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Willkie, also suffering a throat in- fection, was notified at the family residence and arrived at the hos pital few minutes before her hus- band passed away.
 The Willkies have one child, Philip, lieutenant G.g9 on Navy duty somewhere in midocean.' Willkie will be buried in the fam fly plot at Nashville, Indiana, but funeral plans will be delayed pend- ing word from the son.
 SkyrOcketed Up
 Willkie skyrocketed from a po- litical unknown to Republican nominee for President of the United States in about six months.
 Dark Horse
 His nomination, at the partys convention in Philadelphia in June, l940, as a dark horse" candidate, was a political phenomenon; it violated all the rules in the hard game of practical politics.
 A former Democrat = prominent enough to be a delegate to Dem- ocratic national convention he was not an active candidate for the nomination in the popular sense of the term. He had never held pub lie office; he had no orthodox po- litical organization back of him; no campaign manager In addition, the old Guard" of the party drowned upon him.
 He was little known outside of a small coterie of friends and busi- ness acquaintances until he be- came President of the vast Con- monwealth in 1893. He was brought in the public eye when his cor poration cut it's electrical rates, in depression years, which caused con- sumption to soar, and by his legal battle against the government in the Tennessee Valley Authority case.
 Boom Gets Under Way
 His friends came to admire him for his frank philosophy on gov
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The W ashington Merry Co., Round
By DREW PEARSON (Lt Col Robert 6. Allen now on active service with the Army)

WASHINGTON-H is the in- side story behind the Roosevelt Churchill announcement for more relief to Italy and more latitude for the new Bonomi government:
 When President Roosevelt sat down to confer with Winston Churchill in Quebec, he had before him a very important plan for re- vamping the Italian economic and political system worked out by Brigadier General William ODwyer, former district attorney in Brooklyn and former candidate for mayor of New York. The plan, briefly sum- marized, provided for:
 Removal of Allied military con- trol in Rome.
 Establishment of definite food program for the Italian people in the major cities.
 Increase of transportation, both rail and automobile.
 Increase of electric power facili- ties.
 Return of all prisoners to Italy who are non-Fascist and willing to cooperate with the present Bonomi government. Especially it was pro- posed that Italian prisoners be re- turned from France, where they are more harshly treated than in the United States or England.
 Before going to Quebec, President Roosevelt also had very import ant session with General O'Dwyer at which O'Dwyer told FDR that it required 1,4O0 tons of food daily to feed Rome, instead of which people of Rome were getting only HOO tons day. General O'Dwyel illustrated Italian starvation by citing the number of children who died in Rome in July namely 435 out of every 1000. In normal peace times the infant death rate is nearer 100 in 1000 Merely by in- creasing the amount of milk avail able in Rome during the month of August, O'Dwyer said, the death rate had dropped to nearer 300 out of every 1000.
 ODwyer also told how the villas
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Nazis May
 Evatua ate Athens Now
British Forces Racing Un- hampered Across
 Peloponnesus

ROME, Oct. 9-German forces are reported preparing to evacuate Athens as British troops, racing virtually unhampered across Pelo- ponnesus, neared the southern en- trance to the Isthmus of Corinth, gateway to Northern Greece.
 Dispatches from the front yes terday said British troops are ap- preaching the outskirts of Corinth at the base of the narrow isthmus after seizing Port Navplion. It ap- peared that they may have already entered the city. The fall of Cor inth would seal off the only over land escape route for any German troops remaining in Pelopnnesus.
 This latest move places the AL lies only 45 miles from Athens.
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AIR ARMADA MAKES SWEEP ON 5HIpp|NG
Allied Planes Sink or Dam- age E Nippon Ships in
 Strikes Around Ceram
By MURLIN SPENCER A. P. War COrrespOndent)

NEW GUINEA, Oct. 9 - Ship hunting Allied planes sank or de- stroyed 25 Japanese coastal vessels and small craft in strikes around Ceram and Halmahera, headquar- ters reported.
 Airfields were also bombed dur ing the widespread raids. On Fri day, four Japanese float planes were destroyed at zamboanga in the Southern Philippines by patrol planes. The assault was aimed at Wolfe Field and the seaplane base ramp and installations. A hangar and bomber were damaged. Twenty three coastal vessels were hit off Ceram by medium bombers, fighter bombers and patrol planes. Thirty four tons of explosives were drop ped on airdromes and barracks.
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Wendell 1. WiIIkie Dies UnexpededlyinHospifal
 |nNewY York Early

NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-Wendell l.. Willkie, Republican Presidential candidate in l940, died unexpected ly Sunday at the age of 52 and his death brought expressions of re- gret from persons of prominence from many parts of the world.
 Indiana born, a lawyer of utili- ties and also an executive, was little known in politics until his successful bid for the Presidential nomination.
 Dies In Sleep
 Willkie was sleeping when the end came at 2:20 o'clock Sunday morning in the Lenox Hospital. Death was due to coronary throm- bosis. Doctors said streptococci infection affected the heart muscles and Willkie died in his sleep after suffering three attacks, the last oc- curing at a. m.
 The colorful 200 pound tousle headed Hoosier, who first gained national recognition as President of Commonwealth and Southern Corporation, entered the hospital on September for 8 physical checkup and rest. The throat in- lection developed last Wednesday and his condition became critical Cat,,rIav y,oiIniobt and. he was placed in an oxygen tent. Mrs
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CHURCHILL, EDEN FLY
 TO MOSCOW
tBy Associated Press)

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden flew to Moscow to- day for a conference with Stalin and Molotov. It is Churchill's first meeting with Stalin since the Te- heran conference.
 Churchill was also accompanied to Moscow by Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the British Imperial Staff, and It. Gen. Sir Hastings Ismay, Military Secretary of the British War Cabinet.
 It is officially announced that Churchill and Eden will confer with Stalin and Molotov probably late today. This announcement raised speculation in London over the possibility that Stalin and Churchill. joined later by President Roosevelt, will settle problems on the postwar control of Germany.
 Differences in plans for main taining peace cropped up at the Dumbarton Oaks discussions. There are no indications, however, that this speculation will be borne out. It is stated in London that Ayerill Hartman, United States Ambassa- dor, will represent the United States at the conference.
 A London dispatch said the Polish problem is expected to be in the forefront of the Churchill Stalin discussions. Churchill's party, numbering just under 50, arrived in two groups yesterday morning. There is nothing official from the United States Embassy on the part the United States is to play in the conference. Hartman said he had nothing to say.
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RUSSIANS IN BALTIC AREA
 NEAR kEMEL
New Offensive Surges 62 Miles Through Wdv-
 ering Baltic Front

MOSCOW, Oct. 9-A powerful new Russian offensive surging 62 miles through the wavering Baltic front appeared to virtually cut off at least Is German divisions in the Soviet columns invading Hungary north port city of Memel, while from Rumania were reported with in 72 miles of Budapest.
 The Baltic breakthrough is on a ITS mile front west of Siauiai, Lithuania. The communique said it enveloped over 2,000 populated places in four days and carried to within 25 miles of Memel, pre- saging a quick equalization of the port and a thrust southward to German soil in East Prussia.
 The Russians destroyed the back bone of a force of more than 800 German tanks, 200 propelled guns and captured large numbers of prisoners. The German dead and wounded mounted to several thou sands, Pravda reported.
 It appeared that the Nazis, with this significant loss, may have con- siderable difficulty holding the line along the Niemen River, the nor- thern defense line in East Prus- sia where great major battle seems to be shaping up. Meanwhile, Russian columns are speeding for ward in Southern Hungary, in two days reaching the Tisza River the last big natural defense barrier to be hurdled before reaching Buda- pest.
 Capturing 4,000 Nazi prisoners in Yugoslavia, combined Russian Yugoslav Partisan group cleared the southern approaches to Bel grade, less than 50 miles from the capital, already outflanked on it's northern outskirts.
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VIRGIL FARRELL IS
 BACK FROM VACATION

V. R. Farrell, Director of Educa- tion. with the Office of Indian Af- fairs, has returned from three months vacation trip in the States. Accompanied by Mrs. Farrell, he visited with relatives in Oregon and South Dakota and took an eight weeks st-graduate course at the University of Washington This was followed by a short trip to Chicago, where the Director con- ferred with department heads in that city.
 The weather throughout the whole middle west was extremely cold for the summer months" Mir. Farrell reports. and we experi- enced only a few days that were really warm"
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RECEPTION GIVEN FOR SECRETARY OF
 ALASKA AND WIFE

