This Is Your FBI: The Telltale Ransom

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.

Since the Equitable Life Assurance Society was founded 90 years ago, this country has changed in many ways. But in one respect it is still the same. In those early days people always spoke of America as the land of opportunity.

Well, it still is the land of opportunity just as much as ever. In just a few minutes, in tonight's middle commercial, the Equitable Society will have a special message for listeners who agree with this philosophy.

We will describe a special life insurance plan for men and women on the way up, offered by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Tonight's FBI file, the Telltale Ransom. It is impossible to make any review of the field of crime, and not feel genuinely concerned over the number of criminals who are not only free, but who are operating in almost every

large city in the country. run gambling houses, horserooms, or control the numbers racket. In some cases they are able to operate because of local political protection. Protection which enables them to escape public censure by occasionally sacrificing a menial in the organization to the police.

That makes the records look good. In other cases it is simply a matter of the local police being undermanned, underpaid, or both. Whatever the reason though, the fact is that there There is a criminal population throughout the country, and through their various enterprises, they are bleeding the public of money it can ill afford to throw away.