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2 Port I FRIDAY, FEB. 7. 1 947 COS SlngClCS CfttteS $230,000 in Jap Gems Just Souvenirs, Says Colonel EISLER LINKED WITH CANADIAN ATOMIC SPY RING AT HEARING Soldiers Leave Time Checked in 'Dahlia' Murder Homicide detectives here still are investigating the pos sible connection of Cpl. Joseph Dumais, Ft. Dix (New Jersey) military policeman, held as a suspect there, with the Elizabeth Short murder.

Although Maj. Cornelius T. Morris, post public relations officer, said Army records showed the overseas veteran had ar Contempt. Citation Also Issued by Inquiry Committee Illustrated on Pag 3, Part I WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.

HIP.) German-born Gerhardt Eisler was linked to the Ca-i nadian atomic spy ring today at a stormy Congressional hearing in which the alleged boss of American Communists was cited for contempt of Congress and threatened with prosecution on a charge of conspiracy to overthrow the United States government charge that American Ex-Custodian of Japan Bank Faces Smuggling Charge SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6. (UP) Col. Edward J. Murray, former custodian of the Bank of Japan held under technical arrest for smuggling a hoard of "unmounted diamonds into United States, today said he considered the gems "legitimate booty of war or souvenirs." "I don't feel that I stole the diamonds," the bemedaled 55-year-old veteran of both World Wars told newsmen during an interview at Ft.

Mason. 'In a Bad Jam I know, though, that I'm in a bad jam," he nervously admitted. A native of Sacramento who came home on leave to his wife and daughter in Palo Alto, Mur-rav is in technical custodv await rived at thl fort from furlough either the night of Jan. 10 or the next morning, he admitted the possibility of an error in the record. Check Continued A check on clues to establish the possibility of the corporal's presence in Los Angeles at the time the brunette's bisected body was found near Crenshaw Blvd.

Communist leaders were in direct touch with the Canadians accused of betravinsr their mi in. was being continued, said Det. Lt. Charles King, night chief of the homicide squad. He that the lead did not look "quite so good" since disclosure that Army records placed Dumais in Ft.

Dix Jan. 10 or 11. Maj. MOrris said the corporal never was absent from the fort since those dates, as far as' records show. Meanwhile Capt.

-Jack Dona-hoe's homicide squad detectives, acting on information they received Wednesday night from Ft. Dix, rechecked all available hotel and motel registrations in an effort to substantiate Dumais' story that he was here at the start of Miss Short's "lost week" prior to the discovery of her mutilated nude body in a Norton Ave. vacant lot Jan. 15. 'Dahlia Clippings try's atomic secrets to Russia was made to the House Un-" American Activities Committee by Louis F.

Budenz, former edi-' tor of the Communist Daily Worker, who quit the party 'and 'rejoined the Roman Catholic Church. Demand by Mundt Immediately after he testified, Rep. Karl Mundt (R.) S.D., de- manded that Eisler, who is be- ing held on a deportation order, te kept in this country and not be permitted to return to Ger- many. want Mr. Eisler retained -because of his connection with Sam Carr and Fred Rose, the who are charged with try-- ing to turn over Canada's atomic I liP) Wirephoto SEIZED GEMS Hand of customs officio! gives an idea of the size of some of Japanese diamonds seized in San Francisco.

Army colonel is accused of smuggling $230,000 hoard into the United States. ing Gen. Douglas MacArthur's directive to fly back to Japan and tell how and where he obtained the fortune in jewels. For more than one year he was in command of the Bank of Japan vaults holding millions in jewels looted by the Japanese army of occupation in the invaded countries. The 8th Army chief of staff in Yokohama said Murray's books recently had been audited and no losses from the bank had been reported.

Colonel's Explanation "I don't know the origin of these jewels," Murray said. "I got them lasfc- winter. They were not in U.S. Army custody. There is nothing in Army regulations which prohibits the purchase of souvenirs.

