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New Britain herald., 1919-07-10
: VACATION Byt EDMUND VANCE COOKE

9se- When your Wear has been bounded Nand bothered By fhSI count and the discount of
 ge}ods, Q, to dYd yourself mothered and fla
 tIfered By tn es balm and the calm of the
 VI bods! 4 fter xfconcrete and brick have 'assail- wi asss ss yss 3ss .+ones of the streets never vary, Whatr4elief to find life has unjailed
 yoa
 For a look at the limitless prairie When your back, or your brain, has been blistered By the tie and the travail of toll, o, to find yourself brothered and
 sistered By the infinite soul of the soil.
 Copyright, 1919, x. F. A
New Britain herald., 1919-07-10
RETURN TO WORK.

Rome, July 9.-The chamber Ia bor has issued a manifesto say1 that, having received guarantees tA the prices of necessities wilf be duced 50 per cent, it invites people to return to work.
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burg, former minister of finance; Friederich von Payer, former lm- perial vice. chancellor, and few oth- CT democrats voted for ratification
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Entered at the Post Office at New Britain
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Well, anyway, prohibition Is go- ing to save the man with a cold from listening to a, lot of useless ad- Philadelphia Inquirer.
New Britain herald., 1919-07-10

The old saying was that God is on the side of the biggest battalions. The presidency of Peru evidently be- longs to the man with the most po- icemen.-Philadel Public Ledger.
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FACTS AND FANCIES.
All roads led away from Toledo Manchester Union.

The allies are profting by William Hohenzollern's long standing adver- tisement of himself as the only orig inal article. They are now accept ing no ubstitutes.-New York Eve ming Post.
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when caught been stealing
for about three months.
When he had a little more,
his intention was to resign
his Treasury Job. Only a few
of the notes had he patched.
and Of these he had not tried
to pass even one. Probably
his plan was to wait until he
was out of the Government
service, and then put the
money cautiously into circu-
lation. He might travel, and
so get rid of the notes in diff.
ferent cities.
AS already stated, the de
The Washington times., 1919-07-27

