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manhattan night t wm icnoi wt3 synopsis as lettr wayne sits on the chilly roof or a building in the dist fifties waiting to be admitted to the ient- house apartment of the thayers where lnsjurclor connolly anl assistant dis trict attorney itarclay were question- lug martha thayer about the murder of her husband tack leter reviews this last few months lie had known tack thayer at yaift ivter went west after his graduation and for several years did chemical research in the lab oratories of a bik industrial corimra- tioa then he stumbled across an al loy that made a llkhter airplane en- kine than any one ik 1 ever dreamed feasible sold his patents for cash and a royalty that stagrered him and head ed for manhattan where he met martha thayer as he sits outside the pent house he recalls their first meeting now go on with the stouy installment hi it wasnt easy for peter afterward even very soon afterward to recall the impression martha made on him at sight he didnt though think of her at first as being beautiful she was a sullen graceful girl he did think even then that she had a dis tinction both of mind and botty that no woman in that room could match 1 wasnt strange that he didnt see her beauty she was hiding it almost deliberately it couldnt shine through her sullen brooding look he was to come to know later that her beauty always did depend upon her mood and her mood just then was tter and savage and discontented she wore a very plain black leve ling dress her wrap was slipping from her shoulders as she walked toward the bar her arms and shoul ders and hands attracted peter they were what drew his eyes rather than her face they were lovely there was a marvelous grace about them he had a way of judging people by their hands anyway he was always enormously influenced in his first quick instinctive reactions toward new people by the way their hands looked and how they used them marthas hands werent dainty or imall or fragile they looked as if she could and did use them vigorously but they were beautifully shaped and she had long sensitive plastic fingers she didnt make gestures the way she employed her hnds ind her fingers to accentuate what he said was something much subtler ind much more delicate than that tacks tight again said betty rogers that made peter realize that this girl hadnt come in alone he became aware with a silly feel ing of resentment of the big good- looking chap who followed her tack said peter inquiringly but with a vague stirring of mem ory tack thayer you must have known him she was martha cam eron that placed the boy for peter and he looked at him more closely what he saw was rather shocking tack had begun peter thought to go to teed and he was too young and much loo fine an animal for that there was no disputing the fact though it was manifest in the pouchy look under his eyes in the sagging of the muscles of his jaw in the slack weary look of his hands as peter lat oh the roof looking at the mist on the river he hated remembering that impression tack had given him jt emmas but facts are stubborn things especially when like peter rou have been trained to lock at them icientifically with neither passion nor prejudice nearly every one in emmas bar that morning spoke to the thayers iut tack was too far gone to notice nd martha though she was lt rude as obviously indifferent she nod ded to zahn though that struck peter as odd he seemed to matter more to her than any one there she smiled at him and her smile lit up her face for a moment and brought beauty real beauty into it for the first time then she and tack found itools at the bar and tack began at mice to drink hard and fast martha though only took an oc- tasional absentminded sip from her fiass there was a purposeful look tbout hcr peter thought as if she verc waiting for something to hap pen or more probably for some one io appear all at once she turned ind looked at the door and following or eyes peter saw a man whod just issue no 2033 come in a tall dark scowling boy with a weak mouth i thought so said betty there3 the boy friend stop watching mar tha thayer peter shed eat you for breakfast lamb peter grinned but he didnt stop watching martha not that she knew that her eyes were all for the new comer thats evan ross going over to them said betty damn it i wish marthad snap out of it tacks going to crown evan some day some one from another teble asked betty to dance just then and that stirred up the rest of peters crowd to activity so that pretty soon he was left alone he could have found some one to dance with but he was glad of a chance to set quietly and watch the group at the bar ross had joined the thayers now joined martha rather for they both ignored tack and though he tried once or twice to break into their talk mar tha silenced him pretty sharply each time he didnt seem to resent that at first but then abruptly in the way of a drunken man he did he sent his newly filled glass flying with a sudden gesture so that martha had t draw