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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-19
CHAPTER FIVE

Gun found hlmself
swaying with the intense heat, ana
realized that he could not be far
from fainting. Then, just in time
4 gong changed, and an attendant
who looked like a grand vizler
from the ARABIAN Nights" flung
open folding doors at the farthef
end of the room.
AS they passed out, the man
who had spoken before grinned
Oily at Gun.
'"That's what I call the sweat
box. How'd you like it,"
Gun found that all he could re-
ply was:
"Ugh!"
Another rubbing down with
rough towels in a small anteroom,
and then into another large room
rather like the first one, where
the P. T. had taken place. They
lay around on divans set against
the walls for a few minutes, and
then a gong changed and an at
tendant called out:
"NoW, gents, please-a few
minutes with the medicine ball
if you pleased"
Gun felt too lethargic to move,
but forced himself into it, and as
they commenced to punt around
with the ball he noticed that the
air became cooler and cooler, until
presently he was quite glad to
jump about in order to keep warm.
Then another gong, and they pass
ed out Of the room.
The cext performance was solo.
One stepped into a sort of cabi-
net. the sides of which were
pierced with innumerable holes,
and underwent a sort of needle
bath of radiant heat, which, how
ever, grew cooler and cooler until
at last it seemed actually cold air
that was being forced against the
body. The sensation was peculiar
rather like a mild electric
shock, Gun found.
When he stepped out of the cabi'
net he lay on a table, beneath &
big lamp which shed a purple light
down on his body, while an atten'
dant expertly massaged him al
over with a kind of colorless oil
which made his skin smart ane
Jingle, but in a not unpleasing man
ner. 1t was rather like the stuff.
the barber puts on ones face afte1
a hot toweling.
You'll do, sir!" cried the at
tendant, briskly, and Gun jumped
off the table and was surprised tt
find how immensely refreshed ane
invigorated he felt.
He passed into a long, narrow
room, set out with piles of cush
ions and low, lacquer tables
=. where an attendant served hin
with hot coffee, some queer, wa
. feh,like biscuits which tasted a:
: though they had pepper in them
(: and cigarets.
Sitting here, one could look ou
of long windows onto a quite sur.
prising scene. A very large room
had been turned into a sort of ar
tlficial sunlight bathing beach.
The swimming pool in the center
was the size of a small public
swimming bath, and all around il
there was space to accommodate
SO or go people. The floor was
covered to what SCENE to be the
depth Of a foot or more in rea.
tightly stretched, dome-like drap
: ing of blue, from beyond which
: the artificial sunlight poured. A
crowd Of some 80 or more people
; of both sexes were either swim
4: ming in the pool, Longing about
or lying in the sand. Attendants.
: r1od in q variety of fantac tic aoct
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ern costumes, were moving about,
serving sweetmeats and frizzing
drinks which looked like sherbert.
The men all wore the regulation
white shorts, the women bathing
suits of various styles and hues,
and varying degrees OF scantlness.
Gun gathered that this was the
Sunshine pool.
Gun looked around for Pullinger,
and found that he was sitting at
an adjacent table, but with his
back half turned to Gun, and ap-
parently oblivious of his proxl-
nifty.
unity.
Gun saw that he was twisting
his head in a curious manner, and
then realized that he was trying
to get a look at the tattooed SYM
Dol on his own arm, and then
Gun noticed something else-the
Topped cross was now very much
fainter than it had been when he
first noticed it.
With something of a twinge OF
excitement Gun realized what this
meant. The symbol was not actu-
ally tattooed at all, but merely out
lined with some impermanent pig
ment that looked like tattooing.
to act as a mark of identifica psn
for some third party-no doubt
the person Pullinger was expect
ing almost every moment to en-
counter!
Gun felt, rather than heard,
some sort of movement near
him and, turning his head quickly,
he met fully the gaze of a man
who was standing near and star
ing down at him.
It was one of the attendants-a
tall, well-made fellow in a semi
military uniform such as might
have been worn by the khedive
himself. He had a brown skin, too,
and was staring at Gun with
bright, keen eyes, rendered all the
more fierce looking from the fact
that they were situated very close
% a large hooked, ~eagle-like nose.
He stood there with folded
arms, and the expression with
which he was cycling Gun might
have been one of suspicion or true
ulence, or merely of dislike, but
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RUPERT GRAYS0N

