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| THURSDAY, MAR. 17, 1940 Film Actor Dies :

HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 17 (UP)== London-born character actor Lege

oh “SR or, ‘Ts Ween: plots Ann Ofiw, 34. 312 X. Walcott. -

» v Eis’ Staples, 1231 Orittenden; Jewel Columbia Ave. :

Joseph W. ‘Kelley, 35, 13'S. Hawthorne; At Muthedisi-Joh, Rossmary Reinhacdt: . ames, ma ' urry, b Betty Lou Meyer, 23, R. RB. §, Box 508.

: VE [rans . eres Loves, 11 His Martin. : A 20, 803 Cameron; Joann 848 'N. Warman. .

Elmer R. Haslett Jr. 23, Porest Hills,

Hostetler, 18,

Guests in Hotels |

i . NEW YORK, Mar. 17 (UP)—A) blackmail ring which tapped phones in hotel rooms and ex_torted more than $1 million al * year from weaithy and prominent, was reported uncovered, today as a result of the inquiry © into a plot to tap the wires of city] officials |

The New York World-Tele-| , & Scripps-Howard News. Spe said it had learned of. the! © blackmail ring in high policeT"g quarters and that Mayor William O'Dwyer would confirm its exist. ence at a conference of the city’s! Democratic Congressmen - sum-| moned for City Hall Saturday morning by Rep. Emmanuel Cel.

. Marian Davis, Joan Hart and Martha Curtiss {left to right), rehearse a scene from "Mississippi Showboat,” final act in the | junior class production to be given at 8 p.m. today and tomor. | row in Washington High School. The showboat scene is part of. | the annual vaudeville show sponsored by Washington students.

rish the Monk's Gay Awaiting Broth of Baby

Simian Father-to-Be Struts His Stuff And Waves Shillelagh on St. Pat's Day

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Mar. 17 (UP)~Iriéh, a 27-year-old monkey, brandished a banana for a shillelagh and strutted with all the dignity of a true son of the Old Sod on this great day. And for good reason. Not only was it St. Patrick’s Day, which is reason enough for an Irishman to celebrate, but Irish was about

to become a father. [esate en e————p———— .The Gulana-born monkey wa [Britian <ruser London sounded

ping out seams loi Teds "SEE sent sr a pation of the birth of his 15th|Stevenson and his wife came to child. Irish, whose age, if turned Rhaughal an Nanking to o-| into human terms, would be over na [

100, still is going strong, with] OTTAWA, Mar. 17 (UP)—West one baby now in the family End businessmen picked the land a half-gfown son bouncing wrong speaker for their St. Pataround. | rich'a Eve meeting. ; W. D. T. Atkinson, principal of Glebe Collegiate, had been asked speak about limericks, on which he is an authority. { “Limericks are not Irish” he said, “they're English.” | » »

Mr. Celler's telegram to his eolleagues read: Sw “This conference is all-impor-‘tant. Do not fail to attend.” | The blackmail gang's activities were uncovered when police started an intensive inquiry into wire-tapping as a result of the discovery that some official phones in New York City had been tampered with and that there was an apparent plot to extend this wire tapping to Detroit and Chicago. : How Ring Operated “The smoothly functioning extortion gang operated mainly on the basis of information provided) by staff members of leading] hotels and private clubs,” the World-Telegram said. “Bellhops, desk clerks, maids and other employees in a position to determine an illicit romance, or a‘ shady business venture, provided the leads on a fee basis.” The World-Telegram said the tipsters operated without the knowledge of their employers. “If a prominent figure registered at a hotel with someone other than his wife,” the story said, “that fact would be relayed immediately to the ring's headquarters and a group of highly trained technicians would be assigned to the job. “Usually they would be able to obtain a next-door room, where they would set up the latest types of listening and recording instruments. ‘If unable to obtain nextdoor rooms, they would wait for|

i » ” » | “WE NAMED him Irish be-/ cause he looks and acts like an Irishman,” sald zoo veterinarian Art Kelley, no Swede himself, “In| fact, he looks like me.” Wh “He's got the disposition of a Mick from the Emerald Isle,” Mr. Kelley sald. “He knows everybody, loves to fight, likes to eat Irish potatoes and loves green| lolipops. “Irish is a model parent, When-| ever he thinks his wife, Kath-| leen, isn’t taking good care of the,

DETROIT, Mar. 17 (UP)~— Green suds will top beer served at the annual 8t. Patrick's Day | policeman’s ball, the Detroit Police Officers Association said today. The cops said the method of coloring the suds was | “an Irish secret.” |

tele Juny to leave his Jou kids, he takes over. After slap- | , by using a ‘hotel employe’s ping her down, of course.” . passkey, would enter to install p NEW YORK, Mar. 17 (UP)

