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trinsically and where no eclipse phenomenon takes place.
 Visible in the far southeastern sky is Fomalhaut, the bright first- magnitude star in the constellation of Pisces Australis, the Southern Fish. This is a blue- white star which is very much like Deneb in Cygnus the Swan, both in color and apparent magnitude. It is, however, much smaller star than the latter and much closer to the earth. It's distance is only about twenty-four light-years compared to the more than six hundred and fifty which separate us from Deneb. While they appear equally bright to us, Fomal- haut is about thirteen times as great radiator of light and heat as the sun, whereas Deneb's luminosity ratio to the sun is about ten thou sand to one.
 The Solar System
 On the twenty-third at noon, the sun enters the first autumn sign of Libra or, in other words, 1t Is on the autumnal equinox and crosses the equator on its southward course along the ecliptic circle. This marks the official beginning of the autumn or fall season, bringing the promise of summer to dwellers in the south- ern terrestrial hemisphere and win ter to us. At this time day and night are equal all over the world but for us the daylight Is rapidly shorten ing as 1t is correspondingly length ening for the southern hemisphere. AS the sun reaches the equinox 1t becomes visible at both the north and south terrestrial poles and both these far distant places have day. light at the same time. For the for mer 1t is evening and sunset, for the latter morning and sunrise.
 This month presents us with the best opportunity of observing Mer- cury as @ morning star; 1t is in greatest western elongation on the 18th. On that date the planet rises about one and one-half hours be- fore the sun but observations may be made for period of one week before and one week after the above date. Venus is an evening star in greatest eastern elongation on the l1th but is not in particularly good position because 1t Is so low in sky over the southwestern horizon. Mars is a morning star while Jupiter IS lumnary of stellar magnitude up most of the night as a brilliant minus 2.4." Saturn, too. is up In The sky all night and is getting brighter as the days pass.
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slightly to the eastward. Beta rep resents the Snake-haired monster. the Medusa herself, whose head was cut off by Perseus. This head had the magic power to turn any be- holder into stone and with it Per- seus saved Andromeda from Cetus, the sea monster, whose constellation lies to the southeast and will rise above the horizon shortly after map time. Beta Persei is much better known by it's Arabic name of Algol, the Demon star, and is well chosen to represent the head Of Medusa for it acts as if 1t really has some- thing mysterious and demon-like in its nature. It is called variable setar by astronomers; this means that 1t changes its brightness from time to time and Algol is one of the most remarkable of the multitude of variable stars to be found in the entire heavens for its variation is easily observed with the naked eye. At the brightest stage, its magni- tude is 22 but it falls to magni- tude of only 3.4 in four and one- half hours. It remains at this mini mum of brightness for about twenty minutes and then takes three and one-half hours to recover full bril- liancy. This performance is repeated every three days. Because the change involves a loss of more than three-quarters of the stars usual brightness it ca nreadily be observed by comparing Algols brightness with that of the neighboring stars. This observation can readily be carried out without the help of telescope. The best observable minima for this month are to be: September l, at 5 a. m; the 4th at 1850 a. m.; the 9th, at 1O:40 p. m.; the 24th, at 3:30 a. m.; the twenty-seventh, at 1920 a. m.: the 29th, at 9:10 p. m. These times are all given in eastern stand ard time.
 Many years ago astronomers dis covered the secret of Algol's curi- ous behaviour. Judging by the name which they applied to this star the Arabs must have observed it's vari- ability during the golden age Of Arabic and Moorish science but western science did not learn of this phenomenon until its rediscovery by John Goodricke after the middle of the eighteenth century. This ob- server also suggested as an explana- ton of its variability that 1t may really be a double star with one of the component stellar bodies moving about the other, thus periodically eclipsing it and shutting of a part of Its light from observers on the
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The Heavens In September

Shaped like capital "W," the con- stellation of Cassiopeia lies in the northeastern sky and immediately belDw it is the very interesting group of Perseus named for the hero of the classical myth of the Medu- sas Head. Extending eastward from the Great Square of Pegasus, now high in the sky, is the curved line of stars that represent the heroine of this tale, the maiden Andromeda. TlsAs line of Andromeda stars leads directly to the star Alpha Perset, the rightest star in Perseus. More interesting than Alpha, however, is Beta Persei, which lies below it and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-31
HERB LUDCEWAIT
 WINS AGREEMENT

