Imperial Valley Press

RUSH WORK OF LOADING TROOPS FOR NICARAGUA
Expect a Thousand Men Will Be Heading There Next Week.
By CARL D. GROAT
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-Preliminaries for embarking 1000 additional United States marines for Nicaraguan service hummed today at Quantico, Va., Paris Island, S. C., and San Diego, Cal., as congressional outbursts against Nicaraguan policy appeared materially to cool.
The navy has everything set for the 1000 men to sail from Hampton Roads, Charleston, S. C., and San Diego Monday. By the time Congress can act on resolutions, aimed at American withdrawal from the guerilla war zone of Nicaragua, the troops will be steaming southward.
The senate foreign relations committee, to which anti-marine resolutions of Senators Heflin and Nye are referred, will meet next Wednesday.
Meantime, there is every indication that the brakes are on in Congress. No action to embarrass the administration or to cause alteration in the plans to annihilate General Sandino's revolutionaries is likely at an early date.
Chairman Borah, often outspoken in his attacks on administration Nicaraguan policy, is understood to oppose positive senate action now. His counsel undoubtedly will be followed.
Senator Heflin yesterday on the floor attacked marine action in Nicaragua as an "act of imperial tyranny." Senator Nye asked by resolution that United States armed forces be kept out of private property rows.
On the house side, Representative Huddleston, Democrat, Alabama, called American marine occupation in Nicaragua "illegal warfare" by the United States.
The attacks, however, were viewed by administration supporters as unlikely to sway Congress.
The general idea of the administration men was that 1400 marines now in Nicaragua must be supported, or the United States must run the chance of a defeat at Sandino's hands that would make this country the laughing stock of foreign nations.