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OCTOBER SEFTEMBCS IM 1 3 4 7 10 11 12 13 14 Rambling Reporter By Ernie Pyle The Pitts h. Press 15 1 IT IS 19 30 31 22 Zl 24 23 26 27 28 29 30 I I 1 I I 1 2 3 4 8 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 13 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 23 26 27 2g 2913013 11 I. (COPYRIGHT. 1940, by Pittsburgh Pess Co. All Rights Reserved) NOVEMBER 1M I 3 3 4 the back of the car and, as a final gesture, put them on.

Also I filled un the little chamois packsack which 10 11 13 13 14 15 1 11 18 19 30 21 33 33 MT. LE CONTE LODGE, Great Smokies Park-When I go to see a National Park, I like to walk in It. I don't want to mope along with a tourist party behind a naturalist, and I don't want to ride a horse. I Just want to eet out i J-s(SWto That Girl made for my gallant walk through the 24 25 34 37 28 29 30 PAGE 21 PITTSBURGH. MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1940 SECOND SECTION A Naval Expzrt's Opinion- Rockies last year from the unitea states io oauaua.

In this packsack I put an extra sweater, four handkerchiefs (because I still have a cold), an extra pair of socks, two chocolate bars, two oranges, an old ham sandwich, and an extra pack of cigarets, in case my wind gave out. A Trip in the 'Jungle' It was 9:20 a. m. when I stepped out of Ranger Edwards' car, shook hands, and. without once look-: ing back, plunged into the jungle.

Exciting experiences were not long in coming. I hadn't gone 200 yards when I came upon two couples standing in the trail, hiking. They didn't see me coming, so I had to walk around them. As I did so one woman said, "Oh, excuse me," and I said, "that's all right." Fifty yards farther on I came upon a man with Hitler Will Buck British-Russian Accord If Germans Attack Dardanelles, Bosporus uj uy iiR.e neruufc Bum square off my shoulders and head uphill. There is plenty of walking for a fellow like me in the Great Smokies.

In fact, there is 675 miles of walking, on trails that meanCer all over this vast park. But the main trails patronized by tourists are the five different routes which lead up to the top of Mt. Le Conte. nearly 6600 feet high. Many people make it un and back Fuehrer May Like Chance Dardanelles and Bosporus, British warships could be frequently and disastrously bombed by German air Gcrmau might erott Black Sea I I Bosporus IS mi.

long To Grab Ukraine Also, Stirling Says Bill API A25rT -753ral forces, unless Britain's air forces can be rendered equal to the occasion by large additions frota Eng Balkan Mts.v. V. Mantz6 TURKEY IN EUROPE land and America. in one day. But others, like myself, add 95 per cent to the pleasure by staying on top all night.

People had told me the Alum Cave Trail was the prettiest and most spectacular. So, the day before starting, I went over to Park Headquarters to inquire and get my bearings. I wound up talking to Assistant Chief Ranger Harold, Edwards. He wears a uniform and has a desk and lots of papers on it, so I believed every word he said. He said it would take me five hours to climb the Alum Cave Trail.

He said it would be the longest five and a half miles I ever walked. He said it was very steep, and the footing irregular. This war in the Mediterranean By REAR ADMIRAL YATES STIRLING Copyright. 1940. by The United Press NEW YORK, Oct.

21- Sea of can be won by Britain if sufficient warships and planes can be made Marmara' available. All of England forces are being used. Reinlorcements must There is one question on which Great Britain and Russia long have been in agreement. It is that the Dardanelles and the come from elsewhere. Russian help would be.

a great asset in stopping Hitler; especially in. the air. Russia's Black Sea fleet, though small, would be useful. But America's full help in warships and planes may be the only thing that will prevent the eastern Bf Aegean TioMlln fefeSS 3 thasos ggy. Sea wiwij I IMBROS I I beca'uV.

ASs. a cane, sitting against a tree. He said, 'are those people still gabbing back there?" and I said "yes," and he said, "I thought so." When I had been walking an hour and a half, I met two young men coming down the trail like rockets. We stopped and smoked a cigaret together. They had walked clear to the top already this morning, and were well on their way back down, and it was now only 10:45.

