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mm 7eallier Monday max!..: urn tem perature S3, mLnJama 43. Tuesday river r-Z.0 f set PCUNDHD JC51 KEimr TICSD YEAH Calem, Orejoiu V7 ednesdar Morning. October 23. 1343 Frlce 5c 2:0. ir "HID pQhrH - gj1- . . Ycu hear a great deal . about proteins" today. The housewife studies her food lists to see how she can use her precious ration points to provide adequate pro teins for her family particularly if there are growing children in , the household. Meats, milk, eggs, cheesethese are familiar protein foods. . 4;-- -'.:.Z, 4 4' V .The farmers are raising quite clamor for protein feeds too, not for their own diet, but for their livestock. They say in ef fect, "How can we maintain milk production and egg production and meat production without feeds rich in proteins?" In the past they supplied 'these needs with tank- age v (meat ; by-product) , cotton seed meal, linseed meal, soybean 'meal, fish "meaL Supplies of these .essential feeds have been cur tailed greatly; and considerable farm production has been lost for lack of protein feeds. What is this protein? That is a question which baffles the bio chemists. There are proteins, but not just a single "protein of con stant character' or composition. , Proteins .are the complex organic compounds of nitrogen which with water make up the cells of proto- plasm in animals. They are thus indispensable for animal life. But animals cannot assimilate nitro genous compounds direct fro m air or from inorganic materials (minerals). -They, must get their proteins from vegetables directly, or indirectly through such ' foods as. meat, eggs, milk. -Iv; . The protein family is about as diversified- as the hydro-carbon family; 'and it has some black sheep in it Bio-chemists are busy trying to get the family relation ships straightened out, . but they have a long, long way to go. The subject is as intriguing as the hooking up of hydrogen and car bon atoms is to industrial chem ists who- try to tailor new . mole cules in the hydro-carbon house hold. Besides proteins as foods for men and livestock, proteins occur as some of the little-known viruses of disease. The ' tobacco mosaic virus for instance is a form of crystalline protein; and other pro tein viruses are suspected in such . diseases as colds, i measles and "Tsome of the 'fevers. - , : Through casein and gelatine, largely protein products, entrance is made into the field of industry, , Casein is used extensively in siz ing for (Turn to Editorial , Page) 1 Senate Passes1 l.- n -' Depe indents' Pay Increase WASHINGTON, Oct 19 -The senate approved today com pleted legislative action on a mea sure boosting payments to depend dents of service men and sent ii to "the white house where quick approval is expected. The measure, approved by the house . Monday, 4 . provides $50 monthly for a wife, $30 for the first child and $20 for each addi tional child. The present allowance for a wife is $50 monthly, $12 for the first child and, $10 for each additional child. ;4 .-. Increases also are provided .for parents and other relatives de pendent upon the service men for chief support - ; 4, . - : , I The senate's approval by. voice vote, was a formality since it vot ed for ; higher payments several days ago as an amendment to the Bailey-Clark substitute - for the Wheeler bill to defer drafting fa thers. The bill came back to the senate for concurrence on house amendments. f The increased allowances will not affect the serviceman's con tribution of $22 a month "toward fcis family's support Means of Rehabilitating Convicted 'Youth Planned Better facilities - for the reha bilitation of teen-age boys who are committed to the Oregon peni tentiary, through segregation from the older convicts and more ade quate provision for their educa tion, will be proposed in the form of definite ' recommendation by Gov. Earl Snell at the next meet ing of the state board of control, which supervises operation of the . prison. v ; v War conditions. Gov. Snell pointed out Tuesday, apparently have stimulated child delinquency with the result that a number of teen-age boys are now under pen itentiary sentence while others are awaiting trial for serious nffenses. Warden George Alexander of the ! prison will be asked to attend the board of control meeting. Members of the state parole