Show ACCUSED 1 S. S I. I SWINDLER UNDER ARREST I Man Facing Federal Fraud Count Nabbed In New Mexico City Arrest Breaks Up Fake Agency Agen Agen- cy Racket U. U S. S Officers Officers CUi cers Believe INDICTMENT HELD SECRET Applicants Mulcted of 10 Fee Charge A carefully managed ed a agency ency racket through wJ which hundreds of or school teachers are said to have ha been swindled of thousands of or dollars was believed broken up Saturday with nith the time arrest of J. J It R. Allen Alien in Albuquerque N. N M. M on p. p charge of using the malls mails to defraud Allen was arrested d Friday on a warrant issued att after r he was secretly Indicted by the recent federal grand Jury at Ogden He formerly operated the Continental Teachers Teachers' agency here postal officials reported and at the time of ot his arrest was said to have been operating a similar agency known as the Professional Placement bureau He formerly resided in the Woodruff Woodruff Woodruff Wood Wood- ruff apartments here according to C. C F. F Dutton postal inspector and left about four Cour months ago The trail of Allens Allen's victims Mr Dutton said reaches from the Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic t to the Pacific Hundreds of school teachers from whom hom he col collected collected col- col a fee of ot 10 each with the promise of obtaining positions for them are said to have been mulcted PRO PROMISES CHARGED The indictment specifically charges Allen with having sent ent literature through the malls in which he made representations that he would place teachers in schools in Arizona Nevada Ne Nevada Ne- Ne New New Mexico Mexico Idaho Idah and vada Utah Wyoming It is also alro charged that he promIsed promised promised prom prom- to place the applicants In rural and city grade and high schools and also to obtain and su super su- su per hi tendencies for those Allen also is charged with ith having represented that he could place both experienced and inexperienced teachers teach teach- ers ers era either marri married d or single In western west west- em ern schools where he Is alleged to have said salaries were better betle- than elsewhere He also aM is charged with having baving guaranteed guarantee the applicants applicants- positions or the of fees tees MADE FEW REFUNDS REFUNDS' REFUNDS REFUNDS' Mr Dutton explained that in spite pi of or the he the fact Allen AlIen is reported to have ha have re received as many as applications a month during July and August of oC the years he operated the agency only a few teachers were pla placed ed or refunded their registration fees Scores of victims told stories of ot being defrauded by the scheme Mr Dutton said Allen was indicted on eight counts counts' by the grand jury and will be returned to Salt Lake for trial He formerly operated a teachers teachers' agency in Nebraska Ne Ne- braska and he was' was arrested convicted convict convIct- ed and sentenced to six months in Jail jaH according to the postal inspector The indictment charges that Allen AlIen knew that neither he nor his agency would refund the fee or any part of it to the applicant in the event no position was obtained The indictment further charges that for the purpose of carrying out carrying out the scheme to defraud Allen Alien on sev- sev on Page Pue Two o. o M MAN N UNDER UNDE A ARREST EST ESTON ON fEE FEDERAL Al COUNT Continued from Page One eral oral occasions unlawfully and feloniously feloniously feloniously felon felon- placed or caused to be placed in I the Salt Lake postoffice letters leters to the applicants According to Mr Dutton Allen Alen upon his arrest in Nebraska readily really admitted he had no connections with school schol boards or colleges He is re reported reported r- r re- re ported to have received thousands o of applications for positions each o of which was accompanied with wih a 10 0 fee fcc No teachers teachers were placed Mr Dutton Duton said PHOTO FEE ALLEGED J While operating in Salt Sal Lake and Omaha Allen Alen is i alleged to t have charged In addition to the he 10 fee fe for the purpose of having photographs photographs photographs photo photo- graphs made from snapshots submitted sub sub- muted by the applicants AlIens Allen's Alens Alen's activities s here were called to 1 the attention of at the state Industrial Industrial industrial Indus Indus- trial commission several months month ago by applicants who had paid pad fees and had never received positions or refunds refund Mr Dutton said While an investigation was wa under underway underway uder way Allen left lef the city After his indictment in Ogden his name was withheld pending his arrest 44 hi I aret |