~ ~ . Z00 OFFICIALS reported Sure, and it was a foine day for Irish's official designation is a!the wearin’ of the green, so 80,000 weeper-capuchin, a rare type of Irishmen paraded up Fifth AvThey also would tap telephone monkey. His children have sup- enue today while 1 million or| wires, the World-Telegram sald. plied most of the major zoos in so more stood on the curbs and | The story said the blackmallers the country. | | cheered. worked around the clock and| - But to the z00 keepers and fo] New York has more Irishmen after recording enough. “damag-thousands of dally zoo visitors,| than has Dublin, so St. Pate ing” Information would contact Irish is Irish, and that's all, rick’'s Day was a city-wide holithe victims. hy “Just a broth of a lad,” said] day for Irish school children “Fear of exposure led the wic-| Mr. Kelley, sa : and othet wearers of the tims to pay huge sums” the Ani’ all but the old and feeble World-Telegram said. “The ring IONE Fo tralia, Tundred| and a few_spalpeens turned concentrated only on the wealthy, |nersong attended a gala St. Pat-| out to see the parade which particularly those who could ill-rick’s Day farewell party today| T° rc iewed by Francis Carafford to have scandal crop upifor American Ambassador Myron| inal Spellman from the steps in their lives.” Cown who is being transferred| “my =F Mrick's Cathedral. | M———————— The grand jury investigating) ’ to Manila. The crowd sang tra-| oy tappi ed i Churchill Will Sail ditional songs in Sydney's town pire, taPPIng was recessed in

; . (hall, {honor of the day. The names of Tomorrow for U. S. Visit

{the ‘principals showed the reaLONDON, Mar. 17: (UP) —| OHARA, Japan, Mar. 17 (UP) (300 why — Mayor William Winston Churchill prepared to| —Shure there was singing and {O'Dwyer, millionaire reformer sail tomorrow aboard the liner, dancing here in Ohara today. Clendenin Ryan, admitted wire Queen Elizabeth for the United! But there was mary a note | *PPer Kenneth Ryan, and atStates where he will visit Presi-| from the concertina, mor an |°T7¢YS John Broady and Frank dent Truman.

Irishman in sight to wear the 10880. The war-time prime minister |

and Mrs. Churchill will visit Mr. Truman in Washington and fulfill other engagements in Boston, New York and other cities.

Business Card Used For $300,000 Will

LOS ANGELES, Mar, 17 (UP)

wire recording equipment.” Worked Around Clock

Kreen., { | The Ohara celebrants were Woman to File Plea |

holding a spring religious fes- In Slaying of Father

tival and questioning revealed that they never had heard of | CRANDON, Wis, Mar. 17 (UP)

the Saint who drove the snakes {=-Mrs. Jane Blonheim Pierce, 23, from Ireland. x " |who confessed killing her father Mayor Tsuchiya Yukimasa |“for a thousand and one reasald there wasn't an O'Hara sons,” will be arraigned today. living in Ohara. | District Attorney Allan Stranz ~A will which a wounded man * ® = {sald Mrs. Pierce admitted that scribbled in pencil on the back| SHANGHAI, Mar. 17 (UP) —!/she killed Charles Blonheint, 64, of a business card was on file in| Members of the St. Patrick's 8o- with a 12-gauge shotgun early Superior Court today. ciety commemorated the day to-| yesterday. | ‘Raymond C. Kellogg, Pasadena, d48Y by laying wreaths on the!’ ghe said she had been “planCal, merchant, signed the tiny raves of five members of the ning to kill” her father since . document Mak 8, 1048, after be. Royal Ulster Rifles who were jg. September when she moved Ing shot accidentally on & hunting, (+d In’ the 1937 hostilities ininio his home in the town of trip. He died 10 days later, His|/ “hina. Alv . 8 / $300,000 estate wo relatives. Royal Marine buglers from the AN ar urs. he aid they ———————————o— ” ” N

In the Land of ‘The Big Rich'— | | Guests Loll in Long Green Daze At Texan's New $20 Million Inn

By JIM CARROLL, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer HOUSTON, Mar, 17—There was big doin's , here today when Houston's hot-money boom, Hollywood's heart throbs and good St. Patrick all got together at the opening of Glenn H. Mc Carthy’s $20 million Shamrock Hotel. They're not wearing green this day. They are rolling in jt—greenbacks, that is—as the 18-story lodging house, described with typical Texas modesty, as “Houston's magnificent hotel” opened with lavish fanfare. Dead-pan 41-year-old millionaire McCarthy is putting on a party that bids fair to take all

time honors, even In this “Land of t “Rien. of the Big

4 ® 8 » HB HIRED a special Santa Fe “Chief"-style train to haul 50 movie stars across the nation headed by McCarthy pals Pat O'Brien and Ed~@ar Bergen, plus a flock of news writers. as Ras steaks sizzling that were cut off champions of the Chicago Livestock / 8 $11,000 per steer, ii Snow} “ He has orchids flown from the South, roses from Northern hot houses, and champagne wing out of a fountain, ; His “personal” guest list carries 200 adged names, His staff of hoteleers, headed by George Lindholm who left New York's Waldorf for the Shamrock, Is getting $42 per plate for {¥& opening from 1000 lusty-spending Texans in the “Emerald Room,” and $33 from another crestfallen 1000 who have to stay in the “pine grill” (which is the coffee shop).

