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, In Washington a unique collec tion of statues o notable men is on display in the Smithsonian In- Biuuuun. i.uejr ,ux uui iuc-m: or ot heroic size, but miniatures -iwo jeet rugii. ouuic vl uie uk- "urea are standing, some sitting, but the poses are natural. . The size is 'small bo that persons may study them closely. The figures are done in bronze so they will be durable. The collection is called "The Liv ing Hall of Washington." The project originated among a croup of Washington men ' who thought it would be a good idea to have preserved in sculptured form men of this war period. The prob lem was to find a sculptor, to de -fray ' the cast and to arrange for sittings. ' - The cost is borne by the Kiplinger organization which is' sues the famed Kiplinger letters from the nation's capital. The sculptor is Max Kalish, one of the country's leading sculptors. t Kalish did his modeling in the offices of his subjects. It took two half-hour . periods for each. At first there was difficulty in get ting public men to give that much time, but -.when the project was explained they consented, and Ka lish: was kept busy doing his work. The clay models were taken to his studio in New York and there de veloped to the finished form and cast in bronze. . r The figures are done au naturel just as the men are at their work, "each is a three-dimension portrait of : the man-as he is in .everyday (Continued on Editorial page) Candidate FDR Set to Invade New York City W ASHIN GTON, Oct 20-() Pnsident Roosevelt dusted off his old, campaign ; hat and favorite navy cape tonight and was all ready for a major political sortie tomorrow into vote-heavy New York City. : , it It is not as president, not as commander in chief, but ' as can didate Roosevelt that he is invad ing, New.York for a." full day's - electioneering: nd an expanded foreign -policy address.'. - The speech will be broadcast, from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. Pacific war time, over the NBS and Blue net works. Censorship restrictions which have cloaked all movement of the chief executive were lifted f 6r the first time since. ' the " war began, and, as ' in pre-war days, he .president took a full crew of re porters, and photographers aboard his special -train. . 7 Mr.y Roosevelt left' the whole day free to complete the speech he will deliver at a foreign policy as sociation dinner at the Waldorf Astoria hotel tomorrow night, presumably in answer to Thomas - 35. Dewey's foreign affairs address last Wednesday. Bombers Lace Nazi Industry In Big Raids LONDON, Oct. 20 - (JP) - More than 1750 heavy bombers from It aly and Britain laced German in dustries and communications with a series of shattering blows last night and today as . official esti mates declared nazi finished oil production had been cut 77 per cent below its May potential. More than 1000 RAF night . bombers hit Stuttgart a double header wallop four hours apart, made a third large-scale assault on Number and attacked Wiesbaden In the Rhineland with slightly less farce.; Nine bombers were lost, li ; About 750 Fortresses and Lib erators from Italy today blasted the Rosenheim railyards, 35 miles southeast of Munich on the Bren ner Pass line, oil storage tanks at Xlegensburg, on the Danube 0, miles north of Munich, unspecified objectives in the Brux area, 0 miles northwest of Prague In Czechoslovakia, the vIsotta-Ftas-chini tank and motor plant and Ereda armament works at Milan In northern Italy, and the Rad Aibling airdrome, SO miles south east of Munich. - . ,- - . IJacArthur Back In Philippines, !Addrccse3 U.S. VOrjC,- Oct 23-VGen. Douglas MacArthur addressed the people f the United States by radio tonight from his headquar ters at Leyte in the Philippines the first time he has been heard en the air in this country since lie landed in Australia from Cor residor in 1942. His talk, received by NEC thort wave, repeated substantially tis communique issued earlier in the U.S. Holds First Big. Nazi City Huge , Gun Used; Ike's Rigid Code Put Into Effect ; AACHEN, Germany, Oct 20-(P) The German border city of Aach en, . reduced to wreckage by American shells .and bombing planes and torn by days of sav age street fighting, fell today to American troops who drove the last of its desperately resisting nazi garrison from their burrows in the city proper. Tonight the victorious Yanks began mopping up the remnants of nazis hopelessly trapped in pockets on the outskirts of this mass of wreckage. There were es timated to be between 500 and 1000 Germans trapped in the vise, in addition to approximately 2000 already captured. Code In Effect (Front line reports received in London tonight said Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower's rigid code for oc cupied Germany was already be ing put into effect in the -captured