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Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLU MEL vi i No: Danger Thrills Von Starhemberg, | Stormy Petrel Of Austrian Politics) F FE LT AI ALLIS TA ' melee OO Tattles On Speeders! (Ry Ano ed Prexsn) STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 11.—Paul Danielsson, Stockholm engineer, has in- vented a speed indicator to be placed on top of automo- biles so that traffic law vio- laters can be detected from a distance. An electric lamp displayed above the winds -ield, shows white at 30 kilometers an hour. If the speed is ac- celerated, the light gradual- ly turns green. And at 60 kilometers an hour or over it flares brightly red. III I ISI SI IST: tions is his own. His spectacular! + —-—————— = seinem wr ent DESMISS CASE roe OF THOMPSON | EXPECTED THAT LiKE ORDER, 140. Borrows Mussolini, But Physicali Courage And Zest Is! That Of His Own By ALVIN V. STEINKOPF (By Ase a Prenn) VIENNA, June 11.—Prince Ernst Ruediger yon Starhemberg. muscular 36-year-old storm cen- ter of Austrian politics, gets a kick out of living dangerously. He borrowed his fascism from i Mussolini, but his physical cour- | | | | | | | ! age and zest for dangerous situa- lessness. The Russians shot at The Piave. him the eastern front. Italians ; the The} WILL BE ISSUED IN Poles shot at him in Silesi H HART’S CASE shot at him on He risked his neck with Adolf | Hitler in his beer Munich, hall putsch in| H j Judge Jeffe-son “3, Browne to- Assassination Plots Foiled | ay issued an order dismissing: In August, 1933, two nazis bent; the ease arainst on assassination were arrested a9 yo they crept up on Starhemberg. a eee ‘pay a fine of By April, 1934, a hoard of Aus-| trian socialists with thousands of; m Thompson, ; to was sentenced Tuesday to; S50 or an alterna-| tive sentence of 15 days. - Ti s resi F J guns had proclaimed him special: MF- Taompson presented a pe enemy No. 1, and indicated how/ ‘ition to the judge showing that’ they felt about it by floating | for years he had been a law-abid- coffin Starhambere'b ing citizen and had no intention! name down the Danube river, Batedidk nec Two months later bomb, ready to blast the ing from its was! found in a room above his offices in Ballhaus platz. \ fly host. This succession of events in-} Since learning his mistake and’ dicated that enemies of the fascist that the sapodilla tree is classed ‘among the other hosts, Mr. Thompson showed in his petition a bearing cinzenuan jof violating the law, a huge ., |Plant board permission t build-, P bie 2 his trees that which he had refused to allow the ‘plant board to spray, was a black’ spray sapodilla trees, foundations, prince would go to almost any length to eliminate him as a poli- ‘for spraying his trees. A similar petition has been evidence| drawn and presented in the case of Sam Hart, and it is under-| stood that a like order will be also issued in his case, me sinister; new , Lillian Johnson. 14 year old col- bored giz} :morning by the jaiter the death w: ‘pancies as to details. { fishing, ‘asked ‘boat began to Che Key West Citizrn KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1936. CORONER’S JURY HEARS CASE OF DROWNED GIRL STATED THAT SHE INSISTED ON GOING FISHING WITH TWO BOYS; OTHER TESTI-! MONY GIVEN ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS Happenings That Affect the Dinner Pails, Dividend Cheeks and Tax Bills of Every Individual; Na- tional and International Problems Insep- the; provoking in the extreme. Accord- United States would have pagl ing to this authority, loss of our the Federal relief bill,” s al foreign markets would m™ headline in the United States! we would have to retire alm |News. That's a startling Investigation into the death of ment—but figures prove it. in 2 , value of exports of United States products to for- eign countries was more than $3,- 300,000,000 under the record 1929 level—and the government spent - over 000,000 on relief. In 1935, the re- lief bill was $3,188,000,000—and Frank O. Roberts, justice of the Joss in foreign trade from the the peace of the first district, 1929 figure was 252,000,000. points out exists in the conducted! the inquiry with Robert. Estimates hold that this year our, i field, Consex Lee Curry, Fabio Olivieri, Joe’ foreign trade loss as conipared timates place the industrial popu- Singleton, Gregorio Rodriguez,' with the greatest the boom lation directly dependent upon ex- Alvin Sawyer and Vivian Pinder, years will be about $3.000,000,-| ports at 7,500,000. Add this to {members of the jury present. what the the farm population de} First Testimony dent on foreign buying, and you jhave close to 11,000,000 people whose economic ity hinge: on foreign trade. Anyone with a workable an- swer to the question of how for- eign trade may be increased, would certainly be a national be- nefactor—unfortunate’ has the answer, and exper' greatly in their theor things are obvious, such as the problem and the eternal question of how ; American workers are to be pro- tected from cheap-labor competition. The tate ment, under Secretary Hu!l, sought to increase fo: ness through reciproca agreement with a number pow' of which Canada most important, and some progress has been made. But it’s still a tough situation. The United States News points out something that is not general- “Lost foreign trade of cotton tobacco more than 9,000,000 acres of land used for raising hogs, 7,000,000 acres of land grazing horses which work the other land, The total comes to over 40,000.000 acres which today support 3,200,000 people. An even bigger problem, Secre- land, corn and dd for who was drowned yester-' sti this jury, empaneled yesterday immediately day afternoon, was rted coroner’s reported, es also John Gabriel, one of the boy: who was in the boat with th Thus, for the three-year period, Johnson girl was the first to tes-, our lost foreign trade totals ap- tify. And was followed by Emer-, proximately $10 000,000,000—and 'son Pryor, his companion. They and relief cost the taxpayers of ‘both told sentially the same the country around $8,500,000,- story with a few minor discre-' 000 in the same period. Had we ‘been able to keep foreign trade were preparing to go'on the 1929 level during depres-. when the Johnson girl sion, we could have paid the en- to be allowed to go, and tire cost of Federal relief out of, stepped into the boat. She was the receipts, and had the neat ‘told to get out as they had no sum of a billion-and-a-half left janchor and did not know how to! over for other purposes. ted, and was told: Of course, nothing could have if she could swim it would be, enabled us to maintain our trade allright. She said she could swim,!at that level—the world-wide de- and they started off. ipression, coupled with general When they reached the dock at uncertainty in Europe, currency | the Fort Taylor reservation, wars and fluctuations and pee Gabriel said he got out on the monetary disturbances, dock. Pryor was holding onto the’ and embargoes, were Posponaible dock, his hand slipped and the; for most of the loss. The domestic drift away. he AAA program is believed by many, jumped into the water and was. to have been a factor in reducing! followed by the girl. agricultural exports though friends sec no one They howe of tariffs, arable From Local Welfare lands land, | "cue and distribution « iknow at the time he refused the} i that he had granted permission) . Swims To Dock Pryor swam to the dock. He and Gabriel saw the girl going down, Gabriel told Pryor to swim to the boat and get an oar to help io girl. Pryor went into the !water, swam to the boat and brought it back to the dock. They both saw the girl struggling in the water and at first he w: vimming. \ Gabriel saw the girl go down ‘and come up again. This time she }was foaming at the mouth. He was frightened and called for Mareus Hanna, another colored i boy, who reached the dock and’ | brought the girl to the surface, |and she was pulled into the boat.} | Resuscitation methods were used | ome “white man” whose name was not learned. In the meantime Pryor had gone! | to a nearby home and an ambu- thought ; tical force. Almost every day incident brought that many persons would have re. garded it an act of high patriotism! to stop Starhemberg with a bul-| let, i The opinion which he encoun- COE HEARD AT tered actually contributed to Star-! hemberg’s rise, for it prompted | ROTARY MEET: him to take over and strengthen; Austria’s largest private army,| the heimwehr. He used it to} Hance was called. This arrived. the; smash the sociali: and to chase| EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF ' girl was placed in it and the drive 3 the nazis to cover after the putsch lto the hospital started, but she in which Chancellor Dollfuss was! EVERGLADES PARK COM- | ya. pronounced dead upon ar-| assassinated. { MISSION GIVES TALK ae) Called ‘Prince Big Mouth’ } | Juror Curry asked _What | was While physical courage is per-! | the idea of going fahing Shona haps the outstanding characteris-| The Rotary Club at noon to-/a" anchor. |The answer was that tie of the prince, his other quali-/day met in St. Paul's Parish Hall.’ iy \ps time, and tied their eae ties make him a colorful public! After the salute to the flagpand| oe oe eee ese ee figure. He is a forceful orator: ‘the singing of “America,” W. C.! ae pectin atkal memions with a platform personality which| Fripp graced the table. j ee at commands attention, The club had as guests two hon- Rarely does he write out an, orary members, Judge Jetterson| \"¥ ener address in advance. He prepares} B. Browne and the Hon, William | an outline, and then hammers! H. Malone. Other guests were FRNEST COE home his ideas with simple, direct’ Wm. R. Porter, Mr. Meyer and E. words. He has a flair for sensa-| B. Bontacus of Miami PF. Heard Early in his political career his, cently returned from Little Riv-| E foes tried to dismiss Starhem-|¢t, and the guest speaker of the} berg’s speeches as bluff and bom-; day, Ernest F. Coe, Executive} Ernest F. Coe, executive chair-| bast. His bolder opponents some-| Chairman of the Everglades Na-! man of the Everglades National! times called him “Prince Big) tional Park Commission. | Park Commission, is a visitor in Mouth.” But it soon became ap-; After Curry Harris had pre-/Key West today discussing park parent that while Starhemberg ' sented proposed changes in by-, matters with Wim. R. Porter a said a lot he always was prepared !