Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 47, Number 155, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 6 August 1945 — Page 2

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SULLIVAN DAILY TIMES- MONDAY, AUG. 6, 1945.

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up. That means doing iewcr things, eliminating everything that is not absolutely necessary, and doing necessary things more slowly. There are many ways to cut corners and save energy avoiding unnecessary hurrying, refusing to run for cars and buses or to go places we do not need to go. "Best place to spend a hot day is at home where you can wear a minimum of clothing and enjoy the coolness of the house. Keep houses cool by closing during the day leaving a winow open on the side away from the sun, with a fan in it and opening it at night. "Never sit in the steady wind from a powerful fan. Oscillating fans are good, but direct draft, even when it is intermittent, may chill the body too .much. It's better to put a fan on the floor pointed so that no one gets its direct breeze. When you have air conditioning, there should be(not over 15 degrees difference in the inside and outside temperaturs. The body can take that much of a change without a shock reaction. ' ' "Cold baths or showers" are all right, but cool or tepid baths are more to be recommended, followed by -a sketchy drying that removes the big drops from the skin but lets the rest evaporate. "Perspiration is a safety measure. It is part of the cooling system of the body which helps maintain a constant temperature, even when we feel very hot. When you perspire freely, the water lost needs to be replaced. It is a good idea to drink a lot of water, but you should take small drinks frequently. Ice water is harmless, in a reasonable quantity, but it should be taken slowly. Sweetened drinks should not be taken in excess for they may create thirst. Fruit juices are good, carbonated drinks all right in moderation. Alcoholic drinks cause the vessels of the skin to dilate and give a sense of warmth. "Perspiration also robs the body of salt, so you should eat plenty of salted foods in summer, and if your work is in an especially hot place, take a five grain salt tablet two or three times a day,1 with plenty of water. "No one should take unnecessary exercise on hot days, and everyone should be quiet during the hottest part, of the day. "It is worthwhile to take pains to keep cool, not only for the" sake of comfort, but for the sake of good health as well."

SOCIETY Birthday Party Mrs. Lawrence Conwaytained Thursday, August honor of the second birth vcrsary of her daughter, enter2, in anniJudith Ann. hTe birthday caeew as toDDed with two candles and refreshments of cake and milk were ,,,, j. , . . served to the little guests and lemonade and cake to their mothers. Miss Beatrice Conway.' i j . aunt of the honored guest, was 1 M. J.Aikm&Son FUNERAL HOME f Dugger "Aikin's Service Crate No Mare.

