HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-01-04, Page 2Sxxopees. "you asked me to let you lmow, so you
Matt kearneY pees his sister Aileen have .only yourself to blame!"
b and for colon Kearney, in dreeeing' gown and pa-
jamas, nodded, smiling:
"I'm glad you came. And were
both used tolatehours. Fill Y
glass and go continued.
"Comes to this,„ Haig
"I should have started by covering
the rat -run out of Three Colt street.
1 ice:1y suspect—but all the same Pm
moderately sure—that the leakage
wee there. But if King Rat is inside
he won't get out! Every hole is stop-
ped. Unfortunately, I think King Rat
has Blipped away again.
"The horror with the tusks un-
doubtedly followed you—God knows
how --far the memo book....Yes!
stroke your throat! You are lucky to.!
have one intact. Incidentally, so ami
I1 Those cunning devils must have
spotted poor Norwich for a police offi-;
Der. They tackled him first, you see;
failed to find the notebook, and then
crane after you.”
Matt Kaerney shuddered and pour -
aboard the 'lvallar oo, o chlor
bo, Eileen tells Jack RettraY,
officer, that she is upset b
the
William
t
of a repulsive. looking
Dawson Haig, who had also said 'good-
bye to Eileen, meets 2%Iatt And tells hint
that he had traced a shipment of opium
to the Wallaroo, but it was unloaded
before detectives were able to search
the ship. Dawson is recalled to Scot-
land Yard and asks Iereadjoinsar o
King's warehouse, whichsearch
Lung's place, whom they suspect. As
As
they are leaving Matt picks up a
note-
book, and is surprised at thel presence
of a woman who quickly i
,1s Haig endeavors to translate entries
In the notebook one of Jo Lung's con-
federates who gains entry to his room,
matches the notebook. and .uag'ca es,
Yuan decides to leave Jo
and
boards a cruiser in the Thames,
CHAPTER 'VI. (Conit'd.)
Dawson Haig pressed irritably
again and again upon the bell beside
the wicket gate of Jo Lung's ware-
house door. His light blue eyes
sparkled dangerously. No report had
come from any of the men surround-
ing the premises; and, believing that
the elusive Big Chief, having caused
murder to be committed upon the per-
son of a Scotland Yard
aid he officer,
was
s pre-
paredto elude him again,
to stick at nothing.
Then the wicket gate opened, and a
neatly groomed and imperturbable
Levantine stood before them, staring
with apparent surprise past Dawson
Haig and the detective sergeant to
where a group of plainclothes officers
nd two uniformed men might be siren
ed out whisky.
"They were warned in some way,
or Eddy would have netted them on
the way back. These people are art- !•°'� :"saw=••'
lets—ane must admit it. That display; Joseph. Krell, Chicago, tallies his
of day books and ledgers was surely(
intended to lead up to the one entry1 place as 24th person living with-
-the one to which. the Greek drewl out a
Ysame in after rec nt re
re-
raymoval attention."
<,Y mean the sale, some time after 1 No more dyspepsia,
Minus Stonjach •
ou 1
!n the narrow street. set of pals to a mythical cMimi& and I were ustomee?ere, of " 1 Stamboul as of finding a gold mine in
"Good evening;" he said, amilin, in'
apparent confusion. "I'm afraid you l Dawson Haig nodded. Shoreditch. But the Stamboul branch,
as well as that in Limehouse, doesn't
have alarmed me.""For theconsiderable sum of two
e
"Indeed," said Haig. "I'myry1 thousand
pounds in cash,,, he added deal exclusively in stolen goods, or
1 am a police officer, and I bold a savagely. "Which cash, when I chat- even drugs. The marquis- is interested
warrant to search these premises." "But lenged him, the Greek produced from in a third industry—P0 bly based
• "Really!" the Greek exclaimed. the safe, Infernally clever. Damn -
upon Stamboul, but probably not."
ably, pofnsonously clever. I'm skirt- "What do you mean?" Kearney ask -
ah what ant?"ids have you obtained ing the edge of this case, Kearney, , excitedly.
chis warrant?" "Slaves!"Haig replied. "Yu'an Hee
"Harboring a man wanted for mum- I'm a thousand miles from the heart est slave trader in the
der!" was the grim reply. "Coale on, of it" „ confessed See is the biggest arrender." "Personally, Kearney , East!"
erry uneasy about those entries (To be continued.)
