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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1944)
PAG2 roira 111 OUSGOT STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Sunday Morning, October 8. lSli Budapest Only 83 Miles From Reds, Report ; IjONDON, Sunday, Oct i Swift Russian tank and cavalry forces crushed . the entire . axis defense system east of the fisza river In southeastern Hungary . . yesterday, racing through 300 more - towns and ' villages in a 28-mile .advance that carried to within 83 miles of Budapest, imperilled Magyar capital. ' ' . : . : : "I . , With the seizure of Gyoma, rail town on the Bucharest - Buda pest : trunk railway, the Russians had advanced 55 miles northwest of Arad, western Romanian jumping off base, in their rapid campaign to knock out Hungary, last big axis satellite still in the The" big rail junction towns of . Bekescsaba, Ooroshaza, Bekes, ' and other important points fell in. the massive drive, which now has overrun 400 localities andSby passed Hungary's second city of Szeged, at the lower fend of a 75- mile invasion arc. : -j Hungarian troops bolstered by - nazi reinforcements were battling fiercely at the lower end of the invasion line In the 15-mile sec tor between Szeged on the Eisza river and captured Mako, 15 miles to the east. At the top of the front moving ' relentlessly across the plains the Russians announced the capture of Szeghalom, 35 miles west of , the by - passed western Romanian rail junction of Oradea, "one of ; two major nazi escape routes out of Transylvania. 7 . Szeghalom, 21 miles inside pre- s war Hungary, is ' only 40 miles southwest of Debrecen, the flight exit for scores of thousands of Germans and Hungarians. At Nagyszenas, 19 miles south of Gyoma, one Russian spearhead was only 19 miles east of a Tisza river crossing at Szentbs. Moscow dispatches said Cossack cavalry and armored units were slashing easily through axis re sistance and by - passing large numbers of ; bewildered enemy troops. Berlin and Budapest both spoke of a "large scale" Soviet offensive. . Al Smith Rests At Wife's Side NEW YORK, Oct 7-(;P-Alfred Emanuel Smith was buried today beside his wife, Catherine! who aided and inspired him in a career which led from the sidewalks of New York to the Gubernatorial mansion in Albany and the dem ocratic nomination for president of the United. States. Only memebrs of the immediate family, relatives and close friends attended services at the grave in Calvary cemetery where the Most Rev.' J. Francis Mclntyre, auxil iary bishop of the arch-diocese of New York, pronounced the last blessing. Prayers were offered by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph P. Dona hue, vicar-general of the arch diocese. :' - ' . Tne city, the state and the na tion paid tribute to "the Happy Warrior" of American politics, who was four times governor of New York, at a pontificial requiem mass this morning in St. Patrick's cathedral. Act May Stall Sale of Farms f - , v. . . WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -(P) With government sales of surplus land and large plants already halt' ed, disposal officials predicted to day that delays written into the new surplus act will stall the sale of farm or other, lands for at . least a year. The surplus war property ad ministration, which dies when the congressionally created sur plus board Is named by President f Roosevelt, has decided to suspend the disposal of real estate and the big war plants until the new off! ciala take over and make their own interpretations of congress' -. meaning. Too Late to Classify TRAILER Rous: Newly painted in aide. prtca f iao. uoa n. Capitol , TWO-Wbtl trailer, food cond. SX3, Borst Co., Independence. Manuel Maker BILLFOLD, brown leather, bearttvf name Itaekie.- Reward. T. .- Fare Cox, Bt. 3. BOX 42. llxll RUG 1 machine small R. Wilton-Karaak. 