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The Pittsburgh Press JVNB 1444 I 4 10 II It IS 14 14 II 14 14 11 S3 21 34 3ft IT 39 Wanted: 25 Gs IULY By Fred Othman I I I 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 lO 11 12 13 14 13 14 17 18 19 20 21 222324 (COPYRIGHT 1948, bv Pittsburgh Press Co. All Right Reserved.) AUGUST I444 I 1 4 4 1 10 II 12 IS 14 1ft 14 IT 14 14 SO II 4 at 24 ti SECOND SECTION PITTSBURGH, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1948 PAGE 21 WASHINGTON From Jim (The Incredible) Moran. now engaged in breaking a Nevada roulette bank with the help of a hynotized blond. I have a communication. Svengali Moran and the mesmerized lady already are into the croupier for $16,000.

Is Hitler Alive or Dead? No. Roumdup of Facts and Evidence Proves The weather is hot. President Truman claims the chances for peace are good, and our. Capital for the moment is the quietest place this side of the Cal-Neva gambling Casino on the shore of Lake Tahoe. I mean the time is ideal for bringing you up to date on the mighty Moran.

He's the man, you may remember, who sold an ice box to an Eskimo in Alaska, found a needle in a haystack here in Conclusively Death was Hitler's Fate 1 1 11 it for fun. But when the average guy takes his system into a real gambling place and runs his $50 up to a thousand, he feels that he'i skin-full of luck. So he's going to make a million. He abandons his system, plays his hunches, and this is his downfall. The human element destroys him." So Moran, who once earned $100 a week for sitting at a desk and thinking silently at the Warner Brothers Studios In Burbank, thought some more about how to dehumanize himself.

In a gambling den, that is. Human Factor Eliminated "You may be interested in knowing how I eliminated the human factor," he added. "Well, I always was interested in hypnotism and here I ran into a female friend, who is blond, vital and beautiful. With the full consent of her mother and herself, I have been hypnotizing her for about two hours every day. While she is in a deep hypnotic sleep, I instruct her in the calculations of my system.

Upon awakening she does not know even that there is a system. "Then I give her the post-hypnotic suggestion to gamble, using the system and my money. She gets a percentage of the winnings. The Cal-Neva Lodge is what you might call agog. She gambles nightly from 10 p.

m. to 2 a. m. and usually has a gallery of' 100 or so wide-eyed admirers, while she plays with $25 chips only. "I sit at the other end of the table, just to see that the croupier doesn't short-change her.

She is in a semi-trance while gambling and by sheer concentration, with no outside distractions to contend with, she is able to make every play according to the system. "I plan to continue this system for another two weeks. We've been here six days and we're into them for 16 grand. Won 10 Gs the third night. I will quit gambling when I'm 25 Gs ahead." H-m-m-m-m-m.

Let's wake up now, friends, and snap out of our trance. We can't all be Jim Morans. And it's time to go back to work. I rftV- ttitf' 4 Washington, personally hatched an ostrich egg in Hollywood, and led a bull through a china shop in New York. This was profitable.

Somebody wanting publicity always footed the bills. He made more money, did less work, and had more fun, I suppose, than anybody else in America. De Luxe Vacation on the House "And now I'm on a two or three-week" vacation," he reported from Lake Tahoe. "Who am I to say-vacation? When wasn't I on one?" This one, he continued, looks like it will be de luxe and on the house. Many years ago.

Moran said, when he was whale-hunting in San Francisco Harbor, he worked out a system to beat roulette. A complicated mathematical formula. He also bought a roulette wheel for practice purposes. In his own bedroom, when he gambled with himself for match sticks, he always won. When he'd take his system to a gambling joint, he nearly always lost.

What was wrong? "I became emotionally involved," he decided. "The system works fine when a fellow practices with SvV If 5 A 4 a i KEMPKA and wife with CAPTAIN MUSMANNO you cannot make a mistake about his identity." GO WeSt, Young Man ByJohnTroan ERICH KEJ1TKA with ADOLF HITLER "When a man sits next to you for 14 years If He Were Alive, Why Would Goebbels, Eva Braun Kill Selves? Here is additional proof of Hitler's death. This is the fifth of a series of articles by Navy Captain and Judge Michael A. Musmanno of Pittsburgh, a mernber of the International War Crimes Trials in Nuernberg. By CAPTAIN MICHAEL, A.

MUSMANNO, USNR, Judge, International War Crimes Trials, Nuernberg (Copyright. 1948. bv Pittsburgh Press Co.) John Troan, Press writer, Is on a trip to the Pacific Northwest with a group of newspaper travel editors and writers. This is another in a series of columns about what he observes in an interesting and fast-growing country. PACTOLA, S.

