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Evening star., 1937-01-15
Natures Children
Great Alaskan Brown Bear (Ursus gyas).

about a month, the bears are very
hungry. Perhaps few ground squlr-
rels have been found and tender roots.
But the salmon are plentiful on the
rifles" or where there are rocks and
shallow water. All the mother has
to do is to march out and catch a
husky, Topping. tender fish. She soon
trains her babies to wade in and catch
their own fish. At first she tosses her
excited twins, standing as close to
the waters edge without getting their
feet wet as possible and wriggling
their noses with great anticipation.
They are ardent anglers, once started,
and you should see a small brown
youngster tugging and hauling his
Tapping captive to the shore.
Games are enjoyed to the full among
bear babies. They are so like those
played by human babies. you know
why these little tots of the woods are
SO appealing.
Father bears mind their own busi-
ness and until prodded beyond the
limit of patience, do not instigate a
fight. Once in, they fight to the finish.
Please remember that bears have
poor eyesight, and when they hear a
sound or catch a scent that disturbs
them, they stand up to get better
view.
They have a form of communication
between themselves. 1t is evident to
your own senses when you see, even
a baby bear, aware of the fact that
the scent of a human is on the air.
and it is indeed sad to think that We
mean fear and foe to each member
of the family.
(Copyright, 1877
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the snow a big bone with a lot OF
meat clinging to it. At the same time
he had let Flip out, for that bone was
intended for him. He promptly laid
down beside it and began to gnaw it.
But hardly had he begun when
something caused him to look up.
There, running straight toward him,
was a stranger, as ugly looking fell
low as Flip ever had seen. His lips
were drawn far back, to show all his
teeth. There was a fierce look in his
eyes. These things Flip saw in his
first startled glance. Moreover. this
ugly stranger was bigger than he.
Anyway, he looked So And he wasn't
hesitating at all. It was evident,
clearly evident, to Flip that he was
about to be attacked by some one
against whom he would stand no
chance at all. He did the only sensi-
BILE thing to do under such circum-
stanceS-he turned tail and ran. Yes,
sir, that is what Flip did. He forgot
that bone. His one thought was to
get away.
He ran a short distance, then
glanced back over his shoulder to see
If he was gaining. He wasn't being
chased. Flip abruptly stopped and
turned around He blinked bit stu
pidly at first. That terrible stranger
was nowhere in sight, but just dis
appearing around a corner of the barn
was a Fox. and he was taking with
him that bone With a yelp Flip
started after him. Forgotten was that
dreadful stranger Forgotten was
everything but that that bone was
being stolen by an impudent Fox.
Around the corner of the barn raced
Flip. Then he turned the corner at
the back, and there was that terrible
stranger again. Flip almost ran right
into his open jaws. At least that is
the way it seemed to him. AS he tried
to stop and turn Flip Skidded badly
on the slippery crust. Each second
he expected to feel the teeth of that
stranger. He got under way again and
headed straight for the house. He was
trembling when he reached the back
door. Then he looked back. No one
was in sight. That Is. no one was in
sight near at hand. Running across
the snow-covered Green Meadows was
that Fox.
Flip stood on the doorstep, looking
after Reddy Fox as he ran toward the
Old Pasture. Flip was puzzled. He
was still frightened, but he was be-
ginning to have a suspicion that that
Fox had had something to do with
that stranger. The door opened and
Farmer Browns Boy stepped out. He
was laughing and Flip had feeling
that he was the cause of that laugh
ter. the feeling that it was at him
that his master was laughing. He was
right. From window Farmer Browns
Boy had watched the whole perform
ance.
Evening star., 1937-01-15
Student Thinks Selassie Steer

LAFAYETTE. Ind. (P)-Among the
answers of Purdue University students
to an Education Department ques-
tionnaire were: Halle SelaSSie was
the grand champion Angus steer at
the Chicago Live Stock Show" WAL
lis Simpson was the husband of the
woman former King Edward loves" "
Shirley Temple is child movie star"
That last one? Ninety per cent scored
it correctly. but not a single student
identified Maxim Gorky.
Evening star., 1937-01-15

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Evening star., 1937-01-15
Jolly Polly
BY JOSEPH 7. FRISCH.