@ws and regulations to come be-| zaemalse of the commission, to do a lot. {fore the Atlantic City Conven-| Coe attended the luncheon A typical Starhemberg speech! tion, and Charles Taylor had} of oe Rotary Club today and will was delivered in September, 1933,| Beem elected as a delegates there-jaddress the county commissi Gianeelion Dolitussandlother dig-: * Melvin Russell being designat-| ers on the-matter-of the Ever-! nitaries had gathered at the statue ed as an alternate. Sebastian Ca-!glades Park, at their meeting to-| of Starhemberg’s renowned ances-| bre" a8 chairman of the conven-| morrow night. tor, Count Ruediger von Starhem- ition committee requested Dr. A public meeting of the lands! berg, to celebrate the anniversary William R. Warren to speak on}and boundaries committee of the | of The egunt’s defeat of the Turks |the subject of the convention. ‘park commission will be held on; atithedcates: of Vienna: Prince| Ernest F. Coe then took the|June 27 in the Ingraham building Starhemberg was expected to say, £00" and made a brief but com-,in Miami. ld | prehensive presentation of the| This meeting will be attended a fem egnrouriate) wort. verglades National Park propo-!by D. Graham Copeland, it id th \dvantages th; 3 ir- RADIO LUNCH COUNTER: fon and the advantages that! man; Mr. Coe executive chair. ;which apparently, were satisfac-! tone, C. E. Moritz, Olive B. Day, chair- | jof the AAA say that we couldn’t ‘have found markets for our sur- plus even if crop reductions had never been put into effect. Ir- respective of that, the cold statis- ics show conclusively that the welfare of a number of big in- dustries, and a vast amount of employment, hinges on foreign trade. In the latest years for which leomplete figures are available, Department of Commerce tabula-, i tions show that this country has {sent abroad half of the cotton lerop, two-thirds of all refined | copper, one-third of farm machin-) ery and lubricating oils, 4 pe! | cent of aircraft, and a little les: ‘than 20 per cent of radios, These! litems are simply samples. { If, tomorrow, all our existing foreign markets’ were suddenly | closed to us, industry and agricul-) ae would be plunged into havoe.| tant Secretary of State | Sayre has published a booklet on, j just what foreign trade means to ‘the farmer and worker—and the} conclusions drawn are pee li CUBA BRINGS IN | VESSEL ALSO BROUGHT 23. TONS OF FREIGHT ' 1 FOR KEY WEST | { I { | ' | Steamship Cuba, of the P. and: 10. S. S. company, arrived from Tampa this morning with eight} jfirst class passengers and three | }second cless for Key West; jfirst and four second class i Havana, | "Key West arrivals: for W. H. Ma- {W. I. Jackson, H. H. Crosland, j 'A, A, Boyden, J. R. Blai-, G. L. | Scheer, E. Papy, L. G. Crims,! {Josefina Marquez. The Cuba also brought 23 tons freight and 14 sacks of mail j r Key West; four tons of freight iS 107 sacks of mail for Ha-! { Vana, {ine importance in any , ter {took 40,007 gallons of | Tortugas and ly realized—that imports as well as exports create jobs in this country. Many imported materials must be processed or serviced. All of them must be transported and distributed, This requires labor, and a lot of it. Foreign nomic destinies of us some of the best heads country, in government dustry and agriculture, all, in and And the in- answer to the many-faced problem foreign trade presents today. Business Week says that “by ness continues to display surpri ng vitality over a wide front de: | pite the political uncertainties abroad that are assuming increas- appr 1 of business fortunes.” Heavy industry, which took it on the chin hardest during depres- ion. is still improving. And that grade-A general barometer. clec- tric output, recently registered contra - seasonal improvement. Nothing seems able to stop the march of recovery. ‘STEAMER YORO | ARB PASSENGERS ARRIVES HERE... FRUIT STEAMER COMES IN AND TAKES ON FUEL OIL AT PORTER DOCK. Steamship Yoro, of the Stand-j ard Fruit and Steamship Com- pany, arrived this morning from Dock company’s main pier, fuel oil and sa‘led 2 o’ciock for Frontera, | Mexico. | trade affects the eco-! are grow-! gray