The Knoxville News-Sentinel Thursday, December 14, 1918 Page 7 Probers May Call on Lane To Provide Clues to Massacre By CLARK REID Representative. Lane and another man - News-Sentinel Washington Correspondent were able to stop the attacker before WASHINGTON — Memphis lawyer Ryan was hurt. is expected to be called be- Less than two hours later, however, fore a House committee to testify on the Ryan and the four others were dead, ambush murder of Rep. (D- murdered by several of Jones' top heti- Calif.) and four other Americans on are- tenants just -moments before the party mote airstrip near , . was scheduled to fly to Georgetown, Rep. Edward Derwinski (R-Ill.), a Guyana's capital. member of the House International Rela- tions Committee which is looking into Lane and San Francisco attorney , who was also represent- Ryan's murder, said yesterday he ex- ing Jones, remained at Jonestown, only pects the hearing will be scheduled soon after the 96th Congress convenes in to find themselves in the middle of a rite called for by Jones, fol- January. lowing the discovery that some members The Republican has more than of Ryan's party had survived the am- a casual interest in the investigation of the slaying of Ryan, three American bush. That mass suicide took the lives of • newsmen and a disenchanted follower of 913 Jonestown residents, but Lane. and Garry were able to escape. People's Temple leader . Derwinski had been scheduled to Since his return to the , accompany Ryan on his fateful fact-find- Lane has done an about-face and is now saying the People's Temple represents a ing tour of the People's Temple com- pound in Jonestown. He bowed Out of the danger to U.S. politicians, newsmen and trip at the last moment and is now inter- others reportedly placed on an "assassi- nations list" by Jones. ested in the investigations being conducted by a grand jury in , Lane has appeared before the grand jury in San Francisco which is examining the FBI, the Congress and the govern- the possibility of .a conspiracy to kill ment of Guyana. "Mark Lane would be the most logical Ryan (a violation of Federal law). witness for the committee to call," ob- The Guyanese government would also like Lane to appear before its Criminal served Derwinski. Investigations Department which is Lane, who was representing Jones, building the case against those still alive flew to Guyana with Ryan and a party of and implemented in Ryan's murder. American newsmen. Ryan was investi- gating charges that Jones was holding members of the People's Temple cult against their will, employing torture and abuse to do so. Shortly before Ryan and his party were scheduled to leave Jonestown, a knife-wielding cultist attacked the