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Saturday Score
?A" championship final:
Klamath Falls 52, Baker 28.
"B" championship final : :
Warrenton 20, Harrisburj
For third place: r .
Pendleton 34, Astoria 33.
For. fourth place: ;
St. Helens 35 ,Eugene 24.
"B consolation;-
Powers 50, Union 24. .
IU2VETYSEC02TD YEAH
Salem, Oregon. Snnday Morning. March 14. 1943
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Oregon's New
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Klamath Falls' Pelicans bYe), whs hopcd thelrj wy U the first class "A" basketbaU title In sUte
ienrnament history for the soatfeernera- Sa tar day! alfhi.' They blasted Baker, 52-2S. fsr the title.
Left to richt, front row the champs are Rex Tfunr, Jim Conroy, Jim Cex and Aldo BellottL Back
row. Jim Bocchi, Don Birfer. Manarer Fltixcrald, Coach Wayne Scott, Ralph Foster and Wilbur
Welch, j -: h
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IVarrenton hixh's WBW chamss
title. Left to rirht are Fred Wilson. Georre Haft. Bin I Bosshart.
' Jerry Van, Lloyd Haten and Bob
Pelicar0PiU:h
Over Baker, 52428,
For 1st Hoop
By AL LIGHTNER
Statesman Sports Editor
A new Oregon State Class A basketball tournament cham
pion was crowned in Willamette gym Saturday night. For the
first time in the tournament's 24 years history the Klamath Fails
Pelicans stepped up when "Class A champions' was called, and
these rangy southern Oregon ians got to take that step by over
whelming a. very good Baker team; 52-28, in the final game,
Jnst previous . to the pay-off
game In the "A" division. War
renton hlsh walked off with a
thrilling y 20-19 victory over
Harrisbarg for the class B title.
A jam-packed hoop hall had
gathered to see the favored Baker
boys march over '.the Pelicans since
the Bulldogs had finally put the
kids under Astoria in Friday
, night's semi-final round. But these
Pelicans, representing a s c h o o 1
which got only as far as the finals
once in the tournament's history
Tournament all star team ros
ters and pietares appear . In the
sports : section, . pages .12. and IS, '
of today's Statesman, along with
full details of the state meet.
that time in 1934 against Astoria
quickly gave plenty ' of evidence
that this time Klamath Falls was
not to be denied. . - ,
. , Open In-p with ; a terrific
thrvst. Klamath Falls took a 7-0
lead with bat 57 seconds of the
game played. Her brilliant
gnard, Jim Bocchi. an All-State :
eeond-strlna-er, went on a ram-
pace rifht off the bat and be
fore the Bulldogs knew what hit
them Bocchi had pitched la six J
; points, ''''yk -'i C -f1 1
i But Bocchi was only one of five
Pelicans who were blistering hot.
. llaybe it -was because the south
erners blossomed , out ; in their
flaming red hoop suits, a change
over from the whites they wore in
previous games, but the torch was
4it and i how the ; Pelkans were
racing up and down the' floor with
it! . ' " -
.-: baker was' breaking np-eourt
Jast as fast as the Pelicans, but
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State Basketball Champions I
II' f
(abore). eonQnerofs of Harrisburc
Lindsley. Coath Romeo Adams
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Rules
ToBe
j WASHINGtpN, j March 13.-P)
-OPA Chief Jprentiss hi. Brown
promised Saturday thai tight rar
tion restrictions on meat' will be
eased whenever possible while
two other developments bright
ened the. food ! outlooks,
f 1. The office of price adminis
tration made jit. possible for per
sons living in areas remote from
grocery stores to get the canned
and dried goods they need. Sheep
herders, ! fishermen, forest ; ran
gers, lumbermen and others will
be Issued ration coupons to cover
their requirements. 1 .
2. Secretaryj Ickes put 'ortn
program .f or expanding the aid
given to : producers . by the bu
reaus of his j Interior department
which, he said, would result in
increasing the nation's total sup
ply of certain' foods, within five
years ; by ; anj amount sufficient
on a caloric basis to f?ed' ten mil
lion persons or pne year."
1 Other' sources disclosed that
the tentative! m e a t - ration plan
will -provide Or person with a max
imum of 3.1 j pounds M hambur
ger or,-: as 5 an alternative, only
1 Vt pounds of )steak per week, al
though the average of all v types
of meat will j be two pounds. The
actual rations j in most cases Will
be less than these figures, how
ever, because the same coupon
points will be needed for butter,
shortening and edible fats, oil,
cheese and canned fish. .
may
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Saturday nlcht lor the small-school
Clayton Teems, D. K. Walker,
is not sho.wn. j
War Fund Gain
Encourages
County Drive Reaches
S27,551; LaborV
Help Reported
As collections in the Red! Cross
war fund campaign : in i Marion
county mounted to $27,551.73 Sat
urday noon, Drive Chairman
Charles H. Huggins expressed the
encouragement felt by his com
mittee. Marion's minimum quota
is $42,000. - I - ; :
The numerous one dollar con
tributions from persons apparent
ly able to contribute much more
were apparently the result of hab
it, but the reminder that; more
than the regular membership fees
would be needed to do a wartime
job had a "quick response,? Hug
gins said. ;;...- j : ,- -
"It will be necessary jTori all of
us to ' keep working ! kardi - how
ever, if we are to make oijir goal
and get our campaign completed
this month,; he continued. "We
cannot let j Marion ! county fall
down and will keep working as
long asit is necessary i reach
our goal, but we hope it will not
be necessary to prolong the; drive,"
he concluded. ' : - j : j - j .
