This is Your FBI: The Sugar Swindler

The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

Fathers and Mothers of America, upon the training you give your children today, depends the future of America. Our system of free enterprise, personal liberty and democracy cannot exist without educated and enlightened citizens. In about 14 minutes, our sponsor, the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, will have some helpful suggestions for parents.

If you wish to equip your children to take advantage of all the opportunities the future offers, Don't miss this important message. Tonight's FBI file, the Sugar Swindler. Every year in every state in the Union, Americans are swindled out of millions of dollars by confidence men.

And it appears in the current files of your FBI that 1946 will prove to be no exception. There are just enough among us in both high and low estates who are looking for something for nothing.

And because of that, confidence men never lack a ready market. Indeed, no axiom was ever truer than the motto of the swimler. The motto he uses as a yardstick when measuring potential victims. That axiom is, you can't cheat a careful man who checks before he acts.

The night's file opens in a small apartment located in a residential section of an eastern city. It is early evening. The occupants of this modest flat and newly married couple named Martin are entertaining at dinner guests.

Mr. Hanover? Yes, my dear. Would you like another piece of cake? Indeed, I would, young lady. It's simply delicious. Oh, really? I could give you the recipe if you'd like it. Well, I... She's recipe, Mr. Hanover.