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gen Fund, The campaign will be opened Monday.

DEWEY SPEAKS

Wallace = Plans Tour; Truman in Missouri.

By UNITED PRESS Governor Thomas E. . Dewey, G. O, P. presidential nominee, prepared to atfack the “whole course” of the Roosevelt administration in| his ninth. campaign speech . in} Charlestown, W, Va. at 8:45 o'clock (Indianapolis time) tonight. Dewey intimated aboard his special train that he would discuss the President's disavowal of Communist support in his Charleston speech, which will be broadcast over a! C. B. 8. network. G. O. P. vice presidential candidate John W. Bricker headed for St. Paul, Minn, after declaring in Milwaukee, Wis, Friday night that

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (U. P.). President Roosevelt will address the foreign policy association at a New York dinner meeting on Oct. 21, the White House disclosed today.

government by secrecy would be ended -by a Republican administration. The Democratic vice presidential nominee, Senator Harry 8, Truman (D. Mo.), was in Caruthersville, Mo., on Saturday and Sunday for the Legion fair while the outgoing vice president, Henry A.. Wallace, announced that he would leave Washington next week on a speaking tour of the Midwest.

Admit F. D, R, ‘Slip’ Other developments: The White House admitted the

" President slipped when he said Republicans had copies of political

speeches printed without cost to}

themselves at the government printing office. U. 8. public printer A. E. Giesengack told the United Press

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WILLKIE REPORTED VERY MUCH BETTER

NEW YORK, Oct. 7 (U. P).— Wendell L, Willkie was reported “very much better” by his physician today after a “comfortable night” at Lenox Hill hospital where the 1940 - presidential candidate - has been erftically ill.

TIMES INDEX

Amusements , 4 [Ruth Millett. Eddie Ash ... 8 Movies

$inn 10 Obituaries ...

$ | Emme Pyle...

Crossword ,.. Denny’ 6 ; 8 Ration Dates.

RICH AND POOR— 250,000 Friends Pay lope. ta.

NEW YORK, Oct. 7 . Pi They gate the rités of the dead to Alfred E. Smith today in the simé manner that he had lived, simply, with the rich and the poor crowding to be near him. Throughout the night as Smith's body lay in state, the sidewalks of New York that he loved poured the people who loved him into St, Patrick's cathedral for a last Jook at the Happy Warrior,

» ® 2 FIFTEEN THOUSAND an hour passed his bronze casket until

| close to 250,000 men and women,

young and old, the great and the unnoticed, had paid their respects. The crowds, which had moved in long queues since 1:10 p. m. (Indianapolis time) yesterday, stood outside during the pontifical mass requiem attended at 10 a. m. (Indianapolis time) by those to whom the family had sent cards. For hours yesterday, last night, and early today young men in uniforms, old men on canes, women in all sorts of apparel passed slowly through the cathedral. » . -

THOUSANDS stood in a hill drizzle in the long queue ‘that wound around the cathedral while other thousands stood across Fifth ave, waiting to take their place in line, - Governor Thomas E. Dewey,

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U. OF NEW MEXICO HONORS ERNIE PYLE

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Oct. 7 (U. P.).—Ernie Pyle will receive the honorary degree of doctor of laws from the University of New Mexico in recognition of his war reporting, university authorities said today. The degree will be conferred at the fall commencement exercises on Oct. 25. The university senate voted to grant the -degree 'to the correspondent “in recognition . of his outstanding achievement as the foremost reporter of this war.”

HOOSIER HEROES—

FAMILY AWAITS

IRON LUNG HERO

Yank Who Contracted Polio a.

In Tibet Back in U. S. After 57-Hour Flight.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (U. P.)— His. epic fight for life nearly won, Lt. Robert Wesselhoeft Jr., who made a 57-hour flight. here from Calcutta in a makeshift iron lung after contracting infantile paralysis in a remote area of Tibet, looked forward today to a Teunion with his family. Wesselhoeft's wife, his 4-year-old daughter and .his six-months-old son he has never seen, live at Chatham, Mass,

