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The Brussels Post, 1959-06-25, Page 6COLD COMFORT FOR SUFFERERS from the current heat Wave lit this .under-zero, underground view of an ice cavern in Antarctica, Explorers are weather personnel, THt#LAIN PEOPLE—Mrs. Jennie C. Tried touches up star based replica Of Etethieherh, one, of Several which she has made fat Sale at the 10th ahrtUai PatiriSylVarila Dutch Folk Festival 101 l;ebt Kuittkiviti ri tali June, trafft,, teoking, clothing style* end home life ittz the "fticiin tteeple" Will be tliSplayed in this unique festival.. • aesz..4,4P • •••„*.fo- . WATCH OUT BELO-40-0-0-W—Enouh• to Make one cringe' away from the picture it, the tight of Osyp l'aratittak, hurtling to- ward you down the side of this building. He's perfectly safe, atop gluts cbnapy on laypet level of e ikyitetepee, FASHION HINT ROQUEFORT CHEESE DRESSING 1 carton Oh pound) sour cream- carton mayonnaise (use cream carton for measure) tablespoon lemon juice 1 tablespoon horeradish % teaspoon dry mustard % clove garlic, crushed 1 small green onion, chopped 1/2 pound Roquefort cheese' (blue cheese may be used) Salt and pepper to taste Mash cheese until smooth. Add other ingredients in the order given and beat well. * The following recipe makes a very large salad and may be cut in two. HAWAIIAN DELIGHT SALAD 1 package each, lemon- and lime-flavored gelatin 2 cups cut marshmallows 31k cups hot water 1/2 cup salad dressing, mayon- naise type 2% cups crushed pineapple, tut- drained 2 cups finely chopped cabbage Dissolved gelatin in the hot water; add marshmallows. When partly cool, add salad dressing and pineapple. When the mix- ture is beginning to set, add cabbage. Chill until firm. * With your meat and salad perhaps you will want to serve a cold drink. This one can be prepared and stored in the re- frigeratOr. ORANGE MINT 21/2 cups water Juice of 2 oranges and grated rind 2 cups sugar Juice 6 lemons 2 handfuls of mint leaves Make a syrup of the sugar and water by mixing, and-boiling for 10 minutes. Add fruit juices and grated rind of orange; pour over mint leaves. Cover tightly and let stand for an hour or longer, Strain through a sieve, then through 1. thickness of cloth. This can also' 'be made by using 1 can each of frozen' orange and lemon juice, small cans. Fill tall glasses with finely* chopped ice and pour 5 to 6 tablespoons of the mixture over it; fill glasses with ginger .ale or cold water. 1/2 Thief 's Downfall Ginger Met As the 'phone bell, jangled, theenekt the apartment house the janitor dragged himself out of bed and went, grumbling, to answer it, He resented being rung up at five in the morning The voice of the ether end was courteous: "I think someone should go to apartment seven. The lady there is in need of help." With this, the caller rung off. The janitor, scowling at the tele- phone, had a good mind to go back to bed. But he was puzzled and curious, and the young wo- man in No. 7 was one of his favourites, because she tipped well. He got his pass-key and took the lift to the second floor. To his knock on the door of No, 7 there was no reply. The young lady should be there, he reasons. ed. She never spent a night away without telling him. When he had knocked and called out in vain, he tried the door-handle. The door was unlocked, so in he went. The lady did need help, In the large apartment which served her as bedroom and sit- ting-room, -she was lying on -the bed, tied up and gagged. The room was in disorder, drawers were open and thetas, contents scattered about. When the start- led porter released the victim, she proved to be unhurt, though the electric light wiring with which her arms and legs were bound had cut into the skin. She had been roused in the night (she told him) to find a masked man bending over her. He threatened her with an automatic, warning her to keep silent, and then gagged her and bound her with lengths of wir- ing from his pocket, :Putting on gloves, he ransacked the apart- ment, stowing money and jewels and other small valuables in a brief-case. He was very methodical, and seemed to be in no hurry. His next step, in fact, was to go into the small kitchen and collect food from the refrigerator, Sit- ting beside the helpless woman on the bed, he ate a hearty meal, washing it down with mineral water. Between mouth- fuls he talked boastfully of crimes he said he had commit- ted, As he- kept his mask on, it was difficult to guess his age, but he appeared to be young. His meal finished, he lay down on the bed and seemed to go to sleep. Soon after four o'clock he rose, had a wash in the bathroom, picked up his brief-case, bade the trussed-up and indignant owner of the apartment a polite good-bye, and left. He rang up the jani- tor from a public call-box. This was the beginning of * series of similar robberies in Boston, Massachusetts, that year. it was obvious that one man was responsible for them, for his 'technique was always the same, His victims were invariably well-to-do women, living alone In apartment houses. Locked doors- were no protection; the thief was expert at picking locks. He was fond of using electric-light wiring to tie up his victims, He always remained until daylight, no doubt to - avoid. questioning police