x ” " ” 4. NO MATTER what the take is on tha open- , Mr. McCarthy figures he is spending at least 000 on the party out of his own pocket. Mr, McCarthy is getting a reputation as a , a4 former radio announcer takes exception, He has sued the millionaire

old Glenn Jr, has a tailor-made tuxedo for the occasion.) And even the spirit of Sam O'Houston seems to be stepping aside for the Irish-descended extramp athlete who “blew” his first million, then bluffed and battled his ‘way back to where he has today some 200 million barrels of oil in reserve at $3 a barrel. But that still leaves Mr. McCarthy sixth on Houston's list of millionaires.

a ~ . THE HOTEL the visiting Irish and others are dedicating has 82 shades of green in fit. 1100 guest rooms with radio and television. A two-block-long enclosed “promenade” runs through the lobby. It has a private club

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An ex-sheriff is In charge of a staff of 200 house dicks. "A war hero doctor is running a clinic to keep the Shamrock guests healthy, (Incidentally, he | also is a psychiatrist.) The Shamrock was three years a-bullding, It | isin a 10-acre V-shaped plot. In time, this V will be covered with business locations, but, for the opening, Mr. McCarthy had tall palms brought in on special trucks from Florida.

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" ” ” BETWEEN trees he had the ground sodded with carpet grass-—attaining overnight a garden ‘and yard. Azaleas, brought from Louisiana, blaze at peak glory along the Shamrock's out- | side walks, Even in this city where post-war magic plus

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building splurge, the Shamrock stands out like

for $87,250 ch Mr, McCarthy beat him up a shillelagh bum head. na oun is ack a4 8 party an Corman . Toppag of 1 \na_and eventually paying oc ; ox or part +. M¢Carthy hopes—will be the a Mrs. McCarthy and the Sve little world premiere of the McCarthy-made “Green oCarthys are | into the limelight for Promise,” a movie of the good, stmple ai ro i gi rad or On io Xo : AE Te i EO an

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the “Cork Club"«~that | meets Texas' partially dry laws and {eludes an | Olympig-sized swimming pool just off the hotel |

Just to park yodr own bottle there and use | the pool costs $500 to join and $15 a month dues. |

pent-up oll and gas wealth has put on a miracle | boom of some $1 billion in the nation’s greatest |

New York; Joanne R Nance, 20, Park Messersmith; Myron, Marian Brown; ni 1, 130 5. Kin " im ll Jc a, Sat i . . s mn; ward, en ri rT vaashel Brower, 1 Dana, » i"¢:| DIVORCE SUITS FILED Wallace, June Humphrey, L ckman. 23, 3230 N. Meri-| June 8. ws. Edward J. Beverley; Ma-|At St Ee bennaivanga® ThOmpIn, 13, 1043) gcune Pearl Ve. Ray Miner Young; Thelma A emt-Wondsun, Amngtis Greeti Donald Leroy Caml. 31, 435 N. State:|Jsmerson: elle” va. Samuel Givens| hr, Patricia Tannehill. dargol. Ann Schoener, 19, TO ayhlt wi. Samus Olvens At St. Francis—_Wilism, Hazel Hill; Pau) Richard Earl Sham Elliot; William vs. Robbie McNeely; Mary srirude Armbruster, after, 16, 5111 Rosslyn; h vs. Charles Clinton Spangler.(At General—Clinton, Luda McCormick.

Ta "mos. land Hodgson, 56, died of a heart Moon Los Graham. Boris Warmer; 20 attack at his home yesterday. 3 Girls ; .

At Mathadis St--Maurice. Sather Jitaps felch: {DEATHS a r Charles, Norma Hornaday, Wayne, ~ i dred Cushman; Orris, Mary Bell Moote: [duns Bits White, 26, at Methodist, cere Harold, Marjory Carson; Dale, Helen | . Brock; aon Helen Snowberger. {wilthun 7. David, 60, at 88 a Bradiey, 2 . 4 3 At St. Francis—Harold, Beatrice Eakle; Allen Cardwell, 45, at 'Cleneral, tumor, R.’'L., Betty Taylor: Joseph, Mary Price; Gertha Marine, 46, at 242 Kansas, cam= la N t # er Raysri. Matosly Ngen w. ‘Oliver Terry, 8, at 23 N. Irvington, At Coleman—Ralph, Dorothy Grimes;| grieriosclerosis. : Alexander, Betty Stoyanovich. | Jessie Josephine ‘Chambers, 50, at Lomg, ~Will M Byrd; Oar hypertension " EY aia, ny ’ L | william X White, 19, at 2710 Bthel, At Si. Vincent—-Hyre, Marianna Pitts.’ coronary occlusion, a ws Ses rR sis ik 1. ico coin 0 he BA te

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