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Turkey Avoids
t7ar Entry
. Prepares Army,
Coordinates
Plans With Allies
" i: By WILLIAM KING
.- ANKARA, Jan. 20 -(Delayed)
Turkish war plans have been
developed to this point where, the
alep from neutrality to belliger-
' : ency need take only a few hours.
- Day and night work by the gen
eral staff had brought both . of 4
' tensive and defensive arrange
. ments up to the minute. , :
Younger, modem s minded of-
fleers have been placed in com-
-jnand of key units as well as on
the general staff.
The army is keyed up with ex
pectancy. V
V Talks with the allies have giv
en the turks a clear idea of how
'Anglo - Turkish forces might best
'coordinate their efforts,
j- . Coastal forces hive been rushed
toward redinessJ"
Despite all this, Turkey's entry
-into the war-still is dependent
upon a- myriad of extraneous con
ditions. .;"
She will not enter the war un
less she has what she considers
adequate arms from Anglo-American
arsenals. She frankly hopes
the war will come to a sudden end
and obviate thi necessity of her
participation.
Doubt and fears of Russia also
give Turkey caution. The situa
tion, was eased by the Cairo con
ference, has been' irritated again
'by the Russo - Polish controver
sy. Turkey feels keenly her po
sition as a small nation and thinks
the outcome of the Polish border
dispute might be a clear indication
of what she may expect in the
postwar world. -
"If a sacrifice on the allied side
is no guarantee of security when
the allies win, why should we sac
rifice any of our arms or cities
in the war?" a prominent Turk
said to me.
' Turkey's preparations cannot be
secret from the Germans. If they
Jrk Hitler to the point where he
strikes the first blow, Turkey will
'fight all out. If the nazis ignore
these warlike moves, there is more
than an even chance that Turkey
will get into the war only after
the allies have taken a firm foot--.foold
on the Balkin peninsula, or
may stay out altogether.
Turks constantly reiterate that
; Turkey, has nothing' to gain from
.belligerency except, perhaps, a
vaice at the peace conference.
"We want a voice in the post
war world," said one Turk, "but
.we are unwilling to swap the city
,et Istanbul for a seat at the peace
conference. (
. . With Germans still maintain
ing airfields In a crescent from
Crete to the Crimea, Turkey is as
.exposed as a circus performer
.whose head is, in the lion's mouth.
Turks shudder to think of bombs
erasing the hard work of the last
.two decades of modernization. " "'
Chicken-Hearted Reporters
Suffer GI Homesickness
i
the individuals; admit they 'don't
like getting shot at" and agree not
to take any more ' unnecessary
chances? ":y . .: - ' '
-Every single correspondent that
night applied for immediate mem
bership, and there was a unan-i
imous vote of opposition to this
custom! of sticking out necks.?'
But a jew days later:; San
Vlttore fell, and while enemy'
shells still were blasting the
town almost every member ef I
the newly formed AACC showed , -hp
te get the story, even after
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.Elect New President
Of Turner Society
TURNER The Sisterhood so
ciety of the Christian church met
Thursday to elect new officers.
'- Mrs. Elsie Whiteaker was elect
ed president for the coming year,
succeeding Mrs. Henry Leep; Mrs.
Florence Parr, vice president;
"Mrs. Homer Haggard, secretary,
and Mrs. Mary Standley, treasur
er, were all three re-elected.
Later, Mrs. Parr served refresh
ments to Mrs. Gene Robinson, Mrs.
Etoe Farrell, Mrs, George Good.
Mrs. C. F. Trimble, Mrs. W. H.
Griffin, Mrs. Mary Standley. Mrs.
Homer Haggard and Mrs. Henry
Leep. ,
By KENNETH Lu DIXON , V i
. WITH THE AFL IN ITALY, Jan, 19.- Delayed) -P)-If you
prefer to believe in that old-rriyth about war" correspondents be
ing mighty men with nerves of steel, blase boys without feeling,
weaknesses or worries, just skip this column and turn on over to
the classified ads. r-v. f. ' :? :f -; V'-- '
1 1 For war correspondents, at least in this theatre, are, just like
other people, only more so.
In the first place, there's a 'vast
difference- between thei-cosmopol
itan foreign correspondent of oth
er more normal days and the re
porters who have left "their city
beats to follow the home ' town
boys to the battlefront
. They volunteered for the job
because there's ; a war to coyer,
because it's the : world's biggest
story right now, and because;, the
guys they used to write about
back home are over here now.
Bat like those GI's, they, toe
get j homesick. They, toe, get
seared and sick and' worried
about their families, and when
they miss Jfceir mall they wail
leader than any soldier yon ev
er! aw. ' f :
You see their bylines, read their
stories from all parts of the world
and probably imagine them right
in "the thick of things."
