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Promenade:
The Voiture 72S, 40 and 8 will
hold its regular monthly Promen-
ade at 8 p. m, Friday, Septem-
Der 10, at the Post Home.
Guard of Honor meets for its re-
gular monthly session on Friday,
September II, 8 p. m. at the Post
Home.
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WsIeemsI:
We were pleasantly surprised
last week when our Post Com
mander Norman Kranich returned
to Key West from the Veterans
Hospital in Coral Gables after a
recent serious illness.
We welcome you back to the Is
land City, Norm, and hope you
won't have to leave for the same
reason again. Norman tells me
though that he will have to take
it rather easy for the next few
weeks until he regains his strength
but he will be back in the swing
again before long. He conducted
Wednesdays Legion Meeting.
M. E. Lewis, First Vice Com.
mander, deserves a "well done"
for the way he took over when
Norm had to go to the Hospital.
He did an excellent job.
Now we must bid adieu to Lewis
for he resigned from the First
Vices Commanders chair on Tues
day evening. Reason is that it now
conflicts with his working and in
order for the Post not to be hurt,
he resigned. That ! believe is a
good attitude.
Paul Mesa, Jr., Second Vice
Commander, was nominated to
take over the First Vice chair, and
H. ]. Metzger, Executive Com
miteeman, was nominated to take
over the Second Vice Commander
chair. Tony Leskosky was nomi-
mated to fill the Executive Com
mitteeman vacancy. Their nomi-
nations were approved at the re-
gular meeting on Wednesday.
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Event Postponed:
The Voiture 72S, 40 and 8 post
poned the drawing on the Cush-
man Scooter and Rooster Oven
from Labor Day until Sept. IS at
dance to be held at the Post
Home. This was done in order not
to conflict with the Labor Day func-
tons which had already been plan
ned.
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| Membership:
Guess about every other column
| I have to mention this program.
Well, believe 1t can't be stressed
too much. 1t is our life blood and
in this every Legionnaire can
share. All that is required to serve
on this most important committee
is to bring in as many new and
old members as you are able.
The motto for this 1954-55 year is
Get 5 for IS" so how about doing
what you can to make this come
true. If every Legionnaire in our
Post got for IS our membership
would be well over $500 members
That would really be something but
l it can be done with little hard
work on the part of each and every
one of us.
Do your share on this committee
now. Don't wait too late It is Just
as easy to renew your membership
now as it is six months from now
4 4 4
This n That:
Was talking to q Legionnaire the
other day who has been confined
to the Hospital. He was telling me
about some wonderful shows that
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-10
Fishing Trip:

fishing Trip:
A fishing trip has been planned
for all the members of the Guard
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-10

Generally speaking, there are too many 81
not enough Indians.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-10

Premsnade:
The voiture 728, 40 and 8 will
hold its regular monthly Promen-
ade at 8 p. m, Friday, Septem-
Der 10, at the Post Home.
Guard of Honor meets for its re-
gular monthly session on Friday,
September II, 8 p. m. at the Post
Home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-17

