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(One Day Nearer Victory) THURSDAY, SEPT o, . I942 THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER Page 8 THE rORGOTTEN FLEET mystery" by Van Wyck Mason CHAPTER XVI The last mile? Idiotically Colby was reminded of the stage char acter's slow parade to eternity. How eerily the footfalls reverber ated in the musty corridors. What had been Ferguson's idea? Un doubtedly it would prove most un pleasant. S Bewildered and desperately un easy. Colby and the girl were con ducted along one passage after an- violently barb of fear stung Colby's heart, since childhood confined spaces had affected him with a reaction not unlike nausea. , The dim lantern light beating past Hans' blond head revealed what Colby guessed to be one of the water-tight bulkheads designed to prevent the ship from filling more fer injury. Scores of rivet heads' waUg Bnd lit by only the canoie s glinted like dead eyes and a vista feeble flicker. , . of rust-streaked walls and floor Mftw." Ehrenbreit called ana other, then down a skeletonic iron'met Colby's eye. How small and nig voice had become faint, mein ladder into a dim, oily smelling ; terrified Geneva looked would she cieVer freunden, ve vill leave you eive up the secret or would the .a see Vot ve find in the smoiuis thought of that tired old women 1 room only vun of us iss going w in the Bronx keep her suentT r..npv Benet started when a-loud dankine ik. com menced and even he in the uni form coat looked shaken when the stout door commenced to slide side wtse Ferguson and Han. heaved steadily at a hh gradually narrowed the hand of smuu , nrisoners' rid was bounded by four steel engine room where ine intricate steel ganglions of the engines loom ed faint and enormous by the wavering light of the lantern now carried by Hans. Hugh shafts, pistons and gears, all daubed thick with grease, seemed ready to fall in upon and overwhelm the little procession. Following Hans, Geneva Benet Stumbled with weariness but stub bornly clung to her secret. After her Tug, his weasel face very taut, shuffled along, then Colby, who was followed by Ferguson and Ehrenbreit. They halted at last on the gritty coal dust covered floor of the Mount Vernon's Number Four fire room. Here Ferguson, who seemed familiar with every detail of the ship, opened a small iron door oft" the fire room and beckoned forward the wide-eyed prisoners. 'Come on !Get a move on."1 Ferguson roughly shoved first Ge-' neva and then Colby into a light-, less space which stank with bilge water, rust and wet iron. A tiny up Ehrenbreit unexpectedly pro duced a candle end from his pocket lit it and set it on the steel floor of the compartment. '.'So you can see what happeens," he remarked, "and also so you can watch each other's faces. Am I not considerate?" Sweating, Colby offered a few choice insults, but Ehrenbreit only laughed and stepped back out through the heavy little door. It was an unforgettable picture that the water-tight compartment offered to the two dirtied and dis hevelled prisoners as they stood against the far wall blinking sul lenly into the glare of the flash lights. "Vill you talk?" ' "No. I tell vou we know nothine you're making a stupid mistake.'' Said Ferguson." "Don't worry, boss, they'll start chirping pretty soon. Okay to close the door? "Ja." NORTH CAROLINA FACTS ! SHAGGY WILD POMES ARE FOUND ON CAPE HATTERAi. THEY ARE TRADITIONAL DE SCENDANTS OP OARBARY PONIES BROUGHT OVER BY SIR WALTER RALEIWS totOMSW OR SAVED FROM WRECKED POR TUGUESE SHIP?. HI$HZ5T. WP6 RAINFALL IN AORTH CAROLINA Yf VmkS&ftzXl i (SXAf) IS NEA HIGHLANDS--- WHILE -VMtWCS THE LOWEST AVERAGE I89'08u) IS AT ft MMmflW. I MARSHAil ONLY SoAiTm OvM SjOOO BWR RCTAILES5 OPEIBATe IN NORTH CAROLINA. YET THE FOUNDATION, 5NCH HAV.M9.HA9 HADTO ClOSt UP OULY20O FOR FAILING TO "CLEAN VP" WHEN ORDERED TO Back of the North C.:;o....a Committee's"' "Clean Up or Close Up" Campaign is the sincere desire to make the state a better place to live in. This Campaign reflects thedemand of overwhelm ing majority of beer dealers that their business ttd, and freed 1005, of any taint attached