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PRINCE WILL MARRY
STOCKHOLM. Sweden. Feb. 1

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. 1, mn Prince GuStaf Adolf, son of the Swedish Crown Prince, announced he will marry within the year. Princess Fredericke Luise of Brau- eschweg, Is, called the "Sun prin- cess" and Princess Sibylla of Saz- eoburg, both are mentioned as possible brides
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WOMAN Is GUARDED

NEW YORK, Feb. l, Mrs. A. B. Blumenthal, prominent woman of of this city, has been closely guard ed since being threatened with kidnapping.
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BRITISH TAKING ACTION

HONKONG, Feb. 1, (P)-The Bri- tish cruiser Berwick with 800 mar ines left here for Shanghai. The aircraft carrier Hermes is ready to embark with all planes and ready to sail on short orders.
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TRIAL RESUMED

PHOENIX. Ariz., Feb. l, TT h e trial of Mrs Winnie Ruth Judd, postponed owing to illness of two jurors, resumes today. Counsel for Mrs. Judd will, through events of her married life, attempt to prove she is insane
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U. S. WILL DECLARE WAR

GENEVA, Feb. l, The United States is sure to declare war 0 Il Japan. This sentiment was ex- pressed at the counsil table of the League of Nations.
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ITALY JOINS PROTEST

WASHINGTON, D. o., Feb. l, [A) The Navy department was noti- fled by the commander of the des- troyer Simpson, at Nanking, that Japanese warships are firing on the city. Italy formally notified the United States that she Is joining in the move of the nations in the Shanghai crisis.
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MAY SEND ARMY

TOXIC, Feb. 1, Japan may find it necessary to dispatch an army to Shanghai to reinforce the blue jackets now engaged in the occupa- tion of Chapel, it was admitted by the foreign office.
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FIRED ON OIL PLANT

SHANGHAI, Feb. 1, R)-Japa- nese fired machine guns on the American Texado Oil Company plant as Japanese destroyers setam- ed down the Wango river raking the shore.
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AT LIBERTY

HONOLULU, Feb. l. Mrs. Gran vile Fortescue and three naval men accused of Kidnapping and n1urdering Joseph Kahahawai, 3 native, were at liberty under nom iaal bonds
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MORE VESSELS

MANILA, Feb i, Responding to orders from Washington, Admiral M. M. Taylor, commander of the American Asiatic fleet, ordered his flagship, the cruiser Houston, and seven destroyers, to proceed to Shanghai.
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4 STRANGE DEATH

LOS ANGELES, Feb. l, Helen Stone died suddenly from injuries received in her home when she unexpectedly came Up behind a friend demonstrating a golf shot, and was struck in the temple.
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FRANCE JOINS PROTEST

PARIS. Feb. l, France joined the United States and Great Brit aims representations to Japan that the international settlement in Shanghai must be respected. The French government announc- ed that the French forces at Shang- hal will be increased at once.
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TAX REFUND

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 1, - A refund of $61,4l6 to Douglas Fairbanks, movie actor of Holly wood, fur over-assesment Of in- come taxes in 1927, 1928 and 1929, was paid by the tax bureau.
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Mamie Senft is in the Seward General Hospital having undergone an opendicitis operation Sunday.
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FOUR BOYS LOST

WHEELER, Ore, Feb. l, Parties are out hunting for four boys who are believed to be lost in the noun tain snoWS.
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KILLED BY AUTO

LOS ANGELES, Feb. l, -J. Bar rett, boxing promoter, was struck down and killed by a Init and run" driver.
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RUNNING ON WET TICKET

WASHINGTON. D. C., Feb. 1, - Senator Jim Davis will seek re- election on the wet ticket
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-06-30

AS the Virginians and Caroliuians
marched out, Indians swarmed around
them and poured into the fort. Wash
ington wrote, later, that the Indians
pillaged the baggage. 1t is to be
doubted that the young colonel from
Virginia, leading his drenched, muddy
column by hasty marches back to
Cumberland, thought of that Fourthof
July as day to celebrate. And a few
months later, amazed and furious, he
was writing letters to defend himself
against the charge that he not only
had assassinated a French Ambassa-
dor on a peaceful mission, but that he
had signed confession.
That strange episode of Washing
toms career is better known than the
nature of the fight at Fort Necessity.
The articles that Van Braam had
translated in the driving rain at mid
night in Fort Necessity had described
the death of one Sieur de Jumonville,
in an engagement with detachment
led by Washington as an assassina-
ton. The French said JumonvilIe was
bearing notice to the English to quit
the country; Washington Indignantly
declared that Jumonville and his men
acted more like the advance guard of
an army than diplomatic mission,
and he and his officers insisted that
Van Braam, in his translation, never
used the word assassin" or "assas-
sination," though it occurs twice in
the French text that Washington
signed.
The young fellow smarted under the
charge. A bitter anti-climax to the
fight at Great Meadows. 1t is even
conceivable that the combination of
circumstances-retre surrender and
the unwilling confession of assassina-
ton, might have wrecked the career
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-06-30

