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'Wiuarsvaaeaatuir,truttuy _ m1 pod enough to please citiditms Charles Becker. hi. Drilling and wnuxmuks no that. Yet to his keen an crux}. of the like m mm mm - Spood'l locking, but theee's plenty of l _ by M Mo-ohphano upon nioigh. Going along for the ” ll m-ykf-OH Walter Thouingor, of Hamburg, Germany Min. pachydorm is 65-year-old "Menme', random ot “H I... Wolnr'l humor is Oh. 100 Rumor, Hun pr'OInln' " - privilogc. Becker began life as an en ("vet's apprentice. But when ya girlfriend jilted him to mar- 2 someone better off Becker _ wed that at all costs he would climb out of poverty -- and he chose the slippery slope of grime. 1:;Studying inks, dyes. bleaches, “Heminry and even paper-mak- .ttg, he invested his early illicit Wits in the finest obtainable _c?itu.ipsmer_ot., "No wonder we _§In’t catch this guy," said a , 'vemment agent. "He's making gnu- stuff than we can!" I -. Yet Becker did not rest con-' "tnt until his forgeries. aside, tom the almost insurmountable, diniculty of the serial numbers, '70:: virtually undetectable. He famed the curency of all nations,; lull-n and pounds sterling, French francs and Italian lire) Be manufactured fake stocks' 'dhd securities, knowing they buee by no means as familiar g money nor so fully prooied, -egainst counterfeiting. " CBut the most startling chap-) ttr of'his career opened when, he came to London and set up' a a brokerage and investment, mprpert, Advice at his office was 1 Wee. Two genuine salesmen hustled around for genuine in-, Vhtment business. He even he? Ian making a small legitimate 'rotit. ‘Bl hit ill-gotten gains so deftly that some ot the hiding places .hlve not been found to this 'r. More launching one ot his lpurious home-made issues. locker Always cautiously took a .mple not to a bank, :‘Hylng ttl he was worried because it ht be counterfeit. On one Occasion. I cuhier sniffed at a currency note, murmuring that mellow it didn't smell right. From that moment Becker took pains to fake even the odour of his paper money. For I long time he operated ”wilfully in the States by doing what was alleged to be jumble, bleaching tl bills white and then re-engraving' rqtertt as $10 bills. It was almost equivalent to changing fivers, Into £50 notes. Yet this was .amai1 stuff. Becker was to de-' xalop into the gmatest iorger the world has ever known. Ultimately he printed and “Pissed millions in spurious :pnper money, salting away most "lt hit ill-gotten gains so deftly, tWhen he began operations, itock Exchange rules were less sTringent than they are to-day. With cunningly forged docu- ments and a skillfully built-up completely fake American bark ground. he even enlisted the co- operation of two well-known in- ’ustment houses. "lBouting that by low over held! he could buy and sell lime: at better than prevailing tirarket prices. Becker's businew named unimpeachahle. But be- End the shiny brass plate and Rplished furniture of his 0mm g “I. Ac. Forget Nady Broke Dank - Nor tried again. He did In mind toiling tor months on Ind to produce the counterfeit many that washed him. He 'II own known to take one ot " [money £5 notes to Scotland Yard - and mile contentedly than Insured it was genuine. ”Lute-t thing --. electronic dog. walker'." mun-4w». 1,44, T we [GERRY MENAGERIE I no. I: In: undo-a ”1an he wu buying guanine - Auction: at ttie/tyet':' with spurious cut: at it quietly burning eristtlthe rate of E5,000 worth a 9100 m They were,month.' did, not match the genu- Becker lived well but not ‘lavishly Huge sums were stor- ed under varied names in safe deposits. Many unclaimed bank deposits are believed' to be ‘Becker hoards. To be sure. Becker's was the largest saloon in Brooklyn and it may have been merely a front for many shadowy enter- prises. As a small boy, a child with a rare talent. Becker had forged the signatures of friends ard neighbours who stood around laughing, watching him do it, Now he returned to his hist schoolboy technique. This time. however. the forg- ed signature was that of the v:represident of a New York insurance company, neatly writ- ten to the tune of $50,000 on a blank vhrequrt stolen from one of the company's head-offiee rhr-mw books by an inter. vi‘r’diarv. For its bullion deals. the com- pany bought gold from a broker mmu! Maxwell. paying for the [um-haw hv rhoquo. Becker had Onr' who Ir; iru'ry for himself is alrnadv half beaten. But Beckei saw the red light - and neatly skipped. His to- tal profit - nearly a million {Funds - was whisked to New ork by middlemen of the un- derworld who were afterwards proved to have taken a cut of nearly fifty per cent! Becker launched so much counterfeit money that inter- national balances were flung cut of true. and finance experts could not fathom the reason. So many forged LOGO-franc Then‘SurL-w '. 