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U. S. RAILROADS MOVE TO CUT WORKERS’ PAY 15 Per Cent Slash Will Be Effective July 1, Is Executives’ Order. PREPARE FOR PARLEY Notice Is Dispatched by Conference Committee of Managers. By 1 uitrd Prt l CHICAGO. Feb. 15—The principal railroads of the nation today served not ire on their employes that they will put into effect a 15 per cent wage cut effective July 1. 1934. The wage cut would be in effect lor one year ‘‘and thereafter subject to the provisions of the Railway Labor act.” It was stipulated that the reduction would supersede the present deduction of 10 per cent which lias been in effect for more and a year and which expires on June 30 of thus year. The notice to railway labor executives was dispatched by the conference committee of managers which previously represented the railways in wage negotiations. Today’s notice was in accordance with a paragraph of the previous agreement which stipulated that neither the railroad managements nor the labor unions would seek to modify the 10 per cent cut until Feb. 15, 1934. It appeared that negotiations would precede any final action in the matter, as the conference committee of managers declared that it would open an initial negotiations conference in Chicago on March 1. News of thus economy move followed reports that the Big Four, the Chicago. Indiana polis & Louisville, the Baltimore & Ohio, the Pennsylvania and the Transcontinental Western Airways might be forced by the federal government to abandon their offices on the Circle and consolidate in the Union depot. It was understood that the move would be effective March 31 and that it was part of a general plan of Joseph B. Eastman, federal rail co-ordinator, to bring about tremendous savings in railroad operation throughout the countryLocal railroad officials were unable to throw any light on the situation, saying that they were awaiting word from their general offices. BOMBING THREATENED, CITY CLEANER CLAIMS Warned to Close Shop, Northside Owner Tells Police. Threats that unless he left the cleaning business he would be ‘bombed out” were received last night by Forest E. Doolittle. 30. of 2407 North New Jersey street, operator of a cleaning shop at 4318 East Tenth street, he told police.* Mr. Doolittle said that he found the note in his car parked in front of West Ohio street, following a meeting of a cleaner's association where the price was boosted from 75 cents to 95 cents for the Easter trade. Mr. Doolittle said that he refused to raise prices. ENGINEERING SOCIETY TO MEET TOMORROW Fifty-fourth Anniversary to Be Observed in City. The fifty-fourth annual meeting of the Indiana Engineering Society will open at 10 tomorrow at the Lincoln. The gathering is open to all engineers. Following reports of President Ben H. Petty. Lafayette: VicePresident W. C. Mabel I .' Indianapolis. as Secretary-Treasurer W. A. Knapp. Lafayette, talks will be given by A. A. Potter. Purdue university; L. W. Bruck, and L. D. Davis. Indianapolis. Luncheon will be followed with talks by G. E. Lommel and G. W. Haskins. Purdue: J. E. Hall. Lafayette. and A. H. Hinkle. H. O. German and L. A. Guepel. Indianapolis. Election of officers will close the afternoon meeting. The Indiana Society of Architects will join the Engineers' Society in a stag dinner at 6:30. Kurt Vonnegut will be toastmaster. SEEK~S3ELQOO DAMAGES Parents Allege Son Crippled For Life After Fall From Car. Demanding $35,000 damages, a suit was filed today in superior court, Room 2 against the Indianapolis Union Railway Company by the parents of 8-year-old Veehil Hogan. The suit alleges that the boy was frightened by railway employes and fell off a moving car at Applegate street. April 20. 1933. The suit claims that the boy suffered permanent injuries and will be crippled for life. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 38 10 a. m 42 7a. m 37 11 a. m 43 Ba. m 36 12 moon. 45 9a. m .... 39 Ip. m 44 Times Index Page Berg Cartoon 12 Bridge • 7 Broun 11 Classified 17. 18 Comics 19 Crossword Puzzle ...15 Curious World 19 Editorial .42 Financial 15 Indiana Statesmen 11 Pegler 11 Radio 10 Sports 16, 17 State News 14 War Pictures -.13 Woman s Pages 6. 7

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Girl’s Happiest Birthday Shattered by Drowning of Brother-Playmate, 3

Brave Miss, 5, TeJls of Efforts to Rescue Lad From Creek. Today a tiny white casket in ihe j living room of a yellow bungalownear Crooked Creek, north of the city, stood in the midst of a tragic family. Yesterday, Olney Mae Wright, 5. was happier than she ever had been before in her short life. It was her birthday and St. Valentine's day, too. Gleefully she opened presents and gaudily painted valentines with hearts and cupids. symbolic of life and love. And now- she stood bewildered in the presence of death. For the first time she was confronted with the mystery of life. Her childish mind struggled with the problem as she looked into the still, little face oi her brother Charles, 3. who was her inseparable playmate. "I told him to grab my coat. Then I reached for him and the ice broke under me. I got wet.” Sobs Story of Tragedy Over and over again amid sobs she repeated the story to her mother and her brothers and sisters in the home, on R. R. 17. She led a reporter for The Times across the field and down to the banks of Crook creek, where Charles, called Butch” by the family, was drowned yesterday. ‘lt was nice and warm in the ; sun ” the child explained, "and Barbara Jean Clouse, who lives next door to us, came over to play. She is five years old. too. Butch’ got on his tricycle and we all rode over here to the creek. ‘ We got off our tricycles at the edge of the water and ‘Butch’ laughed an.l threw his new red mittens and cap out on the ice. He started after them. The ice began to break. I took off my coat and yelled at him to grab it. He went under the water. I yelled and yelled but Butch - didn't hear me. Little Friend Praised ‘ Then Barbara and I walked out on the ice. We reached into the hole in the ice. I was holding on tight to Barbara’s hand, but all of a sudden the ice broke again and I went into the water. Barbara pulled me out, but I was all wet.” ‘ We ran to the house and told papa that Butch’ was gone.” Sadly Walter Wright, father of the children, took up the story, while “Butch's” other brothers and sisters, Alta 15, James 12 and Walter Jr. 7 listened and sobbed. “I had just come home from work for dinner,” he said. ‘ All the children except ‘Butch’ and Olney Mae. were at school. Suddenly Olney- Mae came running up to the house. She was soaking wet. She told me that the bay had fallen into the creek. Father Finds Body ‘‘l ran down to the banks and saw the hole in the ice. I waded into , the stream breaking up chunks of ice and looking into the water for the boy s body. The water was up to my neck. At last I found the little fellow. Unable to control his emotions. Wright cried openly. ‘‘lt was partly my fault,” he sobbed. “A few days ago I gave him anew pair of rubber boots. He had them on when he drowned. I , think the boots became filled with water and prevented him from rising to the surface.” ! Mr. Wright neglected today to recount the heroic measures he had taken to save the boy’s life. Placing the limp body of the child in his automobile the father began a frantic race with death. On the Michigan Hill road he me the fire rescue squad hastily summoned by neighbors. Working in relays the firemen and the father tried to save the baby's life. Their efforts were futile. Tomorrow, funeral services will be held over the little white casket. But today Olney Mae sobs uncontrollably—for she has seen death. NARCOTIC OFFICER HERE Ninth District Supervisor Visits Local Headquarters. Mrs. Elizabeth Bass, supervisor for j the Ninth narcotic district, inspected the local narcotic offices in Room 203 federal building today. Mrs. Bass is prominent in Democratic politics in Illinois, having been a former national committee woman from that state. She is the only woman executive in the narcotic service.

‘Tough Judge * Will Hear Kinder Case, Says Baker

A "tough judge" will hear the case against Man,' Kinder, alleged Dillmger gang "gun moll. ’ it was indicated today when she both won and lost in a motion to quash hearing before Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker. Mrs. Kinder was brought into court at a hearing to quash the indictment charging she aided the escape from the state prison of Harry Pierpont. alleged trigger man of the Dillinger mob. and her admitted lover. On motion of Deputy Prosecutor Oscar Hagemeier. the indictment was nolle prossed. Immediately Judge Baker ordered Mrs. Kinder held under $25,000 bond for new grand jury action under a statute making it an offense to aid a person to evade arrest after committing a felony. Another law makes it a felony to escape from jail or prison. When Miss Jessie Levy, defense attorney, protested that the $25,000 bond is prohibitive, Judge Baker said:

