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10 THE OREGON SUNDAY. JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH SO, 1919. Gffl MYSTERY CLEARED UP WITH George Watson Woodward Admits ;,to Detextives How" He Carried - on Operations Since Sept. 7. BURNS 'DETECTIVE; GETS HIM Accountant Who Has Held Marfyj ' Responsible Positions Said to " Have Obtained Over $1500. , Mysterious forgeries of checks which . beran HeDtember 7 and continued up to a week ago, nearly all through one of .the'' bis banks of the city and aggregat ing something over 11500, came to an abrupt end Saturday with the arrest of George Watson Woodward, an Account ant, who has lived In Portland, for 13 years and has held responsible positions the greater part of the time. - Woodward was apprehended through the efforts of F. 3U Masters, superintend ent of the Burns International Detective Agency in this district, and lodged, to the county jail on a complaint charging . htm with forgery. The prisoner made a complete confession, declared , Masters, who added that this man has operated In the shrewdest manner and most elusive fashion that he remembers in his experi- . ence. - ' Operates Withoat Drawls? Sospleloa A former employe of the S., P. & S. railroad for seven or eight years and employed for several months as an ac countant in Morris Bros, establishment, living In a highly respectable district of 'the city and with no bad habits. Mas ters declares Woodward was able to op erate without the least suspicion attach ing to him. Further than that. Woodward carried a bank account of substantial tions. which he replenished by his for geries, in the same bank that he passed most of fils spurious checks upon. The checks, which are almost perfect forgeries, were rarely of the same sig nature. ; They . ranged In amount from 115 to 1183.00, and the payees and in dorsees were names of people who: have residence addresses recorded in the city telephone directories. Seven of the checks were presented to and cashed by one teller, six by another and three by another In the same bank, but the operator was slick enough never tospresent a check at the "W" window or to any teller who at any time worked at that window. r 1 Watched Depositors Write " Superintendent Masters states that Woodward said that he secured names to b- forged from watching depositors as they -made out their deposit slips. ; While this statement is not accepted without some grains of allowance in the bank, this would be borne out by the fact that the forgeries bear' the general characteristics of the real sig- . nature, ramer man me aeiaitea tecn , nic. Woodward is also declared to have asserted that' he never practiced writ ing the names he forged before making the actual forgeries. ---He'iwas apprehended finally -when .he presented a' check which bore cer tain peculiarities which were common to all checks he had. made out, whether his own or those he forged. , Freighter Scrahton in Distress ' ' Washington," March 29. The war de partment has been advised . by radio that the United States cargo i vessel Scranton Is in distress about 900 miles east of New York and that an-oceangoing tug has been dispatched toher assistance:- The cargo ship El Sol has been standing by but has been unable to render aid. two attempts to take the Scranton in tow having failed on ac count of breaking of the hawser. 'Hear Dr. Pence's Sunday morning se ries of sermons on "The Master of Men in Action," . starting today at West minster - Presbyterian church. Take Broadway or Irvington ears. Adv. WS CONFESSION EASTER When Thoughts Turn to Love and Music . .pet ready for Easter. Picture a beautiful" hew piano ' -m your home (possibly a player-piano), pouring out a Hood of rich, sweet, sympathetic music. ! " V If you need a piano now is the time to get it. Our line of pianos is complete our prices as low as , superior worth will permit and terms that will please vyou may be arranged. , - i t f Come in now -see our. pianos -talk the matter over n - with us and we will help you in 'your decision and selection. - Mehlin Packard Bond Lindeman Pianos G. F. Johnson, PiaiIq Co. 149 Sixtti, Bet. Alder jandMorrisbW Sts Victrolas Records Cheney" Phonographs ' Men Who Have Made Good . JULIUS ROSENWALD " : f " - j' '' . trj t'vvl .'if ' - it itV : .-: ::::?. -.v.