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Show Tourists' Calif ornia Cargo -Stirs Utahhs' Suspicions It wis the decided starboard list of the California-licensed cr that attracted the attention of Deputy Sheriffs P. Weston Tho-mander-andGeorgeQT'Nielsen. visit and, they explained, they so admired these sun-kissed delicacies that they wanted to take some to the home folks. They had to deep In the car, so it waa necessary to stow the baggage in the specially constructed hold and to load the cargo wherever they could. This, however, was too much. "You take 'em," they said to the officers, referring to the prunes and olives. , "No, you keep 'em," the officers said to ths tourists. "You take 'em back to Chicago and ahow the folks." Bo they otoppod it a short way' up Parley's canyon at about I a. m. Tuesday. The passengers were personable per-sonable enough fellows, about 14 and IS yean old, but the officers wanted to find cut about that list. They found a neatly made compartment com-partment concealed Just abaft of the fuel tank, but that contained only luggage. About admldshipa, underneath under-neath the car,. were ssven two-pound coffee cans, carefully wired and eoldered to the frame's cross bracing. brac-ing. At a service station farther down the road the officers put the ear en the hoist and ranked oft one of those cans. It contained prunee and olives. All seven of them contained prunes and olives. ) Ths motorists were returning to Chicago from their first California |