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...mobilizing 1,000 members of the Hilfspolizei (Assistant Police) and sending them to reinforce the present border guards. The Hilfspolizei are specially picked members of the officially unarmed anti-Nazi Heimwehr who have been armed and enrolled in the national government. Because of South Austrian murmurings that the Tyrol was playing too large a part in Heimwehr affairs, this latest draft was chosen from all districts of Austria...
Petrofabrics. Whether terrestrial or cosmic, the forces that built the Alps tied them into complicated kinks. Bruno Sander, a native of the Austrian Tyrol and professor at the University of Innsbruck, described his method of studying the kinks. Specimens of crystalline rock were ground to paper thinness, peered at under the microscope where the force lines spring to view. By plotting hundreds of force lines from different parts of a mountain, he deduces the slidings and thrustings that formed the mountain. He calls his method petrofabrics, thinks it may prove useful in locating ore veins...
...this was shadow boxing. First actual test of Nazi strength in Austria was the municipal election last week in the Tyrol's ancient capital, Innsbruck. Because the distribution of voters in Innsbruck closely parallels their distribution in the nation, foreign correspondents have come to regard Innsbruck as Austria's Maine. Chancellor Dollfuss flew to Innsbruck to make speeches. Ninety percent of the electorate turned out to vote...
...Autumn Crocus" -- Morosco, 45th Street W.--Another romance in the Tyrol relieved by the magnetic, dancing Francis Lederer who has already attracted Hollywood. Bracing as mountain...
Autumn Crocus (by C. L. Anthony: Lee Shubert, producer). Fanny saved up her money to take a little trip through the Tyrol in the autumn. She had never seen the mountains, but she felt sure she would love them. There was a photograph of them on the wall of the kindergarten in which she taught at Manchester. The moment he saw her the strapping young innkeeper of the Gasthaus Rote Hirsch, above Innsbruck, knew that he and Fanny would get along together. For the police register she confessed to being 29. The amiable innkeeper was amazed. The reason she looked...