The Syracuse Journal, Volume 27, Number 40, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 31 January 1935 — Page 3

THURSDAY, JAN. 21, 1935 J

V/HEN E3wii\ BaWisMEtMpCfepjl and Philip Wylie WNue*rvte«. WfTailrvw

'WanderenTfrom other place* began to discover tile camp. While they were few In number. It was possible to feed and clothe and even shelter them, at least temporarily. Then there was no choice but to give them a meal and send them away. But dally the dealings with the desperate, reckless groups became more and more ugly and hazardous Tony directed the extension of the [protection of the camp by a barrier of barbed wire half a mile beyond the buildings. There were four gates i which he sentineled and where ha turned back all vagrant visitors. If | thia was cruelty, he had no alternative but chaos. the barriers be broken. a and the settlement would be overwhelmed But bigger and uglier bands coo- j tinned to come. It became a common- I place to turn them back at the bayonet point and under the threat of machine guns. It became unsafe for anyone—man or woman—to leave the enclosure except by airplane. Rifles cracked from concealments. j and bullets sang by; some found their marks. Ransdell scouted the surroundings from the air; and Tony and three

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•Pall Backl Fall Back to the Ship—Fiqhtingl” Tony Yelled Again and Again. He Old Not Need to Tell Hl* Men *0 Fight. Th* Trouble Wa*, They Wanted to Fight. Holding On Her*.

others, unshaven and disheveled, crept forth at night and mingled with the men besieging the camp. They discovered that Hendron’s group was hopeleasly outnumbered. “What saves ns for the time." Tony reported to Hendron on his return. *i» that not yet united. They ar» gangs ud groups which fight savagely enough among themselves, but in genera! tolerate each other. They want to get in here. They want to get us—and our women, “They talk about smashing In here. They’d soon be killing each other tn here, after they wiped us out That desire—and hate of ua—is their sole force of cohesion. If they get In. well see something new in savagery.” The attack began on the following night. It began with gunfire raking the barriers, A siren on top of tbe . ■ power bouse sounded a wholly unnecessary warning. “Women to cover! Men to arms !* Tony, directing the disposal of his ■M, longed for the moon—the muon, shattered by Bronson Alpha, that sur vlvod tonight only In fragments too scattered and distant to lend any light The stars had to suffice. The story and three searchlights fixed on the roofs of the laboratories nearest to the three fronts of the encampment One biased out—and instantly became a target for a machine gun in the woods. For a full minute, tbe gloaming white beam swung steadily, coolly back and forth. picking out of tbe night man's figures. Then the beam tipped out The machine gun In the woods bad got the light crew find, and then the Hght Itself. Otter machine guns and rifles, fir tng at fandom bat ceaselessly, raked the srUni caw- Tony stumbled over friends that had fallen. Scientists, f front men. murdered In mass! A dafiSßffiM machine gun showed Its ■ spatter of flashes off to tbe right; « Tuny ran to tt. and dropped down bethe gte crow. He had th have >j a shot st them trfmself- Outside the * * 'Wire barriers there was silence, and It alarmed Tony far -sorv than a con- ; tiuuance < the surrounding fire. biased ooL erne sweeping the woods before Tony. The glare taught a hundred men before they, could drop; and ****>.,.W*. - -- , ;■■

Machine guns were spitting from the woods once more, and both lights were blinded. A rocket rasped its yellow streak Into the air and burst above In shower of stars. Unquestionably a signal! A second rocket rasj>ed op and broke its spatter of stars. Now the camp held Its fire and listened. It heard —Tony heard —only a whistle, like a traffic whistle, or the whistle that summoned squads to attacking I order. A third rocket went up. j “Here they come'" some one said; I and Tony wondered how he knew it I Soaked In perspiration. Tony glared lute the blackness of the woods. Now machine guns In the woods ; were sweeping the camp enclosure. [ The Are radiated from a few points; ' and as it was certain that the attacker* were not In the path of their own Are. but were in the dark spaces between, Tony swept these with his bullets. The gun bucked under his tense Augers. Anguished yells rewarded him. Shouts drowned the yells of the wounded — savage, taunting shouts. There mist be a thousand men on

the front atone, more than alt the men In the camp. Tony heard bl* voice bawling over the tumult: “Get 'em! Get ’em! Don’t let ’em by!" Tony’s machine gun was overheating. A little light came from somewhere; Tony could not see what It was, except that It flickered.- Something was burning. Tony could see figure* at the wire barrier now. He could not reckon their number*, did not try to. He tried only to shoot them down. Once through the wire—that wire so weak that he could not see It—and that thousand, with the thousands behind them would be over him and the men beside him. they would be over the line of older men behind; then they would reach the women. ‘ Tony’s lips receded from his teeth. He aimed the gun with diabolic care, and watched it take effect a* wind affect* standing wheat. The attackers I broke and ran back to the woods. Men went in pair* to the tops of the buildings and through loopholes began sniping at those who moved In the territory around the buildings. Every one “overmastered" by th* same sort of rage which had poseeaMed Tony. The reason for their existence had been to them a high and holy purpose. They defended it with the fanaticism of zealots. They qpuld not know that the flight of their plane* to and from the Ransdell metal supply bad Indicated to the frantic horde* that somewhere human being* Bred tn discipline and decency. They could not know how for weeks they had been spied upon by ravenous eyes. They could not know that nearly ten thousand mtn. hungry, desperate, most of them already murderer* many time* over, armed, supplied with crafty plans which had been formulated by disordered heads once devoted to Important. Intelligent pursuits—how three besieged them now, partly for spoil*, but to a greater degree in a fbry of lust and envy. They bad traveled broken roads, growing a* they marched. It was a heathen horde, a barbaric and ruthless horde. Th* siege relaxed to an intermittent ill A maoNloA gun station, Tony, suffering acutely from thtrer, with six of his comrade* lying dead near by, fought Int rm,,> tenter. c&n:e !Wto tbe ces

ter of the camp—Jack Taylor and two more .of the younger men.' .. “Hurt, TqpyF- Taylor challenged him. ■ "No,” replied Tony. “Who’s killed in the buildings?” “Not Hendron,” said Taylor, “or Eve —though she was one of the girls that went out to attend to rhe wounded. Two of the girls were hit. . . . Hendron wants to see you. Tony. At the ship. I'll take over here for you. Good luck !’ Tony found Hendron Inside the Space Ship, and there, since its meta) made an armor for It, a light was j burning. Hendron sat at a table; It | was now his headquarters. “Who’s hurt?” asked Tony. “Too many.” Hendron dismissed ; this. “What do they think they are doing?” he challenged Tony abruptly. “Getting ready to come again,” Tony returned. “Tonight, probably?" Tony glanced at his wrist watch; it was eleven o’clock. “Midnight would be my guess, sir,” he said. “Will they get tn next time?” Hen- j dron demanded. “They can—if they come on more resolutely. They can do more than they have done.” “Whereas We,” Hendron took up for him, “can scarcely do more.” “Yes, sir,” said Tony. “We used all the defenses we had; and they could have carried us an hour ago. If they’d come on.” - “Exactly,” nodded Hendron. “And now we are fewer We will be fewer ’ still, of course, after the next attack; and fewer yet. after they get in.” “Yes, • ' “However," said Hendruu thoughtfully, “that will be. In one way, an advantage.” Tony was used, by now. to be astonished by Hend.-on; yet he said. “I■ don’t follow yon,.sir.” “We will defend the enclosure as tong as we can. Tony.” Hendron said. “But when they are In —if they get In—no one is to throw himself away fighting them uselessly. They must be delayed as long as they can be; but when they are In. we gather- all of us that are left Tony—here.” “Herer “Inside this ship. Hadn’t th tt oe- I curred to you. Tony? Don’t you see? I Don’t you see?” Tony stared at h|s chief and straightened, the b! .mh| of hope racing again het within him. “Os course I see!” he almost shouted. “Os course I see!’’ “Very well. Then issue cloths—white cloths. Tony; distribute them for arm-bands, so. In the dark, we will know our own.” “Yes, sir. But. Eve is safe?” “She la not hurt. I hear. You might see her for an instant. The women are tearing up bandages.” Tony found her in a room with twenty others, tearing white cloth into strips. At least he bad one word with her. “Tony! Take care of yourself!” “How about you. Eve?" She disregarded this; said only: “Get back to the ship. Tony, after the tight. Uh, get back to the ship!” He went out again. A bullet pinged on the wall beside him. The bursts of machine-gun Are sounded uglier; there were groans again, and screams. With his burden of machine gun cartridges, he returned to the {mst be had fought. “That you, Tony?" Jack Taylor hailed. “Cartridges? Great! We’ll scrap those bimboes. H—l! Just in time. I’d say. Here they come!” “Listen!” yelled Tony. “If they get In. delay them but don’t mix with them; each man tie a white cloth on his sleeve—and retreat to the ship!” And he Issued the strips he had brought with him. From the buildings reinforcements arrived —six men with guns slung over their shoulders, and bayonets that caught a glint from the firing. They carried another machine gun. One of the new men produced a Very pistoL His private properly, he explained, which he had brought along “for emergencies." “It’s one now," Tony said simply, and took the pistol from him. He fired It; and the Very light, hanging In the air, revealed men at the wire everywhere. A thousand men—two thousand; no senna even In estimating them. j Tony again claimed the machine gun. He made a flat fan of the flashes before him a* he swung the gun back and forth. He was killing men by scores, he knew; but he knew, also, that If the hundred* had the nerve to stick, they were “In." They were In! “Fall back! Fall back to the ship—fighting!" Tony yelled again and again. He did not need to tell his men to fight The trouble was they still wanted to fight, holding on here. A few obeyed him. The rest could not. he suddenly realised; and he bad to leave them, dying. Jack Taylor was beside him. firing a rifle. They were five altogether who were falling back, firing. Figures from the black leaped at them, and It was hand to hand. Tony fought with a bayonet, then with a clubbed rifle, madly and wildly swinging. He was struck, and reeled. : “Come on!" cried Jack Taylor’s voice; and with Taylor he ran In the dark. They reached the buildings. Gunfire was flashing from the laboratories which otherwise were black. The dormitories sprang Into light; windows shone, and spread Illumina tion which showed that they were deserted and were being used now by the defenders of the camp to light the space already abandoned. The attackers could not shoot out hundreds of globes so simply as they had smashed the searchlights. And they could not advance Into that Uln minated area, under the machine guns and rifles of the laboratories. They bad first to take the deserted dormi tori est bti«l went black. The lights were not being turned out; they were being

