Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-28
BY PAUL HANEY

The disappearance Of a Columbia
University professor and young
Oregon flier-under circumstances
that would leave q mystery writer
fiap-jawed in disbelief-came back
into the headlines last week.
At District Court here, a grand
jury cloaked in more than the usual
secrecy was sitting evidence about
one or both of the missing pair:
The professor-Dr. Jesus Maria
de Galindez, lawyer. scholar. author
and bitter enemy Of his former en-
ployer. Dominican Republic Die
,tator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. On
March IL. 1856. DR.. Galindez walked
into q busy midtown New York sub
way station. Not trace of him has
been found.
The flier-Gerald Lester Murphy,
%. Of Eugene Greg. charter pilot.
He confided to at least one friend
before he vanished last December
that he might have had an unwit-
ting hand in the Galindez case. The
night DR.. Galindez disappeared. Mr..
Murphy few an invalid" from a
suburban New York airport to the
Dominican Republic. The State De-
partment. in an exchange of notes,
has fatty rejected the Dominican
explanation of Mr.. Murphy's dis
appearance--that he fell or was
pushed into shark infested waters
near the Dominican capitol of
Ciudad Trujillo.
Fonninq the Flames
Among the incidents that have
kept the case active was q speech
made earlier this month by Domini-
can Ambassador designate Manuel
de Moya in San Francisco. He
charged that any American who
blamed Trujillo for the disappear
ance Of DR.. Galindez is either a
Communist or a Communist dupe
The speech followed reports that
Mr.. de Moya was to succeed Am
bassador Joaquin de Salazar here
due to unfavorable publicity over
the Galindez-M Murphy cases. After
making the speech, Mr.. de Moya
was Immediately recalled to Ciudad
Trujillo.
Last week in the United Nations.
Uruguay famed the flames higher
by pressing for U. N. investigation
of the entire matter.
But most vocal in demanding full
solution of the cases-which he
couples--is Representative Charles
o. Porter, a Democrat who repre-
sents Mr.. Murphy's home district in
Oregon. The House freshman is
convinced agents Of Trujillo were
behind the disappearances and he's
filled more than a dozen pages Of
the Congressional Record saying
so. After blasting Trujillo in a
House speech ON February %, Mr..
Porter took out q District permit
to carry a gun because I have
reason to fear for my own safety"
Porter Gives Background
From his own investigation and
that of others, Mr.. Porter supplies
this background on the missing
pair:
DR.. Galindez, an outspoken foe
of Generalissimo Franco. fed his
native Spain in 1887 after the
Franco rise to power. For the next
nine years he worked as a legal
adviser to the Dominican Labor
Department.
In 1916. he moved to New York
where he later began work for a
doctorate at Columbia University
while working as a lecturer at the
university. His doctoral thesis -
not yet published-is titled THE
Era of Trujillo" 1t has been charac-
terized as devastating attack on
the Dominican dictator who seized
power in 1880 after bloodless rev.
olution.
Its the book Trujillo wanted to
silence" Mr.. Porter contends.
Since DR.. Galindez is legally only
missing and cannot be declared
dead for six more years. the book is
silenced-temporarily."
The book, now in the hands Of a
Santiago (Chile) publisher. lays 140
political assassinations to the Tru-
jillo regime, according to Mr..
Porter. Trujillo has branded the
book a filthy libel
While in New York, DR.. Galindez
also collected funds for the Basque
delegation in the United States of
America, q strongly anti-Franco or
ganization with world headquarters
in Paris.
In DIR. Galindez's Manhattan
apartment after his disappearance,
police found note dated October 4,
1852: I'm case anything happens to
me, have serious reasons to believe
that my aggressors could be agents
from. :" Police, out of diplo-
matte Difference, refuse to name the
country.
On the night of March IL. 1856.
DR.. Galindez finished an evening
lecture at Columbia, got a lift down.
town with a student who dropped
him at a Columbus circle subway
station. He was last seen entering
the subway. -.
George Lester Murphy was born
in Minot, N. Oak. At l6, he was an