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I JO" flLPr,i ull to 7catlicr Friday max. S3, tain. 45. Sat. rlv. 2.1 ft. Storm warn lags 'posted along Oregon coast. Snow along mountains from Hit. Shasta north. : h -i i 'in J) iTOJ?i PCUNDDD rrv 'S- s? - 23 PAGES Colam, Orgoou Sunday Momlng. October 24. 1S43 Prlc 5c: No. 181 i t I 1 i y 11 j - i X I - I I i 1 ! I x . I i I 1 i I . v .''r ' M.I -r'. I : 4 . My earliest recollection of "in- . - j ternational relief" was wnen, our- small Iowa a-, pw community contributed a carload - . - of gram for the xamine sunei - whthr it was wheat or corn I do not recall, but contri buted it was, and shipped. This ... A ' was not a govjprnniein f - n 1 wl- I ,sa a rhurch DrOleCt, inspired by letters from mission aries working in inoia. have heard less about India famines, and for many years nothing ai an, uxim At. i - vi vact mb-continent is reported once more in the grip of a devastating famine. "A death - .11 aaa ' o i rnorted from Calcutta in northeast India where the famine is worst. Famines in India are. due to . .asennai rains' The mar- . gin of subsistence is so. narrow it is impossible to buna up suiV' in a sub-continent where 350,000,- i a vit When rains UVU ywtiv ij fail over a wide area crops are in- ...aj:-t mill inns suffer Cl- .ther from malnutrition ' or actual starvation- . . m. nrhv famines nave become less frequent in India has been the extension - 1 ntich trnvprnment many years ago started constructing vast irrigation systems which - now dwarf those in all other countries Over 50,000,000 acres, chiefly in tt .Am inia are under ir- rigation. The Lloyd dam on -the Yelmandi river n barrage on the Jndus are among the largest structures for impound ing of irrigation waier., . ....n,in thi construction AltuJlilJOV laTria and canals has .been education in agriculture. Xb has been conducted in government schools and experiment stations, and in church-supported institu tions and projects. Modern-nus-sionary work, runs very largely to health and.sanitation and instruc tion in practical agriculture. No longer is the missionary effort limited to preaching in an attempt to convert the Hindus or Moslems . to the Christian faith. Large ex penditures are made for hospitals, schools, and agricultural stations. , Long before Pres.; Roosevelt coined the phrase "freedom from want" these practical-minded mis sionaries saw. that the way to end want in countries like India Is to redirect the energies of the peo ple. Through (Continued on Edi torial Page). . . . ; Iioyd George . Weds at 80 LONDON, Oct. SSHAVDavid Lloyd George, 80. prime minister of Britain in the First World war, today married Miss Frances Stev enson, his secretary for 30 years and the "glamor girl" of the Ver sailles peace conference. The quiet ceremony took place at the Guildford registry office near Lloyd George's farm at Churt; : Surrey, where the elder statesman lives in semi-retirement. - Miss Stevenson, 55, has shared more of his life and his full career than any other woman except his first wife, with whom Lloyd George said he "lived in perfect harmony" tor 53 years. His first wife. Dame Margaret Lloyd George, who he married in 1888 when he was an unknown lawyer of 25, died in 1941. Argentina Quells Student Demonstration MONTEVIDEO, Oct. 23-(P) Ar gentine officials sought to control students striking against the gov ernment's foreign policy by send ing police today to quell a dem onstration Iri Rosario, outlawing the Student University federation, artd closing La . Plata, university 15 days before the normal date. Campaign fori Salvaging Cans Starts Next Month ' With schools, salvage commit tees and ieverage firms cooperat ing in arrangements for their han dling, a new campaign for sal vaging of tin cans is scheduled for November, it was announced Saturday , by C. W. Paulus, chair man of the Marion county sal vage committee. November. 