'wiigators es- tablished that 11::st were many more 153L185 ot certain securities an the market than had been is- :ued. The news leaked out and prices on the French Stock Ex- change slumped in panic. In- quiries were carried to the very doors of the Becker oMees. Oddly enough, Becker revert- ed to type. He had known limit- less wealth yet he followed the bent so often shown by both retired prizeftghters and retired crooks. He opened a pub! 'And soon this intrepid trick- ster had business offices in Ber- lin and Rome, engaged in both false and genuine money trans- actions. Taking an international finance house of apparently limitless resources, who would dream that some of the hard cash assets were forged? Who could guess that a lone man working by night, was the sole money-maker beind the scenes? So many forged LOGO-franc notes --r- then worth £40 - were successfully unloaded that me security of the Bank of France was jeopardized by the large number in circulation. One note issuv was withdrawn. but within a short time Becker flooded the tnarlost with counters folk of the new 911”, In Paris he forged a series ot government bonds with such IC- curlcy that they passed and re- passed through the banks on both sides of the Channel with. out arousing question. It was vetimate't, that m one year, when he was only thirty-two, nearly a million pounds passed through his hands. 15t Paris to Eonfuse and compli can his forgery trail. The "cumin he bought were swiftly gold tor genuine money. Becker kept good his boat to conNderatrts that his counter- teits were no period that they would not be detected until it was mo late to prove their origin. It Wu in the checking rooms of the Bank ot England that discrepancies were flrst found _ and by then Becker had even opened branch oMces l The cold weather had its drawbacks tor us but the tour.. flegged creatures seemed to like ‘it. Our neighbour's horses were racing around in the pastures having a grand time. Our few cattle were equally active in the barnyard. As for Rusty he was full of beans and Mitchie- White played around like a kit- ten. Two big grey squirrels chased each other up, down, and around the poplar tree in front of the house and one day we saw a huge hawk resting on the branches of a nearby oak tree. In fact it looked too big to be I hawk. Perhaps It was some kind nt owl, We couldn't tell from the house __ and to go out bird-watching didn't appeal to us- in 7rm Weather. Well. we got word from Eng- land thi.' week that Partner has lost two aunts and an uncle nlncf‘ (‘luistmas and the young- est of the three was M _ Aunt Lottie. I went to see her when l we: in England and found I bright, active little woman. liv- ing alone in a big house and do- ing most of her own work. The other one . Aunt Mary - was around M). and had been ill tor some time. A: for Uncles Will, Partner thinks he was crowd- ing I hundred. The whole tam. ily he: been noted for it: lon- nvlty. The mother .-. Further'l maternal grandmother __ died some \elrn no at the age of l03f She directed her two un- married t"uthterr in their housekeeping duties until mo "Are you sure? There should have been a box of groceries and a small bag ot potatoes." The call-lady was most oblig- ing and a little while she phoned back, told me everything had been straightened out and the groceries would arrive before long-which they did. A pretty fine example of the advantage of living in a country district. around here for a whole week ranged all the way from ten above zero to twenty below, ob ten with a strong wind blowing. Of course the cold weather brought with it complication: the house waa hard to heat and the car wouldn't start, but thank goodness we did0t have trouble with the plumbing. Laat Tun- ‘day we had buaineaa to attend ‘to down town and the an." ‘way was to call a taxi. That time everything waa fine. But on Friday I had to go down town again - this time to ahop. Another trip by taxi - but the result wasn't no good. In Net it practically amounted to I comedy of error; I got together what I wanted from the groeer's and asked to have my order aent over to the taxi call office. Went