-...'.r. -i. .--.. . . -:o--- v - .'r- ...-: :- : .:. v . I f s ' j Z 9 S If f i ' . xs h it A A . 3iMa ' jMfi ' tVWV -uSUo' II I I II I I II I II Mill II JJPP ' ' v Chicago Back In 1878 -when no home was complete without a "chromo" re print of some beloved relative. Julius Hosenwald of Springfield, 111., where: he was born in 2862, on the same block On which Abraham Lincoln lived, -started his business career by a house to hotise canvass of "ehromo' buyers. .The result of his canvass proved to the young man that he had "selling ability." t - ; When a young man of 16 "discovers" himself, he naturally plans to invade the biggest markets.' The biggest mar kets are, naturally, the biggest cities, and the biggest city, of course, is New York. Nothing more natural than that the young man should seek his fortune in the market -swhere supposedly the big gest fortunes- are to be found.. Off to 3Jew York Shortly after being graduated from the "chrorao" - peddling class, we find young Hosenwald arriving in New York with bag'and baggage at the age of 17, when other boys have not yet made up their mind -whether they will join the police 'force or ; become a lawyer or a physician, t . ' ' Up to 1884 Dame Fortune proved a very elusive young jade, but Julius, was encouraged in the knowledge that while he was notlgathering unto himself the foundations f or a fortune, he neverthe less was. -being educated in the post graduate. school of kriocks and kicks. One-Aday'r in a restaurant where cloth ing manufacturers were wont to break their bread at the noon hour whilst talk ing of business, he overheard a chance remark made by ' a manufacturer of Putting the Skids Tinder Dad Time No Fun in Clock Shops Chicago. March 29. (U. P.) Speed ing up "Pop Time" isn't, simply a mat ter of v.TTcidding" . yourself ' that It's an hour earlier than it is, Jewelers and clock makers here 'said tonight. It's a real task. ; Resetting thousands of watches and clocks in stock was their job. At La Salle, III., home of a popular alarm clock, all employes were to have an extra day's work as a result, of Americans' joke on the sun. They were ordered to work Sunday but their job i men's summer clothing, that 60 telegraph orders received that day could not be filled because of .the rush demand for orders previously received. While to most people a hint like this would mean nothing, to Julius Rosen-i wald it spelled opportunity with a great big capital "O." Chicago, which was only then begin ning to get into the class spelling "big cities," seemed a better place to start a new business than the city in which he found the germ of opportunity-in place of fortune. ' High Boad to Saccess In a small loft in the midwest city Rosenwald started tne manufacture of men's summer clothing. Up to that time, 1885, men had not yet been edu cated to the wearing of summer cloth ing, so Rosenwald had a wide field, not only for distributing, but for educating the male folk to wear summer ciotnmg, The best customer of the young man ufacturer as Richard W. Sears, a for mer railroad telegrapher, who originated the mall order business as it is today. He sold Mr. Sears so much clothing that Mr. Sears decided it woujd be better business to have Rosenwald as a part ner in his concern, so In 1895 Julius Rosenwald became a partner in the firm of Sears, Roebuck & Co., said to be the largest mail-order house in Uhj world. The shares ' of this corporation have market value of 8125,000,000. At least $25,000,000 haa "been taken out of the business in the form of dividends, and Julius Rosenwald, once -a peddler of chromos a Springfield Rl., has given to charity, regardless of race color or creed, more millions than he himself re members. ' : :i ' will be accustoming 5000 clocks to a new running' schedule. - i : The big watch factory at Elgin, I1U put its employes to work Friday testing 15,000 timepieces. Several men spent two entire days carefully guiding the big regulator clocks into new habits.. Big Chicago jewelers for the most part began-preparations Friday. Some pro vided for Sunday work. ' The Western Union Telegraph company presented clients of its clock service with -keys and Instructions for handling. "Too many clocks, to do. it ourselves," the manage ment said.: u . British Columbia Falls in Line Vancouver, B. C, March 