The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 13, 1934, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LV. No. 38. Japan Plans For Largest Peacetime Defense Program Within Its Entire History ies, Majority Approval Given On Ap-| propriation By House Ut Representati tives (Ry Associated Press) TOKYO, Feb. 13.—A bud- get bill providing for the largest peacetime defense appropriations in Japan’s history, was passed by t house of representatives to- day. An overwhelming ma- jority approval was ex- Pressed by an uncounted The bill was then sent to| house peers where equally smooth passage is expected A total appropriation of| 938,000,000 yen was pro- vided for the army and mavy. This means that 44 per, cent of Japan’s budget goes| for defense purposes, _RETURNS TO PORT oo t { U. S. 8. TATNALL EXPECTED | TO ARRIVE HERE EARLY ‘TOMORROW = ‘The U. s. Saha Goff, which | had been on patrol duty in Cuban! ‘waters, returned to port yesterday afternoon 2 o'clock. Destroyer Tatnall, which was at! St. Petersburg, is on the way to} Key West and is expected to ar- rive early tomorrow, Vessels in the harbor, besides the Goff, are the Destroyers Bain- bridge and McFarland and the Coast Guard Cutter Saukee. WHERE TO GO | High School Gym—Basketball, Redland Athletic Club vs Key West High School. Palace—“The Bowery.” * Strand—“The Big Shakedown” and “Bombay Mail.” TOMORROW Palace—“Bitter Sweet.” Strand—“Orient Express” and “The Big Shakedown.” (By Associated Press) VIENNA, Feb, 13.—It’s a case of Germans against Germans in Austria, with the League of Na- tions in the imminent role of ref- eree, Bitter denunciations are hurlea| across the border that separates the jurisdiction of Vienna from} that of Berlin, but it runs down to an argument as to who is the bet- ter German—the one who says: “Germany is my fatherland and Austria my motherland; one folk; one reich,” or ‘the one who an- swers: “We Austrians are the better Germans, and Austria is really the last stronghold of Germanic ‘kul- tur’.” (STEAMER OZARK RELOADS CARGO; READY TO SAIL VESSEL WHICH WAS ON FIRE, AND TAKEN OUT IN HAR- BOR, FLOATED AND CAME TO DOCK YESTERDAY Opposed To Union Engelbert Dollfus, the “little Napoleon” who is waging a de-; termined fight against Hitlerism and the movement for “anschluss”, or political union of Austria with Germany, says patriotic Austrians must fight to the last ditch for the up to the Mallory wharf yesterday; independence of their homeland. afternoon, with all water pumped But not because Austrians are Aus- from the forward compartment, trians and Germans are Germans.! where the fire, discovered on the} “We Austrian Germans,” he has vessel Friday morning, raged for! said, “are so naturally, so matter-! almost 50 hours. of-fact German that we never have All of the cargo consigned to! thought it necessary to talk about Key West and much that was; it. We Austrians have the great bound for Miami was in this com-}and holy ‘mission of demonstrating partment, and is so badly damaged| to the world that there are Ger- as to be practically useless. mans in the Alps and in the Dan-| Cargo Surveyor J. Kemp, of the ube basin who stand for German Mallory S. S. Company and G. V. culture without identifying them- Schlieter, representing Johnson! selves with methods practiced else- and Higgins, average adjusters,| where.” have completed their work and ex- ‘Home’ Of German Art pect to leave on the afternoon} And Dollfuss followers, expand- train. ing their leader’s ideas, claim that A quantity of oil that was con-'German poetry was born on the signed to Miami and formed part‘ banks of the Danube, that the of the deck load which was re-;burgtheater in Vienna was the} moved from) the vessel and was: first home of German drama, that stored in the Mallory warehouse, the Christmas carol, “Stille was reloaded this morning. Nacht,” was written by two Aus- Fire was discovered in the for-'trians in Vienna and that even the cet shipmusie of the. German. national}. bene morning snk af Mnileg.anthem was composed by an Aus- west of Key West. Everything» ytrian—Joseph Haydn. | was made secure and Captain Dow! All the more reason, rejoin the brought the Ozark to Key West, | Hitlerites, for admitting that Ger- her first port of call after leaving, many and Austria are “one folk, New Orleans, one reich.” The Ozark arrived in port} “And how about | Saturday morning escorted by the ;Statesman who now leads Coast Guard Cutter Saukee, And: many?” they ask. “Isn't was berthed at the dock. himself