THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, NOVE3IBER 6, 1921
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BAD CHECKS COST
Police Records Show Forgers
Busy in Portland.
CITY ITSELF IS VICTIM
Clerk of Municipal Court Takes
Two Worthless Bits of Paper
as Payment of Fines.
Portland merchants, during the ten
months of the current year have lost
$27750 in cash or merchandise
through the cashing of spurious
checks. This wu revealed by an
examination of a massive volume in
the police detective bureau which is
devoted exclusively to the activities
of the "paper-hangers."
Even, the city of Portland has not
been immune, for Nick Butgen,
clerk of the municipal court, is cus
todian of a couple of "bum" checks
which were tendered to him in pay
ment of police court fines. This, in
the opinion of police detectives, rep
resents the height of impertinence
wtien persona convicted of some mis
demeanor In police court, willingly
commit a felony by paying: their
fines with bad checks.
Bis; Crimes Excluded.
This record of nearly $3000 lost in
bad checks does not represent or in
clude money obtained by professional
crooks during: the year through big
forgeries, perpetrated for the most
part on banks. It is simply the work
of "petty larceny" crooks with no
money but a wealth of blank cnecKs,
- Nearly 300 bad checks have reached
the police bhus far during the year.
They range In value from $2 checks
to nearly $100. But for the most part
they average around $10 or $20, for
these always are much easier to pass
on the unsuspecting merchant.
Women, while not such bad of
fenders as men, have quite a repre
sentation on the police detectives'
"paperhanjarcrs book. There was
the good-looking: and flashily-dressed
young woman who passed 14 bad
checks in one day last summer and
then left the city before the checks
had been returned from the bank
with their "no account" notations.
Specialty Storra Victims.
Armed wlfh a new check book and
an abundance of nerve, this woman
made the rounds of the women s spe
cialty stores, where she made small
purchase of gloves, blouses, hoe and
similar apparel. In each instance
she presented her check for an
amount much larger than her pur
chase, and because of her refined and
probperous appearance she excited no
suspicion. For her It was a most
profitable d-ay, as she acquired con
siderable expensive apparel and
nearly $200 in cash as a result of
her activities.
The one bad-check passer who
caused the police detectives more
trouble than all the others combined
wag the young college youth who
made the rounds of the outlying
stores and hi red small boys to pre
sent the paper for him. The young
sters usually were paid about 25 cents
for being the unwitting accomplices
for this smooth young forger. ,
Hoy's ame Vaed.
His mode of operation was to go
to a neighborhood, seek out a small
boy and obtain the name of his par
ents. Then he would make out a
check n favor of the name given to
him by the child and indorse It. He
would then offer the youngster a
quarter to go to the neighborhood
store to cash the check. The mer
chant, believing the boy had been
sent by his mother, never failed to
cash the check promptly.
This particular crook got away with
his bad check operations throughout
the summer and until about a month
ago, when an east side mercnant
thought to ask the child If his mother
hud eent him to have the check
cashed.
"No, a man on the corner cave it
to me and said he would pay me for
It the youth replied.
The merchant detained the lad long
enough to telephone for the police and
the bad check artist was captured.
He Is now held in jail awaiting trial,
with scores of small merchants eager
to appear against him.
Hard l,uck Story Works.
Then, there was the roughly dressed
fellow who always took his small boy
with him when he entered a neighbor
hood1 store to have one of his worth
less checks converted into cash. He
always put up the story that he had
just moved into the neighborhood:
that his wife was sick and he needed
the money for some emergency pur
pose. The presence of the small uoy
always disarmed suspicion, and this
fellow got by for some little time be
fore he finally was nabbed.
One of the most recent additions
to the ranks of the "paperhangers" is
a young woman of a well - known
family of Oregon pioneers. . This par
ticular young woman fell in with evil
associates two or three years ago
when she married a notorious boot
legger. From bootlegger and liquor th
path led downward to drugs, until
now, according to the police, she has
become a. prolific writer of bad
checks any time she can find some
person who will cash them for her.
Friends of the family thus far have
always come forward to make the
checks good and she has escaped
prosecution to date, although she 'has
been taken into custody on a number
of occasions.
