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GENERAL AKMMAN FEDERATION TALKS
MISSING DELEGATE
LYTTELTON
"And you,Sir! May Take it that your Silence means
consent?"
World Copyright. By arrangement with Dong Herald.
The most novel Treasure Hunt
ever dreamed of
:
000 a day for over a month until the loan WIS vastly over- subscribed and the national rail- · Paris. opinion of M. Pinay, is hidden; ways were, amazingly enough,
by SYDNEY SMITH
·T does not centre around C.ne of it under old apple trees back on the rails,
M. Pinay's own Cabinet staff tell me that the new loans will find a vest now wealth of francs frightened from their strong- boxes or hidden treasure coches and stockings as well as foreign Investments.
any sunken coral reef. In provincial orchards, up chim- neys, ip lockings and old tin It starts with no tat- boxer, tered piece of parch- Yet more is in scores of foreign ment bearing a spot marked banks and undeclared invest X. But France has just ments abroad, as well as in false seen the start of what must ex totums ai home. be the biggest-ever treasure 'M. Pinay's treasure hunt is The dividends will be paid in hunt in the world.
based on the remarkably original something like kilometres →
It is for more gold than idea that the hidden treasure which cannot change their Captain Kidd and Phillp of Spain which he estimates to be worth value. together ever dreamed of And more than £600 milion a year ils being led by a little man in a black hemburg hat and pin striped trousers.
Antoine Pinay is his name and be is the Prime Minister of France. The treasure, In the
SAINT BEHIND 'THE NOSE'
IERE's a million good-lookin' guys
but I'm
મી
novelty." Barked by JOHN G. DRUMMOND
in a voice reminiscent of a
sea-lion with laryngitis, that
is
success.
of the
"Legg" almost Capone,
Diamond, Yet because
simplicity of this "Dutch" Schultz and the rest Jimmy "Schnozzle" child-like Durante's explanation of his. East Side ragamuffin-which has of the big-time racketeers.
to describe ied his biographer
In case of "accidents Clay him ስ። "half hooligan, half
who
become had
the de- ton, As a crack-it-is-in-the-saint-nothing of their
"brains" and manager of the trio, removed the gangsters Durante tradition. As a pot- pravily rubbed off on him.
The linge of the underworki guns and deposited them ted career story it is neither the truth nor the whole became and has remained part the refrigerator for safe keep truth in fact, it is any of his speech, but temptation ing.
did not so much pass him by thing but the truth.
as pass right over his head. They were his friends, he loved them, saw no evil in them and loaned them his money.
Novelles rocket to the top in show business. If they have talent they may even stay there for a bit, but it takes something near to genius
He loves them still and the money still flows out in an un- ending stream.
The hous at the York, Fallies
In
to the French Treasury will be enticed and ballied into giving itself up.
ORIGINAL
O M. Pinay, faced with a budget deficit of more than £450 million * fast collapsing frane, and 40,000,000 distrustful Frenchmen the treature holders
has planned this, the most courageous hunt in the whole tax history of France and probably of any modern country in the world:
First he has declared * tax amnesty, "total, unlimited, and unconditional" for every form of by tax evasion. undiscovered |January`Tthis year, -Other-hidden-
evaded
mede him sensitive and wretch-investments, or concealed capital,
in mind as a
and or falso returns, every child caused him acute mental suffer-duty, will be forgiven-provided they are declared, before next ing into his late middle age,
Despite his raucous voice and July 14. explosive, rumbustions public personality, he remained
shy, retiring and sitive, from sure of himself, and accituse of the nose, Here, in own words, is what he about it;
But suppose this Intriguing offer is not accepted and there are all distrustful Frenchmen who hope to keep their hidden funds, concealed profits, and investments ---what
Oversons
about them?