10 has been selected as "pick-up" date at schools in Marion and Polk coun ties, for leading and shipment of the cans to the deTInning plant at South San Francisco. - r Determination of the date was made, Paulus said, following con ferences with Frank Bennett, su perintendent of Salem city schools; Mrs. Agnes C. Booth, Marion county superintendent, and Low ell N. Jones, president of the Ore gon State Bottlers association. t Polk,, county's campaign "will be timed to ; coincide with that of Marion county, according to Mrs. J. A. Inglis, Polk county , salvage chairman at Dallas who was mak . ing arrangements with schools for collections at, an early date. -" The forthcoming tin . can pro gram will adhere closely to plans followed in previous drives in Marion county with school chil dren collecting the cans and, as Nazis! m In Italy .; ,: ; Fierce German Counterattack .. Fails; Cost High By "EDWARD KENNEDY ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Oct JMField Mar shal Gen. Albert Kesselring's forces; ' although thrown back by the Fifth army after, launch ing a fierce tank-led counter attack in the Alife region, dug in firmly today in ; their new positions on the Massico ridge Mount Matese line solidly block !nr the road to Rome. .' The hard counterattack - was one of the sharpest the Germans have put 'in since tbeir attempt to drive the Fifth army back into the sea four days after landing on the beach at Salerno. ; It. cost them dearly . a ; sambcr of nasi tanks were ; knocked est by the deadly fire . of American artillery, bat the fury with which it was laaneh-'i mA ; na an indication ef the '' : Germans' determination to hold ' their new line stubbornly. The Eighth army also frustrat ed a counterattack near Monte nfnru and then . advanced ' two miles, taking Eupara, which domi nates high ground in central Italy, Aa allied communique ae- ; -taJUng yesterday's land devel- -j opments hinted further action f was - ra progress on-the Fifth ; army's front by saying that the , gain made : In taking : a com- ' manding height in an unidentl- ; fled area was being "exploited." j The object of the German coun- terthrusts to disrupt allied offen ivo srtionc and the Germans in- variably launch them just before they think the allies are about to deliver a blow.- ? - - " Allied aviation ranged the bat- tie - area, lending its invaluable support to the men on the ground by pressing home - numerous at tacks against gun, positions, troop concentrations and motor trans port. Other bombers of the North west I African air lorce nit rau communications at Grosseto, 90 miles above Rome, and Orvieto, 60 miles north, of the capital. The Elevsis airfield near Athens also (Turn to Page 4 Story F) Farmer Held In Ahea Death CORVALLIS, Oct. 23 -iJP)- Ad dison Meredith, 60-year-old Ben ton county farmer, was held in Benton county jail tonight in con nection with the fatal shooting of a neighboring rancher, Clinton L. Deal, 56. District Attorney Fred McHenry said that Meredith confessed to firing three rifle shots at Deal, formerly an intimate friend, at the end , of a months-long quarrel over livestock. - Meredith's cattle, attached by the sheriff, had been turned over to Deal for safe keeping, Mc Henry said. i Deal was shot last night as he walked down his farm lane five miles west of Alsea. Passing mot orists brought him to a Corvallis hospital where, he died early to day.; sembling them at school buildings to be picked up on November 10 by trucks donated by the bottlers. County schools, according to Mrs. Booth, will start actual col lection of cans from the homes on November 1. Dates of collec tion by Salem city -: schools are expected to be announced by Supt Bennett early next week. In all cases, the; full coopera tion of the public is being asked in assisting school . children to transport the cans to the nearest school depot. J , - v Only prepared cans those which, have been washed thor oughly, labels, removed,' tops and bottoms cut off or. folded in and flattened firmly will be accept ed. - ; - ; 4 In - the absence of Chairman Paulus this, coming week. Cascade area Boy Scouts will serve as a clearing house for information on the tin can drive. Scouts will pub licize the event through distribu tion of posters and leaflets in ad dition to those distributed by the schools, and will make a house- to-house canvass before the end of the campaign to remind house holders to turn in their cans. Missing ' -s A 4 DETROIT, Oct 23 Lt. Keith D. Moore (above), son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Moore of Detroit, has been, reported