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Dr Chas. Hill's babics! were bonnier in the good old days befor
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FLOATING VOTE
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Col. Blimp thinks planning is confusing! If the nation doesnif know where it's going!! it can't lose it way.
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The racers with prosly t
Saturday At The Diamond Horseshoe
The man they couldn't kill
by
BILLY ROSE
THE other night I dropped him to the attention of a quartet
A mto
news-
a grog shop 011 1st Street where papermen usually go, be tween assignments, to exercise their cloquence Land elbowà.
"What's the most improbable story you ever saw in print?" I arker a police reporter.
"The one about Indestructible Malloy."
"Indestructible who?"
"Mike Malloy was the name,"
member the
of enterprising characters-Uie joint's
proprietor, the bartender, cab-driver, aut, of all things, an undertaker. If the bum was bent on liquidating himself, these entlemen told themselves and each other, R was only fitting and profitable to help him out."
So, suiting felony to thought, Urey changed Mike's status from that of an indigent to that of an Investment by taking out three insurance policies on his life,
And, in order to speed up the sad the reporter, "and I re- natural course of events, the
details because advancement for St was one of the first stories I invited Malloy to drink as much ever covered....
as he liked.
About a year before the end of Prohibition, a bum named Malloy began to hang out in a sawdusty speak on Third Avenue where he did his darnedest, dreamer that he was, to create a rout shortage.
his
It wasn't long before single-minded purpose brought
TWO NAVIES TRIED
TO SINK THE ROMA
-but she still floats!
By
Frank Goldsworthy
a
Frank Goldsworthy, formerly
British Intelligence Officer at Gibraltar and in Italy, in carlier instalments told of Italian human torpedo attacks on Allied shipping. Here he tells of an attack Italians made against the
and German's
its astonishing sequel.
111
Peter
But at the end of a month, though Mike had poured enough booze down his gullet to corrode
wachtub, he was, if anything, in better shape than before.
When the tub for liquor be- came even more staggering than murder the bum, the amateur
upfice his syndicate began drinks with various ingredients, of which wond alcohol was the least lethal.
Jui Malloy's elbow never broke stride. Whereupon, they nied free lunch to his diet- Tainted-sardines"Navoured witc ground-up bits of the can. The bum, however, didn't even develop a heartburn.
BY this time, the benettelaries,
rendized that the way to
pleted line of blockships Into Lathorn there is no trace of the the old man's insurance 1905 the old harbour would yield new type ever being used net-through his stomach, arch only half a port through which operationally, to pump military supplies and food North West Italy.
Italienes who undertook the minion red two charlots, the Betish version. of the human torpedo. At the darkest period of the mon an Italian ercort Two hours after veel sailed from Leghorn to a visit to the harbour 1 point 20 miles off Genoe,
to the roof of a high Then two electric Lunches which was later to were lowered into the see with o chariots in tow, British MTBS towed the launches within five miles of the port. Finally the Baunches, chosen for their silent uperation, towed the chariots, with operators astry, to walkin two miles of the coast and east them off.
One chariot broke town
half
House.
to one leery night after he had! The Genoa torpedo was the passed out, they dumped him fest of its kind to fall into into the hackie's cab and drove The Roma was still there on Allied hands, but reveral others in a deserted spot near The the morning of April 28 when were later found at an expert-Bronx Zoo,
went into
Genua
with the mental station near Venice, and 92nd Division of the American one of them is new
There in the
they deposited tre Fifth Army.
11 hydrant and, Imperial War Museum in Lon-hear
for Parler
the anke It my first don
carefully bugs, went on The end of the war-and for Pneumonie building Genoa it ended with the nuns covered him with cold water. Le Navy urrenter of German forces The following afternoon the
within the port-did not dish
bums walked into the bar, com- Adrift in the harbour I saw the Work of the underwater
plained he had caught a cold, the Huma She was still atout, men, and the strong east wind had Genoa wng thick with mines, and said he needed a few shots broken her mooring ropes, The drawn from the German navy to fix him up. inter gate was clear!
stures and rowed with prodigal What Fate obviously needed, abandon
German by
naval
the partners decided was a alrers within a few days of
kick rather then a nudge. The surrender In Italy.
next time Malloy passed out. their total
counsel had ruled that thee again took him up to the Wiser the demolition charges Inidronx but instead
leg the quays should not be him the water treatment they of giving
blown, but fragically for Genoa ran the taxi over his body two nobody stopped the minelaying or three ins
Double Miracle THE Germans bad dumped 73
magnetie and acoustic inines a mile from the harbour With in the harbour and tugs could not a chided torch the operators be used. It 1፡1። three days
Standing before led up the latinich
the Huma would bo It erept in onkund by tu senward.
clear
the 1341 pick up the operators at the channe chariot was reuttled,
Thurs
the trad
Grinking dockrand workers explained
double miracle.
