The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02
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Blackwell, of Fayetteville.
B. M. Gimmie) Haynes, president
of the association, presided over the
meeting which adjourned late this
afternoon after the awarding of
prizes, a chicken dinner at Breece's
Landing, and special entertainment
features, including a boat trir on the
Cape Fear river.
Wilmington and New Hanover and
Brunswick counties were represented
by John Bright Hill, collector of GUS
toms for the North Carolina dis
E. c. Snead, assistant collector of
customs; H. W. Sass, customs patrol
inspector.
K. K. Kimmelle, customs guard;
Mayor Thomas E. Cooper; Represent
alive John R. Morris; Judge John
j. Burney; Sheriff C. David Jones,
Dillon Carney, of Brunswick coun-
ty; Sergeant J. r. Smith, of the state
highway patrol; and Harry E. Fales,
superintendent of the city-county bu-
reau of Identification.
Police Chief A. B. Crews and May.
or Blackwell were given a rising
vote of thanks by the delegates for
provision of special entertainment
features. The Rev. R. E. Brown, pas
tor of the Hay Street Methodist
church in Fayetteville, gave the in
vocation. The meeting got under way
yesterday with pistol tournament
matches at Fort Bragg.
Wilson, whose undercover work
was largely responsible for the con
viction of Hauptmann in the cele.
brated Lindbergh kidnapping case,
said the secret service wants to save
the public from losses through the
acceptance of phoney money.
Losses Heavy
During a recent five year period"
the U. S. secret service chief said,
"such losses exceeded one million
dollars annually. During that period
hundreds of business men in the
Carolinas have suffered from the
sting of the counterfeiter.
"No one is immune from that sting
but most of the time it has been the
small retail store owner who can't
afford the loss of $40 or $40 who has
been stung. The professional passer
usually picks on small stores to pass
his worthless paper and we intend.
with your help, to protect the own
ers of these small establishments"
Wilson said the U. S. secret serv
ice wishes to suppress the major
crime of counterfeiting through the
modern method of education instead
of the century-old method of prose
cution and Imprisonment, hoping tc
save the taxpayers the very sizable
amount now spent annually for
court prosecutions, the feeding and
maintenance of counterfeiters in pc
nal institutions.
Another objective, he pointed out
is to remove the youths Of the
country from the temptation and op
portunity of starting a criminal ca
reer through the passing of counter
felt money.
Records reflect that a large per
centage of passing cases relate tt
young men and women between the
ages of IL and 81 and that they are
first offenders. He said these youth
full offenders were induced to pass
bad money by the professional coun
terfeiters, hardened criminals, who
were too slick to take the chance OF
passing a phoney bill.
The u. S. secret service chief sale
the reason the professional counter
feiter finds a ready market for his
bad quality money is because he car
easily persuade the youths that there
is a ready market in all cities anG
towns for it.
"He demonstrates to them how ex
ceedingly careless the merchants anc
clerks are in accepting money from
strangers, and how quick they are
in placing a S. or $40 note in the
cash register without inspecting the
BILL" he said. Merchants and clerks
should use a r in accepting money
from strangers.
Wilson declared that as soon as
the secret service teaches the re
taller to examine the quality of the
paper and the workmanship and en-
craving on the alleged greenbacks
which strangers offer to him, eve
will Immediately cripple the mar
ket for phoney money and counter
l%feiters."
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