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I wi ouR THE LUDINGTON DAILY NEWS VOLUME XLIV, NO. 227. THE DAILY NEWS-LUDINGTON, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1934. PRICE THREE NRA AUSTRIA PREPARES TO DEFEND VIENNA ANARCHY REPORTED; VON PAPEN I MINISTER Conservative Vice Chancellor Named as Minister In Astute Move to Assure the World of Germany's Attitude to Austria (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Suspicious Europe peered fearfully today at the powdersmoke clouds of civil war which puffed in Austria. It saw an Austrian government, headed by the Fascist Prince Ernst Von Starhemberg, fighting rebellious Nazis with guns, hand grenades and propaganda.

The chief propaganda ammunition was, the announcement that Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany, originator of the Nazi movement, had named Germany's vice chancellor, Franz Von Papen, as minister to Austria. Von Papen, who, is a non-Nazi and a conservative, is to replace the Nazi Ambassador Kurt Rieth, whom Hitler recalled from Vienna because he had mixed into internal Austrian matters. Gives Satisfaction The announcement of Von Papen's new mission was received with satisfaction by the Vienna press and the Austrian government saw to it that Nazis under arms were informed of the development in the hop that they would decide no aid could be expected from Germany. Italy took no chances, however, and Premier Mussolini, originator Fascist movement. held 48,000 Italian soldiers.

(Please. turn to Page 6, Column 3) JUDGES OF HELL' BLAMED FOR BLAST One Killed, Two Injured by Explosion of Infernal Machine PARIS, July "three. judges of bombers who have terrorized the French capital--were believed by police to be responsible for an infernal machine blast in a Montparnasse subway station which killed the stationmaster and injured two passengers. A conductor in a "first-class" coach found an innocent-looking package lying on a seat. At the Montparansse station, where two subway lines intersect, he turned it over to the stationmaster to be sent to the lost package office.

The train pulled out and just as the station master was examining the package the bomb inside He was killed. Two subway riders were injured. The stationmaster's cabin was smashed and windows of one coach were shattered by the those injured. Several passenimpact. A conductor was among gers were cut by flying glass and the crowd in the station was thrown into great confusion.

Cartoonist Passes NEW YORK, July 27. (AP) Winsor McCay, 63, cartoonist for the Hearst newspapers, died here Thursday night. He was a native of Spring Lake, By WADE WERNER (COPYRIGHT 1934. DV THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) VIENNA, July Austrian government this afternoon began feverish preparations for the defense of the capitol city. Whole sections of the country were reported in a state approximating anarchy.

In Vienna itself heavy cordons of Fascist heimwehr troops were drawn around the districts in which are the most important government buildings. Machine gun companies mounted their weapons on the roof of the "Hochhaus," Vienna's skyscraper, giving the guns a position of command over the federal chancellery on the Ball- The Ballhausplatz itself was jammed with heimwehr troops. Supply Candies All government buildings were hurriedly supplied with candles as an evidence of fear that the electric supply may be cut off. At heimwehr headquarters in the closely-guarded Renngasse petitions for reinforcements were constantly arriving from Carinthia. The last sos message made an urgent demand that all men a available be sent immediately to Carinthia, where the Nazis apparently were making Officers in the Heimwehr headquarters estimated that 180 heiniwehr men had been killed in Austria by last midnight.

This estimate did not include the casualties in the regular army, in the police, in the gendarmerie and among Nazis. This same source estimated that the Nazis had lost 250 dead; and wounded. Deaths' Set at 500 All death estimates at present are unreliable, but the best sources indicated. that the gregate death total of all forces, agincluding the Nazis, already has greatly exceeded 500. The comanders of the heimwher were considerably embarrassed by the fact that 6,000 of their armed men were.

concentrated today in Vienna and were urgently needed here. Therefore it was impossible for them to send reinforcements to Carinthia. Unverified reports said Nazis were congregating in the railway station outside inner city intending a surprise attack on the inner city. Reports that eight of the Nazis who participated in the "putsch" in which Dollfuss was assassinated had been killed without trial and that 30 more were to be hanged this afternoon brought this anouncement from the official Austrian news agency: "We have no information of any execution of the Nazi putschists." MOTHER OF MRS. LEWIS DIES AT FREMONT, 0.

Word has been received of the death of Mrs. William Scranton, mother of Mrs. J. S. Lewis of 303 North Rowe street, who passed away Wednesday at her home in Fremont.

O. Mrs. Lewis has been with her mother for three weeks. Funeral services will be held at Fremont. Grand Jury Is Preparing A.

