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os Wr meh a -------- | + deposit, ~~ A Careless Talk Cost A Fortune Hatton Garden in London has become synonymous with dia- monds. But in addition to the highly respectable and respected diamond merchants in Hatton Garden, there are some slightly less scrupulous people whose re- eords are not quite as sparkling as the stones they handle -- al. though their faces are every bit as hard, : These people are the hangers- on of Hatton Garden. Few of them are dealers--they are lay- abouts -- information hunters. And information--good, reliable information--is vital to the un- derworld. ' During the war they used to say that careless talk costs lives. Well, one piece of careless talk which floated over a cafe table one summer day In 1956 cost the insurance companies more than $300,000. A small-time mobster was sit- ting in that cafe, near Hatton v Garden, at the time. And his ears | flapped when he heard that a big Holborn diamond firm sent a woman every Monday, unguard- ed, to collect diamonds from the Hatton Garden safe deposit. The following Monday he kept watch on the safe deposit build- ing. He saw the woman arrive in a chauffeur-driven Rolls- Royce, carrying a small, leather case. emerged a few minutes later, still carrying the case, got into the car and was driven off; Having verified the cafe con- - versation, the mobster made con- tact with "The Boss." The Hatton Garden safe de- posit is a grey stone building housing the world's greatest dia- mond strongroom. The strong- room is in the basement, protect- ed by a six-foot iron door weigh- ing ten tons. Safe deposit boxes, which may contain at any one time as much . as $15,000,000 in diamonds, line the walls which are built of 150 tons of reinforced concrete, And, of course, there guards. . Every Monday morning for six ars Mrs. Alida Mullem, secre- ry to Mr. Moses Wijnberg, a Holborn Viaduct diamond mer- ghant, had called at the strong- m to collect the weekend are 7 Since she was so well known, was not always asked to sign the collection book. Once thé mobster had inform- ed "The Boss," -the movements of Mrs. Mullem were carefully patched for the next few weeks. When the pattern had been es- Jblisned, "The Boss" decided to On Monday, July 16th 1956, at + 10.45 am. Mrs. Mullem arrived as usual at the safe deposit. She oollected several hundred cut Jiovss, worth more than $300,000, safe No. 401. Then she went into one of the five counting boxes to check the stones, ' ; She put them 'in a. briefcase "She entered the building and EEEEE------------ SE and then took the lift to street level. She walked out to her car in which chauffeur Frank Baker was waiting, The car drove off, following its usua! route. Up Hatton Garden and then right into St. Cross Street. Normally the car would then have turned right into Far- ringdon Road, left into Snow Hill and then right into Holborn Viaduct. But at the bottom of St. Cross Street, it got held up by traffic --as it often did. As Mrs. Mul- lem sat holding the briefcase in the back of the car, a man wear- ing new overalls and a peaked cap raced round the front of the car, opened a rear door and grab- bed the case from her hands, writes Jack Spot in "Tit-Bits". He then ran off along Farring- don Road towards Clerkenwell Road. The chauffeur left the car and rushed after him--but just as was gaining on the man, he tripped and fell. The snatcher raced into Clerk- enwell Road and jumped into a waiting black Zodiac car. The car pulled away with a jerk, scraped the side of a passing trolley-bus, collided with another parked car. Later it screeched into a cul-de- sac. Both men jumped out, the snatcher still carrying the brief- case, and disappeared into the crowd. . Once again a stolen car was used. i And once again "The Boss" had, luck--and public apathy--on his side. Mr, V. R, Hall, who worked nearby, told the police after« wards: "The chauffeur was gain- ing on the man, and if he had had any help from the other people around he would have caught him." A description of the missing diamonds was sent to all air and - seaports. Detectives from Gray's Inn Road police station and Fly- ing Squad officers made a series of raids in several parts of Lon- don, co Dozens of shady places in the East and West End were visited. Mrs. Mullem and Mr. Baker were taken to Scotland Yard to study the "Rogues' Gallery" and the abandoned car was dusted