lover $1,000 in those days) in
British funds. He also had
converted some Of his loot into
I British and American gold and
for bon voyage night In New
York-ha purchased two
tickets to q show ct Niblo's
Gardens.
Treasury got him before he
could sail and recovered the
aforementioned items. Chea-
ter tickets and all. The total
recovery was $2.75O.72.
The Respectable Men
Remember Gen. Spinner,
the man In the nightgown?
He had another intriguing
who-struck- John to contend
with when he found out that
the chief Of his. division Of
accounts and the assistant
paying teller Of the Treasury
had Jointly helped themselves
to $4,000. This was doubly
surprising because both were
family men Of impeccable
reputation and pillars of their
church. The Government got
back only $l2,691.83.
Another one that baffied
and shockedsthe Treasury was
the disappearance of $4,000
from a shipment of disable
money being issued to replace
a like sum in worn banknotes.
Involved were "a bills of $500
denomination. Because they
had been used prior to their
reissue, these notes had mis-
cellaneous serial numbers.
Apparently no record Of these
numbers was kept.
It was more than two
months before the case broke.
A Washington resident was
noticed passing $500 bills. Au-
torities followed q trail which
led them to q trio, one Of
whom had worked at the time
Of the theft In the department
where money is prepared for
reissue and shipment.
Then there was the Winslow
embezzlement, which antici-
pated one aspect Of the recent
$3.50, 900 theft by II years.
On December 7, 1875, q teller
at the National Bank Of Illi-
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would like only II somebody
else viii buy. Without the ex-
pressway, Reaches Run con-
nections would have to be run
at District expense all the way
to Glebe road to make 1t USE
ful-again unless Uncle Sam
will foot the bill. As o matter
Of fact. as far as payment goes.
1t is q good question why Dis
trict taxpayers should pay for q
bridge primarily designed to
give Virginia taxpayers speed
Ter access to Federal Govern
ment buildings. You tell me.
8. The Jones Point Bridge.
Here Is this columns candi-
date for the bridge least likely
to succeed. Despite the fact
that legislation for such q proj-
ect may come up. on the Capt.
tol. neither Virginia nor Prince
Georges County. Md. want to
pay anything toward 1t. It's
another one Of those items,
desirable If Uncle Sam picks
UP the tab. but not otherwise.
And since 1t would not help
downtown Washington. it
won't get much support here.
4. The Roosevelt Island
problem. This affects the z
street bridge. which would
pass over q corner Of this
island. The island was given
to the Federal Government by
the Theodore Roosevelt Me-
mortal Association which wants
it kept Q woodland sanctu-
airy. The association is strongly
opposed to the 4 street plan
and has many influential peo-
pie lobbying at the Hin against
it. This appeal Is primarily
emotional. but It packs o wal
lop that can't be ignored.
Speak Of touching q park with
q highway or bridge and park
lovers all over the country
spring into action. The merits
never enter the case for this
group.
5. Southwest treew1y. Here
Is a reality full of-curious COM
plexities. The multilnillion-
dollar freeway is a major prof.
ect Of the Highway Depart
ment. Planning money already
has been appropriated. It may
be completed during the next
few years. But until 1t Is,
there Is no excuse for Reaches
Run. The whole purpose Of
Reaches Run Is to pour the
Virginia trafiic onto the free
way allowing 1t to funnel OF
uptown according to destina-
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open one aightcame along
in his nightshirt. Sophia called
him over. clambered on the
box and opened IT, and
promptly tainted.
CONGRESS angrily investigated
that one. but never found q
culprit.
The Edwins Dedication
Another was the AFFAIR Of
Charles C. Edwins, q fourth
class clerk In the Division of
RedemptionS, who suffered
from nothing less serious-for
a Treasury employe-than a
case OF sticky fingers.
For quite some time before
the denouement of his little
drama, Edwins had been steal
ing from the money packages
he received, as part of his Job,
frUm the Adams Express Co.
He explained later. when the
case broke open. that he Just
couldn't keep his hands of
loose money.
In addition to being q thief,
Edwins was q poor arithme-
tician. So when he tried to
make up one theft by perpe-
trating another. he got all
mixed UP and credited too
much money to one banks
remittance.
This was to have been Ed
wins last job. he having made,
hay to the extent Of $4,000 al
ready. Under assumed names
he and his wife had bought
flrst-class tickets to England
and had accumulated E210
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nois, in Chicago. opened up an
express package from the
Treasury that was supposed to
contain $1l,990. The bundle
contained blank paper.
The authorities could not
build q case until q month
later. when some one dropped
a package at the door of the
Treasurer's Office. It contained
$1,000. Renewed inquiry soon
trapped q clerk named r. s.
Winslow, who got d year and
q half in jail for his pains. The
Treasury eventually recovered
all but 1855 .85.
This sort Of thing just nat
urally seems to appeal to some
employees more than others.
Some officials while not con-
doning theft from Uncle Sam
blame low pay and close
association with big money for
these defalcations. And they
60 on all the time. In l945
three employees in the Bureau
Of Engraving shipping room
tucked a total Of $4,000 In
dollar bills under their belts
and walked out.
The Big Hoax
There have been other hy-
pothecations, too. but none so
grandiose in scope as the re-
ported plan to tunnel from tne
basement of an Office build.
ing. under Fifteenth street
NV. and into the big gold
vault Of the Treasury. Secret
Service took the report pretty
much to heart until they
learned it was just a hoax
cooked up by bored newsmen
back in the days Of normally.
It's just as well no one tried
this stunt. At the end Of the
tunnel they would have found
three inches Of cast-iron plate.
81 inches Of reinforced con.
crete and three-eighths inch
Of case-hardened steel. And
inside the vault, in addition
to money. they would have
found q burglar alarm rugged
up to summon help from the
Metropolitan police. the United
States Marines and the Army
troops at Fort Myer.
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ton. Reaches. Run can get
along without the Four-Mile
Run expressway on the Virginia
side provided the 0lebe road
connection Is made. But un-
less It connects with the free
way on the District side 1t
goes nowhere. Now the Fed
eral planners are counting on
the District going through
with the freeway because it Is
tied In closely with the re.
development Of Southwest.
The redevelopers need the
freeway because IL is the key
to Federal money for re-
development. Uncle Sam
probably will consider the
freeway as the Districts share
Of the cost of the redevelop-
ment. Without it. the Dis
trict would have to put
up dollars they don't have and
hence might lose the Federal
money. Yet. curiously. the re-
developers just the other day
came out for E street. Why?
Because Reaches Run violates
plans they had for Tenth
street as q southbound en-
trance to the redevelopment
area. How do you unscramble
this one? You tell me.
Members Of the planning
commission and District Com
missioners. sit down across the
table on this one. You have
much to discuss.
AAA
Speaking Of the bridges.
Representative Broyhill OF
Virginia now Is suggesting Q
tunnel under the river ut r
street to clear up the nauddle.
virginia's State legislature
opened its new session last
week. The delegates heard
Gov. John 8. Battle give his
swan song message which.
among other things, called for
increased pay for school teach
ers. Goy.-elect Thomas B.
Stanley takes over next
Wednesday.
y 4
It looks as II Prince Georges
County has found q popular
replacement for Police Chief
F. Allen Richards. who was
fired recently. 1t. Vincent
Free has been named acting
chief but there Is no indication
that any further search for
candidates will be undertaken.
The appointment apparently
was well received by many Of
the county force.
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Swpng Bundles Of Gosh From Engraving Breou PopuorIdeo