It was then I began to smell a mouse in Mr. Edwards' sinister warnings about this trail. At 12 o'clock sharp I came around another bend and there ahead, across a stood a sharp precipice. They had told me that right behind this precipice lay the Le Conte Lodge. I stood a minute, and tried to judge how long it would take to get there.

Distances in the mountains are very deceptive. Out West you can see 'a long way, hence an actual distance is much farther than it looks. I remember once, in the high Rockies, figuring it would take an hour to get to a certain ridge, but it actually took three hours. So with that in mind, I estimated one hour to get to this precipice. And shiver these old timbers if I wasn't there in 10 minutes.

The climb was over, and I hadn't even eaten my sandwich. Just as I topped the ridge, I turned around in the direction of Park Headquarters, and looked far down toward where Ranger Edwards was probably nestling behind his desk, and I puckered up my mouth and said, "Five hours! Pvvvvwvtt!" The old bird sound, you know. By Westbrook Pegler Ranger Missed His Guess Well, it is possible I misunderstood Ranger Edwards, but I doubt it. Also it is possible that I'm a better man than I thought. But that seems somewhat fantastic, since I think I'm practically perfect to start with.

So I can only deduce that Ranger Edwards, in spite of being a nice fellow, simply has days when he isn't all there. For, instead of five hours, I was on top of Mt. Le Conte in two hours and 50 minutes. And since I had XT" Bosporus, narrow water-ways between Europe and Asia, must not be in the hands of any other great power. Years ago a Berlin-to-Baghdad railroad, to be built and controlled by Germany, was halted by Great Britain because that dream of the Great Bismarck would have given Germany too much influence in Turkey.

Where Allies troops landed in disastrous Gallipoli campaign during World War. British statesmen feared it might Turk rcfertificd Straits SiT A rfgftg-SjSP i 1936. with 16-inch 9uns. 1 mines, torpedo tube. -4--J be a wedge for a German seizure! of the coveted straits.

The railroad is now finished but is not under Mediterranean Sea prepared myself for a terrible ordeal, it seemed like the shortest five and a half miles I ever walked. It was, in fact, smooth and nice all the way up. In preparation for this historic stroll I awoke at 7 a. yawned a couple of times, and went back to sleep for half an hour. Then I ate breakfast, read the morning paper, got those old gray pants out of Fair Enough NEW YORK More alarming than the raw graft and the snarling dishonesty of the New Deal politicians who are promoting an Americanized version of Adolf Hitler's National Socialism while professing to detest this evil thing, is the corruption of the German control in Asia, A bird's-eye-view of the Dardanelles Now Turning East? Is Germany's face now turned east? Czechoslovakia, a Versailles Treaty British armies in Europe gave Germany the opportunity to make her delayed drive to the east, for which Hitler has been paving the way.

If Russia should interfere, that would nation, was set up for the purpose against the Italian move across Egypt. Might Halt British Raids If Germany should need more planes, she might for the time being halt the Battle of Britain," sending or namng a German "Drang Nach Osten" (drive to the east). Germany, after her military comeback under not be considered insurmountable now. The vast German armies, ''i: Prllii all her available air squadrons to fight the British navy at the Dardanelles. Germany is thus at a great Hitler and her drive to the east still in mind, took Austria, then won Czechoslovakia at Munich, after which Hitler invaded Poland, which brought on the war.

advantage due to i her central posi occupied nowhere else in any numbers, can take care of Russian opposition, provided Stalin will not be placated. In fact, Hitler might even welcome the opportunity to march into the Ukraine. Aimed At Near East 1 tion in Europe. Today Germany has seized con It seems evident that a German trol of Rumania and Bulgarian by move to the east now would be the civic morals of an unknown proportion of the people. The exploitation of the presidential office for family enrichment, the collusion of the sanctimonious High Command with the most notorious vote-stealing and grafting machines in the country and the profanation of the sacred mission of national succor are, of themselves, frightening.

