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...that juncture-although Dennis' refusal to talk had been expected-among the few available substantiated facts on him were these: he had been born Francis Waldron in Seattle in 1904 or 1905 and had a part in the 1941 Allis-Chalmers strike in Milwaukee. Starting with these scanty clues, Chicago Bureau Chief Hugh Moffett and Correspondent Ben Williamson set out, respectively, for Milwaukee and Seattle. Almost at once they began to turn up leads...
Williamson, for instance, finding that no birth record of Waldron-Dennis was available in Seattle, was able to establish Aug. 10, 1905 as his birth date by digging through the public school records. From old Seattle city directories he found four addresses where the Waldron family had once lived. After ringing a score of doorbells in these neighborhoods and making dozens of telephone calls, he turned...
...Waldron-Dennis' boyhood...
...these and other bits & pieces of fact began to fill in the pattern of Dennis' life, other TIME bureaus were put to work investigating the important new leads that kept turning up. In New York, Miss Finn turned up the exact address of Waldron-Dennis' stepmother in Southern California, where James Murray, of our Los Angeles bureau, located her. A tip from Washington (about a phony name Dennis had used on a passport) was relayed (with a picture of Dennis) to TIME Inc.'s Tokyo bureau, which turned up the story of his activities...
...summer of 1948 the Government moved in on him and his party. That was how Frankie Waldron's star came to rest in the courthouse in Foley Square...