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.. That the Germans realize they
have lost this war, and further
that German leaders are planning
mow for a third world war In
which they hope to succeed after
two failures are; assertions for
which thr is- a foundation in
fact and opinion. Twice the Ger
jlB-till u tuive
within touch, of their goal of com
plete domination of Europe. Why
should- they not dream 61 repeal
' tag those successes and avoiding
the mistakes which cost them the
final , victories? If t hey. can
emerge from this war intact, with
' France prostrate and Britain im
paired, then it is just a matter of
tiredin a new feneration of
fighting men, manufacturing new
weanons and launching a new
and more crushing attack.
Sigrid Schultz, for many years
an American correspondent in
Germany, has a recent book.
: "Germany Will Try It Again.'
She ; thinks the scheming . is al
ready under way, 'and that Ger
- many will make a new attempt in
i this century to achieve tft aesuny
of which the kaiser , dreamed and
.'for which Hitler planned. Miss
Schultz thinks that!. Germany
should he allowed to plunge into
chaos while its own people fight
out a civil war which might purge
Its evil elements and vest author
: Ity in the decent people of Ger-
' many of whom there are a con
1 aiderable number. To go in
promptly with food and loans
would merely be to bolster up the
'. nazi idea even if the principals
" were eliminated.
John McCormac; .Washington
correspondent of "the New York
I Times, in a copyrighted article,
relates how Germany p 1 a n s to
cripple her neighbors so they will
be hehless when the "next" war
comes.: The plan embraces under
feeding and depopulation of
. neighbor ; countries, i looting . of
booty from . them, keeping as
much financial control of thel
cartels "may" be revived for this
very purpose. .
- The loot would include such
'things as Jewelry, precious metals,
art objects, stamp collections,
thine of Utile bulk bat great val-
ue whichcouldbe cmyerted into
money for ; rearmament These
things can be stolen and then
. traced only with , difficulty,
Through methodical pillage t h
' wealth of neighboring countries
would be reduced and German
wealth increased, j
-. Miss Schultz lays down ' these
warnings: (Continued on Editorial
Page)
Blast Airfields
In North Italy
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Naples, March 18 -P)- Heavy
bombers, fighting r their way
. through a -large number of ene
my aircraft, ; today attacked five
airfields in northeastern Italy. ;
First reports, of the returning
aviators indicated that heavy do
mage was Inflicted. f;
. The fields attacked ;, were Vil
lorba, Maniago, Livariano and
Gorizia, all in the general vici
' nity of Udine, whose airfield was
also attacked.
.. Maj. Herschel H. Green of May
field, Kyn scored his 11th victory
in aerial combat in ; this opera
tion, destroying a Messerschmitt.
He shot down six enemy fighters
in IS minutes in the same area
en January 30.' -'.
" Thunderbolts and Lightnings
flew patrol over the area shortly
'before the bombers arrived and
several dogfights apparently took
place before the bombers swept
In to blanket the target with a re
cord number of fragmentation
bombs.
SSgt Girard Charron of Hack
cnsack, NJ Liberator tail gun
ner who flew over Gorizia air
field, said "planes were taking off
In all directions as we went over
but our bombs splattered the field
like rain and beat them back into
the ground. After that fires stud
ded the area.
School Tax Levy
Bases Not Impaired -
PORTLAND, Ore., March
18-(P-The tax levy bases of lo
cal school districts will not be im
paired by receipt ' of surplus : in
come tax funds as an offset to
property taxes for school purpos
es. Circuit Judge James W. Craw
ford ruled today. : H : V jl '"
The suit was brought . by the
Portland school district : against
the Multnomah county tax super
vis;r.2 and conservation' commis-i-Ioa
to clarify its tax-levying po-gition.-
5
The opinion applies to all school
c.'stricts of the state because Ore
f ?n Business it Tax Research,
i.-c, intervened as a defendant to
tn.!n a deciiion broad enough to
$!1 school systems ...
Heavy Bombers
' SATURDAY'S RESULTS
A Division final:
Ashland!. 55, Bend IS.
