n n . r 7 '7r:,r -r 9 sow: -7 - n n M SSI i- - v U(D CKO '.. I notice some ads running with this phrasing "Is the' city council going to prohibit me from getting electricity from my customer- owned Bonneville power distribu tion system?" The signer each time is an Individual. It doesn't take a seventh son of a seventh son to see that this is pointing up the clash between the Portland Gen eral Electric company and the Sa lem Electric, the cooperative form ed by JHarry Read, formerly of KSLM, which taps the Bonneville lines and serves accounts in West Salem and in a portion of down town Salem. The city council is sued a permit to the Salem Dec trie to set 20 poles, but now the cooperative is tagging at the bond, and is already accused of going over its limit , - .... So here you have developing a nasty fight between the old PGE and the young Salem Electric. The former, operating as a public utll lty under state law, is under regu lation by the state public utilities commissioner. The latter, oper " siting as a cooperative, asserts in dependence of such regulation as far as rates and practices are con- cerned. Salem Electric, tapping the Bon- neville line, and distributing en ergy in a district with concentrat ed demand, has a rate schedule which is less than PGE which op- crates generating plants and ' a i wide distribution system covering ciUes and country in the lower Willamette valley area, though it now purchases a substantial part cf its energy from Bonneville. The question is not Just as sim pie as the advertising line would Indicate. PGE for Instance would (Continued on Editorial page) Gen. Marshall Reaches Paris, Talks to 'Ike' SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, Allied Expeditionary Force, Oct H)-Gen. George C. Marshall arrived in Paris today after a non- stop night from tne uniiea j taxes, and conferred immediately with General Eisenhower and his staft f n MM nna aav avnnnariAn : Tnw r ww- y-., the e unheralded visit of the army .l- ZJZZZ , director of chief of staff, nor for of James F. Byrnes, war mobilization, in his party, They arrived, however. In the 1 midst of increasing reports that I ter or war on the western iront. Marshall, Byrne, and a small group of high-ranking army off! cers arrived at an airfield just outside Paris 20 hours after leav- uimwu. im ne steppca iivm uie pmui, . . . 0 1 bower. Li Gen. Omar N. Brad ley, commander of the U. S. 12th army aroun. and Lt Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, Eisenhower's chief f staff. Earthquake Strikes 8&5 NEW YORK, Oct, lent earthquake shook Istanbul and other parts of Tur- key today with the loss of SO lives, the British radio reported, quoting Turkish dispatches. The broadcast was recorded by CBS. I Love You9 S ' if? .'V . Aji r, t :L Kenneth L. Dixon has but one assignment -to write the story of GI' Joe. Dixon doesn't cover . headquarters, the conferences of generals, the progress of the war. But he's living the war, living it and breathing it as only those at the fronts can do. And he reflects the life of the men -who fight it in the most , 1 graphic, human, - down-to-earth stories of the entire conflict ' Above he is shown on the bat tlefield of Italy, writinj' under i unbelievable conditions his daily column for The Statesman and a select group of other AP , member newspapers mayhap vritlr.3 the very column appear- . ing on the editorial page today - the story of a soldier, stump ed st what to UU his sweet- ! S.:rt ho finally gave, up and v rcla only the a-i-cld endear i -1- "I love you." ITOIETY-FOUBTH YEAB 10 Russians Well Into Hungary- Other. Red. Units Continue Drive Near Belgrade LONDON, Saturday, Oct5 7-(ff) Russian troops invading tottering Hungary smashed 13 miles inside that last big axis satellite nation yesterday, capturing a series , of key towns and junctions within ' 100 miles of Budapest, the capital, I and only IS miles from Szeged, Hungary's " second