Haig turned to a group of men who ;Toe
ad followed him an in hat half so uneasy as I ani," said
«Y
"Along the yard," he ordered. "Bear „ you have
_a
Latest FIndings "These Inns Have a Lightness -
1
Of Science Most English inns appear to have Cage homes, .chintzy and lavendery:
been designed and furnished. against Their rooms are small, and daintilya
Obtaining Heavy Water --* winter weather, and this generally is rather than baronially, impressive;
What the Insect Sees t But there are exceptions, and and their spirit is the spirit that pooh%
I these you will
find in the Thames Va sesses y.
re. l -.you when drifting in a punkt
In. the laboratory of Professor Har- ley. They are the only inns 1 know past the Cleeve Woods between Pangs
old C. Urey in Cehunhia University is whose builders had spring and surn- bourne and Goring, or when moor
a half pint of water in various small Teem in their minds, and some of my under its aspens. They are in a hig
glass cantainers and of various de -1 happiest hours have been spent in key. Words cannot reach them. The
pint
groes of purity. The whole halt them medium for then: is water -color. O
about $8,500. At least it cost These inns have a lightness, lent, all the inns. I, knowand
ove, Bola
is worth , t these most. They belong P
to their setting as its trees and it
meadows.
That setting --the stretch of the'
Thames between Reading and Oxford
—is for me the most beautiful spec
of England, It has the radiant sere
enity of a lyric of George Herbert;
and when Theodore Dreiser told me
that it had 'illuminated for him the
spirit that moves behind all English
poetry, he gave it its due tribute. I
can go back to it spring after spring,
and it never stales as more luscious.
paradises stale. Always it yields, nerve '
revelation and refreshment. It is not
popular, and this helps to preserve
bloom; the few people who conte to it
are careful not to knock againstit.
From "The English Inn," by Thomas
Lt.rke. (New York: Longmans Greeif.)
Professor Urey that much to obtain 11
by patient electrolytic decomposition.
Some day similar water may cost no
more than that bought in bottles.
It stands to reason that this is no
ordinary 'water. In fact, it is the
"heavy" water which was discovered
two years ago by Professor Urey in
collaboration with Dr. George Murphy
of Columbia and Dr. F. G. Briekwedde
of the United States Bureau of Stan-
dards. It looks like ordinary water,
yet it is different. It is composed of
two atoms of hydrogen and one of
oxygen, but the atoms of hydrogen are
twice as heavy as those of rain -water.
in,d the memo book
UREY'S EXPERIMENTS.
Much of the oxygen which is sold
commercially to hospitals and chemi-
cal laboratories is obtained by passing
an electric current
bubbles hDiough ordinary
a e
water. Hydrogen
pole and oxygen at the other. Prof.
Urey induced a commercial decom-
poser of water to reduce 4,Q00 gallons
left in his cells after the current had
passed through to 160- half pere
cent. solution of heavy
gallons of this Professor Urey himself
reduced to one-third its volume, so that
he had about a Dale -pens -cent solution.
As more and more current was passed
through, the lighter hydrogen was
driven off and collected. What re-
tained in the cell was, electrically de-
composed still further, until at last
only hydrogen which was all heavy
no doubt," by the water scenery, tha
is lacking in other inns. Our inns
mostly exist to serve the occasions of
business: these exist solely to serve
the occasions of pleasure. They rank
as the princesses of inns against the
princes of our highways. Their style
is light, their paint is light, their fur-
niture is light, their food is light; and
they effuse always the seaise of holi-
day. Designed for the summer, they;
carry their grace into the winter; and
even in those months when the Thames
Valley evokes a shiver, their rooms
seem to hold, like a bowl of potpourri,
some hoard of the sparkling flush of
summer. They thieve not the rough,
hearty, smoky air of the inns of the
Great North Road—no coach -yards, no
hams hanging in the hall, no Falstaf-
flan cheeses. They are gracious cot-
to
lalling?
