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Show ! Washington, Mrs. Roosevelt sure told its affair. off-the-record It was one the Guild of those gabfests, and she spoke her mind plenty. Wish we could jot down what Mrs. FDR said but tain't allowed. But she said plenty-to their faces. Ex-Magistrate Overton Harris sure oughta know better'n to argue with a cop about getting a ticket. Happened in a West 57th Street restricted area . . . "I could break you for this!" the ex-judge threatened. Hell, there's nothing deader than an ex-anything, say we. Heard a mighty good joke over at Bub Martyn's Cuba place. It was a take-off by Milt Gross, the pic- ture drawer. Seems that a movie man with an accent told an actress who applied for a part: ‘‘You got eyes like ‘‘Hedy" . "Heavens sakes alive!'' said the lady, ‘‘Hedy Lamarr?" "Naw," said "Hedy Cantor!" movie man, Hear tell Miss P. Hopkins Joyce, the the famed wife, is being signed up to go on the radio and give a series of gossip scoops. Ye ed ain't worried. Peg can't write gossip as well as she can make it. Ha, ha. Mrs. Jack Oakie, who nearly passed on to the Pearly Gates on acc't of her ailment, has been advised by her doc to completely rest for several months or else face serious consequences. The former Venita Vardon certainly shouldn't go around worryin' her well-wishers that way. Met up with Romo Vincent, the show-actor at Mario's Hurricane cabaret. He told ye ed about the oddest ‘clause he's ever seen in a contract. In the one he had in a restaurant in New Orleans. the clause stated: ‘‘You shall not go on before the salad." Ye ed can remember all the way back in this village when Tiffany & Co. were ring and stone peddlers in the 1930s and considered it beneath their dignity to put their name outside their store. Wal, next month they open a new one on 57th and 5th, and have their name almost everywhere. My, oh my, and lands sakes alive! How the mighty have fallen. Our esteemed and jovial rival, Franklin Pierce Adams, said that he made up a joke which he sees is now a campaign button. The one about Willkie for President-of Commonwealth & Southern. Fact is that a photograph of that button ran in the New York Mirror on the editoral page and was a stale joke weeks before The Mirror editor ran it. Here's one for that feller from New York to end his Sunday night talk with: ‘‘~-who is glad to live in a land where confidence in a presidential candidate means a button in your lapel instead of a bullet in your back.'' OF A NEW YORKER Two years ago Martha Scott arrived in New York from Jamesport, Mo., with $50 to carve herself a niche in the Thittir. Carleton Alsop was a socially prominent radio producer . . . He gave Martha the role of Alice Blair in one of his WOR serials because she needed a to eat and because the script called for an unknown youngster out to achieve fame and happiness in the Big City . . . The hero of the strip drama was a man-about-town patterned after Alsop's per- sonality . . . The struggling Alice of the continuity eventually married the dashing hero. Just as the struggling Martha Scott, promoted from the hungry Rehearsal Club days-through her playing in the stage and screen "‘Our Town" and "The Howards of Vir- ginia''-was married the other in a Fifth Avenue church ular Carleton Alsop. day to the pop- One of the Roosevelt boys was in Conga the other night and a drunk started getting chummy. ‘"‘My La father and your father," he hic- coughed, ‘‘yoosh'd to be clashmatesh. Sho I want you to know we're for your pop" . . . The Roosevelt boy straightened the chap's coat. ""Yoosh don't have to hold me up,"' sulked. "I'm not holding you up," replied the President's son. ‘T'm just straightening out the Willkie button in your lapel." he (Released by Western Newspaper A dream of the future? Hardly. Pennsylvania will dedicate such a highway and open it to public travel sometime this fall. It will be 160 miles long, connecting the city of Pittsburgh in the western part of FUEL The new iron and steel scrap embargo finally shut off one of Japan's key military supplies. But through a loophole as big as a barn door, Japan had been able, despite this supposedly stringent But Japan is not up against that kind of battling. Its bombers and fighter planes face no aerial opposition. They have the skies to themselves. They don't need super-gas. They can do just as well on lower octane fuel. Their job is no different than an ordinary transport plane's. They haul out a load of bombs, dump it and fly back. The story is told in the following unpublished government figures. In the month after