who might be inquisitive about the brief-case or bag in which he carried the spoils. He passed the time by having a meal, and often a short nap. He drank only mineral wa- ter -- Which eventually brought 00'0 his downfall, His behaviour in general was polite and considerate, and he never omitted the last thought, ltd totich of ringing up the apartment house to report that Miss So-and-So reqared Assist- ance. Once at least he used a vie,. tam's telephone to call a taxi. cab company, giving the name of Stephens, and the cab driver found him waiting in the street, bag in hand, He was put down at the main railway station. The cabman's description of his fare was too vague to be of use, Bottally unhelpful was that given by a pawn-broker with whom a man calling himself Frank Stephens pawned a stolen watch. Boston, being a city with a tradition of learning and gentle- manly manners, was at fleet amused. But as robbery fol- lowed robbery there was a mild panic among women living alone The story made headlines in the Press, and the police were blamed for not catching the thief. This publicity went to the successful robber's head, and he sent boastful messages to the newspapers. Since he always wore gloves, the Boston police had for long searched in vain for a finger- print. At last, on the scene of one of his raids, a man's right thumbprint was found on a ginger-ale bottle. At that date, 1925, the nation- al fingerprint collection formed by the F.B.I. at Washington was only a few years old, and many of the numerous state and city police forces had not learnt to us it. The thumbprint was at first circulated only among other police eorces in massachu- setts. Then, very late in the day, it was sent to Washington. With- in a few hours the F,B.I,'s Fingerprint Unit, as it was then called, had identified the print. It was that of James E. Wai- ters, whp came from Richmond, Virginia. Though still a young man, he had a long criminal redord, He had been dismissed from the Army, and had desert- ed from the Navy, and he was wanted for car stealing. As his full particulars, includ- ing photographs, were filed with his fingerprints at Washington, he was soon _picked up in the streets of Boston. After his arrest, the known list of his rob- beries in that city was consider- ably increased. Women who had felt too humiliated at the time to call the police now came for- ward to report raids of the familiar type. None of them suffered. any i11-treatment once they had been gagged and bound. Walters never forgot his good manners, Before his trial he put on an act, pretending to be insane, This did not deceive a Boston judge and jury. And because of his criminal record and also perhaps from a certain vindic- tiveness towards the cheeky young rogue who had fooled a respectable city for so long, he was given the heavy sentence of Me imprisonment. SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE A woman was brought before a magistrate in Sante Fe, N. Mexico, charged with the ap- propriation of a cheque for $100 which did not belong to her, The magistrate listened to the woman's circumstances and sent- enced her to two to five years in prison, but suspended the sent- ence on condition that she attend- ed church regularly, DIPLOMATIC FOOTNOTE — Rus- sian interpreter for the Big Four conference at Geneva eases a weary foot from her shoe as talks over the Berlin situation and German reunification drag ged on and on and on . . . Endurance Tests His fellow students kept a nineteen-year-old youth supplied with gallons of orange juice and soup recently when he achieved an endurance record of fifty hours' continuous table tennis playing in the United States. In a marathon contest he played a dozen opponents, win- ning 165 games and losing 138, It's remarkable what folk will do to show their powers of en- durance. A man named Dobril- la swung Indian clubs for 144 hours continuoualy; PrefesSor Cartier waltzed for sixteen cc:M. secutive hours, Two Cambridge under-graduates Walked back- wards from Cambridge to New- market in five and a half hours. As a test of stamina it would be hard to beat the performance of a Sheffield man named Ram- sey, who skipped 10,617 times in an hour. Then there was a .blacksmith, W. R. Hayes, who trundled two large carriage Wheels each weighing 72 lb, and four feet ten inches in diameter, from Portsmouth to Newcastle and back to Portsmouth by way of Penzance. Some years ago two under- graduates hit the headlines by organizing their own "Olympic Games." Within four days, they opposed each other in nineteen varieties of Sporting contests, beginning with outside sports and ending up with boxing, wrestling, bil- liards arid chess, Their hard - fought games prompted a number of leading sportsmen to reward the young men with a Maghtficerst dinner in 0 London hotel. C.INBIATLED FORECASf,C The Weather Bureau has. received a bill for $250 for the loss of farther Starkey's Ow. A Weather balloon, released by the tarean, travelled on and tip and eventually burst at e high altitude. The fragments fleeted down to earth and landed iri the farmer's field at Okerhali. Bessie,. a three-year-old Hereford, ate the remnants and later died. We'111 Be Smiths Soapier Or Later ENO. if your name isn't Smith, it's likely