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Evening star., 1943-03-06
Take My Word for 1t
BY FRANK COLBY.
Saturday WhirIigig

Houston: What Is the exact mean
ing Of the "nog" in "eggnog"?J. r.
Answer: 'Nog" is of British origin.
1t was the name of an ale of un-
usual potency. This seems to sus-
gest that the original eggnog was a
British concoction of eggs and strong
ale, but In his Dictionary OF Ameri-
canisms u872) De We're speaks Of
the drink as being genuinely Ameri-
can. 80 the indispensable bever-
age taken at Christmas all over
the South. and consisting of eggs,
cream and brandy, beaten up to-
gether."
Kansas City: Please define and
pronounce the word ERSATZ.-Mrs.
r.
Answer: It is the German word
for equivalent substitute" similar
to our synthetic. Pronouace it:
air-ZAHTS.
Hood River: Please pronounce the
name POMPEII.-M. H. v.
Answer: Say: pom-PAY-yee.
White Plains: It is said that
SUSPICION is the only English
word ending In -cion. Right?-A.
H. D.
Answer: Since I know of five
more. cion, scion. coercion, epinicion,
internecion, there may be several
others.
San Diego: How should the word
LMBROGIIO be pronounced?-D. H.
Answer: This is ap Italian loan
word meaning "embroilment." The
second syllable yhymes with dole,
hole. The third syllable rhymes
with hoe, toe. Say: inn m-BROLE-yoe.
Los Angeles: Please explain the
expression to have = "yen" for
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Last -minV3e changes n rod3o pro- e1Tiion1V
grams sometimes reach The Star - '~~SN
too late tor correction that day. MoFch 8, 1913
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Marriage License
AppIicotions

+ Under D. c. lau, couples must
+ Gpply for marriage license on
b. one day. tcdit three full ddpg-and
receive their license OF, the Nth
day. Sundays and holidays uye
counted the same as other days.
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Jeanette A. Lusby. As: sos st. nv.
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NV, and Winten c. Dendy, %. 1919 3rd
N.sh.niel Bailey. 80, and x,i..b.th VIII
Robert. cro:ey' as. sssss connecticut
1siah Han %. 1s4o W st. NV, and Cleo
Collins. IS. 1340 W st. NV
John II. McNeill. 80. 1910 V st. NV. and
Gisabsth Locks. Fl. 1870 1t: NV.
co.Di Dd Ralph fI1 + dsonsrd e. d valdosts e.:
Annie o. Gindr.u. "a. ao4 q st. NV. n'
John K: johnson. %. Al Florida aye. n ".
and Thelma ,: Tomson. FL. 1923 New
Lsen.rd Cobb, 4a; 1871 ard st; .w. and
Lure Hoover. s.. siso n n st. m NV, and Alice
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ana virsinia D. Farmer. 10. 1922 On
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E had killed, ever so many of them

he had killed, ever so many of them,
and yet he would be trying to kill
more. Foxes and hawks and owls
catch good many ducks, just as
they do young rabbits, but you know
how we feel about that. They only
hunt when they are hungry, and
they hunt fairly. When they have
got enough to make a dinner they
stop. They keep our wits sharp
II we do not keep out of their way
it is our own fault. 1t is a kind of
game-the game of life. I guess it
is Old Mother Natures way of
keeping us wide awake and sharp
ening our wits and so making us
better fitted to live.
With those two-legged creatures
with terrible guns it is all different
We don't have any chance at all. II
they hunted us as Reddy Fox does.
tried to catch us themselves. it
would be different. But they don't.
Their terrible guns kill when we are
long way of, and there isn't any
way for us to know Of danger. And
then when one of them does kill a
duck he isn't satisfied but keeps on
killing, and killing and killing. I'm
sure one would make him q dinner,
if that is what he wants. Do you
know what I call those creatures?"
"What?' asked Peter, eagerly
Two legged weasels." replied Mrs.
Quack. Yes. sir. call them two
legged Weasels. Do you know why?"
Peter thought for a minute. Il
guess because they kill just for the
love of killing" said he. Il know
Shadow the Weasel does. He hunts
and kills just as long as he can
find anything that he can kill and
seems to find pleasure in just kill
ing. That is why everybody on the
Green Meadows and in the Green
Forest hates him, even his own
relatives" Peter shivered little
at the very thought of Shadow the
Weasel.
Mrs. Quack nodded. You've
guessed right" said she. These two
legged weases are worse than
Shadow, because he hunts fairly
and they don't, and because he al
ways kills those he catches, and they
often simply break the wings or
otherwise terribly hurt the ones they
shoot at and leave them to suffer,
unable TO take care OF themselves.
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Bedtime Stories
MOON MULLINS
THE SPIRIT
FLYNN JENNY
By THORNTON w. BURGESS.

The more Peter Rabbit heard
about the dreadful things that hap
pened on Mr.. Quack's long journey
the more glad he was that he was
rabbit and not duck. Mrs Quack
had told him of how the hunters
with terrible guns had used other
ducks to make Mr.. and Mrs. Quack
and their friends think a feeding
place was perfectly safe. and it had
seemed to him so unfair that If Mrs
Quack hadn't been so very much
IN earnest he wouldn't have be-
lleved 1t. Not one of the meadow
and forest people who were always
trying to catch him would do a
thing like that
Its all true" said Mrs. Quack
"and those hunters do other things
just as unfair. Sometimes awful
storms will come up, and we Just
have to find places where we can
rest. Those hunters will hide near
those places and shoot at us when
We are SO tired that we can hardly
move wing. 1t wouldn't be so bad
If hunter would be satisfied to kill
just one duck, as Reddy Fox is, but
he seems to want to kill every duck.
I've seen the most awful sight"
Mrs. Quack paused to shudder.
After moment she continued
I've looked down into one of the
hiding places of hunter and seen
4 great pile of my friends which
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BY Paul fouortv
BY Will Eisner

and the inturning rim of the left
side and under the coil give 1t sup
port.
When the abalone sallies forth to
find food, he sticks his head out
under the margin of the shell just
where the row of openings ends.
The tender tentacles wave slightly
and the eyes scan the rocks for
algae. The strong, rasping tongue
swipes the tender marine vegetation
from their foundation. The wide
snout seems inquisitive.
For locomotion, the abalone has
one broad foot. This is pointed
backward from under the spiral
All around the outside edge OF the
shell neshy fringe. which is the
margin of the mantle, can be seen.
While this fellow is not outstanding
tor speed, he can get along very fast
If need be. Further. he can hold
fast to the rocks over which he is
travelling, and his strength Is re-
markable.
The red abalone, shown here, Is
the largest and most valuable. Some
Of them reach length of 8 inches
On the outside of the shell is beau
tiful brick red; within, its pearly
lining has exquisite tints of green
and pink There are finely sculp-
tured radiating anG CROSSINGS on
the rough outer shell.
The holes are large and elevated.
-Four Of them are usually OPEN Dur
ing the life of the owner, water flows
in and washes the gills. The young
er shells do not have them. Older
openings become clogged with de-
posits from within. New ones de-
velop.
The Chinese boil the fleshy foot
in salt water, then spread it on the
rocks to dry. Among them, it is
greatly esteemed as food. The shells
are shipped to Europe, where they
are fashioned into beautiful orna-
ments and buttons. Indians of CAL
ifornia made exquisite treasure boxes
of them. The finest collection may
be seen at the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition.
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Points for Parents

BY EDYTH THOMAS WALLACE.
When 1Dork is a shared erperi-
ence, it loses many of its un-
favorable characteristics.
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something. The only yen" in my
dictionary is the Japanese coin.-
S. B. N.
Answer: "Yen" is Chinese for
opium, smoke" hence, by extern
sion. an overpowering desire; q
craving, as an addict's longing for
the drug.
San Francisco: What is meant by
the "distad side"?-M. P.
Answer: The distan is that port
of the spinning wheel that holds
the cotton, wool or max to be spun.
The "distaf1 side" is q figure Of
speech meaning the woman's
branch of q family" The mans
branch Is sometimes called the
Sword side"
Releassd b. the Bell Syndicate. Ine.)
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Natures Children
ABALONE SHELL.
(Hdliotis rufescens.)
BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY

BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY,
Abalones, or ear shells, are among
the most beautiful for collection.
The large ones furnish the mother
of-pearl Of commerce, and In the
Orient the foot is highly esteemed
for food.
In our country, California is the
only place where abalones have been
found. They are distributed in
Australia, the Indian Ocean, Africa
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Deaths Reported