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THE FORGOTTEN FLEET

SYNOPSIS At the request of Geneva Benet, daughter of Captain Benet in charge of a fleet of obsolete vessels lying at anchor in the Chesapeake, Donald Colby, an ex-soldier, takes the job as watchman, despite the fact that three predecessors have mysteriously disappeared. As Colby, Geneva, and Dutton, another watchman, approach the "Monticello," on which the girl lives with her father, three shots and a scream rent the air. The captain is not aboard. Colby and Mears, watchman of the '"Mount Vernon," find him in a cabin of that ship, dying from a bullet wound. Asked who shot him, the captain's eyes turn to the figure of a dead man sprawled on the staircase nearby. Suddenly, a sound issues from the passageway. Mears douses his flashlight. A figure appears and Colby tackles it. A jet of flame spews forth and in its light Colby is stunned to see the features of Geneva. Why was she on the "Mount Vernon" and why had she fired the automatic? Tne girl claimB she thought he was "the others." Colby snaps "Don't lie! You knew we were going to search the 'Mount Vernon'." Upon seeing Captain Benet, Geneva calls him "Connolly" and faints! Connolly dies. Colby, suspicious of everyone, relieves Mears of his gun and orders him to tak Geneva to her cabin. Colby then proceeds to search ths dead. The stranger was well dressed and evidently a university man. In the smoking room, Colby finds a jimmy and a chisel. He wonders how much Mears knows. CHAPTER VIII The r.iint recruit to the watchmen's ranks paused uncertainly, then delving into his pocket fumbled at the miscellany of articles he had taken from the unknown man in gray. He -brought out a brass cabin key and on inspecting it with his flash saw it to be stamped 813. Why not see if it fitted Cabin 313 of the Mount Vernon! Every perception tense, he hurried back out onto the landing and, quite oblivious of those two crushed looking corpses, studied a glassedover deck pla. 313 apparently should be on the second deck below. There might be time, he estimated, to take a look at it before the gigantic Mears showed up so,' playing his flashlight right and left, he stepped over the unknowa and descended two flights of the semi-circular grand staircase. How loud his worn field boots tapped on the tarnished brass ferrules of the steps. t ' Number 291, 'he was reading on a blue and white enamel door plate when something went tacot! into the woodwork beside his head. Tiny splinters stung his cheek as his light flickered out, then he dropped hastily to the floor. He needed no flashlight to tell that not far above him there was now a round black hole such as the bullet of a silencered .revolver might make. Who had fired? Was it Mears? Could the enigmatic Benet girl explain this very nearly successful attempt? "This is too much like flirting with the undertaker," he grimly decided while painfully crawfishing back up the passage. Dusty sweat was trickling into eyes that had become reminiscent of those bayonet points he had so recently beliekl in the grim jungles of el CI ran Chuco and his every nerve was strumming when ex-Colonel Colby made his way back on deck to crouch patiently in the fog deepened shadows of a ventilator. Almost at once Mears reappeared, his flash drawing a pallid streak through the mist. The huge watchman seemed to have recovered hi3 good temper for when his heels rapped on the Mount Vernon's deck, he grinned. "Well, Cap, did you find anythin' excitin'?" "Plenty. ' You got Miss Benet back all right?" "Yeh. Only 'it took more time than had reckoned on." Colby felt his doubts rising as he inquired the reason. "Cause them yaller r.tts, Dutton and Hartney. talked Norton into joinin' 'em. They grabbed the only rowboat and beat it." Park on Tuesday evening, Aug. 7 at 6:30. A white elephant sale will be held and all members are uVged to come and bring articles to sell. Guests are welcome. Please bring table service and sugar for drink. Friscilla Embroidery Club Picnic Mrs. Edith Harmon will entertain the members of the Priscilla Embroidery Club with a picnic supper at the park Wednesday evening, August 8th at 6 o'clock. Please bring own table service. Those not able to attend please notify Mrs. Harmon. Cross Eoads Club Flans Picnic The Cross Road3 Home Economics Club will hold their picnic at the Sullivan city park August 1 9th, with an all-day meeting and cover dish dinner. . Hud Crowder XV. It. C. The Hud Crowder Women's Relief Corps No. 275 will meet Wednesday afternoon, August 8th, at two o'clock in the Woodman Hall.' All members please be preserit.

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Ah, but had they really gone? Was it one of them who owned a silencered automatic? The tight lipped ex-soldier however only nodded and said, "So they sneaked off? Just wait until 1 get my hands on them." Colby started for the rail, but paused and while peer ing down into the miniature canyon separating high, rusting sides, remarked, ' sy the way, somebody took a pot shot at me a few minutes ago with a silencered revolver. Any idea who it was?" "What! Somebody shot at you?" there was no mistaking the amazed dismay stamped on Mears' dimly seen features. Colby felt better about the deserters now if they were still hanging about those dy ing liners Mears apparently was unaware of it. Incredulity now was in the other's face. "Say, what's the idea .' Tryin' to kid me "No. If yon want to check up you can see a bullet hole in the door of Cabin 291." A fresh and disturbing train of thought seemed to have entered Mears' mind. "What the hell were you doin' below?" "Just looking about," Colby replied in a tone which would have told an idiot that he wasn't going to explain, "And now I'm going for a little chat with the charming Miss Benet." He held out the big watchman's automatic. "Here's your artillery. You see. Mears, I've decided to trust you." The wiry figure in the worn gray tunic did not, however, think it necessary to add that he had painstakingly removed the powder from each of the bullets m that snub-nosed automatic's magazine. To his considerable rv1' exColoiv.l .-Donald Colby Iwii that the fog was beginning to disperse before a raw Fall wind which had sprung up during the last crowded hour. Already he crfuld make out more of the other ships, for example the sable tracery of their rigging was now revealed in full detail. How like eccentric silos their tall funnels canted above the wide meadows and the stalwart red-brown oaks fringing the shore. As his feet rang once more on the steel deck plates of the Montieello, he found himse' ' 'iped by an annoying unceri. Until that shot had been sped him from the mildew smelliiifr darkness- on the Mount Vernon's D deck, he had been increasingly certain that Mears had, for reasons best known to himself, shot Connolly, alias Bnet, in the back a split second after the 'unknown's bullet had struck the head watchman from in front. But now what was he to think? It would have been physically impossible for Mears to have fired at him and then to appear from the Montieello as promptly as he had. Whose was the master brain back of all this murderous activity? And what was at the bottom of it all? Me found himself no more able to decide than he had been when clambering up the Monticello's passenger ladder one short hour ago. What an hour! Colby paused on the lofty promenade bridge, gazing down on many canvas shrouded winches, and on that great windlass which had of yore hoisted the Kaiser Wilhelm IV s Babbitt anchors from the rich river silt of Hamburg, and the blue clay off Qucenstown. It was somehow very rationalizing (o be out in the open air again, to feel the raw wind lashing his 'cheeks, and to catch occasional glimpses of stars through those ragged cloud formations dashing ahead of the storm like skirmishers before an enemy charge. "That Benet dame',3 got to come across," he muttered and his brown lips set themselves in a tight line. "She's phoney as lead dollars and it's a cinch she knows plenty." His train of thought came to an abrupt halt and he merged with the darkness when a shadow, noiselessand stealthy, came hurrying towards the gangplank Geneva Benet. Half a dozen strides brought the new watchmen towering over her, his military cap set truculently on one side. 1 "Well, Sister," was his sardonic greeting, "going to look 'round again? The girl fell back a step, her face NONESUCH Pvt. and Mrs. Kenneth McKinncy of Mcrom, were supper guests Friday evening of and .Mrs. Robert Push. They also called on Dickie Tqylor, son of Alva Taylor, who is home on a 10-day leave from an Army

