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Monday, October 29, 1951 MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SKVXJf Russian Troops, Carrying Dead, Retreat From Wrecked Budapest By ANTHONY J. CAVENDISH Unitad Pratt Correspondent Budapest, Hungary u.R) Soviet tanks and troops crunch- CONSULT YOUR ATTORNEY ABOUT THE QUALIFICATIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL! CANDIDATES 5EEJ ed out of this war-battered cap ital today carrying their dead with them. They left behind an estimated 3,000 Hungarian dead and be tween 20,000 and 50.000 wound ed in Budapest alone. They left a wrecked city where the stench of death al ready rises from the smoking ruins to mingle with a chill fog from the Danube river. I arrived here from Warsaw by plane, car and foot, walking the last five miles into the bleeding heart of this once beau tiful city. Our Polish C47 plane carry ing 2,200 pounds of blood plas ma from Poland for the wound ed and dying of the Hungarian revolution could not land at Budapest Sunday night. Pilot Wiktor Pekla brought us in at Kishunlacheza, 33 miles south of the capital, and as we skimmed down the main run way we passed squadrons of sil ver Hungarian MIG-15 jet fight ers parked on the Tarmac. Tankt on Road I managed a ride to Budapest in a Polish legation car. As we approached the center of Eur ope's worst upheaval since the last war I saw the full horror of devastation the revolution had brought. No sooner were we on the road north to Budapest than we ran into a massive southbound Sov- iet convoy headed by two armor ed cars. Ten T-54 tanks, their red stars still visible through the grime of gunpowder, oil and blood, wad dled behind, leaving Budapest behind. Then came numerous motor cycles and trucks. On the back of one tank lay the corpse of a Soviet soldier, his eyes staring vacantly back at the Hungarian capital. Other bodies were in the trucks. The Russian tankmen in their black crash helmets looked tir ed and grim. The Russians were nervous but alert. They manned their 100-millimeter tank cannon which were zeroed at the hori zontal for firing straight ahead if necessary. And they held tightly to the handles of machine guns mount ed in the tank cockpits and on truck tops. Soon we came across the first signs of fighting. Huge cannon holes punctured workers' houses. Windows were shattered. A strange music filled the air, the tinkling of broken glass being trod on, driven on, swept aside. Cars Overturned Telephone and .high tension wires hung crazily and tangled like wet spaghetti as if a hurri cane had passed through. We reached a railroad crossing. The crossing gates appeared ridicu lous; they were so unnecessary. No trains would be running on that railroad for some time. Sleeping cars had been turn ed over as roadblocks. Their sides were stitched with mach inegun bullets as if a giant sew ing machine had methodically worked them up and down, zig zagged and came back for a fi nal floral touch. 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'Significant' Shift "The vice president said that political experts, while conced ing the reelection of Mr. Eisen hower, have been predicting that the GOP would fail to win control of the House and the. Senate in the Nov. 6 election. He said there has been a "sig nificant" shift in voter thinking in the past few days and de clared: "This is the situation as I see it today entering the final week of the campaign. I think we hav an even chance to carry the Senate and better than even chance to carry the House." All House Seats Up- The Republicans captured con trol of both chambers in the las: presidential election but lost con trol in the 1954 elections. The Democrats won control of the House 232 to 203 in the mid term elections while there are 49 Democrats to 47 Republicans in the Senate. Thirty-five seats will be decided in next week's election. The vice president made the final prediction prior to starting a final two-day campaign tour of his native Southern Cali fornia. He has scheduled 11 speeches and will wind up his trip Tuesday night at a San Diego, Calif., rally. TV Art Experts Flunk. Question New York (U.PJ Actors Vincent Price and Edward G. Robinson both missed . a tie breaking jackpot question and shared the grand prize Sunday night of "The $64,000 Chal lenge" television quiz program. The stage and screen stars had answered the $64,000 question last Sunday and Sunday night were attempting to break their deadlock. Both missed the final question in their category of "great art and artists" and each received $32,000. Since Robinson, the challeng er, tied Price, the champion, he also became a champion and thus eligible to be challenged on future programs. The contestants stumbled on a question dealing with four great paintings of the Renais sance, each painted by more than one artist. They were required to give the title of the painting and the two artists involved on two paintings to identify the various sections each artist painted. Champion Gino Prato, a shoe maker, and his challenger, Mrs. Ethel Edwards, 78, a voice and dramatic coach, both of New York, tied at the $8,000 level in the category of opera. They will return next week to answer a $16,000 question. SHRIMPLESS Marlborough, Conn. (U.PJ - The local fire department auxil- iary found itself in a dilemma j when it published a cookbook. I The recipe for shrimp pie failed ; to include shrimp. I passed a crowd happily hacking souvenir scraps from a giant bronze boot, part of the mammoth Josef Stalin monu ment which was toppled from its base last Tuesday night, cut with welders torches and beat en to pieces even to the wal rus mustache. EDNA RATEN CoquilU homemahtr tym "WOMEN ARE VOTING FOE DOUG McKAT BECAUSE... He is a plain and simple mm ' who never loses sight of the problems of the average fam ily. He has supported the poli cies that have brought us higher wages and increased purchasing power, and he will continue to do so." Tote DOUG McKAT Senator fi Adr. 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