The Mena weekly star., 1922-01-19

 ARE DISCOURAGED
Uncle Sam's Secret Service Sleuths Do Work So We'll There Is but Little Spurious Currency iH Circulation
 N0w-Few New Cases.
By w. H. ATKINS. International News Service Staff CorresnOndent

Correspondent
 Washington, Jan. 16.-When you walk into your bank; draw check, get your money and put it in your wallet-and go thru the transaction with the transaction with the usual ease of grocery purchase-do you known the men on Uncle Sans pay roll who place your money operations above suspicion?
 William Herman Moran, Chief U. s. Secret Service, is your answer. There may be some other anwsers, including William j.. Burns, and a few others. But for bringing home the bacon as an annual habit and de- ilvering the goods to the entire sat- isfaction of your Uncle Samuel, the man who is there, and with bells on, is Moran.
 Moran bagged 25S forgers of checks during the past year. When he wasn't doing that he was investi- gating $500 forged check cases, 1,250 altered or forged Liberty bond cases and 560 altered and stolen war saving stamp cases. His annual bat ting average was further fattened by the detection of 324 shifty criminals guilty of raising banknotes from low CT to higher denominations. Many of them are thinking it over now in Fed eral penitentiaries, or are awaiting trial.
 Knows Crooks Tricks.
 Counterfeiters get away with noth- ing when Moran hits the trail. He knows all the kinks that counterfeit CTS adopt to turn out spurious cur rency. Once he gets a clew he's quick on the tracks of the counterfeiter and his conspirators, if he has them.
 Moran looked back on 1921 as one of his busiest years. He captured or seized S196,993 in counterfeit notes, I'll counterfeit note plates, fourteen engraved dies and forty-eight sets of molds for coin counterfeiting.
 Moran and his skilled staff, engin- eered by the popular "Joe" Murphy, former secret service chief at the White House, also broke up hundreds of bands of criminals engaged in counterfeiting government revenue stamps.
 Altogether ninety-six persons gull ty of counterfeiting revenues strip stamps required on bottled in bond bootleg whiskey fell into the secret service net.
 Bogus Money Scarcer.
 Activity of the secret service has practically broken up counterfeiting of United States currency upon any serious scale and also has put an end to prolific methods in vogue the early part of last year among bootleggers of counterfeiting the government stamps and placing them upon all legged bonded whiskey.
 Moran's staff ran down twenty eight new counterfeit note issues during the year. Most of them Moran says, were crude mutations and were readily detected. Many of the speci- mems were received in remittances from European countries.
 This discovery showed that the counterfeiting of United States cur rency and other government securi- ties is more or less prevalent abroad. But the aid of foreign governments has been given toward stamping out the practice and assisting in a round up of the criminals.
 Moran's record shows that in al- tered and forged bond cases $780, 900 in stolen or forged bonds were recovered by the agents of the Unit ed States Secret Service and recov- turned to the government or to banks In different sections of the United States.