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PAGE TVO The OnZGOIl STATECMAlI. Salaxa. Ortgon. Tuesday Homing, October 17. 1SH T rumanunens West At Los Angeles LOS ANGELES. ' Oct 1 -UP) Sen, Harry S. Truman,. formally opening hi west coast campaign for President Roosevelt, asked air overflow crowd in the Shrine aud itorium here tonight to help elect a congress to uphold the presi dent's foreign 'policies. ; - ;; ) i He told the applauding listeners that no one can even estimate hoW many lives -of yOuhg men it would have meant to have had a war president "like : the ; republican :. candidate '" ' 2 'r '",-". '" 1 The democratic vice presiden tial candidate, appealing for the reelection - of 'Sen., Downey D Calif), declared: "Let's uphold the president's hands, not tie them up. Give him a congress and give, him Senator Downey from California." The auditorium in which Tru man spoke seats 6700 persons. Many were unable to get in. In the course of his speech in ' which he said Gov. Thomas E. Dewey is a ffence straddler". on foreign policy and who has not "repudiated the support" of Pub li&hers William Randolph Hearst and CoL Robert McCormick, Tru man said: " , "Inspired by t h e president's leadership, we are building air planes at the rate of 100,000 a year, twice the number Mr. Dew ey said was impossible." - Under a president "like the re publican candidate," he laid, We would have set our sights too low, and you can-imagine the ef fect on the war." -:- "No one can" even estimate how many lives of our young men that "would have meant. Do you want that kind of leadership ' in the prosecution of - the war against Japan?" British Chiefs Talk to Poles MOSCOW, Oct. lB-(JP)- Prime Minister" Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden conferred today with. Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk and Foreign Minister Tadeusz Romer of the Polish gov ernment, in exile amid strong in dications of an early Soviet-Polish agreement Asyet, however, there has been no face to face discussion,, of intra Polish problems between the Lon don Polish government ' in exile and the Soviet-sponsored Polish na t ional committee of liberation although a meeting 4s in jrospect. Reports the rival grodps had ifiet last Friday ' were erroneous. SP&SUses Huge Engine PORTLAND, Orfe., Oct 16 -JP) A 1,081,000,000 - potand locomotive -one of the largest ever brought Into this city made its initial run from Portland to Spokane to day on the Spokane, Portland & Seattle line. The 126-foot engine, equipped with special movable drivers to enable it to take curves, can han dle from 200 to 250 loaded freight cars, J. M. Wassenar, SP&S en gineer superintendent, said. , The locomotive, one of two such 1 giants specially built for the rail road, will be used on the stretch between Portland and Spokane, where the roadbed has a .4 per cent grade. . British Bombers Hit Japs in Tiddim Area SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, Cey Ion, Oct 16 -) British Hurri cane bombers have attacked Jap anese positions in the Tiddim ar .ea where the allied drive for he Strategic Burma base has. been slowed by strong enemy resist ance, allied headquarters pounced today. . - . an- 15. Months Old'DabjM Struck by Automobile , Joyce Capps, 13-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Capps, was treated at the Dea coness hospital Monday afternoon for slight Injuries-received when she was struck by a car near her home, , 2410 South-Commercial street vl-',' - " Too Late to Classify ' WANTED: Bast 'tef King truck $3000 WU buy. Phon 2100. t 230 rairriew Art,. a Netoon, -v . . : rURN. r-roam apt Ooae In. Phone Campaign HURRY! -ENDS TONIGHT IN TECHNICOLOR - ' George Marphy Lena Horne . Tommy ALSO Tim SULTAN'S DAUGHTER" v With Ann Corie ' Ctartlux Tomorrow - - Bargatn NlgM V. E PEESENT- C:iITII GOES James Etewart Yanks Take German Prisoners l A Tank stands gvard over grevp the German etty ef Aachen daring photo freaa signal cerp radlophoto). . Dewey Would Help Labor Declares Luce PITTSBURGH, Oct 16.P Thomas E. Dewey as the next president would put an end, Rep. Clare Boo the Luce (R-Conn) said tonight to what she described as "efforts of the administration and Sidney Hillman to make political zombies" of American labor. Speaking at a republican rally before a capacity crowd of 4000 at Syria mosque, the " Connecti cut congresswoman declared: ' "It. is Mr. Hillman's idea that the basic political - unit is not an individual citizen. It is a col lective group to be voted like heads of cattle according to orders from above without any reference to the individual preferences of the members.": ': "They are no longer Ameri cans," she asserted. "They are simply-Sidney Hillman's political zombies." . ' Describing the political action committee : sis , "HiUerian in con cept" and stemming from I the philosophy, if -. Karl ;'Marx," she drew a : thuraterousf round of" app pjause . with this ; metaphor: ? h "It is nazi German sauerkraut with Soviet Russian dressing. - King George Inspects 7 Holland, Belgium 'Area LONDON, Oct 16 - () - King George VI returned to London to night after a five-day tour of the battle areas in Holland and Bel gium. ' , He flew to the front Wednesday in a C-47 transport escorted by Spitfire fighters. The king was greeted at an airfield in Holland by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, 21st army group commander. ' FBI Handles 417,677 Draft Cases in 4 Years PORTLAND, Oct. 16.