J. M. O.-Visiting card invitations
are very popular now, probably be-
cause the wording can be abbreviated,
thus saving a great deal of time in
writing. On ones visiting card may
be written, Sat. Night, Jan. %. Small
dance. Please reply" Since the in
vitation is informal, the reply may
be made by telephone.
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ny THORNTON W. BURGESS.
Chagrin is always hard to bear
When caused by Just foolish scare.
Flip the Terrier.

TLIP knows. Yes, sir, Flip knows
- Several times he has been badly
frightened when there was
u nothing to fear and has been
mortified even when there was no one
about to see his fright. Most people
have had just such experiences.
On this particular Winter morning
Flip's master, Farmer Browns Boy,
had tossed out the back door on TO
Evening star., 1937-01-15

Answer-As I am not a lawyer I
don't know the legal answer to your
question, but can tell you of many
cases where women have for the same
reasons that you give taken back their
Evening star., 1937-01-15

I discovered this I left him and went
back to business and we were later
divorced. I then took my maiden
name and every one calls me by it,
with Mrs. as a title, Of course. I am
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leaving business and my son wants
Is it possible to go back to my first
marriage in this way. and how can !
make this generally known?
Evening star., 1937-01-15

We are sure South is one of those
players who claim that they do not
hold their fair share of high cards.
Copyright. 1879
Evening star., 1937-01-15
Yesterdays Answer.
HEl8RHEHBH

The diagram shows how three OF
the men could move to adjacent
crates and still not have any two in
direct line. The stars show where the
men were before moving.
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Nine Tricks Only.
A CCORDING to the law of
n averages, each player over a
~ long period of time is sup
4 posed to hold approximately
the same number of high cards. Win
ming players say the law works out
perfectly. Losers claim it is fallacious.
While we believe that the law works
out in the majority of cases, there is
one thing we are sure of-when hold
ing good cards it is up to the player
to make the most of them. In todays
hand, South was blessed with an enor-
NOUS hand. Because he was entirely
lacking in resourcefulness to obtain
o game for his side.
South, Dealer.
North-South vulnerable.
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The bidding:
South West North East
IA Dbl. Pass "a
Dbl. 80 Pass Pass
a Pass Pass Pass
South should have opened with a
forcing two bid. The hand qualities
for such a bid in all respects. 1t
should produce nine tricks either in
spades or in no-trump. Having opened
the bidding with one spade. South
decided he would not be bluffed out
Of q game, so after East had bid two
clubs in response to Vests takeout
double, South in turn doubled to OBJ
tain what information he could from
his partner. Here West interjected
a raise to three clubs, and North, with
his practically worthless hand, was
helpless. The bidding reverted to
South, whereupon that player, know
ing he could get no assistance from
his partner, jumped to four spades,
which was automatically set one.
South showed a complete lack OF
Imagination. The opponents had bid
and raised clubs, but he held first
round control of that suit. Provided
his spade suit broke, South had nine
cold tricks in no-trump unless the
opponents could run of five tricks in
diamonds. As neither of the oppo-
nents had bid diamonds, there was
great likelihood that his partner held
at least length in that suit.
Evening star., 1937-01-15
Winning Contract
Nine Tricks Only.
BY THE FOUR ACES.


eyeryo In
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first husbands name when the name
was that of their children. Let your
friends know and have new visiting
cards printed with your name.
tCopyright, 1877
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Stocking Fad in Britain.

