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' rrom first Statesman. March 28, 1831
THE STATESBIAN PUBUSHINC CO.
' CHARLES A.SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher . ,
Member of The Associated Press ...
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the us for publication of all
news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited to this newspaper.
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Post-7ar Plans
The Pendleton East Oregonian finds Itself in
accord with President Roosevelt's admonition
to desist from "post-war . planning." In admin
istering affair of tccupied lands it says "we
will do well not to try to do too much;" and
cites the post-civil war abuses in southern states
as an example of "bureaucratic rule." It seems
to The Statesman that the illustration proves
the reverse. For what injured the south was a
lack of any decent plan for government of the.
states after the crushing of the Confederacy.
Whatever plan Lincoln had was never divulged,
and probably was never more than sketchily
outlined in his own mind. He concentrated on
winning the war; but we feel sure that had he
lived his beneficent instincts would have pre
vented the "needless blundering, arrogance and
venality which the south resented and still re
sents," to quote the E-O further. ( , j V ;
No, it was lack of any kind of a plan which
left the void into which the carpet-baggers and
grafters rushed from the north. They got a toe
hold under military occupation, and by con
trolling the "votes" of the emancipated negroes
they ran the southern states until the whites
ran them out and took over the reins of gov
ernment. ' . ;
It would be unfortunate to start arguments
on the specifications of the post-war; world.
Even the vague frame of the Atlantic charter
may contain clauses that will irritate when the
peace settlement is made. But we have a sus
picion that what Pres. Roosevelt means is not
only to point out the danger of causing friction
from premature debate over peace details, but
to reserva-to himself the task of becoming arch
itect of the post-war world. "Leave it to me," is
the implication the country may draw from his "
moves, if not his words. He is pointing to a
fourth term for himself that he may lay out the
blue-prints for world organization. :
If this is a "people's war", the people should
be left free to discuss the terms of its settle
ment, and to project blueprints for the .future.
The discussion ought to help the planners; and
certainly if we are to make democracy succeed
this time there must be broader enlightenment
and greater' readiness for popular participation
in the tasks of citizenship. It is a mistake to
leave it all to FDR, or any other individual. r
Loss of Pilots
A young pilot stationed at the Salem airbasa
lost his life when his plane crashed Tuesday
near Lebanon. Some weeks ago another Salem
based plane crashed off the Oregon coast and
the pilot's life was lost. Thus we have the war
brought close to us, and feel its cost, even though
these fliers came here from other parts of the
country, . is " K-"ri5
The Salem base Is used both for the defense
of this area and for the training of aviators.
Patrol or observation flights are made; i and
fliers gain practice in squadron flying and night
flying. The cruising that one may see is not
aimless flying and burning up of gasoline. It Is
part of the training program, or part of the op
erations for the security of this coast.'
When planes crash it is often difficult or im
possible to determine the cause, whether it was
some mechanical failure or human error. The
margin of safety in a speedy airplane is narrow;
great skill and caution are required to preserve
that margin. Yet training requires that, fliers
take risks to acquire skills for combat maneu
vering. Accident and death are the unfortunate
toll that is paid in the development of the air
force. I- " -1 ') '' f
The Orel Campaign
American attention has been absorbed by
happenings in Sicily and Italy in recent weeks,
and the continuing battle in Russia has been
slighted. The fact is that the Russian-German
fighting around the Orel bulge has been exceed
ingly heavy, first from the German offensive,
and next from the Russian offensive which at-
tempts to recover Orel and wipe out this salient
in the Russian line. So heavy has the Russian
pounding been, so persistent its .mordant oper-..
at ions on the German lines that now the Ger
mans are withdrawing their troops to avoid
the experience in the trap at Stalingrad when
300,000 of their men were killed or captured.
The Russians are carrying on the biggest end
of the war against Germany. In Sicily our
ground troops have engaged! at most a few di
visions, of Germans, while some two hundred
Germans are locked on the Russian front. A
break-through at Orel might result j in the
forced withdrawal of the German armies to the
line of the Dnieper, and the evacuation of the
Kerch peninsula and perhaps the Crimea. Mean
time our preoccupation in Sicily and Italy de
lays the final squeeze on Hitler's inner citadel.