Payment of compensation amount ing to $2,075.84 by George Kuhn Naugatuck baker, to Herbert Ludge- wait of New street, Naugatuck, a former employe, was authorized to- day by Compensation Commissioner James M. Lynch of this city. Ludge- wait was injured May 18 while working for Kuhn at Naugatuck and as a result lost the total use of his left eye.
 The agreement entered into today provides that Ludgewait will receive $9.98 for 208 weeks. No award was necessary in the case as the agree ment was voluntary.
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foot balance indicator. the new sci- entific device for shoe stores.
 This test will be made at Greco's Shoe store absolutely free Thursday, Friday and Saturday, September 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
 Foot comfort is dependent on foot balance. If you are having foot and shoe troubles, go to Greco's this week and have a free foot balance test.
 All foot balance tests are made at Greco's. Get your feet balanced and stop aches and pains.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-31
JAMES STEPHAN
 SEEKING S2,5O0
Garbage Superintendent Files Suit to Recover
 for Damages

Supt. of Garbage Collections James Sheehan today filed suit in the court of common pleas, seeking to recover damages of $2,500 from Joseph H. Smith of Detroit, Mich. Service of papers in connection with the action has been made on Com missioner of Motor Vehicles Michael A. Connor.
 Sheehan claims his car was wrecked and he was injured when a car owned and operated by Smith involved him in a collision on the Middlebury road July II, 1888. He claims that the defendant ran into the rear of his car. Sheehan's car was wrecked and he sustained a strain of the back and left arm, &C., cording to the complaint. Attorney William K. Lawlor represents the plaintiff.
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FREE FOOT TEST
 CRECO'S OFFER
New Scientific Device for Shoe Stores to Be
 Demonstrated

Greco's Shoe store has a very un- usual demonstration this week. A special representative from the Foot and Shoe Research institute of Danville, H., will test your feet for balance. This test is made on a
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earth's surface. This suggested ex-
 planation lay dormant in the minds of later astronomers until the ad- vance of instrumental science made 8 test possible and that was done by Vogel in 1889 with the aid of the spectroscope, then comparatively new addition to the astronomic tool kit. All doubt as to the cause of Algols variation was removed and Goodricke's eclipse theory proven correct, not only for Algol, but for host of other eclipsing binaries or double stars. True variables also exist in the sky in great numbers, stars whose brightness changes in-
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Clearwater, Fla. (UP)-Dorothy
 Mae Martin, 17-year-old high school senior, died three hours after she finished writing her autobiography. The sketch cf '- fife was an aS- signment in English. sIEl
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CYO COMMITTEES
 MEET TOMORROW
Arrangements for Septem- Der Field Day to Be
 Completed

All the Committees of the Catho- lie Youth organiza tion, which have been named to make the arrange ments for the annual field day on the afternoon of Saturday, Septem- Der 10, at 2 o'clock, will meet tomor-
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HAS HUGE PET

Betty Grable, blonde star of Para mounts Campus Confessions" has 6 Great Dane dog that weighs ITS pounds and tries to crawl in Bettys lap. Miss Grable weight 110 pounds
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SOCIETY HONORS
 DAUCH, BLEICH

The final Sunday service at the chapel of the Y. M c. A. camp at Smiths pond, Watertown, was held yesterday morning. Camp Director Cal Martin addressed the boys.
 Tn the evening council fire was held, at which Fred Dauch and Ed" mund Bleich were chosen members of the honor society, Sons of Ma taucha. Arthur Carpenter was story teller for the program.
 A crowd of more than 400 attend ed the aquatic meet yesterday, in which most of the boys at the camp participated.
 The camp will close for the season next Wednesday, afer busy and successful eight weeks.
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Cn ANslJM CRACKERS

Are you good at building blocks? If you are, you can discover which blocks of words in each of the fol- lowing sentences build a statement that's true.
 l. CHegemony) (chalcedony) cal umny) (hominy) means (state of be- ing liquid leadership Ca break ing-off) (treason).
 2. (Auto-da-fe) (pot-au feu) (sansculotte) (mere de glace) means Ca kind of stew) a low-necked robe) Ca meeting of minds) Ca racing car) 3. (The Arc de Triomphe) (the Tower of Pisa) C'The BundD "Soho") is in (Amsterdam) (Buenos Aires) Gondon) (Venice)
 1. (Josie Manfield) Geopold Auer) (Evelyn Waugh) (George Luks) is the name of Ca British author Gan American authoress) "A German physicisD Ca French statsman).
 AnsWera m Back Page.
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a general heel, MT. Scala bowed to none. But rigidly, he eschewed guns. The other night, Nick the Ferret had been the artillery divi- sion. MT. Scala felt that there would be enough kudos for him in apprising the Little Cheese of Bull Grifhn's whereabouts. The actual erasing of MT. Griffin was wonderful chance for somebody Somebody else. Not him.
 By nightfall MT. Scala was re- posing in dimly lit room oyer a dimly lit ginmill in that witching section of Greater New York known as ueens. Across from him, the center of small group of lan- tern jawed, indigo -chinned charac- ters, was the Little Cheese.
 