an Austrian, born and ed- Arrangements were made for)ucated in this country? In fact, | the Wrecking Tug Relief to pump! wasn’t his Austrian birth long water into the compartment. This}flung up to him in Germany until} was done but the results ob-|he achiefed citizenship there?” tained were not satisfactory and Nazi View ‘Treason” it was decided to tow the ship to} Talking about ‘one folk, one Man-o’-War harbor over a bank,reich,” is plain treason, answer and flood the compartment. ‘the Dollfuss followers. “Austria is This was done and the fire was} soverign state, and patriotic extinguished 8 o’clock Saturday} Germans of Austria must be loyal night. first to Austria.” “But why,” counter the Hitler-; VISITORS ENJOY ites, “is it treason for Austrians to be proud of a countryman who has rallied all Gerthany to his standard of a new life? The real patriots’ here are not those who reject this new life, but those who} Dr, Joseph Blaine Kollar of | Welcome it.” Vero Beach, who, with Mrs. Kol-| _ Thus they agree that Austria is lar, spent a few days in Key West, | German and should remain so. The Twas out fishing yesterday with | Teal struggle is whether the Doll- Theodore Roberts and had the’ £ussite is a better German than the bast ef deck. Hitlerite, whether the life here ‘Although there. were no tarpon should be kept separate from the With all cargo’ consignments back on board the Freighter. Ozark of the Clyde-Mallory Lines will sail for Miami this afternoon to deliver freight and then pro- ceed to’ Jacksonville. The’ship was freed and brought the great Ger-} Hitler } . lc Me, syne — KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1934. Austrians ‘Better Germans,’ Dollfuss Backers Tell Nazis | i3 { (left) and Pri re shown here agi former imperial palace in Vienna. inst German domination of Austria—‘‘the last the chief bulwarks. a; stronghold of Germanic ‘kultur’,” Fae Socialist Party Opposing The Nazi Front ce von Starhemberg, Ausé st the background of the They, with their followers, are " according to the Dollfussites. NRA PLANS NEW CODES FOR MANY LINES OF TRADE | ORGANIZATION WILL ABAN.| DON PAST POLICY DEALING WITH OPERATION OF DIF-| FERENT BUSINESS PLACES} SOOTeeee a, KEY WEST WARMEST PLACE IN COUNTRY Key West, Florida, is the warmest place in the United States today. This announce- ment is made in the daily statement issued from the of- S. Kennedy, tt in charge at (By Associated Press) | WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The | | NRA today decided to abandon its / past policy and encourage forma- tion of regional codes or agree- ments in trades which are clearly outside interstate commerce. | A new type of code or agree- {ments is to be used for trades as laundries; restaurants, taxicabs and barber shops, but not} {for retail stores. | These, because they handle pro- i ‘ducts generany manufactured pro- interstate commerce, will re- main organized on poceoare the country.” ; lines. The new policy was viewed ail IIS SSS SSS. jmeeting increasing enforcement} difficulties in such trades as ary HASKINS RETURNS such} In the report of weather conditions issued this morn- ing it is shown that “tem- peratures have fallen in Florida, Miami reporting a fall of 20 degrees, but Key West with a fall of only 8 de- grees is the warmest place in cleaning, filling stations and “other outlets for productive enter- prises of national character’ which would remain under na. tional codes. © HEAD OF MOVING PICTURE CONCERN ARRIVES IN CITY JACK CUMMINGS COMES HERE ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF LIGHTHOUSES VISITED MANY STATIONS IN DIFFER- ENT SECTIONS OF DISTRICT Rebellion Ih Austria Causes Many Deaths: Shell Large Apartment Bly (By Aubectated 2 Press) BEHIND SOCIALIST BARRI- CADE, Vienna, Feb. © 13.—Aus- trian Socialists have only begun to fight, one of. the leaders told a correspondent -today. He talked between skirmishes a fell dead and wounded, but there/Cummings should be shown the | a barricade in Leopolddaur Strasse in the factory area surrounded by a ring of government troops. He said, “tell Americans that we are not revelationiste. We are not trying to overthrow the gov- ernment. “Alb we want is a chance to live. We realize our position looks hope- bert Dollfuss struggled through bloody streets to put down the re- bellion of the Socialist party. Battles raged at Steyr, Graz was no time nor opportunity to count casual The battle at Karl Marx apart- }ment building was as horrible as some veterans had