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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C
FORGERY IN GOLD
Nation's Busiest Forger Keeps
Out of Prison Only Block Away
The busiest forger in the country
pfies his trade just a block from
Iowa's state penitentiary. But he
h&s no fear his vocation will lead
him behind the grim walls as it has
hundreds of other forgers.
Mild-mannered, law-a biding
James Jordan is well started on a
career of counterfeiting signatures
at the age of 24. Already he has
foi-ged more than 5,000 including
those of Herbert Hoover and Gen.
Douglas MacArthur—but he’s never
been at odds with the law.
I Every day since October 1, 1950,
Jim has duplicated about 20 signa
tures per day, nearly three every
By INEZ GERHARD
(ICHARD “ 1
JJICHARD “RED” SKELTON, the
** son of a famous American
CROSSWORD POIRE
LAST WEEK'S
ANSWER
James Jordan of Burlington,
la., is shown “forging” the
5,000th signature he has en
graved on Sheaffer fountain
pens during the past year.
Clown, launched his own television
show just ten years from the day
when he stepped out as star of his
own radio program. The thousands
who have enjoyed him in films*and
on the air now find him doing some
of the same characterizations that
“RED’* SKELTON
they enjoyed, but he plans to add
some new ones. In this new medium
he is, of course, screamingly funny.
He is supported by David Rose,
musical conductor and composer,
and the Skylarks vocal group.
Stanley Kramer, who gave us
*‘The Champion”, “Home of the
Brave”, “The Men” and “Cyrano
de Bergerac”, is making his first
western in “High Noon”, and in
siders say it may be his most bril
liant venture so far. The picture’s
entire action takes place in 90 min
utes. Gary Cooper, whom Zane
Grey termed his “ideal westerner”,
is starred, with an excellent cast.
Jack Benny does just a bit in
“Somebody Loves Me”, the film
based on the lives of Blossom Seeley
and Benny Fields, the vaudeville
stars. Benny is an old friend of
theirs. The picture stars Betty Hut
ton as Miss Seeley.
Moira Shearer expects to ar
rive in this country November
12, with her husband, head
straight for Hollywood, and be
gin practicing her ballet routines
for Samuel Goldwyn’s “Hans
Christian Andersen”. The lovely
star of “Red* Shoes” will be ac
companied by her husband, Lu-
dovic Kennedy. Danny Kaye and
Farley Granger will co-star in
what should be a delightful pic
ture.
working hour. And he forges only
on gold.
Jordan is the signature engraver
at the Sheaffer Pen company, whose
factory in Fort Madison, 19 miles
from here, is just a stone’s throw
from the prison. Sheaffer products
include special fountain pens, me
chanical pencils and ballpoints
which bear a gold band containing
the signature of the owner. It’s
Jim’s job to reproduce the signa
tures, engraving them on the gold
bands.
His kind of forgery is more diffi
cult than the illegal varieties that
land their makers in jail after dis
covery by hawk-eyed bank tellers
or merchants. The illegal forger
does his signature imitations on flat
paper with pen and ink. Legal
forger Jordan has to cut his on a
rounded surface of hard 14-K gold.
If you would have a hard-to-dupli-
cate signature, Jim recommends
neat, compact handwriting. It’s
harder to duplicate than a signature
in long, flowing strokes. Most dif
ficult for him to copy are John
Hancocks with many loops and
criss-cross lines. Cutting the loops
and crossovers into the gold is a
tough job.
JORDAN ALSO does other kinds
of free-hand engraving on special
gold-banded pens. It was he who
gave the “peace pens” used at the
San Francisco signing of the Japa
nese peace treaty their identification
by engraving “Japanese Peace
Pact, 1951” on their bands. Those
pens have become collectors’ items.
Forging signatures on writing in
struments is Jim’s first engraving
job. He was born and raised in this
city. After four years as a shipping
clerk here, he studied engraving at
Kansas City where he served his
apprenticeship. In 1950, he joined
Sheaffer’s working under Ambrose
Zeigler, perhaps the world’s most
prolific forger who engraved more
than 40,000 different signatures in
his lifetime. When Zeigler died last
year, Jim succeeded him.
