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PAGE TWO The OHSGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon. Sunday Morning. January C3, 1214 Kansas Editor Passes Away ; In Home Town EMPORIA, Kas, Jan. 27-P William Allen White, who grew into a Journalistic giant , in I his home town, died today. He would have been 76 years old February 10. : ... . - -r- The world-famous editor of the Emporia Gazette had been in de clting health for more than' a year. He. underwent an operation at Rochester, Minn, last October, but failed to improve. - j At his bedside were his almost equally famous wife, Sally Lind say White, and his son William I White, himself a writer of note. ' White died on the 83rd birthday of his native state while republi can notables were gathering j at Topeka, the capital, for the an; nual political love-feast at which he, frequently was a central fig ure, although not always a party regular. ! He entered the newspaper field through the back shop, learning the printing trade in his teens He attended the University j of Kansas from 1886 to 1890, but did not graduate. - After working on the Kansas City Star for three years as. an editorial writer. White returned td Emporai in 1895 and bought the Gazette with a borrowed $3000-. Success came early. A year later he began a career as a magazine story writer and author which er ased his debt and put his paper on a paying basis. A political editorial, "What's the matter with Kansas" ..threw him into national prominence in 1896. A Lampon on the Populist movement which arose in Kansas, It was used widely in the republi can national campaign of that year. "Mark Hanna took me to a high mountain and offered me my choice of any profitable office un der the incoming McKinley ad ministration," White once wrote. "I refused to consider any of fice. He. wrote me a letter of in troduction to McKinley " which I have framed in my office in which he says: This young man wants no office'." That was the keynote of White's political life. He never held an elective office. He ran for gover nor in 1924 as an independent candidate in order to have my say against the Ku Klux Klan." Atthouhg he had no organization and spent little more than travel ing expenses, his unsuccessful campaign produced ' more votes than were "cast In Kansas that year for John W. DaVi, the democratic presidential candidate. 411ies Approach Rome Outskirts F (Continued from Page 1) F north of Anzio placed allied troops -within eight miles of Caste! Gon dolfo, summer home of Pope Pius XII and brought up the possibility of the fighting damaging papal or church property. Since the invasion of Italy all allied troops have had standing- or ders not to use church property as military cover and to avoid dam aging religious shrines wherever possible. However, the Germans have used church steeples as ob servation towers and fortified oth er property. On the main Fifth army front the French recaptured two hills north of Mount Belvedere The Americans north of Cassino lunged out with the support of tanks against .the Gustav line. The Bri tish on the west side of the Carig liano river made a short advance northeast of .Suio. , (The German, communique sajd the allies had taken Mt Rotobdo, a mile and a half beyond Castel forte and about five miles inland on the Carigliano front) r Both the British and the Ameri can navies took an important part in the battle of the beachhead, shelling the enemy from the sea with their long range, guns. 1 Count 'Em Three GirU The ' wartime production rate soared fin one Salem family on Saturday, when Mrs. John j Hutto presented '. her : husband with not but three squawling feminine additions to the Hutto family, all in a period of less than" a quarter of an hour. The babies, born at Sa lem General hospital beginning at 7:19 a. hl, weighed 4 pounds .12 ounces, pounds 13 ounces and 4 pounds 9Vs ounces, in the order of their appearance.' i Mrs. : Hutto and the girls are reported well by hospital authori ties. Although the father had not been contacted up to a late hour, he is reported to'be recovering as well "a can be expected. Tne coupie nas anotner craia. m two-year old boy. Hutto is em ployed at the Western Paper Con verting company and the family lives on route 2, Salem. Nelson-:'::;;'i:'-?',- VC-V-; '" iZ James C Nelson. Survived by wife, Anna Nelson; one son. Thom as. N. Nelson of Chico. Calif, and two grandchildren, James Thomas Nelson end Jerry Nelson. Announ cements later by W. T. Rigdon WhiteDies u. WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE ONtheHOMEFRONT By ISABEL CHILD3 Have you heard the stories from the south Pacific about how the reserve between officers and men is broken on