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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 10, 1953, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page 6 Winnipeg free press january 10, 1953 police trap closes they stole a Fortune in pearls and lost them in a Matchbox i third article walked into front Page crime almost As soon As i started work at Scotland Yard. One of my first jobs As a Junior detective was on the great Pearl necklace robbery which was one of the most spectacular and in genious thefts of All time. On. July 16, 1913, a or. M. Mayer of Tele phoned Scot Larid Yard. He was Agi with some reason for he had been robbed of a Pearl neck lace Worth vanished or Mayer had spent ten years travelling the world collecting flawless Rose tinted pearls match ing and grading them until he had created the perfect necklace. The existence of his. Necklace was known in the Trade and a Well known French Diamond Mer chant m. Bernard Bayle asked Mayer to Send it to Paris As he thought he could get a buyer Bayle could not sell the neck lace and wrote to Mayer saying he was returning the necklace by registered Post. But when Mayer opened the packet he found inside not the matchless pearls but eleven lumps of sugar Laboratory tests of the parcel showed that the sealing Wax used differed from the original. We questioned several Likely suspects but that got us nowhere. At the Yard it was the opinion of the experts that the Job was the work of Cammi Grizzard. Partners Camel Grizzard was a Short fat Man who dressed Fla Shily and enjoyed the Good things of life. He could afford to for he was a big receiver of stolen property and pro Inal jobs in the whole world at that time. We knew All about him at the Yard but we had never been Able to get a conviction against and once again we had Little to go until one Day two frenchmen called at the Yard. The were partners and Diamond merchants. One them had met his Cousin Lei sir Gutwirth another Diamond Mer chant in Amsterdam shortly after robbery. Gutwirth had just come from London and hinted that he was interested in a big Deal.1 he asked his Cousin if he were in the buying Market. He made it pretty Plain he was talking about the Mayer pearls. The Frenchman immediately by Percy j. Smith sex chief inspector of Scotland Yard taxi a Man dressed in a Black overcoat a White Muffler whispered to. Sslverman and moved away. Inside the House the bargaining began again. Suddenly the door opened and in came a Short fat Man smoking a Cigar and wearing a Carnation in his buttonhole. He joined in the argument. The. Frenchmen insisted on see ing the pearls so an arrangement was made to meet on the follow ing Day in a popular Tea shop. The two frenchmen the fat Man gut Wirth and Silverman sat at one table. At the next table the French men recognized the Man in the White Muffler. The fat Man took out a cigarette turned to this stranger and. Asked for a match. The Man in the Muffler tossed a Matchbox across. Of. Thought of the Reward and asked for details. Gutwirth shut up like a Clam but promised to keep in touch. Bargaining when they heard no More the Frenchman wrote to Gutwirth in London. He received a reply inviting him to England for negotiations. The Frenchman arrived with his partner and met Gutwirth at an hotel. Another Man appeared Sud Denly they did not know his name but later we identified him Assi Mon Silverman another Hatton Garden merchant. Bargaining began and the two frenchmen offered half a million francs then Worth Silver Man Shook his head. He said the Rock Bottom Price was francs. The frenchmen stalled and they were taken to Gutwirth s House in Bably the Best Putter up of Crim North London. As they left the samples the. Fat Man opened it took out a match lit his cigarette and then from the Box Shook out three Rose tinted pearls into the Palm of his hand. The Frenchman weighed the pearls and estimated that the larg est was Worth there was no doubt that they came from the Mayer necklace. The fat Man put them Back in the Matchbox and said the frenchmen could have five Days to get the Cash and Complete the Deal. It was then that the French men taking care that they were not followed reported to Scotland Yard. We them photographs from the rogues they identified the fat Man As Cammi a Rezard and the Man in the White Muffler As James Lockett a Brilliant Safe breaker and big time thief. After that the frenchmen acted on our instructions the insurance assessors gave them enough Money american team in . Sees. Apathy inertia Fetters la Ondon ten men from America s deep South have accused British Industry of apathy complacency inertia a reluctance to depart from the past and Lack of incentives. The ten took this View of Britain s Cotton Mills after visiting