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Show SENDS FAKE STORIES ABOUT GIRLS, CHARGE BO?T'N. Aug. 10. Charles L. AO-pleton, AO-pleton, also known as Lawrence A. Al-mon, Al-mon, who Is alleged by federal author- Ities to have sent false stories about 1 students at Wellesley, Smith, Mount HOlyoke and Eastern women's colleges to various newspapers, was arrested :h iy charged with using the malls to defraud The investigation followed complaints com-plaints from the colleges. The first one, officials said, came from Welles-ley Welles-ley after publication In another city of an account of a weird ceremony said to have taken place in connection 1 with the presentation to the college of General Pershing s helmet and flag and the battle pennant of the former .kaiser. The ceremony did not take place, according to the compla4nt nor I was anything know n regarding the German pennant. Another story alleged to have been widely circulated b Almon told of students at Smith selling soap on the streets in the endowment fund campaign cam-paign The writer Is alleged to hae used the names of various girls In sending the story to different sections. |