it was certainly not one of mere
idle curiosity or OF friendllness!
A queer sense of revulsion got
possession of Gun in the split Sec
ond in which their eyes were TO-
cused on each other-a queer feel
ing of repulsion, almost of horror.
as though he had found himself
looking into the eyes OF some re-
voting and malignant reptile. . =.
And yet, in his way, the fellow
was quite good looking.
Then the spell was broken. The
moment the dark man saw that
Gun had realized his scrutiny the
expression on his face changed,
and became smooth and enigma
tic. The dark eyes lost their fire,
and in another moment he was
salaaming land he did it property
low beside Gun and saying, in a
bland, humble voice, which yet
had a hard, harsh note behind it.:
"Effendi 80" he began.
"Not in the least"
els there anything the Effendi
would like? More coffee-ciga'
rets?"
mo, thanks!" Gun answered
And then, feeling ri~diculously
that some explanation of his re-
cent regard was due, he added,
rather lamely: II was only think
ing"
''Qu1te so, Effendi!" murmured
the{other, in the same soft, smooth
tone that yet seemed to have a
menace behind it.
He moved away instantly,
walking with a smooth, pantherish
grace-a gait that no European
could possibly have used. Gun de-
cided that he, at least, was a gen.
uine Egyptian-probably the only
enc in the establish ment!
The Egyptian paused and sa'
laamed by Pullinger's table,
speaking in a low voice. He
seemed to be asking him a ques'
ton similar to the one he hao
asked Gun, but his voice was toe
low to carry-and Gun felt a sud
den certainty that he was giving
Pullinger a word of warning
about himself. P%ullinger did no
turn, but a slight stiffening of hi:
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Gun Cotton, famous agent OF
Scotland Yard, arrives in London
and delivers a mysterious small
racket to his superior, known as
<, despite several attempts which
have been made to take 1t from
him. Tired and worn from MS
nerve.wracking assignment, he
takes a taxi to Sl%eichtner's Egyp-
tan Ray-Baths. Beginning to sus-
pect the place is some kind OF a
sfront," Cotton notices a stranger,
.tatooed with an Egyptian symbol,
who appears very apprehenslve
and who calls himself Pull1nger.
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BALKANS EXPECT
NEW AXIS DRIVE
Anticipate Efforts To Get
Greece To Cancel Bril-
tain's Aid Guarantee

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Oct. A.
p With Grman-made planes
cruising protectively over Ruman*
las oil fields and the Italian army
i~ockeying along Albania's Greek
frontier, southeastern Europe
looked tonight for a new Axis of
fensive, probably diplomatic. e.
A stronger Nazi-Fascist policy in
this corner of the continent, INCLUDE
ing new pressure against pro-Brit-
sih Greece, was indicated.
Balkan political circles were con-
vinced that Adolf Hitler and Pre-
mier Mussolini devoted a good
share of their Bremen Pass meet
ing today to discussion of a posi-
BILE new ''prestige' campaign in
this area.
They expected new efforts to get
Greece to cancel Britain's guaran-
tee of help against any threat to
Greek independence.
Some observers believed tn NV
Axis program may include an in
vitation to Hungary, Bulgaria and
Rumania to join the Axis in a
military alliance as part of new
pressure against Greece and Tur.
key, which also has British ties.
The sight of Messerschmitts
among 10 planes in defensive re-
connaissance flight" over Ruman-
ian oil fields was taken as an indi-
cation of the manner in which that
country is coming under German
military protection and guidance.
Rumors of government changes
favorable to the Axis were current
in Sofia, Bulgarian capital, while
in Hungary membership in the no
united Hungarian Nazi party was
reported gaining rapidly. {
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-05
WADE TO PREPARE
ARMORY DETAILS
Will Have Enough Plans
By Wednesday For City
To Fix Bond Issue Sum