to the left and you'll find a door. Dawson Haig. .Something
•
Through it and into the warehouse. told nie tonight—but which you
didn't
t The
heal
eugh cry
lo'ts otlaar id is sonedth'
Th g mention in the note you e
ide
There are five small cases there,con- given me a clue. .. .perhaps too late!" seas;
Wallaroosigned frons Sydney.ghain per R.M.S. What did I tell yogi?" It is pipin' salt through the wudlands,
them—le to kncw.When you find
them—let let omem know." "About that squealing ynu 1 eagd- King 'Tis the cry 'o the auld grey neither
. It It is wafted sweet on the breeze.
.t!" Polodos was the was the Big Chief yell a absent sons, ever the same—
"Well?"
"One moment
speaker.Rat! Any doubt I ever had about his Ta
"Well?" Hang turned to him as two real identity, you have settled! I Ye are emine, though far 0 ha'e wan -
nen set off. "What is it?" know now whom I have to deal with." Noai, when are e coniki.' hams?
"(?nly this," the Greek continued "I'm afraid I don't follow."
smoothly: "Your suspect cannot very "I'll try to make it plain. I can The thorn has been buskit wi' blossom.
well be hidden. in one of the small tell you, at last, because I�kno;v I was The broom deckedni' 'brew.. b yells
eases you speak of! And the door to r in Singapore a year back? 1 was fol- gowd; is a
question is apparently locked. The lowing a clue which I hoped g would
g 'Neath the -white o' its fair bridal r lis Lawn originally,sugar whetherligtllis
quo byMessrs.
King. Are beyond is sure, ins e0 lead to the breew ( of a oro point) mantle
you inspector, that ring --sad I laiezv (note thio: ouThe bonnie wild ]cart 'tsr(ek!s Heavy. Experiments made in Europe
Kingseeiv to show that the atoms actually
your warrant extends to their prem- that Jo Lung was one of the g p Uou*ed warndei. about and
They dealt in stolen property (and
'tees?"
other merchandise as well).
Dawson Haig stared at the speak -d
er. That official. red tape which tram- "Guess where that elue led?"
Kearney shook his head; he was
' mels the movements of an officer of intently.
the Criminal Investigation Deeaet- listening y
rnent danced before his eyes visibly, TO the villa, or rather, palace of
t'fl d language unsuitable to
a pollen bearing insect from another
flower.
Even one who is not a biologist
must be struck by this anthropomor-
phism. In other words, Darwin as-
sumed that the lower animals, includ-
ing the insects, see the world as we
see it. But is the assumption justi-
fied? Dr. Frank E. Lutz of the Am-
erican Museum of Natural History
has been making experiments which
show conclusively that it is not. All
of rwich makes one wonder if the
whole Darwinian doctrine of mimicry
arid' the purposefulness of color must
was given off. "Deuterium" is the ; not be modified.
name of this heavy hydrogen; "pro- I Writing in Natural History, Dr.
Um?' that of the more familiar, Lutz points out that "a red flower
lighter variety. looks red to ups because out of all the
Thanks to this discovery of .heavy wave lengths of light which we can see
hydeogecl, chemistry' becomes a more! it reflects only or chiefly the long ones
exact science than ever. Because leu-' which give us the optical stimulus we
reflected only
So They Say
"The world today is a kind. of im•
mense laboratory of civilizatioP."-r.
Cuglielmo Ferrero.
"If two per cent, of our populatioe
,should take a personal, resolute stand
against war, that would end war."—
Albert Einstein.
"World recovery won't come at once,
or overnight, , but step by step."—
Thomas G. Masaryk.
"The American man will have to
discover that, in order to gain the
love of a woman, he should never try
to deserve it "—Countess Karolyi.
