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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE REGISTER - GUARD Page Six. linn. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER (Published Wrmr arrantta aad Winter) ED1TOH AMD PUBLISHES - - - Alton MANAGING EDITOR William M. Tuaasaa Dins St VIC . AMMUMd Preu. United PrM MTMHER Audit Bureau o OrcuUttone Enters at the Pet Otne at Euian. mm aa aeoad elaaa matter. The Kagutar-Guard'a poller a) tb oonplate and Impartial publication In 111 sawa pafaa of all nawa aad atetemanta on new. On thia pan tha adltsra of Tb BaglaUr-Ouard offer their ooinlona on avanta of th day and mattera ad Importanoa to the community, endeavoring to be cendld but fall and helpful In tb daraloptnant at aoutrucUv community poller. THE WAR STORY OF THE YEAR Any way you want to take it, the flight of Rudolf Hess into Scotland is "the war story of the year" barring of course, the death of Hitler, surrender of the German cause or other happy endings of this war which are still highly improbable. The circumstances of Hess amazing ex ploit seem to indicate a serious quarrel be tween Hitler and Hess, flight from Germany to escape the familiar vengeance of "the purge," or worse the concentration camp with its slow tortures. On the other hand, the Hess flight might be a "Trojan Horse" stunt, a trick to mislead the British into some trap on the theory that Germany is breaking down internally. The British seem to be approaching the friendly Hess with appropriate caution. Nothing is too fantastic in Nazidom. It is a thrilling and absorbing mystery, but we may not get all the answers till this war is over. It may not be wise till then for the British to reveal all they know or think about the Hess exploit. But it would seem to be fairly certain they have taken their most valuable prize of the war, a prize worth many times the value of miles of strategic strong holds. For unless the Hess venture is some super fiendish plot, here is a story which even the ingenuity of Goebbels may not explain. Un less there is some swift and dramatic German triumph, the world is going to stop believing in Nazi invincibility. It may have profound effect on Vichy France and Turkey and Russia and on the course of the war. For the British until otherwise demonstrated the flight of Hess to Scotland is magnificent propaganda. Really very little is known about Hess outside Germany, except that he is a World War Veteran, a satellite of Hitler's, the secre tary who shared Hitler's prison cell and transcribed much of Mein Kampf and the man who is supposed to have had complete charge of Nazi party organization, all of which tells us very little about the man or his character. But the world has not forgotten that memorable night when the German legions were launched upon Poland and ' Hitler named first Goering and next Hess to take his place as "fuehrer" and carry on, should anything happen to the "first soldier of Ger many." Hess has been the No. 3 Nazi. Berlin intimates that Hess is insane. The British say the man who has landed in Scot land is entirely sane, and the evidence seems to support the British. An insane man does not equip himself with photographs for identification; he does not carry along his medicines; an insane man does not of necessity head straight for the land of the enemy; parachute to earth instead of risking gunfire on hostile landing fields. David McLean, the Scot farmer who res cued Hess, relates that the man spoke with feeling of his little son: "I fear I may never see my little boy again." And he begged permission to keep his parachute: "To it I owe my life." Hess has sometimes been described as the intellectual of the Nazi regime, and perhaps the pleasantest theory is to suppose that the man has taken this desperate step, not to save himself but to try to save Germany from her follies. Berlin reports are brief and rather glum. There is no word of sympathy or sorrow for the "insane comrade." On the contrary there is the suggestion that Hess' adjutants are to be arrested and punished for letting him get out of the country. This suggests that Hess might have been under Nazi arrest just before his flight, or at least under open surveillance. Or in accord with tradition in some continental armies, he might have been offered that quaint alterna tive of facing the firing squad or taking his own pistol and retiring to his own room to shoot himself. The young son left behind suggests some interesting possibilities. Many a German has accepted death or untold suffering rather than expose his loved ones to Nazi vengeance. Hess may have fled to Scotland in a moment of abject cowardice; on the other hand the reported conversations with the Scot farmer' indicate a man who has "thought it out" and followed his own notion of duty. Finally, there is the possibility that the Germans, for once in this war may be telling the precise truth, that Hess may be merely what they say, a man unbalanced by the old street-fight wound on his head or by the tubercular infection of his World War leg wounds. But that still leaves them in a very em barrassing position. It verifies the picture of a great nation ruled by madmen. It indicates the vital