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of L'nited States Fleet Raids on
the Japanese held Marshall and
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! sea offense razed Jap stores and military installations on shore
a..J destroyed seventeen enemy ships, including a cruiser and a 17,nut)
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kf ' : him a sad pathological c;:s“
After he had sworn an oath of al
eg.ance t.. the United States flag,
American government, like its
e . ,v. mbued with the spirit of
;:a play and of 1 ttir.g bygones be
iVg.A.es. did everything in its power
i make things comfortable for the
l.aighty Filipino war veteran. It
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ray his political mbitions; it even
rieiatcd his vociferous pro-inde
cndence campaign. But. -ad to state,
:e Filipino people would have none
f illm.
1': s i- pmbablye due to the fact
nat as a political leader Agu .naldo
ras and still is, to use an Amerie n
spre siun. a flop. He was taciturn
0 a degree and at times choleric,
md his voice has that pipe-squeak
quality that fails to endear him with
lis audience. But m ire probable the
gre. test obstacle to his political
hopes was the fact that Filipinos
could not, much as they tried, for
qet the crimes he committed during
he revolution and during the wars
gainst Spain and the United States,
he responsibility for the murders
1 General Juan Luna. Andres Boni
iC.o and other Filipino leaders was
lid nt his door. To all fhese ae
usalions he remained non-commit
tal. His silence at this instance led
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\«)t any ut the country roads b^intj
Til., .rod cic closed to traffic.
H Vi\\ ay.- closed to traffic are 1 i£t
, d :n the bulletin as follows:
.W >3 between Kii/abethtown and
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tour of 26 miles v [ PN " ,,c
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CHAPTKH FORTY-FOV;:
N'F.II, I'llFl'KOKI? Mnl!:.
li;e sta.rs K'.ii t anil The ot In :
men followed At one enu t Ha
cellar lie en'i red an nban.iorub
fruit looker, pushed aside a : a ut
burlap sacks and revealed a small
door.
Kurt opened •• ik*or Tie ap
peared to be a tunnel behind Ket p
going." he iiit r ed
Neil gin ssi . that the tunnel lee.
ler a small i lift.
Neil looked about caiefuhy Hi
..w the tunnel which must have
in:: constructed hurriedly, but a
fairly acceptable job had bee:. . : e
As iar as he e< aid see it was en.y
at ut 25 feet long It must have
■ alien its builders at least two
.eiks. he estimated. He coal hi t
Ip leeling a slight tinge of ad
:: nation for the thoroughness and
t iesight of these men. They cver
, oked nothing.
The tunnel ended at the small
: 'ream which flowed back of the
1 use. They vanished into the
c ods on the near side and folk w i ;
hi stream.
In about 10 minutes they came
tu the ocean. There was a small
rhouse nearby. It was dilapi
dated.. its roof already slanting dan
geiiiislv. and badly in need of a
paint job.
Ned. however, noted that the
dm: looked solid on its hinges
Kurt unlocked the door and swung
oner.. A 20-foot power cruiser
r. sted on iron rails which slid down
t ' A water's edge.
Ku:t s three accomplices slid the
I at into the water next tc a small
i.i-i dng pier which jutted out 15
fi ■ t from shore.
They climbed down into tlie small
akin of the boat. The sky over
head was sullen, the bleak New
Jersey shore was deserted. The
man named Otto got behind the
wheel and they headed out into the
Atlantic
Neil watched with interest as
Kurt opened a i uphoard ar.d re
vealed an elaborate two-way radio
apparatus.
•* * *
Tav lay behind a small bluff of
marshland next .o an FBI man and
looked intently at the small house
2U0 yards away.
"So that.-; it. eh"" the FBI mar
said. "Any activity?"
"We got here only a few hours
before v.v called you gentlemen
We havei t seen anything. Mr.
Bennett
The FBI man peered through I
liein a l ■: he mu*
Giu,], 'i.ut then-s no use rushing
: tie plan- — ’ ct 1 v. milein't l.ke t"
Jiff cither ft niv two nun. and
tiure's no n.is.si to risk any ol
VI '.II S
i He signaled to one of Iris nun 50
yards away 'flu man crawled over.
