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Secretary of the FORTEAN SOCIETY Box 192 Grand Central Annex New York City

Passing out these tokens gets di.fficulter and difficulter, as Alice might say. All the old familiar faces came up with nuggets this session, and some new members struck pay-dirt in almost every pan (the pun is fully intend ed)

Here is a field day for Forteans who, like Fort himself. delight in ela bo ra ting upon damned themes. It is a book for writers, readers and collectors of fantastic literature. The editor and chief compiler is MFS Bleiler, tht! publisher an d pre

graphy of Fantasy, Weird. and Science Fiction Books Publis!led in the En gl isl. Language, and if we were to match i "Listing by Author" against the Society's rolls, we should ce rtainly find upwards of twenty members represented . . . YS is

Our account . of the word ''disc" or ''disk" in the freeprez probably takes up with the death of Thomas F. Mantell. Jr., near Louisville 1-4-18 FS, where we left off in DOUBT No. 20. It is possib le to go on from that point with a c le arer view

MFS Bennett writes : "If a Navy aircraft should meet a sonic wall or focus .(man-made) say at a few thousand feet u:p - or - if ditto should meet the ftying disk which could be a uni-lateral, uni-direction&l tJm' beam as carrier nodulated by a rotating UHF cycloform focusing at the 5th or 7th nodal

PLANE, was the headline of a story, events of which were occurring between London and Lisbon on the same date that Bennett wrote the-;e observations. 2-22-48 old style, a fireball struck and damaged a plane in midair.

"Meteor Blast Rocks Town5 in Midwest," your issue of February 19. W3!5 that a faux pas in reporting by UP from Norton, Kans ., o r is it an incident so grave that ''hush 1 hush!" has been applied to it?

A "fiare-blast", almost identical with the on of 2-22, occurred 4-2-48 over the San Gabriel Valby at 10:00 p.m. (For 'v blasts without •lar or flashes through out the period, o;ee BOOMS, below.)

To date the Society has only one correspondent

Maria, Calif. "Authorities here would Linden area of Columbus, 0, no time not comment . . . or say whether stated, but "at night" 8-14-4 7 old style, Uni:ed States submarines were known to be in the vicinity ."

The first green rain of which the So ciety has any record was reported in Dayt on 3-26-48 ol<i style. "About the color of lime soda pop," stained umbrel las and whi te houses. The orthodox ex

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FORT may be obWned from Markham House Press, 31 Kings Road, London, S. W. 3The price is For the a-ddresses of Fortean centers in India. the Orient. Scandinavia. Germany, Mexico, South

ONE IN THE BElLY I CALL GOOD SPORT. MITCHELL'S BEST One Miss Euni:e Merton, West Richfield, Ohio, who predicts ··seasons'' for the neighbors, says this

MENT.'' N Y Tinus, 10-24-53· Remember when Henry Kaiser was pi:turecl by the d:ily wypc:rs as a National H ero for making Liberty ships so fa.,t-and shown with "E" Aa. flying from both c:<ln?

comment i.s-"A n ew lining for the Society's garbage find his way home. Liverpool Echo u-6-53. If the armed services of the worl d are not stopped from exploding their noxiousness none of us will be able to find the way home in a little while.

Poisonous food again: Iced lollipops--six of them were examined: one contained too much tin, one, too much copper and tin, one, too much tin and lead. The chairman of the health committee said, "It might do people less harm if they left the lollipop and swallowed the

The boy wonder trom Wisconsin whose tirsc al legiance is co the Pope should investigate the obvious Red plot which threw the Weather Bureau for a loop in N.Y. Friday, ov. 6, 23 FS. "Fair and continued cool," they said, and four hours later we were buried in a blizzard that lasted

Rangoon, the Wednesday before Jan. 10, 5 2 old style, rice rained in parts uf Mandalay. "Residents g-.&thered fistfuls." The Daily Telegrapll "Natural History Correspondent" explains--and what do you think he said? Right you are, but he adds, "The fact that rice grains are not mixed with other ob

The last "war·· hctwcen !>CgllleJllS uf hum;uucy ha." been fou:ht. Minur shootings will ·o:ur still. in Frogs "of all descriptions'' scattered for a mile on Paxton Avenue, Leicester, Mass., in a downpour shortly after midnight, Sepr. :z, 23 FS. "Thousands

I rresponsible scientists, with the armies ot rhc back ot them, arc turning loose into the atmosphere vase douds uf deadly pollution, noxious fumes and radi();lctivc dust, which pass immcdiatdy out ot their control . Nobodv knows where the filthy ruff will go or what it wi l l do to people when it

I t will never get well if you pick i t, Benjamin Franklin used to tell the girls in Phill y, and so says H. J. Eysenck, in substance, in writing about neu rotic disorders. See fournai of Consulting Psychology, "Patients trc&ted by means of psychoanalysis improve to the extent of 4%· Patients trc&

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Secretary of the FORTEAN SOCIETY Bo:oc 192 Gmnd Centrnl Annex New York City 1931 A D = th e year 1 F S

FORT may he obtainc:J from Markham Hou Press. 3 r Kings Road, Lundun, S. W. 3· Th e price i s For the a cJ dresses of Fortean centers in India,

cono.-ur. that it is Fortcan and noble, which is re

Internationale! We, in N.Y.C., take this from the Liverpool Echo. Reuter got it in Chic.:aeo. Mr. Denver Wrihc ot St. Loui.<, took photos ot South American

The Timu ch ought this was fit to print, although we have been told ten thousand times chat the U.S.A. docs not usc germs in warfare: "AP-Feb. 5· The Defense: Departmcnt"s effort to ind uc e a p riv ate chemical company to operate the

From Rouen, France, thieves all egedl y stole .. .50 square yards of freshly laid pavement." INS, 11-28-.53 In the night (Tues.-Wec.l.) before II·19-53 old style, headstones were overturned in 3 Brooklyn cemeteries. Damage estimated at $5,000, attributed

A ce rtain litcral-mindt:d ;mtl otherwise obtuse type often protests that it doc:s nor undetancl what FS or YS is and arc .'!C ttinJl at. With what patience we tind avail a bl e at that }.rtven mumnt, we explain t ha t the object i5 to MAKE people think wi thout tel ling thc:m WHAT to think. Some

Kc=ep up the good work! Your opposition to mass-doping through the mediation o t "city wa ter" is taking effect. Our statistics are very scr.1ppy, but enormously salubrious. :-lot only are civic groups st:mc.ling up and stopping the fluorine peddlers from \:omin.: into threatened districts but, in t

On :-lew Year's En:, clio Malava s tarted it. Long-haired, fanged rian ts, males and · females both m ustachioc:u , hrst seen Ch ris tmas day, oring peopl e, and laughing when they ran away. Tony Beamish, :1 radio man took upon himself to

Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas, Dr. Robert Lindner and Albert Einstein were so closely grouped in the correspondence on the subject of Named Fellow for the year :13 FS that we should n:tme all th ree. Any objections (

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I£ one were Browning, or whoever it was--but, praises be, one is not--one would be inclined to say, ..All's well with the world! .. Here follows the evidence, in an issue of DOUBT devoted almost entirely to catching up on leads we have started in the past, following through on re·

can public continued to demonstrate its awareness of the fraud foisted upon it in the name of Civil Defense. A t a show, much-publicized, hdd in the JOISt Armored Cavalry Armory, N.Y.C., 3-27-.54. practically the only persons in the audience were relatives of the fatheads in their silly tin-hats.

In the best Fortean tradition of "thinkinJt thoughts no man has ever dared to think before"-S. Greiner, the author of Prelude to Sanity, has now given us CRISIS AND RESURRECTION. The con tents will be considered here later. This is to tell everybody who knows what Greiner is shooting at

This section leads otf with the promised half of a datum alread y published in DOUBT. Remember the utterly inexplicable knot in a ship's anchor chain? Well, the tint one of record in the archives was contributed by M.F.S. Joquel. The ship was the USS Caliente, an oiler, and the Navy sent out

Yo:Jr good work in spreading awareness ot tonsil lectomy as a cause ot POLIO has had good etfect . Keep it up. The medicos are admitting we were

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This has been mentioned here fore,· :ad it will

By Curtis Zahn August, 1940; The Green Ye:ll'S A .)Cal burst the utterh· bla":k surface ot the water

"The beautiful Galatea I believe-" "Yes - Galteal" She had t1ken the word and given him his change in pennies corroded with arsenic. "You plant that name on everybody you've ever had, W.W. That is, provided you don't actually

"She was in a fashion magazine," the crew-cut man said through his pipe. "She came up at me one rainy day at Rockaway. Smoking driftwood fire.. Stone hearth. No knotty pine, of course, and wind driving the sand. Later, a full moon, impeached by

"Shall I brive him a ten, or is five enough?"' He won<.lc:red if his oral tones had kept pace with the times, with intlation and con<.litionc:d rctiexes and two-hundred horsepower engines. He won<.lc:red if the only real dtanges were smaller hearing <.lc:vices with larger amplification: of thicker e

While they last, we an su ppl y Rupert T. Gould's books in several editions. Tireless book-hunters all over the world have dug up these, all printed in

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Book list #u may or ma)· not be ready b)· the time this issu e is mailal, s0 attention is called to some new highlights you will wish to read. S. Greiner's CRISIS AND RESURRECTION bas been men tioned once, but YS bas now finished one

Long Island has been noticing its bla ck widow spiders more than usual for the past year or so, and reams o f stuff has appeared abou t them in print. As an old black widow fancier from away back, in the San Fernando Valley, Ca lif, YS would like to fill in a point that has not been mentioned in any

COUPLETS IN THE NEWS A. K2meichi Matsumoto caught an octopus while fishing off a pier in Tokyo. The fish came up with a wallet containing about $2o clutched in one of its tentacles. Buffalo Nws 8-11-54

otwithstanding that we have to haul him up short from time to time, Waldemar Kaempffert, Sci ence Editor of the N.Y. Tims. has been dear to us -lo!-these many years. As a matter of fact, Kaempffert and YS had attended services together in Maxi Harder·s Braustuberl for two years before I

Well, well, well. Sometimes it takes YS a long time to catch up with the march of events. Fluorine is a waste product from the manufacture of aluminum. That explains EVERYTHING. DOC COWLES GONE

A German picture-paper called Quick ran a double truck of photos, 5-J0-54. covering the trial of a lay man who has been diagnosing human ills on the evidence of the sufferers' irises only. Aceto Quick this is a lost art of the ancients, revived a century ago by Dr. lgnaz von Peczcly, an Hungarian.

A lot of the same old stuff is being kicked back and forth by the various debating societies, such as Lodge's and Dulles' and the rest, but they all know how hungry American business is to start selling in China. It won't be long now. Meanwhile, if you want to know what is going on in China, you can

It was news to YS, so maybe you hadn't heard either. Down in Mexico, where for years the people were as hard-ridden bv the Catholic Church as Ire land has been, and stit'l is, "priests and other clergy men . . . both citizens and non-citizens, arc for bidden to appear in public in attire that des

As appears, no "official" connection exists between the proponents of Gesell listed in our latest previow issue and the widow of Hugo Fack, who introduced Gesell's theories in the USA. Students of these sub jects who may wish to acquire boo ks from Dr. Fack's library should address Mrs. Fack, 5324

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MFS Cornelius O'Conner, who takes issue with Orthodox Astronomy and fights the High Priests with their own tools, sent us a MSS with the request that we ask Thomas H. Graydon, author of New Laws for Natural Phenomena, for comment. Below

WHICH ARE PUT ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF AN EQUATION AND THE SAME TERMS SHOW UP ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF A Q.E.D. ARE NO PARTIES TO THE PHENOMENON BEING CONSIDERED. In other words the

BEING CONSIDERED. In other words the formula for gravitation which the astron omer seems to worship does not prove that the M (mass of the sun) or F (the con stant of gravitation) exist or have any properties what so ever, as the equation

No. 3. The controversy between Admiral Nimitz and Lt. General Richardson on the one hand, and Federal Judge Delbert E. Metzger on the other, over legal jurisdic tion in Hawaii, especially as concerned the case of Lloyd C. Duncan, a civilian sen

Three died in one house, and others, liv ing on either side, were ill from an un identified, "sweet-smelling gas" in Coates ville, Pa., 2-1-44 old style. Credit McMahon. BROOKLYN SMELLS TOO

For two years (3-24-44 old style) some thing other than baseball has been stinking around the Flushing Avenue station in Brooklyn. Everybody blames it on some body else. "Inspectors" give war plants "a clean bill of health", still the stench, and

Eye-smarting "fumes" of no determinable origin had L. A., upset 9-8-44 old style. Credit Hehr. BOOKS RECEIVED (* means, get a copy)

(* means, get a copy) For Unity of Mankind, by David Shapiro, 1400 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, N. Y. . . . Although professedly nonsectarian, Baha'u'llah gets most of the

This picture purports to show that the diffraction rings pro duced by "electrons11 passing through "a minute area of a silver film11 fall into place in accordance with the Cosmic Constant dis covered, invented or devised by Frank Lone. The two question marks indicate places where the rings have fa

Fools and Foolishness, by Harry C. McKown. Compilation of data of intolerance, made by a college professor full of good intentions. The effort is to

IN SAME BOAT When the American Society for the Con trol of Cancer wound up its thirty-first an nual meeting at the Hotel Biltmore, N. Y., 3-11-44 old style, Dr. Clarence C. Little, Managing Director of the Society, com

(Credit: MFS Hoernlein) The following is direct quotation from a signed article by J. Hugh Pruett, Astron omer, General Extension, U of Oregon, in the Seattle Post-lntelligencer 4-9-44

How the merchant-pigs are squealing for Ezra Pound, the greatest poet ever to have had the misfortune to be born in the United States, Ezra Pound, with the stature

An assayer from Georgia belittled the "gold bricks" found near Eufaula, Ala., in •a field being plowed. The shiny ingots were etched with the date 1705. A banker said they were worth $7500, but the Georgia geologist said they were copper or

This is most important!!! . . . Attention EVERYBQDY, especially librarians of insti tutions which possess The Drayson Problem, by Alfred H. Barley . . . All individuals who have purchased the book from us, please NOTE!