cred that the French had got there
first, kicked out the English advance
guard and started eastward looking
for trouble. The young Virginia lieu
tenant-colonel had to turn back be-
fore he got within striking distance
of his objective.
Instead of holding the Forks of the
Ohio for his king, Washington found
himself, on the morning of July 8,
penned up in his valley, with 900 or
more Frenchmen and a horde of In
dams around him.
To reconstruct the scene in the
valley-so different from the scene
that will be enacted there at the COM
ing celebration-seems to make Gen.
George Washington much more of a
human being than just an orators
hero. It is possible to reconstruct it
from his own words and those of Gov
ernor Dinwiddie, to whom he reported
after it was all over, and from the
account in the South Carolina Ga
zette. Reconstructing it so, one gets
the feeling that perhaps Washington
was military man of precocious sa-
gacity, winning a great military tri-
umph, but that certainly he was a
young fellow who found himself in a
peck of trouble. Some people may
even like the young fellow in trouble
better than the military genius who
"was never defeated"
July 8 was a gloomy day for the
young fellow who had had to turn
around and come back with his job
undone and now impossible to do. 1t
was raining. The fort, like that box
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-06-30

he refused to negotiate. The French
tried it again, and again the stub
born youngster turned them down.
Long after dark, at their third pro-
posal, he sent one Captain Van Braam
into the French lines.
Near midnight, Van Braam came
back with the enemy's terms for the
surrender of Fort Necessity.
at rained so hard" said Adam Ste
phen, one of Washington's officers,
"that he could not give US written
translation of them; we could scarcely
keep the candle lighted to read them
BY"
Midnight. Pouring rain. Thirty
dead men lying in the mud. Seventy
wounded lying with them. Sur
rounded. 1t didn't seem much like a
victory to the young fellow who lis
tened to Van Braam's stumbling trans
lation. He signed the articles, agree
ing to give up the fort, and giving
him the poor comfort of marching out
with his drums beating.
The account printed in the South
Carolina Gazette says it was agreed
that leach side should retire without
molestation, they back to their fort at
Monongahela and wet Wills Greek"
The fifth article of the agreement as
signed, however, saying that at day
break the next day-the Fourth of
July-a detachment of the French
should take possession of Fort Neces-
sity.
When morning came the garrison
marched out. The drums were beat
ing and the flag was flying at the head
of the bedraggled column. Some of
the wounded walked; some rode pick
a-back on the shoulders of shirted
riflemen; others hung limp and moan
ing on their comrades backs. The re-
treating garrison carried barely suffi-
cient to eat; with the wounded to
carry, even food had to be abandoned.
Precious powder, transported toll
somely over the mountains, was de-
stroyed; so was the private baggage
burned. Even a flag, too heavy to
be added to the burdens of the men,
was left behind.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-06-30

ter" and now that the battle had ar
rived, the French insisted on ignoring
the open meadow and crackin gaway
at the mud trench and the log fence
from the shelter of the woods. They
took pot shots at the pack horses and
the officers horses, hobbled in the
meadow, and killed them. They killed
the cows and even shot down the dogs.
AS the fight went on, between the
French and Indians hiding in the edge
of the woods, and the colonials plas-
tered in the muck of the valley, they
killed thirty of the men of the garri-
son, and wounded seventy of them.
Some of Washington's biographers of
the modern debunking school speak
fiippantly of the battle as "desultory
skirmishing." 1t might have seemed
less desultory to them if they had
been there. A fight in which hum
bred men, out of less than 450, are
picked off by concealed enemy sur
rounding them, doesn't seem partic-
ularly desultory to the men who are
doing the fighting.
1t rained all day. And all day the
fire from the hills and woods kept up.
Men soaked to the skin crouched in
the mud, rested musket barrels on
parapets that sunk under their weight
and fired at the dull flashes of the
guns along the forest walls. Wounded
men lay in the ooze with the rain
beating down on them.
Night came early, in the rain and
mist. At s o'clock the French pro-
posed a parley. The young fellow
commanding the mud wallow of fort
was not at all happy about it; he felt
sure that the French merely wanted
to get a man inside his palisades to
see how bad things were in the fort;
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-06-30