I have no other explanation for the whole thing." He said he got the jewels "all over Japan." "When the Japanese found out the Americans were coming," he recalled, "they grabbed every- 0. Max Gardner, Dumais became a- suspect in secrets to Russia," Mundt said, Carr is a fugitive from Cana dian justice, and Rose, a former Communist member of the Ca the puzzling murder mystery when another soldier reported Dumais had kept some money entrusted to him for safekeeping. Arrested on the minor charge, Dumais was found to nadian Parliament, is serving a six-year sentence for his part in the atomic espionage. Wireohoto SCENE IN COURT LeRoy Mitchell, crippled 12-yeor-ofd, is held firmly by sister, Jane Mitchell, 20, as boy's mother, Mrs. Mertie Lee Mitchell, prays with hand upraised after Dallas judge ruled boy must have medical examination and treatment.

have in his possession several Budenz said Carr, who also used newspaper clippings concerning the alfas of Kogan, was one of New U.S. Envoy to Britain, Dies NEW YORK. Feb. 6. (JP) Eight hours before he was to sail for Great Britain as U.S.

Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, O. Max Gardner died in his Hotel St. Regis suite today, Eisler "very frequent" visitors the "Black Dahlia" case. The 29 -year -old Claremont (X.H.) former combat infantry in this country.

Matter of Stature Mundt asked if Eisler had suf man was found to be wearing trousers with a blood-blotted ficient stature in Moscow that Carr or Rose would have used him to transmit atomic informa- tion to Russia. pocket. The stains, investigators said, easily could have come from a bloody handkerchief. Dumais told Army questioners he had dated Miss Short Jan. 9, six days before her Mother Prays as Judge Orders Care for Cripple DALLAS, Feb.

6. (JP) LeRoy Mitchell, crippled 12-year-old boy, Warren Blames Lobby for Roads Plan Delays Governor Says Oil and Truck Groups Won First Battle, but Highway War Still On SACRAMENTO, Feb. 6. U.R) Gov. Warren declared today that oil and truck lobbyists "won the first battle" over proposed highway legislation by "contributing, greatly" to the Wei ay in enacting legislation on a highway program.

4 "They might do. so," Budenz replied. "It doesn't follow that they would, however, because of tax! MjUfltolttBMB the way conspiratorial rings are UP) Wirepiioto Sparkling Collection Comprises 532 Stones SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6. (U.R) The fortune in gems which the U.S.

contends were smuggled into the United States from Japan by CoL Edward J. Murray, were poured out on a black cloth today on the desk of Collector of Customs Paul Leake. The sparkling collection consisted of 532 stones less than a dozen emeralds, one ruby and the rest diamonds. The largest diamoad was lO1 carats, worth about $6000. organized.

So you cannot say so stricken with an attack of coronary thrombosis. Expressions of grief and shocked surprise were voiced at the passing of the 61-year-old former Undersecretary of the Treasury and one-time North Carolina Governor. President's Trili' At the White -which first announced Gardners death, President Truman said "I have lost a loyal and devoted personal definately." ACCUSED Col. E. J.

Murray held on charge of smug-glingrJap gems. But he repeated emphatically what he told the committee last remained in nis motner cus year, that Eisler was "the chief of all the Communist interna "1 suppose the oil and trucking tody today, but under court order that he must undergo medi lobbies will be very happy," he tional representatives in this cal examination, after a tumul said, "because the confusion Longstreet's Widow Hits they have spread and the pro tuous courtroom scene yester day. crastination they have preached Gun-Shooting Ex-Husband to Stand Trial Floyd 'L. Patterson, 33-year- contributed greatly to the result, country. His testimony climaxed a daylong' hearing that began with Eisler defiantly refusing to be sworn" in as a committee witness and promptly being slapped with a contempt citation.

