Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1950 — Page 8

Pill Swindle Times Article Leads To Arrest After ‘Inspector's’ Visit "By BOB BOURNE A 19-year-old Hoosier accused! of taking money from old-age pen-| gioners by selling them “medicine” for their ailments was held by Indianapolis police last night.’ Ernest Henderson of Hope, described by police as a “nationally known confidence man,” was apprehended on complaint of a 60-year-old pensiptier who recalled seeing an adcount of an identical confidence operation in The Indianapolis Times last week. James Douthitt, the pensioner, said Henderson came to his home at #48 Agnew St. yesterday and represented himself as a “federal pensioner inspector,” after displaying an “official” badge. The visitor gave him a physical examination ‘and. gave him a form to fill out, Mr. Douthitt said. The form, he was told, “would bring him an increase in his pengion. :

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Must Carry Postmark Prior to 12 o’Clock By ART WRIGHT . Midnight tonight is the deadline for The Times-WISH Talent Hunt, The search for top feminine entertainers suitable for radio is Heing staged for the appearance of the Music With the Hormel Girls ABC network show which broadcasts from WISH during the | station's open house next Sunday at 5: 30 po m.

FBI records showed that Hen-| Feminine ' entertainers must derson, also known under’ theihaye their Audition Applications other city. Expenses for the trip

rlias of Ernest Stahls. had a: rec: ioHipped: LESH THe Ties-<in the willbe. paid. by. The. Times: ang ord of 28 arrests for major {Times offices or postmarked by! WISH. crimes, including burglary and midnight tonight. Successful ap-| Women and girls of all ages “grand larceny.” - “Iplicants will Teceivé notice to ap- dre eligible ts apply tor auditions: Brief Case Seized; pear at WISH Wednesday or It doesn’t cost anything. He has served prison terms in Thursday nights for auditions. The Hormel - Girls. broadcast 10 states, the FBI summary said.| The five finalists selected dur- next Sunday and the studio show The last recorded term was In ing the auditions will appear with following will be open free to the Pendleton Reformatory, to which the Hormel Girls in the WISH public on a first-come-first-served hé was sentenced in May. 1943 studio show immediately follow- basis. 'The broadcast will origifor five years. Henjjesson told po- ing the Hormel Girls’ network nate from the new ultra- modern "lice he had been released “a cou- broadcast. Theater-Studio at WISH, 1440 N. ple of ‘months ago.” The outstanding act as deter- Meridian St. In addition to the Police reported confiscating a mined by audience applause Will seating provided in the theaterbrief case, containing envelopes get a chance to appear on -the studio, extra space for the public filled with pills. They ‘said the Hormel Girls’ network broacast will be provided in other studios “pills were ‘a simple headachelon a subsequent date from an- and the main: lobby remedy ‘sold in drug stores -for ~— . ” . TTT around 2b cents a dozen. | AUDI TION APPLIC ATION A charge of city vagrancy wa: TIMES-WIEH placed against Henderson, pending further investigation by the police and the FBI. The badge carried by Hender‘mon was of a type avallable in’ (Open to Feminine pawn shops and novelty stores, : § : police said. ANBIIS . cass irsavcivnnssssncnssrsrinansse Ag HI NOt 28UIY «a vas

Paid $12 for Pills After making the physical examination Henderson filled out a prescription,” calling. for expensive “asthma pills,” Mr Douthitt. said... Henderson asked) £12 for a supply of the pills and| Mr. Douthitt paid it, he declared.} As Henderson left the houso, Mr. Douthitt said, he recalled the warning he had seen in The Times and notified the police. Henderson was taken custody two blocks from Douthitt- home.

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Wreckage Indicates Vessel Battered Apart in Blizzard

BOSTON, Apr. 8 (UP)-—The pilot: house and two dory cradles of the Missing Fishing Dragger William J. Landry were washed ashore on Nantucket Island today indicating that the 57-foot vessel, had been battered to piéces in a blizzard. All eight men aboard appar- | {ently were dead although three; {Coast Guard cutters: continued {their search of the gale swept waters near Pollock Rip lightship " “Toff the southern tip of Cape Cod. “ | The pilot house :and cradles were the latest of scores of pieces {of wreckage found, but they were {the first definitely identified as having belonged to the Landry which disappeared shortly after midnight as it hove to in the lee of the Pollock lightship.

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identified the debris that was washed up .at Wauwinnet. — However, neither he nor others were able to say positively that -other flotsam came from the missing dragger. i The Landrv wag only a quarter » of a mile from the lightship when Lack of TV Station Ret lights vanished. The lightship| had spread an oil slick to help! BLUFFTON, Apr. 8 (UP)—A the disabled vessel ride out the| |television set Kenneth Crosbie storm. {won on a radio giveaway show 18 Shortly diter the Landry de- months ago stands in his living veloped trouble, Capt. Harsen room but has never been used. Times Speelal Writer called hs wife by radio-telephone € LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., Apr. 8 and told her that “it's plenty in prizes Mr. Crosbie received for —-Italian Somaliland is back un- rough out here, but as long as we correctly naming a mystery tune der Itallan administration with can keep the engine going, we'll on “Stop the Music” in October, 11948, as “Turkey in the Treetop.” ladvisory capacity. “I can’t talk much: longer,” he _ 1tS a lovely piece of furniture, Larger than California. and said. “We're too busy. Kiss Norma 20d looks nice in our living Lith 2::1,300,000. population. the and. Eric «forme. and. teil them: F20M." said Mr East African colony will be ad- I'll be home in the morning. Don't Aid they ministered by Italy until Apr. 1|worry. ri be all right. we'll make 1960. Then; it will -become- inde TOK: pendent. Capt. Hansen talked with thai Libya, Italy's largest colony, is Coast Guard after that and was "becoming independent at once waiting for cutters to arrive to while the United Nations is still oo i to port when the radio debating about what to do with .om munication was cut off. Then Eritrea. the Landry suddenly disappedred in a snow squall

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iwas supposed to” get and didn’t reject, “We kept everything and let the new take the place of the old in our. house.” she said. Mr. Crosbie, a 42-vear-old beer Sen. Long Denies Deal salesman, appreciated a new auto-

mobile more than any of the other the world's supply. With Mayor Morrison prizes he won. his wife said. It also exports hides resin, ww, INGTON Apr. 8 — Sen

“And we all enjoyed the vaca; in Tue Site Fader Halll Russell B. Long (D. La.). denied tion trip to Mexico and Hollywood flatly today that he has made any jast summer.”

she said. “I wish upon. a vast evelopme tes fo # She 3 4 pinent . pro. “political deals” with Mayor De we could go agair this year.

One of Italy's pre-Fascist colo- Tesseps Morrison of re The Crosbies have three Hit nies. Somaliland will be reopened r. Long did .not mention Mr. dren ranging in age | from 19 to 8. to Italian immigrants. Italians Morrison by name. But according i Vai : gy 9 to recent reports his supporters CHRISTOFFEL POSTS BOND claim they were pot: welcomed h b touch. With th . : during the period of British ad- [2'¢ been in ue 3 € WASHINGTON, Apr. 8 (UP)—| Mayor. They are alleged to have Harold R. Christoffel, former Mil-) offered to put through the legis- waukee -labor leader, was re-| Advisory Council lature bills giving his city ~a|jeased today on $10,000 bond! Representing the United N#* greater amount o# “home rule” if| pending an appeal of his district! [tions as an advisory council in he would Supporter at least not court perjury conviction in Februis a com- oppose—Mr. Long in his cam- ary.

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