The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 8, 1934, Page 2

* * & Ss = TWO SUICIDES, FOUR DUELS ee * With Mystery Still Dark) Stavisky Arrests Total 26, ee * ee By FULTON THATCHER GRANT | CHAPTER FOURTEEN Part I When we abandoned the unravelling | of the Stavisky case as presented in} the Bayonne bond-swindle, it was’ some time in January. Camille A: mard, former editor of La Liber! and Deputy Gaston Bonnaure and many others had been involved, and the whole country was startled by the | shocking revelations of these high- ranking men stooping to such shod- | diness. But imagine the concussion, the shock-in-series that must have follow- ed. On the first day of April—only two months later—the arrests made, in the case already totalled 26 and | Many more were anticipated. There} had been two suicides, two attempted ; suicides and four ducls. Beyond the 26 arrests more than a, score of other names had been dragged in and rolled in the mud. Four fo er ministers of state, three senat several deputies, more than ten high functionaries and five prominent) lawyers, magistrates and members of | the court had been definitely involved or besmirched. And all this came about through’ the emphatic energy of the special Parliamentary Commission, born un- | der Doumergue’s government. The first active day of these 42 unimpeachable men was February 25. They started right from the begin-| ning, taking in order the 1926 Stav-| isky case, the Hungarian bond case that never became an actuality, and) the Bayonne affair. And they named names fearlessly. It was shown beyond doubt that Gaston Bonnaure, the Paris deputy, had received no less than 400,000) francs from the crook, that he had| made several trips to Hungary with him, and that he had once passed Stavisky off as his “secretary.” He went to prison. | ‘The commission got together the) cancelled checks signed by Stavisky. They totalled millions of francs, and there were still more to be found. ‘They looked into the sources of tele- phone calls that came into the Hotel} Claridge while Stavisky had been a resident. They published some sur- prising names. There was to be no concealing of facts now. Minister's Name Enters Up pops the name of Louis Proust, former Minister of Agriculture. Up) comes the name of Substitute Hur- laux of the Courts. And those of Garat, Dubarry, Aymard and the oth- er “old friends” in this story were not missing. ‘Action starts. Substitute Hurlaux, | questioned, is tricked into revealing | that he helped procure some 19 “de-} Jays” in the 1926 Stavisky case. And; Substitute Hurlaux is forced to re-| yeal that he counted on his “dear friend” Serge Alexandre for aid and the support of his influence in getting @ long-awaited promotion. So Substitute Hurlaux attempted, on March 6, to commit suicide. He was restrained and put in a padded} cell of a nursing home—under guard —for future reference. He was also relieved of his job. But that was only a beginning. Blanchard, a high functionary of | the agricultural ministry, it seemed, | had taken the government post while; he was a director in the Fonciere, " corporation. 100,000 francs—the check was found. Blanchard was fired from his job. Blanchard went to Fontainebleau and, after sending a farewell letter to his wife, took poison in the woods and/ died. 1 A prominent lawyer, Maitre Ray- mond-Hubert, took over the duties of defending four of Stavisky's former! associates, employes or lawyers. It seemed to be too much for his! nerves, and so, on March 9, he tried; tossing himself into the Seine. Luck-| ily, or unluckily for him, he was} dragged out and lived to tell a merry tale later on- merry that he is in) prison, possibly still laughing. | So there w when the commission started to work. | Check Stubs Vanished But there was one obstacle. The/ stubs of the checks signed by Stavisky | had vanished utterly, some hundred) of them. That gave rise to one of the} more dramatic moments of the in- quest. It was on March 1 that the stubs “appeared.” Inspector Pierre Bony of the Surete| Generale was responsible. Now we will recall that cn January 26 Inspec- tor Pierre Bony had been suspended | by the Disciplinary Council for ex-; tortion. I mentioned it in Chapter Six under that date. But Inspector Bony was a die-hard, and he kept right on working on the Stavisky case, hoping, so he said later, to prove his devotion. On March 1 he told the chief of his service that he had locat- | ed the checks, but he made it very complicated. “The