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a pallid blue in the gloom. "Yes. Any objections?" "Not a one," came the tall figure's reply. "But first I reckon we'd better have a little Icaffee Match. Just you and me, Sister." Back went the now familiar brown eloche in a motion of imperious disdain. "Who are you to give me orders?" "I'm givin' orders in the interests of a fellow called Colby I'm interested in his health. Understand?" He pointed up the deck while castii.g a quick look about. "Ladies first. We're going to Captain Benet's cabin or should I say, Mr. Connolly's? Get moving!" he snapped when she made no movement. "We are not!" Her look flh-ked him Hue a whip, but he only laughed and suddenly swept her into arms so powerful that she saw the futility of struggle. How lovely she was in her silent fury the moon peered out leng enough to reveal the alhiring softness of her moiUh. "Put me down," said she in a voice -chill with fury. He checked his swinging stride up the deck and paused to look curiously into her face. "You're a queer, stony sort of s girl," he drawled and the moon revealed unsuspected humor at the corners of his eyes. "Funny if you weren't a girl after all. Let's see how you kiss." Before she could protesb she felt his hard mouth pressed to hers for & long instant felt the tiny bristles of his chin bruising her skin. Beyond a faint initial struggle, she remained open eyed, wooden. He resumed his advance in silence, skirting a stack of coiled hose. "Well," said she in a voice cold as the grinding of two Hoes, "I hope you enioved it." "I didn't;" he replied. "I just wanted to settle a point in my mind." Geneva Benet turned away. "And what did you discover?" "That you're a girl after all, but pretty and uninteresting." "I have schooled myself to be," she stiffly informed him. "Just as you have schooled yourself to be a boor and a cad. I don't think you were one to begin with." "Thanks honors are even. Well. hereve are, Sister. Will you climb the ladder or do I have to lug you 1" "I'll climb." "Okay. Sister." In stiff silence she led the way first to the bridge of the Montieello, and then into a spacious cabin formerly occupied by such Herr Kapi1am as the Direktors of the North German Lloyd might appoint to rule over the Kronprirnein Cee.r he. Here a kerosene light cast a I bronze veneer over heavy over carved furniture and rather handsome murals depicting various types of ancient vessels. Once inside she defiantly faced the tall wanderer and her small hands became clenched at her sides as she cried. "Oh! if I could only "begin to tell you how I loathe you how I hate i my stupidity in hiring a down-at-the-heel adventurer! I wish, I'd " "Shut up!" Colby flung over his shoulder as he closed and locked the heavy door. "Who are you to talk? You lied to me, played me for a Lrraae a sucner, and now you re whining because I didn't turn out to be the sap you expected." He flung himself into a swivel armchair and thrust long blue denimed legs out in front of him and his smouldering regard riveted itself upon her. Under tha chill menace of his look her face turned pale as the foam that had once curled away from the bows of this ship, " lied to you?" "Yes. Yon '''us you would tell me all about1 You didn't." I didn't ; . '.at," the girl cut in, her bright lips compressed. "I said I'd tell vou everything von ought to know." Maybe you did." ha admitted. "But, Sister, your ideas on that sub ject and mine don t agree at all. Now, tell me, what's back of all tms '. vv by did you nretend that that old rouchneck Connolly was your father?" He was my father." I ( lo Be Continued) PoOftllht. t31. b VR nVi-k '--aM,i hospital in Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Oral Harris and Miss Reba Jennings spent Sunday in Clinton with Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Grantham and family. Mr", and Mrs. Ray Buck, Mr, and Mrs. Archie Weaver and children were supper guests Sat-

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