the imposition of the so-called embargo, Japan imported from the United States 187,026 barrels of lower grade gasoline, or more than 20 per cent of all such exports during that period. * SPY * * CENTER The large Japanese fishing colony on Terminal] island in Los Angeles harbor is soon due for a clean-up by Uncle Sam. This colony has long been under suspicion as a nerve center of foreign espionage on the West coast. More than one of the ‘‘fishing'' vessels is radio-equipped, and intelligence officials have evidence that some of the colony's sea-going denizens double in brass as spies. No action has been taken up to now chiefly because of state department qualms about kicking up an international ruckus. The suspects were kept under scrutiny but nothing was done to get rid of them. But with Japan taking the bit in its teeth in Indo-China and showing signs of further adventures, the state department has withdrawn its red light. Under a plan worked out with California and Los Angeles officials, the fishing village will be dispersed. U. S. FLYING FORTRESSES "Flying Fortresses'"' of the U. S. army and powerful twin-engined PBY patrol bombers of the U. S. navy-for Britain- The negotiations have been going on for several weeks simultaneously with conversations regarding the securing of air and naval bases on strategic British islands in the Pa- ' The British are urgently in need of long-range, great weight-carrying planes of the ‘‘Flying Fortress'' and PBY type. Lack of ships of this kind is a vital weakness in British air power. They have no planes capable of operating east of Berlin, which makes it impossible to strike at some of the Nazis' key war production centers located in what were formerly Austria and Czechoslovakia. A fleet of 25 ‘Flying Fortresses," which have a cruising radius of over 5,000 miles, would bring the war home to the Germans where it would hurt most. Also, the British could strike smashing blows at Italian industries-and Italy is the Achilles heel of the Axis. The naval PBYs are needed in the crucial Mediterranean struggle. With a range of 4,000 miles, these mighty flying boats could destroy Italian submarines, transports and supply ships. Italy has to transport everything she needs in her African offensive across the Mediterranean, and the jugular PBYs could cripple this vein. These planes also are needed to meet assault on Gibraltar, key to British control of the Mediterranean. They also would put Britain in a much stronger position to meet Spanish intervention. The army has a total of 59 "Flying Fortresses" plus a number of others in production, which are com- ing from the factory at the rate of about seven a month. The British would like to make an arrangement to obtain every other new ship. Army officials Say this would not delay U. S. rearming, but would enable the manufacturer to expand his facilities and achieve a greater output. The navy is amply supplied with PBYs. It already has 196 in Service and 200 more being produced at the rate of one every 36 hours. The new ships are considerably faster and more powerful than most of the 196 in service. Navy heads declare that 50 of these planes could spared without any impairment navy air power. be to The British plan to fly the giant planes direct across the Atlantic, and crews of English and American airmen are being assembled in Canada for this purpose. the state with Harrisburg, 112 miles to agree has been installed. Huge fans will constantly supply an adequate amount of pure air. The tunnels will be electrically lighted. On the open pike all crossroads are carried either underneath or overhead. Direct cross-flow is avoided by means of looping ramps, or cloverleaf intersections. All interchanges are so located that approaching traffic can look down on them and readily picture the layout. There will be no traffic lights. Deceleration and acceleration lanes are provided at each interchange. These are 1,200 feet long and are set parallel to and _ contiguous with the paving. Carved out of the mountains as a single project, the road is not a merger of previous roads, linked together. It is all new. The severest grade anywhere is 3 per cent, that Educator Discovers Vocation Guidance Slighted by Schools Pictured above is a section of the new Pennsylvania Turnpike's 110-mile straightaway. The diagram at the left shows a cloverleaf intersection which enables vehicles to enter or leave the highway without disrupting the normal flow of traffic. Seven tunnels permit the highway to pass through, rather than over or around, the Appalachian mountains, thereby eliminating one