The article by Millis is the best presen tation of the Drayson Problem that we have seen. Read it. Popular Astronomy, De cember, 1921, vol XXIX, No. 10, Page MEMBERS , please call the attention of

The Chicago Tribune was frankly non plussed, 7-30-44 old style, by the fall of a bridge at Chester, Ill. A 650 foot span over the Mississippi was "hurled" into the river in the midst of a thunder storm about 9:30 p.m. No lightning marks near.

At daylight, 12-19-45 old style, on Tappan Zee, Grand View, N. Y., three swans floated. The N. Y. Times says no swans had ever been seen there before. Snow had fallen in the night.

Collier's, for 12-23-44 old style, chron icles a change in the color of the Dead Sea, 8-25-43. L turned white and stayed so "for four months". No quake, no wind to speak of.

Whatever became of Ambrose Small, The Catholic Church got the haul! ($3,000,000.00) Scanned by Bob Rickard 2018

At the same time, 4:30 p.m., on suc ceeding Saturdays, Jan. 28 and Feb. 7, 15 FS, in Louisville, Ky., inexplicable "blasts". CHECKING LONC The Fortean activities of M F S Donald

The Fortean activities of M F S Donald Brazier have been continued in "the Mari anas". He writes:, "In reference to the theory of evolution in which the developing embryo recapitu lates the evolutionary development of the

It's a strange day that doesn't bring us at least one letter from M F S Mary Win throp Bonavia, and the lady's data range from paintings by Paul Klee and notes upon Dali, to selected pages copied by hand from Roget's Thesaurus, and the literature

FRANKLIN PINKERTON (A Fortean View of the Semantic Bomb) Now the biggest lie has been told. Now the greatest crime has been committed. Now the mental slavery of the human race is very

Wherever Reginald Orcutt went in Europe or A sia or the Antipode,, to sel l Linotype machi nes or alphabets, he found that some dam ned Ger man had been there ahead of him (before 1939). Mul tip l y that by Na tional Cah Register and add I n ternational

With great dcl ig·h t we beg to report that His Lord ship the Duke of Bed ford, Fel low of the Fortcan Society for the Year I 4 FS ( 1 9-l-l old styl e ) , has accepted .

steamship l i ne which owns the Queens, :\1/ary and Ui:::a/Jeth, receives $100 :1 head for every U . S. sol dier they bring

Year after year they arc predicted for Aug. 1 0, 1 1 , 1.2 . . . . Year after year there is no d isplay . . . . Yet these bunko artists go right on drawing their pay, and s neering at as trologers for m i,sing guccs. (Edi tor of

When THE HOOK S were 1inally got back i n to print, this l etter came singing in . . . "I am not exaggerating when I say that I was more than j us t casually deligh ted to know that these books arc again avail able, and I can not wait u n til I can once

OLD, due next mon th, had "a brief Fortean tie-up" . . . and before you could say Wal demar Kaempffcrt, a letter from the Wynn Publishing Company an nou nced that "se v eral references t o M r . Fort' ' appear i n the indexed Astrology, Science of Predit·tion,

is an u ndergrad uate p ubl ication of the Carnegie I ns ti t u te of Technol ogy, Pittsburgh. I n the December issue, 1 9-l-l old s tyle, appears-large as l i fe C H A RLES FORT, PH I LOSOPHE R EXTRA ORDINARY. A nd thereunder - for nearly

ORDINARY. A nd thereunder - for nearly four pages--Eli Freed man, Chemistry, Fr., q uotes Fort, a t l e ng th, with commentary far from u n friendly. Mr. Freed man is not an M FS, nor yet, i n the strictest sense, a Fort can, but this gesture of combi ned independ

DOUBT is mailed first class to membns in the army, navy and marine corps, the better to reach them, my clear. S til l , some copies are returned after many forwardings. For instance-who k nows a better address for William L. Jones, Ph M J c, than U .S.S. Mil

From time to time correspondents ask what we think of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, but no well considered answer has been possible because al l the books a nd pamphle ts available on the subject have said with one voice-"Thc work of that titl e is

U n til :1 more authen tic, or-better, per haps-a more com pletely Fortcan art form is developed, let us take considerable pride in the productions of our worsh ipful brothers who write what is called scientifiction an d

The pa rents of J . P. Thomas, J r., filed suit, 7 - 1 o-44 old s t y l e , for $ 1 3o,ooo against the mayor, the chid of police and others of Los A ngel es, claiming that thei r son d ied of a pol ice b eating. AI t hough the v icti m was a

"P.S ., I m e t someone the other day with this idea : that th e re should be universal time, tha t is all over the old m udba l l i t should be

was described "by scientists" as brilliant (bol ide) in many years'' in the sky to the east of Phil ad el

A n nual d ues $2.00 Coverage of the doings of 9 -year-old Joseph Vitolo, J r. , who says he sees " the Virgin Mary" £rom time to time has been

The best news on this desk in three years is that HFFS Eric Frank R ussel l is out of uniform! Mrs. R ussell h as worked valiantly through Eric's absence to keep the Society from sl ipping back in Great Britain, and many members have doubled their own

Wherever one goes in New York, accord ing to MFS Fred Keati ng, everybody is reading Frank Fay is ivly Co-Pilot, by God. WHAT KIND OF BOTTLES? Pol tergeists or ugly neighbors had bec11

Pol tergeists or ugly neighbors had bec11 hu rling bottles at the horne of Harold Hick man, Cheyenne, "for the last several nights," according to the Wyoming state Trihune of Nov. 2I, I945 old s tyle. Cr Bloch .

Practically everybody h a s heard John Litster's plot near Gold H il l , 01 The A merican W eel?Jy has noticed it,

An impressive list of the l eading l ights of Atheism in the United States are plan ning an active campaign against organized religion. This appears to be the most energetic group since the clays of l ng r · II,_ and everal of its l ead ers arc Fo

Any U . S. Navy person nel who have participated in voyages with mysterious, unknown personages aboard ( not as pris oners ) , destination Tampico, Havana or Buenos Aires, in the last year of World Fraud II, please send com pl ete detail s to

Warren G. D ugan was born in this same squirrel cage the rest of us still l iv e in. H e didn't know it was a squirrel cage u n til some men in u niform tried to teach him trick. They wanted to d ress him in a monkey suit and send him off to kill - for

A superior type of journalism was dis pl ayed by Robert Bord ner i n covering the m ysterious appearance of a "python" about 19 feet long near Peninsula, Ohio, su mmer of I 4 F.S. The h u n t and subseq uent d isap pearance of the snake is su mmed up i n the

A t North Smithfiel d , R hode Island, an unexplained armadillo, foun d ( I 1-28-45 old style ) about 3:I5 p . m . , crossing the highway with the green ligh t ! Cr Brooks

STRIKE, 1 - 1 9- 1 6 FS. The "devil's h oofmarks" on our cover come from HFFS Russell too. He ob served them at first-hand, and this is the

Even if Eric had not sent us the strik ing Athenian astronomers, he still would have taken the mustard pot this quarter. Hist !-to the Liverpool Echo, 3- 2746 A glass standing in the sun on a

As if two magnetic North Poles weren't a great plenty, the Soviet Evening .Mos cow announces a third-one of their own ! It is located on the American continent, was first observed by one Ostreikin in 11 FS, and now (4-..J.- 1 6 FS) is confirmed

MFS Elsender is chiefly exercised by what is called a "stag", killing sheep neJ.r South B rent, Devon. Called a "rogue" and an "outlaw", "about the size of a Dartmoor pony", identification was far from certain (3 -28-46 old style ) , and

.old style: A "my stery" quake was reported "early yester' day" by J. J . Shaw, West B romwich seis mologist. He couldn't tell whether it was east of the West Indies or in the Him alayas! It lasted nearly TWO HOURS.

MFS E. Guillan Hopper contributes an In 19-1-3, teetotal, non-smoking Henry Payance had enjoyed 1-1- years of carefree married bliss. A model husband and father was Henry.Energetic too.Although

At the moment of going to press, word comes from Mrs. Theodore Dreiser, widow of the Founder, that all the cor respondence between her husband and Charles Fort in her possession is on its way to the F ortean Society, to be added

Let us be chronological. MFS Staehlin supplied us with a datum from the Louisville Courier-Journal of 11-23-45 old style, containing a "special" despatch from London, dated Nov. 22. The statement was that "B ritish scientists"

from Earth to Luna and return in "two IKTOMI appears to be the name adop and one-half seconds". "London reports ted by a remarkable man, half Sioux, they have been working on the location half white, who gathered together, wrote of meteor trails by radio reflections, and and illustrated a ponderous

When GI babies die aboard ship or soon afte!' arrival in the US, whether from con taminated food, unsanitary living quarters enroute, neglect of drunken nurses, over crowding, incompetent doctors, or any other cause - the name for the "disease"

The San Francisco Chronicle must have an age-limit for its active staff : nobody over eleven hired, nobody over fourteen An editorial in the issue of 5-20--1-6 old

" umerous" green and red flares with "cumulus smoke clouds" puzzled state and county police of Grants Pass, Oregon, August 16 old style. Los Angeles Daily News. Easy as it is to puzzle police of

The beast of the day - or beasts, per haps - was or were mostly in Indiana, but a single precursor of the series comes

The "sLag" wmch lvll';:, bbeoder con tinues to stalk by correspondence, simply ceaed his depradations and went home, wherever that may be - perhaps to Sweden by rocket. But another terror

MOORS . . . "It was after the Alsatian had been killed that this second animal was seen coming off the moors . . . the Alsatian already dead had no wounds." Cr Elsender

A cloud, apparently stationary in the sky, since it suffered the probers of the Puy du Dome Observatory to study it "intensively" for three weeks, hovered over France, 20,000 feet in the air, August

Jesuit seismograph at Georgetown did not respond to Bikini on July 1, old style . . . Harvard? No. London? A

We keep trying to ignore that filthy fraud called the atom bomb, but the data is too hilarious . . . A P told the Seattle times (7-6-45 old style) under a Kwajalein date line, that a thief had stolen a "large package of top-secret

A correspondent of the Liverpool Echo (1-2-46 old style), one A.P, West, writes: "I should like to draw the atention of scientists in general to the possibility of something taking place which no amount of calculating will ever solve .. . It de

Tomorrow, the British publication of MFS Dagg and associates, with an ag gressive advertisement of the Fortean Society in Great Britain, bidding for members. Cr Russell

and "One 'Norld or none", and "in the spirit of the United Nations Organiza tion". This outfit purports to be carrying the spirit of UNO right down to the grass-roots, which is, they say, the only way it can be made to work. Prizes are

tember. This is the most amazing produc tion of the contemporary press on this continent. It is a barely literate attack upon something its "writers" call JEW TOCRACY. As nearly as one without special training can decipher its gibberish,

