Evening star. [volume], April 14, 1938, Page B-5, Image 29

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HOLD-UP HEROINE
LEAPS TO DEATH
Young Woman Who Aided
Police Held Victim of
Aberration.
Bs- the Associated Tress.
NEW YORK. April 14—The 12
story death plunge of Norma De
Marco, injured heroine of a Green
wich village night club hold-up two
days ago. was termed by Police In
spector Michael F McDermott today
as "undoutedly a suicide.”
The attractive 22-year-old woman
fell to her death last night from the
apartment of a friend, Miss Dorothy
Lamarr, hatcheck girl at the Howdy
Club.
Miss De Marco, a patron at the club
when it was held up early Tuesday
morning, attempted to aid police.
She kicked away a gun cropped by
one of the three bandits, grabbed at
another weapon and was struck
heavily over the head in return.
Hold-up Men Captured.
A patrolman, now lying near death
in a hospital, and the- bandit trio
were shot in the gun fight that fol
lowed. All the hold-up men were
captured.
Wearing a bandage on her gashed
head. Miss De Marco, an unemployed
stenographer, and Miss Lamarr were
questioned yesterday at the office of
District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey
on details of the attempted hold-up.
Lt. Thomas Martin said a sudden
mental aberration later apparently had
prompted Miss De Marco to kill
herself.
He said Miss Lamarr told him that
after the two, accompanied by escorts,
returned to her apart.mrnt following
visits to several drinking resorts, the
girl shouted'
"My ryes are bulging out. I'm losing
my mind. I'm going to jump out a
window."
Sudden Dash to Window.
When the men left Martin said
Miss Lamarr related, her friend start
ed to undress, but suddenly dashed
to a window and jumped out. j
Police investigating the night club
hold-up held four persons as material
witnesses.
Thiy were Jacqueline Walker, 25,
a domestic; two entertainers at the
club and a waiter. Police said Miss
Walker, whom they described as a
friend of one of the wounded bandits,
was arrested July 30. 1035, as a fugi
tive from Philadelphia in connection
with a homicide.
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First Counterfeiting.
The first New England and New
York colonists found the Indians
using beads and belts for money;
white beads made out of the end of
a periwinkle shell and black beads
made out of the black part of a clam
shell, the beads rubbed down and
polished and arranged in strings or
belts, with one black bead worth two
whites. This money became the pre
vailing currency for a while, with the
white man showing his superiority
by counterfeiting it.
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Nature’s Children
Ant Killer.
(Eremobates magna.)
By LILLIAN COX ATHEY.
WE GO to the movies and
sit through make-believe
battles, tragedies, murders
and sudden deaths, and
think we are being entertained, when
all about us tiny creatures are hav
ing to evade death, engaging in con
flicts and wars, much more dramatic
than can be shown on a screen and
far more enlightening to mankind.
To witness the actions of the ant
killer would make some of the stories
we read, or shows we see, seem quite
tame in comparison. One look at the
great creature that the ants have to
dodge, will give you some idea of
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what the small ants must feel when
the dreaded foe appears in their
midst.
In Texas this creature is called the
••sheep-killer." This is not true. The
ant-killer is always present where
there are dead or decaying animals,
for here it will find many of the
small insects upon which it preys.
When you first see the ant-killer
you are a little puzzled perhaps to
know in what class you must place
him. He is about 3 inches long, re
sembling somewhat either a spider,
scorpion or vinegerone. It belongs
in the class Arachnids, and. there
fore, is related to the spiders. It is
also a cousin of the whip-scorpions,
mites, scorpions and spiders. There
fore you begin with a feeling that it
is likely to be something to avoid,
though after you witness the actions
of the ant-killer you have respect for
the efficiency of his tactics at least.
Upon the ants this creature usually
focuses his attention. First he works
swiftly to cripple or injure his vic
tim. This seems to be for the reason
of self-protection. Ants are biters and
I they Inject, a secretion that stings
! like fire. When one is attacked, hun
dreds may come to the rescue, sting
ing, biting and tormenting the giant
attacking them. Therefore the ant
killer works speedily to reduce his
prey to eatable food at once.
There are large pincers which pro
ject from the front of the tiny head,
and these hold the ant securely while
its bsdy is ground into small bits,
and the mnuth, about the size of a
small pinhead, is thrust into the
ground mass sucking the body Juices
of the late ant. As soon as one
creature is disposed of the hunt is
on again.
Many who have witnessed the ant
killer at work are very fearful for it.
It is toothless and has no stinger.
It can inflict a painful wound with
its very sharp, strong pincers, which
have formic acid on them, but it is
no* so dangerous as a mosquito.
Usually these creatures work under
the cover of darkness. They are
abundant in the arid tropical and
semi-tropical countries all over the
earth. During the spring they are
indeed noticeable, for it is courting
time and each is seeking a mate.
Then their hunting grounds are fair
ly alive with them, and millions of
ants, also being abroad, fall victims
to their formidable foes.
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Identification of Bodies of Two
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New Year Tragedy.
By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, April 14.—An au»
tomobile containing the bodies of two
women and a man was found yesterday i
submerged In a muddy lake along an
abandoned road near Hog Island, south
of the city.
Patrolmen Gprson Rosenthal and
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Miss O'Rell Washington, 29, and
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