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Finish Of A Top-Notch Crook He had the gall of a brass monkey, this bland, wiry little man with piercing blue eyes and (in his youth) naming red hair. Everyone called him "Stuttering Harry," but the police records listed him as Harry Steed; he was one of the greatest of the old-time safecrackers. In between the years he spent in some of the nation's very best penitentiaries, like Leavenworth and Joliet, he got away with at least $1 million. He drove the police wild, but for years Steed and three of his friends drove the gamblers even wilder. Kid Dimes, known from One end of the country to the other as one of the greatest roulette-wheel fixers of all times, was one of his pals; Joseph (The Yellow Kid) Weil, a swindler whose operations made Charles Ponzi look like a petty pickpocket, was another; the third was Deacon Buckminster, as plausible a grifter as ever sold a "gold mine." The gambling houses -- since they were illegal -- had protection systems that would have defied Houdini, but in the dark of the night Harry Steed would make his way in, picking the locks so carefully that he left no trace of his presence; then Kid Dimes would go about fixing the roulette wheels. (Or rather, re-fixing them from the way the house had them set.) Then, after Kid Dimes had picked up the house's crooked dice and thoughtfully substituted his own, the pair would vanish. Bright and early the next day, Kid Weil and Deacon Buckminster would show up as customers; they would stay until they cleared the joint out. Naturally, word that this quartet was operating in a city got around fast, so they had to keep moving; but even today old-timers still talk about the hauls they made in New Orleans and Chicago. One of Harry Steed's most famous safe-blowing jobs never brought him a nickel; to this day it remains a mystery. With the notorious Tommy Touhy and another thug named Skip Linden, Steed went to Marion, Ind., In the early 1920s, when the headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan was located there. Steed blew the Klan's safe, and the three walked off with all the Klan's records. No one ever found out what happened to the Klan records or who was behind the burglary. In his later days, in the North End Loop Bar where he hung «ut in Chicago, Harry Steed used to like to reminisce about the Job. But he always left the big Questions unanswered. "We had to go," was ell he would ever say. "It was a non- Srofit job." It was so nonprofit, 1 fact, that the boys stopped ©ff on their way out of town to knock over a grocery-store safe "to pay expenses," and that was how the cops got on their trail. Only Harry Steed ever knew where Harry Steed came from, or who his parents were. He was first picked up in Chicago in 1896, when he was 19, on a burg- • lary charge and was sent to the Pontiac Reformatory for four years. (A year after getting out, he was back for stealing a horse.) He was in prison--"in college," •s he put it--at least eighteen times. He devoted his time there to keeping his wiry little body in top physical condition and to figuring ways of breaking out. He was good at that, too. In one five-year period, from 1921 to 1926, he broke out of jail five times. As the years went by, Harry Steed was heard of less and less. He lived in a tiny room in the Curtin Hotel, on Chicago's South Side, hanging around the bar-/rooms, reminiscing about the old days. When Steed fell ill and entered Chicago's Cook County Hospital to die, he listed his "best friend" as Andrew W. Aitken, a VERY smooth - It would seem that Australia's ace miler Herb Elliott can't be bothered combing his own hair, preferring the smoothing touch of Jean Fraser, artist and hair dresser. Actually Miss Fraser is combing the hair of a wax dummy of Elliott in Madame Tussaud's Waxworks, in London, England. King Built Town To House His Wives Until air travel came Siam was right off the beaten track. Ships on their normal routes went to Singapore and thence to Hong Kong. Those who wanted to visit Siam had to change boats at Singapore and travel for four days by sea, a tedious journey. And what for? Unless one had some business there, one didn't go. But to-day, Bangkok, the capital of Siam (or Thailand) is one of the most important air junctions of the world and hundreds of tourists visit the country. Almost every 'plane going to Singapore or Hong Kong, to Australia, Borneo or New Zealand, lands at Siam, and one can see, as the 'plane descends, the golden spires of the temples, the wide and lovely river and the vast numbers of canals, which have given Bangkok its name of the Venice of the East. When the now-famous Anna was teaching English at the court of the King--less than a hundred years ago--there was only one road in the entire capital. This stretched for only four miles from the centre of the city to the palace; all other journeys had to be made by boat. The city was criss-crossed by canals. The huts, in which the people lived, were built on stilts and opened on to the canals. Many of these canals still -remain and life goes on as it always has. But the town is fast being modernized. Big business has come to it. There are some fine, impressive hotels. The one 1 stayed in is One of the most modern and comfortable hotels in the world, with a blue swimming pool, where American visitors can bathe all day long under a warm, cloudless sky, writes R. J. Minney in "Tit-Bits." For these visitors, and for the purposes of a greatly expanded trade, roads are now being built. Many of them run alongside the old canals, so that one can see the ancient life with its primitive charm and, a yard or so away, high-powered cars dashing by. From these roads to the houses that lie beyond the canals, long humped - backed bridges provide access. Some are strong enough to take cars, others are simply planks that sway dangerously under your feet. I saw two boys wheeling their grandfather in a tumbledown wheelbarrow which was no big-retired Chicago chief of detectives. Facing death, "Stuttering Harry" had been as jaunty as "The best safecracker I ever met," said Aitken sadly, one day recently, as he identified the body.