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From The Star Port     SOUTHERN STAR    Page 14

And while we're on this ghost-to-ghost hookup, let me relate just one more spine-chiller and I'll call it quits:
After the first World War, Russia was a shambles. The Romanoffs were slain and the Karensky regime was washed under in blood. Odessa, on the Black Sea, changed hands rapidly: White[[?]] Russian, German, Turkish, British. And a British destroyer cast anchor there -- cast and lost the anchor in the deep mud. A diver went down to retreive it and was brought up a raving maniac. He screamed of marching dead men on the harbor bottom --- ragged marching men with bloated drowned faces who converged upon him with military rythym, the moment he had touched the bottom.
Other divers went down. They, too, went mad, and some died after being hauled from the mysterious depths of Odessa Bay. All of them had been lowered to the shallow mud, and all had seen, moving uncannily in unison and with outstretched swollen arms -- the marching dead!
The explanation: The terrorists had thrown many men into the bay, their feet imprisoned by heavy leg irons, chained together to one another. The currents swayed the bodies in unison, giving an impression of mass military movement. The heavy irons held the feet down,the corpses upright. The bodies had not decomposed because industrial chemicals dumped into the bay had preserved them. The divers had gone mad from fear; the pressure, combined with nitrogen in the bloo and excessive discharge of adrenaline, had perhaps generated a deadly poison responsible for their deaths.
It is interesting to note that the man who arrived at this solution of the marching dead men, is a professional deep-sea diver named Captain John Craig and that one of his future tasks is to be submergence off the Irish coast in search of the continent of lost Atlantis, believed by some to lie there. Will HE find Atlantis? Or has Hitler's blitzkrieg caused him to be summoned to fight with his Majesty's navy in other waters --- perhaps even called him to the Black Sea and - Odessa Bay.
Wars have a habit of breeding ghosts. For example, the "Angel of Mons." Read Arthur Machen's weird tale of the phantom bowmen, and you will see where Edgar Rice Burroughs might have gotten his inspiration for Kar Komak and the phantom archers in one of his Martian stories. But now we're off on another track -- and that's another story.
THE END

HAVE YOU BEEN TO ATZOR?

You've been to the planets of the Solar System in your own private rocket ships. Now hop aboard the SOUTHERN STAR and visit Atzor located far beyond the reaches of sight in the realm of imagination where the tar Mira and her six planets Atzor, Samarkland, Bophal, Sthor, Atabalkand, and Zoltan have risen from the fertile imagination of a Lincoln, Nebraska boy to the point where they attained nation-wide recognition in LIFE magazine. Life gave only a few paltry details. Read the STAR for the inside dope.
A most unusual article by ART R. SEHNERT
In the third Southern Star

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From The Star Port SOUTHERN STAR Page 14 And while we're on this ghost-to-ghost hookup, let me relate just one more spine-chiller and I'll call it quits: After the first World War, Russia was a shambles. The Romanoffs were slain and the Karensky regime was washed under in blood. Odessa, on the Black Sea, changed hands rapidly: White[[?]] Russian, German, Turkish, British. And a British destroyer cast anchor there -- cast and lost the anchor in the deep mud. A diver went down to retreive it and was brought up a raving maniac. He screamed of marching dead men on the harbor bottom --- ragged marching men with bloated drowned faces who converged upon him with military rythym, the moment he had touched the bottom. Other divers went down. They, too, went mad, and some died after being hauled from the mysterious depths of Odessa Bay. All of them had been lowered to the shallow mud, and all had seen, moving uncannily in unison and with outstretched swollen arms -- the marching dead! The explanation: The terrorists had thrown many men into the bay, their feet imprisoned by heavy leg irons, chained together to one another. The currents swayed the bodies in unison, giving an impression of mass military movement. The heavy irons held the feet down,the corpses upright. The bodies had not decomposed because industrial chemicals dumped into the bay had preserved them. The divers had gone mad from fear; the pressure, combined with nitrogen in the bloo and excessive discharge of adrenaline, had perhaps generated a deadly poison responsible for their deaths. It is interesting to note that the man who arrived at this solution of the marching dead men, is a professional deep-sea diver named Captain John Craig and that one of his future tasks is to be submergence off the Irish coast in search of the continent of lost Atlantis, believed by some to lie there. Will HE find Atlantis? Or has Hitler's blitzkrieg caused him to be summoned to fight with his Majesty's navy in other waters --- perhaps even called him to the Black Sea and - Odessa Bay. Wars have a habit of breeding ghosts. For example, the "Angel of Mons." Read Arthur Machen's weird tale of the phantom bowmen, and you will see where Edgar Rice Burroughs might have gotten his inspiration for Kar Komak and the phantom archers in one of his Martian stories. But now we're off on another track -- and that's another story. THE END HAVE YOU BEEN TO ATZOR? You've been to the planets of the Solar System in your own private rocket ships. Now hop aboard the SOUTHERN STAR and visit Atzor located far beyond the reaches of sight in the realm of imagination where the tar Mira and her six planets Atzor, Samarkland, Bophal, Sthor, Atabalkand, and Zoltan have risen from the fertile imagination of a Lincoln, Nebraska boy to the point where they attained nation-wide recognition in LIFE magazine. Life gave only a few paltry details. Read the STAR for the inside dope. A most unusual article by ART R. SEHNERT In the third Southern Star Southern Fana -- Join the... SOUTHERN GROUP TRIP ...to the Dencon Open to all DFF members: