Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 47, Number 158, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 9 August 1945 — Page 2

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.. . .. United Press Wire Service. . National Advertising Representative: Theis and Simpson, 393 Seventh Avenue, New York (1) N. Y. Subscription Rate: By carrier, per week . . ... 15 Cents in Citj By Mail In Sullivan And Adjoining Counties: Six. Months .........',,,, $1-50 Month (with Times furnishing stamped envelope) ........ 30 Cents Year ; $3.08 By Mail Elsewhere: Year .....A., '. $4.0u Six Months $2.00 Month (with Times furnishing envelope) 35 Cent" Sullivan, Indiana Telephone 12 Paul Poynter Publisher Joe H. Adaai3 ........ Editor Eleanor Poynter Jamison Manager and Assistant Editor Published daily except Saturday and Sunday at 115 West Jackson St. Entered as second-class matter July 1, 1908 in the Postoffice nt Sullivan, Indiana, under the Act o Congress of March 3, 1879. MOMENTOUS HAPPENINGS SEAL NIPPON'S DOOM The atomic bomb is the greatest force for destruction yet discovered. It also will become the vorld's greatest force for peace. Any people will think twice, before going to war now that the atomic force has been found and made usable. A basketfuLof bombs the, size of golf balls could lay a small nation and its people to almost instant, ruin. An air force the size of ours, equipped with a larger number of the small bombs, could desolate a large, nation in no time. The use of it a few times on Japan will liave the effect of ending the Pacific war sooner than the most optimistic observers predicted. .... If the bomb can. find the Japanese war in a hurry witti a jrreat savin of American lives we think the $2,000,000,000 spent Ui develop it will be a grand investment. If it is the instrument that insures world peace then our expenditure will be comparatively a matter of chicken-feed. Already we are learning the answer to. the effectiveness of the bomb. Japan, by her desire for aggression, made herself a good testing ground for it. The war she started made her a guinea pig for a terrifying experiment. . Japan, the land of. the rising sun, now finds the force of the sun's power turned against her. And now Russia comes in at the kill. Today their mighty Far Eastern armed forces are attacking along the Manchukuo frontier. In fact the Soviet armed might started rolling within minutes after Moscow's declaration of war. There is ho doubt now that the days of the Japanese Empire are numbered. Whatever the designs of Generalissimo Stalin, and there is no doubt that the Soviets, super-realists that they are, are in the Pacific war to promote their interests, the defiant Japs certainly must now withdraw their blunt rejection of Allied ultimatums .to surrender .and seek the best terms. possible the best. terms in this case being whatever, terrns we choose to give them. The atomic bomb would have delivered the coup de grace to Japan and victory without Russian assistance would have been achieved, but the well-timedv entry of the Red armed might means an even speedier, peace. It means certainly that lives of American fighting men Will be, spared. It is ,an answer to the prayers.of the countless families , of American servicemen. Full vengeance is at hand. The momentous events of the last few days are more than the handwriting on the wall for Nippon. Their utter doom as a world ' power is sealed. The hour of execution is here.

Article Lauds Carlisle Agent For Long Service With C. & E. I.

The following interesting article entitled "Fifty-one Years. of Service and Still on the Job" was written by E. R. Glidden, General Superintendent of the C. & E. I. Railroad, and appeared in the July issue "The C. & E. I. Flyer" and concerns one of Carlisle's oldest . and best known citizens, James H. Gilliland, the article containing an excellent likeness of Mr.. Gilliland: "Looking back over half a century of continuous C&EI service is the record of .James H. Gilliland, agent at Carlisle, Indiana. Mr. Gilliland is 73 years of age and has been in continuous service since October 1, 1894 when he was sent to Spring Hill as telegraph operator. He is the oldest agent in point of service on the C&EI. . "He was sent to Carlisle, Indiana, as agact-operator , in 1902 and has held that position since that time. , Carlisle is the fourth oldest town in Indiana. There have been but four agents at this point since 1860. At one time, Carlisle was the county seat of Sullivan Countyrbut later it was moved to Sullivan, a more central location. "When Mr. Gilliland was sent to Carlisle as operator-agent, . his assignment was sixteen .Jhours per. day and longer, when necessary. His salary was $45.00 . per month, no overtime, regardless of the .number of hours, worked. Mr and Mrs. Gilliland live just a short distance from .the station. They have owned their home at this point for many years and it has been my privilege on differ ent occasions to look over their yard and garden. They, have some of the finest blue spruce trees in their yard that may be found hi any part of the country, also the finest flowers. Mr. Gilliland's hobbies are flowers, birds and trees. "Mr. Gilliland has been one of our most , efficient agents and is still going strong. He is the