***
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Some weeks later, his frac- tured skull and broken the bum hrated, MRONG the naval prisoners agi sinusider
showed up again. There was anerem intelligence inters
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N the spring of 1945, I tion about barbour defences, found myself for the The RAF flew special reconnai- Labes surties, presentist in with first time on the plan- tittalled
quctures of the port. ning side, instead of the re- But there were many questions
Italian the pictures could mit answer, ceiving end, of an
Try thu parla an human torpedo attack.
dison t was the advice of under The Allies inul offensive in Italy was
mder way, Beth hands. In Floreure their head-
"Give us your German Voices and American publiers were quarters midg battling through the maintains gestions We shall
tide seconti chariot moved mys emme explosion" under the to the Bologna plains. Soon the newer."
chip just when we expected it, punter stal With tall middle oped Cap- alently towards the Entrance
Aut trat Fifth Army would be
artured torpedo laying offler. To our astonish---he was hirsty. American
DIAR. At the qurators sent bulges turned the force of the must he pulled frova un inner in Genea, and it would be ths in Forza I drew up the list.
How many fack
Geminian tea is the centre of the bet they saw Royal Navy's urgent
there an the breakwaters? the day of a torch on the quay and confined the danige paket his minelaying plan. open it as a supply port,
to a 15 foot gash in the torpedo haies 1 muusted that when the Where are they ai
heard tale? Which int
Butteral German Genoa has two mun harbosies,
war was over you would expect the old and the
Hog voreet. ROW.
Perks have pravchlodeti? Each 1
The German, guursing some Ja to help you clear the mines NOW desperate, the conspira- another otten ase thug met Uke they They lay stil, eyes Jet above
tos rounded up were Alial plan el filed. so you may its well have this," peacetime had an outlet tu
It showed that almost every ehhead; dop eagle, we cbruges near the the water, candy (a catbmerge a
Mike's faces
planted sca, and there
of a earnight all over their the two. For entrance!
into its basin had one or
in his Diey towed the ship
more minus. | vientißeation papera Kateway linkang:
Ga. Bul the
hock
their tort taid 17 A the huttle anotor phip position, month air photograph had bour grated boat? What is the Least switched
mineckels, and repeated The chariot demolition charges frt1. of the bubur en viges denial.
it ide
techniques 10 wwwwwvpura entrance conit ton
work we taxi-ver-the-chest shown the new port
true net! 1. it ever onenet moved forward, alid over the
blocked out the red dots one But he, 100, or the bottom Gut.
recovered the sulidly blocked with sunk and
at night? 1: there sufficient
Torqunt net
net and began the bett
Their smile vanished when, by one; but the mines' were a Dark Angel would have noth- capsized chips,
to the old har- clearance for a human torpedo mule trip serong the old harbour from the shore, they present the new type and unpredictable. ing to do with
Are there any already partly block to pass over it! Lour
"Porpricing"--Surfacing d which to blow
Many of the real dots remained Malloy, www
bat often enough in lip Feelwhips
ke.p their Nothing happened. ed, and clearly the
phathately red, and one of them Ikatlan intruders past workmen bearing the gap would be led before the entah for a humen Corpedo to Germans abandoned Genoa. So bad thaugh? If an operator the inner gate. The huge bulk drep down in the ship and it lang wwe.pl completely safe have called it quits, but what
area what for the gate between the two las in the purt harbours was clear, but lying at would be his best
fi
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a significantly convenient berth the town?
was the massive hull of the 30,-
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way out of the corner
000 ton crack transatlantic liner Quick Answers
Rom.
tu
The Italians had worked for WITHIN 48 hours the party long the hull. The plan,
work woult! of salvage bven needed to CUL through the towering
hull for carrier
shipping reach the modern berths in the new harbour,
The Answer
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MY
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the two
Tlas queries had been fisher! radio-equipped
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The Roma is still afloat, The the crew of a minesweeper. payments, the punks had spent
on Mike and be og of watebnen at the rails.
defied two An Italian which had
tug was los on noor $2,000 the ship
continued existence below In the darkness.
at drst sirless, his he warring: navies may yet sail the other What remed
their pro- worked their
insult to up the Kalans
a lung, arduous Atlantic again. Sup
learnt Reious job became In Leghorn we had
a balling fessional pride. usual, was
to sing the 500 ix.
We that a Spezia problem.
brought back from prisoners
One night, after Malloy had pro-German operators Garman mining officers from the years converting 1 hit an air-
opportunity
gone into his usital coma, they as quickly as bilge keels. But there were were awaiting an
but they knew prison camps, craft carrier. Renamed Aquilla answers, admont
Fifteen precious
shipping --Eagle-it
a few if we had been able to write to bilge keels.
at leghorn Rtle about these untested mines carted him home, put him to was within
away
bed and turned on the gas, And in the attack when the harbour master,
new type of fast "cock and were of no help. months of competition
stopped beat- To delay any longer with a
They asked permission to try when his heart RAP bombs wrecked the engue
pit model" human torpede. They
a quack called in the
abandoned missing?
Inter we their 12
mine. Bey all hope of by
mean to code rooms and
never arrived, with the waiting
learnt that they twice set off swe pint equipment and were doctor, who, for a fee of $100, it into service.
