Sank 11 Jap Ships
HOLDER OF THREE Navy Crosses and
skipper «>f a U. S. sub that sank
,!, vou Ja)> ships, including two de
s-tioyiTP, is T.t. Commander Charles
Cochran Kirkpatriek. He was
awarded the Distinguished Service
Civss by the Army for a "special
This is an oflicial U. S. Navy
photograph. (International)
SUNDAY HYMN IN AFRICAN RUIN
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IN THE RUINED BA.MUC.A OF ST. CRlSPINE, built fifteen crtiUuiis ago, a
violinist and a singer help \vitl< the- hymns dmiiiu a Sund-v service
for Allied soldiers at Tebessa, Algeria. The- Huhilica. a Christian
relic, is a favored place o£ worship for Yank troops. (.International)
ARE GILBERTS NEW HOT SPOT FOR JAPS'
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imrvsiwMrvi muves MAY BE INDICATED by the iitmouiu'cil U. S. bombim; attaek on Jap airbase installa
t--*iti" «.n Tarawa oC the Gilbert Islands in the South l'aciiic Screening the enemy's main bases in Ui»
fc'.i h;;Iand Carolines, the Gilberts lie athwart lh< most uiivct < a route between Hawaii sulci Australia.
pt's<i'ssioii by the .Taps compels iw t«i sail ">e Ic-mtv cumvu aeiois the l'uiiiia- iltuvriuvioiwl)
•'!' A PTKIt FORTY-TWO
•• " I, ('I.XM A NTINK! He's bore."
••• i .. ipotl. She still stared out
l!i: igli the window as though
li../.ii. although their car of the
tt..m liiitl rolled to ii stop lieyond
tin- in.in waiting oil tiie platform.
■•Mere!"
"Vi-.o, the man who was watching
tin- limit of ynur rooming house!"
"What are we going to do?"
"Wo can't .stay on the train.
We've got to get oft. Ami here he
comes, walking along the piut
I.-iim!"
is.-th women shrank back In the
n at. The man wn;; looking casually
at the alighting passenger*, but
mi«.»ing none of tliem. lie was of
iiKilmm height anil weight, wore n
in.'I. st gray-striped business suit,
ii gtny hut. and carried a briefcase,
ii'- \v;»'i Miiooth-.shuven, dark of
face and large of nose. He would
have passed unnoticed as a typical
business man If Agatha hud not
rtogi'jzed iiim.
"i.rt's gn to the rear car a®.I get
"ft the opposite side," Clcnmntine
suggested.
I hey started back alone the aisle,
braving the displeased expressions
«,fi the other passengers, all of
*I)'.iii were crowding forward. And
at the *nd of the last car they dis
covered they <*ould alight only
from the ..tation side of the train.
'"We'll have to take the chitncfc
h»! doesn't see us," advised Cleman
tifte. iceonnoiterlng from the
steps. "Tiiere's quite a crowd on
'li<- platform now, toward the front
of (he train. Quick!"
Nile jumped down: atld stepped
around the rear of the train. Aga
Standing between the
' "rlSl moniptita rliy shielded from
''yft of Mlehr'ptir4t/er^th«y looked
"Wl«t%,br4 escape.
• P^viere flchtJn the middle of the
r.inioad yards, observed Agatha
*v.Mi sinking heart. "The place is
•1111. iimled by a fence."
Ch'iuanline pointed. "Let's hide
belsvi. n those {wo lines of bos cars
' nd walls back along the track. The
I' tins certainly don't com* in
"'tMigli a gate."
I'll, v lied at a quick, stumbling
' ' over the tough ground, tlieir
* humping their legs, and
tiini.i tin ir heads every few steps
I" n.ok bi hind them until tiie
■r* : nt cars were between them
1 1 'tin nation.
II I'lii'lerH underfoot made dirty
'' '"'t; ns fli >y proceeded down
' ' '.ii i row alflc formed by
i .'U" ',rIfiht trains Clementine's
• lie shoes were no longer white
"S.'tlw looked fearfully into th«
u*'-n to>x curs for hobou, an$l won
(lornl w1i.il :
encountered ;i 1raiiiin.ii>. <r
A locomotive run.M.'.l ami hl.» i
past on thi' tar side ui' t I
standing trains. «":i r-« . >r. ,iw\ lu-i
track coupled tngi-t'i> r ii, , -.11. .
of crashes and r;iltIm&r hump-..
"I wonder if our i.. ! ■ an im- .,cn
from under flu; ni--*" ,-:ii.< I
nuintine.
