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A) LOS ANGELES TIMES, DATED 7//7/47 jill, breathing defiance at Angeles gunmen reported mn the way to liquidate her as they did her poy friend Benja- ‘: PARIS, July 16. U.P sWirginia eae i Miss Hill made the call last might to the Paris edition of the, \wew York Herald Tribune fro Hotel La Reserve at Beau eu. ~ She had disappeared fro: ris two weeks ago, going to al seach hotel at Monte Carlo. It! was a week ago today that the; ALos Angeles police announced at two anti-Siegel operatives. fhad left for Paris to kill Mis: t ‘The same day, according to! Riviera police and ‘the Villa Al- bert I Clinic, Miss Hill tried to}. KiH herself by taking a-full Vial sleeping tablets. She was tak: no to the clinic. Released tw lays later, she went to the Hotel a Reserve and registered unf! ler an assumed name, } ET THEM COME)’ SAYS—. IRGINIA HILL, OF KILLERS ~ “Fn an interview at her’ hotell! ter Miss Hill said that she ac- identaily took an ‘overdose o! leeping pills last week becaus he was “worried and nervous."§: he added, however, that her worries weren't about the Los Angeles gunmen said to be on |! her trail. “I’m hiding from sorrow, not killers,” she said..“There are no gangsters on my track. Ben wasn’t a gangster, either.” Virginia said she was angry at Riviera police and officials at Villa Albert J Clinic for saying | she tried to commit suicide by taking a full vial of sleeping ; tablets. “IT was just worried and ner- vous, that’s all,” she said, “I took, the tablets s0 1 could sleep. J| took too many, I guess.” .S. Tip on Gangsters enied by Paris Police Chicoro Tribune Press Rervice | PARIS, July 16——Both Charles; ladin, underdirector of judiciary | police at the Prefecture, and N.} Bouriscot, chief of the national Surete police at the Ministry of the Interior. today denied to the} Tribune that they had ever re- ceived any warning message: from the Chief of Police of Bev-. erly Hills, Cal., about gangsters being en route to France to slay Virginia Hill. Prefecture officials opined that the Beverly Hilis Police Chief; announced gangsters were going| o Europe to knock off Virginiay their own inability to’ arrest! a ie Siegel's slayers and f ttention elsewhere. The American Embassy he! sserted that it had received essage from California poli or sheriffs to be forwarded to the Prefecture. ° (Beverly Hills Police Chief C. H, Anderson said that his de- Parament had sent an air mail iter about a week ago” to the fecture of Police in about Virginia Hil. | Paris (“We wanted to know whether she was in Parts on business and if so on what kind of business,” e said. “As to the other thi ithe report that two gunmen hat fone to Paris to kill Miss Hil) é have heard all kinds of rj ‘ors, but we don't know an: thing authentic.”