234 n. Cburcb. W T RAMSDEN 24-3 P 2 or insid j i ... Faraace and chimney clean ing service, OH "burners and flame; a specialty. Oat-ef-town work welcome. Dent delay Phone la today! Eel? prevent fires. ; -,, 2C3 S. Ccr:nercfc! St. Pfccs 9765 1 Call Cftweta 6 1 $ P. '13. - ... Lralil Xlskl Willlde's Political Career Cut Short by Death City; life Saga Standard Bearer of GOP in 1940 Swept i To Meteoric Height v (Br the Associated Press) Wendell Lewis Willkie, Indi ana - born lawyer and former public utility executive who died today (Sunday) in New York, skyrocketed in 1940 from' po litical unknown to republican nominee ' for', president of the United States ln about six months. . " As the republican standard bearer, the Indiana-born lawyer and former utilities executive waged a strenuous campaign he called It a "crusade to save de mocracy" back and forth across the United States. He spoke from five to 15 times a day for more than. seven weeks. , ,When the ballots were counted. however, Mr. Roosevelt had won 38 states to WOlkle's 10 and had received 449 of the 531 electoral votes. In the popular vote the president had a plurality of about 5,000,000. 1, A former democrat prominent enough to be a delegate to a dem ocratic national convention he was not an active candidate for the nomination in the popular sense of the term. He had never held public office; he had no orth odox political organization back' of him; no campaign manager. In addition, the "Old Guard" of the party frowned upon him. He was little known outside of ' small coterie of friends and business acquaintances until he became president of the vast Com monwealth and Southern corpora tion in 1933. He was brought in the public eye when his corpora tion cut its electrical rates, in de pression years, which caused con sumption to soar, and by his legal battle against the government in the Tennessee Valley Authority case. Boom Gets Under Way His friends came to admire him lor his frank philosophy on gov ernmental problemsand his home- y qualities. In a nebulous way a quiet boom for the presidential nomination seemed to spring up from nowhere. It gathered force in the months preceding the 1940 convention. ' When he was asked about it he said: "I have not the slightest de lusion about being nominated. It I become a candidate it will be be cause the people want me to run and before they make up their minds, they will look at my record and judge for, themselves." Both Parents Lawyers Mr. Willkie was born Feb. 18, 1892, one of six children of Her man Francis and Henrietta Trisch Willki.e both lawyers in Elwood His mother was one of the first women admitted to the Indiana bar. His father was for many, years principal of the Elwood high school and his mother also was a school teacher. His grandparents lived in Ger many. They were supporters of the democratic revolutions there and When the revolutions failed, fled to the United States. Wendell attended the Elwood public schools and acquired a ju venile reputation as a mischievous "Peck's bad boy." He figured in fist fights, resulting in bloody noses for himself and his play mates; overturned outbuildings helped himself to the neighbor': apples and scandalized the town It's your ' ; DUSINESS '." - (- . . -. : to1 kaep wall I KriptioMttnispr., GetweltKTEP; 1 Ccplld Dzx D:ro " Cm. State A Liberty . rbeaw Silt in New York of Americanism by using Sunday school text cards or a gambling game. When he was 11 years old he went 1 into partnership with his brother Ed, moving small build ings from town out Into the -country for sale to farmers. Later he sold newspapers and drove a bak ery wagon. He attended- Culver Military academy for one term. At the age of 15 he entered In diana university. His father, who had acquired a considerable for tune in the boom days of Elwood, lost it in the panic; of 1893, so Wendell had to work his v way through college. When funds "were scarce he left the university tem porarily and made money in var ious ways. Working for Education ' L He harvested wheat in Minne sota, worked in ; the Texas oil field, picked vegetables in Cali- brnia, husked corn in Iowa, was proprietor of a boom-town tent hotel in Colorado and once was a short-order cook in a restaurant. Eventually he finished his col lege course, receiving his Bache lor . of Arts degree from Indiana in 1913. He was aciive in campus politics; was first, against fra ternities, but later joined i Beta Theta PL The following year he was history teacher, track, bas ketball and debate coach at Col feyville (Kan.) high school. In 1914-15 he was a laboratory as sistant at the Fa jar do Sugar Com pany's plant in Porto Rico. Returning to the states, he at tended Oberlin college for a time and then studied law at Indiana, receiving his degree there. He went back home to practice law with his father, but the World war broke out and changed; his plans. War Veteran On the