"Paper hanging," according to the
police, is one of the first steps In the
school of crime. Persons who pass a
few bad checks and get away with it
for a time soon branch out Into other
paths of crime, with the result that
almost invariably they become con
firmed criminals.
P
THK love of plant and wi!M lower
i a passion that strike deep Into
the hearts of many men and women,
but few pass beyond the sen im
oresslon to a study that "ill afford
.h;m r:i appreciation. Borany, or at
least the practical application of it to
the wild th'nss that rrow every
where In Portland suburbs and parks,
has been the lifelong- hobby of Will
iam M. Gregory. Portland lawyer and
well-known- citizen since 1879.
Mr. Gregory's friends and neigh
bors have long since chosen him as
the absolute authority on matters of
mushrooms, wild stuffs for greens
and tke thousand and one little ques
tion that will come up about a
strange plant in the garden or a
pretty little spring flower b!ooming
in the moss. H can set the majority
of Inquirer right, off-hand, and can
tU Almost any disputed question
on th botanical Identity of flower,
shrub, tree or weed from his books
upon the subject.
Mr. Gregory's real enejoyment of
his hobby, however, comes from en
larging his knowledge of plants and
feathering unusual specimens about
him in his garden. The science has
become a passion with him. without
destroying Its practicability. When
ever time afford he takes long walks
through wood or brush land, seeking
always to find some plant stranger.
Once Mr. Gregory finds a specimen
that puzzles him, he does not rest
content until he ha named it or
found enough data to establish it
among his books on the subject. If
the season Is right he take a cutting
or root home with him, but If it is
not he marks .the spot and1 plans a
later return.
Friends mij" scoff and rail at him.
but Mr. Gregory finds something In
a botanical problem that no law case
ever carried, for him. He may work
hard all day In his office, but an
hour or two with hia spade among his
favorites In his back yard and he wU
be relieved of the day's care. His
great delight la to experiment with
cuttings, bude and' graftings. At one
time he had 1000 holly bushes grow
ing In his back yard, but the shrubs
threatened to crowd out h's entire
plant collection, as well as his house
and garden, so he was fenced to trans
plant them to a farm.
Mushrooms have at time drawn
Mr. Gregory's fancy. Sometime he
will chance upgn a rare variety, so
rare in fact that his family will not
risk their lives for a bite of it. but
Mr. Gregory relies upon hi hobby and
his books.
ijl'RE OF GOLD AXD PLWIXIM
SXILIi ATTRACTS MINERS.
One Prospector Takes Out Small
Fortune and Another Also
Tiles Up Wealth.
MARSHFIELD. Or.. Nov. 5. (Spe
clal.) A new story, just uncovered,
comes from the Whisky Run and Ran
dolph district north of Bandon, where
the lure of gold and platinum is su
preme. Miners operate there from
one year's end to another some with
success, others without. Those who
make the bigeest money are the ones
who have perfected methods of saving
the platinum and Iridium which the
black sands in that vicinity carry.
The most surprising story is of a
man named Howell, who went in
there several years ago without her
ald or trumpet and started working
on a deposit be believed was a tail
ings dump In the old days of the Ran
dolph mining. Howell said he repre
tenWd an eastern firm. , He worked
away with a washer he constructed
and of a sudden his family began
to show Indications of prosperity
through new comforts and better
living.
Howell went away from the dis
trict shortly afterward, but confided
to a few particular friends that he
had shipped seven pounds of plati
num to hip backers and kept the re
mainder himself. A yer or so later
Howell wrote from the east advising
his friends that he had bought a
good-sized farm with his portion of
gains and settled down to the simple
life.
Another man hasmade the- black
sands give up. its precious gold,
platinum, Iridium and osmium, which,
aside from the gold, brings 172, $250
and $100 an ounce. . John R. Smith.
In three years' time, has developed a
mine, built a washer and Installed
machinery to the value of probably
$15,000, all from the proceeds of his
work. But he Is not satisfied, and
with the last returns, amounting to
$2200, is purchasing $8000 worth ol
additional machinery In the belief this
is the last outlay and will bring him
the values that will mak him rich.
Dan Cupid's Harvest to Be
Bumper One.
