Monday, Oct. 23, 1939

Hell for the Duchess

To a rambling white house near Culver City, Calif, last month went a vice squad from the sheriff's office in Los Angeles County. They went to investigate reports that the place was a gambling establishment. What made this raid of possibly international consequence was that the house was the Luxembourg Consulate.

The deputy sheriffs routed 200 fashionable guests who were allegedly playing bingo and tango games, seized paraphernalia as evidence, let a pretty brunette go, arrested four men. A florid man named John F. Garrison identified himself as Chancellor of the Consulate, promised to appear in the Culver City justice court at week's end.

"The Grand Duchess," ominously announced "Chancellor" Garrison, who comes from Grand Junction, Colo., "is going to be sore as hell."

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