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The first part of the program
of the New York Philharmonic
Symphony orchestra broadcast of
Sunday was ."Three Jewish Po
ems, the work of Ernst Bloch. I
suppose that few who heard the
broadcast know that Mr. Bloch
Is now a resident of Oregon, and
fewer still that he is among the
eminent living composers of mu
sic. A few years Ago he came to
Oregon and purchased the Asahel
Bush home at Agate Beach. There,
overlooking the ocean and in sight
of rugged Yaquina point tipped
with its lighthouse he continues
his life work..
The orchestral numbers by
Bloch used Sunday are not new
They were composed in 1913. In
1917, at the invitation of Dr. Karl
Muck, Bloch himself conducted
the Boston Symphony orchestra in
two concerts presenting this work.
It is rated by critics as among his
finest compositions.
Sharing the program of Sunday
was Gustav Mahler's Second
("Resurrection") symphony. Olin
Downes, in his article In the New
York Times the Sunday preceding,
says that "Bloch and Mahler were
revolutionaries together in Basle
in 1903," meaning that their mu
sic was sharply in contrast to the
prevailing style. Bloch in a letter
which Downes quotes, says that
neither Mahler's second sym
phony nor his own work was re
ceived with any cordiality at that
time, remarking "There was such
prejudice, even a hate against
him." As for himself: "I felt so
lonely, walking alone in the
streets, not mixing with any of
the musicians, the virtuosi and
professors who despised me and
even insulted me."
A native of Geneva, Bloch be
gan composing music before he
was 15 years old. He studied at
Brussels, at Frankfort, at Mu
nich;, lived and worked in Paris;
became a professor in Geneva con
servatory in 1911. Coming to Am
erica in 1915 Bloch composed and
did some teaching. (Continued on
Editorial page)
War Contract
Control Brings
Bitter Fight
By .HOWARD FLIEGER -VTA
SHIN GTON, Dec. -VP)
Representatives of government
agencies fought today to retain
their control over war contract
negotiations as the senate finance
committee completed public hear
ings on the $2,140,000,000 house
approved tax bill.
Representatives of the army,
navy, treasury, justice and com
merce departments appeared be
fore the committee's final session
to discuss proposed changes in
the price adjustment act under
which the army and navy have
been renegotiating war contracts
to strip them of excessive profits.
Francis M. Shea, an assistant
attorney general, argued that con
tract negotiations should not beJ
subject to court review . unless
there is evidence of bad faith,
fraud or arbitrary conduct in malt
ing the contract settlement.
"An appeal of the type you .pro-
nose is no appeal at all, declared
Sen. Taft (R-Ohio). "It is useless
.Shea explained that negotiated
contracts were subject to review
by the secretaries of the -war and
navy departments.
"I want somebody else to have
the final say. besides the army and
navy," Taft continued.
The bill provides that appeals
from contract renegotiations go to
the court of tax reviews, but
most of the agency spokesmen op
posed that proposal.
World's Battlefronis Tivo Years After Pearl
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By Wes Gallagher
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Dec.
(AP) -American troops, fighting yard by yard up
slopes too steep for supply mules, have captured three
more heights in the Mount Maggiore area from which
they can look down upon the German stronghold of
Cassino and the valley beyond leading to Rome, the
allied command announced today.
O US fighter-bombers swept over
Council Studies
Railroad Stop
Railroad crossing "stop' signs
in Salem do not conform, and,
therefore, they should come out,
city councilmen decided Monday
night. Just who should remove
the offending markers was not
made clear when the vote was
taken on the question after 17
minutes' discussion.
Nor was any scheme of replace
ment provided, since, as Alder
man L. F. LeGarie pointed out,
the signs were placed originally
at the request of the American
Association of Railroads, and "if
they want them badly enough
they'll put In the right kind."
meason for disspprevat-of Hug
markers is the fact that they
are so dissimilar to those used
by city and highway commis
sion that the average motorist
fails to notice them, according
to City Engineer J. H. Davis.
Plans for the signs were shown
to Davis, as the resolution under
which their erection was permit
ted requires, but either the plans
weren't very definite or the sign
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Count Ciano
Said Executed
BERN, Dec. 6 -(Py- An un
confirmed report from the Swiss
Italian frontier tonight said that
Count Galeazzo Ciano, former fas
cist foreign minister of Italy, had
been executed by a firing squad
today as a traitor to the old re
gime of Benito Mussolini, his father-in-law.
(The German news agency DNB
broadcast a denial, quoting "com
petent Italian quarters" in nazi
occupied Milan. DNB said "the
trial against Count Ciano has not
begun yet.")
The frontier report, transmit
ted by the Swiss telegraph agency,
said both Mussolini and his daugh
ters Edda, the wife of the count,
refrained from intervening in Ci
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the hard-won positions two miles
west of Mignano to drop emerg
ency rations and munitions to Lt.