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Tony moved m the dark. “Keep down—down—down-down,” he was crying. “Below the window-line. Down!" For bullets from machine guns, evidently aimed from the dormitory windows, were striking in. Many did not obey him; he did not expect them to. Yelia at the farther end of the main laboratory told that it was hand-to-hand there, in the dark. A charge—a rush had been pushed home. Tony found Taylor beside him; they had stuck together tn the dark; and a dozen others rose and ran with them into the melee. The best brains of the modern world, fighting hand to hand with savages! Shoot and stab and club wildly, desperately, in the dark! More and more lay where they felt Tony, stumbling and slipping on the stickily wet floor, realised that this rush was stopped. There was nobody left In tiie room tor tight—nobody but two or three distinguished as friends by the spots of the arm bands. . “Jack?” gasped Tony; and Taylor’s voice answered him. They were staggering and bleeding, both of them; but : they had survived the tight together Tony found the flash'tghi which, all through the fight, he had had in his pocket, and he bent to the floor and | held it close to the faces. He caught breath, bitterly. Bronson ' was there. Bronsou. tine discoverer of i the two stranger planets whose pass- j ing had loosed this savagery; Dr. Sven Bronson, the first scientist of the | southern hemisphere, lay there in his I Mood, a bayonet through his throat! Beside him Dodson was dying, hfe ’ right arm backed almost off. A few ! of those less hurt were rising. “To the ship! Into the ship!” Tony cried to them. “Everj’body Into the ship!” There was m alternative. -Creeping on bands and knees, from wounds or from caution, and dragging the wounded with them, the men started the retreat to the Space Ship. Women were helping them. Yells and whistles warned that another rush was gathering, and that this would be from all sides. Tony caught up in his arms a young man who was barely breathing. He had a bullet through him, but he lived. Tony staggered with him into the great metal rocket When he laid his buruen down. Ransdell confronted him. From head io foot the South African was dabbled and clotted with blood. He was three-quarters naked; a bullet had creased his forehead; a bayonet had slashed his shoulder. The second rush was coming. No doubt of It and It would be utterly overwhelming. There would be no survivors—but the women. None. For the horde would take no prisoners. They., werqukilling the wounded already—their own badly wounded and the camp's wounded that they had captured. Eliot James, a bullet through hi* thigh, but saved by the dark, crawled in with this information. Tony carried him into the ship. They were all In the ship—all the survivors. The horde did not suspect it. Then they suddenly seemed to realize that the ship was the last refuge. They surrounded At, firing at It. Their bullets glanced from its metal. Somebody who had grenades bombed 1L 1 A frightful flame shattered them. Probably they imagined, at first, that the grenade had exploded some sort of powder magazine within the huge . metal tube. Few of those, near to the ship, and outside it, liked to see what was happening. The great metal rocket rose from the earth, the awful blast from its power tubes lifting It The frightful heat seared and incinerated, killing at Its touch. A hundred of the horde were dead before the* ship was above the buildings. Hendron lifted ft five hundred feet farther, and the blast spread in a funnel below It A thousand died in that instant. Hendron ceased to elevate the ship. Indeed, he lowered it a lit tie, and the power of the atomic blast which wa* keeping two thousand ton* of metal and of human flesh sus pended over the earth, played upon the ground—and upon the flesh on the ground— a* no force ever released by man before. Half an hour later, Hendron brought the ship down. tTO BK CONTINUED.) XMAIL FRONT STREET The ice boats have been busy on the lake the past month. Quinter Neff kept house for Jesse Grisamer last Week. Mel Rapp made a business trip to Chicago last Friday. The Disher Brothers lee Co., is busy putting up 10 inch ice, clear as crystal. If you can’t find your kind of gas in town, try Billy Roger* on the corner at the Junction of Boston and Huntington streets. Dan Klink shipped a car load of live stock to Buffalo, Saturday. The writer went to the little white church at the foot of Main street, Sunday morning and found 175 persons in the Sunday school. The offering was 512.76. After Sunday school the Rev. Warstier gave a fine talk. Rev. Edwin Jarboe is home again after holding 15 days revival meeting in the Gravelton Church of the Brethren, 10 miles west of Syracuse. Eighteen were added to the church by baptism. —- The nerve of a tooth not so large as a small needle sometimes drives a strong man crazy. A mosquito can make an elephant mad. Every pea helps to fill the bushel. Little and often fills the purse, and water springs are small things, but they are sources of large streams. A bridle bit i* a small thing, but see ite use and power; nails are little but they hold large biddings I

