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.1 jotam hove mate Dw Femk Miirs Mi BS LEFT A FORTUNE (Special to Tbe News) Washington. D. July 28. In a final wilful gesture, Edward B. (Ned) McLean, scion of a multi-millionaire publishing family and boon companion of President Harding, By Joseph Martin and John McNulty Two clashing young tennis players were held by Mamaroneck police yesterday on charges of rape, after a 17-year-old model told of being attacked in a robin's egg-blue Packard convertible at the point of a gun.

cut off his wife, Evalyn Walsh McLean, with her dower rights in order to leave $300,000 to RQse Davies, sister of actress Marion Davies, his will revealed today. Whether the gun was a The will described Miss Davies or real may prove to be a cru Makes attqck Charge as "my common law wife who has sriven me her association and af cial point of the case, lor it had not been found as the pair Blende, lissome Claire fection." McLean died of a heart attack yesterday at a Towson, CM -s i ft -u sanitarium where he had been con fined as insane since 1933. Wife Brings Body Home. Mrs. McLean, in a last token of forgiveness for the golden boy whose parents, she said, had "lav ished everything upon him except restraint," had brought his body home to Friendship, their famed I Washington estate, for burial and i 1 A- were arraigned.

The men held are Jack March, 21, of 1007 Grant Pelham Manor, a professional, and his house guest, Robert Decker, 22, six-foot, 185-pound amateur racket-swinger, who is a student at Miami University, Miami, Fla. The girl is lithe, tall Claire Beringer, blonde of exceptional beauty, who lives with her mother, Mrs. Bertha Beringer, at 1265 Olmstead Bronx. The mother signed the complaint. Both Deny Guilt.

Both men pleaded not guilty when arraigned before Justice of the Peace Wesley Messersmith in Mamaroneck Town Police Court. At the request of Wolfango Cri-bari, of Mount Vernon, representing both defendants, the hearing was adjourned until 3 P. M. Thursday. March and Decker continued in the $2,500 bail fixed when they were booked Sunday night.

They were taken to the county jail at Kastview. It was expected that Beringer I shown here) wore dark glasses to avoid the stares of the curious as she appeared at Mamaroneck Police Station yesterday. She charged that Robert Decker. Miami tennis star attacked her while Jack March, Pelham Manor, also a net star threatened her with a gun. mere sue reutiveu wimuut tum- ment the news of his last testament.

His children too Jock, Ned Jr. and Evalyn were cut off with $5,000 each bound with a stipulation that they get nothing if they contest the will. McLean also left $100,000 and two-thirds of the residue of the estate to his former valet, Martin Finn, now a deputy U. S. marshal.

His attorney, George B. Fraser, received $10,000 and one-third of the residue. Other bequests to ex-bodyguards and friends range from $15,000 to $2,500. Mrs. McLean, owner of the famed Evalyn, 19, lives out in Colorado, at home.

the bail would be posted today, Rose Davies is one of the four Dazzlingly handsome, Miss Beringer appeared in the courtroom in a white jacket, wit' a flower- printed dress. She wore no stock Hope diamond, will receive under her dower right' one-third of his personal and real property. Will Dated in 1931. The will was dated June 9, 1931, more than two years before McLean was declared insane. McLean's sons have gone to work.

John R. 2d, the eldest, began work at $15 a week and lived in a boarding houset and now is married to the former Agnes Pyne comely daughters of the late Bernard J. Douras, one-time New York City Magistrate. Douras, who died in 1935, was appointed by Mayor John F. Hylan in 1918.

Ho resigned in 1930 and made hi3 home on the West Coast thereafter. Two of the four daughters are dead. Ethel, 35, died of a heart attack in a bedroom of her Beverly Hills home on June 19, 1940, during a party attended by several of her friends. Reine Davies, former wife of George W. Lederer, New York theatrical producer, died in Beverly Hills in 1938 after a short illness.

In the latter years at the wheel and Claire beside him, the party rode to a woods off Weaver near the dividing line between Mamaroneck and Scars-dale, the girl said. March told Decker to stop the car, Miss Beringer said, and then March threatened her with the gun. of Trenton, N. J. He now lives in Dallas, where he has started an airplane parts factory.

