Czech Authorities Still Continuing Investigation into Jordan’s Death, JDC Reports

“Czech authorities have indicated that their police investigation of the circumstances of the death in Prague of Charles H. Jordan, executive vice-chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, is still continuing,” Louis Broido, JDC chairman, said today following the return of Mrs. Jordan from Prague, back to New York. Mrs. Jordan was with her husband in the Czech capital on vacation when he disappeared and when his body was found several days later in a river in Prague.

Mr. Broido said in his statement today that Dr. Alexander Gonik, of the JDC medical department in Geneva, who also arrived in New York from Prague, where he was sent to establish the cause of Mr. Jordan’s death, confirmed the earlier information received by the JDC here that the authorities in Prague are still going on with their investigation of the circumstances of Mr. Jordan’s mysterious death.

“We have already made it clear that, in our minds, there is not the slightest possibility that Mr. Jordan took his own life,” Mr. Broido stressed. “We will have no further comments until the investigation is completed. Mr. Jordan’s body is to be returned to New York in a few days. At that time we will be in a position to announce arrangements for his funeral.”