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" - ' ' " ' ' - mm mm ' : ; rvw - ' - e ' Jl ' Tho Incido If. .... ; '. ' ; - : ; : : 7 fiiYs. vcv Tear, complete morning newspaper. The SUUnaaa, Ken yea pertinent com ments en war newt of the Cay by Elrke Slmseea, Washington analyst . inririY-msT, yeab Fhhernnen Breeze Through 1942 Meet Beating Cmvallh In Final,; 3d To 22 Salem Eliminated In f irst Fray, Fails To Finish In 1 : Defeated Finalists 'Darkhorse' in 23rd ; Annual Meet; Large Crowds Watch 16 Teams Battle for Crown Most of Week By AL LIGHTNER . ; Statesman Sports Editor Astoria high's "Flying Fishermen," 1941 state high school basketball champions, repeated for that; title in the final game of the 1942 tournament Saturday night, fighting off the onslaughts of a tired but gallant band of Corra)lis high Spartans, 34 to 22, before a capacity crowd in the Willamette university gymnasium. Thus ended lour oayi ana live; nights of hot hooping from sixteen top Oregon high schools in the 23rd annual basketball tourna ment. s ' ' - fj- : The annual hoop- show started off Tuesday night with 1 Salem, titlists In 1939-40,. and runners up m 1941 being knockcJt out of this year's championship flight by the team which battled for the Where They Finished 1. ASTORIA 1 COEVA1XIS S. BAKER 4. NORTH BEND C. mac m :- C MEDFORD T. MT. ANGEL tV OREGON CITY title Saturday night The dash to the finals began in earnest Wednesday with the rest of the quints of bot the upper and low er brackets engaging in elimina tion games. ' Astoria, Baker. CorvaOJs and . Medford all started the semi final fliiht undefeated, but the Fishermen ostclassed the onth era Oresoa boys and the Spar t tans humbled 4he Blue Moun ' tain champs to set . the stage for Saturday nlfbt's final fracas. In the battle for third spot, the . preliminary to the title fray, Bak . er handed Medford its second loss, which was good - for sixth place in' the tournament for the "Tigers.'. 'ii t . In the title game, the Fisher men, tabbed by the pre-tourney experts as the team to beat in : this year's meet, had a battle on their hands the entire first half, . the blue-clad Spartans fighting on , even tepis with the casaba kings. . Bobby Knoll, who played the . entire tournament with a heav ily bandaged thigh, opened the searing after both quints eare- - fully sought each other out for ' ever a minute with a one " hander from in close on a block Play. 1 Qifi CrandaU, Astoria's red headed guard, knotted the count - at the two minute mark with a long looping hit and a ' minute later put the Purple and Gold in front with a gift toss on Allan Anderson's Infraction. ; , Jason Widmer, AU-state ; for ward, rushed the Spartans to the front with his long set-shot sec onds later, and Bob Reiman, Cor- vallis fighting center, shoved the lead to 6-3 with a tip-in after Jobby Knoll missed with three 10 play In the quarter. The Astoria ns, who had won their first three tourney games la stride, appeared upset at the (peed and cleverness of the " r?artan attack, bnt.tben Par , (Turn to Page 2,'CoL 4) Friday's 7cadicr i Weaiicr forecasts withheld -3 tEjeratsre delayed by trr-7 re ZUver Saturday, 2.3 r :t :::x tsrsperatoe rri C '.Ji 47f r".!a S3. Top Eight ; Air Education I .... n .. .. Secondary Schools to Get Courses in Plan Fop Huge Flier, Pool NEW YORK, March 14-JP)-In an announcement which, for the first time delinerated a national aviation , program designed to make the United States supreme in" the air for the war effort, Robert H. Hinckley, assistant sec retary of commerce for air, today said aviation courses would : be made available to students in ele mentary and secondary schools. ' Roughly; the educational pro gram Is Intended to counteract the German primary and sec ondary school; program," Instl- - tuted ra 1936, which has poured ' 25,906 young men a year Into the German air force. ; . The government's aim Is to provide pre-flight training of pro-college American youth. - Instead of 25,000 students a year, Hinckley told the annual Schol astic . Press ' association, ' the gov ernment beginning next Septem ber -plans to "process' 45,000 fly ing students each year, and the elementary school studies are in tended as a pre-flying course in doctrination in aviation. Under his direction, ground school , and flight instruction . is being given now in more than 500 colleges. That number will be in creased, under a directive of the war department by which, the en tire pilot training facilities of the civil aeronautics' administration will be devoted to the war effort Training , facilities of the: civil aeronautics administration will be devoted to the war effort -' . Tor two and