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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-07
BODY IN MOONLIGHT

1t must have taken him three
but when he threw his
leg over the horses back, the
sounds of the fight still came to
him. lie rode hell-for-leather and
for six or seven minutes and the
sounds of the melee accompanied
him almost all the way But Just
before he reached the scene, all
sounds died. A moment later, he
came upon ToCsin.
The sheep dog lay on his side in
the moonlight. He was torn almost
TO bits. But around him were
three dead coyotes. The backs Of
all of them were broken.
Lavite SweaTs that following
that council, the coyotes thought
Of the plan of sending one of their
number toward him, feigning lame
ness. II led Tocsin TO where the
pack was waiting and in the fight,
they destroyed their enemy But
they paid a price. Three of them
died with him. That IS why Lavite
erected the monument
Tomorrow's short story: Cat
Call" by Carl Truitt.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-07
Daily Short Story
Ry CHARLES MGTRK

WEST Of Bakersfield. Cal. lies
w one Of the most fertile and
diversified terrain m the world.
. The Coast Range mountains. look
ine out over the blue Paciilc
Ocean thrust out Of ground that
grows wheat. alfalfa. all the grains
and any fruit or vegetable planted
there.
Beneath that soil are gold and
oil. and probably other rock and
metal which science viii hnd as
precious as gold was and as OH rs
in the WORLD to1aS
Good horses came out oi that
country. So DO beef heavy In
the shoulder and rich m steaks
But IL IS kinder 90 sheep than any
other form OF ANNA AZ least
II supports more Of them than
any other. FlockS of ten thou
sand OF more are not out Of the
ordinary there and sheep ranches
containing ten times mat number.
Sheep literally live off the land,
cutting the grasses down so close
20 earth with their sharp teeth
that when they are finished the
bare brown earth shows, as though
IL had been riddled by a swarm
Of locusts.
The sheep are tended by Basque
shepherds the first of whom APP
peared mysteriously somewhere
around 1900 when California was.
part of the Spanish possession
Mexico.
Probably they were sent over
from their native land around the.
Pyranees Mountains. Anyhow,
they are the best shepherds IN the
world i
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-07
EFFICIENT HELPER

Z Good as they are, they are
equalled by their assistant shep-
E herds, the sheep dogs. which they
Z breed themselves and train 10 such
high point Of efficiency that five
t.of them will herd a flock Of sheep
safely through a cOyote-filled
night with no aid from the Shep-
!. herd who rolls himself in his cloak
: near water and sleeps the whole
might through.
They call them sheep dogs and
they have plenty of collie in them
They are as shaggy, not quite so
Sharp but just as lntelli-
gent. And they are as brave as
X they are smart.
G One of them. a dog named
Tocsin, so impressed Jeff Lavite in
1899 that ne talks about him 10
this day. And this would be strange
because Jeff is a dour individual
= whom il takes a lot 10 impress.
But that country joins with him
Tin its appreciation Of TocSin. There
1is a monument erected 10 him. II
lis a little cairn located in a small
s~pasS between two foothills. At
: the head of the grave is a copper
!. plaque bearing the legend. Toe
sin. the Coyote Killer"
: Lavite had the monument
2 erected and thus Unexpectedly
y revealed himself as a man of senti-
y rnent, a fact which few people
= who had dealings with him had
ever suspected. Up 10 then IL was
not believed he had sentiment in
Z him.
He was a man with the Midas
touch Twenty years ago he was
a truck driver, hauling oil over
long distances through California
sand Texas. Oil fascinated him and
1.-THE problem of Gaping a well par
= ticularly.
: The waste Of the precious fuel
In those days stabbed at his frugal
soul. He invented a cap which
sold like wild fire. With his
royalties. ne built a plant and
went into competition with men
who had bought his contraption
: TO manufacture.
= With some of his profits, he
! prospected for oil and struck well
after we'll in the Kettleman Hills.
= His life became a continual eff
fort TO invest the golden flood
(which kept pouring in on him.
In 3S he bought 5000 acres of
virgin land in the western San
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-07
DIVERSION ATTACK

