Evening star., 1936-08-08
BANKHEAD NAMES
GROUP TO ATTEND
z|ONCHECK RITES
Washington Colleagues, Hill,
Smith and WaIIgren,
Committee.
FIVE-STORY PLUNGE
WITNESSED BY WIFE
Representatives Relative Reports
Effort to Prevent Suicide-U. S.
Inquiry Denied.

A committee of House members was
designated by Speaker Bankhead to-
day to attend the funeral of Repre-
sentative Marion A. Zioncheck, 35-
year-old Washington State legislator
who was killed last night in a plunge
from fifth-fioor window of his re-
election campaign headquarters in
downtown Seattle, Wash.
At the rites for the young member
of congress, who, spectacular to the
last, broke away from a relative.
dived through the window and died
before the eyes of his pretty bride OF
four months. will be Representatives
knute Hill, Martin F. Smith and NJ.
c. Wallgren, all Democrats of Wash
ington and William A. Ekwall, Re-
publican of Oregon
An earlier dispatch from Seatt!o.
which said three Justice Department
agents were preparing to investigate
"events leading up to the death oe
Zioncheck," was denied at the Office
of j. Edgar Hoover, chief of the
Bureau of Investigation, where it was
said the Federal agency had no Official
interest in the case.
There is no indication that viola
ton of any Federal statute had any,
thing to do with this case" Hoover
said.
The dispatch said the three Justice
agents were seen conferring last night
with Seattle Coroner Otto Mittelstadt,
who had expressed the belief Zion
checks death was a suicide. but said
the agents would study events preced-
ing the tragedy.
The coroner added an inquest might
take place most any time according
to Associated Press dispatches al
though it had been officially set for
Friday.
Persecution Complex"
News of zioncheck's death We
withheld temporarily from his mother
who has been i'll for some time an
whose wish was said to have cause;
the Representative 10 change his nirC
and run for reelection.
Meanwhile, congressional leader
prepared to pay full honors to the
young legislator, whose escapades III
the National Capital and elsewhere
brought him widespread notoriety.
Speaker Bankhead said he was "very
much distressed to hear of Zionchecks
death"
While friends, who had feared for
some time zioncheck would meet
tragic end, expressed their grief.
William Nadeau. husband of the Rep
resentative's sister, blamed himself for
failing to intercept the Representative
as he dashed for the window.
Pens Incoherent Note.
II missed him by a foot" said
Nadeau, who had found Zioocheck
penning an incoherent note behind a
locked door, Nadeau had gone to the
Office to get his brother-in to
attend postal employees dinner and
Mrs. Zioncheck, the former Rubye
Louise Nix, who was married to the
Representative last April in Annapolis.
Md, following a whirlwind courtShip,
had waited in an automobile on the
street below.
Close Watch Advised.
Nadeau said a psychiatrist, Dr. Ed
ward D. Hoedemaker. had warned the
family to keep close watch On Zion
check as the Representative seemed
moody and respondent over pub
licity he had received"
when got to the Office" Eadeau
told the coroner, 7 found the door
locked, and Marion didn't answer
when I raped. So got the janitor
to let me in.
Marion was sitting at his desk
(See ZIONCHECK, Page a.