European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday february 12, 1969 the stars and stripes Page 5 annual take estimated at Fife of million loss to track hijackers doubled in one year new York a hundreds of millions of dollars Worth of merchandise shipped from Europe and elsewhere abroad never reaches american buyers be cause it is stolen before delivery by highly organized gangs of i  Are getting so bad in new York that experts estimate the average value of truck hijackings at $300,000 a Day in the metropolitan area More than$100 million a year. The nationwide take has been estimated at 1600 million year doubled in one year from 1967 to 1968 and a figure thai makes old time pilferage from docks look puny. Second time around actor Tony Curtis and Model Leslie Allen Exchange wedding vows for the second time before Superior court judge Edward r. Brand left in Santa Monica Calif. They were first wed in la vegas on april 18, 1968, and decided to remarry after Curtis mexican divorce from Christin Kaufmann was sanctioned in California. A stars ind str plus stale Side i Iii Lils . Plans Apollo exhibit in Paris Washington up the United states plans to exhibit  hardware and jumbo jetliners at the International air show in Paris May 29-june 8, the Commerce department  Apollo will be the theme for the exhibit. Some of the Apollo astronauts yet to be selected will be on hand to open . Pavilion. The space exhibit will be highlight every step of an Apollo flight including a planned Landing on the Moon. On display will be the command module from one of three most recent flights Apollo 7,8 or 9, the latter set for feb. 28. The new Era of jumbo jets will be represented by the 500-Pas-Senger Boeing 747, which made its first test flight last sunday and the giant Lockheed c5a transport. Bouncy jailbird plays peekaboo Clinton Ark. Up Gerald o. Brittle had a Good thin going for a while. Jailed on bad Check charges last week Brittle tunnelled out of his Van Buren county jail cell twice to burglarized nearby businesses then returned to stash the loot in his mattress police  police investigated the break ins Brittle would spent the Day safely in his cell. But finally he was caught in the Middle of another burglary and sheriff Jake Williams bad him transferred to a special steel cell. Two cops spattered with Lye Miami up two policemen were spattered with Lye hurled at them by someone in a Small crowd that gathered when the officers tried to arrest four youths suspected of Auto  can of liquid Lye hit officer m. T. Fultz on the right Side of the face. He was taken to the county Hospital where he under went plastic surgery and was reported in fair condition. Some of the Lye also splashed on officer r. W. Weiss. He was treated at the Hospital for minor Burns on the left Arm and released. Bunnies bunnies bunnies Chicago up Hugh Hefner publisher of Playboy Magazine advertised for prospective bunnies for his play boy clubs. So Many girls turned up be bad to interview them in groups there were 250 girls inside and a Long line outside stretch ing Down the Block in the falling Snow. This Hefner told the first shift of 250, is my idea of u Good ratio for a  3 commuters killed As pipe pierces train san Bruno Calif. A three commuters were killed and at least 18 injured monday when a 50-foot length of pipe was accidentally rammed through a crowded Southern Pacific commuter train headed Forsan Francisco. The 8-Inch-diameter pipe hit the double Decker car just be Hind the Center doors Wen through a lower window at head j level and came out an upper window on the other Side. A Southern Pacific spokesman said the pipe which was being installed near the track for rail Road use was being handled by a Crane of the . Co. Too close the operator got too close tothe rail or got Hung up some How he said. The footboard of the engine clipped the pipe and spun it around and i pierced the Lead passenger  accused killer Dies in fire at his hideout Floyd a. Up a Man accused of triple murder died Mon Day in a fire As state troopers tried to flush him out of his Mountain  state troopers Acci dentally set fire to the two Story summer Home where 24-year-old Edward Styne was  lobbed tear Gas bombs into the House where Styne was shooting at police seeking him for the murders of his wife his father and his son. I 4-hour siege ithe collapse of the House ended a four hour siege in the Snow speckled Virginia mountains begun when police spotted the wanted Man s car outside his father in Law s summer  tried to sneak up to the House but Styne opened fir and drove them Back. About 40 officers then surrounded the House and brought