The Washington times., 1938-02-24
SENATOR SOUGHT
AS DEFENSE AID
FOR BARON BLAU
Name Kept Secret As
Indictment NearS
By CARROLL PEEKE

Try directing somebody "go six
blocks south, turn left and go six
blocks east" with a good-sized
handkerchief stuffed into your
mouth and you'll know how it feels
to have all the inside information
on a case that has the Nations
Capita, by the ears and not be
able to tell per cent of what you
know.
Yesterday it was clear that the
Baron Won Blau, accused OF the
fictional murder of Ronald
Brooks, at his Chevy Chase home
last December S, is far from the
cock-sure bon vivant he appeared
when he was arrested last Satur-
day night.
This morning it became known
definitely that he expects to be
indicted.
FRIENDS SEEK LAWYER
ANY reporter ought to report
any fact which he learns as re-
porter from an outside source. l
am not telling anything which l
would not have learned if I had
been a complete stranger to this
case. But this morning 1 was told
by a leader in Washington society
that Erich Holbein, the Baron's
secretary, had confided to her
that friends were seeking a de-
tense attorney for Baron Won Blau.
Yesterday that was a conjecture.
Today it is a fact.
BY a process of elimination so
simple that you could almost do
it yourself, am getting close to
the disclosure of who will act as
his counsel. Ruby Robert, who
has been of vital assistance to me
ever since this case began yeSter'
day again proved her worth as q
reporter by discovering that Erich
Holbein went to see a Senator
who lives on Connecticut Avenue
I am now checking up to find how
many Senators live on that
thoroughfare. 1t MUST be one
Of them.
SPY ANGLE HINTED
A new angle cropped up today
when Special Prosecutor Neu
decker had a subpoena issued fol-
Andrew P. Kalhorn, the contrac
tor who did nearly all Of Brooks
building and who held the con
tract for the construction OF the
Halton Arms Apartment, which
was Brooks last big job. Again
I feel that miserable gag because
I happen to know why Kalhorn
has been subpoenaed. The law
prevents me from telling YOU
why. But it does not prevent me
from reporting the fact Of his
being called.
You may remember reading in
the papers about that time-De,
cember of last year-that there
was labor trouble on several build
ing jobs around town, including
the Halton Arms. I believe this
labor trouble was used as a mask
for considerable activity by the
ring of international spies of
which it is being alleged the Baron
Won Blau was the leader. So you
can see that Kalhorn'S entrance
into the case is news of consider
able Importance.
There seem to be two theories
separate as to content but SINH.
lar in motive which Special Prose
cutor Neudecker is building to use
as a two-edged sword when he pre-
sents his case to the Special
Grand Jury.
WALSH REFUSES PLEA
I learned this morning thai
he had made request to United
States Senator David I. Walsh o1
Massachusetts,, who will act as thu
Chief Justice of the Radio Juris
diction, for certain special charge
to be included when Senator
Walsh opens the session of tht
Special Grand Jury over VOL al
$3.50 p. m. on February %.
learned also that Chief Justice
Walsh had refused to embody th'
requests in the charge he is nov
preparing. The Chief Justice toll
me:
II feel that it is in the inter-
ests of public policy, therefore,
to say that the requests were
denied because they would have
compelled me to establish a
precedent which I am unWill-
ing to assume responsibility for
establishing, and that they dealt
with a technical matter of law
and not with the facts in this
case, either as the Special Prose.
Cutor may wish to present them
or as the public may eventually
have a right to know them"
EWYH ~ 4