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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-16
CHAPTER XVIII
SHORTHAND NOTES OF DE

SHORTHAND NOIES OF LIE"
 TECTIVE OFFICER KETTER-
 ING'S SECOND EXAMINA-
 TON OF MIR, CARLTON ROCK
 SAVAGE, CONTINUED.
 K: So you say you passed Joce- lyn in the passage at 8:10?
 R.: certainly did. so perhaps you'll exercise your talents in finding out what he was up to between 7:45 and 8:10. There was much more time for him to have done this job than me.
 K.: He hadn't got your motive.
 R.: He certainly had. He's al- ways lived above his income. For the last five years he's been en- tirely dependent on Lady Welter. She's in jam because of those fool papers she runs. She loses a packet op them every year, yet she won't give them up because she just lives for this Christian crusading business.
 If I'd failed to do deal with Blanc she would have gone under with me and young Jocelyn would have found himself on his uppers. Hs stood to benefit just as much by Blane's death as I did More, in fact, because even if Rocksav- age Consolidated had gone down the drain I have other resources.
 K.: get your point, MT. Rock savage.
 R.: How about the Jap, too?
 K: How about him?
 R.: Well, he stood in to lose a . million dollars if Blanc had lived long enough to come to an ar- rangement with me.
 K: I'd certainly like to hear some more about that, MT. Rock savage.
 R.: It's this way. Officially he's acting for the Shikoku people and he's been trying to sell me the Japanese soap monopoly on their behalf for months past, but he's playing ball with another crowd called the Totomi Soap Company on the side.
 They're in a position where they might be able to queer the pitch do IL IlOlliC plOuuCAlb III III by AOuo- ing national opinion against the monopoly going outside Japan, un- less they're squared first. Their price was million, so Hayashi wouldn't have got 1t all, but III bet he stood in for pretty use full split. wouldn't conclude, though, once got the idea of coming to terms with Blanc, but if my deal with him had fallen through Hayashi knew he could count on my signing up. It's plain sailing for him now Blane's out of the way. and you know what these Orientals are. He had a mighty strong motive to do in Blanc in order to prevent Blanc and me getting together.
 K.: That's certainly something to work on, MT. Rocksayage, and I'll get down to following up what you've said of Jocelyn and Ha- yashi right away.
 R.: Good. And there's no trouble I won't go in helping your investi- gation. I don't need telling the sort
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-16
TIE sroRY SO FAR

Ynvus,Igating the murder of DOETTHO BLAME, British linsn- e'er. aboard CARLTON ROCK. SAVA0E'S yacht, Detective OnA- CT LETTERING runs Into Q maze OR conflicting circumstances
 Each oe the ships passengers appear involved In some manner. These include LADY WELTER, her daughter and sOn-in-law,, REGINALD and MRS. JOCE- LYN; COUNT POSODINI; the BISHOP OF BUDE; and INO- EUKE HAYASHI. Only NIGH OLAs STODART, Blane's secre- tary, appears above suspicion since he was in the ships lounge all during the period in which the crime obviously was commit ted.
 As the investigation progresses, Kettering, taking advantage of Jocelyn's faIsifying, spurs him to reveal that R0cksavage had the real motive for murder-financial gain. He reveals also that Rock savage had boasted of being able to dress for dinner in four min- utes, a feat conceivably enabling him to commit a murder and re- turn to the ships lounge without arousing suspecion.
 Later, Kettering cOnfronts Rocksavage with this revelation. Immediately Rocksavage counters that he saw J0celyn himself near BIane's cabin at approximately the time of the murder.
 VOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-16

ana 10 emDrOll himself in many ar d c nt affairs with women.
 He became a monk in his later years, and died in 1885, at the age of 73.
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Copyright. 193'

Copyright. 1887. NEA Service. Inc.l
 NEXT: What Syrian city is ia. smous only for It's ruins? s
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-16

ALTHOUGH the foliage Bakwood Acacia is so dense that will turn hard shower the tree is absolutely ieahess Cuously these planted exensivey in California for their shade they to thrive and carry on very well with doing the duty of the missing leaves
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-16
Answer to Saturdays Twizzler

The man who accused the Scotch MAn of pushing his wife oil the 0GiH was the ticket seller who had sold the Scotchman one round trip ticket and one one-way ticket.
 (CQpyxight John P. bile Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-16

0N one of the stamps in the set V issued by Spain in 1885, in commemoration of the 300th anni- versary of the death of Lope de Vega, great Spanish poet and dramatist, is a dead beetle lying beside a rose bush. This is the mark that Vega had adopted in disdain of those who dared to criticize his works. He had made this the frontispiece of one of his plays, and had inscribed above the design the Latin words that mean, Tt (the rose) kills by its very fragrance"
 Beetles have been known to die from the odor of roses, and Vegas use of this metaphor was a bril-. liant way of expressing his dis- dain for his critics. He had good reason to feel superior to them, for he was prolific writer and was considered as great in the Spanish theater as his contem. porary poet, Shakespeare, was in the English. He wrote more than 1900 plays and some 2l volumes of poetry, yet he had time to serve twice in the Spanish navy
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Evening star., 1937-09-19

Joseph is new boy and his parents and his
Aunt Margaret came along to see that every
thing was all right. DR.. Hall, the headmaster,
is showing them around. Joseph's mother is
telling DR.. Hall that her little man has never
been away from home before and won't they
please see that he doesn't take cold, etc., ETC.
Joseph is hoping none of the old boys is within
hearing
Evening star., 1937-09-21
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook Of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS R. HENRY

The fantastic life of the dawn age.
long a blank in earths history, is COM
ing to light.
Approximately 60,000,000 years ago the
remote ancestors of most living things
known today-howering plants, birds and
mammals-made their appearance on
earth
There was great gap between them
and the heydey of the great reptiles. the
monster dinosaurs and their relatives.
All these had disappeared before the
beginning of the Eocene. or dawn, age
of the geologists 1t was as if Earth had
been wiped clean for new and better
forms of life.
New, bit by bit, paleontologists are fill
ing in the hitherto blank pages between
the dominant reptiles and creatures in
whom can be discerned family resem-
blances to the dogs cats, monkeys. horses,
etc. OF the present. They are reaching
back into ten million vacant years during
which Nature was experimenting with
animal forms and ways of life. They are
picking up the debris of these expert
ments-scattered teeth few ribs, leg
bones and skulls. Out of these they are
constructing an approximate picture
Ol lIle OlQ lie WDlCn IdlleQ.
One of the most notable advances ever
made in the knowledge of this Paleocene
period has just been reported by DR..
George Gaylord Simpson of the Amer
lean Museum of Natural History from
material collected in the area of the
Crazy Mountains in Central Montana
over nearly generation by Smithsonian
Institution scientists. This was appar-
emily about the center of vast forested
area in which natures experiments
tried and failed adequately to adjust
themselves.
Among these bones DR.. Simpson finds
creatures moving in the direction of
monkeys, rodents, bears, and hoofed
creatures. They didn't make the sgrade,
but they showed the way. None of them,
it is probable, can be considered di-
rectly ancestral to living animals, but
these arose out of the same welter of
evolutionary experiment from closely
allied, less specialized lines. Some of
them, for example, may have looked and
acted somewhat like bears There was a
place for bears in the world and life in
evitably flows into every vacant niche.
These creatures were unable to fill the
niche and later on arose animals better
qualified for the place.
In the earliest strata of the Crazy
Mountain formation are found fossil
fragments of an order of mammals alto
gether different from anything known on
earth today, or for the last $4,000 600
years. These are the "multituberculates,
so called from the popularity of their
teeth. In the preceding geological pc
riod they constituted the most abundant
type of mammal life. In the paleocene
they are already on the way out, and
Evening star., 1937-09-21

