National Affairs: Hoarders

Last week law officers of Clarendon, Va. telephoned Washington to find out whether the Attorney General wished to prosecute some captured gold hoarders: they had arrested 15 gypsies, found them to have $2,000 in gold. ''No prosecution," decided the Department of Justice, but the gypsies stayed in jail, charged with stealing $7,000 from a woman in Norfolk.

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