missing In the European war area, his parents we re Informed- in a telegram from the war department. He enlisted in ' January, 1941, and was graduated from bombar- dier school at Albuquerque, NM, receiving his commission ' about ten months ago. Allied Attacks I Cut Japs From Huon Peninsula By C. YATES McDANIEL i ALLIED . HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC Sunday, Oct. 24 (P) Japanese hopes of reaching the New Guinea coast on the Huon peninsula in strength were blasted Friday by determined attacks delivered by Australian 1 ground troops and American bombers. - These attacks blunted the en emy spearhead and forced him to fall back from the village of Katlka westward to a depth of 1100 yards toward ' his ' Inland Jungle strong positions at Sat telberg. i- i ' : " The Australians, : who thus closed the narrow corridor which Japanese earlier in the week had driven to the coast about five miles north of allied-won Finsch- hafen, counted more than 510 en emy dead. ' ' ' While these units of the Aus tralian ninth division succeeded in blocking the coastal outlet of escape for considerable enemy for ces, American - flown Mitchells swept over the rear areas. They sowed destruction with their bombs and more than , 55,000 rounds of 50 calibre machine gun fire. This new aerial devastation piled up the toll of enemy dead caused Thursday by a record sin gle day's load of 221 tons dropped by Liberators around Sattelberg on troop concentrations. The Initial success of small elements of Japanese in driving a narrow, five-mile-long cor ridor from Sattelberg to the coast of the peninsula does not seem to foreshadow a regaining of the offensive by the Japan ese In the New Guinea theater, The coastward drive, now halt ed, instead indicates the enemy is nesting the southern limits of the New Guinea territory he is (Turn to Page 4 Story E) , British Cabinet Shakeup Due , - By ERNEST AGNEW LONDON, Oct. 23 -(y?5) Prime Minister Churchill apparently in tends to - reshuffle his cabinet along with the introduction in commons of - a ; comprehensive postwar legislative program. - Churchill is expected before the postwar - election to capitalize 'on the country's intense interest in the future, and the expected cab inet changes might serve, as the beginning in the creation of va postwar national government, for which he has expressed a desire: The Daily Herald predicted today that the cabinet changes would be made .before the 'opening of the new "session of parliament. ' - It is understood the contem plated legislative program will be intended to satisfy exponents of Sir William H. Beveridge's social security ' plan ' and to lay the groundwork for a very large part of Churchill's own extensive pro gram of educational, health, agri cultural and industrial, reform, ' The expected cabinet ' changes would call for the replacement ' of Sir James. Grigg, secretary of state for war, whose curt civil service demeanor is said to ,have irked some members of parliament, and probably of Sir William Jowitt, minister in charge of postwar planning. The changes are de scribed also as involving the pro motion of a number ,of junior H Sale Is . ' -. -'"5 e'--- ;- " '.s'jr vV'T--'''' ' '' At Peak - City and Rural Property Moves; Buy for Tenancy i By RALPH C. CURTIS .Residents in some - parts of the city will call it a gross un derstatement and it is a con servative statement that at least 12 per cent of the single family dwellings in Salem have changed ownership this year. Salem and vicinity are' ex periencing, ' not a "real estate 'boom" inspired by . ballyhoo such as many communities have wit nessed in the past, but a, quiet revolution In home " ownership which nevertheless is of - such magnitude that veteran real estate brokers , declare their business is more active - than at any other, time in a quarter-century; - "and they are not excepting the . city's period of rapid development in the middle and late 'twenties. 