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BATTLE CREEK ENQUIRER AND NEWS BATTLE CREEK, SUNDAY, OCTOBFR 5. 1M1 German U-Boats Now Stalk British Vessels in 'Wolf Packs' 2 ft iMainlv Abotid FoISis in i New York) for the east and arts that went over big in one sec-j tion didn't do so well in the other. MM HI'. Subs Strike In Heart of Convoys At Night IIP Mm' ntw BY PAUL MANNING Correspond nt LONDON German U-boats attacking in the north Atlantic and off the coast of Africa once again become a great threat to British shipping due to the new method of attack they now employ, naval circles here say. The first large scale tryout of this new technique hunting in "wolf packs" and emerging at night up into the center of a convoy-occurred off the coast of north Portugal recently when a 48-hour run- ning attack by a small armada of U-boats accounted for at least six of the 23 ships in a convoy bound for Gibraltar.

A destroyer and a corvette went down. too. Two seamen from the ill-fated convoy, in describing the running battle which lasted through the night-times of two consecutive days. told how the jet black hair of one sailor hours. turned dead white in six As they related their story, the hands of the two seamen shook i just a little.

Not from fright, but from the reaction of reliving the shattering experience of first seeing life r.nd then seeing death to the tune of torpedoes and the cacaphony of exploding tankers. An English seaport had been the jumpmg-off place for the convoys not long but highly perilous trip thr-niiLh mine-dotted and sub- 1 a V. Alma ferRU-nn iSouorcttc Das lo'Aed. broken by Murray Fer death in 1937. The newly wedded pair headed for New York to surpri.

Alma's par entsand they ccrtair.lv Alma had done up her hair and donned Ions, matronly skirts for the' visit and her own mother didn't know her. After a hearty laugh all around. Alma went bark to less dignified coiffure and unpaid. I In IOCS, when the Fergusons were, at Proctors IJ.itn Street theater. Clarke Brow n.

a well known book-: uion them and ta.ked them into taking their act. I I i i Manning, NKA Service London correspondent, gives a graphic account I German navy rmplovrd its new and deadly technique of submarine attack- Fantasy Fiction Is Forte of 'Galactic Roamcrs9 Club Here marine-infested waters which stretch there was the unforgettable hsh "science' and "fantasy" fic-from Land End to Gibraltar. scene of blazing ships, burning wa- tion. numbers nine Battle Creek There were tankers filled with ter. vessels settling slowly at the residents as members.

'Caroline There were bigger snips packed to the gunwales with shells for the camouflaged guns which jut from every foot of Gibraltar's ma- a Husoanci. to cost a iake. She did not entha-e. but Mur- Rica, Panama and Jamaica. could visualise his future objected unreasonably, it seemed to Council Crest." so he wired Frank jestic north lace.

And there were or six nours ana more tins iirst some, like the one that these two'attacii continued with gun crews sailors manned which earned food a board the still moving freighters "Galactic F.oamers zation devoted to an organi reading and criticizing magazines which pub txperis on ray-guns, lime ma chinos and space ships, the local ciuo mcmbeis read liunureds of the magazines, keep tab on tn iatect "inventions" of the authors anc; in general make a hobby of! stndvmp the fiction i E. Evereit Evans of 131 South- west Capital avenue, is secretary of the Galactic Roamers ana has been instrumental in the organization of the "Michifans," a state-wide organization of a similar nation. Oilier local "Galactic Roamers" are Fred Merchant, Elra House, Alfred and Abby Lu Ashley, Jack Weidenbeck, Edwin Counts, Jack Hessmer and Allen Stanley. Evans, the Ashleys and Wieucnbeck plan to publish a i i tney got a cnance to De DOOKea at all. The Fergusons had changed their names to Murray and Alma Denver, because Murray felt It unfair to his old friend.

Barney Ferguson, with whom he had played in "McCarthy's Mishaps." to use the same name vaudeville. It was an unwise decision, as time revealed. Anyhow, Alma Ferguson was In her room at the Bradley hotel Chicago washing out her stage cos-turnery, when Murray rushed in and told her to pack quickly, for they were heading for Kalamazoo. Michigan. An act on the afternoon show had flopped miserably and the Denvers 'Fergusons! had been booked to replace it.

