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3 Stooges Cover-up!
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>From the Chicago Tribune
A nyuk on the wild side
Did the Three Stooges cover up the murder of their founder?
By Jim Mueller
Special to the Tribune
April 4, 2002
Here's one for you.
Imagine that the gravel-voiced, 1930s-era screen star Wallace Beery
and one of New York mobster Lucky Luciano's top henchmen beat and
stomped to death one of the country's most famous comedians outside a
Hollywood nightclub in 1937. Imagine that a participant in the
fighting and eyewitness to the murder was the man who later would go
on to produce the James Bond movies.
Now imagine that the famous victim was the man who founded the Three
Stooges, and that the Stooges -- particularly Shemp Howard, brother
of Moe and Curly -- knew who committed the murder from the victim's
own lips but did not tell police out of fear of Luciano.
Finally, imagine that the entire episode was covered up by movie
mogul Louis B. Mayer to protect his biggest character star, Beery.
It could have been the O. J. Simpson story of its day, except that
after a flurry of press reports, the police investigation got
snuffed. The story was relegated to the status of Hollywood legend,
to be whispered back and forth in the movie colony for decades.
But only recently did it surface in print, contained, bizarrely
enough, in a new biography of the Stooges, who are most associated
with the mock violence of rubber hammers, slipped punches and
simulated eye-jabs.
According to "The Three Stooges: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the
Most Popular Comedy Team of all Time," written by Jeff and Tom
Forrester, Chicago-area natives who are longtime Stooges historians,
the affair unfolded on the night of Dec. 20, 1937, and resulted in
the brutal death of Ted Healy, who at the time was arguably the most
influential comedian in the United States, though today he is largely
forgotten.
Healy, for those who may not have heard of him, was a top vaudeville
funnyman and movie star of the 1920s and '30s who is best remembered
today for giving the Three Stooges their start in show business as
foils for his stage act. Regarded by many show-business historians as
a brilliant improv comic, who influenced a generation of stand-up
comedians, from Jack Benny and Bob Hope to Milton Berle, Healy first
met the three Howard brothers (nee Hortwitz) on a beach in Brooklyn
one day in 1909, when all were in their early teens. Thirteen years
later, by then a major star, Healy would hire his boyhood friends --
first Shemp, and later Moe and Curly -- to provide the madcap side of
his show.
A bevy of Stooges
It was the beginning of a tempestuous relationship that would last,
on and off, for years, with more Stooges being added and subtracted
from the act until a final break with the bad-tempered Healy in 1934
sent the familiar trio of Curly and Moe Howard and Larry Fine out on
their own and into the movies.
Healy was a true Jekyll-and-Hyde personality. Loose and funny when
sober, he could become a vile drunk, a touchy, combative sort always
ready for a bar fight. It was this volatility and mean-spiritedness
that sent the Three Stooges packing. (Indeed, a favorite Healy stunt
involved having the Stooges collect Los Angles telephone directories,
which he'd soak in a bathtub and then drop on unsuspecting
pedestrians from his penthouse apartment. Just for laughs.)
According to Jeff Forrester, there were long-standing hard feelings
between Healy and Beery and the Luciano mobster, Pasquale "Pat"
DiCicco, before that night in December 1937.
DiCicco, a handsome roue with a violent streak who was
Luciano's "eyes and ears in Hollywood," according to the Forresters,
knew Healy had had an affair with his ex-wife, the film star Thelma
Todd. (Todd herself died under mysterious circumstances in 1934.
Officially ruled a "suicide," there was no accounting for her broken
nose and shattered jaw. Some said she died at the hands of her ex-
husband, who had been known to abuse her.) And Beery, the star
of "The Champ" and "Tugboat Annie," held a grudge against Healy for
supposedly stealing scenes in their 1937 film "Good Old Soak."
