The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 16, 1934, Page 3

eee ae (By FULTON THATCHER GRANT) The Stavisky case moves into its Tt might be called the political phase. Tt was dramatic. Living in France during those days was exciting busi- ness. Reading your morning paper was almost like living day to day installments of an Edgar Wallace. detective story. And, better than reading the de- velopments, reporting them for the Press was doubly exciting. That was my privilege. I think the best way to make you feel the suspense—the tingling, aggra- vating, daily suspense—and to keep those days as fresh as possible for you is to go back to the brief notes and Jottings I made for myself. For the next twenty-eight days there is no narrative. There are only devel ments. Bright, sudden little develop- ments, often disconnected, often startling. My notes, while crude, seem to say it all faster than I could re- write it’ today, several months after- ward. Stavisky died at midnight January 10. He had been unconscious since the moment the police found him—a “suicide.” He died in the hospital without throwing any light on the situation. The newspapers will have none of the police story, however, and there is certainly @ discrepancy be- tween Charpentier’s first report to headquarters and the second one which followed it to the Minister of the Interior. Here they are: (1) First report says Voix was with Stavisky when they broke into his room, and that it was Voix who first used the word “suici (2) Second report says Char- Pentier’s men met Voix and Lu- cette Almeras on the road to Chamonix village before they broke int. the “Vieux Logis.” Two on Death Somebody is lying or at least badly mixed up. There are two opinions: (1) that Voix himself killed Stavisky in the last minute, paid to do so by the Police; and (2) that Charpentier or ‘one of his men shot Stavisky as they entered. I interviewed Henri Voix’s wife. Death Makes Entrance SUICIDE OR MURDER News Stories Thrillers .| to pass there this afternoon and the the system and its fumbling in the ** * * & On these they are spreading out each Page of the Action Francaise for the Public to read gratis. I had occasion crowd around that bulle board numbered well over one hun- vet aed fighting for room to read let's roaring charges against the machine and the Surete, veathing Stavisky case. The articles were far more daring and vitriolic than any- thing published in the American pa- Pers during the Sacco-Vanzetti busi- ness. The crowd was cheering them, increasing its members every minute. ‘It was a near mob. The Action Fran- caise has caught the public offside. January 11: Serious rioting last night. The Camelots du Rio (King’s Ped- dlers), numbering thousands, formed ranks in the carrefour by the old monastery of Saint-Germain des Pres. I mixed with them at first, in case there should be a story. There was. This group of serious young patriots started to march down the Boulevard Saint-Germain towards the Chamber of Deputies. They were going to make a protesting demonstration against the shilly-shallying of the, government and the parliamentary system. A riot call sent out several detachments of extra policemen. Both forces—cops and royalists—met on the Boulevard near the Legion of Honor. There was some clubbing, and some fist-fighting, too. The Camelots are a tough bunch of boys. The young patriots made war on government property. They tore up the iron grills that protect the bases of trees along the boulevards and threw them at the feet of the cops. The cops did not like this. The boys) also overturned the newspaper kiosks and stopped the city buses. One they overturned. Rioting Grows Serious Bystanders joined the demonstra- tors. The row grew serious. Just about that time I decided it was no place for a foreign newspaper man, Police card or no police card. So I withdrew to the side’ and lurked in a sheltered doorway to watch. Everybody in the community seemed, He seems a pretty bad character, and/to be joining and taking sides with adds credit to the theory that he/ the young Camelots against the police-| may be Stavisky’s paid assassin. She/men, A division of marching war vet- gave the following story: erans and hundreds of plain citizens Henri Voix is a native of Dijon. i In 1931 he was out of a job fora long} ‘They sang Marseillaise. time. He finally succeeded in getting] ‘They cried out, “A bas les deputes- ® place in Stavisky’s Public Works|voleurs! A mort les protecteurs de corporation in the Place St. Georges. | Stavisky! She said his salary was officially) “Down with the crooks, the Depu- 1,000 francs a month but that no| ties! Kill the protectors of Stavisky! sooner had he gotten his new posi-|To prison with Bonnaure. Deaths to tion than, although only a doorman, | swindlers, Down with Chautemps, who) he began living high, wide and hand-| hides the truth. Burn the Chamber.” some. He started coming home at all] Then the police, heavily reinforced hours. Then only a few times a week.