the battlefront? : i ' ' v . Listen to the story of the soft ening influence which may be felt even on the homefront: The narrator should rightly be Cpl. Charles Donald Tungate, Sa lem, who came home wounded and decorated after four months on Guadalcanal. But I heard it from a man who heard it from him and I can't put the ' words into his mouth. Cpl. Tungate had a short leave at home- and then was sent to Se attle for hospitalization, because he was still feeling the effects of malaria, shrapnel." etc. - Friday night he left Seattle for another 48-hour leave with the homefolk and girl friend in Sa lem. Among other knowledge he has gained is that the fastest way to travel is to leave where you're leaving and start for where you're going on foot. Just outside Seattle he caught a j-ide with a Washing ton state policeman. North of Olympia- he observed that the car just ahead of them carried . Oregon license plates. Knowing his chauffeur of the mo ment would travel only as far as Olympia, Cpl. Charles Don re marked that if he could only hook a ride with the car ahead it would possibly take him at least to Port land. , Courtesy patrolman immediate ly pulled up alongside and touched his siren. When the Ore gon car had stopped, the police man explained to the pair of au gust gentlemen in the front seat that a certain young marine cor poral would appreciate a ride to Portland. Meanwhile, the corpor al was making a vain attempt to crawl under the seat of the po lice car. For the pair of august gentlemen wore sleeves filled with the widest stripes and, my inform ant declares, "hat brims covered with gold scrambled eggs." V They were admirals of the US navy. V ....... But that does not complete , the story. Despite his remonstrances, Tungate was taken into the Ore gon car. They rode in silence to Chehalis, where-they got out for coffee, sat on stools at a counter, side by side, the boy who had been on Guadalcanal and the two ad mirals. The rest ef the trip was not made in silence. Meisinger Students To Be Featured At .Polio Dance Additional attractions for the infantile paralysis benefit dance Monday night at the armory, ar ranged late Saturday, win include specialty numbers by Betty Pierce and accordion numbers by the Princess Pat sextet, both groups from the Priscilla Meisinger stu dio, it was announced. Tom Hill will be master of cere monies. The dance, sponsored by the American Legion and 40 et 8, will start at t p. m. r r.oolntment f. ?v I - " 1 I mm S-11T1 I voa7 - - -tlficauy""Aw ' -1 immi to r 444 Salem - Reds Suffer Setbacks In Ukraine C (Continued from Page 1) C Other soviet forces pried the Germans from their : last hold on tho double track Moscow-Lenin grad ; railway line" by taking the town of Chudovo. ... , . ' ; ,i The Russians also captured the railway station of Viritsa, 33 miles south: of Leningrad on the Vitebsk line, capturing, important war ma' teriaL : ' . - r 1 In an area about ; 200 miles south of this northernmost fight ing, jthe Second Baltic' army of Gen, f Markian; M. Popov captured the rail Junction of Novosokolinki in a surprise attack.: t ; -I . To the ! north1 in the Novgorod areaj the left wing of Gen. Kyrill A. Meretskov's forces killed 1?0Q Germans t and captured three heavily fortified points in j their drive toward the Leningrad Pskov-Warsaw railroad, the Ger mans' last retreat line from the north. f : ! ' I - s More than SO towns were libe rated by the Russians in the day's advances. ! " j Three Salem Men Throw in Ring E (Continued from Page 1) B amendment of the charter to pro vide: modest compensation for city officials who should succeed the present mayor and council equal ization of city employes pay with regard to the services performed, and a retirement system for city employes.: . Studies in connection with some of these ; recommendations : have been made or' begun. The mayor later initiated a postwar planning program on which1 substantial progress has been made. in organ ization and research. Whether any heat is developed in the calmpaign or not, the city ballot will be a bit longer than the charter contemplates. - Mayor, recorder and treasurer are elected everjr tw years; theoretically on ly seven aldermen are to be elect ed at one time, but this year due to resignations and appointments there will be nine. Aldermen must be elected for two-year terms to the positions now filled by ap pointment by Kenneth C Perry in the first ward and Elmer O. Berf in the sixth, j Aldermen whose four-year terms expire are James H. Nich olson, first ward; L. F. LeGarie, second; Lloyd T. Rigdon, third; Mrs. G. L. LobdelL fourth; Ross Goodman, fifth; Tom Armstrong, sixth; Daniel J. Fry, seventh. 