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Show BOGUS MASONS ARE LOCKED UP Vancouver. B. C, Dec. 21. Nathan B. Weinberg and Joseph Mendel, recent re-cent arrivals from Idaho, and organizers organ-izers of the "American Federation of Masons," are poorer by $200 each for having undertaken the task of "organizing" "or-ganizing" in Vancouver. Both wore charged In police court yesterday with conspiracy to defraud the public. The method they were charged with using was Inducing men to Join their "Masonic" urder on representation rep-resentation that by so doing they would bo qualified to enter bona fide Masonic lodges. The magistrate found both guilty and sentenced each to pay a flno of 200 or a term of six months in prison. |