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Bandits Get Valuable
Loot From Residence
Of Lauritz Melchior
Hollywood HP Four bandits
forced their way into the home
cl Lauritz Melchior Tuesday
rugbt, tied up the singer, his
wife and hi household em
plnyeei and escaped with an es-tur-atrd
$175,000 in cash, jewels
and furs as M'-lchior raced after
them wi'.h a rifle.
"IX I only could have gotten
my g'ui in time," the Danish
born linger told police. "I pre
tended I had a heart attack, so
tney didn't tie me up very tight
ly I ran after them when they
wera leaving in their car, but I
waa too late."
Melchior said the four tied
hira, his wife, Maris, nicknamed
Kleinchen or "little one;" his
valet, Charles Leuscher, and
xr M, Willa Huber, with neck
tun and stockings after taking
the valuables.
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Part of the loot included S110,
flSo in crown jewels once belong
ing to Queen Anastasia, mother
of the present King Frederick IX
of Denmark.
"This is a holdup," one of the
men told Melchior. He waved a
fin at him and forced him to
open a wall safe. The others, two
oi whom wore nylon stocking
matki, took cash, jewelry and
four fur coats from other parts
of tha Mulholland Drive hilltop
tfcane.
"They were between 35 and
40 years old," Melchoir told po
lice. He said they did not harm
anyone and left Mrs. Melchior's
75-year-old mother alone.
"I was hurt a little by being
i)d up, but that was all," his
wifa said. "It was a terrible ex
perience reading and listening
to mti.ic when suddenly some
people come into the room and
u, 'this is a holdup.' They
oxde us lie on our stomachs and
tied ua up.
"I suppose they were courte
ous because they didn't kill us or
t let.t we don't have any
broken bones."
The Melchiors had been vis
ited earlier in the evening by
everal friends before the in
vasion by the gunmen who ap
parently carried .45 caliber automatics.
1 The 67-year-old Melchior came
to Hollywood in 1944 after 25
I years as a famed Metropolitan
Opera star. He appeared in sev
eral motion pictures, co-star-
ring with such actresses as Kath
ryn Grayson June Allyson and
Esther Williams.
I Calypso Fad Nol
j For Rock'n Roller
I New York IP Maybe
I Bill Haley is prejudiced, but he
doesn t dig this calypso music.
The king of the international
rock 'n' roil set believes the en
tire calypso fad was doomed
from the start because, "you
can't force the public to buy
anything."
Haley, recently returned from
what he calls a "fantabulous"
tour of Australia and England,
said he first heard about the ca
lypso boom while in Australia.
"They told us we'd come home
to find rock 'n' roll dead," he
said. "When we got home, I look
ed at a television disk jockey
show and they were playing a
calypso record. I saw that the
kids weren't dancing, and I
knew we had nothing to worry
about."
Haley believes calypso is too
difficult for dancing.
"It's very easy to jitterbug to
rock 'n' roll," he explained. "The
secret of our success is our sim
plicity. The kids don't have to
study to enjoy our music. It's
their music."
He pointed out that, despite
all the commotion, calypso has
only had a couple of hit records.
"No matter how much you
run down rock 'n' roll," he said,
"the public likes it and buys it.
Rock 'n' roll is still turning out
million-selling records. Calypso
isn't. If calypso had the young
sters singing and dancing, it
would last."
What about Haley's future?
And whither rock V roll?
"I'm thinking of other things
to help widen the field. You
know, rock 'n' roll is only the
four bar blues with a heavy aft-
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LENDING A ROYAL HAND Britain's Queen Elizabeth II (left), wearing glasses, and
Princess Margaret (stooping) do their share to keep the polo field at Windsor Park
neat by treading down pivots, pieces of turf torn up by polo club strokes. The Queen's
husband, Prince Philip, who was celebrating bis 36th birthday, played for the Wind
sor Park team in the match.
WadtiMday. June 19, 1937
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
Defense Against Attackers Offered
Buffalo, N. Y. tP) A German-born
grandmother offers
this time-tested continental dis
couragement for would-be at
tackers of women always carry
a small can of pepper.
Mrs. Carl G. Ahlert said Eu
ropean women a generation ago
never left home alone unless
armed with pepper for self-defense.
"Hurl pepper into the attack
er's eyes," she recommended. 'It
will smart terribly. His first re
action will be to rub his eyes.
That will make the burning sen
sation even worse. You'll have
time to run away.
"Or take a bunch of keys and
scratch him up."
The 60-year-old native of
Koblenz, Germany, resides in su
burban Cheektowaga where
numerous attacks on women
were reported recently.
"This series of attacks is the
worst in the 30 years I have
lived here," she said.
The important thing to re
member, Mrs. Ahlert added, is
to carry a small can of pepper
in the hands ready to use when
ever a person is walking on the
street especially at night.
"There may not be time to
get it out of your handbag or
pocket," she said "With a little
practice you can learn to open
the can with the thumb of the
same hand with which you are
carrying it."
FOR HORSES
Milton, Mass. IP A
crosswalk of white lines has
been painted diagonally on
Route 28 in the Blue Hills near
a sign that reads, "Horses Cross
ing." The walk is for the pro
tection of riders using the bri
dle paths.
About 15 hours are required
for a ship to clear the Suez canal.
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Formerly Frances Dallaira
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Women Sentenced To
See Movie, Write Essay
San Francisco IP Municipal
Court Judge Clayton Horn
placed five women shoplifters on
probation Tuesday with the
stipulation they see a movie and
write 200-word essays on one
phase of the film.
The movie: "The Ten Com
mandments." The subject: The Eighth Com
mandment: "Thou shalt not
steal."
erbeat. If this starts to fade,
there's the same beat applied to
Dixieland . . . country music . . .
the old ballads.
"Fm a long way from through.
"We're always trying to come
up with something new. Not only
my own group, the Comets, but
all rock 'n' roll groups. We keep
refreshing ourselves. And re
member, too, that we have so
many good guys on our team
guys like Elvis, Pat Boone, Fats
Domino. They're powerhouses.
It's going to be tough to beat
us."
Gizo Paradise For Troubled Man
Gizo HP Having mother-in-law
troubles? Your boss a slave
driver? Tired of it all? Then try
Gizo.
Gizo is a town and an island
in the British Solomon Islands
Protectorate where there are no
automobiles, but everyone owns
a boat; where a man with a bi
cycle is considered rich. There
are eight general stores serving
Gizo's 12 European families.
About three times a year
ocean liners intrude on Gizo's
privacy to load copra, yet Aus
tralia is only 11 hours away by
regular Qantas planes from the
nearby airport at Vella Lavella.
Your breakfast food grows
outside the glassless houses,
medical attention and hospitali
zation are free, the cobalt seas
are saturated with fish and the
bacon for your eggs runs wild on
the nearby islands.
Gizo is the port of entry to the
Solomons Protectorate and seat
of government for the Western
District of the B.S.I. It lies 500
miles south of the equator with
an Hawaiian climate.
There is cricket and football
for the sports-minded, and sandy
beaches and tall, shady trees for
those born tired.
The British Government store
sells everything from cocktail
canapes to shotguns, and the
seven Chinese stores can pro
duce everything from brocades
to chewing gum.
The cost of living is among the
lowest in the world and "ineffi
cient" domestic native help
abounds. The Commonwealth
Bank of Australia is housed in
a palm-thatched hut, and there
is barbed wire instead of iron
bars on the local jail.
Most Christian religions have
churches in or around Gizo, and
the government provides Cam
bridge graduate R. Hill as agri
culture expert to advise farmers.
England's fishing fleet In 1580
needed warships to drive off the
pirates.
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