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Nov 16, 1955
Minister's trial reset here — Republic (Phoenix, AZ)
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Source: Republic (Phoenix, AZ)
Trial of Edd Clark, 56, a minister in the Church of American Science, yesterday was reset for Jan. 3 by Superior Judge Fred J. Hyder. Clark, who resides at 1811 N. First Ave., was scheduled to go on trial yesterday on a charge of practicing medicine without a license. Harry A. Stewart Jr., attorney for Clark, advised Judge Hyder he had been ill several weeks and had been unable to properly prepare his client's defense. Charles C. Stidham, chief deputy criminal ...
Sep 21, 1955
Clark trial set Nov. 16 — Republic (Phoenix, AZ)
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Source: Republic (Phoenix, AZ)
Edd Clark, 56, a minister in the Church of American Science, will go on trial Nov. 16 in superior court on a charge of practicing medicine without a license. Clark, 1811 N. First Ave., appeared yesterday before Superior Judge Fred L. Hyder and pleaded innocent to the charge. He was arrested early this month after a police woman and a secretary in the office of County Attorney William P. Mahoney Jr., charged they paid him $55 for treatment of non-existent ailments. ...
Sep 21, 1955
Medicine case plea is filed
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Edd Clark, 56, of 1811 N. First. Ave., a minister in the Church of American Science, pleaded innocent today to charges of practicing medicine without a license. SUPERIOR COURT Judge Fred J. Hyder set trial for Nov. 16. Harry Stewart, attorney for Clark, was granted 20 days to file motions challenging the information. He indicated he will challenge the case as an invasion of the province of religion, which is protected by the U.S. Constitution. Stewart said Clark is a minister ...
Sep 14, 1955
Defendant to contend interviews lawful — Republic (Phoenix, AZ)
Sep 13, 1955
Court action is planned in Clark case — Gazette (Phoenix, AZ)
Sep 8, 1955
Practitioner's hearing is set — Gazette (Phoenix, AZ)
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Source: Gazette (Phoenix, AZ)
Preliminary hearing for a practitioner of the Church of Scientology who has been accused of practicing medicine without a license has been set for 10 a.m. tomorrow. Edd Clark, 56, of 1811 N. First Ave. is accused in a complaint of accepting money from a police woman and a secretary for the county attorney's office for treating nonexistent ailments the women complained at to him.
Sep 5, 1955
Medicine charge filed; bond given — Gazette (Phoenix, AZ)
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Source: Gazette (Phoenix, AZ)
A man accused here of practicing medicine without a license, was free today on $1,000 bond after being named in a complaint filed in Northwest Phoenix Precinct Court. He is Edd Clark, 56, of 1811 N. First Ave., who allegedly accepted payments totaling $55 from a police woman and a secretary from the county attorney's office. Romona Wacker, the police woman, and Eythel Deuel, the secretary, said they made the payments to Clark after accepting his advice on how to cure ...
Sep 4, 1955
Scientology practitioner // Phoenix man jailed on medicine charge — Republic (Phoenix, AZ)
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Author(s): Jack Karie
Source: Republic (Phoenix, AZ)
A practitioner of the Church of Scientology was jailed here yesterday on a charge of practicing medicine without a license. Edd Clark, 56, of 1811 N. First Ave., was named in a five-count complaint filed before Justice of the Peace Stanley Kimball. Clark was released after making $1,000 bond. County Attorney William P. Mahoney Jr. said Clark's arrest culminated a six-month investigation made by his office, city police, and sheriff's deputies. Clark, who claims to be nearly blind, readily admitted having ...
Apr 30, 1953
Court bars 2 Dianetics practitioners — Detroit Free Press
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Source: Detroit Free Press
The proprietors of a dianetics school today were on two-year probation, with court orders to stay out of business or go to prison. They are Earl Cunard, 8901 Dailey court, and Mrs. Refa Postel, 16345 Oakfield. Their so-called Detroit Dianetics and Scientology School was operated in Cunard's home until police raided it last March 25. In Recorder's Court yesterday, both pleaded guilty to operating a trade school without a license. DROP OTHER CHARGES More serious charges of conspiracy and practicing medicine ...
