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Show GAVE ALIEN BACK ' PIPE ANP TOBACCO NEW YORK, Jan. 1. Under the Ira- pressioa that thia great aad floriout eoaatry wu a BMt ef barbarians, where pipe and tobacco couldn't be obtaiae4 except through noma incantation financial finan-cial or otherwise Mri. Jeanne Koch-ette Koch-ette .a French woman who arrired on the Zetland, caused a funny acene. Her husband if in Canada. She hain 't seen him in fire year. Ro. probably, ahe thought he might need some supplies. Carefully hiding a package under her skirt, and trying tn avoid the inspector, inspec-tor, tbe woman amine. i the customs officials suspicion, She was taken, protesting snd weeping, to a matron, I who searched., her. A ock-filled with fire and a half pounds of tobacco wss found, also a sock containing a big pine. The law allows six pounds to each arrival from abroad. Half a pound missing saved the woman from being chargea with smuggling. |