MarEaret Z. Taylor. 90. 1915 calver
st.. NV
Charles H. Arnold. 76, B4o7 Maeomb II
Alice Z; Ingrsham. rs. I23 11th st. ne.
Jessie 8. Schafhirt, 70, 1920 Parkwoo,
J. Frank Campbell. 70. 40 10Th st. Sc.
Anna Blank, ~. 326 Taylor st. NV
Anna N. Autritt. 63. 1920 Upton st. NV
NARA brooks' as. 62c 18th st. ne.
Walter Mason, so, s24 6th st. ne
Carrie Pierce. 40, 1000 South Capitol.
Infant Frank Muschetta. ZOO + It. NV.
infant Cary walker 1889 lst st. sw.
Infant Larry Cheatnut, 136 p Ct, nv.
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Oh, dear. I'm afraid that is what has
happened to Mr.. Quack.
Once more poor Mrs. Quack was
quite overcome with her troubles
and SORROWS Peter wished with all
his heart that he could do some
thing to comfort her but, of course.
he couldn't, 80 he just sat still and
waited until she could tell him just
what did happen to Mr.. Qfack.
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and Japan. There is one species in
Europe. Though there are many
species, there is but one genus.
The ear-shaped shell is pearly,
shallow and spiral The large outer
coil encloses the body, and the left
side is punctured by a curving row
OF holes-usually four of them. The
muscle scar within the shell is like a
horseshoe in shape. The fleshy foot
is fringej. The mantle is slit along
the row of holes. The eyes of the
abalone are on two short stalks.
There is pair OF slender tentacles.
Since the abalone Is a univalve,
it has but one she'll So do snails
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whAl. s:3o-SpstIisht Sand; From Fst
Harrison. indianapolis Ind.
WwDc. t0:00-I. t. "a Ind kssi: hd
Stevens bfoadtasts No rsats rom Madison
Square Garden.
wEv, to:i5-SoIdisr With Wings: Franthsi
lone and DiRah Shore.
M, tt:30-Day d Reckoning: Trial d
Nussolini.
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Nteswomen.
whAl. s:i5-Bodon symphony: Handsrs
Concerto Crosse No. TO-" Bsstheysns Sym.
phoay No. H.
WN. 9:00-Bsm Dance: Wsskiy hayIoti
pariy
WhAl. 9:t5-Normaa 1homas. Socialist
parry leader, answers Representative Marlin
Dies: freedom Of Thought Tor Federal En-.
pIoyss"
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Uncle Sam will keep 'em flying, II
the spirit Of his citizens will keep
EN- buying-bonds.
Evening star., 1943-04-19

