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Amid pandemonium the Deputies voted "adjourment until tomorrow," thus constituting themselves a Rump Reichstag. Rumors flew that 84-year-old Paul von Hindenburg would declare martial law, call out the Army and disperse the Reichstag with bayonets should it dare to meet. Not anxious to be pinched or prodded, Fascist Göring said that, after all, perhaps there might be no rump session...
...Portland. Legion conventions are four days of fun & frolic for middle-aged men who keep young on martial memories. As at their 13 other conventions, thousands of legionaries, converging in Portland, will dress up in bright uniforms and, behind blaring bands, parade past the Multnomah Stadium packed with 35,000 admiring citizens. Meetings will be held in the 16-year-old auditorium on Clay Street which will seat 4,000 delegates. For the convention's entertainment the Oregon Legislature voted $25,000. Portland businessmen made up an additional play pot. As a courtesy the Navy is sending two cruisers...
...being subjected to an extraordinary inquisition. . . . The proceedings before the Governor developed into a travesty, a mock trial, a proceeding in comparison to which even the practice of a drumhead court martial seemed liberal...
...Last March First Lieutenant Francis J. Clark, U. S. Infantry, was convicted by court martial at Denver of intoxication, disorderly conduct, criminal assault. He was sentenced to be dismissed from the Army, imprisoned for six years. Reviewing the case as the Army's Commander-in-Chief, President Hoover found much hearsay evidence used to support the assault charge. Last week it was announced that the President had stricken the prison term from Clark's sentence, confirmed his dismissal...
...daily hog receipts fell from 2,000 to 500, the price of hogs for the State did not rise, dropped instead 25?. The Holiday idea trickled across the Missouri into Nebraska, made further headway in the Dakotas. Illinois. Minnesota, where Governor Floyd B. Olsen favored aiding the strikers with martial law. Separate from the Reno movement but parallel with it in purpose was last week's milk strike at Sioux City. Local dairymen were in despair about the $1 per cwt. they were being paid. That meant about 2? per qt. They too banded together to withhold milk from...