James E. L. Wade, city commits
sioner of public works, said yester-
day afternoon that he would have
enough details on building plans
ready by Wednesday so that the city
and county commissioners will be
abb etoset a figure for which to call
a bond issue election for the pur-
pose of raising funds for the con-
struction of an armory-auditorium
here.
He said that he has gone ahead
in the work Of securing information
on plans and specifications for such
a building and that sufficient in
formation on the project will be
ready in a few days.
City Attorney William B. Campbell
and County Attorney Marsden Bel
iamy were instructed at a joint meet
ing of the city and county boards
Wednesday to draw up the necessary
resolutions for calling a bond issue
vote.
These resolutions are expected to
be ready by Wednesday, at (which
time a joint meeting is expected to
be held for the purpose of final &C.
ton on the matter.
Wade said yesterday that he was
unable to say just how much the
project will be set up for( except that
it will be large enough to care for
three National Guard units and an
auditorium.
Wade said that he knew definitely
that Co. I, 120th Infantry and Co.
A, 1O5th Medical regiment, have been
notified that their present armory
facilities in the old Marine hospital
are inadequate and have been con-
He said he had also been unoftl-
demned for future use.
cially informed that the w. L. I.
Battery A, 252nd C. Az had also
been notified that it's quarters are
considered by the army as 1naoe-
uuate in view of the fact there are no
gun-sheds there to house the three
big guns which the battery has.
AS far as he knows, he said, moth
ing has been said about the armory
facilities of Headquarters Battery,
252nd C. A., and the 252nd Regimen
tai Band at 814 Market street not
being adequate and consequently IN
the plans he is considering these
units are not playing any part.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-05
WILLKIE PROMISES
JOBS FOR AMERICA
Candidate Accuses New
Deal OF Putting Politics
Before Defense Needs
BY WILLIAM B. ARDERY

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. A. Up -
Wendell L. Willkie, returning to
Philadelphia four months after his
nomination as republican presidential.
candidate, accused the New Deal to
night of putting politics before de
Tense needs and declared that, ii
elected, he would lead this nation
back to work."
eff we are to make America strong
we must go to work." he told a crowd
under floodlights at Shibe park.
home of Philadelphia's big league
baseball clubs. "Only production not
orders-can defend us from aggres-
sors."
Willkie termed the nations de.
lenses even less adequate than four
years ago, charged the Roosevelt ad'
ministration with blocking the crea'
tive forces of our people," and de-
clared:
"The longer the United States re-
mains incompetent to defend itself.
the closer we are drawn toward wal
We must stop that drift toward war
81 want to lead the fight for peace.
I know how to lead that fight"
Wilkes speech, broadcast only in
the east, climaxed a swing across
Pennsylvania which began in Pitts
burgh and carried him today through
Harrisburg, Lancaster and Coates.
vile. He reached Philadelphia by
special train at 2:30 p. m. (EST) and
launched Immediately into a round
of brief speeches that took him
through miles of city streets.
Referring to President Roosevelt
~repeatedly but only as 1.-The third
term candidate" Willkie declared
that the New Deal has known for
"many years. that the nation was
faced with a preparedness problem.
Tt has not lacked the knowledge or
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-05
Col. Gillette
Is Ordered To
Fort Belvoir
Has Served As Wilmington
District Army Engineer
For Past Two Years
WILL LEAVE ON OCT. IS
Took Great Interest In Gen.
eral Development In This
Section OF The State

Lieut.-Col. George w. Gillette,
district army engineer here for
the past two years, has been order.
ed transferred to Fort Belvoir, Va,
according to army orders issued in
Washington yesterday.
He will report for duty at his new
post on October Is.
Col. Gillette said last night that
his new duties will be centered
around the engineers school at
Fort Belvoir and that his work will
probably include troop duty.
The transfer, coming as a sur
prise here, will give Col. Gillette
ten more days in which to clear
up all pending business in the Will
mington engineers office.
No Projects Pending
He said last night that outside of
a few routine matters there are
no major projects pending at the
present.
Coming here on September 2,
1888 to succeed the late Major
Ralph Mills as district engineer.
Col. Gillette has probably accom-
plished more in building up the
waterways and aiding in the con-
servation of natural resources in
eastern North Carolina in the past
two years than had been done in
several years previous.
His interest in the general de-
velopment of this section of the
state was as great, if not greater.
than any man who has served in
his position here, friends and asso-
ciates pointed out last night.
Only a few days ago, Col. Gil
lette was termed by Hugh Mac
Rae, Wilmington realtor and agri-
culturist, as lone of Wilmington's
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-05