I ''Johnson, advance under a ting of
truce and till them they might as
well gwe up peaceably or .t will go
| hard with Inn;."
i The G-man named Johnson at
i ta hed a handkerchief to a long
■ stn k. stood up and waved it vigor
ously Then he walked slowly to
i ward the house. They saw him ap
proach cautiously and knock on the
j door Then they saw him look in at
tone of lire windows. Next, the
1 G-man waved and beckoned to
i them excitedly. 'Let's go. ' the FBI
! leader said.
"What's up?" he asked Johnson
when they got to the house.
"There's no one here."
"Impossible. We've been watch
ing this place from all four sides
and nobody has come out."
They opened the door and stepped
inside. Every room produced the
same answer. They opened the cel
lar door and went down. One of
the guards looked inside the fruit
locker and yelled excitedly. They
rushed in and found the small door
behind the burlap sacks.
Ten minutes later they were
standing at the mouth of the
stream where it entered the Atlan
tic. Tiie G-men examined the boat
house, the tracks made by the
boat as it slid down into the water.
Bennett straightened up. "Must
have been a small power launch,
but they couldn't have much of a
start on us. Look, these rails arc
still wet where the boat splashed
water on them as it slid in. Let's
go—we re going to have to call in
our friends from the coast guard."
* * *
"Got a cigaret. fella?" Noil
asked Kurt. Wilhelm passed him a
package silently "Thanks.” Neil
said. He lit up calmly. "Tell me—
do you expect to travel all the way
to Berlin in this thing?”
Kurt smiled a smug smile. "That
will hardly be necessary. I believe
we will be picked up in an hour or
so.”
Big waves pitched them about as
the cold winter wind swept over the
Atlantic Molla shivered and bur
rowed deeper into Burton Whit-|
worth s overcoat. In a pocket she
found a maroon and blue knitted
muffller. She fashioned a babushka
for her head
Suddenly Knit pointed and mut
ter d si thing to ( .to Xi :!
; . kei! to titp starboard anil saw a
| freighter in the distance. A few
| minutes later thty were alongside
the ship, a dirty two-stacked
j tramp with very little superstruc
ture. Neil noticed tiie Netherlands
| Mag painted on its side. On its bow
i lie read the words, S S. Zuyder
i The power boat bobbed along
side and from above someone
I dropped a Jacobs ladder. "Up you
! go. Wilhelm said. They scrambled
aboard and were met by a bearded
individual in a dirty officers' uni
form An evil smelling pipe was
• It nched between his teeth. Kurt
j spoke to him in German anti he
| grunted a reply.
, He turned and gave an order to
two men who went down the ladder
with some dynamite.
Two minutes after the freighter
started moving away there was a
sharp blast and the power boat dis
integrated behind them. Apparent
ly, Neil decided, they preferred to
destroy the craft rather than take
a chance of its being traced on
board if they were stopped.
Wilhelm beckoned them to follow
him.
Kurt led them down a compan
iomvav and opened a door. Without
a word he locked the door behind
them.
Alone at last, Molla clutched
Neil's arm fiercely. "I couldn’t wait
to tell you—I didn’t give Kurt the
correct formula. Again I was gain
ing time. When he discovers it is
wrong I can plead a faulty mem
ory."
She heard his quite audible es
cape of breath. It said much. Re
lief. Foregiveness. They went to a
porthole and looked out. "My guess
is we're headed back to New York."
Neil said. "They realized all roads
would be watched and the coast
guard would be looking for a small
boat. Tliis way they’re brazen but
plenty smart."
A few minutes later they heard
sounds of excitement on deck
above. Footsteps clattered above
them and muffled voices drifted
down the passageway and through
the locked door. From somewhere
a ship's bell clanged twice, three
times.
“They're slowing down the «n
gints," Neil muttered. "Thai's
funny."
Someone rattled a key in the lock
and opened the door. It was Kurt
again.
"Out of there," he said tersely
"Your accursed const guard wants
to :sk us a few questions."
