LIFE AND DEATH $B By THAYER WALDO ©. by McClure Newspaper Syndicate. WNU Service. HERE were three In the little office. Its overhead fixture cast a flat white glare down upon them, sharply illumining faces that were so0- ber and tense. Garrison sat before the desk, a tele phone receiver to his ear, waiting with- out speech, Fiberg hovered close by, watching his face, similarly silent. By the window stood Vilma, stat esque, black-pompadoured, an evening wrap caught loosely about one shoul- der. She stared through the smutted panes at a blank wall twenty feet be- yond, eyes wide, unwinking. The voice of the man at the instru- ment suddenly sounded: “Hello—what? . . . No! Damn it, I don't want Berlin! This is Zenith Pictures, Hollywood, and we're trying to put through a call to Hotel Graz in Vienna, for— . . . what? Oh! How soon? . . H—1! Well, keep the line open and call me the moment there's a chance.” He cracked the earpiece home, Fiberg leaned forward to thinly: “So what? “No good-—couldn't make connec- tion,” the publicity man said. It was little above a murmur, “Service all tied up. Can't tell when we'll get a clear wire. She want- ed to give me Berlin, but that's no use. Couldn't get any information there.” ask A pause; his gaze went to the im- moble figure across the room. At last he queried: “¥Vilma's positive he's in Vienna?” “Sure,” the producer muttered; “that's hew we know where he'd be staying. She got from him a cable yesterday just before he's taking the train in Berlin.” Garrison mumbled something darkly unintelligible and slumped back in the chair. After an instant he pulled out ciga- rettes, plucked one, and passed Fiberg the pack. When both had lights, man growled: “Damn strange quirk of something—Erich there just the day this revolution busts loose.” ¥ rhiied thie publicity fate, or getting I Fiberg's head bobbed in glum assent. “Yes, and him an Austrian, too. Vil ma thinks he's sure to be getting mixed up in it. Such a business! The best director we got—best in the business phenagling around in civil wars and maybe getting all shot up. Oy!” Garrison rose abruptly and menced to stride the floor. “God Almighty, J. L.!" he gritted. “Is that all you can think of? What about him-—the man we've known and worked with? Remember, there's bul- lets and blood and death over in those Vienna streets, and Erich’s right in the middle of it. Erich's there, the woman who loves him Is here—and we're help- less. Doesn't that mean anything to you?” Savagely the producer ground his cigarette under a heel and blurted: “Why don't you shut up! When I'm trying to forget things like that, you have to be throwing them in my face!” The other man swung around, fore ing a smile, “I know,” he said brusquely. “Sot- ry; it's just sort of got me. This waiting and not being able to do any- thing, I mean. Perhaps if Vilma weren't here, or if she'd only say something. . . .” He halted, fixing an oblique, brood- ing look upon the woman. Her posture was unchanged, save for a closer wind of the cloak about her shapely figure. Garrison swore—a soft, guttural sound—and flicked his fag-end against the wall Before him, spread out on the desk- top, lay a paper. From the buff rec tangle a huge scare-head screamed: VIENNA RIOTING GROWS TOURISTS IN JEOPARDY . * - com- For a long moment he stood glow- ering down at it, scanning once again the columns of print below. Suddenly he spoke, and for the first time his voice was raised, harsh with baffled anger, “Listen! We gotta do something anything! T'll go nuts just standing around here, reading stuff like that and thinking about him! Lord, if he'd only stayed in Berlin one more day!” Fiberg waved a meaty hand protest ingly. “Hey, wait a minute! Remember, we ain't absolutely sure yet, but maybe he did” ‘ The publicity man snapped his fin gers, erying: “You're right—of course wa aren't! Perhaps he's okay after all Might have missed the train or something, andr “No!” With startling sharpness her voice rang out, and the two men swung around simultaneously. She had turned a little and was fac. ing them, her expression fixedly som. ber. “That is futile talk,” she sald, “You are simply trying to create {lluslons.” , Starting toward her, Garrison urged : ‘Now, don't look at it that way, Vil ma, You know we really haven't—" bell’s clamor. Whirling, he dashed for the ment, snatched it up. No other slightest sound was in that room as he feverishly barked: “Yes—hello! Operator? What's that? . . . Clear Yes—my God, yes! Let me them, quick! Hello, Vienna—Hotel Graz? . . . speak English? . . . Good! This is Hollywood, California, calling. Are you open and doing business? . . . Well, is a Mr, Erich Trautmann regis- tered there?... T-R-A-U-T-M-A-N-N ~Erich Franz Trautmann, the direc- tor. . . All right—but please hurry!" * * * instru- wire? have hello; You Then a wordless, waiting moment, Vilma had slowly