The story of the tall, grinning lieutenant’s battle for the breath his paralyzed chest was unable to pump into his lungs began on a mountain in Tibet last June where he was a member of a Mapping expedition, Stricken suddenly, Wesselhoeft was ‘képt alive for. 14 days by his two buddies and Chinese : coolies— days during which his little party had to portage over almost impossible mountain terrain with the artificial respiration going on like clockwork every minute. They climbed a 12,000-foot pass to where a little one-seater rescue plane had been flown, only to find that ‘there was no runway. Three days more of waiting and pumbing of Wesselhoeft's chest were necessary while the coolies

fare held between Belgrade and

{the Germans were tricked into a

Garvan. Cross Gulf ani Unreel Backwards Epi-

sodes in Greek History. *

By GEORGE WELLER Times Foreign Correspondent ROME, Oct. 7. = — Tightening by withdrawal the sack in which they

Athens, the German forces have executed a planned retreat from the Peloponnesus, and are now fortifying their positions north of the Gulf of Oorinth, preparatory to making a stand similar to that made by their forces in the Po

Prodded by .the British landings, but without meeting any more serious impediment than patrol encounters, the Germans have crossed the blue gulf which separates northern Greece from the at two points: the Gulf of Corinth and the narrows at Rion in western Greece. i No attempt to dislodge them from either of these natural defenses has yet been announced, though Greekbased British fighters are harrying them from the air despite unfavorable weather. History in Reverse |

At both trans-gulf points the German forces are unreeling back-

tory. At Corinth more than three years ago the Australians held until they were overwhelmed by Nazi paratroopers, after which they managed with snipers to shoot and explode the mined key bridge. Now the Germans await a similar onslaught. In western Greece the Germans have withdrawn into the country around Missolonghi, whence Lord Byron directed Greece's struggle for freedom. The airport at Agrinion here is in German-held territory. The Germans have torn up the railroad tracks of the circum-Pel-oponnesus line, and mined the roads’ with their customary thor-

oughness. Tt cannot ‘vet be said ‘thal ‘we

Particularly in western Greece,

tame withdrawal before the British force. which was then their inferior but since has been considerably

Though the Greeks are stripping their henhouses and gardens to help the invading forces, this campaign is presenting almost as many ifficuities for the besiegers as the

wards two episodes in Greek his-|.

95th Anniversary

Plans Laid for

Careful Franco's Overthrow,

French ‘Claim, 'By HELEN KIRKPATRICK Times ‘Foreign Service ‘PARIS, Oct. 7—A revolution in Spain within the next four months|

besieged. The Greeks are comporting themselves with pitiable dignity in their | shoeless, starved condition. One question which touched the |

to land was, “Will our allies treat: us at least as well as they have | our old enemies, the Italians?” The universal demand is not for food, which is so evidently needed,

in Greece and has completely debilitated the population in the swampy areas, though it has not added to thé death toll.

Nazis Reported

Fleeing Greece ROME, Oct. 7 (U. P.).—German troops were reported SySeUBtinE | Greece and the Aegean islands sea and air under merciless nd tack by allied planes and warships |

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LONG ILLNESS FACES ~~ MADAME CHIANG

NEW YORK, Oct. 7 (U. P).=| Madame Chiang Kai-shek still is! suffering from physical exhaustion at Presbyterian hospital, where she is undergoing treatment and ‘rest, her physicians announced today through the Chinese .news service. Drs. Robert F. Loeb and Dana Atchley said in their statement that the wife of the Chinese president and generalissimo must undergo “continued treatment and a long rigidly-restricted and unin terrupted convalescence” before she can be discharged.

Berry, Green, Davison and

Williams Killed: 6 Wounded

Eleven more Indianapolis servicemen have been added w the casualty lists. - ¢ ;

DEAD Pvt. ‘Glenn’ Z, Berry, 181 E. Michigan st. in Germany. T. Sgt. Oscar E. Green, 936 Pleasant Run pkwy.; Nerth dr. on Biak

Capt. Paul E. Davison, brother of Miss Janet Davison, in nurses Haining at Riley “hospital, over.

a Harlan Willams, brother of Mrs. Walter H V

WOUNDED Marine Sgt. James C. Davis, R. R.

17, Box 88, on Guam.

Pvt. Donald L. Lawson, 4611 College ave., in the Pacific.

First Lt. Robert E. Stutsman, hus-

band of Mrs, Helen Stutsman, Bloomington, and nephew of Mr,

and Mrs. John Elder, 323 8. Lyndhurst dr. in France.

