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. STANDARD FORM NO, 64 “ r h. é Office Memorandum + untrep STATES GOVERNMENT fs TO : DIFECTOR, FRI DATE: February 26, 1952 _— SAC, LOZ ANGLLYS (62-2928) SUBJECT: UNHIO.N SUBIECTS 4 . ELIVARET-SHORT, ake wplack Dahlia," — VICTIN { L,! Murder, Los Angeles, California, hee Janzary 15, 19)7 c ve YZ wos POLICE COOPERATION af Ta bee ~w — The Los Angeles Police nepartacat continues its investigation into the unsolved murder of BLIZARETH SEORT. On Vebruary 25, 1952, Lieutenant KAPL IKE, Homicide Division, Los Angeles Police Department, called attention to the article entitled, "The Master Impostor: fn Incredible Tele," written under the by~line of JOE MG CAKTHY, which vas published in the January 28, 1952, issue of "Life" Nagegine on page 79. This article ee tne activity of peeenes = WAT fbs, dk., wese Dr. Joseph C. » bobertLe. enchs’ Cecil R.amann, why hed posed as a surgeon and this had entered the Canad ‘avy as &“burgeon-lieutenant, ana had allegedly perforired numerous surgical operations it the Koreen area, although he has hed no formal meaical education, ar. wes en impostor using the credentials of Dr. CYR, of Grend Falls, New Brunswick, Canada. The article mentions that DEMAEA's home is on State Street, Lavrence, Massachusetts, the residence of his parents. ke is about 30 years of age. The magazine account of DEMAEA's activities contains an admission by him that he had been arrested by FBI agents in or near Olympia, Vashington, as a deserter from the UT, ©, Navy, dates not ;,iven, possibly while he was employed as an instructor of psychology at St. Martin's College, Lacey, Washington. He was then shipped, according to the story, to the U. S. bisciplinary jarracks in Sen Pedro, California, during which time it was alleged that the U. 5S. irmy "caught up with him' enc discharged him as a deserter from that military service. He allegedly concucted his own defense at the Navy court-martial, yet was unsuccessful and spent 18 months in the disciplinary barracks. Upon his A release it was alleged that he then returned to the residence of his parents Ch Se * in Lawrence, 7lassacnusetts. | "g Sgn EE A PROTI ES OM The magazine story states that DEAR’ served as an orderly at a sanatarium of the Brothers of St. John of God in Los fngeles, California, prior to the time he traveled to the state of ‘.ashington, where he was apprehended on the desertion charge. Lt. IED hes steted that it is possible DEMARA was at the sanatarium under the name of Lr. ROBERT L. FRENCH. The ve Los Angeles Police Department does not heve the dates of this service at the ~; sanatarium, which institution is anperently located at 2h45 South western Avenue, Los Angeles. ‘ae police heave made no imiwiry et the sanatarium and desire to delay such inquiry until more definite dateg can be ascertained. [4 is su vested Af Got DT 7, & co L«L/sae pee Ve \ ’ AIRMAIL 2 , 1 gh Ie. ‘ u rae in f fh eECORDED t z} 7 a et we! -_ > wy or - 43 a ne ~ Ps \OENED * * Av 7 \ /° COPIES DESTROYED XG ' 882 NOV 18 1964