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It s Coming . The big. 90th anniversary edition of The Statesman will be off the press late this month; Yoa will want to read its story of the Willam ette valley and Its prospects for progress. Partly cloudy with pos sible light showers cooler today and Thursday; local frosts Thursday. Max. temp, Tuesday, 71. Mb,' Si. North wesi wind. River v5 foot. Clear.' - POU NDEID 1651 NINETIETH YEAR Salem. Orecjon, Wdneday Morning, March 12, 1941' Prlc 3cj Newsstands 5c Oregon Basketball Squads Prepared For Annual i'Wari !' - Sharpshooters of 16 District Teams Start Firing at 1 pan. - in State Crown Toiirney . . The . deadly shooting of eight-man . squads here in . Salem! 'isudesiined to displace some of the front page news of the fir-; ing of battalions overseas and the poppings of political big-wigs in, Oregon's "legislative halls for; week. . . -. iThis "deadly dunking" is : Whatever paces liked by the 128 youths who compromise the 16 hoop-teams entered in the 22nd annual state high school hoop tournament at Willamette uni versity starting today. Unlike the firing on European front, the sniping in this type of war isn't fatal. While the cham pionship' field will be narrowed to eight contenders at the close of today's games, the defeated playf oft; in consolation brackets until they sustain a second loss. Consolation is said to be scarce in war zones across the big pond. As in each of the 21 previous tournaments, The Statesman will be atop the 1941 meet from the time the host . Salem team opens it, at 1 p.m. against the reputedly strong Columbia Preps, until the champion is crowned Saturday night. Com plete returns of each day's play will be faithfully and completely ' recorded in! your morning Statesman. : ; ! ! . . (See page sports page, details.) j; 1 8, Ron Gemmel's 1 for tournament School Board IfiiSjDeaF Agrees id Offer $7000 for Eight Lots With Income Stipulation The Salem school board dealt with an accumulation of adminis trative items, most of them of a routine nature, at its. regular meet ing Tuesday night j The board agreed to offer Na than Selig: the sum of $7000 for eight lots located next to school property on North 14th street with the stipulation that income from the first of the eight pieces of property be retained by the school board for a 12 -month period. - Selig has offered to sell the lots for the price approved, though the board's stimplation as to monthly income from the property did not agree exactly with his offer. The board also accepted $50 from the Salem Community Con certs association to cover half the cost of materials for the construc tion of an audition shell for the senior high school auditorium. According to arrangements made the shell will be constructed and painted without cost to either agency except for materials. Frank Strubel, local architect, (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3), Ford Wants Young Men M VS Helm WATS, Gju, March iUMJP- Henry Ford would like to see more young men running wis nation's government and be lieves the national defense pro gram will be "educational to :that end. . -r-i iTbe Detroit automobile mal:er suggested that : govem mesit should function alonr in dustrial pattern and predicted that objectors to war "will make themselves heard" in Am erica. :- ; .i i7 our young men are to do our; fighting,: why cant they nn the country?' the 17-year- i old Industrialist asked in an In- Maneuvers in Big Bend Are f Denied by Military Chief ! i FORT LEWIS, March 11-C5VA high military authority here Tues day denied a report that extensive army maneuvers might be held this ifummer in , the Big Bend country of Eastern Washington. ?: Wlile declining to be quoted di rectly, the officer said the site for maneuvers would be In California or Iri "the Fuget Sound area or in bc-S-l . - Ex tensive maneuvers were held last summer south and west of Fort Lewis reservation. P 6- ; - ' . . the remainder of the currentf td be done with basketballs atf Oregon Spurns Raise Votes Down Plan for 'Expenses' Following f Hilarious Debate ! The: roundabout way lof getting more pay was spurned by Oregons representatives Tuesday as they voted down 56 to 3, to the accoiri paniment of some hilarity and some serious debate, the measure which Would have enabled them-f-if it had been constitutional o claim $5 a day. for . "expense" while here for the session, j : Holding out the prospect, which he considered favorable, of votr approval for the $8 a day consti tutional amendment on the 1942 ballot," Rep. Frank J. Lohergan (R Mult) pleaded for a substantial vote against the "expense" bill sas a means of assuring the voters that the members of the legislature are not "chiselers." He recalled that a resolution of similar purport, passed- in good faith in 1929, was ruled. unconsti tutional. .. 