THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 11, 1921.
CROPS OF STATE
IN POOR SHAPE
Are Backward from Too
S'MATTER POP?
PUT IT ON BEHIND MEALS.
BY C. M. PAYNE
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Iucn nam ana oia
Weather.
ralri-h. June 11. Being optimistic
jf an effort to farmers now. Listen
t0 'the pist of what 51 farmers re
nted on basis of June 1st crop con
,!jciriS: "To much rain and cold
'cathpr. Spring breezes cause heavy
jnipp to crops. Everything back
ward from ten to thirty days. Prac-
;,.,llv all fruit killed or a ranure.
Anps in poor condition with many
svtions having poorest pr&spects in
v vrars. Much replanting. Cut
filing
or,vp insects and diseases doing
JLvv 'damage. Recent warm weath
l' niore favorable. Increase in hay
crTlv principal wheat counties of
v Carolina have suffered seriously
Li'i 'hossian fly and rust, in addition
w decrease in acreage. The
11 it'it condition of 75 per cent of
'"..'n.'ii (full crop) is 12 per cent less
'"'n"he average. The forecasted pro
V', .i, n of 5,782.000 bushels is almost
v 'nrllion or 32 per cent less than
tMaV'p crop, while the average
a',p',v" M 69 Per bushel compares with
ia.-; year. The United States
' "'-Vat "e-op' averages 78 per cent of a
f,Verop prospect as compared with
v-ial per cent condition and
I - eent last year. The national
'v;-pr wheat acreage was increased
n'V and a half per cent, while the
,,. rl- wheat was decreased seven per
rV"t The total acreage Is about the
The date's oat crop has been more
f- turate than wheat since its condi-!''-!,,
of 90 is six per cent better than a
v r aco. and the acreage is increased
'-v' i)er 'cent, while last year it was
'iV'-eaod sixteen per cent from the
Cyvnvi? year. The national acreage
!n increased three and a half per cent
i j condition of 85.7 per cent of
vr 'n.a'-. averaged two less than a year
r -"i" The national prospective yield
w acre i? 31.3 bushels, which is about
I ,r' ePS than last year and the usual,
-'"e average price is 38 cents, compar-
with $1.03 ner bushel a year ago.
Te l?2l crop is forecasted at 1.404,922.
ivui buhels. making a decline in value
n last vear's crop of $1,038,000,000,
P- twice the value of the present
fop.
Xiv rve crop suffered little from
'-adverse weather conditions this
y.v The present 88 per cent condi-
nn in North Carolina is but two less
-;m last vear. The United States
i forecasted at 71.000.000 bushels
vVd on an average of 90.3 per cent
rnprition June 1st. The yield is 15.6
f'jfi.e'.s per acre, averaging $1.2- in
value. Last year's yield was 13.7 bush
e'V at $1.84 'in price. -
Sore, Red and Itched Terribly.
A.I I I .
luticura neals in 6 Months.
" My trouble was ringworms on nay
face and neck. At first I had little
red pimples in circles and then they
got dry and scaly. The skin around
! the ringworms was sore and red and
itched terribly, and I would scratch.
"This trouble lasted a good while
' before I started usinp- Cuticma Soar
l " o r
and Ointment. After I had used them
about a month I got relief, and when
I used them for three months I was
healed." (Signed) Miss Helen Dolan,
Wt Kaborg St., Baltimore, Md.