Gen. Mark W. Clark's warriors.
British infantry of the Fifth army
was rooting the nazis out of
strong positions on the equally
rough slopes of nearby Mount
Camino and repulsing enemy
counter-attacks in bitter hand-to-hand
fighting.
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom
ery's Eighth army, plunging dog
gedly on after having cracked the
German defense line near the
Adriatic sea, reached the south
bank of the Moro river, 10 miles
beyond the Sangro and only about
14 from the major port of Pescara.
There, as on the Fifth army
front, the fighting was violent and
the nazis appeared determined to
halt the break-through at all costs.
The enemy threw new reinforce
ments into the battle, including
mechanized grenadiers, and the
Eighth army captured another of
the flame-throwing tanks whose
jets oX deadly -fire failed - to im
pede Montgomery's advance last
week.
The Eighth army's drive to the
Moro river represented a gain of
about two and a half miles from
the coastal town of San Vito,
whose capture was announced
yesterday.
Fanatical "last man" resist
ance by the Germans in the
mountain keys opening the
gateway to Rome made the
progress of Clark's Fifth army
slow and costly. Bad weather
kept the allies from bringing
their tremendous air superiority
into play yesterday, leaving the
bur en on the slogging infantry,
which had te dig the nasi ma
chine gunners and mountain
troops out of their eaves and
dugouts one by one.
Stalin Back Safely
From Conference
By HENRY C. CASSIDY
MOSCOW, Dec -(P)- Pre
mier Marshal Stalin has return
ed safely to Moscow from Te
heran where his meeting with
President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill settled the
biggest question of the war from
the soviet viewpoint, the ques
tion of the "second front."
The hazardous 1700-m lie
round trip flight was Stalin's
first wartime trip abroad.
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Onslaught
Increases
In Pacific
Blows Thought
To Presage
New Invasion
By the Associated - Press
Possibly presaging another
mid - Pacific invasion, strong
American carrier forces bombed
Japanese fortresses in the Mar
shall islands while our sub
marines sank 11 more Japanese
merchant ships, the navy an
nounced Monday night on the
eve of the second anniversary
of Pearl Harbor.
In the last ten days the navy
has reported the sinking of 20
Japanese merchant ships by sub
marines. That is an average of two
a day pared from the dwindling
enemy merchant fleet, urgently
needed to supply island outposts
in the face of the steady American
amphibious advance.
Japanese retreated before
Australian tanks along the
Huon peninsula coast of New
Guinea and had fallen back so
far on Bougainville island that
American patrols were unable
to contact them. Allied bomb
ers blasted Cape Gloucester
with 155 tons of bombs, bring
ing to 588 tons the weight of
explosives poured within a
week on the cape and adjacent
Borgen bay at the vulnerable
Up of New Britain, hinge of
Japan's southern defenses.
Radio silence prevented report
ing details of the carrier raid on
the Marshall, northwest of the.
recently conquered Gilbert -"islands.
The attack following daily
raids by army bombers from the
Seventh US airforce and naval
reconnaissance planes, was appar
ently similar to carrier raids on
the Gilberts a few days before
they were invaded.
A Tokyo broadcast reporting
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Water Funds
Said Ample
"Ample" monies are on hand
in city water commission funds to
pay the $27,517.05 tax due and
owing on water system proper
ties, Salem city council was told
Monday night as it was asked to
pass a resolution allowing expen
diture of the money.
The resolution was turned over
to the ways and means commit
tee for investigation as to wis
dom of such action. The other
method of handling the matter
and paying the bill, declared by
the state supreme court to be a
lien upon the properties, would be
by issuance of bonds. City Attor
ney Lawrence N. Brown ex
plained. The bond issue would
take considerable time, and the
council should act rapidly as pos
sible to meet the March J, 1944,
payment date deadline, he ad
vised. Harbor
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By STERLING F. GREEN
WASHINGTON, Dee.
Invasion craft have been put
ahead of everything else In the
nation's arsenal, it was learned
tonight, with the granting of an
overriding priority order giving
them the right-of-way over
planes, high octane gasoline,
and all other "urgency" produc
tion programs.
Four thousand prime contrac
tors will be turning out the land
ing craft, authoritative sources
said. With their subcontractors,
the total number of manufac
turing firms Involved In the vast
drive win be approximately
20,000. ;
Meat Shortage
May Confront
Salem Soon
Unless Washington immediately
clarifies the entire meat rationing
structure and remedies the man
power shortage problem a ser
ious meat shortage may confront
Salem next spring.
This was the opinion expressed
yesterday by meat packing com
pany officials and operators of in
dependent meat markets.
"Livestock producers of the
Paclfie northwest are facing a
calamity by reason of the de
moralized marketing situation
with respect to livestock, es
pecially hogs," one independent
market owner declared.