Often. all the dogs will rush to
that point 10 protect the sheep
and drive off the marauder. While
they are thus engaged, the rest
of the pack will strike, kill and
get away.
But they never fooled ToCsin.
Whenever a lone coyotes howl or
rush came far distant from him,
he faced away from the flock peer
ing into the darkness in front OF
him with his nose in the air.
seeking sound or sight Of the pack
which might be waiting.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-07
HERDED BY DOGS

Five sheep dogs hustled then
Ialong, tanning out on both sides to
nip any wanderers and drive them
back into the fold The shepherd
Tonic, sauntered along in the rear.
He had nothing to do but watch
his dogs perform.
The work of the dogs fascinated
him so much that he moved up 10
this ranch of his 10 watch them.
The dogs, Of course, were trained
and they were all of a long line,
extending back possibly 500 years,
of dogs whose sole reason for exis-
tence was the care of sheep.
Nevertheless, Lavite insisted that
they thought for themselves.
For instance, in the heat of the
day, about an hour before and an
hour after noon, the dogs would
let the sheep Straggle But when
the sun was half way down toward
the horizon. the dogs would get up
out of their dust beds and round
them in toward the center.
They would hold them thus until
full evening when the shepherd,
standing at a place near water.
would roar out his weird. peculiar
call. And then the dogs would
drive their charges toward him.
NIGHTLY VIGIL
They stood guard over them
while they drank and then they
took up their vigil for the night
They moved in a wide circle so as
not 10 disturb them in their sleep.
but wce betide a ram, a eve or a
lamb which got up and tried TO
wander from the fold. They would
close in on them with a whimper-
ing growl and drive them back
into the center.
II was on the third day that
Lavite became aware of Tocsin.
Strangely. II was because the dog
didn't seem 10 be up 10 the others
in herding He did his work but
he did IT with the air of perform
ing task which was beneath him.
When he circles. II was farther
out from the sheep and much big
ger and his attention seemed 10 be
not so much on them as upon the
darkness which surrounded them
and the things 1t held
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-07

The dog led them 10 the place
where the fight had occurred. A
coyote lay in the moonlight. Its
back had been broken.
Shepherds claim that the coyote
is the SmarteSt hunter of them all.
He has pitted his guile against
both man and dog and has made a
good living out of it for centuries.
They are full of tricks. One is
for a pack OF coyotes 10 split up.
One of them will attack a flock
from a point far distant from
whore the others wait.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-07
ToSCIN VICTORIOUS

a coyotes weird, wailing howl
would bring him up standing bis
ears cooked toward the sound.
When II was near enough, he
would side toward IL and the
siding would end in a lightning
rush which often established con-
tact with a coyote
one night. the rush ended in bet
ter than a contac1. At the end Of
II, there was a furious growing
and the threShing OF struggling
bodies.
The struggle lasted about FIVE
minutes. a minute later ToCsin
appeared lie was covered with
blood and bleeding from a cut
across his jaw. Lavite hurried
down from the ranch house 10
Tonic. the shepherd. Before he had
asked his question. Tonic said
He has killed n coyote. From
the sound. there were two Of
them. Let us look at the devil.
Tocsin. Co."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-07
LoPEs OFF LAMELY

His was the role of killer That
is why he moved about his herd
ing with carelessness. During that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-07
Answer to yesterdays puzzle.

ing close to the ground. The flock
was compact and orderly and as
they struck the wheat not far
from the ranch house, he saw the
reason.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-07

HORIZONTAL
Heavy cora.
s. Employ,
S-Threw.
12--Cain's brother
l3-BoTn
on top ~
l5-Soft drink
l6-pisorder Of mind
ls-Flat dish
2O--Positive pole
2l--PaEe ~ a book
22-One tdislD
23-E lection
26-. Encpurage
Male offspring.
3i-Talent
81 Biblical prophet.
3A-Droops
3S -Celestial
3s-Seed Container.
4O-Precious stone.
4i--Near (poet.l
A-Green arsenate ~ copper.
47--MuEsoiini's Black Shirts
4g--Neave together
50--Part Of a church.
Sl--Tavern.
s2-Psrmitted temporary use az.
s3-PastnrAl pipe.
St-Horse
S5-Ahcient noble Italian family
VERTICAL
1-Grate.
Ancient Greek coin
8 PropeninE by means 81 the feet.
makes eXultant.
b-IInhmited
6-Wise man
Elongated fish
S-Part Of eyeball.
q-River in Italy
10-Onamental nail.
11-Nolume
II Masculine name.
1Q--Chore.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-07

