Scores of Women, Children Killed Austrian Battle

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Austria May Merge fJOW AT OVER 1,000 By Associated Press ;^on Austrian goods and join other The dramatic return of two young Concern lest the ultimate result ^countries in extending credits. of the uprising in Aust-'a be its Official comment was lacking in men to the scene of their operations Rome but many Italians expressed No Estimate Of Wounded— In Suburb Of Vienna Women of two weeks before, led to the cap union with Nazi Germany was ex fears Nazis would gain the upper ture of five juveniles by lieutenant pressed today in the capitals of hand in the little neighboring coun Fougbt All Through The Night Beside Their Men And William Barron of the Manchester Great Gritain, Italy and France. try. police yesterday afternoon for the London, through Captain An An unofficial proposal by Henry burglary of the home of Mrs. Alfred thony Eden, lord privy seal, is c~- Berenger, chairman of the foreign Many Were Killed— Believe Socialists Cannot Hold Hayes of 72 Bissell street, the theft pected to inform Chancellor Hitler affairs committee of the French of about $100 in money from a small of Germany within a week that it Senate, that France, Italy and safe in the Bissell street home, two insists on Austrian independence. Great Britain intervene to protect Out Much Longer Against Loyal Forces. old wedding rings and an opal ring The French Cabinet decided to Austria’s independence should the of undetermLied value, a gold watch give the Dollfuss government econo Socialists win had drawn no re and revolver owned by the late Al mic aid and plans to enlarge quotas sponse from London or Rome. Vienna, Feb. 14.— (A P )—Scores <S>- fred Hayes, a former policeman. of women and children are unoffi- ' Mrs. Hayes who was formerly cially reported among the casualties ' Heimwehr Head cashier for Leland T. Wood, with Vienna’* Karl Marx House (above), housing 2,000 Socialist families, became the center of the grimmest the office in her home at 72 Bissell fighting in the Austrian Socialist uprising when government troops opened artillery fire on the famous of Austria’s civil war. Areet, has been living with her $4,000,000 dwelling, Europe’s largest apartment house. Residents held off the troops by machine grin fire. A . P. WRITER DESCRIBES While the government is publish- , sister Mrs. Florence Hollister, 42 ing no death toll details, feeling that i Hollister street this winter. Mrs. woula only add flame to the public | Hayes made frequent trips to the excitement, an unofficial estimate Bissell street home, but during the shows between 1,000 and 1,500 per recent cold weather she did not URGES SUBSffiY S C E l^ S A F T E R B A T T L E sons have been killed in combat venture out. “BABY” DIES, SO FAMILY Noted Shade Not Drawn throughout the nation. Yesterday afternoon, when the There are uncounted multitudes of weather warmed up considerably, OF OCEAN MAIL Streets Strewn With Dead; SCIENTISTS STUDY Injured. Mrs. Hayes went to the house, and DECIDES TO FOLLOW HER The estimate of casualties is en upon approaching the location she tirely unoffocial but was arrived at noticed one of the shades in the up So M a n y Wounded Not through conversation with govern per part of the house lifted. She re AND t e TERMS ECLIPSE OF SUN ment officials, army officers, and a membered, distinctly, she said to Faikt, Holla, M T .. ; r e p o r t WOODRING personal inspection by the Associat day, that all shades in the house had Enough Cars Availahle To ed Press staff on the scenes of war beOT drawn before closing the house Do m H w . I n , Oa Gas; f Q | j£5||3( 5()0k fare. the week before Thanks^ving when President Roosevelt Asks Take Them Away. 33 Japanese And Two Amer Many Women Killed she went to the Hollister street re This inspection indicated it waa latives to live for the winter months. All But One Dead— She ___ Complete Reorganization safe to say that there have been at She entered the house and found icans Make Trip To Little least scores of women and children the kitchen ransacked, a large desk By WADE WERNER among the casiialties. In the kitchen completely overhaul May Die. (Copyright 1934 by AP) ed, with drawers and pigeon-holes Washington Newspaper Says Of Contract System Now It is nard to look at the shell-torn Floridsdorf, Suburb of Vienna, Island In The Pacific. factory homes M d buildings in the opened and the contents thrown ' ’ i over the floor. A fire had been built Austria, Feb. 14.