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Died. Sir Ronald Ross, 75, discoverer of the malaria parasite in the Anopheles mosquito; in London. Composer, poet, playwright, novelist, mathematician, he was called a modern Elizabethan. He entered the Indian Medical Service at 24; began an unofficial search for the malaria-transmitting mosquito at 35. His interfering superiors finally gave him six months in which to investigate the 2,000-year-old problem of malaria and the still unsolved problem of kala azar. In 1899 he left the Medical Service; in 1902 he was given the Nobel Prize for Medicine, made a Companion of the Bath. Forgotten...
...tropics get into conversation. One is a young scientist returning to Africa to continue his exploration, the other an Anglican missionary going back to his jungle parish. As often happens they talk about their careers; and the scientist, a bit embarrassed at talking so much, tells of his search for Kamongo, the lung fish, who, when the dry season domes along, buries himself in the harioning mud and lives by merely breathing through an air hole, and who dis when you put him in water for any length of time...
...friend Col. Robins, now rich and famed, to lunch at the White House. Reformer Robins missed the meal, sent no explanation. He had last been seen leaving a Manhattan club. President Hoover. spreading his alarm on the front page of the nation's Press, ordered a search by Federal agents. Mrs. Robins feared her husband had been kidnapped by gangsters to avenge his Dry sleuthing in Florida last spring. Acquaintances later reported seeing him hurrying around Chicago. Commented Lemuel Parton, oldtime newsman: "Col. Robins, no longer like Mirabeau, has changed a lot. Halsted and West Madison Streets haven...
...rain-bringing ritual. On the door of the main kiva (underground chamber) a priest posts a nacti (two eagle feathers tied to a stick) and for nine days thereafter the kiva is a hallowed place which none may enter but themselves. Across the broad mesa go "gatherers" in search of snakes. Scores of serpents are caught, imprisoned in the kiva. The priests dip them into jars of a sacred liquid, allow them to dry, then put them into dry jars to await the ceremony. All night long before the appointed day the drums beat slowly, mournfully while the Hopi fast...
After a long search Warsaw police found Patricia, 4, daughter of U. S. Consul Stewart Earl McMillin. She was sitting patiently in a restaurant. A strange man had accosted her in a park while her nurse was not watching. Shrewd, hungry, he had taken her to the restaurant, consumed a hearty meal, told the proprietor he had forgotten his purse, left the child as "surety" while he went home for money, never returned...