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PAGZd Tie O2G0H STATESMAN, Sclerx. Orecjoa, Thursday Mortiag. Apr! 13. 1S14 : i . . , , wmihii Oil Wo Favor Swayt Ut; No Fear Shall Awt " From First Statesman, March 28, 18S1 ' : THE ! STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHART A. SPRACU Editor and Publisher , ' Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all ; news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. The Locusts Retreat. Too More than Just the German . army Is being drawn out of Russia as fast as the German high command can arrange the transport. The camp followers are west-bound, too, the myriad of official and semi-official locusts which the third reich sent to prey upon the good lands of Rui sia. The German newspapers, one reads, are filled these aays witn aignuiea, dux snnu per sonal advertisements for new "situations' In which! the fact is unobtrusively noted tt&t the applicant has "an excellent command of the Russian language." Since in the ordinary course of events, the average German business man orminor official does not pick up Russian (a very difficult language) in the Rhin eland, Ba varia or Prussia, the only conclusion is that he picked it up while at work in the conquered provinces of Russia. Now he is trying to retail it in the home employment market at a time when competition in that particular commodity Is running pretty strong. In 1941 the. German armies advancing in what was called the Ostland (eastern terri tory) took with them swarms of Beaemter, Kommissaren, reich administrators, and just plain garden variety bureaucrats. They took ov er in the vacuum of governmental administra tion left by the vanquished Soviets in the west tern Russian territories. Then they began a pro gram of calculated pillage much worse in its ultimate effects than the sudden, bloody, swut sacking of captured towns by armies of the middle ages. Not only was; property occu pied, but factory equipment was moved back Into Germany, and the very land itself was turned over to immigrant Germans installed from over-populated agricultural districts of the fatherland. - Undoubtedly in this saturnalia of carpet bagging, the nazi tendency to be small, dom ineering, and mean, came into its fullest play. Where Russians did not openly lose their lives, they were 'certainly made miserable by the petty despotism of a legion of minor bureau crats set free in a defenseless land. But the tables are turned, and now the would- be employee who presents his knowledge of the Russian language as a recommendation at the employment bureau in the reich must re ceive rather short shrift. There are so many of him, so many lately arrived, still demand ing, still despotic little officials, that their in dividual abilities are doubtless soon swamped In the implacable labor demands of a nation striv ing its last to avert implacable defeat from the west and from the east. Perhaps when some of these wander through the ruined streets of Berlin and Frankfort and Hamburg they will have quite another feeling from that which they enjoyed when they surveyed the ruins of Khar kov, of Smolensk, of the ejty known formerly as Tsar itsin, and now as Stalingrad. Limits to Goo&Neighboring We had i thought : that the popular f protest ' against Vice President Wallace's good neighbor policy, of pouring milk down the throats of tht Melaneslana would kill off the ; tuper-gener-: osity of the new world builders, but Sen. Bush field of South Dakota claims that they are busy blueprinting world relief on an- astounding . scale. Food would sort of roll on a chain belt from American farms and processing plants to the hungry from Arabia to Zululand. This would come even if it meant complete social ization of this country. ; Regardless of what the visionaries may dream of, such business is out. The surplus: we produce of foodstuffs is not adequate to feed many peo ple. On balance we were a food-importing ra- ther than exporting nation in prewar years. We did have a surplus of grains and cotton, but imported huge quantities of coffee, coconut, bananas, etc. :T.JV . We can and are willing to provide emergency relief to the Greeks, the Dutch, the Belgians who have suffered much, and are now, shipping some foodstuffs to southern Italy. But all this must be on a temporary relief basis until the domestic agriculture is restored. Probably the best thing we can do is to supply seeds which . take little shipping space, j Fundamentally though these countries will have to help them selves without leaning on Uncle Sam as a per petual Santa Claus. . - The president himself has said we can't feed the world. The sooner the world planners un derstand this the better off all will be, and our neighbors will not be deceived. 