First one saw it, then another, and
pretty soon they were all talking
about it, circling over 1t and trying
to make out what 1t was.
"Well," said swede, there's only
one thing sure about 1.-THE Japs
must want it real bad If they took
all that trouble to hide It," So Red
Doggett flat-hatted over it and his
bombardier, Lawrence, laid an egg
right in the middle Of 1t and what
1t actually was nobody In Torpedo 8
will ever know now because it blew
up and sank so fast.
After all the trouble to get there
the fellows found nothing in the
way of q target at Marmasike and
then hightailed it over to Takataka
Bay for a look-see. They were all
learning fast. Their bombing was
getting as good as it had been in
practice, and they were learning
things about the country-the ma
tives waved at them. the Japs
didn't; where nobody In a village
stayed to wave, that meant Japs;
where village was as prim and or
derly as grass could be made by
weaving, it meant natives; where it
was Aoppy and the clearings looked
hasty, 1t meant Japs.
(To be continued)
(copyrisht. 1943, by North American News
paper Alliance, mc.)
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other try at Marmasike, were very
businesslike looking and the fellows
in them looked very businesslike,
but, underneath, their emotions
rolled like sea and they themselves
were crafts riding that sea, dipping
into it and rising over 1t, putting
their shoulders to it and throwing it
behind them or, where that failed,
squashing the sea down.
In the beginning, over the carrier
from which they took oil, there was
the same gray, heavy-laden weather
curling soggily in the air like
soup simmering. It was hard to tell
there that a war was going on. The
air was SO quiet and had that sleepy
quality of rainy day. Then, sud-
denly, as they neared Guadalcanal,
the air became streaked and quivery
with American voices: There's
trucks coming out of the woods
there. Go down and strafe them?"
The question: How many are burn
ing?" The answer: wait till I
spit the glass out Of my mouth.
My window is broken up. There's
bullet stuck in it, and I can't see
through It," Did you make 'em
pay for that glass?" ''Well, I don't
know. Wait till I go back. Yes, let's
see now, there's truck burning, I
see three, four, seven trucks, burn
ing, all burning, every one OF them,
frying" "All right, 60 over the
woods and see If you can spot any
more hiding there, unless your bro
ken window there :" ooh, the
broken window is no trouble. I'll
just have to carry 1t with me. Most
of it's in my lap, anyway"
Get One Ship.
The storm front was moving to
south and west and 1t pressed down
on Torpedo 8 and forced 1t down
to about 400 feet. Occasionally Jap
voices spoke into the fellows ears,
making swift, blubbery sounds
there, but they never saw the own
ers or the planes from which they
spoke and just flew on placidly and
firmly in a tight, wing walk forma-
ton.
Near Hokiwai Island they found a
ship covered with palms. It was
so we'll covered that, If the weather
had not forced them down real low,
they would never have seen 1t.
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at him, chopping down half the
tree. But that first time, the Jap
had circled the tree fast enough.
So Bruce, flying slowly and care
fully, had come back on another pass
and had straddled the tree and
when the Jap ran away from the
bullets on one side he ran head
first into the bullets on the other
side and was dead before he hit
the ground.
Hammond was for waiting for the
flights to return. He had the ex-
preston on his face Of mother hen
whose chicks have taken to the wa
ter. When he saw SWede, he couldn't
control his emotion. Are you all
right?" he cried.
mo-" Swede said, I'm hungry"
when saw that OIL" Hammond
said, Il was so scared I didn't know
what was going to happen"
"You were scared you would have
to pay off all those BETS
That's it." Hammond laughed.
THAT must have been why" He
laughed uproariously, all the nerv-
BUSINESS going out Of him in laughter.
Sandwiches Surprisingly Bad.
There were sandwiches and coffee
waiting. Nobody has time to cook
on ship during general quarters.
Everybody has his battle station to
man. The sandwiches were surpris-
ingly bad that day. The theory was
they had been purposely made bad
to make sure they would last.
This theory was voiced and there
was chaf1ng about the bullet holes
in the planes. Each plane had some
holes in it and nobody could remem-
ber seeing any Jap guns shooting at
him. so some of the fellows said,
Hell, We must have shot ourselves
out of nervousness" But Hansen
Ensign E. r. Hansen, the gunnery
of1icer) disputed that. That's Jap
stuff" he insisted expertly. Our
bullets make better holes than that"
II wish had seen them shooting"
Ensign Aaron Katz said wistfully.
"I'd have liked to blow their shoot
ing back down.
And none of them said what they
thought until Swede said it, saying,
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well, Goddammit, we got some OF
them today anyway"
And Ensign Robert E. Ries, even
though he was from the Show-me
State Of Missouri, agreed. YES" he
said, I'VE made a start on It,"
Then Torpedo 8 took to the air
again to look for more Japs. 1t was
not yet II in the morning and the
day was going to be long, as historic
days always are.
Deal Out Death.
Hundreds of square miles OF Japs
lay in holes yearning for darkness
to put a cover over their wounds.
How they must have ached for that
day to end. The Americans were not
yearning at all, not for daylight or
for darkness, but were just keeping
busy doing whatever the situation
required.
Our fellows were very methodical
about the death they were dealing
out. They dispensed it In the firm,
tranquil-seeming way of clerks be-
hind a counter doing a job. This was
the more remarkable since under the
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Attack k-und Venqeunce!
By IRA WOLFERT.