Silk stockings done up as rosettes or
concealed in crackers are a fad in
Great Britain,
Evening star., 1937-01-15

JUST DISAPPEARING AROUND
THE CORNER OF THE BARN
WAS A FOX.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-21
New Menace Created By international AirpIanes

however, these drastic steps have
been unnecessary as the air.
lines have been extremely CO.
operative about the disease-fight-
ing measures.
Keeping yellow fever infected
persons out of the country is an
other problem. There is no way
of telling that person has been
infected with this disease until he
comes down with it six days later,
which gives plenty of time for
him to reach one of the southern
cities where the majority of the
native mosquitoes are the yellow
fever variety. Some of them are
pretty sure to bite him and suck
up the yellow fever virus, which
they will pass on to their next
victim.
Health officials in other coun-
tries are just as concerned as our
own department about this prob
lem. The British in India are es-
pecially worried, since the yellow
fever centers in Africa have been
brought so close by air travel.
India also has countless numbers
of the yellow fever mosquito.
In addition, her millions of peo-
pie have probably no resistance at
all to the disease. which has never
appeared in that country, and it
is impossible to enforce through
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-21

for use in a plane. So Drs. Will
liams and Dresser mixed up an
insect spray in which non-inflam-
mable carbon tetrachloride was
substituted for kerosene. This,
however, proved irritating to hu-
man respiratory systems, and this
spray had to be abandoned.
EVENTUALLY, they found a
Il mixture of the two sprays
which proved satisfactory, a mix
ture with so little kerosene that
there is no danger of its catching
fire and SO little carbon tetrachlo-
ride that it is not irritating to
man. 1t is a little heavier than
similar insect sprays, so it must
be sprayed under slightly higher
pressure.
Present practice is to spray the
planes with this mixture, using a
spray gun such as the house,
keeper uses in her war on moths,
flies and other insects. A more
effective method might be to sup
ply the planes with a very small
aluminium pipe, enabling the pilot
automatically to spray the plane
periodically.
This spray mixture should do
the mosquito-killing job effect
lively. One difficulty, however, is
that spraying the cabin and the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-21

pilots compartment Is not suff1-
cient, as the mosquito stowaways
can hide in the closed parts of the
wings and fuselage. The vacuum
cleaner feature comes into use at
this point, in order to test the ef-
ficiency of the spraying which is
done while the plane is en- route.
When the plane lands, it as well
as its passengers must be in
spected by the quarantine officer
of the United States Public Health
Service. To help in the search for
mosquito stowaways, a sanitary
inspector goes over every bit of
the plane with a vacuum hose
covered with a screen of cotton.
Any lurking mosquitoes that es-
capped the spray. will likely be
caught by the vacuum line and
will show up on the cotton screen.
If more than one mosquito is
found on ten planes of any one
airline company, the company will
be warned by the United States
Public Health Service that it is
not doing the mosquito-killing job
thoroughly enough. If mosquitoes
are persistently discovered, the
Federal health officers will hold
the plane, Immediately on it's ar
rival, for mosquito search and
destruction, before mail or pas
sengers may be taken off. So far,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-21

out the country sanitary regula-
tions such as screening of houses
and isolation of the sick. Importa-
ton of one yellow fever infected
human or mosquito might mean
disaster in India.
To avoid such catastrophe,
Great Britain, along with the
United States and about 20 other
nations, has signed an Interna-
tional Sanitary Convention for air
travel. The signatories have
agreed to keep persons from yell
low fever areas under surveillance,
before they BOARD a plane, Tor a
long enough period to determine
whether or not they have been in
fected with yellow fever.
While these precautions are in
effect, scientists are at work seek
ing still better methods of pro-
lection against yellow fever A
protective vaccine has long been
sought and five gifted scientists,
Adrian Stokes, Hideyo Nouguchi,
William A. Young, Paul A. Lewis,
and A. Maurice Wakeman, lost
their lives in the quest.
Such vaccine has at last been
devised. 1t is costly, however, and
the supply is limited. Rockefeller
Foundation scientists are making
every effort to eliminate these de-
foctG
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-21