J board were reported to favor r Enell'a proposal. Other members of the state board of control are State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott and Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell. jr. - . i . Officials said it might be pos- sible to convert the old peniten ! tiary hospital, now. abandoned for I hospital purposes, into housing LAV Nazi. Main Escape To West Cut Soviets Capture 4 - .Rail Junction Behind Germans By JUDSON O'QUINN ; ; LONDON, Wednesday, Oct. 2Q-(JF)-B.ed army troops, pour ing I through z a ma j or break through - southeast of Kremen chug, badly mauled : four Ger man divisions yesterday to win a ; railway 1 junction deep 4 be hind . large German forces in the Dnieper river bend and cut the nazis' main escape route to the west, Moscow announced ear ly today. "The midnight communique, broadcast by Moscow and record here; by the Soviet monitor, said that ; in this one operation- alone the i Red army troops captured 1800 German officers and men, while 2000 German officers and men were killed in another sector. Pyatikhatka, a rati Junction more than SO miles Inside the Dnieper at its nearest point, was the' major prise to fall to the Russians. l., y " "4 ' "' -Soviet tank units first routed a defending nazi artillery regi ment at Zaporozhye, nine miles north of Pyatikhatka, the war bulletin said, and the capture of Pyatikhatka followed. The ninth and 23rd German tank divisions, the. 161st German in fantry' division and the "greater Germany' SS division suffered "severe losses," the communique said, in the fighting for, Pyatik hatka, which is a full 70 miles west of German-held Dnepropetrovsk and astride the main railway from that city west to Znamenka. In this advance, which carried forward for from nine to 12 miles, the ; red army rolled over more than 100 towns and villages. : ' North of Kiev 'soviet forces "completed the annihilation of remnants" of a motorized infan try division which had been rooted earlier, the eommoniqne said. . , A Moscow dispatch said the all Slavonic committee meeting in the soviet capital announced that Pol ish patriots fighting with the red (Turn to Page 2 Story. C) Nazis Deny Death 01 Romain Holland i - ' . ... LONDON, Oct la.HThe German news agency DNB, which quoted Paris newspapers today in reporting the death of Romain Rolland, tonight denied the story in a broadcast dispatch attributed to the official French agency OFI. Holland, ,76. is a noted French author, playwright, historian and Nobel prize winner. British Lose Destroyer : LONDON, Oct lMJP)-Loss of the British destroyer Panther com manded by Lt-Comdr. the Vis count Jocelyn was announced to night by the .admiralty. quarters for , the teen age boys. It also will be suggested that these boys be r assigned employment away from the influence of older convicts. Whether available funds will permit employment of a full time teacher tor these boys will be investigated, Snell declared. - A recent report of Warden Al exander showed that the popula tion of the , prison has dropped from a peak, of more than 1100 a few ' months ' ago to 775. Of this number, 112 are employed on the prison farms ' and . are housed at the penitentiary annex a few miles east of Salem. In case Snell's suggestion re ceives favorable consideration by other members of the board of control Warden Alexander will be asked to report on available fa cilities for segregation and school ing of the teen age prisoners and make some definite recommenda tions. fl am hopeful that we will be able to work out some plan where by these teen age boys may receive proper training which can ; only be brought about through segre gation," Snell concluded. What a .. -; f ;. . r .. i , ' - r . - i.. , ;, ............ "" i i .ii. .ii .ii ... - . i. i - , n. ,.,. u1 Ji; lp t - ' . -:-:'"' .,, " . . ' s . .. -im IIIWssMossseasissassMaaiissi mi seiMssasisassiiii i ilium i i 4 ' ii ervtsisT-'vy-:f-r rfri'Tinrrsfj-T'-'i'- 'vmmmmmmmmmmmmmm&mm A astral ians examine damaged Zero, one of the new square-wing type, left behind on a New Guinea, air strip recently captured by Australian and American troops. A number, of Zeroa4damagedby allied flyers were left behind by the Japanese, who are being steadily poshed oot of New Guinea bases and airfields. -X 4 1. . J M .4- , g-,i 4;'; X. ' '-i;-. :X V 44,:4 - :4; f - '4 4 .. .S Hitler Holds 2nd Strategy Parley ; in Two Weeks As Nazi Defea tr Mo unt By E. C. DANIEL LONDON, Oct, : 19-P)-Adolf Hitler today held his second grand strategy parley in two weeks, presumably to explore a ve--nues of escape from the consequences of total defeat, as repre sentatives of Germany's ree strongest enemies gathered in Moscow to plot the liquidatiotbf his empire. r 4, A condmtmiquefrtm itheiiazi fuehrer's headquarterri-ciiwied that Hitler and other speakers wbo were not identified addressed meeting of the highest ; political and military authorities i of Ger many called together by the chief of the high command of the armed forces. Field Marshall Gen. Wil helm Keitel. The character of the meeting suggested that all the reich's ser vice chiefs were engaged in a com plete overhauling of German stra tegy to meet the multiple threat posed by the Russian summer of fensive, the allied invasion of Italy, the' still mounting 'allied air at tack from the west and the chang ing attitude of neutrals as reflec ted in Portugal's release of its Azores bases to the British and Spain's new neutrality.; ;" Presumably since political as well as military leaders were pres ent, the two groups exchanged ideas on methods to keep both the home and the fighting frontal in tact through the winter and into the spring which Is expected to bring the heaviest of all military blows against Hitler's T shrinking European fortress. : . The communique reported that "speeches of an ideological or in ner political nature" were made by "leading - personages ol xne state and party" and added that Hitler spoke "On the political and military situation. ... - " - The German meeting came as the three major allied powers were In consultation in Moscow. This - latest ? German Conference was preceded on Oct 8 by the big gest nazi home front pep talk of the war when Hitler and his home front chiefs, Ileinrich ; Himmler, Dr. Robert Ley and Dr. Albert Speer, issued statements exhort ing the Germans to greater pro ductive effort and threatening death of defeatists.. Bombs Fall 'like Rain in Garden' On Berlin Suburb . ; BERN. Switzerland, Oct 1H) Bombs fell "liko rain. In a gar den" over a - Berlin suburb dur ing a recent allied raid on the nazi capital,' an eyewitness-account published by Journal De Geneve said :today;:". 4l4t4 Anti-aircraft .fire was so in tense it seemed houses would col lapse from its reverberations, the writer said. He added that there was "good reason for the daily prayers of Berliners for safety from, air' attacks. "For two hours death and de struction . fell .; on the city then silence, t h e account continued. "But the full portents of the raid were emphasized in the inability to , communicate with' Berlin to learn whether one's family and relatives were safe. J r . ' " Fallen Zero Looks Like O 3 -Power Talk -In Moscow Under Way .By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Oct lHff)- The foreign secretaries of the United States, Britain and Soviet Russia talked for two hours and 15 min utes tonight, the first formal ses sion of the three-power meeting to discuss war and postwar prob lems.' .; ,. , . i! ' -: - ; f 4 Details of the conversations will not be made public until after the conference but it was understood the opening session between US Secretary of State Cordell Hull, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Soviet Foreign-Commissar Yyacheslav Molotov, was satis factory. '.- :- rX '- -' , ' Although Hull, Eden and Molo tov held informal preliminary dis cussions last night soon after the arrival of the visiting, officials tonight's session marked the first formal meeting. It was understood they plan to meet once daily. Earlier a spokesman said the tri-power conference 4 gave . the three allied diplomats an oppor tunity to tell one another "frankly and freely what's on one another's mind. 4':.- . 4-;, 44.;. vr Early in the day Eden went to Spasso house, official residence of the US ambassador, - where . Hull is staying, - and talked with the secretary of state. Later, Molotov returned HuU's- call of last night Then the three got down to work at 6 p. m. 4- j 4 - An ' American spokesman r said Hull had no agenda prepared In advance of his coming to Moscow and that topics would form as the discussions went forward.' 