Report of Its- Findings MASON, July 27. (AP) -A report of' findings of the 17- member grand jury which has been investigating rumors of graft in Michigan's government will be prepared over the week-end and will be taken up for approval at a meeting of the jury Monday. It is understood that evidence of crimes committed in counties other than Ingham will then be turned over to authorities of those counties. The announcement that the Ingham county grand jury will make such a report or reports was made by George L. Walt, of Lansing, its foreman, after the investigating body recessed Thursday evening.

There was no indication what the report might. contain. There' were indications that the Ingham county grand jury. RA 00 OUR PART SCONCHING HEAT IS TOLL HIKED TO 1.368 PERSONS Mid- West Temperatures Slump; Pacific Southwest Hit by Heat Wave By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Scorching heat has been routed after killing 1368 persons. Cool breezes swept rains into most sections Thursday and today, but while they brought a sharp drop in heat fatalities, they afforded no material aid to the drought ravaged farm areas.

Temperatures broke 43 degrees in some sections, but in the Pacific southwest, where a new heat wave started, thermometers rocketed to 110 degress. Readings were high, too. along most sections of the Atlantic coast. The heat wave took its greatest toll in Missouri where 378 perished. Illinois and Ohio were next with 362 and 163, rEI Slight Drop In Mo.

In Missouri the relief was less marked than in some other sections. Kansas City's temperature dropped from a previous maximum 110 to a 94 high Thursday and St. Louis had a 20 degree drop in maximum temperature from its previous high of 110. Cool rains added to the relief. Readings of 100 degrees or more were were recorded Thursday in Cincinnati, Oklahoma City, Wichita, Boise, Fresno, and Spokane.

But Milwaukee's maximum was only compared with a previous high 105; Detroit, 80 compared with 105; St. Paul 80 compared with 105; Denver, (Please turn to Page 3, Column 6) PAGANT DISCUSSED BY BISHOP SPENCER, Tells Rotaians of Subject Matter of Pere Marquette Event As guest speaker, Bishop Robert" Nelson Spencer of Kansas City and Epworth Heights, Thursday night outlined to 70 members of Ludington Rotary club and their wives and guests a brief sketch of what the proposed Pere Marquette pageant, to be inaugurated as an annual event here in 1935 on the occasion of the 260th anniversary of the missionary's death, might well include in the way of subject matter. foremost student of the life of Marquette, Bishop Spencer related hitherto little known incidents in connection with the (Please turn to Page 6, Column 3) Will Probe Blast Killing CCC Youths ESCANABA, July investigation was under way today into the of two members of the Civilian Conservation corps stationed at Camp Wyman, in Alger county, victims of a dynamite explosion Thursday afternoon. The victims were Robert D. Walters, 21, of Nirvana, and Clarence H.

Greene, 25, of Rogers City. The nature of the accident was 'not made known by camp officers, pending an Inquiry to be made them and county authorities. tragedy occurred four miles west of Munising junction 011 a forest road -building project. Peters, of Escanada, who was nearby when the explosion occurred, escaped injury. WEATHER Central Standard Time Sun rote at 4:23 a.

m. and sets at 7:16 p. m. Station 7 a. 29.36 inches.

Sea level barometer 7 a. 212., 30.05 inches. Wind direction and velocity 7 a. east 4 miles. Temperature a.

65 degrees. Highest temperature in last 24 hours, 71 degrees. Lowest temperature last night, 54 degrees. Precipitation for 24 hours ending 7 a. .05 inches.

Weather Forecasts Ludington and Vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight, and Saturday; slightly warmer tonight and cooler Saturday; mostly moderate west to northwest winds preceded by shifting. Lower Michigan: Partly cloudy 10- night and Saturday; slightly warms: tonight; cooler Saturday in north portion. Lake Michigan: Mostly moderate TO northwest winds preceded by shifting; generally fair tonight and Saturday. HUNT DILLINGER HENCHMEN Melvin H. Purvis Frank Hamer Detective work of these two men succeeded where thousands of other officers had failed.

Purvis, a demartment of justice operative, movie prepared an ambusia for John Dillinger outside a Chicago house; Namer, veteran Texas ranger, ended Clyde Barrow's career beside a road in Louisiana. These men are now centering their activities on rounding U.D the remaining Dillinger aides. George "Baby Face" Nelson, new public enemy No. 1, is their chief objective. TRAIN KILLS CHILDREN AT PLAY; MASS RITES SHELTON, July 27.

eight children who were kilied by a meat mass funeral today. The youngsters, seven boys and a girl, the NEw York, NEw Haven and Hartford river Thursday when they were mowed freight train. Jchn Roy, fireman of a northbound LAST MINUTE NEWS FLASHES PARK CLUB, BUFFALO, July (AP) -Shaving five strokes off par, Al Watrous of Detroi, conqueror of Gene Sarazen, the defending champion, fired a 67 today to stand two up on Craig Wood, Hollywood, N. at the balfway mark of their 36-hole quarter-final match for the Professional Golfers association championship. PARIS, July Louis H.

