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raE BREVAM> HEWX BREVAIU>. N. C. WMOAY> AtiSllST II, Iftf, CITY MARKET S. F. ALLISON, Proprietor. All Kinds Fresh ‘Meat at all times. Lamb, Beef, Pork and Mutton I Fresh Vegetables,”Fruits, Canned Goods, Staple andfFancy Groceries. Market Phone 47 Residence Phone 90 Insurance Neglected May mean weeping in smoke or in sadness viewing the ruins of your home. But Insurance shows business ability. Means sat* isfaction in protection. Means Contentment of mind. Means the saving of a lifetime’s earnings. Means |he comfort of old age. wbbsm .ihhi BiH ■■■ Destruction has visited your neighbor and our neighboring town — It awaits us. Insure while it waits tomorrow may be too late. Brevard Insurance Agency T. H. GALLOWAY, Manager Brevard, N. C. The Oldest Grocery Store hi Brevard, and a store with a reputation of same goods for just a lit tle less. MITCHELL THe Grocer Corner Main and Caldwell Brevard, N. C. CQUNTEilFEniNG COUP BLOCKED BYMILAN POLICE Wealthy Manufacturer Is Held as ' Master Mind. GULLOWHEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOCL A State Institution for the Training of Teachers GULLOWHEE, N. C. The curriculum of this school is being reorganized so as to include a STANDARD HIGH SCHOOL preparing; for unccn- ditlonal entrance to College and Normal School Courses, the com pletion ot which will qualify students for Elementary, Primary and Grammar Grade Certificates. The Fall Quarter Will Open Tuesday, August 16, 1921 For information as to expenses and particular courses offered, Address ROBERT L-MADISON, President. The News is only $1.50 a y^ar. BIGiiEST PLOT EVBI PUUMED Qang Duplicates Italian Treasury Bond* and Begins Paseing Then»— Bonds to Amount of Over Million Dollars Found in House of One of the Accomplices—Artists and En. graver Do the Work—Officer Arrests Personal Friend. The biggest couuterfeiting coup ever attempted has Just been dis covered by the police In Milan. The value of the counterfeited' Treasury bonds found hidden in the house of one of the accomplices amounts to more than one million dollars, stiys a correspondent of the New York Tribune. About two months ago a banic In Milan and another in Rome notified tlie police that false bonds of the face value of $10,000 were being negotiated by persons unknown. The cleverest de tectives were put on the track, but no one could be caught. Simultaneously the police in Milan were looking for a man who had counterfeitdd the customs stamps at Sarnnne. Their suspicion fell on a young electrician, well known an an engraver, who was employed in the electric works; but for some time he had been missing from home. This man, Della Vecchla, was well known among artists and esteemed as one himself. When fifteen days ago the officials of a bank again notified tlie police that they had heard that other $10,000 bonds had been circulated the authorities decided to search the house of Della Vecchla. The electrician was out, but his wife was at home. Posing as a collector from tlie works, the detective examined tlie meter and then insisteil on searching ihe studio. There he found forged seuls, with which the Treasury bonds must have btK?n stamped. The wife could throw no light on the matter, and though arrested Insisted <»n her inno cence, The husband had disappeared entirely and some say he has gone abroad. Lieutenant Arrests Friend. With these seals as proof that the bonds had been counterfeited in Milan, the police continued their investiga tions and got on the track of an inti mate friend of Della Vecchia, a painter, Resentini, a nightly frequenter of cer. tain wine shops on the outskirts of Milan. The lieutenant in charge dis guised himself as a Francfscan monk in Inarch of alms and finally discovered Resentini drinking witli boon friends. The lieutenant called on him, in the name of the law, to accompany him to the police station. When he reached there he confessed he knew something about the counterfeiting, but that an other painter could enlighten the police further. This friend proved to be Carlo Pezzala, who had turned his studio Into an up-to-date typographical office, with noiseless machines and many bronze and zinc plates. He made a full confession and told the lieuten ant that the bonds were first photo