The bags were packed wet clothes and all and the pair arrived in Kalamazoo in time for the evening performance. It was the opening of pleasant relations with the Eutterlield circuit. The act was booked for Battle Creek and here. too. it went over well.

But in one audience sat Rob- ert Talbot and his wile. Fannie Sprague Talbot, and suddenly Bob nudged lus wife and whispered. "Do you see what I see?" She didn't but Bob had discovered that Murrav Denver was Murray Fergu- son. hose uncle. Walter Ferguson, was a well known clothier in Battle Cieek and lived in the flats he had built on South Division street just south of what is now Monument Square.

The Fergusons, like most vaude- ville actors and many of the legiti mate folks, staved at the Joy boarding house on North street a house only recently demolished in favor of a gasoline filling station. They had the front parlor. Natura.lv thev met mar.v Battle Creek folks and one of theni. Jay Marshall, picked up the hint that Ferguson wanted a farm on the shores of a lake and mentioned 26 acrPS al Beadle lake. it.

was a rnld dav 'November lfillt when Murrav Feigiison tixjk Alma, by horse-and-buggy, to in HWn the bleak shores of Beadle C. Koundy of Chicago, who had said he would go with him on a iake- side deal. iPast Imperial Potentate of the Shrine of North and still hale and hearty hi his no'si jumped on a train for Battle Creek, inspected the lake site and said fn well that 1912 he moved a and spent two months there, while the Fergusons were "on the Ferguson built a house In the prove on Council Crest and Alma has not forgotten how they moved in. Tiie house was not vet finished not, even entirely roofed but Murray simply could not wait. Alma had never done any cooking, but sh.e essayed to prepare the first! meal, from supplies rowed across the lake from the store.

As it grew dark she lighted a kerosene lamp critters out. Next day Murray I bought enough netting to build a canopy and thereafter they slept: peace. It was tiie Fergusons' first summer without working and they had a swell time, despite the obstacles. Beadle lake was then! approachable by the "jerkwater'' ter ineir usual season on the road." and one of tiie places they played was Waverly Park. Lansing, where George Black tlaler with the Battle Creek Oas Co.

and still later manager of Post tlieateri was in charge. They shared "top booking" with Cray, the Handcuff King While the Fergusons were doing their act, "The Elocution Field." in Chicago in Ben Turpm. the cross-eyed comedian, with the Ks-sany Film Co. became so interested that he urged them both to go to the studio for a screen test. Mur-lay balked, though Turpm 'then playing on the same bill at one of the Kohl and Castle theatersi went out of his way to make an apjxiuit- nient.

The Fergusons finally did go as far as tiie studio door, where Murray Mopped and said. "Let's to home. We don't have to belittle ourselves by going into pictuies. We have made good in vaudeville and there where we will stay." In later years, when pictures had become established, he regretted his earlier attitude. During the World war when the Fergusons were plaving Hammer- stem's theater.

42nd street and 1 1 i I Brown and crr.ison-aiid it de- veiopea mat r. was Because sue aid not want to leave her pe! at. "Buddy." home. A plot was hatched to sneak "Budtiv" aboard ship 'the The were al- ready in their stateroom when they i were informed that the sched- sai! until 6. They were advised to go a -iiore and awai' tiie later ins.

but. with "Buddy' stul Airr.a said a most emphatic "No Patient Murray Ferguson helped smuggle the cat onto me ship and helped hide it on the voyage, but he was convulsed with laughter when the dock at Colon was reached looking into tiie captain's cabin, he saw a big black tomcat emerging Still, he ran no ri'-ks. and Almas "Buddy" was smuggled ashore. When the Fergusons reached Colon thev were Jolted by the manager's lor the strategic fortress peninsula Premonition of Disaster As the convoy steamed along. It was kept in formation by the lew destroyers and corvettes which cir cled constantly like alert sheep dogs 0,, 1, trnm ahnv.