to It by the ac tivities of even a few Jaw violators. You give truly effective help every time you MM by the anti-social outlet in favor of those dealer 01 un questioned ethical and business standards. For Victory Buy War Bonds and Stands BREVWiejIIDUSTRYIOUIIDATIOFl ?vs sumn umuna vommutce EDGAR H.BAINJfe?w. fffin P. ..,i.tinA tttimft m vait outside. Vhen you "f your minds you can tap three times on that door V!th one of the bolts. See them at your feet? bulkhead had been used as a storage Place for spare engine room "P" rougher sort; a few. rivets, JM and some sections oi iru "'. ' on the floor. Otherwise the cubicle was bare. , . - Only when the trample of feet had faded away did Geneva Benet give way and cling convulsively to Colby's rigid figure. .Oh,W so afraid," she sobbed. Whats go-going to happen?" . . -I've a rough idea,' he admitted iorkily. Meanwhile his eyes ran back and forth. Apparently located not far from the ship's stern, this water-tight compartment stretched across half the beam but, due to the steel floor, was not over six feet hierh. Somewhere overhead and outside began a tapping noise, rather like new steam in a radiator. It was followed by a rushing sound and promptly the air took on a new fresh quality. "Nice Idea," Colby remarked acidly, "It's as I feared Ehren-' breit's followed Ferguson's sugges tion and has opened the sea cocks for this compartment." In his arms the girl raised a face haggard but still lovely. "And what--what does that mean?" "Well drown pretty soon like kittens in a bag-" "We can tell them," the girl said. "Yes. But what I don't like about it is that evn if we come across with the information they may not let us out. Still they may stand by their promises. Let's take a look about." He caught up the candle and, on conducting a more careful in spection of their prison in search of an exit, found that on all sides rose sheer iron walls. In one there was set a watertight door similar to that through which they had entered. The handwheel which manipulated it, however, had been carefully removed. "Is is there any hope?" Geneva panted. ''No telling we can give the high sign if things get too close." "Oh I I'm so sorry I got you into this!" "Don't worry about that," came his voice harsh with anxiety, "we'd never have been here if I hadn't been careless about that confound ed Hans." The air was getting chillier and as Colby knelt to hastily examine the bolts and lengths of pipe scat tered on the floor he realized that the water was rising very fast be neath the floor plates. After fighting down an impulse of panic, Colby turned to the girl and said as quietly as possible. "Don't like the look of this at all isn't even a sporting chance. 1 ik kmc- fh W V- XW Mm 'IBft KlllA JUOf of Any ytoiAtH. We'd better tell 'era." The yellow orange rays of the candle lent a false warmth to the girl's cheeks as she faced him with a touch of defiance. "I don't want to surrender until there's no pos sible chance of escape left. My mother you understand." Colby stared a little surely she could not have comprehended the gravity of the situation. Couldn't she realize that their chances of get that a cold current was creep ing inside of his boots the ex soldier gathered up several lengths of pipe and eyed them speculative ly. -. "Maybe," he said, "if we could jam one of these pipes over the stud we'd get a longer axis and could" get a better purchase." Stooping, he selected the largest of the pipe sections but on trying it found it to be too large. He quitting this steel cortin alive were was shaken, he realized, more than very sl!m indeed? He grinned he had been since that time in the nevertheless. "I'll do what I can, but I won't promise anything." A hasty examination showed that the watertight door into the next bulkhead was shut and now that the wheel which controlled it was missing, it would, for lack of j purchase, be almost impossible to operate only the shaft base and a quadrangular stud perhaps two inches long remained. "How's your courage, sister?" he asked. ' : "Not a bit downhearted," came the dauntless reply. 