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Although Hollywood turned down sham Baron. Emil Forst, gassed scenario writer, cables from the film city offering to pay for his funeral were discussed after the inquest on him at Westminster,
Mr. Ingleby Oddie, the coroner, returned a verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind” on Forst. Forst spent his last penny to gas himself in an hotel in Vauxhall Bridge Rd, SW.
Film friends who had known him in his palmy days were told that Mr. Howard Frederick Sharpe, a company director, who gave evid-
ence at the inquest, was taking
charge of the funeral.
Film actor Gibson Gowland, who met Forst in Hollywood 15 years ago, and claims to have been his closcat friend, said: "The film industry did not desert Forst.
“Ula flim friends want to pay for the cremation bo. would have liked. Carl Laemmle, for whom Forst worked in Hollywood, bas cabled instructions to pay for the funeral.
"Mr. Sharpe saya he is arranging everything. I do not know when or where the funeral will be.”
Mr. Sharpe sald; "I num. taking charge of the funeral"
Will Be Cremated
MURDER
DISGUISED.
AS SUICIDE
Los Angeles, Dec. 15. "Murder disguised as suicide" is to new pollee theory in the case of Reid Kusscil, young motor sales- man, who was found shot dead in a garden swing at author Gou verneur Morris's estate.
The bullet that killed him was of the same calibre as the gun belde him which had not been fired for a year. The theory that the gun was placed there by a clever murderer.
Various suggestions were later dia. No More Foreign
cussed over the telephone at the American Consulate.
Later Ale, Gowland said: "I am taking charge of the funeral. Forst will be cremated. The cost be paid by film people whe knew him and liked him and кем would have helped him if they had known he was really hard up.
"I telephoned the LCC relieving offeer at Victoria and told him funds would be
be provided for the cremation, The relic officer has cancelled the burial plans,
An LCC official aid: "We had arranged
for the burial, and put the matter in the hands of undertakers, but cancelled the arrangements when
Carbon in
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The systematle study of British coals by the Fuel Research Board has enabled the Government to save money on gas masks. The story is told in the Board's report published this month.
Whereas supplies of the necessary we were informed that private ur-"active" carbon, for the absorption of rangements were being made." chemical gases, have hitherto been For 10 years Forst had posed us obialaed mainly from abroad, re- an ex-secret service agent, said he search conducted at the request of served as a captain in the Austrian was badly navy during the war, wounded, and decorated for his ser vices to his country.
Said He Had Money It's real name, he said, was Baron Emil Forst. When he borrowed money from acquaintances or got a woman friend to knit him a pullover!
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Durain," type of coal which is say that he had both money and prospecially rich in plant remains, was perty in Vienna, Invested in the days the variety of coal selected, and coal of plenty.
because he felt the cold, he used to special comparatively little ·
"But even a baron," he laughed from part of the Warwickshire "thick of scam" was the one first selected for ouf "cannot take his money
extensive trial, Austria. Only a certain amount each month. It is sad; but I would not go to Vienna. I love London too much."
Mr. Ingleby Oddie, the coroner, sold at the Inquest. "He left letters showing he had no money left. He refers to hla hopeless financial position.
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The tests show that the preparation of such specially active carbon is a process which must with care. The carbon produced is claimed to be very nearly possibly quite as good as any imported car on very "favourable conditions. bor, an
and the saving in cost will be considerable, or property in Vienna, and never Discussing advances in coal utiliza- had any. I was as Door there as tion the report states that the proper- I am here. I am plain Em!! Forstition of British machine-cut coal has -no tille, no rank. All a sham,
Forst wrote: "I have no money
"I am absolutely penniless and approximately doubled in the hand
seven years. There has been a simi hope that the American Embassy will lar increase in the
of coal see to it that I am not buried in in ampli aize Proportion of
la "cleared" pauper's grave. No ceremony and before use. More attention is being dowers. If not too expensive paid to mechanical systems of break- #cremation."
ing and grading, and the suggestion The doctor who was called to the is made that too many size-grades are room when Forst was found gassed, marketed. with a new Bible by his side, sald) Work on the production of petrol that he had a hip deformity that from tar has reached the stage, it is made one leg a little shorter than stated, when a simple large-scale the other.
plant could be designed, if desired.
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