B" Division- final: - '
Pewera IS, Bend 85.
A" Division consolation:
Washington 14, Conrallis 11.
(far 3rd place.) I'
Pendleton 44, fiprtncfleld 4
(for 4th pUee. i
BT Division consolation.
- Svenson St, Grant
(for 3rd place.) -
Tourney
Opponents Find ;
No Way to Stop j
Victorious Teams
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Statesman Sports Editor
Ashland high's Grizzlies "of
the'A" division and Powers
high'a Cruisers of the "B" Jxys
last night swept to the throne
room of , Oregon's 25 th annual
state basketball - tournament at
Willamette tiniv'ersity by "crush
ing Ben's, Lava Bears, 55-35,
andj Pleasant HiU'sHUlbliliei
53-25, respectively. A crowd so
large it was reported turned-a way
fans; would have gladly, paid to
peek through the pavilion .win
dows sat in on the final killings,
andi killings they were as the
Cruisers and Grizzlies took turns
ai vying iu ourn up uie wurneyt
tested Willamette speedway.
, . It was Ashland's second state
championship in a dozen tries
the Grizzlies took home, to south
ern i' Oregon the state's , highest
prep hoop award -back in '.1922.
They never reached the finals out
side , of '22 and duplicated their
all-the-way feat of that year last
night
The lopsided wins were a com
plete reversal of the trend which
turned the 25th classic into one
iof the hottest scraps ever there
just! wasn't any stopping either of
the tracing quints. Lv'
i or tne (unzziies, wno set a new
all-time high for points scored by
a team int winning, a champion
ship gam the old mark was held
by Klamath Falls of last year at
52 points t was a case of com.
ing i from, the ''Unsung: district ;2
rank, fightjng twoifphriI but win
ning battles against Si Helens
Thursday and Washington of
Portland Friday, and then turning
on true championship heat - to
blaze their way to the coveted seat
atop the prep hoop hordes.
;ini walloping the fighting but
outclassed Lava Bears last night
Coach Al Simpson's club joined
with Coach Claude Cook's High
lanaers in setting anomer new
mark; aggregate points scored in
a .champoinship game. The 90
counted last night topped the 80
notched by Klamath Falls and Ba
ker in the finale a year ago.
The all-veteran Cruisers of Coos
coun(y, every one of em here a
yearlagb to finish in third place,
gave J off with their second gaudy
performance last night Coached
by Elwin : Frye, an unimposing
gent n his very first year of prep
coaching and coming from a
school which has an enrollment of
exactly 30 students in all boys
and girls included the Powers
quint; had the tourney old-timers
muttering "Shades ; of 1937 and
Bel If oun tain." So scintillating
were these sharp-passing and
seemingly tireless ballhawks that
,more than a few i hoop citizens
were j convinced they could have
held their own with any "A" quint
entry -..-
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500,000 Oregonians
Pay Income Taxes
Portland, March 18-flV From
450,000 to 500,000 Oregonians paid
income taxes this year, James W.
Maloney, collector of internal re
venue, estimated today.
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Military
Production Agree
TtiDeferKey Men Under 26
By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK
"WASHINGTON, March 18
Agreement s was reported reached
today between " the armed ser
vices I and production agencies
whereby about 40,010 men under
28 who have key jobs in war in
dustries will be deferred from
the draft ' . ,.
War production board sources
said this was the effect of a poli
cy understanding arrived at by
representatives of the WPB, the
War roon power commission and
the army and navy.
, .'It has been placed before Pre
sident Roosevelt who had indi
cated earlier that he expected to
settle definitely this weekend how
far the army would be allowed
to go in taking industry's young
er men. ; '"; ". ' " . v"-"; -;
If Mr. Roosevelt approves the
armed services - production agen
cies agreement, it will represent
a victory for the viewpoint of
production ; officials. They have
contended all along that at least
40,000 to 50,000 of the 250,000 men
In the, 18-25 brackets who have
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pions of the 25th annual Oregon stato basketball tournameBt last
overwhelming Bend, 55-35, and ; Pleasant HI1L 53-25. . respectively.