Marine Pfc. Harry D. Mundy, 206

N. Shefteld ave. on Tinian island. Pvt. Paul

Adam. 4 N- Pima

today as British invasion forces | swarmed ashore on the islands and | qccupled virtually all of the Pelop-

ionnesus mainland peninsula in al

[swift drive on Athens. (A B. B. C. broadcast recorded iby C. B. 8. in New York quoted Greek sources in London as say{ing that street fighting has been raging in the center of Athens for several days. The Germans have blockaded all roads leading to the capital, the broadcast said.) (A C. B. S. report said the British had driven 16 miles beyond Rion to within 44 miles of Corinth.) At least two Nazi-occupied Grecian islands, Samos and Letitha, were disclosed officially to have been taken by British assault troops, and Khios, Mytilene (Lesbos) Andros, and Skyros also were reported in allied hands, Unconfirmed reports said allied troops had landed on Rhodes, the main German stronghold in the Dodecanese group, and that R. A. F. planes already were Spefating from fields on the island.

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{is believed to be inevitable, accord-

hearts of those first British forces | All indications poidt to a revolt

but for quinine. Malaria has raged |

{the Essener National Zeitung.

Riley Mysteries.

[ing to a prominent Frenchman just! larrived here from Madrid.

{against Caudillo Francisco Pranco’s| regime some time around the beginning of next year. Careful plans have been laid and tension is obvious throughout the country, according to this man, who knows Spain well. News of the closing of the FrancoSpanish border is interpreted here as an attempt to nip the revolution in the bud. 1f such a revolt should occur, the, consequences for France would be) enormous. | Anti-Franco feeling here is strong, particularly among former members of the underground, who cannot forvi get the treatment the French reY | ceiv ed from the Spanish regime {when they attempted to flee from | France to Africa or England.

{Copyright 1044. by The Indianapolis Times The Chicago Daily News, Inc,

‘Report Germans To Hold Hostages As Hitler ‘Shield’

LONDON, Oct. 7 (U. P.).—A Stockholm dispatch said today that Germany has revealed she intends to move King Leopold of Belgium and other prominent prisoners to Japan as hostages to be exchanged for Adolf Hitler or other Nazi war criminals who may fall into allied hands after the fall of the Reich. If any captured Nazi leader is sentenced to death, a hostage will pay the same price simultaneously in Germany or Japan under the plan, the dispatch said. The Stockholm correspondent of the London Daily Mail said the plot was disclosed in Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering's own newspaper,

The dispatch did not say 'how the prisoners would be moved to Japan, but it was presumed the plan envisioned use of long-range submarines. .

MAJOR BREAK-THROUGH

Here on the highest point at Crown Hill is the majestic memorial to the beloved Indiana poet, James | 95th anniversary of his birth his spirit iz fresh in the hearts of all Hoosiers. |

OUR TOWN—

Are Cleared Up | In a New Book

By ANTON SCHERRER

MY SUSPICION that everything in and around Indianapolis is connected with James Whit comb Riley has finally been confirmed. Two cigars (“La Flora de Riley” and “Hoosier Poet’) have been named for him, and also a park, a hotel, a hospital, a carnation, a train, a ship, a summer resort, a Rotarians’ banqueting hall and several brands of food most of which call for blue points. The material necessary to convince me came by way of a brand new 352-page book: “A Biography of James Whitcomb Riley.” by Anthony J. Russo and Dorothy R. Russo, It is dedicated to Josiah K. Lilly Jr., “whose interest made possible the preparation of this book." In a sense, it is also a memorial to Anthony J. Russo who died in 1940, a year or so after the work was begun. His wife continued the patient, painstaking research to give us an exquisitely designed and beautiful book. The volume, a product of the Lakeside Press, carries the imprimatur of the Indiana Historical | society, the members of which |

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RUSS TANKS CLANK | OVER HUNGARY SOIL

Forces Less Than 100 Miles

From Budapest.

MOSCOW, Oct. 7 (U. P.).—Red army tanks and infantry pounded | across the plains of southeastern. Hungary within artillery range of Szeged and less than 100 miles) from Budapest today in a rapidfire offensive to knock Germany's

third Balkan satellite out of the . | war.

Breaking through frontier defenses on a 96-mile front, Marshal

Rodion Y. Malinovsky's 2d Ukrain-

ian army already had swept more than 15 miles inside Hungary.

| <The southern phase of a triple

play already was shaping up with other elements of Malinovsky’s 2d army driving northward through Rusko- Selo, 38 miles below Szeged, Hungary's second largest’ city. Still other Russian forces: were |- poised along the Czechoslovak border north of Himgary.. ns Though the Russians’ were ‘ar

|rayed' along a long stretch of the!

