The Seaforth News, 1957-06-13, Page 7Thievish Tricks
It suddenly occurred to a love-
ly young French bride at her
wedding reception recently that
the large number of well-to-do
young men present might be per-
suaded to subscribe to a partic-
tslarty deserving charity in which
she was interested.
She surprised her bridegroom
es they sat together at the lunch-
eon table by suddenly taking off
one of her silk garters and hold-
ing it aloft.
"I'm going to : auction this for
my favourite charity," she an-
nounced. "What offers, please?"
Offers came thick and fast from
the malegusets. Then twelve of
them had a shock as they reached
for their wallets. They discov-
ered that they had vanished.
They had been stolen, it was
later revealed, .by a professional
crook who had managed to get
himself engaged as an extra
waiter for the wedding feast. He
was .tracked down and jailed.
Thieves are clever at seizing
opportunities and some will run
great risks to be on the spot at
the right moment. Other crooks
are constantly thinking up new
ways of relieving their victims •
of valuables.
What the police of Pretoria,
South Africa, called "night fish-
ing" was practised by a gang
there recently. While household-
ers were asleep with their win
dows Open, these "fishermen"
crept about outside with long
poles with hooks on the end. Be-
fore the thieves were finally
rounded up by the police, they
had successfully "fished" cloth-
ing, blankets and anything else
that chanced to be lying around
from the bedrooms.
When another crook was ar-
rested in New Jersey last year
for stealing from car parking
meters, he boasted that he had
gone to the trouble of first tak-
ing a correspondence course in
key -making and had devised two
keys to open all the city's me-
ters.
People living in a Surrey town
Often rang up a local .taxi -man
when they were going on holi-
day, for he had great reputation
for punctuality and good,service.
"Taxi to the station,'sir?" he'd
reply over the 'phone. "Certain-
' ly. What time?"
His customers always caught
their trains and were well satis-
fied.... at the beginning of their
holiday. But twenty men and
women who hired this particular
taxi had their houses broken into
while they were away. The taxi -
man was eventually caught and
spent five years in jail.
Recent statistics show that on
an average every year a house
is burgled in every, other street
in every town in Britain. And
police say that, despite the ut-
most vigilance on their part,
criminals tend to be more auda-
cious today than they were years
ago.
Because a thief was regularly
stealing his gasoline recently, a
motorist set up a camera and
trip wire. Next time the thief
called he took the camera and
Ignored the petrol!
, Another impudent crook called
at a Lpndan house and calmly
remarked to the decorator who
was painting the open front door:
"I suppose the job will soon be
finished, eh?" Then he went to
the top of the house where he
pocketed $750 worth of jewellery
which he found in the woman
owner's bedroom.
As he hurried downstairs, he
encountered her coming from a
ground -floor room. "I'm sorry,
but I seem to have got into the
wrong house," he remarked, and,
raising his hat, went out through
the still -open front door, nodding
genially to the unsuspecting dec-
orator.
In Denver, Colorado, a man
fell asleep recently while watch-
ing a TV programme in his sit-
ting -room. - When he awoke he
found that a thief had crept in
through an open window and
stolen the TV set and a radio set.
A crook who believed in tak-
ing no risk of being chased, got
away from a Fremont bank with
$18,000. But before he left he
threatened the staff with a re -
OUT AT SECOND— Yankee shortstop Gil McDougald fires he
ball to first in an unsuccessful attempt to compJete a double
play after forcing Chicago's sliding Jim"Riveraat at second in the
sixth inning of a game in New York.
Elevators Get Independent
Pounding the pavements of
New York, reporters meet up
with all sorts of situations, news
breaks, off -beat stories, human
interest developments, and sur-
prises.
In this city of skyscraper popu-
lation and vertical travel, this
reporter ran into a particularly
complex affair whereby an ele-
vator was running him instead
of being run.