check-stubs are in the hands} of a man whose identity must not be revealed,” he said. “He is a valuable; stoolpigeon, and I can only produce the checks if we guarantee him pro- tection.” After long consultation it was ar- ranged. | Ministers Cheron (Justice) and) Sarraut (Interior) came to Bony's) | gave Jo-Jo in exchange for cash. The less than 12 murders in Argentina, a Prosperous trafficker in white-slavery, important in a big dope-ring, with |numerous condemnations against his {name on the police records of France, and yet has been arrested only once. He was, in fact, a stoolpigeon for | Pierre Bony of the Surete. | Jo-Jo-the-Terror (the same Jo-Jo under another name) was, it was re- |vealed, the mysterious man who pro- duced the check-stubs before the hyp-| notized Ministers of France. He turned out to have been Gilbert Ro- magnino’s friend for many a year, and Te Deckme evideut that he and his gang formed a part of Stavisky's or- ganization, which was, upon investi-| gation, assuming startling dimen- sions. But the press went further than that. At least one paper stated posi- tively that Jo-Jo's gang included Henri Voix and Pigaglio, who were with or near Stavisky when he died. This paper asserted that Stavisky had engaged Jo-Jo's crowd to hustle him out of France. He had not taken money, but he had taken ten million francs worth of jewels, and these he gang knew how to dispose of such things well enough, The reporter on this story seems to have had a real hunch. He claims to have discovered that when the police were hot on his trail Stavisky turned fore betrayed him to the police (Jo- Jo was a stoolpigeon, after all) and he accuses Jo-Jo and his gang of Stavisky’s murder. They chloroform: ed Stavisky, he states, and then shot him under the eyes of the Surete and with its consent. story. duced the checks, Romagnino was ar- rested as accomplice and receiver and the inquest went on. Missing Jewels Cause Trouble The next thing that troubled the ‘commission was the missing jewels, | 28.09. those which Stavisky and Jo-Jo are supposed to have spirited away to aid the escape. Gustave Tissier, back in Bayonne, confessed that he had sent a package to Stavisky but could give) no clue as to its whereabouts. | Investigations showed that Romag- first week in March. Later it was re- vealed that Jo-Jo had gone with him. i apartment at 9 o'clock in the evening. | Then entered 2 man of the under-| world, all enveloped in a heavy coat | and turned-up collar, with his cap! pulled down over his eyes. He deliv- ered the checks and admitted he had! men. They let him go without furth-/| er questioning, and that was that. | On March 6 Pierre Bony was not} reinstalled in his old functions as in- on the Prince murder case. and even for Cheron, the Minister of Justice. Bony, they screamed, was playing the magician and juggling} with the cards. Cheron was his dupe. | The whole commission of 42 men was/ his dupe. Bony was a crook and a; ‘ion. fake. When was the commission go- ing to realize it? | Jo-Jo, the Apache, Involved t But the incident resulted in still} more color for the papers and more: rdrama for the Stavisky case. It set the papers to investigating, and their investigations revealed Jo-Jo-the- White-Haired-Boy. Now Jo-Jo is worth some descrip- tion. His real name is Georges Hain- ault, and his is one of those rare cases of real apaches still remaining in Paris, long after they were made immortal by the pen of Eugene Sue jand the brush of Toulouse-Lautrec, This personable young man has the | Stavisxy gang, he received a reward of “There's nothing tough about my throat..thats why | smoke Old Golds sone James Cagney [AN OLD GOLD SMOKER SINCE 1932] reputation of being involved in no} get the idea h throat, for ii front of the ‘ your taste te! bacco—plent is used in Ol and Nerves. ‘T AN ACTOR plays a few two-fisted characters on the screen, some people “But that’s not always true. Take my like every other movie star who works in “That's why I’m for Old Golds—they never rasp the throat. And what’s more, with artificial flavors. “An irritated throat is one ‘tough break’ that I won’t risk. So I'll keep right on sailing smoothly with Old Golds.” We'd like to emphasize this point, Mr. Cagney:—No better tobacco grows than why Old Golds are easy on the THROAT Scetland Yard was given a tip and it was not long before five packages of jewels valued at 600,000 francs were unearthed in the British capital. | Then more jewels turned up in Switzerland and in