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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH FORGERY IN GOLD Nation's Busiest Forger Keeps Out of Prison Only Block Away The busiest forger in the country plies his trade just a block from Iowa's state penitentiary. But he has no fear his vocation will lead him behind the grim walls as it has hundreds of other forgers. law-- a biding James Jordan is well started on a career of counterfeiting signatures at the age of 24. Already he has forged more than 5,000 including those of Herbert Hoover and Gen. Douglas MacArthur but he's never been at odds with the law. Every day since October 1, 1950, Jim has duplicated about 20 signa-tures per day, nearly three every James Jordan of Burlington, la., is shown "forging" the 5,000th signature he has en-graved on Sheaffer fountain pens during the past year. 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-eye- d 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-- gold. If you would have a 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-cros- s lines. Cutting the loops and crossovers into the gold is a tough job. JORDAN ALSO does other kinds of free-han- d engraving on special d 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 to give cash. Why? His signature on the check differed too much from that on his driver's license. 'SEASON. W Tv IN THE EFFECTIVE WORLDS VTyV THE LATE JAMES ( I id Y M RECORD FOR THE' l BRAID, FIVE TIMES VvJ .ynd JAVELIN THROW BRITISH OPEN CHAM- - Sfi" ';, tl VVW' IS THE TREMENDOUS 1 PION, MADE 18 (- - DISTANCE OF. 1 "Z-'- " ; 1 I if l HIS lAfeV'l P 1o-i- o 1 career! ffiISM csl I CROSSWORD PUZZLE WEPMlFnTIAlLB ACROSS 4. Lamprey 20. One-sp- 't T ffTOTv N I 1. Planter 5 Road card a T M S S.jfW A H T E 6. Confront (abbr.) 23 Likely T oSSTgRIaJn C i 0 10 Covered 6. Island in 24. Selecting SIT A M 01 EJ3C A NTs with ivy China Sea 25 Bent tube wffi S TWjmrilj II Coin 7 Hillside for convey-- lilEM (ancGr) dugout ing water f A7N1 12. Tangle SP.eceof (var.) HgMrrEANTE 13 Species of money 27 Natural s"kT RjTfjO L P 1 1 iris root 9. Otherwise environment s FTliliF" 0 O L E 14. Eye 12. Musical 28. Rodent 15. Starvation composition 33. Half ems 7 16 Greek letter 13 Tree 34. A ragout 40. Past part.' 17 Military 15. Novelties 36. Shower of lie cap (archaic) 37 Hautboy 42. Obstacle 19 A wing 18 Grass dried 38 Coarse, 44. Great Britain 21. Indefinite (or fodder rigid hair (abbr.) article 22. American lZ jj 14 15 WM, 17 18 l? Indians 2u. " 26. Art of rapid 77,'To WW writing 29 Scope 12 ZVP, 30 Music note 777 j 31 Peak 32. Vegetables m 777 35. Exclamation lT cotr'e'd WrZ' resins 39. Too 11 m 41. Encourages 777 77Z;j 42. Mamma- - T 43 PaTtfcTe11 WWM rr-- -- pir 45. Tidy j rnr 46. Fetch 777 DOWN 45 " p44 p l.odd 25 m-E- i m 2. Elliptical . 777 3. Telegraphs 1 I I V(A I I I I V(( Hot Enough Courtesy goes a long ways, where-eve- r it is applied, but there doesn't seem to be enough to go around. Constantly sportsmen in the field are reminded that the other fellow is more concerned with his own pleasure than the welfare of others. There's the hunter (at least one in every, party), who jumps the gun when quail are flushed. That same fellow most likely will claim as many birds as he can get away with, regardless of who fired the pellets that killed them. This fellow has lost sight of broader aspects of hunting. He belongs to the category of the game hog, forages through the fields for the amount of game he can get, rather than for the sport of the hunt. Then there is the constant joy rider on our rivers and lakes. That's tine sport. It's wonderful to get out on the lake and glide over the waters, but there also is always the other fellow to remember. He most likely is a fisherman. He may be casting the banks, or he may be anchored and fishing with live bait. He has as much right on the lake as does the joy rider, and the joy rider should stay away from him as much as possible. The waves in-terfere with his fishing. Often we have seen the speed boat rider dash toward a fishing boat, cut sharply, to throw up huge waves, and then bounce around the bend, leaving behind a maniacal laughter and a fisherman battling tangled lines and cursing his tormentor. AAA Hawks Protected Hawks and owls have lots of friends in Connecticut, the National Audubon Society reports. That became apparent recently when Governor John Lodge signed a "model" bird protection bill that makes it unlawful to shoot any spe-cies of hawk or owl in the Nutmeg State. Approval of this legislation, which had been passed unanimously by both houses of the Connecticut Leg-islature, places the state among the leaders in bird conservation. A provision of the new law per-mits farmers to destroy those indi-vidual hawks caught in the act of doing damage to poultry. Pointing Dut that only occasional hawks de-velop into poultry