city Moscow j announced officially last night stikin acVos rich farmiands which oMer litfle natural defense lines for the Hungarians and bol stering nazl troops, the Russians 1 seized more than 100 localities on 75-mile fan-shaped front be yond Arad, big west Romanian i Jumping off base, the bulletin said. Collapse Near 1 Dispatches from the Soviet cap- I ital said the Hungarian home front might collapse at any moment, and i the Russians already are planning for the invasion of Austria after i knocking out Hungary. Soviet planes dropped leaflets exhorting the Hungarians to quit the axis and save their country before it is too late, and mobile loudspeakers went along with the ground troops for the same pur- pose. Outflank Enemy I In - Yugoslavia other Soviet trooos were steadily outflankintf Hungary on the.south, and were reponeaio nave senipairois across ... . .. . a . a j . a. a. a - .-J r1 UD ""TT, . An unccirmed Algiers ra- tdio report said the Germans were the Danube river into the Belgrade evacuating some troops from the Yugoslav capital with the use of bi transoort Dlanes. Russians were becinninx a big pincerI movement in western U- thnini. .,1 nnrthm Polani imH at German East Prussia, was silent about this new, offeri- i uvc, uui uw wiiuuuuiu UW.U1- . - m .... . i nounce uie seizure w uiwei uiie the west Estonian coast by Rus- siaa amphibious forces Invading t that big island dominating the mouth of the Gulf of Riga. A II J TJ JLCUV1CS Blast Germany T TM" J - b, I JLJLJL ITJLctSS LONDON, Saturday, Oct 7-V- American and British heavy bombers blasted Germany yester day and last night in a series of mighty attacks on Berlin and other targets, nrobablv nouriri mom than 10.000 tons, of nlMivM nn war Dlants of the reieh In thir devastating cumulative assault ADnrovimatelv 1300 Fortr and .Liberator hit twUn unA Hamburg in one of the areatest davliffht mas raid of th r and another fleet of 50Q. British Lancaster! and Halifaxes struck synthetic oil plants in the Ruhr. I These daytime blows were fol - lowed up during the night by an other trmTinfaii RAT mmtAn by an estimated 1000 heavy bomb- , ers which hit Berlin for the third time in 24 hours, as well as Dort- mund, Bremen and Saarbrucken. 10 of 2500 Service Ballots Already Back Ten per cent of the 2$ 00 service ballots sent out by the Marion county clerk's office are in the vault there .today awaiting No vember 7, election day, to be de clared officially "casV. Although few if any of the zau red-banded envelopes which have been delivered by mail at his of fice the past few days could have been posted overseas, their . post marks show they have come from widely distant army camps in the United States and from naval bases scattered across the conti nent County Clerk Henry Mattson said. Homefront voters are as ns. meroos at registration windows this year as In any pre-war elec tion season. Mrs. Gladys White, elections clerk in llatisca's of fice said Friday. Closing of the election books tonight at t a'cloci nay utU ts t;ca itt PAGES V7 AfW6r Wounded Chinese v A severely wounded Chinese soldier tentlon la the streets f Tengchnnr, la western China, eaptared la the Chinese drive j toward Burma wirephoto) Nippon Claims Foochow Falls; Fighting Rages A Japanese invasion force m, th Mat rhin maKt ha ran- xtttit nnv ci i ' in on the east China coast has Hrf vn reT tured the port Of Foochow, capi- I - . , z -. w rftri:rt -j.