Tomorrow's short story: Cat
Call" by Carl Truitt.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-07

Lavte listened only a moment,
then ran TO the corral and slipped
a bride over a horses head.
Evening star., 1942-02-08

morning or out Of town in the eve
ming, is 20 cents each even for the
original rider. The driver is ex-
pected to take pickup fares going
his way, If he sees them.
Drivers have been urged to be
pleasant and courteous, especially
since the experiment is as new to
the public as it Is to them.
The limit is four passengers, with
only one in front. However, If a
fare has luggage, the driver uses his
discretion as to whether there is
room for two. three or four persons
and in any case has full" sign
to put up when he Is loaded.
Plan to Be Tried 30 Days.
Each driver is to report the total
number Of fares at the end of the
day and on such daily reports will
be decided the success or failure of
the experiment. 1t Is to run 80 days
on trial. A formal hearing has been
set on 1t March 5 at the District
Building.
While the program might seem to
discriminate in favor Of those In the
downtown zones, Mr.. Roger pointed
out that this section Is where 1t is
almost impossible to board . bus In
rush hour. He also pointed out that
by forming riding clubs" even those
living in the outlying areas could
get almost 20-cent service. For ex-
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Shaw Junior Pupils
To Sketch History
Of Haiti by Radio
Broadcast Over WMAL
At Z PM. Tomorrow
One in Stur Series

The rugged land of Haiti will be
the subject of a broadcast at 2 pm.
tomorrow over WMAL by, students
of Shaw Junior High School in the
good-neighbor series, THE Amer
icas," sponsored by The Star and
the Junior High School Radio Com
mittee.
The dramatizations will cover
many of the outstanding customs
and national characteristics Of the
people of the small Caribbean is
land republic as well as its colorful
history. The exploits Of the coun-
try's greatest liberators, Toussaint-
L'Ouverture and Henri Christophe,
will be described and also the i'm
portant influence of France on the
historic development Of Haiti.
The script for the broadcast has
been prepared by Mrs. Lorraine
Heathcock and Waldo Webb OF the
Shaw faculty. The play will be di-
rected by Miss Clotille Houston and
Mrs. Esther Sutton while the par
ticipating school chorus Is to be
directed by Mrs. Louise Pack. A
study plan on Haiti distributed
among all local junior high schools
was drafted by Richard A. Gillem,
teacher at Shaw.
Evening star., 1942-02-08

ample. he said. If four persons in
zone got together at the same
point each morning and went to the
same place, the fare would be a
dollar, or Is cents each. From the
third zone the fare would be cor
respondingly cheaper. Such clubs,
however, would have to start and
stop at the same point.
The experiment was suggested to
the District Commissioners and the
Public Utilities Commission by
Frederic A. Delano, chairman of
the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission and uncle of
President Roosevelt, as a means of
meeting the transportation problem
that has been made more acute here
by the influx Of thousands Of war
workers.
In his letter to the city heads,
Mr.. Delano said his suggestion was
based on his own efforts to get a
taxi at rush hour. According to the
president of one of the participating
cab companies, Mr.. Delano has been
sharing q taxicab with others for
months. Mrs. Lucille Foster Nc
Millin of the Civil Service Commits
sion has also been . taxicab sharer,
1t was said.
Feeling Of Appreciation.
Mr. Delano said his taxicab shar-
ing has been done largely with his
Evening star., 1942-02-08