1 ' . j . Rep. J. IX Perry D-Coiiabi, offered the; only defense of he measure, and that in rebuttal; and only he and Reps. R. C. Frisbie (R-Baker) and Erling Brauti (jD Tillamook) voted against indefi nite postponement of the measure which had been unanimously Re ported adversely by the; ways ind means committee. Rep. Richard L. Neuberger (D Mult) spoke against the bill but accused the legislature of "cheap ening itself by submitting an! $8 a day amendment. He said the figure should be S 15 a day, backed up by a prohibition of nepotism and "petty chiseling": such as keeping copies of the legal code. Rep. Leo Smith (D-Mult.) jde fended the latter practice, saving members needed the codes in or der to perform their duties j be tween sessions. I Seattle Picks New Mayor SEATTLE, March ll-jCtf5)-County Auditor Earl MiUikin,who went from school teaching to jpoli tics, was elected mayor of Seattle Tuesday to fill the unexpired 14 months of Governor Arthur B. Langlie's term. f Complete unofficial, returns gave Millikin 53,146 to 48,062 for Police Judge William Devin.l Millikin, a 50-year-old demcrat, triumphed in an election in jquiet contrast to many of the city' tur bulent personal -campaigns of the past. ; The outcome was a feharp reversal of the primary of "two weeks ago, wheer the 42-yeir-old police judge led Millikin by an almost two-to-one margin 13-man race. in a Two Die in Crash -SAN DIEGO, Calif, Maifch 11 -0-Two men were killed In the crash of a naval torpedo plane in the mountains 85 miles ; northeast of here Tuesday while on k rou tine flight to El Centra. Ai uurd occupant of the plane, attached to the aircraft carried USSf Sara toga, bailed out safely. I The report that the maneuvers might be held in eastern Washing ton came from a Tacoma chamber of commerce official. , LOS ANGELES, March U& Brig. Gen.,Mathew. CL Smith died Tuesday night at his Beverly Ilills home from a heart attack. le was 72. ri '.- Gen. Smith was commander of Camp Sherman, Ohio, In thl World war, , after which he : became a member of the army general staff. He retired In 1903. - t f . : Lease -Len FirspVay Tourney Favorite ' - s aK ss.yy -I --- -SA) 31oMinnvilIe's Griiilies, who rule at favorites to win their Z pjo. state basketball tournament clash with Beaverton today. Sitting, from left: Jack Allison, Maurice Prater, Bob Caviness, Jones Bates, Don Relfenrath. Standing, from left: Jack Beeler, Coach Blaine John-, son. Bill Tapscott, Clare XJaviness, Glen Maey, Manager Orval Crim mitts, Gene Peterson. Showdown Days Faced By State Legislators 1 Unemployment Compensation, Liquor Bills and Sales Tax Measure Will Receive Action in Oregon Senate, House j By STEPHEN C. MERGLER Todayf$nd Thursday are legisiature--oh unemployment on the sales tape. Senate action today on the four major house unemployment compensation bills and the success of the succeeding attempt at concurrence" of the two bodies will in large part determine final isa ie la?.. - Paul flauser Column Well, what; we were all afraid of happened. I 1 We just couldn't get the legisla j ture out the back !f?ldoor while the basketball tour nament was com- Ji'mg in the front. ri The legislature seems to be here for the duration. nor ine auraxion Vvof the basketball f' f- j 1 tournament any- I way, and there I may be truth m I the rumors that some of the east- pani it Hanser. jr. ern Oregon rep resentatives are sending home for their summer Underwear. The basketball players and the legislators have few things in common. There's a waistline drawn betweeii them. The legislators could learn : few things from the basketball players. The Ibasketball players can decide the issue in 40 min utes and never move to recon sider the score. The hoopsters, as the sports writers call them, have it over the solons, as the headline writers call them, in some respects. They're both on purely amateur basis, but the basketball players get their board and room. (Turn to jPage 2, Col. 2) Hank Gfeenberg, Baseball Star, Has Flajt Feet t - i ' i 1 . LAKELAND Fla, :Marchll- (ffV-A draft board physical exam ination disclosed officially Tues day what Hank Greenberg and his friends liave known for; a long time that Hank has. flat feet. , isi:- u:.