of the barriers that has confounded transcontinental traffic ever since the first western march of the pioneers. is three feet rise to 100 feet of length. Wherever curves have been necessary the road has been banked to accommodate high speeds. Test runs have shown a speed of 105 miles an hour as not dangerous. The superhighway cost $70,050,000 and was financed by a grant of $29,000,000 from the PWA_ and $41,000,000 in revenue bonds purchased by the RFC. Tolls are to be charged ($1.50 for passenger automobiles), but the highway will in time pay for itself and then become a free road, part of the state's highway system. Built in 6 per cent of schools in the United States provide educational counselors or vocational guidance officers on full time or more than half time, according to a recent study by Clarence E. Lovejoy of Columbia university. For every 3,100 high school pupils there says. is only one in this faculty country, adviser, he *‘Parents should howl vocally and write letters to their local newspapers if they live in cities which are lax in providing vocational guidance and educational counseling. If the school board has not appropriated funds for these activities, or if the school superintendents or principals are not supplying them to the taxpaying residents, it is time to bring pressure."' "High school boys and girls need advice as well as information in selecting their colleges,'' Mr. Lovejoy declares. ‘‘They look to their principals and teachers for this guidance. Most high schools either shirk giving advice, or they give bad advice, which is worse than none at all Educational counseling, whether in high schools or colleges, means talking with students and parents, planning students' programs, approving. or advising changes, examining unsatisfactory progress, discussing fields of special- ization." Two Years. Less than two years have been required to complete this ideal speedway, although previous. attempts to span the mountains go back to the early 1800s. During that time more than a score of attempts were made. First surveys for a railroad were authorized ‘by the Pennsylvania legislature in 1837, but it was not until 1854 that that body empowered a company to raise funds and chartered the Marysville, Landisville and Broad Top railroad. In 1859, the name of the proposed railroad was changed by legislative enactment to the ambitious ‘title, "Pennsylvania Pacific railroad," which was retained until 1863, when it was again changed to the ‘‘South Pennsylvania railroad,'' or ‘‘South Penn," as it was popularly called. The project was revived and dropped several times during the next 20 years, but beyond keeping the charter alive, little was done until 1883 when William H. Vander- bilt took over the company. Then, in that roaring decade of the 1880s, when probably one-fifth of the nation's present railroad mileage was constructed, the old South Penn right-of-way, now followed by the turnpike, became of financial the battleground titans. The greatest of all South Penn ventures began in New York in 1883, when the Pennsylvania railroad threatened to enter into competition with the New York Central by building a parallel line up the west shore of the Hudson river. In retaliation, William H. Vanderbilt, New York Central chief and one-time associate of J. P. Morgan, organized a company to build the South Penn road paralleling the Pennsylvania railroad's lines in its home state. Carnegie NEW YORK.-Only the 23,032 public high Morgenthau Harry England. At least, he proposed joint of use which The road eliminates all the mountain hazards between the Ohio river and Delaware tidewater. It will reduce, by hours, travel from the Midwest to the eastern metropolises. For truckers it will save as much as 15 hours time and an estimated $30 between two points, compared to use of the present roads. Follows Abandoned Railroad. The new turnpike follows the line of the old South Penn railroad, a project never completed. It is a four-lane concrete shaft with east and west traffic separated by a 10foot center parkway. Seven tunnels through the mountains, prepared for the railroad, are used to eliminate grades. In all, there are seven miles of these tunnels. Every desire to insure safety, comfort and speed with on a restrictive tax policy that paralyzed airplane and other production for about eight months, he had to walk the plank. In his place came another Harry- Wrong-Horse Harry Stimson. He came apparently because he had just made an all-out interventionist speech proposing something perilously close to a war alliance with Philadelphia. Always there has been the dream of a better and shorter road, one that would not add hundreds of miles to the journey by going around the mountains. some- is WASHINGTON.