1 Of the nine, only one has indi cated whether or not he will seek reelection; Alderman Fry has made it known that he will not run but will, as a matter of fact, resign sometime this spring on re moving to a different ward. , Holdover members of the coun cil are Albert H. Gille, second ward; Claude W. Jorgensen. third; R. Q. Lewis, fourth; David OUara, fifth; C. F. French, seventh. Three places on the city water commission also are to-be filled; those of Chairman Howard Jenks, w. ju frumps and Ed Rostein.'! Dr. Bee to Lead Relations Forum . . i I Dr. Lawrence Bee of the Uni versity of Oregon faculty will lead a forum discussion on family j re lations at the YMCA on Mondav afternoon at 2 o'clock to which the parents vf Hi-Y members are j In vited. ; ! , : , , The Hi-Y mothers will meet at the fraCA Tuesday afternoon,? al so at 2 o'clock.'! Miss Marcia Hunt of the state library staff will talk on t new;; books, and important business is scheduled, officers of the group announce. 5 Baby Boom ' j MEDFORD, Jan. 29 -(-t A baby boom was reported in Jack son county today, with the 1012 births in 1943 nearly triple the number recorded in 194 L i ctrlents Need Corrected Vision , chance. the pro- student, PZce& eyesight, j tection ot ister's eye , Have yJlwhere you Cammed here, "v. 1 vision. - " . . j ; i,r TM TODAY! I "V, examination. w f-our eye needs. ; ill Trns . ' r Motive sUte Stf Sidney -Talbot Paces Bond Purchcudnfr ; B (Continued from Page 1) B of Japanese souvenirs from Kiska and Attu and other articles from the Fiji islands and New Cale donia, sent home by Bud Abney who is in the navy and explained by his mother, Mrs. Ray Abney. There were, musical ' numbers by Mrs. Gilbert Belknap, Mrs. Elmo B ro w n t X Dona :. Zehner, Leon Hampton and Mrs. Clint .Hamp ton, and sleigh t-of-hand and venr triloquism demonstrations by p. D. Dotson of the Salem party. County Chairman Gard introduce ed other; representatives of ithe county committee;" Dave Scott, Re.x Gibson and Arthur Smither. The regular meeting of the Sid-ney-Talbot Farmers Union -local was shortened to afford 'time for the bondy rally through", courtesy of George Potts. lr president- - The Schools at War program s making great headway, it was re ported Saturday, and the goal has been increased to $62,519 for pu pils r alone; to date they ' have bought bonds and stamps amount ing to $35,411.66. : Miss Mathilda Gilles, Salem chairman,' reports" a total of $22,236.21 against a quota of $28,820. Schools over the iop include Parrish, Englewood Washington. Grant, Highland and McKinley; Bush made its original $1165 quota but has raised it to $3000. Salem high is making rapid strides toward its $15,000 goat ; i Teachers and employes - in the Salem schools also are making a great showing, having Invested over $12,000 toward a $12,600 goaL j i -L-l For the territory outside Salem, Chairman Carmalite Weddle - re ports that the goal has been rais ed to $33,695. toward which $13,- 175.45 has been sold. Nearly every school has picked an item of war equipment to sponsor. Schools reaching their goals, In addition to those reported earlier, - are " St. Paul, Johnston, Lincoln of Wood- burn, Fruitland, Auburn, Salem Heights, Clear Lake and Keizeri ( Roy Mills, secretary of the state board of control, reports that ill more state departments, making a total of 21, have gone over the top, and that against a $389,1,00 goal $139,992 had been raised, or more than one-third in ten days. This Is $50,000 more than was raised in the third war loan. j Large subscriptions to be in cluded in the total after February 1 include the Salem waten com mission's purchase . of $40,000 Of treasury notes, and purchases by Marion county. Associated Oil company; ; Blake. 4 Ayliitfft ana Towne, Arden Farms and F W. Woolworth company. i-' ' j.' The committee expressed ap preciation for aid of Burkett Ad vertising company, Foster and Kleiser company and many firms which have donated space, in con nection with outdoor advertising. 30 Couples Attend Hi-Y Coed Party Thirty ' couples attended the Hi- Y coed party held at the YMCA Saturday, night. The occasion, third of a series, featured danc ing, swimming and lobby games. Guests met before a roaring fire in the fireplace in the boys' lob by, .with atmosphere added by decorations about .the room. Re freshments were . served by tl Hi-Y Mothers dub. ! - r Us This is your Open week ; : .. s . - .