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The crate being carted off to
the Air f'i'ande baggage depot
was labeled "glassware" in
large red 'fetters. "C'est fragile,"
explained Ange Ferner, the 24 -
year -old Frenchman to whom it
belonged. Inside, however, was
Ange's confederate, 31 -year-old
Fernand Romani, fortified by a
loaf of bread, cheese, some sau-
sage, and a bottle of cognac. As
baggagemen for Air France,
Ange and Fernand had cooked
up a complex scheme to com-
mit. the prefect crime—in mid-
air,
The plan, as police recon-
strutted it last month, was this:
Ange would airship the crate
containing Fernand along with
two empty suitcases to Mar-
seilles on the same flight that
carried a $60,000 shipment of
jewels bound for Algiers. Once
the plane was in flight, Fer-
nand would climb out of his
crate, pinch the jewels, and put
them into the empty suitcases.
Then he would climb back into
his hiding place and wait until
CC Ange, a passenger aboard the
same plane, retrieved both the
crate and the suitcases at the
Marseilles air terminal.
Fernand patiently waited in
the narrow b o x for almost
twelve hours before it was
loaded aboard the plane. But in
the air everything started going
wrong. Pepped up• by the
brandy before climbing out oR
sere his crate, Fernand broke the
top, so thathe couldn't close it
again. Instead; -he had to pocket
the jewels and make a break
for it when he landed in Mar-
seilles.
Fernand got away — with
Ange hot on his trail. But when
police examined the empty
crate, they discovered that Ange
had labelled it with his own
name and address. There, police
found some more baggage, a
girl named Andree. Her story
lecl them to a Turkish fence
in Marseilles, who had paid a
mere $200 "advance" for the
gems and still had them tucked
away in his store. The jewels
were safely returned — and
only the two ingenious baggage -
men, Ange and Fernand, were
still missing.
Is The Paddle
The Best Cure?
It is perfectly legal for a
schoolteacher in Stamford, Conn.,
to paddle an unruly youngster
— but "on the buttocks only."
Since this Board of Education
sale allowing teachers to use
corporal punishment went into
effect last April at Stamford's
twenty public schools, about 30
out of a kindergarten to high-
school population of 15,000 have
been disciplined by spanking,
with paddles of various sizes,
shapes, and thicknesses.
But should these paddles be of
uniform size? This bureaucratic
question was raised bvy parents
et a recent board meeting and in
true red -tape tradition, a facul-
ty committee was then appoint-
ed to draw up specifications.
"'There is a real problem of
definitions," said Miss ,Helen
Tobin, acting superintendent of
schools, last month. "We think
that everyone should think this
through."
Yet to Joseph Franchina,
husky, crew-cut principal of
Burdick Junior High, the pad-
dle -size issue was 'ridiculous,"
"Use a paddle that fits the
needs," he said. Personally, he
wields a half -inch -thick plywood
job, 8 to 9 inches in diameter on
the business end, and manufac-
tured in the school shop.
"We've had some good reac-
tions from students," he noted.
Q. How can I make the varnish
11 am using flow better?
A. Varnish will flow' better and
dry faster if you warm it before
using. One flood way is to keep
the can or lair in a pan of hot
water while you are working.
AND HE STILL HAD A WEEK TO GO — This department store
Santa Claus appears to be feeb.ng the wear and .tear of his
• busy season as he uses a cane to totter to work,
Captured Jail
Single -Handed!
The authorities in several
American states felt considerably
relieved when Tom Slaughter,
the most notorious desperado in
the South-West, was arrested
near Sedan, Kansas, on October
20th, 1920, They could not know
then that Slaughter was soon to
build a reputation as America's
No. 1 prison -escape expert,
Slaughter was originally want-
ed for robbing a state bank, but
now there was a more serious
charge against him. In a brush
with police in Arkansas, he had
shot and killed a deputy sheriff.
Slaughter loft no time in
demonstrating his determination
to escape. When being led away
by his captors he wrenched him-
,. self free and drew a revolver,
but was disarmed before he had
time to use it.
Then, during his four-day trial,
it was discovered that one of the
window bars in his cell had been
almost sawn through. A search of
the _ cell revealed a collection of
saws, knives and razor -blades.