SlmnsoB, who is not shown: Front row, left to right: B. Garrett,
: Kannasto. Back row: All-Star Barney Klggs, B. Qaackenbush, All
son and Del Landing. The Powers team: Front row, left to right:
King, Bob Coats and Onr McCnllock. Back row: Shirley Shorn, Ted
All-Star Bob: Bunnell (captain),
Yanks Break
Through Stiff
nses
i By MURLTN SPENCER
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Southwest Pacific,; Sunday, March
19-JP)-A m e r 1 c a n dismounted
cavalrymen fighting in , the Ad
miralties met stubborn opposition
and elaborate Japanese 'defenses
in and around the town! of Lor
engau,' but with the aid of tanks
broke through the enemy ; lines in
some places, all
led headquarters
of the -'fighting
said today.
Latest reports
Friday, before this last Japanese
strongpoint on Manus island in
the. Admiralty group were frag
mentary, but f a' headquarters
spokesman said the troopers of
the first cavalry 'regiment had en
countered "elaborate : entrench
ments" and had knocked out some
of them. 'I ; ' "
Indications that the Americans
had ' i achieved successes ! against
the enemy in" their drive south
ward from Lprengau airdrome,
whiclj y they captured Thursday,
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occupational deferments would be
of more value in industry than in
the army. - 1' : -'
President Roosevelt' had . re
ceived formal notice , that the
armed services heed not? expect
requested military tires if the
draft stripped the ; rubber! indus
try of young technicians. ,
A warning was contained in the
fifth progress report of Rubber
Director Bradley Dewey: which
joined at the White house a stack
of statistical and other material
on the manpower crisis. ,, ' ; 't
i Mr. Roosevelt J told his press
conference yesterday few men un
der 25 are indispensable "i to in
dustry and those beyond that age
are too old for front line fight
mg..-:v-v"-i:K?--!:- ,y
, He set aside his weekend for
work on the problem and, as a
start, called in Selective Service
Director Lewis Bi Hershey for a
fresh canvass of ' the situation.
; Hershey talked ydih Mr. -Roosevelt
for about an hour and on
leaving told reporters, no com
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and Powers Cruisers (below) became "A? and "B! division eham
All-Star Tommy . Grove and Coach Elwyn Frye.
Finn-Russian
Statements Due
-
By ROBERT N. STURDEVANT -1
STOCKHOLM, March 18 -(P)
Finland and Russia may make of
ficial statements some: time this
weekend clarifying the status of
armistice negotiations! now be
lieved to have reached a stalemate
after weeks of negotiation. .
,. All Finland awaited with anxi
ety word from their government
on diplomatic activities which
were generally believed to have
resulted In Finland's polite refus
al to accept soviet 'terms. -;
The Finns were' reported to
have given ; the Russians yester
day a note containing their gov
ernment's answer to Russian ar
mistice proposals. The Finnish
government's stand was supported
by a unanimous vote in parlia
ment, an official communique had
announced.
i Although diplomats have char
acterized the Finnish answer as
a "polite no," the Finnish people
have not. yet "been " officially ad
Vised. The Hensinki radio made
no mention of the negotiations to
night when the whole country ex
pected an announcement
! A heavily-censored report from
the Helsinki correspondent of the
Associated Press, telephoned to
Stockholm, said there was great
political activity in the Finnish
capital during the day, - :.
Two US Subs
Presumed Lost
I WASHINGTON, March 18 W
Two American submarines. part
of the fleet that has been inflict
ing heavy damage I on - Japanese
supply lines are missing la en
emy-con trolled waters, f the navy
said; today, bringing to - 22 the
number of submersible lost since
the war started... . .
