioned regard
ing large sums contributed by
Townsend club members the physi
cian said the contributors had
faith in him and that “we need mil
lions to promote a movement of this
kind and we will get them.”
His testimony developed that Doc
tor Townsend, his brother, Walter
Townsend and Gilmour Young own
the assets of the Townsend organi
zation, estimated now at about $60,
000, and that Townsend club mem
bers have no property right in them.
Doctor Townsend testified he has
received about $68,000 in salary,
dividends from the Townsend
weekly and expenses, but now had
only about $300 and his wife about
$200 to show for their efforts.
GOV. ALF LANDON captured
nearly all the New Jersey dele
gates to the national convention,
defeating Senator Borah about 4 to
1 In the popular vote. This victory
gave the Kansan a total of more
than 200 votes to start with at
Cleveland, and his manager, John
Hamilton, claimed he would have
at least 300 of the 501 votes neces
sary to nominate and would win on
the second or third ballot
The statement by Herbert Hoover
taking himself out of consideration
for the nomination is generally
judged to have helped Laodon.
With Mr. Hoover out of the picture
It will be difficult to hold California,
Texas, and other potentially Hoover
votes away from Landon.
James A. Farley, postmaster gen
eral and also Democratic national
chairman, told the Michigan Dem
ocratic convention he believed the
Republican Presidential nominee
will be “the governor of a typical
prairie state" and that his election.
If he won, would be a “perilous ex
periment.” Farley criticized the man
he did not name as devoid of ex
perience in national affairs, and
predicted that If he is the Repub
lican standard bearer “even Kan
sas” will not be in the Roosevelt
doubtful column.
About twenty of Pennsylvania’s
delegation to the Republican con
vention were pledged to support the
popular choice of the state, which
turned out to be Mr. Borah, no oth
er name being officially entered at
the April 28 primary. The delega
tion, which Is uninstructed, has now
voted that those members must keep
their pledge on the first ballot or
until it becomes manifestly impos
sible for their choice to win. 'This
action was taken on motion of for
mer Senator David A. Reed.
CONSTITUTIONALITY of the
railroad retirement system was
contested before the District of Co
lumbia Supreme court by attorneys
representing the class 1 railroads
and 280 lesser railway enterprises.
The lawyers argued that the pen
sion law and a tax law enacted at
the same time are together'* “sub
stantially the same" as the “uncon
stitutional railroad retirement act
of 1934.”
The two separate acts, one pro
viding pensions and the other tax
ing the income of railroads and em
ployees, were passed last year after
the Supreme court ruled unconsti
tutional the 1934 law In which a
levy and a pension system were
combined.
The 'government contended that
the alleged relation between the two
acts could not be proved, and that
the railroads were suing. In effect,
to enjoin collection of a tax. Such
a suit, the government contended,
was barred by federal law. The
government further defended Its
railroad retirement system as an ex
erclse of Its constitutional power "to
provide for the common defense.”
POSTPONEMENT of action on
*■ the Patman-Boblnson chain store
bill until next session was urged on
the house rules committee in a let
ter from six powerful farm organi
zations.
Charging the bill would restrict
operations of farm co-operatives by
preventing them from receiving
wholesale discounts, the letter
warned also that higher consumer
prices would result from enactment.
The measure, already passed by
the rsnate, prevents price discrim
inations by manufacturers to big
customers.
The letter was signed by repre
sentatives of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, the National
Grange, the National Co-operative
Council, the National Co-operative
Milk Producers’ Federation, the
Farmers’ National Grain associa
tion, and the Northwestern Farm
ers’ Union Legislative committee.
SIX members of the Supreme court
of the United States ruled that
the GufTey act to control the bitu
minous coal Industry Is Invalid, and
another of the New
Deal experiments
goes Into the dis
card. This Is the
act which President
Roosevelt urged
congress to pass
notwlthst a n d 1 n g
doubts of Its con
stitutionality “how
ever reasonable.”
Five justices —
Sutherland, Butler,
Van Devanter, Me
San. Guffey
ivcjuuiuo, auu ivuuci to-juiucu iu
the majority opinion which invali
dated the whole act. Justices Car
dozo, Brandels, and Stone joined in
a dissenting opinion in which they
upheld the act Chief Justice Hughes
held in a separate opinion that the
act was constitutional with respect
to the marketing provisions but un
constitutional with respect to the
labor regulations.
The court In the majority opin
ion held that there Is no authority
in the Constitution for the control
of the coal industry attempted In
the Guffey act The act was not
valid either under the commerce
clause or the welfare clause. Power
was unlawfully delegated to set up
a coal code similar to the codes of
the Invalidated NRA and the regu
lations establishing working hours
of miners were a violation of the
fifth amendment prohibiting the
taking of property without due
process of law. Mining, the court
declared, Is a local Industry, the
state jurisdiction whereof the fed
eral government has no authority
to Invade.
Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania,
author of the act, lost little time in
Introducing a substitute measure,
concentrating on price fixing and
omitting the labor provisions which
were outlawed by the Supreme
court John L. Lewis, head of the
United Mine Workers, declared that
organization would “join In request
ing congress to enact the bill at
once." He thought the measure
would “operate to maintain the
equilibrium of the coal Industry
pending further study of stabiliza
tion of the Industry.”