He was sentenced to life im-
prisonment in the Little Rock
penitentiary, . and soon after his
transfer there another escape plot
was discovered and thwarted,
Slaughter then decided to
adopt a more subtle technique.
He promised to be a model pri-
soner. and, as a demonstration of
his "change of heart," revealed
the details of another prisoner's
escape plan to the authorities.
At the beginning of 1921, there
was a change in the administra-
tion of the penitentiary and the
"reformed" Slaughter was trans-
ferred to an open prison near-
by. It was a costly mistake.
For several months he played
the role of gentleman convict.
He gave no trouble, worked dili-
gently
iligently and gave every indication
of having knuckled down to pri-
son authority. Nothing could
have been farther from the
truth. The idea '- of escaping
dominated his mind,
In September, 1921, he staged
a desperate bid for freedom.
Somehow he obtained a revolver,
and shot and killed one "trusty"
guard and severely wounded two
others before he was recaptured.
Slaughter was tried for mur-
der and sentenced to death. He
was transferred to the death cell
in Little Rock penitentiary and
his execution date fixed for
December 15th.
For most criminals the story
would have ended there, But
Slaughter was no ordinary crook.
Calmly, he set about preparing
what was to be one of the most
audacious prison escape$ of all
time,
Only a dim light gleamed in
*TICKING TOGETHER — Jim Mackey's raccoon, Pepper, is about
04 gum things up. Playful Pepper likes lo pierce Jirr3's bubble
Ieststelonally.
the death cell on the evening of
December 8th, 1921. All was
silent except for the ringing foot-
steps of patrolling warders. At
9.20 p.m Slaughter called to his
guard that he needed an extra
blanket because he did not feel
Well,
The guard sent for a blanket
and accompanied, by a colleague,
took it to the death eels. It was
too,. big to go between the bars,
so, while his colleague covered
him, the guard unlocked the cell
door,
He had barely opened it when
he heard Slaughter growl, "Drop
that gun or I'll kill you." . The
guard looked down to see a black
automatic glinting in Slaughter's
fist,
The condemned man quickly
disarmed the guards and forced
them to walk ahead of him to
the stockade. There he .relieved
the *watchman of his pistol and
locked all three prison officers
in the cells. He then made for
the prison hospital where a wo-
man nurse was on • duty, • She:
was ushered out of the ward
and forced to act as a shield for
Slaughter as he made' . his way
through the penitentiary.
In this way he systematically
disarmed and imprisoned every
guard he encountered. On his
fantastic tourof the prison,.
*laughter collected ;six convicts
who chose to join him in the
break-out,
Marching in single file behind
the nurse, the sinister procession
made its way to the quarters of
Warden E. H. Dempsey. The
warden, his wife and their three
children, were herded from their
beds and locked in the condemn-
ed cell.
'Before incarcerating the war-
den, Slaughter compelled hint to
give the outer guard the signal
to open the prison gates. He then
disarmed the • astonished gate
sentinel and marched him to the
death cell, too.
Slaughter and his six con-
federates were now the only
free men in the entire peniten-
tiary!
Completely composed through-
out the whole Operation, the con-
demned bandit was in no hurry
to leave the jail. For five hours
he ruled the prison enclosure and
during this time he revealed an-
other rarely -witnessed facet of
his strange character.
He took a pot of coffee to the
death cell and distributed drinks
to the warden and his family.
Next Slaughter and his fellow
convicts made for the prison
store.
He and the others took their
time selecting outfits of civilian
clothes and changing from their
prison garb. It was not until
2.30 a.m. that the seven made
their getaway in Warden Demp-
sey's car and headed south.
At soon as he heard them drive
away, Dempsey shouted to some
convicts above him to 'cut a hole
in the : ceiling. Then he climbed
•through and rushed to the office.
The telephone wires had been
cut, so a guard was dispatched
to the nearest telephone to alert
the police.
Five of the men with Slaugh-
ter were Negroes, all but one
under death sentence. The sixth
man was Jack C, Howard, who
had been serving a three-year
term for forgery.
On the evening of 'December
9th the gang abandoned their es-
cape car and made for some
woods. They lit a fire and settled
down for the night.
Slaughter had just dozed off
when he heard Howard call him.
Before he was properly awake
three bullets smashed into his
body from Howard's gun.