together. It matters not so much where we are as what we are. Drops of water make the sea, little acorns covered the earth with giant oaks. Little things in youth accumulate in character in age. If you cannot be a large river, you can be a little spring by the way side, giving a cup of cold water to every thirsty one who passes by. According to Randal’s life of Jefferson, little flies hastened American Independence. When the question came before Congress the meeting was near a horse livery stable. Congressman wore short breeches and silk ■ stockings with handkerchieves in hand. They were busy lashing the flies from their legs so it hurried them to sign their names to the great document which gave birth to an empire. When Franklin made the discovery of the identity of lightning and electricity he was sneered at and people asked of what use is it. Galvani discovered that a frog’s legs twitch when they come into contact with different metals, so there-in lay the germ of the electric telegraph which binds in the continents and has put a girdle around the earth. Uncle Lew. SOLOMONS CREEK Mr. and Mrs. Perry Banger and Ralph Darr spent Sunday at the Chas les Bunger home, where Frank Bunger has been ill. His condition is not any better. Mr. and Mrs. George Darr spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hire df New Paris. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hapner spent Sunday with friends in Goshen The Parent-Teachers meeting at the Hex school, Friday evening was largely atetndqd. The program was given by the Mishler orchestra from New Paris; the Puddle Jumpers from Benton, a male quartet from Millersburg; and the drum corps from Benton. The program is credited to the committee in charge: Byron Grubb and Guy Nicolai. Sunday school and preaching service, Sunday morning. Everybody invited to come. There were 101 in attendance last Sunday. Miss Evelyn Lockwood is employed in Goshen. Mr. and Mrs. Ford Overlees of Milford called on Mr. and Mrs. Ed Fi.-her, Sunday afternoon. A number from this place attended the Temperance lecture in New Paris, Sunday evening. Ralph and Leßoy Smith have been ill with the mumps this pst week. The Young People’s rally which was held here last Wednesday evening was -much enjoyed. There were 117 served lunch and a good program was enjoyed. Merle Grissom is reported ill at his home. Miss Juanita Gushwa, who is working in Goshen for Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Rice spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Zimmerman. Mr. and Mrs. Manford Mishler of New' Paris spent Sunday with her ■ parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Darr. CONCORD