- jn hrnaHrt I, , beamed to Japanese overseas and reported by federal commun. mmrn;inn "ST ZTZZZ. t r tnrtd rrr th narrow rrmn. i " v. FnrmnM th at rminn ( China port in Chinese hand, has T-- - I ,... ..v' pied by the Japanese In April, wwav w w v ivuuj vaa vbvui i io. cm was retaken oy uc uu- I . , . . i nese in-aepxemDer, ivav, wnen (accounts, "withdrew. Major fighting ,SSSASL Chinese provinces, Kwangsl and ; Kwangtung. The Chinese communique said defend ers operating behind the Japanese lines had j recaptured the impor tant town of Szewui, 47 miles northeast! of ; Canton in Kwang tung province, but in Kwangsi, the fall of Paoching appeared near. Willkie Shows Improvement NEW YORK,.Oct -(ff,-Wen, I dell L. Willkie, in a hospital suf- I faring from a throat Infection and I liht lung congestion, was "doing very well" late today, hS physi- cian. Dr. Benjamin Salzer. an- noUnced. ; - Dr. Salzer said the 1840 repub- Hcan presidential candidate ' who H 32, had a temperature of 102, out added, "I'm not concerned about that" 1 The physician said he expected The physician said he expected Willkiea condition .to Improve within 24 jiours. Dr. Alexander D. IGhiselin, a throat specialist and Dr. Clarence De La Chapelle, heart specialist ' visited Willkie for the second time in two days. Ready to 'Cast? greatest . number af names af registered voters ever recorded In Marion county, she said. - Meanwhile, Secretary of State Robert S. FarrelL jr., is notifying overseas servicemen, from whom mm s - . i . t.9 ieuru war uauou were re- ceived Friday, that the federal ballots have been received and are acceptable, but that they may sup olement these with the state ballot provided the laiter reach them in time to' be returned before elec tion dav. Each of the 18 ballots, first .... ... ...... the federal variety received here, was accompanied i by an affidavit to the effect that absentee state ballots had not been received by the soldier-sailor-marine voters up to October i. The federal ballots are being forwarded to clerks of counties in which the overseas voters are lenil reside PCUNDSD -1651 Solera. Oregon, Scrturdoy l lomlncj. October 71S14 J receives emergency medical at-1 from the Salween river. (AP Berlin Citizens Not Excited OverDistomo BERLIN, Ore.i Oct S -(- The scattered residents of this post- offir-li villa. to be renamed I ' ' ' Distomo Oct 28, will attend chria-1 ton in ceremonies but theVre cap-ltening ceremonies but they're not very excited about it a ' . : it,. - : , r ----- ; th t thi -Man I " v! . sponsored by an eastern commit. tf to rename ' the vUlage for ;a v k u ..71 e.,: " t ,t rT " 7 . . U. "-STL rZ: . - rr7"y. t since the ffeneral store died cif bt WMM utawa. nuavlarf Kavi tha iW,no nutnmn i j 4-nrv.. . n;,tMV I MI1U, If Mt, ' MV VV . . JuryGinvicts 31 Polygamists SALT LAKE CITY, Oct .frtv-nn,. ft,nHanJnb.nfif mit Thirty-one "fundamentalist' cult members 20 men and 11 women of conspiring to were convicted court jury today preach and practice polygamy. The eight male jurors returned the verdict after an hour and 57 minutes' deliberation. District Judge M. J. Bronson set Oct 13 at 10 ajn., mountain war time, for sentencing. S, Maximum penalty is one year imprisonment or a fine of $1000. Defense j,, attorneys ; said they would. appeal to the state supreme court ana u necessary wouia carry tne case to toe united states su- Pteme court Only a few defendants, aU men, wei ta "the courtroom when the nucs was announeeo. TTa -Til - " UeWeV JTlanS - !. I r I r I ViTl 1 CtrtY 4j -a. h i it Q ENROUTE WITH DEWEY, Oct t-(Jpy-A few hours after President Roosevelt's disavowal of commu - nist support : Gov. Thomas E. Dewey asserted today the presi dent "would like aoftlv ' to derrV government to cities well TZZSiJL T: n,iTJOf Chest Ends Toni-ht openly ' tomorrow night at Charleston,- W.Va. r Although the republican presl- dential ; candidate did not say f Bpecmcauy, uiai ne rezerrea Nn hm.Mm . iwicut., ; kuku ut that he does "not welcome the support of any person or - 1 group commuted to communism or fascism," Paul Lbckwood, Dew- paign which opens officially Mon ey's secretary, said such was the day morning is $94,000. - 1 governor a intent. of eatiier . .... llaxtmam temperature rriJay 89 degrees.1 minimum SO degrees; no rain; river -3 ft 8 In. Clear in eastern part partly cloudy In western sections Saturday, cloudiness la west foereazlij Sunday wilh rrobatle ralas; mild tercreratare . Saturday, cr k. 4 srz v- i lj: . u v- . r.N . : vn v.m Prtca 5c, 'British Corinth ! . Guif Scaled Off;. Rion Seized as .." Germans Fleeing ROME, Oct 6-(rVBriUsii In vasion forces In Greece advanced j I today toward the Isthmus of Cor- inth, gateway to Athens, and it i appeared that the Germans al ready had abandoned most of the Peloponnesus getting out of all Greece as rapidly as they could. Seizure of the. fortified town of I Rion, seven miles east of the cap tured port of Patrai, sealed off the Gull of Corinth at its narrow mouth.' " - ' Shell Nasi Traffle , t Up the Adriatic coast British guns on we vsumauan uuanos Bueiicu enemy unuic aiunx uie i coasiai roaa. xnusn pianes on a raid near Salonika destroyed three enemy transport planes and shot up a dozen retreating nazi motor vehicles. (The Ankara radio reported to night that allied troops were fighting on Corfu and that troops crossing from Albania had linked up with others already engaging the enemy on the island. The Par- is radio reported another landing in Albania about five miles from i the besieged i enemy supply port of Sarande.) ' Desert Masters , - Deserted by their German mas- e"' "security battalions" of col- laboratm Greeks were reported ISS5S35f rsSLsV P? P01?. fa. Peloponnesus, - - - ' ? - and the visit of a minister of the i m ani f, rriiras "TvnTias- vtnav Mjm"? . 1 1"01"8 n or peninsuu ZZa S ds dTre mots ish troops and u reels patriots. Geor Papandreou I announ5ea ranasmou' M neuopolous, minister ol rmance v w """"."V? ave JUmVnearU"1 recepuon, ueu pan gone w ux vatAnnnnii Allied Planes Sink 4 Ships In East Indies ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, New Guinea, Saturday, Oct 7- aJa Soin ain?t Wt, plane, i sank : or damaged four : SSI rr-J", East indies Tuesday and Wednes- " TtoMmZZZJ ZJlZTTSFt. . Drive On . i , rw ""of Dover on both sides of the chan suna. new ooeia uiano, eas oi I tJT ' , - , . off Celebes. In the vicinity of Amboina, a 1000-ton vessel i was sunk and a 3000-ton merchant man was blown up by a direct hit , -- - ; - , The bag of four ocean- .going ships increased the total for Oc tober in t h a Southwest. Pacific theater to 23 sunk or damaged by planes. $ Today's communique' listed eight small surface craft sunk and 11 damaged. - At Celebes, the raiders attacked ! airdromes and supply depots . and destroyed two grounded aircraft I -Jr. In the mop-up drive against I bypassed Japanese, 595 more have 1 been killed and. 153 captured on i New Guinea and in the Solomons, - 1 headquarters . reported With $38,365 in payments and nlpdffM to It iwArri tht mnrninff. the nre-camnnlm driv of the Sa- hem United War Chest winds un! to i tonight . Probability that the 850.- I ... - . .. . uuu pre-campaign goal wouia De i reached was foreseen at Friday's1 luncheon meetina of division i heads. Quota for the entire cam- Cake Predicts Ilcavy : Oregon, November Vote Predicting a heavy vote at the J November election in Oregon be- cause of the large current regis- tratiori, Ralph 1L Cake, Portland, republican national committeeman !for Oregon, conTcrrci Friday in Salem with-party county central i committee hea J ;aarters and state :cials. 17o. 172 Big Third Inning Gives Browns 6-2 ; Win Over. Cards SPORTSMAN'S PARK. St. Lou is, Oct. 6-(ip)-The St. Louis Browns scored four runs In the third inning and added two more in the seventh to defeat the Cardi nals, 6 to 2, today and take a two games to one lead in the world series before a crowd of 34.737." Jack Kramer held the Red Birds to seven hits and struck but 10 men to make his world series de but a sensational success. Ted Wilks, a rookie right hander, from Columbus, was charged with the defeat after being knocked out of the box on five straight singles in the third frame. Billy Southworth called on four of his young righthanders in a fu tile attempt to stop the Brownies' attack. . Although errors were re sponsible for both Cardinals runs, the ' Browns defense tightened in the, late innings when danger threatened and right fielder Gene Moore made two brilliant catches to help Kramer out of trouble in the eighth. (See sports page for full details.! Explosions End Premiere Show Of FDR Revue -. i ; BOSTON, Oct -()- A few J moments after Earl Browder, communist leader, finished ad dressing the premiere of the eon troversial musical revue - TDR, Victory ; Bandwagon," In packed Symphony hall tonight several loud explosions, apparently from . m . . . a ...a. a 15 t'- through-the buildi rever Derated building, and quick (minds averted ; turmoil. .; The detonaUons came as Ann t m t - . . a a . ... uuriax, i commumsi leaaer m j Massacl "mseus, - was piewmg tor S5"? T. reelection of president Roosevelt I , M toe exDlosioM tinued most of the audience arose. Mm .howf frn .ii .i. down." Many near the exits raced Into the lobby. , Some women ; appeared - near hysterics as police, some with drawn pistols, ran to the scene, but the cracker- thrower had fled, possibly through: an emergency exit near the stage. - Police Sergeant Frank Mullen, in charge of uniformed and plain' clothesmen at the hall, said: "My men found what appeared to be the remains of exploded fire- T! trying to break up the meeting." BigEplosio,, Heard In Dunkerfiue Region I LONDON, Oct (- A tremen- dou explosion the direction of Inkerque lit up the starlit strait i , ,nx I ?losion PP?r w I eitner a big ammunition dump or German demolition work. Close Play or Score . it- . Al ZarCla, Lrewas leftTI :isr, reaches hone tlate first by f-step to secre trcaLi the tir t: rd Lit :'. - fr:arr In t.Te tMrd woria series gt8 as Ccr-l-il rit;L:r TitlL, relTieve 1 tti bait score: Yanks ; . ' . ... , i Forest On , Way . to Cologne Nazis Hurl U. S. From Beggendorf But Dougliboys Take It Back; Weather Takes Turn for Better SUPREME HEADQUARTERS - ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Oct fHVThe US first at the Siegfried line south of the day, driving through the evergreen forest of Hurtgen to within 23 miles of Cologne and the Rhine behind the drumfire of massed artillery and swarms of warplanes. . . This new assault was uncorked as the Germans, sucked 16 mile north to defend a breach torn in the line by a first army drive now five days old, hurled in all available reserves and 30 tank i' " . . ..... . . . ).. . .... . -: .j. , - . ..... and drove the Americans temporarily from Beggendorf, at thtv tip of a salient menacing the RuhrO valley. Then the doughboys, reinforced by tanks, swept back .into Beg gendorf and the German town was reported firmly in their grasp. (British tanks also penetrated Into i Arnhem in Holland during the day, the Berlin correspondent of the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter said.) I BatUe Grows Bitter Supreme headquarters said a force which by-passed Beggen dorf .was locked in a battle that was growing more bitter by the hour. . Fifty German fighter - bombers strafed American troops, but alert ground gunners knocked down or probably destroyed 25 of them. It was too early-to tell whether the savage new onslaught 10 miles southeast of Aachen, caught the enemy off balance, but a front dispatch said Lt Gen. Courtney H. Hodges assault units advanced nearly a mile in an hour and half and were within six miles of Dur en, 20 miles from Cologne. Bombers Busy Hundreds of fighter - bombers, loosed by the first clear weather since the big push opened, blast ed at camouflaged bunkers and pillboxes hidden along the needle- carpeted floor, of Hurtgen forest But still advance units were met by a storm of mortar and small arms. fire. It was the first break in the weather in weeks, and word from supreme-- headquarters tUjj clear sues over' tne .oatue area couia be expected ' for another 48 hours brought immediate speculation that the hour for knockout blows might be at hand. . Building Rules Now Relaxed - Salem is now eligible for