The New Deal has stolen from the people and used primarily for its own political purposes and only incidentally for humane nurnoses more monev than all severest blow that could be struck 1 4sri mtimiaation. These are stepping stones needed in the "Drang Nach Osten." by Hitler at Britain's sea power. Once the German army succeeds in passing the Dardanelles, there would The German move into Rumania and Bulgaria, of course, is aimed at Hitler has a trained army of manv the Dardanelles, Turkey, Syria, and millions, rendered practically idle A stretch of the Bosporus, near Istanbul be little to stop it, for it seems evident that the Turks "would; be no through the collapse of France, "all! last and most important, the Suez Canal. If Russia holds its hand aressea up and no place to eaJ match for it. Unless Russia goes to Mediterranean, the Suez, the Dardanelles and Bosporous from passing the British navy, can stop it, itj seems likely to succeed without there will be nothing to oppose this Hitler knows he must employ his advance except the Turkish army, armies else his own security amoner Stalin's intervention.

It is even estimated at two million, and the his people may be jeopardized. Britain's aid, the" seizurei of all oil in the territories of Iraq and Iran, will be accomplished and the canal and Egypt will pass into Hitler's control. almost insignificant force of the disapproval of such conduct by such a person is an expression of disloyalty to the United States and of disrespect for the presidential office. There is a famous quotation from a statement which President Roosevelt uttered when he was Governor of New York which runs as follows: "How about the larger number of public officials who are honest in the sense that they cannot be put in jail but who are dishonest in the sense that they commit acts which are ethically or morally wrong? "What of a public official who allows a member of his family to obtain fees or benefits through his political influence?" Now It's An Insult That was the national standard of civic morality in October, 1929, when Mr. Roosevelt said it, but the citation of it has become an insult to his office in the years since then, because his own words taunt and plague him and his idolators.

He and Ickes and Hopkins are found in close political collaboration with the Hague and Kelly-Nash gangs, each led by a man whose income from sources which neither man has been willing to disclose vastly exceed their official salaries, and whose rule had poisoned the citizenship of their communities with tolerance of graft and indifference to corruption. And merely to pluck out of the President's statement of the principles which he held in 1929 that single sentence scorning the type of public official who permits members of his family to obtain fees or benefits through his political influence is to smear him unjustly in the eyes of those citizens who have strayed with him and the New Deal from the moral position which once was, theoretically, at least, the standard for the nation. This is not to say, of course, that everyone who votes for Mr. Roosevelt can be accused of endorsing this moral decline. Some will for him for other reasons and in spite of the example, but, unquestionably, many Americans have allowed themselves to be persuaded that crookedness and cunning in politics and the exploitation of office for great financial gain, having the color of legality but the odor of dishonesty, represents the American standard and may be applied to every other phase of American life.

to Axis controL Such an all-out stand by America would Influence Stalin, if anything could, to decide to throw in his lot with Britain to keep Germany within bounds. British in Syria. A Hitler Objective Coming on ton of the Janaiiese doubtful, if once started, and with the Bosporus behind' it, despite the British navy, that even Russia could defeat the move. In the close quarters of the There is only one place for Supplementing this advance of the German army, the Italians Britain to stop this drive, and that alliance with the Axis, the Brenner Pass meeting of Hitler and Mussolini may have decided them to risk is at the Dardanelles and the could seize Greece, then, using Greek ports for its warships, cut off com antagonizing Russia, and toeether Bosporus with her naval and air forces. This probable move of Hitler's armies to the east again may munications between the Mediter Children Get RELIEF ROLLS make the long contemplated drive ranean and the British fleet in the into Asia.

It is certain that this drive was Nothing Cash Hitler objective when he began the invasion of Poland, for the large Dardanelles. Many Ships Needed Great Britain would require many warships to defeat these Italian HIT NEW LOW the swindlers stole during the Era of Wonderiul Nonsense. Even in the very White House itself Individuals have been appointed to synthetic jobs at high salaries only because they have been relatives or personal or political friends, and with only the most frivolous pretense that their services were required and were worth the money. Yet some individuals concede all this to be true end still ask. in effect, "Do you know anything bad about them?" Crookedness Accepted In other words, some proportion of the people now accept crookedness as the standard in high positions of national trust and, being so degraded themselves by the influence of important personalities, feel that criticism of-the Administration on this score, is a personal criticism of themselves.

