U.S. Civilian Public Service camp number 3 (Camp Patapsco, in Elkridge, Maryland), run by the American Friends Service Committee of the Quaker Religious Society of Friends in the United States. A sign reads ‘Civilian Public Service Camp No.3’. Building at the camp. Conscientious objectors who choose public service in lieu of military service, arrive and are checked into the camp. The U.S. flag flutters from a pole. The arriving personnel talks to a man at the entrance. The new arrivals pose.
U.S. Civilian Public Service camp number 3, for conscientious objectors, administered by Quakers of the American Friends Service Committee, in the United States. Camp number 3 is Camp Patapsco, in Elkridge, Maryland. Men use lawn mowers outside the camp buildings. Men work in a garden and over the camp houses. A man uses a mower. A man reads from a book. View of camp houses. Men making roof repairs. New recruits arrive at the camp.
A film titled 'Gas Racket' dramatizes the sale of counterfeit and stolen ration stamps to a retail gasoline dealer in the United States during World War II. Interior of a bar shows a gasoline peddler taking a look at counterfeit gasoline ration stamps being printed. The peddler shows counterfeit gasoline ration stamps to a gasoline dealer. The dealer checks the counterfeit stamps and talks to a woman in an open convertible. The dealer pays the peddler for the counterfeit stamps he buys. A car refueled at the gasoline station. The dealer places the counterfeit stamps received from the peddler and customers on a gum sheet and endorses them. The dealer buys gasoline from his distributor against bingo sheets. The distributor deposits these bingo sheets in a bank from where it passes on to the OPA (Office of Price Administration) auditors for verification. The stamps are separated by the OPA auditors and are detected by women trained for detection of illegal ration currency.
Dramatizes the detection of counterfeit and stolen ration stamps by personnel trained in detection of illegal ration currency in the OPA (Office of Price Administration) detection center in the United States. A woman shows a bingo sheet with few stolen stamps detected by the serial numbers on them. The list shows time and place from where these stamps were stolen. Women detect more stamps from gum sheets. Shows the manner in which endorsement sign differs on each stamp. News in newspapers about the arrests of gas black marketers.
Dramatizes the detection of counterfeit and stolen ration stamps by personnel trained in detection of illegal ration currency at the OPA (Office of Price Administration) in the United States. A woman shows a bingo sheet with few illegal stamps and details how illegal stamps are detected. The bingo sheet with un endorsed stamps, expired stamps, pre-valid stamps and stamps endorsed with same hand writing. The woman shows how real stamps look and the list of mistakes made during the making of counterfeit stamps.
Dramatizes the detection of counterfeit and stolen ration stamps by personnel trained in detection of illegal ration currency at the OPA (Office of Price Administration) in the United States. A woman shows a collection of bingo sheets with illegal stamps and details of how the illegal stamps are detected. Further she shows how counterfeit stamps are detected using a lamp.
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