Evening star., 1934-01-09
PARIS NEAR RIOT
AFTER HINT POLICE
KILLED STAV|SKY
Heavy Guard Thrown About
Chamber of Deputies as
Crowds Throng Streets.
BY the Associated Fress.

BY the Associated Fress.
PARIS, January 9-Huge forces OF
mounted and foot police were rushed
to the Place Bourbon today to surround
the Chamber of Deputies and guard il
against demonstration resulting from
reports that police had killed Serge
Stavisky, alleged swindler and founder
of the fallen Bayonne Municipal Pawn
shop to keep him from talking.
Newspapers in opposition to the gov
ernment attacked the truth of the po-
lice report that Stravisky had shot him
self in order to avoid arrest.
Demonstration Urged.
The Royalist newspaper, Action Fran
caise, asked the public to stage the
demonstration as protest against the
Stavisky scandal.
All streets leading to the Chamber
we're blocked of by massed patrol
wagons.
The Socialist newspaper Populaire
and the Communist Humanite were
other newspapers attacking the police
version.
Premier Chautemps lost no time in
result of the midnight resignation of
Colonial Minister Albert Dalimier. ac-
cused by police of indirect implication
in the Bayonne scandal.
Switches Made.
He named Lucien Lamoureux. min
lister of labor. to replace Dalimier,
Merchant Marine Minister Eugene Frot
going to labor and Undersecretary VIII
liam Bertrand of the ministry of the
interior moving into Frot's position.
Thus, with Stavisky dead and Da-
limier out of the cabinet with ''cer-
tificate of good conduct" Chautemps
hoped parliamentary and public indig-
nation would subside.
Dalimier, said by investigators to have
been quoted by Stavisky as advising in
surance companies they could legally
invest in concerns such as the Bayonne
pawnshop, quit to enable Chautemps
to face the Chamber with the cabinet s
hands clean.
Investigation Pressed.
Meanwhile, the reorganized cabinet
was pressing measures to investigate the
whole affair and punish the guilty.
The ministry prepared to present it.
self before the Chamber Of Deputies late
today hoping to weather the storm of
interpretations to be directed Thursday
Stavisky's death in a hospital at
Chamonix early today complicated the
investigation of the scandal growing out
of the collapse of the bank and the
resulting loss to investors of approx
imately S40,000,00o.
Authorities believed that he was per-
haps the only person who could have
.old all of the secrets of the far-reach-
ing affair.
Several newspapers pressed the gov
ernment to make a complete explana-
tion of Staviskys death in order to
silence the charges published in the
opposition press.
Tipped OFF by Woman.
Meanwhile, police revealed that they
we're put on the trail of the banks
founder by a woman from whom Henri
Voix, found with Stavisky yesterday
had been divorced.
Also in the room with Stavisky as
investigators ended their worldwide
search was Lucippe Alberas, a 27-year-
old Frenchwoman.
Police said both accompanied Hand
some Alex" into hiding.
The secret service agents who arrested
Stavisky said they broke through a door
in the lonely villa at the foot of the
French Alps, where their pursuit ended
Just In time to see him shoot himself
III the head with a revolver
Crashing through the locked door
they said, they saw Stavisky collapse in
pool of blood.