Jordan naturally prefers the title
“engraver.” His spouse balks at
being known as “the Forger’s
wife.”
One signature Jim finds just as
hard to duplicate as any is his own.
His imitations have satisfied more
than 5,000 “forgees” including poli
ticians, actors, sports figures and
business leaders. But when he at
tended a bazaar at the State Peni
tentiary and offered to pay for his
purchases by check, he was asked
t® give cash. Why? His signature
on the check differed too much from
that on his driver’s license.
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THE
FICTION
CORNER
ML IN FUN
By Richard Hill Wilkinson
■pHERE has probably never been
a greater hatred than that which
existed between Barney Craig and
Dan Chester. It all started because
of Barney’s eager
ness to become a
member of the lo
cal lodge. As one
of three candi
dates he was introduced to Dan at
the September meeting. Imbued
with the feeling of good fellowship
which the brothers always ema
nated, Barney assumed at once a
familiar attitude and took liberties.
Jovially, he made a crack about
Dan’s ears, which protruded from
the Chester head horizontally, in
stead of perpendicularly, as is the
case in normal man. The blush
which mounted to Dan’s cheeks pro
voked guffaws of amusement from
the delighted Barney.
After the meeting in which Bar
ney’s name was voted on, Dan pub
licly announced that he would have
shot any man who had blackballed
him. Every one knew what he
meant. Barney’s initiation would
last for two months and would in
volve a good deal of horseplay. Dan
was out for revenge.
And he got it. During the two
months of initiation, Barney suf
fered all the humiliations, indigna
tions and unrestrained paddlings of
a college freshman.
When it was over, the night that
Barney received the ritual and be
came a full-fledged brother, Dan
grinned at him good-naturedly.
“You sure can take it, Brother
Craig. Of course it was all in fun.”
“Yeah,” said Barney. “And now
that, I’m a full-fledged member
I’m as good as you? Is that right?”
“Absolutely, brother,” said Dan.
“Good,” said Barney, “be
cause for a long time I’ve want
ed to do this.” And he hauled
off and let Dan have a smart
GRASSROOTS
People Rank Herbert Hoover Greatest Statesman
By Wright A. Patterson
T HREE OR FOUR DAYS before
Herbert Hoover moved from the
White House back to his home in
Palo Alto, Calif., I wrote him a note
in which I said: “Regardless of the
result-of the last election, the his
torians will classify you as one of
the great Presidents of America,
and the people of the nation will
accept the historians’ verdict.”
The people did not wait for the
verdict of the historians. Of their
own volition they have a'ccepted
Herbert Hoover as the greatest of
present day American statesmen.
In every way they can show it they
approve his policies. They accept
him as an American leader far
more than at any time in the past.
They have written their own verdict.
While I was visiting with Repre
sentative Joe Martin in his office
in the capitol building at Washing
ton, a few days before the convening
of the Republican national conven
tion at Philadelphia, he asked, “Who
is your choice as a Republican
for President?”
“My first choice is Herbert Hoo
ver, my second is Joseph Martin,”
I replied.
“I believe we could elect Hoover,
but I doubt if we could nominate
him. As for your second choice, I
do not want to be President, now.
I do want to be speaker of the
house of representatives first.”
At that Philadelphia convention
Hoover was scheduled to deliver an
address. The Willkie managers were
afraid of the result of that address.
They were tsarful it might sweep
the delegates off their feet and re
sult in a Hoover nomination, which
I believe he would have accepted
at that time.
Not necessarily Willkie, but his
managers, in an effort to prevent
such a possibility, pulled the dirtiest
political trick I have ever seen
played in any of the more than 20
national conventions I have attend
ed as a reporter.
The instant Hoover stepped to the
loud speaker microphone, the sys
tem was put out of commission, and
it stayed out until the address was
finished. Hoover’s voice was not
strong enough for an auditorium of
that size, and no one of the dele
gates or the audience Jieard any
part of his address.
There followed no demonstration
as there had been at Cleveland four
years earlier. Had Hoover not left
the convention hall the instant his
address was completed, he would
have been the nominee. I know he
did not want it at that time. He had
told me so as he left the Philadel
phia convention hall. It was re
ported to me, and I believe it, that
he said: “I will never again be a
candidate nor will I accept a nomi
nation for any elective political of
fice.”