-(aVAn army of 33 modern Infantry divi sions could. pe ..made from- the number of selective- service cases handled iy, the TBV In, the" last four years,- Clinton W. Stein, spe cial, agent' here, said today. .-The FBI had dosed 417,677 draft cases up to Oct 11944. . Roosevelt Will Talk WASHINGTON, Oct 16 - (ff) -President Roosevelt is scheduled for his customary 5-minute radio talk in the Interest of the National war fund at 10:30 pm EWT, to morrow. NEW rRODUCTS AID - , Farmers who have . experienced difficulty in. preventing rust ac cumulation on the mouldboard plow, the disc harrow " and other pieces of farm machinery, may be able to eliminate this trouble by using one of two new products recently introduced. Both are eas ily applied by brush or by spray ing, are easily removed in using the implement or by washing with kerosene, and prevent rust for year after application. r 1 - . Ginsy SImms Gloria De Haven Dersey TO WASHINGTON" Jeaa Arthur of German prisomrs ln front; of the battle for the German city, "Go west .handsome ' gat go west,"' we whispered under our breaths. WE, in this case,; includ ed two modestly attired young wo men with small boys, not to men tion five-pound boxes addressed to APO numbers, in their arms. They stood just ahead of me. . V-, ' j A . And the handsome' woman had, with all the poise which so often accompanies becoming coats and hats, smart shoes and sheer hos iery, walked straight to the parcel post window, never glancing at the lines which stretched west and then north to fill most of the post- office lobby. . i . t Perhaps it was silly for "me-to have waited until Sunday to bake the cookies which comprised the piece de resistance of my Chris mas offering to the brother in thi South Pacific, but I had begun to feel well-repaid. The lines moved rapidly, j I stood less than 45 min utes and there were those who made the window (honestly, too) in 15 minutes if they chose the queue to the left on this warm fall day-deadline for Christmas mail ing overseas. ...V- - Here was democracy. The: wo man in the print dress and runoVer shoes stood beside the girl in the $100 suit and the smart furs.: And the packages they clutched were, in the same type;, wooden boxes probably held much the same sort of thing, for "what. can you send a man who can buy more in the PX than we can buy here' what ex cept something that bespeaks your lover . v . ; - - - V . .Then the handsomely dressed woman pushed her way in, way at the head hf the line, and the man at the window tried to overlook her. He 1 weighed the packages of the middle-aged man and the girl in the red coat before she finally forced ners upon him. A less ten teel crowd might have sworn we merely muttered, but when she turned nwaywith the package, too heavy, still clutched in her arms we cduldnt help , it we let go a suppressed cheer. 4 , LAST TIMES 70DAT1 . - Orson . .. Joaa- ' V Welles - - :. ToaUlne - 1 TAKE EYEE i ,., . - Henry Fends , Tdaqniacent Dope" - OPENS :45 F. M. - touoheou! : Veronica. L3 -"iiULLWilirG 'j ru ON the HOME FRONT .-..'"By, ISABEL GHUDS ;. . n; co-nai , J::I . IliCrca- J L V Inside Aachen ! 1 . a shell-damaged . building Inside near the Belgian border. (AT wire- GOP Chairman Still Confident NEW YORK, Oct 167(ff)-Her bert BrownelL jr republican na tional chairman said today he was receiving "encouraging " .'reports from around the country, as the presidential election campaign en tered its final three weeks. BrownelL who has been confer ring with party leaders in many states since his election to the na tional chairmanship In June, said he would go to Philadelphia to morrow to meet city rand, district leaders there and map plans for windup meetings. , " . The emphasis placed on Penn sylvania, where! Dewey will make a second speech on Friday night with an appearance in Pittsburgh prompted a question at Brownell's press conference whether .republi cans were worried about prospects of carrying the state. .;-. ' I- Bricker Raps Federal Rule , SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Oct l&'HJty-- Gov. John W. Bricker, protesting what he called "usur pation" of state and local author ity by the federal government de clared tonight it was a trend which could lead to "political domina ticm" of local governments. The republican candidate, for vice president in a prepared text released by his campaign staff, said 'the "usurpation'' was being accomplished through federal fin-' andal grants."; ' - , The use of federal "t grants In cases Involving a borderline of authority between the federal and local governments "is perfectly justified," he remarked, but ad vised that this aid be surrounded "by the proper safeguards.' ( A plan presented by the con ference, of republican governors at St LouiS in August was described by the Ohio governor as a "middle-of-the-road solution." ENDS TOD ATI HrHE STJLUVAKS" Den Xed' Barry s "SOMBRERO HD - OPENS fc.4S P. M. - Tpiionnou! . . i .Oat c4 Bob's Best ncturea! 