29. (U. P.) Daylight saving will go into effect in British Columbia at T o'clock tomorrow morning. A special act was put through by the legislature today. ; - , La Lorraine Said to f Have Met Mishap; Lacks Cdnfirmatiop . Kew Tork, March 29. (TJ. P.) Re ports current in marine circles late today that the French liner La Lorraine had met with a mishap In midaUanUc were unconfirmed here" tonight and were gen erally doubted by government and ship ping officials. . The La Lorraine- sailed from Havre, France, March 23. and is due In New York next Wednesday. " French line officials were 'without con firmation of the reports. ;The rumor, the source of which could not be traced, said the steamship had been in collision. On the La Lorraine were' 369 cabin passengers, 224 steerage and 287 officers and soldiers of. the following organizations:'- - - - 5 ; Casual company 2476, regular army ; 2477, scattered ; ' 2478, South Carolina ; 2480, Nebraska, and 2481, scattered ; spe cial casual company 2474 and four casual officers. -j,', - Yanks Leave Italy Genoa. March 29. -I. N. S.) Several transports carrying American troop who have been holding part of the Ital ian front left for New York today. , . Two Injured in Falls Prom Riding Horses Mosier. . March 29. Two ; riders were injured here by falls from their horses. Forrest Evans, riding to school, suffered a broken arm when bis pony shied " at a rock and the saddle turned with him. Mrs. E. D. Lange sustained a broken shoulder and an injured hand when ber horse ran away.- Both were' taken to The Dalles for treatment. :. . .: Wife of Physician :. Of Pendleton Dies Pendleton, March 29. Mrs. D. C. Me Nabb, wife of Dr. McNabb of this city, died? her this afternoon after an Illness of two years. She was born in Tennes see and was 28 years of age.- She is survived by her husband and four brothers, one of whom Is in the army at Camp Travis. ..... ; .;.. 22 TO its is Machines Skidded and Brakes Wouid Not Hold, Drivers Rue fully Tel! Police. "WHIPPET" CAR RAMMED Two Mere Humans! Report, That They Suffered Skinned Knees as Result of Bumps. Machines skidded and brakes "simply wouldn't hold" and lots of other things went wrong on Saturday to automobiles, Just as if it had been a rainy day, for the police received 23 accident reports up to an early hour Saturday night. Steps were torn off street cars, auto mobile fenders were bent, headlights were broken, steering gears knocked out of commission, a "whippet" streets car rammed without apparent success. -auto mobile wheels were broken and human knees were skinned, according to the confessions made to Officer Tullyof the traffic department by the luckless drivers. The large number of accidents result ed in but two injuries. Mr. Balderman of 3928 East Sixty-sixth street, riding a motorcycle, sustained a badly skinned knee when he . was struck by an auto mobile in charge of Leonard Otto of 315 East Fargo street, at Grand avenue and East Yamhill street. 3Iany Collisions Heported . The other ' injury was sustained i' by James McBride, who lives on the Sandy road near Parkrose, when his motor cycle , collided with an automobile at King and Washington streets. The name of the driver of the automobile has not been learned by the police. : McBride was taken to the emergency hospital and later to his home by the police. His motorcycle was badly damaged. The collisions reported : Belmont street at Union avenue, automobile of G. O. Smith of 1414 Oatman avenue with automobile in charge. of a woman; Broadway at Ankeny street, G. R. Baker of 835 Tillamook street with ; Oregon hotel bus in charge of R. L. Smith; Twenty-fourth and Northrup : streets. I F ADD A NEW DEPARTMENT Will Make a Specialty of Renovating Men's Hats Fisher Brothers, owners of the Paris Hat Manufacturing Co., for years doing business' at the corner of West Park and Alder in the People's Theatre Building, who here tofore have dealt in women's head gear exclusively," have now added -a men's depart- ment 'and will operate this de partment with the same de gree of thoroughness that has built up- their present busi ness to be the largest block ing house on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Harry Fisher, the junior partner of the concern, who has now returned to civil life, will be the active and