Today, if it were left to the choice
of the Republican voters, Herbert
Hoover could be nominated and
elected President ci the United
States. The people believe in the
policies that—as an elder statesman
—he enunciates from time to time.
They would cheerfully follow his
leadership, and believe he would get
them out of the inflationary mess
in which we are involved; would
reduce the heavy burden of taxa
tion; would dispense with the larger
part of the vast army of bureau
crats, for which we are paying.
Today he has the confidence and
appreciation of the people as a com
petent leader, who could, and would,
better than any other one man,
solve our national difficulties. He
would keep us away from any war
with Russia, not by any policy of
appeasement, but by a firm stand
that would be typically American,
and convince Stalin that it is time
to stop Russian aggression, and
Russian propaganda.
But I am sure Herbert Hoover
will not be the Republican nominee,
or that he would accept it if such
nomination was tendered. I believe
he made the statement credited to
him at Philadelphia, and if he did
that statement was final. It meant
ha was out of partisan politics and
would stay out. He is not the kind
who changes his mind, with each
change of the political wind.
A great character has passed from
partisan political life, much to the
regret of the American people who
first elected him by a tremendous
majority and then as ruthlessly de
feated him, because they credited
him with responsibility for condi
tions which in reality he had no part
in creating.
*
The effort to stop undesired legis
lation resulted in a heavy increase
for the post-office department. Let
ters from the folks back home.
Barney poked a neat one at
Dan’s chin and it connected.
one on the point of his jaw. “All
in fun, yon know,” Barney
grinned savagely.
Dan picked himself up and
nodded. “O.K., Brother Craig, sup
pose you and I go outside.”
They went outside and removed
their "coats. Ten minutes later Bar
ney was lying on the ground staring
up at Dan through the one eye that
he could still open a crack.
“All Ln fun. Brother Craig. Come
around again some time when you
feel in a playful mood.”
tjARNEY spent most of November
^ and December in a gymnasium.
Shortly after the first of the year
he encountered Brother Dan again.
“Hello, Big Ears,” he remarked,
“suppose we go outside?”
Dan was willing. They went out
side, and in nine and one half min
utes Barney decided that Dan must
have practically slept in a gymnasi
um. "
Barney went home and cursed
himself to sleep. He decided that
he’d lick Dan Chester if he died
trying which by the feeling of his
jaw he thought might happen any
minute.
Barney hired K. O. McManus to
train him. K. O. was pretty rough
and Barney suffered a lot, but he
acquired knowledge. On the first of
March he invited Brother Dan “out
side.”
The battle lasted 20 minutes this
time.
Spring was in full bloom when
Barney again sent word to Dan
to meet him outside. There was
quite an audience on hand this
time.
The fight lasted 25 minutes. Both
participants were pretty groggy.
They were swinging wild and with
out much zip. It began to look like
a draw, when suddenly it occurred
to Barney that for the first time
Dan wasn’t beating him. The
thought gave him a feeling of ela
tion and a burst of energy. He
poked a neat one at Dan’s chin and
it connected. Barney, thrown off
balance, too weak to steady him
self, fell across his opponent's pro
strate form and lay there.
It took an hour to revive the bat
tlers. Barney came to first and
looked at Dan thoughtfully.. Present
ly Dan stirred and opened his eyes.
He saw Barney and propped him
self up on an elbow.
“Well, well, Brother Craig. Con
gratulations!”
“Thanks,” said Barney, and
grinned too. “All in fun you know.”
“Sure,” said Dan, “all in fun.”
And he extended his hand.
Barney gripped the hand and
started to make a crack about Dan’s
big ears, but changed his mind.
Youth Recipe
History has it that Queen Eliza
beth of Hungary, who possessed
the original recipe for Hungary
water, became so beautiful by its
use that at the age of 72, her hand
was asked in marriage by the King
of Poland.
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Farmer Vossen inspects his
field of oats. At the right is
the field of bluegrass over
grown with buck grass. Ferti
lizing has turned the oat field
Into a high producer.