( To I’e Continued i
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
KURT HURRIED Molla and Neil
■out on deck and up toward the
bridge, making sure they were hid
den at all times from a low, gray
cotter that was bearing down on
them a couple of miles off the port
bow.
A high wind whistled through
the superstructure of the vessel,
making progress difficult as the
ship plunged through heavy seas.
The muffler Molla had tied loosely
around her head whipped free ami
blew off. Site grabbed for it, but it
escaped.
"Never mind," Kurt ordered.
"You will not need that."
They reached the bridge. "You
have your papers, you know your
story?" Kurt said to the captain
The latter nodded and puffed lazily
on his pipe, watching the cutter
approach.
"Good . . . very well, you two.”
He led Molla and Neil down some
steps and through another passage
way. He opened a door and rang for
the self-operated ship's elevator.
Ten feet up he stopped the car.
opened the door. When they got out
they were in a large, empty space
with nothing but a few empty
boxes lying on the floor.
“Sit down and say nothing," he
ordered. They sat down and Kurt
took out his revolver, held it loose
ly in his hand and attached a small
device.
"This is a silencer," he said suc
cinctly.
"If you're boarded they'll search
this tub from top to bottom,” Neil
ventured quietly.
Kurt grinned. "I don't believe
they will board us. Probably they
merely want to ask us some ques
tions. However, should they come
aboard they will have not the slight
est indication that this vessel has a
dummy smokestack. We are within
that stack right now.”
Neil looked around quickly.
"Need I say," Kurt added, his eyes
narrowing, "that the slightest
sound on your part will prove fa
tal.”
The ship was almost at a com
plete stop now. They could hear a
muffled voice from a megaphone
floating across the water. A little
later they heard the putt-putt of a
small boat coming alongside and
someone calling, presumably to the
captain on the bridge.
Kurt Wilhelm tensed. "So—they
do come aboard."
Tay Whitworth clambered up the
ladder right behind the young coast
guard officer. 'T feel like a pirate
boarding an old Spanish galleon
Thanks for letting me come along,
Lieutenant. This is fun."
"Hardly fun," the G-man. Ben
nett, said behind him. Three sailors
brought up the rear.
The lieutenant saluted the ship's
second officer. "May I see the cap
tain. please?"
"Certainly. Here he comes now.”
The bearded one shuffled for
ward, his hands behind him. his
pipe belching furious clouds of
smoke.
"What is the trouble—what is
this, please ?
The lieutenant saluted. "Sorry.
Captain. Your name and ship?"
"Captain Johann Van Steen of
the Zuyder Zee. formerly of Rotter
dam. Before May, 1940, that is," he
added with a wry face.
The coast guard officer smiled
slightly. "I understand."
"We re bound for New York from
Martinique with lumber, rubber
and coffee," Captain Van Steen
said easily. "Now then, can we be
of any assistance?"
The G-man. Bennett, perked up
his ears. "Martinique, eh?"
"We ran across some floating
wreckage of a small boat about 15
miles back. We were looking for
tiie people whom we believed were
in that boat. Have you seen any
one ipi any sort of launch or small
cruiser in the last couple of hours?
Did you hear any explosion ? We
can t account for the wreckage we
found."
The bearded Captain Van Steen
shrugged his shoulders and looked
at iiis second officer "Sorry, we
have not. V\ e have sighted nobody.
The people you are seeking, Lieu
tenant they—ah, are dangerous
people?"
The lieutenant said nothing, but
his eyes moved easily over the deck
He felt a small pressure of the
G-man's hand against bis side.
"Mind if we take a quick look at
your cargo, Captain?"
The captain raised his eyebrows
slightly and shrugged again. “But
of course not. I will send two men
with you."
The lieutenant, the G-man and
one of the sailors went with Van
Steen's second officer and another
man. Tay walked up forward to
take an interested look at the im
mense anchor chain which was
strung on deck. Captain Van Steen
watched him for a moment and
then turned to talk to the other
two sailors who stood near the
Jacob's ladder.
Suddenly Tay straightened up.
his eyes coming to rest on a winch
a few feet down the deck. He stood
looking down for .a moment at the
piece of bright colored wool cloth
that was wrapped around a staks,
half of it whipping in the wind. Ha
bent down casually and lingered it,
looking at the pattern. His brow
furrowed as he straightened up
again.