Apr 10, 1953
Dianetics pair pleads innocent // Denies practicing medicine illegally — Detroit Free Press
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Source: Detroit Free Press
Two operators of the Detroit School of Dianetics and Scentology pleaded innocent Thursday to charges which grew from a police raid March 25. They were Mrs. Refa Postel, 45, of 16545 Oakfield, and Earl Cunard, 26, of 8901 Dailey Court, where the school is located. They were accused of conspiring to practice medicine without a license and conspiracy to operate a private trade school without a license. * * * DIANETICS is a mental health pastime which has been called "poor ...
Apr 10, 1953
Dianetics to get test in court — Detroit News
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Source: Detroit News
[Picture / Caption: DIANETICS IN COURT—Earl M. Cunard and Mrs. Refa Postel, operator of a dianatics school, pleaded innocent when arraigned on charges of conspiracy to practice medicine without a license and running an unlicensed vocational school—News Photo.] THE SO-CALLED "science" of dianetics will be explored in Recorder's Court April 21. That is the date set by Judge George Murphy for examination of charges against Earl Cunard and Mrs. Refa Postel, whose Detroit Dianetics and Scientology School, 8901 Dailey court, was ...
Mar 27, 1953
'Cure-all' machine like lie detector — Detroit Times
Mar 27, 1953
Arrest gives pair fine new engrams — Detroit Free Press
Mar 27, 1953
Policeman forfeits job for Dianetics — Detroit News
Mar 26, 1953
Cult's records seized — Detroit Free Press
Mar 26, 1953
Police hold 2 in raid on 'Dianetics School' — Detroit News
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Source: Detroit News
Jun 21, 1951
Barton Press gets new writ // Target is $5,000 security that Hubbard's Dianetic Foundation left — Elizabeth Daily Journal
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Source: Elizabeth Daily Journal
ELIZABETH — Barton Press, Inc., of Newark held a new writ of attachment today against the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation after being edged out recently by other legal claims on the foundation's property. Matthew Grayson, attorney here for the Newark firm, said the new writ was against $5,000 cash security left by the foundation for lease of several offices here when it moved to Wichita, Kan., in May. The newly discovered funds, Grayson said, are being held by the Caldwell Place ...
Apr 23, 1951
Ron Hubbard insane, says his wife
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LOS ANGELES, April 23 (UPI) — The wife of L. Ron Hubbard, 40, founder of the Dianetics Mental Health Movement, filed suit for divorce today, charging he is suffering from a mental ailment. Mrs. Sara Northrup Hubbard, 25, said "competent medical advisers" had examined her 40-year-old husband and concluded he was "hopelessly insane" and should be placed in a private sanitarium for "psychiatric observation." She said doctors told her her husband was suffering from a mental ailment "known as paranoid schizophrenia." ...
Apr 23, 1951
Sara Northrup Hubbard v. L. Ron Hubbard et al.
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WARNER & JACKSON 639 South Spring Street Los Angeles 14, California Tucker 9171 Attorneys for Plaintiff [Stamped: FILED Apr 23 1951, Harold Cecily, County Clerk] IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SARA NORTHRUP HUBBARD, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) vs. ) ) L. RON HUBBARD, also known as ) LAFAYETTE RONALD HUBBARD; Los ) Angeles Department HUBBARD DIANETIC ) No. D RESEARCH FOUNDATION, a partnership; ) COMPLAINT FOR DIVORCE THE ...
Apr 15, 1951
Dianetics man reports he's in Cuban hospital — Mirror News (Los Angeles, CA)
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Source: Mirror News (Los Angeles, CA)
Mrs. Sara N. Hubbard, 26, suing L. Ron Hubbard, 40, inventor of dianetics, for divorce or annulment, disclosed yesterday that she has received a letter from him mailed in Cuba which assures her that her 13-month-old daughter Alexis Valorie, "is getting excellent care." The letter was filed in Superior Court with a request for permission to serve Hubbard by publication and by registered mail in the proceeding wherein Mrs. Hubbard charges that he kidnaped their child. In Cuban Hospital Hubbard, whose ...