for fingerprints. The stones, which came from one of the biggest diamond firms in London, had been cut in the firm's High Wycombe factory and were to be made up into | jewellery. Assessors offered $30,000 reward for their recovery. ~ In September the reward was | raised to $45,000--but by that time the stones had been bought and sold many times on the Con- tinent, : But this time not all the luck , went "The Boss's" way. ~The po- lice had some, too. They made arrests and in November two men went down--one for seven years and one for three -- for their part in the raid. Another man got three years for receiving stolen property and stealing a car. But the master- mind couldn't be touched, and the diamonds--sold for $200,000 --had vanished without a trace. This shows how dangerous'it is 'to indulge in careless talk in cafes. Where big money is con- | thrée o'clock today!" cerned, experienced crooks can ° almost. smell it. : Q. Do you now of any way in which I can deal with some worn --spots_on an otherwise good rug? - A. Try buying a package of dye the colour of the background on your rig, mixing this with enough hot water to form a thin "paste, and applying to the worn spots with a small brush, This should help lots. Many a man has lost control |- of his car when his wife and son 'passed the driving test, alley, Jody Longley and Barbara Orcutt, give the topsy-tur on gymnasium bars at the Morgan Park High §éhool. "Se s one way to keep fit, | el = "MEAD OVER HEELS -- Thess ladies (from left fo right), Edith om. 33 | But she 1s of the species that 'one rarely meets with Sry ib ? ~who 3 3 'ments had/ MUSSOLINI WEDS--Romano M wedding ring on his bride's finger. The i= ussolini, Sophia Loren, shown in first row right in white hat. left, son of the late Italian dictator, places the bride, Maria Scicolone, 24, is sister of actress i be It this column doesn't get into the paper it will be because the printers can't understand my handwriting! Generally speak- ing my copy is typed -- but not this time. You see my portable typewriter is at the "cleaners" -- and so am I! In other words I am cecupying a much sought af- ter hospital bed which I have been waiting for since Christ - mas. That doesn't mean I am sick . . . it is just that my doctor wants a few tests and X-rays - taken and so on -- and appar- ently it can't be done effectively ' unless I am completely inactive -- and you all know how Inactive a woman is likely to: be:in her own home. And s0 does my doc- tor, However, what I did for a couple of hours before I got here was just about equal to a week's work. Partner and 1 were just finishing a leisurely dinner -- it was twelve-fifteen to be ex- act -- when the telephone rang. This is part of the conversation that took place. © "Is that Mrs. Clarke?" "Yes, speaking." "This is' your local hospital calling, We have a bed for you now, - Mrs, -Clarke." "Oh, you have -- ahd when do you wan tme in?" "We would like you here by "Holy smoke! Is that all the time you can give me?". "I'm "afraid so. Do you want to come In or not, Mrs, Clarke?" HI don't want to come in but since my doctor thinks I should I suppose I'll have to." 2 And 1'dld. I had a bath, packed ad a'cup of tea ready and wait- cup of ' ing. Then he phoned for a taxi to be at the house by twenty' to three and there was still no taxi, phoned again. Yes,*a cab had gone out but as it hadn't arrived in. be there -- i g6t "itself lost. I finally here and I've been having a time' ever since, An 'élderly that I knew very well is the same floor 50. she-and her \rwe came to. visit us after sup- per, I say "us" bedause I am in § 3 a, semi-private room, My room. mate Is a lively young girl -- + & mother 'who: has left two small children at home, Not only that cies: was. practically extin 1s a joy to find there are a survivors, Well now, since wa are on the subject of hospita fon I won. der how many people saw the an- nouncément put in the papers last week by the'Ontario Hospi- |. lon that arrange- |' tal Co made so that in future Hospital Insurance would oover not only hospitalization but also out-patient treatment -- that is fn specified cases. Whether A person should be treated as © an "in-patient" or an "out-pa- tient" would be at the discretion "'of his or her doctor. Thank goods "tha fon has finals ly come up 'with a suggestion that should ease the hospital bed age considerably. I am sure there are many peos INGERFARM