Seattle's Sot

Seattle knew and warned Washington, when it elected Marion Anthony Zioncheck, 35, to Congress, that it would have a Representative likely to claim the spotlight. Instead he worked hard, won considerable esteem in Washington as a promising youngster. Last December he began to get into scrapes. When he got started on his honeymoon four weeks ago, Seattle knew its Congressman was on a rare bender (TIME, May 11). But not until last week, when he returned to Washington, did Seattle begin to suspect that its man was turning from a besotted funster into a raving dipsomaniac. Events of 96 lunatic hours which culminated in Congressman Zioncheck's removal to Gallinger Municipal Hospital for mental observation:

P: He repeatedly threw his landlady, who was attempting to dispossess him, out of his apartment, causing her to be hospitalized for bruises, shock, a possible fractured hip.

P: He was arrested next night for tossing liquor bottles, dishes, a suitcase and a typewriter out of the apartment window. Subdued with a nightstick, the gibbering Representative, shoeless and stripped to the waist, was carted to jail, spent two hours there before his secretary appeared with $25 bail.

P: His bride, Rubye Nix Zioncheck, 21, walked out on him.

P:Tanked with rye whiskey and honey, he roared through Washington in his Packard roadster looking for her, zigzagging, climbing sidewalks, bumping fenders.

P:He called at the District Attorney's office, demanded the arrest of Vice President Garner, whom he accused of hiding Mrs. Zioncheck.

P:He called at the White House, demanded that President Roosevelt call out a machine gun squad to bombard the Washington Hotel, where he said Mrs. Zioncheck was hiding. For the President, Representative Zioncheck left at the White House three empty beer bottles, a package of mothballs, a tin can.

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