Word: bogomoletz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cobbler. Year that Harry Bridges entered the U. S., a Tsarist major general, Nicholas Theodore Bogomoletz, who had just distinguished himself on the German front, was put in charge of the armored trains of the White Russian armies operating in Southern Siberia. One night soldiers from General Bogomoletz' own train, drawn up at the station at Posolskaya, inexplicably opened fire on a detachment of U. S. expeditionary forces patrolling the line. Two U. S. soldiers were killed. General Bogomoletz-who said he was asleep when the shooting started-was tried and exonerated by his Russian superiors, much...
...white-haired "Nick" Bogomoletz, now 67, eking out a living as a cobbler on Los Angeles' Hollywood Boulevard, this chronicle last year seemed very remote. But someone called the attention of the Bureau of Immigration to the fact that Nicholas Bogomoletz did not divorce his Russian wife until 1929, year that he and Anna were given their U. S. citizenship. The bureau started proceedings (aided by affidavits of long-memoried U. S. Army officers who were still bitter over the incident at Posolskaya). Result: Bogomoletz' and Anna's citizenship was revoked, and he was arrested for deportation...
...help of Nick Bogomoletz sprang White Russians from California and over the U. S., who did not like to speculate on his fate if he turned up in Russia in 1938. Radio Commentator Boake Carter was not alone in comparing Alien Bogomoletz favorably with Alien Bridges. By last week, when the record of the Bogomoletz case was forwarded to Madam Secretary Perkins with the recommendation that he be deported to Latvia, it had become almost as famed as the Bridges case. Meantime, Nicholas Bogomoletz and Anna Zaporojschuk, who have a 15-year-old daughter, had finally married...