day the United States declared war on Germany he en listed in the army. He saw service overseas and emerged as captain of the 325th field artillery. After the armistice he remained abroad for. several months to represent enlisted men who had been held for courtmartiaL i ; Meanwhile, on Jan. 14, 1918, he had married Miss Edith Wilk of Rushville, Indiana, a librarian, going home on furlough for the ceremony. He had' met her at a wedding party. "She's been boss ing me ever since," he once re marked with a smile. ' Returning from war service, he went to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his parents had moved, and hung out his lawyer's shingle. Once he toyed with the idea of running for congress, but a friend. Frank C. Dailey, a leading mem ber of the Indianapolis bar. dis suaded him. i Mr. Willkie lived unostenta tiously in an apartment on Fifth Avenue, New York, with his wife and grown! son, Philip, He was a member of the Episcopal church, although in his boyhood he at- 2i Expert Watch Repairing V By Scientific Watchmakers The Jewel Box JEWELERS 443 State St Salem, Ore. A I ONthoHOlffiFROMT 1 tr OftESL CTSLC3 War Chests and barrels occupy such important places in Salem to day mat it seems an especially good thing that the box factory at the OP&P mill continues in op erationwhile the demand is good.'-:r::;'- ;t A pair of , Salem Cubs (Boy Scouts in the making, the lads , in the blue and gold uniforms) were pretty much upset Saturday after noon." When they discovered two of Jhe advertising barrels had been snitched from downtown street corners they began to wonder whether or not there might not be need for more direct relief In the capital city. So, if you saw : anyone going home in a barrel you might turn in the name to the War Chest Series Guest Doing Great ST. LOUIS. Mo Oct Nelson Thomas, the 74-year-old baseball fan whose neighbors in Multnomah, Ore, paid his ex penses te the world series. Is having the time et his life. Es eonced In one of the highest priced hotels, he has been sup plied with grandstand tickets for every game but one. On that one be had to take general ad mission. ::-r-Z, V-.-j "I've had Invitations to din ner every night". Thomas grin ned.' "And s lot of people have wanted to shew me the sights." Army to Discontinue Dental Training Nov. 1 PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 1-U() The army will train no more stu dents at North Pacific Dental Col lege of Oregon after Nov. 1. Students under the army spe cialized training program will re ceive army discharges, and con tinue as civilian students if de ferred by their draft boards. tended the Methodist church! at Elwood. He was a member of numerous clubs. ! ! He owned five farms in the vi cinity of Rushville, Ind., where he liked to spend vacations. He said he was "Just a conversational farmer." Reading was his favorite. recre ation economics, history and bi ography. He read several books a week, ; in addition , to numerous newspapers ana magazines. " , ! "" I . . Iki;.. . . .. - ijs-. - r '-x -- - : 7 - BatamanBBBSaBSSfasBBaBaBBS -1 VTCTOXT becjna with the Arnerican give ij-rre-hattered iri m tiie merchant fanaef, worldnc from lone bef ore marin a iehanea to raeunarat. To ria fanaef, worldnc sunset until long after nightfall Upon bim falls the burden of feeding the fighting force . . . the civilian population . . . and hungry mouths in war-torn countries. To. the challenge of producing mors food than ever, American soldiers of fbm oil have responded with heroic effort, Despite shortages of help and equipuMnt they have established records. Thv hmvm contributed mightily Now you are asked to help your fellow men in another way . . . to contribute money to give men in the armed farces eeded recreation, " V THIS S'rng British Forces Set to Enter Greece ROME, Oct 7.-(AVBriush in vasion forces have overrun most of the Peloponnesus, home of the ancient Spartans, It was announ ced today, and allied strafing of Athens airfields indicated that they would soon cross the isthmus of Corinth to the Greek ' main land, scene of their bitter 1941 re treat.. . . . . ' (A Reuters report from Cairo said the Germans had abandoned Corinth and that allied occupa tion was Imminent) Behind the liberating Tommies came a Greek government-in-exile representative who took over administration of the peninsula and told a crowd clamoring in the north port of Patral for a peoples' , rule that -; their exiled monarch, King George IL and his government would try "to satisfy your wishes." ', j Pilots returning from strafing missions, during which they blasted at least a score of planes, said German units were in flight from Greece, leaving their air force . without land force protec tion.