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Bonds. He has copied and . delivered train orders to military treins during three wars, the Spanish-American War, World War I and World .War II. "He has perhaps .billed more Superforts Busy STAWff MIUS Hiroshima: if 'M,WV 1 ' KMittt; KUII WITH JAPAN still reeling from the effects o the. atomic bomb, 225 Superforts struck at the fore' warned city of Yawjta, the' '.'Pittsburgh of Japan," which has It population of 261,000. Sixty per cent of Hiroshima,, , and ; 100,00 persons of the 343,000 population are . estimated to haye .been deflestrpye.4, (Inteimtioaul).

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SYNOPSIS . At the request of Geneva Benet, laughter 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 i3 stunned to see the features of Geneva. Why was she on the "Mount Vernon' and why had she fired the automatic?. The girl claims 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 take Geneva to her cabin. In the smoking room Colby finds a jimmy and a chisel. He wonders how much Mears knows. Colby goes to see if a key numbered 313. found on the stranger, fits Cabin 313. As he approaches Cabin 291, someone fires at him. Shortly after, Mears appears with the news that the other watchmen have deserted, taking the only rowboat. Back on the "Monticello," Geneva reveals to Colby that, several years ago, a bogus Baron von Ehrenbreit and his accomplice called Kraus robbed her mother of $250,000 worth of jewels. Since then her father died. Her mother is, now a. cripple, and the family impoverished. The thieves escaped to Europe on the "Mount Vernon." Connolly,' a private detective, believed Ehrenbreit and Kraus hid the gems on board when captured by the German police and that they are still there. The pris oners were eligible for release a few months ago and Connolly was sure they would return for the loot. That accounted for his and Ge.neva's presence on board. CHAPTER X "I have to find that jewelry, it's it's" She looked away. "Oh well, I'll be frank about it . The doctor said, mother has a spot on her lung and our dreadful little Bronx apartment isn't doing it a bit of good." "Very likely not. How did you get your jobs on these boats'!" "A friend of the family ihad influencn with the Shipping Board. The only way it could be niannged was to present Connolly fas my father. It's queer simply incredible to think of him lying over there like that." She shuddered a little and fell silent. "And that's the whole yarn?" , "Yes, so if, as I suspect, you are a confederate of Ehrenbriet or Kraus, there's nothing I can do about it. I I've reached the end of my rope " She looked up suddenly. "Who told you about the jewels".'" , "I read about them seemed like a good bet," was all Colby said as he tot up and commenced to pace thoughtfully back and forth over the cabin's worn green carpet.' While an ever stronger wind rattled the door and sent told draughts across the floor, the girl watched Colby's brows creep closer together. At last he halted in front of her, "Look here. Now that Connolly's dead you -do need help. So do I. How about a partnership?" Geneva Benet eyed him an instant and then shrugged and when .she spoke her voice sounded extremely weary. "Let's hear, your proposition, though of course I realize you can, and probably will, take everything if the jewels ai'e found." "We'll settle the share question later. What I want to know now is who killed Connolly? What about Mears?" The girl sent a long: plume of smoke whirling across the cabin. "I have had no reason to distrust Mears." ... "When did you hire him?" V MI didn't; Mears had been on these boats, half a year before we came and that's four months ago." The smooth of her forehead became wrinkled. "I have noticed recently, though, that he's been spending a lot of time on the Mount Vernon wheat, corn and watermelons than any other agent on the C&EI. He sent , the writer a watermelon many years ago which almost caused a riot .on the street car.. I, will not say how much it weighed, but it was so large that it . was . necessary to.roll.it along the sidewalk for a distance of one city square.. "His is a fine record and one in which we can all take pride. , The fact that,, even though he I has. ever so richly earned rest ' and ease, which go with, retire ment, he still continues to, perform service under war. condijtlons is a further tribute .not - only to: his loyalty to the com-' jpany . which he serves, but to the nation in which he lives.' GUAYSVILLE ' . Audrey Kassinger is spending her vacation this week with James Black and daughter of

