Jefferson City Post-Tribune from Jefferson City, Missouri • Page 16

Forgeries Also on Rise Chewed, Stolen Bonds Woes of T-Men WASHINGTON (NEA) The things that happen to U. S. savings bonds keep Treasury Dept. men on an aspirin diet. The government makes good on missing bonds.

And officials are kept busy investigating complaints of bonds chewed by dogs, torn by children, digested by mice, mangled by washing machines and stolen by thieves. Add to these everyday problems is the increase in bond forgeries. The 1961 number of forgeries doubled over the previous year. More than 10,000 bonds were illegally cashed gross value exceeded $1 million. How do these bonds get into unauthorized hands in the first place? Usually they are stolen.

At one time, bonds were left for other more attractive keepsakes like diamonds, marketable securities and cash. But not any more. Savings bonds are no harder for fences to peddle than anything else. The Treasury Dept. reports that about million duplicates have been issued to replace bonds stolen, lost or mutilated.

Some of these categories overlap because many persons, who are unaware of the theft, will report their missing bonds as simply lost. Recently, cases of bond forgeries reveal a criminal design of great precision and detail. Take the case of Willis Edwin Hirsch: Though Hirsch's criminal record is long, he didn't start forging bonds until November, i960. Posing as a Veterans Administration official, with the aid of phony credentials, Hirsch forged and cashed 12 stolen bonds in Jackson, Miss. Then, in Louisville, he wasn't as lucky.

The woman bank teller wondered after detecting a slight erasure why a "government official" would be cashing savings bonds while traveling. Alarmed, Hirsch fled to Laredo, where he was finally ar- Hirsch admitted to cashing $67,000 in stolen savings bonds. In his luggage were found seven additional $1,000 bonds. One break in another case came from a friendly bank teller. Most savings bond owners are sentimental over redeeming their bonds.

But not Thomas Bartkovsky. He attempted to cash 52 stolen, forged savings bonds at one time. He was not prepared to talk with the teller about the wonderful nest- egg that he accumulated, nor what he planned to do with so much money. In fact, he was tightlipped about it. His evasive manner drew attention to the very same thing he was trying to avoid.

Bank tellers are becoming even friendlier with people who cash bonds. This is based on the premise that most bond holders wanti to talk about their savings. Many of them are genuinely sorry that they have to cash them in. On the other hand, few criminals are polished liars. It's not easy to cash a batch of stolen savings bonds at one time with an air of informality and composure.

At the same time, legitimate bond holders may now run into a little more trouble in cashing their bonds, particularly at banks where they are not well known. Casualties Trearary Dept. flies what look like after they have heen (top) chewed by a dor, (center) machine laundered and (bottom) torn op by children for Chrfetnai tree decoration. in A Question for You, Mr. Shakespeare The world's oldest preserved, ful ly identified ship is Sweden's "Vasa." The armed galleon capsized and sunk in Stockholm harbor on the first day of her maiden voyage in 1628.

The ship was raised intact in 1961 and will be restored as a historic monument. "What's in a name?" a bard named William Shakespeare once was moved to ask. "That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Florida Friebus, who plays the mother of Dobie Gillis on the comedy series of the same name Gillis," that is), Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. on Channel 13 doesn't know how roses feel about these matters of nomenclature, but she does know that a certain something would go out of her life if she were known by almost any other first name. If nothing else, "Florida" has been a conversation piece.

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Just what the aunt's parents were thinking about when they named her has been lost in the mists of time. Miss Friebus does profess an unequivocal love for her unusual name. "It has meaning, color, ure," she says. "But where Auntie got it is one of those family mysteries." AH of this suggests a question for Mr. Shakespeare, or anyone else who'd care to answer.

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