seen in the days | of the World, War... Machine guns had blazed from} soldiers who sought fo.enter. | and Linz as well as Vienna. Men; The government found grenade, | H. B. Haskins, assistant super- intendent of lighthouses, has re turned from an inspection trip of light stations at Sanibel Island, Gasparilla Island and Egmont Key, Mr..Haskins-left on the Tender ‘jIvy but returned over the East Coast. On the return he went to head of the Metro-Goldwyn-May- Fort Lauderdale to discuss the} er moving picture corporation, ar-|PToposition of lighting the _ intra- rived in Key West yesterday over j coastal waterway from that city to} \the East Coast from Miami for | Miami. a brief stay with the unit of the company now operating here. Mr. Cummings comes to look over the operations so far accom-! plished and the sequences obtain-| ES eae OR ed for the picture being made with’ RELIEF GETS Captain Wallace Caswell, fighter) of deep sea monsters, the outstand- ing performer. Nat Spitzer, in charge of the Key West unit, decided that Mre TO LOOK OVER OPERA-| TIONS IN FIGHTING SEA MONSTERS BY W. CASWELL Jack Cummings, department have tubes in the boilers replaced, after which the boilers and hull will be inspected. , sights yesterday and last night, and that he saw almost everything | that is to be seen was told The| Citizen this morning by Bob Stev-| ens, business manager. | Mr. Cummings was taken for aj Pursuant to telegraphic ins!ruc jride, at the beginning of the sight-| tions, the, Waeckiny ing tour. Before the trips and | sailud, téday Tor ts were concluded. Mr. Cum-jgo to the assistance mings had taken charge and the) er I, K. Ward, other members of the party weve /in need of aid. {forced to realize they were the), The Relief ha TO SHIP IN CUBAN WATERS ubari waters to of the Freight- just, completed windows of, homes. of..workmen’ at! | ones that were being taken for the the assignnient to agsist the Clyde- {few boats in port with |ride, and “what a ride,” said Mr.|Mallory Line Freighter Ozark Stevens. when the call for service was Mr. Cummings went by plane ceived. Sto from Hollywood to Miami and ex-!| on board an¢ Te- were at once take s soon as the neces- or sailfish caught, they landed a| Closely molded existence which is| “There is only one death ahead | machine guns and tear gas insuf-| pects to leave this afternoon or to- sary papers were drawn up and fine catch of barracuda, grouper, being worked out north of the: mackerel and -kingfish, besides |Austrian border. TWO SAILFISH STRIKES WITHIN PERIOD This Is Trae “Fish Story” OF 10 MINUTES-BOTH SAFELY LANDED oun sailfish strike in an after. numerous smaller fish. LIGHT SNOW IN SOME SECTIONS GREATER PART OF NATION} EXPERIENCES GENERALLY } Around Key West Waters } jof us, anyway. It is starvation or ; bullet or rope.” overnourished All looked not lick duterintned:: and heed tifles of| all models, | worta War days. some rusty relics of; |MANY CASUALTIES jIN ACTIVITIES FAIR WEATHER (Ry Associated Presa) the VIENNA, Feb. 13.—Women and children were fed today to especially as a number. of aa noon is considered greag success| fish had been caught. by any party. Gettitig two within} He was just beginning to calm 10 minutes is one of those things down after the excitement of the that rarely happen. {battle when Mrs. Fisher had @ Yet this is just the kind of for-|strike and 30 minutes afterwards, tune experienced by Mr. and Mrs./had brought in one measuring 6 Victor S. Fisher, of Atlantic City,| i feet. N. J., yesterday while out with; Both of the fish were beautiful Captain Joseph Thompson. }specimens, unscarred and perfect Mr. Fisher caught the first one,}in every way. And the sails on a 5 1-2 foot beauty, and consid-!each were without the smallest ered his day more than well spent, !tear or break. They were shipped = to Long Key on the afternoon train to be mounted by a well- known taxidermist and shipped to New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Perkins, of PALACE THEATER Begins Tomorrow —NOEL COWARD’S— BITTER SWEET A Musical Treat jparty, were just as enthusiastic caught the prizes, Philadelphia, other members of the | jever the catch as though they hed} -Light snow fell today in fi t eee Chime okigiiny from| lames of civil war as governmen! _| neers smashed the Karl Marx Chicago eastward to the New Eng. ecnie; kia Aha camabeiiee | apartment building housing 2,000 ist families. No one knows! of. the nation generally was fair.