The Seaforth News, 1953-12-03, Page 2Got Fortune In e s
Instead Of Pills
The general public is inclined
to get a wrong idea about crime
detection. They pay far too much
attention to things like finger-
prints, forgetting that finger-
prints are meaoingleee until the
criminal -is under lock and key.
The police can run through pic-
tures of prints and often pin -point
the man who did the job. But
they have still got to track him
down.
More important than crime de-
tection is its prevention. Remem-
ber, jewel thieves will follow their-
victim—and stick to him until -
they've got him. And remember,
too, the important part that ser-
vants play in jewel robberies,
even the most honest of them..
Thieves are clever at wheed-
ling vital information out of
them. When do their employers
have their evening meal? Do
they listen in or look in to TV—
and so forth,
An example of how tenaciously
thieves will hound a victim was
provided on March 14, 1905, when
a young French diamond mer-
chant front Paris went into a
chemist's shop in Colmore Row,
Birmingham, England, with an
interpreter. to have a prescription
made up. On a chair he placed a
leather handbag containing din
monde worth $50,000.
As the Frenchman and the in-
terpreter waited, two men enter-
ed the shop; one asked for some
liquorice powder; the other ask-
e'd for a box of patent pills. They
Appeared to be, in a hurry and
!cit together, Presently one man
caste back with a leather hand-
bag which he placed on the chair
where the Frenchmans handbag
was. The man asked for More
liquorice. Then he walked to the
hair and picked up a bag .. .
but it was not his own.
The loss was discovered with-
in -two minutes.- - Evidence was
Lound that two men had been
st-en shadowing the Frenchman
ever -since he had arrived in Bir-
mingham. No doubt he had been
followed from Paris. His empty
bag was )bund in an arcade a few
cards from the chemist's shop.
But the diamonds were never
traced. nor the thieves tracked
Four years later, in the sum-
mer of 1909• another Parisian
diamond merchant walked into
the grill -room of the Cafe atonico,
Piccadilly Circus, to dine
we, evening. Be hung up his hat
end light summer overcoat and
gent to the washroom, where he
bang up his jacket. In the breast
pocket was his wallet, which
,::ttained $200.000 worth of dia-
monds:
He rolled up his shirt • sleeves
and plunged his arms into warm
water. He glanced up at himself
in the mirror facing him and saw
a men lifting his wallet out of his
.Jacket pocket. Frantic, the
Frenchman shouted and ran
efter the disappearing thief. But
;mother man beside him stuck
enat his leg and tripped him up.
In the hullabaloo that followed,
the tripper -up also vanished,
Neither crook had gotte through
the restaurant; They left by an-
other door.
Despite an intensive search,
they were never traced. Nor were
the diamonds ever found. It was
a clever coup. And no doubt the
diamond merchant had been ruth-
lessly shadowed every moment.
since leaving Paris.
Back again to 1905—a truly
bumper year for jewel robberies
•when, on May 29th, the Duchess
of Westminster. returning from
the theatre, discovered that jewel
lery valued at 540.000 had van -
>t ed from her dressing -table.
Little less than a month later
Inspector Drew arrested a man
formerly employed at Grosvenor
House as a night watchman. The
man, Albert Chapman, was for-
mally charged with theft. He
gave the police certain informa-
tion which was aeted upon, The
police went to Cambridge, where
they arrested a second man. As a
result, Officers were sent to a field
about two miles from Cambridge
and there found buried in a hole
all the missing jewels.
In the same year the New York
Smart Set were holiday -making
as usual at Newport, Rhode Is-
land, when they were startled by
a series of mysteries in connec-
tion with the fabulous jewels of
the equally fabulous Mrs. William
Astor. She complained that her
jewels worth millions of dollars
had been stolen: Then she ap-
peared at a dinner party - wear-
ing some of them!
Her explanation was that the
stolen jewels had been mysteri-
ously returned. Then she said
they had not been stolen at all,
but she had ptislaid thetn. Pri-
vate.dotectives were called in and
in a statement to the press they
reported that the jewels had nev-
er been stolen or mislaid. Bat
the gossip writers of the day got
bur'v, and they declared that there
had indeed been a robbery, but
on account of the identity of the
thief it was desired to have the
affair hushed up.
Over in Europe there was an-
other jewel sensation. Lady Bow-
ers, en route from London to the
French Riviera, took her seat in
the 9.15 p.m. train from the Care
de Lyon, Paris,. and left• sore
light luggage and a -red morocco
leather jewc1-box in the charge
of her maid, while she went to
the buffet.