Occasionally airplanes would appear from out of the sun. Then all gun stations would be manned, with no one relaxing until thev had been recognized as the Catalina flying boats ordered to keep an eye on this group of ships steaming slowly along at their lumbering eight knoti each hour. Many times, the seamen said, they had the feeling U-boats were trail- ing and twice the destroyer nearest, their ship, winch brought up the rear of the convoy, would dart out and away and begin cruising fast in great circles, dropping depth charges for a tune until again it would set-tic truculently back into formation. Murh has been written about the Murray Ferguson, vaudeville yt.ir a long prnod of years, but le-s as been written about Alma Fer-u-on, who helped make his various bic-time acts po over, from lie da'. 5 when she was a mere child 'remarkable talent for ro the das when her fine sense of ronieav balanced Murray mn-ical talent and character this column deals with Alma! who Vill claims Battle Creek h-r home, ttioush she flutters around considerably and good money as an entertainer.

Alma Ferguson was born Alma Ha.u. professional debut as Alma Duprce. was known for rar as Alma Denver, and wound un her co-starring with Murray ryi-on as Alma Ferguson, in name i as well as in tact. Sh.e was a native New yorkrr the daughter of Joseph Ha la, a Bohemian from Prague. vlio migrated to America around 1380 and finished the family he had beun to rate in his native land.

1 He was a musician, expert with the ha viol, but he had to have money, sn he ooened a buttermilk and but ler shop. Of a.l the 11 Hala children. Alma germed the liveliest. She walked when nine months old. had a song- I "act" when three jears old.

and was always acting." Her brother, Joe. who wanted to be a baseball player (and was', but could a l-o well, helped little Alma Fmilv do her stuff at amateur en-lertainments and at eight Alma came rutin out and said she wanted to be an actress. Papa Hala said she did NOT. But siie entered a dancing school iClaud Alviene'si connected with the Orand Opera House at 23d street and 8th avenue and became a juvenile expert at and wooden shoe dancing "tap" dancing, thev call it now. She threw a highlv creditable clog and on the side she amused herself wrii baton twirling, which was as much a rarity for girls in those days as it Is a common stunt In these cavs oi scnooi oar.es.

rtiwmr iuuMut.ru i.te professional when she was 12 Far? old and sold the family an "act'' to feature her and her brother, Jr involved a huge cake, with holes through which four Negro bovs stuck their woolly heads. and from which dainty Alma emerged to do dancing. A fair- lv famous cancer. LaLeva. had prev- louslv used it paving tribute, course, to Mr.

Alviene. of I. was about this time that Mur- rv Ferguson, experienced trouper. I had an idea involving the of a little girl in his vaudeville act. He went to Sokol Uhe Bohemian Turners' halli to see an act someone had told him about and had his first glimpse of Alma.

Ke marie a proposition to the familv. secured a permit to sign up the 12-year-old dancer, and went en tour with his rew act accompanied by Mama Hala. Alma's professional debut was really made at Huber's Museum on It'h street, with six shows a dav. Then the set went "on the road" and later it returned to play the famous Tony Pastor's. It was such an event that Alma remembers the exac date May 2.

1904. She also remembers how at one performance, while spinning the baton, she fell and bumped herself quite badly. She made a hasty exit holding her li.p with one hand and the audience roared. At the next performance all was bark to normal but not for Tony Pastor, who had seen tiie show. He rushed to the gni's dressing room and wanted to know why she had eliminated the "comedy finish" of the act.

He did rot beliee tiie bump was not a part cf i lie act. Vaudeville seasons usually ended in tiie but Ferguson took "tompai-y" to tiie summer paiks. Usually operated by street-railway companies which used the "show" as bait to craw more passengcis to the playgrounds. The act eventually became Fer-gu on. Duprce tiie "Co." being a young woman.

Margaret Joyce. Later Ferguson replaced her v. Eddie Higgins of San Francisco, as the act was playing the Paciiic coast. It took a year to g' back to Chicago, with every week filled en route. The skit.

"Training a Hu-bnnrt." was developed, with Alma, still in her teens, playing a grown-up lady. That Alma was not grown-up. however, was often very evident. For example, when she saw the mountains while in Denver, she thought they were just at the edge of town and told Ferguson she wanted to walk to them. To appease her.

he started out with her and after they had walked miles Alma realized that she was practically no nearer her mountains than before. But Ferguson knew she would feel better if she found that out for herself. In 19Xi Alma's mother was taken ill and had to return to New York. To protect his young protege, lie introduced her everywhere as his sis- ter. Meanwhile he was falling in mimeographed report on club ac- i stantly obtaining more, besides pre-tivities here and in line with the serving the current issues of each yen of "scicntilans" to crea'e of the magazines and books as campact names, they call the pub- they come on the market.

