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phone company equipment, j Mr. Cole also quotes Francis J. I i Moses, security co-ordinator of j American Telephone and Tele{ graph Company, as saying that ! cheating a big company seems to I be a game with Americans, i Telephone companies have I made several crackdowns recently. In Akron. Ohio. Mr. Cole , said, a housewife was hauled into | court by police and phone com! pany agents, and sentenced to 90 j days in jail on a charge of fraudently obtaining telephone service, j She was specifically accused to I giving a false number to a long distance operator to avoid being j billed for an 80 cent call to Chi' cago. Mr. Cole said the sub; scriber who’s number she gave complained about the charge, and the telephone company slueths traced the call. In New London. Conn., he said, investigators recently traced a flood of calls using fake telephone , credit card numbers traced the calls to a chief petty officer at the Naval Station. The telephone company investigators said the man had been selling the card numbers to sailors at the base. He was court-martialed, stripped of his rank, and ordered to reimburse the telephone company for' j all calls made by the sailors. Mr. Cole said use of electronic alarm systems have been expanded to cover pay stations. Recently, he said, the sotfnding of an alarm trapped two brothers in a Pittsburgh phone booth, and led to their arrest, after they had picked the locks of more than 300 telephone booths in New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, according to telephone investigators.