Examining Diamond Workers at Kimberly
for Stolen Stones. Similar Rigid Inspee-
ton of All These Labo-ers to Prevent
Them from Making Away with Precious
Articles They Handle Has Been Sug-
gested, Because of TurnbulPs Stealing
for United States Workers in Certain
Treasury Departments
Treasurer of the United States. the Comp
troller of the Currency and the Secretary
Of the Treasury, Turnbull was the official
representative of the Secretary of the
Treasury.
The mOney-pulp from the macerator is
sold in a wet state (63 per cent water) to
the paper manufacturers under yearly con-
tract, going to the highest bidder But a
few thousand pounds of it every year are
bought by makers Of souvenirs" in Wash
ington, who mold it 'atO miniature Wash
ington Monuments, little 81 IS of Wilson
and other celebrities. and plaques in var
ious patriotic designs. which find a ready
market with strangers visiting the capital.
They are individually marked as repre-
senting an original money value of $50 900
or 00.000-whateyer amounts the ven
doris fancy may attach to them-and some
times. to lend verisimilitude. tiny scraps
or real notes (suCh as may be torn OF
Without rendering the latter non-nego-
tablet are stuck here and there on the
surface OF the material.
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Judiciary Square, and is conducted by
Turnbull's wife as a boarding house
TurnbuIl has one son, who is grown up
and married.
Naturally, the first thing the detectives
did on arrssting the man was to search
him. In his pockets were found notes and
corners to the amount of $2,441; he had
made a good days pickings. They were
OF various denominations, but Turnbull
usually selected twenties and ffties.
At first he declared that the s36,6S5, to-
gether with what was taken from his
pockets. made up the sum total of his
stealings; but the detectives put him
through a sort Of third degree, and finally
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wPHEN paper money gets worn and
4" dirty the United States Treasury
wv officials at Washington order the
bills destroyed and new, fresh money
printed to replace the worn and dirty cur
Fency
Thus it happens that every day in the
Sear thousands of dollars in one, two FIVE,
ten. twenty. fifty and hundred dollars bills
are retired from circulation and destroyed
down in the basement of the Treasury.
Four men are assigned to this work of
putting an end to the life of worn. dirty
bill which has had a long and honorable,
or dishonorable, career.
What is to prevent these four men from
slipping into their pockets a ffty-dollar
note or a ten-dollar bill now and then?
Nobody would ever miss this money be-
cause In one sense It is not stolen from
missed. All these bills are dead. officially,
and II few were slipped into the pockets
Of 1.-The Destruction Squad" who would
ever find 1t out?
1t has always been wondered why this
money which is marked for destruction
never tempted any of the men whose bust
ness it is to destroy it. And at last the
expected has happened. Charles H. Turn
bull, one Of the four Treasury employees
of the money destruction squad. has been
caught with his pockets full Of bills which
he was ordered TO destroy. And a search
cf his house revealed thousands Of dollars
of currency Of all denominations which it
was supposed had been chopped up, ground
irto pulp and soaked in water and I've.
It is a dangerous infection that is con-
veyed by the bite Of the money-bug.
Charles Turnbull was bitten by the desire
TO put in his pocket the bills that didn't
belong to him.
Cashiers and other trusted employees
in banks are supposed to be immune. Yet
their salaries, as a rule, are relatively
small; it is likely to be hard for them to
make both ends meet, and it may easily
happen that they are in debt, Stacks of
ready cash constantly surround them, and
the temptation thus offered must often be
great.
The trusted bank employe is usually
nan who leads an exemplary life. He has
a long record of honesty and steady habits
But one day, perhaps, he succumbs. The
money bug has bitten him, and thereafter
the disease is incurable. He goes on pill
fering UNTIL no matter how ingeniously his
thefts are covered up. the inevitable dis
covery arrives.
Money stolen from a bank leaves a cor
responding shortage. But suppose that the
bank officials were TO say to the employe,
Here. Charles, take this package of Fed.
eral Reserve notes and burn them" If,
under such circumstances. Charles were to
put a few Of the notes in his pocket and
burn the rest. he would not feel that he
was robbing anybody, and he might con-
slider himself safe from detection.
Now, It was just such a situation that
recently confronted Charles H. Turnbull,
. trusted employe of the United States
Treasury at Washington. His business
was to destroy paper money which was
deemed unfit for further circulation-the
method adopted being to boil It TO a messy
and unacceptable pulp in a cylindrical
tank containing a mixture OF water and
soda ash.
Four men, as already stated, composed
the sC-called destruction committee" that
attends to this job nearly every weekday
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he brought to light a
bread-box and two more
paint cans, containing $1S,-
5S4. Yet another can
yielded s7,10O.
Turnbull was held in
$4,000 bail. At last &C
counts he was in Jail, with
the prospect Of spending
several years in the peni-
Tertiary.
He Is a chubby little
man, with a jolly manner.
Everybody liked him.
Doubtless under any ordi-
nary circumstances he
would have kept his excel
lent reputation and stayed
honest. But the tempta-
ton was too much for him.
Constantly surrounded by
wealth in literal stacks, he
was bitten by the money
bug and succumbed.
What an obvious pity to
destroy all of that perfect
ly good money, when a
twenty or a fifty saved out
here and there would be so
useful! A single twenty
was more than he could
earn in a week of hard
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the condemned notes on the floor.
Then as he stopped to rscover them
he would slip the bills he had
'palmed' into his pocket"
az he stopped to pick up the next package
Of notes he would drop the stolen one into
his coat pocket.
1t was not nearly so clever a scheme as
he imagined. In the first place. somebody
present was bound to catch him at it
sooner or later. Secondly, the notes, when
he tried to patch and pass them, were sure
to attract attention at banks, where they
must ultimately arrive. Attention once
called to the matter Treasury officials
would be consulted, and the character of
the patching would make manifest the
source from which the patched notes came.
AS it turned out Turnbull never did any
PATCHING. He passed not a single one Of
the notes. His stealings Melted him not
so much as a penny. There never was
less profitable fraud
The inevitable happened. A fellow
member of the destruction committee"
became suspicious. He thought he saw
what Turnbull was doing. Suspicion once
aroused he watched, and soon the thing
became manifest AS a mere matter OF
self-protection he was Obliged to report
the affair to the Treasury authorities.
Turnbulls arrest quickly followed. Il
vas so sudden, and by himself so unex-
Pected, that a number Of mutilated notes
were found in his pockets. Also a num-
Ter of detached corners. For obvious rea-
OILS, he had taken care to supply himself
with as many corners as notes.
What had he done with all the stuff he
stole? That was the next question. Thor
oughly frightened, he readily confessed.
He had hidden the mutilated notes in and
about his house. Detectives of the United
States Secret Service went there with him
and he conducted them to the cellar.
where, with their assistance, he dug up
from beneath the floor of the coal-bin four
Paint cans containing $36,6S5.
The house is No 407 Fourth street. N
w, a rather handsome three-story struct-
ure Of red brick opposite the park called
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work. He began by abstracting an occa-
slonal note. 1t was so easy that before
long he was stealing a number of them
daily.
According to his own account he had
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struction committee" has four members.
When cancelled Federal Reserve notes are
TO go into the "macerator,' there is always
one man who represents the banks. The
three others respectively represent the
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in the year. It is, OF
course, an important
and responsible task,
and involves some la
Dor, as may be judged
from the fact that dur
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ing the last twelve mi
months 3,s72250 ,J r
pounds of wet money w. ~
pulp containing So Nk&
per cent of water) NIX
we're sold by the
Treasury, mainly to IS
paper manufacturers.
Uncle Sans paper
money is made of I'm
est linen rags, and the
pulp is of high value
as paper stock"
Treasury notes. before being consigned
to the tank. have four holes punched
through them, and are cut in halves. It
would be pretty hard, thereafter, to patch
them together in such style as to render
them negotiable. With Federal Reserve
notes it is different Only big corner is
clipped off these notes-before the notes
and the corners, separately bundled, are
turned in for destruction.
The reason for this difference of treat
nent has nothing to do with the story.
But it is obvious that note thus mutt:
lated. together with a corner, will make
whole piece Of money; and this is exactly
the idea that occurred to Charles H. Turn
bull.
Turnbull had not been in the employ of
the Treasury for many months He came.
however, excellently recommended, and
was appointed a member of the "destruc-
ton committee" aforementioned. His sal
AIRY was $1,000 per annum.
That is less than $50 a week Turnbull
was a poor man. The high cost of living
rad made it more than ordinarily difficult
for him to get along. Millions of dollars
were constantly passing through his hands,
and going, as It seemed, to waste. Why
mean so much to him, and nobody would
suffer injury. Uncle Sam would never
know the difference.
Turnbull thought It over Obviously, the
Invitation lay in the Federal Reserve
notes. He made up his mind to hold on
to some of them, as they passed through
his hands, and give them a chance to cir
crlate a while longer before undergoing
the boiling process.
The "mscerating tank" as it is called,
is in the basement of the Bureau of En-
craving, where all the paper money is
originally printed. Thither all the can
ce1led money is brought from the Treas
try, a distance of six blocks, in a steel
wagon built like a safe on wheels.
The notes thus delivered are done up in
packages. But it would not do to consign
them in this shape 10 the tank, because
their compactness would interfere with
the pulping action Of the boiling mixture.
The packages are therefore undone, and
the notes are thrown into the tank much
in the same way as playing cards are dealt
at a card table
Suppose that you we're playing cards
and that in dealing the pack yeu were at
intervals to hide one up your sleeve. This
was substantially the method adopted by
Turnbull in consigning Federal Reserve
notes to the macerator. Every now and
tken he would palm" one Ito use the
language of stage or parlor maggie,
crumpling II into bali in his hand; and,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-24
FOOTBALL SEASON
 BEGINS HERE SOON

