The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 6, 1934, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 54 Years Devoted to the _ Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LV. No. 83. Principal: Figure In Honolulu’s Sensational Assault Case Makes Attempt At Suicide Aboard Ship Mrs. ‘Thalia. Massie Was'SENATOR LONG Taken To Hospital On| GETS NEW TITLE Genoa, Italy FORMER GQVERNOR REFERS| To HIM AS “COLONEL” DURING PROCEEDINGS BE- FORE SENATE COMMITTEE (By Associated Press) GENOA, Italy, April 6.— Ships officers of the Steam- ship Roma said today that Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Mas- sie, principal figure in the (Ry Associated Press) sensational Honolulu assault} WASHINGTON, April 6.— ease of 1832, attempted sui-| Comparatively drab questions and -cide by slashing her wrist! answers about Louisiana's tangled ‘and throwing herself from | factional politics, replaced spec- the liner's top deck ON @ tacular threats of fights and heat- voyage ttom New ‘York. ed testimony today at the senate The’ officers report WAS! finance committee’s hearings confirmed by the director of! the Neryous Ailments Clinic! “where Mrs. Massie was @aken after the ship’s arri- val. The director of the clinic} heatine room war ioame® “oe ‘ - fi Senator Long’s questioning failed said Mrs.. Massie told him|;, touch off any powder in the she attempted fuicide be-'way of senatorial answers, * cause “I wanted to die. Ire-| A good share of the time was gretted having got a divorce | £Pet hearing witnesses testify from husband.” {that Moore, whose confirmation gy aye “ape | Long bitterly opposes, was of good] ists out of Vienna. She was divorced at Reno character. To young Prince Starhemb: last February from Lieut,; Former Governor John M. Park-|—he is barely 35—the Turkis ‘ 4 «+. menace of 1638 and what he con. ‘Thomas Massie. “jer was among the character wit- ! siders “the socialist menace” of «| She probably will be in \ | on confirmation of D. D. Moore as in- ternal against the soci revenue collector af New! berg, youthful heimwehr leader, Orleans. For the third straight day the By WADE WERNER (ity Associated Press} VIENNA, April 6.—Two hun- dred and fifty-one years after hi: Ruediger von Starhemberg, stub- bornly defended Vienna E. R. von Starhemberg played a leading role in driving the social- . post-war Vienna were. in The best laugh spectators got vital respects similar problem: ‘Turkish siege lasted only 60 da: the| While the socialists held Vienna ied for more than 15 years. From Starhemberg’s . point view socialist rule was in most re- spects just as undesirable a ‘Turkish rule; therefore a patriot ij (My Associated Press) CLEVELAND, April 6.— Mayor Harry Davis threatening him with death. and demanding $15,000, was disclosed by police today. Although the mayor said he regarded the threatening ; letter he. received as the {work of a crank, officers set a trap for the extortionist, Long as “‘Golonel Long.” e doctor said. | ee \ What were termed abuses in op- H, O. PARTRIDGE IN CHARGE/ican Telephone and Telegraph Splawn, member of the interstate — H. O. Partridge, of the State! Splawn recommended enact-} An extortion county is in Key West carrying; | Hearings will open Tuesday be- new! aii Costs of the construction of! plan to bring about complete be borne by the owner of the | !and, democrat, but he refused to fs modern in every respect. It bend E. SPENCER \did not appear. } ) days before recovering, The senator disclaimed honor. The hearing was adjourn + a in , " | until tomorrow, EMBER STATE {REPORT ABUSES ' HEALTH BOARD. *¥-2Sursts z WASHINGTON, April 6—j{ matter how they got in. ; F VISITING CITY eration of Holding companies to-| gether with payment of largest j Salaries: to officials of the Amer- company, were reported today to OF COMMUNITY SANITA- the house interstate commerce TION HERE IN INTEREST| Committee by Dr. W, M. OF CAMPAIGN commerce commission, following a three-year study ordered by | congress. _j ment of the Rayburn bill creating Board of Health in charge of com ,a federal communications com- munity sanitation for ,Monroe| mission. .. Scutiee “ie fore the house eaimmittee, » types of sanitary units in con-' DISCUSS PLAN TO | FREE PHILIPPINES Rection wi ‘a cenameae | WASHINGTON, April 6.