become totally extinct during the sue
ceeding Eocene when modern forms of
mammals were making their appearance.
They were small rodentlike animals
the largest ever found no bigger than a
woodchuck. They represent one of ma
lures discarded experiments 1t is i'm
probable, however, that their blood en-
tirely disappeared from the earth and
there has been much speculation as to
what modern mammals are most closely
related to them, however tenuous and
distant such relationship may be. They
have sometimes been represented as
marsupials-at present represented bv
the opossum and the pouched animals
OF Australia-or as related to the egg
laying monotremes represented by three
llttle-known Australian species.
This collection contains the finest sim
gle multituberculate specimen yet diScov-
ered-consisting of skull. Jaws and a
partial skeleton. For the most part these
animals are known otherwise only from
their teeth.
After careful study of the specimens
in the Crazy Mountain collection, Dr.
Simpson reports the conclusion that
neither of these hypothesis can be up
held. True. the multituberculates show
some striking resemblances to both mar
supial and monotreme lines. OF the
former, he says. they seem to be super
fetal and adaptive and to represent
analogous stages of evolution. not blood
relationship" The resemblances to the
monotremes. he concludes. seem to be
in part adaptive and in part due to the
retention in two fairly conservative, but
not especially related lines of a few
very primitive characters, inherited from
the mammal-like reptiles
The study forces him to the opinion,
DR.. Simpson says, that the multituber-
culates are distinctive group not an
cestral or closely related to any later
mammals and Of extremely ancient
separation from the main mammalian
stock"
Evening star., 1937-09-21

Mildew was no respector Of book
bindings In such q musty Summer as
that just passed.
But 1t had its preferences.
Red cloth was its favorite.
Next came green cloth, and leather,
in that order.
Red won easily, however. In VOL
umes kept in open cases some form of
this parasitical fungus was to be found
eight out OF ten times.
This was the first Summer in memory
that these powdery mildews collected on
the books of those who are particular
about such things.
II selected the backbone, and the
edges of the covers, and the insides of
paper jackets, if these were kept on.
X
The jacket, in fact, was responsible
for most of this invasion, it would seem,
for it held moisture between it and the
book cover.
The unusual humidity of the season
was what caused the trouble.
Like chameleon, the mildew took
on the color of the binding it rested on.
If the cloth was green, the mildew was
green.
If red, it was red
Certain types of soft cloths seemed
favorites, probably due to the physical
fact that they gave a secure hold.
Fortunately all of these fungi wiped
off easily if care was taken in doing it.
1t was another case in which too
much vigor and pep" did not work.
Gentle removal was best.
If soft cloth or paper, preferably the
popular face tissues, were easily rubbed
along the mildew, practically all of it
came off on the cloth, but if too much
pressure was exerted the fungi seemed
to be rubbed in
From certain volumes the fungus
would fly up in powder form, giving
forth the characteristic sour smell long
associated with it,
Who cannot recall some distant par
lor, shut up Winter and Summer, in
which the few books were covered with
mildew?
That odor is never forgotten, as most
odors are never forgotten.
This Summer, in modern households
OF many windows and fresh air and
sunshine, was the first to enable these
forms of life to get foothold
Especially those homes in suburban
sections of many trees, suffered if
many books were kept in open cases.
Score heavily for closed cases. then.
for no midew was found on volumes
in them
The sufferers, if such they can be
called tsince no permanent damage is
done, apparently invariably we're in
the open cases which are so much in the
vogue nowadays.
Air could get at 'em.
MiloeWs, in their various forms. are
air-borne. They seem to seek out cloth
and leather. especially of the sorts
named. on which TO land, but maybe
that is only seeming-probably what
they do is TO land everywhere, but take
hold only where conditions are suitable
for them
Vegetable fibers and feathers offer
them the proper hold and probably
sustenance.
Evening star., 1937-09-21

appealed to the Almighty Father for
intercession that he might be spared
for the continuance of his work in the
world.
Coincidentally, a congregation gath
cred in place Of worship sacred to a
different doctrine and word was carried
to the minister presiding in that temple
that his stricken fellow teacher of uni
versal love was sinking-too soon--to
his rest. The heart of the man was so
deeply touched that he went into his
pulpit to ask his people also to join in
the petition for divine mercy. Every
worshiper responded to the plea. For
the moment the barriers of ages were
broken down.
And the cry of the united multitude
must have been heard. Physicians later
testified that the heart of the sufferer
began to beat again normally Light
came back into the weary eyes. Then
the patient slept-to waken refreshed
and encouraged. Incredibly, the crisis
had been survived. Weeks of GONZALES
cence followed, while the patient re-
trieved his normal strength of body and
of mind. Now he has resumed his duties
But something even more precious
than human life has been gained for
Christian fellowship in Washington.
Unity and brotherhood have been DEM
onstrated. Never will the incident be
forgotten by those most intimately con-
cerned. They will remember forever the
experience with God through which they
have passed.
Evening star., 1937-09-21
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES e. TRACEWELL.