back to save her dress then h slid down from his stool and stood glaring at them im going home he announced so loudly that for a moment every one stopped talking to stare and there was one of those beastly silences in which an angry voice lingers in the air of a room as smoke does after a shot then the talk broke out again all right tack martha said quietly you coming not now no go ahead if you t ant to tack ill get home all right tack stood there swaying a little baffled too drunk to know what to do next ross peter saw was watch ing him with wary hostile eyes and lips tightly compressed wellall right said tack af ter a moment and turned awpy he lurched as he walked and his uncer tain progress toward the door brought him toward peters table peter looked away he found himself feel ing sorry for tack though he wasnt as a rule one to waste much sym pathy on men who drank more than they could carry but to peters surprise tack didnt pass him but stopped he could feel him looking at him until it became easier to face him than to keep his eyes averted hello said thack thickly i know you wait i got it peter wayne sheff werent you its a long time i dont see you how the hell are you pete fine said peter i didnt think youd know me howre they break ing for you tack fair to rotten his voice broke with the appalling suggestion of com ing tears you hear sometimes in the voice of a man whos been drinking hard for days here come along he reached for peters arm and pulled him to his feet look cut what goes on said peter laughing and trying to pull away but though tack might be going to seed there was enough of him left to handle piter even so peter might have put up an argu ment if hed guessed what the other meant to do as it was though he was over at the bar before he knew what was afoot he saw marthas angry eyes and her tight scornful young lips out o the game said tack tuttin in sub substitute may i i present mr wayne mrs thayer knew him nhavcn an oh yes mr ross mr wayne he lowered his voice have to watch ross pete hes a regular son of a female dog ross is tack you beast said martha will you go homo if youre going home said tack sure i got home who says i havent amcri- crn home bulbulwark o nation vive la france and then he went without another word im sorry mr wayne said mar tha take tacks stool and have a drink wont you and so low that only peter could hear please peter stayed of course any one hearing the urgent pleading note in her voice must have stayed a drink appeared before him but neither he nor martha were giving the prohibi- ticn people anything to worry about that morning both had other things to think about get me some eigarets please evan said martha oh wait he said the girlll be around in a minute but i want some now said mar tha gently peter offered his but she shook her head thanks no evan knows my brand ross went off rather sulkily and martha grin ned at peter like a mischievous smll girl i wanted to get rid of him she explained oh said peter rather flatly she was looking at him hed never known anything quite like that queer swift appraisal it lasted only a few seconds then she nodded i think were going to be friends si 5 said i was looking at you when you were sitting over ure alone and i was wishing i knew you you see i havent i cant explain now but i need some one quite terribly to do something for me and there just isnt time for us to make friends first we can do ril that later cant j we yes said peter he thought j that was pretty inadequate but mar- j tha told him later that it wasnt at all that it just made her feel he i knew her enough to know when to be monosyllabic good she said then will you take me home now if tack really has gone home and i turn up with evan therell be a frightful row she slipped down from her stool and took his arm and they started for the door they met ross coming back as they passed through and peter saw that while he did lok an noyed he wasnt at all surprised im leaving said martha give me the cigarcts please thanks go back and pay the check and stay a while will you ill call you in the morning good night ross nodded after a moment all right good night he said he went on back to the bar he was used to martha peter supposed peter wasnt and she went to his head there was something thrilling and exciting about her about her voice and the way she moved and her way of issuing commands he turned to the check room for his things and when he looked around martha was talking to benny the fat man who stood by the elevator door and separ ated the sheep who had to put up with the dancing room from the goats who were privileged to enter the bar peter had never liked that mans looks and he liked them less just then have you ever found yourself short of cash in such a place and been obliged to arrange to cash a cheque or have something charged the man was looking at martha then as peter would have been prepared to have him look t him in such an event but th elevator came up just then and they went down and found a taxi this is the other thing i want