city.) . Ul:-' VTroops under the command of Lt Col' MerrU Daniel of Geneva, NY, ' knocked out the, last major strongpoint in the city at 3:30 p.m. (10:30 a.m. eastern war time) with direct fire from a 155 MM. rifle blasting . at close range. The - big gun literally knocked down a building in which SS elite guard troops had made a last desperate stand. Defense Wrecked "Aachen is ours," said an Amer ican officer, matter-of-factly an nouncing the capture of the first large German city by allied in vasion armies. "When we knocked out that building we knocked out the guts of their defense." IX. Gen. Courtney H. Hodge's First army troops have been at tacking Aachen, medieval seat of Charlemagne's empire and impor tant bastion of the Siegfried line since September 15. . WoodburnMan Dies In Action WOODBURN, Oct 20 Pfc. Charles Edward Doland, 37, was killed in action in Prance, Septem ber 5 his wife has been notified Doland was inducted into the army in September, 1843 and after taking basic training at Camp Dorn, Miss- went to England in June, 1844 and to France in July. He was born in Wessington, SD, and married Evelyn Westergaard in 1836. Survivors besides the Widow are his mother, Mrs. E. E. Doland and a brother, William In Huron, SQ; a brother, Lee Doland in Salem; another brother, Frank Doland with the US army in China and a sister, Mrs. William Scheid, Iroquois, SD. Churchill, Stalin End Confab, Report important Progress9 By Daniel De Lace MOSCOW, Saturday, Oct 21 (FJ-Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin, in friendly collab oration on Europe's problems, made "important progress", toward settling the delicate Polish dispute and also disposed satisfactorily of two . Balkan controversies during their recent conference, a joint communique announced early to day. Summing up in broad terms the achievements of their momentous meeting and stressing their "free and intimate exchange of views," the communique reported that: 1. Discussions with leaders of the British-backed Polish exiled government and the soviet-sponsored national liberation cornmit tee "have probably narrowed dif ferences and dispelled misconcep tions. Conversations are continu ing on outstanding points." ' Nazi General, Fed Up With Adolf, to Banish Corporals AACHEN, 'Germany. Oct 20 (AP)-There's story g ci n g the rounds along the western front of a German field marshal, who had just come from an explosive inter view with Adolf Hitler. - , - "Of one thing I am sure,", he told Gen. Dietrich Von Cholitz, who later was to surrender the German garrison in Paris, "there'll be no more corporals after this wareven if I have to promote every single one of them." Terrific Blast, Blaze Strikes In Cleveland CLEVELAND, Oct 20-JF)-The death list mounted to 34 tonight in the wake of thunderous ex plosions which ripped a $6,000,000 liquid gas storage tank and spread the most devastating fire in Cleve land's history over a 50-block east side area.1 .' i ' ' Still raging virtually uncon trolled eight hours after the ini tial blast the blaze made an es timated 3600 homeless and forced possibly 10,000 families to evacu ate yet undamaged homes because of disruption of utilities and dan ger of further explosions; " r .'- Fire Chief James E. ' Granger estimated damages at "between $3,000,000 and $3,000,000,", but d- ded -the estimate probably would have to be revised upward. He said the fire probably would continue most of .tomorrow.' , . v' Forrestal Gets Pearl Harbor Naval Report ' WASHINGTON; ' Oct 20 - VP) Secretary of the Navy Forrestal announced tonight that he had re ceived I a report from the naval court which investigated the Pearl Harbor disaster, but that the court had marked it secret He added that he was asking Admiral Ernest J. King, comman der-in-chief of the fleet to re view the report, and the records of the proceedings to determine how much must be kept secret ' Rep. Maas (R-Minn.) and oth ers have charged that the report is being withheld from the public because of political reasons. An nouncing that he was determined to force publication before the electlorv Maas has declared that high government officials knew of the forthcoming: attack on Pearl Harbor six hours before it oc curred but failed to notify Ad miral Husband E. Kimmel, and Major General; Walter C" Short, commanders on the scene. Ilunjrarv Demonstrates STOCKHOLM, Oct 20 VP- Thousands of Budapest citizens demonstrated for peace after Ad miral Horthy retired as regent of Hungary, and were attacked by German troops, a Hungarian wo man just arrived in Sweden said today. i - m at . Agreement was reacned on the remaining points la the Bul garian armistice terms. t S. The British and soviet ' gov ernments decided to pursue a joint policy in Yugoslavia centered around a union between Kins Pe ter's government and Marshal Ti to's liberation movement until aft er the war