It was in the bright, shiny, and
new Socony-Mobil Building -45
stories high, and one of the larg-
est office buildings to rise in
New York City in a quarter of
a century, I had business there
and went into the lobby,
From than on it was an elec-
tronic, push-button world. Here
was a "bank" of 32 'operatorless
elevators silently arriving and
taking off—unaided by human
hand. They handle with ease
8,000 workers plus thousands of
visitors every day. There are
only four lobby attendants where
in the "old days" 50 or more
operators and starters would be
needed.
How come these elevators
know so much? William H.
Bruns, head of engineering re-
search at the Otis. Elevator Com-
pany, had the answers, mainly
because he has been with this
firm for over 30 years, and the
firm is now celebrating its first
century of business.
We went aboard one of the
$100,000 "cabs" and when it was
correctly loaded, the electronic
"brain" went to work and we
took off. Passengers pressed their
floors, doors opened at the right
places and closed at the right
time. It went up and down at
the bidding of passengers, but
properly operating with a super-
ior sense of independence.
The elevators through automa-
tic dispatchers, clocks, and 2011 -
century gadgets, adjust to peak
loads of morning, noon, night,
and the "coffee break." They
know about Saturdays, Sundays,
and holidays and do not move
until they are "told." If the
building empties or fills at an
odd hour, they adjust for this—
groups of elevators rush to the
rescue of the burdened section.
By the same token, unless they
work, they quit.
volver and forced two men to
take off their trousers and two
women to take off their skirts
to hamper pursuit.
Police declare that every pro-
fessional burglar has his own
peculiar habits and that many
leave their "trademarks" on the
scene of the crime.
There was an East London
crook who earned the nickname
of "Man Friday" because he only
cracked cribs on Fridays. An-
other good-looking young burg-
lar was called Don Juan because
whenever he encountered the
lady of the house he would kiss
her, whether she was old or
young.
If someone stands in the door-
way the doors will try to close
for some seconds, but are so pre -
lite they will not interfere with
the passengers. Then a warning
.buzzer will sound. If this isn't
effective, the doors will. gently
move in and nudge the' person
into "let's -get -going" one way or
the other.
My next stop was the new sky-
scraper at 711 Third Avenue
where, in a beautifully abstract,
mosaic decorated lobby, stood
John J. Somers, elevator service
engineer for Westinghouse. He
took me to the roof area of the
building "to see the electronic
brain in operation." Herein an
orderly panel -jungle of electron-
ic equipment, the automatic traf-
fic pattern control system was
instantly weighing each change
in passenger load, counting the
calls in both up and down direc-
tions, counting by-passes and
stops, and even measuring time,
writes Harry C. Kenney in The
Christian Science Monitor.
The supervisory control center
panel constantly selected the
proper pattern to meet the de-
mands of the moment. It scan-
ned, counted, measured, checked
and corrected all the operations
during a peak time when hlm-
dreds of passengers wanted in
or out of the building.
Both Otis and Westinghouse
also supply elevators with an
automatic voice. This is an audio
system that transmits messages
automatically to passengers.
The voice can announce floor
numbers, names of tenants, de-
scribe merchandise in depart-
ment stores, or dispense special
information in hotels or build-
ings where transients compose a
large percentage of the passen-
gers. Basically, the voice was
designed to assist the passengers
in normal operations end'to re -
,assure and inform in the event
of an emergency. In addition,
the elevators have intercommun-
ication with the starter.
Various studies have shown
that in New York City more pas-
sengers are going up and down
than sideways. And in talking
with Mr. Bruns and Mr. Somers,
interesting facets sparkled out.
For instance, 35 to 40 new office
buildings are sprouting about the
city and they will have the lat-
est in operatorless elevators and
electric stairways.
Right now there are 35,000 pas-
senger elevators of all kinds in
New York City. They rise and
desderid 130,000. miles every day,
which is the equivalent of five
times around the, globe. This
mileage is enough to make a
trip to the moon in two days.
