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202-D. 2vS lSft 300.G00 Sunday 212,250 TSTO IT A HOT MR 4. I IK II 1111.11 1 JJL JA. Troops Nearing Vienna erman W1REPHOTOS of yesterday's events in Vienna on Pages 2 and 3 Figures In Austrian CrisisPoints Of Invasion SEYSZ-INQUART NAMED HEAD OF GOVERNMENT AS MORGAN STALLS HEARING ON TVA By DEFIANT II I fTsS PASS AD NrVoJir GERMANY IJUllUIJUlllUUU 111JU1U11U Ultimatum From Hitler Forces Chancellor Out. Chairman Refuses To Support Charges Before Chief Executive Troops Ordered Not To Oppose Invading Forces Vienna Go Wild With Joy Nazi Throngs President Gives 3 Directors Week To Add To Statements i aSi I riA i A As Old Regime Is Replaced By German Controlled Cabinet By J.

FKED ESSART Washington, March 11 A stubborn, a 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 tight-linned. angry member of the original Roosevelt Brain Trust stalled President Roosevelt's search for TVA facts today and probably has made a Congressional investigation inevitable. It was Chairman Arthur Morgan, smarting under the conviction that he elone was "on trial" before the President, who refused to support any count in his savage indictment of his fellow-board members. Morgan Sees Prejudice He refused, he said, because he was convinced that he was asked to testify before a prejudiced judge and that only Congress cculd make a fair and impartial finding as between him and his associates. Dr.

Harcourt Morgan By the Associated Press Vienna, Saturday, March 12 German troops moved toward Vienna in the early morning hours today to back up Nazification of the Austrian state, accomplished in bloodless revolution by Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg's capitulation to Germany's Fiihrer Hitler. The troops, numbering about 1,000 men in trucks, expected to reach the capital at noon (6 A. E.S.T.). They carried several pieces of light artillery, the gendarmerie commandant at Schoerding on the IJavarian border told the Associated Press by telephone. They met no resistance.

By the Associated Press Vienna, Saturday, March 12 Austria has submitted to Adolf Hitler. The Government yielded to Germany's armed might and gave up its five-year fight against domination by the German Fiihrer. One official statement said motorized units German troops tii fu im2 VIENNA Dr. Arthur Seysz-Inquart, Minister of the Interior '1 jwV2 gtV? in the old Cahinet and friend of Chancellor Adolf Hitler Jri l-f of Germany, has been made Chancellor of Austria as a Vf 5 result of the Berlin ultimatum served on the Government of Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg. r.

Ip 1 and David E. LilienthaL WHITNEY AGAIN ITALY REBUFFS IS ARRESTED ON FRANCE ABOUT This impasse continued through some six hours of Presidential questioning of his three appointees. And the end it moved Mr. Roosevelt, in effect, to demand the resignation of the TVA chairman. His concluding -4 1 ill --r --SlflS wiSEpMoro statement to the group was: "All three of you gentlemen owe it LARCENY COUNT AID TO AUSTRIA had reached Linz, forty miles from the German frontier.

Investiga- to the country not to continue longer ion indicated the report probably vran unfounded and march in? to jeopardize the public interest by personal differences and those who WILHELM MIKLAS, President W1LHELM ZEHNER, War Secretary KURT SCHUSCHNIGG, Retiring Chancellor could not see their way clear to do so VIENNA The arrows on the map point to the three places on the German-Austrian border where troops of the Berlin Government crossed the Austrian frontier. Austrian troops or S. S. (Nazi guard troop) units had been mistaken for Germans. Major Hubert Klausner, leader of Nazi S.

A. troops in Vienna, Paris Government Regarded As Helpless To Act In Coup Charged Willi Taking $103,000 From Yacht Club Safe Deposit Box broadcast an announcement that: Great Britain Is Stunned; HITLER TO MAKE "Austria has become free Austria has become National So- By the Associated Press Paris, March 11 France, without a IBy the Associated Press New York, March 11-Richard Whitney, whose very pame had been a Cabinet To Consult dd nm nUn-rTfiM cialist. A new Government has been lormed. should resign." That indicated to some minds tonight that the President was suggesting the withdrawal of all three members, but the transcript of testimony at the hearing gave no such impression. Hearing Is Lopsided The President stated that he would allow the three commissioners a week in which to supplement their statements today, either orally or in writing.

He did this at the request of Chairman Arthur Morgan, who intimated he might after all wish to say something more for the record. Because of the chairman's recalcitrance as a witness his C-e nance government and rebuffed by Italy on a proposal for joint efforts to save symbol for Wall Street probity, stood Ultimatum Rrings Resignation The anti-Nazi Chancellor, Kurt Schuschnigg, resigned in the twice charged with theft tonight as Hitler's Coup Expected To Hamper London's Effort the manifold investigations of the TOMORROW To Alienate Mussolini From Der Fiihrer spectacular collapse of his firm opened a great fiscal scandal. face of a German ultimatum demanding reorganization of the Government. Whitney, socially impeccable, five times president of tha New York Stock Arthur Seysz-Inquart, Austria's Nazi leader, was appointed Austria's independence, stood helpless tonight as Nazi Germany proceeded to take power in Vienna. Foreign Office officials announced that the French and British Ambassadors in Berlin had made a joint protest to the German Government over Nazi steps in Austria.