Darius sppusite Belge, tapita)

"ROCK GER GERMANY

NAZ) DEFENSE COLLAPSES ON ENTIRE FRONT

‘Americans Fanning Out Far Beyond Ubach; Ft. Dpiant | Fight Continues.

By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent

| SUPREME HEADQUAR- { TERS, A. E. F., Oct. 7.—The | American 1st army achieved 'a major break-through six ‘miles wide and six-miles deep north of Aachen today in a broadside fanout of several miles which captured Alsdorf and Basen weiler and rolled swiftly toward the Rhine. ; Lt. Gen. Courtey H. Hodges’ tanks and troops lunged through the German defenses when resiste ance virtually collapsed in some sectors in the 1st army's biggest day since it jumped off-into the Siegfried line last Monday. Striking a lightning blow from the Ubach sector down through Alsdorf land more than a mile beyond, the |1st army narrowed to a little more

than six miles the hard pressed German corridor of Aachen, 3 ‘Bombers Rock Reich The U. & 8th and 15th Air g and the royal air force sent more |than 3100 ‘heavy bombers against | Germany to smash at the Kieve and Emmerich northern anchors of the Siegfried line and many war plants soattered through the reich in the heaviest daylight operation of the war over Germany. “Our tanks and infantry have fought their way out of one of the | 5 bloodiest bottlenecks of the came LONDON, Oct. 7 (w. PB. —Three| an in the vicinity of Ubach and i great fleets totaling more than 3100 how are masters of the situation heavy bombers smashed at Germany | well behind .the . Siegfried line,” | from Britain and Italy today in the United Press Correspondent Henry | heaviest single day's concerted on-|T, Gorrell reported from 1st army ! slaught of the war against the reich, headquarters. | following heavy raids yesterday and | = Gorrell quoted a 1st army spokes last night on Berlin, Bremen and) man as saying: | other targets. “We have Achieved a major { The United States 8th and 15th break-through as a result of the air forces and the royal air foree \maxioum co-operation of air and teamed in the record bombardment | ground forces. It has been a grand of .the Emmerich and Kleve an-|4ay ° Enemy resistance has des chor positions of the Siegfried line, | creased materially.” six synthetic oil plants, Krupp and | Sunny skies favored . Lt. Gen. other arms factories and industrial | | Courtney H. Hodges’ American 1st targets in Central and Northeast |. o as it lungéd eastward. . Germany. One column due east:of battered The 8th air force sent more than | | Aachen jumped off from newly-won 1400 Flying Fortresses and Libera- | { positions only six miles from the tors against Germany. the 15th had | {transport center of Duren and 27 800 inaction from Italy and the, miles from Cologne, while the other

R. A. F. dispatched 900 for the ac- | | (Continued on “Page 2—Column 3)

“WAR FRONTS

| In addition, about 200 heavies of (Oct. 7, 1944)

the R. A. F. attacked Walcheren | island, the westernmost Dutch outWESTERN FRONT-—Americans. in == twin offensive aimed at Cologne,

ipost guarding the Schelde estuary {approaches to Antwerp. Supreme headquarters estimated {that between 6000 and 7000 allied {planes were over Europe today, jmaking it the - biggest day in the 0 | (Continued on “Page 2—Column 4) BALKANS—Germans reported evage’ MAN HURT IN FALL uating Greece and Aegean islands, RUSSIA—Reds pound across plains THROUGH SKYLIGHT | of southeast Hungary. Fred Schildmier, 45, of Columbus, | Iain WAR-—Allied bombers, . 3100 tripped on a tile on the third floor | strong . blast German industrial

Photo by Victor Peterson.

3100 HEAVIES

‘War's Greatest A Air Assault Directed at Hitler's | Industries.

steps of the Claypool hatel early | (argets, today and fell through a skylight | » to a room on the floor below. eT ALY- Americans Within 1 miles He is in serious condition at| of Bologna. °

Methodist hospital with back in{juries.. Mr. Schildmier, who owns {PACIFIC—Allied airmen temporare

the Southern Transportation Co., | ily. neutralize main Japanese aire is here for a trade corvention. fields in Halmaheras. x

WASHINGTON (

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7B developments’ ing iin Pacific. War against Japan is no longer considered a ary dffair. China can’t wait. Allies. can’t wait.

this autumn or not. oe tea tii wae Ib caret remain bing forever. Today it is where ‘was a year ago. “ 7 1 rues to th 0