7- Several causes contribute to this trend. One is a general war time turnover of population. Some families have departed; a greater number have moved in. The "num ber of families both in Salem and surrounding territory has increas ed. There isj a critical - demand for housing but because of federal restrictions virtually no new resi dences can be built. Possibly most newcomers try to rent; failing that, in many, cases, they buy. More-of them, and more, of the older resi dents nowjave the means to buy. Meanwhile high costs of foods have caused many to look' toward the country where they may raise their own; others have gone there for the housing they could not find in the city. Sales of rural prop erty within five or ten miles of Salem possibly have -been more active than urban property, and would be still more active if hous es could be built. As it is, all res idences in those areas are occu pied: increase.-in school .. attend ance in the rural "districts", so at tests. - - ' -V--. - Deiftand and scarcity have caus ed a -rise, estimated at 20 to 25 per cent, in prevailing sale values, and this in turn has created to some degre a speculative market. further encouraged by the circumstance- that individuals with in creased earnings are not able too make profitable investment other than in war bonds or in the field of real estate. And many have bought land farms as well as city property-t-as the most obvious me thod of hedging against the infla tion danger. But despite these last-mentioned factors, the over-all trend is (Turn to Page 4 Story G) Airliner Hit; Sweden Hints Nazi Reprisal STOCKHOLM, Oct. 23 Sweden, disturbed. by yesterday's attack on a civilian airliner pre sumably by a German fighter plane prepared to work out new plans for its air lines and to night there were hints that if Ger many, would not cooperate the nazi courier plane traffic over Sweden might be halted. The plane shot down off Swe den's rocky west coast, 50 miles north of Goeteborg, last night, was smashed to bits, killing 13 persons including a California clergyman. One crew member and one passenger were rescued. Other... passengers included two Russian women and two children, two officers of the Swedish mer chant marine, a British insurance agent and a Swedish woman. The plane was en route from Britain to Sweden., - The American, Dr. T. C. Hume of Claremont, Calif., was en route to Sweden as a representative of the World Council of Churches. Dr. Hume,. pastor of a Congre gational church at Claremont, was a family friend of Dr. and Mrs. C A. Downs of Sjalem, and their son, Hume, : was named for Dr. Hume's father. Schools to Reopen At Independence : " INDEPENDENCE, Oct. 2J Public schools here will reopen Monday after, an .unscheduled - vacation of eight days - to -prevent an Infantile paralysis epl- -demie, Sept. Paul Cctinson said Saturday nJjht. No new cases of the disease which caused the death of one child have been reported, Robinson said. Reds Mount Tico Main Drive ny7- s.:.Y K u k r a i k ; :rc"".. i, ZnamenkaTVfc. -e-, f. DnproJzorznnslt - -yj?3Z2-ZiA 'S r afXnpropetiovsli O, c 50 STATU Tf MILES With the . capture of . Melitopol yesterday the Russians are sweeping .-south in a race to' cut off the Crimea at Ferekop and Kherson. In : another great drive the Russians are only 15 miles from Krtvoi Bog, S aa ther try to trap largo numbers of German troops in the Dnieper V- bendV Other, breakthroughs were reported farther north. UMW Leaders Urge Coal Miners Back Railroad Crisis Nearer 't :. - - .' : .. . -- : - - By the Aaaociatcd Press. . Leaders of the United Mine, Workers strove last night to get gtrikingr Alabamacoal miners government seizure of mines in against local unions there. Called before the war labor bama miners are conducting a wildcat strike in defiance of board m Die in Fire As 2 Tankers Collide in-Dark PALM BEACH, lial Oct. 23P) Two blacked-out tankers collided off the Florida coast in the dark ness Wednesday night and 88 men perished in the flames which spread from the explosion of one of the vessels -laden with thou sands of gallons of aviation gaso line. 