-There thing smelly in the war department. Part of it is too many Harrys. Because Harry Woodring wouldn't the capi- Since the beginning of the westward march of civilization across the United States, the formidable mountain ridges of the Appalachians have imposed natural barriers on travel and transportation between the Atlantic seaboard and the Middle West. Pennsylvania's two major east-west highways solved the problem in a limited way previously. The Lincoln highway crossed the mountains directly on steep grades; the other, the William Penn highway, followed the winding Juniata river to its headwaters, crossing one mountain and descending to Pittsburgh through rolling hill country. Both routes have obvious limitations, the former having many grades as steep as 8 and 9 per cent, and the William Penn having a few steep grades with many curves and a longer route between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. WNU Service ‘HARRY'S' DEPARTMENT WAR tal, near the east. And plans are being made to extend it an addi- tional ar United Features eM a Backer, The biggest backer was Andrew Carnegie, Pittsburgh steel king, who contributed $5,000,000. Carnegie welcomed the new line, for he had fought the ‘‘Pennsy'' unsuccessfully for years to win lower rates for transporting his Pittsburgh steel to the seaboard. ‘‘What do you think of it, Carnegie?'"' asked Vanderbilt. "I think so well of it that I and my friends will raise $5,000,000 as our subscription," Carnegie replied. "All right,"' said Vanderbilt. "a put in another $5,000,000." Forty millions in stocks and bonds were floated, bought eagerly ‘y the public. Vanderbilt organized the American Construction company, and then gave it the cortracts. SurveysS were resumed vider the direction of Oliver W. Barnes, engi- Child Accident Rate Increases in October CHICAGO.-October and May are high frequency months for accidents among elementary and high school students, the National Safety Council reports in its statistical yearbook for-1940. The report shows kinder garten to be the safest grade, with only six accidents per 100,000 student-days resulting in absence from school for one-half day or more or requiring medical attention. neer, and a corps of 300 men. Tenfoot contour ‘maps covering 1,000 square miles were drawn, and 5,000 miles of lines were run. In the fall of 1883, a definite line was adopted, and contracts for the tunnels and largest bridges were let. Three thousand laborers poured into the mountains. Within two years, bridge piers for the line studded the Susquehanna river at Harrisburg; long cuts gashed the hilltops; mammoth fills scarred the valleys, and the towering peaks of the Alleghenies had been pierced by nine tunnels. Then in the fall of 1885 when the job was half finished, the incredible order ‘‘stop work'' went out. Engineers packed up their transits, laborers dropped their tools. The rgadbeds, tunnels, and bridges were abandoned to the ravages of time. Railroad Sold Out. In financial circles behind the scenes, the death warrant of the South Pennsylvania railroad had been written. Alarmed by the prospect of a destructive railroad rate "war," J. P. Morgan forced Van- derbilt to and the his backers Pennsylvania to sell out railroad. Following the World war, came troublous days for the railroads. America was taking to a new mode of travel. Automobiles were being turned out by the millions for a people who went pleasure-bent on trips that took them but hours where their forefathers had spent months. Also came great freight buses that carried the manufac- naval would, and air he came, promise not kept to be even Johnson. and oO the idea this rail- Way. For many months he carried the fight alone. But in 1935 a resolution to survey the possibilities of the proposal passed the legislature. Financing was a big problem, but the fed- eral government finally looked upon the plan with favor, and assistance came from financial agencies set up by congress. The old South Penn line was with its chosen. Perhaps already-built General duct Gullion-a the of the fed- motorized battalion of the Pennsyl- vania National Guard, in a test run across the still uncompleted road, left Harrisburg and set up a ‘‘defense area"' near the important Bed- ford steel sector, 135 miles away, in just five hours. It was definitely a blitzkrieg movement, the fastest registered in any nation in any time. Principally, however, the road is for scenic