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Zurich Herald, 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- ularly deserving charity in which she was interested. She surprised her bridegroom as 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 male gusets. 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 sago. 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 Londan 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 the ball to first in an unsuccessful attempt to complete 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 then 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 20th - 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 "trade marks" 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 po- 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." Here in 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 hun- 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 and 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 descend 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!" F...:::aV:art ..e•.z •nna-aH�.xww .�•vru.,-,A titi`::c AFTER TORNADO ROARED THROUGH—Two rescue workers rest on a fallen timber es a fancily searches the wreckage of their home after a tornado virtually wiped the town of Freemont, Mo., off the map. At least £8 persons lost th eir lives in twisters which cut a path of destruc- tion through Missouri and Kansas. Torn Skirt Set New Fashion A beautiful dark -shinned girl with an expressive piquant face and a lovely 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!" As he spoke, he ripped both sides of her dress from floor to hip. Frantically trying to cover, she there 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- vited her to join the troupe. When the time came for the troupe to return to New York from Paris, Eartha Kitt made her decision. She asked Miss Dunham to release her from her contract, moved into a lit- 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 a pal- 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 corns 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 equ tiny, "Accused." CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING AGENTS WANTED BE YOUR OWN BOSS 1 MEN or women, can work your own hours, and make profits up to 500% selling exclusive houseware products and appliances. No competition, not available in stores, and they are a necessity in every home. 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