5- This welfare agitation confuses our inter national relations. Some people are isolation ist because they think the internationalists are going to make this a food station for the Chi nese, the Berbers and the Hindus. What those with a sane international outlook have in mind is simply that our nation cooperate 'with other nations to solve common problems, not the in ternal problems, political or economic, of each other. We ought to keep this distinction clearly in mind. ' . State Tax Date '",'' , If there can be any joy in paying a tax bill, thousands of Oregon citizens should have some feeling of jubilance "when they pay the 1943 state income tax,' payable April 15th. Under authority provided by the 1943 legislative as sembly, the state tax commission has author ized a 75 per cent reduction in the normal state income tax payment. Taxpayers should bear in mind, however, that the state tax returns should be filed, or, be in the mail not later than next Saturday, April 15th. :: . - - -.; Dnterproting The War News By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Copyright 1M4 y tfa Associated Press Easter Bonnets Today's Eadlio Pmogirainnis News from the Russian and Indian fronts carry hinU of impending events. that may , overshadow U war developments except the rising, tempo of tha allied pre-invanon air assault on fortress Eu- - rope. :., . -'t What catches the eye in Moscow advices is the stress laid officially on the Russian bombing of Lwow, the apparent ma in objective of the first -Ukrainian army In southern Poland. The implica tion is that the Russian effort in the east is about to shift from the Rumanian front to the sector -et Poland south of the Pripet and its vast marsh lands.'-- -I ' i .:";''';: ..- .That is the most. vulnerable nazl flank of alL The Polish plains north of the Carpathians -are the indicated primary route for arf invasion of the reich itself from the. east -'Lwow is the communi cations key to the nazi bastion guarding -the ap proaches to those plains between the head waters of the Dnestr and the Polish Bug rivers. A Russian 1 breaf-through there could topple back the whol German left flank to the Baltic' ? ,f : Most recent advices from New Delhi en opera tions on the Burma-India front carry a new note. They suggest that the allied high command, count ing heavily on supply difficulties of .Japanese col umns threatening the Bengal-Assam ' railway. Is preparing to spring a trap of its own on the Nippon ' eae invaders of India.' The exact whereabouts of air-borne allied troops far in rear of the Japanese spearheads in India has never been made clear. They are somewhere presumably close to' the rail and river lines Im ; northern Burma over which all supplies and rein forcessenis for tht enemy must travel to sustain . the Japanese drive. Unquestionably British imperial forces engaging the enemy have all the best of the communications facilities. They probably also have the numerical advantage and control of the air. It would not be surprising that aliied strategy called notrf for re . pulse of. the invaders of India, but for a defense calculated to pin them down while their supplies . lines were cut far in the rear. That Japanese foray always has appeared as a ' desperate gamble. Earlier, pessimistic reports from, I.'e-.v Delhi were difficult to undersetand . unless.,: tliey were calculated to mislead the foe. The marked r tih:rss in tone of accounts from New Delhi might there"'.- prove t!;!Jy' significant,.. Dr. Prior of the American Dairy, association says that clothing may be made out of milk. Then it will be no crying over torn" milk. News Behind The News ; By PAUL MALLON - --. (Distribution by Kins rcttuitt Syndicate tnt. Repro duction in i whole or in part strictly prohibited.) WASHINGTON, April 12 Sprinleafing of -tha trees: has -heightened rumors and comments concerning the promised grand assault, on Europe. ' It should not be called a second front This is an obsolete misnomer! the Russians furnished more than a year ago. Since then, -the Italian second . front has been opened, and the third air front over Germany has be come important. .' . j While no one outside knows or should know the plans for the grand assault, the best unofficial military analysts na turally have made' geograph ical surveys with the follow ing interesting results: s raal Manea The Russian drive into Ru- mania plainly calls for an Ariglo-American invasion of Yugoslavia to cut across the Balkans and meet the! oncoming Russians. This would isolate Bul garia, Greece and southern Yugoslavia! if it could be launched in sufficient strength to bring success. Second most strategic point for the grand assault would be' a power drive through the Netherlands straight into Germany. An ideal plan (would call for simultaneous invasions of northern France around LeHavre (aimed up the Seine at Paris) and invasion of the southern coast of France (Garonne and Rhone volleys.) . -' ; ! With such a program the grand assault would be in a position to follow the successful Russian tactics and switch" attacks from one front to an other, thus straining out the German defense Una to the utmost and preventing concentration of en emy effort , The great difficulty with such a scheme however, is that these ItDnts are not contiguous and differ ent routes of supplies and reserves would have to' be maintained for each independently. k Four separate tremendous' accumulations of pow er would be required. The nazis are supposed to have 675,000 men in France. In their current ruminations, nearly all the an- alysts have1 abandoned interest in the Norwegian and Danish avenues in Europe. Norway, after