But from where they sit their
little section of the war seems lost
and out of the shuffle. Often -they
go or months without seeing
clipping of their story, meanwhile
pounding it out day after day and
wondering: if it's getting through
and being used.
tsy tneiume tney iinaiiy see
clippings of their stories they are
so old they no longer seem to be
of any importance.
Contrary to popular opinion,
most war correspondents do not
maintain prompt cable contact
with their home offices or fam
ilies. Some of those in the main
bureaus at the cable heads do,
but the ones out In the field
sometimes get cables as much as
a month late.
And letters usually arrive later
for i the ' reporters than for the
soldiers they write about because
they shift their location so much
that their mail must be forward
ed from one APO to another.
One of the most unexpected
sights I've seen in that respect was
a world famous war correspondent
sitting disconsolately on an army
cot while a private from his home
town read him scraps of news in
the form of excerpts from his own
mail. - i j
As far as the old "nerves of
steel" fable is concerned, it just
ain't so in 99 per cent of the cases,
any more than it's so about 99 per
cent of the soldiers. They all agree
that they're scared to death when
the going gets rough. The point
is that they keep going.
One night after the fall of San
Pietro a bunch of the boys got
together, talked over their close
calls and formed the "Amalgamat
ed Association of Chicken - Heart
ed - Correspondents." The' only
membership requirement was that
. a regimental Intelligence officer
told them "You're crazy to re
1b there now. Better wait a cou
ple ef days until It cools ttt.n -' '
- Like - the - average- soldier, the
average war reporter looks J for
ward to the time when he can go.
home again. But if he had to do it
all over again-he'd be right back
over here somewhere. .-
Which is why many a' soldier
says they're crazy. -.-v ;'
-But the reporter usually replies
Chat.after. alL.he's got it'sorter
than the soldier. He can always
grab his pencil nd notebook and
run if the shooting gets too hot,
and the soldier can't, r Tv i
Club Leaders Visit
Union Hill Member
UNION HILL ; Amos Bierfy,
county 4H club leader j and IX, J.
Allen, assistant state club leader
of Corvallis, 1 called Thursday on
Guy Scott, 4H cattle club boy
who is raising Hereford beef steers.
They also visited the Union Hill
school. ' A '
Oregon Man a
Wins Awards .
Photography
WASHINGTON, DO, Jan. 22
Lt, CoL Gerald Fitzgerald, native
of Bums, Ore, today on his 45th
birthday anniversary was' pre
sen ted the Sherman Mills Fair-
child award for his outstanding
achievements in the aerial pho
tography field. - ..
The - award" was presented by
Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the
army air forces, at the annual
meeting of the American Society Of
Photogrammetrists. Donor of . the
award is Sherman MV Fair child,
chairman of the board of directors
of Fairchild Aviation corporation,
who, through his experiments la
designing; an improved between-the-lens
camera shutter, and new
types of aerial cameras, opened;
wide new field for aerial photo
graphers, ; whose work has been
one of the biggest single factors
contributing to American success
in' this .war. . : , ; v , . -
- Col, Fitzgerald was selected for
the award as "the man "who made
the most valuable technical con
tribution to the now-famous tri
metrdgon : maDpirut methnL He
was also responsible" for the or
ganization, operation - and super-
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vision of all units engaged in tri
metrogon compilation for the aer
onautical charting program dur
ing 1943.
Up to the time of Pearl Harbor,
Gen, Arnold pointed out as he pre
sented the Fairchild silver placque,
only 750,000 square miles, of the
US and its territories had been
mapped.' But as the result of the
institution of -the tri-metrogon me
thod, 6,000,000 square miles have
now been mapped.
Tri-Metrogon mapping . simply
means the utilization of three wide
angle cameras so placed in an air
plane as to secure aerial pho
tographs of , the landscape from
one horizon to the other. -
CoL Fitzgerald began his long
Dru2jist Buys Farm r
From Parr Estats: .
WOODBUTtN Mr. and M r t
Kenneth McGrath have purchased
the Charles Parr residence on East
Cleveland Tfrom the Parr estate,
and expect: to move there in the
near future. -i :t -- - . " -
'Mr. McGrath is the proprietor
of the highway drug store near
the eastern end of Young street
career with the government as
19-year-old temporary field assisH
tant with th4 US geological sur
vey, and he was employed in the
surveys until 1942. He had Joined
the Alaskan branch in 1921, and
rose to senior topographic engineer
In 1933. On June 8, 1942, he was
commissioned as major .in the ar
my air forces i and promoted to
lieutenant - colonel in January
1943. He is now chief of the aero
nautical chart-service of the army
air forces. ' ' :
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Returns Frcm Vizil
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- SELVERTON Miss Juanita
Moe has-returned from I.Iissoula,
Mont, where she spent several
days visiting. Miss lloe will go 'to
Parkland, Wash, this week, to re
sume her studies at Pacific Luth
eran college. For the past several
months, prior to going to Montana,
Miss Moe was junior clerk at the '
local ration board.
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