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Show . brisbane THIS WEEK Trouble, Lots of It Civil War Widespread Moscow Looks On Gangsters in Style Civil war In Austria provides big and unpleasant news. Hundreds are shot, the government of the energetic ener-getic little anti-Communist and anti-Hitler dictator, Herr Dollfuss, fighting savagely against the Austrian Aus-trian Socialist Workmen's party. Dollfuss hitherto has been fighting to keep the German Nazis and their influence out of Austria, struggling to prevent, first, political, and, next, territorial absorption by Germany. Now the fight is at home. Socialist Social-ist workmen intrenched in the "Karl Marx" apartment house in Vienna, a huge, four-milllon-dollar structure, biggest apartment house in Europe, used machine guns, hand grenades and gas against Austrian troops. Later Austrian cannon battered down the big apartment house, housing 2,000 men, women and children, chil-dren, killing many of them. Twenty years ago the big war was starting, with Austria striking back after the murder of the Hapsburg heir apparent, dragging Europe and this country into a gigantic war. It could have been avoided by hanging hang-ing the Serbian murderer and a little lit-tle commonsense talk. "With heavy howitzers bombarding apartments filled with hundreds of working men's families In Vienna, savage fighting in other Austrian cities, Russia and Japan getting ready for a war that will give Asia an imitation of the big war, France and Spain worried by strikes and uprisings of Monarchists, Socialists, Communists, no news seems important impor-tant except assorted war news. Needless to say, the Communistic government at Moscow watches with eager pleasure events In Austria and France. Russia's official newspaper, news-paper, Pravda, writes enthusiastically, enthusias-tically, "cheering the fighting workers work-ers in both countries and demanding demand-ing a uuited front of the workers." Pravda says : "The demonstrations and general strikes in France and Austria show the revolutionary forces against Fascism are rising and ripening." Police, in Baltimore, arresting Basil Banghart, called "The Owl," were amazed to see the hardened criminal turn white shaking with fear, submitting without a struggle. This was explained when Banghart said he thought "rival gangsters had closed in on him." Had he known it was "only the police" he would not have been frightened. If his captors had really been enemy gangsters he would have lived less than another half-hour, and knew It. Gangsters know how to enforce respect for their gang laws. Banghart, Indicted for kidnaping John Factor, occupied two suites of apartments. Two women were arrested In the apartments, and police po-lice found there $12,495 in $5 bills. Gangsters prefer small bills, that at tract little attention. Police found also two submachine guns, seven revolvers, one sawed-oft shotgun, one rifle. "The Owl" was prepared. Production of automobiles in the United States and Canada for January Jan-uary increased 78 per cent compared with last year, and the figures do not include the Ford production, which has increased rapidly, Henry Ford increasing the pay of many workers at the same time. The automobile is the best, surest test of returning prosperity, for the Intelligent American, as soon as he is able, gets a new car. Vopno Qonl.-ot, j Verne Sankey, recently termed "Public Enemy No. 1," was a kidnaper, kid-naper, knew he would go to prison for life, hanged himself with two neckties and died. He couldn't have done that in France. When this writer went to see John L. Sullivan and Charley Mitchell, locked up for prize lighting light-ing at Senlis, both had been de privod of their neckties and silk handkerchiefs, as the jailer politely put it, pour evltor touto possibility qu'ils ne se pendent "to avoid all possibility of their hanging thorn solves. That was the rule in France then. Uncle Sam spends freely, lends freely to states and corporations. How much of the money lent will come back, or does that make no difference? In one stale a largo loan la requested, re-quested, to give employment by building an expensive armory, lii another state, private individuals request Uncle Sam to build a groat rnco-trnck, with stables and all that goes with racing and gambling. Mayor La Oiuirdm of N,.w York, whose energy and courauv have' transformed ,11:,y lll!lt Wl,V lll)sti,0 l"to ardent iidmir-rs. tells report-crs. report-crs. "The yi.ims..;t of v, ,,. ,,r live to see aim: her skyscraper K, up In New Vei l; el- . .' Mayor 1 a tt; j "lutes the ,-.,,iv ni :l,e i ',,,,. Stales and lis ,v;! e-1. ii rs." 1 l. Kli l'Y:uui'.v Svmlli'iiu., luo. W N'U Si I n e i |
