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He Thought It a Duty to Shape Issues

By EARL RICHERT

VVENDELL L. WILLKIE died in the midst of what he considered a

mission, On Sept. 5, immediately before catching his train to return to New York; “he-told me, in what probably was his last interview, | that he considered it his duty to | shape up for the American public

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Death Caused by Heart Attacks; FOR

Pays Tribute. .

NEW YORK, Oct. 9 (U. P.).~The| body of Wendell L. Willkie lay in| jan open, flag-draped casket today

Series of

in straight-forward magazine articles what he believed to be the

| before the fern-banked pulpit of the || | Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church|

* Editorials ,....10|Obituaries .... 4

, John Hillman, .10|State Deaths. . 4 - In Indpls. .... 3 Women's News 12

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major issues in this campaign, = s . HE DECLINED to discuss eith- | er President Roosevelt or Gov- | ernor Dewey personally, saying ! that he was primarily concerned | with “focusing the attention of the | American public upon the larger problems confronting us.” : He urged those of his friends whom he met on his last visit to | his native state to read what was then his forthcoming article in Colliers

impression that he expected President Roosevelt to be re-elected. And, too, he apparently felt he was “farther along” at that time (Sept. 5) in 1040 than Governor Dewey was at the same time this year. He sald he believed that the Republicans were counting too strong'y on defections from the ranks of labor. He felt that labor would stick overwhelmingly by Mr. Roosevelt.

HE ASKED many questions of all persons with whom he talked concerning the political situation in his native state, particularly the senatorial and gubernatorial races. He visited his farms at Rushville and talked farm problems with neighbors and friends. To no one did he leave the impression that he was heart broken over his political defeat. In fact, many of his friends believe that hé was looking forward to 1948 by which time a majority of the people in the country might have come around to his point of view. » » - WHILE reminiscing with a lifelong friend during the visit on the “hard” days of 1932-33 he made this remark which the friend re-— gards as purely coincidental: “If ever my heart gives out and I die suddenly, don’t think it was my running for the presidency. ~It would be due to the strain I went under back in 1932 and 1933 when I worried night and day

SUGGESTS WILLKIE

litical followers filed into the chureh!

to pay their final respects to one

America’s most influential private :

citizens,

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at Lenox Hill hospital. Nation Stunned

2 p. m. tomorrow, Indianapolis time, but the time of Mr. Willkie's burial will be determined by the return of his only son, Lt. (jg) Philip Willkie, U. 8. N. R., who is on convoy duty in the Atlantic. Willkie will be buried at Rushville, Ind He was born at Elwood, Ind, Feb! 18, 1802. Mr. Willkie's death came less than a week after that of another

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LIE IN STATE HERE

Governor Wires Sympathy

To Bereaved Family.

Governor Schricker proposed today in a telegram to Mrs. Wendell L. Willkie that Mr. Willkie's body lie in state at either the State House or the world War Memorial prior to interment at Rushville. In his message to the widow of the 1940 G. O. P. presidential nominee, the governor said: -“The people of Indiana are bowed in grief over the untimely death of

in an expresison of sincerest sympathy in your great bereavement, “In order to give this legion of sorrowing friends an opportunity to pay appropriate homage ‘to Mr.

~ over the bank situation in Akron.”

GARBAGE COLLECTION SCHEDULE TO BE CUT

Garbage, ashes and trash will be picked up once a week starting Nov. 1. { The days for the winter schedule have not been set. During the summer months garbage was collected twice a week and trash was collected once every two weeks.

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Willkie, may I suggest that the body

the World War Memorial prior to the last obsequies at Rushville. Mrs. Schricker joins mu in a personal expression of deepest sympathy to you and Philip in your

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Willkie

At the age of 41, Wendell L. Willkie became president of the billion « dollar Commonwealth & Southern Corp. the nation's 21st largest gorporation. Seven years later, at the age of 48, he was picked, despite his Democratic background, by the Republican national convention as its choice to try to Keep Franklin D. Roosevelt from winning t third term. : Defeated, he did not slide pack, into the “also ran” category. He went around the world, visiting 12 countries; and authored the famous “Orie World,” one of the bast sellers

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Hoosier Liberal And American Personality

A "Human Force’ Drops From the Political Scene

By THOMAS L. STOKES Seripps-H ward Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Oct. ~ 9—A vital and humanizing force in American public life was lost with the death of Wendell Willkie, and a voice was stilled that this

“country will miss sorely in ‘the’

troublous days of post-war domestic and international reconstruction ahead,

For that’s what he was—a voice. ” . . WHEREVER practical politicians and newspaper correspondents gathered “during this campaign, the talk always turned to Wendell Willkie; and’ what ‘he might do in this campaign, and how much it might matter. Generally there usually was agreement on the point of his own future political career which was that he was probably through. He lacked the political instinct, which is no disparagement. He could not make the necessary little compromises, he could not turn aside for the necessary little political niceties.