—A these units are all paid from Fed-! freedom of the Philippines within eral Emergency Relief funds} two or three years, was talked of; While the costs of material must | today by Senator Tydings, Mary- jo into details pending the re- sresetty. | turn of President Roosevelt, The type of construction used} 4 designed by members of the State } SESE ESSER oe Pear ae Board of Health and meets with ' the unquaiied approvat ot what! GETS PROMOTION WOULD RESTRAIN body. | i Be ion call as | NEW WAGE ORDER ridge, as to minimize all danger of| MADE ASSISTANT GENERAL| the spread of disease as it is fly FREIGHT AGENT OF EN. es proof, mosquito proof and odor-| Jers, { TIRE SYSTEM One of the largest property @wning corporations has ordered | onstruction of about 20 of these; |. &. Spencer, former division! Units and a number of private freight agent of the F. E. C. Rail-| ewners of property have decided! way company, is now assistant to take advantage of the opportun-' peneral freight agent of the entire ity of having these additions made, ..stem, at & nominal cost to the owner. { " ‘The order issued covering the ‘promotion was out of St. Augus-' tine and was effective yesterday. Hereafter, Mr. Spencer will have this official residence in West Palm Beach instead ef Miami. { {By Asxaciated Press) BIRMINGHAM, April Alabama coal operators to- day filed a petition in feder- j 6. | al court here for an inj tion restri federal au- thorities from enforcing pro- eecee SSeoooscovcsecese WHERE TO GO TONIGHT si Palace—‘“The Sin of Nora Mor! a.” Strand — “Devil “Journal of Crime.” visions of the new coal wage order. —SPECIALS— Strictly Fresh Eggs Nice Fresh Veal, Spring Lamb Fresh Pork Large Shpt. Hens and Fryers CONGRATULATIONS TO SAM E. HARRIS On His Appointment as Post- master of Key West Gardner’s Pharmacy Tiger” and TOMORROW Palace—“Moulin Rouge.” Strand—“Only Yesterday.” The Key West KEY WEST. FLORIDA, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1934. eodee Vienna, reflecting on the damage caused by the recent civil war st, recalls that Prince Ernst Ruediger von Starhem- a namesake of an ancestor who in | ancestor, the fighting Count Ernst | }o4 just placed a wreath the | } of; rection would duty was to “throw them out,” no!n Extortion Plot Against Of Cleveland 1683 defended the city against the Turks. The doughty old count is One day last September, young Starhemberg stood beside a mon- ument to his famous ancestor and said to Chancellor Dollfus, who “It’s an unbearable humiliation against! t9 the genuine citizenry of Vien- the Turks, dashing young Prince! yy that in there (pointing to the enna city hall) the bolsheviks still rule. “Do something, Mr. Chancellor! Throw them out! We heimwehr- mien are ready to risk our lives to help you make it a good job.” Starhemberg few w later id the heimwehr meant business) and was determined to crush so-| ‘Cialistir’ iit Austria, “if necessary’ with relentless brutality.” A! spokesman for the socialist party, retorted that any move in that di- | mean “automatic; ‘ivil war.” H By the middle of Februaty,! , with shell-holes in the mu-/ ipal workers’ flats and the so-/ cialist officials of Vienna in pris-1 1 | Mayor Disclosed Today 1 i | t | ! 