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Losf angcIcgCimcs sATugpAY.Dfcujso-i'orti 3 1 Pre-Death Guasti Admits Missouri Group; Buys Lease of Downtown Hotel Mother-Child ren Death Clues Sorted by Deputy With Rumme! Conference had been unable to confirm AI Guasti, retired Sheriff's' ers included Mickey Cohen, one of Rummel's better-known Sale of the lease of the Lanker-shim Hotel, 10-story structure at 7th St. and Broadway, by Frank clients, and several underworld vice squad captain, admitted in a day-long questioning by police yesterday he had met with Samuel L. Rummel 12 hours before and Dorothy Wishon to Ben F. the underworld "mouthpiece" was slain in ambush. 'W-V Coincidentally Carl Pearson, suspended Sheriff's captain and former vice squad head, ad mitted to Dep.

Chief of Police Sheriffs investigators continued to labor yesterday in an unavailing effort to find a motive for the mass murder and suicide of Mrs. Margaret Rowney, En-cino mother who killed' herself and her four children with monoxide gas early Thursday. They were found gassed in the family's station wagon. Dep. Sheriff Herman Leaf disclosed one new angle in the puzzling case yesterday.

He said that during long questioning of Raymon Benet who posed as the husband of the dead woman, the man admitted they were not married. He said he had been trying during the two years of his friendship with Mrs. Rowney to locate his own wife, and ascer-j tain if she had divorced him. the divorce, he told Dep. Leaf, and so had not married Mrs.

Rowney. Deputies also prepared yesterday to question Mrs. Violet Buell, sister of the dead woman, who was due here by plane from her home in Baltimore, Md. They hoped Mrs. Buell might shed light on a possible motive for Mrs.

Rowney's act. Benet drove to the airport shortly after noon yesterday to meet Mrs. Buell, but left when he learned the plane was four hours late. Dr. Sherbourne Krieger, depu-ty autopsy surgeon, reported yesterday that autopsies performed on all five bodies indicated death by carbon monoxide poisoning and that no other possible cause of death was Thad Brown he had told an er recommended to him as an attorney for his appearance before the grand jury.

Guasti said Rummel was described as an attorney who had much information that could be beneficial. The former Sheriff's captain said Rummel came to his home at his telephonic invitation. They talked for a while, then Guasti said he telephoned Pearson; With Rummel in the attorney's car, Guasti drove to an address on 41st Drive. Guasti said, Rummel met Pearson and the trio talked for an hour. in, the automobile.

Pearson volunteered to produce his notes of the Guarantee Finance investigation. It was then Rummel arranged Tarn to Page 6, Column 5 roneous story regarding his last and law-enforcement figures. Brown and Capt. Blaine Steed of the police homicide detail began questioning Guasti at 9 a.m. and concluded late yesterday.

The former Sheriff's captain returned here from out of town for the interrogation and for an appearance before the county grand jury. The jury is sifting reports that protection payoffs to law enforcement officials were made by the Guarantee Finance exposed two years ago as a multimillion dollar bookmakmg front. Under direct questioning by Brown, Guasti said Rummel was meeting with Rummel. Weinberg and Associates of Kansas City, was announced yesterday. The lease and equipment and inventories included in the deal were acquired for approximately $150,000.

An extensive program of improvement is planned by the new lessees. The. building is owned by the Lankershim estate. The new lessees operate eight hotels in various parts of the nation and also office buildings, the report said. H.

F. Metcalf Co. and William R. Cochrane Co. were the brokers in the lease deal.

Pearson then voluntarily sub mitted to a 45-minute lie detector test. The results indicated that his latest story is the truth. These new developments in the Rummel murder investiga tion came as some 200 persons attended funeral services for the gangland attorney. The mourn inspired solution to many gift a MAGNTN GIFT CERTIFICATE WIDOW AT FUNERAL Mrs. Sam Rummel, widow of slain attorney, escorted from funeral services in half- empty funeral parlor by D.

L. Pel ton, attendant. Timm phntn Ex-Red Discloses Plots to State Senate Group Communist Conspiracies in Prison, Unions, Colleges and 'High Society' Told by Witness (Ml i a gifts that are different "He had been only a passive party supporter. We put the heat on him- and we asked, What are you doing while history is being "He appeared ready so we whipped out the old red card and had him sign up." Radin's brother, Max Radin, was a University of California law professor, now deceased. Atty.

Combs hastened to point out that Max Radin was not a Communist and disagreed with Paul Radin's ideals. Mini said Paul Radin introduced him to "Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, Russian-born former government economist. Sil vermaster was identified two years ago by Miss Elizabeth T. proudly given, proudly received Just a few short days to find the perfect gift! MagniiTs comes to the rescue with a variety of ideas. sensibly all sure to make someone on your list very happy.