At the same time, Premier-Designate Leon Blum, confronted with a threat to the peace of Europe, let it be known he was confident of forming a National By FA CI W. WARD London Bureau of The Sun Exchange, the erstwhile "Morgan to succeed him. th President, in fact the hearing v. Will Describe Happenings Leading To Austrian Coup London, March 11 Great Britain backs up in a way which would make Hitler mark time for a while. was stunned by Keichsiuhrer AdoJi Franz II Liber, brother-in-law of Germany's No.

2 Nazi, Field a lopsided affair. The President meant it to be bilateral, he said after the Hitler's engorgement of Austria to There is little hope held that the coup will help the British Govern night. Marshal General Hermann Wilhelm Goering, was named Minister of Justice. ment's efforts to persuade Premier A special Cabinet meeting has been hearing was over, but in this the embittered chairman thwarted him. At first Dr.

Arthur Morgan declined outright to come to Washington for the hearing. This came out in the hearing. Union Government of all parties from Benito Mussolini to split v. ith Hitler called for tomorrow. There is a tendency instead to re The appointment was announced officially early today, after Communist to extreme Right.

Blum Speeds Consultations The German coup was a blow to gard the move as increasing Italian de those Britons who had hoped to pla Three communications two from two days of strife, rioting, troop mobilization and bloodshed. pendence on Germany and especially encouraging Rome in the belief that cate Berlin with a new Anglo-German agreement. It also was a blow to those who thought the recent speeches German Police Head Arrives Two hours after midnight it was announced that Seysz- the dictators can take whatever they want without fear of Britain and broker" through whom many of the orders of the mighty J. P. Morgan Company were executed, surrendered in midafternoon to John J.

Bennett, Attorney General, upon a second grand larceny complaint. The maximum penalty under that charge is ten years. Theft From Safe Charged His arrest had been ordered a few minutes before, after the testimony of Commodore William A. W. Stewart of the exclusive New York Yacht Club, long a friend, that Whitney, in addition to all the other derelictions charged against him, unlawfully had taken $103,000 in club bonds from a safe deposit box.

Already he was under a grand larceny indictment obtained by Thomas E. Dewey, the New York county District Attorney, for the alleged misappropriation of $105,000 from a family trust fund set up by his father-in-law for the benefit of Mrs. Whitney, her of the Austrian Chancellor, Kurt Schuschnigg; Milan Hodza, Premier of Sources close to the Socialist leader said the Cabinet would be organized by early tomorrow and would be ready to deal with events in Austria. Blum hurried consultations with political leaders, striving quickly to rally support. Besides the critical situation in Central Europe, he was con-(Contlnued on Page 2, Column 7) France.

Labor Press Blames Premier By the Associated Press Berlin, Saturday, March 12 Reichs-fiihrer Adolf Hitler sent German troops into Austria last night to make good the new Nazi Government he established yesterday. The troops were said by Deutsches Nachrichten Bureau, official German news agency, at 1 A. M. to be passing through Rohrbach, near Linz, Austria's Nazi hotbed. Other reports which could not be confirmed said the troops already were in Linz.

Troops Cross Border A dispatch from Munich hist night Czechoslovakia, and Yvon Delbos, Inquart still was conferring with President Miklas and would talk later to the nation. French Foreign Minister, had showed The liberal labor press is blaming Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that the non-authoritarian states around Germany had gotten their This morning airport police reported that Heinrich Ilimmler, on the ground that his speech after the resignation of Anthony Eden as Foreign Secretary had notified the dictators that Britain would not help supreme commander of Germany's police, had arrived on a perilous night flight from Berlin. Secretary Mclntyre and one from the President himself were barely sufficient to change his mind. As it was he came bare-handed, so to speak. He bore no bulky file or even a bit of vest-pocket data.

Asked To Back Charge He had decided before arrival that he would not be drawn out; that he would invit? "contempt of court" first. This came out at the very outset of the hearing. The President had made a long statement of his purposes in requiring the presence of his appointees. Dr. Morgan had been asked to substantiate his charge that the Berry marble claim had been mishandled by the board majority.

After a preliminary observation the chairman said: "I am of the opinion that this meet the minor powers in any event. An effort also was being made to Through the streets ran fantastic reports that Schnschnigs i Schuschnigg Explains Surrender To Germany picture Germany's move as the imme said: had been arrested, that various memDcrs oi me lormer uuwm- "German troops tonight crossed the frontier into Austria. They moved sister, Mrs. Mary She. Ion Murnhv: diate result of the conversations here of Joachim von Ribbentrop, former Ambassador to London and Hitler's across the border at 10 P.