A plea to all coal operators to
support the new bill was made by
Charles O’Neill, legislative chair
man of the National Conference of
Bituminous Coal Producers.
Some congressional leaders, how
ever, thought It unlikely that the
new Guffey bill could be passed at
this session.
HERBERT H. LEHMAN an
nounced suddenly in Albany
that he would not be a candidate
for a third term as governor of New
uov. Linmin
York, saying: “I
feel the time has
come when I may
ask release from
the cares and re
sponsibilities of the
governorship.” Bnt
leaders of the Dem
ocratic party, In
cluding President
Roosevelt, Nation
al Chairman James
A. Farley and Sen
ators Wagner and
uopeiana undertook to persuade Mr.
Lehman to run for re-electloa They
all agreed that his retirement would
be a loss to the state and the party
and that be should be "drafted.''
The Immediate political result of
the governor’s surprise action was
that New York again became a
doubtful state for the Presidential
campaign. In the minds of many pol
iticians. The morale of Republic
an leaders in the state Improved,
and Democrats began speculating as
to which of a group of five or more
candidates could be groomed for
the gubernatorial nomination this
fall If Lehman persisted In hla de
termination.
GENERAL rejoicing marked the
Inaugural of Dr. Miguel Ma
riano Gomez as president of Cuba—
the first elected by the people since
Gerardo Machado. The new execu
tive, a lawyer and revolutionary
leader who has twice been mayor
of Havana, took the oath of office
In the ball room of the President's
mansion in the presence of 400 for
eign and Cuban officials. The guns
of Cabanas fortress across the har
bor fired a twenty-one gun salute
and on the signal all public build
ings were Illuminated and thou
sands of merrymakers began parad
ing the streets.
President Gomez appeared on a
balcony and told the shouting
throngs that be would do his best
to maintain a constitutional govern
ment “by the Cubans and for the
benefit and Interest of all Cubans.”
In his first message to congress he
assured the nation that personal
rights would be respected. Among
his policies he listed “ample toler
ance to all Ideas, ample guarantees
for all rights and sufficient energy
to maintain order and the necessary
strength against offenders against
the laws."
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THE resettlement administration
headed by Bezford Guy Tug
well was declared by the District
of Columbia court of appeals to be
“clearly unconstitutional delegation
of power,” In a case Involving •
model community project in Somer
set county. New Jersey.
Going beyond tbe Issue before
them, tbe Justices of tbe Appeals
court called the entire relief ap
propriations act of 1935 into ques
tion. The act was Invalid and hence
BA was Invalid, according to the
court Legally, however, none of the
rest of the act will be affected by
the decision because the other mul
titudinous activities of the New
Deal under the appropriation were
not before the court
Benito mussolini advised
Prince von Starhemberg of Aus
tria not to start any domestic trou
ble because he was ousted from the
cabinet by Chancellor Schuschnlgg,
and when the prince returned to
Vienna the cabinet fixed things up
neatly by decreeing that the coun
try should have three fuehrers,
Schuschnlgg, the unofficial dictator,
becomes national leader of the fa
therland front; Eduard Baar von
Barenfels, the new vice chancellor,
Is national commander of the front
militia; and Starhemberg continues
as sports leader and head of the
Northerhood Protective association.
DB. ANTON PA VELIO, alleged
leader of Ustashl, the Croatian
terrorist organization, and accused
as one of the “master minds” In
Dr. Pavelie
me assMssiuauou
of King Alexander
of Jugoslovakia In
Marseilles, has been
set free by the
Italian authorities.
Released with him
was his lieutenant,
Eugene Kvaternlk.
The two were ar
rested at Turin In
October, 1934, soon
after the murder
of Alexander, but
tne Frencn autnorities wno were
working on the case were never
permitted to question them, and an
Italian tribunal refused the request
of the French government for their
extradition to France for trial.
JO SB LOIS TEJADA SORZANO
was forced to resign the presi
dency of Bolivia by a junta of army
officers and Socialists who staged
a bloodless coup d’etat in La Pas.
CoL German Busch, acting chief of
the general army staff, leader at
the coup, will be at the head of the
government until CoL David Toro,
hero of the war with Paraguay, re
turns from the Chaco, when Toro
will be Installed as president
The Immediate objective of the
new administration was complete
settlement of a general strike which
the officers asserted was Imperiling
the country’s economic stability.
The labor federation quickly sus
pended the strike movement ex
pressing solidarity with the army
socialist coup.
NATIONS that are especially
hard up might consider the
method said to be employed by Ru
mania. A Bucharest newspaper as
serts that government employees
have been paid largely In counter
feit money, vast quantities of bogus
100 lei pieces having been Issued
In sealed bags by the ministry of
finance. That ministry then an
nounced that the counterfeit coins
would not be redeemed and that
persons who passed them would b«
prosecuted.
SECRETARY OF WAR DERN al
located nearly $138,000,00 for
river and harbor Improvement proj
ects throughout the country that
had been recommended by thjfj
engineering corps.
Of this sum, 1103,458,839 will bs
used for entirely new
and port Improvement while
408,150 will be employed In
talning existing river and
facilities.
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RS. SARA DELANO ___
VELT, aged mother of
President fell while on a
New York some *
laid up at Hyde
pacted hip and
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