Healy, newly married, was celebrating the birth of his only child the
night he was beaten. He had staggered into the Trocadero blind drunk
and tangled with Beery twice at the bar, before inviting the actor
and DiCicco both outside to fight. Eyewitnesses, including DiCicco's
cousin, the late Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, stated as much to the Los
Angeles Police Department.
An eyewitness
According to the Forresters' book, a member of Healy's Stooges troupe
named Sammy Wolfe (there was a dispute between Healy and the Howards
over who would retain the name and concept of the Stooges) happened
to be at the bar that night and gave the following account:
"`Wallace Beery was sitting at the bar with Pat DiCicco. Beery was
making a lot of noise. Ted Healy was at the other end of the bar, and
Ted told Beery to be quiet. Beery said, "I won't be quiet." It went
back and forth. Then Beery gets up and punches Ted right in the side
of the head, right there at the bar. Ted says, "Let's go outside, and
I'll take care of both of you!" I guess Beery and DiCicco went out
into the parking lot, but there was already another guy out there.
And he jumped Ted, and then the other two guys jumped in and beat him
up.'"
Broccoli, who in the 1960s would become the producer of the James
Bond movies and become as rich as Croesus, gave an interview to the
Los Angeles Herald Examiner in which he said he had asked Healy to
drink a toast with him to the new baby.
"`Ted seemed a bit unsteady,'" the book quotes Broccoli as
saying. "`He turned to an attendant at the bar and asked, pointing to
me, "Who is that fellow?" However, I ignored that and congratulated
him. But Healy came at me, and punched me on the nose. My nose began
to bleed. Then he hit me in the mouth, and added a punch to my chin
which nearly knocked me out. I shoved him away, because I did not
want to hurt him. Attendants then took him to an anteroom.'"
By most accounts, the book says, Healy was savagely beaten in the
Trocadero parking lot that night, kicked in the head, ribs and
stomach. Half-conscious and bleeding, he crawled into a taxi and
instructed the driver to take him to the Brown Derby restaurant.
The Forresters say that Shemp's late widow, Babe, told them that
Healy then called Shemp and told him how Beery and DiCicco and a
third man whom he didn't know had attacked him. The book says Healy
also telephoned another of the stage Stooges, Dick Hakins, with the
same account.
The next day, Healy became violently ill, fell into a coma and died.
Thanks to Mrs. Howard
Jeff Forrester says the authors learned of the Beery tale from Babe
Howard, Hakins and Wolfe in the late 1970s while researching their
1981 biography "The Stooge Chronicles."
But whenever the Forresters went to jot down recollections of that
night in 1937, each of the sources would turn panicky. They seemed
genuinely afraid of something -- or somebody
The L.A. mob? In 1977? Forty years after the fact?
"Oh, listen," said Jeff Forrester in a telephone interview from his
Los Angeles office, "there's one comedian who'd only nod when I asked
about Healy and Beery. Everyone knows this guy too. He's still alive.
He was friends with Ted Healy and Shemp Howard and knew all about
Wallace Beery's involvement. But when I asked -- all I got was a nod.
He nodded and puffed his cigar.
"Obviously I couldn't quote a nod. I needed someone willing to go on
the record. I needed someone close to Healy who knew him
professionally and had at least heard the story and was willing to
say so."
Someone like Paul "Mousie" Garner, who is the last surviving Healy
Stooge at age 92.
Garner, semi-retired and living in Las Vegas, Stooged in the
show "Crazy Quilt" at Chicago's Palace Theater in 1931. That
particulartrio of Healy Stooges included Hakins and Jack Wolf, and
would go on to replace Curly, Larry and Moe when they split
permanently from the Healy act. Garner knew Shemp and Curly socially
and was seriously considered as Curly's replacement in 1946 when the
burly Stooge was felled by a massive stroke.
Garner confirms that everybody in Hollywood knew the Beery story. By
telephone, he said, "Healy died and it was common knowledge who beat
him up. I always heard Wallace Beery and Pat DiCicco were the guys. I
heard it in 1937. This shouldn't come as news to anybody who knew
Ted."