'Tell me what to do and I'll try to do it. Oh How silly of me. I I've never been afraid of getting my feet wet before " By which Colby furiously plumb ing the depths of his experience for an idea learned that the water had now risen to the floor. In a mo ment now it would overflow the steel plates upon which they were standing, and for all her forced carelessness the candle's dim flick er reveal ed a very strained ex pression on Geneva Benet's dusty streaked features. God, how black and forbidding were these walls and ponderous iron ribs of steel! Colby on examining the stud of the operating mechanism for the watertight door, found it to be rusty and apparently unused for a long time. Useless to try turning the stud by hand. Trying to for- WOULD YOU DO THIS JOB FOR i 'I mMtfA., , And when ju and the carpet are both worn '" o a frazzle, would you clean the oil lamps ... and do a week's wash. on a knuckle-bruising . board ... and run down to the springhouse after milk and butter ... all for the same 10c? "No bargain!" you say. But electricity does all these jobs and moreiot a dime a day or ! less in the average Carolina home. What's more, that dune's value has grown so steadily that today it buys about three times as much I service as it did 15 years ago. f f' Probably that the biggest bargain m the world! It developed over the years in a dis tinctive American pattern. J1 Business' men with vision built electric com p; parties to supply service. Other men with faith ' invested their savings so the companies could grow. That created more jobs and more cus tomers at lower costs. ' Today, under proved anil practical business management, America enjoy the most abun idant electric power In the world power for production that will help win the war power that will enrich the life of every one m peac-t-l years to come. CAROLINA POWER a LIGHT COMPANY NOTICE OF SALE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT NORTH CAROLINA, HAYWOOD COUNTY. HAYWOOD COUNTY and TOWN OF WAYNESVILLE, ' "vs. PAULINE MoCRACKEN PLOTT ET VI R. ET AIa Under and hy virtue of an Order of Resale made and entered in the above entitled cause in the Super ior Court of Haywood County, dat ed September 8, 1942, the under signed Commissioners will, on Sep tember 28th, 1942, at eleven o'clock a. m., at the Courthouse door in Waynesville, N. C, offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, subject to confirma tion by the Court, the following described property located in the Town of Waynesville, Haywood County, N. C, to-wit: FIRST TRACT: In the Town of Waynesville, and the new plat thereof and known as Lot No. 119 in said plat made by Capt. Ram seur, BEGINNING at the South E, corner of Hilliard lot on Main Street , and runs North with Hil Hard's line thirteen poles and five links to a stake; thence South eighty-six East six poles and ten links to a stake: thence South two degrees East twleve poles and twelve links to a stake on Main Street: thence to the BEGINNING SECOND TRACT: Lying and be ing m the Town of Waynesville and being Lots Nos. 1 and 2 of the plat and sub-division of what is known as the "Temple Lot" as made and sub-divided by J. W. Seaver, C. E., August, 1920, and which said map Is duly recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Haywood County in Map Book "B", page, and which said lots herein conveyed are more particularly described as follows, to-wit: BEGINNING at a stake in the margin of Main Street, corner to Lot No. 3, and running thence N. 87M5' E. 54 feet to a stake, corner to the McCracken home lot; thence running N. 4 45' W. with the line of the McCrack en lot 203 feet to a stake, near corner of lot No. 30; thence S. 84 15 W. 48 feet to a stake, nea corner of lot No. 29; thence run ning with the line of lot No. 30, S. 2 45' E. 202 feet to a stake in the margin of Main Street, the BE GINNING corner. This September 10th, 1942. J. R. MORGAN, A. T. WARD, Commissioners. and tugged like mad. Though the foul-smelling water drawing a cold line about his thighs served as a sharp incentive, he only skinned his palms and floundered noisily for the door stud would not move even a fraction of an inch. With grim and haunted eyes he cast a glance at the girl. "No fooling, Sister we're sunk. Done all we can "But" tragedy incarnate and selfless courage both were written in her eyes. "Must we ? . 