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“ye the Hotel a this time and hed no information os to theae guestae’ at At 3:55 P.M., Detroit time, on 10-30-33, Special agent J. J, Keating of the Chicago Office inforned the writer over the long distance tele- phone that the toll ticket in question hadi finally been located by the tele- phone company at Chicego; that according to the toll ticket, Mre. Hays, room #211, Sherone Apartmente, telephone Long Beach 0800, hed at 4:28 4.M., on 10-21633, placed a station to atation long distance cell to Cadillee 8310, - —-.-- Detroit, the telephone number of the Poyal Palm Hotel; that Mre. Hays ma . talked on this call for thirteen winutes, Agent Keating further stated shat” Vivien, under the name of Hays, had called one Thomas Young of the Lincoln - “Field Jockey Club at Crete, Illinois, on 10-11-33. agent Keating aleo stated ne that it had been definitely eacortetnea: ‘beyond any question of doubt that”. the Mre. C. T. Hays at the Sherone Apartments in atone. wats in D facts Viviea” Matthews elies Mra. Vernon C. Millers . at Soot fae ey ‘. ort, oe It, therefore, eppeering thet Vivien hed ‘not celled Mr. Hays . at the Royal Palm Hotel in Detroit, but merely had placed & station to etation call frai Chicago to Cadillac 9510, Detroit, it seemed impoasible that the iden- tity of the persm to shan she talked could be established in any way other -. than by directly approaching Jack Arenson, the night clerk, who was on duty and who received the call, <Arrangauents were made whereby the Negro elevator | - = operator, Al Richardson, was brought to the Division Orfice before 11:00 Pell. - “ and was interrogeted without hie having an opportunity to communicate with any | one at the Royal Palm. He seamed quite cooperative and was evidently a colored perec% of same integrity. He earplained that it wae quite unusual for him to answer the telephone because of his duties on the elevator. He recalled the — night of 10-20-33 and the serly morning of 10-21-33, but could recollect no instance in wich he received a long distance telephone call fran Chicago or os fron any other place. He could not identify the photograph of Miller or eny - --of the other Subjects in this case as ever having been guests of the Hotels _. He explained that while he recently went back to work et the Royal Palm on 10-15-35, he had worked there several tines before when the Hotel was manéged by Mr. Rainey. He could recall no guest by the name of Hays or eny guest of ro ® suspicious character. It was learned fran him that the hotel is patronized to aame extent by enployees and actare of the Fox Theatre in Detroit. Before Richerds@ had an opportunity to ecmmuni cate with any | one at the Royal Palm, Lieut. Neville end the eariter interviewed the Manager, Mr. D. P. Ketz, in hie roam at the Hotel, All registration carde were again | | produced and it was found that on G&7+33 0. L. Vaden and R. C. Hayes (or Noyes,” =: writing not legible) regiatered in room #608 as fram Temple, Texas, at 1:45 =. A.Me They rezained one day only. Mr, Katz was, of course, not Manager of. aoe a . party who wrote an illegible hand registered in room #209 renaining only tne dey. Both the name and the city from which this party registered are illegible. . The name could be T. N. Hayes or Pr. Hagen or Hayen or Hager, Apparently thie - party registered as of "City", but the writing is not legible. Mr. Katz also had no information as to this guest. “Te iso was learima fran the cards theta e338 ate 6:00 a : + are eo,