Show Alleged All 1 Swindle Dwindle 11 Charged Against Coupon Pro Promoter oter Several young oung girls were were the innocent innocent inno inno- cen cent dupes of L. L A A- A Ackerman ckerman A in a scheme to obtain money from housewives housewives house house- wives according to Assistant County Attorney Ray RayS S. S McCarty today Ackerman Ackerman Ackerman Ack Ack- erman has been charged with obtaining obtaining obtain obtain- ing money under false pretenses a charge to which he pleaded not guilty when arraigned In the city c court urt be before before be S fore city Judge Ben Johnson Ackerman according to Mr McCarty McCarty Mc Mc- Carty received several applications when he advertised in the dally daily newspapers newspapers newspapers newspapers' news news- papers papers' for oung young girls desiring work Several girls gIris are understood to have applied and to have been provided with coupons to be sold to housewives In a ahouse ahouse ahouse house to house canvassing scheme The coupons contained nothing but numerals according to Mr McCarty The complaint allege alleges that Ackerman told his canvassers rs t that at the coupons would be redeemed by Skaggs grocery for 50 cents each and that the purchase purchase purchase pur pur- chase price was to be 50 cents one- one half of which was to be commission It Is ls also that Ackerman authorized authorized au au- au- au the girts gIrs to promise purchasers ers ens of the coupons that each week there would be a drawing at which one of the numbered coupons would be given a sack of sugar or other merchandise mer men chandise Miss Brella Orchard 19 sold five ot of the coupons Mr McCarly McCarty stated and then called the attention n of the county attorney to th the project The charge against Ackerman followed the alleged discovery that he had no connection with the Sk Skaggs ggs company |