Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 224, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1933 — Page 27

JAN. 27, 1933

CHECK 'FLOOD' OF FAKE COINS; IT'S ONE PIECE Lone Half Dollar Leads Government Agents on Merry Chase. Persistent reports of a flood of counterfeit half dollars in a certain section of the city have been cleared up by government agents, it was revealed today, with confiscation of a single bogus coin which led them a merry chase before they cornered it. The agents, puzzled by frequent reports of the bad coins being circulated, sought in vain to locate them. After months of wasted effort, a city policeman notified them that an elderly relative had one of the coins. This, it developed, was the coin that had caused all the trouble. The woman explained she received the coin in change from a bread wagon driver, and she named several other persons whom she said had received similar specimens from the same man. Kept Bouncing Back Questioning the persons named, agents found each had been given the same coin by the same driver, at different times, but later had discovered its character and returned it to the driver, who since has left the city. Officers believe the driver, himself, received the coin in change and, rather than lose 50 cents, risked a prison term to pass it on. The‘coin kept bouncing back, they believe, each time he passed it. After having passed it on the policeman’s relative, they said, apparently the driver feared he might be sent to prison, and he abandoned his breadwagon in an alley, and left the city. Federal law' provides that any person knowingly passing counterfeit money, even though having received it innocently, is guilty under the counterfeiting laws and, upon conviction, shall be imprisoned. Detection Is Dimmit Detection of counterfeit coins and bills usually is not difficult, according to Charles Mazcy, secret service operative in charge of the Indianapolis office. The only reason counterfeiters are able to pass most counterfeit bills and coins, lie said, is the carelessness of the person receiving the I money. Whenever genuineness of a bill or coin is questioned, he suggested, it is good policy to study the actions of the passer, who usually will give himself away to a close observer by his eagerness, or nervousness. Counterfeit coins usually are underweight, although this is not always the case, and almost invariably have a greasy feeling and a dull appearance, unless, as happens occasionally, they have been silverplated. Scrape Off in Flakes Most counterfeit coins are molded of babbit or other soft metal j and the face can be scraped off in flakes with a knife. A genuine coin j can be made to shine by scraping w'ith a knife, but the flakes will I be almost imperceptible. Another test for coins is to attempt to cut a piece out. of the edge of the coin. With a genuine coin, a knife will penetrate slightly into the edge, but none of the metal! will be removed without great pres-

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j sure, whereas it usually is easy to slice a small piece out of the edge of a counterfeit coin, Mazey said. Detection of bogus paper money is not quite as easy, he said, but should j not be difficult for a close observer, except in the case of a remarkablyi clever counterfeit. Bogus bills also have a greasy feeling, he said, together with a somewhat grayish smudgy appearance, and usually a lack of dis- | tinctness about the eyes of the portrait and the shading of the bill. Most counterfeit paper money is made by rephotographing a genuine bill, and in th? process some of the I distinctness is lost. Ordinarily a counterfeit can be detected by comparison with a known genuine bill, Mazey pointed out. Comparison of the two bills under an enlarging glass almost invariably will reveal a counterfeit by the crudeness of the lines and ; by showing up the spots which have been touched up with pen and ink ; or with a brush. Raised bills also can be detected by close observation. In some cases a genuine $1 bill is used by the counterfeiter, who paints out the $1 and alters it to represent $5, $lO and S2O notes. In other cases, the criminal splits a $1 and a $5 bill, pasting the halves together to show $1 on one side and $5 on the reverse of each. Then he hands the bill to a victim, with the $5 bill side up, for change. Few persons take the caution to look at both sides of the bill. Do you want a frigidaire? If you have a radio of washing machine to trade as down payment, see Times i Swap ads, or call Sw’ap Bureau, [Riley 5551.

SOUTH PLACES ALL ITS TRUST IN ROOSEVELT Faces Lifted to Him on Hir Visit Are Alight With Hope. BY RAY TtCKEK Times Staff Writer WARM SPRINGS, Ga , Jan. 27. There is something appalling and frightening in the hope and trust which the people of the south place in Franklin D. Roosevelt. The faces lifted to his as he rides through city streets and countrysides are alight with expectation. The radiance his presence produces can be compared only to the smiles and cheers that greet Alfred E. Smith from the sidewalks of New York. This particularly was true in Alabama, where he promised the people to revive industry and business in the Tennessee valley by reawakening that sleeping giant of power. Muscle Shoals. It requires a visit to understand the faith the people in this vicinity have in the potentialities of the Shoals. In each town, and at every crossing, the President-elect saw signboards begging him to “unshackle this giant and give employment to labor.” Pays Jeff Davis Tribute Just as the prospect that his power program may be realized brought tears to the eyes of old Senator George W. Norris as he and Mr. Roosevelt shook hands on the bluff overlooking Wilson dam, so everybody else looks to benefit ! from the Roosevelt program. Major A. Poyet, the army officer who has tried to keep the gray factories trim and efficient over twelve years, thrills at the prospect that this ugly beauty will be awakened after its long sleep. I At the beautiful capital of the i south, Montgomery, this eager attiI tilde of hopefulness was quite as ; striking. Although he paid unusual tribute jto Jefferson Davis from the very spot w'here the latter took oath of office as president of the confederj acy, Mr. Roosevelt evoked equal cheers with his pledges on Muscle Shoals. The south apparently has tempered its sentiment with economics. Keeps His Old Tactics Political observers note that Mr. Roosevelt, in visiting and traveling through the south, is applying to national politics the same tactics he did to New York w'hen he was Governor. He was the first Democratic leader to cultivate the Republicans above the Bronx, and