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mathews spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. John Roop. Mr. and Mrs. Janies Dewart were guests <jf Rev. Emerson Fredrick and family, Sunday. Those who were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Tom, Sunday, were Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Dewart, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Dewart and Guy Fisher and family. Samuel Drake and son Mell spent Monday with. the former’s sister, Mrs. Case of Syracuse. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mathews, Paul Gibson and Miss Meriam Fisher spent Sunday evening with the Everett Tom family. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Beiswanger were in Warsaw, Friday. George Strieby and Mrs. Marie LeCount and son Carlyss spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Chancey Hibner. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Dark wood and daughter Ruth spent Sunday at the Ernest Mathews home. Betty Tom spent Sunday night at the Guy Fisher home. Jacob Bucher spent Sunday afternoon with James Whitehead and family, near New Paris. Charles and Ralph Beiswanger : spent Monday evening at the Ernest Mathews home. FOUR CORNERS. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dei'hrick and two children of near Goshen spent Saturday and Sunday st the home of Mr. and Mrs. Art Geyer. Mr. and Mrs. Crist Darr called at -the Geyer and Snyder homes, Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Disher entertained company, Sunday. Mary Ulery, Dwight Berkey and wife attended the sale of Mrs. Vance of west of New Paris, Thursday. Mrs. McSweeney and Miss Callander attended ball games in Warsaw Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Bushong and three sons, Mr. and Mrs. Snyder, Mr. and Mrs. Darr, Mr. and Mr.s Deithrick, Mr. and Mrs. Darr helped Mr. Geyer celebrate his birthday at his home, Friday evening. Ice cream w- s served. Mr. and Mrs. Darr were Goshen

visitors, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Geyer called at the Earl Darr home, Sunday. AFRICA. Mr. and Mrs. Lee ; Dye and son Charles of Elkhart spent the week end with Eli Shock and family. Mr. and Mrs. Sim Lewallen spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Miller. __ Miss Pauline Shock took supper with Miss Doris Shock, Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Shock and son Joe were Sunday guests of J. L. Kline and family. Jonas Cripe and Mrs. Elizabeth Shock spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown of Indian Village. Doris Shock spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kuhn. In the afternoon they called in the Jim Rothenberger home. Betty Shock and Christian Koher have the mumps. Mr. and Mrs. Vern Hursey and Dick Knox called in the Ira Crow home, Sunday afternoon. . DISMAL Mrs. Russell Maggert and daughter Rose Marie visited Friday with her sister, Mrs. Hersthel Wright of near North Webster. Noah Shock of Ligonier was a business caller in the Dbmal, Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Claus Bobeck, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Bobeck, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Bitner and family. Miss Tilda Bobeck and Harold Bobeck attended the funeral of Mrs. E. Chiddister in Ligonier, Saturday. Edwin Lung of South Bend visited with his parents over the week end, and called on his grandmother, Mrs. Sol Lung of Cromwell, who is recovering from her serious illness. Mrs. Mary Wilkinson and Mrs. Roy Wilkinson visited in the Fred Green home in Cromwell, Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Millard Snyder of Cromwell visited in the Frank Harper home, Monday afternoon. Howard Bitner left Sunday to go to Waukegan, HL, where he has obtained employment. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wilkinson and two daughters called in the Dora Clingerman home, Sunday evening. . » _4> . It is a good thing a lot of women don’t have a sense of humor or they wouldn't have picked the husbands they did.

Uncle Lew.

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