- Cattle 421ub Members Oppose; Subsidies, Dumping of Surplus; Tibbies Elected President;- jl -. . - - . . - . . . Resolutions opposing subsidies and rollbacks on food products, and opposing repeal, of the 10c tax on colored margarine, to gether with a warning against dumping of surplus foodstuffs after the war were adopted by the Oregon Jerseyj Cattle club at Its annual meeting held at the Marion hotel yesterday. ;"; MJ Ni Tibbies of Independence was elected president to succeed T.J,Law, of GreshanVand Jens Svinth,' assistant .county ,'agenf in Washington county " was ;. elected secfetarjr: to succeed 'Oscar Mike- sell of Albany. M. G. Gunderson of Silvertorr; was elected vice pre-' sidenL . . . :: Clackamas county club . again won first in he, county . achieve ment contest with' Polk county se cond and Linn-Benton club third. Clackamas county club,.which was first ; last year, also ; won 'first in the national contest in-1943. Mar ion county club was; awarded the Hulburt trophy for 1943. William Richards ol Linn iCounty was the 4H club youth' winning the Jersey heifer offered this year by. R. A. Forester of Tangent. . : : The noon luncheon was ad dressed by E. LV Peterson, "direc tor .f agriculture and himself an Oregon, dairyman. He declared that consumer acceptance of dairy products is based on quality and quality depends on sanitary stan dards. It this respect be said that the war had forced some lowering of standards, but he regarded that as temporary; ; " ' On the margarine issue Director Peterson stated that the yellow color was butter's trademark which should not be infringed, but he urged producers to make but ter so good it will be preferred by consumers. The director said that supply of protein feeds was Inadequate to maintain produc tion, but expressed his confidence in the long-term outlook for dairy ing in Oregon. Walter C Leth, western director of the ' American Jersey Cattle club, reported on matters before the - national organization. The group voted to ask the national organization to retain Ted Warren as state field agent. Warren hav ing resigned recently to enter bus iness. About a hundred dairymen and friends attended the meeting and luncheon, which by custom, is held at Salem. Complete with crystal microphone, miniature radio tubes and batteries. . , . i Call or write for a demonstration. Yon are the judge of whether yon can hear or not. We sell only to those whom a hearing; aid can , help. t -. David A. Gbnntsrs i Of Oregeniaa Ballding . Pertlaad, 5, Oregon : I Gil Il3, Ca?ll:! CL OPPOSITE ICE SKATING ARENA Full line staple and fancy groceries, meats, Droits and yegetables Ccri crJ Carry Prices i';;V"I.'Iade possible by-, D:!iv:ri:3.. - , VrHa. Cir::3 neighborhood store here for your convenience. days from 8 A, IJ. to 6:30 P. II. Saturdi A (Continued from Page 1) A resident, He was a, anember of the Botany society And Fern so ciety, ! a collaborator in botanical abstracts and author" of a, text book "Systematic Botany." . a Born at Grant, Ky- December 11, 187, he was educated at Han over college, attaining, a bachelor of science degree In 1890 and mas ter of arts in 1893, He began teaching at Carthage, Mo, in 1891 and was later at Hull academy in Iowa; a teacher :ini Illinois and Iowa high schools from 1899 until 1907 and a principal from 1907 until 1912 before coming west. He was : connected"" with -, schools : in Washington "state - for two . years before coming to Salem. . He married Anna fVan Horssen in Orange 'City, ; Iowa, July ; 23, 1904. She survives, as well as one son, Thomas Nelson of Chico, Calif.; and . two grandchildren. Funeral ''arrangements have - not been completed. , f Dethrone King Cry Italian Parties NEW YORK, Jan! 29-OTr-The all-party congress of six Italian political parties at jBari unani mously adopted today a resolution calling for ahdication of . King Vittorio Emanuele, the Bar! radio said tonight in a Broadcast re- corded by US government moni tors. 1' r . , ;-J .." . The resolution said the con gress, "while realizing that the present state of the; country does not allow of an immediate solu tion of the constitutional problem. yet ; it considers that the moral and material reconstruction - of Italy ; presupposes the immediate abdication of the king responsible for the ; tragedies ! which have overtaken the country." RADIONIC1 HEARING AID ' MADE 1Y ZENITH RADIO CORPORATION ' r e ! : I"'.:" . ! . 