Belgium—some the jewel affair from a still broader But it was on and after March 10/ d'Uhalt of his investigation, called the prisoners to the Sante, and centraliz- ———_—_______—___- Weather Report SOUTH DAKOTA POINTS For Bismarck and vicinity: and cooler’ tonight; Puree Sieaas Rapid City, clear Thursday fair For North Da- er east and south cate ae ursday s | Minnea| », Cldy. « Mavorbend, eloar’s WEATHER IN OTHER 8' \ High: ight; ‘Thursday | treme _southeas iT Chicago, Ill, eldy. . Fair tonight and |Des cooler southeast” portion | Partly el cool- ‘eme south portions Thursday fair, For Minnesota: Esa er in west and extr Wednesday night; |Ke 5 cooler in southeast Ransae Gi Bi » Peldy. City, Mo., ted 1 GENERAL CONDITIONS Pressure area is centered ov River Valley and Manitoba Pas 29.72) while a high pressure area overlies the north Pacific coast ‘Kamloops 30.30). Moderate ti showers fell in Minnesota, and eastern North Dakota, weather is generally fair. ratures continue high in le Mississippi Valley and but cooler we: 0 |Miles City, Mont. clear 96 C 0 N T I N U E D |Modena Utah, cldy. jNo, Platte, Neb. clear . 98 Okla. City, O., clear ... 102 Albert, Manitoba | Roseburg, Ore., clear .. 90 Bait Lake Clty, Us yetdy.| e City, U., i the |S. S. Marie, Fal lower | Seattle, Wash., clear ather Sheridan, Wyo., clear {Sioux City, a) peldy. where the Tem yellow. He claims that Jo-Jo there- | middle Mississi Prevails over t! S , Wasi North Dakota Corn and Wheat Re, | Swift Current, detracting. and tooting horns and whistles. He leaves one daughter besides Mrs.| Mr. Roosevelt has an intimate pic- Leslie. She is Mrs, Helen G. Lyken|ture of the power and reclamation of Forman. program of the northwest—of pro- posed developments in North Dakota Pirates Take Second {5-224 the living conditions of the lace ii ‘Thursday he visits Green Bay, Wis- Place in Northern) muminy.t worn. ice te celebration he is expected to wan aod Aug. &—(R—Crookston | fetiver the major speech of his trip. Seo Somme (ortiz JOHNGON 10 CHART Claire, former second place holder, loans and al In the only other game played Tuesday Duluth made 15 hits count ‘bo| {0F,28 Tuns in copping the odd game! Biug Eagle Control Lifted for count jurris for an vich for the Superiorites, hit home Most Partin Towns of ae | 2,500 or Less Washington, Aug. 8—(#)—Hugh 8. coated Johnson returned to a Marra desk ‘Wednesday to steer NRA ini sec 0 Lauds Service of wo i Now that code-making is virtually Famed Phy sicians finished, the recovery unit enters the uncharted seas of compliance. New _ Human Health set-ups must be ‘manned to see that | river to inspect the work on dams | Industry lives up to its covenants. 00| and locks providing a nine-foot Problems galore faced Johnson, just channel from Minneapolis. back from a “vacation” mostly spent ‘The hope of redistribution of popu. /!0 seeking to get employers and strik- 00 lation to bring all families within |¢P to agree. Topping all the prob- range of profitable opportunities has |¢ms was the question just what NRA For the week ending August 7, 1934. weather with but Precipitation prevailed all while favorabl ar ‘innemucca, Nev., clear 96 Winnipeg, Man., clear . At the time of this writing this has | whi for hi not been proved but it makes a good Led threshing ‘i eee caused most vegeta- flax, and potatoes, Haying aise ‘Good However that may be, Jo-Jo pro- | flax, S. Haying made good y List but disappointing yields nad ures are drying, with livestock showing __ considerable Streams show record low StBismarck station b larck station barometer, inches: X Reduced to sea level, 29.81. Missouri river stage at 7 a. m. 0.0 ft. 24 hour change, -0.1 ft. PRECIPITATION For Bismarck station: Total this month to date ..... cs Normal, this month to date . Total, Jan. Ist to date formal, January 1st to date’: nino had been in London during the | accumulated deficiency to date 612 NORTH DAKOTA POINTS |p past 8388282 Sargent Pioneer Dies Sunday at Age of 80 Forman, N. D., Aug. 8.—(?)