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Inspector Bony, suspended from the Sûreté Gènérale in January, was the only person to make any factual advance in the great Stavisky case last week. Fortnight ago Inspector Bony discovered the missing stubs for the checks with which Swindler Stavisky is supposed to have bribed his way to power. Last week in the municipal pawnshop of Orleans he discovered the missing jewels. After Stavisky's death no trace of them could be found. Inspector Bony discovered a bright-eyed pretty little mannikin who led him straight to the Orleans pawnshop...
...smartest cop in France." Newspapers like to call the Prefect of Police Little Napoleon, for, like the First Consul, he was born in Corsica. Flic Chiappe went to the Paris prefecture seven years ago after a distinguished career in the Sûreté Générale, the French secret police. It was Jean Chiappe who solved the historic cases of the Hungarian Forgeries and the Rose Diamond of Chantilly...
...serving 18 months in jail and we were married afterward. Of course there were other women in his life, mostly spies!" Mlle Lucette Lameras, 27, who was in Stavisky's room when the shot was fired, so the Sûreté Générale said, made no disclosures, quaffed champagne at the Chamonix police station while being questioned. Sought out in Paris by United Presswoman Mary Knight she extended a heavily bejeweled hand, drawled, "Give me your card. I don't say a word for less than 5,000 francs ($305). I have other bidders...
...French police think he is the Chevalier d'Industrie (confidence man) who so recently as 1926 cashed a forged check for more than a million francs. They think he is the "Handsome Alexandre" who twice escaped from agents of the Sûreté Générale who were taking him by train to Paris. In the first instance the agents went to sleep, drugged. In the second their prisoner slipped off his handcuffs by means best known to himself and ran. Only last winter, Chevalier d'Industrie Stavisky won a 2,000,000-franc baccarat...
...Raising the discount rale in August 1929, and the Hatry crisis in London, precipitated the debacle which was spurred on in 1930 when the Hawley-Smoot tariff threw a monkey wrench into world commerce, in 1931 by the failure of the Creditanstalt in Austria, the German moratorium and England's abandoning gold. The Glass-Steagall bill produced improvement last summer which was promptly undone by President Hoover's Des Moines speech ("could not hold to gold . . . but two weeks longer"), controversy over War Debts and publication of R. F. C. loans which caused runs on banks...