Government Statisticians Rntrmate
1,300,04)0 Wedding In 1021.
armycoAts
Genuine Army Coats. They are
made of all-wool under the in
structions of the United States
government. -W hen Glickman
sees -this price he will shoot me,
but IH die to get him the money.
Take them at
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ATTENDED A SALE!
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OF MYSELF FOR NOT HAVING ENOUGH SALESPEOPLE
Army Overcoats
There; are only 1000 of these, so
you will have to hurry. They
are ALL WOOL and worth $15
of anybody's money. I lik tire
people of Portland, so 111 treat
you right and let them go at
$2.95
I expected crowds, but never dreamed of such an onslaught of humanity people came from all parts of Oregon and Washington
demonstrating: the fact that
WHEN LACELLE SAYS BARGAINS, THEY ARE BARGAINS!
Now, remember this: I am here to get the money I must raise $40,000 for Glickman in very short time He owes a bunch of money to
the wholesalers, and they are hot on his heels; they want their money, and I don't blame them. But the main thing is I am going to
raise $40,000 in cash even if I have to dispose of $100,000 worth of merchandise to do it my reputation is at stake to accomplish this.
MY PRICES HAVE
SET THE TOWN IN AN UPROAR
Boys' Overcoats
The real dreaey kind and all
wool; sizes run from 8 to 18 and
a great variety of the latest col
ors. The regular prices run as
high as $15.00; my price will be
NIGHT SHIRTS
Now everybody needs a nice,
warm Night Shirt; that is why
I am going to sell the people
of Portland and vicinity these
TWO BUCK Night Shirts as
long as they last for
$3.98
88 c
WOOL SOX
Now, listen; these are worth as
high as 50c, and they are heavy
wool mixed. Well, instead of
soaking you the regular price
for these wonderful ?ox 111 let
them go at
19c
WORK SHIRTS
They are in all colors and in
clude the famous BIG YANK
BRAND. I've got them in. all
sizes, and the values are as high
as $1.50. I want everybody to
get a crack at these, so they
go at ,
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NEW YORK.. Nov. S. While else
where in the country more peo
ple are being married this year than
ever before, in New York time are
duller than usual for the license clerks
and the ministers. Government statis
ticians recently concluded the 1921
crop of weddings would be a bumper
one. with Dan Cupid harvesting
1.500.000 brides and Just as many hus
bands from the fields of the unmatcd.
And yet New Vork city's record prob
ably will show at least 3000 fewer
marriage than in 1920 or 1919.
There are easier tasks than giving
an explanation for this nation-wid
epidemic of knot-tying in a year when
millions are unemployed and as many
more are brooding over decreases in
their Incomes. So say the sociologist
and others with penchants for finding
out what they call the why of things.
But it is not distressingly futile to
seek a reason for the fact that only
56.501 licenses were issued up to a
recent date here this year compared
to 59,065 in th corresponding period
of 1920.
In the first place, they will tell you
at the license bureau that there are
fewer Immigrants now than in the
past, because of the restriction laws.
Unmarried aliens always had a habit
of coming over here to enjoy freedom,
and then almost immediately flinging
part of it away at the altar.
Many young men who might other
wise wed aver that when the landlord
would get through deflating their
pocketbooka not enough would remain
to calm the butcher, the baker and
those M ho deal in allk stockings, cos-
etics, subway tickets, coats, suits
and the other things needed by house
wives, such a needles for darning the
husband's socks and rolling pins to
fashion biscuit and maintain order.
Even when th New York suitor has
the money he often seems unable to
locate a home. This condition is com
mon. Because of the horn shortage
many young things, after their con
venttonal ditsy honeymoon, return to
live' with the girls family or the
man's. 1'erhaps from this will come a
new field of humor, the son-in-law
and daughter-in-law jokes that would
give mother-in-law a long-awaited
relief.
U. S. BLANKETS
It's a crime to' sacrifice mer
chandise this way, .but I don't
care it doesn't belong to me.
I'm here to get the Jtioney, so
these genuine Army Blankets
go at
$2.88
MEN'S HATS
You may be stuck on your shape
and want to be a swell dresser.