stealers, the Na-tional Audubon Society said this provision will protect farmers and at the same time prevent misin-formed persons from meting out "vigilante justice" to all hawks and owls because of the misdeeds of a tew of them. A public hearing on the new bifd protection law, held before the Game and Fish Committees of the Legislature at Hartford, brought out nearly 50 representatives of state conservation organizations who testified to the value of predatory birds. No opposition was presented. AAA More Funds? A report from the National Wild-life Federation states that the House Ways and Means Committee in executive session has hiked the excise tax on sport fishing tackle to 15 per cent from its original base of 10 per cent. This actually means that the revenues arising from this source will be 50 per cent greater than at present. This excise tax on rods, reels, and creels and on arti-ficial baits, lures, and flies was earmarked for federal aid to state fishery restoration by the terms of the Dingell-Johnso- n Act of the last session of Congress. The increase will be greatly needed, as the tax paid into the earmarked fund has been relatively small. It was at first thought this tax on fishing tackle would produce about $3,000,-000- . However, on the basis of the first few months, if it does not ma-terially increase, there would not be much more available this com-ing year for allocation to the states than a million and a half dollars. Sportsmen who pay this tax are generally in favor of the increase. On the basis of $1,500,000 ear-marked into the fund each one ol the 15 million licensed fishermen would pay on the average about four and three-quarte- cents apiece during the year. That small sum is even less than chicken feed and will not cause a ripple of protest from anyone who replenishes his fish-ing outfit or adds a lure or two to his tackle box. With the exception of a small amount for administration, the en-tire earmarked fund is turned over to the states to make better fishing. The states are required to pay 25 per cent of the cost of all fishery restoration projects which are ap-proved by the Fish and Wildlife Service. AAA The goatsucker, or nightjar, is 4 bird around which a number of old legends have been woven. The an-cients believed it sucked goats al night, that the goats immediately "dried up" and lost their sight. AAA The narwhal is called the sea uni-corn because of the long, spiral and tapered tusk that grows from its up pet jaw. This is sometimes as long as ten feet. Its purpose has never been de lermined. Ironically, the tusk is often fashioned into a harpoon used in tht bunting of these sea animals. By INEZ GERHARD TJICHARD "RED" SKELTON, the son of a famous American 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 v.. . ; "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-to- n 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, ic Kennedy. Danny Kaye and Farley Granger will co-st- ar in what should be a delightful pic-ture. SPORTL1GHT- - aire; Giants, Yanks, Dodgers; '52 Teams 't By GRANTLAND RICE WITH the passing of another world it might be time to ask this question what about the two pennant races next year? What has 1952 to offer? In the National League there are only two clubs who should again stand out. They are the Giants and Dodgers. And the Giants will have to duck another eleven-gam- e losing streak or sinking spell. The other six clubs are from 16 to 33 games away from the top. That's a killing margin to wipe out in one season. Or two seasons. From the Cardinals on down all six are packed with weak spots. The Cardinals looked better than the rest. The Phillies were over 20 games away year. The Cardinals look to have! some promise with young pitchers , hanging around to help. :" I can't see much hope for the Pi-i- '. rates, Cubs, Reds and Braves. Spahn is no longer a kid. It takes'"1' quite an imagination to figure clubs 'j from 18 to 25 games off the pace ; ' closing this heavy gap within a year or two. , The prospect for a close race in , the National League is poor. This ' league has too many second-divisio- n clubs. Too few n teams. You don't rebuild second-divisio- n teams into pennant winners over- - pa, night. There are too few majoriW; league ballplayers around to plug:; up too many open gaps. iOTL Battle of the Boroughs The Battle of the Boroughs, mean-:;it- ii lng New York and Brooklyn, was:.. the past season's greatest feature."'