"Under no circumstances will there
be allowed a return to competition in
arnnaments."—Stanley Baldwin.
"The spell of a technical achieve-
terium combines more sh why with I Dal red If tli1S ower went such as radio can never replace
other elements than pretnim, the. chem- these, an insect which cannot see red, the spell of direct human contact."—'
ist at last is able to find out what hap -1 at least as a color, would say, if it Bruno Walter.
could talk, that such a flower is black "-
Women do not trust each other as
pens in some of his chemical reactions. i much as men."—Ernst Luibtsch.
Tale sugar, for example, a compound I or dark gray. If, on the other hand,
such a sower reflected ultra -violet „European husbands throw a bar -
11 eve lengths which. an insect can see,
that insect, if it could talk and knew
physics, would say that -the flower is
ultra -violet color. Probably it could
even distinguish several colors in the
part of the spectrum we call ultra-
violet "
VISIBLE OR INVISIBLE..
of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Dis-
solve it in water. What happens when
the water is evaporated and the sager
rescry�stallized? Does the sugar leave
some of its constituents in the -water
and take back their equivalents in the
process. of evaporation?
It is such questions that deuterium
and the new heavy water • answer.
When heavy water is used as a sol-' On the mimicry theory a yellow
vent it is just as if the atoms were) spider ought to be invisible to visiting
fdentii]ed by red and • • green tags' insects beside the yellow fiowees in
Hence it is easy to beide whether the
which he is aecustamed to hide. Photo -
and he s i e a Johoee Bahru, of the Marquis Yu'an
the occasion, as: Hee See—ex-admiral of China!"
But you don't mean that he...."
"Hell, inspector!" came a hail from "I mean, Haig went on
the far end of the yard. "The2+e's a �� quickly,
door here, but It's locked. Are we to "that he declined to see me. A gighly
smash it?" burnished secretary inforriied me that
"No!" Haig shouted. "Corse back." his excellency had left Singapore two
He turned to Warrender, smiling un days before. He was .full of regrets.
mirthfully. "It doesn't matter, any- Of course, I had no alternative but to
way," he added, "They'll leave had pretend to believe the -'liar. I was
the stuff out by now." skating on thin ice, and I knew it.
In due course the search party Y* M tt—I was sure."
reached that business -like office up-
stairs, and:
"You see," said Polodos, smiling and
pointing to a number of books open.
en the desk, "I was hard at work. The
staff, of course, has been gone for
hours."
Dawson Haig stared into liquid dark
ayes, as unreadable as the riddle of
the Sphinx. A sudden wild urge rose
to his brain—to take this slimy hypo -
trite by the throat land to choke him
until he coughed up the truth. But:
"I'll just glance over your accounts,
Mr. Polodos," he said.
Outside in the Chinese quarter, at
Your points unsuspected by the police,
blue lights were burning, for no orders
had been given to extinguish them.
*hen, half an hour later, the search
party left the treasure house of Jo
Lung, Dawson Haig drew Warrander
*side.
"Take charge, Warrander," he said,
"and stand ley. Wait for nie here.
I've bungled this job badly."
lie set off through deserted streets,
And presently he found himself in
a mean little yard with three doors
opening upon it....that yard from.
which the one who laughed, the Chi-
nese woman, and two shadows had
come out an hour before. All three
doors were closed. No Iight was vis-
ible.
.There was a constable on duty at
• this point, and:
"You're absolutely sure," Haig chal-
lenged, "that tiaobody has none in or
mine out?"
"Posit ivv, , err."
"Carry on," Haig snapped,
lie suspected this to be the nig,
Chief's private entrance. But IF lie
dared to force it he would be in bad
Noo the cornfields are ripened an'
ready,
T$e poppies a -flame 'mang the
wheat,
An' awa' on the flee wihdswept muir-
land
The deer woves wi' swift, licbtsome
feet.
The bracken sires sine wull be Belated,
The haws an' the rodens are red,
An' the rare purple cloak o' the
heather
Ower the hills o' the homeland is
spread.
