Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-09 | Page 1 | Monte Carlo May Have Lid Clamped Down

MONTE CARLO If HAVE LID CUM SOU Guests At Gambling Resort Hear Rumor Prince Will Close 'Games n. B, v smfi Special). MONTE CBLO, Jan. 8. Guests at Monte t'arlo hear It will soon pa?r. 'out as the world s greatest gambling place. The Prince of Monaco declines to disi it.- the -Lory that he v. ill convert Monte Carlo into a greut pleasure resort re-sort with new features to replace gambling. nut Intimates of the prince ay he is weary of being the ruler of games of chance; weary of being blamed for the suicides that end the careers of unlucky plungers A M Y FORTUNES fjos! . Monte Curio Stands on an elevation eleva-tion above a Mediterranean bay, nine miles from Nice The Casino, the gambling house to which MontC Carlo owes its fame, and the principality its revenue, Is a splendid splen-did building set in beautiful gardens Here many fortunes have changed hands on the 'chips that pass in the ( Com i lined on Pago Tvro.) Monte Carlo May Have Lid Clamped Down (Continued Prom Page One?.) night." Rich men have come and Poor men have gone many to death i over -suicide wall" on a cliff" above the bay. In D.61 the Casino was leased for : " cu.ro 10 I'lmioow lilanc After his death tho control passed to a Stock , company. u at" ' MAY BREAK ONTO CT extend"" Al(,ht..com!'any t,bt"'d an extension of its concession to 1947 000 oSo l Pay tny PH 11" im".i,ouo or so a year To close the Caaino the prince will have to break this contract Hut hoa supremo In Monaco and Ithcr Franco no, other pov. Vs eJ V cpected to Interfere U b. half 1 the gamblers' syndicate uralf of Uealdes. the prlneo In' 72- and talk c.Th?hMaSe Ume