and commercial uses. ‘Naturally, we shall exclude billboards,"' said Walter A. Jones, the turnpike commission chairman. * Asked how this policy would be en- forced, he said, "First, we own a right-of-way 200 feet wide at the nar- | rowest point. If, despite our disap- | proval, some enterprising company | erects billboards, we shall plant on| our own land such shrubs and trees as are necessary to hide the signs.'"' Even the oil stations wil] be under the supervision of the commis sion. A contract has been let to a leading company, but the 10 station s being erected are the property of the commission. Nine of the units will have one-story buildings. The tenth unit will feature a two-story buildin g, er and booklet stuck between, open ends. We are inveteéy booklet collectors on all sorj subjects. Frequently we ¢ binders with fabrics or intereg, papers so they look attractiv, | the shelves in any room. i NOTE: Here is a good suggest keeping the series of sewing boll which Mrs. Spears has prepared fog readers. ‘There are five booklets ig able and a new one is published other month. No. 5 contains diredé for 30 different homemaking ideag cluding new fall curtains; useful ha gifts, and description of the other a lets in the series. When you writ@ your copy 10e to order of Book cover cost 5 be sure and to en;s mailing. to: } MRS. RUTH WYETH Drawer 10 Bedford SPEARS ] Hills Enclose natural-to selective Wrong-Horse draft. boiled over. Gullion would be appointed dead body.'' con- service Harry ‘"‘over his He wanted Colonel Her- Address 10 New cents for Book 1 5. @When you feel gassy, headachy, pf due to clogged-up bowels, do as milli¥ do-take Feen-A-Mint at bedtime. Ny morning - thorough, comfortable Py helping you start the day full of 3 normal crochetty stubborn, In the petulance of old and feeble man of secretary meantime, of war the picked Assistant Secretary son-who was going to town. s DRAFT = Patter- lik" dist What Time Brings iit is the nurse and bree Time of all good.-Shakespeare. f i ADVISES YOUNG GIRLS ENTERING Se Ye WOMANHOOE Thousands of young girls entering " anhood have found a "real friend' i Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Comm| pound to help them go rseeting | restless, moody, nervous see a . relieve cramps, headache, ba ing ing spells due to f functional irregularities. Famous for ove) his of doesn't FEEN-A-MINT 161¢ in this selection Feen-A-Mint next day. Try Feen-A-Mint, the chev gum laxative, yourself. It tastes good, handy and economical...a family supil one, a draft administrator is deferred, "pending agreements,'' when such direction is needed-tragically. Also, all these matters are to be taken away from Mr. Stimson's own hand- energy and pep, feeling million! your night's rest or interfere with work) would be the best selection. That isn't the point. The point is the testy, . BY YOUR LAXATIVE =RELIEVE! CONSTIPATION THIS MODERN W® perfect team in America. and next to Gullion, Hershey selection crisis. eo oa owe teai to hg DON'T BE BOSSE shey, whom Gullion intended to use as his deputy. There is nothing This column in the minds picture to you my method of i ening booklets in ring binder} I use %4-inch wide gummed t Pieces 2%4-inches long are f¢5 in half. The fold end is stucly gether and punched. These x are placed on the rings of the ky INSIDE (s0sd sasscees aiv'e Mr. Stimson's first official act was to demand Mr. Johnson's official head on a silver salver. He wanted his own man. That fratricidal request was granted and, regardless of its disconcerting-not to say paralyzing-effect on the Battle of America. Mr. Stimson brought in his own man, Judge Patterson. Bad as this helter-skelter playing of ducks and drakes with national defense might have been in 99 out of 100 cases, it turned out that Judge Patterson was just the kind of guy who could overcome the handicap of such reckless monkeybusiness. He was a soldier himself and a common sense administrator. In record time, he corraled the confidence of everybody involved, army, industry, public. Then something happened. The President wisely decided to appoint Judge Advocate tunnels eral authorities was more than a road for industrial use; the road has defihite military possibilities. In case of emergency it will be a major transportation artery. Men, munitions and other material could be moved across the Alleghenies with the speed so necessary to modern warfare. Just recently a TA ATTACHI o ed me that I have been wantit o> the matter with Hershey. Together, he and Gullion would have been the revived BOOKLET, WITH - - most Alone, association, up re