I On top of that, It was ah-! nounced that Federal indict-! The boy, suffering from a crippling disease, was brought State District Judge Wil They won the initial battle, but I hope that doesn't mean they liam Cramer on a petition by Juvenile Court authorities which will win the war." He's Disappointed asserted that the mother refused ments will be sought against the Communist covering four other The Legislature recessed Its to provide him medical aid at a time when he was seriously ill. old studio carpenter, yesterday was ordered to stand trial for attempting to win back his ex-wife Talmadge Bill ATLANTA, Feb. 6. U.R) The widow of a famous general of the Confederacy urged the Legislature today to bury Gov. Herman Talmadge's bill to bar Negroes from voting "so deep it can never be resurrected." Mrs.

James H. Longstreet, whose husband was one of Robert E. Lee's chief lieutenants, appeared at the chamber special session on highways last Judge Cramer first ordered thing valuable and ran. They hid it everywhere it was like an Easter egg hunt." Paul Leake, collector of-customs, said suspicions were aroused when Murray reputedly sold $20,000 worth of smuggled diamonds on the San Francisco market A tip fr6m the Orient which could legally bring the unidentified tipster 25 per cent of the value of the goods or about $50,000 led to questioning of Murray and $10,000 worth of charges ranging to a revolution ary conspiracy against the gov night. The Governor said he was "disappointed, of course," that ernment.

that the boy be placed in custody of juvenile officers for med ical examination and treatment, Mother Prays Aloud the Legislature recessed without taking final action on a highway -Protesting that he Is not the "boss of all the Reds" in the United States and wants only to friend and the country has lost a great American." Miss Margaret Truman, the President's daughter, called at the hotel here to pay her respects. Gardner, a huge, hearty, sports-loving man who starred as a college football player in North Carolina, had come here Tuesday preparatory to boarding the liner America at noon today for his London post, to which he was appointed by Mr. Truman last Dec. 3. With him at his death were Mrs.

Gardner and a son Ralph, who were to sail with him. Ralph said his father had suffered a "slight attack" last fall while attending a football game and had been "under a terrific strain briefing himself for the new post." The body was taken tonight to Shelby, N.C., Gardner's birthplace. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Shelby. I' go back to his native Germany.

improvement program. "Every month of delay," Warren said, "will mean we will con the witness was hustled away, The mother, Mrs. Mertie Lee Mitchell, a believer in faith healing, threw her hands in the by Federal agents after his brief. tinue to have at least 300 peo but. pxnlosive annparanre bpfnrp air and prayed aloud for divine ple killed and 6000 injured, many 1JP Wireohoto Cpl.

Joseph Dumais the House Committee on Un- intervention. unnecessarily. American Activities. But the Governor said he "should say in fairness" that He was scheduled to be re Jane Mitchell, 20, the boy's sister, bit the hand of Bailiff W. T.

Trammell when he sought body was placed In the weedy lot. During that evening. room where the Senate Judiciary Committee was holding public hearings on the white primary bill and asked to be heard. She then read an impassioned speech asserting that "a race that can produce a George Washington Carver and a Booker T. Washington already has paid the price in service to their country of the highest privilege of American citizenship which is the ballot." turned to Ellis Island, N.Y., to await the outcome of the con "highway proponents in the Senate worked very diligently to ac Dumais said, he had lost all to take custody of the lad.

tempt citation. Accusations Planned recollection until "coming to" in the Pennsylvania Station in New complish results." Will Approve Fund -ri. i 5 fe 'f Court officers restored order and. Judge Cramer permitted the boy, who came to court on crutches, to return to his home York. Only when he read news Committee Chairman J.

Par Warren announced he will papers on Jan. 18 did he know of nell Thomas (R.) N.J., an- sign a bill appropriating $1,000, the slaying, he declared. nounced after an executive ses after Rev. W. T.

Winters, evangelist of the Full Gospel Church, 000 for use as a revolving fund An immediate perusal of his sion that the Justice Depart to purchase surplus Army hous Army record was made to estab promised his aid in persuading the mother to allow her son to ment will be asked to prosecute Eisler for alleged revolutionary lish his whereabouts and move BLIND GIRL'S EDUCATION PROBLEM STILL UNSOLVED ing and housing materials for resale to veterans. He said he also will sign a bill to pass ments. A preliminary investiga conspiracy, failure to register as be taken to a hospital for ex amination and treatment. a foreign agent, income tax eva along to the needy blind a $3 in tion indicated he arrived at Ft. Dix Jan.