4 ; - Much of the important ground work will be laid here for future conversations among United Na tions leaders. r'- '4?-' (Prime Minister Churchill has said that it is hoped a Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin meeting can be held before the end of the year.) The HuR-Eden-Molotov confer ence is . not expected to run into any permanent snags. 4 The first statements ; made by Hull and Eden upon their arrival were printed on de front ' pages (Turn to Page 2 Story G) ; Hull, Etlen Conferred X7ih DeGaulle,r Algiers ALGIERS, Oct 19.-(ff)-Gen. Charles De Gaulle and Rene Mas sioli, foreign affairs minister : of the French committee of national liberation, ' conferred with Secre tary Hull and British Foreign Sec retary Anthony ' Eden when the latter reached Algiers enroute to Moscow, it was reported tonight 60 More Jap Planes? Down, 200 for Week By VERN HAtJGLAND ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST: p.A C I F I C, Wednesday, Oct. 20. Destruc tion of , 60 ' Japanese ' planes - In a new; bombing- assault on RabauL New Britain, bringing i the , total there to more than 20O within less than, weekt was -reported 1 tMay br.pwerar-MaeArthurQf:tr fjeng with the viictory, how-; ever, a spokesman disclosed the first allied groand reverse in many weeks in the New Guinea hmgle front , Mitchell' medium bombers, at a cost of three of .their group, bag ged the planes and sank at least three enemy ships, including a de stroyer, in a low level strike Mon day at Rabaul which on last Oct 12 was pounded with 350 tons of bombs by the biggest airforce yet amassed for a single operation in' this sector. ' ' : The Japanese groand soccess, of vnsaspected extent, was scored in the area of Sattelberg, 15 miles northwest of Finsch haien. New Gabica, whose cap ture on Oct : 2 by A astral ians provided General MacArthar with a potential springboard along the Haen golf for a short 'everwater' invasion of New Brit- The communique today made no reference to the reverse but a headquarters spokesman said the Japanese,' who have been holding on grimly around Sattelberg since they lost Finschnafen, had made some" progress down- from that mission. This marked the-' first such success,- however temporary. reported since the Japanese laun c h e d ground-gaining counterat tacks below Salamaua in early September.: :-4 -v.'';- . Headquarters said today that remnants of forces which tried to land from barges Sunday near Flnschhafen had been wiped ' "oat, and that a total of CI ene my dead had been counted. (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Salem Uniiod Uar ChosI 4100,000 485,000 '23,cet . . i .... . Planning Launched .." y ' &i ' ;' ' " V .." ' "..;4; : -u "'.:4. ,;- 4' : Meeting Slated For Delegates Of Civic Groups By RALPH C. CURTIS The main idea is to be ready for peace.-' ;.:';1 t".-,?v5 .,.--4 ;4m v. To be ready whenever it comes, which means to get ready now : , That means, at the community level, to be ready with a solution for the one most difficult and most readily . foreseeable necessity of peace, avoidance of unemployment in the period of transition between war economy and peace economy. ' To be ready with sensible, use ful, community-planned and com munity selected projects so ' that artificial stimulation of employ ment will not be cviefly boondog gling economic wate. . Those, in the consensus of opin ion expressed Tuesday night at the first meeting of Salem's post-war planning commissionsare the es sentials of such an agency's task. - Avoiding for the present any discussion ' of srwoifi rmie-t which might start an argument dij verting attention from the main idea the commission appointed by Mayor I. M. Doughton in con formity with a city council resolu tion decided that the first step should be an orderly means of ac quainting the public with the pri mary objective and ' ascertaining the public's views. "4 Toward that end, the commis sion voted to call a meeting " to which each civic, fraternal and pa triotic organization in the city will be invited to send its president, or his chosen representative, and one oihe delegate? It Vas ' explained that among civic organizations, la bor organisations - which have a particular stake in the post-war employment issue, definitely are included. ' ' Together with the commission already: created, of which Daniel J. Fry is chairman, these