Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 47, Number 153, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 2 August 1945 — Page 4

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The Forgotten Fleet

' ! SYNOPSIS -rWr"'', Oil trie wharf in Patultown, Maryland, ex-Colonel Donald Colby, lit A.D.C. to General Conzalo Gutierrez, beats up Tod Ferguson, burly oysterman, for insulting Geneva lienet, daughter of Capt. Benet of the "Amerika.," Ferguson was fired by Benet and infers someone was murdered on the ship. Later, Geneva confides in Colby that she Lad brought two men from Leonardtvtwn to work for her father. "Thoy were afraid to stay but you wouldn't be," she says. A new look creeps into Colby's eyes. "Young lady," he demanded crisply, "shall we talk?" Geneva tells Colby that her f is in charge of a fleet of old . r laid up by the Shipping Bo:.. . .'.siting purchasers. It is impossible to get a watchman since three men have disappeared. Colby takes the job. On the pier, the girl calls to the "Monticello" on which she lives with her father. The ghostlike ships and eery atmosphere fill Colby with foreboding. Dutton, one of the watchmen, picks up Geneva and Colby in a rowboat. As they near the "Monticello," thre shots and a shriek pierce the air. The girl fears for her father. Leaving Geneva on the "Monticello," Colby and Dutton go in search of the captain. The decks of the "Kronprinzessin Cecilie" (re'ehristened t!e "Mount Vernon") were familiar io Colby. Ha had heard them eebb to the r dainty feet of countesses and, later, to the hobnails of American doughboys. In cne of the staterooms, Colby is sure he smells blood. Suddenly, he and Mears, the "Mount i Vernon's" watchman, hear a faint scraping sound as of an animal stealthily advancing. CHAPTER VI 7"; '' On hands and knees t!ey advanced over the gritty naked floor boards and twice halted when vague sounds of activity floated in from what Mears said was a stair landing. The snu"ling noise grew louder and sweat crept out to streak Colby's face with tiny acid rivulets. Mears, a black blur against a black background, recoiled suddenly. "What's wrong?" "I'm gonna put on the light-" and before Colby could prevent it the other had switched on his flash. Before them was a door, shut tight an ordinary oak door, but from under it a stickily bright streamlet crawled towards the breathless pair. Colby understood why his companion had started Mears was wiping his hand on a nearby dust cover. "Put out that light," Colby's command was trenchant as a surgeon's ; scalpel. "Want to make a shining ' target of us," his heart thudding like the tom-tom of a Sioux. I Mears obeyed and darkness closed ! in again like a maddening blanket of musty black velvet. Again a penetrating and ominous silence ruled over the great liner, a silence in which the scurrying of mice and rats alon;r some distant passageway could be distinctly ! heard. Colby felt Mears creeping ! up alongside and threw off the safety catch of Hartney's pistol. "Stay whore you are," he whisi nered, "and turn on the light when ' I throw open the door.. When five minutts had passed and m s niiid beyond those mysterious si:":.'lo noises had struck the listen?)';.' enrs, Colby reached up and felt tha door handle make a cold Streak across his palm. "Ready?" ! "Check!" In almost a single motion he pushed open a door, sank flat onto the dusty floor and threw off the safety catch of Hartney's battered .32. Every sense geared to sharpest he took in the scene when Mears' flashlight shattered the blackness with a stabbinar blue-white beam. So much had the eerie surround ings affected him that he, whose nerves were generally as of steel, almost shot when he caught a glimpse of a man in a brass-buttoned officer's coat crouching against the wall opposite the door. Just in time he checked himself; the revealed figure, gold toothed, elderly and semi-bald, sat inert, weakly slumped against the rich oak panelling of the passage staring steadily into the light from beneath bushy - gray brows. Beyond a blink of blood shot gray eye3 the man in the pas-sisa-e made no motion, just sat with grav head sjigpod forward on chest looking, looking into the light. Colby ceased wondering at this lassitude when he noted how down the fi-nnt of the vision's faded blue cot ton Bhirt trickled two bright rivu

SOCIETY Celebrates Birthday

:' An ice cream supper was held (Tuesday night, July 31st at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Orval GarIrard in honor cf their cteughter, jJuanita's nineteenth birthday, i Home made ice cream, cake anA cookies wera served to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Unger, Fritz, Cloral and Clifford, Mr. ana rdrs. Hayden Vaughn, Melburne and Bus cf Rone Chapel, Miss Helen Unger of Lake Bluff, Illinois, Harry Stanley of New Lebanon and the honored guest's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Orval Gartard, Mary, Shirley, Wilma and Doris. Juaita received several nice gifts.