--From NEWSWEEK. ger' than a soapbox. They tore across the planks, the barrow tilted, and grandpa fell thirty feet into the water. But no one was alarmed. Instead, since the Siamese are an exceedingly gay people,, there • was a burst of laughter and a hurrying forward 0? neighbours and of passers-by, not to help in the rescue of the man, but to stand by and laugh uproariously! Meanwhile, the old man in the waater gasped and spluttered and laughed, too. Had he drowned I have no doubt they would then have fished him out and lamented as noisily over his corpse. The Siamese are the happiest and friendliest people I have met. They have every reason to be. Their country produces food in plenty. Life is leisurely. There is some poverty, but it isn't as bad as in so many other places I have visited in the tropics. The day's activities begin with the first streak of dawn. At this hour the boats are astir, each of them a floating market. They travel along the canals, stopping when hailed, to sell to the residents of the waterside hus--curry, cool drinks, fruit; indeed, every trade has a dozen or more boats--the butcher, the baker, the vegetable vendor, and so on. It is one of the most fascinating sights of the city to set out, as I did, before dawn and travel In a boat along the river and the canals. The water is thick with boats, each laden with children, for the vendors would not dream of leaving their families at home. The palace of the King stands in a walled enclosure. It is immense, for the white walls encircle not only the royal residence, the audience halls, the temples, the guards' quarters, the ilephant lines, with a special hallowed sector for the white elephants, but also a vast arena where the women live. The Kings of Siam are allowed as many wives as they please. The King whom Anna taught, King Chulalongcorn, had as many as 600 wives--or so it was said, for nobody, not even the King, we.s quite sure how many there were. About a hundred of them had special houses, which gives some idea how large a town the women's quarters formed within the palace grounds. Here no man, except the King, could enter. They had their own guards, all of them women in uniform; they had their own shops, staffed by women--they were, in fact, a self-contained community. All this has been modified now. The present King has only one wife, to whom he is devoted. She is young and beautiful and there is a close companionship between them. One surprising thing about Siam is the vast number of priests. . This is because every man must serve in the priesthood--a sort of national service. Every member of the royal family has to do the same, even the King. They are generally attached to one of the temples, but those who intend to remain priests go into a monastery. One monastery I visited in the north at Chiengami, had a thousand young priests, some of them only eight to ten years old. They all shave their heads and wear saffron robes and have to beg for their food from door to door. Food is abundantly supplied, for it is a way of attaining merit for your soul to give food to a priest. The country is ridden with superstitions. The people believe that evil spirits creep into the house during the night. That is why, first thing as they wake up, they, let ..off fire-crackers from every house in order to scare away the spirits. Otuside every house there is is a spirit shrine--a small box rather like a brightly painted dovecote. Here a good spirit is expected to take up his dwelling. Food is offered to it daily and flowers are placed in the shrine. If bad luck comes to the home, it is assumed that a bad spirit has taken up his residence there instead. They can only drive it out by getting rid of the shrine. A priest is called and the tiny dovecote is floated away along the river or the canal, and a new shrine, brightly coloured, is set up in its place it the hope of attracting a better spirit. The love for children is so great that, in addition to having large families, most couples, young and old alike, are constantly adopting children. I met a young newly-married couple who within the first three months of their marriage adopted as many as five children, all boys., To this they hoped to add, either by having children of their own, or by adopting more. This they keep on doing all through their lives. Consequently couples aged seventy may still be seen with a young family of seven or more children, some infants in arms, others toddlers. A unique, happy people, living in a tropical fairyland. Oh, My Poor Seven Hundred Feet! How many' legs has a millipede -- that creepy, crawly, long- bodied little creature that wriggles through the earth, gnawing the roots of crops? A scientist in Panama has just provided the answer. He recently found a millipede with , 700 iegs, a hitherto unknown species. He reports that its body consists of 175 segments, each with four legs and each capable of partly independent action. Another painstaking investigator has recently found, to ais cost, that millipedes are not non-poisonous, as was supposed. There is a tiny poison gland in, each segment of its body. "The millipede can deliver a fan-like spray from its whole body,"-he reports. While investigating, he was temporarily blinded in one eye and partialiy paralysed on one side of .his face by a millipede which resented his presence. Luckily, the scientist recovered from these: "wounds". What about centipedes? It's always been known that they are poisonous. Some species have up to a hundred legs. Centipedes are tiny but fierce creatures which lurk beneath stones, the bark of trees or other secret hiding places, stirring out only in the dark to hunt their prey. But there are much larger species abroad. Tropical centipedes are sinuous, scaly creatures varying from six to nine inches in length. Those* in such places as the Solomon Islands can paralyse a rabbit instantly by a fouch of their poison and will sometimes bite unwary natives. 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