a : half years,' , (Turn to Page X CoL S) Rail and: Bus Travel to Be Restricted9 WASHINGTON, March Joseph B. Eastman;' director of the office ol defense transporta tion, said Saturday it may be necessary for the government to restrict large scale civilian pas senger movements at certain pe riods or in certain areas,' but that no general rationing of rail or bus passenger tickets was contem plated for the immediate future. Eastman suggested in a state ment . that the time-honored, va cation months of July and August might bring a travel peak which "the carriers could not satisfac torily meet because of troop and freight movement by rail- and buses. ' - He urged that vacation dates be staggered instead of . confined largely to those popular months, and said that some convention dates might have to be changed or postponed Indefinitely. . ( K?7 r IU I Capacity Crowd Watclies Hoop Title Tilt "i '" ' They Jumped high In the championship hoop clash of the 23rd annual tournament Saturday night on' the Willamette university mapleboards when Astoria defeated Corvallis, 34-22. Leaping for the ball are Allen Anderson, Corvallis, No. S and Eben Parker, lanky Astoria pivot man. Also In the picture are AU-State Jason Widmer, Corvallis, No. 4, while Tom Shaw of Corvallis and All-State Ruben Wirkkun en stand behind him. Bobby Knoll Is seen near tho side lines while Bob Reiman, Corvallis center, is . hidden from view by the backboard scrsble. (Statesman staff photo.) ... Gas Use Ordered Cut One -Fifth By Board East Coast and Northwest Affected by. Ukase ; Exemptions listed ; FDR Asks National Speed limit of 40 MPH WASHINGTON, March 14-(P)-A 20 per cent reduction in gasoline deliveries to filling stations in eastern seaboard and Pacific northwest states was ordered by the war production board Saturday in a step which informed quarters said preliminary to rationing. The order means the average motorist among the 10,000,000 au tomobile owners In the affected areas will have to curtail his use of motor fuel -by even more than one-fifth : since . filling stations were, directed to meet first of all the "minimunV necessary : re quirements" of essential users. Among those classed as es sential nsers were physicians and norsea, . government ve hicles, school buses, taxicabs .' and agricultural machinery. ; Also as a part of the conserva tion program, ; the approximately Oregon will comply, so far as possible, with President Roo sevelt's request to fix maximum highway speeds at 46 miles an hour and to require cheeking of tires, Governor Charles A. Sprague declared here Sator day. Tho present speed limit for passenger automobiles In Ore gon is SS miles per hour but , the state highway commission ! has authority to fix either high-J er or lower limits. 100,000 filling stations in the 20 states where the ' order applies were directed to confine their op erations to 12 hours daily and 72 ' (Turn to Page 2, CoL 6) I Scfan Oregon. Suadcrf - t "5 was Buses Begin Service.to Cantonment Effective Monday the . Oregon Motor Stages wDl Inaugurate Al bany and Corvallis bus service to and from the Albany-Corvallis cantonment according to an nouncement Saturday by Ormond R. Bean, state public utilities commissioner. The buses wUl leave Albany , at 7:36 , sun. , arriving at the camp at 75 o'clock; from Cor vallis at 76 aja. arriving at Wellsdale at S o'clock. Leaving tho ; cantonment la the . evenings " tho buses, i vd leave at 1:38 pjsuknd ' these,. . schedules, said Bean;" would be dally except Sundays';sd holi-1 - " Bean's annouacement idid not mention the same bus line's prom ised service between Salem and the cantonment . . saiem chamber of commerce leaders have been discussing the possibility of brganking a bus line of their own to give workmen and soldiers an economical means of transportation. -. t " f i : V . - - ... r r . . . i . -v ri c 1 - - -r m mm i i i i i 1 w ."if " X. II III Morning. Morch IS 1S42 : Maui . 1 ' ft VA Honor Names Contest Over Winners Announced in Statesman's Roll of : Older Salem Firms JeweU C Minier, 1745 Saginaw street Salem, is announced today as the first prize winner in, The Statesman's contest honoring Sa lem - business concerns,', service and educational institutions that have been Conducted continuous ly under the same ownership for tne past quarter century or long er. - Miss Minier submitted a list containing 29 of the 42 firms and Institutions, to win a $5 prize. Listing 28, H. L. Clark, 1415 North Fourth street' earned the second prize award of S3. Thira place, with 28 names, was won by Lilian Baney, box - (Turn to Page 2, CoL 1) ope Fof PORTLAND, Ore, March 14 (-Assistant - Interior Secretary Oscar Qpman