Patriotic Club M&ets A most enjoyable meeting of the Patriotic Club of the Frank JN'cif Relief Corps No. 155 was held at the home of Mrs. Luther Keene Friday, July 27th. At the by Va'rtWyCk Mason' lets that had collected on the floor into a shiny little pool. "Who's that " he flung at Mears who had apparently been stricken speechless. "My God, it why it's Capt'in Benet." Benet! Then that curious girl's premonition had come true ! "Hey hold on! better stay where you are," he cautioned in a sibilant whisper when Colby started forward. "Might still be somebody in that passage." "Worth the risk that man's going to die any instant." Colby had seen altogether too many men with such a queer luminosity in their eyes. "I'm going to listen to what he has to say ' IV " Despite Mears' protests he, in the uniform coat, darted forward, cast

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a quick look to right and left and then recoiled. "What's wrong?" Mears came forward bravely enough. "Another one in here see?" In silence both the searchers studied a second figure lying face down, with the lower part of the body sprawled across a wide grand staircase, which had once conducted Princes, divas and Pittsburgh millionaires to the glittering first class dining saloon. "Bring that light here." Colby knelt by the side of the wounded man whose stertorous breathing they had heard. Mears objected. "No let's take a look at this one." "Don't be a damn fool, he's dead and this man isn't. Can you talk, Captain Benet?" He bent low over the stricken head watchman. "Who shot you?" The other by a severe effort made a noise, rendered inarticulate by bloody froth rising to his lips, his pale brown eyes, however, glared in fierce futility into Colby's. It was terrible to waleh the man's efforts to speak, to read his realization that he was unable to deliver what? must have been a vital message. There he was, practically dead with only his eyes alive. ; Mears strode over, battered features rigid and bright with sweat and gestured with his automatic. "Come on we're fools to stay like this," he snapped, "We make swell targets" ' 5 "Shut upl Who shot you,. Captain?" Captain Benet'3 glazing . eyes wandered to that shadowy, .. eloquently lax figure half on the stairs, then wavered and had started to rise when darkness swooped down on the landing like a smothering cloak. Mears' flashlight had gone out! In a single silent leap Colby was instantly six good feet away , from his former position. "Put on that blasted light!" he rasped. . "Put it on or I'll drill you " "Sh-h-h," warned thj other. "Don't you hear?" ' What fixed Colby's attention was

noon hour a delicious chicken dinner was served to a large attendance. The home was beautifully decorated with cut flowers and the center bouquet on the long dining table was of gladiola and baby breath. Mrs. Keene was assisted by her daughters, Ruth and Edith Miller, Mrs.. Blanche Alumbaugh, Mrs. Carrie Walters and Mrs. Kate Howard. In the afternoon the president called the meeting to order and a vote of thanks was given to the hostess, Mrs. Keene for her kind hospitality. Opening song, "America," followed by "The Lord's Prayer" in unison; Short talks from the following members were enjoyed: Betty Hardesty, Mrs. . John Chaney, Elsie Warren, Gladys Evans, Zola McCammon, Edith Miller and Mrs, Bertha Fisher. Mary Nelle Miller, little daughter of Mrs. Edith Miller, again delighted her audience with two scngs "Love Wonderful Love"

