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b. WILLIS THORNTON
OH station was Scene

The encounter occurred in the
gasoline filling station of Harry
Nieman in Bellwood. The police
cruiser car had been parked near
an intersection Of country roads.
The gunmen's automobile drove
through red light at high speed
ana the police pursued them with
siren sounding.
The outlaws accelerated their
automobile and opened wide gap
between the cars. At Nieman's
station the gunner stopped for
gasoline.
.Ten gallons, quick" a gunman
identified as Hamilton ordered.
This man stepped out of the auto
mobile to watch the road over
which the police were coming. An
other gangster, believed to be Mel
son, left the automobile. The man
identified as Van Meter remained
ht the wheel.
Before Nieman could finish his
task, the police automobile drove
: Into the station driveway with siren
bounding. Hamilton lodged back
Into the front seat of his automo-
bile and picked up machine gun.
Nieman dropped the gasoline hose
he threw himself on the floor.
Police Hands Go Up
Wayland descended from the po-
lice automobile and was closely
followed by Policeman Gus hence
and Joseph Hagmeister. AS the
policemen approached, Hamilton
aimed the machine gun. Police
hands shot aloft. Hamilton cursed
and the other gangsters surround
q ed the policemen. Nelson carried q
machine gun and the other two
had pistols.
Wayland reached for his pistol.
Hamilton, who was within four feet
< Of him, but with gun pointed away.
lunged and swung the gun. The
weapon struck Wayland on the
side Of the head and he fell. The
gangsters then disarmed all the
others and started procession
= down the road, with two of the po-
. lice walking with their hands In the
air. After several hundred feet
the police were forced to walk into
q field and were, warned to keep
walking.
When they returned to the sta
tion the bandits were gone, way
land was still unconscious and Me
IMAM Was 6tliA AAo cS~tA~'N'
THE bandits had received only four
gallon of gasoline.
Wayland recovered consciousness
at a hospital.
Thousand Traps Set
Madison, Wis, April 30.-(UP)-
"A thousand traps yawned through
out the midwest to-day for John
Dillinger, Americas public enemy
s No /, and his gang of killers.
Federal agents supplied with
4 fresh clues from their desperate
pursuit of the elusive outlaws per-
sonally manned the most promis-
ing of the ambushes.
Even in Madison's county jail,
where three of the outlaws women
were held, the government track
ers were prepared for Dillingers
appearance. They held q woman
identified as Mrs George Nelson
wife Of one of the killers. and two
xifls identified as the sweethearti
81 Tommy Carroll, st Paul gang
sfer and Homer Van Meter.
May Try TO Free Women
Agents would not be surprised to
ZEE Diilinger, John Hamilton. Var
Meter. Carroll, Nelson and possibly
Alvin Karpis and the Barker broth,
ers. Arthur and Fred, Oklahoms
fl1gitives, come to the Jail on 9
rescue mission with machine gum
blazing.
Another heavy guard was known
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HEARS.
new CONSTITUTION.
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parliament was suspended March
4, 1893.
To-day's session was held mere
ly so that the parliament could
formally approve the DEGREES.
PrOlOgue-C Constitution
In the constitution, the prologue
says:
I'm the name of Goa Almighty,
from whom all right proceeds, the
Austrian people receive for their
Christian German federal state on
a staendischer (Guild) basis this
constitution"
The constitution continues:
"Article Austria is a federal
state.
"Article 1.-THE federal state is
Staendisch arranged, regulated
and composed and federally adj
min istered, consisting of the city
of Vienna and the states OF Burg
enland, Carinthia, lower Austria,
upper Austria, Salzburg, Syria, Ty-
rol and Voralberg."
Article III provides for the nag,
and DEGREES that the state seal also
shall be that Of the double eagle
Of the Hapsburg. The seal will bear
also the word "Osterreich" (Aus-
Article four provides that no
frontier alterations shall be made,
internationally or domestically, ex-
Guiding those the world war peace
treaties effected, except by consti-
tuional amendment approved by
the state.
Sneak German Language
Other articles provided that Ger
man shall be the state language.
that women shall have the same
rights as men insofar as it Is not
provided otherwise by specific laws
and that all citizens shall have the
same rights provided that by law
such rights may be limited as re.
CARDS members Of the army, navy
and civil service.
The constitution contains 182 ar
ticles in 80 pages.
It's whole object is to provide
the guild system Of government, an
effort to adapt government to the
complicated Industrial era and in
sure that, with all categories OF in
dustry commerce, labor, agricul-
ture, and the professions represent
ed, that experts shall make laws.
Impartial observers held that the
constitution was opposed by three
fourths Of the population. and II
became apparent as the parliament
met that the opposition would
make final, IL futile protest.
After delaying the opening OF
the session half an hour with de-
alterations, largely obstructive, the
opposition spoke through the pan
Germans, a spokesman leaped to
his feet as soon as the speakers
gavel fell and protested:
"This meeting Is illegal"
He demanded immediate DISCO
luton Of parliament and new cleo.
tions. But the speaker ruled him
out of order and the house sup.
ported the speaker.
The speaker then declared the
125th session of parliament closed
and a few minutes later with the
same representation he declared
the 126th open.
Chancellor Engeibert Dollfuss
addressed the gathering, announc-
ing he would submit for approval
All DEGREES, including the 23s
which were submitted to the 125th
session.
III feeling was apparent among
the opposition elements--the semi.
Maxi Pan Germans, and the Nazi.
I sympathetic Landbund, both re.
presented In the chamber whereas
the stronger Nazi and Socialist
parties were excluded as outlaw,
| cd 10y
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Chief OF ''Fascists" Inspired By Hitler
Rise, Looks For New Worlds
To Conquer

/, bieh, and booklets. The Trend II
Upward. The Blue Lamp, Christian
EcOnomists
But in 1898, Policy underwent
the strange experience which he
was to describe a year later in q
sensational magazine article. He
died.
His own story tells how, one
night In a cottage near Pasadena.
Calf, he went to bed after a long
wrestle with a writing problem.
Between and 4 in the morning
"a CHASTITY inner shrek seemed to
tear through my somnolent con-
seriousness" He realized he was
dying. .'plunging down a mystic
depth Of cool. blue space"
Rests in Other World
Friendly arms buoyed up at
length, and he came to rest on a
beautiful marble-slab pallet. Bath
ing in a c1ear-as-crystal Roman
converscd pleasantly with passers-
by, who seemed "sublimated, glori-
pool, he emerged, revivified. and
fed" strolling quietly by in an
Olympian peace.
Then he was Caught in a swirl
of blush vapor and rushed upward
In its grasp" awakening to earthly
consciousness in his Pasadena
bed. ". for from seven to 10
minutes my own conscious entity
that is Bill Pelly, writing-man.
slipped over to the other Side," he
put 1t.
There were after-effects. 81
brought something back with me
from that Ecstatic Interlude-
something that had interpenetrated
my physical self and which sud
denly began to function in strange
powers of perception"
Became Another Man
II was not the same man that /
had been a moment before" he
wrote of a later revelation. He
quit cigarets, pipes, tobacco, tea,
coffee, without any pangs.
He lost his former NERVES" He
acquired amazing powers of SIAM
ina. He was a new man. So goes
Pelley's story.
At any rate, he turned to new
activities. Leaving California, he
went to Ashevilfe, N. c., founding
there the College of Christian Eco
nOInlcS ana COHlpdraulVe ReilSlOHS.
He founded The New Liberator,
a magazine which later became
Liberation, one of the official or
gans of the Silver Shirt movement.
But Silver Shirtism was not yet APP
parent.
Pelley's first interests when he
came to Asheville were in form Of
spiritualiSn and occultism, to
which he attracted some followers.
Then he founded Galahad coll
lege, to propagate the principles
of his Foundation for Christian
Economies. To this college GA
School of World Facts-a Spiritual
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GARDEN

Buck Jones in "California Trair
and 1.-THE DEVIL TIGER" will be
presented for the last time today
at the Garden theater.
Coming tomorrow "wednesday
is death Takes a Holiday" Fred
rio Marcf's new sensational starr
ing picture, Is based upon one OF
the most unusual themes ever por-
trayed In the theater, according to
Mexwell Anderson, who collaborat-
ed with Gladys Lehman in the
ADAPTATION of the original play OF
the same name by Alberto Casella,
adapted into English by Walter
The story Of "Death Takes a
Holiday" is built on the idea that
Death, curious to discover what
men hold SO dear In life, to UNDER
stand why people fear him so,
energies from the shadows, takes
on the human form Of dashing.
romantic lover, and for three days
tests all the human illusions.
He becomes the guest of honor
of gay house-party, keeping his
true identity secret, and dazzles
the young women present with his
beauty, his wit and his mysterious
Importance.
Marct's role in this picture has
been called greater than his part
Of "Dr Jekyll and Mr. HYDE" that
won him the Academy of. Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences award
in 1882. Mitchell Leisen, director
OF the picture, has expressed tho
belief that this role will win
March the award for 1ss4s best
acting.
Supporting March in death
Takes = Holiday, are Evelyn Ven
able, recently seen with Dorothea
Week In "Craele Song" Sir Guy
Standing and Kent Taylor, ana
several distinguished actors Inn
ported from the New York stage.
notably Katherine Alexander, Helen
Wesley and. Henry Travers.
The second feature IS "Countess
Of Monte caristo." Fay Wray and
Paul Lulkas are happily teamed In
the romantic sequences, while d
splendid supporting cast includes
Patsy Kelly, Reginald owen. Car
mel Myers. Paul Page. John Shee-
han, Robert McWade and many
others Of importance.
Put this one down on your
Must Sec list. It will, keep you
Fascinated from frst reel to last.
Newsree1 and Carton complete
the program.
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Man Who died" Six Years Ago Lives
To Lead The Silver Shirts Movement



member of which applicants would
paw over a fiat sum. thereafter to
be assured of q comfortable living
for the rest of their lives.
Nothing came of this--it was
never put in effect.
On the night of Jan 30, 1898,
Pelley revealed, on reading Of the
accession of Hitler to power in
Germany, the idea of the Silver
Shirts.
For four years before, he re-
lates, he had been Enthusiastically"
instructed that this event would be
ssyour tirne-cymbol for bringing the
work Of the Christ Militia into the
OPEN"
silver Shirts Born
Thus "Chiefp Peliey's Silver
Shirts began.
PelIey, since organization, has
spent most of his time travelling
about the country on organization
work.
Real general headquarters" re-
ports Liberation, twill be where
the Chief tPelley) happens to be
visiting"
It adds that AsheviIle headquar-
ters has been completely emas-
culated of all records that would
give aid and comfort to the enc
N.Y." and will in time become "lit-
tie more than a clear house"
The implication of sinister pow
ers about to close in on the Silver
Shirts and destroy them recurs
through all their literature.
Policy has himself implied that
he is in constant physical danger
of assassination or a mysterious
thwarting Of his work.
NEXT: How some Silver Shirts,
resenting what they believed to be
u Nazi faint In the organization,
owithdrew, and how the Organiza-
ton functions.
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Clinic,) came a class of some 40
students one summer session, but
the work is now carried on by cor
respnodence from the same beauti-
full Colonial building which is also
national headquarters of the Silver
Shirts.
Doom Fails to Appeal
Policy during his, Asheville stay
at one time also propagated the
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NSVHIuuSu Iiom Ed6S A.l
guired these pass books or com.
mercial accounts from depositors,
that person can take part in the
plan also.
Another feature of the liquida-
ton plan is that any endorser of a
note to the Merchants Trust Co can
come in and offer at is per cent
discount. his account in the bank.
IL he owns one. in payment of the
note. He can do this without any
publicity. by reason of the blanket
authority given the receiver under
Judge Dickenson's order. Hereto
fore endorsers SHE'D away from
such q plan because each time an
endorser attempted to make such
a move In the past, an application
containing all the information had
70 be filed in superior court and
acted upon separately.
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Four Gunner Trap
Pursuing Policemen
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to be held at the Columbus, Ohio,
prison, where three other Dillin-
ger companions are held, two
awaiting execution.
The heavy guard here was es-
tablished after it was learned that
a man believed to be Nelson had
escaped posses in Minnesota and
was sighted heading into Wiscon-
sin near st Paul. Nelson Is blamed
for the wanton notwithstanding
Of Federal Agent w. Carter Baum
during the fight in which the wo-
men were captured near Mercer,
Wis.
Throughout Illinois. Indiana,
county officers raided the haunts
Minnesota and Wisconsin police and
of former convicts, gangsters,
gamblers and fences, seeking clues.
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LUts IS the second OF GUfGB
sfoFics describing the aims and
acfiSities Of the Silver Shirts, q
new ~Eascistn organization
which IS endeavoring TO gain q
fo6ii0ld IN the United States,
written exclusively for The Wa
feFhuFy Democrat and other
NEA Service newspapers.
By WILLIS THORNTON
{NEA Service staff Correspondent
The man who leads the newest
EFFORT to get America into political
shirts died six years ago.
But that does not prevent Will
liam Dudley Policy, chief of the
Silver Shirts, from being highly
active today in furthering his or
sanization.
According to Pelley's own ac-
10 10 minutes" and then returned
he wrote an article telling all
about 1t.
Thus you may gather that the
s'chief's OF the Silver Shirt Legion
IS q remarkable man. He Is.
Policy was born the only son of
an itinerant Methodist preacher. at
Lynn, Mass, March IL, 1885. He
relates that "Orthodox Protestant
theology, as 1t was 40 years ago,
was far more plentiful in my
fathers household than bread, but
ter, clothes. and fuel"
Starts Publishing Career
Young Pelley turned to Journal
ism, and published 1.-THE Philos-
opher Magazine" in 1893. 1t had
heretical and iconoclastic leanings,
and. as he himself wrote. 'all the
theological insists in 4s states and
q couple Of foreign countries were
soon buying my magazine, and my
twaddle was piling up to give me
much heartache later . :"
Policy entered regular" news
paper work, and published three
smalI New England dailies. He
married Marian Harriet Pelley
(from whom he was separated In
1891, and from whom he Is now
seeking q divorce). Their first
daughter died.
Pelly turned to magazine and
novel writing.
When America entered the World
War, Policy was in the Orient. He
went with Japanese forces to ST.
IBERIA as q Y.M.C.A. worker. con-
slilar courier, and war correspond
eIlt, and "came back to the United
States to face q newspaper business
In ruins"
Turns to Movies
Policy then turned to Hollywood,
writing for the movies. He wrote
eral for Lon CLANCY.
He wrote books: The Greater
Glory, The Fog, Drag, Golden Rub
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lieved to be AL Aguirre, business
associate.
Conflicting Reports.
Conflicting reports over the
grandfather's whereabouts Develop
ed early today. Unconfirmed re-
ports here said he had returned
from consulting seer at Santa
Ana as to the fate of his grand
child. At Nogales border officials
denied he had recrossed the line.
The United Press correspondent
at Nogales said the general belief
there was that the group had
driven into the mountain fastness
of Upper Sonora to keep a rerdez-
Gus with an agent of the kidnapers
or possibly the kidnapers them
selves. The rugged district long
has been used as a hideout for
Mexican bandits and fugitives from
justice on both sides of the borden.
Despite activity of the federal
local police, many officials were
convinced June was dead. Among
these was Gov. B. B. Moeur who
came here to extend his sympathies
to the girls parents, Mr. and Mrs
Fernando Robles. Moeur, a ply
sician, believed she had been alb.
Quoted by a demented man.
Family Ready to Pay.
The family was prepared to
meet any demand for June's re-
lease. The elder Robes has with
drawn $4,000 from the bank In
denominations of twenty, ten and
five dollar bills as stipulated in the
original ransom note. it was learn
ed. With the exception of last
night. he had followed out the
notes instructions to drive each
night after 8 a. m. along a desig-
mated highway until he saw q
white string stretched across the
road. But on each drive, he found
no such string and returned home,
more dispirited than ever.
A separate all-night vigil was
maintained in the office of Carlos
Robes, uncle Of the missing girl
and assistant county attorney of
Pima county.
Mexican government officials
cooperated with u. S. department
Of Justice agents in the case. Hours
after Robles and his companions
| left NogaIes a Mexican government
automobile carrying two Mexican
officials and two armed members
of the u. s. border patrol followed
them. They were said to be under
| instructions to watch movements
Of the 73-year-old retired cattle
baron.
Police Activity Ceased.
Dunn was insistent that an po-
lice activity cease to allow the
kidfiapers more freedom to nego-
Itiate. The 48-hour truce which
local peace officers called Ia the
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FRESHMAN Is "a

Boston. (UPl-The Oldest fresh
man at Bo6ton University's School
Of Law Is Charles Malcolm Taylor.
He's ga, only seven years younger
than Homer Albers. dean Of the
school. Though never contemplat-
ing the practice OF law. Taylor Is
keenIy intercsted in legal lore.
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The car stolen was the property
Of Rose Murphy, of 419 7 North
Main street, and had been parked
by Joseph Murphy, d tobacco sales
man. Murphy said n court this
morning that tobacco was missing
from the machine, that a tray
had been pulled out OF the dash
board and that the tenders had
been considerably damaged by no
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STRAND

Warner Brothers. sensational
smash hit musical Wonder Bar"
heads the double feature program
at Warmers Strand to-day, to-nor-
row and wednesday,. In the cast
ars such favorites as Kay Francis,
al Jolson, Ricardo Cortez, Dolores
Del Rio, Dick Powell. Henry Kol-
ker, Hal Leroy, Guy Kibbee, Hugh
Herbert, Ruth Donnelly, Louise
Fazenda, Fiji D'Orsay and Myrna
Kennedy.
As "Wunderbar,' this unique
musical proved an international
sensation a fe few years ago. It
played for months in all Of Eu-
ropes capitals and was brought
to this country as q stage star
ring vehicle for AL Jolson. He took
It os the road after a season in
New York and no production since
1.-THE MIRACLE has been SO gener-
ally and SO generously welcomed.
A few months ago First National
acquired the screen rights to the
production and proceeded at once
to make extensive plans for its
presentation as the greatest film
spectacle of modern times. s
1t is said that the. screen YER
sion of wonder Bar" returns to
some extent to the European
script which was considerably al
tered for the American stage
production. This increases the
Importance OF the roles played by
the long list Of stars assigned to
the picture.
Busby Berkeley, creator OF the
musical number that featured
"Gold Diggers of 1893" A42nd
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idea that a. huge cosmic disturb
ance was going to destroy great
part of eastern United States, but
that the Ashville district would be
safe.
On the day specified, Policy and
his followers gathered at he COL
lege to await the great doom, but
nothing happened. ;
There was also n scheme for q
colony near Asheville to become q
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viii address Rotarians III the 17th
district here May = and 5. The dle-
trict includes So South Texas clubs.
Walter r. Jenkins, Houston, p dis
trict soverncrs
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noe A4il DIAMOND

Mansfield, 0hio-=fUP)-A dog
which played goat. at least Is far
as its stomach was CONCERNED, /. 4
for 9 while. The diamond from her
engagement ssssgs ring had been missing
friends suggestion, she took her
him to apply 4 stomach pump. It
was as the friend had surmised,
the dog had eaten everyingthinE In
sight. The stone was found.
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RorARIAN no SPEAK

Laredo, Tex. (UP Ed r. John
son Of Roanoke, Va, first vice.
president o. Rotary International.
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Wellesley, Mass. CUP Ian elec-
tric automobile purchased in 1915
sIeh y e. q Fl wsil sts f en-
isss drives i rssniarls.
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GIRL HAS DIED
lieved to be AL Aguirre, bushes
associate.

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SHOTS FIRED TO
STOP AUTO THIEF

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EXCHANGE MADE

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Police Activity Ceased.

Dunn was insistent that All po-
lice activity cease to allow the
kidfiapers more freedom to nego-
tiate. The 4S-hour truce which,
local peace officers called Ia the
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MEAD SOUGHT

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-06-07
Alaskan Dog Musker, First Lady, Friends

WASHINGTON, June 7.-The friendship of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the President, formed last October at the Worlds Fair with Slim Will jams, and his Alaskan huskies, will be renewed if she sees the new Century of Progress this year.
 Depend upon it, I will see my friend Slim and his dogs" the First Lady said in discuss ing the possibility she may visit the fair.
 Mrs. RoCse welt rode into Maryland to give Slim and his dogs a last farewell when they o.arted for Chicago a week ago.
 All winter long Slim camped about Washington and visited the various Federal Depart mcpts in behalf Of Alaskan af- fairs. Once, in heavy snow storm, Slim drove his dog team through the White House grounds to the delight of Sister and Buzzie Dall, the Presiden- tial grandchildren,