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100 True Detective Stories
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A SLIP OF THE PEN
Copyright, 1921, by The Wheeler Syndicate, Inc. Book Rights Reserveo
Prlirfl rprnrfls nil nver thft worl'l
like the rounding up of criminals of
other classes, is a work best nanaiea
by those who have made a lifelong
study of the various phases of crime
and have learned to forecast the next
move of the man . wno is plotting
against the banks. Professional detec
tives have an immense advantage over
those of the amateur variety, in Ihfit
they are organized mar. tney are ?u-
fill(2rl oritVi tViov riotor'tfvpa in 'ill fit
the country, and that it is imposs5ble j
for a marked man to iravei as iasi as
the news of his flight is flashed over
thp rlpcrrArh wires. This is rarticu!ar-
ly true when the matter is one which
concerns bank frauds. But, in spue
of the theoretical advantage of the pro
fessional detective, the amateur scows
as was proved by the case or Art-.ur
L. Moore.
tvio first intimation which the liank
officials .of Denver received of tho ac
tivities of a. man who appea.td :o te
oYffntinnallv clever with his pen. v. as
when two checks, for several thousand
dollars each, were returned iroin . ni
cago and Omaha with the notation, "No
such account." Each of the checks pre
sumably bore the endorsement of the
person who had casnea mem, i;ul, wiit-n
notified that the check had been re
turned, each of the endorsers looked at
the signature in amazement and em-
phaticaliy aisciaimea any wumKuao i'i
the transaction.
Careful examination of the endorse
ments proved the truth of their state-
, Tha siirrintiirps had been wrlt-
llicii Lin. i
ten on the back of the checks by ,
some one who evidently belonged tJ'
the most dangerous variety oi iorSer-.f
a member or me use-iwim j.x.-i-nity"
".vho depended upon his skill to
reDroduce the curves anu auxuinSo .i
. . . . a i Vfnai hnnn.l
the original, rawer
hv the rubber-stamp outlines of v.
traced signature.
After a numoer ui tnev
ilar kind had been reported, the mat
raoo( rt the hands of detec
tive agencies employed by the Amer-
lean Bankers' ABsociauun, n
was flashed throughout the Lnited
States to be on the lookout for a new
penman who appeareu ",.7 ;
re., r. -ri f nnndwritine. at
imitate any
will. N
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They come in White Cheviots White
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Less than a week later, as if in de
fiance of the precautions taken by the
banks, another financial institution in
Denver found that it had been swin
dled. Someone had come in, presum
ably during the rush hour just befors
closing time, and had presented a.
check which precisely wiped out the
balance of one of the depositors. The
next day, when a smaller check cams
through, the maker was informed that
his account was overdrawn, and it was
nnlv nnnn PYncrt comnarison of the
two signatures that the larger check
was found to be fraudulent, 'inree
nthpr similar crisps were reDorted on
the same day. and matters reached
such a point that no paying teller in
the city would cash a check for more
than a hundred dollars without refer
ring the matter to his superiors.
These simresaful f nrs-prips all took
place early in' November, and, either
because the forger had secured enough
mnnpv for his immediate needs, or be-
caus he was fearful of detection, no
rttVior- r-aeea were renortpd until tho
day after Christmas, when $1,000 wa3
obtained on a check so cleverly writ
ten that the man whose name appear
ed on it could not swear that the sig
nature was not really his.
This incident proved that the forger
woe still in Denvpr. and it also (3d
Paying Teller Kretschmer, of the In
ternational Trust Company, to hope
that he might be the one to effect the
capture of the elusive handwriting ex
pert. The police of the city and the
detectives assigned to the case by the
vorinns hanks' nroteetive associations
were frankly at their wits' ends. Thay
claimed that comparison of the checks
showed nothing in common beyond the
fact that the swindler was addicted
to the use of even figures probably
because it took the teller less time to
count cut the money and that it was
next to impossible to spot the for
geries in advance. They therefore id
vised great care in handling any
checks made out to "Cash," the way
i wViiVVi the fraudulent orders had
been drawn, and also reported that
they were doing everything possible to
locate the criminal.
Kretschmer, however, had been do
ing a little studying on his own ac
count. He had secured pnotograpnic
copies of the various forged checks
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and had found that there were two
other points of similarity between
them tiny details which the detective
force had overlooked. In the first
place, the "h" in "Cash" always end
ed with an upward tvist, while the
top was closed and the bottom wicie
open. No matter ho the rest of the
writing might differ, this "h" was al
ways fairly distinctive. Secondly, the
man who wrote the checks had the
habit of placing two dashes, instead of
one, under the extra ciphers wnicn
represented the cents.