Moe Howard's daughter, Joan Maurer, swore up and down, though, that
she never got the Wallace Beery story from her father. "Don't you
think Moe would have said something to my mother or me?" she asked.
Leonard Maltin of "Entertainment Tonight" chose his words carefully
in addressing the subject for this story.
"I know what you're talking about," he said. "I can't confirm your
information. You say Pat DiCicco was involved? I didn't hear that.
I'd only heard about Beery."
In any case, the Forresters say there was apparently a major coverup.
No one ever was charged with the murder. Says Jeff Forrester: "Louis
B. Mayer knew everything. At least that's what Babe Howard told me.
Beery was under contract to MGM and Babe told me Mayer had Beery and
his family leave town in a hurry on a European vacation, to keep him
away from detectives investigating the case. I did independent
research to verify her story, and in fact found a Film Daily magazine
mention of Beery and his family vacationing in Europe for a month
just after Healy was killed."
Cooper on Beery
Jackie Cooper acted with Beery in four movies during the 1930s,
including "The Champ" and "Treasure Island," and he wrote in his 1981
memoir that he "really disliked" Beery. "There was to me then no
warmth to the man. He always made me feel uncomfortable."
"Beery didn't like kids, that was for certain," Cooper said in a
telephone interview. "I can tell you I definitely remember Wallace
Beery getting drunk and being arrested a few times for driving drunk,
but I am not aware of the story you want to know about.
"I was gone from MGM by 1937. They let me go when I was 13, and a kid
probably wouldn't have heard a story like that, not in those days."
In any case, all the main participants are gone now, with Broccoli
the last to die in 1996.
Does any of it really matter 65 years later? That a Hollywood actor
might have gotten away with murder?
Like that's never happened before -- or since?
Copyright © 2002, Chicago Tribune
*****
Hidden Evidence In Diana Case
(Conspiracy Nation, 4/7/02) -- A new book on the death of Princess
Diana in August, 1997, sheds new light on the case.
In Princess Diana: The Hidden Evidence, authors Jon King and John
Beveridge reportedly establish a solid case proving beyond doubt that
Diana was assassinated by British intelligence and the American CIA.
Information in this Conspiracy Nation report comes from several
reviews of King and Beveridge's book. New information may be
forthcoming after this editor obtains a copy of the book.
Credit to Nexus magazine whose book review first brought attention to
the book's existence to Conspiracy Nation. In the Nexus review
(March/April 2002), it is reported that HRH Prince Michael of Albany
now believes that Diana's death was not an accident.
Based on Prince Michael's foreword in Princess Diana: The Hidden
Evidence, the Nexus review reports that "Prince Michael's
contribution to the book is interesting, considering the Spencer
family's historical and bloodline links with the Stewarts." (Prince
Michael is the Head of the House of Stewart.) "The drama that unfolds
is a history of power struggles between bloodlines that can be traced
back to the Dark Ages Merovingian kings, the kings of Judah and the
Egyptian pharaohs." This corroborates the pioneering reports done
by "Ru Mills" in the immediate aftermath of Diana's death, e.g., "Who
Controls Diana Controls the World." (More info on "Ru Mills"'s
breakthrough reportage can be found in Robert Anton Wilson's book,
Everything Is Under Control and in Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen's
book, The 70 Greatest Conspiracies Of All Time.)
A book review at the Amazon.com web site quotes Prince Michael as
stating: "...I am quite sure that even Prince William has enough
sense to realize, one day, that something is not quite right...I
don't accept the theory that it was an accident."
Click Here For Amazon's Review
A sampling of reader reviews of Princess Diana: The Hidden Evidence
sheds more light on the book:
"This book is not for the faint of heart. You will not
be 'entertained'. The tragic, premature death of a young,
iconoclastic Royal is bad enough, but to come to terms with what may
have been an arranged 'accident' may be too much to bear for some!"