PENALTIES
HERE we come to stage
two
of the Pinay plan. M. Pinny's 44,000 tax collec-
tors, liberated from searching past swindling, are just into swinging into full action against
TAX JAWBRESTY
sen- In the meantime, to accommo- post-amnesty defaulters. That far date the resulting flood of means double the normal force, ail frightened cash M. Pinay has or double tax collection. his prepared a new series of loans felt unlike any other Government
loans ever made.
What happens it they catch you now? M. Pinoy has just passed another law for that. .of. the old secret transaction, a private fine for груп What these values when the two months are up stare. I'd just sneak off. Even but in material values that can- tax evasion, M. Pinoy it
they said nothin' at all, I'd not change.
anyone found guilty of tax thrivel up and think they was may be is still a great secret, trin
later broke the myin' What an ugly kid! What
But we have some idea of them evasion will face these penalties: record in vaudeville a monster' and then I'd go home free the last railway loan issued A public TRIAL, his DRIV
Palace Theatre, New and cry
this year just before M. Pinay ING LICENCE cancelled, his went into the Ziegfeld All through life, even when became Prime Minister.
busines TAKEN OVER Sy, the Government, and then came Holly- I am makina celune on pc- count of de big beak, and whille was I am out there on the stage the star, but the three-way laughin' and kiddin' about
was I ever share of all earnings still con- nose,
with Clayton as happy about it. It was a cata-i 5 Minister of Railways and tinued,
Anyone who does not. like A Public Works, Antoine Pinay manager and a handshake siostroke."
One morning, not so long ago, issued a the only contract between them. Durante received a letter from for which the dividends will be Government loan is obviously national railway loan M. Pinay's "material Interests" The Words He Can't
This time they will not pay. Instead "Every time I went down the street I'd hear 'Lolt, de dividends in the unwanted francs nose kid and when anybody'd
wood, to stay at the for as long as Schnozzle has done
top
The little man
with the
big
born
nosc, James Francis Durante, in the
tough
Leeming
East Side dis trict of New York, son of
an Im migrant Italian barber from Salerno, has been a star for 30 of his 50 years.
First it was cabaret,
then
Vaudeville, then musical comedy. Films Camo next, followed
Durante with
Jimmy
a friend, Margery radio, and
has Little, arriving at Waterloo Stallon in the he
train from America. off Queen Elizabeth boat
by by ROW
rounded
A
Schnozzle by this time
Help Mangling
HOL
but
the
on the
Dno time
FREE TRAVEL
but
crima POSTED lown hall--and
door
his nemo and on his local on the front
or gate of his house for
all the neighbours to set.
in free going to think again at this Investors will receive fearful prospect.
boy who wrote: I've got a big paid not in cath nose, Mr Durante. Everybody travel. laughed at my nose. But then
load
me
their dividreds in the form of
It never happened in France before, The old French pro- fession of honourable and dignified tax evasion has, sud- denly disappeared. It is ferrible, it is ghastly, say the French.
A great tradition has been extinguished this Pinoyla formidable.
saw you, Mr Duranie, In
And, geel When you TOLLYWOOD failed to get movie,
the best out of Durante. They kept laughing about your nose used him to bolster up bad it made me feel goed all over, pictures, Instead of building a And the other fellos call Aim on his personality, and his 'Schnozz, and I'm awful proud."
Durante sat
reading this, reputation suffered, ostute Clayton put him into then benmed round the break- radio where his amazing ver- fast table. satility Bet him buck
ofra, bike and has just, fallen "pedasil of fame.
The Duranto brand of genius
The nose problem was almost is difcult to define and varies
solved. Durante is a simple, with the medium he is working In whether radio, films, tele- modest man and certainly
As the long-suffering French Trane, # chance for a real vision or theatre.
have known, but I think the Investor has painfully learned in Investment
in Government was struck in Battle of the Nose in 1043 when sous from the frame but you can- dividends, free travel, or cheaper the the past 30 years, you can cut the bonds which will pay material crille Ashton Stevens not cut a metre from a kilometre. food or rents, and they
said.
the
least vain of all the artists I
wrote:
free season tickets to work, free The realistic French jumped at holiday travel for the family. M. Pinay's railway lean,
WORTH IT
JOW the French are looking
NOW
at the alternativesa Arm
"He would have been a great He rushed to buy the Pinay feeling it is worth it.
comic, even with a mub nose." railway bonds. He paid £1,250,-
On the stage' he storms last blow a non-stop suc- le is appearing at the Palladium in London.
about like an angry penguin, cess story
He began in Diamond Tony's croaking in his awesome valce, and completed his collection of
flailing his arms and erupting Hall nt 25 dollars a triumphs by becoming the top Beer
Next job was in the with the energy of a new-bor
volcano, money-earner in. American tele- week.
best joint in the Chinatown vision.
His word-mangling comes ho succeeded The other aspects of it, and slums, where tho fantastic story of his Irving Berlin, and thought he naturally ("all, the red corp
arc an entertainer, was well on the way to sup- suckles is gone out of my veins; his ccss, getting 40 dollars every I'm just a hollers shelf"), but told in "Schnozzola" by friend and biographer Gene Friday for playing "from eight he makes no attempt to prevent
o'clock t I was subconscloue it. saying:
I ever learned to pro- every night."
nounce de big words 60 of my pals would be out of work next day-including me."
His off-stage cracks have ง
Carcer As
Fowler.
The Money He Can't Keep His Hands On
D
success.
being in
great comedian
of
"Don't put me on a pedasill,"
mutilator
ploads this
of the day English language. "Some
·
ΟΙ this engagement he saye the only thing in the joint with A collar on was the beer and
ho
And
he
Britain's Sharp Note To Bonn
From Charles Wighton
Bonn.
German property and the British
as
are
The buried
In coins, and: bars, and greenbacks, that
GOLD RUSH
has not worked for 30-years, in beginning to come out.
URANTE is probably the only fresh air to be had was simple guse which leaves the they what the customers brought in recipient wondering if unique
the
clothes. It was 50 were intentional. For example, In the on their only
tough that if a customer took John Barrymore told him the world
It looks as though • thệ Httle who history
his hat off he was a clsay. should
Hamlet, play
and RITAIN, in the sharpest had no right to seize them
B has genuinely and stubbornly
Schnozzle replied: "Toock note yet sent to the war booty. The German Gov 60-year-old tannery owner from believe in his own
the typical provinces, Here refused to
supplemented his with those small towns, I'll take
ernment said, however, that it the est German Government, did not challenge Britain's tight
French bourgeois" little; income by teaming up with a New Yor singing walter and performing
when his friend. Billy has just warned German to the other seven docks which Antoine Pinay, is going to for
the customers Rose the coins
was showing him the Chancellor Adenauer to had been owned by Hitler's achieve what 13, polished pro
fessional politicians sines the throw on the Coor,
As a team landscape garden at his country stop trying to evade condi- navy.
wat have falled to "do-give folks are going to realise they it should have been worth the house and bursting with ride: tions of the German surTON-
back to France Ita Integrity, its are crazy to pay me all that money, for the walter was a Jimmy rasped in an awestruck
Independence pride, and its money."
pap-eyed
that loathsome, dollar "All that money" is currently Cantor. coming in it the rate of haif à million dollars I year, yot From, playing the piano in some years not a cent remais dives Schnozzle progressed to in his savings
account. leading his own five-pleco band dives and Schnozzle's heart is bigger than in slightly better his nose: he is known as the eventually to opening his own
called boy
Eddio voice: "Gee, Billy, just, think der in 1945.
what de Lord could do it had dough."
he
1,500,000..