Agatha dm k« il out | i,; . . •
A man was walkiii : ..i"iij: in <-p I
posite side «>f :train i man]
whoso legs were encascd u\ n i iv •
striped trousers!
She grnsptvl the >*iii iiy r.n arm,
halting her. "Shi" »iie '.earm •
Olomuntinc slan-I >i.le-. v> .l . ,
Agatha ducked I'n'.ii ,i in 'I'll.'
legs were walking .
"Quick!" whispered A:■..t»■.•. I
"Rick the way we tame: (!•••<
searching tli>- yam. tor us!"
The two noiimn .start".i ■ 'in.
the sounds of their footsteps cov
cred Iiy another pa cing loi .u.n.
live. Luckily their .">iiit«.«.-• t \.'ere
lifiht. hut the niei'f* awkuardtv
of them was maddening.
One of the two freight trains
came to life will* heavy jerk.-: that
progressed swiltly along it;t length,
it started rolling slowly.
"Hurry!" urged Aj ithn. "We're
going to he- uncov> red!"
She h.ldn't realized how f ir they
had come from the station. N»»v
they had to get hack to it out
lluotigh its exit.
The freight train wan pulling
out of the yards, 111 the direction
opposite to that in which they were
hmning. It was squealing r.nd
grinding, foster and f.ister. It ninde
Agatha dizzy, gave her the feeling
.slio whs running at high speed.
The efiil of the train cleared past
th'fm. Unshielded ft"ln view, tliey
Still wore a hundf.i feet from the
end of the passenger train plat
form. across three tracks*
Agatha looked wildly nvfr h<*r
shoulder ns she stumhlrd ncross
the rails. The man in the gray
striped suit saw them! lie stalled
to run in pursuit.
They were in the station now.
There was no crowd to impede their
way. The man at the gat" grinned
as lie Stepped aside, lie thought
i hey were running to catch the
. treetcar standing outside.
He was right. Thoy nianililed
iiliofird the r-ir Just an the conduc
tor clanged the In II The man ill
the gray-stiil ''I sm' ,i,;i "ut of the
station too late.
"Well!" gasped (*l< 111 .ntine ns
•<hr droppe ' neaiiy breathless. into
it irat. "VVc wc ought to tiy out
(or the—the trcrk learn!" »
couJslu't !
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it' • ii.- ilr-'- t .1. KhI j lit<'i| niOltg'
ru blink ice .'II \i<a' fV''3
■ i •. .i i.iii.ih.i •i.li'iiiul ni' • nvjiii y
from 'h•! i.-tir. Tin in.'iil hi ti.o
^i i > si I ,s ii a is in-int. ,siio
luilui l i 'li'iiuuiti»i»* alld
li n-fully, "He's going to follow
iii>n»-i.i.- urn .-iii.-h ls v nen try
i" w
• Mayiie ii mm .. -Ire. t toner
viicr-' tli-rrS ,i polici T>an . ,
I'uliecnien were lacking. Trntfi :
ighls (Uil |»«>!»«•«; duty. Thtfie \v;iri
■tily our |ii>li('cinaii in the next itrr;
mantes, timl )n> was in the niMfo
•» the Muck, wnlkiiitr tho wrong
»iy.
' rii<- iialhe is thick—tie can't gdl
nit of his ear li> ciia.se us," Ole
ii inline observed. "left's get off ttt
In* next corner. It's <i main orn.«
.treel. IJnle.ss (hern's a parking
•litre where he can slop right away
m-'II have a chance to lose him
mump Hie shoppers."
"We certainly won't lose him
laying here!"
About half the passenger! rosa
or Ihe next slop. Clemantine ajiA
Vgntlui crowded forward to del
ccnd the steps l-.er.ide tho motorl
nnn. The man ill the grny-strlpeit
uil was forced by the automobiU
n front of iiiin to remain at th*
ear steps of Ihe streetcar.
The alighting passengers wera
gonizlngly slow. Agatha feared
iiat tiic lights which had stopped
ho automobiles might change, or
bat their pursuer would abandon
lis nmcliine in the street and meat
linn on the crosswalk, afoot.
"Theie's a parking place!" cried
Ilemantine in dismay.
They reached the sidewalfc Just
s the tradio lights changed.
"Quick! Into this big store!"
igathtt urgeij, ' Mftybfl jvp pi^Jy
"fetter hi«lc In it corner. e^i4'j
Ii" door." <tlehiantinc' KilfcjtB^1
When ho conies in \ye ^i^
lit again."