Gwendoline D. Clarke bag and by that time Partner: A Se ant df ly i tgachers suspect that as many wating I phoned the hod' {" 1. that I 'was ready but the ple occupyihg beds these days because only in that way could they be sure the cost of necessary treatment and diagnosis would be covered by Hospital Insur- ance. In fact, directly I saw the announcement I thought "that lets me out -- I won't need-a hospital bed after all." My doc- tor thought otherwise, so hera I am . . . and with all the com- fonts of home -- a telephone and radio beside my bed -- the only thing I object to is the bed it- "self. 1 think when I get home PU put my wits to work and in- 'vent a bed that doesn't throw F wind Up; the lead, + Of course I have been in touch , you down tojthe floor when you .{" with Partner and the only thing he complains about is 'that ha- hasn't 'anyone to grumble at, -at home, that is, no one other than Taffy - dog and Ditto - cat. Way-Out Hair Style Wows The Teeners Hold the hair straight out, tease it with a comb until it gets trizzled, then comb some of the outside hair over this big mess of frizzled-up hair and set it in place with a cloud of hair spray. This creates the bouffant, a hair- do filched from eighteenth-cen- tury France, whose tortured var- iations -- mushroom, flip, French twist, chemise, French roll, ar- tichoke, and .bubble -- 'began sprouting a few years back. In the adult world, which has moved on to the Cleopatra look, it's now a bite passé. But among U.S. teen- agers, bouffants are proliferating --as-fast as the toadstools they re- | semble. "This is so much of a craze that it's practically "driving us crazy," reports Bertha Standfast, Hollywood High ool's dean of ~women. In Chicago, goggle-eyed '#8 70 per cent of teen-age heads ..are bouffant-crowned. The souf- ~tlé-like coiffure Has risen as : precipitously In Detroit. "We have tenth graders who find it hard to get through the door- way," mutters a lor at De-- troit's Mumford High School, Many New York' palons, which 'once seldom coiffed youngsters, now tease the locks of 25 to 30 a week, The fad has inevitably made the hair of 'many a' parent stand on end. "I'm 'fed up with it," snapped Mrs, Judy Merck, mother "fot a 13-year-old Atlanta child, "She starts working on it when : " "from school, rolls Hr 4 3 WHOL to bed, skips It it rains She 4 a tack." But teen-agérs {OS§" thi heads at such criticism, even suggest. that "their ,own parents like bouffants fine. As Victoria Scruton, 18, of Los Angeles, puts it: "They think it's very regal." "Boys are ambivalent. "I don't "mind them if they're not too wild," says Jef Hartenfeld, 16, of Chicago. "By wild I mean one that is real high and real gray." In isolated spots, of course, many girls have brushed off the _bouffant, "Who can wear such a hairdo In our wind and fog?" asks the girls' dean at Abraham TISBUR 120. 1068 in tt -------- rd eit Wigs, | i i or BEADED BEAUTY -- Ten- strand crystal and pastel bead- ~ ed Cleopatra necklace, shower are - _earrings and bracelets shown in New York. Lincoln High School in San Fran- cisco. Another Bay Side teacher agrees. "It really was never a problem. Only once did I have to speak to a girl -- and that was because the boy sitting behind her couldn't see the teacher." However, where bouffants are big, they are sometimes seen as symptoms of other problema. "There is a correlation between extreme hairdos and low grades," says a Los Angeles teacher. "Some just want to exeel at something." . To hairdressers, who generally take a dim view of engineering such complex styles for young girls, the issue is also one of health. "It's a shame what they are doing to their scalp," sighed a Chicago beauty-salon operator. "It can't breathe properly with this kind of hairdo." But such breathless: conformity across the campus shows. little sign of sag- ging. "We will always wear our hair just like this," pledged Helen Alcser, 13, of Ferndale, Mich. "Or at least until everybody else changes their style." From NEWSWEEK "Men have poorer sight than women," says a woman optician, When they're choosing mates? Pupils To Learn While They Sleep "Now, children, before we be- gin the next lesson, I want you all to go to sleep," says the schoolteacher. mass hypnotism gets to work and, satisfied that his puplls are all peacefully asleep, the teacher introduces his subject. This may be common proce- dure in the school of the future as a