- At Detroit,! Greenbergs . local draft board has made arrange ments , for thej Detroit ;Tiger star to be examined here, site of the Tiger spring training camp,- and St was done at the office of Dr. Grover C, Freeman' of Lakeland. Dr. Freeman said that! Green berg was afflicted with "second degree bilateral pes planus," med ical language for flat feet ' - 'Whether this will mean : draft deferment fori Greenberg will be up to the Detroit 4 draft board, it was " explained. - The j local board already has classified him for im mediate service, depending on his nhvslrfll rrmrfttinn. - If VI : I r ill ct "showdown days' in the OrefonJ compensatioh, - on liquor bills arid adjournment time. Five other bills, representing nearly every effort in the line of wine and liquor legislation essayed at this session, are also on the senate's calendar. In the house 11 a. m. today is probably the zero hour for the sales tax, revised by Rep. Frank Lonergan's judiciary committee Monday night in an attempt to satisfy an opposition that turned it down in its original form last week. Committees to Be Named In Ironing Out Differences Today's senate battle, if any, over unemployment compensation will be followed by appointment of conference committees to iron out sharp differences between house and senate proposals. There will follow either considerable (Turn to Page 2, Col. 5 Something New Myrtlewood Furniture Admiring some of the myrtlewood furniture for the new lodge at Silver Creek falls are, left to right, Mrs. Albert Finsley, Mrs. G. S. Dibble and Mrs. L. M. Pelley, Salem residents visiting Art Center. Statesman Photo. S; r . - . in 1 1 n i -i i j mil i ii ii i -- -rf - " ' -, n mi Oregozuana who have an appre ciation of native .wood will find Literest in , the display of unique furniture now at the Art Center in ,the old . high , school building. The furniture is - constructed of myrtlewood and was made by the Portland WPA project for use in the Silver Creek Falls lodge. This is probably ithe first time that Oregon myrtlewood has been used in furniture making on any scale, declared Charles Val Clear, ' ' .'. . : . House Speeds Measure for Pen of FDR President Orders List of War Materials Sent to England, Greece WASHINGTON, March 11-0P)-In a breath-taking burst of speed, congress rushed the lease lend bill to the White House Tuesday, President Roosevelt signed it, and four minutes later ordered an undisclosed list of war materials sent to England and Greece. Then, he told a press confer- ience ne would ask congress Wednesday for the nation's big gest peace-time appropriation $7,000,000,000 to finance the help Britain program, and that some time within a week he would make a radio talk on the subject. Final congressional approval took the form of a 317 to 71 house vote accepting amendments at tached to the bill by the senate, and the accompanying debate produced bi-partisan pledges of national unity, now that a ma jority of both houses had spoken. Wallace Sns Measure With Speaker Rayburn The speed started at that point. Vice Presldnt Wallace, brushing agtj-old formalities aside, went to the house end of the capitol and he and Speaker Rayburn signed it. Chairman Kirwan (D-Ohio) of the house committee on enrolled bills, slipped the elaborate linen paper document Into a brief case, and hailed a taxicab. At the White House be turn ed it over to Clarence Hess, a veteran clerk of the executive offices, who signed a receipt for It. 9t 3:40 pjn Mr. Roosevelt was waiting at his desk, sur rounded by photographers. At 3:51, a White House official sig nalled to newsmen, with a wave of his hand, that the measure which might conceivably shape the whole history of the world