you to do for me martha said in the cab take this please she slipped a bracelet into his hand a lovely costly thing of diamonds and emeralds hed noticed earlier with a little surprise that she should ba wearing it in a place like emmas to be continued depression to the fore he was telling the negro minister that he had got religion dats fine brothah but is you sure you is going to lay aside sin yessut ahs done it already an is you gwine support de church and help de widow- an ophans ready right now an is you gwine to pay up all yoh debts wait a minute pahson you aint talking religion ncv youre talkin bizznesst japan has 768 trade unions 101 of which are in the transport industry the total number of trado unionists is 370123 news flashes from germany berlin an illustration of how- economic difficulties can stimulate in genuity was recently furnished in stuttgart by the institute for acou stic and caloric research a branch of the stuttgart polytechnic for a long time the institute had felt the need for a building of its own but the necessary funds were unfortunately not forthcoming the specialists of the institute however finally hit on a happy solution to the difficulty by designing an edifice constructed en tirely of samples presented gratis by the building industry the new in stitute building the fruits of this bright idea has now been completed and consists of 105 various kinds of mura construction materials twenty- five different sorts of ceilings thirty varieties of floors and six distinct specimens of roofing thus the poly technic was not only able to save a considerable sum in building mater ials but incidentally a first rate op portunity has been created for exam ining the samples under conditions especially favorable to analysis by ex perts in fact the manufacturers of the materials used could hardly sug gest a fairer test for their products smoke signal detects fires j fires in large public buildings huge department stores and on ships have caused such damage that re search into methods whereby fire can be immediately detected has long been j carried on a iew invention which it is claimed will go far toward solving this problem has been perfected by dr b lange of the kaiserwilhelm institute for fibrine chemistry in berlin acting on the old adage no fire without smoke dr langes re searches concentrated upon producing an apparatus which would immediate ly register all evidences of smoke and at the same time bring the fire ex tinguishers into operation big ocean liners like the europa and bremen have long been fitted with smoke sig nals which by optical signs indicated to the central fire station on the ship wlere the outbreak occurred and made countermeasures immediately possible but such apparatus needed constant supervision and waj often superseded by other methods such as alarm signals dr langes new meth od it is reported combines the use of optical signals with alarms sirens sounding on the first outbreak of smoke his apparatus so finely ad justed that it registers even the lighting of a match is so great an improvement on the older mechanisms that it is to be installed on the carbiah and the cordillera the newest ham- burgamerican liners star gazing 300 years ago interesting finds relating to johann kepler the famous seventeenth cen tury astronomer were recently dis played at a meeting of the bavarian academy of the sciences these dis coveries divide themselves naturally into two parts the one consisting of letters and documents the other of keplers inerpretation of the events of his day from the study of the skies the letters and documents were found orange pekoe blend the gardens vote ov- styiut bficiigln rjissdtra fated the above ensemble as al i since bicycling is increasing in popularity yon must be properly attired and this seems to solve the question among the archives of duke frederick of wurttemberg in the stuttgart mu seum by professor walter von dyck they consist of a correspondence bo- tween kepler and the duke concern ing the new plantarium which the latter intended to have made it was to serve as the principal attraction in the dukes art chamber at the same time propagate the copernician theory of the universe and illustrate keplers own hypothesis regarding the planets an antiquarian in stuttgart supplied the other discovery through the help of professor max caspar it is a treatise of keplers in which he ven tures upon some theories as to the influence of the stars on the lower world and on the meaning of com ets on past and future eclipses and other unusual things this forms an addition to the kepler prognostica tions and calendars already published the astronomer was then at the height of his fame for his great har- monice mundi had only recently ap peared in 1619 in this treatise he seeks to pronounce on the weather in the natural as well as in the political world for the coming year this was an important time in european his tory the beginning of the thirty- years war and kepler seeks to ad vise all and sundry from potentates to common