With the situation freezing in Italy under the
distatorship of Badoglio, chances for a final de
dicion in Europe this year grow more faint. It
does not seem possible that the air punishment
of German cities will be enough to wind the
business up in the remaining months of 1943,
Our ground troops will have to slug it out with
the Germans in force, either on the western
front or up the Balkan peninsula. The nazis.
are effectively using Italy as a buffer, giving
them more time, and postponing the ultimate
battles for a decision. The Russians, however,
are a growing threat to the security of the Ger
man homeland.
Fresh Taxation "
Members of the house ways and means com
mittee of congress have cut short their vacation
to return to Washington to'consider the demands
of the treasury for an increase in tax receipts
of twelve billion dollars a. year. This will by
no means close the gap between expenditures
and present receipts, but it would rduce the
amount of borrowing required. Spokesmen for
the committee say the test they can see is an
addition of about six billions of income through
new or increased taxes. Levies on incomes in
the top brackets are about as high as they can
well go, and to increase the burdens on men in
the brackets of $25,000 and under is about the
only place for much increase in this field. ; I J
The only untapped source of large revenues
is a federal sales tax. Already; it is used for
certain , classes of products, jewelry, automo
biles, etc. A general sales tax would produce
billions in revenue; and the, treasury is talking
in terms of billions. It is" true that the sales tax
Is regressive, falling more heavily on persons of
low income because a larger proportion of their
income goes for necessities that are taxed; but
the heavy graduation of the income tax moder
ates considerably the regressive feature of the
sales tax
If the government really wants to raise a lot
f money by taxation it can get it quickly and
easily by a general sales tax. t
Here is one suggestion for the punishment of
Hitler and Mussolini. Put them on some island
like St. . Helena, with quarters in - the same
house, across the hall from each other, and on
ly one bathroom for their joint use. And save
Attn or Kiska for Hirohito and To jo. j i
OPA, as it reflects on its rollback troubles,
can at least sympathize with King Canute who
couldn't get the tide to obey him. . , ; ; ;
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If the coffee, hoarders could turn their stocks
into malt or distilled beverages, they'd find a
ready market now.
Interpreting tho
War News
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
AP War Awalylst Tor Th Statesman
A perilous and precipitate nazi flight from the
whole southern perimeter of the Mount Etna bastion
in Sicily appeared Inevitable, if indeed it has not
already started.
To achieve escape from the doubtful Mgssina
"coffin corner" enemy forces on the south slopes
of the great volcano and on the Catania plain must
pass across the whole British front wrom west to
east, then up the narrow eastern coastal corridor, be
set by mass air bombardment and the cross-fire of
British field and naval guns. It is either that or sur
. render, for the main weight of axis armor in Si
cily, as the crunching American-Canadian attack
In the center cuts them off from northwest flight
around the inshore rim of the mighty mountain
mass, is blocking their road to the Messina escape
hatch.
West of Regalbuto, the Canadians art perorted
virtually in field gun range of Adrano on the road
and rail route encircling the inshore flank of ML
Etna. Above them American forces seem almost as
close to Bronte village. '
The combined drive Is backing open a 15 mile gap
: in the only escape road for the foe not under direct
British sea and ground fire. Over the whole Sicilian
battle theater, allied planes are pouring a pulveriz
ing rain of bombs night and day.
It appears more than possible that the battle of
Messina peninsula, like the battle of Etna, will be
over almost before it begins. The Messina "coffin
corner" could become overnight a springboard for
allied invasion of the Italian mainland instead of
a dubious escape route for axis forces in Sicily.
London advices harp heavily on an impending
allied jump from Sicily to the mainland, obviously
both to prepare home front opinion for that, and to
add to the strain on Italian nerves in the hope of
inciting a peace revolt against the Badoglio regime
for its delay in submitting to allied surrender terms.
They hint that landings on the Italian "boot" may
come even before Sicily is completely mopped-up,
and put to the final test Italian will to continue the
fight against impossible odds.