D. If you're passing through the Black Hills, be sure to stop and talk to Bernice Musekamp and Donald. Or perhaps I should say Donald and Bernice. For Donald probably should have top billing in their act. He's only 10 months old but what makes the conspiracy or straying away from the fiction.

These witnesses, seen in many parts of Germany, had little or no opportunity to get together to foncoct a story. In most instances it would have been impossible to agree upon a a complete story before they separated. They left the bunker at varying times and in different groups and in different ways. Yet, from all this mass of interrogations, which fill a score of volumes of testimony, there emerges the integrated, authenticated account of Hitler's suicide and all the facts leading thereto. The Arada-fS which Hanna Reitsch flew out of Berlin was the last available aircraft.

Her taking oft was also th last available chance to depart by air from Berlin, because during the next few hours the airfields and streets were In Russian hands. There were no more planes, and if one miraculously existed, no chance to fly it out. This fact conclusively established by Hitler's two pilots. Oberfuehrer Hans Hitler is dead. All those who were with him in the bunker are accounted for.

Some of them, by descending; into the subway tubes and coming up shafts not imme- diately covered by Russian soldiery, wrere able to make their escape, but later were taken into custody by Allied! mm e-? story good is that Donald is a real, honest-to-goodness duck. And he talks! Well, anyhow, Donald does say something which sounds like "howdy-do" in duck language. He does it when Bernice asks him to greet company. And, like the fine gentleman he is, Donald also bows with his beak where he says its. Bernice nobody calls her Mrs.

Musekamp is perhaps the closest thing to a "character" her Job like a man. She has never packed a six-shooter but her heavy wet towel can be just as deadly. Ask any errant CCO fellow who might have tried to get smart at Musekamp Lodge when the New Deal first set up a conservation camp near here. There are some who say Bernice took it out on the CCC boys because she hated the New Deal so. But Bernice denies this, even though she does admit that the only good Democrat is the one out of office.

And speaking of Democrats, Donald quacks agreement. The mere mention of the word can bring forth a ducky version of the Bronx cheer. Many Enjoy Her Food, Wit Bernice can act as tough as the situation demands. She also can be as gentle as a lady. Some of the leading citizens from miles around come to her place to enjoy her food and her wit.

Her specialty is chicken dinner. Never duck Donald wouldn't like that. Bernice has had a duck to entertain her customers for years. The original Donald died last year and it almost broke her heart. But some folks down the road a bit presented her with a baby duck 10 months ago.

And in that short time Bernice already has taught Donnie how to pet in company and how to paddle up the back stairs and pound on the door when he wants to eat. There's just one bad habit Donald is addicted to. He has stopped being a tee-totaler and is cultivating a grave dislike for water. Trouble is he can't hold his liquor. He hiccups.

Out loud, too. forces. Others were captured out- PROF. H'GO BLASCHKE Identified Hitler's jawbone. HANS FRITZSCHE Identified Goebbels' body.

since which the Black Hills country has had "Poker Alice" trumped the gamblers aces. Bauer and Standartenfuehrer Beetz, She's Boss of the Village She runs a tourist lodge and eating place along Route 85-A, about 35 miles west of Rapid City, where our plane landed in the midst of the Black Hills country. She also runs Pactola, a full-fledged community of no less than 20 voting citizens. For some time, Bernice was mayor, postmistress and deputy sheriff, all at once. And she handled tist's assistants, taken into custody by the Russians.

Hugo Blaschke, Hitler's dentist himself, had not yet been captured. Etchmann, who was thrown Into prison with Fritzsche, told him that the Russians obtained from him the X-ray pictures of Hitler's teeth, and they exhibited to him and Mrs. Heusermann a human jawbone which both he and Mrs. Heusermann recognized as belonging to Hitler. Jawbone Identified I then set out In search of Hugo Blaschke, and at last located him in an internment camp in southern Germany.

I found a man 66 years old. In telling the story of his life, he revealed that he had been educated at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1911. He had intended to practice his profession in Milwaukee, to which city he had been invited by a fraternity brother. But he changed his mind and eventually became the Fuehrer's dental physician. rightly.

Many were killed. General Burgdorf committed suicide. So also did Ambassador Hewel. Von Greim, after flying out of Berlin with the plane piloted by Hanna Reitsch, killed himself with the poison handed him by Hitler. Rattenhuber, chief of Hitler's bodyguards, was seriously wounded in the attempted escape and told Karnau, as Karnau was leaving, that he would shoot himself.

