Monday, Nov. 13, 1933

To news of bygone weeks, herewith sequels from last week's news:

P: To the announcement by Earl Ellicott Dudding, ex-convict of Huntington, W. Va., that his daughter Miss Chemical Dudding, conceived by injecting into Mrs. Dudding's veins a serum made from the leaves and sap of a cherry tree, would be born Nov. 15 (TIME, Oct. 30): an announcement by Ex-convict Dudding addressed to "my friends, interested and curious watchers, eyebrow lifters, I-told-you-so nonbelievers, and whatnot," stating that Miss Chemical Dudding would be stillborn. ''Now our prospective chemical baby sleeps in death. We are consoled by the thought that there is no fault on our part. We did all we could and lost." C. To the attempt to discover whether mosquitoes were the carriers of the St. Louis encephalitis (sleeping sickness) epidemic by letting them bite ten short-term convicts' in Jackson, Miss.: pardons from Mississippi's Governor Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner for two of the volunteers, suspended sentences for the rest.

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