Word: markalj
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Leo Smugai, St. Louis chief of the Secret Service, in 1936 Father Balaban fell in with two Croats from his native Yugoslavia, Michael Markalj, who later began turning out spurious money in Pittsburgh, and Pete Klickovich, who supervised passing it. Other Croats bought printing supplies and shipped them to Pittsburgh, where last week Secret Service men seized 1,500 "queer" $20 bills. According to Secret Service men, who said they had taken motion pictures of some of the Croat conferences, the ring planned to pass 5,000 notes in the U. S., then move with 5,000 more...
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