The Fortean Society Magazine

Tribune account of Nicholas V. Mayall's pf the world at ;zsc per copy. Ask your MARK, nd the story concern a senous!y speech to the visiting astronomers at boose!Jer to get 1t. debated 1ssue heard before H1s Lordsh ip Mt. Hamilton. The headline is "Scientist

We were delighted by the phrasing of a questio n asked by MFS Rea de not long ago. He wrote : "Is th e Fortean Society still alive and kicking ? " In fact, we like the· connotation so well that the

. The build-up. for the displa y of the Giacobini-Zinner comet tail began 9-23-46

The editor· of Organic Gardening gave Fort a send-off ·in his publication for D ecember, 1945 old style, and from the same hand we have undated tear-sheets from "a recent number" of American Scie11tist. The portion torn out is the

Fed up with the nonsense about Capistrano's swallows punching the time- clock on arrival each year, we fairly un swallowed when this crapparolla cam e in from MFS McMahon :

missed arriving on time. "If some member in the southern part of the state will check same-you may wish to add th es e items whi ch I have heard. #om the lips of t li e p i_ous :

Besides the one in the iron lung , noted els ewh ere herein, we have sev en women and nine men dead of burns. Most of the fires ru·e attributed to smoking cigarettes, in b ed or 'in overstuffed furniture. We now

The Education Ministry of Japan has honored Dr. Terumi Noda for "conclu sively proving" that pyorrhea is caused by tooth powder. Cr Bowring · WHERE CREDIT IS DUE

II!dians say that thirteen white men have disappeared in the past eight years in Headless Valley, Northwest Territory. Now the total may be sbcteen. An Alas kan teacher of geology, -named Watts, his wife and her- brother entered Headless

"Fro\11 'The American Journal of Phicsl', Y.ol. 4, No. 1946, p.age .,277, titled "Science and Edil,. cation"·. an'd another, same page, titled

of inspiration. Yet the urge to seek truth is what leads science forward. Those who are responsible for the examination of religious beliefs are not always sensitive to this urge. But so long as there are

and doesn't know how or why. Fort would say it was probably be cause he had never been in an observa tory after dark before, but that would be unkind. Your Secretary is fairly convinc ed that since whist has gone out of fash

When snow fell near Bend, Oregon, in the week before 1-22- 1 7 FS, ''old-timers" were (for reason ? ) reminded of the " big brown snow ' ' of March, 1 90 7 . Phil F. B rogan, an Oregonian staff writer, tells that drifts four feet high were khaki

Two newspaper columnists, members of the Society, devoted their space to Fortean activity one day each in the month of March, 1 7 FS. We thank them both most heartily-but without naming them, lest they be told by their bosses

We Forteans - like the poor - are everywhere, grandfather

Practically everybody (including the Founders ) approves the new Fortean slogan : "Still alive - and KICKING!" Unless some very powerful objections are raised before DOUBT goes to press again, the phrase will be officially adopt

A good member, who shall be anony mous lest his sources of supply dry up, has been to the trouble of assembling and sending to us no less than six printed pieces of Catholic "literature" attesting the reality of Satan-possession, and of the

ALSO, AND HOW ! ( I swear I am quot ing this verbatim. ) In the Following In teresting Experience Father Heier Tells The story "Father" Heier tells is about a Chjnese girl, obviously a mental case.

Between September and November 29, last year, an unoccupied .house disap peared in Leeds, England. And- 1 1 - 1 6-46 old style, the Los Angeles police were looing for a three-room structure miss ing in the San Fernando Valley. Cr El

Still another case of identical finger prints, the

For at least the second time within Your Secretary's memory ( which is per feet back to the year 3 FS) the " Cap istrano Swallows" came "early'', fhis time by four days. The famous Redwood City Tannery Swallows ( who have preferred

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'·}Jytniral" is the hrm in \ ' ent ed ·for the ddor'5 u:'-c to shut your nwuth wht!ll your wife is sick and he docn't know what's wron \\'ilh hn. For most rou;.:h and rafl)' plli'JIIl:>CS it dt'llOit'S the mildt·st

:\rulcr!'on' thnught thr:'r tlyinl! ohjt·cl \\ere pirit hip. :\n anonyntoll:' preaclur in Texas

June 2 7, at nig ht , "n silvery ohjcct w i t h out win:::s or t a il , over \'ancou\'er, ll.C., by \\'illi:un Crodie . . . In the same city

T\VENTY·FlVgJune 2. nt 5 :0 P.M., oing South, \'i!l· ihll! three minute, to .Mrs. Sidney H. Smith of ScalSidc, Oregon.

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May, last, at ruwn, e\'cn emplnyt'L'S of the M a nitou and Pike'!' Peak Railway, o\'er J\ l aniluu Springs, Colo. At tlli point, Ray Tnro, E\' crctt, Wah., aid that th<' clir ..were hits of

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nef!i_ a service Sanderson offers: SPECIFICS- that is a Scientific, Political, Industrial, Factual, Informational Clipping Service.

The new Fortean ascendancy was not ::.chieved without loss. We had just dis covered that Aleister Crowley was not dead, :1S he had been reported, but living in Hastings (our letter from him is dated

In the preface to THE BOOKS, YS wrote that in some then distant future a university of disbelief might be founded for the enlightenment of people who could bear to be enlightened, an Abbey

OF GEOLOGY (and the Probable Antiquity of Man I with an Invest igation and Description of a New Movement of the Earth), London,

ED STARS (and an Explanation of the Apparent Acceleration of the Moon's Mean Motion with Other Geometrical Problems in Astron omy Hitherto Unsolved), London,

STRONOMY AND G E O LO G Y (Giving Further Details o f the Sec ond Rotation of the Earth and of the Important Calculations Which Can Be Made by Aid of a Knowl edge Thereof), London, 1890.

The study of Gillette takes its name from the author of several books which he pub lished at his own expense. All are out of print. rare and unavailable, but the Fortean Society has projected the publication of

ject is the FU equivalent of "ontology", and it takes its name from George H. Malter ("SL George"), and Henry Clif ford Stuart ("Stuart X"). The texts - temporarily- are: The World Process, o r the Origin and

The degree--with appropriate "sheep skin'' is that of Ph.D. MONEY WILL HELP has the Fortean Society ap

Nobody ever would have been willing to ''die for dear old Rutgers" if he had not worn "the old school tie". Accord ffigly, we must have one for FU. Sug gestions for color and design are called

The first exploration party we ever heard of with an MFS at or near its head is that now organizing in Albu querque to go into Headless Valley, Canada, this June. MFS C. Steven Bristol is Secretary of the corporation,

The Fortean Society Magazine Edited by TIFFANY THAYER Secretal'y of the FORTEAN SOCIETY

This issue of DOUBT will serve in part to rectify the cumulative ill effects of re

DISCOVERIES OF AMERICA by PAUL BAJUtON WATSON These notes were begun as an introduc tion to a thesis prepared under Dr. Emer ton, in one of the history courses · at Harvard College. The opresent essay is

the Province of New Sweden," by P. S. Adamw Bremensi.s. Gesta Hammabur du Ponceau. Phila 1834. pp. 28-31. H./ gensis Ecclesiae Pontiftcum. Written in Gives briefly the account of the North 1075. Published at Hamburg, 1846, in v.

ZeM, Nicolo and Antonio. De i com mentarii del viaggio in Persia di M. Cat arina Zeno il K.. e delle . guerre fatte. nell' imperio Persiano, dal tempo di Ussuncas

Barrow, Sir J : A chronological history of voya.ges into the Arctic Regions. Lon don. 1818. pp. 3 7-39. H. Speaks of it as an established fact that John Va:r. Costa Cortereal discovered

MARTIN BEHAIM Schedel, Hartmann Registrum huius operis libro cronica.rum cu frguris et ymagibus ab inicio mundi. N urenburg, !493 . p. 290. CB.

M e•rolres chronologiques pour servir a l'histoire de Dieppe, et a celle de la navo ation francaise. Pam, 1 785. 1 : 9 1-98.

Casture, Me. resembled March 12, " 181 1 A J Sci. 2/6/25 1 Shock at Montreal Next day a

to naming him a. FeUow, among thm, that let a.ccepttd World Fraud II as a Some questions I would like to have necessity and mdontd the participation answered once and for all, as such:

chair is Philip Wylie. You know, all this - time, rd been laboring under the illusion that Wylie was a Fortean. If anyone The artist who did the cover, Art Cas deserves it, it's him. (sic) tillo, is energetically assembling the For

(Castillo letter continued) More planks for PPP :

The purpose of Palomar has already been achieved. That is to say, the money

COAT OF ARMS (Castillo letter contin'Ued) A shield bordered by question marks and ripe red raspberries divided into four parts. In the fit, a reproduction of the

ANS: Supply us with the book and we'U commmt. CHAPTER TWO The San Francisco group-Kirk Drus

The San Francisco group-Kirk Drus sai, Moderator-reports larger attendance at each meeting, and no major casualties. At a recent meeting they heard - at

TO ABOLITION OF HANGING" To which Russel l adds - "NATCH !" F. MCMAHON- The following story from the N.Y. Herald-Tribune is printed in its entirety.

HUNGER STRIKE 104- Women Internees Protested Suicide

complete job of whitewash on the crew: Probably the subject is much too hot to handle, but this is not the first radio man who has turned up missing after sending an SOS. See DOU BT #4, where

Two fires in one day, Fort H. 18 FS. home of William Owen in Seattle. Cr Two tires in one week in the cosmic ray laboratory of the Melbourne (Aussie) U. The second fire destroyed the results

Russell's book which went out of print the paper is again available. Newcomers to the For tean fold should know that the novel is a fantasy, inspired in part by Fort's sug gestion that we are property. Published,

Third prize to Hoernlein for this bit of psychic alum: That a professional ·'glass eater' named Harry Troudfoot was found dead (Oct. 10. 1949 old style) in a junk yard in Philadelphia. The body was in a ''litter of broken glass and car parts".

)J"on-member Berlin was the only con tributor of this little nugget: "Ectoplas mic Fire Chooses Chair For Little Spree" -in Murray, Utah, 1-10-19 FS. "What had been an overstuffed chair in the (James E.) Reid front room was a neat

SPECT, before July 14, 19 FS. Your Secretarv and two other Founders will be the udges. The paper should be suitable for pub lication in The Humanist, a quarterly,

.YIFS :YfcAtee. who has been battling Darwinian dogma almost single-handed for the past decade or longer, has "ex cerpted" the high-lights of Contradi c t io n s in Darwinian Source-books and published

MFS Monroe sends an undated clip from Time, a magazine: ''In Portugal!, along the rives Tagus, and about Lisbon, certaine it is, that when the west-wind blowes, the mares set up their tailes, and turne them full against it, and so con

A good many members have asked for the saucers back. Here they are. Here are all the sky-lights and other fiying objects reported since last issue. MFS Stevens has twelve unnanmed wit nesses to one ear Silver Creek, to and

tional Military Establishment's Civil De fense Planning Office said . . . women should be given a great deal of responsi bility in the warden service . . . designed to serve all the people in every block . . . in the warden's hands will be the

Chapter Two. San Francisco: Kirk D r u s s a i (Who calls himself ··Bugler'' of the Chapter) writes that at the 3th meeting, 1-?1-1 9 FS, "the Quincy incident" was disposed of. Reference is

Some members like to swap views by mail. For instance, one writes : "I guess. maybe. we will be planning to raise Bigger and Better hound dogs- more expensive Hereford Bulls--and less intelligent soldiers - five minutes before

Russell has sent us a small packet of DOUBT # i, the scarcest of out of print issues. They are clean, new and inspiring. While they last-$2.50 each.

Members can confer a favor by taking up any one or more of these queries and reporting for publication in DOUBT. 1. Are the Easter Island figures carved of indigenous rock?

