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Evening star., 1943-11-04
Z Aussies Reported
Decapiiaied by Japs
Ey The A Associated Pres

Hy The Associated Press.
PORT ELIZABETH. South Africa.
Nov, 4.-Travelers from French
lrdO-China say % Australian
prisoners have been decapitated in
that Japanese occupied land for Iea-
sons unannOunCed
They were d part Of 965 prisoners
held by the japanese in Indo-Chlna.
A traveller said $50 Australians were
still lnterned near Saigon and others
were used IN road and railroad work.
Their condition was described as
pltiful. They are worked hard and
are forced to beg bread from friendly
natives, it was declared.
The travelcrS said eight United
States Army air officers who got out
of the Philippines by crossing the
China Sea in Chinese Sampan were
captured by the japanese after their
arrival at the port of Nhitran in
April, 1912, but then escaped into
China.
The airmen. their rank and home
owns unstated. were listed as Ralph
FrOliClS, H. Stevenson. Robert
Hughes, James LadsOn, A. H. James.
r. T. TIiOn, Z. A. Peterson and H. Z.
Brandt.
Evening star., 1943-11-04
Mrs. Harold Phillips Dies;
Wife Of keWspaperman

Mrs. Harold w Phillips, 48, wife
of the copy editor of the Washing
ton Daily News, died today at her
home, 5615 Roosevelt street, Be-
thesda, Md, after prolonged i'll
ness.
Mrs. Phillips, native of Vine
Grove, Ky. had been a resident of
Washington since the World War
She was a graduate of the VickS-
burg (Miss,) Academy. The former
Hazel Cook, she married Mr.. Phil
lips II years ago. They have nc
children.
Evening star., 1943-11-04
Wi|lkie to Broadcast
Analysis Of Elections

Wendell l.. Willkie. 1910 Repub-
llcan presidential candidate. Will dis
cu5s the implications of this week S
elections on the March OF Time
program at 1870 o'clock tonight
over WRC, it was announced today
Col. Leonard Wray, veteran of the
9th Air Force raids over GERMANY,
will give an eyewitness account of
the new German rocket gun in ac-
ton.
Evening star., 1943-11-04
Jops Claim Sinking
OF Allied Cruiser

LONDON, Nov. 4 lP,-Tho Berlin
radio broadcast claim by the jap
arcSe imperial command that an
Allied cruiser vas sunk today during
landing attempt on the Japanese
held island of Mono in the Solo
mons.
The broadcast said another Allied
cruiser was damaged.
There has been no confirmation
from Allied sources.
Evening star., 1943-11-04
Raids

'CONlnueO from FllSt Pa9eN
haven. Five heavy bombers and two
fighters were lost.
It was the seventh American at
lack on this strategic North Sea
naVa! and Shipbullding base and an
official announcement said the load
Of bombs dropped yesterday was
greater than in all the previous
raids.
1t was the first time I realized
the full meaning Of air power" de-
clared one Fortress waist gunner
who had been on several major
missions.
Capt. Marvin D. Lord of MilWau-
kee. a squadron commander. said
"four-engined bombers were flying
along like naval armada. We
must have been spread out for 90
miles when the bombs started drop
ping
"a NaZi Fighters Downed.
The bomber gunners shot down
l8 German fighters. while the Thun-
derbolts and LightningS were bag
nln2s' first mission escorting heavy
bombers in this theater. and the new
combination was hailed as a great
success.
Other 9th Air Force operations
yesterday, including Marauder at
.tacks on three Nazi air bases in
France and Holland, brought Ger
man plane losses for the day to 48
This was exclusive of two reported
down over England during the night
as the Nazis staged another light
nuisance raid. Some damage and
casualties were reported
Meanwhile. a recapitulatiOn at
Algiers of the great raid Tuesday
on the MesSerSchmitt assembly plant
at Wiener Neustadt, Austria, dis
closed that so Nazi fighters we're
shot down instead of 80. AS first re-
ported, Allied bomber losses were
raised to II.
Evening star., 1943-11-04
Gripsholm Travellers Report:
japanese Preparing Feverish|y
To Mobilize All Eust Asia

Russell BrineS, en- route home
on the Gripsholm after nearly
tlOo years OF internment by the
japanese in Manila and Shang-
h0i. tells in the tolloWing dis
patch OF Japan'S plans for hold
ing the East Asia empire she has
conquered. Mr.. BrineS SerUcd in
the Toxic and Manila bureaus Of
the Associated Press before he
'cdS captured at the jail OF
Mdnild.)
Evening star., 1943-11-04
Gov. Johnson Stricken Aouin