10, following a 45-day furlough. However, said Army sion and perjury in connection crease in monthly payments re passport applications. cently provided the State by the officials, "other things make it As he was being led away, ,4 appear possible he arrived later." the committee introduced a let i Federal government. The Governor added that he ter from F.R.T. Chief J.

Friffar Rae Patterson Bandit With Toy Pistol Beats Victim The Army spokesman did not elaborate on what these "other things" might be. It was as Hoover branding Eisler as a suspected Russian spy and No. thought it would be a good idea for the Legislature to act on the measure to continue State sales, by firing a bullet through a sumed, however, that they might 1 1 agent of the Communist party mean forged records. income and franchise taxes at blind on the front door of her home. the United States.

Dumais, according to his moth Patsy Ruth Fergus, 16, the blind girl whose fate has become tangled in school board rulings, last night was unhappy about it all. She had two invitations to attend public schools in other communities and she received volunteer petitions signed by 297 persons protesting the board's banning her from Los Angeles schools because she uses a guide dog. But neither the invitations nor the petitions were of apparent help. And she distinctly did not their present level as soon after it comes back as possible. Tackling a bandit who at The wife, pretty Rae Patter Next came a surprise wit- er, Mrs.

Laura Dumais, left Claremont Dec. 18. He remarked then he was "going back to son, 2i-year-oia tioiiywooa ac niece TTiclor'a ectT-nrnroH cictor Ruth Fischer, who told the mm cut but unset stones were found in his watch pocket. Leake said he failed to declare them. Murray then relinquished a key to a safe deposit vault where another $200,000 worth of the stones were'discoy-ered.

The gems ranged from a fifth to 10 carats. Ft, Mason legal officers said Murray would have to prove that he purchased the jewels from rightful owners because the 79th article of war provides court-martial, with up to life imprisonment on conviction, for any person subject to military law who is guilty of wrongful appropriation of public property taken from the enemy. Murray Ex-Commander of Los Angeles 'Own' Col. Edward J. Murray, 55-year-old army officer held under technical arrest on charges of smuggling an estimated worth of jewels into this country from occupied Japan, officiated at flagpole dedication ceremonies at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum less than a month before the outbreak of the war.

At that "time commander of the now famed 160th (Los Angeles' Own) Infantry Regiment, Col. Murray, with Mayor Bow-ron, reviewed a parade of the regiment at the dedication ceremonies Nov. 23, 1341. Angeleno's Trial Opens on Art Theft Charge BERLIN, Feb. 6.

UP) Capt. Norman T. Byrne of 855 N. Vermont Hollywood, went on trial before an Army court-martial today on charges of embezzling two valuable pictures and quantities of porcelain and other art ejects while he served as chief of the American Military Government's monuments and fine art3 branch here. Byrne, 48, pleaded innocent to all three charges of the indictment.

His trial is expected to last at least three days. tress, testified before Municipal Judge Joseph F. Chambers that she had returned to her home at mittee her real name is Freda T7J-1 1 1 1 1 Arrested yesterday morning in i .1 lfcf dilU Llld IP liail II fJKPI! front of 1019 Avalon Wit tempted to hold himup with a cap pistol as he neared his home at 870 Orlando Road, San Marino, early yesterday, resulted in scalp wounds which required 14 stitches made by his physician-brother for Robert I. Gregory, 54, according- to a police with her brother 1923 over Heat Collapses Bridge VANCOUVER (Wash.) Feb. 6.

(JP)A 220-foot steel bridge collapsed into the Washougal River east of here today when intense heat from two blazing oil trucks, involved in a crash, caused it to buckle. No one was inj'ured. mmgton, Gunner's Mate 2nd 1949 N. Bronson Ave. last Jan.