cap ture, would not bring military advantages com mensurate with the effort of conquest, and Den mark is farther from the heart of Germany than the Netherlands. ; ; These conclusions may not at all guide the mill-. tary high command, which must be concerned with the problem of resources as much as Ideal stra tegy. But they do represent the summation of dis-. cussions now -current among authorities, particu larly in military magazines. i; Now, as to the actual condition on the present German fighting front, their .defeat on the southern end of the Russian line has been more serious than i the maps show. They have no more ground to sell. Also in their latest retreats, they have failed for the first time to gain enough time to prepare their po sitions. : Tha nazis tried to dig in from last to the Black ' sea on a fairly good line. But, as this wis written, last was half surrounded and in danger of falling. Nothing suggested an ability to hold it, yet less than 200 miles in the rear was the voided Ploesti oQ fields. ! Similarly northward around Lwow (where they have been bald a little better) their backs were up . against that vital 'rail center, and its subsequent Galician oil field and the shale which the Germans have been crushing for, their lubricantilThus, for" " the first time also the reds were approaching vital nazl military resources instead of merely recap-" taring their own.-. - 'x j .it H v - - This Balkan development seems to call for Tur key to come into the war, but the Turks 'are afraid ef what German bombing might do to their cities, particularly Istanbul. While hopes that they would act at the proper time were once high here, now that the proper time has arrived, few : authorities who know the situation, are hopefuL ,c KSLM THUKSDAT 1299 Kc jo Rise 'n' Shine. S:4S News. T:0-Mews. T:1S Farm and Home Program. 7 JO Shady Valley. 7:45 Morning Moods. Se Good Ship Grace. 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The flowers are white like stars. So far I haven't found anyone who has known of One to bloom.'. "1 have my snake cactus pot ted in a large fish bowl and due to moisture there is green moss on top of the soil." ' X am curious about this and am wondering if she could be referring to the sansevieria which is as often called the snake plant, It is also called bowstring hempl The leaves are stiff and very ' erect and grow quite talL Us ually they arei varigated. While this doesn't seem to bloom often, It does produce . flowers and is exceedingly beautiful in bloom. It is also interesting to note that It is cultivated in South Africa and India for its import . ance as a fiber plant There are said to be 84 species of this. Some,' I am told, have pink flow - era.' ;v;r:A".,'-;. - '-'Y '-v'-i'' It Mrs. X. B. B.'i plant is not ' , the sansevieria, will she please write : again and ' describe the plant a little more fully? 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U AO-Sign Off. Ashland Couple Lose Three Sons in TTar . ASHLAND, Ore, April 11 p) News that their third and last son had died In Italy was received to day by Mr. and Mrs. Norman Ash craft of Camas Valley, near here. . The wit department Informed them that . the son, Sgt ; teland Ashcraft fel In battle. He was wounded in the invasion of Italy, awarded the purple heart, and had returned to the front lines. The first of the brothen to die was LL Dean Ashcraft, killed in an ; airplane ' accident in Florida, the second, LL Kent Ashcraft, who lost his life while on a rat' cue mission in the Pacific theatre. at the rows of white crosses; Here and there are white "stars of Da vid over toe crave of a known Jewish boy. ''j'-'.v Suddenly a motion alonf the little tree-lined road attracted his attention. A passing- soldier had turned and given the cemetery a snappy salute; The major watched the road. Several soldiers passed by and- nothing happened. Soon another GI came alonf. He, too. saluted the cemetery as he went by.- to. - ' It happened several times be fore Merrill finally stopped one of the! soldiers and asked him if anyone had suggested the salute. The boy said no, It was his own idea. He didn't know anyone else doing it Quietly the major asked him why he saluted "just to hear what he said." : J There's a lot of good boys out there,", the soldier said simply. Southworth and his grave regis tration; crew, who .have handled burials for one American division through the Sicilian and Italian campaign, came ashore at Anzio one day, started the cemetery next day, and were burying toe dead the following day. It was supposed to have been just a Ismail, temporary cemetery. soon to be replaced by a larger one when the troops moved on. But it: has become semi-permanent, and no longer is small. Also, it was intended for just one divi sion, but the crowded condition of the beachhear has resulted in its being used generally for Am ericans; The British have their own cemetery elsewhere. Of all the men buried here, less than one per cent are unidentified, and most of those eventually will be through their fingerprints. Many Germans buried in a plot adjacent to the Americans are not yet identified, but every possible effort has been made to preserve