A third nnint. whirh the police were
also following, was that only three :
banks in the city had not been victim
ized, and it would probably he a mat
ter of ime before the forger tried hr,
hand at one of these three of which
the International Trust Company was
one!
Kretschmer accordingly kept his
eyes wide open, and during the rusn
which preceded the closing hour on
New Tear's Eve, spotted a slip of the
pen on a check presented by a man
Whom he had never seen before. The
signature was apparently perfect bil
the check was made out to "Cash" with
a distinctive "h" and there were two
lines under the extra ciphers!"
The paying teller waited for nothing
more 'hp was convinced that he heel
the man for whom the police had been
searching for two months, and the
sharp clang of the alarm bell flashed
the signal to guard tno aoors. iue
man in frnnt of the teller's booth snap
ped Viiss rinn d hark to his hiD pocket.
but a glance inside the cage showed
him that his move naa come too ihu.
K-retsohmer had him covered, and an
instant later, detectives closed in irom
t V e ren r effertnallv ending the career
of Arthur L. Moore a master-forger
who worked alone, and whose capture
was due solely to the fact that his pei
slipped once too oiten.
PRINTING FROM TYPE
SOON TO BE OBSOLETE
London, June 11. Suggestion that
printing from type is likely to be sup
erseded was made by "William Gamble
at the recent World's Congress of
Printers held here in connection with
the International Printing and Allied
Trades exhibition. Mr. liamDie said
that at least three inventors were try
ing to develop a photographic process
to take the place oi printing irum
type.
Tie nreflioted that, the machines for
printing by photographic process would
hardly occupy more space man a type
writer nor be any more complicated.
He expressed the opinion that even
tually the great printing presses in
newspaper offices would give place to
smaller, swift-running and comparative
iv nniseiesa machines which would turn
out printed matter with almost the
Same IJUJIJUIJ M cue mvims iv.iuig
ator reels off his film.
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EVER-BEARINGORANGE
TREE IS DISCOVERED
Tampa, Fla., June 11. An ever-bearing
orange tree which citrus fruit grow
ers believe is destined to revolutionize
the orange industry of the state if not
of the entire country, has been discov
ered by horticulturists in a small grove
at Avon Park, near here, and to pro
tect the specimen its purchasers have
placed around it a heavy wire fence
twenty feet in neignt ana bwuuhbu
guards dav and night.
The tree has Deen in oeaims
timiftnaiv rAirYit vears but until receiit-
ixr ita e-iristenre was known only to the
owner and several" neighbors who, ac
cording to citrus experts, did hot: ie; i-
: xroliie Vint regarded it Tj:rely
!. f,..ov r,r nature Several of
ci o ex, J.. can,
Florida's largest citrus growers have
organized a syndicate, purchaser the
tree, leased the ground uyun wn-n "
j. ri j nirendv are taking steps
SldUUIS ciaiu .v.. -
n ovcinn its nossibilities bv jorojpaj,at-
!, 111. V W W X ' ,
in? it througn duciwouu. wh. .- - (
pectation of having 250,000 trees reauy :
for setting out in groves by 1023
The ever-oearing tree is j.........,
years old but its origin is a mystery..
Like the famous Temple orange tree,
discovered some years ago on the es
tate of the late w. itmyic,
National League baseball magnate the
new specimen stands alone as the first
of an entirely new branch of the citrus
family and its owners believe J wj
brine forth stock true to the parent
tree and, as in the case of the Temple
lite be Worth millions to the men who
had 'the foresight to grasp its possibili-
tieAcr.arently authentic records show
that for eight years the tree has bloom
ed and borne fruit continuously and
that at no time during that period has
itfailed to have blossoms and fruit at
it raiiea tu outward ap-
P Se the 'frtu is a V--Pj
flavor that of a perfect Valencia the
variety that brings the top price in the
eever-bearing Florida lemon has
heen common for many years but cit
experts here declare Mth ; never b
fore have known of an ever earmj,
orange.
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