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since the first watchman' disappeared." "Do you happen to have any pictures of either Ehrenbreit or Kraus?" "Yes. Connolly was thorough. He wrote for somu to the Berlin Police. I'll get them." While she spoke, (leneva Benet crossed to another desk and, pulliug a key from around her neck, unlocked a drawer and then a small steel dispatch box. A moment later the gaunt figure in gray and the lesser one in brown bent over the desk. "It's a cinch neither of them is the man Connolly shot," Colby pronounced. "Since you've played fair with me, Sister, let's see if you can make anything of this stuff I took off of the man in the gray suit." Krom a side pocket he produced a number of objects. Besides a few key3, some change and a jack-knife, there were two letters, both bearing Carman postmarks and addressed to 'Herr Otto W. Vogei, Planter's Hotel, Baltimore.' . "Can you read it?" the girl inquired. "I can but mine's pretty rusty." He was studying the first and briefer of the missives. "This one is asking dear Otto to repay a loan; and the other " his eyes briefly flitted over the script and halted suddenly. "Hello, listen to this. '"Lieber Otto: This is to .tell you that Eitel Kraus is at last dead. Even to the end he believed the doctors could cure him. I was with him the. night he died. Poor fellow he had no lungs left at all. When he knew he was going he said, tell Otto he must share with Maria. Tell him to be careful, as Hermann - "Hermann.?" Colby's eyebrows lifted in interrogation whereat the girl nodded quickly,. "Yes, that was hhrenbreit s first name. . "Hermann sailed last week." "And that, Sister." Colbv grunted as he put down the letter, "lifts the veil of ignorance, as Mark Twain said about the schoolmarm's hickory stick." "I must be stupid,-but I don't understand," confessed the girl. "It looks this way to me: Vogel, who was killed tonight, was Kraus' pal, Jvraus was evidently too sick to come on the job himself. This note also tells us another significant story Vogel had rivals." "That's bad," said Geneva Benet. "It is." Colby continued to thoughtfully rearrange sundry objects on the desk before him. . "What I'd like to know is was Vogcl alone? And did Connolly really kill him?- You see it might have been somebody else. A greedy confederate or Ehrenbreit maybe." VMaybe the answer is here.", She plucked up the key stamped No. 313. ). VMore likely in this." From a heat leather wallet Colby drew sevfcril German and American bank )0tes and then a new German passDvt duly stamped and viseed. He pulled it out and. pounced upon a square of cheap paper which fluttered to the floor.. On it someone in a very, shaky hand had written" a single enigmatic sentence: 'Das Geheimniss ist im Besetz der dritten Jjingfrau nichts wciss, nichts gelb oderrot ' -- "Translated it says: 'The secret lies with the third girl, not white, not yellow nor red.' " Across the lamp lit desk their eyes met in blank bewilderment. , "Oh dear I And I thought it was going to be a real help," the girl sighed. "What do you make of it?" . "The 'secret' he mentions , of course may refer to the jewelry but . this 'third girl' stuff doesn't make sense we've drawn a dud," pronounced the ex-soldier. "Where would you find a gal; like that outside , of . Harlem? Besides ", he paused and a gleam sprang into his of es that faded as quickly as it appeared, "it's probably a cypher of some kind and I haven't got time to waste on it, there's some work to be done on the Mount Vernon." There was also a faraway look on Geneva Benet's face as she murmured very softly to herself: 'Neither white nor yellow nor red ' "You do think it means something," she accused. . ' "I don't," said he repoekelinsr the miscellany. "But I've just had an idea and I'm- ging back to the Mount Vernon to see if I'm right." "I'm coming with you " ; He hesitated a long second then smiled mirthlessly.."Okay, Sister,". said he. "I'd just as soon keep an eye on you." When Donald Colby and Geneva New Goshen. . Mr. and Mrs.. Otto Padgett ,wi Norma spent the week-end in Chicago with rqlaljivea I Mrs. Nelle Kelley was a guest j of Mrs. A. B. Gray Thursday. Mr, and Mrs. daughter .and were supper evening of Mr. .Burton. Jesse Canary and bt-iuard Canary guests Saturday and Mrs. Carl . Mrs. Mary Okes and ' Carrie Whita spent Wednesday with Mrs. Violet Clark- and Wanda J . Mrs HIpn WihlP anrf rhilHrPn rauH n Mrs AuHtpv Wphh I one night last week. . , Mrs.. Frances. Burton and - Mrs. Kathleen Kirton entertained the Home Economic Club Thursday at -the Burton home. Mrs. Mary Padgett Keal of Sullivan, is our new switchboard operator, recently rim by Mr.

