with him to Shipwreck Camp. The group was never seen alive after that although there was evidence they might have been crushed by shifting surface ice or else had fallen through. Adolf Hitler failed his physical exam in Salzburg and was declared unfit for military service. The Mikawa railroad opened in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, with stations Ōhama-minat, Kariyamachi, Kita Shinkawa, Ogakie, Shinkawa-machi, Takahama-minato, and Yoshihama serving the line. The final issue of the British weekly magazine Vanity Fair was published, after which it merged with the magazine Hearth and Home. The village of Empress, Alberta was established. Born: William S. Burroughs, American Beat Generation writer, author of Naked Lunch, in St. Louis (d. 1997); Alan Hodgkin, British physiologist, recipient of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research into neurons, in Banbury, England (d. 1998) Died: William Rhodes, American football player and manager, tackle and coach for the Yale University football team (b. 1840) February 6, 1914 (Friday) A protest march of 32,000 farmers, organized by Conservative opponents of the Liberal government of Prime Minister of Sweden Karl Staaff, gathered in the courtyard of Stockholm Palace to demand higher defense spending that reflected growing political tension in Europe. In what became known as the Courtyard Crisis, Swedish monarch King Gustaf declared to the demonstrators that he shared their concerns, violating Sweden's constitution for the monarchy to be non-partisan. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cajazeiras was established in Brazil. The United Suffragists was established in Great Britain. Born: Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor, best known as the voice of Tony the Tiger for Kellogg's Frosted Flakes, in Norfolk, Nebraska (d. 2005); Forrest Towns, American runner, gold medalist at the 1936 Summer Olympics, in Fitzgerald, Georgia (d. 1991) Died: Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter, associated with the Hague School that flourished between 1860 and 1890 (b. 1844) February 7, 1914 (Saturday) Royal Navy destroyer was launched at Yarrow shipyard in Glasgow. It would participate in many of the naval battles in World War I including the Battle of Jutland. German pilot Karl Ingold set a new world flight endurance record, flying nonstop for 16 hours 20 minutes in an Aviatik biplane. The flight, from Mulhouse to Munich, Germany, covered a distance of 1,700 km (1,056 miles). Steel work was completed on the Exposition Auditorium, now the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, for the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in 1915.