They waited. Agatha 'began I
ope thoy had given tlffn Hi? at
10 Mi"h luck! Ho entcro/l frC~
(root with a group of alic,
lokiitg as Innocent as nny ofuj
Tli" fugitives had forgotten'
ilrrors on the store pillars, unit
gjtlia suddenly found herself star*
ig directly into tho man's eyes! !
As she trembled In terror, he np'
mailed smiled and raised his hat.
"I Ihit'k you ladles hail better re
11 ii with mo. You should know
-tier than try to play hid* and
:«k with the FBI!"
(To Bo Continued)
By LOGAN CLENDEXIXG. M. D.
A SPELL of fainting would b.
regarded a jjuml ;!e:il more eri» i
ously now than it would ti- vi- been
a ccntury ago—at least if wo can
trust the novels of Sir Walter
Bcott nnd othfr tictionists. In those
Dr. Clemlening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through j
his column.
days ladies fainted when anybody
made an indecent—or a decent—
I proposal to them, when they had
' bad news from the front, when
they were laced too tightly or
I when a gentleman used a "big, big
D" in their p.vseiue. The ladies
are tougher now.
Brain's Lack of Illuod
; Still, fainting seldom indicates
any very serious disease. In every |
' case it is due, 1 licliew, to a with
drawal of circulation from the
brain,. The blood vessels of tlie
brain arc constantly changing
their caliber and under nervous
•tress they muy go into spasm so
! that no blood is able to circulate
through them and reach the brain
structure. Thus any emotion in a
susceptible subject can produce h
, brain without blood. It takes a
somewhat severe emotion to pro
1 duce it in a modern, unlike Sir
Walter's young ladies.
•o~> Fear is an emotion strong
| enough to cnusc fainting; pain,
1 any unusual exertion, or fatigue
! will deprive the brain of blood.
During the time when I was a
life insurance examiner, I had two
experiences which have confirmed
my belief that fainting is due to
withdrawal of blood from the
brain.
The first occurred when 1 was
examining a healthy young appli
cant who was standing at my side
while I counted his pulse. My
fingers were on his wrist and my
eyes were on the watch, so 1 could
not see his face. I had counted
about a half a minute when the
pulse suddenly stopped. It had
been a large, rapid, bounding
pulse. The transition was so sud
den that I thought the artery had
rolled from under my fingei. Hut
just then I felt a tug from the
young man's arm nnd I looked up
just in time to see that he was
deathly pale, and had to put him
down on the floor where he quick
ly revived.
Another Experience
The second experience was sim
ilar, except that 1 was taking the
blood pressure. Again the subject
t.-bs a perfectly healthy. roousc
man. He was seated at the side
of the tlibit- with blood pressure
cutt" in place. Attain my eyes were
occupied bv looking at the blood
pressure apparatus, so 1 did not
see the condition of the applicant.
What 1 did notice, however, was
that the systolic blood pressure
could not be found. The mercury
column went down and down, al
most to xero, when my observa
tions were interrupted by the pa
tient toppling over on the desk.
Aj;ain, he revived promptly.
Here we have two natural ex
perimil'ills, showing ill the one ease
that I he pulse entirely stops at the
moment of fainting and in the sec
ond ease that the blood pressure
falls to a level mi luw that it means
no blond can be pumped to the
brain.
Some Serious Cases
Although 'J'J per cent of eases in i
people under UO are not serious, 1
there are a few conditions which .
I'iiuse fainting and are serious.
One of these is a form of heart
trouble called heart block in which
the heart becomes very slow—so
slow that there are moments when
there is no Mood in the brain, so
fainting results. Hardening of the
arteries in the brain will also lead
to faint in); attacks.
Onlookers and worried relatives
observing a person who has fainted
should remember that very fre
quently at the end of a faint there
is a slight, generalized convulsion;
also that it is a tegular thing for
breathing to stop entirely during
a period ot' fainting.
l|l KSTIONS AND ANSWERS
B. O.— Is spastic paralysis
hereditary? l>..<s it result front
any sort of injection the doctor
gives a wuiiuiu during childbirth
pains'.' It l.ot, what causes spastic
paralysis'.'
Answer: Spastic paralysis is
not due to anything that the doctor
does to the mother. It is probably
due to a hemorrhage in the brain,
which occurs during childbirth,
but has never been known to be
| the doctor's fault.
A. It.:—A certain boy and I
have been contemplating marriage
out have hestitated due to the
fact that in tracing our ancestry
we find that his father and my
grandfather were .ousius. Do y.iii
think that this factor will have
too much bearing on our offspring?
Answer: N'o. you have men
tioned a fear which comes up all
the time in different cases. But,
as a matter of fact, the offspring
of even first cousins v,re usually
very brilliant and vigorous.
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