How many Americans are so infected it is impossible to say, but my own correspondence, which provides a sampling of opinion, certainly proves that their number is not negligible. I receive letters which hold that acts which would be wron if committed by other persons and heinous if they were committed by a member of the family of Wendell Willkie are right if committed by a member of the New Deal family circle, and that any force Great Britain to spread out her naval power yet more thinly. In concentrating a powerful war fleet in the Dardanelles and Bosporus to oppose the German crossings. Great Britain yet must retain in the Eastern Mediterranean sufficient naval power for the defense army of Poland would have been a dangerous menace on the flank of Goes For Booze such a march bv the German war This move to the east seems to be State Lists Show maenme. a rare opportunity to embarrass Elimination of the French and of Alexandria and the Suez Canal further Britain's sea power.

-Unless our Frees Man Who Used Sharpest Drop His Pay for Liquor Ice Menace By The United Press By Major Al Williams Scripps-Howard Aviation Editor HARRISBURG, Oct. 21 Com The man who filled up on liquor bined state dole 'and Federal work and big steaks, mortgaged his fur niture to buy. a large car, and told The two greatest airlines oner. ing around. Into this grizzly plan.

his wife to make clothes for his ating in the world today carry untouched through these moist mountains of the atmosphere. Ice has been known to accumulate on children out of rags, will not have gruesome passengers cold metal to go to jail after all. relief rolls in Pennsylvania last month reached the lowest point since relief was organized on a state-wide basis eight years ago, Public Assistance Secretary Howard L. Russell reported today. ainers of By Hugh S.

Johnson Magistrate William D. McClel the wings of superspeed planes at the prodigious rate of three and high explosive land of Morals Court said today md their one-half inches per minute, and that he had suspended a 30-day i nations Peace or War? NEW YORK An incredible aspect of this campaign is the third term candidate's audacious push toward war in the teeth of an overwhelming popular opinion against our involvement overseas. Never in our history has there been such open Workhouse sentence which he meted The total of 1,167,000 men, wom are selected on every exposed portion of a plane is open to picking up a shining coat of ice. The principal danger- out to William Schemp, 31, Hum les of en and children dependent on state press truck driver. death to Schemp wife, Margaret, tola points are the -wings, tail surface and the propeller blades.

Most im that he doesn't turn up his nose at the Atlantic Ocean, even if these potential architects of their country's disaster do so every day 4n their war-dancing madness. If we push our belated defense preparations on land and seas as rapidly as possible, the chance of our involvement in bloody war, no matter what may come, is too remote to consider. But notwithstanding this plain truth and the almost universal desire of our people, these amateur statesmen and strategists are pushing ahead with Magistrate McClelland that she had to cut the sleeves out of old sweat One of these portant of all, every gunport is an and Federal funds in September represented a drop of 868,000 or 42 per cent, from the all-time peak reached in May, 1933, and was ice-accumulating hazard. ers to make winter underclothes Old Man Winter will inject his mighty fingers. Thus far we can be assured that Winston Churchill knows what he is talking about when he insists that the Germans have not, for some reason or other, released their.

entire air strength against England. This estimate is abundantly confirmed by a multitude of unquestionable data and reports. Clouds Are Menaces Unpublished and comparatively unnoticed is the fact that lower temperatures are arriving. Nothing has been said by either side as to what plans they have made for maintenance, of bombing schedules during the winter months In deadly competition with one another, neither of airlines is the Royal 'Air Force, based in for her two small children while If the British have adopted our her husband filled up on "booze American Goodrich invention of 000 below the preceding month's total. and bis rib steaks." installing rubber lnnated de-icing Mrs.

Schemp told tne judge mat England and ating against Germany; the one excellent chance of pushing us over the brink equipment (which they had refused for their airlines during we are in terrible financial shape into the destruction of war. The Administration of "Of every 100 persons living In Pennsylvania, about 12 dependent in September on state as and to make matters worse he got our National Government does not oppose their ML peacetime, when they resorted to and ruthless propaganda for offensive action that would make unavoidable our prompt involvement in war on the other side of the world war, indeed over a range at least as wide as the vast stretch from the Straits of Malacca to the Straits of Dover. It might be wider. If we enter this war on the side of England, whatever we call ourselves, we shall be her ally. We rust fight wherever defeat threatens, or victory beckons.

