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Show GERMANS ATTEMPT TO SMUGGLE RUBBER i Girl Discovered to Ears 3000 Pounds , of Crude Artida In Her Baggage EvV YORK Dec 0 plan to smuggle crude rubber from this coun try to Germany where t is scarce has been uncovered by ageDts of the department of ust ce and the neutral ity squad of ihe customs service t became known ton ght and the deta Is I of the case w 11 tomorrow be la d bfi i fore Un ted States Attorney H Snow den Marshall The plot was to send the rubber wh ch s on the contraband 1 st, a the baggage of persons travel ng bet veen hero an 1 Potterdam In the case un covered a young woman s sa d to have had more than 3000 po nds of rubber n her baggage and to ha e attempted ! to sh p t w tbout a man fest She was prevented from fca 1 ng by tho d scov ery of the nature of her baggage bv the autl orit es No arrests have yet , been made A natural zel German s sa d to ha e eng neered the scheme w th the a d of a German res dent of New "iork who pu hased the rubber Attcnt on was attracted to the j ou g wo an because she attempted to eturn to Rotterdam se eral lays after she had arr ed n ew lork from that Holland I ort It s a olat on of a federa stat te to expo t goods for con mere al pur oses w thorrt a de larat on I |