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CLAIM FOR DYED HAIR
PLAY PRODUCER, ACCUSED BY ACTOR.
SATURDAY, MAY 1926.
CRIME WAVE IN
NEW YORK.
"SECRET" OF THE ASTOR FORTUNE.
AMERICAN STORY OF ITS ORIGIN..
262 MURDERS TO LONDON'S 42.
Los Angeles, March 18-
Viscount Astar, Lady Astor Governor Snilth of New York: Emmett Corrigan, actor in a road M.P., and Major. J. J. Astor will Stüte, has issued a special mega- production of "What Price bo surprised to learn from Pro-age to the Legislature asking that. Glory" to-day filed suit in United fessor Harbert Bolton, of the body, in a dotermined effort to States District Court hore University, of Calfornia, that they deal with the crime wave, to pass against Louis 0. Macloon, owo their millions to the enter a law setting up a Commission of Lillian A. Macloon and Playhouse Corporation, asking Old Man among pirates!..
the prise of Captain Kidd, the Grand Inquiry: more than $350,000 damages, including $33,000 for having been forced to dye his hair.
Macloon, prominent in Los Ans goles theatrical circles, now is in San Francisco.
i
Corrigan declared that the
WIS
company in which he engaged failed to complete its road wchedule,'and asked $6,750 on this score from each defendant. Next he requested the court to assess each defendant $11,000 for forcing him to dye his hair.
He quotes appalling figures, the ward by the professor, who ad- here recognize only too well.
Thie surprising story is put for significance of which tho public mits, however, that it is founded Deaths by violence, which are or a tale told to him by a mem-increasing yearly, reached 11,000 ber of a family which owned Deerjin 1922. throughout the country. Island, off the coast of Maine. While England and Wales in 1921 Doer Leland, was commonly had 149 case of homicide, one city reputed to be a hiding place for in the United States alone had 237. Captain Kidd's spoils..
In 1923 England, with a popu
It appears from this narrative lation of 38,000,000, had 151 oases that Mr. John Jacob Astor, the of homicides; Chicago, with its founder of the Astor fortune, mat 3,000,000 population, had 389. Lon- trappor named Cartier who had don last year had 42 murdors; been fortunate enough to find the New York had 262. pirate's stores of gold. The trap- Crime is not confined to the Finally, alleged the actor, when per Was apparently of a American cities, as is usually) he complained to the Actors' philanthropic,, turn of mind, for thought, the Governor points out, Equity Association of the treat he is said, to have sold the But is spread throughout the coun- ment at Muetoon's hand's the said "cache" for the trifling sum of try almost in proportion to the Macloon wrote the association £1,000. Mr. Astor, it is said, density of the population. He that Corrigan was a "notorious brought the treasure to England offers no romedics, but apparently trouble maker," and for this item where he disposed of it for suggests that so-called human- he would charge each of the three £1,400,000, which was a good itarian defendante an aven $100,000.
legislation and granting of paroles and bail too freely may be responsible.
bargain oven in those days..
FORGED PARDONS,
the
In numerous cases lately men
This inspiring story was dis- Louls O. Macloon arrived in San Francisco yesterday, and the New York Herald (Paris covered (says a special cable to when told of Corrigan's suit, he edition by & exclaimed, "Finet More power to whose funnily owned Door Island. found guilty of several crimes of
Mr. Olmstead, himi Ho accuses me of defaming Mr. Olmstead while on the island violence have actually been found his character, and I didn't know found a cave, visible only at low to be on bail for previous offences. The had any.
tide. Traces could be seen of The new Tammany adminstra-
"I told him to dye his hair chests having been buried in the tion in New York city is dark brown, and, instead; he dyed sand,
RUINS SEARCHED.
F
vigorously reforming the police it spinach colour. The Actors'
force.
An Inquiry was launched Equity Association forced him to
into one traffic court where a do it, anyway. The union rules discovery, searched in the ruins have existed by which offendere Mr. Olmstead, thrilled by the complete organization appears to say that an actor must play the of Cartier's cabin. Here he found were met in the hall by officials part in the manner in which the manager desires. His natural a further thrill in the shape of a in league with policemen, who white hair was obviously im Absolute secrecy must be main-stamp forgery of the magistrate's
slip of paper bearing the words, gave perdon with a rubber) possible for the part, I told himtained. Aster." to dye it, and he flatly refused.
signature in excharge for a bribe.. Later his own union rules forced
Mr. Olmstead, hot on the scent, The District Attorney him to do it. That tickled me, for ook to the study of old bank recharge of the case says it is well- it was the first break that I ever 1802 John Jacob Astor's deposits will accept payment not to press cords. He found that prior to known that the police generally got from the Equity.
varied from £200 to £400. Sudden-summenses, but organized graft "As for his being a troublefly, in 1802, there appeared a must be stopped.. maker, that's easy enough to striking entry of £1,400,000 on the Another aspect of police corrup- establish. He was with me for 26fcredit side. The entry 'bore an tion began to be dealt with when weeks all told, and he made explanatory note. "French and the first batch of suspects in con- trouble every single week." Spanish coin and considerable noxion with snow-clearing graft Chronicle.
jewellery."