managing head, of this department. Men, there is no need to throw your old hat away when it can be returned to you as good as new. AGCIDENTS AUTOmDBl SATURDAY RECORD SIR BROS Do-Youa Gomt You Are Wearing wleaneca arid We are the largest CORNER We automobile of T. Mori of 92 North Fifth street with W streetcar: Third and Gliaan streeta, automobile ' of Brunno Webber of! Pendleton with motorcycle of D. B.. Sweeker of 89 East Twelfth street ; Williams kvenu at Wygant street, automobile of Q: Loewenstein of 998 Williams avenue and . automobile 1057 the latter- machine also' striking streetcar, r tearihg step 'off streetcar, , Streetcar I Bamped t " At East Forty-second street and Sandy boulevard, the automobile of Mrs. Wil liam Spirs of (65 East Forty-sixth street north ran into aide, of Rose City street car; East ? Thirty-sixth and Division streets, automobiles of A. E. Peaks. 1124 Clinton street, and A. Stynan of 204 Porter street, r stearlng ; rod - broken ; Thirteenth and Washington streets, au tomobile in charge of P. M. ? Chaimon of 775V& Johnson street 'stopped suddenly and was struck in rear by automobile 13871; near Fifth and Taylor streets. Oregon Auto, Dispatch truck, driver J. Fisher, hit - by . automobile , of E. ,W. Hughes, which was coming out of ga rage ; Front and Morrison streets, H. A. Hinkle of 223 Pittock building, backed into Parkrose transf ertruck ; Fifth and Madison streets,' automobile of - Pf t Wurm of Beaverton hit one man Xrvir.g ton car square broadside i blow; Ladd evenue - at Division - street, automobiles of N. E. Bradley of ' 411 Mill street and D. Ames of the Overland Automo bile, company collided. - Tried Jo Avoid Accident At Fifth and Stark streets, A. Dar eunglo of ; 1215 East Eighteenth street ran into parked automobile bearing li cense 7201 ; East Twelfth and Belmont streets, automobiles Of Charles ' Kckle man of 1189 Hawthorne avenue and N. N. Swanson of 546 Hoyt street collided, automobile wheel broken ; Eleventh and Stark streets, automobile of G. W. Up shaw of the Etna apartments collided with automobile of O. It. LeFever of the Northwestern Electric company; Union avenue at Oregon streets, automo bile, driver Simknown, while trying' to avoid accident with automobile of Bruce Bailey of the Fordham ' apartments, caught in streetcar tracks and turned over; East Twenty-eighth and Burnside streets, automobiles of . R. Stewart, 1 East Fifty-fifth street, and the auto of L. E. Klumpp, 432 East Forty-second street, collided, the latter being driven on left hand side of the - street ; Fifth and Morrison streets, 0 A. Anderson of 1191. East Salmon street backed into another automobile and broke the head lights ; Thirteenth and Mill streets, au tomobile in charge of G. H. Elkerton of 1031 Pacific street struck 8-year-old boy, no Injuries ; Front and Main streets, automobile of H. Zimmerman of Hills dale, Or., ran into Oregon Electric train. Dr. Reynolds Will Speak Dr. Francis W. Reynolds, returned T. M. C. A. secretary, will speak Sunday evening at Glencoe Baptist church. Sun day morning the pastor, the Rev. F. C. Laslette, will preach and administer the ordinance of believer's baptism. HARRY FISHER, of Fisher , Bros., . At Your Service MlTo i It Is Foolish to Throw Away Y our Old Hat We Make Them Look Like New! - hat reblocking establishment on the coast. Established and doing business here for the past nine years. We make a specialty of bleacnmg Panamas. . . CALL MAIN 3073 5 Also Clean and Reblock Ladies POPULAR HOTEL MAN IS PRESIDENT OF ANGLERS I - - J - i it R. W. Price, better known as "Dick" among hia friends, was unanimously- re elected president of the Multnomah Anglers' club at its annual meeting Fri day night. The big ball of the Chamber of Commerce on the top floor of ' the Oregon building viras crowded nearly to the limit. , ' Mr. Price Is general manager of the Mallory hotel and ' is president of the Oregon Hotelmen's association. He is a native Oregonian and has for many years been an ardent sportsman. - -j Better protection . of game and a greater increase of trout fry in streams and game birds liberated in. the fields make up his announced platform. Farmers Indorse , .' Government Ships Washington, March 29. The farmers' national council today Indorsed govern ment operation of ships. They declared the plan of Edward N.; Hurley to dis pose of the , ships built ; at federal ex pense "at the current world market price" would mean only a price fixing by the shipping combine with resulting loss to the government. . Phone Main 37S 11 'A late. Havimig Tfiiat Mat leaned arid Reblocked? The Paris Hat Manufacturing Company WEST PARK AND AILOER In the Peoples Theatre , Building Hats Our Dyeing of Ladies' Black Hats Guaranteed to OREGON BOYS BLADTO FIND A LITTLE BIT OF OREGON IN NEW YORK :" " t ' :' : - rs- v . - - A ' -: - - J ':'-..'