Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1946 — Page 19

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FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1946 re L Local Man Fails to 'Bite' on Plea for Money -. From "Prisoner" in Old Mexican Skin Game

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By DICK BERRY I 118 E. 44th st, Mr. Benham Don't bail any Mexican prison- | didn’t skin. He knew better, ers out of jail unless you know| Here's what happened: He re-

ceived a letter from Mexico City, them personally, And on second | oh nosedly from a prisoner in the

thought, avoid knowing Mexican pokey there. The spelling is terprisoners personally. |rible. The English "is abominable.

Reason: The old Mexican prison- | The letter implies its sender is a er racket is flourishing again. Lat- | Spanish-speaking person. est Indianapolis target of this | It begins: skin-game was McFarland Benham ' “pear Sir, a person who knows you and has highly spoke about you has made me trust you a very delicate matter of which depends the) entire future ‘of my dear daugh- | ter, as well as my existence.” From there it goes on to say the sender has been tossed in jail for bankruptcy. This is an injustice, he asserts, because he happens to have $385,000 hidden in a secret, compartment of a .trunk lying| around a custom hotlise some place in the U, 8 He also has “many more thousands dollars” deposited secretly in a bank in your coun-

McFarland Benham for a reply.

Restaurant operators today care-

try. The letter asks the recipient to come to Mexico, “PAY THE EXPENSES THAT THE COURT INCURRED IN CONNECTION WITH MY PROCESS in order to lift the . + « The Mexican prisoner is still waiting embargo on my suitcases, one of which contains the nccessary bag- = gage checks we need to take out . 1 the trunk that contains the cash Sa ly Sal es Into Judge S Al ley in the custom house ..."” The cap- % ital letters are our own. It's the “sucker clause.” To Try to Prove Dance ls Art For his “trouble,” Mr. Benham ‘ | was promised a third of the $385,000 : If Mr. Benham "had “bit,” he h 28 (U. P.).—Municipal- Ju Daniel Shoe- : Ba Isc June Bu _— Ho a au RL would have gone to Mexico City, Figuratively speaking, the San Prandisco police have placed Sally paid five or six thousand smackers right in Judge Bhoemaker's lap. (depending on his resources) to a It will be up to him to decide whether the famous fan dance is art ‘hird pery to get his BEneTouS (as claimed by Sally and her attorney) or a “lewd and indecent exhibi- MeHCAn riche Ok of abe Doossgow. fun as claimed by the Boys never again see the third party, He i _' his Mexican friend or any part of INSISTS STOUT- FIELD A Tile BD a the visionary $385,000 promised in when she entered a plea of inno the letter. The only thing he woula T0 RETURN 10 STATE cent and waived a jury trial. | see would be red, like Mexican bulls Spectators Are Barred {And the Mexican bulls (police) inBrig. Gen. Ben Watt, adjutant Today she will appear in court cidentally, probably would be not general, today dispelled fears that minus her fans—both the one she °° helpful. the federal government might not waves and the ones who wave back Some gullible Americans accept | the bait. The Mexican letter racket return Stout field to Indiana. {at ber. No spectators will be ad-| "0" © 0 Gen. Watt began a drive last mitted to the special performance To : week to check reports that Stout for the judge. field, return of which is sought by| Sally's attorney, J. W. Ehrlich, CAFES KEEPING EYES Governor Gates and other state of- | WaS indignant at yesterday's hearficials, was being considered as a '"& Q : possible reserve training field.| Somebody,” he said glaring in ON FOOD ‘SAMPLERS’ Indiana has plans for reconversion the general direction of Chief of of the field as headquarters of the poner (Shaitiat Dullea s office, “is Hoosier national guard and possibly | ~~ Ee hi ny client's bubble for fully scrutinized people who sought | as a new civil aeronautics and state | ® vy , a football. food “samples” by impersonating] police field. et cit Pa! of an aL- city hall food inspectors. In a telephone conversation yes- |p. Jo oe rict Atlorney| p,.a1 restaurateurs are especial terday with National Guard officials ig 107 State wo 0 Is CAMDAIEN- ,y watchful since two of their Ilin Washington, Gen. Watt learned | Tuesday night Siviey Zepera) linois st. competitors doled out] the plan for federal use of thei, . yi. poi4d a ed a s. sandwiches and iced tea yesterday field had been dropped. He said the local jail for unvellin ore i to a woman who impersonated al Gen. Butler Miltonburger of the j. 1.1.00. Perfor tm ates oo ub city inspector. Guard Bureau assured him SOUL yrgeq ner would-be escorts by ap. Clarence L. Taylor, food sanitaJa would be returned to | pearing in (1) a whalebone hy Hon, peed Sieclosed She They: op- . | vi , : erator solicited samples after she In his appeal for return of the Rage 3, aud 2) 5 Sualegical-| sweviel she was assisting Harry | ; g: “Cen- | field, Gen. Watt pointed out the sored—S. F. P. D.” fleld was built by the state and ‘Chief Misses Date spector. simply had been leased to the fed-| Dullea disappointed Sally, While I'm here, I might as well | eral government as B"War Teast. [atid the public in, general Tost nt Have Something 1 gat” she is re-| tet, {when he failed to show at the night- 0 have sald HE'S FRANK ABOUT spot after telephoning to reserve a hy ara, iy Yescrines = EVERYTHING, ANYWAY Ble A hsql! 20a perLy of uit clothed in a rookies white Wnt LONDON, June 28 (U. P.).—May- presence at ringside, Sally gave her _ 1° Crush this latest fraud, Dr.| be the army life did it. |all for her aft. She was wearing O€Tald K. Kempf. city health di-| An advertisement in the Times her usual costume—just a wisp of rector, urged restaurant opergtars| personal column today said: “Lazy 'flesh-colored cloth. | to seek credentials of all inspectors. | staff major, happy, imaginative,| At the end of the performance Besides. our inspectors are to widely ravelon. seeks 0s job ¥ith several large men in blue serge PaY for all samples.” he said. | good pay and time to develop cul- suits arose from a corner table and’ er 5 Sura hobbies. To Present Serve walked out with squeaking shoes. BURGLARS TAKE $185 n Palestine. ease due July.” | The police apparently were con- { m— Tn tent to let Judge Shoemaker take WHILE WOMAN WORKS CAFE T0 BE CLOSED it from there. { While she was traveling her bak-| en - . ery route, Mrs. Frank B. Phiele, 546 TO AID REMODELING 2172 SOLDIERS DUE | N. oakland ave. reported to police Stegemiers’ cafe, 114 N. Pennsyl- today a burglar took $185 from her no will close Monday for ap- | IN NEW YORK TODAY home early this morning. proximately two weeks in an effort; NEW YORK, June 28 (U. P.).—| Mrs. Phiele, who operates a bak-