— (AP)— This fac suburb of Floridsdorf alone without ''' In Use. < . s at the time of the break, evidently Fort Wayne, Ind., Feb. 14.— (AP) Assistant Secretary Of tory suburb on the outskirts of a temptation to allow at least one Losap, Caroline Islands, Feb. 14— to furnish heat for the operators. —^With the Larwllls it was always Vienna — one of the centers of the woman or child for every 20 male Every room was ransacked and a (A P )—Cloudless skies gave Ameri casualties there. one for all, all for one— even to War Win Quit Post. Socialist population—is a shell-tom small safe had been pulled to the Washington, Feb. 14.—(AP) — For it was in Floridsdorf that wo death. shambles today. can and Japanese scientists an un cellar stairs from its place in the President Roosevelt wtints a com men fought aU through the night dining room, the cellar door batter Relatives often commented on the Tomas street is strewn with dead. surpassed, opportunity to observe plete reorganization of the ocean beside their men against overwhelm ed down and the safe resting bot family devotion in the household of Washington, Feb. 14.—(AP) — Many buildings are wrecked by and photograph the solar eclipse Maj. Emil Fey, above, vice chan the government artillery fire Snd ing numbers of government troops tom up on the cellar floor beWw, the Keimeth Leu-will, 54‘ 3rer- 5’d>attor The WashingJon ’^enin^Bt^r sid mail eoatnfct systetff and an which traced a 6,000-mile arc over cellor and head of the Heimwehr, ney, his wife, Mary, 52, and their several are burning. the Pacific ocean today. while shells screamed and smashed cement base hacked out with an today that Harry H. Woodring, as outright subsidy in place of the their homes into powder. Austria’s Fascist army, led rales axe. daughters, Mary, 28, Louis, 27, and I have just completed a tour of 'The 33 Japanese scientists in the present form of government aid to Indications that the government on Socialist headquarters that help Police Investigate “the baby,” Florence, age nine. sistant secretEiry of war, “is ex the district. Desultory shooting still expedition to Losap island, 1875 shipping. Itself recognizes the danger to chil ed start the trouble Austria now Sensing that a sum of money, old Devoted they were; but that all pected to resign shortly.” continues here, but the artillery miles southeast of Japan, pronounc faces. coins valued for their age, and per should die because “the baby” The Star said reports to that ef In ready answers to questions r,f bombardment has ceased. ed their efforts entirely successful. dren were seen in a government de haps of more value than current died—. fect were “current in government reporters who surrounded his letter I came across the Danube over the The two Americans—Joseph J. cree, issued tonight, closing all Aus coins, had been taken, Mrs. Hayes Florence had been ill with scarlet circles.” piled desk at his press conference, Floridsdorf bridge and at once en Johnson, instructor in astronomy at trian schools indefinitely and advice police clashed near the Philadelphia called the police and Lieut. Barron fever since November. Monday the “The resignation,” it added, “is it became plain that the President countered the shattered barricades (Jalifomia Institute of Technology issued yesterday to keep children off bridge, necessitating the suspension was called to investigate. He was doctor came, felt the feeble pulse looked for regardless of the outcome is weighing decision on the future from which the Socialists had re and Dr. Willium Cohn, research fel the streets. of all traffic. accompanied to the house by Al- and shook his head. The father, of investigations being made of of air mail service along with many treated. 'These barricades had low at the University of California Although the Socialist quarters in Sporadic shooting was resumed mother and two sisters imderstood. Woodring’s handling of War Depart other matters of these days which blocked what once had-been an ac —withheld comment pending fur Vienna were momentarily captured, from various community apartment (Coottnaed od Page Two) Florence was dying.

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