Monday, October 29, 1951
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Russian Troops, Carrying Dead, Retreat From Wrecked Budapest
By ANTHONY J. CAVENDISH
Unitad Pratt Correspondent
Budapest, Hungary u.R)
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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.
Trolley cars, automobiles and
battered trucks lay overturned
in the streets as if by an irritable
child who had scattered his toys
with a blow of the hand.
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Nixon Says GOP
Has Even Chance
To Control Senate
Los Angeles (U.PJ Vice
President Richard M. Nixon pre
dicted today the Republicans
would win control of the House
and had "an even chance" to
take control of the Senate.
Nixon made the prediction as
he began a back-breaking cam
paign tour of Los Angeles and
Southern California in an at
tempt to win the state's 32 elec
toral votes for President Eisen
hower. '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-
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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
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who never loses sight of the
problems of the average fam
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higher wages and increased
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