to speed remodeling which has beerf Two ships carrying 2172 troops €ry in the rear of her home, said a under way for several weeks now. | were due to arrive here today: burglar gained entrance by ripping The restaurant will take over the Eufaula Victory, from Bremen, a screen in her rear bedroom and| space formerly occupied by Kautz with 1182 troops. took three days’ receipts and a; Stationary Co. and will install a new Montclair Victory, from Bremen, women's purse from her closet kitchen and dining room. with 990 troops. “safe.”

: Contrite Bank Embezzler Heads for Jail, With 'Life Ruined, Nothing to Show for It’

By KENNETH HUFFORD | existence beeame pronounced in|with an agent of the “bookies,” who A contrite, middle-aged man pre- | 1942, although federal investigators! came to the bank. Perry never went t trip to the fed- learned he had been acquainted near the “hmokies,” lest someone pared day lor a ‘Ap [with bookmakers for a much-longer | suspect his model behavior was only eral penitentiary at Terre Haute, period. | a front. there to start trudging the long| In this year, Perry sold 20 of 30! Strangely enough, bank associates road back to society. shares he owned in the National Sonsiqared Petey 2 haryworkise " , ~vear-ol _|City bank, obtaining $3500 for official. He refused to take a vacaRR or Jor | them. Part of this money was lent Lon the last. four years, pleading | to reflect on the comment of Judge | t® ® couple of friends, depositors of lots of work to do. Walter C. Lindley of Danville, Til, the bank and oil promoters. Went for Mail Visiting Federal. judge who yester- The money was to be a tempo-| pis practice was to go to the day sentenced the well-dressed, rary loan, Perry believed, 0 pay postoffice and get the bank's mail | quiet-mannered financier to a 15- business expenses.” The doan Was| each morning, opening it and reyear term and a fine of $5000. | made by cashing checks for the n,ving whatever checks and other “You have ruined your life, with|tWo “friends” whose accounts had items he felt were needed to pronothing to show for it” Judge insufficient funds. : | tect him from discoyery Lindley told Perry, whose 650 false| This check-cashing routine grew) A paragon of virtue among fel-| entries over a 2-year period re-|until Perry was cashing frequent|jow |odge - members, Perry was| sutled in embezzlement of $143,000 checks, one for as much as $1800. | known to have “blackballed” many | from the National City bank of| Believed in Venture | applicants whose personal life he Evansville. The banker had“confidence in his| did not consider worthy of mem-