11 I I 0 O i ; : FDR Observes Birthday - By D. HAROLD OLIVER WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 r (JF) President and Mrs. Roosevelt in-' vited ; Crown Prince Olaf and Crown Princess Martha of Norway to the "cuff link dinner at the in timate family affair that has been held each year , since 1921 to ab serve the President's birthday, i The chief executive will, be 62 tomorrow, but he .did most: of his celebrating today. After dinner he had arranged to make a midnight broadcast,; his customary brief address to the nation to express his thanks for donations to the in fantile paralysis eradication cam paign. " -".h-S-"-"; : Tomorrow the President and first lady will receive at luncheon some of the movie, stage and radio stars .participating . in - tonight's birthday ball program, Including a series "of hotel dances -Visited by Mrs. Roosevelt, to promote the raising of funds for the paralysis fight ' ; Yes9 She Gets Around Nine in One Night K WASHINGTON, Jaav zS-flP) Mrs. Franklin D. Reesevelt, whe has' a' repatatton ' for getting areand fast, visited niae ef the president's birthday balls tn dewBtawnl Washington teeight. ' " Aniens the' stops en her Itin erary were daaees at the WH laxd and Washington hetels, the Stage Deer Canteen and a ne gra USO. I " " She wonnd up at the- Statler hotel where a group of movio actors and actresses. Including Jinx Falkenbnrg, Lucille Ball and Red Skeltoa watched her eat a giant berthaay cake. . Just a Little X-ate PORTLAND, Jan. 29-iA-OUf Krogsiadt received a telegram to day from the International Red Cross telling him his relatives in Oslo, Norway, were alt v e and well.::; ;. ' ; But he still is worried about them. The-telegram was dated August 12,! 1942. v J - -i When replacing missing teeth choose dental plates of natural color and appear- ance. ! i - i : i 7 ' '' -- ." ' . - ' -' j i Dr. Painless j Parker Says: L r "Refinements In the mate rial used by dentists for , dental plates have enabled theaa to make deaiares of 1 aaore ItarmeBiztng color aad graeefal design. They're lighter yet of time -tested strength1 and balance. Their quality of faithful reprodae- ' Uoa makes them difflealt to detect.'. : f - ' ' - I Accepted Credit permits you to i . ; pay, for plates j as you wear them 1 When it Is possible to - pay ' for plates in weekly or monthly, installments, there - isnt . any reason why any- , body should forego the chance of getting new style -plates. Pay for plates as you . are paid. t - Translucent teeth have the same shape f and sizing as i , natural teeth - i ' - v.. Science ; has provided , the ' dental profession with arti ficial teeth that absorb. and . reflect light and in other way resemble fine . human : teeth. They simulate- the ef fects of your own teeth, and they are selected with a col or guide to conform' to the age of the wearer. . i . - . ; Ailing teeth exact . heavy toll : in country J , Loss of ' stamina robs' manv skilled artisans of their right to productive labor. Tooth neglect is one of the biggest contributing factors to poor health. : - i Ac a j 13 AU LczZlzz Prc-Hxitluclion Fiiysicals Create Task D (Continued from Page 1) D will -not be renewed. College stu dents will find deferment more difficult under the new regula tions. :f ''.-' Biggest headache for the draft boards is the vast i change-over to pre-induction physical exam inations. Throughout Jaunary the boards had to furnish about 300, 000 men under the old system and at the same time order some men to report for pre-induction physi cals in preparation for the Febru ary 1 deadline. Selective service said it was impossible to estimate how many men already have taken pre-induction physicals. One " result of the new procedure probably will be that inductions will lag the first two or three weeks of the month and increase tremendously toward the end. Navy inductions also will lag. Crabtree "Woman's Grandson Killed on AnniTersary Eve : ALBANY, Jan. 29 "-)- Mrjg, Roy Thompson of Crabtree was happily preparing today for her birthday celebration tomorrow. Her grandson, Richard Bernard Mary, ft, went across the: road to get the maiL . Mrs. Thompson looked out of her window just as Richard, was crushed to death under a grocery truck. - Coroner EL C. Fisher said there would be no inquest. The father, in the army air service, the moth er, a brother, a sister and four grandparents survive. Two Cars Stolen - City police reported' two cars 1 stolen Saturday night. A. DeSoto coupe belonging to Oml's used car lot was stolen from a parking pace at Rigdon's Mortuary at 10 P-m. and a Ford coach belonging to Max V. Osborne was stolen from his residence at 1057 Oak street at 930. . Transparent Plates Gums that match -mr own and a clear pal V," rct re flects tissues cf tnt mouth. Use ' Accepted Credit For whatever dental work you may require. Plates, bridgework, crowns, inlays, fillings and extractions. PLATES that preserve natural fea tures. Dentists praise the adaptability of the material in transparent plates for its resiliency and durability. Make your own credit terms, within reason LETS ALL BACK THE ATTACK. BUY MORE TTAR BONDS AND STAI.IPS. You cant match the courage and daring of the men on the fighting front, but you can' help provide th guns and shells needed for vic tory. . Vczillz Ccrt Clira : J . V..- f Y -II II urn t in t3 i ' liiH - 1,,