JACKSON, Miss, Nov. 4 CP.-
Gov. Paul B. Johnson suffered a
second heart attack yesterday but
his physicians took immediate rene
dial action and the executive was
resting quietly at his Hattiesburg
home today.
Evening star., 1943-11-04
Chicago Grain

CHICAGO. No, -Faro-abrs var
developments prompted tda-,o1 II
grams TODAY. Selling through rouu.s-
sion houses was heavy at tunes and wasa.
led do1nturn evJendlu7 10 more tHan
a cent The merEet lacked al~0st com
3,etoiv Tie roUmo.Ca al demand which had
advarCCG Hr.CeS CGE!jrT IN he wee.
Weakness IN gcCGr'ieS aDo cotton Hsd
depressing influence on Grains. There
70 the possible cCecf o. anv oariv rezce
in FUrCoc The ms~-or operated uvrer
he influence Of variety OF rumors cor
cernine The possibility Of A crackup n
German resistance
A. The close wheat Wa 7s-ri4 love,
than ycsterCsT., finish. December Il .5Fss
MAY. : 30 e-.4. rye was down sal cen.
Pee mboy, - l'7a-Il3, oafs were OF
Evening star., 1943-11-04
Odd-Lot DeuIinos

PHILADELPHIA Nov. 4 lP.-The Seclri-
eS C9mmisSlon nm bo reported oday these
dealers or. specialists on the New York
Stock Exchange for November 3 5.Ol5
purchases involving 136.Ss1 shares. 41So
sales involving 113.O36 shares including
a5 short sales involving $50 shares.
Evening star., 1943-11-04
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The Sun and Moon.
PRECIPITATION.

Monthly PRECIPITATION in Incl
tcurrent month to dateJ
Evening star., 1943-11-04
Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK, Nov. / Dr.-Lste foreign
exchange rates follow Great Britain N
dollar, others in Ccr.sl.
Canada OMCial Canadian Control Board
rates for ed States dollars. buying. 10
Pc cent premium s"lNne, II per cent
premium: eQu.valou. to discounts or Cana
dian dollars in New York Of huylns, 9.9l
per cent. selling q 90 pcr conf
Canadian dollar IN New York open r'ay-
ke' l0la per cont discount, or SA.~7ra
United states cent
Europe Great Britsin. Official Bankers
FoTelcu E%Chanee Committee rates buy.
inC o.: selling OF
Latin America. Argentina Official ca77;
free. - DON. Brazil official, 6u5n free.
BON. Mexico. 90 65n
Rates in spot cables unless outhervlss
indicated
Evening star., 1943-11-04

CorpuscleS, as well as corporals
can fight. Enlist yours at the Blood
Donor Center, District $500. Enlist.
ments accepted at your convenience
Evening star., 1943-11-04

Continued From First Page
Evening star., 1943-11-04

'fufhlShed by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey)
Evening star., 1943-11-04

Report for Last ~ Hours.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16

doubtful but his wife and children in Chile are
genuine. He has overstayed his visitors visa
and is going 10 take the next steamer for
Chile-or else
Count G III G did just that bat when the
steamers farewell whistle blew il was topped
by the scream Of frustrated love uttered by
Merry on the pier That was one accident
which DID not quite happen.
The next one, which came just ten days
later would have gotten her -iHte- IEhe's
Stewed in America, had That promised volume
ever been published That evening she left
her parents Chicago home TO get something
at the drug store and did not return. All night
her mother imagined terrible things but fact
proved stranger than fiction and worse.
a man in a car had yoo-hooed at Merry
It was Frank van Eiszner, friend she had
known from childhood SO they went for
ride. And since this was during the Prohi-
bition era they visited some Of Chicagos
best-known speakeasics Though the two had
been acquainted almost all their lives there
had never been any talk Of marriage between
them, but somehow, about the fifth speak
easy, it seemed like good idea and Merry
said
Let's do il right now ~
Kind Of complicated getting married In the
middle OF the night" Frank objected We'll
need lot OF help"
They picked up Franks brother Donald
who. after few drinks, consented 90 be best
man. also Norman Peterson and Noel See
burg who agreed 20 be witnesses After forti.
fying themselves with a few more drinks
they went 10 justice Of the peace who tied
the matrimonial knot
Where they thought they Were going from
there IS something nobody remembers but
where they actually went was 10 the hospital
be no. bC IA fr.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16