t..e airliners, and kept them
from landing in the United States.
One way of doing this would
be to destroy the mosquitoes on
the plane during the flight. A
good spray, the public health Of
ficers considered, is pyrethrum in
kerosene, the basis of many in
secticide sprays. 1t is compara-
lively harmless to humans and in
low concentrations in the air it
will kill the yellow fever mosquito.
The disadvantage of this mos
Iuito killer is that it catches fire
easily which makes it unsuitable
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-21
Dra,Oins by Jane Stafford

troll far greater than any we have
ever faced and one for which our
present methods of malaria con-
troll. would be totally inadequate.
On top of this, there is Hawaii
to be thought of. This delightful
vacation spot has no malaria be-
cause there are no GnopheIeS
mosquitoes in the islands. Health
authorities are greatly concerned
over the possibility of even one or
two of these notwithstanding mos
quitoes being taken to the islands
from the mother country, which
is now only 18 hours away by
plane.
Officers of the United States
Public Health Service, entrusted
with the job of protecting us from
importation of disease, realized,
as soon as commercial air travel
started between the United States
and Central and South America,
that they had new problem on
their hands.
There are really two problems,
or two parts of the problem. One
relates to danger from human
passengers and the other to dam
ger from mosquito stowaways. It
is for the latter that Drs. c. L.
Williams and w. G. Dreessen
adapted the housekeeper's tools
into effective defense weapons.
Were it not so grim the use of
the vacuum cleaner and insect
spray guns on board airships
might be humorous.
In the case of the human pas
senger, air travel brings him
from one continent to another so
quickly that he might leave South
America perfectly well but har-
boring yellow fever germs from
an unsuspected mosquito bite,
and arrive in this country, still
apparently well, only to develop
the disease days after his arrival.
He might then be the means of
spreading the disease to others,
since the mosquito that carries
yellow fever still exists In this
country = though, without any
yellow fever patients to bite, it
cannot get and spread the infect
ion.
If yellow-fever-infected mos
quito hopped an airliner for a
stolen ride into this country and
disembarked undetected, it and
its brothers and sisters already
here could infect enough persons
to provide the nucleus of a good
sized epidemic before anyone
knew what was up.
That this n actually possible
was demonstrated by studies con-
Quoted by Drs. T. H d. Grifats
and j. J. Griflts Of the United
States Public Health Service, with
the cooperation Of ofhcials Of the
Pan American Anyways System.
There arc plenty Of places on the
planes whore mosquitoes can stow
away undetected by ordinary OBJ
ssrvation, and examination of
some hundred planes on their ar
rival at Miami from foreign and
insular ports resulted in discovery
of number of mosquitoes riding
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-21

vent from riding the airliners into
the United States.
Yellow fever seems remote and
unimportant to most of us living
on the North American continent
today. You may remember hear
ing your father or grandfather
speak of the dreaded yellow
jack" and you have thrilled to
the drama of its conquest by a
team of American doctors. But
that was over 80 years ago! An
cient history, you say! And
malaria-disease for which the
"stowaways" are responsible! If
you live in certain regions of the
south you take it for granted, and
if you live in the north it seems
almost as remote and unimport-
ant as yellow fever.
The secure feeling that comes
from 80 years freedom from yell
low fever is rudely shocked by
the knowledge that this disease is
only two days away and is raging
uncontrolled at that two-days-off
locality. Public health authorities
are seriously concerned over the
situation and even more worried
over malaria.
Here is the picture they see.
Yellow fever, wiped out of our
country, and beaten back from
Central America, was at its last
stronghold in the northeast of
Brazil. It was thought to be rap
idly disappearing from the South
American continent as result of
anti-mosquito services in few of
the larger cities. Then came re-
ports from the international
Health division of the Rockefeller
Foundation stating that yellow
fever is widely disseminated over
the continent east of the Andes
and north of Paraguay"
Brazilian jungle fever, the
fever of the engaged men" as 1t
is known locally, has turned out
to be the old dreaded Yellow Jack.
ct got it romantic local name
because it chiefly attacks young,
about to be married men who
have gone into the jungle to build
homes for their prospective
brides.)
The Rockefeller Foundation
scientists, down there in an at
tempt to clean up the last traces
of yellow fever, stumbled on this
discovery and on another un-
pleasant one-the jungle yellow
fever is carried by a different
kind of mosquito than Aedes
Gegypti, the classical yellow fever
mosquito, one which has different
breeding habits. This complicates
the fight against 1t considerably,
since entirely new methods may
have to be developed. J
TO UNITED STATES health
authorities, an even more seri-
Gus aspect Of the picture IL the
malaria problem. An African ma
laria mosquito, q rank foreigner,
has gained a foothold In Brazil,
two days away from US by plane.
II this mosquito should be carried
to the United States, 1t would
present q problem In malaria con-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-21
Insect Stowaways From Other
Countries Offer Threat To Health
By Jane Stafford