Vossen limed and fertilized the
oat field with plant food carrying
nitrogen, phosphate and potash be
fore he seeded it He keeps the
field in oats two years, then seeds
down to an alfalfa crop. He takes
hay and pasture off as long as
the stand is productive. He helps
lengthen its life by top-dressing
regularly with manure.
The use of lime and fertilizer
pays off in much bigger hay
yields, Vossen reports. He harvest
ed eight tons of hay on two acres
that used to produce about one-
half ton of timothy.
Total Feed Supply Will
Be Higher Than Last Year
With the approach of the 1951-52
feeding season, livestock feeders
will be interested to know that the
expefcted total supply of feed grains
and concentrates will be greater
than last year, according to the
bureau of agricultural economics.
The available supply of feed will
permit livestock to be fed at about
the same rate per unit as last
season. The number of animals to
be fed, however, is also expected to
be greater. An estimated 174 mil
lion animals will be on hand as
compared with last year’s 168 mil
lion.
A larger acreage and a fair carry
over is expected to provide a larg
er corn supply. About 4 billion
bushels is expected to be available
for the 1951-52 season.
The total supply of corn, oats,
grain sorghums, and barley for the
coming season is estimated to be
127.1 million tons. This compares
with last season’s total of 125 mil
lion tons of grain.
The department reported total
crop production may be the second
highest in history in 1951.
Tractor Drawbar
A heavy piece of angle iron
bolted to the rear of a tractor
and extending well beyond the
wheels makes harrowing easier
fastening the harrow with a
long chain hitch,- especially
when making turns at ends of
the field. Bolted to the drawbar
it can be removed when not
in use.
Iowa Tests Show Value
Of Alfalfa for Swine
Everyone knows that alfalfa
pasture is good for hogs. But just
how good? The Iowa experiment
station thought that one way to
find out would be to feed one batch
of hogs on dry lot;, and another
on alfalfa.
They found that the biggest value
in alfalfa comes from a sr.ving in
high-cost protein and mineral sup
plement Hogs gained faster on
alfalfa.
MIRROR
Of Your
MIND
I
Patience And
Will Power
By Lawrence Gould
Fertilizing Important
In Balanced Farm Plan
Lime, Fertilizer Pays
Off in High Hay Yield
Farmers in every part of the
nation are realizing more and more
the importance of well-balanced
fertilizing programs to build pro
duction and soil structure.
Ben Vossen, who farms near
Watkins, Minn., believes his in
vestments in lime and fertilizer
have done more for his farm than
anything in his career.
The results of one of his in
vestments are shown in the above
picture. At the right is a run
down field of bluegrass overgrown
with buck grass. At the left is a
field of oats after the buck grass
was sprayed to kill it, grubbed
and plowed under.
Is patience a matter of will power?
Answer: It can be achieved more
easily by learning to see your situa
tion realistically. The usual basis
of the type of childish rage we call
“impatience” is a more or less un
conscious feeling that if you protest
vigorously enough against the “un
fairness” of your lot, something will
magically change it. Once you real
ize, not only with your “brain” but
with your feelings, that complain
ing ?ind self-pity get you nowhere,
you will stop running your head
into stone walls and begin making
the best of things as they are—
which will usually prove to be a
little better than your previous im
patience would allow you to see.
Is “childish curiosity” found
in adults?
Answer. Decidedly. The child’s
curiosity about his parents-*®spe-
cially about what they do when he
is not around—reappears in the
adult’s interest in the private af
fairs of “prominent” people, even
where they do not differ much frqpi
anybody else’s. If you love to read
about the lives and loves of men
and women whom you’re never
likely to meet but whom you regard
as glamorous or outstanding, you
are showing the same harmless and
instinctive curiosity that made you
peep over the banisters when your
parents had a party. And probably
in both cases you are hoping to find
evidence that the grownups are “no
better than you are.”
maternity
Do specific events cause anxiety?
Answer: They may be the agen
cies that “precipitate” it. Accord
ing to Dr. David M. Levy, noted
child psychiatrist, operations and
accidents are the “first situations”
which most often bring on an anxi
ety reaction. They are followed in
importance by fright, separations,
sudden privations, the birth of a
new baby, and a sudden change of
environment such as that caused by
the family’s “moving.” Among
“predisposing factors” are infantile
helplessness, extreme dependance,
poor health and a previously ac
quired sense of guilt. Modern psy
chiatry tends to regard anxiety as
the state of mind from which most
mental illnesses spring.