Lancashire in the summer of last year As a productivity team. Their report attacks almost every owner manager and worker in the Industry. Apathetic Bosses first the managers the managements of Many British Mills Are too apathetic to establish the conditions necessary for labor to work at High productivity. In Good times they seemed to be saying they did not need to change and if poor times came they were already pre paring themselves with the argument that they could not afford it. Their main Effort seemed to be directed towards the Protection of the least efficient producers and the preservation of antiquated arrangements. Men suspicious now the workers Are criticized. First the . Team says that 100 american workers do the work of 238 Lancashire men and women. There is Praise for a few far sighted Union leaders. But for the rest of the report charges because memories still re main of the dark Days of unemployment Trade unionism in Britain is falling Short of the responsibility for the future that has been placed before it the workers Are said to be suspicious of scientific management time and motion study and other aids to efficiency. Yet they have been Given Little reason by management action to believe in the future of the Industry and Small cause to become productivity minded or bad p1anning a Plant and the methods of running it come next. The americans attack the spinning Lancashire Loon has remained fundamentally unchanged since the Early Power loom. The team believes that automatic looms used in Ameri Ca can produce fabric that is equal in Quality to or better than fabric produced on non automatic looms. The working led labor is being used in Lancashire to move and position materials Oil looms and with other housekeeping tasks which Are done in learners and unskilled labor. Only about one Quarter our Mills use a method to get better use of labor in improved work Lay out. Yet where this method was carefully prepared no workers were dissatisfied. In Many Mills rooms Light ing appeared to be adequate. Then the . Team discovered that fluorescent lighting Here with tax Cost nearly twice As much As in the . The working american standards the work Day was but Breaks make it seem excessively in cases it took ten and a half hours at the workplace to put in a nine hour Day. Then the americans sum Upin Selling overseas Price is the ultimate criterion. For the Cotton Industry even More than for any other Industry in. The country it is a Case of Export or the full Force of to buy pearls they had Een at last there was another Lea shop meeting with Gutwirth who tried to double Cross his colleagues by basking for a on the Deal. When Silverman turned tip he kept quiet then. Cammi arrived. C he had the three samples on him and sold those for francs paid in French notes. He arranged to produce the necklace the next Day. Understanding the scriptures Tuvya grasp the answer to a letter in Forth in or Zeman s Lette r headed Canadian i do not quite new bait the meeting was fixed at the first Avenue hotel which used to stand in Holborn. The place was stiff with detectives. I was one of a squad hidden in a covered motor Van parked near the hotel Entrance. While we sat taut in the Van the frenchmen gut Wirth and Silverman waited in the hotel then Lockett arrived and told them Cammi had seen a Man he knew to be a detective. The Deal was off. So was our swoop. We Laid a new bait the French men were sent Back to Paris and told to write to Gutwirth that they had found a South american buyer for the necklace who was prepared to offer Gutwirth five per cent commission on the Deal. It worked. We knew our gut Wirth. With difficulty we persuaded a reputable French Diamond buyer to act the part of the South american buyer. So this time three frenchmen arrived at Thor rendezvous in a Pri vate room at an hotel in Russell Square. They were met by Cammi Grizzard Lockett and Silverman. Gutwirth had been left downstairs to watch for we were there More unobtrusive than Ever. Your paper signed is to be apparently thinks that we must read the Bible backwards in order to get the pro per thought then every thing Falls together like a Jig saw Puzzle. He quotes from corinthians 2-14 but. The natural Man Recei Yeth not the things of the spirit of god for they Are foolishness unto that say that you must be natural i order to understand the scriptures the Way he does. Then you turn Back to the eighth Chap Ter of John you read the 47th first then then 5. He has proven his Point Admir ably. See proverbs 26-5. Winnipeg no pearls after some talk the necklace gently was produced and the buyer was Morden Man. Examining them when there was a loud Knock at the door. Silver Man thrust the pearls inter his boots and the South american buyer pulled out