Oil Promotions “ » | bership. i friends.” He believed they would Perry. whose income averaged) With pronouncement of sentence,' nake a lot of money in the oill

. | | about $10,000 annually, won more | federal authorities disclosed thelr business, an industry that at the often than he lost, one Evansville! thorough investigation of Perry's t

background. He became involved time was on the lips of everyone| bookmaker believes, differing with|

wan oil promotions at least a year who was proud of the recent dip. | 11S bakers SE recalled an wh : before this tempted him to beginicovery of oil in the Evansville| goopsion when the two oilmen|

taking money from the bank of|yjcinity. | friends of Perry were making a few| which he was a vice president, these The psychology of oil, known for pets on their own account. They| records show. |years to residents of the southwest, ran out of cash. One said to the About $110,000 went into oll spec-| was new to Evansville people. Perry,! other: “See Perry.” ulation through the hands of three jjxe many others, couldn't resist the | a promoters whose activities still are gpneal of quick wealth, as repre- ; Brought $100 Bills being investigated by the FBI to sented by the “gusher.” His partner replied, “I'm saving see whether their handling of perry began taking money from Dim ’til the last.” A short .while Perry made them liable to federal the bank to “cover” the accounts of later, however, the second man left prosecution. [the men, who by this time had|®nd returned waving a fistful of In an attempt to recoup’ these “put the hook” on the banker to| $100 bills. losses, Perry threw $20,000 into the the extent of thousands of dollars,| A graduate of Central high school stock market and another $10,000 it was charged. Perry took more at Evansville in 1911, Perry a few into the “easy-money” market of money, until eventually he econ-| MODhs later began with the bank bookmakers. ; fessed he had credited one man's ms a Engel; Hang steadily Lived Modestly | account with $60,000 and the other hy sug. Nats. Foe a The six-foot, 200-pound Evans- Mans, $50,000.

| attractive wife, who then was 27. ville native lived modestly in his Turned to Horses | Her income last year was $4100 as six-room bungalow. He did not

Frightened, he tried to recover an employee of a beverage firm drink or smoke. To all outward ap- his losses by resorting to horse race headed by Tom Taggart, bringing pearances, Perry was the essence | petting that “never paid anyone and | the family income to almost $15,000. of conservatism sought in those never will,” as Perry ruminated in| Perry, an active Methodist, often’ who handle the funds of others. |court. took up collections on Sundays. He But, to’ bookmakers and oilmen,| Two Evansville bookmakers got also was active in affairs of the

Darling, downtown district food in-|

‘Perry was a gambler at heart. (most of his “business.” His bets| Rotary club and Evansyille country

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When September comes round, you'll start

“remembering” . . . Those paper leis you won at Coney

Island . . . the snapshots taken at that Sunday picnic « + + the checkered flag left over from the

races . . . and those cute, cute

clothes you wore—all from Block's second tloor!

A. Here's the bare sssentials for ‘summer sunning . . . a cunning little shorts ana bra set in gay checks. The bra . :.

3.50 The shoris . . . 5.00

P. S. It also has a matching mid-riff dress at 12.9% - - -

and a matching pedal pusher

. Bel Surf Shop, Second Floor

B. Beautiful and bare cotton with plunging neckline and nextto*hothing sleeves. In trim and

colorful stripes. Misses’ sizes

co 8.93 Budget Shop, Second Floor

C. Petti does a three-piece playsuit with a midriff top, winningly ruffled, with ruffles also on the skirt and shorts, In blue and white pinstripes, red and white and navy and white.

Sizes 9-15... 10.953 College Shop, Second Floor

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