Lycutey, virtual war dictator of France under Aristide Briand, died today at the age of 80 years. TUETTLINGEN, WUERTTEMBERG, Germany, July -Twelve persons, including seven German and two Swiss passengers, and the Swiss pilot, co-pilot and stewardess, were killed today in the crash of a Swiss trimotored airplane. The plane had left Zurich for Stuttgart and Berlin and crashed 49 miles north of Friedrichshafen. LOS ANGELES, July (AP)-Payment of the govcrnment's $15,000 reward for the capture of John Dillinger will be delayed until Attorney General Homer S. Cummings returns from Hawaii.

In making the announcement here Thursday night, the attorney general said there was an unusual number persons interested in the reward. Cummings leaves today for Hawaii. Audit of County's Books Begun Today The regular annual audit of county records was la started this morning by two ized auditors. Records of the county clerk, county treasurer, register of deeds, judge of pro bate, county road commissioners, sheriff, justice school commissioner are to be checked, Albert E. Johnson, county clerk, says.

Lawrence Scudder Co. of Kalamazoo, represented by Emmett Corrigan of Royal Oak and A. R. Matthews of Detroit, is conducting the audit. The audit of city records by Gail Owen and Robert Williams of Ludington, started July 17, is progressing rapidly, Mr.

Owen says. It covers a two-year per- Fires, storms and insects destroy annually in the United States 7,000,000,000 board feel of I standing timber. OLD AGE PAYMENTS STARTED TODAY: 9 COUNTIES ON LIST Checks Totaling $9,360 Mailed, Clerks Will Prepare Delinquent List LANSING, July 27. state today made its first payment to the aged indigents under the old age pension act. Ed L.

Williams, chief of the state's old age pension bureau, announced that checks totaling $9.300 were in the mails for aged persons in nine counties. The average payments are at the rate of $9.36 a month. Counties where the first money was sent are: Kalamazoo. Kent. Oakland.

St. Clair, Bay, Saginaw. Sanilac, Oscoda Chippewa. Williams announced that collections under the $2 head tax MASON RECEIPTS To date the sum of $2.244 has been paid into the state old age pension fund by Mason county residents. County Treasurer Helen J.

Bennett said this noon. which finances the old age pensions had amounted to $234.322. In addition an appropriation of $25,000 waS made available Dy the last regular session of the legislature for administering the law created at that time. Plans Litigation The state, meanwhile, is considering the opening of litigation force the payment of collections from Genesee county. Wiiliams said that L.

Pearson, county treasurer, has collected $73.126 but has refused to turn the amount over to the state "until he is sure the pension fund is definitely allocated." (Turn to Page 3. Column 6) FLINT BANKER ASKS HEARING: RELEASED H. R. Wilkins Is at Liberty, Under $10,000 Bond: Walsh Expected FLINT. July R.

Wilkin. former executive vice president of the Union Industrial Trust and Savings bank of Flint. wils under $10,000 bond today pending a hearing Aug. 21 on state warrants charging the making and conspiring to make false entries in records of the bank. Wilkin, named in two warrants issued Thursday.

surrendered to Prosecutor Andrew J. Transue and demanded an ex(Please turn to Page 3, Column 8) Two Receive Minor Hurts In Accident Narrowly escaping serious injury when the machine which he was driving was struck by one driven by Mendel Eliasohn. Ludington, Howard Jury. 25. Ludington, sustained cuts about the face.

head and one hand. The crash occurred 011 Lake Shore drive, 2 short distance noth of Tinkham early this morning. According to city police. both machines were traveling norti: 011 the drive when Eliasohn's auto overtook and struck Jury's machine. The former's machine is said to have crashed into a tree after striking the other automobile.

Eliasohn received minor injuries. Jury was taken, by a passing motorist, to the home of Dr. J. Goulet for first aid and was later transferred to Paulina Stearns hospital. He was removed to his home this morning.

Although suffering from the loss of considerable blood. Jury's condition is said to be not serious. Police report Eliasohn said both machines were traveling at a moderate speed. RURAL LETTER CARRIERS NAME STATE OFFICERS JACKSON. July officers of the Michigan Rural Letter Carriers association today had been re-elected for the coming year.

