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Show Attorney for Gable's Accuser To Ask Actor for Blood Test See Picture oa Page Ten LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28 (INS) A request that Clark Gable, film star, undergo a blood test to determine whether he is the father of 13-yoar-old GwendolineNorton will- be made today, Joseph Fainer, attorney f or Mrs. Yiolet Wells Norton, the girl's mother, announced. The middle-aged Englishwoman and two othess. Jack L. Smith, a private detective, and Frank James Kienan of Winnipeg, Canada, are under indictment charged with attempting at-tempting to extort money from the actor "by fraudulently representing represent-ing that he had illicit relations with Mrs. Norton." Mrs. Norton, In county jail in lieu of 12300 bail, insists that Gable is the man she knew in England as "Frank Billings" and ailegea he fathered her daughter there. Smith, who surrendered yesterday, yester-day, was released on 12800 bail. He claims ha knows nothing of the case, but authorities assert he approached studio officials seeking money "on the Gable matter." Kienan la in Winnipeg, outside the reach of the law, authorities said. Ha la charged with advancing money to Mrs. Norton so she could come to Hollywood. The offense is not extraditable. Meanwhile, Gable, ill In his hotel here, stoutly denies he ever saw Mrs. Norton. His friends and his former wife, Josephine Dillon, joined postal Inspectors in testifying he was working in the Pacific northwest during the time Mrs. Norton claims he was in England under the name of Billings. Fainer said he entered the case aa Mrs. Norton's represents vite "on good faith." He said he would make a threefold request an Gable that he submit to the blood teat, that he interview Mrs. Norton and that he swear out an affidavit that was not in England. |