Hoegl, Rattenhuber's deputy, was also killed. The bodies of Goebbels, his wife and their six children were found by the Russians and conclusively Identified. Stories that Hitler Is alive are simply fantastic and devoid of fact, reason or sense. We have, in the first place, the testimony of Arthur Axmann. Major Walter H.

Rapp, of the United States Army, brilliant and resourceful G-2 man who conducted hundreds if not thousands of interrogations of German prisoners dur it, is about as rational as to say that Hitler was carried away by angels. There is not a shred of evidence to show that Hitler ever had a double. In the first place, it is inconceivable that Hitler, who was so self-assured he was vastly superior to other people, would concede there could be anybody that could even superficially be a duplicate of himself. Frau Junge, his secretary, told me that Hitler disliked that anyone should even wear a mustache-trimmed like his own. In the second place, the several score immediate associates of Hitler whom I questioned expressly stated that Hitler never had a double.

Such a hypothesis meant that a double would have to be introduced into the bunker, killed and carried into the garden without detection. It also means that Hitler would have had to emerge from the bunker alone, break through the Russian lines alone, and go live bels would take his life, and certainly he would not kill his six children, if Hitler were still alive. For 24 hours, he was actually, because of Hitler's declaration. Chancellor of the Reich. But despite his love of power, he knew only too well that with Hitler and all he commanded gone, there was no power.

Had Hitler lived it would be inconceivable that he would throw away the chancellorship and his life with it. Hitler is dead. Hitler, despite his undoubted capacities, could only operate through others. If we were to assume Hitler alive, we would have to acknowledge that in the death of Goebbels he lost his right arm. With the detection and suicide of Him-mler, his left arm was amputated.

With the repudiation and condemnation to death of Goering, Hitler deprived himself of all assistance from that quarter which was not inconsiderable. Hitler was a sick man. He needed medical attention and he Cross Words By Leigh White TEHRAN, Iran Crossword puzzles have become so popular here that the Communist-dominated Tudeh Party is using them as a means of spreading anti-American propaganda. Mardom, the party's official newspaper, is the who were still in the bunker when Hitler died, but who made their effort to escape after his death not via the sky lanes but on land. If an air escape were at all possible, they of all people would have chosen that route.

Both of them were seriously injured in their pedestrian attempt. No Means of Escape Since there was no possibility for flight by plane after April 29. and incontestably Hitler was In the bunker on the 30th, the only other method left for him to break out from his hemmed-in position wouid be by auto. Kempka, who in addition to being Hitler's chauSeur. was also in charge of the Reich Chancellery garage, is authority for the statement that all the Reich Chancellery car- had been destroyed by enemy artillery and air attacks.

However, even if a car could be produced it could never get away because all the streetJ leading from the Reich Chancellery were in Russian hands. The facts were clear. If Hitler were to get out, he could make the try only on foot. But his physical condition was such that it was impossible for him to proceed under his own locomotion. Perhaps he could be bodily carried.

But to be hung on somebody's back or to be strung between two persons, stretcher-fashion, was, utterly not Speaking English with ease, he told me about his famous patient, the work he had done for him, the toothaches he had cured, the prosthetics he had manufactured and was on a special diet. His physi- ing the war, examined Axmann tn his capacity bs Chief of the Evidence Division in Nuernberg. He found no flaw or contradiction in his narrative of Hitler's death. Told True Story Later we together questioned Axmann, and not once did we detect the slightest tendency on Axmann's part toward duplicity or evasion Over a period of six months 1 personally saw Axmann about 10 times and I am certain that his account of Hitler's death is unassailable it is authentic and Daily Worker of Iran. Its weekly crossword is full of such posers as: "What do our reactionaries want from the United States?" The five-letter word required is "Loans." "Signatory of a shameful pact signed between Iran and the United States." Depending on the number of letters required, the answer to this one is variously "Sayed," "Schwarzkopf" or "Grow." The put into the Bavarian Babbler's mouth.

Blaschke confirmed what Fritzsche told me about his assistants and said that the Identification made by Mrs. Heusermann was bona fide. Mrs. Heusermann's identification became conclusive for Blaschke wnen a German den cian. Dr.

Stumpfegger, was killed. His cook, who prepared his exacting food, disappeared into the hands of the Russians. All his bodyguards were either killed, captured or in headlong flight from Berlin. alone in some place where no one could possibly recognize him now for three years. No one could enter or leave the bunker without the strictest military scrutiny.