At the concluding session of the annual meeting here Thursday Thomas E. Abbs, Eau Claire, was chosen president; Harold Laug. Coopersville, vice president: Gala R. Maxwell, Clio, secretary, and Harry Russell, Ann Arbor, treasurer. Alma will be host to the carriers next year.

Will for Discuss Yacht Plan, Persons interested in sailing or power boating are asked to meet at the Ludington coast guard station at 7:30 Saturday evening to discuss possibility of forming a local yacht club. Long discussed but never actually organized the proposed club would serve to bring together individuals of all ages interested in power or sail boating. Junior and senior membership classifications are being considered. If organized. the local club will become a unit of the Great Lakes Yachting association, with headquarters at Chicago.

CHICAGOAN PRAISES YACHT BASIN PLAN Editor Declares Ludington Has Finest Natural Port on East Shore Known as one of the best informed yachtsmen on Lake Michigan. Frank C. Heyes, editor of Chicago Yachting News. had quite bit to say Thursday about Ludington's proposed new yacht basin in Pere Marquette lake. In port for hours with the racing schooner Blue Moon, he looked over the site and discussed at length the commercial possibilities of such a project.

"Wo are just cruising around from port to port on Lake Michigan looking over docking and supply facilities for power and sail boats." tine he told representative News. "Here in Ludington you have one of the Anest. if not the finest. natural port of haven on this shore. Combined with its central location midway up the coast, it is 11 soot yachtsmen will frequent in increasing numbers as soon aS more adequate facilities are provided them.

Plans Appear Ideal "Your site at Buttersville and your plans developing it appear ideal for yacht purposes. With this project completed Ludington should have all influx of summer pleasure-craft visitOr'S not exceeded by any other port on the lake, with the excoption of Chicago. These peopie buy groceries and gas, and they're looking for land entertainment. They are good spenders and you'll profit by their (Please turn to Page 4, Column 7) Colyer Is Director of Sheriffs' Group TRAVERSE CITY. July -The Michigan Sheriffs sociation will hold its annual meeting next year in St.

Joseph. Members of the association made that decision Thursday In closing the 1934 meeting. Thomas Lovitt, Jackson, was named president; Fred Franz. Niles, vice president. and Jerome K.

Borden, Kalamazoo, secretary. Directors for the year will Charles Nixon, Cadillac; George Colyer. Ludington; Jacob Andres. Ann Arbor: John Barns, St. Johns, and the officers.

The association recommended citations for Sheriff William VanAntwerp and Deputy Sheriff lioward Lohr. of Port Huron. and 2 posthumus citation for Under-Sheriff Charles Cavanlaugh, also of Port Huron, fatally wounded in a gun battle in which Herbert Youngblood, companion of John Dillinger. was slain. Another posthumus citation was recommended for Sheriff Charles Miller, of Iosco county, killed in June when he sought to arrest John Woods at East Tawas.

USE SHOCK TROOPS TO MAINTAIN QUIET AS STRIKE REMAINS Guards Are Concentrated in Downtown Minneapolis; Strong MINNEAPOLIS. July -The concentration of national guard troops in downtown Minneopalis because of the truck drivers' strike was increased by moving in an especially trained "shock" troop battalion today. Quietness pervaded the city as the third battalion of the 206th infantry entered the downtown district with a heavy complement of arms, including gas guns, field machine guns and automatic rifles. The men, most of them veterans with war experience, were specially trained 111 aispersing crouds. Military rule of the city.

decreed Thursday by Gov. Floyd B. Olson, this morning brought guardsmen to every corner of the heart of the dontown district. They acted on instructions to prevent parking the heart of the downtown discharge passengers and to for: bid the gathering of crowds. They wore steel helmets and carried rifles with fixed bayonets.

The total strength of the guard within the city approxlimated 1.200. Some 2,800 more men still remained at the fair grounds. just outside the city limits, ready for call. Federal mediators, the Rev. Francis Haas and E.

H. Dunningan, prepared a new peace plan. they expected to complete today and the employers' advisory committee again publicIly blamed Communists for the strike. All efforts to "settle the controversy SO far have failed. Grief-stricken parents of train contemplated a were playing cards on tracks along the Housatoni: down by a southbound the time.

had shouted and squirted water nt the children to warn them, but his efforts went unheeded. A moment later the card players, were crumpled forms, sprayed along the roadbed by the meat train. The victims included two brothers and a brother and sister. They wEre: Ruth Bierwith, 12. John Gentile, 17.

