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Show Dear Sir: A person who knows you and who has highly spoken about i you has made me trust you a j very delicate matter of which I depends the entire future of my dear daughter as well as j my existence. I am in prison for bankruptcy bankrupt-cy and I want to know if you are willing to help me save a sum of $240,000.00 dollars which I have in cash (bank bills) inside the secret place in a trunk that is deposited in a i customhouse in North America. ! As soon as I send you some ; undeniable evidence it is necessary ne-cessary for you to come here i and pay the expenses incurred in connection with my process . in order to lift the embargo on my baggage and thus recover re-cover a suitcase which contains con-tains all necessary documents (a baggage check) that we need to take out the trunk that contains con-tains the cash and which is deposited de-posited in a customhouse in j the States. To compensate you for all your troubles I will give you THIRD PART OF THE SAID SUM: Fearing that this letter--, may not come to your hands I will not sign my own name ; till I receive your reply and then I will entrust you all my secret. For the time being I a monly signing "L". For serious reasons that you will know later please reply via air mail or telegraph. I want you to treat this--malter with THE MOST ABSOLUTE RESERVE AND DISCRETION. Due--io the fact that I am in charge of the prison's school I can write you freely and in this woy. I cannot receive you reply directly di-rectly in the prison, so in case you accept my proposition you can air mail or--lelegraph your letter to a person of my entire trust--who will deliver it lo me safely and rapidly. This is his name and address: Sr. Blank Blank Mexico D. F. Rep. Mexicana L. WDOSRS CHOSEN IN NATION VIDE COMPETITION twin," m ? Z-f f , ' S v ii f7?'?- M&exiiy!ti JAM''--1 ; rrYhnma nioneer nt-ws commentator, is the first sponsored radio LOWe'UrsoyPto cine sound broadcasting and television. ELEVEN high school boys today ' ire sitting on top of the world-t'ney world-t'ney have ;ust received word from UPvld Sarnoff. I'refident ot he .ladio Corporation of America, tH:u ihey are the preliminary vumera in the $1000 Opportunity Schor-sh!p Schor-sh!p competition spoiiHored by that company. The boys were selected from -iU entrants in every Slide and 'lem-tory 'lem-tory as being "most likely to succeed" suc-ceed" in careers as radio scier.tii.tb. Although the rules of the competition, competi-tion, offered to more than high schools, specified ton preliminary prelimi-nary winners, a tie for tenth place made it necessary to include one ;more boy in the list. I The future scientists, who have i just been graduated from then high schools, will be brougat to I New York and Camden, h . J- 1,1 August for an entire month of 1 -fspection and study of hCAs en-i en-i gineering, laboratory and manufne-Ituring manufne-Ituring facilities. During that p-rioU receive a cash award of $100 in addition to the trip. Restrictions in the competition were severe. Only those boys of hich scholastic standing were permitted per-mitted to enter. An unusually difficult dif-ficult examination in physics, mathematics and radio principles, prepared by Columbia University department heads and well-known radio engineers, was given to these, students, and In addition a searching search-ing Inquiry was made as to their characters and personalities. The Judging Board, composed of chief engineers and laboratory scientists of RCA companies, used all of this data in selecting the preliminary winners. Tho voung men who will receive the free trip to the Kant for final competition for the scholarship are in 'EUdi widely scattered States as California, Pennsylvania, New Mexico Mex-ico and South Dakota. The com- ,te li- t includes David S. Colburn, Fre.no, California; Joseph Collins Sfngfon. D. C, John DeWo J Wavne Pennsylvania: William C. lake Jr, Kvanstn:.. Illinois; Son w: McClure, Oak Park Illinois: John Moll, Wanton Oh o, Richard K. Moore, Kirkwood, M- uri- Fiancois N. Palmatier Port lrds Wisconsin; Floyd D. Ra'ch Watertown, South Dakota; ge F. Smith, Roswell, ew So; and George W. Swenson, Hough tMUMichlai. they will be under the eyes or 'Judges, who are outstanding radio engineers. On September 1st, one of the eleven boys will be seh.cuu as the final winner, and he will b-awarded b-awarded the $ 1000 tuition and maintenance main-tenance scholarship in c'"cal ;and radio engineering at a coueg I selected by the boy himself from la list of approved InaiUutioM. Each of the other ten boyewm |