A few minutes before she was
finished, her pale -faced and
trembling maid rushed into the
buffet to say that, a minute or
two after her ladyship had left
the compartment, a well-dressed
gentleman sat down in the cor-
ner opposite the jewel case. He
had some newspapers, and he
threw them in the corner over
the case's. The maid thought he
was a fellow traveller. She went
into the corridor for a few mom-
ents. When she returned to the
compartment the "gentleman"
had gone; so had the jewels worth
$20,000. Neither thief nor jewels
were ever seen again.
Again in 1905, on Christmas
Day, a man named Birci, repre-
senting a London firm of diamond
merchants, checked in at a -Liv-
erpool hotel with $100,000 worth
of diamonds which he left in his
room and went to supper. He re-
turned between 9 and 10 and
found two men rifling his lug-
gage. He rushed to the attack,
shouting for assistance, and a ter-
rible fight ensued. Bird managed
to knock down one man and
hold him; the other escaped, but
was caught at the font of the
stair:.
Both men were wearing rubber
gloves. They were notorious jew-
el thieves. There, then, you have
another "combination": no brains,
sheer brutality. Robbery with
violence, although undoubtedly
the thieves had relentlessly fol-
lowed their man from London,
thus exploiting what little Intel-
ligence they had.
"Won't yvu give me your tele-
phone number?" he mumui'ed.
"It's in the hook," she said.
"Splendid," he sighed. "And
what's your mime?"
—That's in the hook, too." she
snapped.
Broken Homes - Heavy masonry was no match for the furious
floodwaters that recontiy engulfed Oliveto and other towns in
the southern Calabria region of Italy. More than 100 were killed
and 3000 were made homeless, including this forlorn family of
Oliveto,
... Fashion Hin
A dedghtful yeeno party dress in rusting black taffeta embroid-
ered with bright red satin dots. The full skirt is farmed a deep
unpressed pleats and soft drapery frames the sweetheart -shaped
neckline.
LUCKY KM!
1 wonder how many school-
boys strike as lucky as did Nel-
son Doubleday, head of the pub-
lishing house of Doubleday,
Doran of New York.
When he was six years old
he read some animal stories
by Kipling, so sat down and ad-
dressed a letter, "Dear Uncle
Rud," which he sent to England.
He said he would like to know
how the elephant got its trunk,
the leopard its spots and the
rhino its skin. He ended by add-
ing, If the stories are good
enough, my father will make a
book of them."
So Kipling wrote "Just So
Stories," which sold more that:
a million copies in the United
States alone.
And when young Doubleday
went to his father and said "I
gave you a good idea; I ought
to have a rayalty," his father
agreed, So on every copy Nel-
son Doubleday got — and still
gets --- one cent,
Menlo Mori thmoasked
There is sorrow and sighing
in Sherwood Forest. Friar Tuck
and Little John, Maid Marian
and the debonair Robin have
all been exposed -- as Marxists
in Lincoln green.
• A -member of Budiana's -text-
book commission has charged•
Robin Hood and his inerris men
with following the Communist
line in robbing the rich to give
to the poor. The gay legend that
has been the delight of ehlldren
and their elders through long
non-Communist centuries is de-
scribed as "just a smearing of
law and order," and thus as
subversive rare for young Atne-
rica,us.
The charge has Caused explo-
sions of ltaughtor in Merrie Eng-
land, and has evoked from the
High Sheriff of Nottingham
(whose medieval ancestor chased
Robin "tlyrfiugh the greenwood)
the jovial response that while
hundreds, iii Americans visit the
outlaw's hatmts every year, "we
don't get any Ilussiaris."
We might ask: If Robin - Hood
was a Red because of his some-
what unorthodox resistance to
the social depredations of the
tyrannous King John, were not
the barons who wrung Magna
Carta from that reluctant mon-
arch at least fellow travelers?
Or is Magna Carta itself, along
with the Declaration ,of Inde-
pendence, suspect today as a
"revolutionary" documcna?
Seriously, we don't believe
American security demands that.
the United States make itself
ridiculous before the world.
Laughter and legend have not
yet been outlawed by the cold
war. We would be loth to see
an arrow from Indiana kill Cock
Robin (now exposed to the
world as Little Red Robin
Hood), From "The Christian
Science Monitor."
Ant the World Souk
nim Postcards
When a teacher at a school in
the province of Volterra, Italy,
discovered her class had no maps
or atlases, she asked the head-
master to buy some. But funds
were low; he had to refuse. So
the teacher asked each pupil to
bring to school any picture post-
cards they possessed of towns and
districts in any part of the world
so that these could he used dur-
ing lessons.
