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Show THREE MEN JAILED ON FEDERAL CHARGE Arraigned before United States Commissioner Com-missioner Henry B. Van Pelt yesterday, on a charge of raising the denomination of United States currency, G. B. Hilton, I.eo Stanwood and Wayne .1. Smith entered en-tered pleas of not guilty. Bail in each case was set at $3000 and the men were returned to the county jail. Stanwood was arrested Saturday, fol-lowing fol-lowing an attempt to pass a $1 bill that had been -crudely changed to $10, officers assert, rnyestigation of the case led to the arrest of Hilton and Smith in a downtown down-town rooming-house. Bills that had been raised were alleged to have been found In their room. Complaints against the offenders were prepared and filed late yesterday afternoon after-noon by United States Attorney W. W. Ray. |