M. (4 P. his alma mater. Harvard University, and St. Paul's School of Concord, N.

H. Eastern standard time). By the Associated Press new Foreign Minister, and to blame Viscount Halifax, British Foreign Thus, near the end of the day, two "In close formation they marched prosecutors Dewey and Bennett al Secretary, in particular. into Austrian territory at Salzburg, Kufstein and Mittenwald." The contentions are that Lord Hali ready had acted against him, and the Federal Government, through Greg ing is not. and, in the nature of the fax spoke so gently yesterday that Von Salzburg is 156 miles west-southwest ory Noonan, Assistant United States Ribbentrop informed Hitler that he could move without fear of Britain of Vienna and Mittenwald more than 100 miles farther west-southwest, with Attorney, was eyeing the whole case sharply.

case, cannot be an effective or useful fact-finding occasion." The President Wait a minute. I don't want opinions. I have asked you a question about the Berry marble and that Chamberlain spoke harshly Kufstein in between. Vienna, March 11 Following is the text of Chancellor Kurt Schusthnigg's radio broadcast "Today we have been confronted with a difficult and decisive situation. "I am authorized to report to the Austrian people on the events of the day.

"The German Government presented the Federal (Austrian) President with an ultimatum with a time limit according to which he had to appoint as Chancellor a candidate who would be proposed to him and appoint a Government according to the dictates of the German Reich. "Otherwise German troops would march into Austria at the hour named. to Von Ribbentrop today, bu too late. To Decide Next Week Noonan said he would have sufficient inforsiation by early next week to Views Of Guardian Writer The Manchester Guardian's diplo' case, and 1 want you to confine your The dispatch added that Austrian Legijnnairies from all over Germany were moving southward. Vienna Cabine.

In Berlin At the same time a source which answers not to opinions but to facts ment had fled to Czechoslovakia, and that Frau Dollfuss and her children had gone to Bratislava, on the Czech hordcr. None of these reports could be substantiated. Coup Takes Eight Hours In eight hours Austria underwent a fantastic, bloodless revolution which converted it into a Nazi state. Before midnight the Nazi swastika flew from the Chancellery and the City Hall. The swastikas even appeared on flagpoles about the headquarters of the Fatherland Front, previously the only legal party in Austria.

Vienna Nazis went wild. Crowds shouting "Heil Seysz-Inquart" milled about the Chancellery, hailing the capitulation to Hitler which the German Fiihrer brought about by his ultimatum threatening invasion. They demanded that he appear on the balcony. Says New Era Has Begun Major Anton Uheinthaler, new Minister of Agriculture, eama matic correspondent reflects this view. Dr.

Morgan I wish to complete my saying: "decide whether to go before the grand jury." While Bennett was disavowing any rivalry with Dewey for the job of bringing Whitney to trial, saying it was statement, which wul take about a usually has proved reliable said that "Hitler decided to act when he was all members of the new Austrian Cab informed of the result of the conver minute longer. Insists On Facts inet except Chancellor Arthur Seysz- sations between Lord Halifax and Von just a case of concurrent jurisdiction Inquart were closeted with Hitler at Ribbentrop Chamberlain talked firm between the State and the county, Noonan remarked that any Federal in The President I don't want you in any statements to talk about opinions. I want you to confine yourself a late hour in the night. Seysz-Inquart was in Vienna as the dictment would not necessarily take Iv to Von Ribbentrop today and had Halifax talked in the same nTanner, Hitler might not have acted as he did." sole Government representative while his Ministers were away. priority.

"It's just a matter," he said, "of who He closes a review of the situation It was announced that Hitler would catches his fish first." from the British angle with "Today is "I declare before the world that reports which were spread in Austria that there have been labor disputes, that streams of blood were flowing, that the Government was not master of the situation and could not keep order, were invented from A to Z. "The Federal President authorizes me to inform the Austrian people that we yield to force. "Because even in this grave hour we are not minded at any price to shed German blood, we have given our armed forces an order that In case invasion is carried out they are to withdraw without resistance and await decisions on the hours which are to come. "The President has intrusted Gen. S.

Sthilha wsky, inspector general of troops, with command of armed forces. Through him further instructions will be given to the armed forces. "So, in this hour, I say good-by with the heartfelt wish that God will protect Austria." issue a proclamation tomorrow which Whitney appeared desperately mel the birthday of the 'greater Germany' to facts. Dr. Morgan I am giv ing my reasons for not answering you directly and I think I must do it.

The President Are you planning to answer the direct question? Dr. Morgan My statement will indicate whether I am or not. To properly substantiate the charges is not the (Continued on Page 16, Column 6) informed sources said would give a picture of happenings in Austria ancholy as he turned up in Bennett's office for the quick formalities of his and of a new balance of power in Europe." second arrest. leading to the change in government. Marcille W.

Fodor, the Guardian's The proclamation will be read over out and announced to the throng: There were deep lines under his eyes Danubian correspondent, telephoning all German radio stations at noon and mouth. He kept his lips pressed from Vienna, also stresses the effect "National Socialists are assuming power about which wc had (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) (Continued on Page 1 6, Column 5) (Continued on Page 3, Column 3).