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| FIVE WILL BE SUMMONED IN LYNCH QUIZ Sheriff, Police Chief and Nurse To Be Asked to Name Leaders GEN. GAITHER OFFERS AID Detectives at Disposal of Lane If Needed Developments today in Maryland's ; Eastern Shore mob situation included: I DECISION OF a Chestertown (Md.) court transferring the case of George Davis, Negro, to Elkton, also on Eastern Shore, ] despite former mob threats. RECEIPT OF a letter from Davis by Bernard Ades, International Labor Defense attorney, on which he will base habeas corpus action for Davis. He will seek to have trial transferred to Baltimore. ANNOUNCEMENT that Attorney General Lane will argue appeal of Orphan Jones at special session of Court of Appeals next Monday. AID OF BALTIMORE detectives in the Eastern Shore investigation was offered by Commissioner Charles D. Gaither. Five major witnesses will be among the many persons asked to name leaders and members of the mob which Friday night lynched Matthew Williams, alias Matt Handy, in the Salisbury (Md.) courthouse square. This was revealed today as the investigation proceeded under direction of Attorney General William Preston Lane Jr., and State's Attorney Levin C. Bailey. Commissioner Charles D. Gaither, Baltimore police head, today said that Baltimore detectives would be offered to aid in the lynching investigation "if and when" they are needed either by state or Eastern Shore officials. No request for aid has yet been received by Gaither. Woman Among Five The major witnesses, to be summoned before a coroner's inquest in the death, include: Police Chief Michael Holland, who remonstrated with mob leaders when they came to take the Negro from his hospital cot. Sheriff G. Murray Phillips, who |