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The investigator is now stated declared that nearly half of a sum to have costa to London, where of £400,000 spent in clearing away he was lucky enough to trade un the record enowfall recently was. old jewellery firm which had paid stolon by police and contractors. Mr. Astor £1,400,000 for a trea. sure chest which was eventually
traced to a Vermont junk dealer's IMPERIAL POLICY OF shop. It was, of course, empty, when Mr. Olmstead found it.
A NEGLECTED GRAVE.
In
EARL OF YPRES UNMARKED TOMB..
THE IL.P.
A SOCIALIST EMPIRE. "Socialism and the Empire" is the title given to the report of the, L.D.P. Empire Policy Com- mission, issued recently. Gener- ally the Socialist Empire policy
By a strange irony of fate, while seks "the establishment of a not only been revealed by modern no effort has been spared to mark world organisation of free peoples experiment, but has been known the last resting place of even the co-operating in the production for hundreds of yours if the humblest private who died during and distribution of the world's generations had only been able to the war, the grave of one of the goods, and aims at creating the read their Roman history in the country's greatest soldiers is still political and economic machinery light of present-day scientific upmarked by stone or cross. which will bring about such a knowledge
This at least "is the ingenious churchyard of Ripple, Kent, there
the quiet little villaga state of affairs."
The report makes no attempt to assertion of Signor Cecchelli, is an insignificant grass-covered discuss international organisation who supports his thesis with a mound, surmounted by a fowl in detail, but confines itself, to surprising succession of facts in withered and leafless twigs. Yer problems within a contribution to the official this sadly neglected, spot is the subject
the Empire to two fundamental municipal publication Capitolium grave of the late Field-Marshal propositions, viz., that no achome Working from an analysis of the French, Earl of Ypres, commander of Empire organisation must have history of Rome's subsoil, he of the shows that
"Contemptible Little as its aim the injury of other á volcanic rent Army."
nations or be in any way revealing burning oil explains rationally the sacrifice of Quintus live searched for the place, the towards international Socialism.
· As a Daily Chronicle representa-prejudicial to the development Curtius in the flaming pit, that soxton, Thomas Bennett, who opened amidst the Forum, and was clipping the grass on also holds the secret eternal light peculiar to the cult task
the adjoining grave, pauso in his of Vosta.
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The technique of consultation with the selfgoverning Dominions must be improved by transforming the High Commissioners into Ambassadors, with fall access to British Government departments, Great Britain also having its own Ambassadors in Dominion capitals
Christian writers, among thein HUNDREDS OF FILGRIMSH St Jerome, refer to.
the Is it MPranch's grève-yo phenomenon in Rome of burning are seeking if he said. waters, and the taberu meritorial He pointed to "that little, little is where evidently an oil spring grave, that "bbscure grave, and The report states that the gushed, and is also the site upon added: "Hundreds of folk come Socialist movement welcomes the which was built in the Fifth here to seo it; 20 or 20 every possibility of closor economic Century the basilicu of S. Maria weak.
relationships within the Empire.
in Trastevere, which boars the ""They cannot find it themselves, Thore is a strong case for special inscription in the crypt fans cloi.and when I point it out to them arrangemente with the Dominions) Taking this font as a starting they are surprised to find that if they are of such a kind as point the colebrated Roman thoro is no stone or other could be applied with equal forool scientist, Morichini, traced evid memorial to mark the spot. and advantage to other nations.
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ences of oil at various locations Nothing has been done to it The Socialists would sook the along the Tibor valley within the beyond the turf which I put there wholesale purchase by a Board city.
myself, but I suppose it will have answerable to Parliament of the The legends attaching to the a stone or something some day.". Dominion's exportable surplus, fons olei are shown to have a At the Tie Marshal's funeral all Governments having State substratum of truth, and while in May last, despite torrential owned shipa, The movement is evidences of ancient wolls do not rain, military and civiliane crowd- opposed to any form of com- perhaps justify intensive research of the little churchyard, the pulsory migration. and sinkinge to-day in the precise roadway and the adjoining Concerning the Crown Colonies: locations Indicated by history, meadows to pay homage to the und Protectorates, the report saya modern engineers nevertheless great soldier
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