The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 18, 1921, Page 3

' \ Sell “Options” on Dodge Broth- ‘at 'gome of the army, camps at which “is” proposing c ~ RESUME FRAUD ers Cars in U.S. Service, Then Disappear — Although a number o/ arrests have | been made as a result of the fraudu- lent practice, the War Department re- | porte that persons in various parte ot} the country are still Deing victimized by individuals who pretend to be able to obtain Dodge Brothers. motor cars from’ the government at bargain prices. The usual method, it is said, is to sell “options” on the cars, which are represented as being still in the original shipping crates, the war hav- ing ended before they were used: Once the “option” price is obtained, of course, the “agent” never reap- Pears. i As Dodge Brothers motor car was selected by the government as’ the of- ficial car of its claas for service with the army during the world war, an enormous number of these cars were equipped for the. American training camps and'.expeditionary forces. At the conclusion of the war the various]: branches of the army had fully 20,- 000 Dodge Brothers cars and almost immediately it was rumored that these cars were to be sold at ridiculously low figures by the. government. It ‘was a great opportunity for crooks. They went. from towh to. town, pre- tending that they had acquired op- tions on large stocks of the cara, al) in first-class condition, and were pre- pared to sell these options for $25 or $30, sometimes more. The result ‘was that both Dodge Brothers and the War Department were flooded with in- quiries as to when and where the cars might be gbtained. Warnings were issued, arrests were made and for a time the fraud died out. Recently, however, it seems to have been renewed, as Dodge Brothers say they are constantly receiving letters) and ‘telegrams on the subject. The matter was taken up with the military intelligence division -of the War De- partment. A letter just received from this division by Dodge Brothers in- cludes the’ following definite state- ment:) “Iam informed by the director of sales'of the War Department that no sales of new Dodge Brothers cars have been made by hie office. He also in-! forms me that arrests have recently| been made in Philadelphia and New York by the department of justice of individuals ‘who were ivaudulently at- tempting to sell options on govern-! ment cars.” By; | As a matter of fact, the great. ma- jority of Dodge Brotherg cars acquired by the army have been ipportioned t>! various branches of? tie government} service. A few auctions kave been held | government cars which had seen hard | service were disposed cf by individual | bidding, but there have been no op- tions and anyone representing himself as in a position to obtain government | cars should be reported to the author- ities for investigation. y FINDS FAMILY “AND FORTUNE Fisherman For 7 Years Dis-| covers He’s Rich When Mother Logates Him By N. E. A. Service. Hayana, Cuba, Oct. 18\—A fisher- man |for seven xe: without know- ing his surname ind bel.cving his parents dead, Marcelino Dumeni is today a millionaire. And. his ‘mother, who found him at Punta: Alegre, after a search al- ‘most around the world, says she is the: happiest woman on earth. The story of Mrs. Dumeni’s frantic search for Marceling and his sister, Maria, now heirs to a large fortune, came to light today. Mrs. Dumeni is a naturaliged American, born in Syria. Avears ago when the children were little tots, they were lost from their home in the United States. Seven years, ago they separated, Marla going to South America and Marcelino coming to Cuba, where he went to work as @ fishérman. {i In the meantime the father. had died, leaving a fortune estimated at more than 4 million, and the mother started to search to find her chidren. The daughter was finally traced to South America and through her the son was located here. | Recently Marcelino, in ragged clothes, reeking, with the, - smell of fish, hopped from his tiny fish-laden | craft: into tha water and waded |” ibeen used most during the past few i making a $10 or $100 bill out of, a $1 enemy. ry Moorish. troops have ‘thrown a ring of steel around Melilla, the last Spanish stronghold in Mérocco. Their shatpshooters harass the Spaniards day and night. Here one of them is shown on his high perch; firing at the (By Norris Quinn) Washington, Oct. 18.