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CAP OT0! Home Wreck Ends Tar's Dream By Edward Dillon and Kermit Jaediker Victory for Chief Petty Officer Daniel MacDonald of the Navy was more than a walk up fifth Ave. Victory was a wife waiting for him, laughter of a (j-year-okl daughter, money in the bank, a 1940 Buick, and a home in Jackson Heights, Queens MacDonald then had his wife ar For manv months, on the By JOHN O'DONNELL Washington, D. Sept. 5. The greatest spy story that dreary and precarious patrol this war has produced, "The Case of Tyler Kent," stands to of the English Channel and the North Sea.

that was the dream that kept day as a disgrace and humiliation to every detective story fan who can read either the American or English language. The absorbing mystery yarn of young Kent, code clerk in our rested. She was released in bail which the sailor charges was provided by Prevatil. The case was transferred to Children's Court. Yesterday Magistrate Isaac Siegel dismissed the charge against Mrs.

MacDonald. In proceedings that were not made public by the court, the judge ruled that New York State had no jurisdiction over the case. MacDonald said outside the courtroom. He spoke of the man he says London Embassy at the outbreak of the European war in September '39, already has been debated in Britain's House of Commons. Last f-c-u: xr.

v. y. June, it echoed through a Senate debate on Capitol Hill. Last week, jroing. so mucn 01 a dream.

1 Xot too much for a man to ask for. Well, yesterday the Ions: patrol was over, and so was the dream of Chief Petty Officer No our own State Department suddenly cleared its throat to hand out a report on the Kent case then almost five years old. Now comes an interview from former Ambassador to London Joseph P. Kennedy, denouncing Kent as a betrayer of his trust, which he most certainly was, on the evidence we have seen. And on the heels of this is a petition to Congress and the State Department for a review of the present imprisonment of Kent in a British wartime jail, waiting i e.

child laughing. No car. Money in the hank maybe. Am' no hPie in Jackson the Isle of Wight. What gripes the sincere detective story fan is that none of these ex v.

P. Vi. Heights, perts gets down to the heart of the matter which a Dick Tracy or Sherlock Holmes would have spotted 1 in a second. All the boys in the case skate IfcKiK- aMlfljH Ml ii III Ifcl lett but another patrol, and the walk up Fifth Ave. MacDonald, airly and casually ove rthe vital point which is this: "Did President Roosevelt exchange codded telegrams with Win Winston Churchill Joseph P.

Kennedy won his wile love wnne ne was at sea. "He's a guttersnipe gigolo," MacDonald said, bitterly, "a 4F-er who breaks up homes. That's what a good many of our boys fighting overseas can expect to come back to. That's what they're worried about." Cash, Bonds in Questior MacDonald, who asserts that his wife is unfit to take care of Diane, declared that in connection with his divorce action he is seeking an accounting of $2,400 cash he had left in the bank when he entered the Navy. He would also likt- to know the disposition of $15,000 in war bonds he sent his wife.

The bonds were made out jointly to him and her, and are in a safety deposit box. she won't tell where the box is." As he talked to reporters, an attractive blonde standing nearby nodded approval. She was Mrs. Shelah Prevatil, estranged wife of the other man. She described her husband as dark and good-looking.

Just about MacDonald's size, she said. She added that Prevatil, while MacDonald was away, had worn the seaman's civilian clothes. MacDonald's 30-day leave expires today, when he is scheduled to report to a Rhode Island navy base. "I don't know what to do," he said. "I to see my child before I go.

I hope my commanding officer gives me an extension of leave." Diana, tj-year-old daughter of thief Petty Officer Daniel -MacDonald. Bronx garage operator. Diane was in the apartment at the time. MacDonald, who has instituted suit for divorce in Supreme Court, Bronx, characterized his visit to the apartment as a raid. Three of a stocky Ruth MacDonald "'an of 30, told the ry of his broken dream of victory yesterday as he emerged from Children's Court in the Bronx, beaten in a fight designed to get custody of his daughter, Diane.

The story went like this: A month ago he came off fhip. Thirty days' leave. You know here he headed. The address was "7-5-1 77th Jackson Heights. The address was there, but nothing tle.

He made inquiries. Haiders Find Wife, Child. The trail led to a two-room r.pai tment at 2435 Frisby Froitx. There, he charged in the court complaint charging the wife with neglect of their child, he says be found Mrs. Ruth MacDonald -Hide with a man whom the sailor identified as Frank C.

Prevatil, ston Churchill through the secret American diplomatic code, handled by Kent, while Chamberlain was Britain's Prime Minister, and did these coded dispatches indicate that F.D.R. secretly was pledging the wealth and manpower of the United States to back up Great Britain against Germany while this nation was pledged to neutrality?" HINT STALIN USED IT AS TEHERAN CLUB In the corridors of Britain's Commons and on Capitol Hill, during all the Kent case conversations, there persisted the current mouth-to-ear whisper that Stalin's smart operators got their hands on th mysterious Roosevelt-Churchill messages decoded by young Kent. That story has been current for two years on both sides of the Atlantic and embellished with the fantastic touches that Papa Joe Stalin, who is no diplomatic stumbkbum, gently intimated to F. D. R.

and Churchill at Teheran that it would be most unfortunate for any office holder in a Democratic nation if those extremely frank dispatches in diplomatic code, copied in London by the indiscreet clerk Kent, should be published to the world. Prom the time the great mystery story first broke with the arrest in London of Kent in May, 1940, just as the Chamberlain government collapsed and Churchill took over, the shroud of wartime secrecy to date has concealed officially the contents of the messages that leaked through Kent's hands. All that was known was that young Kent, of'distinguished American lineage (his father had been a State Department career man and among his ancestors he counted Davy Crockett), had been transferred to London from Moscow where he had served" under Ambassador William C. Bullitt; that he was arrested in London; that Ambassador Kennedy on the advice of the State Department waived diplomatic immunity; and that Kent was convicted of larceny of papers from the American Embassy and sentenced by a British court to serve seven years. As former Ambassador Kennedy reveals, the coded documents which young Kent copied they numbered some 1,500 in all probability were made known swiftly to the Germans and the Russians, through the neutral Italians.

