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DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1918 TWELVE 'PAGES j I - CUC3 CFflSI.ES on - li kr ' jtftTratv orw,r wrathfui" mas ' ARIDV. IXtt UATT1.K. . , 4J " According, u All Fiwedcnis, This IT i V;-: K'd'StU . ' tw Aifuliitcd lime for Sonio llis M -fclsklue DrlH. J 'tfty J. -W, 5T,.Maon7 Written for the PAGE.TEN 4 -i" .r i ixl s ., f . TTi ll All TMo , "jirrw: f ORK, 'March 2. The tint . Tit fnti,jori orrenflives nns ,comr,m the , war eone. March In th month of 1 ttesnerate fighting and of the initial ' development of great strategic plans. Henceforth, the war news., mar carry any day the first Intimation of : America's forthcoming drive asfiln.it the German front "The bitterly . cold have ceased, for the most part, to $tm women battle line and the thaws IM March, the French and Brlt- inake quagmires of the shell holes In front of the tenches. Which -ever side desires to move first to the new ,at dlc wtU rebably select this month for the Initial assault, moved forward and March 11 captur ih .made their. jaost effective, joint attack -the wr. In 4he -west, which was followed by the great German re tirement to the famous fcindenburc line on March 18-SO. ,jkt ,ihe , same time, ' the-British, army at the other end of the war area, in Mesopotamia, last' week ;ln February, for the pur ed Bagdad. - - In J SI 6. March saw the maximum effort put forth by the Germans o capture Verdun. The beginning- of the attack on, the fortress was ad vahced by uhe Crown Prince" to 'the last week In februay,;for the. pur pose of seouring the henefR of a. sur prise assault. But, the " heaviest fighting fell in March, and It was the lJarc .eXensive at the French army that broke the back of the German movement. ; ;' n "March. 1915. the ":Brltish strted their first spring offensive, which re sulted In the capture of Neu ve Cha pelle The Russian advance In Ca licut broke through he- Austro-Hun-garian defences. Hi March, 1915, and captured the great fortress of Pnem ysl. and further to the sputh, .invaded Hungary. -,.... Grain Tax. Puzzles Washington Farmers w jiix Vai4-A cotmt worn) OliTMPIA,-:. March, 1. State and 1 federal .authority . clashed here today ovefjthe question jf wjiether wheat still neid un storage subject to gov ernment -orderoo March 1 shall he assessed for taxation. i According to a report ntnde to the state, tax deeartment by the Assessor of,-. Walla Walla county, the Portland , agent of the Food Administration 5ratn Corporation has directed ware vKousemen and .growers holdihg wheat .toV inform 4 Assessors that the. .grain is held ifor .government account and b uptjto assessed.. Various .other as , sensors, : of grain counties, report s similar situation. ; . ... .J . Clark ' It Jackson, state tax com missioner, today directed all county . assessors to "assess grain on - iiand. notwHnstandiriB Its detention In the (State by government direction. He holds that- the grain . is not classed as t.0-ermnent -property 'and thus ex jjempt, but is part of the total general private property subject to taxation. -If the owners haye been unable to nieve their. wheat put of the state, the commissioner states. It Is their mis : fortune due- to unusual conditions. Approximately 125.000 in -taxas wlU -, .fee tost to the state, it is estimated, Jt i. the grain levy is not made this year. ?Aout nine million bushels are still t itnshlpped, according to last report. U. H. Darwin, state fish commis sioner and Game -Warden since April ;1M3, was today reappointed , by Gv pernor lister for four years, beginning uliiarch 1.. Darwin Is a former news paper man. . ; M;?tot being able to guess what Rus eta. meant, the irritable Teuton reliev ed his tension by delivering a swat. WSWO HB KifAllT ;."' ' 'EAilPlJMDB iVo hit of feminine near te nm P-to-the-inlnme. utd is eaeir 'r wpar maBU)e-seirjtfe vest butlt of many matm-ialsturt pref wulily plaid. Not only soroethlns plaid -but something silk should be the Jaw -ofithe -est, for. a large part of its .reason for existence Is the raving of , WWII. r hU checker-hoMd . mfotiun. is ,ttt h.avy silk or satin In dull blue wniie- piald. 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