delegates would constitute a "post-war pro j e c t s development committee. The first meeting ef the larger group, early ur November, will be (Turn to Page 2 Story D) Variety Due at Farmer Requests of Salem housewives for public market offerings of live and dressed poultry," flowers, shrubs, pumpkins for Halloween, grapes, potatoes and late corn along with such produce as was sold at. Marion square last Satur day morning have been heeded and in all likelihood a consider able quantity of at least the poul try and vegetables will be brought in for the city's second market day this coming Saturday. ; - This was the report of the pub lic market commission following a meeting Tuesday night at which skeleton rules- for operation of the market were laid down. , v Only producers may sell in the city .sponsored market-place. Last Saturday; one truckload reputedly was offered by a "middle-man." A fee of approximately one percent of the value of the produce win be charged, with, a minimum fee of 25 cents, to cover actual costs of conducting the market Produ cers offering fruit In boxes are asked not to face the boxes with better grade or more attractive goods than the run of the pack. The canvas shelter wfll be available as protection next Sat urday during the a. m. to 2 p. m. market hours; and a long table or rough . stalls where produce may be displayed will be in - place, members of the commission said. Trucks win back in rather than bead in to the curb next Saturday and purchasers may thus buy from the parking instead of from the street ' - ? 4,. -Vi. Suggestions from producers and homemakers alike received at Sat urday's market were 'used as a basis for plans for this Saturday's, the commission, comprised by Al derman A. H. Gille, Mrs. Walter Barsch and Theodore J, Nelson, said. - ' Nelson Visitt Red Plants MOSCOW, Oct lM-Donald M. Nelson, chairman of - the US war .production beard, left Mos cow tonight to visit soviet manu facturing plants. ' - : Bigger Saturday TT) Melreau Oark9s Battle of Volturno Ends As Allies Drive Forward; Enemy Shorn of Air Supp ort By NOLAND NORGAARD ' " . .. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Oct. 19-()-Badly mauled in six days of heavy attacks by American' and British troops, the German army guarding the gateways to Rome fell back on new mountain positions today under fresh onslaughts by Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's fifth army after surrendering eight more Ital ian towns and villages. 4 v : 4 The enemy, shorn' of air support, fled from his lastpositions overlooking the lower . Volturno river when 4 American . forces ripped a yawning breach in nazi "defenses 30 miles inland from the Mediterranean coast, where the Volturno swings in a' north westerly direction.', The bloody and furiously fought battle of the Volturno, as US Moves for Close Teaming By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Oct 19 -(P) The United States sought closer teamwork with Russia today by creating ; a permanent military mission In Moscow and at the same time announced a lend-lease agreement providing increased as sistance for the red armies. . Both moves were disclosed si multaneously .with the -opening in Moscow" of the crucial three-pow . - i . . . er conierence among oecreiary oi State Hull, British Foreign Minis ter Anthony Eden and Soviet For eign Commissar Vyache'-f Molo tor.r:;.;A-ift';.:,.;:.t The new. lend-lease agreement, retroactive to July 1 and cover ing a period of . 12 months, from that date, was formally announced in .. Washington and London. It was signed by Canadian and Brit ish as well as American and Rus sian representatives and covers all aid to Russian from they three western allies. 