NAZI TROOPS INVADE AUSTRIAN TERRITORY SENATE CONSIDERING MILEAGE TAX REPEAL Herring Measure Is Taken Up Ahead of Land Office Reorganization Bill. JACKSON, Miss., March 11 (AP) -The senate approved a bill today, 31 to 7, repealing the mileage tax on trucks and buses and substituting a flat privilege tax based on tonnage and capacity while the house passed a resolu' tion setting up a committee of three representatives to investigate property insurance rates and the state rating bureau. The senate refused to remain in session this afternoon to con• sider the controversial land office bill reported by its judiciary committee but set it for special order for Monday afternoon at 2: 30. The house speedily approved the resolution to investigate insurance rates (excluding life, fraternal and burial insurance) after Rep.| Joe May and others declared that; "Insurance rates are far too high in Mississippi." The investigating committee would be paid $7.50 per day per member and could not remain in session mora than 60 days. It would report its findings at the next special session or regular session. The house today voted to reconsider the vote by which the federal farm laboratory bill pass-| ed earlier in the week for the pur-: pose of raising the appropriation from $250,000 to $500,000 as an indicement to the Department of Agriculture to locate the labora-| tory in Mississippi. After voting to reconsider, however, the house then set the bill for special order next Wednesday. The house declined to reconsider! passage of the highway condem-| nation bill approved late yesterday. . he bill repealing the mileage tax on trucks and buses and increasing the privilege tax to off-| set the loss in revenue breezed through the senate o11 final pass-| ENGLAND IN WARNING TO HITLER GERMANY Carefully Phrased Note Is Sent Against Military Interference In Austrian Plebiscite LONDON, March 11 (AP)--Britain today gave a mild, carefully phrased warning to Germany | against military interference in Austria's Sunday plebiscite on independence. Official British sources said reports had been received of "certain movements of troops in Baand that Britain had expressed to Germany the hope that the purpose of such movements was to preserve order on the Austro-German frontier. Officials declined to say specifically to whom this view was expressed, but it was believed that it had been presented unmistakably to Joachim von Ribbentrop, German foreign minister, by foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. CHINESE WAR FOUGHT IN GREAT AIR BATTLE Two Squadrons of Chinese Planes Make Sudden Attack of Japanese Airfield SHANGHAI, March 11 (AP) -The Chinese war was fought in the air today. Two squadrons of Chinese planes in a sudden attack bombed the Japanese airfield at Nanking, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's lost capital. Japanese said there was no damage, but Chinese said ten planes were destroyed. A Japanese military train between Pengpu and Linhwaikwan also was bombed. American missionaries at Tenghsien reported a low-flying Jap-| anese plane dropped two bombs on Japanese planes bombed Sian. provincial capital of Shensi in CRIMINAL COURTS GET WHITNEY STOCK FAILURE Broker Charged With Appropriat-1 ing Securities From FatherIn-Law's Trust Fund NEW YORK, March 11 (AP) The immediate rearrest of Richard Whitney, five times president of the New York stock exchange, on a new charge of grand larceny was ordered today by state attorney General John J. Bennett, Jr. The present charge is based on a complaint of Commodore Wil-! liam A. W. Stewart, of the New York Yacht Club, prominent lawyear and former friend of Whitney, that Whitney "unlawfully" took from a safety deposit box $103,000 worth of bonds belonging to the club, of which Whitney had been treasurer. NEW YORK, March 11 (P) An indictment charging Richard Whitney, former president of the New York stock exchange with the theft of $100,000 in securities today transformed the collapse of the brokerage firm he headed into: a case for the criminal courts. The indictment, returned by a York county grand jury yescrday in a lightning action by Thomas E. Dewey, district attorney, accused Whitney' of first degree grand larceny in the misappropriation of the securities from a trust fund of which he was executor and co-trustee. The heavy-set, grave Whitney, five times president of the stock exchange and Wall Street leader through the critical years of the depression, was charged with ap-| propriating securities of "an ag-1 gregate value of about $105,000" for personal loans, from a fund established by his father-in-law, the late George R. Sheldon, leaving in the fund only a single share of Bethlehem Steel Company stock with a market value of $55. While Whitney silently went through the police routine of being booked and fingerprinted, and posted bail, inquiries into the collapse of Richard Whitney and company went ahead on five other Cotton Marketing Plan Is Outlined By Wallace Here is a brief outline of the 1938 cotton production and marketing program the Agriculture Department will submit to growers at a referendum Saturday: Objective Production and sale of a crop not in excess of about 11,000,000 bales. The reason -Officials say there is an excessive surplus on hand now and that another large crop would depress prices. They estimate that the surplus will be at least 12,000,000 bales when the 1938 crop starts to market. Methods The program will attempt to hold the 1938 crop within the objective through two methods: (1) Acreage allotments and (2) marketing quotas. Acreage Allotments The national acreage allotment has been, fixed at about 26,500,000. Allotments are being made to individual growers by local soil conservation committees composed of farmers under formulas laid down by the new farm law. If all growers planted 110 more than their allotments the crop, under normal weather conditions, would amount to about 11,000,000 bales. Marketing Quotas To be voted on tomorrow by cotton MOBILE MOVIE HOUSE IS WRECKED BY BOMB Lobby and Front End Of Prichard Theatre Is Mass Of Broken Wood and Glass MOBILE, Ala., March 11 (AP) The lobby and front end of the Prichard Theatre, a movie house in suburban Prichard, was turned into a mass of broken wood, glass and wallboard early today when a bomb was thrown into the ticket booth of the amusement place. Debris was thrown