he was one Of the sightseers
In the socialite's party. As
the conversation continued,
the man unanswered himself
around so he was. at one
moment. both behind the diyi-
sion chief and out Of sight Of
the girl IN the ONCE whose lob
it was to watch the money
table. He was right beside
this table.
just at this point, the &C.
complete started q converse.
ton with q messenger, so as
to distract her and conceal
his partner from her view.
Then the first crook helped
himself to the loot and the
pair took on.
The case was cracked after
the Treasury circularized the
serial numbers among banks.
One man was caught making
9 deposit but his partner ned
the country.
$500. 900 fresh
Then there was the case OF
Sophia Holmes and the trash
box. This happened back in
1862. when q hard bitten old
character named Gen. Fan
els E. Spinner was Treasurer
of the United States.
Sophia. widow Of q Bull Run
casualty. was q charwoman in
the Treasury Building. One
night. going about her chores,
she found 100000 worth of
banknotes In q trash box. APP
parently some one had started
to make on with some un-
authorized funds. got panicky,
and either abandoned or
stashed them. for later re-
coyery.
Poor Sophia had never seen
so much money In her life. and
didn't know what to do about
1t. She did the most logical
thing: She parked her not in
considerable bulk on the trash
box lid and waited for some
one to come along.
Shortly afterward Gen. Spin
ner-who had been sleeping at
the Treasury ever since he had
dreamed (quite accurately
that the safe had been left
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BY Herbert Brctter

