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file the china town shakedown summer vacations are ending and with the advert of four many people are looking ahead to how they will fare in business in the coming year it is not within the province of the men directing the federal bureau of investigation to predict what the coming months will mean to the economic picture however they are in a position to tell you that the graph kept on the number of major crimes each month is climbing upwards unless something is done this will be another banner year for the army of american criminals but the picture is not entirely dark there is some reason to hope that the decent citizens of this country are becoming aware of the danger to them in the current crime wave throughout the nation there are unofficial citizens committees being formed to further educate the public and if the job is done thoroughly enough this war can be won the ultimate goal of this campaign is for you the citizen to protect yourself as best you can against the ravages of the criminal against the many disguises he wears before he strikes lights file opens in the china town district of a large eastern village a woman has just emerged from a building on one of the streets in this crowded area she sits on a folding chair leans contentedly against a wall and watches and listening to nothing wrong either sites 50 cents at all cost see the opium dance the price of jay's the tiny bitters 50 cents at all yeah mr. medic yeah i'll start getting them it's hot today their feet will start hurting well take on some more suckers let's see what you do with them okay hey all it is 50 cents right to the heart of sanidad see the ancient city with the ancient people hello you come from i haven't seen you what are you doing down here looking for you i hear you're doing pretty good oh i can't complain what's the action i always join here what is it how kind of a chinese juke joint so that's the last one no it's legitimate are you kidding oh the nice steady touch i find feeling is too undependable i mean you're all for me well not if i can pick up a fast park without too much work i think i've got something that comes under that headache that's why i came to see you what is it i need a man to work with me somebody who knows china town knows the people knows how much joe they've got who they're friend you know what i mean yeah i got the guy who is he coming right toward us now he spills for that bus hey addy come here a minute will you is he steam like a thief what do you want any wife this is tom bentham hi buddy how are you tom's got a job for you what kind of a job i need a chinese succulents ready what kind of people you need on it folks with a lot of money and a very kind heart that's right oh hello eddie how's it going oh what's your name what yeah yeah that's right iran talked to her yet good did she go for it i'll be there you met him young yeah i'm mr bentley from the immigration department and here my credentials oh thank you thank you my abortion the department asked me to come here and explain this to you yes i would be pleased if you would will you sit down thank you now uh madam young what i tell you tonight must be kept in strict confidence you see the united states is going to raise the chinese quota that is a wonderful news mr bentley when oh soon soon you see we understand what the victims of that terrible war must be going through and we're making up a list of chinese people who will be allowed to come to this country as permanent residents now i understand that your sister has three boys still in china that is the correct well they can all get on the list i just need their names i would not be breaking law and i did that mr bentley madam young do you imagine that i would come here if this were against the law oh no no then uh you'd like them put on the list well yeah that's fine now they'll be sent for as soon as you pay for that good behavior good they're not understanding well you see the united states wants to make sure that no one will come to this country and and not not work oh they work hard they're good boys yes i'm sure but you see to make sure that the government will not have to support them after they get here whoever recommends people to be put on the list must put up the money for each name yeah you understand how much two two two thousand dollars that is a large amount meet up anyway well after one year if the person still has a job you get the money back oh i see yes do you want to put up the security for them when much you know not later than tomorrow you see chinese people from all over the country will be sending in names as soon as they find out about this list well i will think about it mr bentley please call me tomorrow well at the look left the eye field office hi jim oh hello bell hey what's the matter i'm sore about what this new case we're on oh i haven't had a chance to look at it yet well the crime is impersonation and you over here of a con man named tom bedley oh i don't think so he has a long record as the brains behind a variety of confidence games and now it seems he's got a new way well this bentley goes into the italian section or the greek section any place where there's a minority group not too far removed from the old country he then represents himself to them as being from the department of immigration and threatens to have them deported now bellie tells them the new quota is going to be put into effect and he can arrange to have some of their relatives brought to this country for a fee i suppose that's right the average is about two thousand dollars per victim wow how many people is he taking it i have a dozen that we know of but since betley has a record you might assume we've got a complete description on it yes we have i've already had an alarm sent out on him if you've got a copy of his record handy yeah oh here it is well let's sit down and study this huh yeah maybe we can get some kind of a lead in locating ourselves anybody here tom bentley what an establishment yeah i'm here i like it better at night with customers how's the touch going i'm collecting three thousand tonight no kidding yeah your 25 percent comes to 750 pitch eddie gets the same very tight is this from adam young yeah yeah i saw her last night i just talked about the phone now and close the deal when do you collect oh she said to come to our place at nine tonight and uh when do i collect 930 have any i'll give him his end too okay got any more suckers lined up dozens of them honey if my accidental charm sustains we'll wind up owning china top bill i just got some information on tom bentley he's pulling the swindle again how do you know a man called the police and complained they told him to call us he went for the racket no he met bentley and then he got suspicious and broke off negotiations somebody didn't make another appointment with them before calling us yeah but at least we do know now that he's in action here what section is he working jonathan and he's got a new angle he now tells the victims the money they pay as