The gridiron season of 1919 will be opened in Birmingham next Saturday, September 27 when the Partners of Bir- ingham-Southern college tackle the Hamilton Agges, at Munger field in the initial football contest of the year.
 The Hamilton Aggies always have one of the strongest teams of It's kind in the state, and this year is not an exception. Reports from the training camp of the Hamiltonites state that strong team will be brought to Birmingham by that aggregation next Saturday, and will give the Partners fight for the decision.
 Coach Charlie Brown has been putting his entire squad through the kind of practice for the initial game, and his whole squad, with the possible exception of several of the latecomers, will be in fine condition to enter the contest.
 A hard scrimmage was held on Munger field Monday and Tuesday afternoons. great deal of signal practice together with bunting, forward passing, charging, tackling. etc, consumed the remainder Of the practice each afternoon for the past week.
 The scrimmages which have been held show considerable inexperience on the part of most of the squad, especially the linesmen. The line is especially good on the defensive, but lacks a great deal of being good offensive line. Coach Brown has been giving much of his at tention to showing his players the finer points of the game to make for any in- experience that is lacking.
 Douglas Streit, the all-American prep school halfback from Mercersburg, re- l ported to Coach Brown in uniform Mon day afternoon for his first practice.
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swept through EnSIand~ rom the H4SH- est to the lowest classes.
 WILDE SPOTS FEM
 Jimmy Wilde. the wonderful little paperweight. is an idol They love that boy there. and nothing is too good for him-no matter where he goes, l guess it would be terrible blow to Englands pride if Wilde was whippct by ar American and shorn of his titis. It is common talk that Wilde promised Lord Lonsdale after his last fight With Moore that hereafter he will not give away weight when fighting an Amer can. In the past Wilde has been spotting' his foemen from 3 to 12 pounds.
 England is very eager to see Jack Dempsey It has heard much about him. Reams upon reams of stuff have beer written about the great cham pion My purpose in coming to this country is to try to induce Dempsey to go to England and fight some time in March or April against the winner of the Beckett -Carpentier match. These two fellows will meet in No-e vemver Carpenter is great fighter still, but not as great as he was be- fore the war The long layoff dida't help him any-and he's getting bit old as fighters go. Beckett is a conner ana lnlnk ne II whip GdTpeHlieT ouCe.
 What chance do I think Beckett would have against Dempsey? Well, can't hazard any guess. I'm told that Dempsey is marvel-and I'll tell you that Beckett is good. If I saw Dempsey in action I might be able to get true line on the respective ab.l- ities of those men.
 'Tm positive that a fight between Dempsey and the winner of that No- vemLer match would attract the big best crowd that ever saw a prize fight anywhere in the wor1d-and that it would bring a record gate. The sport lovers of England now-from the roy- atty right down to the lowliest-fight their way into every arena where even fair sort of fight bill is being of fered A worlds championship match in England would set the nation wild with enthusiasm and the turnout would exceed the expectations of even the most optimstic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-24
Football Season Opens Saturday
Interest tn Boxing Ls Very
 High inEngland and France
Since War Boxing Has Become Favorite Witb English Sportsmen- Wilde Is the Idol of British Isles-A Dempsey-Beckett
 Fight Would Draw Well
By JAMES J. CoRBETT

