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' IIEHTY-FEST YEAH .:;y : 7 Corvallis Upset 'Dope ; Preps Of M t. Angel Win how Scoring Marks When No-Name Rivals Clash; Viks : Have Chance to Finish Fifth By AL LIGHTNER L " Statesman Sporta Editor i . Salem high's vaunted Vikings, one of the favorites to win the 23rd annual Oregon high school "A" basketball tournament, met a stinging 19 to 11 defeat at the hands of an unheralded Corvallis Spartan quintet in the second game of the opening round of ette university gymnasium floor Tuesday night. It was tne first time in years . that Salem, the tournament host team, was eliminated in the open ing round. Fight as they did, the Vikings could not hit the' stride that carried them to an undefeat ed No-Name league pennant (See . details on sports page.) Two new : tournament records were set In the low-scoring, rag gedly played game." The hereto? : fore unmatched feats came as a . result of the lowest scoring first half of any . game ever played in a state basketball tournament. , ' Salem led the Corvallis team ; by the score of 2 to 1 at the end - of the first quarter, while at . - the end of the half the score 'was tied at the amazingly low total of 3 to J. . ' .Both teams, champions of their ' respective ' districts,, ,, looked like - anything but the representatives .'of best quintets in their areas. 1 In the ; opening game of the tournament, Mt. , Angel h I g h's Preps, champions of district 11, overpowered the strong Vale Vi kings, titlists of district -15. The Preps, winners of the Oregon 1 Catholic high school tournament at The Dalles recently, outscored Vale by a 55 to 49 count. . Salem will play its first con -eolation game at 9 a. m. Thursday, meeting Vale. Mt Angel's next game will be against Corvallis on Thursday at 3:15 p. m. T.- (TURN TO SPORTS PAGE) City to Test Raid Whistle On Thursday Advance notice that Salem's biggest air raid whistle, the one mounted on the state central heat ing plant at Ferry and 12th streets, would be tested Thursday noon was given Tuesday by Alderman I F. LeGarie, chairman of the city council defense committee. " LeGarie said alterations had ' been made to Improve the ef ; feetivenesa of this whistle, which Is three feet long and a foot In diameter. f v : The alderman urged the public not heed the blowing of one air raid signal alone. "It will be necessary to make tests from time to time," LeGarie explained. "If an air raid warning is to be given, all the whistles and our nine sirens will be sound ed simultaneously.' , Testing of the nine electric sirens (augmenting the steam whistle warning system Is be ' Ing held up pending receipt of relays needed to make, it pos sible to operate : them from a single point " . LeGarie also pointed out that the A. B. McLauchlan company, which made up the local warning whistles, may : be testing . others being manufactured for other cit ies, from time to time at the Val ley Packing company steam plan on Portland road. -Salem Girl iolinit; ; By MAXINE BUREN ' JCathleen Broer, young Salem violinist was featured soloist with th? Salem Philharmonic orchestra tn Tuesday, in what was the music Cganization's best , performance. J-Iiss Broer, who is concertmaster yrlth the orchestra played the j.Iendelssohn Concerto in E minor. There were those in the audi fice who thought the concerto tJht wctl have been written for fcer, so well did it suit the violin ist. Ehe has grown from a prom-J-ir.-, but very young, musician ho J:ir.ed the pcronnel of the or ; . Air Spartans the tourney on the Willam Board Extends Teacher Absences Are Lengthened for War; Probation Finish Seen Leave of absence in Salem schools, TCCxuucaiiy iiuutea w i r.w" 2fizii? m i . a. i s i-i : j a. I teachers in active war, service. The plan, adopted by , Salem school directors as a matter of board policy includes a provision whereby substitutes serving for those on military leave receive the same salary increments7 that would be . theirs were they teach ing under the system's tenure ar rangement 1 Board action recognized com pletion of three years probation by nine teachers, of two years probation by six and of one year by 11, of five months by one. One teacher waa reelected; new contracts were offered to five who have been on the per- manent substitute lilt; leaves were " granted to seven and severance of contract relations to six who have been on leave. Two requests for use of the high school cafeteria were re fused, the board declaring that both groups, although numbering from 200 to 300. were small enough to be accommodated elsewhere and that as a matter of policy the cafeteria was not allowed to compete commercially. Fire wardens in training