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...Socialist workmen in the Danube shipyards. Armored trucks with blazing guns tore up & down the streets of Vienna. The Government outlawed the Socialist Party; and Heimwehr youths in grey-green overcoats and steel helmets took possession of Vienna's city hall, for years a Socialist stronghold. Burgomaster Karl Seitz was held prisoner. Army howitzers whanged away at Karl Marx court, largest apartment building in Europe, housing some 2,000 Socialist families. By the end of the second day's fighting, in what met most definitions of civil war, 400 to 500 Austrians lay dead. Austrian Socialism lay battered...
Keeping his head, "Little Dollfuss" drafted a decree forbidding political meetings of any kind in Vienna, sent it to the City Hall. A few minutes later back came the decree with "UNCONSTITUTIONAL!" scrawled across it in the passionate autograph of Vienna's grey-bearded Socialist Burgomaster, famed Karl Seitz...
...Army, mostly recruited outside Socialist Vienna, seemed ready to obey "Little Dollfuss" and by his command two regiments marched in, planted machine guns at strategic points, massed armored motor trucks where they might soon do the most good. Burgomaster Seitz shouted: "Vienna is no city of slaves! We warn the Government of the consequences of this dictatorship...
Carrying the idea of preserving relics of old New York one step further, the museum's press agent is none other than touslehaired Don Carlos Seitz, best known business manager of the defunct New York World...
Died. Dr. Edward Seitz Shumaker, 62, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League; at Indianapolis; of a malignant tumor. Since 1907 he had given Indiana Prohibitionists many a signal victory. For disparaging statements made in his annual report to trustees of the Indiana League, concerning the Indiana Supreme Court's attitude in dealing with violators of the 18th Amendment, he was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, was later pardoned by onetime (1925-28) Governor Ed Jackson. In 1929 he was resentenced, served 53 days at the penal farm. Happy was he when, in 1925, the legislature passed...