$500 900 tons Of sugar this year
as compared with a supply of T.
989, 900 tons last year. The largest
single source of this sugar was
Cuba. The State. Interior, Agricul-
ture and War Departments have all
supported the theory that it was
better, from economic and COM
mercial points of view. to rely on
the island producers. including
Cuba.
One difnculty in the way Of in
creased sugar production, Senator
Brown said, was in getting the
priorities division of the War Pro-
duction Board to allow the necessary
materials for the machinery and
implements for sugar beet produc-
ton. That situation, he said, has
been ironed out.
Senator Capper, Republican, Of
Kansas, a member of the Committee
on Agriculture, said he would go
along with Mr.. Henderson" in the
sugar rationing plan, believing that
1t was necessary in view Of the war
situation. Kansas produces sugar
beets, but on a comparatively small
scale, and has one sugar mill.
Senator Taft. Republican, of Ohio
said he would have preferred a
voluntary system Of rationing sugar,
rather than the drastic plan which
is now. to be put into effect. II
a voluntary plan had been started
sooner, he added, and before the
people were alarmed by official
statements regarding sugar short
ages, it might have been successful.
Senator Taft agreed. however, that
under existing conditions rationing
was necessary. During the last war
he was connected with the Food
Administration. He said he did not
recall that there had been any ra-
tioning Of sugar then on national
scale, though it might have been
ordered in some places by local
administrators.
Senator Thomas. Democrat. Of
Oklahoma said fatty he did not be-
lieve that it was necessary to i'm
pose the rigid o. P. A. sugar ra-
tioning plan. He said that one Of
the reasons given by Mr.. Henderson
for rationing was that large guam
tity of sugar would be needed to
make industrial alcohol to be used
in munitions.
Industrial alcohol can be made
out Of nearly everything" said Sem
ator Thomas. 1T is not essential
that sugar be used. 1t can be made
from corn and other grains, and
already thousands Of bushels of
corn have been turned over by the
Government for that purpose"
Evening star., 1942-02-08

Connecticut avenue and Massa-
chusetts avenue.
Suppose q cab Is hailed at some
point in the third zone in the morn
ing period. This customer specifies
the War Department as the destina-
ton. His fare will be the regular
60 cents. The cab driver will then
stick in his windshield his sign
reading War and Navy and proceed
in the most direct route to the
original destination.
Suppose, again, as he enters the
second zone or at some point in 1t
he is hailed by another person. The
driver will stop and If the destina-
ton is the same, he will pick up the
second passenger for a 20-cent fare.
If the second persons destination is
along the direct route to War and
Navy, but not that far, he will also
be taken, but the driver will not go
even a few blocks out Of the direct
route.
If the prospective customer, for
instance. wanted to 90 to a depart
ment store, the cab driver would
probably reply that he could not
take the fare. but to be on the look
out for q cab marked Federal Til
angle" which could take him.
Any pickup fare in the first two
zones, heading downtown in the
Evening star., 1942-02-08

fellow residents at Hotel 2l00 and
that he had noted a general feeling
of appreciation on the part of those
invited to ride with him.
Mrs. McMillin said her expert
ences In cab sharing had always
been with nice people," and she
thinks the District has the finest
taxicab drivers ever. Most Of her
fellow riders are Government en-
ployes but some are women going
downtown to shop.
Cab sharing has the two-fold ad-
vantage of doing little bit to help
the war emergency situation and
also giving her opportunities in pub
lie relations which she otherwise
would miss, she said.
Saying that she often discussed
with Government workers their
problems at their jobs, she described
the conversations as always inter-
esting, but added:
Il always introduce myself to
them first and tell them who I am"
Views on Curfew Asked.
One asked her the other day what
she thought Of the curfew proposal
for Government girls, she recalled
with q laugh.
Mrs. McMillin also lives at Hotel
2400 and said she did not know
whether she had followed Mr..
Delano's lead but she had been
sharing her cab for a long time.
From the point of view Of the
taxicab drivers, there is a definite
purpose In their undertaking the
program. Financially, Mr.. Roger
explained, the men are doing well
now and have more business than
they can handle. But, he added,
they also know that to survive pri-
critics and tire rationing and such
wartime restrictions the taxicab in
dustry has got to become so useful
to the general public that 1t can't
get along without it.
Other cab owners may enter the
service but must have the approval
of the Public Utilities Commission
before they do so.
Attacked by Schultz.
The proposed system has been at
tackled by Representative Schultz
Of Indiana, who predicted it would
clog up traffic and classed it as a
guinea pig" plan.
In the last day or so one cab COM
pany and several independent driv-
ers have petitioned to be included in
the service. according to Gregory
Hankin, chairman of the Public
Utilities Commission, but the COM
mission voted to postpone action on
these until some idea could be OBJ
tanned on the working of the plan.
Mr.. Hankin also disclosed that "a
few" members of the Lincoln Cab
Association had asked to be with
drawn from the plan. saying their
president was not authorized to
speak for them. Mr.. Hankin said
this request was denied.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
War Time
Continued From First Page)