THERE was also agreement that he would continue to be an an effective voice to which millions of = Americans would - listen, a force to be reckoned with by those who governed this nation, the expression of the people's conscience as were such men as William Jennings Bryan in his early and middle years, and Senator William E. Borah until he died. :

Mr. Willkie had the plain basic °

Americanism of those men. He was a big, vital, shaggy fellow, full of energy and the human Juices, ready to cry ‘aloud or to

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in the career of this famous Hoosier liberal, who died yesrerday at the age of 5%. For the past four yesrs, since his defeat for the presidency, Mr. Will kie had been much more than just another presidential nominee, He had become an American personality, Through his forthright writings and speeches, he definitely influenced a large segment of tne American public, even after the defeat in the Wisconsin primary

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Condemned Axis ‘Mass : Murders. MOSCOW, Oct. 9 (U. P.).

| |—The Russian publication | {War and the Working Class {charged today that the Vatican is actively supporting fascism in Europe and that Pope Pius XII is seeking a come promise peace for a beaten Ger[muany. . In an attack on the international policies of the papal state, the authoritative trade union journal

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CHARTER SAYS

‘Proposed World Security

Group Will Be Called ‘The United Nations.’

By R. H. SHACKFORD

British Make New Landing

VIRGIL PINKLEY HEADQUARTERS, A. E. F., Oct._9.—American armies

forward four miles northeast of Nancy while British-Canadian amphibious forces landed behind the German lines on the Schelde estuary in a bid

United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.— ‘|The Big Four nations, de {termined that “the sacrifices of this war shall not be in vain,” today unveiled a still to-be-completed charter for a world peace organization backed by the armed might of its members

{tary measures.” : | The proposed organization would ‘be called “Thé United Nations” Briefly, it would consist of: ONE: A policy-making general assembly of all peace-loving nae tions.

TWO: An economic and social

council of 18 nations to deal with “humanitarian” aspects of intere

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publican presidential nominee.

60 1940. GOP Candidate Well Ww. } | Liked by Correspondents | From Coast to Coast. By DANIEL M. KIDNEY “Political reporters in Washington,’ New York, Indianapolis and from coast to coast are among the thousands of sincere mourners at the loss of Wendell L. Willkie, For no public figure of our time ever had been so easily accessible to the press, During his presidential campaign tour four years ago, Mr. Willkie was constantly back in the club car talking and arguing with the news-

papermen. He loved it and they soon learned to love him.

Many Old Friends His banter had none of the sort of “speech from the throne” basis that press conferences with Presi-| dent Roosevelt contain, It was a, battle of wits between equals with! no holds barred. In Washington Mr. Willkie long had known many of these reporters. For they were there covering the stories when he was the greatest defender of . “public utilities privately owned” that ever had appeared before congressional committees. He was credited with getting almost a $20,000,000 bonus for his Commonwealth & Southern Co.! through his successful battle with

When he was fighting against the utility holding’ company bill, he would kid the newsmen by citing the numerous holding companies in the newspaper publishing business. It was this wit and quick thinking which gave him a chance to start in politics at the top viz. as the Re-

Knew By-Line Names A great reader of newspapers, Mr. Willkie knew the by-line names. When a story would appear in New York written by someone in Washington and with which he might not agree that facts concerning him were correct, he would call the Capitol Press galleries and talk directly to the reporter. Sometimes. .an impasse would be reached, but never did Mr. Willkie lose his temper. He always remained on good terms with the reporters—so much sq that their liking him carried over into their copy sometimes, .as “when they failed to see clearly that he was due for defeat im his Wisconsin primary campaign.

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state.’ ” Accusing the church of supporting the Nazi regime in its rise to power, the magazine said the present pontiff, then papal nuncio to Germany, suggested in 1930 that the church come closer to Hitler and pave the way for a coalition government of Catholics and national socialists.

“Ordered No Resistance”

“When Hitler came to power, Pacelli (now Pius XII), as state seéretary, ordered the leader of the Catholic center party, Kaas, ‘not to come out’ against Hitler even if it meant.the dissolution of the (Catholic) center party,” it said. The magazine also charged that the Catholic church sent speciallytrained priests into German-occu-pied regions of Russia early in the war to help “control the Russians and conciliate them with the Ger-

the German escape i northwest to a mile and a half. The Aachen-Julich highway was cut at the foot of Cricufix hill, and the northern arm of the American pincers reached the north edge of} Wurselen, four miles north-north-' east of Aachen. Tanks and troops moving down from the north captured Barden-

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WITH U. S. 3D ARMY IN FRANCE, Oct. 9 (U. P.).~Amerjcan armor and infantry were fighting in the streets of Letricourt late today and meeting " stubborn opposition.

berg, two miles below Alsdorf, and pushed on the outskirts of Wurselen. On the southern army of the pincers the Americans entered Haaren, a mile west of Verlautenheide, found it deserted, and

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man invader.”