Hundreds of Juneau citizens greeted Lew M. Williams, Secretary of Alaska, and his charming wife, at a reception Sunday between the hours of 5 to p. m, at the GOV ernor's House.
 Major c. F. Scheibner official ly met the guests of the afternoon introduced them to Gov. Ernest Gruening and Mrs. Gruening, who in turn made them acquainted with Secretary Williams and Mrs Williams. There was continuous flow of citizens at the reception for the entire two hours and even after
 Asked to assist at the reception were Mrs. Don c. Foster, Mrs. E L. Bartlett, Mrs. Katharine Nor dale, Mrs. Earl McGinty, Mrs. Fred Geeslin, Mrs. B. D. Stewart, Mrs Art Glover, Mrs. Wellman Hol- brook and Miss Alice Brandebury
 The Williams have taken resi- dence at the Housel home on Fourth Street between Gold and Franklin.
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TA5kF0R(E B0MBARDS
 kAR(U5IS.
Fourth Attack Since Begin hing of War Made on
 Important Jap Base

PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 9 = Big guns of American warships bonn barded tiny Marcus Island, one of Japan's most important Eastern outposts, all day yesterday, Ad- miral Chester w. Nimitz announced in a surprise communique at 2 a. m. today.
 Heavy units of Halsey's Third Fleet silenced "a greater part of the coast defense batteries" and in- flicted considerable damage" on shore defenses and installations.
 It was the fourth attack by fleet forces on the island, which lies l135 miles southeast of Tokyo. The gunfire was deliberate and de- structive." Buildings were hit and fires started Surprisingly, there was no mention of participation by carrier planes, either by Nimitz or by Radio Tokyo. It had been hinted earlier that battleships with 16- inch guns joined the pompard- ment
 More surprising still, the Nimitz communique didn't mention any aerial opposition nor did the radio at Tokyo, but Marcus, which should be the Japs' most important ob- servation post in that area of the Pacific, is undoubtedly feeling deep- ly her severe plane losses under the repeated and crushing aerial defeats in the Central and Western Pacific.
 Admiral Mitscher's carrier force, operating with, Admiral Spruance's Fifth Fleet destroyed more than l,2OO enemy airplanes in the Mari anas operations.
 In the Philippines sea battle, the Halsey- -Mitscher carrier force de- stroyed more than HOO planes in repeated thrusts in the Philippines, the Bonins and in the Palaus.
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Tanks Clamp Death Grip on Hitler HghUay
STARTING
 LIkEUp5

The St. Louis Browns and St. Louis Cardinals started today's World Series game, the sixth, with he following lineups:
 BROWNS Gutteridge, second base. Kreevich, center field. Moore, right field. Stephens, shortstop. Laabs, left field. McQuinn, first base. Christman, third base. Hayworth, catcher. Potter, pitcher.
 CARDINALS Litwhiler, left field Hopp, center field. Musial, right field w. Cooper, catcher. Sanders, first base. Kurowski, third base. Marion, shortstop. Verban, second base. Lanier, pitcher.
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MAN LEAPS TO
 DEATH SUNDAY AT HOSPITAL

Apparently demented, Fred E. Getso, TO, jumped from the third floor bathroom window on the Sixth Street side of St. Ann's Hospital about 7:2O o'clock yesterday morning and died an hour later as the result of compound head fracture.
 Getso, a native of Germany, came to Juneau about 10 days ago from Wasilla, Alaska, where he had re- sided for the past 25 or 30 years. Last Tuesday, he was found wander ing aimlessly about 16 miles out on the Glacier Highway, by Highway Patrolman Emmett Botelho, who took him to St. Ann's Hospital where he was found to have several broken ribs.
 Botelho stated that at that time the old man pleaded with him to let him remain where he was and that he planned to go to the end of the road and then commit suicide.
 The remains were taken to the Charles w. Garter Mortuary and funeral arrangements are pending.
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ST. LOUIS, Oct. y-The St. Louis Cardinals, champions of the Ma tional League, won their second world series in three years this afternoon by defeating the St. Louis Browns, pennant winners of the American League, to on the shit pitching of Max Lanier and Teddy Wilks. The attendance at today's game was 1,680
 The Cardinals picked up all runs in the fourth inning as they drove Potter from the mound. and Lanier was also taken out after yielding run in the second. and then dis playing a streak of wildness in the sixth Wilks shutout the Browns without a hit for the remaining innings.
 There was a wild demonstration as Wilkes tossed his cap in the air and was mobbed by his mates when he famed pinch hitter Mike Chartak to end the series. It was the 92nd strikeout of the classic. the most in history of post-season games.
 The Browns took the lead in the second when Laabs crippled to deep center and scored on McQuinn's single. The Ma tional Leaguers picked up their three runs on three singles, an error and walk in the fourth.
 Both the Cards and Browns will go on record as putting up the best world series in history of later days.
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WORLD FORCE FOR ORDERLY WORLD SEEN
Plans We'll Under Way 10 Continue Unified Nations
 as Security League