The Copenhagen Y.leteorogical Institute reported last March ( 18 FS) that a survey covering world-wide records since 188 1 shows that summers and winters are both getting warmer in the temperate regions of

Dr. George Albert Soper, the promul gator-if not the inventor-of the ''Tv p hoid Mary'' theory, died June. 18 F-S. He was responsible for keeping Y.lary Mallon confined for 3-+ years. Cr Russell

Secretary of the FORTEAN SOCIETY Box 192 Grand Central Annex New York City 1931 A D = the year 1 F S

ROME, Wednesday-The entire crew of an American tanker, afflicted with strange blisters in mid ocean, were treated and cured-by radio instructions. From mid-Atlantic the master of the ship, the Saguaro, despatched a call for

athan M. D. McClure died Feb. I, 19 FS, at Rye, N. Y . , by choking to death on a piece of steak at the annual banquet of governors of the Investment Bankers Association at the Westchester Country Club ... What could be more

A friend in Buenos Aires reports this mystery as still unsolved. A British business man, he says. was hauled from his bed in the middle of the night by the police. He protested in vain that he was only a visitor and had

Two bearded men of 80 were found sitting in an out -of - the - way cubby-hole in the Paris municipal offices. "What are you doing?" they were asked. ''We look after payments for the rlood of 1910." they replied.

Russell (again) :

Clearly, this department overlaps the labors of PPP. .Most if not quite all the occupations listed below could be aug mented to the nth power, thus making war unnecessary. The only difference be tween the boondoggles suggested in the

Ph llis Freier of the U of Minnesota cosmic ray group has n ot only assisted JECT Washington, :Monday - A big new Edward P. Ney, Frank Oppenheimer, and Edward J. Lofgren to epand their means research project for atom-powered ships and submarines is to start soon, said-Sen

The first letter below is from MFS Jacobs, dated Oct 28, 1 i FS ... A few sentences at the opening are

"Five years ago Dr. Wilfred M. Voy nich, a collector of old books and manu scripts, brought to this country a set of volumes written on vellum and consti tuting a sort of encyclopedia of scientific knowledge. At the monastery from which

The spokesmen. for euthanasia who wish to make mercy-killing legal and subject to medical supervision, continue to cir cularize us, and to invite us to their de bates and doings.

have a few copies of THESE CULTS, by Annie Riley Hale, "an an swer to Dr. Morris Fishbein.'' Long out of print and rare. While they last, $5 .00 hom the Society. ( We have too few of

Rogers, wife of LMF S Guy Rogers. A penny postcard to them will bring you one copy, or a dollar will bring you 1 00 copies. Address Nell Foster Rogers, Route 1, Box 27, Gainesville, Fla.

Inadvertently, the name of Carlo di Iorio was omitted from the list of suffer ers from anaesthetic explosions. DOUBT # 2-+. It happened in New Rochelle, Feb. 1 6, and cyclopropane was being used. Cr

Laughing Charles Fort Reprinted from the Peoria (Dl) Star, where MFS Bath writes a daily column.

Several sharp-eyed members conversant

Ron T. Deacon writes from London that he and other members have made a habit of meeting "almost" every Thursday evening at the White Horse Tavern, in Fetter Lane, a turning off Chancery Lane. London members and visitors, stop in !

Manhattan : Sandwiched in between the Mexican War and the Civil War, there appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine for ] une, 1856, an anonymous article entitled "The Bear and the Basket Maker," from which I quote: "The favtt

"Father Will W h a l e n", MFS 110, sometime Jesuit rector of the Church of Saint Ignatius, better known as the White Squaw Mission, Orrtanna, Pa., was found dead in a fire of unknown origin, in the

(By a Nati" of Stratharn) Is it absolutely certain that the Earth goes round the Sun, and that the visible Universe is not Geocentric ?-A reasoned discussion.

In memory of his son, Frank A. Lon. shot down over Italy, Frank Lone, who applies his Comic Constant ( 1 .6 1 8 + ) to

By George Christian Bump "Spiritual Vampirism : The Histrry of Etherial Softdown and her Friends of the 'New Light' " by C. W. Webber, pub lished in 1 853 , describes reaJ.ity. This book tells in factual detail what the writers

From Helen Knotbe: "About the last sources of food we

Aceto the Chicago Tribu, June 12, 1949 old style, "Dozens of Japanese, in whole families, have committed

Live prawns, in a heavy shower, could have been collected in basketfulls: about 2 "to 3 inches· ·long,· some witb: · chealate legs: October, the year 14 FS. Cr non member Clarke, who found it in Ctm"ent

I believe the word "Man" implies being pacific. ''Savage" implies fighting violent ly. Here I use pacifism in its most posi tive and outgoing sense, not as it is usually meant in the West. A man to me

In a heavy rainstorm at Kasalinsk, in Kazakhstan, frogs, "city awoke to find them", morning of Sept. 2 1 , 1949 old style. Cr Russel,l Marshall. At Oxford, crabs, 4 inches across "in

His cable was dated Sept. 21, which was the day be was released from one jail. A week later he was in again.

A press release of the National Catho lic Welfare Conference News Service credited an anonymous priest with driving an anonymous devil out of an anonymous boy with no home address, Aug. 20, old style. Cr Wakefield, Bond, Oltcher, Mills,

The lady we are not going to kick is Lilith Lorraine, a sometime pretending Fortean who promotes doggerel of the lowest order in her magazine, DIFFER ENT, under the blanket justification that it is "sane". SANE, it may be, but

It comes hard to be in strong clisagree ment with one long admired, but posi tively I must take issue with the worthy Stanton A. Coblentz over his forthright condemnation of the 1949 Bollingen

None of our data gives the hour, but -mid-day, July 6, old style, a blast of hot air shot t h e r m o m e t e r s to record heights of 146 or 158 degrees Fahrenheit, in Lisbon, Portugal. The heat followed a hurricane and lasted two minutes. Cr

Reuters started it, apparently, by the sensational announcement that five thou sand inhabitants of St. George, a Solomon island, were missing, June 2 1 . The story, picked up by INS did not run in the Hartford Times until Sept. i. However,

Secrdary of the FORTEAN SOCIETY Box 192 Grand Central Annex New York City

An "explosion" reported on Mars by a Dirty Yellow Belly, and the Huns of Western Germany have been "ordered" to watch for more. No fooling. That's the way AP starts its story:

Reported in Oil City. Penna, II-17-49 old style. Police assumed soot "but could not locate source of nuisance". Cr. Grant. In Manchester, N. H.. 12-14-49 old style, Mrs.

If your name is not on every piece of data sub mitted, you cannot be properly credited with the contribution. If the name of the publication is not on each clipping or page of the data-we cannot salute the

Attention is called to the coincidence that the Republic of India, with 330 million inhabiqnts, x6o million voters (the largest group of voters in the world), celebrates its birthday on January 26. That is the anniversary of the founding of the Fortean So ciety, nineteen years previously.

A popular priced edition of the Book of the Damnd is in preparation. It will probably sell for $1.49. YS is writing a new, special preface for this volume, and the book will thus serve as an intro· duction to Fortcanism, intended to reach a new generation of readers at a price that even undergrads

M F S Giles took a gander at the 'future and de cided to share the following with us:

At the time of writing, likelihood is that a piece entided Charles Fort and the Religion of Self-Respect will appear in the quarterly, THE HUMANIST, realizing of -Forteanism as a way of life, and it is the best YS could do in the space afforded. It was

Among the "rights" usurped by government, prob ably none is more important to humans than the minting monopoly. Attention has already been called to several critics of the present monetary systems of the world. Now comes a new one--worth looking into. It is the Valun Institute, :u6 East .26th Stree

1948, by the Pennsylvania Butter Pretzel Co., from Easton, Pa. Wilson ·s scheme is an adaptation of the old chain letter game, which sold a raft of silk stockings in the previous generation, set the country on· its ear in the

We held off increasing the price of DOUBT as long as we could, then the increase defeated its purpose by reducing the newsstand sale. This issue attempts a compromise. The smaller page size cuts the cost of production, .and. the price per copy is reduced to 35 cents.

If we are not careful, Forteanism is going to lose its esoteric distinction through the very natural pro cess of growth of the Philistines as a whole: not through the increase of their numbers, you under stand, but by Philistine development or evolution into an order of beings higher than they hav

A pet spaniel bit its master at Warrington, England. A day later, when he went to have the wound dressed, the doc gave him an injection of anti-tetanus serum which killed him. Coroner's \·erdict, " death by misa d

The question mark which was placed after the name of Accepted Fell o w (19 F S) Garry Davis, when he accepted with his fingers crossed, was removed May 2, 20 FS. A group of New York City Fo rteans, which included three Founders and more than a dozen of the paci.fically-indined, together with sev

The ;1nnouncc:ments ot an e:otplol>ion on Mars were ju.,t bc,._ri nning to come in when DOUBT 21i went to press We observed., p. j, that the Huns (see any 1 9 1 7 newspaper ) hau been "oruc:rc::tl .. tu wat.:h the planet. Later ;iCCounl'l disclusc:tl that the annuunc:r was Tsunco Saeki ot Osaka. Th

MFS May Cline, Phillipsburg, Route :1, New Jersey, has put her convictions about "The Miracle ot You" into a well printed booklet by that title, "Including Cause and C are of Cancer", 39 pp., stiff blue cover. YS hesitates to recommend this work as a health mea· sure, but no Fortcan 's library is co

The number of magazine writers who refer to Fort in their work has alrody become too gre2t to trace and record with any accuracy, but we may still be able to kp a count of such references in published books. If you will all help, this should be a valuable addition to Fortean bibliography.

If anybody knows of an earlier mention, we should be delighted to have a copy of the book. The book made by Holley Cantine and Dachine Rainer at Borsville, N. Y ., as described in DOUBT 1.7,

Members of the Society in any part of the world who are prohibiteti by law &om sending money to the U S A may pay their dues in Ster ling to Eric Fr.1nk Russell, at the address on our mast-head. An· nu:.&l dues in Sterling arc IV-, which is the same rate as prcva il eti before devalu:uion of the po

Pursnt to our suspicion that so-cal lc:d " pol io "' is caused by yanking out tonsils, YS has discover ed by sheerest coincidence that the mc:dical profession knew at l c::ut as early as the: year 7 FS ( 1937 AD), that the organism which produces this disease:- then cal l ed "spinal m enin gitis "

i \: e · U.S. Government Printing Office, 194:1. (th is \:overed the: prc:-Pc-.ul Har b or period) lists the vari o..L.-. gr oup$ which had one or more conM:ientiuus ob j ectors to m ilitary service. The list contains (a) must of the: fumiliar religions, (b) many of the sects

The Fortean Society Magazine On the first Friday of the month ot Fort, o FS, barley, mixed with a little corn ppercd li\·e iron workers on the top ot the Empire Sute Building,

.-\ photo of the brown frogs "less than an incll long" which fell in Dunedin , Fla., last Sep tem be r appe2red in the St. PctersburC, Timu, 9-18-49. Cr

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.\ douli whih chanet.l color ali it flew into the wind m·er San FranciliCO was reportctl scc:n by hun dreds from San R afael to the S:&n Francisco Penin ula. from 1 :JO p. m. 8-r8-jo F S. Green, red, orane,

Hail the size of hens· eggs ba ttered Bennington, Vermont, 6-27, broke windows, dented can. An c::;ti matctl half of the stones cont:linc:d pieces of black or blu e mct:ll, bean -size, in their centers. Experts in h alf a Jozc:n fields of scien co S<licl thev nc:,·er had heard the like--for two Jay

What will they think up nc."(t ...At a "ion of the "fourth world power contc:rcncc in London. . -7-1 1-u old style-"Mr. T. G. N. lhlJan e and Mr. E. W. Gold ing presented a paper in which they S<licl that it was possible that at least as much energy could in practice be obcainctl here from wind p

He was "living in retirem ent in Ti be t "· , a..'l of Ma\· rumor -clitorializcd in the: ManhC:itc:

As has been remarked here: before, lethal light ning appe2rs to bear a grudge toward sportsmen and people playing games. Among the summer ' s records arc two baseball game struck, o ne player killed, one golf player, a ··racc.J:ocr" at Kc:mpton P:uk (Eng land), one man fishing, three of a family

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Remember the p rize-winning German movie which nobuJv in the USA will i m port ;.nd show to us? It was entiooed in DOUBT o. 15, p. 3i8. called Brlinn- Bailud . . . I c has now been exhibited in Russel l's home town, :md here is his review of ir. It shows what happens when the milit:ary and poli

Furfs methoJ in assailin preposterous explana tions was tO auvance .lCCeptanCCS c:qually fantastic, and then to "prove" them as co nclusively as his adver saries ever "proveu" anything. In the case of the o CJ.Iled Flyi n g Saucers, the Socicty"s work on those lines is being Jone for it by the

"DEG RADING PROCEDURE" Delegates to the third conference of the Interna tional Bar Associa tion in L on don were asked in a resolution ycsteruay . to support the r ej ectio n of the usc: of na rco-ana lys is as a means of eliciting confes sions, and the use of the li e de tector.