4 , , 4; v : " The United States specifically commits ' itself to heavier , ship ments of munitions and food and It is understood that, even these promised increases over the prev ious 12 months period may be exceeded, due primarily to ' Im proved snipping conditions. The commitments do not cover all that the Russians asked, which was considerable; but represent a com promise satisfactory to all parties between the requests and allied ability to meet them. The J Russians likewise made 4 (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Esquire Defends Mailing Privilege . . WASHINGTON, Oct Esquire magazine today opened its defense of its right to retain sec ond class mailing privileges, with a denial of allegations by the post office department that most of its 1943 issues contained "obscene, lewd and lascivious" matter. : Salem United War Chest Over Halfway to Goal Slightly over halfway to the goal that was the astonishing but heartening report which greet ed Salem United W a r Chest workers when they met at lunch eon Jointly with the Kiwanis club Tuesday noon for their first checkup. The total, of subscrip tions at that hour was $43,732.93 toward an $85,000 goal, or ap proximately 52 per! cent The figure first reported slightly higher for the reason that West Salem's $312- total and the rural division's $1291 were - er roneously added in . virtually equals, it was pointed out by Jesse Card, last year's campaign chair man, the total amount sought in some earlier campaigns. . However, it was pointed out by this year's chairman. Loyal War ner, that the unprecedented , Ini tial report was made possible al most entirely ; by the pre - cam paign gifts committee's success in solicitation among business and industrial firms and others who give large amounts, and that the remainder also equal to former total goals m u s t be obtained from salary and wage-earners. He praised the work of the pre-cam-paign group headed by Lowell Kern... . -r' 1 ' Painting a word-picture of an J Before Assanil'E r . Osuch, ended when American troops rammed their way from three to five miles through the Germans strong mountain defenses to seize five towns in twin thrusts on ei ther side of the upper Volturno. These villages, taken in bitter, hard-won infantry advances, were Gioia, Liberi, Faicchio, Pontela tone and Alvignano. "These rains on the mountain heights are where they count," said an allied military spokes man. "If the mountains are tak en the Germans will bo forced to abandon the lowlands along . the coast That the enemy already was feeling this pressure was indicated in an announcement that British amphibious forces which landed' near the mouth of the Volturno last week had captured the town of Bressa, near the coast just north of the river. " The end of the Volturno bat- Uo-coincided v!th fresh gains byGeii' $iit naZ. 7,1-... - cry's eighth army . on the cen tral and Adriatic sectors of the . fighting line and the first heavy blow by Italy-based American bombers and fighters at the key Yugoslav communication cen ter of Skoplje, on the only rail line between Belgrade and Ath- Some of the day's hardest fight ing developed in the eighth army's capture of Santo Stefano after a -four-mile advance. The German counterattacked furiously time and again, but were repelled by (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Duce's Health May Force Resignation ! STOCKHOLM, Wednesday, Oct. 20-3-A Budapest dispatch te the Dagens Nyheter reported to day that Benito Mussolini would resign ai head of the puppet Italian republican-fascist govern ment and withdraw from publie life because. of poor health. " The correspondent quoted Ital ian "circles in Budapest and re ports from Berlin. He added that Marshal Rodolfo Graziani was slated to be Mussolini's successor. Mussolini is suffering from a cancerous ailment and his con dition had been much worse re cently, the correspondent wrote. imaginary courtroom scene, Supt Frank B. Bennett of the Salem school system "brought to bar" three individuals; the man too busy to assist in the campaign, the one who couldn't give' because he had Just given" so much in the war bond campaign, and tho one who cited high living costs as an excuse. These defendants, he declared, woulcChave no defense before a Jury composed of an American youth in need of the character building agencies services, a less favored youth needing the serv ices of a state child-caring agency, a group of mothers In the impov erished eneray-devastated lands, and an American soldier in an enemy prison camp. Division reports included: Automotive and transportation, J m Carle chairman, $4350 or 67 per cent of division quota. Contractors, Fred Anunsen chairman, $5333 or 45 per cent General gifts, Carl Uczz chair man, $4585 or 42 per cent 4 Government and education, George Alexander chairman, $5175 or 42 per cent Industrial, A. C Haas chair man, $6305 or 39 per cent Mercantil?, Elton Thena r l (Turn to Page 2 Story A) v.