A senate-house committee in con.
ference yesterday over the $780,
10000 airport appropriation item
which was voted down in the sen.
ate Thursday, took action which
retained $40,0 900, 900 of that amount
for direct expenditures on air
fields, Congressman J. Bayard Clark
advised r. B. Page, publisher of
the Star-News, by telegram yester-
day afternoon.
The. bill containing the airport
section then received final congress
sional approval and was sent to the
White House.
Congressman Clark said that $780,.
100000 contract authorizations were
stricken from the bill and the di-
rect appropriations were increased
from $50, 000, 900 to $40, 900, 900.
The number of airports to be
constructed is not to exceed $50,
these to be selected by the Civil
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+. TOKYO, Oct. 4.-GP-Japan thrust
two sharp warnings at the United
States today that any challenge OF
the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis would
tumble her into a flight to a finish"
Premier Prince Konoye, in his first
interview since the signing OF the
t~hree-power pact, emphasized Japan,s
stiffened attitude toward America
with the declaration that:
whether the Pacific will become
the Gene of war or peace solely de-
Ponds on whether Japan and the
United States respect each others
position. At the present, there is no
concrete idea of taking the Initiative
in negotiations with the United
States.'
Konoye, whose interview was with
the Japanese press at Kyoto, urged
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-05
F. R. SAYS ALL AID
GOING TO ENGLAND
Calls Attention To Rome
Dispatch Saying Axis Is
Out To Defeat Him

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. -RN
In response to a press conference
question, President Roosevelt
quickly and p%ointedly called atten-
ton today to a newspaper dispatch
from Rome saying that the Axis
powers we're tout to defeat him
in the coming election.
To this he added an assertion
that generally speaking, all aid
short of wal was going to Eng
land and that discussions have
been in progress on the possibility
of training Canadian f]iers in prl-
vate aviation schools in this coun-
try during the coming winter.
Not only did the President call
attention to the newspaper article
the leading story in this morn
ing's issue of the New York Times,
which is supporting Wendell l..
Willkie, the republican p%residen-
tial nominee-but he quoted at
length from a copy which lay upon
his desk.
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Senate-House Committee Provides
$40. OOO, 900 Fund For $50 Airp0rts

Aeronautics administrator after
they have been approved and GER
titled by the secretaries of war,
navy and commerce as being es-
sential to national defense, Clark
said.
From this appropriation New
Hanover county hopes to get funds
for which to improve Bluethenthal
airport so that it may lie used
by the army for the training of
filters.
Addison Hewlett, chairman of the
county board of commissioners who
was also advised by Rep. Clark of
the conference action, said last
night that the hopes for securing
the necessary money to improve
the local airport now rests with
the three departments.
"Our problem now is to see that
our airport is included in that $50
to be developed" he said.
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Available
Wells Are Put
Use Here
City Turns To Buckets And
Pump Handles Because
Of The Salty Water
NO RELIEF IS EXPECTED
Maffitt Sounds Warning OF
Worse Conditions If High
er Tides Occur Here

It was back to buckets and pump
handles yesterday for Wilmington
as mounting salt content m a d e
the city's water supply undrink-
able, forcing residents to go to
private wells for their drinking wa
ter.
With no relief in sight. all avail
able wells in the city were being
put into shape yesterday and last
night by the city department OF
public works and it appeared that
this supply might be sufficient to
meet a curtailed consumption of
water on the part of the residents.
"There doesn't appear to be any
chance of using the water any
time soon,"- M'Kean Maffitt, SUI
p~erintendent of the water depart
ment, said last night.
ut all depends on the rain," he
added.
1A
Maffitt also sounded a warning
of worse conditions should unusual
ly high tides occur. In that event
there would be more salt in the
supply than ever, he said.
But while waiting for rain-and
the weatherman sees none in sight
the city has gone ahead making
the best of the situation. Hourly
yesterday new pumps were put in
to operation and the newspapers
were informed of their location SO
that the information might be rele-
gated to the public.
All over the city the water be-
came too salty to drink. There
was plenty of it, but the residents
preferred not to try it.
Soft drink stands and cafes re-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-05
WOOD FIRE DANGER
HIKED BY WEATHER
Warden Jones Says Any
Blazes Started Now Are
Hard To Control

The danger of forest fires at this
time of the year in view of the con,
tinued dry weather, low water levels,
and accumulation of underground
was cited last night by Dawson Jones
Of Leland, Brunswick county forest
warden.
If any forest fires should start
now, he said, they would be hard to
bring under control and cause con-
siderable damage in loss of wood
lands and game cover.
Jones urged hunters and the gen
erla public to use extreme caution
and take care in reporting any fire,
small or large, so that blazes might
be quickly curbed.
Hunters were warned not to throw
lighted matches and cigarette butts
Continued on Page Three)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-05
Raj Bombs Dutch Coast:
Nazis Raid London Again
NAZI SHIP SUNK
British Claim That Planes
Have Returned To Nor
wegian Theatre OF War

LONDON, Oct. 4-R-Royal All
Force pilots rode afar today
bombing the German-held coast .:
Holland in a continuing counter
offensive that already had STRUCK
from western Germany to the
channel ports of France.
simultaneously, the Admiralty
disclosed that British naval planes
had returned to the distant Nor
wegian theater of war sinking 6
2,0O0-ton Nazi supply ship in Bjorne
ford south of Bergen and leaving
a 5%,000-tonner heavily on fire in
fore and after holds alongside the
jetty at Haugesund. One British
dive bomber went down in this
foray.
Dry Description
The RATS new daylight attacks
on the Netherlands shore were de-
scribed in the spare, dry phraseo-
logy of the air ministry's first an
nouncement simply as directed at
Nazi "objectives."
But in wide, earlier assaults the
Raj was declared to have hit
many German barges-of the type
assembled for the long-awaited in
vasion of England that has never
come-as they lay in the winding
Mas river off the river port of
Heusden, Holland. and to have ac-
complished elsewhere a broad
mission of destruction.
These, the British declared Off
cially, were some of the actions:
A German convoy of II mer-
chant ships, escorted by warships,
bombed off D%unkerque by a Brit
ish squadron that swept down low
through the mists to deliver the
attack. The results were obscured
by the haze.
Two shipping basins in Rotter-
dam attacked; communications
and oil storage reserves bombed
in the Cherbourg %portregion ; a
steel factory in western Germany,
near Vessel, attacked.
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ATTACK WIDENED
Industrial Midlands A n d
English Shores Are At
tackled By Nazi Planes

LONDON, Oct. 5.-(Saturday)-
Pail London was unde- attack
early today in the 18th consecu-
tive nightly German air raid, and
the streets were Uttered with spent
shrapnel falling from an anti-air-
craft barrage which hour u p o n
hour was lifted above the city.
The assault was concentrated in
the northwestern and southwestern
areas, but bombs fell, too, in the
very center of Londc-. One smash
ed through the glass roof of a rail
way station, just missing a ticket
collector and a passenger, but no
casualties were reported there.
Goth the Waterloo and Victoria
stations are rooted with glass.)
The attack spread CT from here
to the industrial Midlands and 9TH
err areas of England and Wales.
1t was the customary follow
up to daytime raids in which the
Nazis, flying solo or in tight little
wedges, joined the German big
berthas of Cap Girls Nez in scorch-
ing the English shores cnd ship
lanes with bomb blast and shell
fire yesterday.
1t was the end of the fourth ter
rible week of punishment for Eng
lands capital. And tonight, be-
meath a sky like one vast piece of
watersoaked cotton, central Lon
don's anti-aircraft roared furious
" for two hours to keep new raid
ers at a distance.
Along the southeast shores of
the island, over chalk cliffs and
feudal castles, the bombers came
today-usually one at a time,
dropping their loads from low
clouds on the areas that might be-
come the bridgeheads for invasion
British officials said their work
was "haphazard'; but acFnowleg-
ed that the towns and villages of
the southeast were hard hit and
that there were dead and wounded
among the people.