MacArthur said the “minimum
which would enable the regular
army to perform the peace time
training mission and have a small
nucleus to protect the United
States during mobilization of an
active force to make us immedi
ately available In a crisis, would
be 41,160 enlisted men which is
an Increase of 2,000 officers and
36,500 over what we have now.”
Win Scholarships
These four students were select
ed from among 12 candidates from
six western states to receive
Rhodes scholarships, entitling them
to attend Oxford university in Eng
land. Upper: John T. Hays, jr.,
(left) Bozeman, Mont., Montana
State college; Thomas H. Mac
bride, Seattle, of Harvard and for
merly of Washington. Lower: Don
ald Wheeler (left), White Bluffs,
Wash., of Reed College in Portland,
Ore., and William A. Franta, Lind
gerwood, N. D., of North Dakota.
(Associated Press Photos)
WOMEN FACING
DEATH AS SPIES;
FATE TO HITLER
Two Young Secretaries Ac
cused on Technical
Charges, Espionage
BULLETIN— BERLIN. Feb.
18.—Baroness Renate von Natz
m:r and Frau Benita von Val
kcnhayn have been decapitated
as spies, it is officially an
nounced.
Strict secrecy was main
tained until the official an
nouncement which said Presi
dent Hitler declined mercy.
The two women were beheaded
in the courtyard of the prison
where they have been held.
BERLIN, Feb. 18.—Two young
German women, of good social
standing, are reported facing the
death penalty on technical charg
es of espionage.
Their fate lies in the hands of
President-Chancellor Hitler person
ally.
The names of the two women
are withheld, also the details, but
it leaked out that both were em
ployed in secretarial capacities at
the Reichswehr headquarters.
The offense is they "blabbed"
military secrets.