were granted use of school classrooms for evening, sessions, with the provision that school janitors should be included among the pupils in the defense training courses.' That section of the city's resi dences facing State street "be tween 18th and 20th streets was made a part of. the Richmond district by official action, v ' School buses, privately owned although tiUe is held by the school district, were made avail able for transporting workmen to and from cantonment con struction jobs and to and from harvest ; fields ; and orchards, with provision that the school (Turn to Page 2, Cot 7) Salem Boys Win Merit Awards at Safety Meet rvKTLAMiD, Marcn il-um Members - of the Oregon Junior Safetv congress won merit awards Tuesday as the second day of the meeting of the state vocational eaucauon envision -sponsored group ended, x v 1 '-;- ine saiery poster contest was School Leaves won by Kicnard aimer,- baiem. cording to the investigating offi Raymond Gerig, Salem, was third cer. Roy Marvin Pedersen. Stay- in vuu"c f- chestra 10 years ago, to the tall, attractive, skilled artist "of today. Her ease at handling the instru ment and her fluent tones at tracted the audience. ? ' Through the long three move ments of the Concerto, ; Miss Xroer held her listeners m rapt, attention. They would have been content to hear It again. Best wishes were expressed to the violinist by many of the audi ence, with the hope that she will have success in the violin contest in which she will compete at San Francisco later this month, : imem sfrMian Bridge Wrecked by Bomhers - x . . I - y ! v ' " - f i i . - , - -. : 1 . t ..mtr-tm S r ' . --a. f '- - A '--r Japanese bombers which raided Darwin, vital defense base on Australia's north coast blasted this bridge. Note the bridge flooring sagged from London to New York, wired n Boosted m TT 1 Jbederal Bank To Aid Aliens Protection Program v -Would Smooth Movins From Coastal Areas - ' SAN FRANCISCO, March "10 (AV-The federal reserve bank was disclosed Tuesday to be working out a broad program to protect property rights of tens of thou sands of Japanese both aliens and American bom and German and Italian aliens who will be evacuated from military areas along the Pacific coast - 1 Details of the program were announced by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau as a Japa nese-American Citizens league Official asserted that forced evac uation of Japanese farmers from California would result in losses of billions of dollars. Other developments in the alien question, expected to reach its climax probably within 10 days by an army order to move some aliens, were; L Representative Costello (D-Calif) proposed in an Inter view that the army move 29, 600 Japanese from Hawaii to the mainland of the United States "before it Is too late." 2. The army renewed Its pledge that alien families evacu ated will be kept Intact (Turn to Page 2. Cot 7) Girl Injured In Car Crash Geneva Phillips of Idanha re ceived a severe laceration' on her right leg at 5:15 Tuesday after noon when the car in which she was riding met a truck in head- on collision near the Liberty in tersection south of Salem.- At Deaconess hospital late Tuesday her condition was said to be rood. , . Driver of the car was Rav mond Burlen Yarborough, also of Idanha. Neither he nor another young man In the car. received other; than slight injuries, state i police said. Yarborough evident- ly took the wrong lane at the hignway intersection island, ac i mju, was onver oi tne truck. 'Featured With equal skill, the orchestra completed an evening of good music from the lively playing of the "Star Spangled Banner,! through Schubert's overture to "Rosamunde" and down to the final measures of the Calliet Top! Goes the WeaseL : i k The program was well chosen, TThe Gypsy Baron overture by Strauss, Bolxonl's "Minuet for Strings' and the prize song from "The Master Sinters' by Wag-' ner completed It, The "Minuet" was ?ecially Nelso A 1 Into the stream. The picture was radioed from Australia to London and to Chicago and airmailed to The ks War Production To 'Victory9 Levels Tet Vs at Jtips Say VS mos SEATTLE,- ftch . lHff)-A score of Filipinos, who1 have vol unteered for army service or have 'been 'summoned In the draft called for a chance at ac tion, with General Mac Arthur as they gathered here Tuesday. "We want to be sent to the Philippines,' declared Manuel P. Padua, s volunteer, while the others echoed the expression. "We want to fight those Japs right away! "Send us to the Philippines or Tokyo." Plane Builder Sees 1000 MPH Future Speed ATLANTA, Ga, March 16-iPi Dr. Igor I. Sikorsky, the Russian born aeronautics expert who de signed the first four-motored bomber and the first trans-oceanic flying boats, declared Tuesday that - human beings can 'Hake" speeds of 1000 miles per hour in level flight "Such speeds are not possible with the airplanes of today," he said In an Interview here be-, fore delivering an address en aeronautics at the Georgia Insti tute of technology, "but they may be In the future." "Horizontal flight even at 1000 miles per hour would have no more effect on the body than traveling 60 miles per hour in an automobile or train,0 he declared. 