He also lishmg venture a "fanzine" has a large number of the original The newly-organized "Michi- i drawings and paintings used in fans' will hold its first "get-ac-jthe make-up of the various maga-quaintcd'' conference in Jackson zines for cover and interior illus- The accompanying: story by Paul of a recenl sea battle in which the -r they had suddenly emerged up into the center of that long convoy which was straggling along in box forma- uon, firing as they broke surlace with periscopes. Attack Six Hour That's when the night became hell, the seamen say. For though some of those first quickly fired torpedoes mis-ed, many did not. and i 11 around in the death-cold waters which lie outride Biscay along the noruiernmost coast ot Portugal. trying their best to pour shells into the low-lying, deadly hulls of those undersea boats which dotted the water up and down the long line.

Destroyer and corvettes' fire finally did the job and then, with the suddenness with which it began, the at- tack stopped. Quiet reigned except for the shouts of men in the water and the hiss of escaping steam suddenly striking cold salt and the charS" plodmg in the distance. The formation drew closer that next day. Survivors, most of them, had been picked up by the tail-end boat. And as the bedraggled convoy slowly forward trying to put distance behind, preparations iii.iiuiia ii ooais noverea over head almost constantly.

Tnen it came. After nightfall, as before. arned of Approach The destroyers knew U-ooats were i And similarly, tiie Catahnas above could drop no bombs because at night the phosphorescent wake of a slow-moving freighter different from the churning froth of a stalking U-boat. So it was with shell fire that they fought. From nightfall to nearly dawn the fight went on.

When the ran out of torjedoes thev. too. emerging completely and. keeping pace with the freighters, returned volley for volley across the water in tiie desperate running battle to sink the other. Shattered U-boats, staggering from the direct hit of well-aimed shells, plunged to the bottom and then, with both U-boats and ships of tiie convoy reeling from the battering which both were receiving, the sea battle suddenly terminated, with the remaining ships of the convoy limping into Lisbon and the U-boat brigade disappearing in the direction of Gnz Nez.

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S. tM. 01 Invest in America! Buy United States Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps! or our "II onie Defense" Adopt the first question, 'Do you do a silent and the fun beaan. Mosquitoes, bugs act?" and flies swarmed in in droves and Naturally. "Training a Husband." even the netting they put over them-was anything but a silent act.

It was selves that night failed to keep the ition of the sciences of today, and the political and sociological effect of a future civilization on the ordinary person. While the stories deal with time-machines. spaceships, rayguns and inhabitants of other worlds, these are no more fantastic today than were the thoughts of telephones, television and airplanes a hundred years ago. Mr. Evans declares.

-Fantasy" fiction, on the other hand rtU with the imtnmin and the occult. It tells stories of the myths and legends of olden days; of mysticism and superstitions that still find a foothold in the minds of many peoples. The boundaries of this type are less limited than the rigid and logical developments demanded of the former. Unlike the readers of most types of magazines, the "Scieniifans" are ardent collectors of all the books and magazines containing these stories. Mr.

Evans has over 600 items in his collection, and is con- CENTRAL TOWER I nations. ff-fipMA ilill i sM I 3 Soffit! lli I pi i rnjijl I i mn S3 lHa During the early hours of the approaching by their asdic locators third night a heavy formation of and went into action Immediately. U-boats struck. Tney might have got some on tiie The submarine commanders had approach but they, like the planes waited until the mantle of night overhead, were hampered by the concealed them from the eyes of boats they guarded. They hud no those flying boats overhead then freedom of movement after the Gcr-they had moved in for the kill.

In man ships came up inside the con- in Enzlifh and the customers it had to entertain were The man-! ager explained that all Americans employed on the canal had to leave the city bv 6 p. m. and English-1 speaking folks tiie audience would i be few and far between. Yet the act went over with a bang thanks to Ferguson's siierb train from Battle Creek and by1 cornet playing and Alma's singing. hoisc-and-buggy.