An 'the haniewith wey is aye reit-
.
some„
Sae ilk ane I'm ca'in' by name.
" I was sure, a
".And as I left the place I heard There is love an' warm -welcome -
someone laughingl Yes! Ithouldnt Noowwhen are ye comm' hams?
credit it at firet any more you
could! Then I remembered some -1 --Joan B. White, in The Scotsman
(Edinburgh).
"The marquis had been shot in the1
throat just prior to the break-up of
that old regime under which he held
his commission as Admiral of the
Fleet. His covet chords were affect-
ed. The incredible laughter 1 heard,
was the laughter of Yu'an Hee Seel"
Matt Kearney sprang p•
mean that—"
"I mean that Yuan Hee See is Big
Chief—King Rat! And he was sit Jo
Lung's tonight. It was his hue11lve. bear d
o book
that you pieked up
how it was recovered.
"But; what happened.—in Sings-,
p
r" gale. He muttered savagely, and
'walked away.
CIIA.PTER VII.
The light of a grey and comfortless
dawn was stealing through the Teni-
le.
. ," sald n Haig
X ��l'lrtt,.
pore?"
Dawson Haig finished his drink and]
shrugged his shoulders.
"On my way back to Johore Bahru,"
he replied, "I was ingeniously hired
into a Chinese Bath of. Feather,—
that's all!"
"Bath of Feathers?"
"Exactly, Kearney! It's too late to
go into details. Incidentally, though,!,
I got out again , , ..and there was no;
passible connection between this das-i
tardly attempt and my call an the;
marquis
"I failed, old men ---failed miserably.
My name with the chief -was muds
Yet, you see," I was en the right track.;
Yu'an, Hee See was in Limehouse to-;
night`y';'i'u•'ail Hee See directed the!
murder of poor Norwicb! I know now
•---because you 'heard Idle laughing."' r
"Good. God! Haig, an idea, .he may i
ke sailing in the Wailarooi"
Dawson Haig nodded ---and grinned.'
"T •hadln't overlooked that possibitta
sty. th,i petective Sergeant Durham saris:
;
in e` W allarno as far as Marseilles-.":
"I'm glad of that," said Kearney. 1
"The Greek gentleman I've men-;
tioned referred to their e tnrblieliment
in St,anioboel. He was safe. There's as
much chance of getting justice in
that some of the
hydrogen in recrystallized sugar is
heavy.
More than 30Q,000 organic com-
pounds contain some form of hydro-
gen in addition to carbon, nitrogen and
oxygen. How does the new heavy
hydrogen affect these? Chemistry
has evidently a huge task before it.
INSECTS' SIGHT.
It was Darwin who first pointed out
the significance of color in natuae. The
insect called a "walking stick" is in-
distinguishagle froiu the surriandiug
twigs, and certain butterflies look like
leaves. Why? So that enemies will
pass then. by in b1iseful ignorance. If
a color is particularly garish in an
insect or a lower animal, it is supposed
to have a frightening effect or. to give
warning of a vile taste. Gaudy pet
are assumed to be signals to attract
graphs show that the flower is only
slightly ultra -violet. To an ultraviolet,
seeing insect the spider ought to be as
conspicuous as a red hunting coat
amid green foliage.
Dr. Lutz . proved photographically
that red, yellow and pink portulacas
are strongly ultra -violet except in the
centre. But neither a vivid yellow nor
a pink zinnia had any ultra -violet.
Obviously the zinnias have not inuch
to say for themselves if floral colors
mean anything to insects. In the same
way Dr. Lutz found many flowers
must look very different to insects.
And that insects are responsive to
ultra -violet rays there can be to doubt.
Lubbock proved it many years ago
with ants and Dr. Lutz more recently
with bees and fruit flies.
For the New Year
instead of ,•smeller the ,lapaiueen use
Year's eel eine t.ic,n, l'1i:Ingle pin shows
1011011es 011 111p ''Shhi)ler,UW.e," •
rier around their wives that amounts
to vassalage."—Princess Pignatelli.