graphed by one man and then taken to Della Vecchla. who engraved the plates, while the prlntftig was done in his studio. Tlie seals, the printing press, paper and plates having been found, the next task was to find the photographer and the heads of the pang. In an effort to satisfy the police the painters decided to assist them in getting on ■ to tin* track of all the others Involved. They accompanied the police to the frh'iid photoprapheK nn<\'l»y no sign or word did they beti-ay the fact that the police were with them. Thinking tliat the visitors were friends and interested In the countefeiting' scheme, the pho tographer proudly showed his nir-dorn appanitu.s his plates, the 510.(K)0 iioii'l. and when he had ^nlshed the police arrested him. Thongli they had found the seals and machines they had not yet ohtaine-.f possession of the $1.400,(KH) worth of counterfeit bonds. Without these tlieir work was almost useless. Pressed for the name of other accomplices, th<- painters mentioned Celeste Poliaghl. n polisher of bricks; Cesare Galli. owner of a silk factory, and his partner. Carlo Meschia. The first visit was to Celeste, who was surprised to see the police. The house was searched thoroughly and were it not for information from one ef the accomplices the search might have been in vain, as the bonds had been hidden behind inside shutters Ip a specially prepared niche. There was found the $1,400,000 worth* of beautifally engraved Treasury bonds, •f the value of $10,000 each. Alleged Originator of Plot. The last man to be arrested was the leader and originator of the plot, Ce sare Gain, who now owns a silk fac tory worth, in the material contained therein hione, $400,000. When arrested Galll made a full confession. He said that for many years he had been work ing hard to regain ^he self-respect lost when he counterfeited government b'*nds fu>me years ■•'•■o He had striven to re’ ■ hi'itnte !>ut was con- '•suef' ' ’ ' ing for great :t V. 'longht out a isted in huj’- •ounterfeitini: • : >!interfeits, or money. ‘ > that he ha( tin- V ■ P I t I tv> 88 to h!s friend imd psrtner, Csrlo Meschia, who, far fL*om dittsuad- Ing, thought it was a wonderftil scheme, and together they started working and planning. They began with • $100 bond, S(4d it and then 4>ought a $200 one, sold that and continued In th^ way until they reached the sum of $10,000. This bond was used as a model for those afterward made and now in the possession of the police. By counterfeiting on a large scale, they had hoped to use these bonds as se curity in their business undertakings. Were it not for the luxurious mode of life which Galll and his partner were indulging in few would have suspected them. The engraver wlli probably never be caught in Italy, but no doubt will con tinue counterfeiting wherever he lives, as It is a passion wiilch, once it takes hold, can never be eradicated. Fortunately, the police acted with dexterity and haste, and saved many from being deceived, as once the $1,- 400,000 bonds were in circulation it would have been almost impossible to recall them, owing to the effect on the financial condition of the City of Milan. LONDON HAS "SUNBURN DAY” Air Cleared by Lack of Coal and Po|> ulace Suffers. WTilt-Monday was sunburn day in London, says the London Times. It was the most severe for at least fifty years, for, thanks to the coal stop page and the holiday combined, the London atmosphere has become so clear of smoke that \ the burning rays of the sun—the so-called violet and ultra-violet rays—were no longer fil tered out. You could get a good, hon est sunburn In Bond street or Picca dilly. It is an interesting scientific curios ity, and. in these days of smokeless atmosphere, worth knowing about—if one wishes to avoid red arms and face —London normally is quite safe from sunburn sirnpiy because the burning rays, which are invisible and occur at the ‘S'itrfet ’ or rather “ultra-violet” end of ^e sperrruni. are shut Atii by the snvnke In the city atmosphere. In the couirry they are not shut out, and so the town dweiier so^'jn has his pale face reddened and rhen tanned when he go<'e outshle the rity borders. A great n'lary girls pot quite severe sunburns: in Lf*ndon. and \vere aston ished therehy. 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