weakness in Nazi armaments a mental and moral weakness. It is safe to say there will be no top-flight British leader cracking under war strain and flying off to Germany. The war is not over! Millions may have to die and suffer (including Americans) be fore it is over, but here is the first real "break" for the valliant British. It will be interesting to see how smartly they can make use of it. Write your own version of the mystery. We see it as shattering the myth of German invulnerability. PUNTS AND PARACHUTES That parachute-troop business in the army is rough stuff. Asking extra pay for officers of that branch of the service, Major W. M. Miley, commander of the First Parachute Battalion, summed up its casualties thus far as follows: 1 death 7 broken legs 2 broken shoulders 4 broken ankles , 1 broken toe broken rib sprained leg sprained back sprained shoulders 25 sprained ankles 8 sprained knees 1 dislocated hip The college men ought to take to this serv ice like ducks to water. The whole summary sounds like the results of one football season. A famous detective gays that women are poor investigators. Our guess is he's not married. Elmira Graduation Program Wednesday ELMIRA, May 13 (Special) Eighth grade graduation exercises will be held at Elmira High School on the evening of May 14. Elmira graduates will be Coquilla Mc Clain, Thelma Rees, Duane Brooks, Darrel Nichols, William Hewitt, Raymond Raush and Elmer Smith. The class colors are old-rose and blue. Class flower is the pink car nation. Flowers are the only gifts acceptable at the exercises. Pupils from the Elmira. veneta. Walton. Fairview, Jeans, Fir Grove and Evers schools will take part. Ken neth Shumaker of the school of education of the University of Ore gon will be the speaker. Grade School Out Closing exercises were held at the Elmira grade school on May 9. The primary room directed by Mable Schmid dramatized several plays, sang, and gave readings. The upper grades directed by Lily Montgomery, presented a program of songs, piano solos and readings by members of the graduating class. Flano solos were given by Carol Inman, Edna Lee Hamlin, RUBy Johnson, Eva Sturdevant, Wilma Neuremberg and Bonnie Thompson. Eighth graders particr pating were Coquilla McClain who gave the class history, Duane Brooks who cast the class prophecy and Billy Hewitt who read the class will. The program was followed by a community picnic held in the play- shed. More than 100 attended. The final event was a baseball game between the grade school team and former students of the school. WASHINGTON LETTER By JOHN W. KELLY WASHINGTON, D. C. May 13 Nothing much has been said about it, but the navy transport plane In which Rep. James W. Mott was to fly from Salem to Washington showed evidences of sabotage. An investigation is now in progress, out of which nothing may come either now or later. What happened to the plane was similar to other planes which have gone to a crash. It has occurred to planes on the Atlantic.coast and to some on the Pacific. Someone (it has occurred too frequently to be an accident or oversight) places old rags and waste material in the gasoline tank in one wing and these foreign substances get into the feed line, cuts on ine gas. When the plane arrived at Salem the gas tank in one wing was leaking severely. The pilot thought the tank was too full. Ready to leave the next morn tag, the tank was empty. The pilot suggested that Mr. Mott climb aboard and they would fly to Cali fornia and have the tank looked after, presumably a matter of an hour or two. The congressman de clined, suggested the pilot go and look after the wing and return to Salem to pick him up. It was on the check-up in California that the rags were found and holes in the wing tank. The job, instead of requiring a few hours, took a week. At Washington airport two years ago the ace flier of South America started for home at dawn. He had been on a good will tour and had been en tertained royally in the national capital. His wife and army officers went to the field to see him off. Before the plane was out of sight it plunged into Potomac river and the flier was dead before res cuers could reach him. The plane was inspected. Rags were in the tank- Senator Charles L. McNary wishes to prevent crabs from being exterminated on the Oregon coast, in particular, and on all coasts in general. News paper reports say that as many as 4,000 dozen crabs are being shipped to California at one time and such raiding of ocean waters on the Oregon shore can not go on indefinitely, contends the senator. The subject was taken up with the fish and wild life bureau (formerly biological survey) and the scientists were enthusiatic about the plan, except that they confessed they do not have sufficient data on the life and habits of the crab and two more years will be necessary to increase their store of knowledge. Crab catchers now, in Oregon, instead of catching them in shallow waters go out in steam vessels and use nets let down several miles off shore on a sand ridge parallel to the coast. Interest of the fish and wildlife bureau in crabs has been a study of the destruction of oyster beds by the crabs; the McNary proposal to salvage the north west