 The Little Cheese looked like something that appears to the dis ordered brain during a delirium. He was no more than three and the Creator might have had a rain-barrel in mind when He de- signed him. His shoulders were broad, but rounded. His chin looked like one of the Florida keys. His skin was swarthy and full of fur rows. In the dictionary sense of the word he was cockeyed. And to add to the general nightmare, he wore a bristly mustache of gleaming black which he habitually caressed with a forefinger the size of a clothespin.
 You say you seen dat mug Grif1n?" he inquired of MT. Scala
 MT. Scala told all At the end of his recital the Little Cheese uttered "pah" of disgust. "Whyn't you give him da woiks den an dere?" he demanded.
 MT. Scala, no mean self-excuser went into a lengthy explanation as to why he had not given Bull Griffin the works "den an dere".
 "Anodder ting" said the Little Cheese, when he had done "Youse guys didn' ought to of let him git away da odder night" He spat irritably into brass cus- pidor. "Youse Jugs is bunch of heels. Dey ain't none of youse c'n shoot fer nuts"
 There was unexpected opposi- tion to this doctrine. It came from small, dark-eyed man.
 Says who2" quoth the small. dark-eyed man.
 This daring soul was none other than Nick the Ferret. Nick the Ferret was pretty fed up. Not only had he failed to drill MT. Griffin, but MT. Griffin, or his man Friday, had successfully drill- ed him in the right shoulder. True, 1t had been but surface wound. But it had stamped ignominy all , over Nick the Ferret. Wherefore Nick the Ferret was in no humor to discuss shooting. Particularly bad shooting.
 Nick the Ferret felt safe in offer ing his superior a bit of back-chat by virtue of the fact that the Little Cheeses position as head of the gang was none too secure at the moment. Of late there had been dis SenSlOn III the ranks, vague mur- , murs of rebellion. None knew this better than the Little Cheese. And none better knew the remedy. What he needed completely to reinstate l himself with his cohorts was the op- portunity of accomplishing some spectacular deed with his own hand And here 1t waS,, ready-made and on the counter. Very suddenly the Little Cheese made up his mind. He took breath and addressed Nick the Ferret.
 T says so, dat's who," he snarled. An just to give youse baboons da loWdown on who's wot aroun' here. I'm gonna go up dere Friday night an rub out dis Grif- fin lug meself. An you"-he thrust the clothespin-like finger at Red Scala-"youre drivin' me an shown
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ORION HOLMAN
 PICKEREL CHAMP

The second round in the annual Reeves fishing competition for em- ployes of the Scovill Mfg. Co. was held Saturday afternoon 8 Scovill pond, Woodtick.
 First prize in the pickerel class went to Orion Holihan. Other win ners were: black bass, Russell Will Hams; calico bass, James Harmon; perch, John Hubbard; daily prize for bullhead, Martin Carlson.
 Two more rounds in the competi- tion will be held. Prizes will be awarded the winners.
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me da layout"
 A respectful silence greeted this announcement. Nick the Ferret broke 1t.
 "Oh, yeah?" he sneered. "Wot's da matter wit goin' tonight?"
 Cant" said the Little Cheese briefly. "Deys a meetin' of da Greenpoint Social an Lit'rary Club" (TO Be COntilued)
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CAST OF CHARACTERS

KINKAID PARKER-hero. Hand- some, jobless, he has just in- herited half interest in a vacant Connecticut home. SALLY PENNINGTON - heroine. Blond, pretty, she has inherited the other half of the home. To- gether they turn it into a "Restatorium."
 Yesterday: The Restatorium fast becomes haywire house, what with gangsters, magicians and now Miss Fenimore, who turns out to be neurotic klep- tomaniac.
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. STORIES
 lN STAMPS
Wine for 4O,OOO,OOO Frenchmen