up the street and did the mt of my shopping, calling " the but. chers, the drugstore, the bake- shop and the dairy, carrying most of the stuff with me. The same taxi was available and ready to go so I thought all we had to do was stop " the dairy and pick up my order. We got home and Partner was waiting to take everything into the house trom the back seat ot the, car. Without actually checking I knew something was missing. “The groceries - where's my box of grocer-ion?" I asked the driver. "Oh, that order! Yes, I re. member it coming in but the boy said it wt: for "Mrs. Currie". The taxi is Iway now - with Mrs. Currie and the groceries!" I suppose everyone was more or less at fault - I for not mah. ing sure the box was in the car the delivery boy for not giving the right name: the taxi-drever for not making sure he had the right box hr the right person And in each case it WI; ex'cus able. Being Friday afternoon the stores. and the taxis busy and I. being used to my own car and picking up my own parcels, didn't keep my wits about me, It could be they were partially frozen! However. all's well that ends well. In spite of difficulties we now have enough of every- think: to keep us fed for another week, supposing we either get frozen in or snowed in. As for the. car it hasn't been out ot the garage for over a week. During rough weather it can stay there so far " I am concerned. What we pay for a taxi we save on gas, so what's the difference? "Groceries? I never saw no groceries." The taxi driver drove off and I came into the house and headed straight for the tele- phone . . . "sure the groceries were rent over, almost as soon as you left the "ore." A tele- phone to the taxi office . . . "the store tells me my order was sent over." "tor goodness sake! Well, I wonder if you can phone Mrs. Currie’s place and no what you can do about it. " you can 10- cate the groceries have the taxi bring them in sometime during the day." _ "Well, for goodness sake - weren't they sent over?" "Pm sorry, but nothing came here for any Mrs. Clarke." "No ma'am, else they'd have been here." T We are jun coming out d tttq deep he“. - which we did not like oe bit. he temper-tun A. Properly. it I: brought in on a small plate and placed di- rectly on the service plate. It the hostess is doing Iha servmg herself, she pines one on Aeii service 'late before announcing dinner. A. This was a mistake, but it is a very common ofie, and you should not worry too much about it. The usual procedure is to congratulate the man, and offer wishes of happiness to the girl. It. I: It suitable to nuke I present of (one! "up to I girl on htbirthdttr? Q. It I fruit or fish cockull Is the itrat tour-e " dinner. in K plural directly on the service plne, or man it Argt be placed on I Sill!" plnte? KIIPINO WATCH - loaning In the doorway of an tandem minor-9, an Arab soldier In the Yrunsiordan sector of Jerusa- lorn chock: Israeli positions on tho othbr side of tho city. Ths scone typifies the tensnnos in the urea whom troops from Jordan and Israel maintain anon? viglll. A. This is quite all right. An attentive escort. of course. should mlke such I request un- necessary. But should he be forgetful enough, it is perfectly proper for the girl to ask him. A. tt it is I very special kind of soap that you know the pur- Ucularly likes. tt. When In I gum [MW Itrtf to leave a wedding rat-ep- lend Mon? A. At anv time he wishes, but not before speaking to the bride nnd bridegroom. A. This is quite correct. and the proper reply could be, "Thank you," or, "rm very glld to have met YOU." It. When one is smoking " the table in . restaurant, and there la no ashtray, in it " right to use n plate or linear for the "hes.' A. Only an ill-bred person would do this. It is much better to ask the waiter or waitress for an ashtray. . Some "lend! have In“ told no that I committed a serious breach ot etiquette by enum- tulntln; I girl upon her ennu- mont - that this wanted I thought she was lucky to have lound a man. Is this true? weeks [adore her death, She might have stepped straight (ram the page: of Jllnl ox- up! Hun Jalna “nan! even urmon then. It. People whom I've Jul [not often say, 'Wm very (In! to have met you.” I: this cor- reply? It. Is it good runner: for I girl to ask her escort for a dur- cue? Modern Etiquette . . . M. - "I! ALSO SINGS - "and. screen bombuholl Mamie Van Dorn sings for the first mm In her new pith". ”Untamed Yank”. But her vocalixlng is apt to have Ion Import an audianeu them hor torrid roak-’n'-roll number. Candid than above give you an idea. and if in, how should I By June Andrew- i The fallout is the mosthn. 