cTOWAWAYS OF THE AIR!
= 1t sounds adventurous, thrill
ing, romantic but it becomes SIM
ply grim when we learn the
nature of the stowaways that
ride the great trans7ocean air
lanes. They are mosquitos-not
just the ordinary, annoying but
harmless mosquito we are fami-
liar with here In America, but
the deadly carrier of yellow fever
that the United States Public
Health Services quarantine Off
GERS are trying to combat-pre
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-21

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Evening star., 1937-04-04
Win learns more about the murder
than she admits. Another exciting instaIIment
of new mystery story
by ERIE STANLEY GARDNER

Arcade Rooms Win said. LET the other
papers play up the Reese angle if they want
to- You sew this blonde up and you'll have
the story"
'Okay. baby" Grinnel said. "I'll talk with
the cab driver, but l may not go with him.
Right now this Reese angle looks like the best
bet to me. They're giving him third degree
here in the office, and he's sweating lot but
sitting tight"
Don't be sapp' Winifred told him, and
slammed up the receiver. She called The
Planet once more, got through to the city
editors desk, and said, so rapidly that the
words ran together: I've uncovered a live
lead in this Raybrooke case. 1t centers in the
Arcade Rooms on Ninth Street That's near
the Central Building, where Dr. Raybrooke
had his offices - not over four or five blocks
from there I'm out at the St. Marys Hos
pital, running down another angle. Grinnel
won't listen to me- He's chasing down blind
alley with DR.. Reese. haven't time to explain
now, but please, please send someone over
to relieve Bert and make him &"
She saw the man in the plaid suit walk past
the telephone booth, going rapidly toward
the door. Win said into the telephone, Sorry
I'm off. G'byer'
Evening star., 1937-04-04

She reached for the handle on the door of
the telephone booth, then paused as she saw
the man come to a full stop and look back
as though trying to ascertain if he were being
followed. For some four or five seconds he
stood looking back down the corridor, then
turned, lunged through the swinging doors,
and, as Win emerged from the telephone
booth, was running down the whitestone
steps of the big hospital.
Win sprinted down the steps and across
the sidewalk to her taMcab. Listen" she said
to the driver, hes suspicious and we'll have
to work fast. He won't turn that big car
around in the middle of the block, SO get
away first. As soon as he switches on his
lights and starts the motor, you start driving
slowly. Let him pass us. Then he won't be so
suspicious when we tail along
"Okay. Hop in
Winifred jumped into the cab, which
promptly lurched into low speed. A few
seconds later, as they neared the intersection
the big automobile purred smoothly past
them. The driver of the cab shifted into high
then turned and said, ''Ill do the best
can, miss. He acts like he's in a hurry"
They followed the car for four blocks, then
suddenly it slowed
II think he's spotted U.s." the taxi driver
called back 'E
"All right" Win told him, reaching an
instant decision, don't make him suspicious.
Drive on past. Don't hesitate. Give him
horn to get out of the way Keep on straight
down the boulevard"
The cab driver pressed the horn button. The
big gray car pulled over, and the cab swiftly