"If this book is read like a novel, it will be disappointing. But the
good news is that it is written as a research essay, with many
validated resources. I highly recommend this book as an 'expose'."
"It's about time people woke up and realised that this was no
accident."
"Far from being the 'wacky' conspiracy theory I was expecting, this
book came across as a serious and compelling investigation into what
I now believe was Diana's murder."
*****
Catholic vs. Protestant Faction Fight
(Conspiracy Nation, 4/7/02) -- In "The Overthrow Of The American
Republic -- Part 8", Chicago's Sherlock Holmes, Sherman H. Skolnick,
identifies an erupting Catholic vs. Protestant split in the American
aristocracy.
The entire report is (or will soon be) available at Mr. Skolnick's
web site.
The Protestant faction in the American aristocracy is identified as
affiliated with George W. Bush, the current U.S. president, his
father, Sir George Bush, and more generally "The Bush Crime Family"
and the British aristocracy. The Catholic faction consists, according
to Skolnick, of the Vatican, the House of Rothschild, Irish-Catholics
and more specifically, Irish-Democrat Catholics.
This faction fight is logically traced by Mr. Skolnick to the hotly
disputed year 2000 presidential election in which George W. Bush,
aligned with the British faction, eventually succeeded to the
presidency.
Skolnick cites evidence linking the Bush cabal with the British
royals, including "the Bush Crime Family's joint account with the
Queen of England at her private bank, Coutts Bank London."
"So is it more than just a coincidence? That to divert attention from
Bush/Cheney and their direct complicity with Enron, that a few
Catholic priests are scandalized as having many years ago sexually
molested choir boys?" writes Skolnick.
This echoes a previous report by Conspiracy Nation in which it
is "surmised that A-Albionic's thesis of the British Empire and the
Vatican being in mortal combat for control of the world is behind the
erupting boil of priestly pedophilia mass media news now saturating
outlets." ("Excited Catholics Await Pope's Death.")
Vatican leverage at this point, writes Skolnick, includes possession
of documents, via Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL), showing
a "secret partnership between the Bush Family and Saddam Hussein." To
the uninitiated, Skolnick's claim of a Bush/Hussein business
connection may seem incredible; to readers who have studied the
matter, it is not far-fetched.
Skolnick backs up his claim of a Catholic vs. Protestant faction
fight now ongoing amongst the American aristocracy by citing F.
Tupper Saussy's book, Rulers of Evil. (Reno: Ospray Bookmakers, 1999):
"The growing and evident split in the American aristocracy has to be
considered from the historical standpoint of Protestant versus
Catholic. A heavily documented recent book summarizes on its jacket,
the work of the author 'His labors have rewarded us with valuable new
proofs of a vast Roman Catholic substratum to American history.
Evidence suggests that Jesuits played eminent and under-appreciated
roles in moving the complacent New Englanders to rebel against their
mother country in 1776. Indeed, according to Saussy's discoveries,
the American Revolution and its resulting constitutional republic may
have been largely the outworking of an ingenious Jesuit strategy
single-handedly designed and supervised by a true founding father few
Americans have ever heard of---Lorenzo Ricci. With Ricci comes a
whole host of hitherto little-known names such as Robert Bellarmine,
Joseph Amiot, the Dukes of Norfolk, Daniel Coxe, Sun-Tzu, Lord Bute,
Francis Thorpe, Nikolaus von Hontheim, and the Carrolls, Daniel,
Charles, and John. In their way', writes Saussy, 'these men were as
essential to our constitutional origins as Jefferson, Paine, Adams,
Washington, Locke,and George III.'" (Rulers of Evil---Useful
Knowledge About Governing Bodies, by F. Tupper Saussy, Ospray
Bookmakers, Reno, Nevada, 1999.)