.the bum British ficers hiding with the rendezvous getting it
fold: be forced
See what you can do" certified that It was the only ship stilt
the attack might with the forpedo carried on a affont in Genoa suitable for particns among the mountains launch;
Surrounding Genoa, Then Italian and after
from the bad cylinder by rupes down anch
The undertaker arranged for blocking the inner gate. Months agents Bud stone down into the mean death at the hands of the motor launch. Once the launch They used to tow a magnetiseddled of pneumonia,
day they Fascist elements on the German broku have ells,
quays. Ond contacted
were the funeral, but it wasn't until weather drove them back.
lowing it from one basin to Mike
six feet was actually * among the dockyard workers, sale.
Streamlined The leader made up his mind.
other with a rowing boat. The under that the boys were con- aircraft and
sent them sauntering round
electric
was switched to the breakwaters
to bring back There was only about 10 feet of the ship. The belov
MONG the wreeks in Genoa 1 of but by
it ac- vinced he was dead. Como freak the answers.
water
time clock set to found their torpedo, un- tiat
luate el mino uncomfortably The information was noted on warhead, its the charts, Captain Forza made explode the charge at 7am damaged and still on chocks on near to the rowing boat. Five
harbour mud
the deck of the trawler which
German mining his plans. Only a few hundred was left on the
it to Genoa when tho ofterr coine ashore wishing EVERAL weeks later when the Roma, there below the ship, a little to the took yards from
side where a heavy Germans retreated from Spezia more fervently than ever that the insurance companies got "Tony" was breaks in the outer mole starboard
The orthodox human torpedo, they had left the mines in the around to settling up by Morse, Flug Onteer, Western where the Germans bad ex- explosion might cause the ship
nice twist all four members, of on which men sit astride, is storehouse. their demoll- with a conference and perimented Italy, called
10- to capsize. sunken ship
severely limited in speed under-
the gang were in gaol for other said: "We must sink the ship on charges. A
water
offences, because of the terrine at her berth before the Germans only partly alled it, and the
on the operators' water drag showed No
Naturally, the companies in can move her."
photographs Minehelds and coastal gus atruction net. It seemed ideal, IEN back went the charlot boilies and legs.
The new across the old harbour, over
outwardly type,
MANY of the red dottir vestigated, and the end result murderers wero ruled out bombardment from but Captain Forza, who had
An air attack would spent all the war planning such the entrance net to the seaward streamlined, carried the opera- positions were, of course, only was that the
rendezvous and safety,
tora inside a cockpit like that approximate-never yielded to charger with murder convicted have required more alceraft operations, turned it down.
Tho escort ship, steaming of a light aeroplane. It was orthodox treatment, but it was and sentenced to the chair. Than
were available
"Too obvious" he said. "Too
10 Leghorn
Hashed: specially designed, with a speed never quite certain that they
Anxi a few minutes before theatre at that time, would have good to be true. The Germans back
of six knots, for a
would not respond to the pre- daylight uccomplished."
the switch
they was pulled, further damaged the port and are not such fools. There must "Mieston
on reconnalsance attack Gibraltar harbour, sence of a ship.. But when the probably destroyed the goodwill be a net below the surface,"
So in the end it was the confessed, wanted! to
in preserve
And we know later he was plane brought back pletures made too dangerous for night
after the clock attacks by
continuous underwater almost
men-ex-saboteurs
"That's the true story of taken an hour right. Genoa.
Malloy," rald answer was a human
was due to explode, the inter- charge dropping. It was thought and ordinary dress divers--who Instead he chose to send his
new torpedo'n six knot wrote
the final chapters in Indestructible
the police reporter, "and when tolling and Venice, torpedo attack, Captain Ernesto men in over the sugging net at preters said: "The ship is still the
enable it to slip Genoa speed would
17 years ago, Forza, commanding Italian as the old harbour entrance, And alleat, apparently undamaged."
of the it was printed the darkness through The verdict was the same when Dirough the entrance fully sub- sault units on
declined the Allied alde, he
a suggestion that
finding harbour bottom
the hardly anyone believed it." motor torpedo bonts low obilque pictures were ob- merged while the protective net was asked if his men could British
demolition mines and laying we was lowered forn chip. create
diversion tained, Back in Leghorn undertake
operation. He should the
simply could not understand it. The Italian Armistice ended charges alongside them.
who made even said. "It Isn't half ns cockeyed So the men
despatch from replied: "It is just the sort of further along the coast,
"L1 everything seem
A few days later the Roma that scheme because the Italians
for the recent harbours dangerous Job wo have been walling for."
Into its blockship' had planned to use their secret kafa was moved position astride the gate. It bane in the Ollerra to launch
role and robbed mined ports of with uranium." to reach peril, attempts seemed that the hard work of the attack. Apart from the two ships in the end reversed thefe Moscow about slicing mountains breaking through the now com- abortive
the sett.
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The
the in
ab-
It was my tank as intelligence normal as possible," omeer to tho' port parly then request. waiting to move into Genoa to
hla was
There were no Brillish opera- four gather overy serap of Informators available, but the
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