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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) (Mount Clipping in Space Below)

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Winner Of D.B. Cooper $20 Bill Hunt Gets $1,000

Are you checking the serial numbers of the $20 bills in your possession against the list being published in The Journal of bills given to the aircraft hijacker identified as D.B. or Dan Cooper?

It's a fascinating game which could pay you $1,000 for one of the Cooper 20s and could result in solution of one of law enforcement's most baffling cases.

Checking serial numbers has resulted in solution of two Pacific Northwest crimes in the past decade, according to files of the FBI.

The Bank of California in Tacoma, Wash., was robbed Feb. 14, 1966 of $9,850 and the amount included 10 $20 bills that could be identified by serial number.

Numbers of the bills were circularized by Tacoma police in shopping centers and a few days later a man was arrested after he passed two bills identifiable as part of the bank robbery money.

He said he stole the money from a parked car, but in subsequent investigation he and two other men were implicated in the bank robbery and each was later sentenced to prison.

The second case had thrilling overtones and involved the leaving of $25,000 at a specified site in Anchorage, Alaska, in answer to a demand from a man who telephoned an airline that 'a crooked egg' (bomb) was aboard a Seattle-bound jet-liner and would explode when the plane descended to 10,000 feet.

The jet had 118 passengers, including 72 children, and 9 crew members aboard. Under those conditions, the airline arranged for the money to be delivered to the designated site and then awaited a call to describe the hiding place of the bomb and how to disarm it.

The call never came and eventually the jet had to land after five tension-filled hours and did so at Seattle with people praying and holding their breath. There was no bomb.

But in the bundle of bills making up the $25,000 was a number of bills in which the serial numbers had been recorded and these numbers were distributed to airlines, banks, savings and loan associations, car rental companies, hotels, finance companies, grocery stores and other places.

The extortion occurred Aug. 11, 1970. In mid-September one of the identifiable bills turned up in a bank. FBI agents traced the bill to an apartment house manager, then to a renter of an apartment and finally to another bank. Eventually it was determined that a man who had paid cash for renting a car on Aug. 12 had lived in the area of the payoff site, all because of the one bill that turned up.

Still later, the Klamath Falls Police Department inquired about a man who had arrived in that city with a large amount of money and had paid off his wife's debts. FBI agents based in Portland determined that the man had been a big spender while in Oregon, giving his wife $1,400, his mother-in-law $400, paying $100 to a bar owner for loss of a barmaid for one night, buying two cars and spending $500 to $1,000 per evening buying drinks for customers in a bar.

Sept. 20, 1970, the FBI arrested a West German citizen in Portland and he admitted making the hoax calls to the airline. He later that year was sentenced to five years in the custody of the attorney general of the United States on a charge of imparting or conveying false information.

Checking the $20 bills in your possession against those in the so-called Cooper caper might result in solution of that case also. The Journal is publishing the serial numbers in installments (some are at left) and will publish more of them over the next several days until the complete list has been made available to readers.

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4 THE OREGON JOUR[NAL] PORTLAND, OREG[ON]

Date: November 23, [19--] [year digits cut off at page edge] Edition: [blank or illegible] Author: Rolla J. Crick Editor: Donald Sterling Title: NORJAK[?] Character: Bufile[?] or Classification: 164-[2111?] [partially obscured] Submitting Office: Portla[nd] [X] Being Investigated