Ail stria I Sitler to. Enter Der Fuehrer W ii ii i iii. i. 'immmimm i ...i m i. i .111. inn i il i .u 1. 1 i i i. i im i u iiiniii. i i. iiiinin 1.11 iii.iii iji.i .. n. ..vwsv .v.... . ; .';v. .. .vr;-. ... v...wi.1.c.iv;m..'.j This picture radioed from Berlin to New York, shows Chancellor ;lolf Hitler (left) aa he left : Munich, Germany, by auto on his triumphant entry into Austria, preceded bjr troops,, planes and tanks. At right is Commander-in-Chief Wilhelm Keitel, in the center the chauffeur, while in the- background the Swastika emblem adorns the plane in which Hitler flew to 'Munich from Berlin. ! '. - j , , Wage and Hour Note Expected President May Send Mes- " .4,, ;i, iTr,,,,v ; .rr . P.I .u,?:"'- 1 sage Urging Work Regu- ... "-A?1 , Washington, March 13 OWSome Informed Administration supporters In the Senate said today that President Roosevelt .may send Congreee a hew message urging enactment of minimum wage and maximum hour legislation. The President at a recent press conference, reiterated that he fav ored suoh legislation, although ex pressing oeuer congress mignt not enact tt at this session.. Later, Mr. Roosevelt said he wxtuldsertdtour, grees before the session ended, among them one on the world phosphate situation, f it was assumed that another 01 the messages would deal with monopoly - and would suggest a congressional study of possible new anti-trust legislation. - une Administration follower in the Senate said the third might be the wage-hour message. ! a House laDor suDcommittee now Is attempting to draft a new wage- hour bill, and Chairman Norton (D-N J) has expressed hone that it can he sent to tho House floor by Apnt 1, The Senate already has oassed a wage-hour bill, but it was -oisreon- holed by the House during the spe cial session. - - 1 'LAST' RAFT WILL RIDE SUSQUEHANNA Logs Will , Float .From McGees Jlili to Capital Clearfield. Pa.. March IS iJP The "last ' raft" to float 'down the rambling Susquehanna River may Degin its zuu-mue journey from Mo-Gees Mills to Harrisburg tomorrow. O. B. Tonkin, of Cherry Tree who with 75-year old Harry Connors will fuide the 112-foot craft past sand ars and over dams, on its long cruise said tonight the trip will be gin tomorrow morning "if it continues to rain." " ' ' The two veteran lumbermen Dllot- ea, tne last previous ran down tne river 26 years ago. 1 no decision would be made until 1. Monday morning. Tonkin said. and the raft will begin its voyage at 8 if the river rises enough. He reported a rise 01 over a foot after nearly 24 hours of rain. Earlier Hitler as He Left Britain. France Guard Czechoslovakia Solidification of Opposition to Hitler Is Hfelped by New Blum H ' tondanvMarcH 1 ifv Britain, toilight appeared .veering1 sharply toward a bold role, at the side of France, of protecting independence in Central Europe from the new Some usually informed quarters berlain to come out openly in the House of Commons tomorrow with a strong declaration In favor of helping- France preserve Czechoslovakia's freedom as their most imminent concern. . Solidification of the British - French front was facilitated by formation of a new People's Front cabinet by Socialist Leon Blum. France Immediately planned to strengthen her treaty with Czecho slovakia to provide ior military ac tion to meet any uerman aggres sion. , lie In event of armed agression. The revision would cover , "all manner of aggression." ; v Keichsiuehrer Hitler was crush ing all .opposition to his new rule in Austria and gave fresh evidence that his next move would be to bring 3,500,000 Sudeten Germans, a Czechoslovakian minority, into the fold of the new German "Common wealth." vv- - V :: ": ,'. r: While his 'vast army was sweep ing triumphantly over Austria, the Fuehrer moved 15 tanks toward Freistadt on the Austro-Csech frontier., In Berlin, Hitler's right hand aide. Field . Marshal General Hermann Wilhelm Goering .declared "spring has come ' for our United Germany." . " v 1 v - . God grant that eternal summer follows," Goering added.- , ; London saw in this a hint that the Austrian coup was the "spring" and a Similar move agarnst. Czechoslo- LATE NEWS FLASHES (BY THE ASSOCIATED. PRESS) CATANIA, SICILY, MARCH 13 W) Twelve persons were killed last night .In the collision of a fast Diesel-driven passenger coaca and a freight train in Blocca Station, 10 miles from here. A signalman's error ' was reported to have been responsible for the accident - VALPARAISO, CHILE, MARCH 13 (W General Emerich Kovacs, Austrian consul, defied instructions to hoist the Nazi Swastika over the consulate here today and ' cabled his resignation to the Austrian minister at Rio 4e Janeiro, Brazil Hollywood, March 13 W Jean Arthur, who has been - at odds with . Columbia studio over her salary for several months, - has come Dacn into tho fold. Unites Munich to Take Over Austria Government Pan - Germanism. expected Prime Minister Cham - " -7 - vakia would be the "summer." The No. 2 Nazi warned other powers against