clear across the street by the explosion, which FARM REFERENDUM SET FOR TOMORROW Voting Precincts Announced for Leflore Farmers To Ballot On Market Quotas Leflore county farmers will ballot Saturday on the question of applying quotas to the marketing of the 1938 cotton crop. The polls will open at 9 a. m. and will close at 7 p. m. and all farmers who were engaged in the production of cotton in 1937 will be entitled to vote. Only one member of a household and that the head of the family will be permitted to cast the ballot. Voting in the county will be held a the following places, it is announced by county agent J. S. McBee: Beat One - Somerville's store, Minter City, Carver's store; Highlandale; Beat Two--Money, Shellmound, Schlater, Quiver Gin. Beat Three - Fort Pemberton, Greenwood, Browning, Rising Sun Beat Four -Itta Bena, Spruill's store, Berclair, Colonytown, Quito. Beat Five--Sidon, Morgan City, Swiftown. Saturday's referenda on invoking marketing control provisions of the new farm law will be along the lines of a regular election. The questions to be decided are whether growers favor imposition of marketing quotas on cotton and flue-cured and dark types of tobacco, to keep surplus yields off the market. The agriculture department, acting through state and county committees of farmers, has established polling places in cotton and tobacco growing communities in more than 1,200 counties. The ballot will be secret. Returns will be counted by three election judges in each community. There is only one requirement for eligibility to vote. The voter must have been engaged in the production of one of the affected last year. Landlords, tenants, sharecroppers SPANISH INSURGENTS IN GREAT OFFENSIVE Largest Concentration of Infantry, Cavalry and Aviation Pushes Lines Forward ZARAGOZA, Spain, March 10 (P)-Spanish insurgents pressed their greatest offensive today with the largest concentration of infantry, cavalry and aviation in the entire civil war. They had captured strategic towns and mountains and pushed their front lines forward to new positions in the second day of the eastward drive from salient toward the Mediterranean. HENDAYE, France, At the Spanish Frontier, March 11 (P) - With Belchite lost, the govern-| ment's Aragon army moved up to meet the insurgents's great offensive today in a battle for control of eastern Spain. Military advices said the government, which had been withdrawing steadily before the three-day-old thrust, had been forced by insurgent gains to take a stand, risking its main army in a major clash to decide the fate of the Mediterranean seaboard. Insurgents said a Moorish corps commanded by General Juan Yague occupied Belchite last night after a day-long bombardment and thus demolished a 17-mile deep sahent established by the govern• ment last September. The main body of governmert troops retreated to the plateau of El Saso, just east of Belchite. Government reserves were rushed forward along the Valencia-Zaragoza highway between Alcaniz and Hijar, taking positions around Hijar, 17 miles southeast of Belchite. Insurgent forces also converged on Hijar, indicating the shock would come there. Government communiques said counterattacks had resulted in the capture of a "great number" of Italians. Italian divisions, it was said, were taking an integral part in the attack. HITLER SEND TROOPS INTO AUSTRIAN BORDER | growers, the marketing quota system would regulate the sale of cotton SO as to limit, as far as possible, marketing during the 1938 season to about 11,000,000 bales. It must be approved by two-thirds of the growers voting in the referendum. Individual Quotas--Each grower's quota would be the amount of cotton produced on his acreage allotment. Penalties Growers who planted more than their allotments would be denied benefit payments under the $500,000,000 soil conservation program and the $130,- 000,000 price-adjustment subsidy fund to be paid on 1937 cotton. Growers selling more than their quotas would be subject to penalty taxes of 2 cents a pound on the surplus cotton. Loans - Price-stabilizing loans will be made on cotton if farmers approve the quota system. Otherwise, no loans will be made. Should the quota system be rejected, the only part of the program which would stand, would be the acreage allotments. They would serve only as a basis for determining each grower's subsidy payments. ROOSEVELT OPENS CHARITY FUND DRIVE President Announces Nation's Annual Community Chest Campaign WASHINGTON, March 11 (P)- President Roosevelt, opening the nation's annual community, chest campaign declared today that "only in jobs and more jobs, at good pay, shall we find national stability and individual security." Addressing a meeting of the mobilization for human needs in Tomorrow's Plebiscite Is Postponed As Entire Nation Is Thrown Into Ferment VIENNA, March 11 (P) - The government announced tonight that the plebiscite on Austria's independence had been postponed. VIENNA, March 11 (AP)-The Austrian government press bureau announced tonight that German troops had crossed the Austrian border at Passau. Austrian troops were ordered to fall back without resistance. A high official said that the resignation of Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg was expected. The official declared that the next Austrian government would be completely ;satisfactory to Germany. He added it was possible Shuschnigg would be retained in some capacity. Schuschnigg announced by ra, dio that Germany had presented an ultimatum with a time limit demanding the reorganization of the Austrian government. Austria, said Schuschnigg, had yielded to Germany's demands and "the object is to prevent the spilling of German blood." The chancellor said the ultimatum had been presented to President Wilhelm Kiklas, and that the president thereupon had conferred with army officers. At the end of his short announcement Sheuschnigg said: "I say, goodbye with the wish that protect Austria.". It was not known immediately! whether the "goodbye" meant his resignation. Arthur Seysz-Inquart, the Hitler-approved minister of the interior, in a radio broadcast asked that there be no resistance to the German troops coming in. He urged Austrian Nazis to maintain strict discipline. At the chancellery it was said that the government was being reorganized and that a new cabinet list would be announced _ shortly.