—Counterfeiters and bootleggers, working together, have brought about the most serious false money crisis the Treasury De- partment ever faced. Cellar engraving plants ‘in big cities all over the country are pouring oyt an ondless fidod of counterfeit bank notes, reaching into the millions. Bootleggers and rum runners use the bogus money to pay for the liquor they buy from mountain moonshiners in the south and liquor dealers on the Canadian ‘border. These victims spread the false mon- ey broadcast. iG Almost daily the secret, service staff of the Treasury Department uncovers a new counterfeit. But no sooner have the false notes-been rounded up than the engraving plants pour forth a fresh supply. i Cooperation between counterfeiters and bootleggers has permitted the counterfeiters to float- poorer notes and in greater quantities than ever be- tore. Here's how it works: A bootlegger goes to the mountains of Tennessee to buy up a consign- ment of moonshine. The moonshine is delivered and the purchase price paid in a forest under cover of night. The moonshiner has no cHance to examine the, money, And it’s not probablé that he'd detect its falseness if he could. Later, when the moonshiner’s false money: is detected at-a store or bank, he doesn’t dare compiain, So he takes his loss and says. nothing. It works similarly pn the Canadian border., Canadian bankers and mer- chants aren't as familiar with Ameri- can money as bankers and merchants on the U. S.'side, and the-counterteit bills travel’ a long way before they’re detected. - Then’ their source can’t be traced. 3 * : : Two methods of counterfeiting have months. ‘One is raising bills. That ‘means COUNTERFEITERS AND RUM RUNNERS FLOOD NATION WITH BOGUS MILLIONS. Check Up Contents Of Your Purse! Keep your eyes open and you can. prevent being victimized by counterfeiters ‘who are ’ flooding the nation wth bogus millions. The secret service staff of the United States Treasury Depart- ment says: { “Scrutinize all ‘bills. closely, Hold a genuine note to the light and observe the fine silken ‘tex- ture. If you receive a note with coarser téxture or with — blurred ‘outlines on the design it’s open to suspicion, | “You can detect raised notes by remembering that $10 bills bear a picture of Jackson, $20 of Cleve- land, $50 of Grant, $100 of Frank- Itn-and $500 of Marshall. ' “Don’t depend too much on the ‘ring’ in detecting false coins. Run your fingers over the surface. If they stick, the con's genuine. by pasting one. or two ciphefs after the “1.” This usually is very clumsily done ‘and can be easily detected. - Many combinations are. possible in “raising.” Two dollar notes are raised to $20 and $5 to $50. Hundreds of raised notes of $20, $50 and $100 denominations are in wide circulation today. The other method is splitting a reui bill into two parts, pasting two/halves of a counterfeit bill on the two genu- ‘line halves and thus making two bills out of one, each with one ‘side. that will pass muster at the most exacting bank. Thousands of dollars in bills of this type. recently, were put into circula- delphia. ° Counterfeiters usually work in groups with each member assigned his own special task, Counterfeiting is cdnfined largely to bills, although a few old hands~ are atill making counterfeit coins:' These are produced from molds and are more easily detected than bills, ‘NEVER WANTS ANYTHING ese? The season of coughs, colds, croup and.bronchial troubles is at ‘ hand. ‘Every mother will be interested in this letter from Mrs. B. K. Olson, 1917 Ohio Ave., Superior, 'Wis.. “I tried many different kinds of cough medi- cine, but now I never want anything jelee than Foley's Honey and Tar! 1 lused it for my children when I lived in lowa and also for my grandchildren n Duluth, and it has always done good work.” Contains no- opiates, Adv. STATUE TO “TIGER” ashore. A ‘well-dressed woman was waiting | for him—his mother, though Maree- | ino didn’t know. ' ene Dumeni spoke no Spanish | and, Marcelino no ‘English. What; did that matter? Crying with joy, the | mother clasped the grimy fisherman / to her’, heart and wept. Not tadey standing, Marceling asked uifotien an interpreter, what was wrong, an his sister and the interpreter calleé out to him: i “This is mamma.’ Mrs. Dumeni then pulled Marce- | ~ ’s shirt open. ne its my 2007" she cried. Marce-| Ho, at last I've found him. 1 know) him by this mole 1. 70 HAVE BEACH } oth, N. ‘D., Oct. 18.—Marmoth Bee peation of a bathing beach, as an addition to its list of) practic’ It is thought feasible to use a part of the railroac reservoir for this purpose-: | by 6 Clemenceau, the “‘tiger” of France, is represented on the French front tion by a counterfeiting gang at Phila- |, If they slide easly, it may not be.” Ree To Honor General Ward. Americans in Chi will make pil- grimages to the grave of Gen, Fred- erick Ward, the ‘American, on ‘Memo- rial day hereafter, the custom being in- stituted this year by the: American Legion post of Shanghai. While the Civil war was being-fought in Amer- fea, General Ward, under commission of the Chinese govertiment, organized what afterwards was known to ‘the Chinese as the “Ever Victorious Army” and suppressed the great Taiping -re- bellion.. While directing his attack on the town of Tsz Ki, the American, for- merly-an officer on a Chinese gunboat, was killed at ‘the head of his troops. The Chinese erected a monument to | him at\Sungkiang, where he’ fell. | construction ‘during September. ' THE, BISMARCK TRIBUNE...” BUILDING BOOM UNDER WAY September. Contracts in 27 Nor- thern and Eastern States 7 Set Record BY ALBERT APPLE New York, ‘Oct: 183—A. building boom is well under way in nearly ev- ery. pate of the |country. |; Building , contracts -placed during September .in' the 27 northern and eastern states: totaled $246,186,000; ac- cording to the F. W. Dodge Co. This was) the greatest total ever reached by;puilding activity.during September. ‘ 4 It was a.gain of 12 per cent over August, though building usually slumps. 