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...intent of the letter written by F. E. Stanton Jr. of Paterson, N. J. and printed in your issue, is to imply that I larcenously appropriated Mr. E. E. Slocum's highly entertaining contribution about The Fighting Fish of Bangkok and deliberately used it as my own in a story written for the Boston Post, Mr. Stanton is (can you hear me now?) a liar and you are another unless you withdraw that Copycat caption...
...Boston Post, on p. 19 of its issue of Aug. 6, carries an article by Bill Cunningham which copies Mr. Slocum's letter verbatim without credit...
...Slocum wrote you a very entertaining letter which you published under the title of "Boowoo and Ubum" on p. 4 of your issue...
Frederick Slocum announced the results of a rather extraordinary undertaking in which he has been engaged since 1921; his report was on the probability of a clear sky for the 1932 total eclipse of the sun. The path of totality of this eclipse has been accurately plotted, and Slocum has been receiving reports yearly as to weather conditions along this path for a period of about two weeks on either side of the date on which the eclipse is to take place. This preliminary report showed the chances to be about even, and he named several towns along the course...
Among the papers which are expected to be of special interest is one by J. E. Willis on the crossed-vertical transit which is a new instrument of fundamental astronomy. Frederick Slocum is to give a preliminary report on the probability of clear sky for the 1932 total eclipse...