I Missing with the subs Capelin
and Sculpin . , are approximately
150; officers and merv jwho took
thei two subs on their, last war
patrols,' possibly in coastal waters
of Japan. k '
( Among the missing officers, .the
navy said, is Cap t John Philip
Cromwell, 42, of Henry, a sub
marine division commander who
apparently had joined in the pa
trol, to witness. at first hand the
undersea vnr. '
Scdosn Orngoiu Sundcrr Morning, Motrch. 19. 1844
urt
C!ampions
'4
night at Willamette aniversity by
The j Ashland team, coached by Al
Jay. Samnelson, J.. Keedy and Fred
- Star Jim Bartelt Winfred Rober-
Jack Wyland, Bill Slonecker, "Jtggs'
StaUard, AB-SUr Frank Grove,
t .
Kurile Raids
Bring Air War
Nearer Japan
By MORRIE LANDSBERG
US PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS,' Pearl Harbor, March
18 r(JP) American aerial warfare
was carried i closer to the heart
of Japan Thursday and Friday as
US army and navy planes struck
against the Kurile islands, in six
bombing ; raids. ... ,
The greatest penetration . was
made by an army bomber. It
struck ' against Matsuwa island,
only 960 ' nautical miles from
Tokyo, on March 16. The attack'
ing Liberator of the 11th army
air force met no opposition.
On the same day navy Ventura
search, planes of air wing four
blasted Paramushiro and Shimus
hu Islands; Fighter opposition was
nil and the anti-aircraft fire light
On March; 17 Venturas again
unloaded! bombs on Paramushiro
and- Shimushu. Liberators hit
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Simpler Tax
Plan Hailed
" - i . -- "'
Bq FRANCIS M. LE MAY ;
WASHINGTON, March 18 -iF)
The administration and congres
sional tax leaders, in marked con
trast to the bitter outcry over the
presidential yeto of the $200,
000.OOQ revenue bul, Joined en-
thusiastifcally; today in support of
a far '- reaching program to sixn
plify the nation's tax laws. 1 1
i ; Treasury Secretary Henry Mor
gen thau described as "well con
ceived and intelligently; planned'
the t "streamliner' tax plan ap
proved yesterday by the tax -or
iginating house ways and means
committee. - --4-, ;
The plan frees approximately
50,000,000 Of the 50,000,000 In
come taxpayers of the annoyance
of ever, having to' figure out an
other tax return, and makes things
easier for, the other 20,000,000
G i Ten bl - partisan . backing,
swift enactment of the "stream-
liner" was forecast Chairman
George (D-Ga.) of the senate
house finance committee predict
ed a simplification law will be
adopted before congress recesses
for the republican and democratic
national ccnvcntic-;. - -
After US Bttlz. on
I)ay Blow
HitsFlane
Factories
Yank Losses .
Heaviest Since
: March't Raid ;
By AUSTIN BEALMEAR v
LONDON, Sunday, March 19
(Heavy night raiders of the
RAF blasted .Frankfurt 1 a s t
night f to follow up a mighty
daylight blow by nearly 2000
US heavy bombers and long
range fighters against aircraft
centers in southern Germany
The American Flying Fortresses
and Liberators hammered Augs
burg, Friedrichshafen and other
targets and stirred up one of the
most savage aerial battles in
weeks, losing 43 bombers' and 10
fighters. .-jr r1 ':-':V" v; ::z
The brant of the fighting was
borne by the Uberators In their
attack open Friedrichshafen.
Swarms t Ger ma n fighters
swept np against the big twin-
tailed bombers and fought des
perately ever. Lake Constance. !
At least 18 ef the - American
planes came down' fcv Switxer- '
land, three in flames. ''-
Escorting Uehtnines. Thunder
bolts and Mustangs destroyed 39
enemy fighters and the bombers
shot down others, although their
score had not yet been tabulated.
.While reports of the American
action 'still were, flowing into
headquartres, the RAFs big fleet
headed for Europe to keep up the
aerial offensive that has lasted
continuously . for four days. Ob
servers said the roar of the RAF
bombers could be heard for an
hour as they crossed the channel
coast
Frankfurt their main object
ive, is the home of many ; great
factories Including aircraft plants
and is the center of the German
chemical industry.