It now seems quite probable hat the direction of the war himself a swell big car." efforts. If it does not openly endorse them, it sup a type of grease, mischievously other is the German Air Force operat sistance or WPA wages," Mr. Rus When I tell him the children Maj. Williams ports them by its consistent course of action. Their one excellent chance to see their dreams come true tagged "political by the.

British themselves), they are all need clothes he throws the polish ing against England. Paradoxical ing rags of the car at me and says 'make some'." is to elect Mr. Roosevelt to a third term. Would Mean Dictatorship as it may appear from tne wording, these airlines and that's right. The American type of de-icer consists of thin rubber sheeting on the entering edges of wings Schemp was sentenced to the what they really are are killing Workhouse for 30 days and then he these Airlines of Death, Inc.

can stop the other. The schedule is sell said, "whereas the comparable figure for May, 1933, was 21 persons in every 100 of the state's population." In the depression peak, he added, 47 per cent was the highest proportion of persons on relief in any one county and 25 counties had more than a quarter qf their population on the dole or WPA, while last month 50 of the 67 counties people while all the airline sys and tail surfaces, inflated periodically by air from engine-driven promised that if the sentence were The catastrophe of our involvement in war would not be merely the bloody loss and danger to life and limb. It would immediately adjourn our free democracy for a war dictatorship. It would perma suspended he would dispose of the hurry and out-carry the competition's payloads. tems of the peace world are based on safety operations.

pumps. For the propeller' blades, car and give Mrs. Schemp his pay Both the war airlines are en there is the oil slinger, wherein a device is installed in the spinner Clouds that during the summer months fitted so neatly into the Two Firemen Injured nently adjourn our-free economic system of private ownership and liberty of enterprise by so burdening it with additional debt and taxes that the Govern tering their first winter of real operations. The success and dom bush fighting in the sky are still cone (over all the blade roots), which permits tiny particles of oil had less than 15 per cent of resi visual barriers for the anti-air inance of one over the other is In Blaze at Homcwood ment would control all private property and absorb to leak out and be thrown, by "based upon jUst which can launch craft gunners below. But now with dents dependent on public aid and not a single county had as much all private income in the United States.

centrifugal force, along the blade. Three men, two of them firemen, the decreasing temperatures of winter these same clouds are be the greatest and tightest flight schedules and smash the greatest The Germans are also using the were injured yesterday when fire broke out in a two-story brick house slinger method for keeping the The real issue of this campaign is the aw'f ul question of peace or war and the preservation of our democracy, not from the attack of foreign enemies, but from the follies of domestic theorists. coming deadly menaces to the air number of enemy key points. None propeller blades free from ice. at 7313 Ferdinand Way, of the schedules in this Franken man.

Each and every cloud holds ice stein plan involves destination The extent to which the Administration through has turned from westward to south-eastward. New theaters threaten in the Mediterranean, the Balkans, perhaps Persia, the Persian Gulf and even unto India. 'This Is Hysteria' That is the British domain on which "the sun never sets." Our propagandists now openly say that to preserve democracy on earth we must preserve the British Empire. Perhaps the millions of conquered and exploited black peoples in Africa and browrn people in Asia and Malaysia are their idea of democracy; but to try to push this great, powerful and peaceful nation into wars to protect such foreign possessions is hysteria that has broken all bonds of reason. These war-minded men advance measures which could take us into such remote and sterile fields as "defense of America." They say that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are no longer barriers of defense but avenues of attack.

Since Hitler cant cross 20-odd miles of the British Channel to get at Britain with a land army, it is a safe bet Joseph Mahon, 32, occupant of No Means Found in its heart for speeding wings. action on these theories by sending away our pro landings. It's out and back, dropping the death cargoes, and tum- the house, was cut on the right No wing is fast enough to skip duction of armament to "keep the war. far from Ice on a wine accumulates on arm; Fireman Wilson Beckett, of the entering edges, deforming the as a quarter of its population in this category. Last month's combined rolls consisted of 694,000 persons on direct state relief and 532,000 dependent wholly or in part on WPA wages.

In the week ending Oct. 12 the dole lists alone included 144,863 cases, representing a drop of 2431 cases or 9364 persons, from the preceding week. Private industry absorbed a net total of 740 cases, the largest number of any week since November, and WPA accounted for a reduction of 757 cases. 1322 Grotto a member of No. 16 Engine was cut on the fore SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith our shores" is not revealed to Americans.

