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...wins a race at short odds, racing officials are likely to be curious. They were curious last September when a little-known horse named Shem won a race at Havre de Grace. Investigation showed that the horse was not Shem but a four-year-old named Aknahton, disguised with dye. Havre de Grace officials satisfied themselves that gamblers had arranged the dyeing, suspended nine of them, including notorious Nathan ("Nigger Nate") Raymond. They traced the career of Aknahton to a small town in Indiana, where he dropped out of sight...
...printed an interview with one Paddy Barrie, whom he described as "an engaging little cuss." Paddy Barrie, an ex-jockey of Scotch extraction who professed to have ridden in two Grand Nationals and to have collaborated on newspaper articles with the late Author Edgar Wallace, told all about the dyeing of Aknahton, gave out valuable hints on "ringing'' in general: "It's the softest thing in the world to ring a horse, but it's a racket, like anything else. . . . You must know the markings of the horse so the 'ringer' can be made...
From crimes of deepest dye...
...might have lost the War in 1914 by running out of munitions. (He was instrumental in perfecting the formula for making saltpetre from ammonia.) In 1917 he built the great Leuna Works to supply hard-pressed Germany with more fertilizer & munitions. After the War the works were turned to dye-making, and in 1925 Dr. Bosch organized and became head of the Farbenindustrie. He says little, listens much, dresses carelessly, and peers through thick spectacles at the workings of the great machinery he has set in motion...
...monocle. Last week he was on his way to Pittsburgh to address the International Coal Conference with another German, Dr. Franz Fischer of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute. His method of hydrogenating anthracite under 100 atmospheres pressure at 100° C. to produce synthetic petroleum he turned over to the dye trust and went on to new discoveries. He believes hydrogenation of petroleum would produce 105 gallons of gasoline from 100 gallons of oil, expects this method to be used when the world's oil resources are exhausted. Last year he developed a process for making sugar from wood (TIME...