Mystery" , a small near sound, magnified the unearthly silence of this great liner. He thought it had come irom behind a door to his left Having long since oriented the hall in his mind, the ex-Colonel was able to leap with the lithe speed of a jaguar pst Benet's limp form, fling open the door and hurl himself at a figure only hinted at by the light of a porthole. His arms were around someone who struggled with the ferocity of trapped anima'( Then a fleeting jet of flame lit what had once been the barber shop and a report cracked, deafening as a field piece in that confined space. Ears ringing and coughing because of the acrid powder fumes, Colby bore his antagonist to the floor and in so doing realized that this was a woman in his arms! 'Hey. What the hell? Shall I j turn on the light?" ! "Yes," the ex-soldier panted, hi3 eyes now full of soft fragrant hair. . The more he saw of this curious affair the less he was liking it. When light flooded the dusty barber shop a bitter smile twisted Colby's lips, for there outlined against the dark linoleum were the dusty features of Geneva Benet! Lord, how huge and bright were her blue eyes how furiously scarlet grew her cheeks to find Donald Colby very firmly seated on her stomach and grinning at her with a savage, mirthless grin. "Miss Geneva! Fer Gawd's sake what you doin' here?" Colby, bending on her an inscrutable sardonic look, got up and stood over her, his scarred features alert, wary and hard as the bronze they resembled. "Yes, just what are you doing here, ma'am?" The girl, her sweatered breast wildly aheave, raised herself to a sitting position and her deadly pale features were rigid with emotion of some kind. "It it's a mistake. I I thought you were the others." "Don't lie! I wasn't born yesterday," Colby snapped and with one eye on Mears planted a scuffed shoe on a small automatic which had flown from the girl's fingers, "you knew we were going to search the Mount Vernon!" A furious uncertainty shook him. This latest development came as a sort of Et tu Bruto? Trust. Whom could' he trust? Not Hartney; Mears perhaps, but certainly not Dutton the fellow had a fundamentally evil face. He felt rather like a man who, with foolhardy courage, has entered a swamp only to realize that that log he thought to be -solid was treacherously afloat, that that ground yonder which had looked so firm was nothing but a morass and that poisonous snakes were coiled among vines he had counted on for a last support, (To Be Continued) " CtmyrtBht, 1 936, by Vn Wrck Mnon.

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Signal Corps Photo Between Battles. 5th Division Marines on Iwo Jirna plod back from front line for brief rest in quarters well equipped by War Bonds we buy. U. S. Trtasury Difartment and "Gcd Bless America." Business The members - decided to present a large eight bv ten-foot flag to the Mary Sherman Hospital Staff. Mrs. Edith Miller very capably conducted the auction sale, acting ac auctioneer . with . Mrs. Pearl O'bbs as clerk, This sale wovea very entertaining as well as beneficial, bringing in a total of $15.74. Th-o- retina v.-sn .brought to a clc-e and the members a"d guests assembled out on the lawn to enjoy the beauty and comforts of the spacious lawn, fish pool and lawn furniture. The next meeting will be. held the n'v oark and will he a picnic and ice cream supper, the date to be announced later. Baptist Missionary Society The Missionary Society' of the Baptist Church met July 25 with fifteen members present. . The pf r:-ident. Mrs. , Ella. , Hnrbaugh opened the meeting wit!? . all singing, "If Jesus Goes With Me."' Minutes were read and apprcved. The president discussed a bouse party to be held August Sth and 10th at Shakamak. The leader of the meeting was Mrs. Fern Collins. Devotions were "ivn by Mrs. Aljman'and prayer ny Mrs. Mocre; Thought for the month was given by Miss Clara Pitfman; A. splendid number by Mrs. Jennie Dukes of Trre Fautn was also enjoyed; The Topic on "Belgian Ccngo" was given by Nettie Black; 'The Forgotten People of Maine" wns given by Fern Collins. Meeting was closed by all repeating the Mizpah Benediciton. j;ec-tn trackdown TO STOP ILLEGAL PHEASANT KILLS IXDLANAPOLIS, lut, Aug. 2. (Special)' A "crackdown" on illegal slaughtaring of young pheasants, particularly in northern Indiana, was ordered .todsy by John H. Nigh, enforcement chief for the Indiana Department of Conservation. ; Chief Nigh alerted Conservation officers throughout the state and ordered northern Indiana Design for Victory BLACK DOTS indicate targets of, new fleet and plane attacks' against Japanese cities. Super-' fortresses struck at the six cities which were among 11 named in, a previous warning to the Japs. Daring American, destroyers invaded Suniga gulf, 80 miles southwest of Tokyo, to shell the city of Shimizu, and U. S. Army bomb er3 again attacked Kure naval yard., (International),

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officers to make a continuing investigation of what he termed "numerous reports" of hunting law violations. He said the department for years has received reports that botli resident and out-of-state hunters have been slaughtering hundreds of young pheasants following their liberation by Conservation clubs and state game farms. He predicted an increase in the practice because cf rationing and the meat shortage and said Conservation officers "will not only make arrests but obtain convictions" in order to save the fall game crop.

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