Insulliana

P: Still in Athens, last week Samuel Insull, fugitive from justice, gave up cigarets for cigars, swore off coffee. He told the police that he had heard of a kidnap plot being hatched against him in Chicago. Thereafter a carload of fat Athenian police on the lookout for "Chicago gangsters" trailed him. And always close behind him walked swart, stout Peter Vanech of Stamford, Conn., swinging a big stick, scowling ferociously. Wary of Greeks bearing gifts, Samuel Insull shook himself free of a crowd of hangers-on, hired an interpreter. He made numerous visits to the office of American Express Co., dined with President John C. Eliasco of the Bank of Athens. He had a two-and-a-half-hour conference with Ery Kehaya, fork-waving president of Standard Commercial Tobacco Co. of Manhattan.

P: President Alexander Zaimis of Greece signed the official Greek copy of the Greco-American extradition treaty, despatched it to Washington, D. C. In Chicago State's Attorney John A. Swanson rushed plans to present an official extradition request to President Hoover.

P: In London it was revealed that in 1926 Samuel Insull sponsored British Walker Vehicle Co. which made 20 chassis, sold four. British creditors hoped they might discover funds in the mysterious Dragon Investment Co., Ltd., an Insull trust. Dragon's directors are mostly clerks in the big law firm of Slaughter & May, solicitors for the Insulls.

P: Out for a stroll with his mother in Paris, Samuel Insull Jr. beamed at reporters who surrounded him. "If a man bit a reporter that would be news," he said, "I wouldn't because I know I would break a tooth." Then, with an Insullting gesture (see cut) he went on his way.

P: Samuel Jr. arrived in London on the crack Golden Arrow, disguised himself by taking off his spectacles, hurried to the Park Lane Hotel. "I feel like a carp taken from a muddy river and put in a goldfish bowl, under a spotlight," he told newshawks. "I have lost a fortune and now I have only a salary. I am on vacation and my boss, James Simpson, expects me back in November." In Chicago it was revealed that Samuel Jr.'s salary is $100,000 a year --$25,000 each from four Insull utilities.

P: "Exquisite furnishings and objects of art from the home of a prominent gentleman of Chicago" were auctioned in Chicago. They were from the recently-rented first floor of Samuel Jr.'s duplex.

P:The Board of Tax Appeals in Washington was asked to refund a total of $33,013 to Samuel Sr., Samuel Jr., Mrs. Samuel Sr. It was also asked to relieve them from $197,739 in deficiency assessments.

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