a gun. He thought he was about to be held up. When the door was unlocked a diminutive Page boy stood there May or. Gutwirth come up he asked. This comic interlude so scared our buyer that he refused to go on with the talks. The gang left the hotel. We rushed after them just As they reached the nearest tube station and were in time tto see them going Down in the lift. I remember racing Down those tube stairs with a squad of other detectives and fit As i was it made me gasp. The stairs seemed endless 3ut we arrived in time to grab Silverman Lockett and Cammi Grizzard As they left the lift. The took them to Grays inroad police station searched there was no sign of the pearls but we did find the French notes that had been paid for the three pearls and on that evidence they were charged with the Lar Ceny of the necklace. The next Day p. Van Meek. More or less persecuted i was disturbed to think that you would hint in one of your recent editorials that or. Lattimore of the. American government had been and is being More or less persecuted insofar that he has been asked to come before the american enquiry Board. There is also the fashion of at tacking senator Mccarthy for dig Ging out those that Are or have been untrue to North american traditions. Yet How can we find out what is going on if we Are not to have these enquiries Why should or. Lattimore object to answer questions the very rot and instability of the German government in the 1930 s brought about the millions of communist and leftist followers in that tragic country which in turn forced totalitarian Hitler ism. Are we going to soft pedal these borers in America until we too have our defense installations blown up like Valparaiso had re Empire and pro positions which seem Radical to a moderate nationalist like myself Woisil like to express. My own views on the matter j do believe that native country is the equal of great Britain and the existence of British Royal ties in our political make up however figurative tends to imply political subservience for Canada. This fact seems to be further substantiated in the very wording of out passports it seems that we Are travelling abroad As British subjects. Having achieved National maturity in t it time that we be Gin wearing Long pants and asserting our once and for always the terms Canadian citizen and British economically i have no doubt that the Commonwealth is mutually advantageous to both great Britain and Anada but politically i do not believe that our position in it is on a Par with. Canada s present status As a world Power. As i previously stated i am neither an agitator or extremist but i do. Sincerely look Forward with most True canadians to the Day when Canada will proudly Sal Ute a truly distinctive Canadian lag and lift its voice in a single exclusively. Canadian Anthem. St. Boniface. Louis Prefontaine a. Dack. But Lancashire replies we arrested Gutwirth. Still no pearls. It was bad Luck but at least we had the Crooks and knew the whole Story. Silverman had done the robbery. He had found out about the posting of the pearls from a clerk of Bayle s. Then in. London he had a replica of Bayle s Seal made and had by bribery ensured that Mayer s Par cels were first delivered to his own Hatton Garden office. The rest was easy. All. Four conspirators appeared at the old Bailey. Cammi Grizzard got seven years Lockett seven Sil Verman five and Gutwirth 18 months. Us soon As the americans reported Lancashire began to reply. Said a. B. Fielding director of the Cotton spinners and manufacturers association the americans do not seem to have appreciated the difficulties of Post War reconstruction. They make no reference to taxation and its effect on re a. C. C. Robertson president of the amalgamated association of card blowing andr ring room operatives Why have the americans put tariffs on the Cotton goods we Send to the states if they think we Are sir John Grey 77-year-old chair Man of the Lancashire Cotton corporation the world s big Gest spinning Combine Iner Tia in Lancashire utterly in True. My Combine since the War has spent millions on changing machinery. A High Tariff Wall prevents All but a Small Quantity of Lancashire cloths entering the american by special arrangement with London just before ended a London Road sweeper picked up. A snatch Box which Felt heavy. He found it full of Rose coloured balls. He showed them to his pals who told him they were worthless. When the Roadman handed Over his find to the police he was Given a receipt for Box of imitation the station sergeant sent the pearls to a local jeweller for valuation and received the Shock of Lis life. The Mayer necklace less the three pearls sold was there Complete. They the Bell at Lloyd s when the news was announced great Britain there