an un limited number of residential pri orities, George W. Copies; regional representative of the 'national housing : agency, announced . Friday- i Apartment houses and other ex isting dwelling units may be re modeled i or converted to provide smaller housing units, under the new ruling. Applications for per mission to convert or remodel such structures should be' filed with the federal housing administration,1 515 Piatt building, Portland 5, Oregon, he said. Although need for additional living units for general occupancy had long been recognized, little could be done about it until ma terials needed , to construct hous ing for war workers could be re leased, Coplen explained. v.: t:Jr.... a t-- Ciwui 6, CarJs t. (See picture en Drive Into of -Hiartgeiii army dealt aTfreat surprise blow ! German fortress of Aachen to 1 ' " ; Germans Plan To Blow Up Dutch Seawall LONDON, Oct -m Hol land's exile . government .. accused Germany' tonight of "malicious v and ruthless" demolition of the seawalls guarding the reclaimed lowlands, an action which would mean the flooding of approxi- mately 48 per cent of the country v and disaster to nearly 63 per cent of its population. ,' Premier Pieter S. Gerbrandy, his usual solemn stoicism shat tered by the desperate plight ha pictured confronting bis home land, told a press conference that 1 "famine, floods, cold and darkness in a matter of weeks threaten to engulf the densely - populated provinces of the Netherlands in the greatest disaster of their his tory." ' This, he said, would be the re sult if the Germans in revenge carry out their threat to 'destroy the barriers the Dutch have built 1 over long years against the North sea. He added that the enemy al ready was doing much damage. - The. campaign of demolition carried out by the 4 Germans in the Netherlands, he3aidTis pro bably more .- ruthlessly thorough and certainly is dej.truc.ive of more national wealth thtn in any other German . - occupied terri tory." Clark9 s Army Drives Ahead Three Miles ROME, Oct 8 -CP) Pushing forward up to three miles through rain and mud against stout resist ance by crack nazi reinforcements. the American fifth army won po sitions 13 miles southeast of Bo logna yesterday and drove to with in nine miles of the strategic Bo- ogna - Rimini highway, allied headquarters announced today. The Americans captured -the arge town of Loiano on the high way from Florence 14 miles be-. ow Bologna, the greatest com munications center in that part of Italy, and cleared Munzuno. three miles to the west of Loiano. The fifth army Yanks, "made their principal advance and closest approach to Bologna and the Bologna - Rimini road by driving over snow covered moun tains to a point 2000 yards south of Monterenzio, a village in the muddy hills between the Imola road and route 65 leading to Bo- ogna. . ' ' ; The progress was made against a desperate, attempt by the Ger mans to block the allied push to ward the Po valley. The enemy poured in reinforcements includ ing experienced Austrian and German Alpine troop. , Hitler Planning One J Last Jet Plane Fling LONDON. Oct -flVHitler ap parently, is planning to have one- last desperate fling in the sky with his hot-tailed Jet planes. The fuehrer has given top pri ority to the creation of a new air arm," the German news agency reported today, and for a week DNB has been telling '' listeners about "certain special new forma tions of the luftwaffe". in opera tion over the' western front ' Addressing a group of nazi air men recently, Propaganda Minis ter Paul Joseph Goebbels declared a German force is being built up which will soon abolish alliedair supremacy." - ' - Discharged. Veteran" ' Has Heart Attack Capt Charles Blackwell, Port land, honorably - discharged from the US army, is at Cskni Deacon ess hospital in critical condition early this morning following coJ lapss cn downtown State street Friday nisht apparently from- a heart attack.