appealed for in creased production of essential war metals, at jpjPacific nortiiwest mining conference Saturday as the industry criticized past pol icies of federal agencies. Chapman told miners - thatby erSsrgency expansions they could make the northwest a postwar In dustrial center. , . ' . Representatives ef the Indus try agreed, but In panel dis-: cessions charged the bureau cf mines with fail are to ceer crate -with local agencies. They a-Jei , that lack cf markets had pre vented .them f rod develop Leg mines, and s&lJ they fcee-cd H i i i i i f i v . t t f t r v. n i iii J X. 111111. II II I 1 I I LuH ties Over Far E a s t Wa r ; lVazis; Hitler! Reveals Plan : . .. By BUX BONI , . Associated Press War Editor An uneasy calm lay oyer the far Pacif ie theatre of war Saturday- night a calm which might be regarded as foreboding, as the proverbial lull before, the storm of the next 'enemy- offensive, or could be looked on more san guinely V as a welcome and rare breathing spell afforded the United Nations in which to r ally their gathering strength to meet that assault. On Europe's share of the world batltefront the Russian armies pounded ahead along the entire line from the. Baltic to the Black sea.. -v Over the English channel and western Germany itself the RAF struck fresh blows at the nazis MELBOURNE, March 14 -JP) Japanese bombers raided islands ' near Thursday Island, which Is .only it miles from the' Austral" flan north coast lying . off ho t t;ap xorK, jpenmsuia epposuo New Guinea, --r in Britain's own mounting spring offensive, of the air. But there was only slight aerial activity over Australia's barrier Islands, with allied bombers smashing at a Japanese air base and no fresh news" of the inva sion fleet last reported steaming east; in Washington the war de partment ' did 4not even issue a morning . : communique . on the situation In the Philippines,, and in Burma there was nothing more severe than patrol, skirmishes. , , There was one definitely cheering' report from the Pacific - sector, however. Issued in Ana-. tralla by aggressive Hubertns J. ' Van Hook, lieutenant governor . general of the Dutch East Indies. Tan " Meek announced . that Dutch forces are known to be carrying on the fight against the;' invader in the hills and mount ains of Java, Sumatra and Celebes, and that they are m position to wage bitter, danger ous guerilla warfare' for some time to come. " - :':(- : Heartening In Itself, it Was fresh evidence that while the Japanese invasion columns have progressed almost unchecked in more than three months of conquest their strength - constantly Is i being drained by the , large occupation forces which must be left behind not to mention the repeatedly reinforced divisions . which Gen eral MacArthur's men have kept engaged on Bataan alone. Given added -emphasis by the current hill In combat there came from foreign diplomatic sources In London an apparently logical and apparently well-authenticated account of the newest scheme for world conquest which Adolf Hit ler is urging upon his Japanese allies. , According to these sources, the (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) " . US Aid Given : Weplern; Mininj financial aid and high priority . ratings. - . Joseph Schulehy Oregon State college research associate, said one "black sand" area on thSOre gon coast designated' by the bu reau of mines as almost value less, contained 40 per cent chro mite ore worth approximately ll.CSO.COO. The value of the de posit he said, was discovered by the state department of geology and mineral Industries. .7 rv f Schuleia said that a senate mil itary affairs ubcoinmittee, inves tigating strategic and critical min erals en the - Taciflc coast had found czzcts jzznj tiaes over the amount ia Orcein reported by the bureau. . - Prlct Scj Nawstsadj 89 Fleet Of Allies CaugM In Trap 12 Shim Sunk Tw-: US Warsliips Admitted As Among United Nations' Losses; Japs Lose Eight . WASHINGTON. March 14 rAPTh. nkw .Satur day announced the sinking of 13th believed lost, some in the out of Java and the others in a tightly closed enemy trap memseives. . -- r ...i. ; s . J-; Two American ships, the cruiser Houston and the de stroyer John D. Pope, were among those lost. The rest were Australian, umisn and JJutch. These , punishing reverses were offset-in part by the destruction of or severe damage to eight ' Japanese warships. The battle divided itself NmSinldngs Queen Mary Reported Hit; Other Merchants "IDowii In Atlantic ; " ' t-- By The Associated Press ' As a Joint British-American communique revealed .. Saturday that the United Nations had lost 12 warships and possibly a 13th in their, vain battle to stop a