is much in the letter signed by one Fero. F. Zeman which appeared in the january 3rd Issue of the free press to provoke ridicule that one finds it difficult to reply on the subject with patience and solemnity. The British Empire has always been a Happy Hunting ground for Cranks and crack pots with bees in their bonnets. Perhaps Fero. F. Zeman s interpretation of the eng Lish reaches the greatest height of apart from any sinister purpose underlying it in tote use he makes of the British Empire in his scurrilous attack upon the English people. Although he or. Fero. F. Zeman pours scorn on the English and this comes ill from one who owes his entire Freedom to the race he vilified and so a detailed refutation of such puerile reasoning is unnecessary enough has been said in the foregoing paragraphs. During the four after Columbus the great nations of Europe have fought one another by fair Means and foul for territory and for Trade. From that Long struggle England emerged lion s share and now we Are asked to believe that such a Success above All else has proved England to be the miserable thing that Fero f. Zeman would have us believe no patriotic Man whatever his nationality would detract from the heroism of the English soldiers Anc sailors who have made the Fame of England great. Such names As Drake and Raleigh Clive and Rhodes will never lose their Lustre As Long As English history is read. They were probably no More Brave or patriotic than millions of men in the ranks or underneath the decks whose names have perished but they Are sym Bols in them is summarized the glory of the nation greater symbols i vow than such pressure sir ., who favors in leased liquor consumption and Dis agrees with my recent letter says hat the excesses of the few should not deprive the majority of intoxicating drink. But the great major to of canadians All the children almost All the women and Many men would be satisfied without intoxicants although their failure to drink might annoy the liquor Industry. There is certainly no need o increase the number of liquor outlets. Ilk As Fero. F. Zeman. Winnipeg famous Dale Carnegie course for men and women Public speaking human relations leadership How to win friends and influence people this will be the 22nd class in Winnipeg starting tuesday january 37 join now enrolment limited what you will learn a for article hew on to inf tin potty Crit became tit victim of the a psf amazing blackmail conspiracy in Iris Iii h. Bowling Also argues that no one s compelled to patronize liquor stores and that their existence is justified if enough people usie them. However every liquor outlet adds to the pressure which abstainers receive from drinkers advertising entertainment unhealthy comics and alcoholic education which tells children How to drink. And would a school teaching the use of opium be justified if it had enough pupils women s votes will never bring about mixed drinking unless some one tampers with the ballots. What Mother wants her youngsters to be faced by the dangers of mixed drinking St. James and Elm pod residents who protested against liquor outlets received no sympathy from the provincial government but a second Elmwood delegation which asked the government to proceed with its liquor store was Success Ful. Last october a government supporter in the legislature practically advised an audience How to secure mixed drinking when he said that there must be a very Strong agitation before the govern ment could act. Despite . S contentions it appears that the provincial government is More concerned about revenues than its responsibility to the people. A teacher s motives december radio station . Announced in its one news broadcast that or. M. E. A former dear of education of. The University of Alberta had suggested that Tea Chers in this country might Wel play Down their demands for More Money and place More stress on their Public surely he was misquoted or misinterpreted. Be that As it May the above mentioned statement was broadcast and it must not be permitted to pass unchallenged. For some forty five first As a teacher and during the Pas Twenty five years As provincial inspector of secondary schools have had an unique Opportunity to observe and understand school Tea Chers. There is n o occupation a group in our social Structure whose members give More freely of their time and Talent to activities above and beyond what they Are specific Caily paid for. They Are with re actively few exceptions conscientious hard working and highly trained people who display a "give1 philosophy of life rather than the grab Type of behaviour so pre Valent in Many other occupations a few examples will illustrate. A. All Down the Ages teachers have been guides philosophers and friends to their and rarely