when they will have the right "to settle their future constitution for themselves." . In addition to the political prob lems which came up for settle ment said the communique, "the unfolding of military plans agreed "upon at Teheran was comprehen sively reviewed in the light of re cent events and conclusions of the Quebec conference (between Churchill and President Roose velt) on the war in western Eu rope." - cra n Russians Hungary Invaded From New Point;1 Key Cities Fall ; - LONDON, Saturday, Oct 2l-(M Russian and partisan troops yes-, terday captured the Yugoslav cap ital . of Belgrade, annihilating its axis garrison in savage street bat-' ties, while Berlin announced that other Soviet forces-had penetrated 12 miles inside East . Prussia. smashing across the pre-war Ger man frontier on an 80-mile front Moscow also announced a new invasion of Hungary from the south, with a nine-mile penetra tion to a point 90 miles below Bu dapest, and also the conquest in the east of Hungary's third city, Debrecen, where thousands ' - of Germans, wefe slaughtered -or cap tured in i an unsuccessful attempt I to stop the red army. Sleds Roll Ahead - A late Berlin broadcast said Soviet troops already had rolled on 30 miles northwest of Debrecen reaching ihe rail town of Tiszao lege, onthe.Tkxa river -IS mikaH east of the " menaced Hungarian V capital. , ' ' In Transylvania other red army troops and Romanian units over ran Chilia, a village only 12 miles southeast, of Satu-Mare, last big Transylvanlan locality still in en emy hands, and in one sector killed or captured an entire enemy bat talion trying to flee toward neigh boring Czechoslovakia. " Nasi Toll High Southeast of fallen,' Belgrade, key to the Balkans, the Russian bulletin said a total of 17,147 trapped Germans were killed or captured in eliminating an enemy pocket Although Moscow was silent about the three-sided onslaught against East Prussia, an Associat ed Press correspondent there was allowed to radio that "the Rus sians have entered reich territory." Revolt Flares In Guatemala. ; President Out GUATAMALA CITY, Oct. 20- (ff"-President Federico Ponce was overthrown today in a revolt led by young officers of the Guate malan army and university stu dents. A new government was prompt-- lyi formed by a triumvirate of CapL Jacobo Arben, MaJ. Arana and Jorge Toriello, a civilian. The movement started at 2 ami among: officers and soldiers of the barracks Guardia de Honor, which was strongly supplied with mod ern weapons, including tanks, ar mored cars and different kinds Of machine guns. The commander of the guard. Gen. Federico Corado, was killed at the beginning and a 12-hour battle followed in she streets of this capital. New Gasoline Ratins Ruling Established WASHINGTON, Oct 20-()-The office of price administra tion ruledv today that beginning next Tuesday only gasoline with a standard rating of 75-octane may be sold at the higher retail prices, authorized for premium grade. Patricia Iliday Fcusd Innocent of Crime Patricia Pearl Hiday was found innocent of the ' crime of false swearing by a Marion county cir cuit court jury after brief delibe ration Friday. Mrs. Hiday was ac cused of having sworn to a false statement in making of -an affi davit for transfer of the title cf a car from- the name of her de ceased husband to her own cne. Pour Into Prussia lira MacArthur' Gen. Denaias MacArthur (third allied forces began aa Invasion in a landing craft recently at an undisclosed pelat in the Pacific, after s Jowney aboard the Ameticaa cruiser Nashville (baek greaBd). Seemd from riant Is Cot Lleyd Lebrbaa, the general's aide. Man at right Is not identified. (Ar wirepheto from navy) Purchase Price Pasture Reduced to $175,000 The City of Salem may purchase for $75,000 less than the or iginal quotation the 43 acres of conveyed to it, and the rpecial go oy fJMayor u i. uouga,i&x will recommend at 'Monday's option offered Friday be taken Reservations in the sale of the Oregon Trained 96th Division One Of First to Land Citizens of Oregon should be proud of the 96th division, which trained at Camp Adair and Camp White- and was among the first three divisions mentioned as hav ing landed in the Philippine in lands. Gov. Shell declared here Friday. - ' . Governor Snell said the landing of the 96th division added to the state's . outstanding' military re cord. The 41st division, including the Oregon National Guard, was the first division shipped overseas. This division arrived in Australia few weeks after the Pearl Har bor attack. (Additional details on page 2., . 