 A tory of France without its wines. They have flowed from Waterloo to Verdun and for cen- turies before that, making and breaking autocrats and kings. And French wine still flows. Forty million Frenchmen prefer it daily to water
 Wine is grown everywhere in France, except in two provinces, Picardy and Normandy The four incompatible wine districts are Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne and Anjou, from which have been derived the costliest wines in the world.
 In France they speak of Bor- deaux as the Prince of Wines and Burgundy the Cardinal Cham pagne for a time fell into disre- pute, but today it stands with the best because the process of "cham- organization" invented in the 18th century by Dom Perignon, makes this wine. In it's natural state it is rather flat.
 Below these main groups, France produces other less costly but equally famous wines, the Moselle and Alsace, Obermai, Ri- queWihr, Sainte-Odile. Vouvray, to mention only few. Then there are the very special. the curious wines such as Blanquette de Li- moux or Clairette de Die. And there are the wines grown in the sand. You must live long in France to know them all. 10 know
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"ISu tO d VOlU [ h c he av y wines and the white W int e s and the local wines In good years Frances wine industry approaches the | W O. billion gallon mark. A ( u r r C n { French stamp h 0 n orS { h e wine infliIcfru
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Stockholm, Sweden, now has about 1,500 registered pleasure sail boats and several thousand motor boats.
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tcopyright. 1888. NEA Service. Ina,
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Answers m Back Page.
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CHAPTER XIII

"Kleptomaniac" cried Sally, in disrnay. Well, that's the last straw. What on earth are we going to do with her?"
Evening star., 1938-01-21

These superb overcoots have long been
fovorites with discriminating men and
now that this event brings them to you
at so for below their usual cost =. you
can enjoy the superior features Of the gen.
uine Worunnbo-Royo label, without the slight
est Budget stroin." Remember, they're
exclusive in Washington at our store.
Evening star., 1938-01-21
BY the Associated Press.

~
ATHENS, Ga, Jan. 21.-In the Elm
terest Of pure science" five weary
University of Georgia psychology
students-two youths and three CO.
eds-entered their fourth day today
without sleep.
Their goal Is 100 sleepless hours,
to be reached Saturday noon.
They blinked heavy eyelids, yawned
q bit and declared the experiment,
to show the effect of sleeplessness on
mind, body and behavior, We, "a lot
of fun"
Il feel light-like I was walking on
air." said blond Saidee Hodgson of
Athens, Ca, in her sixtieth hour Of
mo sleep" She weighed l27 pounds
Monday morning. She said she had
lost pounds.
On the other hand, stocky, 150-
pound Robert Schnautz Of Port Ches-
ter. N. Y, declared, II feel right at
tops and my appetite is better than
usual"
Tall, gray-haired DR.. A. S. Edwards,
81, head of the psychology department,
said the experiment was purely scien-
tiflc."
She said it might have practical
application" In showing the effects
on persons who drive automobiles 30
and 40 hours without sleep.
The other participants are Mary
Frances Wallace, 125-pound brunette,
OF Douglas, Ca; Ruth Jimmerson OF
Unidalla, Ga, and 125-pound Sopho-
Evening star., 1938-01-21
ENGINEERS WIN SUIT
OVER $5oo,ooo FEE.
Court Rules Freyn Engineering
Co. Fraudulently Cancelled 0p.
ton to Avoid Paying Agents.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Jan. 21.-Two former
agents Of the Freyn Engineering Co.
were awarded judgment approximate
ing 100000 yesterday when the Cir
cult Court ruled the company must
pay them commissions and interest on
contracts they obtained with the Soviet
Russian government.
The agents, Pierce F. Groome. New
York, cotton expert, and Waldemar
G. Stark Of Danes Quarter, Nd, q
technical expert, were entitled to IS
per cent commission and interest on
all profits Of the company from Rus
sian projects from 1923 to 1892, the
court ruled.
Counsel for the agents in their g.
year-old suit estimated they would re-
ceive $500,000.
The company was EMPLOYED by the
Evening star., 1938-01-21
ABDUCTORS HUNTED

WEWOKA, Okla, Jan. 2l @-
Two men, said by Clay Patterson,
Wewoka and Holdenville, Okla. busi-
ness man, to have abducted him and
taken him on wild 2,o0o-mile ride
over three States, were hunted to-
day by police.
The 42-year-old business man,
found shoeless by State Highway Pa
trolman Harold Watson Wednesday
near Fanshaw, said no ransom was
demanded.
He said the two men kidnapped him
when he stopped to give them a ride
near Holdenville. took him to Dali
las, Tex; Shreveport, La, and New
Orleans during four narrowing days.
Evening star., 1938-01-21
PORTLAND PAPERS
PUBLISHING AGAIN
Buzz With Activity After g.
Day Printers Strike
Is Settled,
~ the Associs ted Press.