without either a cover or a bottom,
was open at the top to the weather
and to the eyes of the enemy, and
open below to the swamp soil soggy
with rain. Powder dampened, and
the wind whisked it out of the printing
pans of the firelocks.
All morning, drenched and appre-
hensive, the Virginia shirtmen toiled
with shovels and mattocks at a make
shift trench in the bottomland. AS
fast as they dug, the water ran in,
until they stood kneedeep. Before they
had the trench finished, musket shot
sounded from the sodden woods and a
sentry came pelting toward the fort.
The French regulars were coming.
But they didn't come far enough.
The young fellow in command at Fort
Necessity had picked his battlefield
as "a charming place for an encoun-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-06-30

The Republican Commercial Print
ing Department is the best equipped
printery you could care to inspect.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-06-30

of many another young man. Looked
at from the viewpoint of twenty-five
years, it was a discouraging begin
ming.
1t leaves one wondering whether
George Washington, as a young fell
low who got into a peck of trouble
but kept right on going ahead.
would't be just as inspiring to the
future generations who visit Fort Ne
cessity as he will be in the role Of the
sagacious man who was triumphant
and successful always"
Evening star., 1932-03-07
DRIVES 10 HOURS
TO REACH CAPITAL
Motorist Describes Storms
Fury Returning From
Harrisburg.

A first-hand account of the difficult
I ties encountered by motorists caught in
Yesterdays storm was given today by
Seth E. Gordon, 3715 Livingston street
who. with his wife and two children
spent the night trying to get back to
Washington after visiting relatives in
Harrisburg, Pa. The Gordons left the
Pennsylvania city about 43O pm. yes
terday, but snoWdrifts, fallen trees and
telephone poles blocked their path SO
often and forced them to make so
many detours that they did not reach
the National Capital until about 9 30
am today-l6 hours later.
I'VE hadn't gone very far" said Mr.
Gordon, when we ran into trouble
The road was covered with ice and
where there wasn't any ice there were
snowdrifts.
We made several attempts to ge,
started on the route to Westminster
but conditions were becoming worse,
instead Of better and we finally had to
give it up. The last time We ran into
a snowdrift and had to back about 200
yards before We came to a place clear
enough to turn around and start back
toward the town
I'VE tried several other roads. but
none of them was passable. Then we
got started on the route to GETTYSBURG.
figuring on heading for Baltimore from
there.
"All along the road there were fallen
trees and telephone poles. and the sleet
Evening star., 1932-03-07
ENTIRE SOUTH STRICKEN.
Even Colder Weather Due From Virginia
Is Feared.

ATLANTA, March 7 CP).-snow ana m
high winds swept the South yesterday
and last night. causing damage from
Virginia to Florida, where the vino
sent seas crashing into coastal points,
wrecking small boats.
Dixie prepared today for even coloer
weather when forecasters said the tenn
peratures would drop to freezing ana
below
In Florida storm struck Cedar Key
isolating the town. Many boats OF the
sponge feet were at sea and there we're
fears for their safety.
Four shrimp boats sank at Fernan-
dina. Fla, and others were damaged TO
the extent of $4,000.
The strong winds were general, rang
ing from so miles an hour at Jackson
vile, Fla and Cape Henry. Va. to
around 10 miles in Mississippi ana
West Tennessee Savannah had a 40-
mile wind and Richmond 40. Rich
mond and Norfolk had the lowest
barometer readings on record. Snow
was general throughout Virginia. the
snow continued down through the
Carolinas, but did not reach Georgia.
Evening star., 1932-03-07

was coming down so fsst that it was
all but impossible to see.
Automobiles were stalled all along
the route. In some places there were
as many as 25. Altogether, l guess We
saw $50 or more before we got back
home
AT one place between Westminster
and Baltimore IS cars were stuck.
There we're two houses nearby, and the
occupants of the machines-about 40
persons in all. including about a dozen
chilcren-were given refuge.
While the women and children wait
ed in the two houses. the men worked
to clear a way through the snowdritts.
NY automobile is big and heavy, and
after little digging l was able to plow
through. with the others following.
Things improved as we nea-ed Bal
timore Highway workers had gotten
busy there. and the route, though Slip
perry and treacherous, was negotiable
Altogether. it was just about the tough
est night I've ever experienced.
The road between here and Balti-
more was pretty good compared with
some we had passed over"
Evening star., 1932-03-07

cases were in the hospital at the time
and no operations were scheduled.
VESSELS LOST AT SEA.
Evening star., 1932-03-07
PART OF ROOF RIPPED
FROM MARLBORO SCHOOL
Pupils There and at Suitland Sent
Home When Storm Prevents
Usual Attendance.