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STARTS SENATE TERM IN JAIL Brittin Accepts Sentence, but McCracken Takes Case to Courts. By United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 15.—Colonel L. H. Brittin, elderly vice-president of Northwest Airways, entered the District of Columbia jail at noon today to begin serving the ten-day sentence imposed upon him by the senate for contempt of its air mail investigating committee. Mr. Brittin, anxious to get the sentence over ana refusing to carry his case to the courts, was taken to the district jail by Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Chesley Jurney. The gray-haired aviation official, appearing gaunt, but carrying himself erect, stepped out of Jurney's limousine, walked quickly through the Iron barred gates of the old reustoned jail and was immediately tdken downstairs to the receiving room. En route to the jail Mr. Jurney released William P. MacCracken Jr., secretary of the American Bar Association and aviation lawyer who also was sentenced by the senate tp ten days in jail. Mr. MacCracken was released on $5,000 bond and his case immediately was carried to the District of Columbia court of appeals.

COPELAND RETURNED TO MICHIGAN CITY Dillinger Gangster’s Case Continued 10 Days. By Times (Special GREENCASTLE. Ind., Feb. 15. Sheriff Alva Bryan of Putnam county and Roy Nugent, Indiana state policeman, left here at noon today to return Harry Copeland, Dillinger gang member, to the state prison at Michigan City. Copeland was brought here yesterday to answer bank robbery charges, but his case was continued for approximately ten days. It was decided to return him to the prison for safe keeping. LOOT CATHOLIC CHURCH Gold Chalice and Silver Ciborium Stolen at Shoals. Indianapolis police were today notified by E. L. Carlio, pastor of a Catholic church in Shoals, that a gold chalice and a silver ciborium had been stolen from the church. Loses Overcoat Worth S4O Dr. L. A. Willits, 124 West Washington street, last night reported to police the theft of an overcoat worth S4O while at a downtown restaurant.

“I think society is better off with Mary Kinder in jail than out.” "Is your honor deciding this question on the merits of the case before it is tried?” asked Miss Levy. The court ignored the question. Then he commented: “If the state police can get only one witness in this case. I’ll go out and get them some witnesses, if they don't know where to find them. Os course. Miss Levy, you probably won't let me sit on the bench during this case.” ‘'That's probably true,” she commented. “Well, you won't get any judge less tough than I am. as I will nominate three men for special judge who are as tough as 1 am. “I want this bond to be prohibitive. If Mrs. Kinder got out of jail, she is dumb enough to run around the country with a bunch of machine gunners.” During conversation. Mrs. Kinder, attractively dressed and smiling generously at the court and spectator* alike, sat with her mother and sister. /

Although her tiny fingers strove vainly to save the life of 3-year-old Charles Wright, drowned in Crooked creek yesterday, Barbara Jean Clouse (above), did save Olney Mae, the baby’s sister, from a similar fate.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1934

EUROPE DRAWS RING OF STEEL AROUND AUSTRIA AS DOLLFUSS BREAKS BACKBONE OF REVOLT

Hill PROCEED HERE, BOOK REVEAIS New Projects on File Await Orders From Capital, Chief Says. Civil works administration projects will proceed as usual, pending further information from Washington, it was announced today by Director William H. Book. His CWA continuance plans were revealed following passage by congress of the $950,000,000 relief bill | yesterday. In the original bill, CWA was to cease today. New projects on file with the CWA state administration will not be approved until further orders are received, Mr. Book said. He issued the following statement concerning hours of work: “Because of the reduction from thirty hours a week to twenty-four hours in urban areas and fifteen hours in rural districts, which went into effect Jan. 19, few of the projects which were expected to end Feb. 15 have been completed. “They were all figured on the estimated number of man hours of work required. With fewer hours of work for the last five weeks, nearly all of them have plenty of time left on the estimate originally approved. | In cases where the total man | hours on a project have been worked and the project is not completed, the county administrator is required to submit a supplemental application in order to carry on the work. “In cases where projects have been completed, the men employed are to be transferred to other projects.” :

