Show WASHED REVENUE STAMPS discovered in a district presided over by a colored man new york july 28 arrests arc anticipated here within a short time as the result of a seizure of cheap sto gies reported by associated press dispatches from st louia the consignment sign ment taken by government agents numbered and bore internal revenue stamps which are alleged to have been used once and from which the cancellation marks had been washed with acid an investigation has been in progress several months among tho manufacturers in hester and mulberry streets and internal revenue collector anderson a negro recently appointed for the southern district of new york was much concerned yesterday over a charge that the illegal shipments may have been mado possible by collusion with one or more of his deputy collectors he was unwilling to believe such a charge well founded 1 I am new here and am only beginning to learn the workings of the department he said but if anything of this nature Is going on I 1 shall make it my business to find out about it by one of the revenue agents who has charge of the secret service end of the case it la stated that the present imitation involves three manufacturers the authorities have been aided by a fourth cigar maker choso whoso motive is to eliminate the tin fair competition occasioned by his competitors not always paying the tax all ot the manufacturers concerned aro italians |