people as to what should be done the treatise is particularly valuable as a cultural picture of eur ope in the seventeenth century colonies call to germans german interest in colonial ques tions which did not abate when the countiy lost its colonics after the last war has greatly increased of late with what is felt here as the growing possibility that some of these terri tories may be returned to germany in the form of mandates in such cir cumstances the recent exhibition the call of the premival forest appealed to both this desire and to the art lover for under this title german artists who had lived in the german african colonies in prewar days organized an exhibition of their works in landscape native life and animal kingdom they found abundant wealth of material for their canvases the german desire for the restoration of their lost colonies was voiced on this occasion by dr schnee former governor of german east africa who expressed the hope that german youth would again be able to satisfy its longing for adventure new ore found in congo brussels the independent beige says that important new mineral de posits have been found in the belgian congo including tin casserite and gold owing to the crisis employees of the mining companies and others have turned to prospecting with most satisfactory results tin deposits have been found in the region of the lualaba river and it is estimated that thirty to forty thous and tons of alluvial tin can bo ex ploited at prices much lower than those in bolivia nigeria and the ma lay peninsula the presence of these alluvial deposits say geologists show that there are rich ieposits on the course of the river the territory resembling the katanga in geologseal formation casserite a semiprecious mineral has been found in the proportion of two to four kilograms per cubic meter of water in the streams in the neigh borhood of lokandu prospectors also have found gold in northern katanga where it is esti mated that from 1500 to 2000 kilo grams can be extracted annually from these new veins flftyfifty that letter i gave you this morn ing did you post it asked the wife well no dear said her husband of course you didnt and i told you it was important that it should go today yes dear and you forgot to post it if thats not just like a man but dear dont but me im angry but dear look at the letter you forgot to address it pearls provide millions livelihood bahrein islands protectorate of great britain prepare for spring work 150000 naked men diving in shark- infested waters for pearls form the nucleus of an industry upon which depends the existence of about 2000- 000 people the scene of this picturesque and thrilling spectacle is the bahrein pearl bfnks of the bahrein islands which form an archipelago in the persian gulf twenty miles off al hasa on the arabian coast in the prepara tion for the spring season of pearl fishing in these islands which are a protectorate of great britain every harbor on the arabian coast shows big highpooped dhows the craft of the pearlfishing fleet drawn up for calking and riveting sails oars and masts are repaired and the smell of fishoil used for seasoning the wood is described by a bahrein correspondent of the london daily mail as allpervading he tells us further nearly 500000 men are engaged yearly in the pearlfishery the liveli hood of about 2000000 people de pends directly or indirectly upon the prices offered by paris and new york merchants for the pearls each dhow carries from 24 to 35 divers they go over the side naked with a basket slung round tl eir necks the sharks normally do ot molest them down they go and when their breath is exhausted they are pulled up with their baskets full of the pearl oysters by the ropemen some 30 or 45 in number unfortunately according to this in formant most of the men encumbered by old debts to the dhowowners make little or nothing out of their work but it is a lucrative trade for many and for the ruling sheiks on the coast it is said to be an important source of income each sheikdom sends its quota of ships and each fleet under an admiral in the biggest dhow sets sail after a ceremony of prayer we read then the gulf pearl markets are in conspicuous the merchants who look anything but wealthy carry their pearls in little knotted pieces of rag which they produce from the volumin ous folds of their flowing garments all transactions take place in little coffeeshops or in secluded rooms in the thickwalled arab houses these transactions run into thousands of pounds like presidents wife new york mrr franklin d roosevelt in new york after a weeks motor trip about the state told this one on the outskirts of binghampton several days ago driving her blue roadster she stopped to buy some gasoline the attendant as the purchase was completed gazed at her for a moment and said did anyone ever tell you that you look just like mrs franklin d roosevelt oh lots of times mrs roosevelt replied muscles used to think in addition to brain washington new evidence that people think with their muscles as