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Benet quitted the moon-silvered Monticello, it was not by the gangplank they had previously traversed, but by walking over one and steadying themselves by another of the ponderous chains securing the rusting bow of one battered ocean greyhound to the sun -blistered stern of the next. It had amazed him to xee how easily this remarkable girl accomplished the dangerour feat.. ' Panting and wiping tiny flakes of rust from their faces, the two paused, ears attuned for the slightest sound, abow the tarnished gold scroll work on the Mount Vernon ' stern where a tiny dock afforded a convenient landing , place. In the old days it must have been assigned to the use of third-class passengers. While they rested Colby pondered his next move, no easy task since during the last half hour so much vital and bewildering information had come to light a fortune! Guess would do no .harm,, hut a wrong guess he'd rather not dwell on that. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.That was more money than he'd seen in well, a long, long time. What had Kraus, dying 'way over there in Germany, meant by the 'third maiden, not red, not yellow, nor white?' That- fugitive gleam in Geneva Benet's eye had not escaped him. The enigmatic sentence had meant something to her. If she knew, he intended to be on hand when she revealed said knowledge. A quarter of a million! Apparently Vogel had been busy when the Dark Angel had forever put a period to his labors; the chisel and the jimmy left little room for doubt. - But V'ogel's initial delay in seizing the treasure was puzzling until Colby reasoned that the gunman must have received the slip written in that jerky handwriting when already in America. Yes, Vogel also had been trying to interpret Kraus' ambiguous screed. : "What are we going to do?" The girl's lips were so close to his car that their soft warmth brushed it and he felt an inexplicable wave of hot color surge into his face. Lucky it was dark. "I think maybe we'd better, go on,", he muttered, "ought to get some kind of a line on this other crowd." i . ."What about Mears? Are you going to trust him?" The pale oval of her lovely features was now distractingly close it seemed almost lustrous seen as it now was in a stray moonbeam. . , , . , "I ' 'k so, but never mind him now, . -.'lied the scarred individual in the ragged tunic, who also wanted to make sure that Geneva Benet and. Mears had small opportunity for a private conference. She had been very convincing nd appealing back there on the. Monticello but , still they went forward . in complete, silence and were about amidship when her band.closed convulsively on his arm. .''Look!" She .breathed excitedly, pointing to high sided Amerika. "Do you see that?" . Colby nodded. There was no doubt that rays of light were being very faintly reflected on the flaking gray paint of the liner just beyond. Crossing to port side the two; silently made their way forward until they found themselves directly above that porthole from which the reflected light seemed to issue. "Keep your eyes skinned," Colby ' commanded and, grimly . intent, swung over the rail to lower himself to arm's length, with the ease of a trained gymnast, and thus obtain a view of a porthole but inefficiently shrouded by a ragged piece of canvas. It was a strong yellow light beating through half a dozen little holes in the canvas which had attracted the .Benet girl's attention. To his deep disappointment he could see nothing, though a steady tapping noise and the sound of muffled voices spurred his anxious curiositv. "What was it? What's going on?" Her cold little hand caught .at his arm the instant he swung back up on deck. "Couldn't tell. They're doing some kind of work. I don't understand it" She fixed on htm eyes great with excitement. "Why slmild they do all this work on D deck? The message said " She fell abruiitlv silent and Colby grinned to himself. A notable slip! Barely in time she had clung to her secret. It occurred to him that to more firmly win her confidence might be the shortest road to the goal. (To Be Continued) CiMVsr'.jht, 19S. bj Vin Wjek Masoa. Distributed by King FettuiM Sfadinte, Int. and Mrs. Bill Vails. . Miss Peggy. Taylor is Spending her vacation this week with Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor of Bloomfield. I Audrey Kassinger, Agnes Gray and Mrs. Kathleen Kirton spent Sunday at Shakaruak park. FACTOGR.AFHS ' Palladium is a rare metallic element of the platinum group. It is silver-white, ductile, malicable, . and more easily fusible than platinum. It is now popular for jewelry. . The chapel of Henry VII, in Westminster Abbr.y,.is the fincrt example hi England of Tudor Gothic. It contains-the tomb of Mary Queen of Scots. The duc't-billcd dinoratir 'usid his curious bill to gather aquatic vegetation.

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