The automobile and Saturday night she had a tem-dancmg and baton work. The not a factor In those days. perature of 104 while doing her stuff tives even caught the comedy During the summer of 1913. how- Jon s'age. The act was "The tions.

through the ever, the Fergusons went back to Spinster and the Old Soldier" and of gestures that accompanied the; the amusement parks and fairs, af- Alma had to do most of her work on November 16. About 100 fans are expectcl. Evans says he has been interesl-. ed stories of the pseudo-scicn- lific type since childhood. The type of reading, lie says, was made classic by Jules Vcrnr and Edgar Allen Poe, and has beer.

further developed and broadened by such present-day authors as H. G. Wells, Lovecraft and A. Mcr-i int. Mr.

Evans calls it "a logical projection of present-cay knowledge and activities into the future times, when man shall have lef-this little planet to roam the star-ways. Mr. Evans attended the naliona. "Scientifan" conventions at Chi-; cago in 1940 and at Denver in July of 1941. where he was a speaker, and was made national chairman of a committee which will prepare a plan of activities tc guide the various clubs, The "Galactic Roamers" is a typical fan club and has twenty-one members at present.

Nationally. Mr. Evans says, the "Scientifcans include univetshy, college and higiv school professors and business men, scientists of every calling, professional men, officers and men of the army and navy farmers, ranchers, factory work-; ers. clerks, housewives and busi-! r.ess women. Although "science" fiction and "fantasy'' fiction are usually classed together, there is a wide range of difference between them, ac-i cording to Mr.

Evans. "Science" fiction deals with a logical proiec- LET iDOYOim a precision formation of their own irom a seuce, as she could not stand on her feet for any length of time, After the show a doctor ordered her to the hospital, but she told Mur ray she would not go unless they could reach a hospital in Boston. Against his own judgment Murray bundled the sick woman into a car and headed for Boston. At Pitts-field. Ma Alma was carried into a room, too sick to travel another mile and it was three days before she even opened her eyes.

She 1 could not even be hospitalized then and tiie doctor advised Murray to I get a grill and provide hat food she could eat in their own rooms. The illness lasted eight weeks and left Alma in a weakened condition. Then came the depression and the i Murravs laid off. except for some engagements at fairs with a new "bench talking" act. It looked like a permanent retirement, but ill 1936 1 they began appearing in theaters and before clubs, with a character comedy and musical novelty act.

At 73 Murray could still hit high with his old cornet. The Fer- gusons were plaving Olean, N. when he was stricken with intes tinal trouble and died on Christmas befoie clubs and in community halls a.s "an entertainer of the gay 90 s. She also did an oriental act with a comedy "strip" and a "bathing beauty" burlesque. She learned to play tnc Swlss bells i given to Murray by Sidney Morrell.

who. with his wife. Nora, used them in their act in vaudeville) and altogether she built up an act that was worth while. Even last winter, while she was living in Detroit, she played several engagements and she will probably do likewise this sea- son. In fact, she is now considering siderable visiting, particularly witn her sister in Albion.

Wherever Alma Ferguson goes i she can always put on a show. She is still an actress we've seen that during our interviews with her for I this column. But nobody ever knows what she'll do next not even Alma Ferguson herself, G. B. D.

Broadway, they were offered a con- tract covering weeks in the army' For a long time Alma Ferguson camps cr cantonments, bit again had no heart to "carry on." Then Murrav balked. He didn't tnmkjshe began to accept engagements CENTRAL THRIFT PLAN! words. Instead of being told to go: home and learn Spanish, the Fergusons were booked for four weeks in Panama City. The San Carlos Opera company was performing in Panama I'y while the Fergusons were at another thca.er and the prima doi.na and Alma became close friends, though one could speak no Engli-n and tnc other r.o Spanish. In Panama Mr.

Ferguson on-tracted malaria and the cutlouk looked rather but he managed to gel aboardship without being detected and they stilled for Kmgs'on Jack Elms, manager of the Rock'ord Gardens King -ton. was an unc le of Mrs. Charles Creighton. Churl 's was and still is a Urother of James S. Creighton.

whom the Fergusons knew in vaudeville. At pre i.t he lives with "Jimnue" in Lake.iew. Kingston liked the act immensely. but the place came near ma: king the end of Alma Ferguson's career. Benson's wild animal menagerie as there for the winter and on the dav before Christmas the Fergusons vis- tile place.