1 EOB Buruis ". as'- ' "oun LEADKG THRILL CO-HITI Jfca'IIevrill CnAPTElt 13 i i-r . off l"Jar!: (Br th Associated Press) . Western Europe Allies com plete encirclement of Aachen, as fighting ' continues within: city; Germans predict allied offensive 10 mfles north of Aachen, where allies broke Into : Siegfried line week earlier; Americans retreat from Fort Driant after futile 10 day attack. , ' Russia Bulgarian - Russian Yugoslav partisan, troops fight within Belgrade, taking part of trans-Balkan railway which furnishes escape for nazis flee ing Greece; Hungary, In virtual civil war, torn between invading Russians and die-hard nazis. Greece British naval forces arrive in captured Piraeus; Ger mans admit they are evacuuating Greece.' Italy Americans . still 10 miles from Bologna. Pacific. Tokyo rports Japa nese fleet victory near Formosa; allied headquarters do not. con firm that Japanese fleet . in ac tion, but announce heavy enemy air attacks on American fleet in that area; American attacks in Formosa-Philippine region since October 9 net 146 ships and over 700 planes, and still continue. China Japenese in h e a v y battle with Chinese 23 miles north of Japanese, objective of Kweilin. . . . - Ihxr Sfcwirj SvanEii Htrt tttrr r - - atf Mm m m tAYKSia) aUSSEV JACK CARSON rtTQ L6RBC nxui um i mum nam mm . mr saw A f aWMMi.iUINM.MtluUMU i anowk, f liRI CiPU mam ' y LAST TIMES TODAY Gary Cooper in The Story 01 Dr. Wassell ; CO-FEATURE ' Cary Granl in "ONCE UPON A TIME- STARTS TODAY Return. Engagement ' By Popular Request , ROriALD FEAGAMr4. JANE WYKAN PRISdUA U!E WAYNE I.',0PulS E-ftELEASCD- tlMM I CO-FEATUES ' v. IHIIIJIins A.. ai w mini . - . .. A 'mm 'hf - T - t& v ieeNeyl. . 4 Berlin Hints At Yithdrawal ROME, OcL 18 -JP)- A Ger man withdrawal from Greece was J indicated by Berlin today as a strong British naval force reached Piroeus, port nf Athens, carrying troops " to reinforce ' allied : and Greek patriot units liberating that country. .-"" A A Berlin broadcast quoted a German military spokesman as saying that "because of the Ger man evacuation of Greece the Bal kan front will assume a different aspect. Events there are still very fluid. The decision in this sector will fall later..X-:-VS There has been no direct word on Athens from allied headquar ters since Saturday's announce ment 'of . its liberation,', but field dispatches indicated the Germans engaged in considerable demoli tion before withdrawing. ; Leslie Students Earn ' $48,868 in Summer Leslie junior high school pupils. during their summer .vacation per iod in the harvest fields and can neries, earned $48,863 or approx- mately $90 per capita, school of ficials announced here Monday. . The B pupils invested approxi mately $10,000 in war bonds and stamps. , ' . , STilDTS TODAY! . . ,..i5 1&W ,W? 0 Sin if xfi!. Comraercial Relations; Renewed 7ith Italy WASHINGTON, Oct 16.-(5V The United States took the first step toward restoring a pre-war commercial relationship with It aly today- by lifting the restric tion against business communica tions with the liberated portion of that country. - , y: J-;-"1 , ' Private trade transactions stilf are' prohibited, but business men are free to negotiate and to ex change Information without hav ing to get a license. Italian assets in this country still are frozen. EVERYTHING YOU .EVER DREAMED OF SEEING IN A PICTURE! AM I'Vmmmm HENRY KINS COIIEIG TUESDAY, CCT0HEI1 2i!h FOR FOUR BIG GimilD - CONTINUOUS SHOWS 1 - .v. .-. ?tte3rf CHESTER C0-mT! n BEADTirUL DEZldll'S 'FEAST OF DEimi! ' k:hx rrr?::t C1ZA rccn CCAKE KASSSn 5CD,CC0 Left Homeless In oiroandyVAlone '? . PARIS, Oct 16 -W- War has left 500,000 : persons homeless in Normandy alone, the French gov ernment said today In issuing an appeal to the French" people to donate blankets and clothing to aid these victims who are facing; a winter of suffering, j ;" In return for donations, the ministry of production announced j it would distribute clothing: ration points and certificates . exempting the donors in the event requisi tion should become necessary . -4 !, 0 ncruK, LAMAM TSOTTI DAYS ONLYI" THSATDS DAILY FROM. 1- P. M. - .;::x;.!-:: :v.vT- y-" '1 -y .wica e 1 vi r v v J s . - in r Hi MORRIS I ITews FlaiHeal; ' With, xdr army In. UcZland! New U. S. ; propeHed , I ! q h I v illesl .ssi--.v8?'