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Acolyte, v. 3, issue 2, whole no. 11, Summer 1945

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1945 cont. March 11. Thermometer drops to 28 below in London. International amity between Japan and the United States. SHIFTING SEAS, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Az, 4-37 March. Beginning of the Era of Non-Intercourse. (Historians' term for the hiatus in trade and in protocol between the US and Asiatics. SIXTH COLUMN, Anson MacDonald, A, 2-41 March 17. Miss Hilda Berkenhart of NY disappears in Quito, Equador; abducted by a man with wings. MEN WITH WINGS, Leslie Stone, AW 7-29 April. A Mrs. Margaret Harmon leaves Reno, alone in an airplane, after having secured her divorce, and is never heard from again. THE PHYTIC EMPIRE, Drald S. Walker, Az 6-35 Early 1945. Gasoline engined vehicles are forbidden use of the streets in all cities, a move intended to stop the increase in the number of cases of carbon-monoxide poisoning. COSMIC POWER, John C. Dare, Az 4-31 Early 1945. World-wide war, no man left old or wise enough to take the responsibility of absolute dictatorship. In this year a woman, Dunya Franklin, is proclaimed supreme ruler of United States of Earth. WOMEN'S WORLD, David c. Cooke, SF 12-39 May 12. A sun explodes in Messier 33, and a beam of green radiation flares across space from it, striking New York. New York is gone, collapsed into infinite smallness; and the Moon is gone with it. NOVA IN MESSIER 33, Chan Corbett, A 5-37 May. War between the United States and the Yellow Girdle (an expanded Japan by internal evidence). 50,000,000 men land on US west coast in a submarine sneak attack; two days later they have obliterated all west of the continental divide and are hammering at the Rockies. Daryl Strang, 25 years old, made CiC of Army, youngest 4-star man in history. JASON SOWS AGAIN, Arthur J. Burks, A 3-38 May. Hitler defeated, Europe liberated, and an International Tribunal established. THE AVENGERS, Wm. P. McGivern, Az 6-42 June. War declared on the United States by the United Asiatic nations. First attack is on San Francisco, followed in a few hours by an attack on the Panama Canal. Weapon: poison gas from helicopter (for accuracy) type bombers. 50,000 deaths in Frisco in first half-hour. US given two days to meet peace terms. President, Burton; Secy of War, Roger L. Bates. THE SINGING WEAPON, Ben Prout, Az 5-27 June. War debts repaid (from World War I). SHIFTING SEAS, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Az 4-37 June. Increase in personal insecurity. Mention is made of unsafe roadside hotels, and of districts and villages where people disappear, and it is unsafe for strangers. TC p.142 -- 21 --
 
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