'tastlc phenomena of the atomic list. It carries the impact of a lsneak punrh. for the public. not -versod in science, cannot mm- )prehend 1hv lull threat of this [delayed atomic action. For Insinnvc. the part"sles from thr first "(mm "Notions It lenrhlma and NVp,rv,ukl Ar well n the Inmal A-lmmh Even the air you breathe is contaminated by the most dan- gerous element formed in the ilssiort process - strontium 90. The numerous atomic tests by the great powers have thrown a blanket of death-dealing dust around the earth, and not I sin- gle square mile of Und or sea is free from the dreaded stron- tium 90. There are other radioactive elements in the fallout, but their potential danger is limit- ed. Plutonium 239, like stron- tium, has a long-life activity and also IS deposited in bone. But the amount of plutonium in fallout is small. Then there are strontium 89 and barium 140, which behave like strontium 90; also iodine 131, which is easily absorbed and concentrate: in the thyroid gland. But these three radioactive isotopes, though highly dangerous in the immediate area of bomb explo- aion, do not get too far beyond the test point because their lite man is only three days. _ The fallout is made up at very tine radioactive particles blown into the stratosphere. Infiltrate lng into the upper Myers of air. the particles remain stored there evwntuallv ditfuning with the lower Ill‘ layrrs that cut tmuously circle the earth, Grad- olly the killer partieles "tall out" over the land and water. settling with remarkable uni- formlty all ovt'r the globe. The lull-out process takes more than to run Millions of words have been written and spoken on these questions, but no answers have been forthcoming. Why? Be- cause answers are hard to get; because life-and-death informa- tion which mould be available to the public is kept under 24- hour guard in strong steel tiles on the Mth-floor of the United Nations building in New York. The mliout I: fraught with danger! Already u A result of the un- eontrollable pollution of the world's agricultural and water supplies by atomic radiation ind debris, your life span has been shortened "by several weeks." Scientists are divided whe- ther the present fallout dose of this frightful element presents In immediate danger. But the hidden archives reveal they are unanimous in warning that if indiscriminate testing of atom- ie weapons continues, the dos- nu will become great enuugh to wipe out whole populations within a few generations. The danger of radioactive strontium to your health and the future of mankind results trom the fact that it is deposited on herbage and soil and is then absorbed by plants we use as foods. True, the deposits can- not be seen or tested, but when continuously eaten or drunk, the strontium accumulates in the bones and can give rise to bone tumors or, by irradiating the neighboring bone marrow, to aplastic anaemia or leukemia. Even more terrifying is the fact that there is evidence showing that the young are more susceptible to strontium 90 than adults. Such measure- ments as have been made of strontium 90 in milk (cows get it by eating contaminated grass) suggests that the new genera- tions will have their life span greatly curtailed, The menace of strontium 90 nrius from the fact that it re- mains active for 28 years and comprises the largest component of radioactive fallouts. In the radioactive tullout at- ter an atomic explosion really dmgeroua? And if so, how dan.. “tour! Weeks of painstiking investi- gation by the National Police Gazette were required to fer- ret out the grim details, but here are the first definitive an- swers to the question: Are We Doomed by The A-Bomb Tut: When you realize that " this very moment radihctivity from old atomic tests in continuously contaminating everything about you, you will get I (Umple of how frightening an atomic wu' will be, or what the intranet! number of tests mains to civil- ization. , One of the moat serious con- tamination problems is the in- creasing amount of strontium 90 in the world milk Iupply. Since children Ire the greatest consumers of milk, grave ques- tions are being Inked about the genetic efteeU on future gen- nations. The American public has not yet been told of the detailed re- sults of Operation Sunshine, the United States Atomic Energy Committee's global investiga- tion of