MARCUS ISLAND HIT

BY HALSEY'S FLEET

Spreads Ruin Upon Base in Path to Tokyo.

By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent PEARL HARBOR, T. H, Oct. 9 (U. P.).—American warships, ranging boldly within 1135 miles of Tokyo, struck a crippling blow at Japan's Marcus island base Sunday with an all-day bombardment that spread fire and ruin through the island stronghold and knocked out most of the enemy's shore defenses, a communique announced today. It was the first surface attack of the war on the pinpoint island bastion guarding the eastern approaches to the Japanese homeland,

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War Fund Drive Gets Under Way

Indianapolis’ civic spotlight was turned on the home front today as ‘hundreds of workers, representing 85 agencies, open their annual campaign to raise $1975000 for the United War and Community. Fund. L. L. Goodman, general chairman of the drive, declared that raising the fund is the city’s vital contribution to keep the home fires burning so that soldiers will not worry about conditions at home. Fund workers will hold their first report meeting Wednesday noon in the Claypool hotel, at which time advance contributions’ will be listed. D. H. Harvey will head the auditing committee at the meeting. A rally was held today at P. R. Mallory & Co. under auspices of the plant's solicitation committee. James Robb, director of the United

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By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Oct. <9. — The American Communists’ reply to President Roosevelt's repudiation of their campaign support was a

horting the members to get out the vote to help the President carry New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Illinois. ¢

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Communists Spurn F. D. R.'s Repudiation, Urge Support

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of another disavowal. But the fact that Mr. Roosevelt did repudiate . American Communists suggests that their loud and unwelcome support has become embarrassing to the administration. The newspaper PM always loyal to Mr. Roosevelt, last March cited dangers ahead in a wesh g t

into the vital matter of just how the security council would order “Ths United Nations’ ” military power into action in the event of a threat to peace. Still to be resolved, presumably at “higher levels,” is the all-im-portant issue of voting procedure in the security council if one of the permanent members should become a party to a dispute. “The United Nations” would not be merely an emergency Organiza- ‘ [tion to function only when world peace was jeopardized by overt

CHURGHILL AND EDEN IN MOSCOW

Many Diplomats and Military Personnel Also

Attend Conference.

By M. S. HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondent

‘aides arrived today.

MOSCOW, Oct. 9.—Prime Minister

Winston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden with a large

(Hoosier Heroes, Page Three)

party of military and diplomatic

They were met at Moscow airdrome by Foreign Commissar V. M.| Molotov, Vice Commissars Andreyev Vishinsky and Ivaan Maisky, British Ambassador Sir Archibald ClarkKerr, U. 8. Ambassador W, Averill Harriman and members of the Brit ish and American military missions. Churchill was welcomed at the modernistic airport with the greatest pomp and ceremony ever accorded a foreign dignitary under the Soviet regime. An official statement in London by Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee described the trip as a “se-

President Roosevelt and Churchill, It. was believed Churchill and Stalin | would discuss speeding up of a final all-out assault upon Germany from east, south and west. Churchill also was expected to iron out with Stalin the security phases of the Dumbarton Oaks proposals which were made public! simultaneous with the prime minis- | ter’s arrival in Moscow. | There was no immediate an-| nouncement of the subjects to be discussed. | The conference occurs with the full approval of the United States which will be represented in the discussions by Harriman.

FOR SLATES TALK T0 LATIN AMERICA

Columbus Day Speech to Be * Broadcast to Hemisphere.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (U. P). -—President Roosevelt, at the request of Secretary ‘of State Cordell Hull, will address the 20 other American republics by radio “for about 10 minutes” on Columbus day, Oct. 12, the White House announced today. : The address

quel” to the Quebec conference of}

aggression. It would concern itself with fundamental economic, social and other “humanitarian” stresses and strains. It also would concern. itself through the security council—with plans for regulation of armaments so that international peace and security could be promoted “with the least diversion of the world's human and economic resources for armaments.” Individual members of “The United Nations” would contribute their air, naval and military strength according to criteria and pro= cedures yet to be agreed upon. The security council would direct the use of these forces through an international high command-= “a military staff committee”—coms posed of staff representatives of the council's five permanent members. The recommendations unveiled today were the fruit of the Dum barton Oaks conference attended here by representatives of the Big Four. Admittedly incomplete, they are proposals only. The , governments represented at Dumbarton Oaks have agreed, howe ever. to take steps “as soon as possible” to prepare - “complete proposals” to serve “as a basis of discussion at a full united nations conference.”

‘Represent Milestone

The next move may well be con= sideration of the proposals, and the resolution of problems left banging