This republic has been In
business long enough now so
that whatever . citizen does.
It Ii likely that some other citi-
zen thought Of and pulled
on . similar deal some time
ago.
That is especially true Of the
crew which recently hypoth-
ecated $4,000 from the
supposedly closely guarded
Bureau Of Engraving and
Printing. So many people have
done the same thing n the
past that it is NOT as surpris-
ing that the latest attempt
was made as that the bureau
had not long since kept on the
uui yive for such operators.
The 1870 Case I
The recent haul was bull
dozerlike In its directness
compared with some Of the
smooth Jobs pulled on by
earlier crooks. Take. for In
stance, the one perpetrated by
two slickers back In 1870 when
a dollar was q dollar--and then
some.
Two thousand SO bills van
ished out Of the Division Of
Issues Just after they arrived
from the Division of Engraving
and Printing. When the case
finally cracked, this was re-
vealed as the modus operandi
Cor NJ. O.. as Sergt. Friday puts
it,:
The two thieves hung around
the Treasury Building for sew
eral days. casing the joint.
Then. on June II, they spotted
o Washington socialite with q
group Of sightseers In tow.
They fell In with the group.
which headed for the Division
Of Issues. The socialite lady
stopped to greet the division
chief, whom she knew.
One Of the crooks barged In
and engaged the division chief
In o serious technical discus
sion about his ONCE. The
socialite "just naturally as
sumed" that the questioner
was Q friend Of the division
chief. and the ofncial thought
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ClasSifieds Pay Dividends
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with Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Will
liams.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark williams
of GAINESVILLE, visited Sunday af-
ternoon with Mr.. and Mrs. A. N.
Secrest.
The w. S. c. S. will meet
Thursday evening at the home
of Mrs. Maggie Oliver with Mrs.
Mildred Law as companion host
ess.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Cline
of GAINESVILLE and Mr.. and Mrs.
Allen Stewart and family of Nc
Connelsville, called on Mrs.
Luella Pringle, Sunday after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Nc
Wicker and Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
die Powell spent Sunday at Old
Mans Cave and other points Of
interest near Logan, Ohio.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1954-07-22
Mt. EpHRATM NEWS

MT. EPHRAIM - Mr.. and
Mrs. Clyde Finley and daughters
returned to Canton Sunday after
spending the past two weeks
with T. r. Bates.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Williams and
family of Columbus, spent the
weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. Rod
ney Williams and daughters.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Caldwell
spent the weekend with Mrs.
Laura Caldwell and son at
Clinton, w. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ted Bowers of
Cleveland spent the weekend
with Mr.. and Mrs. Bethel Bates.
Mrs. Bowers remained for a
visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Andrews
and family of Barnesville, spent
Wednesday evening with Mr..
and Mrs. Rex Moore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gordan Bates
are visiting this week with Mr..
and Mrs Donald Bates and
daughter at Clarksville, Tenn.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Anderson
and son of Canton, called on MIR.
and Mrs. Rodney Williams and
daughter, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Powell
and daughters spent Saturday
evening with Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Anderson and sons.
Miss Marjorie Culp returned
to her home in Cleveland, Satur-
day after spending several
weeks with Mr.. and Mrs. Bethel
Bates.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Wendell
and son of Pennsylvania and
Mrs. Otto Carpenter and family
Of near Summerfield and Mrs.
Leota Glover visited Saturday
evening with Mrs. Hazel Powell.
Mrs. Ray Shafer spent Wed
nesday with Mrs. Robert Moore
and daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Hall of
Columbus, spent the weekend
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1954-07-22
SENECAvILLE NEWS