'Yes!" he gasped. "Takes time to shut those blasted sea cocks." Colby abandoned his efforts on the watertight door and, seizing a section of pipe, commenced to beat in sequences of three on the door A. A 1 iieoiesi me eng ne , "Yeh?" Ferguson6 "Let us out! WeH tln- shouted. , "Quick th "Thought that ended abruptly ad above of mrushing water thTs - soldier heard a faint J.- npd ueai it, J-ermRrm a .."nr. coming I it, Ferguson, (To Be Continued) Cog Pn.L - J. . j iuuucis represent .i lu per cent of the food 2, by American conSnn:. Uar Pt -.m.lB, wintSe? 1nM!sS t fish and wildlife servlieX One War Week A calendar of event on one war job in one recent week giv t raphie picture of how General Electric is working to meet wartime emergtneiet. I T Philippines when that amonk na tive had come rushing at him. ''Try another," the girl urged. "I'm sure youll get us out of this." Though she strove to speak calmly, for all that, the cold dirty water swirling about her slender ankles must have been definitely unnerv ing. He caught up another section and hurriedly jammed it on the end of the stud and this time it seemed as if it could be forced to fit. Murmuring encouraging mono syllables, Colby ripped off his tat1 tered uniform coat, seized another section of pipe and, using it as a hammer, commenced to drive the first section into dace, so it might be used on the simple principle of! a socket wrench. "Just say your prayers, sister," he panted, then while veins stood out in cords on his neck and fore head he seized the length of stud pipe in both hands, and wrenched 1. THURSDAY: An order was received at an eastern G E factory for equipment needed by a U. S. warship near Australia. A special call went out. 2. THURSDAY NIGHT: Ai many workers as could be ' tfi. ciently employed on the job worked all night, all day FRIDAY, sembling the equipment. v 3. SATURDAY: Under police escort, the equipment was rushed to a nearby airport. Traveling by plane, it arrived in San Francisco on SUNDAY. 4. WEDNESDAY: A bombiej plane landed the equipment st Is Pacific destination 10,000 mils from the factory sin diyi after receipt of order. Ceneral Electric bslisvas that its first duty as good citittn is to be a good soldier. Gtntral Electric Company, Schtiwctady, N. Y. GENERAL w ISIECTIlir 1 - i - - - .to'AAr- a-MMWBiVrl'iB H it HI 111 ll f4 ifl ' r-, Reporting to the President on CS: ' kV ' America's rubber crisis, the fc t"littr ' specialBarvchRubberCom- - l -; mittee recommends in part: r""" "V I. ffTIiat comPulsry Periodic TX f tire inspection be instituted." il f Ji I -rrf Thousands are already guarding frm mileage with Esso "16 to 1" tire service! Five weeks ago . . .long before the President's special rubber committee recommended "compulsory perU odic tire inspection" as a means to keep the nation's motor cars rolling ...Esso Dealers launched a remark able new program to do that very thing! Based on two new scientific instruments, this service lets your Esso Dealer measure accurately the mileage remaining in your set of tires as they stand right now. In 16 cases out of 17, toe have found that motorists have mora miles left than they think tluyhave! That extra mileage is vital It must be saved. It can be saved for you by your Esso Dealer. As fast as possible we sre supplying Esso Dealers with the new tread depth gauges and tire mileage calcv lators. Your Esso Dealer has his or soon will hava; See him now. Let him measure your miles to come; Then let him help you see that yon get every last one of them DEALER yhxm NEW TES?...Hyoiirtfrsi are completely gone, and yon hart a rationing certificate for new ones, tee yoar Esso Deal r. He can g et deep-treed new Atlas tires ia any slee. Then let him help yon hasp them tight for the duration. Don't huy nw tires mUts you nbto hotly love to. Don't buy Ust Am the best tchm yam do! ffa 1 STANDARD OIL COMPANY of jM No. 1235 Sept. 17-24.
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