England and France are aflame with boxing enthusiasm" declares Redmond Barry, the London fistic pro- l moter who is in America at the pres 1 ent time attempting to match Jack Dempsey with either Joe Beckett or Georges Carpenter
 For nearly a decade prior to 1913 boxing wasn't very popular on the British Isles" said Barry. But in 1913 there came sudden revival that began sweeping through the nation through the early part of 1914 Of Course. when the war came England ] turned it's mind to more serious things. 1 Boxing, as well as all other sports, was shelved
 But. peculiarly enough, the war, in stead of killing interest in boxing matches, merely heightened it. The soldiers, seeking diversion back of the lines. chose boxing. Competent teach CTS of the art of self-defense made it possible for many to develop quickly their natural ability, and the war in addition to creating many ring war ! riors. made hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts.
 English, Irish and Scotch, who never before had ever seen a boxing , match, attended the bouts in camps and back of the fighting lines. They wanted some sort of diversion and they decided to see what this pugil-
 stic stuff was like. They became en- l thusiasts at once Their love of box 1 ing a sport grew all during the i war. When the conflict ended they did i not lose their interest in the game. | Rather it became heightened.
 RING ENTHUSIASM 1 "As a result. whenever two we'll matched men meet in fiStic ffajr on ] the British Isles there is always the 1 assurance of crowded house. Of
 course, in England now we haven't
 more than tYo or three fighters with l interna nationabreputation like you have
 here. but there are some awfuliy good ] boys coming along there whose work delights English audiences.
 However, I dare say that men like | kilbane. Leonard, White, Dundee,
 Lewis and the Rher American satel- i lites could make big money by spenl- 1 ing six months or so in England right
 now.
 "No greater evidence of the tre-
 mendous enthusiasm over boxing in England at the present time can be 1 shown than the receipts for the Jimmy Wilde-Pal Moore fight, which took place in July. The gate amounted to 1 s114,00o. which, I think, is the world 5 record for money in any fight involv-
 ing little men-and with no champion 1 ship at stake. If I know the facts cor
 rectly, that sum is more than double 1 that paid by .an American audience 10 see a championship clash between men under the heavyweight division. 1 And included in the crowd that saw l the contest was Eng1and's nobility. l The king wasn't there, but the Prince i of Wales and other members of the l royal family occupied a box. The wealthiest and most aristocratic fam
 lilies also were at the ringside which
 just shows that the boxing fever has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-24