well as their brains and that there fore complete relaxation helps relieve such things as fear worry and emo tional straight was presented to the american neurological assn dr edmund jacobson of the university of chicago described experiments that showed when people think about performing an act with some particu lar part of the body tha muscles in that part register a small but meas urable electric current on a delicate machine out of the s044 taxicaus licensed by the london metropolitan police 211 are more than twenty years old write for our opinions on market a e osler co established 1886 members toronto stock exchange osier bldg 11 jordan st toronto 2 elgin 3461 so they say music must not be regardeu as aa accomplishment or luxury for a class of people but rather as an educatioual necessity for every one walter damrosch fishing is not so much getting fish as it is a state of mind and a lure to the human soul into refreshment herbert hoover i think for my part that politics and moral responsibility must be in timately related edouard herriott individual goodness and happiness does not necessarily follow from effi cient poliilcal and economical organi zation aldous- huxley the most serviceable of all assets is reputation otto 11 kahn you should have no convictions for as nietzsche puts it conviction are prisons george bernard shaw no one has ever assured us that democracy knows how to to put the right man in the right place for suc cessful government of the common wealth benito mussolini there is no measuring rod for the value of unique ability or for person ality which commands vast poput- favor will 11 hays hopefulness is necessa if t a world is to be made better bert- rand russell the man who is strongest end most independent is the one who has stretched out his iphi to somebody elses and grasped it ramsay mac- donald those who win mey by chance are likely to develop an unsound phil osophy of life john erskine today cold logic is not what wo need for logic is a hobbled servant that doesnt get us far edwin mark- ham congratulate me on not having to stay in this fool world much longer clarence darrow we do not propose t work for the judgment of the momenc but for the verdict of centuries to come adolf hitler england with all its faults is still the best country whether for duke or dustman winston churchill failure can only come from doir something not right or inartistic one can never sense the publics reaction to a play katharine cornell if human beings could be propa gated by cuttings like apple trees aristocracy would be biologically sound j b s haldane reariove never thinks of itself at all or what the reactions will be elinor glyn if this world offers few opportuni ties to be happy it offers many to be heroic havelock ellis two words express the tragedy ol married life talked out gertrude atherton africa is the only peaceable quiet continent without tyrants without dictators without danger or revolution or war guglielmo ferrero human affection lis ia natural di vine arrangement here and it is liabla to continue unimpaired in another state of existence sir oliver lodge in womens hands lies the solution to the worlds greatest problem peace eugene brieux good odds willie was a born gambler many times his schoolmates had to part with their weekly pennies through be ing foolish enough to bet with him his father determined to break him of the habit he interviewed his schoolmaster one day and said i want to cure my boy of his betting habits so if you can get- him to mako a bet with you and you are certain hell lose take him on then when he loses his money hell be sorry for himself the master consented next day willie said to him ill bet you sixpence youve got corns sir good thought the master i know i havent so hes sure to lose aloud he said right willie ill bet you i have no corns and he re moved his shoes and proved it youe won said willie and paid up next day the master met willies father and said well i won sixpence off your boy he bet me i had corns and i showed him he was wrong what the young beggar bet mo half a crown hed get you to show him your bare feet and hes won nonstarter a bookmaker had had a bad day a very bad day after the big race ho covered the distance between the course and the railway station in re cord time beating the pursuing crowd by many lengths unfortunately he was stopped by a policeman and that is how it came about that he was compelled to spend the night in a cell thero were so many lodging at the kings expense at the time that the bookmakers case did not come up un til late the following afternoon he was in a fever to get out before the big race was run when he knew the race must be over he tried to find out which horse had won but none of tho policemen would tell him when he reached the dock he ad dressed the magistrate sir he exclaimed will you tell mo what has won the aprlcol slakes silence roared a court ofilcial what said the bookmaker didnl know there was such a horse in flu race london contains 32000 factories am 22000 workshops