A fa\"oritc device <)f thol'e who nt.Jke wars is to elevate persons of the least possibl e significance to positions of petty power, to give the slugs and mental misfits a bit of authority over their fellows In uni form, these are the corporals. In civilian life they are

Here is a tw o- y ear grist on the "high-pitched hummin1oe" heard in all parts of Britain. If you can bri<IJ.Cc: any _l{aps or adJ anything, please do Empir Nws. ov. q, 1948. (First complaints came: in 1942.) "Scicntists"-''trained obscrvcrs"

June l5 and 16, a thick haze was blanketing an estimated one million or two million square miles of Pacific, includin Hawaii. Volcanos were blamed. also the California desert. winds blew it away. o color mentioned. June 16, Dr. A. Fletcher Hall, U of Southern Cal.

Following the death uf thoUS4Ulds of chickens from a mys terious disease which poul try farmers call the "bird pla&ue," large numbers of survivin birds in ..-arious are-.u in the Dutch province of Gddc:rland arc: bcin vaccinated.

Whole Number 32 IF YOU DON'T WANT

YOUR CHILDREN DRIVEN BOMB-CRAZY BY THEIR SCHOOL TEACHERS YOU ARE A DIRTY RED!

Secret4ry o/ the FORTEAN SOCIETY Box 192 Grand Central Annex New York City

Dec. I9 - (UP) -Federal Judge Charles A. Clark adjudgal Mrs. Lela Painter bankrupt vesterda\· nn a petition tilc:O by thrc:c: Jc:btors. Mrs. Clark '-:u re elected as sate treasurer last month. It's cute, if )'OU read it fast, but if you ake your time you'll begin wondering who Mn. Clark ill. The:

Da:ly we bccume more certain that Aanc:che nc,·cr should have invented the telephone. ••for more than a year, on an average of o times daily", when the: a woman <&t the: ocher end .. just l{iQ{lcs and han!'

Not bc:infr an astrologer, YS seldom offers market tips, but since the oil reserves of the world arc bin..: pooped away in the air by supercolossal bombcs and scarcely less lethal air-liners. windmill stock lookli like a buy. This rcccnr invention for capturing energy from

Last night the British Electricity Authority, who ordered J-le high wind search, C:"tplained why. sid an official: "It will be: an e:"tpc:rimcntal wind mill for electricity encration. If it is a succcsll others will go up on the coasts of Britain.'· Work on the windmill tarts next year. Ry 192

The first nominations for Named Fellow of the Society in FS are: P. J. Wood, Secretary of the Independent Theatre Owners of Ohio (association). A short propaganda

T:1c ( Briti!ih) Frutlli11kc>r. Sept. 4. .:itcs Rev. Padre :"Ji.:olas Percir.1. Parish ['nest ui W a t:All a . Columbo {Ceylon), as authority for this: that Juri nJC a l,ilgrimage of our Lady of Fatima fr om Waralla tu MutYal, "the sun spun round rapid l y for nHo-c

Bcctusc Herewar<.J Ca rrington , HFFS, W:.L'I q u oted in :ln inter v i e w as sarin. "l :1111 tcrribl· disap pointed by t he ,!!hOSt'l ;.round Los An)(dc:s. They aren ' t worth a tinker's damn." - the Jean ot psychic investigators was attackc:J in a tw o-paJ(e

A scnc:s ot icc fulls bq,r.n in England, Nov. 8. .-\ sheep \V:&S found tlc:-.ul on :1 North Devon fann. The farmer :Wd , .. there w:s no doubt that the sheep had bc:cn killed through hang sauck by :1 lump of ic e. " .-\n u nseated .. number of lumps" were SC:lctered

r\t u::lo a . m . Sept. 1H, 1950 old style:, in Sc-.mk, an unexplamc.:d "blast". No time given, but sounc: c.lue, in And1ur.1gl·. Alask.ol_ "the cxplusion appared to come &om the suuthwest end of the (.Fort Richardson) tort, in the:

In the midst ot classes, 5 sehoul child ren ot Grape (ncar Monroe), Mich., were ovrcomc by "myste rious" but odorless fumes, and 20 more were sick ened. The mystery is how "fumes" were idc:ntitied as such if no odor was present. Nov. I 1 .

2/- in Great Bdtain fellows, but not stuck for long. Tht; ,same govern ment which had created the hunger, and subse

T. Kushimoto, Hokkaido, Japan, wished to ex change his newsp ap er writing with th editor of the Wash i ngton Port. Andrew Bernhard, cal led "Editor" of the Pitts burgh Post-Gazette, wrote a good article on "sau cers", but perhaps his apathy toward the Society

The American Astronome rs Society in session 1'230-SO at H ave rford , ·Pa., was told - by whom is riot stated in the Buffalo £vening Netus. all the pla n ets have now been found. " This d e fin itel y sets the bounds of the solar ·system and eliminates the need for further searching for unknown pla

No other file i n the Fortean archives is so fll as the one for UNFINISHED BUSINESS. This seems to us to be a sign of good health and endurance. If that folder evf!r were empty, the Fo r tean Society would .be no more. However, it needs clearing out

D. Frood, "Univy of Cambridge," who sent us four of these Talismans and a 'bum Los A n geles Perry Richards, "New York's Man-in-White" who

The h o tte st since Lincoln

A new fan tasy by Erick Frank Ru ss el l - Dread ful Sanctuary - occur s in 1972, concerns the 18th rocket to the moon, and the question, "Bow do you know you are sane?" Russell's style and speed need

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banned) Charlie Chaplin's City Lights. 1-12-51. "The authorities say there is nothing against the Our good member W. Janney who 'spent the period picture but that the..comedian . . is- .a .traitor •to· •the· of World Fraud 11 in assorted prison camps, preClii'itiiii!{ ''iviiyof iijc, ---;...;;, etzc

Many members ask how they can help the Fortean Societ}', in ways other than contributing cash. Here are a few s uggestions : r. Check with all local free p ubl i c libraries, wh e ther or not they have 'THE BOOKS OF CHARLES

Cr D. Carlson, Mitchell, Haglund, Hammett. Haliburton, Puzzi, Bonavia, Kc:-.1tin, Gila, and many othcn. Greenland had a measles epidemic as of May 10. The disc:lSCS never had been known there before

THOSE QUESTONS Official Washington will rest easier tonight. The Forcean Society is not going to :ttt:lck.

That" the word for it, boys, PLOT! MORE SIMPSON FORTEANA. Further cxtr.lcts from 'THE AN NUAL REGISTER'

Nov. jrd, Page 175:-'A litdc after 6 in the evening, a meteor, resembling a ball of rire, was seen at Whitby. Its direction was from N.E. to S.W., and in its procssion, which was parallel to the horizon, it threw otf a vast quantity of fire, that formed ;a train across the hemisphere, which con

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Fur $ 1 .5. sent direcdy to them, the Endicotts of Toronto will send vou Th Canadian Fur Eastn-n Nwslttn- for one year. A single issue tel l s )·ou more about what is real ly going on in China and Jap:tn than the US freeprcz has printed since Ad miral Peary opened the door.

Through the past semester only .20 pieces have been received relating to objects in the: sky or con· traptions found, in the cateJ{ory "Saucer". Perhaps we shall be able to make some c:nse out ot this data eventually. Cr Mills, Spingola, Gee, Creviston, Mitchel l , Bristol, Simpiun and others.

Savannah was blackened by a "severe so o t s to rm early J ul y 6. "Oily particles·· settled over home fur nishings, store: stocks, pets and people. No indU5tia1 firm would admit responsibility. "The: weatherman theorized that a combination ot col d air and npcn windows had created updrafts through

Simpson asks if the Society should "adopt" one of the two places described in Jas. Fraser's Handbook for Travdln-s in /rland, 1 8 9.

Erir FTnnk RlS."'ell 3. Dnle Hy. Hooton. Che-hino DOUBT is "on sale in princip:t) cities of the

The Autumn number of ANIMAL PICTORIAL was banned by the Federation of London Whole sale ewspaper Distributors on account of a sr:ne ment in an article by the Editor entidcd: '"The Truth about Vivisection;· and as a result manv of our regular readers were probably unable to ohr:ain

VIVISECTION By TilE EDITOR It is a curious thing that the medical professio n, which bas perhaps one of the hihest of our ethical codes of conduct, should nourish in its midst a small group of memben who claim thar in · th e

In Tlae Lancet of August qth and September 4th, 1943, details are given of experiments in which a number of animals were subjected to artificial bums. Post-mortems o n some that died showed damatte to heart. lungs. liver, etc. Some of the bums rook twenty days to heal.

In The /o11rnai of Phyn.ology Vol. LXXVI , No. 4, details are givn of ex periments made by Professo r J. Barcroft, in which he inserted celluloid windows in cats ' bodies in order to observe the spleen inside their bodies, and then subjC'Cted them to "exercise on a tread mill ." He

By HAJ.FO PowEL, Ja.. Near my Summer place in the Eastern townships of the Province of Quebec I found a number of objects which arc called, by the local men of science, '"concretions''. They seem to be composed of clay, and :uc apparently forced through cracks in the hard

By GAaE:- Daus.sAJ "Get him, Nace. Get the dirtv Alien!" "Right, Capwn!" Lenold Nac whispered hoarse ly. He inched slowly forward on his belly; over sharp rocks, and around the· large boulders of the play

The portrait-caricatures on the opposite side are, of course, Aldous and the late "george... The scenery of the fishbowl is, of course, 'd - the contents of BRAVE NEW WORLD and NINETEEN-FJGHTY-FOUR (those childish alarmist pieces) as applied to the contemporary scene.

J.LDOUS, IN A55UHIH& THR OUJl NOV!lS AeRRRED TO A f!!!!! CONDITION!

By JAcJC. CLAYTON W think of giants IJS occasional t·isitors to this arth ... and that thir apparanas ""

By NollMAI'f MAJtJtHAM lt's laur than w thortght! ..\cross the: shrunken world a shad ow creeps A nd prayers are powerless ag:ainst The: friJt}l tfu l fear rhat curdles in its path.

By B. S. Snvnfs Rollo's nostalgic bar-king back to the good old days in his inquiry into the Copemician theory of the solar system is pretty much like Don Quixote's tilting at non-existent windmills. So long as science

WI 10 , ON ON. UT ANontllt TMI CONOITIONS Wlq OUHO TO II. .nurr U,. C:OUU) NCSr PO•SIM.V IICIST. I"IHAW 'WI c.A,_ T'O MAltS, ··· AT nt "'I IIOUNO " WOA\.D ... .. .. nta CQHOITIOtoS -· Sugt 'TWAT T"a POSSt .,.,_ lTV Ul'a Of' 10fotl. 50.-T UISTINe COU&.D NOT 8& IIXCLVOID. -0 -...a I<IH

Several member sent in the pecan tree that cx plodec.J, a mile uutsic.Je Dalla.,., Texas. Blast heard for I miles. ubody coulc.J expi;Un it. Nobod· s a w it happen, but a pecan tree 40 feet high and I 2 feet "in circumference" was found toppled over and biackened. "Bark had been hurled ;o feer.·

chester G11ardian, 7"30·51 Tuna failed to show in British Columbian w:He for first rime in I3 yc:m. ..Their disappearance is being investigated." So that's what became of Martin Dies! Reyno/Js Nws, II·II·5I

A dog fell down a p it shaft. Human folk thought ir W'a$ too bauly in j ured to save. Poisoned meat was let down. D<•g are, and keeled over . Nine days later, dog made )() much noise it was rescued. Only damage was a broken leg . L. A. Corcoran, RSPCA I nspector said, "I pur sudicic:nt poison into t

Lord Teviut tol c..l the l't."Cts (of EnJCland) that he "believed t here is something poisunow in the na tional His Lortbhip rinds his uwn flou r :lt home and makes his bread from that. Agenc is mentioned as d el e terious. fo ttrn ul & North Mail, 7--x

None ot the following st•lte that the frogs fell: "ThoUS<lnds .. at Hunmanby (Eng.) R. R. station. Lonview and Kalama, Wash.. "a river of tiny frogs , 50 to 75 feet wic.le, moved slowly along the highway ... hcaded nowhere:·

Art was arn.-stcd in Chicao for refusing to be inducted into the arm\'. His trial is set for Feb. 26. YS dce..-s not know how the artist will ple-.1d on that day, hue ynu will be inf ormed as soon as poss ible. We -;hall also h.J.ve a great de:tl more co

Jwt which aulhoritics arc batflcc.l is difficult co get ac, proba bly the tlaming sweater authori tie s. Anyway, sw e.1 ter s bought from pcc.l dlers burst into flame, and the Pit tsburgh Prus says the autho rities arc "batfl ed". Oltcher anc.l Bonavia both sent this c.lautm, ami

Send two bucks to EXPOSE, 56 West 55th Street, .Y.C. It ha... a few llt."\.;a l an,.tles we could do without, but an the mam it till s a need. E. HALDEMAN-JULIUS

WHAT EVER BECAME OF Pn. Gc:nrJre L. Mark? On Ot.-,;cm bc:r .13, 1945 old :tyle, GcorJ:e was in,·itc:J by the house military affairs commith:e to

IN BROADER VEIN Edward O'Neill writin g in. the . Y. Sunday Nuu, 8-5-51, s tolted that " A d m. William M. (Bill) Fcchteler, 55, the newly-appointed Ch id ot :-.laval

He has not given up yet, :1nd indicates that we see his motor back on page one of the

and the story begins. . . "An Air Force expedition deplored across Africa and Arabia will use a sun eclipse Monday to check up on the accuracy of world maps_" The eclipse is noticed elsewhere in this issue. The unusual frankness quoted appeared in the fournai-Ammcan 2-24-52.