5; pla but failed when the writer England, superv 4 tack LITTLE INTEREST plot against| HERE PERTAINING | TO REGISTRATION, { JOHN ENGLAND, COUNTY SUPERVISOR, GIVES NUM. BER THUS FAR FIXING UP} FOR COMING ELECTION | Very little interest is being dis- ed in registrations says John or for the coun-! ty. Up to this 50 potential voters had reg fternoon not quite ered, And this number does not mean thase since the books were opened at the court house on April 1, bat includes all registrations that were made during the time the books were in the precincts The books were a precincts March 5 and remained until the evening of March During that says Mr. E the 25 persons r ed in the rent on . in the e truth more fp will col Ii taxes can be paid as | Those who registered for bend election or general enly, are required to this time if they intend to vote the June Primary Supervisor England ix of opinion that when the cand to make their ann “ registrations may increase. but at the present time, he «avs he hae never seen su register beg! a general ‘hemberg had meant just what he Fighting Blood Shows In Heimwehr Chief Austria’s Prince Von Starhemberg Reincarnates Doughty Ancestor PPeeeoveevescocevecee Seeccccocoseeee® shown at left, together with an old print depicting Vienna in flames from the Turkish guns. At right is the present-day prince and one of the workingmen’s apartments riddled by machine guns and shells in the fighting in which the h:imwehr played a leading role. on, it dawned on people that Prince Ernst Ruediger von Star- wehr movement on which young Starhemberg literally has spent his fortune, has become a domin- z force in Austria, and what- agreements are reached here probably will take Starhemberg into account. Other rumors hard to kill are those in which Starhemberg fig- as the forthcoming regent o: Austria, regent of a kingless king- again become a Hapsburg monarchy. Although Starhemberg has de- said. Prince Starhemberg never look- ed as determined as he talked. True, he was implicated in the abortive heimwehr putsch of 1931, but he was younger then. And the putsch f was laughed off later as a comis opera affair. [ues ation, indee charmir In casual conver the prince exhibi just the type crat who appeals democrats. | Yet he seldom ses the Word voted his energy to the destruction “democratic” except in combina-! of parliamentary democracy, he tion--with “‘corruption.” fence set, in parliament.-and for In recent Austrian history he; three months in 1930, was minis- has figured as a bitter opponent of | ter of the interior. Hitler; but because of his.earlier; His mother, Princess Starhem- attitude and because of the gen-; berg, was still an executive of the eral trend of the heimwehr mov ‘hristian-social (Dollfuss) party ment, rumors keep cropping up when her tall, impetuous son was that Starhemberg and the nazis weeding pretty well in his have reached an a ement, {forts to throw all political parties However, that may be, the heim-. into the historical ash can. dom which some day may to Relief Administration State Adopts New Policy On Funds, (ity Associated Dress) OUTLAWS MURDER JACKSONVILLE, April ONE OFFICER AND | With the number of persons ithe state receiving relief KIDNAP ANOTHER ing each week, the Florida Eme gency Relief Administr in INCI./ institute probably late today a policy of alloting to each region TWO PRINCIPALS IN DENT IN OKLAHOMA WERE CONSTABLE AND CHIEF OF POLICE a definite sum for its operations every month, Jerome Conner, operations di- PE e a eeane rector, said today April allotments anoeia a8 Apri «ity MIAMI, Oklahoms ‘ Constabie Cai Campbe! : probably would be made this aft- H {. some regions was exceeding funds £ e jained demands from and Chief of Police Percy Boy available hod relief, making some Commerce, near here, was Ad me of allotment necessary in Naped toda by two outlaws and t Naped today by tw utia’ n ng at a quota for each re- their blonde woman companion : v¢ said the relief load on Boyd and Cai tien and business be considered. activit vestigate a b y windshield « ~ FAMILY LEAVES two r FOR FT. MYERS worth and family ven children left on the sft- re len Fort Myers, Pia. This group arrived Wednesday ip Plor- Havana practically pen d that night were cared Salvation Army. funds were received from the husband in Hsrans which arm enabled them toe purchate tickets or te ¢ destinat route t on the Steams on ef-| train yesterday for Miami Woy West, Florida, has the most equable weather in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit. PRICE FIVE CENTS Special Committee Selected For Purpose Cf Passing On _ Rooseveli’s Fishing Ability ATTORNEY MARKS Son Of Chief Executive WRITES CITIZEN | Makes Adverse Report ABOUT ARTICLE: On Capabilities As An \ | Angler ; FORMER KEY WESTER EX-| i (Bs Associated Press) TENDS THANKS FOR WRITE) MIAMI, April 6.