a LEAF BINDER than tured goods of the nation to the East over hard-surfaced roads. And the of a road over the mountains; time a highway instead of a LOOSE the more demand for better roads and more speed increased. In 1934, William A. Sutherland, then general manager of the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Setting them the the assistant sec- was default proved that for Louis my work-room library of loo binders. pur- retary of war was, by law, charged, under the secretary's direction, with making plans and preparations for our present two great tasks-industrial and man power mobilization. A system for this had been under study and discussion for many years. The assistant secretary, Mr. Louis Johnson, after many false starts and a good deal of galloping in place had at last got his stride. He had learned his job. He had finally captured the confidence not only of the army, but also of industry and the public. Things were beginning to hum. The appointment of Mr. Stimson was a direct violation of a promise to him of that portfolio. The By RUTH WYETH SP | HENEVER I make a ft New England I like to back something to remind there have been about 15 ger tions of homemakers in | since John Alden and Priscilly up housekeeping in Plymouth ony. This time my treasureg the pair of ancient flat iro see here m use as book endy! bases for all practical poses, make us a belligerent in this war. Certainly he didn't come to speed defense on the real front of the Battle of America-which is, at the moment, the industrial front. Nobody can argue that because that would require a dynamic figure-a man who knows something about that job. Wrong-Horse Harry not only doesn't ‘know anything about it, but he is about as dynamic as a shelled oyster. When Booklets in Loose ~ Leaf Ring Binc S. JOHNSON Union.) This type of fuel is essential for modern aerial warfare. Without it planes are not able to attain the great speeds necessary in dog fights and raids such as take place night and day over Britain. GETS AVIATION cific. Russ Davenport quit Fortune to help Mr. Willkie, and wrote a piece for it about his man. So J. Chamberlain (formerly a book critic) of the paper wrote one for Roosevelt. Sort of a battle page. Wal, Russ took a dig at Johnny in his. Said something about not having the time to read a book as he was busy making a President. The rest of the staff decided to go buy Russ a copy of Mortimer J. Adler's ‘‘How to Read a Book." author HUGH CROCKETT embargo, to obtain all the U. S. gas it needs for the bombers that are raining death and destruction on helpless Chinese cities and villages. This loophole is the little-noticed provision that limits the embargo only to a certain super-grade of gas-87 octane and over. JAPAN off radicals after the Newspaper D. C. HERMAN ARRISBURG, PA.-Passenger automobiles speed along at 105 miles an hour. Their occupants, unaware of an excessive rate of motion, travel on a curveless ribbon of concrete that goes through mountains instead of over them-a highway without intersections or railroad crossings, without billboards or hazards of snow, ice and fog. THE VILLAGE NEWS-PRESS (Prop. and Editor, W. Winchell) job |GENERAL Marks Beginning of Superhighway Era By NOTES UTAH New Pittsburgh-Harrisburg Turnpike { held MOAB, \ 60 years. WORTH TRYING! Ne wr i te Co-operation ty Heaven ne'er helps the men ti wil not act.-Sophocles. in Na s TROUBLE recently criticized the appointment of Elliott Roosevelt, aged 30, as captain in the air corps and his assignment to some desk job in procurement. Elliott is within the selective draft age limits. Al- though gazetted as a "‘specialist,"' there is no information that he has any special training or experience either as a soldier or as a purchasing agent. Now, according to a press dis- patch, Elliott says Iam ing old man," jast war as who a went soldier, through but Compressed the fury Fury of a pat are net yet published. I don't know what they will Say about married men with children, but this I know from the law itself-there is no such tay i, the served plication and request. Such is the law. The actual draft regulations exemption. Beware man.-Dryden. a ""‘disgust- only at a desk. I don't know what that has to do with the merits of this case. In 1917 I had been a soldier in the regular army for 18 years. I served in the places I was ordered to serve. Among those places, I was in command of combat troops-an infantry brigade of the Eighth division. It and I were aboard a convoy destined for France when the Armistice was signed. 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