Show Actress Denies Boasting She Knew of Missing Judge I I I HOLLYWOOD Sept ept 6 UP Jayne Manners film actress today denied that she boasted of knowIng knowIng know Ing ng plenty about the disappearance n o oot of ot Justice Joseph Force Crater of the he New York supreme court The accusation was made by her director dance-director husband Maurice I. I L. L Kusell KuselJ in an amended divorce complaint com corn plaint He asserted his his his' wife was was June uno Manners then a cabaret chonus chous cho- cho rus nus us girl Irl believed to have been the thc last ast person to h have vB seen Crater b before be- be fore ore he vanished She told him she could blow the tile Crater case cao wide open pen he said Justice Crater disappeared A August August Au Au- gust 6 1930 Through her r attorney Morton Garbus Miss Manners branded her husbands husband's disclosure as merely viciousness He knows I had nothing to to do dovith with the case she asserted She admitted however that she was Inthe in inthe the tho ao une Manners mentioned the tie case but explained she changed her n name me froth from Jane Opperman to toJ toJ J ayne Manners nine years ago The June was a a. mistake of the newspapers newspapers news- news papers apers sho aho said Kusell said he learned of his wife's alleged ith jt the thease e ease ase case in October 1934 in New York when a reporter rep asked him if she was vas no June Manners sai said he asked hIs wife II about bout it it and she said according to tole th the le complaint Yes e my name was vas June Manners Maners Manners Man- Man ners ers but i I changed it to to Jayne Manners lanners I 1 changed from fron a brunette to o a n. blonde because of my connection connection tion ion with the disappearance ce of Judge Crater Asked It if she knew anything about bout the disappearance she sho was WM quoted as replying Yes I 1 know plenty What 1 I know mow would blow the tho whole case S 5 S wi 1 5 W k 1 5 S 'S S i 4 4 S 'S la l Maurice fauceT leQ L. L I Kusell wide open in her reply Manners said I 1 wa was told I. I yn m met t Justice Crater at a party at Jake Schubert's apartment apartment apart part ment in New NeYl York City I was working for Mr Schubert Schubert at the time of the disappearance On August 10 1930 I 1 sailed for England with my my mother It was reported Justice Crater rate r sailed on tho the same boat but if th that t. t was true I did not know it Kusell won an an interlocutory di divorce divorce divorce di- di vorce decree on the ground that his wife stabbed him but she aha had the the decree set aside stating they had together since sinco its ita I anc ance |