species is another matter. Report of the military board assigned to select a cantonment site in the Pasco area for 30,000 men a $5,000,000 job has been tossed out, for reasons not disclosed. There was a jangle of some sort which upset the program; possibly the cost of site was considered too high. Another military mission was assigned the task of finding something suitable, at least suitable to the high command of the 9th corps area. Reclamation Commissioner John Page is de lighted with the Owyhee project, for which he asks $100,000 for completion of some of the drain age work. He informed the appropriation commit tee that when the people went on the land they lived in tents or dug cellars and put roofs over them until they could construct houses. The per manent homes are now appearing and the project is getting under way, three years from the time water was available. The settlers are high class citizens and ambitious, says Commissioner Page. Oregon may as well begin to plan for the enter tainment of 45,000 new troops, collected from all parts of the United States. One group alone will be practically equal to the population of Salem. . . . Electro-Metallurgical Company is negotiating for 37.000 kilowatts from Bonneville for this year's delivery. . . . Senator Holman discovered a sub committee on public lands was planning a trip to the west but did not intend going to Oregon, for Oregon so far as they were aware, had nothing to offer in the way of natural wonders. Holman col lected data on Crater lake, gave it to them, and Ore gon has been placed on the itinerary. The average member of congress is completely ignorant of the northwest. . . . Tommy the Cork has been seeking a million dollar loan for a client who wants to sink an oil well in Alaska. First, however, an effort has been made to have the navy agree to take the oil. . . . Maritime commission is arranging to Increase Its training school for young men as Junior officers for tha ugly ducklings. . Tuesday Radio KOBE Eugene 14W Klloeyelei (MotaNDon La Network) B:M p. m. lnf Thompson'! Orch. 5:19 Cslvacade of Drama 5:30 News 5:45 Captain Midnight S: 00 Confidentially Your 8:15 Fulton Lewis. Jr. 6: SO News 8:45 Hits of the Day 7:00 Your Defenae Reporter 7:15 Serenade in Waltztlme 7:30 Wythe Willfama Predicts 7:45 Popular Serenade 8:00 Diek Stablle'i Orch. 8:15 Al vino Key's Orch. 8:30 BBC News 8:35 Lawrence Welk's Orch. 8:45 Bemle Cu mining's Orch. 8:00 Newt. 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IV fiP.RMANY TRADE BLOWS Eurorje's war- ring powers surveyed the damage in the wake of a Royal Air Force raid on Germany's industrial Rhineland and a Nazi Luftwaffe attack on Britain's Ulydeside snipyarus irom uias gow to the sea. British announced a heavy attack on Mann heim and raids on Frankfurt, Boulogne, Cherbourg and Stav anger. Besides the shipyards, Germans attacked Belfast and Liverpool's Mcrseyside docks. Wedaeuay, Tairiday TWO FEATURES Dick Powell Ellen Drew "CHRISTMAS IN JULY" end The Hlcgins Family "PETTICOAT POLITICS" Springfield Theatre Today's Super Bill! D.ad Cnd KM. and Nan Or.y I "IOU BI NOT 10 TOUGH" Chaa. IUrr.il Son. af Pleaon la "WEST Or ABIL1NI" Shert 8ubJl. Mart Urate 18 Haw. Cklldm u. " ' ' ' reports .Blri5 topic wiii beV11 to Viler! wIbmJ! Tha u.nJ!:" ftw 1 h -V'?' HiU4.lt a. I "Way evenln, .Ttr'im -"aonjnuito """w, sewing T, n ri ! '". summer school atSM annually by they0J and the Bailev rati outstanding bwTJ'L4' awarded at th. oJ.'STH SAGINAW. m7 ?J Mrs. Mvrtl. n.?i. ! 11 eral days recently n ,?1 CAESAREAN OPERATION SAVES COLT When a five-year-old mare was struck by an auto and so badly In jured she had to be killed, a veterinary surgeon at Redwood City, Calif., performed a Caesarean operation to save this colt. Miss Zelda Perry feeds the tiny animal. 1:45 Newa 3:00-ShalI We Welti 3:10 Five Miniature Show 3:1S News of the World 3:30 Hollywood News Flashes 3:45 News by Frank Blngman 4:00 Stars of Today 4:30 NBC 4:45 Cocktail Hour . FROM YONCALLA YONCALI.A. Mav 13 fSn.ll A no-host shower waa given at ine nome 01 Mrs. Byron Turpin recently honorine Mm. Poih Heatte. The gifts were presented oy janice Appiegate and Barbara Woolman. Church RPrvlras and 9 KeeL-at dinner were enjoyed at the Crow nome aunaay. Members were present from Eoseburg and Eu gene. The Home Economics classes of the Yoncalla high school under the direction of the teacher. Miss Christine Jensen, gave their an nual Mothers' tea in the home economics room Friday afternoon. Those in class I who worked in the kitchen were, Erlene Howard, Mary Wittmeyer, Edith Jobe, Pat ty Jackson, Betty Ann Gibson, Doris Kineerv Ttotr Tn tr.,i bright, Jaunita Kelm, and Ruth t-aincK. Tnose receiving the guests were Miss Jensen, teacher, and those in class TT Vera Pearlie Jobe, Clara Miller, Mary nanasnp ana Dorothy Sehlin. A program was given. The Elkhead grange H. E. club met recently. A business session was held followed by a short pro gram. Each lady received a May basket. A dinner was served. ILTvflCL"Il LAST 2 DAYS! afa.aLMr' rrrrii laW I mrintS? cart PWnVSEREIMDCj Tho Creator of "Desny Rides Again" Brings You Wl. illl. IIIIKHI I J.I'U..llrTfW,.,r,. 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