had become law. A list of war supplies, the property of the army and navy, had already been drawn up, in consultation with high officers of. the two services. At 3:55 Mr. Roo sevelt ordered it on its way to England and Greece, -and at 4 j (Turn to Page 2, Col. 1) assistant state, supervisor of the Oregon! Art. Project and organizer of , Salem's , Art Center. Eight ' thousand board ' feet of that myrtlewood 'has been fur nished by the state highway com mission through the state park service for the Silver Creek Falls project. It will be an outstanding feature of the new chalet for the state park. . : - ; ' ''' It has long been the contention of furniture craftsmen that solid myrtlewood . was unsatisfactory rm m Ji w Jr. Meeoimes Japan Grabs Rice in Siam Vichy Pact TOKYO, March lMiP) French Indo-China handed one of her richest rice-producing areas over to Thailand Tuesday under Japanese-mediated peace settlement ending their border dispute which flared Into undeclared war last fall. Japan, short on rice,' was be lieved In diplomatic circles to have obtained assurances that she could purchase the entire (Turn to Page 2. Col. 4) British Envoy Escapes Bomb Blast in Instanbul Hotel Kills Two, Injures 23 ISTANBUL, Turkey, March 12 (Wednesday )-P)-Ceorge W. Rendel, the former British minister to German - occupied Bulgaria, escaped assassination Tuesday night in a bomb explo sion In tWe lobby of the Pera Palace hotel here, out two other persons were killed and 23 in jured. ' Rendel himself, aparently the main intended victim, was un hurt. One of the dead was identi fied as a Turkish plain clothes man. Some among the injured were reported near death, but most of them were not seriously hurt. Among those hurt but all only slightly were three members of Rendel's staff First Secretary Lambert and two girl typists. Rendel, who had arrived at the hotel to take up residence after breaking British relations' with Bulgaria, had just gone to his rooms and that circumstance perhaps saved him from injury or death. His daughter, Anne, also was unhurt. Serious Diplomatic Repercussions Asserted Military authorities, who are directing the application of mar tial law in European Turkey, joined government agents in an investigation, and said the crime (Turn to Page 2, Col. 3) for furniture because of its rep utation for; checking and curling; but the" Portland workers . have completed aeveral very fine pie ces.; ;i " " Included are a reception table, showing beautiful burls, an ex cellent . example , of : the famous wood at its best. A writing table, a porch tree and one other larger table are included tor the group. Wood in the chairs ia - combined with wrought iron. 500,000 Awaits To Hit Turks, Greece Mighty Military Machine Ready for Invasion With Thousands of Bombers Poised for Fray , By The Associated Press 1 A half -rmllion nazi shock troops were massed in Bulgaria opposite the Greek and Turkish frontiers Tuesday night and re liable reports from Sofia said they were only awaiting Adolf Hit ler's "go signal to strike, v- Thousands of bomber and fighter planes were4 lined up on every available airport and many improvised fields ready for action. Underground fuel vaults have been dug. German gen eral staff officers have deserted Sofia and now are at their head quarters in Plovdiv, 40 miles from Greece's frontier. The southward flow of German trucks now carries doctors : and nurses. The military machine Franco Foils Nazi Bomber RaidPlans NEW YORK, March U.-iJP)-Reliable informants said Tues day night that Generalissimo Francisco Franco had abruptly turned down r German demand for facilities to fly m 1 1 1 1 a r y planes' across' Spain to Africa. These Informants said that a well-planned "swift diploma tie maneuver"' by Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribben trop thus collapsed, and as a re sult. General Espinosa de Los Monteros, Spanish ambassador to Berlin, lost his job. This is the story: ' (Turn to Page 2, Col. 6) Russia Lulls Turk's Fears ANKARA, Turkey, March 11.