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CopsDoubtDahlia'Slayer’s'Ad By United Press LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29—A shabbily dressed young Army veteran, Daniel g. Voorhees, was booked on suspicion of murdering Elizabeth Short today after he signed » five-word confession ad- Mmitting the slaying of the 22-year-old Black Dahila. Police were not convinced of Yoor- hees’ guilt, and were awaiting further word from another ‘confessed slayer,” who had promised to give himself up at 10 a. m. today, almost two weeks after the girl's mutilated body was found in a lover’s Jane, Voorhees” confession read: “{ did kill Beth Short.” He refused to amplify his statement, Voorhees surrendered by phone and * asked to be arrested, “ } “I can’t sland it any longer,” th gurly haired Voorhees told police. “ Have » wife and little girl in Phoenix,’ “His only conmeciion with the Black, sere den Soda nee Ace cimmeaeonninnmaneanee getteeics —aeagsyeiepsennnneetiinnarnadneaeIenttnarearent — <micntete DAMIAN “es Stniae Dahlia was his statement that he dated her in 1941 and had seen ier several times since, “I was out with her two weeks ago,’ he said. “I took her on the bus.” He refused to tell where he took her. As far as police know, Miss Short first came to California in 1943, two years after Voorhees said he dated her, Police sald they would not try to give Voorhees a He detector test wmutil he had recovered from his “bewildered and befuddled” state, Voorhees said he was hooked on a rape charge in Phoenix in 1941 but did not serve time. He said he was re~ leased ta serve in the Air Corps. Then he contradicted himself and sadd his Army service began mm 1943, not 1941. He was released in 1943, still & private, . ‘The other “slayer” backed down yes~ terday in a new note asking for terms of surrender. be-s Washington News 1-28-47 *E will give up in Dahlia killing if I get 10 years, said the note, ys Police also questioned Cleo Short, estranged father of the dead girl, for a second time and released hin. A one-time roommate of the dead girl, 16-year-old Lynn Martin, told po- lice more of her own experiences than of Miss Short’s. She was ta be ques- tipned again today. ne girl, who masqueraded as a 34- “old model, admitted an acquai ayee with free-lance Photograph George Price, 43, and said she had posed In the nude for him for lewd pictures. ; Price's name was in the Dahlia's ade ress hook, He was questioned bub de: nied knowing Miss Short. Police said that as a result of Mi Martin's testimony 11 men would be charged with contributing to her de« linquency. « . wee ed Don't try to find mg," ae att * ~ re Pee RRRHEE OE NERC TOUS HEURES SSE dled’ THE wd