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State's Attorney Hugh Mead Alcorn, the man who helped send famed Murderer Gerald Chapman to the gallows, was called in. Hayes & Co. were arraigned by a Grand Jury in 1938 on a blanket charge of conspiracy to loot Waterbury of better than $1,000,000. Last week a jury of Connecticut laborers, farmers and housewives, after a trial that had lasted nearly eight months (TIME, Dec. 26), finally cogitated the conduct of Hayes & Co. Eager crowds, including Cinemactress Rosalind Russell (home from Hollywood on vacation), packed in and around the courtroom to hear the verdict: "Guilty." Tears filled...
Catnapping in her bedroom before her evening performance of The Philadelphia Story, stormy, eel-hipped Actress Katharine Hepburn woke to see a burglar about to loot her dressing table. She shrieked: "What the hell are you doing there?", leaped out of bed. The burglar, scared witless, hurtled down the stairs, Miss Hepburn after him, escaped in a waiting car. No jewels were missing...
...border. Undoubtedly, along with my own parents and all the population of unconquered China, she has endured the horrors of Japanese bombing raids. Ahead of her, even if China should win, is only anonymous drudgery; if taken by the Japanese she will fare no better than the other human loot of captured cities...
...that the safest haven for their transferable riches-jewels, antiques, gold and silver objects, foreign bonds, foreign money-was in the foreign-held concessions and International Settlements, where neither Chinese bandit nor Japanese invader could get at them. In their invasion of China the Japanese have found precious little loot with which to finance their war. Before they retreated the Chinese were careful to strip their cities of wealth, and what they could not take westward with them they hastily deposited in the foreign-controlled zones...
Thrifty Netherlanders own some $6,000,000,000 in gold, foreign exchange, foreign and colonial securities. But wily Dutch bankers have taken such precautions that scarcely a penny of the rich loot could fall into German hands. All but 5% of their gold is deposited in the U. S., England, South Africa...