Show THELMAS THELMA'S DARK GUE SOUGHT Mi Missing sing S 'S tr range t-range aug ang er r Snarls Inquiry 13 By Br the Associated Press LOS ANGELES Dec Dee 19 s- s The enigma of Thelma Todds Todd's last lut 24 hours of or life Ufe will be given to the grand jury to solve A As sensational n new w developments deepened the mystery that was disclosed dis dla- closed with the finding of or the blonde film actress b body dy In a garage garage garage ga ga- ga- ga rage last lut Monday District Attorney Attorney ney ncy Buron PiUs Fitts ordered 20 witnesses wit wIt- nesses flosses summoned before the county grand jury A coroners coroner's jury returned an inconclusIve inconclusive in inconclusive in- in conclusive verdict that her death appears to have been accidental ascribing the actual cause to carbon carbon car car- bon ban monoxide poisoning poIsoning- But Fitts announced There are art circumstances that do not satisfy us We Ve intend to clear them up The Phe chief que question Fitts Pitts said was when did Thelma Todd Tod die The answer was hidden in a amaze amaze amaze maze of ot conflicting circumstances and statements Hours after atter the tho inquest yesterday yester day Mrs Carmen West estranged wife of Roland W West t copartner and best friend of the dead actress actress actress ac ac- ac- ac tress told police I T want to tell everything I know now I 1 saw Thelma Todd with a dark complexioned man whom I did not recognize about 11 p. p m. m Sunday in Hollywood The time was 16 6 or 17 hours after the a actress tress is supposed to have been lying dead in her car on a ahill abill hill bill behind her seaside cafe Mrs lira West's statement tended to Continued on en hr raze IM lime Nine Co Column One I STARS STAR'S MISSING L GUEST HUNTED Continued from rage One Onel t I heAr te r down the c carefully built up theories that Mis Miss Todd died an accidental l d death ath warming herself herselt early Sunday morning all after r her I return from a Holly Holywood party by running the engine of ot her big phaeton L' L Trailed Machine f The statement supported the the In Inquest in in- quest testimony of ot Mr Mrs Wallace t I Ford actors actor's wife wile that she he talked over o the telephone with Ith Miss Todd I I at L p. p m m. Sunday about bringing bringing bring bring- I ing a mystery guest to the tho Fords Fords' cocktail party It tended to show that Miss Mw Todd met the mystery guest that they went driving that she kept a rendezvous not at al th the party but with death Miss Todds Todd's body was as found Monday by her maid May Whitehead White White- head in h her r garage near her beach ute cafe I I was Wall traveling cast on Sun Sunset el elb b boulevard ule ard Sunday S night nl ht when I 1 saw a I. I chocolate colored phaeton which I Immediately recognized as au to Miss Mis Todd Mrs West told police pollee I Driving the tho phaeton W was 3 a foreign foreign for tor- eign firn looking man Sitting next to tobun him bun was Thelma Todd I her from Irom a smart hat I 1 knew kne wore and also al o her blond curls County Autopsy Surgeon A. A F F. Wigner who made a preliminary report fixing the time of ot the actress ac tic- tress tress' death a aA as between I 6 and 8 S a. a m. m Sunday said ald toda today the death I could have taken place anywhere item from 12 to 30 hours before belore the body ia was wu S found Hunt Missing lust Other salient developments de In inthe he the death Included the statement of ot the grand jury foreman George noche Rochester ter that he had been given new Independent Information pointing to a po possible solution of ot ott t the e case clUe and Flits FILLS avowal of ot determination determination determination de de- de- de termination to locate the missing of ot the Fords Fords' party part District Attorneys Attorney's Investigator Tord Tont Cavett was assigned to run rundown rundown down reports report a spectacular New Year Years Year's eve party was Wa to introduce gambling ambling at al Miss Misi Todds Todd's cafe cate I the hostility of ot gambling gambling gam gam- bling hung Interests ts had been aroused wai wal a matter of oC immediate I Star witness In the day long Jong InqueSt Inquest in inquest In- In quest W was 3 Roland W West Vest t. t former director and er who told th the jurors he had locked out fw Todd at 2 p. p m m. Sund Sunday y from her living quarters above the cafe which they jointly operated She occupied one-half one of ot the rooms rooms he said I the other They are r split plit by sliding doors covered ty by r drapes drape I bolted her door from iH tile the l Iride Iri- Iri de ide not knowing she had only one key ey to the whole building f t That key testimony developed was wu to the side door which W was 3 bolted shut abut West parried questions q Qu n. n ns of ot Deputy Deputy Dep Dep- uty lily Attorney George GeQrge Johnson concerning concerning con con- Kw iss association ci f with iii the actress He said uld She was my best tri friend nd Could Rave Hare Entered Asked if It she had intimated she might leave him to remarry Pat di Cicco Cieco wealthy sportsman man Vest West answered She couldn't leave me mc That would be Imp impossible sible inasmuch Inns inas much touch as ag we had no connection I l West said ald Miss Todd had been locked out once before and nd continued continued con con- On that occasion she rapped so 80 I hard on my window that she be broke th the pane Miss Todd could get gel Into nto t any place she wanted to get gel In As J for tor Sund Sunday y morning Thorning West Vet said saidI I I guess she didn't want to awaken me me so walked on up to the g garage rage to await the arrival of oC the cafe porters in a couple of hours Tb Thelma lma was most considerate A dozen guests at the Hollywood P party which Miss Todd attended Saturday night testified she be went away early Sunday y morning full tull ot of oi life Ute and laughter Today these g guests e and a legion of other friends will say farewell as u her body lies l In state upon a couch casket of ot orchid satin in a L Loi La Angeles mortuary Private funeral services 1 Will be conducted in the afternoon at Forest Lawn Memorial park Glendale by the Rev Re Harold of oC Hollywood Baptist church Cremation will follow ollow r |