ERRY FAHRNEY, Chicago's high
M explosive heiress, has fled 20 the
W. Argentine which had better tie is hat
on tight because she is IAN accident on ~
way TO happen Ask any of the five husbands
she left behind her
Three Of these have told the courts she
loved them and left them but two assert she
Just left them and she forgot one marriage
the very next morning
The matrimonial merry -Eo-round began in
Chicago in the year 1881 when she was
mere sip Of gIrl Of % Observation-Disclosures
years, that included parachute jump in
which an aviator trying To help disentangle
the foulcd lines OF her parachute, lost his life.
Her parents were Quakcrs, interested only
IN enjoying peace, quiet and The S6oooOOO
left by the girls grandfather, Peter Fahrney,
inventor Of a couEh-appeasng syrup Then
the stork brought Merry and they lived hec-
tically ever after
They approved OF her first husband, Hugh
Parker Pickering who. up TO that time, had
been a serious. minded young man, just the
sort 20 be q good influence on an obstreperous
daughter The marriage lasted almost two
years Mr. Pickering later married another
heircss. Charlotte tChottyi Miilburn.
Merry $ first marriage might have lasted
little longer and died with yawn If Picker
ing had not brought n certain guest home
for dinner re was n handsome young for
cigucr bearing the title Count Giorgio di
Giorlio az italy and C'iulc Many a husband
has rfuratcd his wife by dragging home an
unexpected dinner guest but Merry vas de-
lighted They We're living IN a Chicago
hotel where their son Peter Fahrney I'd
was being gently brought up by the elevator,
and the hotel help also relieved the mother
Of All housekeeping chores Her delight over
Count Giorgio seemed 20 Mr. Pickering SO inn
moderate that after six months. he made this
announcements:
If ! find the Count around this apartment
again III get divorce
"Aw lct me get it, said Merry and he
dId with the stipulation that the custody Of
their son should 20 60 the mothers parents.
With her divorce decree in one hand and
a check book in the other, she was all set TO
marry the noble III Glorgio, except for some.
one 20 give away the bride and Just then in
walked an mprcssive-looking man who asked
IL she was Mrs. Hugh Pickering.
YES" said Merry and added with one Of
those sudden inspirations for which she is
famous and, though you don't know il, you
are going 70 give me away at our wedding
which will follow Immediately"
Il doubt it," said the stranger. Il am Cap
tain Michael r. McDermott Of the Bureau Of
Alien Investigation and if there is any at
tempt at a marriage ! shall give the bridei
groom away. might as we'll do it now.
Count Giorgio d Giorgio's title in Italy is
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16

pected legal counter attack, but She recap
tured her freedom permanently the result
OF a third and decisive courtroom battle At
one stage of the matrimonial war Arturo
blockaded his wife in her hotel for As hours
with squad Of process servers.
Then she had herself locked in a trunk and
shipped out of the hotel by express, right
under the noses of the enemy.
With persistence worthy of a better cause,
Merry went right after another title This
time she married Count Oleg CaSsiui. with
Italian, French and even scandinavian raml-
fications. But il wasn't long before this mar
riage also went on the rocks.
The Countess alleged that he hit her SO
hard she had to consult doctor before con-
sulting her lawyer The Count brought
countersuit naming six correspondents, but ne
gave only their initials She named only one.
In this particular divorce the first symp-
toms of Nazi influence appeared in the burly
form Of Merrys lady bodyguard. Frau lrW-
gard Hasselbeck. who hustled back 60 Ger
many to get into the present war which was
then just starting
People We're SO unkind as 20 laugh az
Merrys misadventures and Judge YarkNiche
OF Los Angeles Superior Court, I'm the course
of granting her an annulmcut had thrown in
a good scolding. But there was one seteot
people who we're a flattering exception The
German Embassy at Washington sympathized
understood and were very. very Kind 20 tho
poor little rich girl and somebody presented
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16

did not concur and promptly
had II annulled-
Merry might have been off
marriage for life except for
one thing she felt that
every well-addressed woman
should have title and, since
Count Giorgio dj GlorgiO
failed 20 come back she next
married Baron Arturo Ber-
llngicri. also Of Italy This
time she kept sober enough
TO make sure that she didn't
wake the morning after in
hospital and married 20 some
old friend
Merry and Arturo could
speak no common language
except the universal one Of
love, which Merry thought
was an advantage because
they would be unable to
quarrel without an inter-
prefer. That ingenious idea
proved 10 be a fallacy be-
cause they were soon on the
divorce warpath.
Merry won her divorce.
only 20 lose il in an unex-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16

he had TO show her the
certificate before she
would believe him 1t
so happened that Nh.
and Mrs. Fahrney had
always liked Frank
and now approved this
match too but MerT-N
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16