. Hope that Marion, county
might bo the third in the state
: to go over its o.nota jwas ex
pressed -by campaira workers
Saturday. Gilliam, was the first
la Oregon to reach Its minimum
aaota, Josephine county Second.
"No high pressure salesj talk is
required to line iipj organized la
bor behind the Red: Cross land the
fine work it is doing,"! according
to Charles j "WJ j Crary; J business
manager for the electrical work
ers union.
.The teamsters'
local Nof 324 of
Salem has turned in a check for
$250. The : millmeo's union had
contributed $100; carpenters' un
ion, $40; painters and electricians
$25, and others have indicated they
will follow. A men's tearj and a
women's team- from the), Salem
Trades & Labor council are com
peting keenly in 1 solicitation from
the unions, council r officers said
Saturday. A contribution from ev
ery labor organization is the goal,
and losers must banquet the win
ners, -
Bombeis
Hit New
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Convoy
. Two. Ships of Eight
' Damaged in Guinea' ;
"Area; Weather Bad I,
By VERN HAUGLAND I
T ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA, S u n d a jf,
March lM5-Allied warplaneis
have pounced upon yet another
Japanese convoy thrusting to
ward New Guinea this time
composed of five merchantmen
and three destroyers "and have
damaged two ships in an initial
attack, the high command ' de
clared Sunday. ; . "If"
The convoy was discovered! 40
miles northwest of Wewak Satur
day afternoon, and Flying Fort
resses immediately raced to i the
assault, braving anti-aircraft fire
and the protecting enemy fighter
planes to set fife to one 8000-ton
transport and score a hit and ! a
near miss on a 4000-ton cargo
ship Saturday evening.
Weather prevented close ob
servation of the results but the
noon communique declared that
the attack was continuing.
It was also disclosed! that two
Japanese convoys of five mer
chant ships each with warship
escort had been sighted two
days ago northeast of Manns is
land in the Admiralties. It Is
i as
I
possible that! the Wewak con
voy was one of those.!
The other j convoy still
mained an unknown threat. I
. Tho origin of these! two con
voys was not . disclosed, but they
may, have come from the big Jap
anese base far to the I north! fat
Truk, or possibly had made, a Ityng
circuitous trip" from Rabaul, New
Britain, in the hope of escaping
another Bismarck sea disaster; by
slipping down the New Guinea
coast from the northwest.
The Japanese convoy employed
the customary technique of j ap
proaching New Guinea with a
storm front as a cover a strat
egem which has worked before.
But this, time the Japanese were
more cautious, the convoy chang
ing course constantly as it neared
Wewak. ;
Despite bad weather and ham
pering distances, it added, ji al
lied airmen are endeavoring to
continue their attack; in anil ef
fort to wipe out the convey
Wewak is 370 miles north of
the allied base of Port Moresby
on the southern side of New Gui
nea, f r j
A 22-ship Japanese! convoy was
wiped out recently in the Bis
marck sea far to the Southeast of
Wewak. The : Japanese also! lost
approximately 15,000 1 troops and
scores of airplanes in! that three
day running battle, j j
Aside from the action at j We
wak Saturday allied airmen! were
again active over a wide area, at
tacking a medium cargo ship at
Raaf Bay in the northwestern sec
tor jdI Dutch New Guinea jfwith
unobserved results," strafing Jap
anese positions in the Salamaua
area, and attacking airdromes and
installations at two points in New
Britain."; :V j ,"" . j- j '
The strafing of Japanese po
sitions in the; Mugo area .below
Salamaua has resulted 4 1 the
killing of 237 more Japanese,:
the communique said. Allied
'rround natrols found their bod
ies, it saldVp-fjl-, -
One of six
Japanese pi
lanes
which tried to Intercept
heavy
allied reconnaissance units
near
was
Babo in Dutch New 'Guinea
shot down; Saturday, the
munique saidj ' f ;
pom-
Jaoanese shore? installations
were strafed at Wide bay arid an
airdrome bombed at! Gasmata in
the attacks on New Britain.