| = : Strong winds prevailed from the "°™ "A"Y Were killed. ie 1 mecemea Valley 10 theiGeer-| “reies cupensatty :smanhed gia coast as a storm center moved | eastward from Michig | ereateat apartment —— Europe. The middie arch Valentine Day |" South Florida Nursery the situation Austria today | while ferees of Chancellor Engel- ithe thied and fourth floors of the!" building ta} col-! | ficient so used howitzers. | | All Vienna hospitals ements, with injured. | PARIS RIOTING HAS | BEEN QUIETED DOWN PARIS, Feb, 13.—Fast and firm action to show the world that care of herself at home and abroad was planned by the new cabinet after mounted guards early today vineial cities. After a day of comparative tran- | quility during 24 hours of general | ike yesterday in which laborers | demonstrated against Fascism, dis- orders were quelled at Teulon, Lille, a Mulhouse. One was dead and upwards of Nantes, h1s0 wounded as a result of = strike and accompanying vielenoe.! France is thoroughly able to take| j morrow for Miami and will return signed, the ship sailed for foreign | jto Los Angeles Reeser ey pies, plane. | waters. DES THIS MORNING | Steamship company when she eame into port some wee oil. |FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE} CONDUCTED TOMORROW AFTERNOON sere i 1 | i | | } Antonie Gutsens, 62 years old,; KEY WEST .... War! TRIP TO LIGHTS, The Ivy remained at Tampa to | ANOTHER CALL | VESSEL LEFT TO RENDER AID | Tug Reief| which is reported | under char- | Fruit and| s ago for fuel/ Halt Contempt Trials In Order To Transact Legislative Business (Hy Associat Lowest - Highest 65 80 mest City in United States PRICE FIVE CENTS August Busch, Head Of Firm Bearing His Name, Shot And Killed Himself In St. Louis | Victim Of Own Hand Had Been Long Sufferer Of Heart Disease, Gout And Dropsy ST. LOUIS, Feb. August A. Busch, Sr., 13.— 68, | president of the Anheuser- Busch, Inc., and head of the internationally known family of brewers, shot and killed himself at his home today in | St. Louis ‘county. | } He heart from and dropsy, and on his last visit to the brewery here a week was suffering disease, gout ago expressed discourage- ment, declaring he had lit- tle hope of relief. He was the son of Adol- phus Busch, founder of the Busch brewing interests. When beer returned last year the company spent $7,- |000,000 rehabilitating its } brewery, rated as the largest | in the United States. Busch had been seriously SPONGE SALES NOW SHOWN T0 BE INCREASING THIS WEEK AND NEXT IS EXPECTED TO EQUAL BUSI- NESS CARRIED ON PRIOR TO CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS | | Sponge sales this week afd next are expected to equal, if not ex- ceed, those made before the Christ- mas holidays, when upwards of | $10,000 was paid for the catches. This morning a small number of | lots were sold for $430, the larg- jest sale amounting to $243, with number of smaller lots offered and taken. Local buyers said there are a } excelient {catches on board, ranging in size | from 200 to 300 bunches. Other | boats are to arrive late this week or next week. ‘ Big sales are anticipated Thurs- |day and Friday of this week and most of the offerings will be of fine grade wool, many bunches of which are being made ready for [display. | Press) rode down rioters in several pro-| died 8:30 o'clock poet a residence at 103) street. Funeral services will be held to-; 'morrow afternoon from the resi- ldence, Rev, A. L. Maureau, S. J., of St. Mary’s Star of the Sea Catholic church, officiating. The deceased is survived by his widow, Mrs. Maria Gutsens and one brother, Luis Gutsens. Lopez Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements, m ing in} Cathering | Mareille, °™ Roubaiz —FRESH SHIPMENT— VALENTINE CANDIES Just Received KEY WEST DRUG COo PHONE 40 WASHINGTON, Feb. pes The defendants, William P. \sepate contempt trials were eas. | MocCrechen, L. H. Brittin, Harris |pended today to permit emergency | W- Hanchee and Gilbert L. Giv- |vin, with theit counsel, were clos- nm to the city |*te4 in the ailitary room just off the senate floor. Washington's biggest policeman ood guard. STRAND THEATER Chas. Farrell-Bette Davis in THE BIG SHAKEDOWN Ralph Forbes-Shirley Grey in BOMBAY MAIL Matinee: Baleony, 10¢; Orches. tra, 15-20; Night, 15-25< a to be transact- committee of two republican members of the) inquiry committee which is prose-| cuting cases against four defend-! ants. Trials are expected to be sumed later today after disposition | lof the $950,000,000 Civil Works! i \ distress relief appropriation bill. | re-