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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1954-03-18, Page 2r 1 1 1 1 00 . 1. 1 11' Mr.litteftl Got Fortune In Gems 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 meaningless 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 'Week him down. More important than crime de- tection is its prevention. Remem- ber, jewel thieves will follow their victirn—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 from 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 dia- monds 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- ed for a box of patent pills. They appeared to be in a hurry and left together. Presently one man came back with a leather hand- bag which he placed on the chair where the Frenchman's handbag was. The man asked for more liquorice. Then he walked to the chair and picked up a bag . . but it was not his own. The loss was discovered with- in two minutes. Evidence was found that two nen had been seen shadowing the Frenchman ever since he had arrived in Bir- mingham. No doubt he had been followed from Paris. His empty bag was found in an arcade a'few yards from the chemist's shop. But the diamonds were never traced, nor the thieves tracked down. Four years later, in the sum- mer of 1909, another Parisian diamond merchant walked •einto the grill -room of the Cafe Monico, near -'Piecadilly. Circus, to dine • one evening, He hung up his hat and ligfit-iiirmifer overcoat and went to the washroom, where he hung up his jacket In the breast, pocket was his wallet, which contained $200,000 worth of dia- monds! Be 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 man lifting his wallet out of his jacket 'aiocket. Frantic, the Frenefirrein shouted and ran after the disappearing thief. But another man beside him stuck out his leg and tripped hiin up. In the hullabaloo that followed, the tripper -up also vanished. Neither crook had gone 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 agent.- 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 $40,000 had van- ished from her dresaing 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 eharged with theft: He gave the police certain Informa- tion which was acted 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 mislaid them. Pri- vate detectives were called in and in a statement to the press they reported that the jewels had nev- er been stolen or mislaid. But the gossip writers of the day got busy, 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 Gare de Lyon, Paris, and left some light luggage and a red morocco leather jewel -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 theni In the darner over the cases. -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 -Cleristinas. Day, a man named Bird, repre- e senting.a London firm of dialeond merchants, ch.ecked 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 dawn one man and hold him; the other escaped, but was caught at the foot of the stairs. 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 you give nee your, tele- phone. nurnber?!' he Immured. "It's in the book,' she. said. "Splendid," he sighed, "And what's your name?" "That's in the book, too," she ' snapped. . Broken Homes — Heavy masonry wet no match for the furious floodwaters that recently engulfed Olivete and other towns in the southern Calabria region of Italy, More than 100 were killed *Ind 3000 *tote made homeless, including this forlorn family ef Oliveto, 0 FashionHints 04 0 A delightful young party dress in rusting block taffeta embroid- ered with bright red 'satin dots. The full skirt is formed a deep unpressed pleats and soft drapery frames. the sweetheart -shaped neckline. . . aczapoisimmourprob. LUCKY KM! I wonder, how many school - .boys strike as lucky as .did Nel- son Doubleday, heed 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 skine Ile 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 than ' '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 ane cent. • • . Merrie Men Unmasked • 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 Indiana's text- book •commission has charged Robin Hood and his merrie men with following the, Communist line- in robbing the rich to give- to the poor.: The gay legend that. has been the' delight of children and their elders through long non-Communist centuries is de- scribed as "just 'a smearing of law and order," and thus as subversive fare for young Ame- ricans. The charge has caused explo- sions laughter in Merrie Eng-, land, and has evoked from the High Sheriff of Nottingham (whose medieval ancestor chased Robin through the greenwood) the jovial response that while hundreds of Americans visit the outlaw's haunts every year, "we don't get any Russians." We might ask: If Robin Hood was a tted because of his some- what unorthodox resistance to the social depredations of the tyrannous Xing :6h% 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" document? 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 geed). From "The Christian Science Monitor." All the World Sends Him 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 distriets in any part 6f the World • t, • eeeethat these, cotild• be used dur- • i49nly one boy, ten-yearjold FidgeSignorinia, came erriptY•7- 10inded He mine from a poor home Where there were no cards and, no money to buy any, The • teacher decided to' give the child •• a surprise. She put an advertise- ment- in several national news - "papers, in Pablo's name, asking for picture patcards. • . Since then cards 'have rained • an the boy's village honie. They have come from all parts orthe world. Fabib has ne* at least 80,000 cards and every post brings mere. The village postoffice has had to engage a mare to cope with the extra mail. All Cif it used to be carred in the postman's one bag; now he has to use a horse and cart! • The whole schoolroom is, dee- orated -Witb the cards and -the childrensay they love learning geography that Way! As for little •rabic), he says that when he • grows ttp he will try to thank personally all the people who sent the cardal 4 TABLE TALKS ,,J4.4,,drewst. A great many women Of my acquaintance * and probably as many of yours—are making use these days of those packaged "biscuit mixes" which they find so handy when time Is short, and appetites getting keener by the minutes. Writing in The Christian Sci- ence Monitor, Ethel M. Eaton tells of some most interesting variations in the uses of such "mixes"—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-, rning 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 % cup sugar I egg 11A cups milk 1 cup chopped nuts 3 cups biscuit mix Conibine 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 conies out clean. A slight crack in the top is characteristic. Al- low to cool slightly before cut- ting with bread knife. * * * 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 dish. 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 lo*own. Fill with the following mixture: 2 tablespoons flour 2 tablespoons butter or margarine 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup 1 cup cooked celery 1 pint oysters — Blend flour and butter in a saucepan, add undiluted. soup; celery and oysters. Combine thoroughly and serve hot in 'the center bf 'the biscuit ring. Six 'servings. * • CHICKEN PIE 2 cups diced cooked chicken • 3 tablespoons quick tapioca 1 eup chicken stock or milk 3 tablespoons shortening seasoning to taste Blend jngredients 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 tmtil brown. Four servings. HAISIN-APPLE DOWDY Place a deep layer of peeled and quartered apples in a baking dish. Sprinkle generously with cinnamon and sugar and dot with butter. Babe for 10 minutes at 425°F. Add one-half cup of seed- less raisins to a 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. * MOLASSES SAUCE 3/2 cup molasses 34 cup water 1 teaspoon butter or mar- garine 1 teaspoon lemon juice 1 tablespoon cornstarch Cold water Boil molasses and water to- gether, then add remaining ingre- dients, except cornstarch. Bring to a boil, then add cornstarch which has been made smooth with a little cold water. Continue cooking gently until thickened. Mrs. Gregory Peck provided copy for Hollywbod columns beit' revealing that she and her movie - idol husband, now inking 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 Hit- • degarde Neff. . • 110.— '• • s Choo-Choo, flew -Now Butch, a two-year-old Boxer -plus -etce- teras pup, it cv confirmed engine rider. Owned by Engineer Glenn Harlem, he rides a •latal 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 oryle rabbits. 'Flashy" Outfit ••- Lit up like a Christmas tree, Lt. T. S. Locker& landing *signal officer aboard the Midway, models his new Wit with tiny light bulbs strung up and down and across his body and *Iona! paddles. Insets at lower right show how he looks to pilots returning to the carrier of night. ee'