'r The navy permitted an nouncement of the disaster to day after Investigating salvage possibilities. Twenty-eight merchant crew men and members of navy gunt crews were saved, most of them leaping overboard as the flames whipped over the decks and spread out over the water. Persons ashore heard the explo sion ahd saw the towering flames and gave the alarm which sent coast guard craft racing to the scene: . .' One of the .ships, northbound and riding low in the water with the weight of the gasoline,, had 43 crewmen aboard. Including seven naval gunners, and only! seven men survived. . The other tanker, southbound in ballast was manned by a crew of 73, including 25 gunners, and 21 reached safety. Most of those on deck perished instantly. . v Christopher P." Flnley, 28, of . (Turn to Page 4 Story- H) Eden Confers With Stalin MOSCOW, Oct. 23-7FV-The for eign affairs executives of the Unit ed States, Britain and Russia held their fifth day of meetings today. The United States has been ful ly informed on why Foreign Sec retary Anthony Eden of Britain saw Premier Marshal Joseph Stal in Thursday, and. later Russian Commissar of Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov. - Hull conferred for .the second time this week with Chinese Am bassador Fu Ping Sang before to day's meeting. He has also seen the Mexican ambassador, the Aus tralian charge d'affaires, and Ca nadian minister. mmm " "Jl1" ' j3 cDUL n RUSSIA KHARKOV, to Work; back to work and avert possible' the state and punitive action board to explain why 20,000 Ala Oorders, the union leadership was warned that' the WLB expects production to be resumed by Mon day. , ; ,: .. ' Chairman William H. Davis said that otherwise it appeared the board would have to refer the case to the White house a step which could mean the government would take control of the maines again and invoke sanctions' against the union locals for non-compliance with the board's orders. As the WLB acted In the Ala bama strike, the railroad wage dispute moved another step to ward a crisis when chiefs of the five operating unions, meet ing In Chicago, voted to conduct a strike poll among their 350, 00t members. This ballot may take 30 days. - -; The operating unions .formally rejected a 4-cents-an-hour wage increase recommended by a gov ernment emergency board. They had asked a 30 per cent increase and some spokesmen termed 'the 4 -cent award an "insult." .... ; '. In order to hear the UMW lead ers on the Alabama situation, the WLB took time out from consider ation of a proposed contract cov ering : mining of coal in Illinois. Members had hoped to act on it during the week .and announced (Turn to Page 4 Story D) Salsn Onilcfl (100,000 (85,000 mm J juOOSSDc Motorized Cbliimns Swing Out in PuFiiit Of Fleeing Germans : . City's Capture Undermines Entire Nazi Defense Strategy, in South; Red Armies Gain in Dnieper Bend . By JUDSON O'QUINN . " LONDON, Sunday, Oct. 24-(P)-The Russian army captured the key 'city of Melitopol after 11 days of street fighting and swept on southward today through the flat, muddy plains toward the Crimea. - , " Moscow reports said Soviet motorized columns swung out in pursuit of the Germans in a race to cut off the' Crimea at Pere- kop and Kherson after smashing the last-ditch German stand at Melitopol. . - The Germans lost more than to establish a. winter line in the ravaged city and triumphant Moscow -communique, recorded by the Soviet" monitor, described nazi lasses as "extraordinarily heavy." ; The Germans had rushed infantry divisions, tanks and artillery into the city, hoping to halt theO Russians, but bitter hand-to-hand fighting forced back the defend ers street by street.. . More than 4000 Germans were killed in the last day alone while 57 tanks and 18 guns were wrecked. , Large quantities of war material were captured and several hundred prisoners taken. The fall of Melitopol yester day undermined the entire Ger man ' def ease ' strategy in the ' sooth. Ahead of the Russians were 135 miles of indefensible steppes leading to the month of the Dnieper river. Premier Marshal Joseph Stalin announced the victory in a spe cial order of -the day describing Melitopol, on the Molochna river and the main railway into the Crimea; as the finest. vital stra tegical center of German defenses" on tne southern xronu The city "guards the .approaches to the Crimea and the lower reaches of the Dnieper, Stalin -pointed out in. his triumphant an nouncement, - perhaps indicating he intends to send his armies without- pause . into the Crimean peninsula, where it is estimated a German force of about 500,000 (Turn to Page 4 Story B) " Snell Urges Flags Fly on Navy Day ; Observance