Show BOGUS MONEY GANGS ARE RUN TO HIDING new rogues give secret service most trouble washington the widespread wave wae of c counterfeiting which tins swept the united states during the past year has practically been checked by the secret service it was waa disclosed at the treasury department part ment it was said that since the beginning of the depression there lind had been a gradual increase In creasa in counterfeiting ter felting and during the year just ended it was unprecedented I 1 the secret service has smashed what they believe to be two big international rings as well as a number of smaller rings thus halting big scale operations one unique case came to light with the recent arrest of two broth ers era who owned a small country batik bank in blinne minnesota sota bankers banker start mint their bank banh closed by the banking holiday last march they conc conceived ved a scheme for making good their losses by making spurious bills investigation by secret service men disclosed they hired an un scrupulous engraver and printer and started to turn out counterfeit notes note after disposing of a large number in their native state they went into int 0 missouri where they were ft erf soon apprehended an elaborate counterfeiting plant was found in their home together with a large number of the spurious batik bank notes with the recent arrest of henry dechow alias count enrique von buelow and others in new york and chicago secret service men be lieve they smashed one of the big gest international rings aver er to op erate in this country von buelow Is said to have had bad in bogus bills when lie he was taken into custody they were said to be almost perfect secret service men admit counterfeiting hns has developed into a highly organized sed racket and t that hat the amount of spurious money la Is large with modern printing and engraving machinery machine counterfeits are turned out but so cleverly they frequent ly pass through banks and are de lecter only when they are sent to the treasury for redemption recognize the work when a new counterfeit note Is discovered old timers in the secret service usually can tell by the workmanship who the counterfeiter Is if he be has had a previous record in ill a maju maturity rity of instances ehli proves to ile he the case then it Is merely le re ly a question eastlon of finding him or it eilf N gang bang when the engraver la Is not known its then that uncle sams sleuths have lave a hard job all end but they usually succeed the secret service also finds there Is a surprising amount of counterfeiting in small coins these small timers palm off bad nickels and even pennies recently they arrested rested nr a street photographer who was ranking making a tidy sum giving his customers spurious coins as change lie made the mistake of trying it on the secret serico sen ice man who had been tipped on |