4, Sweden Should Fight, ' Newspaper Asserts ' ; STOCKHOLM Oct 20 r(ff) Under the headline "What , can Sweden! do? . Terror in, Norway and Denmark," the newspaper Af tontidningen suggested tentative ly in an editorial today that "Swe den should go into the war." . "It canot be denied such action would be convincing evidence of our solidarity with our neighbors," the social democratic party's news paper said. - Pvt. Raymond Brown -Killed in Beldam I PERU YD ALE Two years to the day from the time he was sent overseas. Pvt. Raymond E. Brown, son of Mrs. Veva Brown, route two, Amity,' was killed in action September 8 in Belgium. , . ' Pvt Brown, born in Salem Oc tober 14, 1922, attended Dallas high school. He "had his basic where his father trained in World war 1. . Japs to Say, 'Uncle . Forrestal Declares ; NEW YORK, Oct. 20 -P)- The Japanese are "going to get hit plenty and often" until they "cry the Japanese equivalent of uncle,' Navy Secretary Forrestal declared tonight I He described the landing of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces in the Philippines as the besinning. cf ,a series of mighty blows, some of them at places that will "shock the Jaranese." Goes Ashore. from sisht), uder wh of the Philippines, here goes ashore for Bush9 s Bush's pasture not previously comnuttee named several weeks w negouaie lor ine pTopeny council meeting that the 60-day up. . - property at the $175,000 price placed upon it by the Bush inter ests are that the land shall be de veloped for public park and play ground purposes only as a memor lot 4li. lata A ..V.I t3,.k that a tract of from seven id 10 acres be set aside to Willamette university for an athletic ; field and that the city not take posses sion or undertake any development of the entire 100 acres during; the lifetime of A. N, Bush and Miss Sally Bush. . Negotiations for the property were begun earlier this year at the instigation of the city's commit tee on postwar plans with a view to securing the 5? acres of the Bush estate deeded to the city 37 years ago subject to the lifetime possession of Miss Sally Bush. . Organizations representing a variety of interests urged the city to obtain and develop the proper ties which lie in the south-central portion of Salem as park ' and playground when the $250,000 or iginal quotation was made public. (Additional details on page 2). Donald Harms Victim of War Pvt. Donald Harms, who spent his boyhood in Salem and who graduated from Salem high school in 1940, was killed in action Sep-, tember 22 in Holland. Word of his death was received here Friday. Harms had been overseas for more than two years and was sta tioned in England before D-day, when he participated in the Inva sion as a paratrooper.- ...., ' Son of Harry Harms, now of Portland, ' he was prominent ' in music circles here until his re moval to Portland following his graduation from high schooL His widow, Esther, in Portland, and a brother, Wilbur Harms, resident of the state of Washington, in addi tion to his father, survive. . :, . Laval Condemned to , Death in Absentia, PARIS, Oct 20-VPr Pierre La val, the executor of Hitler's orders when France was under the Ger man heel, has been condemned to death in absentia by a Marseille court for having "intelligence with the enemy," Paris newspapers said today,. .V Albany Paratrooper lulled in Action ALBANY Donald A. V.Tilson, paratrooper, was .killed in action in Holland .on September 13. His widow, Robena Wilson, 413 list Second street, Albany, was not! fied this week by the war depart ment cf her husband's death. J U NJ 1 n LTAJ Ll J -J Jap Night. 0 n In v a s Cause Little Ba: Yanks Draw Near Two Airfields; Losses Small as Food, Supplies .- ' , Flow in Against Light Opposition ; ' '' ' (Br the AsMcUted Press) , V L - . American ground troops invadinsr ; ihe central Philip pines are fighting inland from heads at Leyte ajrainst the very Japanese who tortured fel low Yanks at Bataap, and enemy night air attacks havtr been broken np with minor shipping ; losses. Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today sion communique. ," " Front line dispatches 'from the iwo main beachheads near Tadoban Bay and Dulag two airfields to the invaders from a 600-ship convoy. (An earlier broadcast report had said that Tacloban airfield, a 6000-foot strip, was " MacArthur. establishing pines, said losses among his and that food, and supplies wereo- flowing in against light opposition. Associated Press front line dis patches told of severe opposition to the landings only at one point, at Palo, Just south ot Tacloban Bay. There some landing ship losses were suffered..' At Dulag, Al Dopklng, Associ- ted Press war correspondent, said the advance was so swift it was difficult to keep up with the men. They were on the outskirts of an airfield. Near Airfield Other reports said ground forces in the Tacloban sector were with in 1000 yards of the. big airfield there.