The city i was hit last Tuesday
night by RAF Mosquitos. It re
ceived its last blow from heavy
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Big Bill Thompson
Of Chicago Stricken
CHICAGO,' March 18-iP)-Wil
liam Hale "Big Bill . Thompson,
three times mayor of Cbicoga,
whose ; broadsides at the king of
England in his 1927 campaign
brought him into the international
limelight was reported in critical
condition at his Blacks tone hotel
suite tonight following a heart
attack. -. -f - ; "-'v-'.- -
Dr. T. J. Coogan, attendirig phy
feician, described his condition as
very critical" . and said he had
been under an oxygen tent since
last Thursday. He became uncon
scious today.
Reports From Six Governors
To Decide Service Vote Veto
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, March 1H)
The decision of a half ; dozen re
publican governors of the biggest
states on whether they will act to
make a federal ballot available to
their uniformed citizens overseas
may determine President Roose
velt's stand on the service vote
MIL -
- The states in question Include
New York, Pennsylvania, Michi
gan,' Illinois and California. The
president wasi reported : reliably
today to be- awaiting more defi
nite, word from the first four be
fore he makes up his mind about
signing or ;vetbing the bill. "
- Thus far California's Gov. ..Earl
Warren of' California is the only
one tof the six who has said that
the overseas federal war ballot
proposed in the measure is ac
ceptable under state law. .
Gov. Dwight II. Green said the
federal ballot Is not now author
ized by Illinois law and Gov. Har
ry F. Kelly replied that the federal
plan would not interfere with
Michigan's absentee ballot law.
Csv. Jiha 7. Ericitr d ClJo
Prlcsi
FDR-Churchill
Talk Expected
Willi Stalin
By ALEX H. SINGLETON .
LONDON.: March 1MJP)-Pres-,
Went Kaesevelt and Prime Mln- -later
Chnrehill may. meet soen.
and Premier .Stalin may confer .
with them later. It was reported ,
In London tonight as specnla
r tlon . increased - ever :. whether '.
Bnssla Is playing 'a lone hand
. In dealing with European israes.
A series of recent diplomatic
.developments Involving Russia
.have , posed . this soviet - lone
hand policy sharply lor : the ;
United States and Great Brit
ain, and there b it possibility
that clarification on the subject
will be soosht- in the near fu
ture. ; j-..
-. pfplomatie quarters In Lon
. don suggested that Roosevelt .
and Chorchill mighi meet after
the forthcoming London visit of
Undersecretary of State Edward
R. Stettlnius, Jr, to discuss a
series of new problems In Euro
pean politics, with Stalin, pos- -Ibly
being called in afterward
to get his accord.
Shock Troops
Inch Fonvard
ln CaSsino
By JOSEPH MORTON
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Naples, March 18-(iP)-Fifth army
shock troops inched from stone to
stone ' thrbugh the ruined houses
of Cassino' against nazl dive
bombers, 1 170-millimeter cannon
and; smalf arms fire today, while
allied bombers plastered the Gerv:
man positions around the edge of
the ! Ahzio i beachhead south of
Rome and heavy bombers slash
ed through enemy fighters to
blast five 'airfields in northern
Italy.--,f-j-::. : -
The battle of Italy "thus was
In three major sectors: the grim
fight for Cassino and its envir
; ens; ' the hour-by-how allied
bombing of the Germans near -Ansle;
and the heavy onslaught
against nasi airdromes at Udine,
Villorba, Maniago, Livariano
and Gorizia in the northeast
A group of British Gurkhas,
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George E. Pflug
Missing in Action
WOODBURN, March 18 CpL
George E. Pflug is missing in ac
tion 'since: January 31, acording
to information from the war de
partment received by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Pflug. He
was a member of US Rangers in
Italy: and has been missing since
his unit was surrounded by the
enemy on ' January 31." He enlist
ed in 1939 and was in the North
African and Sicilian campaigns. -
informed the president today he
was calling Ohio's legislature into
special session to authorize use of
the federal-ballot Thus far the
White House reportedly has re
ceived no reply, from Gov. Dewey
of New York, Gov. Edward Martin
of Pennsylvania promised to Con
fer with the state's attorney gen
eral and other fficials.J T : r
The six states are among those
which will: cast the heaviest vote
in the November 'election.; The
reasoning of the president's ad
visors waV said 'to be that : if n
majority of them do not cooper
ate, the proposed, federal ballot
will hot bring any more service
votes Into the boxes than would
be cast under the existing federal
law which: waives state; registra
tion and poll tax requirements.