Joseph Gentile, 14. George Rumble, 16. Charles Bierwith. 12. Carl Hofiman, 13.

Steven Rotkowich, 17. Joseph Dzwonchyk, 14. The tragedy was one of the worst in the state in many years. Seven of the eight died almost instantly. Joseph Gentile died the Griffin hospital a few hours later.

An inquiry di: closed that John J. Kane of Hartford, engineer of the train which struck the children. was unable to see the children because of the northbound freight train and a curve in the tracks. The noise made by the northbound train is believed kept the group from hearing the meat train. train which was passing at Long Illness Ends for Mrs.

Hennigan Word was received today of the death of Mrs. Con Hennigan, 42, a former resident, who passed awav at her home in Traverse City Thursday night. Ill for many months with a complication of diseases, death brought relief to Mrs. Hennigan from her sufferings which she bore with patience and cheerfulness. Before her marriage Mrs.

Hennivan was Miss Rose Olman of Ludington. She is survived by her widowel', 1 daughter Emaline, at home: her father Peter of Big Ranids, a vister Mrs. Lawrence Nelson of North Custer and three brothers George of Ludington. Joseph of Metamora. and John of Traverse Citv.

Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at Traverse City. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson will leave Saturday morning for Traverse City. STATE AIR TOURISTS ARE ON LAST LAP OF JAUNT TRAVERSE CITY, July swing around Michifan nearly completed.

the planes of the annual Michigan air tour prepared to head back to Lansing today. spent Thursday night at TravThe pilots and passengers erse City, making the flight from Sault Ste. Marie without incident. Enroute stops were made at Hessel. Cheboygan.

itoskey, Charlevoix A unique race was held at Hessel Thursday when the pilots pitted their planes against a half dozen speedboats. BAND PROGRAM 15 MEETING FEATURE Concert by Massed Groups Is Highlight of Eagles' Convention One of the features arranged for Sunday's district meeting of the Fraternal Order of Eagles is a concert by a 90-piece band, directed by L. F. Paterson. The band will be composed of 50 members of the Ludington high school.

12 of the Shelby, 18 of the Whitehall and 10 of the Suttan's Bay and Northport bands. The concert will be presented at City Park at 3 o'clock. The concert program lists "Territorial," a march by Blankenburg: "The overture by Losey; "In a Persian Market" by Ketelbey, "Strauss Melodies" by Seredy, "Vanished Army," a march by Alford; "Louis:" by Fulton, "American Patrol" Meacham and "Star Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key. Arrangements for the meeting are almost complete, K. V.

Christofferson. general chair(Please turn to Page 4, Column 8) Col. Hayes Dies FREMONT, July Col. Webb C. Hayes, 78, son of the former president, Rutherford B.

Hayes, died here Thursday night. Indiana Made Dillinger Public Enemy--McNutt believed it was reaching some important findings when its life was ended suddenly by the refusal of the augmented state administrative board to give it further financial support and that the members were anxious to show results. The jury held a lengthy executive session Thursday afternoon, with all attorneys absent, and finally decided upon another meeting next week. There were suggestions from the jurors that they serve without pay, but it was pointed out that their share of the cost of conducting the hearing was relatively small. State police who have been engaged in serving subpoenas for the jury have been released from this duty.

Circuit Judge Leland W. (Please turn to Page 4, Column I MACKINAC ISLAND, July 27. skeleton of John Dillinger was rattled at the annua! conference of the nation's governors here today. Governor Paul V. McNutt, of Indiana, told the conference "the penitentiary made John Dillinger what he was" and in an interview said Dillinger's esrave from the Crown Point, jail was "inexcusable." "Indiana offered the accom- I modations of its state prison but they were refused." Governor MeNutt said in discussing the escape.

Sentence Wrong "Not only was the escape Inexcusable but the method of sentencing was all wrong. "He (Dillinger) was given a 10 to 20 year sentence while his partner in an early crime, Edward Singleton, received a two to 14-year sentence despite record. Undoubtedly he (Dillinger) felt the injustice of this sentence. There does not seem to be any escape from the fact that the state of Indiana made John Dillinger the public enemy Number One." The round table discussions today included addresses from Gov. Joseph B.

Ely, of Massachusetts; from Gov. McNutt and Gov. I. C. Blackwood, of South Carolina.

The shadowy form of the bootlegging industry which stalked across the conference table Thursday, provided one of the chief highlights of the governors' conclave, with Frank A Picard. chairman of the Michigan Liquor Control commission. warmly' defending Michigan's (Please turn to Page 4 Column 72.