SENECAVILLE Funeral
services were held at the Meth
odist church Friday at 2:30 p. m.
for Clifford T. Harding. Rev.
Dale Sewers of the GAINESVILLE
Presbyterian church delivered
the sermon assisted by the Meth
odist minister, Rev. Leo Myers.
Military honors were given by
Seneca American Legion Post
No. TAT of which he was a mem
Der.
Among those attending from a
distance: Mr.. and Mrs. Russell
Hathaway, Dry Prong, La. and
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Huffman of
Asheboro, N. Carolina. Both
Hathaway and Huffman had SER
we'd with him overseas. Also at
tending were Mrs. Vembo Hill
of Sebring, Mr.. and Mrs. Ross
Norris and daughter of Cuya-
hoga Falls, Mr.. and Mrs. Victor
Harding of Salesville, Mr.. and
Mrs. T. P. Harding of Cumber-
land, Hazel Harding of Kennons-
burg, and Mr.. and Mrs. T, P.
Harding, Jr. of Coshocton.
Glass Meeting
The Glass of Service held their
regular monthly meeting at the
Methodist church Thursday eve
ming with Mrs. Grace Millhone
as hostess. The program was con-
Quoted by Mrs. Della Dugan. The
business session was conducted
by Mrs. Blanch Richey at which
time plans were made for a pic
mic to be held in Aug. Guests in
cluded Mrs. Leo Myers, Miss
Eva Davis and Mrs. Bessie Brun-
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1954-07-22
South Olive

SOUTH OLIVE - Visitors at
the G. D. Harper home Sunday
were Mr.. and Mrs. Don Rhodes
and family Of Massillon and Miss
Virginia Marquis of Caldwell.
David Tidd spent last week
with his grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Pearl Rowlands.
South Olive is taking an new
look. Red Mitchell has just corn
pleted painting the G d. Harper
store and the New Harmony
Baptist church.
Mrs. John Morris, a retired
school teacher and a former
teacher at South Olive and his
brother-in-law. Mr.. Moore were
calling here Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Swain
and Charlene Ball called at the
A. V. Swain home, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Wheeler
visited at the Greed Shafer home
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter J. Brinkley
and son of Canton, accompanied
by Butch and Billie Swain, who
visited with them a week, spent
the weekend with A. V. Swain
and family,
Mr.. and Mrs. We're Miller and
family visited at the Howard
Devoll, Jr. home.
A son was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. James Gessel Of Marietta.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Gessel are
grandparents.
The storm which hit town on
Wednesday night did quite a LOT
Of damage. The most damage
was at the A. " Swain home
where a large tree was blown
down and the house and centents
badly damaged.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Milestone
and daughter are vacationing in
West Virginia.
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family of Georgia, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Philpot and son, Larry,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Bates and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Craig
and family enjoyed a family pic
mic at the Barnesville park, Sun
day.
The Doyle family had spent
the past week at the Batten
home Other Saturday guests
were Mrs. Clarice Cost and chill
dren of Mt Vernon.
Personals
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. M. Clauss of
Barberton and Mr.. and Mrs.
William Mansperger of Cam
bridge, spent Saturday with Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Meek and
Helen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Sullivan
of Worthirgton, visited the week
end with Mr.. and Mrs. c. K.
Pryor
Mrs. Ross Watson, Donnie Wat
son and Larry Philpot visited
Mrs. Charley Finley of Massil-
Ion one day the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mannel Reynolds
and children of Akron, visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Finney the
weekend.
A large number from this
community attended the home
coming and picnic at Burkhart,
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Warner
and family were in Wheeling, w,
Va, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Calland and
Mrs. Else Holdren of Marietta,
visited the weekend with Mr.
and Mrs. William Warner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Watson
and family of New Jersey, are
visiting this week with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Watson.
Ernest Holman of Lewisville
route and Marcilla Holman OF
Cleveland, visited Saturday with
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Wheatley.
Helen Meek attended meet
ing in Marietta Thursday. Mrs
c. H. Meek and Lou Philpot ac-
companied her and spent the
day shopping.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Hannahs
and son, Charles and Mrs. Pearl
Hannahs spent the weekend
with relatives in Circleville and
Lancaster.
Mrs. Mamie Friday of New
ark, spent the weekend at her
home here.
Mckinley Morris has been
working on his home this week
repairing the damage done by
the storm.
Wire Fowler of Caldwell was
in town on business, Saturday.
Ernest and Ansel Haga were
home with their families this
weekend from Elyria