"If newspaper editors were like astronomers. .. The\;J'd tell of a fire that had uo:urret.l long before. The 'd write up some fashion notes upon the modes of their readers' childhood. Like Jcalers in stale stan, they'd wonder at the lack of Public interest.''

The Salton Sea-"Jcsignated as. controlled" by engineers (not named) is now nstng-J-29·52thrc-.&tening a $3-ooo,ooo atomic encrgr base. It's in the Imperial Valley, Calif.

Sudden blast. Riverside--San Bernardino County line (Calif.) 2:45 April 24, old style. "Most ob servers believe . • • caused by a jet plane. • • •• but no plane in area at time. Riverside Daily Pru, 4-25-52 Cr M. Smith.

Jan. 6, Los Angeles Tims: "Civil and military authorities yesterday were mystified by a series of blasts that over an eight-hour period shook parts of the Southern California coastline from Venice lo San Diego Friday (I-q-5::).''

Gals guessed to be I 5 and I 7 were found run ning wilcl in the forest on K·ushu lslanc.J, Japan. Tore cloches off with lheir teeth. "So far no one: has been able co explain lhc mystery.'" Cr G:.:c:.

Illin of mud at Dijon, France, I I -7-5 I, and at Trier, Germany, same date, .. thin layer of ret.l sand covered the street after rain." Guess where the pcrts said it came from I Cr. C. Williams, Gee.

Halsc:\· McGovern, w ho returned medals awa nlc:d . hi." so·ns killed in Korc:-.1, other

scretary oi the FO RTEAN SOCIETY Box 192 G ron d Centrol Annex New York City

"Vandal youths" were blamed by Long Island paoen when rocks began crashing through the win dows of a home on Fairview Avenue, Islip Terrace, at :1bouc 8:4.5 PM 3-28-52 old sr:yle. "Several" rocks, identified as c omin b from the rock garden of the

A trolley car window was shattered at about 8 PM, 3-27-52, in Philadelphia.. No relict found. In St. Louis, May 30, bymond C. back stood on a stre et corner and fell dead. A .38-calir bullet was taken from his body. Police connected the even t with two recent instances of motorists being fired upon

Quakes and volcano!l have been very active, but onl y a few pieces of Forteana arc iindable in the lo t. MFS Hall, San Pedro , saw "several nice intense: flashes of who know!l wh at'" (li'Cht, not sound, is indicated) during the big roll in li fornia at AM

EARTHQUAKE is a neat touch, but don't let it throw you. The newspapers out here (and in your own bailiwick too, no doubt) have been pushing the saucers like mad for the past month. Rut note the weather report, also enclosed. It de!ICribcs wh a t the old-timers

An exploratory expedition among the Christians of Ireland was undertaken in July by the combined families of Thayer and Russell, who carried THE WORD and sowed the seed fr om Dublin to Cong in County Mayo. The number of immediate converts to Forteanism might dishearten less intrepid mission

l egends two to one all over France. Popular sympathy for the young pacifist is well-nigh universal, sup ported by Communists, Catholics and Protestants as well as Forteans. We were in Paris on Bastille Day, and-as chances -YS had been there on Bastille Day in 1930 AD,

Castello Brunnencurg Tirolo d'Merano (Bolzano) Italy Reproduced here is a picture of the Castello. It lies in the Italian Alps (Dolomites), as the address should

The Revenue Minister of C..1nada presented a re port to che House of Commons. Ottawa, May 13, old style, barring 573 books from import into CanaJa. At lease one of the fictions wrirren by YS appeared on che lise. I do not know which one.

George Bump tells of bein in a certain reli giou s (Christian) group at one time, and of walking out on it when the membership voted down the very. brotherly proposal that members esch ew civil suits at law between themselves and su bmit all disputes to arbitration.

-bo bardment of meteors. Runners up for the buit were:

Now we have a third kind of electrical current to worry the appliance makers and users. To AC and DC, add "square" juice! A British Columbia alumi· num outfit makes it with a "magnaquanta con,·erter", and then uses it to make: aluminum by an "atomic" process. Evening Chronicle 2·16·5:1..

The next day, Reuters, in the Daily Mail: ..Angelo Cresceri, a laboratory assistant, who injected the I tal ian research ch emis t with a new drug from which he died was today charged with manslaughter • . . . Police allege that Crcsccri failed to satisfy himself

The Briti.riJ Mdical fournal reported the death of three children from this antibiotic and stated that elevc.:n deaths in America followed the use of it in treating whooping cough. "The journal states that prolonged treatment with the drug should now be regarded as unwise." Manchester Gtardian, 8-

The: charge made by the National Human Educa tion Association, that cats had been skinned alive in experiments at U of Buffalo Medical School asserts accto UP-that the purpose of the experiment was to demonstrate that any animal deprived of its skin will show a drop of body temperature despite the

Goeller sends one from Roanoke (Va) Timu: "Swarm of Angry Ants Takes Life of Child.'' It's a UP story out of New Albany, Miss. How did UP know the ants were "angry"? Sure they weren't "short-tempered"? Pittsburgh Puss has a caption under a photo of

The technique of Our Betters in Washington and Moscow for prm-·oking controversies between sincere people on any subject so long as it keeps a spurious animosity between Yank and Russ in the daily wypers of both countries is transparent and blatantly

The Duke of Wellington was accosted in the street one day by a man who id. "Mr. Higgin bottom, I believe." The Duke replied: "If you be lieve that, you will believe anything." There are people who arc prepared to believe anything, pro

Four shocks in the Azores were preceded by four days of storms and very heavy rain. London Tims 9-24-52. Cr Elsender. TERROR CONTINUES

Secretary of the FORTEAN SOCIETY Box 192 Grand Central Annex New York City 1931 A D = the yenr 1 F S

In the following digest of da ta received Your S"retary has made a conscicntioua effort to deter mine the soun:e of the original story, from its con text. divorced from semantics. As a former reporter, former p u blicity man, d vertising m:an and mc:rime master of word-twistery, he feels rather

July .19. San Francisco Cuii-Built'tin. Silo{hrin,e re ported by l:&w enforcement ollic.:c:rs. July JO. Adant:l forunai took the: neg-.1 tive ,.ide of the scan:, but reported local sightinJ.CS. Also 4uotcd

Besides those: dat2, p roperly labelled, we have a few which lack dates, place, or some other detail. A letter and a funny picture from J. Pual Tump, Los Angeles. From the October { ? yClC ? } Irish Digst, a sighting over County Wicklow in I i98. Liam Riordan in th e

Order GlacUU. Period and Drayson's Hypothesis

Reprinted from Popliliar .-'\suonomy, by permisaion, especially for the Fortean Society. 1 6 pp. wpps. ' 'Am erica NEED S In d i an s ' '

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If vou would re-.1d more about that Mill, and Completing the picture OF THE EWSP:\PERS Caress , and Crosby, the .J Z'A.RTS" balls, and the funny world we lived in through the 20s of the. • or the time period covered by the ':Saucer" report "Christian'' era read THE PASSIONATE YEARS · . '. Ul DOUBT

Follows here, further notices of "meteors" to sup plement and continue the list begun on p. 206, of OOUBT # 40. None of the following uses the terms "saucer" or "disk". 1938, Sept. r. Los Angeles, Calif. observed by

Custom is to put a heavy black border around a name. and to say, within the rectangle, that this one's mortality has been proved on such a date. You can't do that with Fred Hammett. In his death, April Ij, 23 FS, we see an outstanding ex ample of Fortean immortality.

Proudly we present the first Egyptian hieroglyph as tr.lnSla (transcribed) by Boris de R.achewiltz, as promised. Boris writes: "I send you some of the promised Fortran hyero glip which I hope will interest you. Othcn of the same ·kind will soo n follow.

"In the vear 22. thir d month of winter, sixth hour ot the d ( . . . 2 . • . ) The scribas ot the House of Life: found it was a circle of fire that was coming in the sky. (Though) it had no head, the breath of its mouth (had) a foul odour. Its body 1 "roo·· long and I "rod" larjte. It had no voice.

For some years the name of J. T. Boulton reposed in unauuming quietude upon the Fortean rol ls--a slecpcr!-a 'possuml-a T.ann hauscr in Chips' cloth· i.ng! He fou ght no duds, he swam no Channels, he sent w no larvae pic.kcd up on a windless day , but as sudd enl y as the Ides hit March-he burst hi

of the Fortean Society numbered that fateful January 6, 193 1 , which marked the beginning of the Forte2n Era, and the practice has been to keep that number alw\ys the same by electing an Honorary Founder to the place vacated by one of the original Founders, or by one

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from the .Newcastle Evnling Clu-onick, I0-:17•52'-- The author docs not mention Fort or the old style. Gordon Clauser, a US airman, ftew off Society, lic · nas· pu t the very essence and epitome Florida to ..seed " clouds in an :approaching hurriof Forteanism on paper, in a clear, succinct imc

The stink-bomb of the quarter goes to Dr. Zalc: A. Yanof, Toledo, Ohio, who told the: AMA in conven tion that general practitioners should use more: sodium amytal, the so-called "truth serum", because "lots of patients consciously or unconsciously conceal what's really bothering them when they visi

The following matter supplements the: summations of (A) newspaper "saucers", (B) meteors, {C) ce lestial objects not called either "saucers" or meteors, as printed in DOUBT #4-o and #41. In point of time:, these notices begin-like the: sauccrana in DOURT # 4o-at the: point in DOUBT

BULLETIN. .. La Paz sighs with relief!" He mailed it to General Mills in Minneapo

OLIVE BRANCH .\lthough it looked like a walkaway for Robert Lindner to be Named Fellow for the year :13 FS, for his book Puscription for Rt'l"dlion, a dark horse has been galloping through our mail at such .a rate that we may have a dead heat.

In this age of conformity we like the idea of awarding prizes for nonconformity. The men who dared to sail wescwarc.J on an ocean that was Bat were nonconformists, and they discovered a new world. The men who Bed their homelands to settle that world were nonconformists, and they founded a

Surulay Tims. "Russian scientists are reported to have invented 'atom clock' accurate to one-millionth of a second in 24 hours." Edo

SANE. Sixteen "ice-pick'• operations were performed in Huntington by Dr. Walter A. Freeman . Dr. Walter C. Alvarez, a medico whose column is syndicated, describes the technic ot Dr. Robert G. Heath at Tulane U. Heath sticks wires into the brain and finds that "some" patients "are gready improved

"On the heels of an elecuical storm"-the water of Lake Michigan rose as much as 9 feet at Harbor Springs, Mich., crushing boats and doing much dam age. May 30-Junc I. Cr Giles. NA'IURAL SELECI10N

Democritos maintained to talk of Chance Was an attempt to hide our ignorance: When Darwin called it Natural Selection, It still was chance, with the same connexion.

