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‘Betty Grable’s Baby Target of ‘Plot’. " HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 9 (UP)—A drab little blond admitted today she sent Betty Grable a threat’ to kidnap her baby because she wanted some “easy money." Mrs. Jane Bean, 20, told FBI

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agents she tried to extort $5000 ‘rom Miss Grable because she was tired of being poor and hungry: “It seems like everyone in Hollywood has lots of money,” she said. “I need some myself.” The movie star and her husband, Bandleader Harry James, didn't know about the threat until they read their newspaper. Her studio found the rambling, longhand note in a pile of fan letters. ee Arrive From Texas FBI Chief Richard Hood Mrs. Bean admitted writing-it only a Tew days after she and her hus-| band, Wilford, got here from Kaufman, Tex. = Mr. Hood said the letter threatened that 1-year-old Jessica James. would be kidnaped unless Mrs. Bean got the $5000. He refused to reveal the text of the note. “She said she heard two men planning to kidnap Miss Grable's| baby but’ said they wouldn't if she got. $5000," Mr. Hood said. iss The letter said the money should be sent, to Mrs. W. A. Bean and gave | her address. - FBI agents who went | *

the | "Breakfast in Hollywood" sponsoréd by the Ladies.of the Immaculate Heart of Mary | Parish, to be held Jan. 14 in the Riviera Club, are left to right, Mrs. Frank C. Thomp-. | sen, Mrs. H. J. Kossmann, Mrs; William F. Kiley and Mrs. Ralph Kriplen. -

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SHANGHAI; Jan. -9 -(UP)—The hin crack Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army has been equipped with new rifles but some Communist - militia still are using muzzle-loaders of -the Daniel Boone type, two UNRRBA-members- said-todays...... Miss Winifred Hemingway, Washingtori, D. C.. and M. L. Ditmanson, Chicago, were released Christmas Day by the Communists in exchange for eight members of the {China Liberated Areas Relief Ad{thinistration (Communist), - Miss {Hemingway entered Communist ter{ritory last June, Mr. Ditmanson en(tered in April.- oi “~Both Said on their return they saw. no evidence of Communists “ wearing Russian - made uniforms. Some troops wore Japanese overs |coats occasionally, they said, and many wore United States uniforms. “But for the most part,” Mr, Ditymanson said, “they differ little from | Nationalist trpops in equipment and {uniform.”

arrajened yesterday and held under $1000 bond: peiiding grand jury| action; be : : 4th Extortion Note [ It was the fourth ° time Miss | Grable had received an ‘extortion: note. In 1941 a Pennsylvania youth| = signing himself “The Yellow Hor-| net” mailed a demand for $2000 in = = cash and. threatened “I'll get you in person.” He was arrested and con- “.° Noted. re ¥! The’ actress was under police guard for awhile in 1945 because of a reported kidnap plot against her.

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