Slaughter died instantly, a vic-
tim of a cowardly attack from a
man he had freed.
1 -Io a'd later claimed i that, he
and 1,WD of the Negroes had hat-
ched a plot to kill Slaughter
soon after lea"Ins, the peniten-
tiary Wells and Taylor had dis-
Tamed the other, three Negroes
as theyslept, then i•Ioward had
fired the fatal shots,
The Negroes not in the plot
fled but were recaptured by a
pollee party. Howard, Taylor and
Wells collected all the guns to-
gether and went to a near -by
farmhouse to surrender.
On the following day Slaugh-
ter's body was brought out of
the wood. He had been shot twice
in the head and once in the
back. So great had been the pub-
lic curiosity arounsed that the po-
lice placed the body on a wagon
and hundreds .of sightseers were
allowed to file past it.
Apart from' the puzzle of how
the gun and ammunition has been
smuggled in to Slaughter While
he was in the death cell, one
more intriguing mystery remains.
Some weeks before his escape
Slaughter had arranged to meet
an insurance agent to tell him
, where he had hidden the loot
from his many bank hold-ups.
The appointment was made for
December 13th, two days before
Slaughter was due to hang.
But Slaughter's secret died
with him. Somewhere in Arkan-
sas, buried in a motor tire, he
had hidden $600,000 worth of
securities, So far as is known, it
has never been found,
Duck Hunting '
Code Of Safety
Recommended by the inquest
jury, investigating the accidental
shooting in the recent Ander-
son-Curtice incident, for distri-
'button to all hunting licence ap-
plicants.
Y, CHOOSE A CAP'T`AIN
Duck hunters should decide
who will beleader or captain
of the shoot when hunting in
pairs or larger numbers. This
should be done before entering
the blind or hide. The most
experienced hunter should be
chosen and if they are hunters
of equal skill, the position
should be alternated from day
to day,
2. SIT CLOSE
Hunters in a blind or hide
should sit close enough to-
gether when shooting in pairs
so as to prevent either hunter
from getting in front of the
other hunter's gun muzzle.
3. RESTRICT YOUR FIELD
The field of fire for each hunt-
er in a blind or hide should
be' agreed upon before shoot-
ing. The hunter's field of fire
should not overlap his partners
by more than a 45° angle meas-
ured -from a centre line right-
angled to the front or rear of
the blind.
4, REST GUNS SAFELY
A gun should never be left in
a position where the movement
of a boat or a dog might cause
it to fall down and discharge,
5 -NEVER FACE EACH OTHER
Gun muzzles should be pointed
away from other hunters at all
times.
6. SHOOT YOUR OWN BIRDS
When hunting in pairs and a
flight of ducks approaches
from the right, the hunter on
the right should take the rear
of the flock and the hunter on
the left should take the head.
When the flight approaches
from the left, this procedure
should be reversed.
Barnum .Out Faked
The Real Faker
The Cardiff Giant, supposedly
either a statue of great antiquity
or the fossilized remains of an
authentic giant who walked the
earth' of New York State in an-
cient times, provided great ex-
citement and amusement for
many years from the middle of
the last century until close to
the present time.
George, Hull ' was the origina-
tor of the hoax„ After hearing
a revivalist preacher speak
•about the giants that once trod
the earth, he obtained, near
Chicago, a 5 -ton block of gyps-
um, a hard type of stone and
had a sculptor make him "a
naked giant He had the statue
crated and shipped East. •
Then he buried in on land
owned by a cousin, outside the
• village of Cardiff south of Syra-
cuse, New York. Some time later,
his cousin dug it up; and an-
nounced his great discovery.
P, T. Barnum, the great show-
man, heard about the attraction,
as did the entire country, and
when the original faker, who
was getting by with only a few
persons expressing doubt that
this was a fossil of a giant, re-
fused to sell, Barnum had a fake
of his own made by a sculptor
and exhibited it in his museum
in New York,
This is the only known ex-
ample Of two fakes being accept-
ed simultaneously. A real fake
and a fake fake.
Q. How can T remove beer
stains from washable garments?
A, These can usually be re-
moved by the usual laundering
methods. . A cloth dipped into
soapy water• will work on wash-
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little ammonia to the wash water
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