"Thousands of farmers are dis
couraged to the point of elimin
ating hogs and other livestock
from their farm operations, thug
creating , a severe threat to war
production of ,food.,v,Ai-
Because f4h unsettled con
ditions surrounding the . entire
meat problem, many farmers are
killing off milk stock and particu
larly feeders that should not be
slaughtered until next spring', it
was reported. This early killing
of stock long before the scheduled
time will bring about the short
age of beef.
Lack of manpower rather than
any shortage of slaughter stock
constitutes the main problem con
fronting the Valley Packing com
pany, according to Claude Steus
loff, president of the Salem con
cern. Up until the present war began,
the packing t company employed
more than 100 men. Now the con
cern is processing as much meat
as previously with a staff of not
more than 70 men. Steusloff said.
"Yet the government keeps
prodding us to produce," he de
clared. "Until a few weeks ago
the government set aside for the
use of the armed forces about 85
per cent of our beef production.
"That has been lowered now to
50 per cent to take care of the in
creased public demand brought on
by the lowering of ration points
on all types of meat effective De
cember 5. But the production
ifgures here remain the same and
we are having difficulty in ob
taining Sufficient manpower to
keep up the necessary war food
produceion."
Steusloff said he had no idea
how Washington would overcome
the manpower shortage power,
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Walter Barkus
Is Re-elected
Walter Barkus was re-elected a
director of the Vista Heights wa
ter district at the election Monday.
The term is for a full three years.
A. W. Blank enship was . named
for the three year term in Salem
Heights where the election was
held at the same time. Louis An
derson was named for the two
year term. The polls in each dis
trict were open from 8 o'clock in
the morning until A. o'clock at
night V
Jail ough-Housed'
JRough-housing' ; in the city
jail was blamed for need of ten
additional - blankets and bed re
pairs which will cost $150 when
the request for funds was pre-,
sen ted to the city council Monday
night
Weather
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Monday wutIihw tem
perature SO, aolahmuat tt.
Klver U feet - -
Partly elondy Tuesday
and Wednesday; rising tem
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No. 218
Reds Split
Ukraine
Move Endangers
Rail Junctions
To Rumania
By JUDSON O'QUINN
LONDON, Tuesday, Dec. 7()P)
Russian troops smashed the en
emy's Smela - Znamenka line in
the central Ukraine yesterday,
splitting; huge German forces
guarding those vital junctions
on railways leading to Rumania
and putting the red army with
in 23 miles of the axis bastion
of Kiroyograd.
A Moscow communique and
midnight supplement announc
ed the capture of Isibuleve, 14
miles northwest of Znamenka
on the double track railway
leading to Smela, and the fall
f Alexandriya, 20 miles east
of Znamenka. Twenty other
towns and villages were swept
up, said the bulletin recorded
by the soviet monitor from a
Moscow broadcast
The German-controlled Vichy
radio also admitted a German
withdrawal northeast of Krivol
Rog, axis stronghold 60 miles be
low Znamenka, which might mean
the beginning of a large axis re
treat throughout the Dnieper river
bend after a desperate six-week
stand.
Berlin broadcasts reflected Ger
man anxiety over the coming
months of winter fighting by sug
gesting the possibility the Rus
sians-, were "ready to- throw ' two
fresh winter-trained armies equip-
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Boundary Plan
Not Dead Says
Salem Mayor
Plans for extension of Salem's
city boundaries are not dead Just
because the special council com
mittee on the matter believes ini
tiative should come from residents
of the rural areas involved, Mayor
I. M. Doughton and "even mem
bers of the committee declared at
Monday night's council meeting.
Expressing himself as disap
pointed in the reaction to his plan,
Doughton declared that another
approach, possibly that suggested
in the committee report might be
wise. That report declares that un
til such a time as the city is ready
to cut off from all of its services
rural residences now receiving
those services on a fee basis there
is little chance of annexation of
outlying residential districts.
There is still the machinery
available for extension of city
limits and a good educational
campaign coming from somewhere
outside the city's official family
might cause residents of the subur
an districts to start the ball roll
ing toward at at' next spring's
election, according to Alderman
David O'Hara, who with Chairman
I F. LeGarie and Alderman Ger
trude Lobdell signed the report
O'Hara Proposes
Providing Gasoline r-
For Gty Business
Use of a little city gasoline
may save some lawsuits In prop
erty purchase cases, Alderman
David O'Hara said Monday night
as he backed a measure before
the council to provide gasoline to
City Treasurer Paul Hauser for
city business. Hauser will use his
own ear, O'Hara saidnd make
regular weekly mileage reports.