Well, if you dtf, I'm here with
the goods. I've got a bunch of
classy Hats; values to fa. Take
your pick at
$2.46
MEN'S SUITS
All ihe latest styles the kind
that they wear to be married in
in Los Angeles.' They are pip
pins, boys, and sold as high as
$35.00. My price will be
$17.88
MEN'S SUITS '
They spell class in every way. I
know they are right, for I wore
one of them on my trip here.
Mine cost me $10, but that does
not cut any ice; they go now at
$21.76
BOYS' SUITS
A special' lot ages) 15 to 18. I
sold the same thing in other
cities as high as $12.60. It's like
stealing them to let them go a?
this price
$2.85
Men's Dress Shoes
And io show you that I dont
care for money, I'm going to put
out a special lot of men's hifrh
grade'S Ij oe s, including Tilts,
Master made and other standard
makes; values to f 12.00, now
LOGGERS' SHIRTS H COTTON UNIONS
I cant tell you how good they
are; youll have to see them.
They are double, front, back and
sleeves. They were cheap at
the regular price of $8.00; my
price will be
And to prove to you that I don't
care for money, I am going to
let you take your pick of these
wonderful cotton Union Suits
that sold regularly as high as
$2.00; my price
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$4.80 -
OVERCOATS
AND RAINCOATS
I could telhyou a lot about these,
but I want you to eee them.
They're worth as high as $20. I
told Glickman I'd get him the
money, so out they go at
$8.64
ARMY SHOES
I will sell genuine U. S. Army
hob-nail shoes, made of the very
best grade of leather. Ill treat
you right and let them go at
only
$3.35
$4.90
96c
H. T. LACELLE
America's Great" Publicity Expert
'I SLICKER COATS
Oh, boy, you should see these
three - quarter and full-length
Slickers and guaranteed to be
waterproof. They are a good
buy at $5.00. We must get the
money, so they go at
LADIES' SHOES
A most wonderful selection of
ladies' high-grade Shoes. Other
stores soldi them as high as $15.
They come in all sizes and a
great selection of colors, now at
$2.85
$3.45
ale Starts Tomorrow Morning at 0 'Clock
Now, listen If you are not entirely satisfied with anything purchased at this sale, bring it back and exchange it or get your money
back. That's the way we do business, for we stand back of every article sold here, even if we do sell goods at unheard-of prices.
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3 MAIL ORDERS FILLED
Millionaire's Son Chooses a
Political Career.
Frederick T. Davlaon. Candidate
for Auenblrvu l Mew York
ptate.
OLD RELIC AT UNIVERSITY
Iron Grill Work io Memory of Last
Normal Class. (
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene.
Nov. 5. (Special.) A relic of the
day of 1S5 ia an Iron, grill work
fence enclosing a small plot of
ground Just west of Deady hall. The
Iron work ha rusted from the rain
of many year and 1 crooked with old
age. It beam on the entrance th
inscription "Normal "S5."
Many student and visitor hav In
quired the icnlflcance of this relio.
Thlrty-slx year ago the last class In
the normal department was graduat
ed from the university. Nine students
were enrolled and, on leaving the
school, they left this iron fence in
memory of the class. Six members of
th original c.ass are living. Bessi
Day is the only one who resides In
Eugene.
Read Tie Oregonian clarified ad&
LOCUST VALLET, N. Y, Nov. S.
Frederick Trifbee Davison, eon
of Henry P. Davison. Morgan partner,
prefers vote to dollar.
He is going to follow his prefer
ence by entering the political arena
instead of the banking fraternity of
Wall street. Hia first step comes
November S. when ,he hopes to be
elected member of assembly from the
second district of Nassau county Irnd
take the seat formerly occupied by
Theodore Roosevelt, now assistant
secretary of the navy.
Davison hopes this election, if It
cornea out his way, will prove the
first milestone In a lifelong career in
politics.
"I have always wanted to go Into
politics." said Davison in outlining
his ambitions. "Back in 1914, when
I entered Yale. I began to pick out
subjects I knew would be good train
ing for me. When I took up the study
of law at Colombia I had no Inten
tion of practicing, but wanted to ob
tain a groundwork for an experience
In politics." -
By way of a starter he went to the
republican national convention as
secretary to Herbert Parsons and
later to Charles D. Hilles. Now he
is getting acquainted with district
leader and assert that, If he Is
elected to the asaembly h hopes -to
stay her. for several terms "to get
right close to the people." He dis
claims any desire for a senatorial
toga.
