THE CABINET: Hoarders Hunted

Though gold coin passed out of the lives of most U. S. citizens two months ago, it continues to engage the energetic attentions of Secretary of the Treasury Woodin and Attorney General Cummings who last week began a nation-wide hunt for hoarders.

When President Roosevelt took office, some $1,500,000,000 in gold money was in private hiding. His April 5 executive order calling for its return to the Federal Reserve by May 1 under pain of ten years imprisonment and $10,000 fine started a golden flood back to the Government which up to last...

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