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...latter part of 1936, a Narcotics Bureau agent-whom Major Williams refused to name last week on the grounds that it might cause reprisals-arrested a Chinese on a minor charge in Seattle. The culprit talked freely about a much more interesting compatriot named Chin Joo Hip in Butte, Mont. Chin Joo Hip, a wrinkled, cadaverous tongman with drooping white mustaches, received a call from the agent, who pretended to be the nephew of a rich Pacific Coast gangster. Presently they were fast friends. When the agent left to go East to buy opium for his "uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Trapped Tong | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...Mont Laurier, Quebec. Lumberman Henri Chagnon became so annoyed when a fractured leg failed to heal that he stumped in on crutches to see his physician. Dr. Gustave Roy. Said Henri Chagnon drawing an ancient revolver: "Make your act of contrition. I am going to kill you." He pulled the trigger, his gun failed to go off, he went to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 25, 1937 | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...beat him in a battle that was not secondary in importance to any now raging between Communists and Fascists, to the welfare of democracy all over the world. He will be a power in government when Mr. Roosevelt will merely be another ex-President. R. A. HJELMVOLL Anaconda, Mont. Sirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 18, 1937 | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...Bilotta, Mont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 31, 1937 | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

Chicago Lawyer Newman A. Du Mont died last September, leaving an estate in excess of $100,000 to his mother, Mrs. Loretta Du Mont. His pretty widow, Jane Wilson Du Mont, 29, went into Probate Court and was declared a legal widow, entitled to one-third of the real and personal property in the estate under Illinois law. Mother Du Mont appealed, denying the validity of her son's 1932 hasty marriage in Crown Point, Ind., part of the record of which had been lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: License = Marriage | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

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