a deposit with the government that it's returnable at the end of a certain period of time if the immigrant has a job i see so these people aren't doing anything against the law when they give bentley their money i think you'll keep working jonathan jim well this pattern in the past seems to have been that he exhaust the section before he leaves it saw my guess would be yes i've already alerted the police in the jonathan district good how about going down there ourselves well bill i think one of us had to stay here in case something comes in on that alarm okay i'll go down there and check with you as soon as i get anything all right come here honey sit down have a little whiskey hey you call me yeah i wanted you here for the pale bentley's collecting tonight at madame young he had it for three g's three g's where'd you get that figure from bentley he gave you a fast count how do you know i tell her to the bank this afternoon you know how much she takes out of the jug six thousand are you sure i was standing there looking over her shoulder when the guy counted it out twelve five hundred dollar bills he gave her wow an old dame like that he'd take out an extra three thousand cash just to go shopping with but there he is now family yeah i'll buy the door oh yeah go up and getting him bringing back to the office okay i'll see you back there hello mr bentley oh hello eddie arine's back in her office she's waiting for you oh fine baby does business yeah this is right back here yes i know hello bentley well did you bring her money no why not i didn't get paid the old dame said she wanted to wait until tomorrow why i don't know maybe she didn't get the dough from the bank she did get the dough from the bank how do you know go ahead eddie tell him i was there when she got it well she didn't pay me you're alive now wait a minute just pay us off and get out how can i pay if i didn't get it out go in his kick arine i got it let's go take it easy stand still get off of me well it ain't no talk get away what did you do with it thanks and i didn't get paid i can't hold him much longer that was my best place tonight's exciting fbi file in just a moment one short week from today is opening day of the 1949 college football season all america will listen for thrilling plays like this deal gets the ball again he files right into the center of the line two tacklers had anybody still on his feet pulling his way forward for a big game well he stopped him now but it took four men to go big games on the football field aren't the only one scored by college men in almost every other field the college trained man or woman is hard to stop you can prove that in dollars and cents a college graduate is nearly 15 times as likely to make $10,000 a year or over as the non-college man right the odds in favor of a college education are 15 to 1 that's why the equitable life assurance society considers its famous equitable education fund one of its most important services an equitable education fund is a plan for far-sighted parents who want the satisfaction of knowing that their children will receive the higher education that means so much to future success first and foremost an equitable education fund is sure right this fund combines planned regular saving with life insurance if the father dies or becomes permanently disabled this plan makes it certain that his children will still be able to get the education he was ambitious for them to have second advantage an equitable education fund is easy you spread the cost of education over 10 or 15 years instead of taking a beating in four a comparatively small monthly amount builds up into a sum that is ample to see a boy or girl through college remember fathers and mothers the biggest prizes life has to offer will go to college trained men and women put your children in line for a more successful future by starting an equitable education fund now get in touch with your equitable society representative soon or send a postcard care of this station to the equitable society that's e to u i t a b l e the equitable life assurance society of the united states and now back to the fb i file the china town shake down the federal bureau of investigation keeps close check on every field of crime however no close check is kept either on the number of swindles perpetrated or the amount of money that is taken from the numerous victims there is no lack of interest on the part of your fb i in the crime of swindling but adequate statistics are unavailable the victim of a robbery calls the police immediately but the person who is victimized in a swindle more often than not keeps it a personal secret that silence on the part of the victim is part of the equipment of every swindler he counts on it and uses it it allows him to work the same racket in the same territory time and again where a single complaint would result in either publicity about the racket thus warning future potential victims or the capture of the swindler or both in any event there is no guarantee that you will not be the next victim chosen by one or another of the confidence men still running loose if you should be chosen and if you should then find yourself a swindling victim weigh the price of your pride against the satisfaction of the criminal in knowing that you the victim are protecting him do that and you will realize that you have but one course open and that is to call your local police tonight's file continues at the local fbi field office well though we can get ready to close that tom betley file why was he picked up yeah he was found late last night badly beaten up in an alley in chinatown well i was down there at the chinatown precinct when the patrolman called in the report on it oh good i went to the alley where the policemen found him in an ambulance had just arrived he was taken away to a city hospital prison section was he conscious now have you checked with the hospital this morning yeah he's still in a coma i see bill why don't you go over to the hospital see if you can talk to him when and if he comes to him okay where are you going oh i uh found a slip of paper in bentley's pocket with the name madame young scribbled on it in the address 959 green street well that's in the heart of chinatown yeah i know oh uh bill the chinatown precinct said they'd send the rest of the papers that were in bentley's pockets over here as soon as they're finished with them fine i'll be back here as soon as i've seen madame young where you been eddie sleeping you seen the papers nope they found tom bentley he wasn't dead well he looked real dead to me well he ain't and you know something he was telling us the truth last night yeah how do you know i call that madame young again she said she decided to pay the money hey now look you go see her and get the dough uh-huh if she asks about bentley tell her he had to go to washington yeah but what about him what do you mean do we cut him in now now from now on we work the racket ourselves madame young yes i'm a special agent of the fbi here are my credentials yes mr taylor please come in thank