Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-20
DaiIy Sh0Ff Story
/ Vitamin VS.
By ANTHONY RUD

TINE leaves OF the high elms hung
Il motionlesS, and the asphalt
roads about the campus were
sticky traps for shoe heels on the
hot July day Brick Redfcrn came
20 take part in our local mystery.
Brick was some sort of Suhchlet
In the FBI. a technical expert, He
had a degree in chemical engineer
ing from NJ. /. T.
This was is days after Prof.
Karl Kubatt disappeared.
professor Kubatt was the
greatest living authority on
hormones and Vitamins,' Red
fern told rae qgitelr- htlt-lH'--
pressively. "He had started one
breath-taking experiment with a
volunteer group Of American
soldiers. 1 am here 20 find out
just what happened.
"The experiment was barely
started. The professor was 10
come down 10 Camp Upton In
carry II through. He was the
only living man who could do
it--and so i must find him "
ne n alive" a
"No one here at Marchmont
College was In Professor ku-
bats confidence. said regret
fully. al probably saw him as
often as any one, and that's why
the dean asked me 10 help YOU,
no doubt But I am only superin-
tendent of buildings -"
~ well, just tell me what Is
known, and well start from
there. said the red-haired young
man quietly.
] nodded.
commencement was over on
June 20" / told him. 1.-THE little
town was empty next day. Most
pf the faculty leaves town In
summer. you know, as most have
tesching places In the summer
school of Hallett University.
The professor did not 60. As
won doubtless know he has not
been active on the faculty for
several years, but has been given
the top floor of the old science
building for research. He worked
there. He was unmarried, and
had Just n plain room at the
Faculty Club.
sOn the Friday following COM
menccment-June %. I believe
Professor kubatt ate break
fast Mt the club. Then he went
down to the sleepy little bust
ness section and visited butcher
shop"
INSPECT LABORATORY
ayhat's that ." uueried Red
fern quickly. II hadn't heard
anything about that"
"Well that was queer
enough, admitted. .-fhe local
police, I and the dean of science
looked over everything he left,
but found no sign OF the meat
You see" / went on quickly,
sKubatt had been doing some
thing or other with animal flesh.
sHe ordered the whole car
cases of old sheep butchered
and delivered him at the science
building.
THAT was just lately. Begin
ming back about April he would
take big quantities Of the
cheaper cuts of meat. These
orders steadily increased In size,
until, rs I say, he was getting
entire sheep carcasses, split
Iengthwise, every day."
STRANGE said Redfern- "Su-
perintendent well, let's go
30 that science building at once"
We did so, and inspected the
,ather stuffy and crowded labor
story on the top floor. But there
was little or nothing beyond ordi-I
nary apparatus and ordinary
shelves of chemical and biological
reagents TO be seen.
"What did he do with the
sneat?" demanded the FBI in
vestigator. "You know, superin-
tendent," he went on. as ! shook
my head silently, "this IL ire
ynendously serious. Professor
Kubatt had hold of a new vita
min complex, which he calls
WIS which actually would pro-
mote growth In adults
'Tt was something which had
30 be handled with care, he
said, but IL had been worked out
80 well that a group of young
men, under height and weight
for combat duty I'm the army,
had been taking II. And 1 may
say that the first results seemed
TO prove the breath-taking thing
that men too small and light
could be grown into normal
sized men,"
"Good heaven, what next ." I
narveled. "Now you can turn
your hair from gray back to
natural color, and :"
NOT LISTENING
But young Redfern was not
listening 10 me. He had bent over
big glass tube. one of these
homemade aquaria that some
scientists use for their expert
merlts on lower forms Of life. This
tub still had some brown scum
and stagnant water in IL, and
smelled horribly.
whats this for. superinten-
dent?" Redfern asked.
Nothing, now. I'm going 10
clear IL out. A few months ago
Kubatt kept an amOeba in there