. Th old game has never seen more dramatic openings, looking as lar back as early August. On August II, Leo Dnrocher'g ' ',. harassed and almost hopeless ;:" young men were 13H games 3iI back of the Dodgers. That's an -- dt old story. But in the next 59 days the Giants won 37 out of their last 44 games for the percentage of .841. This ! was far beyond the pace the Boston Braves of 1914 set. If these Braves were the Miracle Team, the Giants are the Double., . Miracle Team. This stretch of the Giants, led by-:- i t the hustling Leo Durocher and sup-"5l- ls ported by his entire squad, will"je never be forgotten. It stands alone'.j against a team rated in August a."ts one of the greatest in National League history. What about the Dodgers? Theyplo; had been front runners most of theton year. Suddenly on Saturday, Septembers a 29, they were in second place. Th!;ki Giants had won the afternoon game.tmj The Dodgers were now the pursuers. jn They moved up even again. '3 On Sunday, September 30, the;'s Dodgers were in second place for-i-an hour or so. The Dodgers were:p, trailing 6 to 1, then 8 to 5. Only brilliant defensive play by Pafko j0, and Robinson saved their weary'j hides. c u The Dodger infield is the best in baseball, with something to spare. Campanella is a standout. But even'y all this didn't offset somewhat rag- - ged pitching. Dodger pitching wasn't bad, but neither was it spectacular or brilliant. a The Giants were extra good since : their springtime crash. They had O: good pitching and good power, a There isn't much you can say fora the rest of the National League, in spite of the Cardinal's late splurge Without a great pennant team, tl 5 National League is still close to th ij best in the American. Granted Rk f r 0 m J.950' can t all be charged to Curt Simmons, although part of it can. Robin Roberts had another big season, so the entire answer certainly wasn't pitching. The Cardinals finished a trifle stronger than the others, but their play against the Dodgers was entirely too sour to have them rank close to Chuck Dressen's squad. I can't see much hope for the Reds, Cubs and Pirates. They have so many wide-ope- n gaps that filling half of them would be a big job. The American League would have been far better if it hadn't been for the near collapse of the Tigers and White Sox. The White Sox looked like pennant contenders up through June. Then not even Paul Richards could keep them aloft any longer. The Tigers simply didn't have it. Art Houtteman's loss didn't help anyway, but there were other flaws that Red Rolfe couldn't cure. You can be sure that Cleve-land will start the 1952 race with the best pitching staff. The Yankees will be next. The Red Sox cause looks almost hope-less. An old team got much old-er down the stretch. It will be even older next season. There are few young fellows on the club coming along. And what will the Red Sox use for pitch-ers? The White Sox will improve. They can be dangerous. The Athletics, who played better than .500 ball the last five weeks will be much tough-er. Jimmy Dykes turned in a fine job. The race should be again between the Yankees and Indians. I can't see the Tigers in there seriously menacing the leaders. The National League race should be another Giant-Dodge- r battle. The Dodgers have too many good minor leaguers to be too far away. The Giants will be just as good next ALL IN FUN I CORNER By Richard Hill Wilkinson "jiHERE has probably never been a greater hatred than that which existed between Barney Craig and Dan Chester. It all started because i of Barney's eager- - ness to become a 3u;al,i. member of the cal lodge. As one I I 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 brother, Dan grinned at him "You sure can take it. Brother Craig. Of course it was all in fun." "Yeah," said Barney. "And now that, I'm a 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 Barney poked a neat one at Dan's chin and it connected. one on the point of his jaw. "All In fun, you 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 in fun. Brother Craig. Come around again some time when you feel in a playful mood." 75ARNEY 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. GRASSROOTS People Rank Herbert Hoover Greatest Statesman 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 he 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.' By Wright A. Patterson THREE OR FOUR DAYS before 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 accepted 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 ta the capital 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 fearful 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 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 heard 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 ccept 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 of 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 j how touwsm j j 7$$ ' MOISTEN Z F INS,DE ' ' t CHANGING A BURNED -- OUT BULB IN a I i HIGH CEILING SOCKET IS SIMPLIFIED BY USING A ,l0FrHLoED NEWSPAPER , SLIGHTLY MOISTENED I INSIDE. TO GRIP THE BULB . j 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. The effort to stop undeslred legis-lation resulted in a heavy increase for the post-offic- e department. Let-ters from the folks back home. |