Show TODD WITNESS UNDER THREAT OF RIDE DEATH Police Mount Guard After Gangsters Warn W Waiter iter By United Press HOLL HOLLYWOOD WOOD Dec 20 20 Kidnap threats against a witness witness witness wit wit- ness in the Thelma rhelma Todd death investigation today led authorities authorities authorities author author- to station a police gu guard rd at the home of Alex Hounie maitre de hotel at the exclusive exclusive sive siv Trocadero night club Miss Todd attended a par party y yat at the Trocadero a few hours before she was found dead in her ler garage appeared at police headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters early today and appealed to o Captain Elaine Blame Steed for protection Lion ion after receiving the tho second threat Early yesterday Hounie said he received a a. postcard through the mail mall at the cafe which said hold testimony for kidnap kid nap trip Puzzled by the message Hounie dismissed it as a joke and stuck the tho card In his pocket Lato Late last night when he was Vas on his way home lome from the cafe a large arge sedan forced his car to the tho curb One of the men in the car jumped out stepped up to him said looked at him and growled You got your warning buddy Keep to It or youre you're going for a ride Police Pollee Guard Posted He then returned to the sedan and the thc two men drove off Hounie rushed to police headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters to report the threats and was assigned a guard at his home Both the body of the postcard message and the address were made up of w wards clipped cUpped from news news- papers It was addressed to Alex Headwaiter Trocadero Hollywood Hounie served the Stanley Lupino party last Saturday night of ot which Miss Mis's Todd was the honored guest He Ie had been to testify at the tho coroners coroner's Inquest but was woos not called to the stand Authorities said Hounie 03 M well wellis as is every man and woman who knew Miss Todd talked to her or saw her from midnight December Continued on Tape Two Column One f GETS THREATS EAr EArS S J j. f t r rI j I the h mo morning b g December r 16 w her crumpled body was found at at i wheel ot of her automobile had b m invited to a a. police ll e mystery party M Murder Is Is' Suspected TJi party will be staged before th th county grand Jury which has hu 1 d th that t everybody Involved In Inthe the ih death th c case s b be u summoned to tell w what haE they know next Monday George W. W Rochester foreman of the grand nd jury jury said laid yesterday that evidence th thus thui fir far indicated Miss To Todd d' d was murdered Leading names on the guest list forthe mystery party include R Il Roland land West business associate and personal friend of the the comedienne come come- dienne dieMe who lived In the ro rooms roams ms over Thelma Todds Todd's Cafe Cate where the act actress eu made h her r home nome and nd who there the night Thelma helma a sup supposedly p- p po edly died Pasquale Pat De Do Cicco di divorced divorced dl- dl husband of ot the actress who b boarded a plane for New York the thed d day y after his ex wife's s body was found explaining he was on hIs w way Wa- Wa to spend Christmas with his mother moth rat at N. N Y Grand Foreman Rochester has asked I him to come back Y Your ur hasty departure departure de de- de- de raises questions which only y your presence can explain Rochester Roches Boches- ter t r telegraphed Mrs Roland West Jewel Carmen Carmen Carmen Car Car- men who Insists she saw Thelma riding with a tall taU dark man at 11 o'clock Sunday night 20 hours after she was supposed to have suffocated suffocated suffocated on carbon monoxide gas XU in West's garage Mrs West lived a afew Se few hundred yards from the actress actress actress ac ac- ac- ac tress estranged from her husband Mrs Martha Ford wife of ot the film actor Wallace Vallace Ford who has tuck stuck by her story that Miss Todd telephoned her Sunday at p. p m. m 12 12 hours after the supposed time of h her r death death and and said sald sho she was bringing a stranger to the party She never arrived Interspersed in the testimony of th these se four star witnesses will bero be bo ro routine Une evidence by police and county officers most Important of which will wUl be that of Dr A. A F. F Wagner Wagner Wag Wag- ner ncr autopsy surgeon He will be asked to settle upon I one of three stories he told during and after alter the coroners coroner's inquest inquest- first firs that Miss Miss' is' is Todd dIed 18 hours b before f re he performed an autopsy on onh h her r body second that she died from 12 to 28 hours before and third that she sho may have died as s se e early as 6 a. a m. m Sunday The first two theories of ot the aut autopsy au- au t topsy surgeon would woul place the death hour no not earlier than noon noon Sunday or at least six hours after the sup sup- time of at her death With such lIuch information as these Witnesses are expected to give Deputy Dep Dep- uty District Attorney George J Johnson John John- s son n will try to determine which of the conflicting th theories ories is most like- like I VJ C true |