Japanese landing on Java, seven new sinkings were reported along the North American Atlantic coast and In the Caribbean. In addition, the Rome radio 'quoted "Argentine maritime elr " eles" as . saying the 81,235-ton -British liner Queen Mary, laden with-18,009 -North American troops;, was torpedoed and bad ly damaged several days agoE afterleaving Rio de Janeiro, - The huge shin was reported at tempting to reach the Britistf base in the Falkland islands. of this nature are frequently contained. In axis broadcasts In an attempt to gain Information on movements of ships or troops. Nearer home, the navy reveal ed that a small American mer chantman was sent to the bottom early Wednesday and that seven of her crew had been landed at ; Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) Last Chancel . IXave you ld your 1942 federal Income tax return, Mr Taxpayer? II not manks to the cal endar's placing March 15 on Sandar (today), you have one more day's cjrace, - , The Salem deputy interned revenuer collector's office, lo cated on the second floor ol the posto2ce building, sedd Scnvday that returns could bo tied there on Monday. Tho clZce wCl bm kept open trnfl midnight ' Chapman urged small operators to join the war effort and called upon the mining industry to do three things: " 2. Give the bureau ef mines fall reports on pessIbDIUes known or believed to exist -2. tVork out with state uni versities, state departns-jita and mining associations the eco- node - prcrraiss for rtustom . mills or plants, showing how they are feasible and why they should oe located at " certain points. Studies that ark, well - worked out can be acted upon more quickly by the 1TFB, he ts&L - ". x'.-.i-:w--.?;,. ' 2. To cossller necessary een C'.'.lsr. for ever-all .. develop-nt-i tt the west and come to Total Sciven 3 Scciions 24 Pages 12 allied warships, with a battle to keen the Jananes boldly trying to escape from in which they later found into three parts. First of all the allied fleet. whose-total strength was not dis closed, engaged a superior enemy force on February 27 between Soerabaja, the Javan naval base, and the island of Bawean. Two destroyers, the Koertanaer (Dutch) and theEectof tBrltlsh) were i sunki The,' British icruiser' Exeter was badly ;hit ' .U,!,, .. ' The tcond phase camettr the dead of the night that followed Lurking Japanese submarines dis- patched two cruisers, the De Buyer and jthe Java, both Dutch, and the Jupiter, a British destroyer. . By that time, the navy frank-, ly admitted, the battle was tost ) Next day;" the . Japanese were ; in command of the sea and air. I Tho remainder of the allied fleet was bottled up in an area north of Java. The only escape was through comparatively narrow, channels dominated by the j enemy. . , Dispersed and attempting to run these straits in small groups, three , cruisers, the Houston, the Exeter and the Perth: (Birtish), and two destroyers, , the Pope and the Encounter (British) were overtaken by enemy fleet units. No word has been received from them since, and the navy an nounced flatly that they were lost Similarly, the Dutch destroy er, Evertsen, wa so severely damaged that she was beached, and presumably Is lost 4 The British destroyer Strong hold I and the Australian sloop, Yarra, also are missing,' and the navy said must be presumed lost The navy had apparently giv- -en up hope that any of the per sonnel of the Houston or Pope ; was saved. It said only that the next of kin had been notified. The Houston, carrying i about , 1666 officers and men, was " eommanded by Captain Albert H. Rooks, bora In Cotton, Wash, and a resident of Seat tle.; The Pope, whoso wartime complement was 14S officers and ! men, was . under tho - com-. mand of Lieutenant Commander ' Welford C. Elinfl, a native ef Sparta,. Ohio, whoso residence was listed as New Smyrna, Ha. Navy officials said it was Im possible ' to estimate the total United Nations casualties at this time. . . . v. ' . When the battle began the al (Turn to Page CoL 1) -s agreements as sooa as jteeslble. This would include advisability '- ' f plant locations, econdmle sip- eratloB, necessary development ef lew-cost power 'facilities and alteraUon of freight rates. Chapman predicted that west- . era mining development . would increase because of cheap power, ' and fuels. It may - possibly be- come a light metals , center. prr-, ducing high-grade steel, .alumi . " nam,; magnesium, chrome) tung sten, j line, ' copper, - manganese ' metal and enough others; to war-, rant consideration as -an .port ant Industrial center.': , -- . 'j In an interview CherrtiEn said he was very hep cf uV cf -1 h e mineral situation - - . . - "" . V: