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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-20
CHAPTER v

II am not accusing anyone OF Ar
mold BenthorneS murder yet, "
Captain Dawson said. THE fact
that you once captained a pistol
team does not make you killer. /
could have found out from the rec
ords anyway. but prefer to have
you tell me-"
Helen Benthorne sobbed into the
back Of her chair OIL can't -
I can't stand any morel"
Gently, Dawson lifted her to her
feet. II know, I know" he said
soothingly. you may go upstairs
now, try to get some rest" He led
her to the doorway, beckoned to
Krone, standing at the end of the
hall. Take Mrs. Benthorne to her
room. Check the quarters care
fully, make sure all the doors are
locked There Is no need for
you to get frightened. Mrs. Ben
thorne. There will be an officer
within CALI
She tried to smile her thanks,
btu 1t was feeble effort.
&AAh kAAOAAS ~aWoOll dlNSh
Send that butler, Jameson here"
"You called for me Captain Daw-
son?" Jameson bowed stiffly as he
entered the room. Dawson stopped
his pacing across the study floor,
Yes he snapped. Where
were you when Benthorne was
shot?"
II had just let Mr.. Alton in the
back entry, SIR Jameson said.
Il wanted to take his things - his
wet coat and hat - but he seemed
to be in a hurry. I knew Mrs.
Benthome was expecting him-she
had asked me to be sure he got in
the back way all right. He - Mr.
Aston - seemed quite upset, If I
may say so, sir
You may. What did Aston
do?"
He started up the back stairway
Its closer TO Mrs. Benthorne's
rooms - and told me to go to bed.
And he told me not to tell
Mr.. Benthorne that he - Mr.. Al
Ston - was in the house."
And then what did YOU do?"
Il went directly to my quarters.
sir. They're on the ground floor.
beyond the kitchen. Daniels, the
chauffeur, was there. We'd been
having a few drinks. Daniels will
tell you-"
How about that front doorP"
Dawson turned on the man. Il
ordered that front door left I'M
locked. But when Flynn and
Krone tried to get IN"
Habit. sir, habit" Jameson apol-
ogized. I've been locking UP Mr..
Benthorne's house for years, sir,
every night at TO- Tonight I made
my usual rounds and stopped at Mr..
Benthorne's study to say good night
to him. To tell the truth. sir. l for
got all about your order for the
front door.
Mr.. Benthorne seemed to be
expecting someone. sir. He told
me TO unlock the side entrance"
What side entrance?"
I thought you knew, sir. It
looks like a closet door, sir. IT'S
rlgnt across the hall" He led
Dawson out of the study. opened
the doorway few feet down the
hall, pointed down a long passage
way. 1T opens directly on the
street, sir" he explained. MANY
OF Mr.. Benthorne's visitors used
this entrance"
well. Ill be damnedp Dawson
growled and slammed the door,
About how long. Mr.. Aston
We're you in the house before vol,
heard the Shot?"
NOT more than five minutes
Captain William Aston renlied
after pause. Il had lust reached
the second floor. I can't move very
last especially up stairs - nv
Dawson nodded, waited for AL.
sion TO continue. 1t was clearly
evident the man was not we'll His
cneeks were sallow, his eyes with
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-20
SOCIETY PLANS
FOR FEB. DANCE

Professional entertainment &c
planned Tor the annual dance of the
ClvlIta Progresso society which will
take place February 3 at Bucking-
ham hall.
The committee in charge has en-
gagged Joe DiPietro's orchestra to
play Tor dancing, and number of
well-known entertainers will be fea-
tured in a gala floor show.
AgoStino Agostini is chairman of
the arrangements committee. as
sisted by John Rossi. secretary. and
A. Capocchi, treasurer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-20

ABOUT RIVERS

If you studied your geography les
sons carefully when you were in
school, you won't have much trouble
with today's problems. All you need
to do is pick out the name of the
body of water into which the river
named in each group flows.
/. Mohawk river: (a) st. Law
renee river tb) Bay OF Biscay, Co
Hudson river Id Lake Erie.
2. Missouri river: ca Mississippi
river, (b) Gulf OF Mexico, Co Rio
Grande river, I'd Great Salt Lake
3, Allegheny river: ca) Lake
Huron, (b) st. Lawrence river, (c)
Atlantic ocean, I'D Ohio river.
T. Columbia river: (a) Caribbean
sea, tb) Lake Superior, (c) Colorado
river, I'D Pacific ocean.
5. Susquehanna river: ca Allan
tic ocean, (b) Chesapeake bay, Co
Potomac river cd Hudson bay.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-20

For centuries 1t was contended
that the African elephant could not
be domesticated. but the Belgian
government Is offering very tangi-
bic proof TO the contrary on its ele-
plant farm In the Congo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-20

Answers on Back Page
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-16

back for the time being-the revo-
luton seeped across the interna-
tional frontiers of middle Europe,
and eventually the fuehrer had to
strike or II would be too late.
His blow shattering the rem
nants of the Czechoslovak republic
cleared away stubborn interference
which the Czechs had provided in
Bohemia, which Bismarck itler's
hero-considered the key to domi-
nance of Europe.
II provided stunning example
for other eastern European ma
tons. especially Hungary, whose
great landowners are fearful of
Nazi state socialism and whose
army is creating the most serious
danger of war (but hardly a
major war; by its seizure of the
eastern tip of Czechoslovakia
known as Carpatho-Ukraine.
Expect No Big War
How great is the danger of a
conflict in Carpatho- Ukraine will
depend upon developments as Pol
ish and Rumanian troops mass
along their own frontiers.
II is obvious that Hitler has
every expectation of keeping the
struggle localized. that Britain
and France will go TO great lengths
TO avoid being involved and that
the Nazi military might will pre-
vail in the end. barring the highly
unlikely development of a general
conflict.
Most authoritative Nazi sources
left little question that Hitler had
agreed to Hungarian occupation of
Carpatho- Ukraine. BY relinquish-
ing his objections to a common
Hungarisn-Polish frontier. Hitler
might create good will in those
countries and in Rumsnis.
The Nazis have. however. moved
closer TO the Ukraine by this
weeks gains the Slovsk-
ian wedge of IA. 200 square miles
deeply into the thin wall of neutral
states dividing them from Russian
soil.
The threat OF hatred against the
Sovlets that colored Hitlers pre-
view of European history in Mem
kampf," and that has run like
red vein through the pattern OF
peace since Munich. loses none of
its vividness as the Czechoslovak
republic dissolves into the dust.
Hitler can still write ito be
continued" At the end Of the
chapter.
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phal entry into his new protec-
torate.
The great financial centers Of
the world were calm. The stock
market suffered hardly ripple Of
excitement while the fuehrer re-
arranged the central European
map to an extent that made the
Sudetenland seizure seem like an
odd-lot deal.
In England. even the socialist
opposition In the house Of commons
looked on in comparative silence,
while Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain figuratively washed
the governments hands of a new
power politics upheaval in an area
that once was-and may still be
the key to power in all Europe.
Hitler Must Go On
The contrast between the threat
of a European war that marked
the Sudetenland crisis and today's
international unconcen in the face
Of still more sweeping develop
ments is in the roots of the Mu-
Mich settlement. At that time, both
Britain and France surrendered
central and eastern Europe to Hit
Ter and asked him to keep his face
turned east.
There then appeared to be r
period of peace and consolidation
ahead for that part of the CONT
nent.
But Hitler had long ago started
a revolution that he could not stop.
even II he desired. The Nazi ex-
pansion had to keep on-or ex-
plode.
Hungary Worried
Almost automatically - in fact.
against Hitler's own desire TO hold
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Closure of Port
of Portland Near

PORTLAND. Ore.-A gang of
longshoremen refused to pass a
weather-beaten Chinese picket line
around the freighter Ann stath-
altos at 8 a. m. today, indicating
waterfront employers would close
the port of Portland Thursday
over the dispute of shipping scrap
iron to Japan. barring a last min
ute compromise.
Employers announced yesterday
union contracts would be suspend
ed, shutting down the port at 8
a. m. Thursday, unless longshore-
men started loading the iron by
a. m. today. A handful of Chi
nese, huddled around campfires.
braved wet. foggy night to picket
the Greek freighter for the 18th
successive day.
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MORE FUNDS ASKED
TO STRENGTHEN CANAL

NASHINGTON Pres iden (
Roosevelt Tuesday asked congress
for an emergency appropriation of
Sl4, 100000 and authority to con-
tract for an additional $1,000 900
OF buildings, equipment, and other
materials to be used lin increasing
the security of the structures and
facilities of the Panama Canal"
The letters to congress stated
that the proposed appropriation
was the first part of a two-year
program entailing expenditures of
S2s.OOO.OOO for the Canal Zone
facilities.
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1t also Is budapest for the
future, because now that Hitler has
wiped the postwar republic of
Czechoslovakia off the map. the
troubled and kingless Kingdom of
Hungary is next in his path-and
beyond Hungary lies the Ukraine
of Soviet Russia.
Eight months ago 1t would have
been unbelievable that any man or
nation could break up and absorb
the Czechoslovak republic. which
the victorious World war allies
erected as a middle Europe bar
ricade against future wars.
Powers Look Away
II would have been fantastic TO
imagine that the president of a
sovereign nation would rush to
Berlin to ask Hitler what to do;
or that the gray-green armies of
Germany could march unopposed
into Prague; or that the hodge
podge Of the old Austria Hungarian
empire could be rebuilt-with all
Of its inner conflicts-overnight.
Yet Hitler has done II He has
done 1t in the space of few
months and the two great demo-
cratic victors in the World war
Great Britain and France have
looked the other way.
The French government made
one feeble and meaningless gesture
when It asked Hitler II his inten-
tions toward Carpatho Ukraine
were honorable.
Markets Calm
That gesture. made because of
French military ties with Poland
and Rumania. came only after the
fuehrer had started on a trium
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CHAMBERLAIN'S
HOLDING COURSE
GREAT BRITAIN

Great Britain interrupted i'm
portant trade negotiations with
Nazi Germany today. as Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain told
the house Of commons that nat
urslly ! should bitterly regret the
fate of Czechoslovakia since the
peace of Munich.
The resentment of the British
government over Germany's break
up Of czechoslovskia. in contradic-
ton of the agreement made at
Munich. was forcefully stated in
both the house of lords and the
house OF commons. but the prime
minister added:
Let us not on that account be
DETECTED from our course Let US
remember the desire of all peoples
OF the world still is concentrated
on hopes for peace and a return to
an atmosphere of understanding
and good will which so often has
been disturbed.
We must suffer checks and
disapp0intments from time TO
time. but the object we have
In mind IL of too great sig
nificance to mankind for us
lightly 10 give II up or set II
TO one side
That hopes for improvement of
international relations had been
gravely set back by the dissolution
of Czechoslovakia was made clear
by Viscount Halifax. foreign sec
rotary. and Chamberlain, who was
greeted with a communist shout
Of: you've sold a nation into
slavery
The government position was
clarified in much stronger terms
than had been expected after both
Britain and France had inquired of
Berlin as to Germany's plans in
regard to the future of the dis
solved Czechoslovak republic.
The German foreign office
replied that the military Occur
patton of Czechia had been
with the consent of the Prague
government and said full de-
tails would he given Britain
and France later.
Prime Minister Chamberlain and
Viscount Halifax asserted Britain
had no idea such developments
would follow when it joined in the
Munich settlement.
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List Dance Pupils to Take
Part in Review Thursday

Jensen. Lenore Anderson, Shirley
Clark. Joyce Dsvey. Jack Dug
wyler. Robert Dugwyler. Dan
Gundv. Jean Hagemeyer. Miriam
Hanson. Shirley Hanson. Jacqueline
Jones. kathleen Jones. Loretta
Mackey. Jean Morrell. Mary
Murphy. Patsy Murphy. Patricia
Mulligan. VIVA Ellison. Phyllis
Anderson. Phyllis Berry. Joyce
Bjelland. Charlene Brundsen,
Evelyn Doughty. Fac Elliot. Joy
Fenton. Mary Ann Hall. Jean Nc
Leod. Rosemary Mulligan, kath-
crime Strseke. Lydia Stracke. Do
lores Visell. Alice Warter. Betty
Warter Emma Lou Umphres,
Shirley Maddox. Doris Aylesworth,
Lois Aylesworth. Pauline Du-
Chsrme. Richard knsuf. Emily
kilde. Virginia kilde. Frances Nc
Donald. Msrilyn Rostedt. Nadine
Rostedt. and Joyce Taylor.
Harold Blake's Class - Dolores
Westerdal. Joan Miller. Ruth
Miller, Deltha Bures, Valera
Bures. Dolores Jacobs. Shirley
Harris. Louise Fullinwider. Nancy
Moffst, Kathryn Vaughn, Janice
Johnson. Joan Bsunsgard. Bonnie
Sinclair Virginia Gundstrom. Dicky
Muzzy. Charlotte O'Neill, Marilyn
Moe, Bettygene Terry, Wynona
Lecrone, Shirley Smith, Cecil
Bures. Wayne Bures, Marion
Wallace.
j. Mae Chambers and Iris Dea-
cons Classes-Shirley Friske, Ken.
meth johnson, Margaret Kennedy,
Wallace Hanson, Patricia Piper,
Seer Weber. Joe Boyne, Ralph
Cline, John Copeland. Warren
Danielson, Ted Deems. Walt Eat
man, Leroy Fleischman. Herb
Graen, Gene Gronenthal, Richard
Haglund, Tom Hamilton, Oliver
Holmquist, Gerald Jacques, Bud
Johnson, Mason Jones. Robert
Joshlin, Loren Kissick, Theo. Kis-
sick, John Lamme, Keith Langtor,
Al Leblanc. Jack Leek, Bob Lin.
quist, Bud Lyphardt, Glen Palmer,
Dean Pile. Jack Nendarfer, Bill
Rebough, John Revitt, Art Rip
hinger, Dan Robertson. Walt Sea.
bloom. Dave Stockton, Don Stranz,
Mac Tournall Bob White, Doris
May Ball, Betty Beasley, Betty
Bowers, Hazel Clesry, Reba Cline.
Helen Cox, Dollie Craig. Pearl De-
Maris, Jean Ellington, Betty Ann
Grace, Dorothy Haugland. Lura
Irish, Peggy Johnson, Shirley
kirkman. Eleanor Langton. Lois
Larson. June Macdonald, Elaine
McLorimson, Mary Ellen Murphy,
Pat Norman, Pat O'Leary. Alice
Packard. Virginia Plat, Dolores
Pratt, Lily Rodius, Pat Sekor,
Esther Sherman, Peggy Simeral.
Lois Slythe, Irene Sullivan. Ann
Tammi, Garnet Thompson. Betty
Lou Trickey, Janet Walters, Jane
and Violet Wilson.
In the first half of the program
a wide variety Of mass and small
group numbers will be presented
in tap routines. The last half of
the program will be given over to
social dance numbers. This pro-
gram will start with a prize waltz
with entries from the various
dancing classes participating
Numbers to follow will include the
Lambeth Walk" 'Palais Glide"
Meath the Spreading Chestnut
Tree, Georgian Waltz" and the
Muckleshoot Stomp"
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Milton Votes TO
Buu Electricitu

Electors at Milton Tuesday de-
cided by an Overwhelming ma
jority to purchase electricity from
the city of Tacoma. The vote was
1870 for purchase of power from
Tacoma and 81 voted against the
ballot proposition.
Percy Walden and Charles
F1ncher were chosen as city
councilmen, while Lillian l.. Smith.
unopposed, was returned as treas
urer.
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REDCH|EFT TAIN
WARNS NAzls!
Says Peacetime Army
Strength Now L.
100000
RUSSIA

Soviet Russias peace-time army
strength il more than $500 900
men. Defense Commissar klementi
Voroshilov told the 18th commu-
mist party congress in an apparent
warning against Nszi Germsny's
march to the east"
With foreign observers speculate
ing On whether Germany is head
ing toward the Soviet Ukraine, the
Russian defense commissar de-
ciared the red army's great war
plane fleet could carry 5000 tons
Of bombs in one mass flight. and
that II II ready at any moment
70 fight an invasion.
Voroshilov did not refer Ia
Germany nor did he give spe-
cffbc figures on the man power
II the rcd army. but he said its
HiEe and strength was doubled
aimee 1914. which compared
With the last published figures
n 1855 Of l,3O0. 900 men.
In view of the armament race
everywhere. he said, the red army
had been compelled to abandon its
former organization by territories
and become entirely a profession
aily-officered organization. trained
in the spirit Of internationalism."
His announcement apparently in
dicated that such separate divi-
nions n the far eastern army
which was an autonomous fighting
force-had been brought under a
high command.
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Mcneil NAzIS
ARE RESTLESS
LTTHUANIA

Willy Ncumann. Nazi leader in
the Nemel district, gathered the
German deputies In the parliament
building today and declared the
present time requires quick de-
cisions."
In case a necessity" Neu-
mann said, Il am entitled to take
Ill the requisite steps to conduct
the proper negotiations on behal;
Of the 81 per cent German popula-
ton Of Mcneil"
Neumann denounced the internal
tional Nemel statute under which
the state u governed a. introduced
against the will of the German
population. and said II had been
violated repeatedly.
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Dancing instructors OF the vari-
Gus classes in the school centered
community recreation program
have selected the following dancers
10 participate in the annual dance
review program to be held in the
boys gymnasium of the Lincoln
high school at s P. m. Thursday
Reitha Gehri's Glasses - Doris
Anderson. Lucille Anderson. Lor-
raine Besrdemphl, Edna Collins.
Betty Jean Erickson. Mary Finkle.
Nellie Finkle. Bonnie Jean Glenn.
Ella Mae Goodell. Dorothy Grout.
Marian Hanson. Lucille johnson.
Dorothy kalanick, Irene kichinko.
Ardyth Lsngendorfer, Nina Lock-
wood, Annette Meyers. Lillian Mel
son. Virginia Nelson, Barbara
Noble. Betty Jane Olson. Wanda
Oskinski. Mary Ellen Paul. Nir-
ginia Potoski. Harriet Rice. Elaine
Rogers, Tsobel Ross. Airline Sagen.
Shirley Sagen. Orns Steiro. Jean
Wagner. Lois Wsrgo, Msrilyn
Wilton. Kathryn Yurisich, Ramona
Yurisich and Patricia Zabuski.
Mary Fowler's Glass - Janice
Costello. Irene Danielson, Jose
phine Eckroth, Minnie Eckroth,
Roy Eckroth. Eleanor Falk, Shirley
Gibbs, Bonita Grub, Katherine
Hoffman. Eugenia Marchesini,
Milla Marchesini, Rosemary Malt
zahn. Phyllis Maltzahn, Arletta
Mendenhall, Joan McIver, Marilyn
Schlewitz, Donna Sharp. Amabel
Stewart. Florence Rudd, Beverly
Wick, Marilyn Wick, Virginia
Yaeger, Darrell Radcliffe. Shirley
Templeman. Marian Trippear,
Joyce Weeks, and Joyce wrye.
Ethel Schuster's Class - Philip
Ryan, Louie Landers. Irwin Senske,
Billy Noble, Howard House. Will
bur Edmonds, Augusta Denny.
Joyce Halverson, Betty LaChap-
pelle, Yvonne Nichols, Tania Nc
Queen. Margaret Ehnat, Joe La
Porte, Maurice Classy, Pal Nelson.
Marcy Keck and Jean Williams.
Ann Benefits Classes - Audrey
Whitford. Shirley Whitford, Gale
Jones, Eloise Gallagher, Irene Tut
hill, Shirley Larson, Trudy Mockel,
Mary Lou Mockel. Florence Weis,
Beth Wray, Martha Hoover, Shir-
ley Wallin, Joan Vivian Olson,
Marilyn Sather, Lorraine Sather,
Rosalie Hoar, Margaret Good
nough, Virginia Brewer, Frances
Marie Elliott, Donna Lee Harrel-
son. Roxie Anna HARRISON. Jim
Stabbert, Bob Allison, Carol Gil
lespie, Janet Cooper, Margaret
Reeves, Doris Davey. Stanley
Warp, Richard Kampbell, Darveld
Unsin, Dick Mcmillan, Dorothy
Arley kolstad, Virginia
Ludwick, Dorothy Russell Betty
Sizer. Ruth Cooper, Ralph Arbuth-
not, Melvin Wilson, Dick Grenier,
Barbara Todd, Bill Dillmsn, Peggy
While. Stan King, Albert Polk.
Allan Smythe. George Hilline. Jack
Davis, Charles Darline. Jim Nissen.
Jerry Hadley, Philip Bowen,
Emery Mcdonald. Joe Bayne, Bob
oglivie, Staley Ellforth, John
Roller, Alfred Hoffman, Don Rich
nond and Bob Montgomery.
Jackie DuCharme's Glasses -
Silver. Beverly Munter,
Masako Yano. Bernice Swanberg,
Frances Swanberg, Bonita Olson.
Helen Olson, Irene Evans, Diane
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Primary Proposal
Loses in Spokane

SPOkANE-A city primary cleo
ton proposal was defeated on
about a 3 to 2 percentage in yes
terday's municipal election. Otto
Dirkes and DR.. Ralph Hendricks
easily won reelection as city COM
missioners.
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Incumbents Win
Out in Seattle

SEATTLE - Voters yesterday
authorized special three-mill levy
for improvement of Seattle's
schools. Three city councilmen.
Robert H. Harlin, Frank ]. Laube
and David Levine, and a city comp
troller, w. c. Thomas, also were
elected. All were incumbents.
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for treasurer, received 1872 votes.
Two ballot propositions failed
to carry. Although total of "a
persons voted for proposal for
an additional 12-mill levy to re-
place the Winnifred st. bridge
with a concrete span and IS voted
against it, the majority was not
sufficient for the measure to
pass.
Voters turned down a proposal
for annexation to Metropolitan
Park district by a vote of l72 to
S7
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-03-16
Spokane Gets SnOU
On II March Daus

SPOKANE-For the eleventh
day this month snow fell over
Spokane today. An all-time rec
ord for March snowfall was ex-
pected to Be broken. Fifteen inch
a. Of snow have fallen so far this
month, The record IL Is.
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B00S, KISSES
GREET TROOPS
BOHEMIA

herman troops, occupying
the Czech provinces in the
name of Adolf Hitler, i'm
posed an 8 p. m. curfew on
Prague, the capital, today,
fearing an outburst of popular
hatred in the city of one-half
million population.
The German troops carried
riot guns in addition to their
ordinary arms, and were re-
ported to have mounted ma
chine guns at strategic points
where they could command
crowds.
They had entered the city to the
Kisses and cat calls of the people.
and, as they drew up in the
Wenceslas square in the center of
the city, the stirring strains of
the Czech national anthem, sung
by thousands of people with tears
running down their faces, rang in
their ears.
General Won Gablenx. one Of
the commanders of German
troops who marched In, was
appointed military governor Of
Prague. As he set up head
quarters in the former Czech
police headquarters. the gray
green columns continued to
pour into Prague through a
driving snow with thousands
bOOing thsm-the first time
Adolf Hitler's soldiers ever
have been ridiculeti In public.
The situation changed rapidly.
During the night, when the people
first heard that Hitler was to be
their protector" the city had been
demoralized. Terror reigned.
BY the time the advance guard
Of the Germans arrived. people
began TO come out into the streets.
When they saw German soldier.
some of them would put their
hands before their faces in sign
Of horror and disgust and turn
away. This was not evident in
front of the German minority
headquarters. where large groups
of Germans gathered and shouted
wildly in joy.
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Northwest manager of distribu-
ton for Universal Pictures. Inc.
L. j. mckinley was the principal
speaker Wednesday at the lunch
con meeting of Gyro club in Hotel
Winthrop.
Mckinley is widely knokn on the
Pacific coast for his wit and is
much in demand as an after-dinner
speaker and POSTMASTER for serv-
ice organizations, high schools and
colleges.
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kM1gless Hlu7gania,7s
Lie in HnZer'S Path
German Fuehrcr Now Has Risen
to Tremendous Heights of
Power in World Affairs

EDITORS NOTE: Hitler has uritten another import
ant chapter the history of World peace Munich
The following dispatch tells how fits the intricate
European pattern.