their effects for identification af ter' the war. y:,C The men try to make the ceme tery as beautiful as possible, whitewashing the crosses when they get faded or dirty and build ing small pathways vof crushed rock between the rows of graves. But they can't do a great deal be cause materials are scarce and so are men for any task not immed iately connected with the constant battle, i Later, when toe front moves forward, a complete ceme tery beautiflcation program will be carried out But now even the essential work often is done under shellf ire. Men have Wen killed while preparing bodies for burial and during grave rites. Shells fly overhead all day-long and the grave regis tration office work' is done in a small dugout. Occasionally enemy air raids force the men to dive for protec tion in i the very craves they've been digging. FlagNot Allotted to Fly Over American Lemetery at Jinzio j . By KENNETH L. DIXON ANZIO BEACHHEAD, April 3-(Delayed)-r-No fla Is al lowed to fly over the American cemetery where the beachhead dead are burled. There Is a good reason. ; y -M "Ii this flat land It would give German artillery an. aiming point said Lt Herbert H. South- ....... ... ...... , worth, 23-year-old former steel : 01nrl ff Clifct mm burchasing : agent at Mans- lUlipil H VAXILC field. Ohio, -who Is In. charge ox the grave -registration service. "Wherever :the cemetery is out of shell range we fly a flag over it." ' V ' ' One of the men who felt badly about there beinc no flag over toe graves was Maj. John P. Merrill of Los Angeles,- an ammunition officer, but be doesnt mind so much any more. - He was out in the cemetery the other day, standing there looking 6500 P-47 ThunderbolU Delivered in 4 Years WILMINGTON, Del, April 12 W)-More than 6500 P-47 Thun derbolts have been delivered in less than four years to the army air forces by Republica Aviation corporalicm plants in Famingdale, NY, and Evansville, Ind, stock holders learned at their annual meeting today. , Alfred Marchev, president, said important deliveries -were being made under lend-lease to three countries of the United Nations besides to regular American air force theatres. 2500tli Wildcat Fighter Rolls Off Assembly LINDEN, NJ, April 11 -ff)-The 2500th Wildcat fighter plane to roll off the production line at the Eastern Aircraft division, of General Motors corporation, was christened with champagne to day by Mary Martin, Broadway musical- comedy star. . Ten thousand workers saw. the fighter delivered to the navy. r - ft f ', ?fw k ' ( : j f f ; I 1 Ralph H. Cake, repoblieaa nation : al eemmltteeman far Oregon ' and eae ef the 15 members ef the party's executive committee, . has filed far reelectloa at the coming- Slay primaries. Scout Honor Court Slated For April 19 The kids get out and work to ward it all year long they mas ter all kinds of intricate knots, amass those merit badges, tramp through tough field problems be cause they want to feel some thing's been achieved when it comes and it's close approach ing Cherry City district court of honor, to be held - in the floral room at the chamber of com merce Wednesday night, April 19, at 8 o'clock. . - The event this year - will be sponsored by Sea Scout Ship No. 12, with Skipper Ted Roake in direct charge. Colorful sea terminology and tradition even a "ship" No. 12's land ship, "Willamette'' on whose deck the court will be conducted will give the pro ceedings strictly a -salty" tang. So mindful of detail are the Sea Scouts that provision has been made for "piping" of the council, district officers and scoutmaster? aboard the "ship" one of the most mellow of navy customs. Judge Arthur Hay of the su oreme court, and rmirt nf chairman trill ' preside. Unlike the past courts, awards will this time ; be .made to entire troops, thus giving recognition to the scout and his troop at the same time, Troops, 8, 11 and IS will be given special awards for civic service and anniversary week window displays. Extra feature of the evening, will be movies and colored slides of activities at the Boy Scout summer camps. . ' The district council invites all parents and scouts of Salem's 30 troops to attend the court. West Stayton Gets New Scout Troop Troop 47 ninth new unit ad ded to the Marion district in the past 12 months was recently or ganized at West Stayton, with a charter membership of approxi mately 15 scouts. Paul McClel lan is scoutmaster of the new troop, his assistant being Merle Crain. . , - . Troop 47 originally was a patrol of Stayton Troop 50. Sponsoring committee includes x ecu iuuutws, xxi viarK ana Fred Denham, treasurer J William Crawford Gets New Position William H. Crawford, for sev eral years secretary of the Oregon economic council, has been ap pointed deputy, state labor com missioner.; The ; appointment was announced Wednesday by State Labor Ckanmissioner W. E. Kim- ;i---;.-r:-t ; Crawford served as executive secretary of the recent Red Cross drive here, was secretary of the Salem . Cannerymen's association last year and has been active' in local affairs. Steven DIAIIOIIDS EE-STYLED! . .A beccuuful new mounHn3t will etihance and brin? out ' ;- die brilliance and becruty ' ' of the etone. :..' Diamonds He-set While Yon