Evening star., 1947-08-30
Dozen Arrested
In May Murders
Provide NoC|ue
Four in Army Uniform
Still Held, but No Hot
Suspect Is Found

to produce f1rst-rate suspect in the
murder of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert L.
May II of Alexandria, police at
Omaha, Nebr., said today.
Search for two hitchhikers the
Mays are believed to have picked
up shortly before their bodies were
found Tuesday morning IL miles
west of Omaha, has spread through
out the Midwest. In Omaha the
entire police department and sher-
ifs force is on the alert.
Four men still were being held
in the Omaha Jail today, but 1t.
Louis Anderson, night chief of de-
tectives, did not regard them as
'hot" suspects. All were dressed in
Army uniforms. the apparel worn
by the men picked up by the Mays.
Bodies to Arrive Today.
The bodies of the 22-year -old
member of the family operating the
Alexandria, Bancroft & Washington
bus line and his bride of 10 months
will arrive today.
Funeral services will be held at
IL am. Monday at the Demaine Fu-
neral Home, 500 South Washington
street, Alexandria. Officiating will
be the Rev. Edward Tate, former
pastor of the Emmanuel Episcopal
Church, Alexandria, and present
headmaster of st. Stephens Episco-
pal School, and Robert K. Oakely,
first reader at the First Church of
Christ Scientist. Burial will be in
Mount Comfort Cemetery.
PaAbearers for Mr.. May will be
william McCausland, Charles Bar
rett, Brooks Cooke, Edgar Wayland,
Richard Marshall and Robert Gra-
ham; for Mrs. May, w. K. Sitton,
Benjamin Hayman, James Francis,
Milton Burke, Morton Knight and
Ralph Wiltshire.
Identification of 2 Fails.
Most likely of the suspects, two
men arrested yesterday at Grand
Island, Nebr., were released when
Identification failed. Neither a fill
ing station attendant, who saw two
khaki-clad men enter the Mays car
at Grand Island Wednesday evening,
nor a construction worker standing
at the station could identify the
youths.
They were arrested by State police
who noted they were wearing uni
forms. Suspicion grew when it was
learned they had purchased their
1910 Oldsmobile coupe in Omaha
paying $1,000 cash on the $1,000
purchase price.
The older of the two had an alibi
warranting his release. The second,
an 18-year-old soldier overdue on a
three-day pass from Fort Knox, KY,
was held for military police.
Boys Town Gives Aid.
About so boys from Father Flana-
gan's Boys Town, two miles from the
spot where the bodies were dragged
from the highway into a clump of
bushes, turned amateur detectives
yesterday to assist sheriff's deputies
in running down clues.
Under the guidance of six deputies,
they secured an area of several
square miles radiating from the
murder scene.
A theory that the couple might
have met death from Mr.. Mays own
.38 caliber revolver collapsed when
that weapon was found at the home
of his father, Beverly C. May 16
Belfleld road, Alexandria, general
manager of the bus line.
Car Found in Alley.
Mr.. May was shot through the
right temple and his wife through
the back of the head, apparently
with .30 caliber revolver.
The car they were driving, belong
ing to his grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert L. May, was located in
an Omaha alley three hours after
the bodies were found.
They were returning to their home
from Englewood, Colo, where they
visited friends of Mrs. May. Mr..
May was employed in the public
relations department of the subur-
ban bus line which his grandfather
founded and owned.
Copies of bloody palm print and
fingerprintS taken from the car
have been forwarded to the FBI here
for checking. 1t was established
that they were not made by Mr.. or
Mrs. May.