intervention "when Germans wish to loin Germans." Hitler, fulfilling his obligation to the Rome-Berlin friendship axis by telling Premier Mussolini what he had done in Austria, said German France and Italy were concerned, but mentioned none other of tier; many's neighbors. This reassurance a letter to Mussolini which was laid before the Fascist Grand Council last night-failed entirely to put Italian minds to rest. ;-' .v Informed Italian circles said Italy would not relish being made an accessory, through the Rome-Berlin axis, of any new peace-endangering Nazi moves. Some observers here felt Italy might break away from the axis and cast her lot with France and Britain. ? i . France, apparently confident that Britain would stand with : her, moved troops into her - Maglnot Line, the ribbon of steel and concrete fortifications along her German frontier. . France would have to strike from the Maginot Line if forced to carsy out a commitment-to aid. Czechoslovakia. ; PHTT.Ami'T.PHrA. MARCH ' 13 iP) Three Pennsylvania Railroad trains were delayed late today by a breakdown in a passenger train hlocomotlve on the main line. Nor mal service was resumed in 40 min utes after another locomotive was substituted. ROSYTH, SCOTLAND, MARCH 13 W) Decorations and, furnish ings of the once broud Leviathan will sro on the auction block to morrow. For 10 days her panel' ings and paintinga and other super- nclal trappings win oe soia. men the skeleton remaining will be broken Up for scran. Among the offerings will be 17th century paint-in m hv fiemrd de Lairesse and oak nanelina- in the 18th century Ger- man - style irom tne wain 01 ner W A mn. Vieiuia Toolaiy May Foreign Policy Views Exposed President Tells About Con- uhative .. System Used Ly United States Washington,. March 13 UP- President Roosevelt threw light upon his views toward consultation with ' foreign powers , by making public today some remarks he made "off the record" soon after taking office. The transcript of a Presidential press conference of May 10, 1933 after Mr. Roosevelt had talked with the late British Premier Ramsay MacDonald showed the President advocated a policy of consultation without commitment -AU' lnternationalpack providing for such consultation 'was under consideration then, but it did not materialize because the disarmament conference of Geneva, on which it was to have been based, failed. In the 1033 press conference. Mr. Roosevelt explained what he had In mind; . .. ' "If all the nations agreed to set up some kind of machinery for consultation in the event or an act of aggression, we will be very glad to have somebody there to consult with. I consider that to be a step fnrworf . "Do not get the Idea that 111 means that we bind ourselves In the first instance to agree with the verdict Now, tmat is a very different thing.: We agree to consult Therefore It does not tie the hands of. the United States in any shape, manner or form and leaves our final action entirely up to us." "Off the record,4 the President said : . . . . "The noslt on I have taken Is that both parties here are entirely ready to 'sit at . whatever kind of consultative-, meeting" is provided ior.- ine idea is to worn out some sort of machinery and then, having sat there, there would be a report to Washington as to what the other nations think and then we will be entirely free to do whatever we want to do." Although the consultation nact ever came into being,- the United States now consults closely with a nuxnDer 01 major powers. I lyiner Is' Refloated . ' Hangkong, March 13 UP) Japanese salvage crews today refloated the Pacific liner Asama Mara which bad been hard aground In Salwan Bay since last September's big typhoon. Ttl he liner was so far ashore that salvagers had to wait for the March tides to help them. Two tugs, 36 divers and 200 other workmen did the job. jrermany Reichfuehrer Is Advised at Linz Of Nazi Triumph Head of Newly Created Pan-German State Travels Like Across Land Vienna, March 13 UP) tonight and became part .of extending; from the North Sea almost to the Adriatic. The end of the, political freedom of ancient Austria was achieved by two legal steps : First, President Wilhelm Miklas resigned. He had opposed the Naziflcation of Then, Arthur Seysz-Inquart, the Hitler-chosen Chancellor, took charge of the government under constitutional . authority provided for such emergency and announced ; decrees legislating Austria out of existence. Anschluss (union) of Austria to' Germany was accomplished at the height of a great wave of Nazi sentiment, vastly stimulated by Hitler's presence on the soil of his native Austria. ; He spent the day at Line, 100 miles west of here, deferring the (Umax of his triumphal homecoming, his entry into. Vienna. Near Lina he visited the graves of his parents. The death blow to Austrian independence was administered In the historic Chancellery where the Congress of Vienna was held in 1814-1815 and where in 1934 Engelbert Dollfuss, the little