Kent, it appears, at that time was working with what he believed were anti-Soviet or White Russian groups and British opponents of the Empire's entrance into the European war. his shipmates were with him at the time, he said. But later, as MacDonald was pre- paring to make the neglect charge against his wife, he learned that Diane had disappeared. She was living ith his wife's mother in Cleveland. He went to Cleveland a week ago, but neither Mrs.

Mac- i Donald's mother nor Diane could be found. Babs Sues to Step Count's Dimes nated in all its acts by the former count and his attorneys. The latest suit follows one filed by the heiress in California last Ju'y in which she asked for full custody of her child, claiming that Wilmington. Sept. 5.

Barbara Hutton, estranged heiress wife of movie star Cary Grant, brought suit in U. S. District Court here today to prevent her divorced second hus-land. the former Danish Count Kurt Ilaugwitz Reventlow, from taking any more bites out of her $40,000,000 dime store fortune. Specifically, she asked the court 1.

stop Keveiitlow's receipt of in-ci'ine from a trust fund of approxi- by Reventlow on June "0 last when, instead of returning their 8-year-old son. I-ance, to her as he promised, he took the child to Canada. Her Delaware action also asked the court to remove Howland, a Delaware corporation, as trustee under the trust agreement on the matcly 1 she provided lor his maintenance after their separation in They were divorced three y-tis later and Miss Hutton tin married (irant. Charge" Trust Violation. The heiress charged that the ground that it is a creature or tiu-t fund agreement w-as violated -defendant Reventlow" and domi- a by Born to award I -j I I' 4 3 Sr si if Tfc I a- i Negro andWhiteWife Host on.

Sept. 5 (U.R'. Julian D. Steele, Boston Negro s.nial worker, and his white wife, the former Mary (Polly) Daves, onetime Providence. R.

1., school teacher, are the i arents of a daughter, it was learned today. Now the question naturally arises in the "Case of Tyler Kent" detective story how, in the way of military information, could the Roosevelt-Churchill dispatches of almost five years ago benefit the fleeing German command today? MORRISON REFUSED TO ANSWER QUESTION In the House of Commons back in Nov. 11, 1941, Home Secretary Morrison was sharply quizzed about the arrests of both the American Kent and Capt. Archibald Ramsay, a member of the House of Commons and Kent's friend, who was placed under arrest at the same time. The definite question, which Morrison refused to answer, was: "Cannot the Home Secretary say whether any of these cablegrams or messages were sent by the Prime Minister (Churchill) behind the back of the then Prime Minister (Chamberlain)?" In March of '43 the American Congress was first approached on the question by Kent's widowed mother.

She demanded a Congressional investigation and in her message to members of the Senate declared: "During October, 1939, contrary to all custom, courtesy of the American Embassy code was extended to Winston Churchill, the then. First Lord of the British Admiralty, in order that he might send his first cable to President Roosevelt, which read in effect: "I am half American and the natural person to work with you. It is evident we see eye to eye. Were I to become Prime Minister of Britain we could control the world." The present formal petition to Congress, accompanied by copies of a letter to Secretary of State Hull, poses this question to the members: "Why is he in prison?" and gives these answers: "1. Because, becoming incensed at certain cables which he was instructed to transmit in the American diplomatic code, during 1939-40, he made copies of these messages, hoping to leave England and put the matter before the United States Congress.

His request for transfer was refused. "2. Because somebody did not want the existence of these- cables to be known. They were between a British subject (not yet Prime Minister) and the American President. Custom provides that our diplomatic code be used between American citizens only.

3. Because the substance of these cables planned the Lend-Lease legislation, the circumventing of the Neutrality Law, and other steps drawing us irrevocably into the European war, without the advice and consent of two-third of the Senate, as provided in the Constitution, and somebody thought it unwise that this fact should become known. "4. Because, when Kent's action was discovered, the only way to silence him effectively was to arrest him, subject him to a secret trial on vague charges, and to imprison him for the duration of the war. This was carried out without protest or protection from our diplomatic representative in Great Britain." The baby weighed six pounds, 14 Barbara Hutton Grant Seeh to cut off Curt' cash.

f-unces whin born here Aug. 7 at the exclusive Richardson House. She has been named F.mily. The intending physician described the Laby as white. The Harvard-educated Steele resigned as director at the Robert Could Slfaw Settlement House here iiiid Mrs.

Steele resigned as a teacher at a Providence school after their marriage plans were revealed in IMP. Steele now is a director of the Armstrong Hemenway Foundation, which provides women with instruction in child care and the household arts under sponsorship tf 8 group of socially-prominent Reventlow was cruel and abusive to the boy and, although he has become an American citizen, is trying to rear Lance as a count instead of by American standards. In both the California and Delaware actions, Barbara charged that Reventlow's insistence upon her becoming a Danish citizen was motivated by the fact that he thought that under the laws of Denmark he would automatically become entitled to one-half of her entire fortune. Barbara renounced her American citizenship in December, 1937, and is still a Danish subject. Ow 1 The Julian D.

Steele Bostoniatis. Steele is 36, his wife, 37. Mrs. Steele is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Fred B. Daves of Hudson..