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Thomas P. Hazard, Jr., Francis Hendricks, Frederick D. Houghteling, Morton D. Hull, John D. Ingram, John L. Kice, Richard W. Kimball, Daniel H. Le Van, Jr., George L. Seldon, John J. Sexton, John H. Slayton, Don S. Sturgill, Theodore H. Turner, Bayard Wharton, Jr., and Theodore F. Wolff...
...used. Unburned coupons sometimes blasted right up the stack and out again; unscrupulous finders might pick them up and use them. At last WPTB hit on a system that looked foolproof. They sacked the coupons, sent them along in armored trucks to the E. B. Eddy paper plant in Hull. While WPTB inspectors watched, the coupons were dumped into a beater vat. When the last coupon had disappeared into the bubbling mass of pulp, the inspectors went home...
Last September WPTB began getting anonymous tips that even pulp was not the final solution. Smudged coupons began to show up. WPTB called in the Mounties. By last week indictments had been voted against 48 people, ranging from Hull grocer-alderman J. Arthur Lavigne to Eddy employees. So far 16 have been convicted (fines: $50' to $800) and Canada's tightest black market ring has been smashed...
...coupons never reached the pulp. Others were recovered from the vat after WPTB inspectors had left. Workmen waded shoulder-deep into the pulpy mass, close to the whirling beater blades, fished beneath the bubbling surface for coupons which were then cleaned and sent on to the black market in Hull, across the river from Ottawa...
...down the coast it was the same story. A fishing boat with a well built into its hull to keep its catch alive steered into one of the streaks. As soon as the yellow-green water got into the well, the captive fish swam to the surface, gulping air. Then they were as dead as their uncaught fellows outside...