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Show HIGHLIGHTS ...in the week's news GENERAL: So suddenly did the British Eighth army land in Italy near Termoli that a detachment was able to capture the German commander com-mander of the area in bed. ART: Rome's great art treasures are being taken from palaces and museums by the Nazis and are being be-ing shipped to Germany, as Allied troops approach the city. WORKERS: The nation's labor force dropped 1,600,000 when schools reopened in September, the census bureau reports, adding that unemployment unem-ployment has fallen to the lowest level on record. Figures are based on the week September 5 to 11. Only 800,000 persons were listed by the bureau as jobless, which is a decline of 200,000 from the corresponding corre-sponding week in August, and 900,-000 900,-000 down from the same week of September Sep-tember of last year. Total employment employ-ment was set at 52,500,000 for September, Sep-tember, a net increase of 100,000 over 1942 corresponding figures. I RELIGION: Delegates to the 54th triennial convention of the Protes tant Episcopal church, meeting in Cleveland recently, authorized procedure pro-cedure moving towards eventual organic unity" with the Presbyteri an church. MENINGITIS: The new wonder drug penicillin may be the answer to meningitis. MEDICAL: Despite relentless efforts ef-forts of the army medical corps malaria has increased among Amer lean troops abroad, reports Mai ' Gen. Norman Kirk, surgeon general On the other hand, venereal revealed6 r6dUCed' The head of the medical corps alsn stated that wounded soldiers have a much better chance of survival in tMs war than in previous, ones. On S 2 per cent of the wounded die after treatment now, he said, which wa" rat6inthe |