Tay sauntered back to the two
sailors and Captain Van Steen. A
few moments later the coast guard
officer returned from his inspec
tion. The lieutenant saluted. “Sorry
to have troubled you. Captain, but
I'm merely under orders to search
every vessel between here and New
York harbor."
Van Steen look his pipe out of
his mouth and smiled toothlly
through his beard. "Of course," he
nnirmui cd.
* <• *
Neil sat watching Kurt Wilhelm
closely. "Tell me, Wilhelm," Neil
said "Just how did it happen that
this ship was nearby so conveni
ently."
"I don't mind at all. This ship did
not merely 'happen' to be coming
by. We were to stop Captain Van
Steen to give him some verbal or
ders before his ship got to New
York. I see no harm in telling you
these things because—well, it will
make no difference."
"So, he's one of your rats, eh?”
Kurt's jaw muscles tightened vis
ibly “You are hardly In a position
to be calling people names, my dear
Mr. Lundquist.”
"You're a rat, Wilhelm," Nell
repeated evenly.
“You are taxing my generosity,”
Kurt said ominously. "You are not
to be eliminated until we get to New
York However, if you insist, we
can arrange it more quickly."
Suddenly there was a knock at
the door. Kurt tensed. Then some
one called to him in German and
Kurt relaxed. He opened the door
and spoke to a seaman.
"Your friends have left," Kurt
said over his shoulder, slipping the
silencer off his pistol and dropping
it into his pocket. “Come."
But another sailor rushed up Just
then and spoke excitedly. Kurt
frowned and cursed under hia
breath.
"Back inside, please,” he said to
Molla and Neil. Molla managed to
whisper a few words to Nell as
Kurt spoke again to the second
sailor.
"The men from the coast guard
are returning to the ship for soma
reason," she said quickly.
Kurt sat down, his hand resting
on his gun butt inside his pocket.
He eyed them coldly. Suddenly Neil
remembered that Kurt had neglect
ed to put the silencer back on his
pfctoL , • \
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Nitrate Supply
To Be Short
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Dispatch Rureau
In the Sir Walter Hotel!
Raleigh. F.m IM.-H. a kUer re.
cei\ cd iici c l.\ ,
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&Vm ' % ■ ' "S^man
Harod < "> Carolina's
member of the .. nttee on agrv
<. ulture. indicau tl at he * .• jjHu
■ chance t•»i .i n..itcnai ,• m
lotment- m miialc ., major
plant loud, tt 1 a : n ;r:
: “The situation ju • n w dues not
K>uk '• ••>'>• l’lu . ' wrote
Cooley. He T>,! ;.;id JUs[
discussed the "'.He. v. .1: Herbert
H. Meyer-, clout ol the : A; rt-n u,ld
; ut the chen iral iln Nun i,i tne war
production tio-.id Mm:.' ,,,i..rations
: will MKIII tu mi". told
t ooley 1: "it* .i.v :ie . me : i reuse
' o', er present ;i 1 !•, 11 i 11 • r i '. -. r.l.H'b are
! fiiur I to about :a1 percent i : normal
user, but nut n.ucm
From tt.".' National Fort. Me. a. - i,
ciation. whici. ise■ ■; i. i -t touch
i with ’.tie situation but winch ntav
1 not have the "inside information"
a\ ailable to C "iilry. Scott received
a more ••ptm.i-'. • report. This or
ganization said allotments may go
as high as 90 percent ol im: mil .is
i age. However, the association did not
make a definite prediction.
The association also reported that
lined fertili/t . phosphates and pot
ash salt- the Otbt r principal in
gredients o[ lertih/.er - v.eie ../Mist
; as plentiful as last year
State agricultural officials ba-e
their hope that the WPB will be
j more generous m its allocation ut
nitrate of soda because more food
is needed for war purposes The far*
■ mers hat e been asked to raise more
! fixid so they need at least as muen
fertilizer as last year On the other
hand, nitrates are an important ele
I merit m ammunition and that, also,
is needed to win Urn wa.r. It Is not
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