Aocordlng to tradition, the senior
Mr. Davison should violently oppose
his son's political ambition and seek
to chas him along the trail of the
elusive dollar. But he Is doing noth
ing of the kind and Is sympathetically
following hi son's candidacy.
Another of young Davison's sup
porters is his wife, who was Miss
Dorothy Peabody, daughter of the
Rev. Endicott Peabody, headmaster of
Groton, where Davison went to
school.
UNIVERSITY IS CROWDED
More Room Xeeded at Moscow,
Idaho, Institution.
BOISE. Idaho, Nov. 5. (Special )
Idaho' leading educational institu
tion, the university, located at Mos
cow, is badly In need of more room,
according to Dr. A. H. Cpham, who
was in Boise this week.
"The future growth of the univer
sity depends upon the housing fea
ture." sala" Dr. Upham. "It we can
build .more dormitcries and labora
tories I feel perfectly safe in saying
that In the next five years the school
will increase 20 per cent each year in
attendance. We are at present hold
ing night laboratory classes because
we have more students than we have
room for
"Students are attending the uni
versity from many eastern states.
This ia especially true in the school
of mines and the forestry school.
There i one student from India. He
is taking our forestry course."
Oregon Potatoes Win Prizes.
' PRINEVIDLE. Or., Nov. S. (Spe
cial.) The international potato show
of Duluth, Minn., has awarded several
first prizes to S. D. Mustard of Powell
Butte on a peck of Irish Cobbler pota
toes which Mr. Mustard had on ex
hibition at that place. It is estimated
that Mr. Mustard raised approximate
ly 335.000 bushels of potatoes this
year.
Seals Campaign Organized.
PRIN'EVTLLE. Or., Not. 5. (Spe
cial.) The sale of Bed Cross Christ
mas seals will be In charge of Mrs.
Collins W. Elkins, who has been ap
pointed as chairman for Crook county.
Th. quota to be raised Is 1250, and
Mrs. Elkins will be assisted In the
sals' by children of th seventh and
eights, scb.001 grades,
Disarmament Begun; Boy,
4, Gives Up Cannon.
Ysntkr Overhear Father Talk and
Take Toy to Police.
HAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 5. Four-
O year-old "Ralph Walsenen of
Berkeley, Cal., recently decided he
would b. th. first to disarm.
"There never will be any peace until
they give up tneir cannon." Ralph
overheard his father say daring a dis
cusslon of the disarmament confer
ence.
The boy pondered over this, for he
had a toy cannon. Finally he tucked
the cannon under his arm, boarded a
street car and started for Oakland,
not far away.
An hour later an Oakland policeman
discovered the boy, tear-stained and
lost on the -Oakland streets. The' of
ficer took the lad in hand. At the
police station Ralph gravely told the
sergeant that he had started out to
find the chief of police so he could
give ud his cannon that all the world
miftht be at peace.
The cannon was solemnly accepted
by the police, and when Mrs. Wlsenen
phoned a few minutes later to ask
about a lost boy she was tola ner son
was doubly safe.
FOSSIL POST BUYS HOME
Two-Story Structure Purchased for
Use of Organization.
FOSSIL, Or., Nov. B. (Special.)
The Arthur E. Glover post of the
American Legion has purchased a
TOBACCO HABIT CURED
Not only to users of pipe and cigars
but the vicious cigarette habit is over
come by using the "Nitrate" treatment.
Pric complete, postage paid. fl.sO.
LAUE-DAYIS DR'JS CO.
ITS Thrrd St.. Portland, Or.
When writing meuuvn this paper.
two-story building on Main street for
$6500 to be used as a bom for the
organization.
The upper floor Is to be finished
and used for an andltorium and dance
hall. The lower floor will b used
as at present by the Fossil Mercantile
company.
Later the legion boy expect to fit
up clubrooms on the lower floor for
themselves and for th. women's
auxiliary.
Sawmill Man Injured.
GRANTS PASS, Or, Nov. 5. (Spe
cial.) While operating a planing
machine in a sawmill at Merlin, E. C.
Steiaer suffered the fracture of the
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