'Also vertical flight such as dive bombing is not dangerous except in the pull out' when the weight of a man's body is multiplied by the force of gravity he declared, and if his weight is multiplied five or six times he loses consciousness because of the blood being drained out of his brain. Monday's Weather Weather forecasts - withheld 'and, temperature data delayed by army request. River Tues day, LS feet. Max. temperature Monday, 57, into 47. Rainfall.' mcnes. At Concert well done, but Edouard Hurli mann's string section has been the pride of . the Salem orchestra for several years, and audiences have come to expect . something good from them. The final number, which the audience demanded to be repeated, was the variation cf the Top: Goes the Weasel theme, and ran from a ; symphonic interpretation to the speediest of swing. The "weasel" popped with everything from a paper sack to a corkless popgun. Filip Statesman. ; 1 States ' JT UbllC ! " v , lotYiarticToorl JLCUItJULUSlPCCU Double Outpnt Seen r 1 If All Machines Put Gnver? Hour Basis WASHINGTON, March UHJPl Donald M. Nelson declared tonight that this' country's output of mill-1 tary supplies could be doubled if I all existing war production chinery were used 24 hours a day. seven days week. i - tti. .r.n.tini. la hronrbft to victorious! levels,- the war production board ehairman warned In an address to the na tion, neither management nor labor "could survive the public wrath should that wrath bo turned against them; nor could we here en the war production board." Nelson said he had become con vinced of the depth of the public demand i for all-out production from : a flood of telegrams and letters received after his broad- cast last week demanding a 25 per cent production upturn. Tonight's second address was prepared for broadcast over the Mutual net- The production chieT mentioned ffitler Fears Red Invasion Of Germany LONDON, March 10-iff) Haunted by the muddy spectre of spring thawg, and fearful that a soviet push from Leningrad might penetrate German soil, Adolf Hit ler was 1 reported Tuesday to be calling up his ultimate reserves for an all-or-nothing offensive in Russia as soon as possible. :i- Reliable sources described as "almost certainly accurate con fidential advices that the nasi fuehrer had abandoned earlier -plans for a defensive campaign in "the north while concentrat ing on a big drive ia the south. Instead, they said, he evidently had determined on .attacking all along! the line. This was said to be due to his fear that , defeat of a defensive force on the Leningrad front I would let the red army into the' Baltic states, behind the German army and with a clear path to in vade Germany itself. . . - Red army - successes ' ' around Staraya Russa and a weakening of the Finnish forces were said to have raised this fear. . Bulletin TCXYO- From Japanese Eroadcasts)-March ll-(TVed-nesday )-TVImperial : head- vnarters declared today that a Japanese cruiser squadron epi crating In tho Indian oc west of Australia had sunk the United States cruiser Harlle- head, -J Eft Inyaflg At McW Port Boi Escarae ... v jl Ghurcliill to Reveal India Status Plans Imperial Troops to Join Chinese Ally ; Revolt Threatened LONDON, March 10 (AP) The British imperial forces, abandoning the south ern tip of Burma, hare slashed ; through a Japanese trap and were driving Tues day night into centra Burma toward their first mass ren dezvous with their Chinese IKaa (m ih Cliaii eiaiaa fn Ue supreme defense of India. I Thmui mnnAtivprn rt an. inounced almost simultaneously Urfth an official disclosure that I Prime Minister Churchill Would bnake a statement at the next ses- sion oi commons, yrooaoiy uu Wednesday, of the ' government's Intentions toward India', demand for concessions toward independ ence as the price for her all-out cooperation in the warr The construction of this policy was complicated by the threat ut- ma-ltered by Mohammed All Jinnah I that the Moslem minority of In Idia woudl revolt if the plan were opposed to its mterests, parucu- larly if it denied Moslem auton omy. Operations on the Burma front indicated meantime that Brit ain was staking everything on the belief that the battered army of Burma could, with Chinese aid, make ay prolonged resist A communique from New Delhi announced that the RAF, despite the British re teat and readjust- I ment to new bases, naa strucs: a heavy blow at a Japanese air- i (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) J JXf.. O ? 