Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-04

Investigation. Two months later q Partisan
chambermaid, Suzanne Schlitz, cleaning
room in o cheap hotel in the Boulevard de
Etrasbourg, saw an apple ON the table and de-
cided 70 eat it. Her teeth crashed against the
Condo diamond In a few days Chiappe'S
agents had arrested the man who had pilaged
the treasures Of Chantilly and had recovered
the priceless plumber to the last carat. Suzanne
was fired from her job. The hotel proprietor
was annoyed at the notoriety she had given
his establishment. Chiappe had to find her
new employment
An of these achievements of Chiappe made
interesting reading for the French public and
gave him q reputation for providing entertain
ment for his chiefs, the successive ministers
Of the interior.
When Clemenceau was minister Of the in
terror he used to cali himself lie premier flic de
France tthe first cop Of France.
Before Chiappe came along with his drama
tizing Corscan pen the literary efforts Of the
projects were not always so interesting to the
first cops. waldeck- Rousseau when premier
and minister of the interior, was wont to re-
mark that he never read the reports of the
prefecture or communications from the Surete
Generate.
"They affect the lucidity of my mind" he
used to say.
On the other hand, Andre Tardieu, who was
first cop in the Poincare regime, more than
once paid tribute to the interesting reading
that came to his desk from Chiappe's active
ONCE
FOR almost three years now Chiappe has
busted himself not only with keeping order
in France, but also in purifying" the city that
Anglo-Saxons call gay and sometimes wicked.
He had been project only few months when
Communists and their tough cohorts put on a
hrst-claSS riot over the Sacco-Vanzetu affair.
Windows and gratings were wrecked all along
the Boulevard de Sebastopol, police were knitted
and slugged in the Grands Boulevards, and up
on the Champs Elysees bottles and glasses and
mirrors were broken with mad abandon while
clients ned to safer spots without waiting to
tip the garcon. For Chiappe that was the first
straw-and it was also the last one. Since
that topsy-turvey night Of August, 1927, he has
not waited for trouble before making arrests.
He inaugurated and continues q policy of
preventive arrests" not only of the Reds, but
Of every disorderly element he can lay his
hands on.
Day after day and night after night squads
OF platnclothes men and uniformed officers
enter q selected quarter of Paris and pro-
coed to halt and interrogate every one who
looks the least bit suspicious to their eyes.
In one year 225 900 persons were questioned
IN these RATES. and $4,000 were arrested. A
goodly proportion of them were foreigners,
human riffraff who had doated into Paris
from all the ends of the earth. Undesired
aliens were expelled in droves. Today one
can stroll past the Place de POpera wearing
ing cigar, and no one will side up with
post cards and say want guide, mister?"
It is Chiappe who drove those pests away.
AS for the Reds, he refuses to let them
either crate or parade within the capital. His
blue-coated men have even gone into the
suburbs to quash Communist demonstrations
in the industrial belt that surrounds the city.
Several times L'Humanite, the Muscovite
mouthpiece in France, has announced monster
demonstrations" for given places at given
hours. They have all failed
On such occasions Chiappe simply posts
his police at the exits of every subway line
within mile of the spot selected for the
manifestation Patrols pace up and down
, every street near the hall or open square
where revolutionary oratory is due to flow.
'vos papiers, sIl vous plait?" the police
demand Of each passerby. When a mans
papers are in order and he can give an
acceptable explanation of his presence in the
vicinity he is permitted to go about his
business or his pleasure. If suspicioned, he
is quickly carted to a police station.
Upon one occasion the stations were all
packed to suffocation with arrested men, and
requisitioned buses were bringing In more Of
them every few minutes. Chiappe had
ready solution for the sudden housing crisis.
He took over one of the large armories OF
Paris and bad most Of the manifestants es-
corted to It, About 10 o'clock that night