crossed the room and stood now just before the desk; restlessly, her eyes wandered over the news sheet, The publicity again: wyeoesl . Not And hasn't been at all? lutely certain about this? Wonderful! Thanks—thanks a lion I” The man was speaking there? . ., receiver clattered from shouting : “He's safe—he must be! He go! Now we can—" With a low moan of anguish, Vilma didn't sank down upon the floor, Stunned, a split second, then together. sprang arms, “Why should she be passing out just when everything's okay 7” pale and tragic mask framed by jet hair. At last he turned away, seeking uncertainly for something. She stirred. of It now!" can't figure saging Vilma's temples. “Ah-—she's coming out he exclaimed. “Still 1 what—" “Good Goda!” low, surcharged. The man behind swiftly. For further, Garrison's volce was him looked up an Instant there was nothing Then i i pivoted. slowly the man In one hand was the paper: i of the other pointed to the middle columns. Fiberg bent nearer, squinted for focus, and made out: GERMAN TRAFFIC VICTIM IDENTIFIED Man Killed by Taxi Before Berlin Depot Is Hollywood Director Puzzledly, Rare Sheep Specimens for the Smithsonian Eight specimens of the “blue sheep,” one of the rarest of the larger mam- mals in zoological collections. have been obtained for the Smithsonian in- stitution at Washington in the high mountains province, of western China, by Rev. D. C. Graham, a collaborator of the institution, it was announced a short time ago, notes a writer in the New York Herald Tribune. This creature, Known as the Bharal and to zoologists as pseu. dois nayaur, is a crag-dwelling animal of Szechwan Oot herw ise in altitude or more. It to the outside world, It has a distinctive place cal characters which place it on the dividing line between sheep and goats, It is neither one nor the other, but is sagmewhat closer to the former. It ings on the back and a white stomach. The rams have olive-brown horns that curve barkward. The collection sent to Washington contained other rare in zoological collections. also such rare creatures as the serow, or black goat; the goral, or Chinese mountain goat; the tufted deer, deer with saber-like teeth, there is no reason to believe that all of these animals are especially scarce, but they are found in a region that is seldom visited by American or European collectors because of the difficulty of access, Fur Sea! of North Pacific The fur seal of the North Pacific is an unusual creature, classified as a mammal adapted to aquatic life. Few people have ever seen a genuine fur seal, for the an'mals frequent !nacces- cessible spots, Not only is the com mon halr seal so different from the fur seal as to indicate a separate an cestral origin, but it also carries a worthless pelt. The fur seal was for merly native to many sections of the world, but it Is now confined to the colder regions of the North Pacific, Grow in the Mountains The mountain forget-me-not Is & mat plant with flowers of the purest blue, exquisitely fragrant, Against a background of gray follage, says Na. ture Magazine, The mountain pink grows as a dense cushion with nu merous deep pink flowers. The alpine gentian, Gentiana romanzovil, has white, funnelshaped flowers, streaked with blue and spattered with purplish dots. The flowers are stemless, about two inches long, standing erect amid thick grassiike leaves, THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL. PA. DOGS FIRST IN NORTH AMERICA Proof Animal Is Native of This Continent. From the Literary Digest. The dog has frequently been called man's best friend. At least since the Azilian phase of the Old Stone age he has been devoted to humanity, This famous partnership was probably cemented in Europe, but the partners came from widely divergent regions of the earth, Man | the whole soles of their feet and in possibly originated In Africa. The | which the crushing molars have be- dog is a native American. | come greatly increased In size, says The oldest fossil members of the | Professor Gregory. In the rocks dog family are found In the Lower | laid down in late Tertiary time, be- Oligocene of western North Ameri- | fore the onset of the great Ice age, tor of the giant dogs and the bears, was established about twenty million not yet either a | ago. At that time there were dog, a wolf or a fox, It had some what of the Jlong-bodied, slinking habit of the clvet, Its feet were less compressed than in later dogs, the claws were slightly retractile, Its predecessors, fossils of which are found In Wyoming, were still less dog-like. They were tree-living ani- mals, somewhat like raccoons, with spreading hands and feet, Cynodictls wus years forms with narrow, compressed feet, These ancestral dogs In successive ages gave rise to the numerous types of modern wolves, dogs, foxes, and fox-like animals. 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