1 . 1 1 ttV Y MX C? 1 1 C I HOW lreateSt NEW YORK, March 10 -UP) More than 21,000 persons jammed Madison Square' Garden Tuesday night to .see one of the greatest shows ever staged by the theat rical world the navy relief show. Proceeds were $158,000, it was I announced. Among those who witnessed the If ive-hour i extravaganza were I Wendell Willkie, in whose box sat Private Joe Louis, world's heavy weight boxing champion. They're Hoping Tiis'H Help Stop Japs mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmmmmmmmmmi n l hi i mmmrmm. V JH. Ki ioywywesfsPsPiw, i J . . "wrrw'r'r1 '. w ""m ' - f , . i , arbed wire, by the mile. Is strung along the coastline at Darwin, bombed by Japanese planes la what is believed to be a preliminary for an invasion " 7-77 contiaent itself. Australian newtrsjers have bejra a campalm for an American, prereraciy u-n. Eccjlis nacAriirr. U be arr:'.c3 ccsiiaicr-ia-cLlcf ef Utlted NaUons forces la southwest fvr. vv t "'' '"' : ' n r .bed;; In irap RAF Pounding Nazi Plants; LONDON, Wednesday, March ll-(ffr-Heavy explosions echo ing across the, English channel Tuesday night told that the RAF still was battering German ob jectives for the third straight night after two powerful blows at the giant Krupp munition works at Essen. The Paris radio also went off the air during the t p. m. news broadcast, and "that develop- ment could mean that the RAF was again raiding German fac tories ia the French industrial belt. Fires visible for 10 miles multiplied rapidly, participating pilots .related, and even before the attack reached its climax the target was a beckoning beacon to succeeding waves of bombers. Today's; German high com mand communique from Berlin r acknowledged tho attacks on - western Germany and said there were ' civilian casualties - but omitted Its usual claim that no military damage was done -:- Eden Reveals Jap Atrocity HongKong Prisoners, Civilians Outraged Asserts Statesman - LONDON,- March KHThe British government indicted ' Ja pan Tuesday for barbarities at HongKong parallelinff those which shocked the world during the 1937 sack of Nanking, and accused the occupying forces of such outrages as the bayoneting of 50 helplessly bound officers and soldiers and mdiscrimhnte rape and murder of Asiatic and European women.- : " Anthony -Eden, the foreign secretary, told the house of commons the charges were bas ed on statements of reliable eyewitnesses who escaped from HongKong after the Island crown colony and Its garrison - of British and empire troops capitulated last Christmas" day. They were withheld out of re- Card for the victims' relatives ; unto they were i "confirmed beyond any possibility of doubt," be said. i' " Now, Eden assured the nation, the "widest publicity in all lan guages will be given to these at (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) I Glliliea .British .Burma Australia Set AU-0ut Raids Counter-Blows Seen As Delaying Action "While Defense Laid CANBERRA, Australia, March 11 (Wednesday) (AP) Australian -'fliera in one of their heaviest at tacks of the war on Jap anese shipping off the in vaded New Guinea port of Salamaua scored direct hits on a warship and left four others in flames, the air ministry said today. Two of , the; ships . wera bserved to he in iteinklng condition, and a third was beached," the coinmdniqne said. The Warship which was hit was believed to be eith er a cruiser or a large de stroyer. CANBERRA, Australia, March 11 - (Wednesday) - (p) - Heavy blows against Japanese troop con centrations in New Guinea, direct hits 'on" transportsnff shore, : and the firing of a big flying boat NEW L TORK; f March - 11 (Wednesday)HrHThe BBC said today tn a German latgnage broadcast that "several convoys .with American reinforcements have arrived In Australia, CBS '-reported. ' - were announced ' by the Royal Australian air force today in swift response to orders to attack tha foe with every resource. The RAAF onslaught, led by veterans newly, returned from other fighting fronts, followed a third Japanese landing Tuesday on northeast New Guinea only 45 minutes by fast piano from the Australian mainland. The most recent invasion was at Infschhafen, which has a small airport and a harbor suitable for ships of moderate draft. The size of the Japanese force was not dis closed. Other landings have been. , (Turn to Page 2. CoL 8) Australia, which slrey .h"-b" Exp