if Ever have they demanded fees for assisting them to make Good in life. B. It is no secret that the Home has during the past few years been expecting the school to assume More and More of its responsibilities. It is not uncommon for a Parent to say to a teacher or principal i can t do a thing with him meaning his son can t you make him work and make him behave then too our schools especially some of the larger High schools Are now a Days congested and confused with so Many so called extra curricular activities that the harassed teachers find difficulty in capturing enough of the time and interest of the pupils to develop the sound Scholastic achievement which should be the fundamental Pur pose for which these schools exist. Incidentally there Are Many Home responsibilities which the teachers just cannot take Over. C. In my Long experience i have seen scores of teachers work ing evenings saturdays and even sundays t o help weak pupils but Only rarely have i known any of them to seek i special remuneration for these services and never have i heard of any of them demand ing time and a half for Over time. This is True notwithstanding the fact that teachers have on the Everage Long been grossly especially when compared with Many other occupations where less train ing is necessary and where there is much less social possibility. In the schools the parents expect the teachers to get the pupils Many of their pupils experience a rude Shock when they go on to the University or to life where they find that it is up to them to get themselves through. In Many communities school teachers teach in sunday school play the Organ act As Secretary for numerous organizations carry the i main responsibility for recreational and other programmes Etc. F. The Public schools act pro r Hibits teachers from becoming trustees. Most school boards frown Down on teachers be coming candidates for office in municipal provincial or fed eral affairs. G. Much of the research that goes on in the Field of Educa Tion is done by teachers in off duty hours. You Seldom hear of governments or Industrial con Cerns giving millions for educational research. The recent Kellogg Grant to the Canadian education association was conspicuous by its rarity. H. During the past six or seven years the High school Curri Culum in Manitoba has been revised. It is characteristic that almost All the real technical and professional work involved has been performed by committees of teachers and in Al most a-11 cases without any financial return. Even the much maligned Tea Chers professional organizations Are always doing much More than striving for better salaries working conditions Etc. No doubt they can speak for themselves but perhaps i might mention the of. Research and in service training which they Are always doing. Incidentally How often have Tea Chers in Manitoba or in Canada for that matter Ever gone on strike in the rare cases where they have done so the provocation has been excessive. In conclusion perhaps i might add that there Are few people who know the shortcomings of teachers better than i do but to accuse them of being mercenary and to suggest that they Are lacking in Public ser vice just is not in accordance with the facts. Winnipeg Andrew Moore de. Note limitations of space make it difficult to publish Long letters in full. Because of the importance of its subject the above letter has been made an exception to this general Rule. Cadet Parade tuesday Optimist Squadron 176, Royal Canadian air cadets will Parade tuesday at 7.30 . At the Royal Canadian air Cadet Headquarters Stevenson Field. Deaf Winnipeg miss Ellen Cooke. Or just hard of hearing we have just the Aid for you. 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Among firm anti communists and anti russians the prevailing attitude As a result of the testimony at the Prague trial seems to be that the defendants bungled their operations and were foolish enough to get caught. In other words those who Hope for the overthrow of the communist regime feel that shrewder per sons Are required to achieve this the minister of Justice in Czechoslovakia happens to be of jewish origin. Seven members of the Central committee of the communist party of czechoslovak and Russell Mcguire Brown and Jack Alkih 66. Cyril Dale Carnegie Institute 267 Edmonton Street Winnipeg. Phone 92-5678 this Coupon will bring you without obligation a free copy of the 24-Pagff Brown Book which explains fully what the Dale Carnegie course can do for i packed with thrill Nir and inspiring Storle about what it has helped others to accomplish. Mail this Reserve place for me and friends at free demonstration meeting at the Marlborough hotel tuesday january 27, at 6 pin. 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