The Archive · 1938

Conference Opens Retrieving Fortune

To Fight Mother to Law's

Over 1,000 Delegates at Limit, States Lawyer Special Meeting Held in Queen's Hall, London London, Apr. 23.

Over a thousand delegates, representing practically all the political parties, were present at Queen's Hall this morning to attend the inaugural session of the extraordinary conference on the Spanish situation.

The Chairman of the meeting w: Professor Gilbert Murray, well-known educator, who stigmatized the policy of non-intervention and advocated the sification of the British G ment's efforts to save the lives political prisoners of the Spanish vernment and to prevent' the Nationalists from undue excesses in ut of the fall of Barcelona ug the meeting, a telegram was from Sir Archibald Sinclair, Hollywood, Apr. 23.

Jackie Coogan will fight his mother to the law's limit, Mr. Frank Doherty, attorney for the child movie star of the silent films, said today.

"Jackie was amazed at reports quoting his mother saying that even though he was entitled to a share of his U.S$4,000,000 fortune, he could not collect any because he had waited too long" ostensibly because of the statute of limitations, Mr. Doherty said.

The youth who climbed to fame and built up a great fortune while acting with Mr. Charles Chaplin, the comedian, is seeking to obtain possession of the earnings which he made and which were kept by his mother, Mrs. Lilian Coogan Bernstein.—United Press, leader of the Liberal Opposition in the House of Commons, condemning the policy being followed" by the Chamberlain Government "under which the Prime Minister does all he can to. restrain France and Soviet Russia from helping Democratic Spain, while conniving at continued ce in breach of the non-

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