Apr 11, 1951
'Dianetic' Hubbard accused of plot to kidnap wife — Los Angeles Herald Examiner (California)
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Source: Los Angeles Herald Examiner (California)
L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Dianetics, and two men yesterday were accused by his wife, Sara, of having conspired to kidnap her and to conceal their 13-month-old daughter, Alexis. The complaint was made in a writ filed by Mrs. Hubbard and signed by Superior Judge Mildred L. Lillie, ordering one of the men, Frank B. Dessler, to produce the child by next Monday. Mrs. Hubbard, 25, charged her husband and Dessler took Alexis from the Hubbard Dianetics Research Foundation, 2600 South ...
Apr 11, 1951
Hiding of baby charged to Dianetics author // Wife says her husband conspired to conceal 13-month-old girl missing since Feb. 23 — Los Angeles Times (California)
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Mrs. Sara Northrup Hubbard, 25, yesterday charged that her husband, L. Ron Hubbard, 40, inventor of "dianetics," a new brand of psychology, had conspired to hide her baby from her. In a nine-page petition for a writ of habeas corpus she stated she had not seen the child Alexis Valorie, 13 months old, since Feb. 23 when the child was taken from her nursery and she herself was "kidnaped" and taken to Yuma, Ariz. The document was set for hearing next ...
Apr 11, 1951
Wife accuses Dianetics Hubbard of kidnaping her — Hollywood Citizens News
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L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the dianetics movement, was accused today in a court action of kidnaping his young wife by force and "imprisoning" their 13-month-old daughter. The charge was made in a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by Hubbard's wife, Mrs. Sara Northrup Hubbard, 25, to regain possession of the child, Alexis Valorie. Superior Jude Mildred L. Lillie issued the writ. Sheriff's deputies were directed to serve it on Frank Dessler, identified as one of Hubbard s ...
Apr 3, 1951
Dianetics group to quit city because "we're not wanted" — Elizabeth Daily Journal
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Source: Elizabeth Daily Journal
The Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, 275 Morris Avenue, target of a suit accusing it of operating a medical school without a license, is moving its national headquarters out of Elizabeth because it has no desire to remain where it is not wanted. Transfer of the national headquarters to Wichita, Kan., effective April 15 was announced yesterday by the foundation. A spokesman indicated the principal reason is the pending District Court suit. Charles Leonard, in charge of press relations for the foundation, ...
Mar 28, 1951
Dianetics charges to be amplified — Elizabeth Daily Journal
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The State Board of Medical Examiners, which has filed a District Court suit against the Hubbard Dianetics Research Foundation, 275 Morris Avenue, yesterday promised to give the foundation more specific details in its charge that the Elizabeth organization is conducting a medical school contrary to the law. The trial date is set for May 15. The case came before District Court Judge Milton A. Feller on a motion by George Meier, of Bloomfield, attorney for the Hubbard Foundation. Under court rules, ...
Feb 15, 1951
Dianetics unit sued by state // Hubbard Foundation called medical school without license in complaint [exact date unknown] — Elizabeth Daily Journal
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ELIZABETH — The Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Inc., will go on trial in part one of Union County District Court February 19 to answer charges by the State Board of Medical Examiners that it operated a medical school without a license. L. Ron Hubbard, author of "Dianetics," a book that explains his "new science of the mind," set up headquarters of the foundation at 275 Morris avenue last July. At that time, Hubbard announced his organization would train "auditors" to administer ...
Jan 15, 1951
New Jersey starts action against Dianetics — Elizabeth Daily Journal
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Source: Elizabeth Daily Journal
The Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, Inc., was accused of operating a school for treatment of disease without a license in a complaint by the State Board of Medical Examiners docketed today in Part I of District Court. The complaint was served on C. Parker Morgan, 275 Morris avenue, registered agent. The board, acting through attorney general Theodore D. Parsons, specifically charged that the foundation violated R.S. 18:20-18. The foundation is required to file an answer by Thursday. Otherwise the state may ...
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