Every interested foreign Influence knows our "military secrets" except our own people. But it is an open secret in Washington that our muzzled army ex wing curve and completely de stroying its lifting power irre head and Fireman William Flem spective of speed through the air. ing, 50, of 7528 Hamilton of No. 29 Engine suffered a lacer perts, while they loyally comply with orders and sucn de-icers are able to cope with normal icing, but are by no eat their own smoke, are thoroughly dissatisfied. ation on the left hand.

Firemen extinguished the blaze means protection against the worst We have not enough of the new type of armament which we are sending abroad to train our own with a loss of $300. Old Man Winter, has on hand, troops much less equip them. No one has found an effective OFF THE RECORD By Ed Reed means for protecting windshields or gunports, where the guns are By Eleanor Roosevelt mounted in the entering edges of My Day the wings. tions begin to fool themselves, they are building On the other hand, the Germans resort to hollow entering edges for their wings through up a dangerous future. You can fool yourself with high ideals and wishful thinking and refuse to face reality and the hard facts of the world in which HYDE PARK My trip home was uneventful.

I was glad to be able to fly from Chicago to St. Louis for a few hours yesterday in order to see my young friend, Mayris Cheney, who is dancing there just now, and still gets into New York from Chicago in which. hot engine exhaust gases are driven. Then, too, the Ger you live. So many leaders of different groups in these past years have done this in one way or an mans (maybe it is changed now, for I am recounting what I saw other.

Good intentions seem to have paved the way to one tragic situation after another. It is trite to say it, but the courage to face the real facts, and two years ago) have mounted their single-seater fighting plane guns inside the engine cowling. Such position will keep them warm and act upon those facts, is the thing we need most today. We must pray that here, in the United free from ice. States, we will learn the lesson of the last 20 years of history and profit by it by facing situations that arise from now on.

The technical observers will watch this icing angle very closely the evening. I motored up to Hyde Park this morning in order to have the pleasure of meeting the Governor-General of Canada and his wife, who are spending the week-end with the President and his mother. Miss Thompson met me in New York and told me that too many birthday cards had come on October 11 for personal acknowledgment to be possible, and so I am taking this opportunity to thank the many kind people who sent me good wishes nn the occasion of my birthday. because of its critical importance. The second book is Hendrik Van Loon's He sent it to me himself, and suggested The human engine, like the me chanical power plant, works best that I do not read it at night for fear of being kent awake.

I did not feel that way about it. It is within certain well-known ranges fanciful, but no more fanciful than actual occur of temperature. I have learned that both belligerents have resorted to heating the cockpits of rences have been in many parts of the world. His estimate of what the people of Vermont would do under certain conditions is most encouraging, be all plane types. Cold heads don't think quickly.

Cold feet and hands cause Vermont is no different from the state of Washington, or, for that matter, any state in the Union faced with the same situation. That does not make the book any less important. The lesson it teaches is that it is not safe to be It is very thoughtful of people to wish me well and I deeply appreciate it particularly at a time when kindly words are not as often expressed as those engendered by personal bitterness. There are two books I read on this trip across the continent that I would like to call to your attention. One of them, called "Guilty Men," is written by a young Englishman whose non de plume is "Cato." The book has an American introduction whit points out why we should have a special interest in it.

As brought out in this book, the important point, to me, about the chronology of the years from 1923 to 1940 is that when Individuals and na- don't aim a ship or a gun accurately. And cold fingers don't press triggers at the right split second. Man carries his heat as. he' does his drinking water with" him, if the areas into whjch he ventures are deficient in either or both. The airmen of Europe are fighting one another; and Old Man Winter, as impartial as a traffic light, is fighting both.

lieve, because your immediate surroundings look peaceful, placid and very familiar, that nothing unusual can possibly happen. In addition, it shows that time to prepare for any eventuality is vitally important. We must be willing to consider even the things that seem incredible if we are going to have time to meet successfully an unknown 'O-Xt 'She's in my nine o'clock Latin I have to compete with A thimblefull of champagne Gad, this 'rationing makes me sick I her for the attention of the rest of the class i.