trying to figure ut the long range, ‘RETAINS SHOVEL Darkened Sun To Guide Science _ USED TO START : . - RAILROAD WORK Teward End Of ‘Green Rainbow COBOL DS. . Ld JOHN S. WILLIAMS POSSESSES TAYLOR aa Mystery That mp SPADE WITH WHICH if LARGE BARRACUDA | GEORGE W. ALLEN BROKE Period Expected Te Be GROUND AT THIS END Judge H. H. Tayler 5 2 a Selved With Eclipse Astronomers lest » time while im Key West establishing a record for the One\of the largest barracuda ewer tak-= Williams hove w. im these waters. the according to sions of John S. oldtimers in sport White street, is the which broke right of angling Out Tuesday company with Mrs. Taylor Mrs. Alice M. Morris and At torney and Mrs. William Albury, the judge hooked and brought te beat most formidable locking =p- mens of the barracuda the late George fishing this en the Flor it Joh ground at way for Coast Railway { The shovel, was given by who, at the time the Key W stared, hardware esablishment yn ton street. With this shovel, membered it is said, rounded by an enormous celebrants, all’ makin; ying to the utmost making event, Mr. ‘Ic ground which called fo ing cheer from throats. During the celebration. be the shove Willia understood. w. extension to operated a is here. The feet fish seven and half and weighed 80 pounds ary fish of this more fere: measures it will be Mew and crowd of sur- us than a £ this size fishermen would be a dangerous £ and one o! weight encounter while swimm:r "SI ITIIIIS SF ~ MANY HERE TO RECEIVE BONUS COMING WEEK BETWEEN 250 AND 30: tho’ which followed. presented to Mr friend of Mr. J Allen, and sine kent it Thov nir. ripped of orations and silver ing been used lied back to m the greatest events history. the implement good condition and the wondering if it could again used at the beginnin the construction of the b: JUDGE TAYLOR LEAVES TODAY | COLLECTS NECESSARY DATA ;, IN CONNECTION WITH BRIDGE MATTER wilt SHARE IN “BABY BOND pos not TOTALLING ABOUT $100 Judge H. H. Taylor, for the Monroe County Toll Bridge Commission, | morning over the highway ing with him all the data in connection w posed bridge bonds, which was the princiy He was accompz ylor and Mrs. th For veterans carry- necessary the ain at pro- rem nbling ©: V. lor Albu’ n g: Attor ney William who aided iadge Ta: from ing the necessary 4 records of the county ers, said the same fond ization for the bridges, carried in 1 by a vote | to 8, is to be used for the i jor the bonds which are to be dis- | posed of by the Public Works a wh of uance tion Fin: authorization saves consid | time as can be easily seen 60 day: It is expeced that there 11000 men employed on the it is said, and Key West mer fare qualified and phys | will be given the preferen said. There will be 10 tracts for the work all b ried on simultaneously time for completion of the bridge: thas been estimated at between will be work separate cor 28! Philadelphia, docked at the Por-/and 14 months. ' INSPECTORS OF RESENTS THINGS SAID ABOUT ISLAND CITY MANY UNTRU= 137 to man SHIPS ARRIVE : Sehooner Eureka, Captain Hall,' is berthed at Portes Dock. She yanived this week fom the main- land, Tender Ivy, which left earlier in the week to deliver supplies at to relieve New Ground Rocks lighted whistling tbuoy, returned to port yesterday 1 G. L. Scheer, spector of oil ir, United States inspectors of hul arrived this morning t Steamship Cuba from Tampa inspect the Ferries Pilgrim and Traveler of the Monroe County Ferry System. United ann J. R. Bi on about Key West tyre’s column, an Bean Soup . Conch Chowder Clam Chowder ......... Fish Chowder .... Hot Souse RADIO LUNCH COUNTER Next To Monroe Theater would aecrue to Key West reason of its establishment. J. J. Trevor announced an or-}| ganization meeting of the Izaak! | Walton League to be held at his| house this evening. | Following es: the meeting was edigaee?- | by, justine and Mr. Porter. man; J. W. Hoffman of St. Aug-| ! afternoon, Steamship Ozark, of the Clyde- | Mallory Lines, is due to arrive to- End AD I 0 L | morrow irom Jacksonvillé and Mi- DOZEN {ami en route to New Orleans. E! Florida Nursery | Alamo, of the same lines, is due one 597 or 598 jin Sunday morning from New ‘York, bound for Tampa. Week | Mr. Coe has requested A. B. ins Cammerer, of Washington, direc- | or The tor of the national park service, $1.00 to attend the meeting or be rep-! South resented by a member of the Ph. service. --2 " SPECIALS Pimeapow Layer (necouste Mated ak Dew Bulkheads and the forward r hoid on the Pilgrim are to be Mcintyr e st tested and plans for additional ‘equipment which was ordered by the inspectors some time ago are send to be gone over with Frankin E. Albert, in charge of ferry opera- tions. nou sauce Layer Cabes Specs MALONEY & PEACOCK Fen Se Pheae $15 i THE HAPPY EXPRESSIONS OF FOLKS ENJOYING WAGNER BEER TELL. WHEN YOU NEED A “COOLING OFF” JUST TRY AN ICE COLD WAGNER BEER /|