That it would be possible to present two Adolf Hitlers to the soldiers and guards without inquiries, investigations and discovery, is just as ridiculous as to imagine that Eva Braun could be fooled into marrying a stranger, spending days and nights with him, and then kill which is precisely why Mardom regards them as "shameful." Another typical crossword in Mardom: "Name of American warship that recently violated the territorial waters of Iran." The 11-letter answer required in this case is "Valley Forge." U. S. Seapower on Display Last March, under the pretext of "refueling," the aircraft carrier Valley Forge, together with several other American warships, called at the Saudi Arabian port of Ras Tanura. The double purpose of the visit was to demonstrate American naval and air power to the Saudi Arabian Government and also to strengthen the resolve of the Iranian Government to continue resisting Soviet pressure. Because of Radio Moscow's howls of protest, echoed by Tudeh party newspapers throughout Iran, our warships failed to call at the Iranian port of Khorramshahr.

Soviet propagandists, however, still maintain that the U. S. "violated" Iran's territorial waters merely by entering the Persian Gulf a body of water that has been continuously patrolled by the British Navy for the past 100 years. The Communists find it convenient to take the extreme Nationalist view that the entire Persian Gulf rightfully belongs to Iran, which once did control it, although its navy today consists of one gunboat and hal-a-dozen launches. Within a week or 10 days after Then there is the testimony of Erich Kempka.

who for 14 year? drove throughout Europe with Adolf Hitler sitting in the front seat pact referred to is either the agreement establishing the American Military Mission or the agreement establishing the American Police Mission. Mohammed Sayed was the Prime Minister at the time these agreements were first drawn up. Brig. Gen. H.

Norman Schwartzkopf until recently, headed the police mission; Maj. Gen; Robert W. Grow still heads the military mission. Most Iranians credit our police and military missions with having done a great deal to stiffen Iranian resistance to Soviet nerve warfare. April 30 all of Hitler's generals and government officials were prisoners of the Allies.

All those through whom he functioned were cut away. He was a spider without iegs. WTio was to transport the sputtering and helpless remains? No Mystery at -4 I have seen practically all of the surviving persons who had intimate contact with Hitler during the last month of his life. In court rooms, in prisons, in internment camps, in private homes, they have revealed the facts Hitler's approaching end and death with such completeness of particular that it is simply absurd to say feasible on account of the grenade, machine gun and rifle fire. Also, the very conspicuousness of such a scene would precipitate certain detection and capture followed by the degradation which Hitler feared worst: Being dragged in shame and disgrace in the streets of Berlin and being exhibited by the Russians or being mummified for eternal desecration in Moscow.

He recoiled in horror from these blasting visions. He preferred the flames In the Reich Chancellery garden. (Continued Tomorrow) ing herself for him. With the exception of General Eckard Christian and Major Jo-hannmeier whom, for convenience of travel, I interviewed together, I interrogated all the other witnesses separately. No Conspiracy It is contrary to every observation of common sense that all these people could tell, under constant hammering and cross-examination, an agreed-upon story, without someone divulging the next to him.

I examined ana cross-examined Kempka on four or five different occasions over a period of four months. He said: "When a man sits next to you for 14 years, you cannot make a mistake about his identity." Guenther Schwaegermann, Goebbels adjutant, wrote out in his own handwriting for me his statement about Hitler's death. He said: "I am absolutely sure to have seen Hitler's body and I have no doubts about his being dead." Herman Karnau, Hitler's bodyguard who saw the Fuehrer's body in the garden, said to me: "It tal magazine carried a description of the -bridgework which Mrs. Heusermann found in the Jawbone exhibited to her by the Russians. Professor Blaschke identified this bridgework as the work he had done for Hitler.

He drew for me a sketch of the teeth involved in the bridge and described In the minutest detail the condition of each tooth in the bridge and its appearance. Hans Fritzsche, In addition to telling me about Hitler's jawbone, related the story of Goebbels body. His Soviet captors took him to a settlement north of Berlin where he saw and identified the partially burnt body of Goebbels. It haa been taken there by the Russians They also transported to the same place the corpses of Goebbels" children, additionally identified by Fritzsche. More Proof of Death In Goebbels' death we find the unshatterable confirmation of Hitler's death.

No one will dispute that Dr. Goebbels was Hitler's closest collaborator and most fanatical disciple. It is thus unthinkable that Goeb- Imaginary Story by Maj. Ai wunams SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith there is any mystery about Hitler's death. This is pot the case of a mariner who went to sea and failed to re Of recent date I was apprised of an order issued by the U.