| by the mounted guards and mobile ‘Then he abandoned his v-ife and their| corps, heavily armed with clubs, child altogether. She got a divorce,|charged the naughty boys. Heads but when she tried to get alimony were broken. Men were trodden un- showed in court a sworn statement | derfoot and under horses’ hoofs. The from the company that he only earned | mob retaliated. Policemen were badly 1,000 francs a month. hurt. While in the neighborhood I/ And then the officers of law and stopped at the nearby cafes and asked | order seemed to lose self-control. They about him. Everybody knew Voix but| ran amuck. They did not distinguish nobody had a good word for him. He! between the demonstrating Camelots is suspected of being dope-peddler| and their helping sympathizers, and among other interesting things. the interested but passive passers-by Henri Voix may have been Stavisky’s| on the boulevard. Anything was food murderer. Here is what Leon Bailby! for their flailin gclubs. A woman, writes in Le Jour today: caught in the mob as she left her Does everybody know that one | apartment house, tried to avoid-them of the detectives who has been | and hide herself in a doorway near shadowing Stavisky, and who was present at the Chamonix drama, is called “The Killer” by his fel- low policemen, not only because of his extraordinary strength but because of his personality? .. . Leot Cache a In the same article Bailby asks some pertinent questions which are an echo of what you hear on the street cor- ners or in the cafes everywhere in Paris: But where is the money? Where are the billion francs Stavisky stole? Even if he had paid in gold or in platinum the baksheesh and the tips he so freely distributed, and the gags he put in the mouths of black- mailers, or the police who pro- tected him, there must be some- thing left of all this money. Say at least 350 millions. Where are they? In what banks? In what clever investments? In whose pockets? Who is concealing them? A fight is on between the public She erie commangye: Full light will be thrown on the Stavisky scandal, and full justice But Leon Daudet’s Action Francaise Interstate Trans- portation Co. Bdwy. & Seventh Phone 501 NORTHLAND GRE ’ Greer Hammar RODEO THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. MONDAY, JULY 16, 1934 me. Three agents, as the local police are called, saw her and promptly knocked her down. She was painfully hurt and her coat was torn in two. Press cameras were all about. Mag- nesium flares flashed like mad: I stuck my coupe-file police card in my} hat, just in case. I saw a press- Photographer who had just “shot” a) Particularly brutal assault on a bo; of about nineteen. Half a squad of cops jumped on him. He was clubbed to brs ground and his camera smashed to bits. (Copyright McClure Newspaper Syn- CITY PIONEER WILL BR BURIED TUESDA James Montgomery, Who Came to Bismarck in 1880, Died Here Saturday James Montgomery, 75-year-old pio- neer who came to Bismarck in 1880. ied at 6:45 p. m., Saturday at a local hospital from complications of old a: Mr. Montgomery was born in Mona township near Orangeville, Ontario, in 1859. When he was 21 years old, Mr. Montgomery came to Bismarck and took out a homestead in Hay Creek township, six miles northeast of this city. He was married in 1894 and remain- ed on the farm home with his wife until 1902 when he came to the Capital City and entered the services of the . Some years later he bought a blacksmith shop on the corn: er of Fifth and Broadway, which he owned until 1910 when the family moved to Salem, Oregon, where they stayed for two years. Returning to Bismarck at the end of that time, Mr. Montgomery worked in the lumber business and ran a liv- ery stable for several years. He was employed in a harness shop when his Besides his wife he leaves three children, Murl E., James, Jr. and Emma June. He also has several! brothers and sisters living in Ontario. | Another son, Frank V.. died several; months ago. Funeral services will be held at ‘Webb Brothers Chapel at 2:30 p. m., ‘Tuesday with Rev. Ira E. Herzberg) {ization of the composition procedure} Officiating. Pallbearers will be Jim McDonald, William McCormick; Ralph Forsythe, Ward Preston, F. E. McCur- dy and Robert Yeater. E 6, OF 6, ASSAILS FARM DEBT BIL to pay their debts.” It does provide for an extension of the procedure for conciliation of debts Provided in the federal bankruptcy statute and elaborated on March 3, 1933, it added. Under the Frazier-Lemke bill a farmer who is dissatisfied with the conciliation offered him may “step out of that procedure and enter upon @ new procedure.” In effect, the chamber declared, the act permits a farmer to keep his prop- Measure Said to Have “Unfor- tunate Influenci on Credit to Farmers Washington, July 16—(#)—The Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage mora- torlum law was declared by the United | States Chamber of Commerce Mon- day to have “an unfortunate influence upon those who otherwise might make loans for agriculture.” Discussing the measure in a review of the last session of congress, the Chamber added “that there are con- stitutional questions involved in the) new legislation seems obvious.” “A partial safeguard,” it said, “may lie in the form of the legislation, which as a prerequisite requires util- at least up to a certain point before there is opportunity to invoke the new procedure.” How far courts may go in adminis- tering the law can not be estimated until actual cases are begun, the chamber said. “However novel and objectionable) the law may be,” it asserted, “it does/ not provide a new method of dealing) with farmers’ indebtedness when the) value of their property is insufficient: erty if he pays out the appraised value over a period of several years. 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