- - . ,' Headquarters and Touch of Home ; , Are Appreciated by Re turning Heroes. Oregon veterans returned. from over seas, but not yet having crossed the con tinent to the, to them, one most beauti ful and loving spots In all the world, are getting a little bit of Oregon in New York, in the Oregon headquarters on Seventh avenue, according to letters from the men themselves and from the Oregon welcome committee. Members of this organization who meet Oregon -veterans when they file off the big transports, and .who in New York give a touch of Oregon's warm hospitality to : the state's finest, . have been successful In making the men feel almost at home. , "We find that Oregon boys want more than anything else to get news from home, to talk of home and to meet Oregon people," writes Clark Leiter, in a letter to a friend in Portland. ' The headquarters are described in a few words by Mr. Leiter. -1 "We have fitted up - for them very modest little headquarters, everything neat and, simple, easy chairs and tables for newspapers, a few. Oregon pictures, writing desks Just a homey place to go." What appears to please the men most is the fact that the people of Oregon thought enough of them to 'furnish a place, for them and- have a welcoming committee . to meet Ahem in the na tion's largest city. ; "Through H volunteer workers we are visiting the soldiers at the docks, rail ing on wounded at hospitals, visiting the camps at intervals, conducting an in formation bureau, serving coffee and sandwiches at little canteens and keep ing them cheered up the best we can," wrote Mr.-'.Leiter. Second Leased Wire Ticker Service Is to B& Located Here Giving Portland a new ; complete leased wire stock, bond, cotton and grain exchange service, J. B. Stelnbach A Co. have completed arrangements whereby Your Attention, Please! J'- S- ' 1 1 T " IpV Is 1?' v -i. i they will become correspondents of Ev F. Hutton -A Co., members of . the New York stock exchange New York cotton exchange,' the Chicago Board of iTrade and the Liverpool Cotton association. The firm has taken a suite of offices in the Railway Exchange building and will open : for business April ?. i Portland the same 'market 'quotation service as the other leading coast cities. It is the second coast to coast leased wire to come llrect; to ! Portland from New York Instead of going . through southern coast cities. Overbeck. Cook & Co. recently made similar arrange ments through a large eastern firm. The new affiliation will give to Port land complete - ticker service simultane ous with other leading stock exchanges rot the country. Commander Frederick J. Home, Amer ican naval attache at Toklo, has been ', decorated with the Order of the Sacred Treasure by the emperor of Japan for his "splendid service as naval attache." Inviting Proposals for the ProDertv and Im- provements of Engine House on Fourth St., ' Near Yamhill, for. the v City of Portland, Or, Sealed proposals will be received at the office of the Purchasing Agent of the City of Portland, Oregon, room 20R, City Hall, until April 11. 1919, at 2 P. M..' for proposals for the sale of lot 8, block 50, City of Portland, including improve ment. Cash or trade will be accepted. Property in trade to be within five blocks of fire station. The right to reject any and all bids is hereby reserved. i PETER MCINTOSH." Assistant Purchasing Agent. City : of Portland, Oregon. m e whnnCTnirk . w. . . 4 4- 4 the leadings fea tures of the lead ing machines are all harmoniously combined In one tea n d s o m new troubls t r e writing machine ol the first qual ityIn which you ' will find your own favorite feature of your own favorite typewriter, and the others be sides.' '.- ' - THE WOODSTOCK TYPEWRITER AGENCY SM OAK ST- PORTLAND. OBEGOIT Hold Color "j.f . f;