1t. LdrSen's detail takes netp
torpedo bonlbers from Norfolk to
Honolulu. Squadron S'S fighters
head straight into death tunnel
to stop ddUance of enemy ships
and planes 100 miles from Mid
1Udy, only one plane coming
through. Larsen takes command
and organizes Avengers, moping
on to deal 7Uith Jdps at SolomonS.
CHAPTER 8.
But big black thunderheads lay
between Marmasike Passage and
Point Purvis. Thunderheads are
the winds boiler factories. They
are big. black, vastly-spreading
things that sit on the water and
stretch up to as high as $4,000 feet
and everybody who flies the Pacific
has learned to treat them with cau-
ton. They have thermals in them
that can break a plane into pieces,
the way forge hammer might, only
more quickly.
So SWede moved around to the
western edge of Malaita toward Cole
ridge Bay and, much to the re-
gret of the $50 solly" Japs, stumbled
over Langalanga Harbor. There
were little moorings there that no
body except the Japs had known
anything about, performed areas
for storing boats, protected lagoon
for docking boats and plenty of
floats. 1t looked like an excellent
setup for torpedo boats Or maybe
something even bigger, and Torpedo
8 looked it over carefully for few
minutes and then went in and
messed it up.
Again SWede picked the biggest
hut there. The nervousness was
out of him now and he got a hit on
his first pass. There was one big
boom and then another even bigger
one and great gaseous-looking bill
lows of black smoke started to pour
out of the wreckage, with flames
licking at the edges. That meant
gasoline or maybe ammunition. So
Torpedo really went to work on
that place and really made mess
of it.
Then, out of bombs, they headed
back for the carrier. The fellows
were tired by this time and flying
ragged formation. Swede looked
around vexedly. Just then words
came over the air that Zeroes were
humdinging along looking for a
scrap and the fellows rushed to
close in in a formation so tight you
could walk from wing to wing. They
had rushed so fast that Swede had
to laugh. He looked around him
and saw John Thurman grinning at
him and Red Doggett waving and
grinning. They were enjoying the
joke, too.
Gets Dodging Jap.
But the Zeroes got all the scrap
they wanted before coming even
within sight Of the torpedo bombers
and the fellows made the carrier
without having to use their ma
chine guns.
In the meantime, Bruce Harwood
had led a fight of Torpedo bomb
ers to work over Guadalcanal itself.
They were given the same sort of
targets-whatever they could find
worth bomb. But they had had
more excitement. There had been
Japs there that they could see to
strafe. And they had handed out
cold justice, not letting anybody
get away with it. Bruce had chased
one Jap around a tree twice before
getting him. He saw the Jap cut
tink for the woods and had let fly
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outer calm and under the outer re-
lentlessness there was q whole
swarming Utter Of nerves, veritable
paroxysms Of nerves, our fellows hav-
ing been men a much longer time
than they were soldiers.
1t was that way with Torpedo 8,
too. AS a squadron they were a spe-
cial case in the struggle for Guadal-
canal. They had q bill to present
and collect and were determined to
do it. but their determination had
not transported them too far from
the world in which the rest lived.
So the stubby, sausage-fat torpedo
planes, as Swede led them for an
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Highest Court Grants Stay
OF Alabama Executions
nv the Anoeiated Press.

By the A1oeiated Press.
The Supreme Court today granted
stay Of execution for Henry Dam
iels, jr., and Curtis Robinson, both
colored, convicted OF criminally as
saulting a white woman at Mobile,
Ala, and sentenced to die next Fri
day.
A stay was sought to give time for
filing a petition for a review Of an
Alabama Supreme Court decision
upholding the conviction In the Mo-
bile County Circuit Court.
The offense charged was alleged
to have taken place on August 10,
1941.
The two men contended, through
an attorney, that the conviction was
obtained through a confession OBJ
tanned "by force and intimidation
de. beatings, threats OF lynching,
ETC., and by a prolonged question:
ing"
Domestic helm IL hard tn find-
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Domestic help Is hard to find
but you may find 1t through = want
Ad" in The Star.
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Mrs. Roosevelt
VIII Be Guest

The special events group of the
War Hospitality Committee, under
the craftsmanship Of Mrs. Morris
Cafritz and Mrs. Louise Cromwell
Atwill, has completed arrangements
for the dance Thursday evening
Invitations to men and women in
the service are being issued through
the Service Councillors and the party
will be given at 8::30 o'clock in Almas
Temple at 1925 K street. The Navy
Band will play for the dancing and
the ranking guest at the fete will
be Mrs. Roosevelt, who is the hon
orary patroness for the event.
O..ier patronesses for the party
are Mrs. James V. Forrestal, Mrs
Herbert Seymour Howard Mrs. Paul
v. McNutt, Mrs. Conger Pratt, Mrs
Emory Scott Land, who will take
with her a group of Visiting Nurses;
Mrs. James Clement Dunn, Mrs
Edward r. Finkenstaedt, who will
take group of AWVS workers who
will assist in serving the 1000 or
more guests, and Mrs. Eleanor Pat
terson.
During the evening there will ba
some professional talent which has
been donated by the entertainers
who will be appearing at a local
theater this week.