Chancellor who fought Nazidom, was assassinated. Border Is Wiped Out . It was a prosalo but tense session of the Austrian Government, Miklas stepped out at Seysz-Inquart's demand. Then Seysz-Inquart took charge and it was all over in a minute. The Austro-German border had been wiped out. Messages immediately went tof Hitler at Lint and to his ally, Premier Mussolini In Rome. In a4 few ' minutes II ; became known in the streets, where deliriously happy Nazis went wild. In , the first excitement there ; seemed to be no mourning for the old Austria. . A new day was being hailed by a united German people and the world wondered what next. Then the news was flashed to the ends of the earth. . Statesmen everywhere realized they were face to face with an entirely new situation in Europe. The absorption of Austria seemed to be final and complete, but provision was announced for some sort of plebiscite on April 10. The exact Question to be nut to the . Austrian people was not 1tndw, "bUt" it '"was assumed Ihey wouid oe asKeo merely to approve an accomplished fact. There seemed no doubt the new Nazi Austria would approve. Austria, it was maae clear, win be drawn immediately into the German economic structure and articulated to Germany's four-year plan ior economic een-suinctency. Germany Confirms Union At Llnz where Hitler and his aides consulted It was announced Germany had adopted laws with the same provisions as Austrian constitutional laws making effective the union of the two states. A second : announcement said Hitler had become chief of the merged Austro-German military forces and that Austrian soldiers immediately were to take an oath of loyalty to the Reich and Der Fuehrer. , Other functions of the two states, now one, were being drawn together. ' Th general policies of the German states were to be taken over into Austria. One significant statement was that Austrian Jews would not be permitted to wear the Swastika. ' Ministers of the old chancellery said the new German nation was to be a land of youth and vitality. Thus persons of both sexes who have reached the age of 20 will be permitted to vote in the coming plebiscite. No objectors to the new order were visible on Vienna streets this historic night. Anschluss Decree Issued A radio broadcast stated the Anschluss decree, in five articles: "1. Austria is a land of the German Reich. "2. On April 10 there will be a free and secret plebiscite, in which German men and women (this may exclude Jews) may vote. "3. The plebiscite shall be decided by a simple majority of the votes cast. 0 9 Conquering Caesar of His Birth Austria ceased to be a nation Adolf Hitler's German Reich,, his country. "4. To carry out other modifies-' decrees will be Issued. "5i These laws become effective upon announcement (at once). "The Austrian National Government is entrusted with carrying out these measures." There were indications mis union of German-epeaklng states came sooner even than Hitler had hoped. It was understood he had seen this step as a venture to be undertaken within a few months, but decided to go ahead with It when he visited Llnz, where he arrived yesterday from Berlin, and saw the almost fanatical enthusiasm of the Aus-trla people.'. The union created an entirely . 11 J 1L. .1.1.. . now praiioxu cur ids vl vvu- 1 tral and Southeastern EuroDe. . ' - . Half of Czechoslovakia is surrounded by the new German state. Italy, Hungary and Yugoslavia have seen their weakling neighbor, Austria become part of a mighty power. von Fapen Honored Hitler made Franz von Papen, ' his Ambassador to Austria, a member of the National Socialist party, and gave him the gold cross of honor in appreciation of his activities in Vienna. It was yon Papen, the Kaiser's military attache at Washington In early World War days and a onetime Chancellor of Germany, who sent to Vienna for Hitler to direct' the process of Naziflcation. It was ha who hailed the now fallen Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnlgg to Berchtcegaden for the February meeting with Hitler, first, of the chain of breath-taking events leading to tonight's climax. ' Foreign Minister Wilhelm WoMf announced that the Austrian ministers to London, Paris and Praha had retired. , Hitler's press representatives denied reports that Mussolini had given South. Tyrol, which Austria Tost to Italy in the World War, to the Reich, but such reports remained current. A vast throng that packed the Mariahllfer Street to watch a parade of 100 German tanks and score after score of trucks carrying German trooper believed them. "South Tyrol free! South Tyrol free 1" The crowd shouted. Austrian participation In . Germany's four-year plan was announced in a telegram from Germany's Economics ' Minister, Walter Funk, to Hans Fitsohboeck, Austrian Minister of Commerce: . "Through me German business greets a free German Austria, which will be reconstructed under National Socialist leadership and brought to a higher level through the four-year plan."