S. Coast Guard restricting the flight time of its pilots to "emergency flights only." Short of ships? Certainly not! Short of fuel? No! None of the Government aviation services can anybody can show me Hitler dead or alive, may I be struck dead! In addition to these eye witnesses, we have other conclusively corroborating facts. Hans Fritzsche related to me the episode of Fritz Echtmann and Mrs. Katherina Heusermann. two of Hitler's den OFF THE RECORD By Ed Reed make this claim stick.

And under no circumstances have the services ever been short of fuel to the extent where any of them would dare to risk the loss of ships and men while operating such critical missions as search and rescue tasks over the open sea. Now, let's just take stock of this "emergency flights only" order insofar as Coast Guard pilots are concerned. Assume that you and I are Coast IIW 'I turn, or a hunter' who disappeared in the jungles, or a soldier who charged into battle and was reported missing in action. We have here a precise person under direct scrutiny during the unfold-ment of the entire action. In addition to oral testimony, there are documents and diaries extant on the events of the period.

The diary of Hitler's valet Linge is of vital importance in the reconstruction of the Hitler march to death. So also is General Roller's diary. No one can complain that Hitler's final days on earth were not sufficiently documented. There Was No Double Some sophomorically Reasoning theorists, including Emil Ludwig, have suggested that possibly it was a double of Hitler who died and was cremated. This supposition, without any evidence to support Vx and navigation problems.

It's been weeks since we've had a chance to practice landings, much less tackle the finer angles of handling a huge flying boat. In the sweat of anxiety to overcome our cockpit rusti-ness, we are pressing our shots trying too hard. Eventually we locate the steamship for which we have been searching. The sea is running in five to six-foot waves and troughs. The wind Is about 15 miles an hour and at right angles to the wave motion.

We know the technical answer. We cannot land "into" the wind. Those waves would smash the hull of our flying boat. The trick is to lay the keel of our flying boat on the crest of a wave and trust to God and our luck for what happens from there on. Creasing a wave top at the exact spot and at the right split-second is an art in Itself.

As we "chop the guns" (close the throttles) to 1000 RPM and glide to the showdown every move Is a "pressed shot." We suppress the tension. It's deadly. We crease the chosen wave and then as the shuddering hull sinks into the oncoming trough there's a smother of spray and foam. Cancel Everything We've made it, and now our new troubles begin. We've got forward power but no backing power.

The engines provide the former and the wind the latter. This calls for a type of seamanship to be learned in no surface craft. It's flying boat "seamanship" an art as difficult to master as "airmanship." It would be a pleasant finale to assume we get away with the mission. If we don't there's a short newspaper notice, "Coast Guard Search and Rescue plane and crew lost at sea. Name are withheld until families have been notified." This imaginary story is a sketch of what Coast Guard pilots are facing every day since the "emergency flights only" order was issued.

If we can't supply the ships and fuel to train and qualify our Coast Guard pilots and all service pilots to meet emergencies, let's cancel the emergencies by canceling service aviation. If the topside Brass is responsible, let's cancel them. Guard pilots. Days roll by days of good weather and bad weather during which we get no single chance to sharpen up on the "feel" of a plane in flight the touch of a control stick or a rudder bar the routine of easing a plane onto a runway, or a flying boat onto the water. We haven't had an "instrument" flight in weeks, and instrument flying is an art that tolerates nothing short of a sixth sense, heat-treated by continual practice.

'Search and Rescue A "Search and Rescue" alarm is sounded. A stricken man must be taken from a ship at sea and hurried to the nearest hospital. We have the latest check on the location of the ship latitude and longitude. Emergencies know no calendar program, cor are they timed by flying weather conditions. The weather can be anything.

The "ceiling" may be a few hundred feet, or a high wind may be blowing. Perhaps it is clear or raining. Our ship is standing on the line fully equipped and ready to go. Yes, "it" is ready to go, but we know very well we are not ready. However, we climb aboard with the crew and we're off.

We can imagine all sorts of weather difficulties WHAT AM I SAYING! By FRANK MORGAN ORATORS As that great Roman, Cicero, once said, "Some orators rely on the loudness of their voices to cover the weakness of their arguments, just as a lame man relies on a horse to carry him." Which reminds me that a windy oration is usually a flood of words and a drought of ideas. COP. 104 BV MM SOVIC. PtC T. ftEC t.

T. 0T. 7-23 UTS M4 Tribum y4iei "You'd better cut off the boy friend and answer the boscT buzzer we've spoiled him by taking letters whenever he feels like dictatingr 'There's a man, Fred perhaps he can tell us where we can get some water!".