awful head" TO ask what had happened.
Frank was trundled in with wrenched back
and the news that his brother Donald was
dead. Norman had a broken arm and Noel
broken hip.
When did all this happen? ?" Merry wanted
to know and Frank told her that il was some
time after the wedding.
"Oh, did we go to a wedding? Who got
married."
You did Don't you remember ,"
mo who would l marry? Wait! Don't tell
me. / know-the Count must have gotten
back"
you married me. Merry" said Frank, but
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16

of all was Herbert
Won Strempel first
secretary of the German Legation.
Then, just AS Merry's life was all sunshine
again German prestige began 10 slump and
after Pearl Harbor dropped 20 zero. Her friend
Herbert hid his super-race couutenance from
the public in general and the F. b. l. in par
Ucular All this was too much 10 endure SO
Merry told the entire United states what
she thought of il and announced that she was
leaving il forever
Did anyone care? Oh yes. Uncle Sam
cared enough TO refuse a passport TO his niece
on the grounds, it is said Of her deep friend
ship for Won Suempel and other Nazis Merry
was stunned at this and OF first could think
OF no way 10 get around the refusal Her
four attempts at marriage had been dismal
failures and yet she now reverted TO the
puWeral feminine first principle When in
carbt 7nd trutti'}r. get married
Thus u came 90 pass that Mr. Nils Kurt
Holm "a Swedish waiter working in New
York. RESTAURANT almost dropped sizzling
steal, when a stranger asked if ne wanted TO
earn 1000
What have ] got 10 do 90 earn it,
Just marry girl and give her a divorce"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16

1t sounded too much like the movies until
the stranger explained that as the wife OF
neutral alien, the girl could travel to Argen-
tina and marry a man she really loved. The
proposition seemed sound 10 Mr.. Holm. who
accepted $3.50 in advance and next day met
the stranger and Miss Fahrney and took the
train with them to Cheraw, South Carolina
There they were married, he signed paper
received his other $3.50 He had scarcely
seen his bride and thought it was easy money
until the publicity over Merrys divorce.
Then Mr. Holm found himself accused of
being brute who had beaten his wife on
their wedding night when there hsd newer
been any such thing. lie could never return
to Sweden with that disgrace pinned on him
Nothing like this was in the bargain. There
fore he is endcavoring 20 have the divorce set
aside until his wife-in-uenic-only settles his
500 900 damage suit
Nevertheless Merry rates it az the most
successful Of all her marriages because got
her 10 Buenos Aires together with some of
her money. even IL Uncle Sam did freeze tho
rest Of his prodiRal nicce's fortune until she
returns, which Merry says viii be- never.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16

her with a gold
swasul<a to pin on
her breast incest
Of all was Herbert
Won Strempel. first
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-16

ERRY FAHRNEY, Chcago's high
M explosive heircss, has fled 20 the
kVb Argentine which had better tie its hat
Henderson daily dispatch., 1943-03-11
HISTORIC PHONE CALL.

THE e.. ' .,.lra a mIlll0u
.... ... ...'r. n..'. 90. .....
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Evening star., 1943-04-03
Robert Montgomery, III,
Back From Pacific Front
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, April Back
from South Pacific sea battles, Rob-
ert Montgomery, former screen star
headed today for Los Angeles. and a
reunion with his wife and two chill
dren whom he has seen only flve
days during the past two years.
Montgomery-Lt. Comdr. Henry
Montgomery, jr., to the Navy-ar-
rived yesterday with a 30-day leave
to enable him to recover from
tropical fever.
Its going to be wonderful re-
union" he said.
Comdr. Montgomery said he was
with the sea force which shelled
Munda. New Georgia. January s.
and Kolumbangara Island, January
"a He also served on a destroyer
on patrol duty off Guadalcanal.
Comdr. Gene Markey. former film
producer and writer now on the
staff of Admiral William F.. Halsey
also returned from the Pacific battle
area He was on Gaudalcanal dur
ing the heavy fighting and has
malaria.
Evening star., 1943-04-03
Subs Based at Malta Sink
& Axis Ships in I Years

By he Associated Press
LONDON. April "a British sub
marine f1otilla operating from Malta
has sunk 81 Axis ships, including
II warships, in two years, Capt. G.
w. w. Simpson said yesterday.
The flotilla commander. in a press
conference, listed as definitely sunk
four cruisers. eight destroyers and
10 merchantmen, including six
liners
In addition. two battleships were
torpedoed and fifth cruiser prob
ably was sunk. Dozens of other de-
stroyers and cargo ships were dam
aged, he said
When sailing from Malta to Alex
andria en- route home, Capt. Simp-
son had a chance to be on the other
end OF torpedoing After his ship
was sunk. he said. Il was swimming
about for AZ hours and had lots of
time for reflection"
1T seemed rather poetic justice"
he added