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as a result he always ran strong up-state. In the same way he is paying more attention to the “solid south" than any recent Democratic Presi-dent-more so than Woodrow Wilson. And the south feels closer to him than it has to any chief executive since before the “w’ar between the states”—which, incidentally, is the diplomatic way Mr. Roosevelt referred to the national unpleasantness 6f 1861-65. The hope of the politicians in Mr. Roosevelt’s support is both amusing and pathetic. Senators, representatives. Governors and county commissioners struggled bodily to crowd alongside him on train platforms, especially when newspaper photographers were doing their stuff. The offorts of one handsome, dark-haired man to keep in the limelight brought the following comment: “See that man standing by Mr. Roosevelt. That’s Congressman Lister Hill—he wants to. run for the senate against Mr. Bankhead.” And lo!—on the other side of the President-elect stood Mr. Bankhead. Athlete Enters Convent B)/ United Pros SAN FRANFISCO, Jan. 27.—Miss Dorothy Callaghan, coach, captain and star of the St. Dominic's basketball team of 1932, has forsaken a life of athletics and entered the Dominican Convent at San Rafael, Calif., to become a nun.

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CONGRESS QUIZ ON IN KINGFISH STATEPOLITICS Senate Group Is Probing Election; House Is Eying Corporation Failure. Bfj Uniti and Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 27.—While Huey Long fights the Glass banking Dill in the senate, a special senate committee still is investigating the last election back in his home state of Louisiana. In that election, Senator Huey Long acquired the third member of his “bloc” in the next congress, Sen-ator-Elect John Overton, whom he supported. The other members of the “bloc” are Huey himself and Senator Hattie Caraway, whom the kingfish helped elect in Arkansas. Senator Edwin S. Broussard, Long's long-time opponent, protested Overton’s election, and thereupon the senate committee to investigate campaign expenditures got to work. Hearings were conducted, and now

in Louisiana two special investigators are making further inquiries. These are Samuel Ansell. former judge advocate-general of the army, counsel for the committee, and John Holland, committee investigator and executive. On the outcome of their inquiries may depend the plans of Senator Robert B. Howell (Rep. Neb.), committee chairman, to go to New Orleans himself. Meanwhile, in the house another investigation has been proposed that would touch New Orleans. It was suggested by Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. (Rep.. N. Y.), who wants the department of justice to find out why several concerns that received loans from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation subsequently failed. “I believe,” said a statement issued by Fish when he introduced his resolution, “an immediate investigation by the department of justice should be undertaken into the faoilure of the Union Indemnity Company and its affiliates, the Illi - nois Life Insurance Company, and the Frisco railroad. I do not want to charge fraudulent practices against any of these companies . . . but believe that there is sufficient reason for immediate starching investigation to ascertain the facts and to institute criminal proceedings, if necessary.” Representative Fish, who said he had asked a hearing for his resolution by the house banking and cur-

’ renev committee, said he believed j the R F. C. had loaned three or four million dollars to the indemnity company. That concern entered the news some months ago when Senator Long was fighting the confirmsi tion of Marcel Garsaud of New Orleans as a member of the federal power commission. NATIONAL PRESS CLUB PLANNING CELEBRATION 25th Anniversary to Be Observed by Impressive Program. By United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 27.—Plans ■ for celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the National Press Club promise one of the biggest and most impressive programs in the history of American journalism. The program will last through the entire year of 1933, consisting of various events, the first of w hich will be on March 29. Many of the world’s most eminent men and women will take part. March 29 will be the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of a constitution by the club. Franklin D. Roosevelt and many high officials of his administration will be the guests of honor at a banquet to be held in the club auditorium. Invitations are to be sent to Herbert Hoover, w-ho then will have returned to private life' as the na-

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tion’s only living ex-President. and many notables of the world of journalism, for another banquet to be held May 18.

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