Poor Herbert Spencer did his very best, Though lacking humour, to provide a jest; Survival of the Fittest is the key To all that lives, beause it's there to see.

For modern thinkers gene-mutations must Expbin all change of species-simple trust! Yct gene-mutations are the work of chance, And chance is but a name for ignorance. G. W. Harris

At Oxford U, accto the N. Y. Timu quoting the Canadian Press, the savants arc feeding "grime col lected from ventillators of London buildings" to aterpillan, "to determine whether atmospheric pol lution is responsible for turning large numbers of white moths black". Cr Mitchell.

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Prince Boris c.le Hachewihz Gl!iltelJo c.I'Drnnnenhnr.: Tirolo 1J'Mernno ( Bolznno) Italy In Great llriuin, THE BOOKS OF C HARLES FORT may be obuinetl from Markham House Press,

FORT may be obuinetl from Markham House Press, 31 Kings Road, London, S. W. 3· ·n,e price is For the nc.lc.lresses of Forteun centers in India, the Orien Scan11inavia, Ger.many, Mexico, South

:-.lot taking time to count them at the moment. we must have reported in DOUBT some four or tive meteorites which have struck persons, or houses, or e:<ploded in flames in streets. Nevertheless, ;lmost every time i t happens, some stubborn die-hard char acteristic of the fuddy-duddy orthodox astro

Since last we met, the Freeprez has en spinning like a Fortcan pinwheel and C\'ery mail has brought

how that paper or :1ny bod y else could tell the differ· cnce between :1n "imposter" and the real McCoy is nor Hated. Cnme to lind out, Connecticut has a ·law prohibiting the impersonation of a deit,·, but who is compe tent to pass on a question so knotty? Police Court Jud){e Harry Ginsburg sat on t

The police let John llO home that first rime, but on Jan . a neighbor called the station about "str:lnge doi ng s " . Away back in the hil(lhood of YS. ''Indian

Apparently the cover of DOUBT #47 brought Joy to the World! Everybody loved it. Many have suggested that it be made into Christmas cards, and that is exactly what it was. It was sent to YS as a Christmas greeting from a member then in Panama, of all places. He is MFS Jesse= Douglas, who

Out in Stockton, Cali£, one L. D. Beckwith has been publishing a paper called 11-IE FO:ltUM for 34 yean. As currend y appearing, the paper consists of two pages, full newspaper size, per issue, and the

We have a good many data on the topic which is exemplified by the items mentioned in a moment. It is Forteana only by extension. That is o !>av, when one applies the Fortean ,·iewpoint to all phenomena, these: things stand out like: Jupiter·, .:on trary sarelite.

The Rationalist Sck:ic:ty ot Sr. Louis, Mo., whose e,· c ral mo\'in spirits arc also Fortcans - han: a new hu m e. By pact with a local German group ot tn:e t hink ers - called Fri Gnuind - which has

Suret<ry "/ the FOltTEAN SOCIETY Bolt 192 Grand Centrul Annex New York City

FORT may be: obt:1incd from Markham House Press , 31 Kings Ro:1d, London, S. W. 3The price is For the addresses of Fortean centers in Indi a ,

At Se:aford, Long Island, three jostling boys fell ag:ainsc the door of the Fort Neck N:ation:al B:ank. The door opened :and they "liter:ally fell inside". They told the cops :nd received :a rewud "in savings bonds". NY Times, 1-1-H. Cr Steinberg It's the same- I he whole lllorld o&•er. (Old Song)

This is a lone overdue tribucz to Life Member Jennie Slby Thom:ts, whom mem bers m:ty know better under her pen n:tme of Anne Hume. Mrs. Doubting Thom:ts recentiy sent YS a clipping which announced the birth of

Also that spring Jennie sent a type

Alfred Krupp is out of the red for the first time: since the war. In his last fiscal year he grossed Jbout S249,000,000. Newcastle Evming Chronicle, 3-28-H. A bridegroom honeymooning on the Isle of Wight walked out of the hotel on bare feet :md had not been seen again at press time. He was Leonard

The most colossal and flagrant insult co American intelligence perpetrated in modern times has been in hand a long time. It has been crowded out of issue after issue, but I cannot relegate it co che archives unpublished.

As we go to press the volume of fascinating data left unpublished for lack of space moves w to ask -Would you rather go back to the old larger size DOUBT and pay $-4.00 per year dues, or stay as

U.S. ATOMIC SCIENTISTS' ACHIEVEMENT If you believe in peace and civil rights, or if you oppose fluorides in city drinking water and frown upon police brutality - YOU are a Communist.

Secretary uf the FORTEAN SOCIETY Box 192 G ran d Central Annex New York City 1931 A D = the yen r 1 F S

PAY DENOUNCED AS IMMORAL" The story quotes one R w Walton, identified as "assistant man ager of the western division of the National Asso ciation of Manufacturers." This "Rw" was spea.kin& ------...---...

If a non resident may be permitted a guess, is it to keep the students' pockets from bulging? Out of Denver comes a flow of Forteana, 1 7 epistles wide, 7 3 pages long, and of depth beyond

PERSONS, and the article quotes Capt. Elmer L. Caveny, head of the neuropsychiatric branch of the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, speaking in Chicago. He said that "manpower planning for future emergencies must provide for the mentally marginal, substandard and handicapped individuals."

PLANNED BY ARMY, and the story begins, "Dr. Francu E. Jones wants co make a more efficient killer out of the American (should be U.S.A . ) soldier. In hu opinion, a doughfooc who uses two bullets to kill one man is 1 0 per cent off. A

The only mystery :1bout why water hoses bury themselves in certain types of soil is the same mystery as why does water usually run down hill, or why do guys like gals. For five years YS lived in the S:1n Fernando V:1lley, :1nd did a lot of sprinkling with :1 hose. Every time :1 hose was left running

The plate glass that healed itself reminds one of the insects which now fatten :1nd thrive on DDT. After several years of splintering for no rca son :It all at :ll, glass has now developed the defense mcchan.Um of human skin :1nd animal hide. Break it, it grows together again, and apparently lc:.

Amongst the Gustine data is a snip from Tnrtpo, a mag, 7-12 H, stating that the Vatican "has an nounced that it is willing to work with the U.N. in planning a world calendar." But the details go on to describe a calendar of "equal quarters" but months quite unequal in length. Why change?

Helen, the widow of Theodore Drciser, she an Honorary Life Member, and he a Founder of the Fortcan Society, died in Gcesham, Oregon, 9 -2 2 - H

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F.ric Frnnk Hussell 3, Dale Hey, Hooton, Cheshire FIRST PRIZE

FORT may be obtained from Markham House Press. 31 Kings Road, London, S. W. 3· Tite price is For the addresses of Fortean centers in India. the Orient. Scnndinuia. GeRDnny, Mexico, South

All the following, exceptions MFS Judith Gee of london.

A gem-rush was on in the Hoben Tauecn Alps of Austria, started "a few weeks :ago" when Ger man studentS on a hiking tour found some emanlds

MFS Banner writes, from Orange, Calif.: "As a clearing howe o£ Foncan data I like and appreciate DOUBT, but I deplore chat it contains so much material that I do not consider Fortean data. "I am well aware of the many and complex foible1 and inconsistencies of human societies and

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CEASE SENDING ARMS" - into the Middle E:ast, A first d:ass member who does not WJnt creJiJ lines found chis in the Buffalo News, 11-9-SS: Eugene P. Cronkite, chief of pathology in Long Island's Brookhaven NationJl Laboratory, "recom

Wc are still crying co find sp:1ce for orne solid chunks of correspondence from MFS yflrkhm, but chis must be noted here: Dr. George Gerard, usisunt director of research t the N. Y. U. College: of Engineering issued :1

:No local member has supplied us with this, but students of Keyhoe may know where it was pub lished in the USA. If you do know, tell us. In chc midst of the talk about launching an uti ficial saccllicc, the Major is reported in the SunJ11y Dispatch, 12-21-SS, as authority for the assertion

Last December in Paris Louis Pauwels launched a new series of books-in French, of course-under chc style of "Collection Lumicrc Interdicc", and the first book was Charles Fort's Book of the Damned Lt Ljvrt Jes Damnts.

JACK CAMPBELL WRITES There come up t'other d:.y :1.n ide:. which :u it

What malicious Fate is aiming her shafts lt Baltimore? First, H. L. Mencken, chen-in the s:1.me 24 hours- a fire chat killed ten, and now our Ac cepted Fellow, Or. Robert Lindner. Bob w:u only 41 yeus old, the father of three wonderful children by :1 wife who shared his out

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The following Thursday, Feb. 23, more thumping ogist at the Gn:ymouth Hospital, said there w:1 no placcnt:l or umbilical cord ...Moreover the ammal

The southern pare of England lud thunderstOrm with gales that flattened "c:Jrav:m, chimney stacks and telegraph poles" as well as a plum tree in the yard of MFS Atkins, Colchester, Essex, 7-28 to 7 -30-56. Atkins is the MFS who

Will all members of the Society who also draw s.1lary from the FBI ple:se send your names to YS together with your permi>sion for us to forw:Hd thi infornution to .J. Edgar l-Ioovcr? He l1.1s written us a p..:rson.1l l..:ttcr asking us tu n.1mc you, but of course we wouldn't do that without

Dc.1th h:1s hit the Society sevcrdy in 26 F , bq;inning with Tom Elsendcr of Newcastle, Eng!Jnd, who had been on the rolls almost from our beginning>. lt is hardly ncce;.try to comment on the qtulity uf the d.1t.1 Tom supplied o consistently, fur most

Those of you who have grown weary of jerking like jumping-jacks whenever the Federal Reserv Board pulls the srrings will do well to ex:min the literature of Social Credit Associ:ttes, 21 Chcr lew York. They 1ssue : 1 wing Road, Yonkers 2,

Britih member asks about American attempt to dc\'elop mental powers by irradiation of the brain with microwaves. \'V'hat c::n you tell us? \XIe do not know if it is pertinent to his purpo,c, but .1 book is available, Ml·nlal !'ower tbrougb sin'/1 suggestion, by Melvin Powers. It costs $1.00 and

Through the years a good many members have written to ask why YS was not wa,·ing the Fortean flag for Wilhelm Reich, M.D., and :1 few luvc got downright nasty about it. In self-defense we have called your attention to his work from time to time and told you where to obtain his literature.

England t hey have a week l y cal led l t c ry and 111 t he issue (bted J u ne 2 3 , 1 9 5 6 , .1 ppears an a r t i cle by A l a n \'V' y kes. The t i t l e i s , " I s r he F a rt h R ea l l y Rou n d ? " T h e q uestion i s w e l l asked i n t hose f e w words,

In D O U BT # 5 2 we printed a piece by R usse l l W . G i bbons g i v i n g the Nort h Pole b:ck to Doc Cook. In the cou rse of the a rt icle sc.mc s uggest ions were made w h ich the aut hor had based u pon er roncom premises. M r. Ted lei t ze l l found them

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In World Fnud I, Julius Eichd was a cious Objeaoc and scned a term in prison for it. Today son Seymour is in p rison for following

WheoeYer you. thoughful Forteans read in your daily papers tha Scnacor Whoenr- is 01 deicnciu of ..fUDDy money'', you may know by chat glance chac the· cdicoria! writer wh o uses chac term is cryins co put you otf any serious investiption by the cheapest of semantic: dodges. By tha t shallow mock

One of Britain'.s leading Nudist/Naturists is now revced to be no ocher chan ol.lr own Edwud H. Simpson, who offen co correspond with interested Force:.ns on chat sl.lbjcc so neac co his heart. You may addr:ss him u 20 Sc. Thomas Street, Kells lane. low Fell, Gatesh n -Tyne, 9, England.

