CRIME: Receipt Given

As White Star liners end in ic and Cunarders in ia, so ships of the American Export Lines begin in Ex (Executive, Exochorda, Excalibur). Last week one of them sloshed her way up to Smyrna. The Exilona was going to bring an ex-tycoon home from exile: the U. S. Government had won its long battle to bring Samuel Insull back for trial.

As a parting gesture from the republic of Turkey, Mr. Insull had an abscess on his thumb lanced by a jail doctor, was given a health examination and pronounced able to...

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