15° per cent in September, compared with ‘August. ‘ ‘Homes Lead Building of homes led all forms of The value’ of ‘building contracts was Uis- tributed: like this: Residence +-:.,. .39 per cent Business Buildings «. -17 per cent Public Works and Utilities 14 per cent Schools ..... feititicles + ste 11 per cent Predictions ‘that a long-range building boom: has: begun: were made a month ago, when it was announced by. the Geological Survey that pro- duction and shipments of / Portland cement during Avgust broke all rec- ords for that) month and were 15:per cent above. the average for August, 1917-1920. - Prices Lower Building perinits. issued in’ August in‘ the 197, Jeading cities totaled in money vajue\36 per cent mere than in August, 1920, according to» statis- tics compiledby the American Con- tractor. September made another big increase... °; ‘ Prices. are much lower now than a year.,ago, hence $1 of. building ‘Yepresents: more actual construction work thanduring the post-war boom. ‘Contractors say the best reason for believing that building activity, will continue at a high rate is in the fact that labor is .producing more work per hour than a year ago. MONUMENT FOR WAR HEROES Washington, Oct. 18.-—A bronze me- morial tablet.. to.:commemorata the borses and mules which died during the world war was erected -in~ the state war and navy department build- ing here today by, the American Red Crosg Star Animal relief. The inscription rear: =, This tablet commemorates (he ser- vices and siifferings of the 243,135 horses and: miles employed ‘by ‘the Americah ‘Pxpéditionary Forces over- seas during the Great World War which terminated November 11, 1918, and which. resulted in the death of 68,682 of those animals. “What they’ suffered fs beyond | “Sixteen-inch' disappearing gun, we! ‘LATEST. COAST DEFENSE EQUIPMENT PAGE THREB - ight 1,500,000 pounds, range 25 miles. : Ain or weakening. I jousands will tell you get more satisfactory results from Dr. Cal II's: ,/ Syrup Pepsin than from salts, \ pills and drastic cathartics. } Syrup Pepsin is a mild, gentle | f) cleanser and regulator. Itcosts only | about a cent a dose. DR. CALDWELL’S SYRUP PEPSIN THE FAMILY LAXATIVE ' Take Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin when ‘constipated, bilious, headachy or out of sorts. You will find your gen- eral health and complexion so im- proved that less cosmetics will be needed. 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Retail dealers havo been buying on a hand-to-mouth basis and their, stocks have been depleted, he sald, necessitating a‘revival in'‘or- ders, With flour cheaper today than a year ago, and prospective fluctuations of no serious degree, dealers are less apprehensive to lay in a small sup- ply, he said. He pointed out that dur- ing the past few weeks practically all of his company’s mills have been operating. while a vear' ago, only about half were grinding flour. This condition was general througiiout the milling district, he said. Comparisons of the production of flour can bé made when, judging from @ normal capacity of 546,000 barrels, the figures indicate that during the week ending Oct. 1, the Minneapolis mils output was 77 per cent of normal: the corregpending week, a year ago 58 per cent; in 1919 eighty-five per cent and in 1918, 74 per cent. words to describe. A fitting tribute to: their important services has been} given by the Commander-inChief of the American Expeditionary Forces, General John. J. Pershing, who has written :. ‘The army horses and mules proved of inestimable value in pro-) secuting the war toa successful con- clusion. They were found:in ail thea. ters of preparation ‘and operation, do-~ ing their silent but faithful work with- out the faculty of hoping for any re-; ward or compensation.’ ” FLY. TO PERFORMANCE | ‘Manchester, Eng., Oct. 18—A. whole | company of players arrived here by) airplane from London, gave a special matinee performance and took the| airplane back to London to be on time for the, usyal. evening performance there. 5 | NIGHT SCHOOL NOTICE = | The enrollme for night school] are now-belng made up. Classes are being formed In: Manual training. Dressmaking Common branches C:tizenship. | Phone your name and address to, Supt. Martin, Phones 285 or 885 and! enroll. Do it now. 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