result of the researches of a Soviet scientist, Professor Abram Syvadoshch. For twenty - six years he has been studying the reactions of the human brain to external in- fluences when its owner is sleep- ing, Hypnopedia is his word for these studies. He finds that dur- ing sleep, children's memories can be very greatly improved by suggestion and auto - suggestion. Such influences can penetrate their heads, forming a memory aptitude while they are fully asleep, Good results are also gained, says the Professor, when pupils are aroused for a brief period and then lulled back to sleep by long-playing records. Sleep - time instruction causes the brain less fatigue, in his view, than when the whole body is awake. By working on children's brains at night, teachers and par- ents may succeed, one day, in turning out much brighter chil- dren and so more useful citizens. Popular Song Hit Comes From Moscow Vacationing in Brussels last summer with his blond wife, Bet- ty,- British bandleader Kenny Ball heard a catchy tune with in- sinuating, Slavic overtones which momentarily halted his holiday- making. He couldn't understand the Belgiun who announced the title. but the melody pouring out of Ball's transistor radio an- nounced itself as a song to re- member. Reaching for the near- est piece of paper -- which just happened to be his airlines ticket -- Ball jotted down the notes of the main theme. "A Hungarian goulash band was playin' it," Ball recalled the other day. "I was gassed!" With the aid of experts back home in London, Ball found out that the tune which had caught. his fancy was none other than "Moscow Nights," a long-stand- ing popular song hit in the U.S.S.R. where it has always been treated as a dreamy ballad in slow dance tempo. But this didn't bother Ball at all. "I knew from the first it was a solid trad jazz number," he said. "Trad," as might be guessed, is British. musical slang for tradi- tional, or in the New Orleans or Chicago style. Trumpeter Ball's specialty is that same kind of Jazz, and so he promptly record- ed the song in a rousing Dixie- iand arrangement, Under the title of "Midnight in Moscow," Ball's record on the Pye jazz label was listed among Britain's top-ten disk hits last November and December. Now it looks very much as if this suc- cess story will be repeated in the U.S. Ball's original versian, re- leased by Kapp, has sold more than 300,000 copies and Jumped into the top ten on the trade popularity charts. Before long it is expeoted to climb up am- ong the top three. There are "three other "different instrumen- tal versions available (on the London, Epic, and United Artists labels) and Kapp has also rush- ed out a vocal rendition by Jul- ius La Rosa with American-made 'words by Oscar Brand and -Paul The lights dim, Nassau titled "You Can't Keep Me From Loving You." ) The publishers of "You Can't Keep Me From Loving You," Hollis Music, Inc,, want to share their royalties 'with the two Russians who wrote the original "Moscow Nights" in 1957: Vasill Soloviev-Sedoi, who composed the music, and N, Matusovsky, the lyricist. So far, however, the firm has had no answer to its letter offering payment in return for some kind of 'reciprocal ag- reement covering the American popular music which is openly pirated by the Soviets and never paid for. With the possible ex- ception of Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance" in 1948, no Soviet musie has ever even threatened the U.S. Hit Parade. The success of a jazzed-up "Moscow Nights" may make . the Russians change their tune. ' Modern Etiquette By Anne Ashley Q. Does it really make any difference whether one sits down from the right or the left side of the chair at the dinner table? A. No; whichever side offers the easier and quicker access is the one for you. -Q. Is there any way that one ean posibly rinse one's fingers at the table if no fingerbowl has been provided? A. It is permissible to tip the water glass against the corner of the napkin, and then wipe the fingers on this damp corner. =] ACCORDION LOOK -- Youtt and femininity keynote the pretty collection unveiled fo spring in Paris. 'Lanterr skirt" fans from hip to knes with crisply pleated cerist chiffon; has tucked bodice. % WELL NAMED -- Ocean n City, Md, lashed the coast. Some 1,200 residents fied to -dollars'- worth--of - damage. - ae Is bathed in sea water following the storm which »:fety os high water caused millions of 8A