Murray made friends witn a male leopard ami laueo Alma to ome and watch the beast purr while he scratched its foot. Alma thought it was up to her to sera ten the female leopard's foot, bit that animal juniixd at her and with one stroke ripped a finger open. Mur- ray hchx-d his wife out to a shelter- ing palm and ran for but she had fainted dead a'ay before he returned. However, the wound was dressed, and the show went on as usual. Then came four weeks in Co ta I Rica, with the natr.es still taking coast to Nova Scotia.

They were in Halifax during the worst storm travestv on elocution, when tne i manager at Fond du Lac. a brother of the Mclntyre end of the famous team. Mclntyre Heath i remember "The Ham started talking about the Butterficld circuit. then developing hi Michigan. Vaudeville kcis had long been book- bv the Western Vaudeville con- icern for the west and United Book- 1 I i lop with the rapidly maturing i the English speaking act in full with return engagements, "ciuld" and when sh.e was sixteen he i stride and then a return to New The Fergusons just missed the 1'ioposcd to her.

They were playing York in time to play a cold, raw se- bus that ligured in the sadly rein Chicago, on a bill that included ries of engagements up the membrred accident at Ten-a-Fly, A sound home-financing plan, that's the keystone of success in paying for your home. The cost of a Thrift Plan Mortgage is ro only 5fo net on your unpaid balance. You pay no commissions, no service charges, no renewal costs. Your payment is only $10 per month, for each $1,000 borrowed. Consult our loan officers.

ina Claire, and after a performance they went to Chicago Heights, acro: "the bovs' would like their type of an art. Finally he consented to play Camp Memtt in New Jersey, on an agreement that if he wanted 1 to quit after the first show he could have a weeks salary anyhow. The show went over big and encage- ments followed at Camps Dix, Mead. Ayres. Humphreys.

Eustis. Lee New Jersey, when so manv per formers were killed Paul Fetching starting time. In 1914 the Fergusons sub-divided Council Crest and began selling off lots, but they contuiued ui vaude- ville. The famous pair came very near being separated bv rieatn tn 1929. when Alma contracted double pneu- mon: while p.awng in A ban-.

Y. She would not quit the act Pioiection no further away than jour telephone! Phone now. Worgess Insurance Acncv 404 Post Building Phone 2-5468 tiie Indiana line, to be married. But Scotia ever had and it became and his wile, almost the whole Sully a new act in which she will be could not secure a license there necessary to cancel four weeks of family i father, mother and two sisted by a young girl an echo of and had to go on to Crown Point. 1 booking.

tsonsi and others. Thev knew- Eva! Murray Ferguson's experiment back Alma insisted on having a minister Time marched on and in 1911 Mur-! Sully, who survived, though badly in the early 1903 s. r.nd alter both had tried to locate ray Ferguson began to think of "set- I injured, and who is well known to- If Alma does not go back to De-one in vain. Ferguson finally con-j tlins down." He said he wanted "five day on screen and in rariio -the trcut for the winter, she will go to viuceri her that it was respectable. acres of land, by a lake." But what! team Block and Sully).

All that New York. She sold her home at as well as logical, to be married by lake? Fate decided, an edd way. prevented the Fergusons making Council Crest last year to Clarence a justice-of-the-peace. Alma had on Beadle lake, near Battle Creek. the death ride was that Alma simply Galen and has spent much of the thought it was neither.

The justice. I The Fergusons were playing Wis-i had to have her hair done at a past summer in a cottage on her named Nichols, probably had a lot i cousin towns, this time with a beauty parlor and forgot ail about Beadle lake land, though doing con- Central National Rank "The Bank of The People" MICHIGAN ot McCAMLY, BATTLE CREEK MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM AND F. D. I. C.

to do ith convincing her. but after she left the place, as Mrs. Murray Ferguson, she wept all the way down the long flight of stairs. This was no way to start a honeymoon and Ferguson tried to find out what was bothering her. "I hone you'll be good to me." was hrr sohnng answer.

Hp was and long and happy married life fol Drive Sofely Bring 'Em Back Alive!.

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