- (7P)-A Russian promise that Tur key need fear no attack from the soviet should she eftter the war has been given to the Turkish ambassador to Moscow by V. Mo- lotoff, the Russian premier and foreign commissar, a competent source declared Tuesday night. The same informant added that the Germans were .raising long- range guns in the port of Varna in nazi -occupied Bulgaria, with the apparent intention of con trolling Black sea shipping. Almost., simultaneously with these reports came a disclosure oy a ioreign oupiomauc source that three German ' warplanes flying over Turkish fortifications along the Bulgarian frontier were fired upon Monday by Turkish anti-aircraft guns. Strikes Slow Defense Jobs By Tb Associated Press Strikes in. widely separated in dustrial areas ; continued Tues day to slow down work oh some national defense materials. ' A walkout of. 120 AFL building laborers working on construction of a $12,000,000 small -arms am munition plant in St. Louis, Mo, caused a stoppage of work among carpenters, electricians and steam shovel operators. The plant is be ing built under government con tract by a western cartridge com pany subsidiary. The New York city bus ' driv ers strike forced 800,000 persons to seek transportation in the sub way and taxicabs. Progress ia negotiations for a settlement of -differences at " the two ' Birmmgham, Ala fabricat ing plants of the Ingalls Iron Works Co., was reported .by John Beckham, representative of the national defense commission. OAKLAND, Calif, March 11-W)-More than 1600 men were thrown out f work in" the . Fisher body and Chevrolet motor plants Tuesday In dispute- over i produc tion speedup, r but chances appeared.- about even .tonight that work . . would . proceed " normally Wednesday. i J O aw BliFpf apparently is all set. Greece sent three cabinet min isters and a temporary governor to Thrace, opposite the massed German army. 1 New Thrace Governor i J Prepares for Big Battle The new governor, Kostas Kot zias, who has been serving as gov ernor f Athens, told the Greeks in Thrace he had arrived to carry' out his task -to a satisfactory con- thoutreserre w-hesi uiuon. This meant to observers" that Greece still intended to fight to the last should the Germans at tack. . In Albania the Greek high com mand said 450 more Italians pris oners including three senior offi cers had been taken in fierce fight ing. A government spokesman said Albania's mountain slopes were strewn with hundreds of casual ties in a war that has gained mo mentum with the melting of big snow fields. ( British Air Minister Sir Arch ibald Sinclair told a cheering house of commons in London that Britain had the trained per sonnel to man all American equipment sent to her under the British aid bill and that "splen did aircraft the choicest fruit of American design and crafts manship uW get here in time." He spoke just before President Roosevelt signed the bill Into law in Washington. 4 The admiralty's announcement of a weekly loss of 148,038 tons of shipping grimly highlighted Brit ain's need of vessels to combat the German sea menace. Dictators Declared as I Believing US in War Authorized spokesmen in Berlin pointed to the forthcoming visit there and in Rome of Yosuke Mat-' U (Turn to Page 2, Col. 7) War News Briefs LONDON. March l-(Wednes-day)-P-German warplanes bombed at least 15 persons out of .their homes in one area of a northwestern town and buried many others beneath - wreckage ia another during a raid of sev eral hours Tuesday night. CAIRO, Egypt, March U-(?- -The BAF announced Tuesday night It had made heavy over night raids on Tripoli and Tirpolitania - destroying two enemy aircraft en the ground, damaging ethers, and setting off a large fire and loud explosions. LONDON, March n-(p-The British admiralty announced Tuesday night that a British submarine "has torpedoed and sunk a heavily laden Italian troop transport off Sidly." i BERLIN, March ll-(!p)-The eomlats; visit to axis capitals of Japanese Foreign Minister Yos uke Matsuoka and a staff ef military experts is -one of the replies which the United States must expect to the British all" am, authorized German spokes men indicated Tuesday. , , LONDON, March 11-The fleet and the EAF Sri tain's rk!stt, lest arms of war are rea?? t " ''strike for victory 1: tLe-cTev: : lag battle of tie AtlanUa Mllh' the vast supply cf weapons r.j-,7 : expected from tlie rnitea 1-; ; -, official informal. ,j declare 1 publicly and privately TucsJar. i li: i