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New York Police Double Efforts
To Nab 'Mad Bomber of Gotham'
New York &?.) The "Mad
Bomber of Gctha," a past !iid-dle-age
skilled reechanic who
O haj turned his crazed rtred of
( p.vafa utility ompany into
aS-year rein of terror in pub
lic places, is te object of a re
doubi police search.
QThe police are o working to
beat death. Tryo knew time is
running'-'out for 18 years
during whicrP feis psyehopath
Qhas placedS, and exploded 23,
home-ide ,"pip bombs,"0 no
O e has beeno killed, although
many ha e(-n injured.
0 T man i.vintelltKent. He hM
desire tookill and maim. And
he ciayiis publftity, apparently
fi publicize his feelings against
tiie Consoe-.ed Edison Co., a
utility serving the metropolitan
Oa?a- o o o .
These Tacets ofc his character
trie, police frnow through his
Qnany (jers2- whiten to them
CCP rfe'd to others both before and
(fter placement (it bombs and
rough several hundred thous
and msAhoQri of search into
'vay suspected aituJe of tha
O case.
ManC Targets o 0
Low-powyr boaabs masje of a
q small sectifln of pipe with steel
plugs ai eaci vna ana iriKgereu
by a flashlight fcattery and bulb
cehnect to a common wrist
wptch have ejcjjoded in tele
p h & n e ftootoi, lockers, and
men' rooms, in railroad termi
nals, the public library, a aub
vy train, department stores,
and seats of njpvie theaters.
week Sgo, one Of his time
bombs injtired seven persons in
BroftHyn theater.
Js That So?
q C3me' winter, birds go south
for food and to escape bitter
watrPer. B next summer, they
will be Jjack at the same stand!
,Usder'.andably, we wonder at
fhe'ir marvelous sense of direc
tion.
Even more Inexplicable and
Wonderful is the migration of
the Ajnerican and European
fresh-wates eel. Their migratory
routes may e up to 3,000 miles
and take, three years!
0 UntiP30 years ago, the riddle
of ti eel was an unsolvad mys-
Otery; "in fact no one had ever
O' . o
G aio-3
0 Identified a single baby eel.
g. Because the artults sometimes
hibernated in the mud during
'Cold weather, people said: The
young come from the "bowels
of the earth," or from the morn
ing dew, or from horsehairs that
ifell into the water.
But yet, careful scientists did
note this: Once female eels at-
ctained eight years, their ovaries
became loaded with up to 100,'
000 minute eggs. Each female's
bedy became sleek and fat
Then, auddenly, they stopped
feeding. Their backs grew more
Intensely black. Their sides and
belly took on a silvery sheen
Their eyes enlarged. Then in an
autumn nifffit, off thev would
go. If in a land-locked pond, they
would wriggle up on the shore
and set out 'for the nearest
2 stream across grassy fields wet
with dew. If the first night
0 e'uin't fetch fern a stream, they
Ctould stand exposure for a sec
ond night, getting air through
their skin. But once in the creek,
resting by day sad traveling by
night, they were on their way
down :to the sea.
Leave When Acclimated '
Upon reaching brackish water,
the five-foot long females would
meet with their half-as-long
males and spend the better part
tiie salinity of the open sea. Ac-
climated, .off they would go
O liom r.urupe iuui nut 111c iitur
terranean) frotn western Africa
t- . . 1 . . 1 ir 1 :
cfrom America's Atlantic Coast
fe-all converging upon one re-
0 gion in" the Atlaatic, the quiet
blue waters of the Sargasso Sea.
0 several hundred. 'milea southwest
of Bermuda. There in midwinter
thev would sink to the deptlis
of th sea. from 650 to 1.800 feet.
0 THE THINGS WE CAN TAKE FOR GRANTED
0 o
O o
,-Chest x-ays are juij one oi the blessingi we Americans tal9 for
gtartted. But in areafcoverseas where war, famine and disaster have
left millions of people undernourished and dititute, a chest x-ray
ccg mean a &.e "ved America's three great religious faiths
PROTESTIT, CATHOLIC find JEWISH carry on diagnosis and
trustment gf tuberculosis as part of their oveseas aid programs,
(jn aadition to distributing foo?, clothiifg, Medicines, carrying on
self-heaibpWct etc. Your gs through your church' or synagogue
will helpn th great work otd wit! mako this Holiday Season App
pier tor you and for THSM. Give thanks by giving
0 o o . 0 ire through your faith!
O
Police have consulted psychi
atrists and psychologists. They
tiave gone over nearly 60,000
Supreme court cases and the
case files in five mental institu
tions, looking for clues, compar
ing handwriting.
They know almost everything
about their man except his name
and address. They fix his age at
over 50. They believe he might
once have .worked for a utility
company, or had a dispute with
it as a customer. They know his
educational background, his so
cial stratum. They even know
the type of lathe or drill press
he uses to make his bombs.