There are many indications that the next break
in the campaign against Italy -is expected within
days, perhaps before the weekend. British foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden has added his voice to that
of Prime Minister Winston Churchill; President
Roosevelt and General Eisenhower in urging Ital
ian capitulation to avert dire consequences. Lake
Mr. Roosevelt, Eden Informed parliament of allied
readiness to accept surrender from any Italian
hands, virtually urging Badoglio's overthrow if he
continues to' hesitate or traffic with the nazis.
If Italy's fate seems on the verge of being quick
ly sealed in Sicily, however, Moscow versions of the
nazi-Russian tug-of-war about the Orel salient in
south-central Russia draw an even "grimmer pic
ture of impending disaster. The Orel redoubt, de
fending the vital Byransky link with the nazi
south and central front in Russia Is toppling to its
fan. .
Moscow advices say there remains open only a
13-mile wide escape corridor to Bryansk for the
estimated quarter of a million nazis holding the
opex of the Orel salient. They vision another Stal
ingrad entrapment as impending but fail to docu
ment the reports with names of captured towns
which permit a complete detailed mapping of the
Orel front. .
That of itself is significant Previous Russian ad
vices have Indicated the Russian offensive is on a
far greater scale and aimed at even more vital a-H
key positions than the Orel redoubt itself. The Red
forces would appear to be in a position to strike at
Bryansk itself from the north and northeast as well
as from Orel, due east once the latter town falls.
And if Bryansk is lost, the whole German front
east of the Dnieper must ultimately collapse, Orel
obviously is only a preliminary to larger Russian
offensive strokes in the making, blows that could
smash Hitler's army in the east before winter if they
were driven home.
Editorial Comment
From Other Papers v
SNOom Aisnr .
, The American Automobile association protests
that OPA Administrator Brown Is organizing a
180,000-man Snooper army to check on gasoline
ration documents. Side by side with this story one
; newspaper juxtaposes the t, headline "Motorists
Flock to Beaches, Again Resort Parking Lots
Crowded in Advance of Promised End to Driving
Ban.w: ,
... Almost the first act of Administrator Brown was
to trjr out the honor system with motorists. It failed
dismally There would seem to be no way of en- V
forcing except to enforce. Why, then, should OPA
investigators, US enforcement agents and local
policing staffs not cooperate In seeing that gasoline
Is used first to win the war, before It is wasted
on pleasure driving? That is not snooping. As-torian-Budget.
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. By LILLIS L. MADSSTf
Question: When should I plant
out peonies? IQne need , to be
divided V. A. . r$hZ
Answer: Mrs. Edward Harding
in her 'The Book of the Peony
suggests September 15 at 9 ajn.
However, I believe there can be
considerable more leeway. From
early September until about mld-
: J October. . Is: the: accepted ; tiras.i
September Is the time advised by
most peony specialists. Set the
peonies about three inches be
low the soil Too deep- planticj
results In root rot and very few
flowers. Too - shallow .' planting
may give trouble to winter.
; Do not use animal fertilizer
near the peony roots. Phosphorus
and potash flowers are good.
Bonemeal and add phosphate
will give phosphorus and wood
: ashes will give some potash. Po
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unjust to the Chinese people.
Another reason for repealing
the exclusion act and other dis
criminatory . legislation against
the yellow race is to place our
country in a favorable position
In the period after the war. The
orient offers a most promising
field for commerce when the war
Is over; and this commerce will
be needed to maintain domestic
prosperity. It ought, to be con
ducted no longer on the basis
of maintaining Asia on .a ,' co
lonial status, but on a basis of
fairness and equality. Our claim
in that regard will be strength
ened greatly if we abolish the
discrimination we have written
into our laws. The price to us
Is merely the abandonment of
old prejudices; the possible gain
Is beyond measure.
The future peace of the world
will depend very much on . how
the viators comport themselves.
If the white civilization as rep-
resented by the Americans, and
British seek to maintain its stan-
dards by . keeping the colored
races on a lower level then fric
tion and strife are inevitable.
There should not be, and need
. not be, the lowering of our stan
dards to those of other peoples.