—Fun- eral services will be conducted for D. J. McKenzie, 80, long time resident of Sargent county and registrar for the federal land bank of St. Paul from 1| September, 1921, to Dec. 1, 1930, who 33 | died here of a heart attack Sunday in |the home of his daughter and son.in- law, Mr. and Mrs. A. Leslie, with whom he had been residing for more than three years. : 06] Born in the province of Quebec, .00| Canada, Nov. 12, 1853, McKenzie en. |of 1.20! tered the Presbyterian ministry. Prior 09 to coming to North Dakota in 1887 he 40' was pastor of a church at Lowell, Mass. When he came to North Da. kota he settled in Sargent county and ‘og; Was pastor of churches at Rutland 50| and Milnor. Before being elected county super- 1.23 | intendent of schools for Sargent coun. ‘75 ty in 1890 he quit active ministerial ‘oo Work. He served in the superintend- ent’s capacity 1894. Afterwards he entered the law pro. | fession handling land, collections, | ting towns without stop by crowds |the annual meeting of the North Da- BISMARCK, cldy. Carrington, clear cay clear ee gotten them from Gilbert Romagnino, tro: Million “fea tibe roetiiy al 2B Dick ae » peldy. visky't " al 4 — kinson, peldy. one of Stavisky’s most active hench-| ang the police decided to let the Lon-|Drake, cldy. .. : Dunn ‘Cente: don matter drop until they could see Grand Forks’ clear angle. ee clear .. Lisbon, clear . spector of the Surete, but put sree Iahat things began to grow really hot.|Max, cldy. .. 7 On that date the Paris magistrature | Minot, peldy. All this was very dramatic, but the took the entire case away from Bay- | Nay art Press made life miserable for Bony onne, relieved the indefatigable Judge | 98! es, special train at key points to motor been emphasized by the dust covered |Will be like in the future, an issue 00 | president on his tour through the that the president and congress must ‘oo |@routh area and the several gigantic |federal power and irrigation projects decide. Johnson, who wants to step out of the western watersheds. when President Roosevelt feels he | Traveling across Minnesota Tues. |CAM be spared, has suggested a com- iday night and through Minneapolis, | Mission to succeed him. ithe seat of the troublesome labor dis-|_ The NRA formally lifted Tuesday {pute of this section, Mr. Roosevelt in-| "ight much of the control over trade ‘quired into the problem but without |1% towns of 2,500 or less. It designat- .|ed_small.town employers in 15 re. tbh: rt edie nd ube gro tail trades and services as coming un- at work, der President Roosevelt's order lift. Mrs. Roosevelt Leaves Train By ried obligations from certain lit- With Senator Shipstead, Farmer- as Labor, and Rep. Holdale, Danner, Only child labor provisions and, in| rival candidates for the Minnesota |Certain cases, fair trade provisions senate election this year, the Presi.|Were retained. Price fixing was toss- dined ed out. sg wicseeet edt hes) hts The trades affected: barber shops. Mrs. motor vehicle storage and parking, train at Bt etl fe hney reendent's|bowling and billiards, cleaning and | the White House. She has accom.|2veing, laundries, shoe rebuilding, ho. Port! Oregon, | ‘els, baking industry (insofar as sale Laptinog print fren his long tour |Of bakers’ products at retail is cov- the territories. ered thereby), retail food and grocery, ‘The president is making one of the retail jewelry, retail tobacco, retail most unique and intensive cross coun. | ‘Fade (including retail drug and book- sellers) real estate brokerage, restau- et ie sea i rants and confectioners’ stores. far across the inland to federal pro- Jects and proposed se State Officials to | with American Flags ‘to'wave ther) Meet With Auditors greetings and despite the hardships; ‘found in the drouth area, smiling} Valley City, N.D., Aug. 8—(P)— faces have shown everywhere. Even State officials whose work interlocks late at night the presidential special | with that of county auditors will par- has been met as it crossed through | ticipate in the program arranged for Eee ARS SECOND ERAS missioner Examiner J. A. Brown. Other spesk- ers include W. W. Felson, veteran au- ditor of Pembina Creag eth Pusch, tax expert for the Railway. G. J. Mustad, Finley, Steele county auditor, is president of the associa~ tion; 8, W. Lyman, Eddy county, vice president and J. M. Baillie, Barnes podvanadicehsstem Anti-Freeze Dealers To Meet Here Friday More than 300 automotive dealers, garage and service men are to attend a meeting in the Elks Hall in Bismarck at 8 o'clock Friday eve- ning. The meeting will be sponsored by the National Carbon Co., manufactur- er of Eveready Prestone anti-freeze, and the two local distributors, Quan- rud, Brink and Reibold, Inc, and Grant-Dadey Co. Anti-freeze problems will be dis- cussed by G. D. McCormick, anti- freeze engineer from Minneapolis. This is one of a series of 200 meet- ings scheduled all over the country in the inferest of anti-freeze service. 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