The Empire State and Chrysler
Buildings carry about 32,000,000
passengers a year. And at the
65 -storied RCA Building, the 40
elevators there have traveled a
total of 6,650,000 miles in 25
years.. They average 266,000
miles a year.
"Going up?" "Going down?"
"Press the button, please!"
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AFTER TORNADO ROARED THROUGH -Two rescue workers rest on a fallen timber as a family
searches the wreckage of their home after a tornado virtually wiped the town of Freemont,
Mo., off the map. At least 58 persons lost their lives in twisters which cut a path of destruc-
tion through Missouri' and Kansas.
Torn Skirt Set
New Fashion'
A. beautiful dark-skinned girl
with an expressive piquant face
;and a loyely figure stood wait-
ing to make her first -appear-
ance at 'one of the smartest
clubs in Paris. She wore her
best gown, a tight -fitting cre-
ation of white satin.
She was about to go on when
the proprietor rushed into the
wings. "You can't go on like
that!" he exclaimed excitedly.
"It would be a disgrace! You
are a gorgeous woman with a
heavenly body. Show a little
of it!"
Ai he spoke, he ripped both
sides of her dress from -floor to
hip. -
Frantically trying to. Dover,
she then went on stage to sing
in her warm, haunting voice
and dance her lively numbers.
The audience applauded wild-
ly and next morning the news -
.papers acclaimed a new star
.who had set a daring fashion
,with her slit -to -the -hip dress!
Eartha Kitt had come a long,
long way from the little piece
of land with its sickly crops
farmed by her parents in South
Carolina, where she was born.
Because in 1928, the•year their
daughter was born, the, land
suddenly yielded an abundant
harvest. Her parents said, "We
will call her Eartha, to thank
the earth for our fine crop." But
the improvement in the family
fortunes was short-lived. By
the time she was six, Eartha
Kitt had lost both her parents
and was brought up by an aunt
in New York.
As a very small child she
learned to live with her dreams,
to escape from her dreary sur-
roundings into a world of
fantasy,
"Just wait and see, I'm going
to be a famous singer and
dancer some day and I'll travel
all over the world," Eartha
used to. tell her schoolmates.
She left school at fifteen and
went to work in a factory, put -
SHOOTING STAR — Andy Grif-
fith' is one of the brighter stars
zooming across the Hollywood
sky these days. He's the star of
"A Face in the Crowd," which
followed his Broadway success
in "No Time for Sergeants."
North Carolina, where Andy
owns a farm, is still home to the
actor and his wife, Barbara.
ting in long hours sewing army
uniforms to pay for piano les-
sons. Her first break came just
before her sixteenth birthday,
when a friend introduced her to
Katherine Dunham, the famous
dancer.
Miss Dunham was so impress-
ed with the girl's supple body
and talent for pantomime and
improvisation that, despite her
total lack of training, she in-
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When the time came. for the
troupe to return to New York
from Paris, Eartha Kitt made
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Dunham to release her from
her contract, moved into a tit-
tre hotel and started out on
her own. It was in her first
singing engagement that she
appeared in the famous slit -to -
the -hip gown.
She went on to appear in
Turkey, Greece and Egypt and
fabulous gifts poured into her
dressing -room, including pre-
cious jewels, the deeds to• apal-
ace in Egypt, a string of ele-
pants and an outsize diamond
from a prince. She returned
them all, regretfully - "I didn't
want to take a chance of wind-
ing up in some Sultan's harem."
she sighs.
Since then she has proved
herself a top-flight actress of
stage, screen and TV, a fabul-
ously successful recording star,'
constantly in demand by the
worlds' leading night clubs.
The' story -book dreams of the
little Negro girl in South Caro-
lina have come true. Now,
making her first starring ap-
pearance on the screen, she will
soon be seen in the highly dra-
matic role: of a politically-
minded African's wife in the `
picture about racial equihity,
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by the accidents that killed 80 persons on the road.