U. S. Releases 150,000 By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. Demobilization of the huge army of persons employed under the civil works program was started today with the dismissal of approximately 150.000 workers. Enough money has been voted by congress to continue the CWA to May 1. Federal Civil Workss Administrator Harry L. Hopkins worked on details of a demobilization plan designed to completely disband the organization by that time. Workers ordered dismissed immediately are those who have been employed on civil works projects undertaken by federal agencies such as the war, navy, interior, agriculture and commerce departments. An order by Mr. Hopkins directed that 5 per cent of such workers, numbering 291,408, be discharged as of Feb. 15. Many of those separated from the CWA pay roll today may be rehired, Mr. Hopkins having suggested to state administrations that numerous federal CWA projects that he has ordered discontinued be accepted as state projects. “The civil works administration,” Mr. Hopkins said, “is prepared to authorize the several states to continue these projects as state and local projects beyond Feb. 15, wherever neoessary until they are completed or brought to a state of completion that reasonably safeguards the work heretofore done.” Federal projects discontinued today include cattle tick eradication, typhus fever control, citrus canker, dutch elm disease control, eradication of the wild peach, potato weevil eradication, spotted fever control, mosquito pest control, brown tail moth control, coast and geodetic survey, archaeological excavations by the Smithsonian Institute (except on public lands), various improvements in the Tennessee. Valley, except on public lands, major erosion water sheds, malaria control, rural sanitation, and sealing of mines.

AMERICAN GIRL SLAIN IN AUSTRIA RIOTING Killed in Vienna Street Fighting, New York Father Hears. By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—Alice Borowitz, 17. an American, was killed in the street fighting in Vienna, according to word received by her father. O. Borowitz. lunch room proprietor. Mr. Borowitz said his daughter had been staying with friends in the section of Vienna affected by the Socialist revolt. ROCKEFELLER LEAVES FOR FLORIDA HOME 94-Year-Old Oil Magnate. Over Illness, Goes South. By United Press TARRYTOWN. N. Y.. Feb. 15 John D. Rockefeller. Sr., left by train today for his winter home at Ormond, Fla. Mr. Rockefeller recently had been ill and had not been able to make his annual trip south has scheduled. The 94-year-old oil magnate, accompanied by his son, John D. Jr„ bearded a special train at Phillipse Manor station.

PREMIER DOUMERGUE GIVEN OVERWHELMING VOTE OF CONFIDENCE

By United Press PARIS. Feb. 15.—'The chamber of deputies gave the government of Premier Gaston Doumergue a vote of confidence by an overwhelming majority today.

THREE INDICTED IN $lO MURDER Two Counts Are Returned Against Pastor’s Wife, Two Youths. Two-count indictments, charging first and second-degree murder, today were returned by the Marion county grand jury against Mrs. Neoma Saunders, Theodore Mathers and Masil Roe, all held i the slaying of the Rev. Gaylord V. Saunders, former Methodist minister of Wabash, Ind. One -count charges each of the trio with murdering the slain pastor “with premeditated malice.” The second-degree count merely charges murder, without the “premediated malice” allegation. Mrs. Saunders is the widow of the slain minister. Police say she paid Mathers, her husband’s friend, $lO to obtain someone to kill Saunders. Mathers is alleged to have committed the crime himself. Roe is alleged to have driven the car in j which Mathers killed the minister. All three are alleged to have signed confessions. Coincident with the indictments, the state asked and obtained dismissal in municipal court three of vagrancy charges aganst Mrs. Mabel BaJke, Wabash, Mrs. Saunders’ nurse, and arry Curts, Wabash. The murder gun and Mr. Saunders’ ring and watch were hidden in Mrs. Balke’s home in Wabash and Curts was alleged to have attempted to destroy this evidence. Both will be important state witnesses against the three indicted for murder, i is indicated.

GOLD WEATHER IS DUE HERE TONIGHT Mercury Will Rise Again, Weather Bureau Says. Unseasonably warm weather yesterday and today was scheduled to be replaced tonight and tomorrow by a mild cold wave, it was forecast today by the weather bureau. The mercury was expected to drop to about 22 tonight, starting to rise again tomorrow night. The colder weather is the result of a cold wave which is expected to pass to the north of Indiana.

Brown Offers to Testify in Senate Air Mail Probe

Former Postmaster-General Waives Immunity; Farley Explains Act. By United Press < WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. Former Postmaster-General Walter F. Brown, in a letter read to the senate by Senator Simeon D. Fess (Rep., Ohio), today agreed to waive immunity if the special air mail investigating committee summoned him. At Senator Fees’ request, chairman Hugo Black of the committee promised to call Mr. Brown when open hearings are resumed next week. A report that President Roosevelt was preparing a special message to congress on the air mail situation was denied at the White House by Stephen T. Early, assistant secretary to the President.