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-Detailed, but incomplete plans for maintaining peace, is presented by the work of the United States, Britain, China and Russia, President Franklin D.. Roosevelt asserted.
 The task of designing the future security of the world "has been well begun" An organization has been worked out to preserve peace and security. Roosevelt said in his statement that this represents the major objective for which this war is being fought. At such it inspires the highest hopes of millions of fathers and mothers whose sons and daughters are engaged in the terrible struggle and sufferings of war"
 The security organization calls for converting the war-born United Ma tions into a permanent peace or ganization backed by powerful arm ed forces including special air de- tachments capable of lightning blows against any future aggressors.
 FOur-POwer Meeting
 The announcement, in it's tentative details, came as United Nations diplomats foresaw the possibility of an early four-power meeting "of the highest level" to tighten war end relations and complete the se- curity organizations blueprint.
 The blueprint, as it is now drawn, calls for a general assembly of all peace loving states" A security council of II nations will have final authority on all uses of forces. An economic and social council will
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STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Oct. g. = Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6as, American Can 90, Anaconda PTS, Beech Aircraft 10B, Bethlehem Steel 63A, Curtiss- Wright 5A, International Harvester 79, Kennecott 35, North American Aviation 91a, New York Central 1872 Northern Pacific 1874, United States Steel 58A.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 148.06; rails, 4145; utilities, 2552.
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ALLIES USE
 HEAVY FORCE
 TO PUSH ON
First Army Now Threatens 20-Mi|e Breakthrough
 Towards Cologne

BULLETIN-LONDON, Oct. 9 The United States First Army clamped a death grip on Aachen in twin drive that left the escape corridor only a mile and half wide northeast of Aachen.
 Despite desperate German counterattacks, three of them up Crucifix Hill, overlooking the city from the northeast, Lieut.. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges war riors cut the last major road out of Aachen, the Adolf Hitler highway running from Julich to Cologne, and severed most of the secondary roads on the southern front.
 The Seventh Army moved up to within eight miles of BelfOrt in the mountain gap fringing Switzerland, smelling BelfOrt's outskirts.
 The Third Army scored a further two-mile advance in an offensive between Metz and Nancy, entering Letricourt, 16 miles southeast of Metz.
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F0LTA WILL SPEAK AT
 FED. EMPLOYEES LUNGS

George Folta, Special Counsel for the Interior Department, will be the guest speaker at Wednesdays noon luncheon meeting of the Fedora ton of Federal Employees, to be held at the Baranof Hotel.
 MT. Folta will discuss aboringinal rights, with special reference to the hearings which are taking place.
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CUSTOMS MEN HERE

Customs men J. J. Hillard of Eagle and Ray G. Day of Skagway are here for few days.
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MULTIPLIED BLOWS

LONDON, Oct. g. - Multiplied blows by Lieut.. Gen. Courtney Hodges First Army threatened a 2O-mile breakthrough toward Col ogne and Dusseldorf as American fighting men pinched the Aachen escape gap to four miles or less.
 They reported fighting within Aachen itself after sending patrols and small amored task forces to feel out the garrison, possibly reduced
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PLAY-BY-pLAY
FIRST INNING