up an armoured car. They rarely re turned Styne s fire hoping to drive him out  about 2 p.m., one of the tear Gas bombs lobbed into the building started a fire. Officers theorized it had grown too Large for Styne to put out by the time he discovered  was shortly after the fire started that Styne fired his Las known shot ripping through the Necktie of trooper b. L. Riddle when the trooper crawled around a Corner of the House and lobbed smoke grenade into the base ment. Officers brought up one of the patrol s armoured cars driving Down the four Miles of Muddy Road and the mile Long driveway to the House. Then they drove itto within six feet of the White Frame  trooper then used the car s megaphone to urge Styne to come out. Come on out and you won get Hurt the Loudspeaker boomed Over the  you Don t come out we re going to have to come in an get  but Styne. Sought by police since sunday never spoke to the officers. When the fire spread Over the House police tried to Buck the armoured car away but it was stuck in the mud. The truck s water Supply was not enough tout out the fire in the House. It. Marvin Kent of the stat patrol said the patrol had no in Tention of setting the House  would never do that he said. Last Friday was probably record Day for hijackings in the new York area. A series of truck trailer holdups and thefts brought the loss for the Day to Well Over$600,000. It s driving trucking firms insurance companies and police up the Wall trying to Cope. The gangsters not Only have their thievery Well planned they appear to have footholds in Busi Ness to dispose of their loot easily and profitably. Sometimes the bandits even Are reported Mohave the hot cargoes sold before they Are  in route from docks airports and Railroad terminals Are big game for the gangsters. But so Are Cross town shipments especially from Manhattan s vulnerable garment Industry which often sends Racks of dresses Roll ing Down a City  hijackers hit anything no matter How big. In recent week sin new Jersey two 40-foot truck trailers and a refrigerator Van were taken from the premises of a trucking  Day a Load of dresses was hijacked in Daylight at gun Point in Manhattan. New York s garment Industry alone estimate sits annual loss to hijackers at $50 million with insurance companies threatening to Stop their policies. Steal big police and insurance companies fear that even increasing containerized shipping in Ocean freighters and on railroads won t Stop the hijackers because the Yare equipped to steal big. In addition to clothing there Are numerous easily scalable items that Are special prey for hijackers. These include liquor cameras cigarettes and  items Are seized in lots Worth tens of thousands of Dol Lars. Convoy system new York mayor John Lind say s traffic study panel is pro posing a Convoy system for freight trucks which would be instructed to follow specific routes from airports or docks. Special lighting on trucks strict racer systems and seeded communications Are other suggestions for checking the gangsters. But there always remains the Hazard of dishonest truck Drivers in the pay of the  one of the most disturb ing aspects in this Large scale looting is the suspicion of official investigators that much of the loot moves through the channels of what is politely called legitimate business. Gangsters have established substantial footholds in Many manufacturing distributive and merchandising Indus tries to handle stolen cargoes. A Well tailored career Chicago up Mayo Richurd j. Daley has been named Best dressed Man of the year by the custom tailors and designers association of Amer Ica. The mayor received the Honor monday at the 89th meet i ing of the association. Fly right in the surf is heavenly Miami a crackling of the National Hurricane Cen Clouds heard Over Florida Dur ing the weekend probably we resounds of crashing surf reflected from above the . Weather Bureau said monday. The most reasonable explanation is that it s some kind of temporary inversion of sound reflected from 10,000 to 20,000 feet above the surface Saidur. Robert h. Simpson director Ter. The sound of crushing surf bucking the Gulf Stream if reflected Inland would be startling to people. It would sound like the crumpling of Wax paper or tinfoil. William Ward of Miami said the sounds were like a big Bird flapping its wings and trying to get off the  his wife Charlene heard it differently. No it s More like huge sheets of Wax paper being crumpled she said. Similar strange sounds were reported at Jacksonville Beach on the night of feb. 2. Police chief James Alford said u sounded like the crinkling of plastic or tinfoil