of ."Navy day," on Wednesday, October 27, was urged by Governor Earl Snell in a state ment ' issued Saturday. He asked that flags of national and state colors be flown from all public buildings. ' "The Navy , league has been of ficially designated," Governor Snell said, "to arrange the annual Navy day celebration throughout the nation. This year, with our country deep in war, this annual display of confidence in our. navy will be more impressive than ever before." County War Chest Drive Overtakes Half way Point Excellent progress in some dist ricts in the Marion County War Chest campaign, being carried on outside of the area covered by Salem United War Chest, was re ported Saturday. Reports reaching S. Parzy Rose of Aurora, county campaign, chairman, . totaled $13,- 446.80 or 46.5 per. cent of the quota; but there is some lag in the relaying of these . reports and a later report from Silverton alone makes it apparent that the cam paign is past the halfway mark. - The county chairman's report on Silverton showed $3500 collected but direct word from J. R. Clough, Silverton district chairman, re vealed that - following receipts of $2600 in the first three days with out solicitation, a campaign among mill .employes: through their labor organization - had ; raised almost $1500 and that, the total to date is approximately . $4100. ' From the county. Chest head quarters a letter wenf.out Satur day " to district chairmen request ing that active solicitation be con tinued this week or until all resi dents of their districts have been Interviewed. The Jefferson district in which J. T. Jonesis chairman was near est to its quota with $1285 collect ed and- only about $100 to go. ma v 20,000 men in their vain attempt : 1 t ' : 44 Bombers Lost in Giant Raid onKassel By ROBERT N. STURDEVANT LONDON, Oct 23-P)-A great fleet of British four-engined bombers penetrated a - heavy screen of fighters and ' murky weather last night and dropped 1500 long tons of bombs in an effective attack on the German armament city of Kassel, losing 44 bombers on the mission, . A subsidiary . force ihit Frank furt and the small but swift ply wood Mosquito bombers , raided the Cologne area. " . . . , The RAFs losses on the Kas sel raid raised-the total for the month to 163 in nine major operations,' but the air ministry described the blow as highly ef . fectlve. Returning crews bronght back photographs show ing hnge fires they left burning under a pall of smoke filling the skies for a height of more than three miles. The nazis threw up an unusual ly heavy fighter force to check this latest phase of an air bombard ment running through both day and night, but the British were out in what was described as j "very great strength and the tonnage equalled or exceeded that dropped the last time the city was hit, on October 3. The 44 downed planes repre sented -the heaviest loss to the British bomber command since the Aagnst 31 raid on Berlin, when 47 aircraft were missing, bat the namber was ander 'the RAFs record loss of 5S suffered in the Aagnst 23 attack on Ber lin. - (Turn to Page 4 Story C) Others which .were over the half way i mark were , Stayton with $2000 of its $2640 quota reported to Chairman Walter II. Bell; Me hama where Mrs. R. C. Branch reported $323 subscribed toward the $400 goal; Shaw where Mrs. F. Gilbert reported $155 turned in and only $45 to go; St Paul where Mrs. Carl J. Smith ft chair man with $700 raised toward an $1115 budget; Monitor which ac cording to Mrs. E. T. Tweed, chair man, had $250 of its $400 raised; and . Woodburn Just over the 50 per cent line. Chairman Fred Hecker reporting subscriptions of $1900 against a goal of $3665. Other district reports were: Aumsville $162, Mrs. Mae Lamb chairman; Donald $300, Mrs. O. W. Lundquist; Hubbard $182, Mrs. Grace Cramer; Marion $35, Mrsl J. II. Smith; Mt Angel $500, Syl vester Schmidt; Scotts Mills $125, E. W. Coulson. White school dis trict reported $27 collected. Solicitation in the Salem United War Chest campaign proceeded Saturday and there was confidence that the reports at Monday's "vic tory" session, to be held in con Junction with the first Salem chamber of commerce luncheon of the autumn season, would show (Turn to rage 4 Story A) f V---- .v.,