Instead opportunity, . and soma
assistance should be given to en
able other peoples to attain high
er standards, admittedly a slow
process. Repeal of the Chinese.
exclusion : act Is a step toward
Improving mternational relations
that will pay dividends now. and
in the future.
Claster 12 contained
Here Komako interrupted hirn-
self to set the bacon and ezgs
on the table. "Come, come. Has
ty, breakfast ready. I tell Hen
ry, I am not Interested. 1 got
vacation. Then he say. Herb tell
him to tell deputy sheriff there
. is pilikia with strange man down
here. Han is drunk and fighting
' and seeing things, thinks be is ,
seeing dead body of this Delmar
' fellow on sampan. H-ls little w
man with glasses. Name of HoyL
Me, I hit sky then!"
I should think you might," I
. said feelingly.
"YeahT Komako poured th
coffee. I think Tbout this murder -jinx
you got and I don't stop for
. nothing. Just get paper plate
and put pig and things on it and
get in car. I take Henry and make
sure Delmar not renting car to .
get away. Then I hike six miles
down ' here worst trail ever X
see and come straight to sam-
pan."
"I guess you know how thank
ful I am, Komako. And If it had-
n't been for Herb Say! I won
der : if he wasn't quite as sure
as the others that I hadn't seen
a corpse." '
' ' Komako pushed buttered toast
toward me and seated himself ?
before the platter of eggs and ba
on, "You terrible sure you seen
some corpus, Hasty?" There was
real anxiety in the liquid eyes
which looked at me from over
the steaming coffee cup. "
"Too blamed sure," I said
miserably. "I wish I weren't "
Delmars death puts me in an
awful box. The only reason .1
had a moment's respite was be-
cause . the colonists thought or -pretended
to think I was see
ing ; things. Otherwise they'd ,
have locked me up, holding me
until the police came." -
: Komako stopped in the act of
making on egg - jelly - bacon -toast
sandwish. "What you mean,
Hasty?" he asked sharply. "Why
they think you kill him?"
! I had gulped down half a cup
of scalding coffee and had to
wait for my stomach to stop :
jerking before I could answer.
While I waited Komako'g face
filled with alarm as it he feared
I might be holding out black
news on him.
v "Oh, I didn't kill Delmar," I
assured him. "Somebody else .
' came out here while I was ashore
and killed him. Undoubtedly, one
of his own people. But what
makes it so bad is that just be
fore his murder I had a fight
with him on shore before them
all. 1 A knock-down and drag
out fight because " I simply
could not tell Komako the final
insult, that the fellow had called
. . be "KewpieV Because' he ' made -fun
of my er stomach, and
poked it"
iKomako's bushy brows lifted
' in amazement but came instant
ly down. "I guess you. have got
too hot temper. More better you
stayed with me. I not let you
lick anybody."
"I didn't lick him," I admit
ted bitterly. "He knocked me'for
a loop."
Then I guess he was twice as
big as you If you got licked,"
Komako said loyally. "But tell t
just what you do after that Tell '
me ibput them people. I not
know nothing yet"
He ate steadily through my -recital,
but he didn't miss a
point When I told of Josephine's
strange behavior as she came
back to Budd's after I had re- '
covered consciousness, he got
out a small red notebook I had -,
never seen before and put on
his steel-rimmed glasses. He jot
ted down quick notes then and
after wards with the stub of a
pencil. At my story of coming
aboard the sampan and finding
a bottle of ; whisky gone, letters
and checkbook opened and my
. desk ? left disordered, he laid
down his knife and frowned. '
'Somebody stealing?" he asked
''Nothing but the whisky was
gone. Delmar got that of course.
I can't imagine what his inter
est was in my papers. He used
this bunch of rusty keys " I
produced the keys and Komako
pounced on them eagerly.
"Hail Keys are fine clue."
fNo name tag on the ring," I .
pointed out I suppose they were
Demur's and that he brought
them In case I had the whisky
locked up. So it's not much of a
clue to who killed him."
' TBut would, fellow wanting
whisky stop to go through desk
papers?" Komako was reluctant
to give up the clue he loved a
bit of tangible evidence. "More
like cool-headed murdering fel- ,
low." . : - .
