Nature's Children
By Lillian Cox Athey
Rhinoceros Viper.
The most beautiful combination
of colors in the world are worn by
the rhinoceros viper, a poisonous
snake. The stout body has a ground
color of rich olive. The bluish head
is decorated with black dots, in
the center is a sooty arrow blotch
pointing forward, the horns are
yellow.
When the viper sheds his old skin
his new colors resemble bright but
terflies, some framed in narrow
lines of black or blue. The entire
upper .surface presents an effect ol
variegated velvet. There is a pale
blue row of nicked oblong blotches
on the back, each traversed by ar
orange-yellow band. The lovely
blue oblongs are set in jet-black
rhombs and these are bordered ir
dark carmine. On the sides are
large upright, ruddy - brown tri
angles, bordered with dull carmine
merged with a narrow line of black
then pale blue.
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true vipers, some are slender
bodied with a prehensile tail, al
together arboreal. The rhinoceroi
viper is provided with two long ant
often several smaller horns on thi
snout. The effect is striking ant
awesome. The body scales ari
coarsely keeled and with many o:
the old specimens the keels ari
spiny points. A shed skin is i
prize, though the bristling scale;
can cause scratches. Owing to it;
semi-aquatic habits this viper ii
known as River Jack and avoided
In crawling, when the muscles o
the lower sides are in play, carry
ing the skin forward and backward
you get the idea of a giant cater
pillar. In a cage, when the anima
is coiled, it appears like a night
mare or an artiflcal thing. Thesi
vipers reach a length of 4 feet. Nea:
shedding time the outside colors ari
dull. Afterward the colors are bril
liant.
The most hideously ugly viper li
contrast to the rhinoceros is thi
gaboon whose range is tropica
Africa from Libera to Damaralam
and eastward to the east coast. I
has silvery white eyes and a glass'
stare. There is a specimen at thi
San Diego Zoo.
Artists who have studied the riel
colors of the rhinoceros viper saj
no other creature wears such ex
quisite colors or combination o
them.
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THE CRIME OCTOPUS By Waiter Gibson and Norman Myers.
Today’s “Public Enemy No. 1” is
Continental Press Service of Chi
cago. says Senator Kefauver. The
mob snatched this wire service
for “bookies” from James Ragen,
who told police the names of men
be thought would kill him. Ragen
was shot soon afterward. The
bullets didn’t take, so he was
poisoned in the hospital.
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Such outrages in Chicago have
weathered investigation because
of a State law limiting the length
of time a grand jury can serve.
Proposed measures to extend such
jury terms have met repeated de
feat in the Illinois Legislature,
thus pointing out another link
between politics and policy, as
i dictated by the Crime Octopus.
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Dope and murder, that sinister
combination, bared their twin
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a powerful group called the “Five
Iron Men" reduced itself to three.
Those liquidated were Charles
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lie Gargotta. Binaggio failed to
produce a “wide-open” State for
his associates.
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The Kefauver committee attrib
utes such murders to the Mafia, 8
secret international society whose
word is law among its members
Senator Kefauver has asked im
migration authorities to check ac
tivities in New Orleans, where he
claims a new criminal dynasty i<
in the making, but may be
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Tomorrow’s Installment—Kefauver Committee Arouses Loud Public Opinion.
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