BY Staff Correspondent OF The Star.
MARLBORO, Md, March About
100 square feet of the roof of the
Marlboro High School was blown off by
the storm last night
The Board of Education at noon to-
day ordered the Marlboro, Suitland
and sev8al other schools to dismiss the
students because of the small attend
ance. At the Suitland School there
were but l8 students in attendance out
Of an enrolment of 1l8.
Evening star., 1932-03-07

damage to budding orchards and sprout-
ing crops. The cold wave brought l5
below to WilliSton, NJ OAK; 4 below
at St. Paul, Mimi, and 8 below at
Pierre. S. Dak.v
Drops of 40, degrees within few
hours were general from the Rockies
to the Appalachians Fruit growers in
Midwest States we're anxious for the
safety Of their crops. Chicago's two
year record of non-zero weather was
toppling IS the temperature dropped to
5 above end a weather forecast Of
colder tonight" was issued.
Evening star., 1932-03-07
ALEXANDRIA TOWN CLOCK
is FROZEN IN BLIZZARD
Huge Timepiece is Put Out of Com
mission for First Time
Since 1909.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. March For
the first time since the blizzard of 1909,
the weather put the famous town clock,
atop city hall, out of commission yes
terday. The hands Of the great clock
froze at $50 o'clock yesterday afternoon
and have not budged since
The clock, which works by weights
which drop from the tower, has been
in the steeple Of the old town hall since
the hall was reconstructed after the
fire of 1873. 1t can be seen from almost
any point in town and in times of
emergency it is used to sound a general
alarm.
Evening star., 1932-03-07
THREE PERSONS HURT
FALLING ON ICE HERE
Capital Woman Slips and Breaks
Leg-Girl and Man, II, Treated
for Back Injuries.
for Back Injuries

Three persons were injured this morn
ing when they slipped and fell on the
ice
Mrs Florence Neitzey A. of the 3100
block of Monroe street slipped and fell
to the sidewalk during sudden gust of
wind while on the corner of Fifteenth
and G streets. receiving broken leg.
She was taken to Emergency Hospital
Frances Rice. IA. Of the 600 block of
I street southwest. was treated at Emer-
gency Hospital for an injury to her
back, received when she slipped and fell
after alighting from street car at
Seventh street and Rhode Island ave-
nue..
william T. Milstead. II. Of the 1900
block Of Thirtieth street, was treated at
Emergency Hospital for an injury to the
back received when he slipped and fell
from loading platform near Seven
teenth and H streets.
Evening star., 1932-03-07
TWO UNHURT IN ACCIDENT

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, Nd. March 7.-An
automobile occupied by two men skidded
on the Washington-B Baltimore Boule-
ward here this morning near Franklin
street, and though it plunged backward
down 25-foot embankment and
turned completely around. did not turn
over Neither Of the occupants was
hurt. They declined to give police
their names. The car bore New York
license.
Evening star., 1932-03-07
Coast Guard and Fishing Craft Suffer
in Storm.


in Storm.
NEW YORK. March 7 P).-Wind
howling on land and sea churned up
waters along the Eastern seaboard. en-
dangered small vessels. disrupted tele-
phcne and telegraph communication
and halted motor traffic.
Two members OF the crew OF coast
Guard patrol boat which capsized on
Atlantic City we're reported drowned;
The crews of two other vessels reacneo
shore safely when their vessel was
beached at Ventncr. N. J. The auxlI-
iarv fishing sloop Anna, with ere" Oh
five was missing. .s a.
The schooner Freight, reported 10
be liouor-laden. sank after a colllslon
with the Coast Guard vessel Eagle; Inc
crew of the fishing boat L-5o3o was
abandoned 10 miles southeast CT Aoss-
con Light. A 2S-foot boat which ielt
Bayhead for Seaside Park in New Jer-
sey was reported missing IN Barnegat
Bay.
All flying, both commercial and mall
came to a standStil.
Evening star., 1932-03-07
GALE STRIKES MIDWEST.