By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 15—The government kept on the offensive in the air mail fight today. Chairman Hugo Black of the senate air mail investigating committee inserted in the congressional record a detailed letter from PostmasterGeneral James A. Farley explaining why air mail contracts were annulled and the job of flying the mail turned over to the army. Mr. Farley charged all the present domestic air mail carriers obtained contracts based on conspiracy or collusion, except possibly the National Parks Airways. Mr. Farley alleged excess payments totaling $46,800,000. Chairman James M. Mead of the house postoffice committee arranged for hearings to permit officials of the affected air lines, and possibly Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, to tell their side of the story. Mr. Mead’s committee is considering the administration's emergency bill to legalize army operation of the air mail system, and authoriz-

NOVEL TURRET MAKES PRISON ESCAPE-PROOF New Armament Built to Withstand Attack From Inside, Outside. “Nothing short of an artillery attack will permit prisoners to again perfect a prison delivery in the manner in which ten escaped last September.” This was the message brought to the Governor's office today by Warden Louis Kunkel of Indiana state prison. To prove his point, he unfolded the plan of new construction at the prison which he believes makes escape impossible. “The entire armament has been designed with the particular idea that an attack may be launched from the outside as well as from inside the wails,” Mr. Kunkel declared. “In fact, the possibility of an outside attack gives us most concern at this time.” The warden explained that in the center of the inside guardroom, a turret has been erected which will withstand any gunfire short of cannon. Within will be a guard armed with all modern weapons, such as machine guns, rifles, pistols, gas guns and grenades. Clean Sweep of Room It was through this room that the ten prisoners got to the inside gate. Nine sneaked along the wall, while one approached the gatekeeper, with a cowed guard from the shirt factory, he said. With the turret, a clean sweep of the entire room will be visible to the guardsman and there could be no slinking along walls, the warden declared. Old iron bar gates also have been replaced w’ith modern steel and bul-let-proof glass construction. Warden Kunkel said. These also will withstand any attack made with small arms. Warden Kunkel, Warden A. F. Miles of the Indiana state reformatory and certain trustees of the institution were conferring with the regarding increase of prison industries Idleness is Blamed Idleness is the cause of much prison unrest. Warden Kunkel said. Last week when a strike was called by prisoners in the reformatory foundry there were 800 idle there and 600 at the prison. Present penal population at the prison is around 2,300 and many are housed in inadequate buildings, according to the warden. He said that his prisoners most often protested that they were not being given something to do, while the reformatory reported that the working prisoners complained because others were idle.

ing temporary contracts with independent operators without competitive bidding. Preparations also were made for a court fight over the annullments. Solicitor Karl A. Crowley of the postoffice department, Carl Ristine, special justice department assistant in charge of the air mail problem, and Martin Conboy, United States district attorney at New York, hoped to obtain dismissal of a suit filed by the Transcontinental and Western Air against the annullments. They planned to argue when the case comes up in New York federal court tomorrow that the court lacks jurisdiction. Mr. Farley’s letter in defense of the government's course said the contracts were annulled “only after a most thorough investigation covering a period of several months.”

Mrs. Jenckes Introduces New Pure Food Measure

By Timet Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—A bill to strengthen the pure food and drug act was introduced in congress yesterday by Representative Virginia E. Jenckes, Democrat, from the Sixth Indiana district. Heavier penalties than are provided in the present law are contained in Mrs. Jenckes’ bill, which extends consumer protection to include cosmetics, therapeutic devices and substances other than food sold as remedies of functional body defects. The bill also enlarges administrative power of the agriculture secretary, authorizing him to enforce the law' against offenders by use of injunction proceedings. Adulteration £ad misbranding are

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Italy, Hungary and Czechoslovakia Move Troops to Border, All Fearful of Possible Coup by Nazis. BERLIN SIGNIFICANTLY SILENX Tens of Thousands of Socialists Surrender as Fascist Rule Takes Firm Grip on Reins of Nation. While Central European powers drew a ring of steel around Austria today Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss struck a death blow at the Socialist revolution centered in Vienna, according to the United Press. Out of the confused mass of rumor and report several salient facts stood in bold relief. From Prague came the report that Hungary was mobilizing troop on the Austrian border. Czechoslovakia issued a pointed warning that it would not passively accept intervention in Austria by any other power. Italy continued to hold two army corps at the passes of the Alps as a “precautionary measure.” Unofficial statements from Rome had previously indicated that “armed intervention” would be used “as a last resort” if the independence of Austria were threatened. Berlin maintained a significant silence although there was no effort to conceal the hope that the confus : on in Austria would result in the complete Nazification of that nation. This is precisely what the other central European powers are desperately anxious to avoid. They feel that a Hitler hegemony extending from the North Sea to the Alps would be a serious threat. They wish to maintain Austria as a buffer between themselves and Nazi Germany. France and Britain watched without comment while the diminutive Dollfuss and his cohorts battered the socialistic uprising to pieces with artillery. Fighting this afternoon had become sporadic after hundreds of men. women and children had laid down their lives at bloody street barricades. The European chancelleries realize, however, that y Dollfuss’s little army of soldiers and police is exhausted after more than seventy-two hours of continuous fighting. It is feared that in the weakened condition of the troops they might fall an easy prey to a sudden Nazi effort. By United Press VIENNA, Feb. 15.—Socialism in Austria was crushed today and the unhappy post-war republic which represents the remains of what once was an empire stood at the threshold of Fascist rule.

Tens of thousands of Socialists, defeated in the fourday civil war which cost perhaps 1,500 lives, including women and children, surrendered to the forces of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss throughout the city. Thousands of others fled, leaving their arms behind. The defeat was generally acknowledged. Members of the government announced the fighting was definitely over. The man in the street regarded it as “almost over.” The ttriumphant Fascists said it was “all over except for the hangings.” How long the new era will last seemed problematical. The Nazis were lying quiet, here and in Germany, figuratively licking their chops and waiting for the opportune moment to move in and replace the Dollfuss-Heimwehr-Star-hemberg Fascist regime on Italian lines with Hitlerism. The result would be Anschluss or more—a real union of Germany and Austria in a Nazi empire, unless the European powers intervene. The political future of Europe seemed to hinge on the result. One of the Nazi hopes was that the Socialists, their heads bloody but their spirits still defiant, woula link themselves to the Nazi cause for protection and assurance of future security. That was all problematical and in

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the future, however. For the present, after his efficient blasting of one of the biggest bulwarks of democracy in his path, the Dollfuss steamroller was forging ahead toward complete Fascist rule at high speed. He had broken the back of a movement almost unparalleled in the country’s history, leaving Marxian Socialism writhing in blood and mortally stricken. The municipal apartment houses, citadels of Socialist defense, which had been revealed as the fortresses of revolutionaries as well as home; for workers, were largely a mass of shell-battered ruins. By United Prcnn ROME, Feb. 15. Blunt, outspoken Benito Mussolini gave voice to the gravity with which Europe regards the Austrian revolution today when he massed two army corps along the Alpine frontier. Technically they are replacements. Actually they are ready to move across the border if, through the turmoil of revolution, the independence of Austria, emasculated but still the heart of Europe, is threatened. A friendly, independent Austria is at once a buffer state and a diplomatic ace for Italy, pitted against Nazi Germany in the effort to dominate eastern Europe. Italy almost welcomed the revolution as a necessary test of strength. It believes that Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is winning and will proceed, having suppressed the Socialists, to form a Fascist state. The Italian troop movement, which sent divisions from Bolzano, Udine and other northern Italian bases to the frontier, was taken as soon as the revolution started. Admittedly, the “replacement” movement was a precaution against interference from any source with Austria’s independence. By Vnited Prcst PRAGUE CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Feb. 15.—A stern warning that Czechoslovakia “can not remain passive” in event of foreign intervention in Austria was delivered today before the parliamentary foreign committee. Acting Foreign Minister Camill Krofta, addressing the committee, warned of possible international consequences of fighting in Austria, Referring to reports that both Hungary and Italy were concentrating troops on the frontier of Austria. he said: ' f any foreign power enters Austmn territory, Czechoslovakia can r . remain passive.”