*****
4/9/02
"The Empire Never Ended"
George Washington envisioned a wooded area alongside the Potomac
River as the new federal city. The highest hill in the area, Jenkins
Heights, was then owned by Daniel Carroll. In 1663, the owner of this
land had been Francis Pope. Pope's name for the high hill was "Rome",
and he called the nearby waterway "the Tiber." [1]
Ancient Rome was a mere city which conquered the world. Although it
apparently declined and fell, some say it did not fall but changed
its form into the Roman Catholic Church and still dominates the
world. Echoing this idea, science fiction writer Philip K. Dick
theorized an enormous false memory imposed upon all humanity in which
the last 2000 years of "history" never happened. According to Dick,
author of the VALIS trilogy, we have been brainwashed by the Roman
empire to think we are living in what is really a totally false
world. [2]
Washington's new Rome was surveyed, planned, designed and built
largely by members of the secret society of Freemasons. On October
13, 1792 the cornerstone was laid for the President's House (now
known as the White House). This cornerstone ceremony was performed
by "the Free Masons of George-town and its vicinity," Georgetown
Lodge No. 9 of Maryland. A year later, in September of 1793,
freemason George Washington and Georgetown Lodge No. 9 performed
another cornerstone ceremony, this time for the future Capitol
Building. [1]
The name "Capitol" relates to the Latin *Capitolium*, a temple of
Jupiter at Rome on the Capitoline hill. [3]
George Washington was initiated into Freemasonry on November 4, 1752.
He was the first Master of the Alexandria Lodge No. 22 between April
1788 and December 1789; he was therefore a Master Mason upon his
uncontested inauguration as first U.S. president on April 30, 1789. A
lambskin apron with Masonic symbols, given to him by the French
general Lafayette, was worn by Washington during the Capitol
cornerstone ceremony. When he died, Washington was buried with
Masonic honors; all except one of his pallbearers were members of
Alexandria Lodge No. 22. [1]
The obelisk-inspired Washington Monument was originally planned as a
tomb for the deceased Master Mason Washington. But when Washington's
wife Martha died, it became impossible to legally exhume the remains
of the first president and rebury them in the Capitoline City.
The original conception for the design of the Washington Monument was
a pyramid, 100 feet square at the base. The project was delayed. In
1833, the Washington National Monument Society's first design for the
memorial was a truncated pyramid with interior light coming from an
apex "oculus" (eye). [1] This design mirrors the Illuminati symbol of
pyramid with all-seeing eye at the apex. The finally realized
Washington Monument, dedicated on February 21, 1885, combines the
Egyptian themes of obelisk and pyramid, with the pyramid being at the
top.
Both sides of the Great Seal of the United States appear on the back
of the one-dollar Federal Reserve note. The front of the Seal has an
eagle clutching arrows and an olive branch. The reverse side of the
Seal, showing a truncated pyramid with all-seeing eye at the top, was
originally not well known. The front of the Seal was cut in brass as
a die in 1780 and was immediately used to authenticate official
documents. But the reverse side, despite Congressional order to cut
it as a die, was not implemented. Over 100 years after 1780, the
reverse had still not been engraved. [1]
At the bottom of the pyramid, the Seal bears the motto "Novus Ordo
Seclorum." This motto is adapted from a line in the Roman poet
Virgil's "Bucolics": "...magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo"
(the great series of ages begins anew). [1] Virgil's line, in turn,
was inspired by the secret Sibyline books, said to contain details of
the destiny of the Roman empire. [4]
The Roman legions marched behind the imperial eagle. The U.S. legions
march behind the eagle of empire. In at least one sense Philip K.
Dick was correct when he wrote, "the Empire never ended."
-------<< Notes >>-------
[1] Ovason, David. *The Secret Architecture of our Nation's
Capital*. ISBN: 0-06-019537-1.
[2] Dick, Philip K. Summarized in Wilson, Robert Anton.
*Everything Is Under Control*. ISBN: 0-06-273417-2.
[3] Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary.
[4] Howard, Michael. *The Occult Conspiracy*. ISBN: 1-56731-255-
X.
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