WinSo has not batte1 against Adams but against Barnes and Galore the two remaining representati. es cf Cicotte he has not been able to get single hit in six times at bat. Agamst Cooper he has hit .l-5 and against Vaughn, 1S7, so we may conclude that his hitting power against southpaw pitct1ng ct the White ,sox calibre is not waoie lot better than against right handlers of Cicotte's class.
 Schalk is the equal Of any catcher that has ever graced the rational game. This looks like large order, but the fans of either league are pretty well convinced that he never had his aqual in throwing to bases, catching fouis handling pitch CTS and tagging runners.
 His record for playing more than 1ot games in a year in seven consecutive years stands as a mark for all other catchers to shoot at.
 Schalk is a dangerot right handed hitter. He is a slow runner but at that he has stolen one more base this season than Wingo and Rariden combined. Me chan nically he approaches blSeball perfec- tion but in addition to that he uses his head to advantage No angle of the game which catcher may we'll be expected to come in contact with is strange to him
 He is proficient in all
 WINGO IS VETERAN
 NOW as 70 W1ngO. Here Is a veteran who by every mark of the record books is still playing grand baseball. He throws well and is an excellent all around player
 He is a left handed hitter. but his hit ting is not SO strong as it once was. It is apparent from the records that the bulk of the work in the worlds series, that is
 the work behind the bat, will rest on his Shoulders. And his shoulders are broad.
 Rariden is a right handed hitter The I .1.I- zIo,
 all his best baseball before entering fas. company. He was a real star in the Fed era1 league. He may not star in the worlds series but the results of his work may figure strongly in the games. He is especially good at handling pitchers and the Red pitchers. are likely to show the results of his skill along these lines. He has been a good batter and a good thrower and he still is smart ball player.
 LYNN PLAYS WELL
 If Lynn gets into the worlds series if will be because schalk cannot play But at that Lynn is a great understudy and would have much more opportunity if Schalk was not so pre- eminent as to force his presence in so many games. Lynn came to the White Sox from Salt Lake City with Williams He Is a strong righ' handed hitter and his litt.ng would be more noteworthy. if he had an opportun 1 ity to get into the game often enough to get his eye on the bali. He is a good thrower and in every way is |, competent substitute for Schalk 1T an emergency. l Jenkins is another good White SoN 1 catcher, but his value chiefly center' around his steady, consistent work in the bull pen working with the pitchers. (The next article in this series will he devoted to comparison cf the righ' handed pitching of the two clubs and will afford an interesting lire on Cicotte and Eller and others of less importance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-24

At first glance this might look like an overwhelming advantage for the White Sox with Ray Schalk, the best catcher in the game today. But. this advantage may be more apparent than real,
 One must remember that this is to be a long worlds series. It may be neces- sary to play nine games. Five will be required even though one team wins the worlds championship in straight victories.
 With nine games, coming one after the other without intermission unless