"The equal and even enforcement
of the law is the cornerstone upon
which rests the whole structure of
democratic government." Alfred E.'
Smith.
these rope's for their NeW
werlamen pntt.iirg finishing
"The right to acquire property and
make unlimited profits is not a sacred
right"—George W. Norris.
"I am convinced that seadromes
will never be used for transoceanic
flying"—Clarence D. Chamberlin. '
`• "There is no true prosperity with-
out a direct attack upon the maldis-
tribution of the :national income."—
Norman Thomas.
"No form of luck will carry a man..
far unless it is backed by hard slog-
ging endeavor."—Sir Henri Deterdiiig.
"It isn't getting lost that usually
does the damage, it's losing our
heads."—Henry Ford.
"There cannot be a complete aban-
donment of force until human nature
changes and the ideals of civilization
are world-wide."—Sir Philip Gibbs. -
"Under modern condition, produc'
tion does not vary with man -power;
it increases faster than roan -power.",
—Stuart Chase.
"The people of the United States
are people avid for strong emotions."
--Andre Maurois.
"We .niay laugh at the Victorians,
but manila not every sensible inan like
to have a Victorian wife?"—Dean
Inge
4t`Ankica.bly Setlarating"
New York. --• Kay ]elands of the
movies and !leer bei sbaaul, I enme.!'J
McKenna, are "amlcalr'.y separating,".
Warne0 Brettere Pictures, Inc tae.
nom -ices. They said tha' iulilinincerirenc
was made at the eecLirest of Mies'
Francis, 111io issl"somowbere in the
country" lust n•ei`'The Mclicunas
were married ill (?aliforiiia, January
17, 1981. She 'ciAlno to the movies
fr'om' Broadway, lie from the banking
btisiiless
Saladd N
For s eaith
•
Melancholy
Reflections
lArgument
I always pay the verbal score
With wit, concise, selective,
I have an apt and ample store
Of lads*like invective •
-My mots. retorts, and quips of Speech,
Hilarious or solemn.
Placed end to end, no dente, would
reach
To any gossip column„
But what avails. the epigram,
•
The clever and the clear' shot,
Invented chiefly when I ani
The only one in earshot?
And where's the good of repartee
To quell a, hostile laughter,
That tardily occurs to me
A i.alf an hour after?
God rest yeti merry, gentlemen.
'Who nastily have caught
The art, .of .always striking when
The irony is hot.
-Phyllis M'Ginley in the- New
Yorker. -
Kay Francis and Husband
l"Iwould rather hear other people's)
troubles than to talk about mine--
then I can forget mine."—Clarence
D.arroye. '
"Age after age, it is the new and
even ridiculous generation whiehl
brings back morality." --G. K. Chess
terton.
"The excessive worship of the great
god Exercise:will seem as weird to our,
descendants as the excessive piety of
our ancestors now seems to some of
us."—Bruce Barton.
"If the .notion picture industry
should ever start a clean-up, there
-would be plenty to clean up." -tic
Cantor. •
"The depression was not caused
primarily by excessive production but
by defective consumption."—Hard
Elmer Barnes.
"Let's not forget that America has
always beet the land of plenty and
opportunity and that letter days„ ai'
)coming "—John D. Rockefeller.
"One of the most important thing
in modern affairs is to )snow the short
oats which have been tested and pyoV
ed." --Gerard Swope.
"Wives influence. their husband'
loud) more than husbands 'their•
\Y ans."--Lady Astor.•.
, "A • inaater of, •politics must; 'be
lrcycltolograt."•--Benito Mussolini.
"If you learn sonietb>ng of •.er
of happiness you are likely to recoil'
a mild kind of condemnation fear
those friends who have not yet learn
ed it." --John Erskine,
"The progress of thought is fide
and prnccods by leap=.," --Aldous Hum
ley,
"Uncle Sale 11r4 appeared • in
newspaper cartoon in 18!, in rile lair
tern, a Noir York weekly.
!The salad or raw vegetable slaw is
an important adjunct to the dinner, as
raw vegetables are health huilders
and necessary to tlee aslant,