BROWNS Gutteridge fouled out to Sanders. Kreevich famed. Moore famed.
 No runs, no hits, no errors; none left on base.
 CARDINALS = Litwhiler famed. Hopp flied out to Gutteridge. Gut teridge tossed out Musial
 No runs, no hits, no errors; none left on base.
 SECOND INNING
 BROWNS = Stephens famed Laabs tripled to center field. Me Quinn singled, scoring Laabs. Christ man flied out to Hopp. Hayworth flied out to Hopp.
 One run, two hits. no errors; one left on base.
 CARDINALS-Cooper lined out to Stephens. Sanders flied out to Gut teridge. Kurowski singled. Kurow- ski was trapped between first and second and went out Potter to Mo- Quinn to Gutteridge to Potter.
 No runs, one hit, no errors; none left on base.
 THIRD INNING
 BROWNS famed It was the 44th strikeoAt of the series by Cardinal hurlers, tying the six-game series record set by the Athletics against the Giants in 1911. Gut teridge fouled out to Musial Kree- vich doubled to center Moore walk ed. Stephens forced Moore out, Marion to Verban.
 No runs, one hit, no errors; two left on base.
 CARDINALS--M Marion out, Christ man to McQuinn. Verban singled. Lanier singled, Verban stopping at second. Litwhiler famed. Hopp famed.
 No runs, two hits, no errors; two left on bases.
 FOURTH INNING
 BROWNS = Laabs walked. Me- Quinn sacrificed, Lanier to Sanders. Verban threw out Christman. Laabs going to third Hayworth was in tentionally passed. Potter ground ed out to Verban.
 No runs, no hits, no errors; two left on base.
 CARDINALS-Mu flied out to Kreevich. Cooper walked. Sanders singled, sending Cooper to third. Kurowski hit to Stephens who made a bad throw to Gutteridge for an error, Cooper scoring and Sanders being held at second. Marion fouled out to Laabs. Verban singled, SCOT ing Sanders. Lanier singled, SCOT ing Kurowski and sending Verban to second. Muncrief came in to pitch for the Browns. Litwhiler forced Lanier out, Stephens to Gutteridge. Three runs, three hits, one error; two left on bases.
 FIFTH INNING
 BROWNS Official scorer ruled the last two runs of the Cards in the fourth inning were unearned. Kurowski is credited with driving in the first tally. Gutteridge flied out to Litwhiler. Kreevich famed. Moore out, Sanders to Lanier
 No runs, no hits, no errors; none left on base.
 CARDINALS Hopp flied out to Stephens. Musial flied out to Ste phens. Cooper singled. Sanders walked. Kurowski flied out to Kree. vich.
 No runs, one hit, no errors; two left on base.
 SIXTH INNING
 BROWNS Stephens out, Marion to Sanders. Laabs walked. Me-
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DIR. PYLE RETURNS

Dr. T. J. Pyle. of the U. s. h.
 dian Office, has returned to Ju- lneau after several months trip
 to the westward
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MONTANANs HERE

MT. and Mrs N. P. Sullivan have
 registered at the Gasineau Hotel from Kalispell, Montana.
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BAKER IN TOWN

M. Baker, of the National Cash Register Company. has registered at the Baranof from Seattle.
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TWEDTS IN TOWN

In from Chichagof and guests at the Gastineau Hotel are MT. and Mrs. O. B. Twedt.
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SCORE BY INNINGS

Winning pitcher--Lanier, los- ing pitchcr--Potter.
 Batteries: Browns--POtter, Muncrief, Kramer and Hay worth. Cards = Lanier, Wilks and w. Cooper.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-10
Retired Officers
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the Navy will be able to take ad-
vantage of their combat experience
and familiarity with current prob
lens in the advanced areas.
Many Not Physically Fit.
( Many of the retired officers are
said not to be physically qualified
for duty ahoat. As matter of fact.
not few of them had been retired
early in their naval careers because
Of physical disability.
OF the total number OF retired
officers now on the active list, it was
said that 2,229 are retired regular
and reserve officers and 2,076 are
retired enlisted men now serving as
officers.
About 500 of these officers were
returned to active status in 1899, but
the majority, according to the Navy
were recalled during 1910 and 1941.
They took over the duties of younger
officers then on shore billets whose
services were urgently needed afoat.
In many cases, the Navy said, the
tasks for which they entered the
service have now been accomplished.
1t was pointed out, however, that
the release of the retired officers is
not to be taken as other than one
of the essential first steps to adjust
officer personnel to current and pro-
spective requirements of the naval
service.