CHICAGO. March Z pa subzero
blast from out of the Arctic swept over
the Northern States yesterday.
In score of States Temperatures
hovered near the zero mark. bringing
Evening star., 1932-03-07
TWO KILLED IN FLORIDA

Woman and Son Die. Four Homes
Demolished Near Wauchula.
WAUCHULA. Fla, March 7 ~
Reports Of two deaths in a windstorm
Is miles east of Wauchula reached here
today.
The storm struck late Saturday night
end demolished the home of Mrs. Drew
DraWdy. 1t killed her 5-year-old son
instantly and injured her SO seriously
she died in a short while
Three other homes were demolished,
trees in an orange grove were uprooted
and crops were damaged, particularly
cucumbers and tomatoes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-26
STATE BANKERS
MEET IN MAY
Proposals for Strengthen.
ing Laws to Come Up.

Proposals for strengthening and
codifying Indiana banking laws 1e-
signed to safeguard rights of de-
positors and stockholders will be dis
cussed during the annual meeting Of
the Indiana Bankers Association at
the Claypool, May 10 and 20.
Members of the study commits
sion for Indiana financial institu-
lions, appointed by Governor Harry
G. Leslie on authorization of the
1881 state legislature, will take part
in a round table discussion of pro-
posed changes in laws at the morn
ing session, May 20.
Indiana members Of the American
Bankers Association will elect off,
GERS the afternoon of May 10 and
that night the annual dinner will
be given at the Claypool. On the
program will be Charles Milton
Newcomb and the Mary Traub
Busch ensemble.
Speakers will include Phil S.
Hanna, Chicago, editor of the Jour
nal of Commerce; S. L. Cantley,
commissioner of finance for the
state of Missouri; Charles H. My
lander, ice-president, First Ma
tional bank, Cincinnati; the Rev.
Guy Carpenter, indianapolis, and
William A. Ceilings, Charlottesville,
president of the association.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-26
TENSION CROWS
IN OHIO MINE
STRIKE REGION
Mass Meeting of JobIeSS Is
Called for Today at
BeIIaire.

By United Press
CADIZ, o., April ga mass
meeting of striking miners in the
eastern Ohio coal fields was called
at Bellaire today by union officials
as operators met with Adjutant-
General Frank D. Henderson at Co.
lumbus to discuss plans for reopen
ing additional mines next week.
The miners meeting was called
by John Cirque, president of sub
district No. 5 of the United Mine
Workers, sponsors Of the strike in
the Ohio and West Virginia pan
handle fields.
The Columbus meeting was to
deal with reported plans Of oper-
ators to enlarge their production
schedules under the protectorate OF
400 state troops.
Tension perceptibly was height
ened as reports circulated through
the district that the Hanna Coal
Company and the Lorain Coal and
Dock Company were planning tc
resume operations next week.
More than two hundred picketS
suddenly sprang up at the Lorair
company mine Monday when false
rumor reached them that the mine
already had reopened.
Troops were fearful that a new
crisis may be reached next Sunday
May day-When an influx OF
Communist" agitators is expected
from neighboring areas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-26
u, S. MARINES
Get REVENGE
Capture Nicaraguan Rebels
Headquarters Camp.

By United Press
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 26
United States marines, leading de-
tachments of Nicaraguan national
guardsmen, avenged the death of
three of their marine comrades
Monday when they captured an in
surrectionist headquarters camp
near the Honduran border.
The marine -guardia force OF
forty men drove out the insurrec-
tionistS, totaling over one hundred
in a sharp twenty-five minute bat
tie. One guardSman was wounded
and three insurrectionistS were
killed, and several wounded.
When the guardsmen entered the
camp, they found clothing and
equipment belonging to Lieutenant
Lawrence c. Brunton, Corporal Lau-
rim T. Covington and Pharmacist
Mate Finnis H. Whitehead, who
were killed last week with eleven
members of the guards, when in
surrectionists wiped out their pa
troll from ambush.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-26
RENEW TRUCK HEARING
coordinate Transport, Inc, Petit
ton Up Again on Wednesday.

Hearing on the -Ordinated
Transport, Inc, petition for truck
and traction service to ITS Indiana
cities and towns will be resumed
Wednesday, it was announced by
Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbertson
of the public service commission.
The petition hearing got under
way Monday with protests registered
by both steam railroads and truck
men.
Under the plan the traction lines
of the state, now all insult owned,
would be developed into co-ordi-
mated system with truck shipping
and store door delivery.