Show counterfeiters Counterfeit ers spur activities in depression washington depression and anem have hare brought an increase in counterfeiting anil and led to greater vl vigilance 1 ilance on the part of the united states secret service descriptive warning circulars of sei seventeen enteen examples of counterfeit notes have been broadb broadcast ast during the last fiscal year and about seventy unidentified productions of varying types and denominations liae hae been circulated in different sections of the country for short periods in all my experience I 1 have never known a 8 time when counterfeiting was so prevalent said chief W II 11 moran recently the experience he referred to covers the last halt half century idleness and hunger lead to desperation and desperation has turned more than one honest man into a coun ter felter according to chief t baloran who ob sered that counter counterfeiting feltIng invariably increases in hard times many are arrested the only real measure of tile the volume of counterfeiting now going on oil may be found in statistics relative to arrests and to the seizures of spurious money in the year ended june 30 0 1032 counterfeit notes aggregating and altered notes aggregating were seized by government operatives of tile the service and counterfeit coins totaling were confiscated about 2 OLK persons were ur arr esteil rested charged with counterfeiting and pass 16 ing counterfeit notes the counterfeit notes captured dur ing the year were largely used iii ed in evl evi dence against the mabers and 13 passers assers chief moran said bald in connection with investigations and arrests agents captured or seized loa biou plat platted tei and glass and film negatives for priti ting 41 crun un derfelt obligations an ami in eluding hiie for foreign notes i r 1 11 for till ruins js in liria three flit ih bs fi fur fir r fairi ii ruins ind ale n dh ilire to will a |