have the designation, war time"
instead Of standard time.
The Weather Bureau will advance
its clocks and conform with the
new time as far as local recordings
are concerned, but international OBJ
servations will continue to be taken
on Greenwich mean time. which is
synchronized throughout the world.
There won't be any local tenn
perature reading for 2 am. tomor-
row. AS far as the records are
concerned, bureau officials said, one
temperature reading will simply be
missing.
Naval Observatory activities will
not be affected, since 1t will con-
tinue to send out its hourly time
signals on Greenwich time. These
time signals are recorded auto
matically on dozens of machines
throughout the country. among
other places, and it would be quite
a task to change the machines, Capt.
Frederick Helweg, superintendent OF
the observatory, said. He added,
however, that the local clocks
would be changed to conform to
the new time.
Some Save an Hour.
Employees who will be on duty
tonight at the Weather Bureau and
other places will work an hour less
than usual. but there were no In
dications that their wages would
be docked. Anyway, they'll give the
hour back when time goes back to
standard after the war is over.
Owners Of the big outdoor clocks
in downtown Washington, including
those of the r. Harris Jewelry Co.,
Palais Royal and Hecht Goa said
their engineers would wait until
they come to work tomorrow morn
ing to move the hands ahead.
Wartime will come to the Zoo.
too. but Headkeeper William H.
Blackburne said he didn't expect 1t
to cause any trouble among the
inmates.
Some Of the elephants. buffalo,
turtles and appropriateness were
here during the last war. and they
probably will remember all about
it." commented Mr.. Blackburne.
Chairman Leland Olds Of the Fed
eral Power Commission announced
that a study would be made OF
electric power records over the Ma
ton to determine how much power
capacity is being saved by the new
time standard.
Prior to the outbreak of war, 1t
was estimated that an hour speedup
in the Nations clocks would save
about 10000 kilowatts OF electricity
power capacity-equal to making l.
10000 horsepower available for in
dustry.
For those inclined to brood over
the matter, the father of daylight
saving time was a rich English
builder of Chelsea, England, who in
1906 wrote book, Waste of Day.
light" which started a campaign
to advance the clock 80 minutes in
the spring. Willet thought civiliza-
ton spent too much time in bed in
the summer and had not enough
time for recreation.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Red Cross Gives Status
Of Knitting Projects

Red Cross headquarters an
nounced yesterday it is informing
women who inquire if they still are
wanted to knit sweaters that under
q War Production Board statement
the knitting will continue when the
Red Cross is notified Of military
needs.
Headquarters said numerous in
quiries of this type are being re-
eeived from women, who ap-
parently thought knitting for the
armed services was discontinued to
conserve wool.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
City Flyer to Attend Rites

B. M. Eshelman, 2414 Hamlin
street NE, will be among a group
of 200 airmen Of the Royal Canadian
Air Force from Ottawa to visit New
York City Thursday for Lincoln
birthday ceremonies there. The
group will place wreath at the
Eternal Light on Madison Square,
in memory of Americans who died
In the last war.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
Tuxicubs
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and / or operating there during the
rush hours is subject to being hailed
The six morning destinations are
Army and Navy, Federal Triangle
South Agriculture. Fourth and D
streets S.W., Capitol Hill and Navy
Yard. These, according to Mr.
Roger, cover the southernmost pos
sible destinations of persons going
to work or to the downtown section
Those for the afternoon rush
period are Sixteenth street, Georgia
avenue, Georgetown, Fourteenth
street, Rhdoe Island avenue NE.
Pennsylvania avenue, Northeast Sec
ton, Eighteenth and Columbia road