Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-10-24 | Page 11 | Couple Held in Probe of Movie Racket Fraud

COn UPLE PROBE ViE i FRAUD I z i Customers for Part Pay In Ph Phantom tom Film j jf f i th Charge rge Says 1 j 1 j- j L S. S Oct 24 2 AP AP- AP Investigation or r an m at new Hollywood movie racket was uns beu be be- u u today b by police o nn and 1 corix corpora ra- ra loia commissioners commissioner's deputies who said ld Indications were v rc wealthy past past- rn rs had poured tho thousands s oC ot doli dol- dol ars i rs Into the racket on on promises or being given film t tests Two alleged operator f II If 3 J. J ncy former actor and md film director rind n d Robert E. E screen n pIn play play- Cl erg er weib arrested last t night nigh t. t Richard Rich ard ord wealthy Cincinnati 0 O. O youth youth led th the detectives to Bin Bin- hey DC ncy's S s office after becoming ans- ans sus- sus J fl of ot demands demands' for fOl 1500 to train gain traina gaina a 0 leading actor role I BInney was vas Identified b by police us ns president of ot the Interstate Productions Pro and corpora corpora corpora- tion Ltd while was vice Ica Ares president deft y held on a. a charge of r suspicion of grand theft Frederick W. W V Bahls corporation deputy declared d tho the concern had no permit to sell stock certificates found plIed Piled on Binney's I desk duk i Papers seized detectives reported D ell others who paid cash to tho the gait 7 pall Included Charter 0 O. O Bartlett Winifred M. M Earker Barker J. J Donald Jm- Jm m mIer Ier tr L Lester ster IF r. r Davis A A. A B R Guertin Mary aTY Wooley Sirs Mrs Smith and n Genevieve C Their Theft ad- ad pr were not found I