Bentley as "probably an agent of the NKVD," the Russian secret How Communists conspired In San Quentin Prison, in labor unions, colleges and "upper crust" society as described yesterday by Norman Mini, 41, a former Communist instructor and "bombing technician," in surprising testimony before the State Senate Committee on Un-American Activities. Mini attended West Point in 1929-32 but quit to become an organizer of the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Union in Sacramento and the San Joaquin Valley. In 1934 he was one of is tried In Sacramento for criminal syndicalism conspiracy. Five men and three women were convicted. Mini served a year in San Quentin and 16 months on parole, when an Appellate Court ruling reversed the conviction.

Asked About McXamara "Was Tom Mooney in San Quentin with you?" asked Richard E. Combs, chief counsel for the Senate committee. replied Mini. "Was J. B.

McNamara?" "Yes." "Was that the McNamara con-j victed of the Los Angeles Times; dynamiting?" "Yes," Mini continued. "Was he a Communist?" asked Combs. "Yes, definitely, one of the most rabid Stalinists I ever met In my life," Mini snapped. Led Red Element Mini said there definitely were Buffet supper set. plate decorated with the menu of the a one for holidays.

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Hugh M. Burns, asked him what he thought of the mys terious death of Everitt A. Hud son, 20, UCLA student, in a Snowman in holiday mood, i. white wire planter for Christmas greenery epecial decoration for centerpiece or '-patio a wonderful gift for those UCLA co-operative house base ment Sept. 28, 1948.

Examined Evidence Mini said he had carefully ex who like a touch of whimsy amined testimony and documen tary evidence gathered by the committee, including letters be 'f 1 1 1 plant 5.00 tween Hudson and known His analysis is that Hudson must have had some informa tion or been in some position where he had to be eliminated I i by the Communists. Apparently, Mini indicated, Hudson quit Stanford to enter UCLA and his Stanford Communist advisers were aroused because he refused to carry out their orders and remain at the Hermes cards Magnin-exclosives northern school. direct from France distinctive playing Even though Hudson was ac tive in picket lines and a Com munis t-sponsored Mike Quin Club at UCLA, Mini believes he refused to carry out orders and cards designed hy Cassandre a very special gift for the discriminating double-deck 8.50 was murdered just as gamblers would liquidate one of their own SO Communists in the prison plus 50 to 100 more "sympathizers." McNamara, one of two brothers who engineered the 1910 dynamiting which killed 20 Times workers, was not only the oldest man in San Quentin but he also was the leader of the Red element, Mini said. "We had an underground circulating library of 75 or 80 books, including those of Marx, Lenin and Stalin," the witness continued. "Whenever there would be a search or a shakedown, McNamara got word of it first and we quickly moved the books ahead of the officers, out of their sight." Mini Now Novelist Mini, now a resident of Berkeley, is a novelist and magazine writer.

He said he quit the Communist movement in 1941 because "it had lost all it originally set out io do." He explained later that he presumed it was to be. a democratic operation, ruled by its rank and file. As time passed he learned to his disgust it was ruled from "far above" in Russia and changes in policy were "ordered right down the line." Rank-and-file "workers led a dreary life but "upper-crust" members of the party "lived in nice houses, had good drinks and generally lived a more civilized life." Mini said he worked in early years with Caroline Decker in organizing agricultural workers. gang. .1 Bert L.

Hanman, 43, industrial told how he was graduated from UCLA in 1929 and joined the Communist Party during the depression 1933. He quit voluntarily in 1936. Known as Expert Hanman has become interna tionally known as an expert in personnel and job placement problems. In his days as a Communist during the depression he started six new units and worked as a party recruiter' in cities like Sacramento, San Diego and Salt Lake City. He told how he believes that in all cases of Communist indoc trination of youths the result is 'Bird and bee" evening accessories own exclusive translated in black velvet and sequins; compact 6.50 i cigarette case 7.50, lipstick case 3.75 pencil with space for perfume 3.95 I frustration, heartbreak and dis She later was married to Rich appointment within a family.

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Taught in Sacramento Yesterday was the first time Mini publicly told of his career in Communism. His job had been to develop Communist Party leadership. He taught Marxian economics and revolutionary journalism in the School in Sacramento. Asked if he knew Paul Radin, University of California anthropology professor, he said, "Yes. I recruited him into the Communist Party." Men like Radin, in the "Bohemian and intellectual fringe," were encouraged to go out in society, he said.

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