If q booklover Is in the habit Of taking
his books for granted, he should give
some thought to the possibility of mildew
on them. if his home is surrounded by
trees.
Look on the title backbone for traces
OF soft substance, and be especially
suspicious If paper jackets have been
kept on.
While drying out the house with
furnace heat will end the growth of
these mildews, and stop their spread,
1t will not cause them to disappear.
They have marvellous hold on life,
and may be dried to an inch Of their
lives without entirely giving up the
ghost.
The only safe way is to remove them
by hand. and to do it so thoroughly that
none is left for subsequent growth next
year, If it happens to be similarly
humid for weeks at time.
Care should be taken to go over the
covers thoroughly, especially the back
bone where the title appears. the edges,
and inside back and front of the cover,
after they have been opened out.
Some of the fungus is sure to be
found in the little trough which is
created by the cover and the book itself
next TO the so-called fly leaf.
A folded tissue can be inserted in
this trough and run along, wiping away
all traces of the mildeW.
Enough cloths or papers should be
used to afford clean specimens for each
book. And these should be carefully
folded, so that the catch is not spread
around the room.
AS far as is known there is no par
ticular danger in handling these para
site forms. as far as humans are con-
cerned, but certainly they would not
be good to get up ones nose.
1t is best then TO handle them with
respect. on the theory that very little
is known about them, after all. and
that they can do nothing any good ex-
cept themselves.
The musing booklover will regard
them carefully, as he works, seeing in
them things upon which universal in
telligence has laviShed attention, else
they would not exist
They are part of life's program. which
IS so vast and extended-even in ones
own blood-that it is beyond belief.
There are strange little bits of life in
ones very blood which are. in effect
brothers to these forms Of life on this
book cover.
The chemistry Of nutrition is a sub
iect which would convert the worst un-
believer.
Perhaps these fungi might have the
same effect on some philosopher among
his books.
He will remove them, nevertheless, for
they are out of place.
They are unwanted. They may do
damage. The backbone of each book is
to be cleaned completely, and all other
spots
The paper cover is laid out fiat. inside
out. TO facilitate the removal of the
mildew. 1t will be best to leave the
covers off for awhile, to permit the dry
ing out Of the book.
Inspection ought to be made in about
month to see If the unWanted forms
have grown back again. Remember
especially to examine the books with
red cloth bindings.
Evening star., 1937-09-21

rise to suggestions that the New Deal
party and its administration have been
slipping. The President started
counter drive against his opponents in
his Constitution day address last week.
He is going across the country, start
ing tomorrow, to carry on his campaign.
Today President Roosevelt and his
newly appointed justice of the Supreme,
Court, Mr.. Black, are separated by the
Atlantic Ocean. When Black returns
to Washington for the opening of the
Supreme Court term October 4, they
will be separated by considerable por-
ton OF the continent. Some day, how
ever, they will both be in Washington.
What passes between them at that time
will be Interesting, II 1t Is ever known.
Evening star., 1937-09-21
What America Needs
Is More Americanism
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
read long article in the papers about
the forming of Nazi army in the United
States. l was in the gallery at one of the
sessions of the House when one of the
Representatives introduced bill for the
suppression of such un-American move
ments. What We need in America is not
fascism or communism, but American
ism! 1t is just as un-American for the
Fascists to organize an army in the
United States and teach fascism to Amer
lean citizens as it is for the Communists
to hold meetings. and organize schools to
teach communism.
Those who do not want to abide by
democratic form Of government and want
fascism or communism should be sent
back to Italy Germany or Russia, where
they can enjoy the so-called freedom and
liberty of such governments.
GEORGE P. RATE.
Evening star., 1937-09-21
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Condensed Economics.
When pages long great minds prepare
For Use in print or speech,
We study them with patient care
To learn just what they teach.
The student bends his weary head
And with thoughtful frown
Observes the scrolls before him spread
And tries to boil em down."
The page become paragraph;
The paragraph line,
Which may with ease be cut in half
To leave phrase so fine. .
The phrase grows fainter, by and by,
And when at last he's through,
He finds the problem stated by
The letters II. O. u"
Evening star., 1937-09-21

duty, lost their lives under heroic or
tragic circumstances" The memory OF
those sixty-f1ve warriors of peace is not
honored by the run-and-hide instruc-
ton which Nelson Trusler johnson is
this day reluctantly following, in dero-
cation OF the proud traditions of the
service he has so long adorned.
Evening star., 1937-09-21