-' .vv- V.-.-',-"::t I - Greek patriots at Patral, where their ancestors in 1821 plotted the overthrow -of Turkish overlords, said that the Germans had cleared out of the northern part of j the penisula, just as they had fled the southern ports and central re gions earlier. There was no further informa tion on a light force which land ed in Albania. Communiques on Greek opera tions have been far behind the accomplishments, and it may be assumed that second phases of the invasion, the drive to the Greek mainland, is well under way. . Behind them the Germans left a hungry population and Greek puppet "security battalions,1 which has been surrendering rea dily to the British. FR Announces New York Talk WASHINGTON, Oct President Roosevelt accepting an invitation to address a dinner of the foreign policy association in New York October 21, today scheduled his first speech outside Washington since he formally opened his fourth term campaign. The ! speech will take Mr. Roosevelt to New . York state, big gest prize in he electoral college with 47 votes, Just 17 days before the election. Soldier of the from long before tmfortunate cavaaea to The dollars ganerously. , Clvt towards winning the SiilCIl UlUlcd Utf. Ctdl Cczzly to. five, books, and VITAL BIES3AGE CONTRIBUTED BT JSVUC&3OPTOa6TQfST& Thumbnail Off War! By th Aamctetod Western Europe Allies push through Siegfried line in three places: Beggendorf area north of Aachen, where three-mile ad vances penetrates to S or 6 miles within Germany; 10 miles south east of Aachen, where Allies cap ture last line of pillboxes; and 23 miles southeast of Aachen; 6000 .7000 planes bomb reich in great est blow of war. v . - Russia Russians advance 28 miles in Hungary and predict other 83 miles to Budapest will be covered in 4 or 5 days; great battle underway in Lithuania. Italy Americans .. within -12 miles of Bologna. Greece British take 'rest of Peloponnesus, crossing to Greek mainland imminent - - Pacific 'Widespread air at tacks continue. . China Japanese make second landing' ; near Foochow, China's last seaport and continue fight ing in Foochow suburbs. " ROAD TO BERLIN L Western front: 302 miles (from north of Venlo). 2. Russian front: S10 miles (from Warsaw). 3. Italian front: 562 miles (from south of Bologna). Marines Take Big Jap Toll US. PACDTIC FLEET, PEARL HARBOR, Oct 7-v?VMarines and soldiers invading the Palaus have killed 12,211 Japanese and captured 224 since September 15, day of the landings, the navy an nounced today. On the air base island of Pel- eliu, 11,083 Japanese nave been slain and 214 captured but : the Nipponese still cling to one pocket of resistance at Umorbrogol moun tain (bloody nose ridge.) ' However, today's communique said American tanks and artillery had reduced that pocket in action Friday.1 (Pbitaary Raauaea At a Salem hospital Saturday night. October 7. W. T. Barasdan. aged SS rearm. lata resident of T71 North Com mercial street. Husband of Laura T. Ramaden: father Of Lloyd K. Rams den. Salem, Laura X. Given. Aums- Uie. Archw O. Kamsden. Portland. Aiao survived by three grandchildren and several great grandchildren; step daughters. Mrs. Oda Weatherby. Sac ramento. Calif, and Mrs. Dewey Par ker, Portland, and a stepson. Budd Welch, Salem. Tunerai announcements to be mad later Dy w. T. sugdon company. - Soil people abroad and at home have life, liberty, and happi- you can give are needed than arver tiua yx. PWaae give y ftntroBsly U or your . Ucr i - - irerman v ar Plants Given Hardest Blow LONDON. Oct. -7 . -W- Ger many's oil supply, armament works, airplane factories and ex nlnsive nlants were struck to day by the greatest allied aerial blow of the war, . with commnea assaults sending , from 6000 to 7000 allied planes over the reich. A US strategic air forces com muniaue called the American part of the operation "the greatest co ordinated aerial assault of the wan,' . , ' ". . ' - Heavr oDDosition was reported from flak and enemy fighters, and the Eighth air force alone reported SI heavy bombers and 15 fighters missing