President Roosevelt has made it
plain' that :his acceptance, or re
jection of the compromise meas
ure passed by congress would
hinge on Ms decision whether
more service men would vote un
der the proposed new law or the
Weather r "
Satardsy maxJmani tern '
peratnre CS, minimum IX
Precipitation .98 of an inch.
Northwest wind. Partly cloa-
dy. River J feet.
Partly cloudy with few .
showers north and west per
tioa Sunday. Monday fair. ;
Cooler Snnday- night and i
slightly , cooler north per
tioa Swsday. :
5e
Ko. 807:
ouiifs
50,000 Nazi ;
r Troops Lost :
Iii Battles
By TOM YARBROUGH ;
LONDON, Sunday, March 19
(JPh Russian troops spilling
through the shattered German
Ukraine front have almost com
pleted the destruction of the "
German sixth army, killing or
capturing 50,000 nazis .and
reaching the : Dniester river .
frontier of pre - war Rumania,
and there Were indications that
the Germans already were evacu
ating some v men - from the ' big
Black sea port of Nikolaev, a Mos
cof communique disclosed early
today.' i , .-J-t --
Balkan reports reaching Lon
don by way ef Turkey said the
, massive Russian blow had ere ?
a ted , powerful r repercussions '
.throughout the axis - tied nan
' tions of Rumania", Hungary and -Bulgaria,
and that both the Rn-V'
nuiiian and Gennan'Urh'Vomr '
' mands were rushing reserves te
the bread , Dniester ' in an ; ef
fort to ward off further disaster.!
,; The ; Turkish dispatches. were
filed by correspondents in Buda
pest Hungarian capital, and; said
that it was generally felt there
that the Russians could not be
halted at the Dniester.
The Russians listed 36,800 Ger
mans killed and 13,859 captured
in the rout - of the Sixth army.
reconstructed since its historic
capitulation at Stalingrad.
The official British government
radio, after announcing the news
that the Russians had reached Ru
mania, ; broadcast a warning to
that axis satellite to get out of
the war "at once." . . . '
i The Russians announced a re
sounding series ef successes
all three Ukrainian fronts, from
Dabno in prewar Poland down
to the encircled Black sea port
of Nikolaev, In two orders of
the day by Marshal Stalin, the .
regular nightly communique and
a special eommnnlqne Issued In
rapid succession.
Tonight they were pursuing 40
to 80 German divisions acros the
muddy Ukraine farm lasfoa. .
The victory over the Jinxed
German Sixth army was one of
the most notable of the war, the
Russians listing nine German di
visions as liquidated, another so
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Menaces Jap
Burma Supply
By FRANK U MARTIN :
HEADQUARTERS, US A AF
First-Air Commando Unit India
Burma Front March IB-t-In
the heart.of northern Burma, 150
miles behind the Japanese lines, a
strong force of British-Indian air-
borne troops ' supplied by Amer
lean glider and air transport units
today was, exploiting a surprise
aerial "breakthrough that men
aces all Japanese north-south sup-,
ply lines in Burma...
The site of their landing and
immediate establishment of an of
fensive pocket was officially de
scribed only as "southeast of My
itkyina." That north Burma city
is the hub of the whole Japanese
operation In the area. :o
Additional details of the air
borne invasion thatbegan March
5 marked it as the largest aerial
offensive operation undertaken by
the allies since the war started, it
was reported at headquarters.
' The daring stroke; directed by
Col. Philip Cochran,, (the real life
model for . the "Flip Corlnn" of
the comic strips,) caught the Ja
panese completely by surprise. It
was not until eight days had pass
ed, and; the base was organized
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tern
German
Disaster
M