Letter Writer
They believe he is a bachelor.
EHzabeth Taylor
Has Spinal Surgery
New York U.R) Actress
Elizabeth Taylor, who under
went a delicate spinal operation
Saturday, was reported "resting
comfortably" today by a hospi
tal spokesman.
Doctors performed a five-hour
emergency operation to remove
a crushed spinal disc. The oper
ation; originally scheduled for
today, was performed Saturday
because the actress was in in
tense pain, the spokesman said.
The 24-year-old actress en
tered. Harkness pavilion of Pres
byterian.' hospital nine days ago
for surgery to correct a spinal
condition doctors said she ap
parently had been afflicted with
since birth. The condition be
came aggravated recently.
By EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturjlitt
to spawn. What happens to
adults, .no one yet knows pre
sumably they ' die and disinte
grate. From the tiny eggs most curi
ous young emerge looking
nothing at all like the snake
like parent, the transparent body
is as fist and thin as a leaf. But
buoyant so they can drift up to
the surface and there feed on
microscopic algae.
After almost a year's drifting
in the upper layers, the young
gradually migrate northwest
ward until they reach the Gulf
Stream which in turn sweeps
them northwest along the Atlan
tic Coast. Here the American
offspring take off, one by one. :
swimming westward to reach !
coastal .rivers, arriving about a
year and a half after they were :
spawned, and a little over two
inches long. The European and
African eels however, although j
their paths may cross with the 1
American, keep riding along j
with the Gulf Stream for anoth-
er year and a half, taking off to
their appropriate parents' "liv-1
ing" waters and in doing so
sometimes climb to 8,000-foot-
elevations.
Fish Transforms
Once in the mouths of rivers,
the tiny fish transform to more
eel-like proportions. Again, in
explicably, it takes the Ameri
can only one and a half years,
the European three years be
fore the change is made. Then,
the three-inch-long females start
up the stream, resting by day
and traveling by night just as
their parents did on the way
down. By this time, the season
is spring. Males, lacking the per
sistence of females, remain com
fortably in the brackish water.
Upon the completion of the
eighth year, again wonder of
wonders, the females head down
stream, across meadows if nec
essary, to repeat the strange trip
to Sargasso Sea. And Die.
(Copyright, 1956,
By Eugene Burns)
(Released by
McCIura Newspaper Syndicate)
Free: By special arrangement
with the editors of the Encyclo
pedia Americana, my panel of
judges will award each week to
the reader who sends me the
best true-life nature adventure,
the best nature observation, or
the best question on nature and
wildlife, a complete 30-volume
set of this world-famous refer
ence work in a handsome Seal
craft binding. Each week new
submissions will be considered.
Sorry, I simply can't answer
your many friendly letters.
Please address your letter to:
Is That So! co Medford Mail
Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito,
Calif.
and of German origin. He is an
egomaniac and a prolific letter
writer. He has written many let
ters to newspapers. At the start,
he taunted police by writing
them where the bombs would
explode. After the explosions, he
wrote letters reviling Consoli
dated Edison for its dastardly
conduct.
His letters are printed. About
60 per cent of them have been
postmarked from White Plains,
in Westchester county, just
north of New York City. Others
have been postmarked in vari
ous New York City stations,
and one was postmarked Pitts
field, Mass.
In a 13-state alarm sent out
last spring, the police warned
that "this person might be re
siding within your territory." It
described him as a skilled me
chanic with a "deep-seated ha
tred ' of the utility company.
COW SCULPTOR DIES
Deland, Fla. (U.R! Taxider
mist John Edwin Wallace, 75,
noted for sculpturing cows from
butter for world's fairs and state
fairs, died at his home here
Sunday.
Regular
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Here's the steam and dry iron used by
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Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS
Washington Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff, board chairman of the
Radio Corporation of America, predicting the next 25 years will
bring unprecedented scientific progress:
"There is no longer margin for doubt that whatever the mind
of man visualizes, the genius of modern science can turn into fact."
London Canadian Foreign Minister Latter B. Pearson on hit
country not teeing aye to aya with Britain on Suez policy:
"Once or twice we have voted with the United Statat and al
though we are close to the U.S.. wa ara clotar to iha United King
dom and we want to keep it that way."
Sancti Spiritus, Cuba John Hendricks, a Houston, Tex., oil
technician, on escaping Cuba gun battles in time to be near his
wife when she gave birth:
"Father, mother and daughter are all doing fine."
Clinton, Tenn. U.R) The Re. Paul Turner urging hit congre
gation to support law and order during Clinton't integration battle:
"Riqht now. hare in Clinton, we're not against integration,
we're not against segregation, but wa ara positively againtt dit
integration of our body politic and community."
Paris Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on problems like
ly to arise at the Atlantic pact conference which opens today:
"We shall have to prove that although we are divided on some
matters, we remain firmly united in the matters that are important."
STEER SUBSTITUTES
Los Angeles (U.R) The Uni
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