"j Who could possibly be Inter-
ested in my papers?" I objected.
fMaybe he want to find out if
you are detective before he start '
Queen at Churchill's
LONDON, .. Aug. Queen
Wilhelmina of - The Netherlands
was the dinner "guest of Prime .
Minister and ' Mrs. Churchill at
19v Downing street Tuesday night-
any killing" Komako said
shrewdly. "Maybe he remembers
little bit how fellow name Hoyt
help me find murderers."
"If he did, he didn't find any
thing.. But that reminds xn
these colonists showed a queer
reluctance to admit me. They
probed into my past like borers."
"What I tell you?" He put the
keys in his pocket "Here, Has
ty, you need more coffee."
I refused it and took up my
meerschaum, regarding it fond
ly. "Nice color, eh, Komako?"
"Sure, sure. It pretty near
ripe. You suck on that and tell
what you find next" .
. Chapter IS
I recounted how Z had searched
the sampan, found the broken
whiskey bottle on deck, discov
ered the ice locker. closed, and
had opened it It was a bad mo
ment when I confessed pulling
my fish spear from Delmar
back and replacing it on tha
cabin top.
Komako stopped eating and
stared at me. "You know more
better than doing that!"
"But it had my initials on It
I had to protect myself ..."
Then, as he said nothing: "It
was a darn-fool thing to do, I
know it Because whoever, did
away with tha body took my
spear. And I'm pretty sure it had
my bloody fingerprints on it"
Komako looked very gloomy.
"Now somebody got fin clue
against you, if body is found."
"I don't think they want the
body found and I certainly
don't! But if there should be a
hitch, and it turns up, I'm slated
to take the rap. They not only
took that spear they took my
Ignition key, too. Tm not to ba
allowed to leave here until'
they're sure the body won't be
found."
. He clucked now In a ; thor
oughly alarmed manner. "Not
you got any big clue against
them people on shore?"
I told of the love triangle I
suspected, formed by Josephine,
Thornton and Delmar; of
Elaine's peculiar behavior and
the doctor's anxiety to get her
away; of Herb's being hit by
someone unknown. Komako's
face cleared only when I spoke
of Mrs. Delmar leaving the sam
pan in a canoe, Just before ws
went out and found . th body
gone.
"Now we got something!"
I warned him: "She said she
was looking for her husband and
didn't find him on the sampan..
And later you say she sent the
Hawaiians out on a big search
for him." - ;
"Maybe she just planting good
alibi . . .-Murder. is most times
because somebody hate some
body. She hate her husband?"
"Search me! I know she was
jealous of him." : .1
"Hail!" Komako leaned for
ward eagerly. -
"Not what you think." Then I
told him about her fury because
Delmar had taken her name off
the play they had co-authored. .
. He looked crestfallen. "That .
play business not enough for
wife to go killing husband."
"But it could be! You don't
know writers! Besides, the
sweeping up of the glass and
swabbing everything down that
looks like the work of a. woman
a good housekeeper." I was
almost' convincing myself. "Ill
bet Mrs. Delmar's house is neat
as a pin."
Komako jingled the keys In
his pocket "If she was looking
through your papers she leave
things In nice mess . . . But any
how, tha's good clue, her coming
back from sampan." He wrote
busily in his notebook, stowed
it and his spectacles in his pock
et reached for his lauhala hat,
and thoughtfully smoothed its
fine feather band. "We got to
see Mrs. Delmar first."
On deck he delayed long
enough to inspect the ice locker,
remarking as hi pulled himself
out: "Take pretty strong man to
lift heavy body out of here. Mrs.
Delmar big strong woman?
"Just ordinary."
He pushed back the wide
hat and scratched his head. His
eyes came to rest, on the boom
rigged from the stubby mast.
"Let's see. You was ashore with
dinghy. That tackle was dang
ling, same as always, ready to
moor dinghy to when you com
back?"
"Why, you're right!" I said,
catching his thought "Simplest
thing In the world, if she knows
beans about boats. She could
have swung that boom back over
the locker and tied the line to
Delmar in two minutes flat
Then all she had to do was wind
on the anchor windless and haul
him out"
; (To be continued) !
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