Only 0110 boy, ten -year-old
Fabio Signorinio, came empty-
handed, He carne from a poor
home where there were no cards
and no stoney to buy any. The
teacher decided to give the child
a surprise. She put tin advertise-
ment in several national news-
papers, in Fabio's name, asking
for picture postcards,
Since then cards have rained
on the boy's village home. They
have come from all parts of the
world, Fabio has now at. least
80,000 cards and every post brings
more, The village post office has
had to engage a man to cope with
the extra mail. All of it used to
be carred in the postman's one
bag; now he has to use a horse
and cart:
The whole schoolroom is dec-
orated with the cards and the
children say they love learning
geography that way: As for little
Fabio, Ire says that when he
grows up he will try to thank
personally all the people who
sent the verdst
ABLE TALKS
.A. great many women of my
acquaintance— and probably as
many of yours—are malting use
these days of those packaged
"biscuit mixes" which they find
50 handy when time is short, and
appetites getting keener by the
minutes.
Writing in The Christian Sei-
ence Monitor, Ethel M. Eaton
tells of some most interesting
variations in the uses of such
"inixes"—and I'm sure she won't
mind my passing them along to
you.
.Remember when biscuit mix
was used for biscuits and little
else? Today, there's practically
no limit to the variations stem-
ming from quick - mix biscuit
dough. I always add cooking oil
to the recipe for rolled biscuits
printed on the package, the am-
ount varying with the use. Also,
I chill the dough for five minutes
after kneading.
NUT (BREAD
cop sugar
1 egg
lie cups milk
1 eup chopped nuts
3 cups biscuit mix
Combine sugar, egg, milk, and
nuts, then stir in the biscuit mix.
Beat hard for 30 seconds. Pour
into a well-oiled loaf pan and
bake 50-60 minutes in an oven
preheated to 350'F. or until a
straw thrust- into the center
comes out clean. A slight crack
in the top is characteristic, Al-
low to cool slightly before cut-
ting with bread knife.
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ONION -HAM SHORTCAKE
Mix biscuit dough as usual,
adding one tablespoon of cook-
ing oil and two tablespoons of
ground ham to each cup of flour.
Bake at 450°F. for about 12 min-
utes or until browned. Split
while hot and fill with golden -
brown fried onion rings, arrang-
ing some over the top. Canned
French -fried onion rings may be
used, making this an even quicker
rush.
OYSTER RING
Half fill a greased ring mold
with biscuit dough. For an extra
brown top, brush with beaten
egg yolk, milk. Bake at 450°F.
until done and top is golden
brown. Fill with the following
Mixture:
2 tablespoons (lour
2 tablespoons butter or
margarine
1 can condensed cream of
mushroom soup
1 cup cooked celery
1 pint oysters
BIend flour and butter in a
saucepan, add undiluted soup,
celery acid oysters. Combine
thoroughly and serve hot in the
center of the biscuit ring. Six
servings,
CHICKEN PIE
2 cups diced cooker: chicken
3 tablespoons quick tapioca
1 cup ehicken stock or milk
3 tablespoons shortening
seasoning to taste
Blend ingredients and pour in-
to an oiled baking dish. Bake at
450°F. for 10 minutes, stirring
once. Top with biscuits, cut
small, and continue baking until
brown. Four servings.
RAISIN -APPLE DOWD'i
Place a deep layer of peeled
and quartered apples in a baking
dish, Sprinkle generously with
cinnamon and sugar and dot with
butter, Bake for 10 minutes at
425°F. Add one-half cup of seed-
less raisins 10 it batch of biscuit
dough, place over apples and
continue baking until done and
browned on top. Serve warm
with plain cream or hot molasses
sauce.
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MOLASSES SAUCE
32 eup molasses
let cup water
1 teaspoon butter or mar-
garine
1 teaspoon Iemon juice
1 tablespoon cornstart!h
Cold 'water
Boil molasses and water to-
gether, then add remaining ingre-
dients, except cornstarch. Bring
to a boll, then add cornstarch
which has been made smooth
with a little cold water. Continue
cooking gently until thickened.
Mrs. Gregory Peck provided
copy for Hollywood columns by
revealing that she and her movie -
idol husband, now making pic-
tures in Europe, have been sep-
arated since last January. The
couple first met when Mrs. Peck
was a hairdresser for Katharine
Cornell and he was playing small
parts on Broadway. They were
married in 1942 and have three
small sons. Peck's name has re-
cently been linked with leading
ladies Audrey Hepburn and Hil-
degarde Neff,
Choo-Choo, Bow -Wow — Butch,
a two-year-old Boxer -plus -etce-
teras pup, is a confirmed engine
rider. Owned by Engineer Glenn
Harlan, he rides a local freight
daily between Ottawa and Law-
rence, either in the diesel cab, as
above, or on the catwalk. He
likes to bark at switch stands
and once in a while will hop off
to hunt some rabbits,
"F ashx" Outfit -- Lit up like a Christmas tree, Lt. T, S, Lockard,
landing signal officer aboard the Midway, models his new suit
with tiny light bulbs strung up and down and across his body
and signal paddles. Insets at lower right show how be looks to
pilots returning to the carrier of night,