Wed 23, is married to the Weatherman Sizzles, Too Washington, D. July 28 (U.R). Even the Weather Bureau sent its employes home today and told them to try to keep cool. It was so hot at 1:30 P. M.

97 in the shade with a humidity reading of 48 that the Weather Bureau released its employes for the afternoon. Only government employes in air-conditioned buildings were kept on duty. former Anne Meem of Washington and like his maternal grand father is trying to dig money out of her life she was a film columnist for West Coast papers. oi tne Walsh mining properties Neighbors By George Clark March made no effort to harm her himself, she but demanded that Decker do so. The latter was reluctant, she said, but at March's urging, the six-footer attacked her four times, she charged, March remaining in the back of the car all the while, laughing and gesturing with the gun.

Knew Decker Before. To the Chief of Police, Miss Beringer declared that during this interlude she was confused and did not know for certain that the gun was a toy, although she'd been told it was. After the arraignment, however, Miss Beringer insisted to reporters that she never, at any time, believed the weapon to be a toy. While the group was playing with the gln in one of the road-houses visited, she said, the boys joked about being drafted and laughingly threatened to "blow It Is a. who examined Miss Beringer after her complaint was hied, turned over his confidential report to Yerick.

No Information on Gun. Neither March nbr Decker of fered information as to the dispo- sition of the gun, and Miss Beringer was of no assistance on that point-Decker, son of John Decker of Clearwater, has played tournament tennis in Florida, New York and New England. He came with March from Florida about one month ago. Since then, the two (NEWS foto) Jack March after his arrest yesterday. Ing and her toenails, seen through chic open-toed shoes, were a brilliant red.

During the brief proceeding, her mother, a dress designer, sat at her right. Decker sat at her immediate It ft, March beside him. Accuser and accused did not glance at each other. In the story Miss Beringer told Mamaroneck police Sunday morning, she said she met March and Decker at the Pelham Country Club, where she had been taken by William Thcilds of Greenhaven, an exclusive section of Rye. Theilds went home early, and she and the two tennis players remained at the club.

They drank beer and highballs while she had soft drinks, she said. Put Toy Gun in Bag. Chief of Police Paul Yerick of Mamaroneck quoted her as saying that during the gaiety she played chums have been playing in Westchester County and New England. their brains out with the gun because of that. Miss Beringer told reporters that she had known Decker for some time before Saturday night, and that she had refused him several times when he asked her to marry him.

Arrested Near Home. At about 5 A. the men ac Both have played frequently at companied Miss Beringer in the car to her Bronx home. Mrs. Beringer told police her daughter was nystencav upon her arrival Rip's Tennis Club, at 56 Sutton Place South, in Manhattan.

Earlier this month Decker was eliminated from the New York State Tennis, Tournament at Forest Hills by Sidney B. Wood. Since becoming a pro, March served for a time as an instructor at Cat Cay, the Bahamas, one of the most exclusive of resorts. Girl's Father Was Builder. Mrs.

Beringer is the widow of the late Sol Beringer, who was at one time president of the Biltmore Hills Realty Corp. and one of Westchester's greatest home-building promoters. Decker's father, an athletic-appearing, baldish man, drove hastily from his Summer home in Wells, to be present at his son's arraignment. The father was dressed in tennis clothes when he appeared in court. (Other pictures on page 1).

home, and the mother questioned her. Hearing her story, she took her daughter to the Mamaroneck town police. Yerick questioned mother and daughter, the complaint was made out and signed by the mother, and an alarm was sent out for the two men. They were arrested at 7 P. M.

Sunday, standing near their home. While the men admitted they had the "gun," toy or real, and that they had been with Miss Beringer, they would not commit themselves further, Yerick said. Dr. Charles Weller of Larchmont, 1 with a black toy gun belonging- to the boys, and later placed it in her handbag. After seve ral stops at roadhouses, following the country club party, the two men and the model arrived at the Post Lodge, a dine-and-dance spot on the Boston Post Road.

They stayed there from 1:30 A. M. to 2 A. she said, and while there she gave the gun back to March. Leaving there, with March sit "He's not chasing us off his property! He just wants to give us some home grown tomatoes.

ting in the back of the car, Decker.