AS time goes on conditions differ as to
the manner of human interchange. The
primitive method of dealing with rival
is to kill him. 1t proves unsatisfactory
and ancient conditions assert themselves
to demand certain inevitable rules. For
every fight there will be Red Cross unit
and some child bereft will wall its pro-
test regardless of the speech forms which
it will inherit.
Evening star., 1937-09-21
Power of PRAYER.

For those who are skeptical and doubt
full, this story, perhaps should be told.
In Washington hospital there lay
upon a bed of pain a great and good
servant Of one branch of the Christian
church. He was desperately i'll. Med
ical science had done for him all that
it could-in vain. It seemed to his
friends, watching beside him, that the
end was definitely at hand. Yet they
Evening star., 1937-09-21

Chinese reports are to the effect that
more than 1000 Japanese soldiers were
killed by an explosion of plowed field
One of the disadvantages of an unde-
claled war is the impossibility of Sc
curing authenticated figures.
Evening star., 1937-09-21

There may be a devious intention to
give Mr.. Hugo Black enough worries to
compel him to admit that regardless of
the figures in his birthday book he feels
at least like a man of eighty.
Evening star., 1937-09-21
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton.
Unstable.

AS lightly as swallow Southwark f1ies
So did you go;
No echo in the clear light of your eyes
OF my heart-throe;
So little Of loves possible demise
Did your heart know.
As surely as the tides wash out TO sea
A drifting leaf
So surely your light love will shattered
be
On some far reef;
And will enter by Gethsemane
Alone with grief.
Evening star., 1937-09-21

Mistakes of opinion often induce errors
In action. Perhaps one of the best things
about the United States Constitution is
the fact that it was Immediately reduced
to writing. 1t induces much talk, but
everybody has an opportunity to know
what he is talking about.
Evening star., 1937-09-21

Disappointment in Tammany Hall
politics is a phenomenon fairly well
understood by Senator Copeland. A
number of competent men have survived
the experience.
Evening star., 1937-09-21
Cash and Credit.

Prom the Bridgeport Times-Star.
In these days and times it's hard to get
credit where credit is due, and prac-
tically impossible to get 1t where cash
Is due.
Evening star., 1937-09-21

When the President Of the United
States holds a conference with news
paper men, he often falls into touch
with valuable information if he is willing
to receive it.
Evening star., 1937-09-21
Dangerous Fragments.

Prom the Burlington Hawkeye Gazette.
Japan is learning that when you go
about ruthlessly breaking up China some
of the fragments are likely to cut you.
Evening star., 1937-09-21

Selection of proper word for killing
in modern strife becomes difficult indeed
when even murder" seems too mild
term.
Evening star., 1937-09-21
Big Figures.

Big Figures.
When penny ante folks would play
In hours of long ago,
The game of life was rather gay.
But now we find it slow.
For most of us must quit the pace
In envious regret,
Unless we have the means to place
A billion dollar bet.
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Evening star., 1937-09-21
Trying to Be Consistent.

Trying to Be Consistent.
Would you care to become a member
of our law flrm?" asked the enterprising
attorney.
NO" answered Senator Sorghum II
have been helping to make laws all my
life. I don't see how I can consistently
interest myself in enterprises which
contemplate their evasion"
Jud Tunkins says the reason he likes
base ball better than politics is that
when the argument is over something
is decided for keeps.
Evening star., 1937-09-21
The ProSaic Lady.

81 would like to lay the world at your
feet" said the ardent Suitor.
"Why talk nonsense?" rejoined Miss
Cayenne. 1.-The world is already there,
so long as I can avoid being stood on
my head in a motor accident"
Even a dishonorable enemy should
be forgiven" said Hi Ho. the sage of
Chinatown, "but he should always be
allowed first to defeat himself"
Evening star., 1937-09-21
Eviction. .

No creature we permit to dwell
In sweet content.
We drag the oyster from his shell;
He pays no rent.