you man you all came about my nephew no ma'am i came to ask you whether you've had any dealings of a man named tom bentley mr bentley from emigration yes that's the man although i'm sorry to tell you he's not from the immigration department not from immigration he was to bring my three nephews to this country man was just here for money oh what man man mr bentley saying why you ask all this madame young tom bentley as a squintler he's in city hospital now he's been there since late last night you mean i have lost my money we'll try our best to get it back for you now where did you meet mr bentley well can you tell me where you met him please woman call me she says she was mr bentley secretary she says he from immigration she says he comes see me and you saw him how many times once tonight ago once last night this morning woman called again and then the man came up here just before me to collect the money yes sir all right now that means the swindle is still going on mr cala can you get my money back as i said before madame young will try i'm going right to work on locating the man who took it now and as soon as anything happens i'll call you oh we've still got work to do on that immigration racket yeah madame young told me there was a man there this morning to collect that's 10 hours after bentley's beating i found out that racket was going on myself how we got a fresh complaint in this morning awful man a ming lee they try to work it on him but he got suspicious and call the police and to give you anything that might develop into a lead no his only contact with them was a call he got from a woman who said that she was mr white secretary now that means somebody named white has replaced mentally could be a fake name i don't know when the woman called madam young she used bentley's name to make the appointment oh how about that stuff that was in bentley's pockets that come up yet from the china town precinct yeah just arrived i haven't had a chance to look at it myself let's go over it huh this is everything this wallet and these pieces of paper book of matches and a few bills you want to hand me the wallet i'll check today okay there nothing in the money compartment i'm in this point nothing in here how you doing on the papers oh these two look like they've been torn from the same pad here they do one of them has madam young's name and address on it oh that's the one that i saw last night the other one has halifax 0984 on it 984 that's madam young's phone number oh yeah the one that's not off the pad just has the number 46 on it what do you suppose that means hey let's see that here it could be almost anything yeah bill i just remembered something let's get downtown collecting the dough i've been waiting for y'all day did you think i was pulling a Bentley on you where's the money i got it right here lay it out here's your half six five hundred dollar bills very pretty anything else you want for me no why i got a dame waiting for me at the bar oh okay tell harry to give you the good lecker i already told him what's the matter the dame she's out there who you're talking about the old chinese woman madam young yeah she see i think so what do i do that must be her letter in what letter in come in i haven't been looking for you i want my money lady i don't know what you're talking about i want my six thousand dollar look lady i'd like to be able to help you but i don't know you i never saw you before is you i'm sure eddie yeah i'll take care of her close the door okay oh here is it miss the man madam young yes sir and i think she is lady who called me on telephone that's fine just who are you anyway i'm a special agent of the fb i they're both under arrest the white and iran douglas were sentenced to 10 years in prison for impersonating federal officers tom bentley upon his recovery will face state as well as federal charges one clue that helped to solve tonight's case was special agent taylor remembering that when the body of tom bentley was found in the alley in china town there was no hat found he therefore reasoned that the slip of paper with a number of 46 on it might be a hat check then followed a long tedious search through the china town district for a club that used such slips when iran douglas's club was located special agent taylor inquired about a mr white the hat check girl told him that miss douglas had a friend named white went upon the two agents went and got madame young they brought her to the club to make a positive identification which as you have seen she did madame young's guess that iran douglas was a part of the swindling gang would not have been sufficient evidence upon which to get a conviction but the fbi crime laboratory supplied that evidence when they proved that the sheets of paper that had been torn off the pad which were found in tom bentley's pocket were actually torn off the pad in miss douglas's desk and so once again tireless investigation plus aid from the crime laboratory helped your fbi not only to apprehend these criminals in tonight's case but even more important also help to convict them in just a moment we will tell you about next week's exciting case from the files of your fbi but first let's hear briefly from an equitable society representative on the subject of an equitable education fund i always tell my friends and neighbors that an equitable education fund is like paying for a college education on the installment plan you distribute the cost over a period of 15 years or more instead of taking a beating in four the man whose words you have just heard speaks for six thousand equitable society representatives from coast to coast who are always ready to give you friendly help and counsel if you do not know the name of the equitable man in your community send the postcard care of this station to the equitable life assurance society of the united states next week we will dramatize another case from the files of the federal bureau of investigations an unusual account of crime in midair its subject robbery its title the flying thieves students used in tonight's equitable life assurance societies broadcast are adapted from the files of the federal bureau of investigation however all names used are fictitious and any similarity they're up to the names of persons living or dead is accidental tonight's program was transcribed and the music was composed and conducted by Frederick Steiner the author was jerry d lewis your narrator was william woodson and special agent taylor was played by stacey howell others in the cast were jeff quarry marlowe dweyer jc flippin alan reed and peggy weber this is your fbi is a jerry divine production this is larry keating speaking for the equitable life assurance society of the united states and the equitable society's representative in your community and inviting you to tune in again next week at the same time when the equitable life assurance society will bring you another thrilling story from the files of the federal bureau of investigation the flying thieves on this is your fbi this is a bc the american broadcasting company