-: - r'- V.".: lien of the battie-hardened US Sixth army . and central . Pacific units were " slugging ahead, al though meeting stiff resistance in some places. ' Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said navy carrier planes, giving Gen. Douglas Mas Arthur's invasion for ces heavy support, hit Japanese airfields and shipping Thursday (US time) simultaneously with the army's landing, xne navy xuers downed 87 more enemy planes in blows at Leyte and adjacent Cebu and Negros islands, i Jap Ships Souk , These planes downed. In addi tion to a large cargo ship and five small craft sunk by the navy air men and 23 , more ships probably sunk; or damaged, supplemented the powerful surface ship and air assistance given j MacArthur by American and l Australian naval units off the landing beaches. . Murlin Spencer, : Associated Press war correspondent, said MacArthur's convoy numbered approximately f 600 vessels and carried as many or perhaps more men than invaded Normandy on D day. Prime -Minister Winston Churchill has said nearly 250,000 men were landed during the first 24 hours of that invasion. ; 'Mae' Wades Ashore Gen. Douglas MacArthur, keep ing his promise to return to the Philippines a promise made after he left battered . Corregidor two and a half years ago waded ashore to personally direct the filghting. - ' J The Tokyo radio said that "Jap anese forces are about to launch a full-scale onslaught? against the Americans. .This hint that the go ing might get : tougher for the Yanks was picked up by federal communication commission moni tors. , , .T" - ' ' - MacArthur called on Filipinos, many of whom have participated in guerrilla activity since the Jap anese conquered the islands in May, 1942, to "rise and strike" at their oppressors. Back Seat Drivers Had Belter Slay Out of Vancouver. VANCOUVER, EC, Oct 20-yp) It will cost money to be a "back seat- driver under Vancouver's new traffic bylaw which official traffic commission approved today and sent on to the city council's traffic committee. "If a husband wants, he can take action against his wife un der the clause that says . no pas senger shall do any act which will interfere with the driver's proper control of the car," said City So licitor A. E. Lord. The new by-law will go before the traflic ccnunittee Monday, and will be considered by city council a week later. - . Air -Blows i 6 n hi p s solidly consolidated beach (Saturday) in his second inva . : told of the imminent fall of who went ashore yesterday . in American hands.) headquarters., on the Philip men were comparatively low Dewey Looses New Barrage On Roosevelt PITTSBURGH, Oct 20 - -Loosing a new barrage at what he calls' "one - man' government," Thomas E. Dewey tonight declared that President Roosevelt is trying to make political capital out ot so, cial gains which he said wefe In itiated by republican, administra tions. . " . - ..v.- . The New York governor promis ed to expand and broaden these gains If elected. ' After declaring that democrats resent "the kidnaping of their par ty by the communists and the po litical action committee,, the' re publican presidential nominee said j in a prepared broadcast: II f : v:' "It is time to face the fact that the new deal is a bankrupt organ ization, living only to extend its: powers over the daily lives of our people." . He concluded the new deal "did some good things in its youth," but declared that "now it seeks to live on its past. ' ' "In this great national cam paign," he said, "my opponent has not offered to the people of this country even the pretense of a program' for the future.' He tells the working men and women ot America to trust him, to do as they axe told and ask no questions. That is the end result under. one man government, always." Women's Division : Still Holds Lead The women's division, with 142 per cent of its quota, continued to hold the lead ' Friday In funds raised for the Salem United War Chest - ' The mercantile division had 118 per cent; education 10? per cent; rural 113 per cent; utilities; gen eral gifts and industrial divisions a few dollars more than 100 per cent, while contractors had 88 per 'cent and professional 88 per cent of. their quotas. West Salem' re turns were incomplete, but other divisions added to their percent age retire Friday afternoon fol lowing the report luncheon. I Dumbarton ;0s!s! that All May Know- blithe belief that fragmen tary accounts of this so-called blueprint ' for peace have not served to acquaint , the public fully with the ramifications of the Big Four's discussions, The Oregen Statesman . on 'Sunday, October 22, will publish - the Dumbarton Oaks report In full. The. complete if tentative plan has never appeared in any northwest newspaper. What is the plan for World Security sketched by the great powers at Dumbarton : Oaks? Every thinking citizen will want to study this plan-. . Youll agree or , youH dis agree, but at least youH know more about" an aU-lraportant phase of all-important times If you read YOUR HOME NEWS PAPER tomorrow. fc . . i -AfcHf' ! jM i M "" TIie Vorld at Your Door - Each Moi-iiir"' mage t