Wt: don 't wane to crow, because che poisonen will be b:ck :again, :and the battle is only temporarily won, but it wu :a joy co see che way the n:.tives ot chis village on the sl.lbway turned. out co stop tluoridation of New York. City water. The speeches, che m:til, :nd che organized. opposition

Remember mOM- srupid scicAcisu during World Fraud II who co go around Ieavins their brief C2.ICS full of atomic: si t ns ouuide t ephoae · booths? W ell, on Jan. JO of chis year, Fletcher

Ten !ivins- spec:imau o£ a mollus.lt thought to have beea· extina. for J 00,000,000 years were brought up from 11 ,77f feet otf the coasc of South Afria by tha expedition of Dr. Hcnnins Lemchc. Attached to their: undersides were moa-lik& creatures the siu of the tip of a ball- poi nc

MASSES are oifere<i for ill members, living and dad, umuaJ. and perpetual. This totals m ore thaA 4,000 High Massa yearly. 2. In all their Massa the Redempcorist Fathers mili a spcc:i21 remembrance of ill members, a t o

Russell has been giving most of his Fortean atten tion co the compilation of a book - Great World Mysteries - just published in England, but he also found the time to send in this lallapalooza which he calls "The Yur's Most Beautiful Theory". It WJ5 contributed co che London Tims, 6-16-17, by

The world-wide publicity campaign co launch the International Geophysical "Year" (of 18 months ) began in the year 21 FS, 1911 old style, :md hardly a wedt has passed since chen without some reminder of chis vast cooperative pi:ln reaching us. As early as 8-1-H, the (London ) D11ily M11il quoted "Un

This topic is so revolting we won't waste space on it. Those intrepid searchers :after new diseases to

Well, now, just as we go to press, rig h t in the middle of Yom Kippur, 10-5-57 old style, Henry Wadsworth RedfeJlow h:;s shot his urow into the 3ir. The Russ artificial stellite is :11leged to be up there, 560 miles from the erth. travelling u 18,000 miles per hour.

"BLOOD - :a gre: t q u a nti ty of drops fell tnnsforming dooryards into red bkes" over To!u Viejo, Colombi:t. The Bogot:1 wucherm:an, Pire Feruo, said chc same thing had happened "days :ago . at C:a m pin as, S::o Paulo, Bruil. He :attributed chc

The Arend-Roland comet was easily the most F ortea n of its kind in a long while. First off, be fore anyone in the USA h ad seen it, the pundits at Hayden Planetarium, NYC, pred ic t ed chat it would appear ":.bout as brigh t u the dimmest stan". When it came, it was so bri llian t chat Forteans w

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before electronic br:ains had been builc, m:athemuici:uu, working wich nothing more ex pensive or tangible than pencil :1nd p:aper, devised the theory that an object cr:avding at a peed of 18,000 mph would be virtu:lily immune: to the .:ffc:ct of "gravity", which i icsc:lf 3n unsolved

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tr:ansmicters 'beeps' at 20.001 :1nd 40.002 meg:acydes, nrong

UP AS R EST OF M ARKET LAGS. D a n i e l F. Gilmore of UP, London , cover

I ke, n P ress con ference, pro m ise d S put 1 1 1 Oec e m bc r. liob Considine in his col u m n s:sys W i l l y Ll!y h .1 d p redicted S p u r to him "a c oup le m o n t h s Jo". Oct 9, /ollruul- 4 mc•ricull prin ts a p h o t o from

"The third mo rnin g pass will go from ne:ar S:1n Dieso, Calif, over S:al t Lake City 3bout a :27 A. .M.

;1nd the story tells how the U.S. attempts to eploit the Zhukov owter were overwhelmed by news of the "moon". Nov. 5. Intern:tional News supplies a third photograph of a dog. Different dog, different equip ment. This dog's nam e is Lai.lu which they tnnsbte

Nov. a. WorlJ-Tde. AP from London describes a movie cartoon in Moscow by tide: Road into Instdlar Space, showing men in space ships build ing cities on the moon :nd mining there. A Disney cartoon movie in full color w:u current in fi rs t run New York houses :1t the same time.

te m pora ry services the chief Aside from such boast of this gadget it cook the Air Force two years to build is t hat it is " capa b le of concentrating the dimmest of radio signals from outer space, will be

Vast quantities of data on subjccu of continuing interest to the membership have collected over the yean, too abundant and too various for YS to treat adequately in DOUBT without your help. What we need is volunteers who will make them &elves specialists in one or more of these fields, as

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ONE IN THE BELLY I CALL GOOD SPORT. The cover design is by Jules Feiffer, t<lken from his sensational new boo k . Sick Siclt. SICK.

You h :ve all read about the Herrm:nns of Se:ford, Probably you h ave seen photos o f them or watched one or more o f them on TV. They look like a fun-loving family, most unlikely to betray each other while they were the center o f interest. little Lucille is 13. Little James is 1 2 .

Most re:ders will be .bJ for Ezn Pound, h :1ppy ch1c ht:· is rele:tsed ;1nd on h is WlY b:tck co Italy. E ·:er y m:1n loves freedom, Jnd Pound loves R otp: l lo, o i t l oo ks li ke :1 victo ry fo che poet o ve r Uncle The t:cu are not so c.:lc:lrly 1::1use for jubibcion.

A nother FedenJ prisoner was not l uc k y enough to !urvive incarceration. Wilhelm Reich, inventor of 0 rgonom i c Medicine, died in prison Nov. 3, 1 9 J 7, :tnd was buried ott Orgonon, near R ot ngcly, Maine. His arrest and i mpriso nmen t were even less jwci fied t h an Pound's, b u t it is coo l

The response to our appeal for aid i n classifyin. data h as been sensa ti o n al, elect ri fying, and YS t h a n k s you all from che bot t o m of the a rc h ives . No fewer c h an 1 of t h e 71 c :ltegori es now h as a s pe c ial is e keeper,

NOW HONORARY FOUNDERS One of the most exacting tJ.sks we survivors must perform is finding proper :nd w i l li ng successors co che Forte:an Founders who flU off che c ree. The custom is co keep che nu mber oi Founders :lw:ays che same u c h e origin:al eleven, :nd insofu u pos

Never before have so many members sent so m:any n::>minacions of the same individu:als for Fortean Fellowship. When Albert Bigelow, Willi:am Hunt ington, George Willoughby and Orion Sherwood were sent to jail in Honolulu, the tidal wave of praise for them - and condemnation of the bomb

Judge Henry C Ferguson, Chicago, has declared r:1dar evidence in speeding cues unconsti tutional. Two Town Court j udges in Greenwich, Conn., also refwe co accept such evidence. They are Wil li;:m L. Tierney J r., and John P. Knox. The latter s::.id, " I j wt don 't believe the machine is com plete

Secretary of the FO RT E AN SOCIETY Box 192 Grnnd Central Annex New York City 1931 A D =the ye:tr 1 F S We use the Fortean 13-month calendar

Dues in Sterling countries 16/In ENGLAND address Eric Fra:1k Russell 3, Dale Hey,

BBC o f England televises operations, and the series A technique for identifying individuili through electronic computer analysis

and THE REALIST Presumably Portcam know what they want from life, whether they get it in full er not.

An important book was published last May. It co uld have been vastly more important than it is, bccuse it com es within hailing distance of the Thayer Theory which has been mentioned here be fore, but never fully expounded. This book stops short of its ultimate potentiality because che author

Somtt exception must be taken to the word "Encyclopaedic" in the· subti:le.

The Fortean amazement in these data lies in the identity of the speaker. Dr. fulton C. Arp of Mount Wilson and P:alomar pulled the rug out from under the Cepheid vari ables. These stars have been used as a yardstick. for intergalactic measurements on the assumption that

tion to a Canadian gadget reported by the American Chemical Society. It fits oo the home tap and doses those who wuh to be doted. "In other words, it's possible for people who want the fiuoridatioo treat ment to get it without wishing it on everybody whG

Reprinted from Popular Astronomy, by pcrmisaion, especially for the Fortun Society. 1 6 p p . wppa. ' ' A m e r i c a N E E D S I n di a n s ' ' Copiously illustrated in half-tone and line by the author . . . 425 pages Large Folding map in pocket.

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crici..::l weddy published in Delhi will keep rou informed of what libeul Indians chink of USA fo reign policy, ;u weJ I u of their own policies and Eu c er n rebtions in general. The emphasis is political :md economic, but the n:me of the pa per is

ore fine re:ding and enlightenment is to be had t'rom the N at io n , JJJ S ixth Avenue, NYC. Send fO cents for a copy of "Cook o n che FBI". BEST OF MITCHELL Lut Dec em ber the California Marine Research

Lut Dec em ber the California Marine Research Committee said that the North Pacific Ocean wu !(Ctting warmer. Tn some ueu the temper ature was up f. 1 degrees above the :verage of 1.9-49-1916. NY Time-s, 12-20-17.

Final nominations for Named Fellow of the Forte2n Society for the year 28 FS must be re c eived by January 26th. To those alrndy published in DOUBT, add jina Peck, who was aboard the GuiJw Ru"· wi th the other four, but was not listed in t he: earlier reports

T h a t belliKc:rent old Atheist, probablr t he_ de.ln -of che lnovemcnt in USA, Willi-;m McCarth y, died t his mon t h , .tt 9 2 . He h :t d been :1 mem ber of the Fortc::ln Societv . for m :a n y years, but t h e p romo ti on

The g re :lt \'9"u of the Com puters is now :1 fu l l ye:1r old, : n d the n:ame of Fred Whipple 3t Cam b ridge, M:ss., is he:ard no more i n th e frc:eprez. Time wu when he W:ls h e :td of intelligence 2nd :11 ch:: l i t t le children who he:1rd beeps in the n i gh t :nd n w t wi n k l es in t

8 p m I l uminous clouds London I bri gh t :1urora south oi. Ireland 1nd tr:tvellc:d . W. Newspaper - 6 th.

their use. Seems that these gadgets h a ve been flour ish ing out there "for several years", but now they're outlawed "because of the radiation h azard". St. Paul Dispatch, 1 2 -3 1 - 5 8 . Cr Mealy.

RADIOACTIVE by .JosEPH L. MYLER The w riter of the piece mis uses the term "ade noids", as so many h acks of Science do, employing it as if "adenoids" were normal organs like lungs

Sadly and solemnly you m ust be informed that Herew ard Carrington left us for his ultim ate investi gation of psychic phenomena last December 2 6 . He had investigated alleged communication with "the other world" for at least 57 years. His age was 78, and through the latter h alf of his l ife he h

We h a d not yet heard of Edgar Cayce or Eileen J. Garret t. R h i ne had not yet got his foot in the door a t D u ke. Nandor Fodor was taming the mon goose of Gashen's Gap, a n d Harry Price h a d Morley Abbey well in h a n d .

THIRD PLATEAU Dauntless U ncle Sam, i n his long climb towards civilization , has now reached new heights with the help of limitless billions of tax dollars and the services of the greatest Scientists - n a tive, Nazi

The result was the extermination of uncoun table men, women a n d children, then called "dirty lit tle yellow bellies". It m ade Uncle Sam's nieces and nephews very p roud of him. The int repid heroes who h ave worked this wonder

SPECIAL ATTENTION!!! We are making no promises, B UT the long desired Index to Volume One of DOUBT is nearer to realit y today t h an at any time in the past. A member w i t h the energies of Hercules and a mind

TOO FAR,,YOU'D FALL OVER THE EDGE, AND BE SWALLOWED BY 5TERS "Data support conclusion that each sex regards their same sex classmates as being better able to satisfy their succorance and playmirth needs, at

LEAVE IT TO SINGER This had better be worch doing,

At Princeton, R. Krockov nd R. H. Dicke have records for

_\. Item 3 is the j uiciest sort of garbage about thos.e seven "bronzed, lean healt h y and app:arcndy happy· spamen being trained to w ithstand "the I 1,000 degree heat on the vehic::le as it plunges b:ack

S47.96J,640 tn Western Electric S296,4 10 co Bell Aircraft S/,000,000 co Gcnenl Steel Castings S27,6n to Becco Chemic:tl

Last year, 28 FS, in April, a North Carolina State Senate Committee "approved" a bill which would make mothers of illegitimate children subject co cwo ynrs imprisonment. The original bill h:ad provided che same penalty for the fathers but the Committee struck out chat portion. Buffalo Et;nin. Nws

Two members sat on these data a long cime to hatch chem this size. In Djarkarta ( Borneo) an unstated number of fishermen reported seein g a hairy 1112 n more than 20 feet tall. London EL·min. News, 9-1-58 . In Point Barrow, Alaska, 3 snl hunters reported

In Bogota, Colombia, the medicos and the cops were getting together on a deal to let motorists pay tradic fines with their own blood. Buffalo EL·c,ing N'ws, 10- J0-58. ECLIPSE BLINDNESS

Apparently Aussie children are not sutticic:ntly warned about watching solar eclipses with naked "Melbourne: All over Awtralia . .. Today doc tors are crying to count the children seriowly im paired." StmdtJy Exprss, 4-12-59. Cr Sharp.