Class George D. Kidd was sen 26, when she heard a shot. In She denounced her brother as tenced later by Municipal Judge care for the Board or Educa lA 1 1 Irvm Taplin to 45 days in jail vestigation revealed a bullet hole in the door blind. tion's proposal to provide her agent for the Communist Inter- with a private teacher. report.

national and accused him of for showing a 15-year-old Banning High School girl a nude picture of a woman. "Why," she said, "the teacher i responsibility for the death in Gregory was accosted as he attend that school sympathized with her viewpoint. "You are, being deprived of your social life, which is very necessary," he said. Lamp said he confident Pasadena J. C.

would receive her as the school already has two blind students vwho use guide dogs. "We would welcome you with ope arms," his letter said. Parents Live Here The girl, however, said that she could not accept the invitation to attend the Pasadena high school nor one at Whittier which invited her to attend there. "My father." she said, "is. an employee of the Water Power Bureau and he has only a year to go until his retirement." The family lives in a neat two-roomvtrailer house at 9944 National Palms, and school at Pasadena or Whittier be impractical.

Last night the girl and her parents went to the School Board meeting to present her case, but arrived too late. The board already had adjourned her case until Monday. Superintendent of Schools Vierling Kersey had taken the position that the guide dog might be a menace in schgol that the dog might mistake an attempt of one of the students to pet it for an attack upon Patsy Ruth- is to come only twice a week. Hollywood Brother Terms Germany of two of his closest The 35-year-old sailor assert And she is to give me only two friends Hugo Eberlem, leader subjects." walked home past the residence of J. R.

Williams, artist, 930 Orlando Road. Seeing that the bandit's weapon was a cap pis of Eisler's own German Com edly. tried to induce the girl to sell such pictures to her classmates. When police searched his Accuser His 'Former Sister munist group, and Nikolai Buk AVbuld Take Eight Years Patsy Ruth, a Junior in Poly Russian. Marxist philoso tol, he gave battle, but was beat car they found a number of similar pictures.

Informed that Ruth Fischer en over the head with the toy Kidd was questioned at San weapon. Dr. John Gregory, phy technic High School until she got her guide dog, Lucky, last fall, said of the private-teacher proposal: pher. Brother in Hollywood She later told the committee Vo- innf Vior Kfn flua told the House Committee on Un-American Activities at Washington that a brother whom Pedro concerning the "Black Dahlia" case, but denied any im sician, attended his brother. The bandit escaped.

she called Max Eisler writes plication. San Pedro police an "It would take me eight years music for the movies and "is a nounced they were satisfied he to finish high schoof-at that rate." Sikorsky Wins Medal had no connection with the case. Communist in every philosophical sense of the word," Hanns Eisler, composer, yesterday is WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. (P) She yearns to return to Poly language to understand the implications of the word "philosophical." "I admire Gerhardt Eisler, my brother, a great fighter against Fascism and reaction," Hanns Eisler said when reached at his Malibu home.

"I am not surprised that Mr. Rankin and Mr. Thomas use my former sister, Miss Fischer, for their activities." Hanns Eisler said that neither his first nor his middle name is "Max" and that he has only one brother, Gerhardt Eisler. Air Pioneer Divorced Igor I. Sikorsky, pioneer airman who built and flew his first sued a statement referring to her as his "former sister." Lild fill XJ.O.O onvuivi.

niuuici Ail Hollywood who also is a con- firmed "Red." I The sister identified the Hollywood brother as Max Eisler, whd she said writes music for the movies. "Is he a Communist?" she was asked. "He's a Communist in every philosophical sense of the word," she replied. i SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.

(X) technic or to Hamilton High School, which she also has attended. She said she wants to be among others of her own age. Hanns Eisler made no direct plane in 1910, was announced today as the winner of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale gold medal for outstand Walter T. Varney, internationally known air transport promoter answer to his sister's statement that her.Hollywood brother is a of a decade ago, was divorced The Invitation from Jack Communist. He said he was not ing aeronautical achievement in today by Mrs.

Eulalia Varney on Lamp, president of Pasadena sufficiently familiar with, the charges of desertion. Junior College student body, to.