Historic mission san luis rey, founded in 1798,
* WAS REDED I GATED FOLLOWING ITS RESTORATION
RECENTLY. THIS AUSSIpN WAS FOUNDED 0Y FATHER
JUNIPERC? SERRA, FAMED FRANCISCAN MISSIONARY,
WHO WAS KNOWN AS "THE APOSTLE &P CALIFORNIA .
KEEPING HEALTHY
Exercise Is Not Always Best Method
By Dr. James
W HEN AN OVERWEIGHT learns
from an expert that a walk of
one mile at his ordinary pace will
remove only a few ounces of fat
and he knows for a fact that a
Turkish bath, if he drinks no water,
will take off many ounces, pounds
in fact, it is not hard to understand
why he prefers the Turkish bath
to the mile walk or other exercise.
This same health authority will
point out that the best way to re
duce weight is to reduce the daily
food intake. If less food is eaten
than the body requires the body
will use some of its excess fat to
supply its daily needs. This, too,
the overweight feels is preferable
to regular exercise, which does not
give such quick results.
However, if research workers in
overweight and underweight are
closely questioned, they will admit
that for strong, healthy, overweight
men and women, exercise is the
ideal method of reducing weight.
Why?
Because exercise replaces fat
W. Barton
tissue with muscle tissue. With in
crease of muscle tissue in the body,
an active body-building tissue takes
the place of an inactive tissue—fat.
The most important food sub
stance in maintaining strength of
body, preventing wear on body tis
sues and repairing worn body
tissues is protein—meat, eggs, fish,
fowl. In a reducing diet, therefore,
proteins are not reduced. Fats and
starches, however, which in the
normal diet exist in an amount
three to four times that of proteins,
are cut down to the same amount.
In such a reduction diet, food
rich in minerals and vitamins must
be eaten to help out the proteins,
and some starches must be used.
Minerals needed are iron, calcium,
phosphorus. These are found in
leafy vegetables such as spinach,
cabbage, celery, Brussels sprouts,
beet and turnip tops, cauliflower,
apples, figs, raisins and other fruit.
A small quantity of milk is used
daily.
One of the new antibiotics is now
helping many patients with ulcer
ative colitis.
Allergy, being sensitive to various
substances handled, is not an un
common cause of diseased nails.
• • •
Mucous or spastic colitis can be
treated successfully by the patient
acquiring calmness of spirit and
avoiding rough foods.
Most cases of backache are due
to infection—teeth, tonsils, gall
bladder, lower boweL
• • •
Reduction of weight should occur
slowly and not be mailed by over-
rigid periods of fasting.
• • •
An attack of coronary thrombosis
might readily follow too strict re
duction of fat foods and too rapid
ieductioa of weight.
Kaesong Once Center
Of Korean Power
Kaesong, the site accepted for
truce talks between UN and Red
Chinese-Korean leaders, is in line
to pick up again a leng lost his
toric spotlight.
Although left behind in modern
times by many faster growing and
developing Korean cities, Kaesong
was once the center of Korean
power and culture.
The town was made the capital
of the Koryo, or Wang, dynasty in
the early 900’s A.D., and as such
was the focal point for the first
centralized control extended over
the peninsula. Kaesong maintained
its position for nearly 500 years,
and after its fall the dynasty name
was carried on in the name
“Korea.” 1
Meanwhile, toward the end of
the weakening Koryo reign, nu
merous invasions by Mongols from
the north had brought about for
eign domination of the entire coun
try for the first time. With the re-
tirenjent of the Golden Horde and
the rise of the new Yi dynasty,
the capital, in 1392, was moved to
Seoul.
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you doubt that Salt Lakers are
honest, check with the cashiers
at Prudemial Federal Savings
and Loan Association.
As a customer service, the
bank members put $25 in change
—dollars, half doUars, nickels,
dimes and pennies in a fish
bowl atop a writing counter,
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Three weeks later the cash
iers, who had pooled personal
savings for the service, made a
check.
The bowl contained $25.19.
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