strontium 90. Prelim- inary results of the study are sufficiently startling to excite the concern of the entire world, for a tremendous amount of strontium 90 in milk was found from January to June, 1956, in spot-check samples of milk by U. S. researchers in N. Y., State College, Min, Madison. Win, Mandan. N. D., Portland, Ore., and Japan and England. tetrts are still “tuning out" to- day. All this time they ttave been circling the oath. popper- ing the nail, water and Atmos- phere with dangerous ltrontium M. Also affected by widespread contamination with radioactive strontium 90 are vegetable crops, with leafy vegetables be- ing hit harder than others. For example, a 1956 crop of Mary- land anapbeans hld over 30 times more strontium 90 than the beans. Then there are flah. A study made by the National Academy of Sciences best illustrate: the problem: "Two days after the 1954 tests in the Paeifie the radioactivity of the surface waters near Bi- kini was observed to be tt mil- lion times greater than the naturally occuring radioactivity. This material was transported and diluted by ocean currents, and four months later concen- tration three times the natural radiation were found 1500 miles from the test area; thirteen months later the contaminated water mass had spread over a million square miles." At the present time I Scien- ‘ _ (x. . wr, sm - Mth" " " 2 [AK1, . r tifie Committee on the Effects Egg-ig/j.‘ Iiitit - - . - " of Atomic Radiation of the Uni- MgltRll. " " 1lIrla$aMll1l . - ' ted Nations has been making a l in“ II "iiiSlil Il' "IN' ME, . t aiyiifr'j} worldwide investigation of the .. a IF. Ig Unit". I 'ltE,Ee,?tsriiPl; s'53S2ralI 'iiiit . . P u y " w, " wif?,'. . 'a up!!! t . "N. - problem. Their findings have lt, " M m,3;*:->*~-.,9;;_w.g;. T . 'W3kr,M, a' been so startling. they have been tt "3lE5EfsB',?i/1' 13;» iy _ l “m 'cr"', "y 'ii)':),')")?'??"':,:'?,'-'-"),"'),',, kept secret, United Nations of- ' ficials foal-mg that the cold fact- 3 REVOLUTIONARY DWARF "0RNE"-putting their act into High ual data is open to the mostl gear at Poris' Grand Cirque 57 are English midget clowns frightful interpretation. l Chapman and Harty. They may be cueing their audience on The fear! that are uppermosti how to conserve France's precious supply of gasoline. No nation can hide itself from the devastating dust. Debris from a bomb test in Ntwada, for example, show up in England in ttve days, in Russia a few days later. A Russian test takes the same time to get here. FIRST IN THI UNIT") STAY“ - The flat commercial aired, breeder. reactor atomic power plant is gradually ehoplng up in Monroe, Mich. Shown is the loundotion for the atomic reactor building, the dome-shaped unit which will provide the energy fer the Enrico Fermi plant. located at the bottom of o 36.foot excavation, the foundation itself is 20 feet deep and 87 feet across. The breeding process, scientists say, will extend the supply of atomic fuel to outloxt the reeervu el fossil fuels more than " times. Many sclanmu loci that the radioactive dun dopomod on nah isn't qutBeient to constitute I serious threat--ar yet. But the simple truth of the matter ll that the total Imount ot mdioaetive luontium 90 that will ho dope-ind in human bonus when the hllouu of the nuculu' tut; up to thin date In complete. will amount to 25% of the danger lwol. There an the eotnputations of Merril Eiaenttud, mlnuzcr of the Atomic Energy Commission', Hum: and suety Laboratory. (b) Phyli llholollcll dun" in magic“! and mu- m, and in the Charo-on- eophuognm; bioehemieal '9tartg" (urinary elimiru,tion of amino-Adda, plumltic and uri- nary mum»). l Jun how amorous in the pre- nnt level of fallout and the quantity hunted by the hu- man population? Isl-Idle Connie“. an to :11 who: nation mun; dun main; Mu "hump be- w.- “and: {uncut Ind th- “but; Mu: Now, ltop and think! Bo far, with a limited number at nu- ulu mu that have taken place throughout the world. the entire human populelon will be con- taminated with 25% of the dose a! ltrontium 90 oomtdeud we, when the fallout: of these tests In complete in metal you: to Outlaw nueular tests? Easier aid than done! Theres nothing the U.S.A. can do, as long as Rue-11’: rulers are determined on world conquest. We mun maintain our leadership in nu- cular development at all cost. Only if Russia can be prevailed upon to discontinue its nucular mu, an we Ilsa curtail our tests. f But there is u ray of light. 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