Sales of city properties on con
tracts have been numerous, and
collections are good when called
for, the councilman pointed out
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Another Big
May Follow;
Into War Thought
By James
LONDON, Dec. 6 (AP) The. third
of great international conferences
it was disclosed tonight, and
be closely related to Turkey's future in
allies' war against Germany.
According to foreign accounts ojt khis newest
meeting, its principals are President Roosevelt t, Prime
Minister Churchill and President Ismet Inoiiu of Tur
key with North Africa as
The conference possibly is
to those which the. major
held in Cairo and Teheran, j
Churchill, says these reports,
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
with the Turkish foreign minister during the week end
ing November 6 at Cairo, it
ant bearing on the present
Roosevelt was reported accompanied by Harry
Hopkins, his personal adviser, and Inohu by Nunian
Menemencioglu, Turkish foreign minister
Carrying the latest reports even further, the Paris
radio tonight-quoted "Teheran reports j as saying that
President Roosevelt, Prime
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rremier staiin wouiu meet
The broadcast gave no reason for
the big three so soon after
Teheran.
The presence of Inonu
velt and Churchill suggested plainly that! the; newest ofj
the great series of strategic political moves by the allied!
leaders undoubtedly was based on I the British-Turkeyl
pact of 1939-7-neyer up to 'now f'ully implemented
pledging Turkey to aid Britain in event, of aggresioO
leading to war in the Mediterranean. A, !, .
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The trend of much of
kara . increasingly has reflected an apparent growinfj
determination by Turkey to get into the war in at least
some capacity and certain
if at all.
By JOHN F. CHESTER
CAIRO, Dec. MJ-Leaders
the United States, Russia and
ancient Persia reached full agreement to crush Germajny by con
certed blows from the east, westjand .soyh, dijsclosed to
day, and laid plans for a world tamily df, demdcraticl! nations tq(
banish the scourge and terror of
This most significant of all
sident Roosevelt, Prime Minister
together for the first time, was he
Iran (Persia) for four days, from
The conference, further tipping the scales pf jdefeat againsf
Germany by incontestable unity of three; chief $ of state said tQ
have met "in extreme cordiality", came as the J ames massed
strength in the west and in the Mediterranean! with Russia al
ready pressing in from the east.
The agreement pf the allied
ter plan to defeat Germany m4y mean that
strategists will accept the hazards jf bad weather
hard on new fronts wnile the red's
peak.
The official announcement
Roosevelt, Prime Minister -Churchill and Marshal Stalih of cour'sf
gave no hint of time or place the
forces will disclose both. But it promised assaults from the south, we
and east and save assurance that
unceasing." ': . "
In the light of Stalin's repeated demands foil a jrievf land front
in the west, plus increasing evidence that! preparations for opening1
such a -front have gone mucn iurmer tnan is generally supposeo
tms announcement oz mo leneran
the possibility that the final three
imminent. ;
This speculation took note-
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Suspenders Bloc
Exerts Pressure :
On Pants Problem
WASHINGTON, Dee.
War prodactloa board ffldaht
in charce of troosers stabilisa
tien gave ' la today to trreslsta
ble pressure from a saspenders
bioe. ;
Siipcilc r buttons . were
barred: f ran men's work puts
-on August 14, lttt, to conserve
buttons. There have been bit-
ter pretests from lumberjacks,
shipyard workers and fishermen
that V enforced stabilization . of
their . breeches by belt eonsU
rated an unwarranted rollback
of their waistlines and contri
buted to national Insecurity,
' So today orders were given to
restore suspender buttons U
work pants. . -
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of a series
now it in progress,
the meeting is: believed to
in relation to the
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o the
sessions.
comparable in significance
allied leaders! already have
is accompanied by
whose I discussions
is assumed,
an import-
meeting;
Minister Ch
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again soon 1
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the near east.'
another)! meeting of 1
their recent
conference a:
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at a conference
with Roose-I
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the recent
news from An
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on tiie side of the allies
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of the greatest alii
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!war for, many generations." I
wartime meetings, i bringing Pre-;
Churchill and Preijnier Stalin
d in Teheran, capital of storied
November 28 to December 1.
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in order to strika
army Winter offensive is at ita
today of a conference of President
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Accommodatioiis
For Soldiers
Rooms above the Pearson gro
cery store at the southeast corner
of Commercial - and j Chemeket
street will be opened as dormi
tory accommodations for service,
imen this weekend under auspU
ces of the Salvation Army USO.
Replacing the dormitory spaco
in the I Nelson building, i vacated
this week to make way for th
Credit Bureaus' occupancy, th
new sleeping facilities are ia
rooms occupied by j the Eagles
club before that Organization ob
Itained its present j quarters In the
Chambers building. !!
I Cots will be; set up this week.
Arrangements were made by the
'city committee on dormitory ac
commodations I f o r j; servicemen,
and management! has been put
into hands of the operators of the.
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