that You know 51014C' POO named Smith, the the Smiths are to-day 'the kit:fest family in the .world„ Great Britain alone thoic are more than 000,000 Smiths. The. United States has .another 1,500,000. Smiths. Al). spell their Woo .5,M-K-u, TO adtittiOrt there are .,uncounted numbere Snay thes, Schmidts, Smitts and. others bearing versions anti variations of the name Smith- ' of)ne day," declared Ezra G. Smith, an American steel mil- lionaire who w a s specially proud of his world-famous name, "every person in Britain will be named. Smith." He ornitted.to add that this is not likely 'to happen until millions and millions of years have passed! Believe it or not, there arA, now many more Smiths than efecDoealcis in Scotland. One. • Smith who. checked up on the number of Scottish Smiths some years ago calculated that in some parts of the country one out ' of every fifty persons in Scotland was named Smith, A Londoner named Smith reckoned, that, placed end to end, the Smiths in the telephone directory would make a column ten miles high. Open any dictionary of hio• graphy and you'll find scores of famous Smiths. The Rev. Sydney Smith, for instance, was one of the most famous Wits of Ilia day, "There is not the least use in preaphing to anyone unless you chance to catch them ill," he . once said, The great Lord Macaulay described him as "the Smith of Smiths." Some Smiths like their world- famous name, others hate it be- cause it has sometimes proved an embarrassment. "What's your name?" asked a Midlands police station ser- geant when a man was brought. before him by a constable. "Smith," replied the prisoner, "I want your real name," said the sergeant. "Welleput me down as William Shakespeare," said the annoyed man. "That's better," the sergeant said with great satisfaction. !Tots can't fool me with that old Smith stuff." When a certain Mr. J, Holt tielloul'n:t ;Tied tai find -"A,: AilY there taro so dr•ny in. isle world, be ,t..pi.41.ed Ihtt the root of tho is inaa-t Smith •i the Sky): o a. wiilit in, mete n ;"1 to' smito, This. term, he sand, wag, ,.originally upplicd to in metal 01 tic Ita m ithe and Workers in wood "such as wheelwrights,. in a 0 h smilers in general," Ile also calculated that shrine a walk from -Miring Cross through the ."Stralla ex id t! led Street to Ludgate• .Circus on a busy day be 'met a Smith e»ea every minute, Another investigator dil covered that there was a Mall named Smith living in lilgypt as long ago as 227 13,C, and said there may have been even earlier Smiths, A banquet was once he;"•ti in the United States at which all the 500 guests were Smiths. The host was named Smith, the man who presided w a s Captain Smith, thee Governor of Vir- ginia. The chefs who prepared the food were Smiths to a Man, An ode was specially com- posed for the occasion by a poet named Smith and this was issued in book form by a pub- lisher named Smith, American humorist Mark Twain dedicated one of his books to John Smith, "Every- one who has a hook dedicated to him usually .buys at least one copy,' he explained, "and as there are thousands of John Smiths in America, so the volume is pretty; sure to become a best-seller, Leaping The score in Australia, ac- cording to the latest dispatch from Sydney: Australians 10- million Kangaroos 8 million But the kangaroos are gaie- ing Overrunning the sheep-graz- ing landi of New South Wales,. millions of the drought-crazed 'animals recently .had depleted the pastures to a point where ranchers called for army pro- tection. Possible outcome: A massive onslaught, like the one undertaken with machine guns in 1935 against 'migrating emus. In Milwaukee, Leo Stoll was fined $100 after he put a pistol. to a cabby's head, said, "lf you don't drive carefully, I'm going to kill you." 1 1 VEAL STEAKS 2 veal steaks 1 tablespoon fat 1 clove garlic, sliced 1 small onion, sliced 1 can cream of celery soup Salt and pepper Stuffed Olives Melt fat and brown garlic; then brown the meat in garlic- fat mixture. Add onion, salt, pepper, soup, and % soup-can of water. Simmer over low heat 45 minutes to an hour, covered. Remove, lid last -15 minutes and add a few sliced, stuffed olives. Serves 2, * LEFTOVER VEAL ROAST Cut up leftover veal roast in bite-size pieces; place in sauce- pan. Dihsolve a bouillon cube in a cup of boiling water; pour over meat, Heat to boiling and add salt, pepper, a little garlic salt, and a small package of cultured sour cream. Serve with rice or noodles. Serves 2, * * ROUND STEAK 2 pounds top round 3 tablespoons bacon grease 1 cup finely chopped onion 1 cup finely chopped green pepper 2 cans tomato sauce 11/2 cups water Season steak and dip .in flour. Brown on both sides in the bacon grease. Add onions, green peppers, tomato sauce, and water. Cover and cook for 2 hours at 300°F. Serves 6. BEET SALAD 1 package lemon-flavored gelatin 1 cup hot water 3/;1 cup beet juice 3 tablespoons vinegar 2 teaspoons grated or chopped onion - 1 teaspoon grated horse radish % teaspoon salt % cup diced celery 2 cups diced beets Dissolve gelatin in hot water, add beet juice -and vinegar. Cool; add grated onion, horse-radish, salt, beets, and celery, Chill un- til firm. Turn out on crisp greens. Serves 6. ISSUE 2e— 1959 • TA OLE TM KS It elaxwAt‘clzews. I In