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Show buy tHNmtH i m Ei SWINDLE RING ALLEGED LEADER IN HUGE BANK NOTE COUNTERFEITING SCHEME IS BAGGED Three Men Under Arrest In Varlou Sections of Country in Connection Connec-tion With Operations of The Gang New York. With the arrest of John Popovich, of Los Angeles, carrying $93,000 in conterfeit notes or more than $450,0000 face value, United States secret service agents said they had captured the third of a gang of counterfeiters who have done what was heretofore considered almost impossiblemaking im-possiblemaking and passing bogus bank of England notes. The other two alleged members of the band reported to be under arrest in Los Angeles are Oscar A, Simon and Ivan Glavandonovic. Popovich was checking out at a Broadway hotel when secret service agents, who had been registered at the same hotel arrested him after he had paid his bill in United States cur-rnecy. cur-rnecy. They said he was about to leave for Canada and in his battered traveling bag they said they found 535 counterfeit bank notes of 100 denomination de-nomination and 800 to 150. The secret service agents said that about $30,000 had Ibeen obtained by the gang in California through passing pass-ing the notes. They ascribe the success suc-cess of the counterfeiters in part of the fact that Bince the war many Inexperienced In-experienced dealers in foreign exchange ex-change have set up in business. Twenty Twen-ty thousand dollars worth of the bogus English bank notes have been accounted account-ed for, it was said. |