—Presi- UP RELATIVE TO LOAN SE-, dent Roosevelt CURED FROM RFC | cepted today proposition ac- a by \ White House correspondents In the issue of The Citizen of Stationed here to _ investi- Rstkis isha: aeoceh oe ar. Sate his fishing capabilities, ticle relative to the success of At-| and Monday was set for the meeting. Aroused by a story told by {his son, Elliott, that he was ;hot catching any fish, the the Southern Bank and Trost) president night i , posed the appointment of a pecial committee to torney Marks sent the copy of the! vestigate and get a_ retrac- tion. zen received the following letic The White House staff, “I was forwarded a copy of The| through Marvin McIntyre, Key West Citizen under date of; presidential secretary, sug- March, 31, 1934, and I want to). 4.4 sta Saciiedd thank you for your article in: ref-|° 4 itself ape Jerence to myself and my connec-! gating committee. ; tion wita the Southern Bank and| . . R Trust Company Joan. = a trom: the “I believe you will remember! Nourmahal today accepted, me around my father’s place oniand propose . i Duval and Greeno streets, as I dis- BP A: wed Abe meeting tinetly recall that 1 was quite a! Monday noon in the vicinity nuisance in the old days when the! of Cet Cay. seball scores were placed gut in} a ~ ad front of TWe Citizen office every; in ng data“on hand, ;the President afternoon, } “T have found that living in rs ‘ Witnesses will munity. torney Paul Marks, of Miami, inj securing a loan from the Recon- struction Finance Corporation for last pro- Company. Some interested friend of A’ in- |paper to him and today The Citi Roosevelt wirelessed. ami is a continuation of livix waive im- Key West, because Of {that there are many Key West- ers up here, and the same spirit of friendliness prevails among them. | For the past two years ui! former Key Westers have been pulling together here to the.end of {ting a portion of our group plac-| jed in various publi¢ offices and | departments, “Many thanks for your kind-} ness, and I shall consider it ' pleasure to drop by your office © my next trip to Key West andi chat with you. saa “With kindest regards, I am “Cordially yours, “PAUL H. MARKS.” ‘OFFICERS PLANT ‘KEY WESTERS BEING TESTED FOR CAMP LIFE EIGHT UNDERGOING EXAM. INATION FOR CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS; EX- PECTED TO LEAVE MONDAY | “| BOARDS DEPART’ Fight young Key Westers are s afternoon undergoing th the ion Corps to di r they are fit to be * the camps. prescribed by Civilian to \ croup HAD BEEN SPiNDING! j | TWO DAYS IN ACTIVI- TIES HERE one The are Howard Butler, t; John Sawyer ert Arnao, Ba Alyme Mill 7 am 1700 Burchell Norman Johnson, | | A group of state and ste officials connected with {boards and quarantine re who were spending two « iKey We left train yesterday, j Members of the party were Dr. iJ. H. Montgom assistant p , commissioner and quarantine spector for the Stat of Florida. A, chief of the Quarantine of Washi and J. Yeomans, en Georgia. i Dr. Mon’ ' |ville, Mr. Hoyt is enrow Seong coreg 3 tresite teapital and Mr. ; efticers: ong turning to headquarters lanta. federal | with plant ulation 52k Mar Knight, rick on the afternoon two alternates nm the two rejections. Gates, #22 t Curry, They were sliowed in which to com PREACHES IN OVERALLS pote ix expect y morning ov the WEATHERFORD, make work coma fee a e im hi Paul Clifton, pastor undamenta!l Baptist Church * city le ¢ livering his sermon + evening Tex men with limite! 5 ™ mi Tuesda: fia rt to Room 216 in the new ice building at North Fact e and Third street. STRAND THEATER Ellice presente 1L TIGER th Chatterton in JOURNAL OF CRIME Matinee: Balcony, 10¢; Orches- tra, 15-200; Night, 16-25 wears overslis wh —--- -~ |) TRUCK ARRIVES TOMORROW NIGHT Fresh Fruits aud Vegetables BROADWAY MEAT i MARKET i 701 Deval Street t’ Ciyde & DEV E i