PORTLAND, Oreg., Jan. 21.-Port-
lands three newspapers, reopened
after . six-day printers strike, buzzed
With activity today as editions were
made ready for q news-hungry public.
Printers gained q Ascent per day
pay increase, but failed to reduce work.
Ing time from seven and one-half to
seven hours. The settlement provided
years contract, retroactive to Janu-
ary l, with hour and wage arbitration
or conciliation on July / after 80 days
notice by either party. The new scale
boosts daily wages to 50 and $3.50, re-
spectively, for day and night work.
The oregonian, morning newspaper,
was the first to publish an edition.
Starting from scratch, with no set copy
ready at Sis pm. yesterday, when the
strike ended, the Oregonians first
edition-32 pages, including 5 of back
comics-rolled from the presses at
midnight.
The drama of metropolitan paper
going to press was re-enacted in the
Oregonian's neWsroOm, where jubilant,
busy reporters found time to shout,
"Boy!" and "Copy!" for the benefit of
. radio announcer seeking local color
on the strike ending.
While the news department sum-
married week-long news in brief para
graphs, the advertising department
mobilized 70 employees in 20 minutes
and obtained more than 1000 inches
OF new copy in the hour before Offices
closed.
The Oregon Journal mustered a par
tial stan last night to prepare for the
resumption Of publication today. The
News-Telegram also published today.
Both are afternoon papers.
Publishers submitted the new pro-
posal to strikers at 1870 pm. yesterday
and voting started at 4:30 Events
moved rapidly to the climax when the
Oregonian's cheering news staff dis
persed to beats over the city. Printers
voted 2l2 to 10 to return to work.
Unemployed Typographical Union
members were disappointed by the
failure to obtain shorter day to
spread work. One chapel leader re-
marked, I'VE regret that very much"
During the strike Portland residents
depended for news on outside news
papers, radio and word of mouth. I'M
ported newspapers, which made no at
Evening star., 1938-01-21
Sleepless Students in 4th Day
Of Georgia y. Experiments

more, Paul Newman of New York CITY.
About 80 students, DR.. Edwards said.
are serving as attendants.
I'VE get sleepiest between 3 and 5
am" Miss Wallace said, but II we
start closing our eyes, some one
punches us or calls us by name"
DR.. Edwards explained last night the
f1ve were given a series of II tests
each "a hours. These include strength
OF grip, hand and body steadiness,
height and weight. pulse rate, tenn
perature, blood pressure, sharpness of
vision, typewriting, memory. learning,
color blindness and time of reactions
to green lights and noises.
Evening star., 1938-01-21

Russian government under the drst
hve-year plan to supervise the rebuild
Ing Of the steel industry.
The court ruled the company de-
liberately and fradulently" Cancelled in
1880 five-year option agreement with
the Soviet government to deprive
Groome and Stark of their commission
in obtaining the contract.
Evening star., 1938-01-21
Princess Juliana Takes Walk.

SOEsTDIJK, the Netherlands, Jan.
Il OT.-Crown Princess Juliana, who
Is expecting the birth of . child
shortly. walked for half IN hour yes
terday with her mother, Queen VIII
telmina, in the Soestdijk Palace gar
dens unohserved by crowds in front.
A physician followed her in an au-
tomobile.
Evening star., 1938-01-21
LAMPING is SENTENCED
IN BOND FORGERIES
Convicted Of Passing $4,000 Of
County Securities in Tennessee.
Two Are ACQUITTED.

BY the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE. Tenn, Jan. Ala
Criminal Court jury yesterday con-
victed j. L. Lamping on q charge OF
passing $4,000 of forged Henderson
County bonds and fixed his punish
ment at not more than 10 years i'm
prisonment.
Roscoe Stegall and Maxwell Lamp
ing, son of j. L. Lamping, charged as
aiders and abettors, were acquitted.
The defense gave notice that it
would make motion for a new trial.
The $4,000 bonds involved were
part of a $104,O00 counterfeit issue
sold to Col. Luke Lea, former news
paper publisher, who was State
witness.
The charge upon which Lamping
was convicted carries penalty of
from 3 to 10 years. The jury fixes
the maximum to be served, but a de-
fendant is eligible for parole after
completing the minimum sentence.
Evening star., 1938-01-21

tempt to meet the increased demand,
were eagerly sought in restaurants and
clubrooms.
Business men generally reported a
marked loss Of business because Of the
absence Of newspaper advertising.
Theater crowds were smaller. Street
car travel decreased 10 per cent. An
automobile dealer who used news
papers for auxiliary advertising re-
ported 80 per cent decrease in sales.