*
the
The Boating docks, seized in the British own the 16 docks, A RESPECTABLET and firm
Said bentor British officials In from The British note threatened Bonne whether the Bonn Gov-patrimony. the Germans that the British ernment likes it or not, Britain. Great things are at stake It
would sell The Beak That Gave Government
10 and the other Western Powers former German floating docks, won the war, The Germany, he does. Not just for the Him So Much Pain worth at least £20,000,000, to who surrendered on
French but for all of us west of May the Iron Curtain,... the highest bidder if the Ger- 1945, agreed to surrender, ell chipbuilding softest touch in the business and "night-spot," the Club Durant, DURANTE'S stage jokes (and mans were not ready to buy the German what the
nchitis GREAT NAME Income-tax man
ship repairing there a blue one among docks back at a cut price of and The year was 1023, prohibi-
without book,
reservation to doesn't take he just gives away.
force in the US. them) would fill a gag When his financial advisers tion was in
Western Alllen. That is why and the Club Durant was only but my favourite, which typifies wish protest, he replies:
a dim, badly lit speakeasy in a the man as much as the come-
North German ports by the The Bonn Government claim, new"
frane at last will resht a was Rockinfellow."
devaluation which would room over a garage, but it was dian, concerns the famous nose:
Royal Navy in 1945 aj war And once, when they com-
"I'm lyin' on de paris bench
booty, have been used by the made even after its senior off- takin' plained bitterly that too few of here that the rent Schnozzola
my siesta-us
my
Germans ever since-without dials had accepted the British Certainly provoke a cascade of
West European devaluation. -wont-when "elong comes, a "Cases" his
point of view and the British were deserving, he success story began
paying rent.
is therefore complete
That in turn would drag replied: "There are more good He teamed up with Eddle bunch of files and settles on my
British High Commissioner price, Uhan bad ones in de Jackson, a singer and Lou- nose. I: lots lem lolter-live and Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick niso naked nonsense,"
our own pound eventually down people world. I don't mind if a gentle Clayton, a soft shoo dancer, As Jot live is my motter.
Chancellor Adermauer. If the Ger- The British note from Sirinto le useless wake *Den a bee comes along man Government was prepared Ivane Kirkpatrick to Chancellor man scratches a match on de Jackson, Clayton, and Durante, furniture, so long na he is care- sharing everything three ways, fights on my nose and atings to stick to an official British- Adenauer was equally terze.
to go with de grain."
the trio went on to break ro me. Dat does it?' I soya,"
"Dere's always gotta be a docks made three months ago."
German agrooment about "tho This beliet in the goodness of cords wherever they appeared.
snart alec in every crowd. Now mankind-even the worst of
: ".
burst forth
for that EVERYBODY oes back to his earliest Durante
comodian for the Arst- time
Yet in his book on Durante's Durante, who is now pald 47, and the Club: Durant became
dollars for
after-hours meeting place life, Gene Fowler is insistent on
·D one-hour the television show, corned his first of every big star in show one point in particular, Jimmy sent after the Bonn Government The 10 decks are indisput-thon the name othe pay cheque by playing the plano busine and every big shot in Durante has succeeded in spite had told Sir Ivone that the Ger ably the property of the British the amateur polltlakes
f of, not because of, his outaiza mans did not recognise British Government. In the meantime the Treasure-1 at 17 in Coney Island dives that
ownership of nine of the docksy please confirm that you will sup the great inamics. were the haunts of thieves,
Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, pose.
These ning, claimed Chancel port the British-German agree history.
private mant made in January!”
*London Ezyrets gunmen and racketeers of every Sophie Ticket, W. C. Fields This "Cathedral of nose,"
were regulars and so were Al as one critic has called it for Adenauer, wer deartiption.
ful to
000
*
Until the first offender-bas. His business taken away' thet wone "I do not understand,” wrote dering French will>'no/quito St. Ivone, how, there can be know what has hit A any question of the rights of the
'But when they do, and" British Government to dispose acknowledge the changed of these docks,
provincial faltber
The sharp British note was **
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