Evening star., 1932-10-12
INSULTS PASSPORT
ORDERED TAKEN UP
AT ATHENS BY j. S.
State Department Instructs
Legation to Seize Papers
of Magnate.
SENATORS OPEN PROBE
OF UTILITIES COLLAPSE
Norbeck Market Committee Inves-
t;gator Goes to Chicago to
Study Charges.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The State Department has instructed
the American legation in Athens to take
up the passport of Samuel insult. sr.
The department this afternoon hao
not received word whether insult was
willing to surrender the document
however
Without a passport, it would be i'm
possible for him to enter any other
country
Consequently, if he surrenders the
document, State Department officials
believe he will be isolated in Greece.
officials refused to discuss what
further step will be taken in case insult
refuses to yield his passport.
No reply was given to questions by
newspaper men whether the depart
ment would circulate an announcement
that the insult passport is invalid.
Under the system of taking up a
passport, the American consulates
abroad are instructed to take over the
document from the holder In the
event the holder refuses to surrender II
it would be taken up the next time he
applied for a renewal of his passport
at consulate.
Could Be Deported.
Without passport insult would be in
Greece without proper papers and it
would be possible for Greek officials to
deport him on that ground if they
saw fit.
In case insult were deported by
Greece, he would probably be sent back
to Italy, which is the country from
which he arrived. Once insult arrived
in Italy it would be a simple matter for
the United States to effect his extra
dition
Steamship companies are cautious
about receiving any passengers whose
papers are not in order, and it was not
believed in official quarters that there
was any likelihood insult could leave
Greece by steamer. Steamship COM
panies which accept passengers without
passports and proper visas are required
to keep such passengers on board ship
In case there IS any question about their
admission to any country of destlna-
tiCn.
Recalls Blackmer Case.
The request for insults passport is
similar to that made in 1928 upon
Henry M. Blackmer, who was in
France and was wanted as witness in
the Teapot Dome oil cases. A French
court held that the charges upon which
the United States sought to have Black
mer extradited were not such that he
could be surrendered under French law.
The American consul at Nice asked
BIackmer for his passport and he sur
rendered it in 1928 Blackmer has re-
manned in France since that time, but
SO far as the State Department knows,
has not entered other European coun-
tries At one time he had paper from
the French government permitting him
to travel within the boundaries OF
France. The efforts of the United
States to eXtradite Blackmer. were based
on indictments for perjury returned by
a Federal grand jury in Denver in 1928.
COMMITTEE LAUNCHES PROBE.
Investigator for Norbeck Group Goes to
Cnlcdg0 on insult case.
CHICAGO. October II tP)-Ma-
chinery of the United States Senate
was set in motion today to investigate
the insult debacle.
James E. Stewart, Federal operative
for the Senatorial Committee on Bank
ing and Currency, was due to take
charge of an investigation into all
phases of the insult utilities crash.
Senator Peter Norbeck chairman of
the committee. confirmed the investiga-
ton and said Stewart, who had charge
of the committees interim investiga-
ton of the stock market, left Wash
ington last night for Chicago.
The announcement of the senatorial
investigation came on the heels of rapid
developments here.
States Attorney John A. Swanson,
after telephone communication with an
,lndisclosed person in Washington, can
celled q planned trip to the National
CAPITAL and said he would await de-
yelopments in moves to eXtradite Sam
,,el insult, head of the toppled utility
pvramid. Swanson said the call "obVl-
ated immediate need" for his trip.
Planned to See Hoover.
It was known he had planned con-
ference with President Hoover in ef-
forts to hold insult in Greece pending
extradition here to face charges OF en-
bezzlement and larceny. The can
ceiling of the trip was interpreted IN
official circles as indicating the Federal
Government was expecting speedy ac-
ton to consummate Insults return.
CuoncOp fra pk1v UaS nOnDluSSe0 at
the announcement insult no longer was
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