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Show PLOT TO EXPORT INGSTENBALKEO Illicit Shipping of Metal, Presumably Pre-sumably for Germany, at Last Stopped. THREE MEN ARRESTED . German Suitcase Contained Forty Pounds 160 Pounds Under Stateroom Floor. NEW YORK, Oct. 11. A plot to export ex-port tungsten, a metal used to harden steel, from this country on board the Scandinavian-American liner United States in violation of the espionage act and President Wilson's proclamation proclama-tion was balked today by federal agents with the arrert of three men here. The illicit export of the metal, presumably for Germany, has been going on for some time, the United States attorney announced. One of the men arrested was Fritz Oerundal, a steward on the United States. Federal agents say they found on him a brass check for a suit case t which, when located, contained forty pounds of tungsten, and that a search of the liner brought to light 160 more pounds concealed 'under a stateroom I floor. I Harold A. Content, assistant United i States attorney who presented the case, declaring that the breaking up of the plot "is equivalent to the sinking j of ten German submarines." I nn |