from daylight operations. Tonight several German cities were in flames and there was fresh devastation over the length and breadth of German territory from more than 18,000 tons of bombs cascaded down in 24. hours. Enemy fighter opposition was concentrated in the Leipzig area, where Fortresses were engaged in a brief but sharp attack by more than 50 Messerschmidts and Focke-Wolfs., Bomber gunners reported de stroying 11 German fighters, while US fighters snot down zz, mciua insr four iet-Drobelled planes. More than 3000 American and British heavy bombers from Brit ain and Italy participated in the widespread daylight attacks. ; Dewey, Plans Good, Gordon EUGENE, Oct. . 7-5-Thomas E. Dewey, republican presidential candidate, has presented the only concrete plan yet . to come from either-party to assure that "the carnage now going on will not be repeated, Sen. Guy Cordon told young republicans here last night Cordon, emphasizing ; Dewey's stand for non-partisan efforts in working out peace, said the Am erican people should be informed as peace plans progress. U.S. Public Health surveys show that 95 per cent of people re qui re some kind of dental care. - EKSEilCEV TAKES WiM Dr. Painless Parker Says: At least 30 of Americans are badly in need of dental . attention, although the percentage of those suffering; from dental defects is far higher than that. Perhaps in the postwar era greater stress will be placed on dental hygiene and new efforts will be made to extend dental service to more persons. DENTAL SERVICE AVAILABLE WITH ACCEPTED CREDIT With Accepted Credit, you can . arrange a budget plan . to suit : your convenience. This -enables you to begin : your dental visits immedi- . - ately and pay later, , in . w e k 1 y or monthly am- J ounts. Blake yoar, own - terms, within reason. , - TOANSLUCENT ? TEETH DESIGNED . TO SIMULATE EFFECTS OF NATURAL TEETH Science has perfected arti ficial teeth that absorb and. reflect light as do fine nat ural ones. .They have the trsnsluceacy of h u in a n teeth, and can be selected in the size, s h a p e and shade of your present teeth. Because' teeth chants' - color or shading with age, it is well when choosing your new plates to have thea set with translucent teeth tnat, more nearly approximate the natural teeth you have , lost in their true depth of - COlor. - t.;:V 125 UDEKTY ST. CO STATE TELCPUONE SALEM ES25 Other Offices la C:cr.;t Tcrtbsd, Taccrsa, Ccaae, Seattle ;.-,-; .'-f Asi la All . LczZlzj: Pacific ' Ccast Cities , W.T.Ramsden Dies Here Saturday W. T. Hamsden. , 85. for many years a fanner and owner of farm in interests in the Howell Prairie area, died Saturday night at a Sa lem hospital following a Drier ill ness. . , : ...,"- A native of Wisconsin, he came to Oregon with his parents when he was six years old. ' Tney maae their home, first at Oregon City, later at. Howell Prairie. For more than 20 years, although he retain ed farm properties on the 'Prairie', he had resided in Salem. ' Survivors include the - widow. Laura T. Ramsden. Salem; sons. Lloyd E.! Ramsden, Salem, and Archie O. Ramsden, Portland; daughter. Laura . Given, Aums- ville; three grandchildren and sev eral great grandchildren; step daughters, Mrs. Oda - weaineroy, Sacramento, Calif, and Mrs. Dew ey Parker, Portland, and stepson, Budd Welch, Salem. Funeral arrangements, which had not been completed this morn ing, are in the care of the w. T. Rigdon company.;."; Germans Give Before Yanks fi :;,)";" f f ) , - ' ROME, Oct 7-(P)-The Ger mans, with eight divisions report ed opposing the stubbornly ad vancing American Fifth , army, have again failed to stabilise their front in central Italy and appar ently are trying to build a new de fense line farther norths allied headquarters said today. - The Americans drove forward two miles past the captured town of Loiano to a point only 12 miles from the great communications center of Bologna, at the edge of the 1 wide Po valley sweeping across the north of Italy. The Germans were Reported working frantically to ship war materials from northern Italy to Germany before their front col lapses. , Today the Army Dental Corps claims credit for having made one million men available for service who would otherwise have been declared un fit. The lesson of these figures to the civilian who has neglected his teeth is quite obvious. 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