Navy's Aircraft
Set Munda Fire6
1 WASHINGTON, March t3--(P)
-Navy, avenger torpedo planes,
doubling as light bombers; Iraid
ed the Japanese air .base at Iun-
da in the Solomon Islands Friday
night and set' enemy' installations
afire. ,. H' ; - -jj'"".
fThe navy also reported Satur
day that a United States submar
ine sank a Japanese! anti-submarine
patrol ship in a surface LdueL
Lookouts o n t bj e-submirinc,
cruising on the surface, ppotted
the Japanese! warship 5 ab six
miles away early i one morning.
At a range of about two miles the
two vessels opened fire, the! sub
marine .using her after deck gun.
RAF Hils
Axis Mail
Centers
. Heavy Bombers Again
' Pound Essen, Rouen;
No Letup Allowed
LONDON, March 13-(ff-The
RAF dropped more than 1000
tons of bombs on Essen Friday
night, and Saturday afternoon
while fires still were raging
there in the Krupp works, the
American heavy bombers, fly
ing the daytime schedules of
the pre-invasion aerial offensive,
attacked axis rail Installations
Just behind the vulnerable French
coast.
This time the Fortresses blasted
Amiens, 60. jrailes northeast of
Rouen which they had bombed
NEW YORK, March 13 -ijR)
The FCC reported that the Ger
man Deutschlander radio sta
tion went off the air Saturday
night, Indicating the possIbUl
Ity of another RAF assault on
the continent.
Friday for the second time in a
week and 50 miles inland from
the channel coast.
It is through these key rail
junctions, Rouen and Amiens,
that the' Germans mutt pour most
or ..the supplies 'to their defending
troops along 100 miles of coastline
between the Somme and Seine
rivers.
Dieppe, scene of the alllied in
vasion try out of last August 19, is
in the center of this stretch of
coast.
Railroad yards at Abbeville and
Poix also were attacked in the
daylightf sweep, USAAF head
quarters and the British air min
istry announced in a joint com
munique. All the American bombers re
turned from the day's opera
tions but six of the escorting
Spitfires were reported missing.
The communique said four en
emy aircraft were destroyed by
the fighters and "some by the
bombers.
An alert sounded in the Lon
don area Saturday night and was
followed by gunfire, indicating
that German planes were attempt
ing some sort of reprisal.
While the British air ministry
announced Friday night that Es
sen already was the second "most
blitzed" city in Germany, next to
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TanlcEnemies '
On Ford Lines
DETROIT, March 13-IP)-The
Ford Motor company announced
Saturday that it Is now producing
the new M-10 tank destroyers on
the same production lines that
for months have been turning out
32-ton M-4 army tanks. ; " r
With the speed., and maneuver
ability of a light tank and the
life power, of a heavy! one, H the
M-10 supplements but does not
replace the M-4 for combat pur
POSeS.' . -i'. -. !' ' F yFFl
It is equipped with a new gun
using a high velocity - armor
piercing shell. It is also - provid
ed with a machine gun turning on
a swivel at the top of its turret.
General Moore at Adair
Decorated for Gallantry
CAMP ADAIR, Mar. 20 Award
of a silver star for gallantry in ac
tion was conferred Saturday upon
Brig. Gen. Bryant E. Moore, as
sistant commander of iheJIimber
wolf division" at Camp Adair. The
ceremony was also the . occasion
of the division's first full review
since its activation flF'a "
. The citation grew out of action
last November 23, "when Moore,
then a colonel, was in command of
an- infantry regiment which was
the target of exceptionally heavy
mortar fire by : the Japanese on
Guadalcanal.
The " commanding officer of
the battaliea was seriously
wounded as were ether officers,
and Uoors tok Tcr Clitttizx
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Goebbels Avers
Hitler Healthy,
Warns Britain
'.. By The Associated Press t
Noting reports that Adolf Hit
ler, is HI and of dissension be
tween the German leader and
his general staff, ; Nazi Propa-f
ganda Minister Paul Joseph
Goebbels was quoted by - the.
Berlin radio Sunday as saying
that Hitler "Is as healthy as n
human being can possibly -be
and he Is practically directbig
the war at the front as well is
ai bome. ' ,; ; : -tf j
"But naturally he is working
hard, without Sundays off and
without a vacation, Goebbels
was quoted as saying in the
broadcast recorded by the Asso
ciated Press. j 1
Reichsmarshal Goerlng and
Foreign Minister Ton Rfbben
trop also were declared to be
In good health "although aU of
them require a thorough rest
when this war is finally over.!
Goebbels declared "Germany;
will soon be able to attack Brlt-j
ain in such a degree that the
British Win come back to their
senses. ' ' . -. , '
He also said the axis U-boat
campaign would prevent
'Churchill from carrying out a'
big Invasion of Europe. '
Eden Says War
Far From
Confers With FDRj
British Officials,
Plans Seeing Tour
By Tho Associated Press
WASHINGTON, March 13-T)
Warning that "We've got a long
way "yet to go1-, on the road to vic
tory, Anthony Eden,; British for
eign secretary hastened to get to
gether with President Roosevelt
Saturday night on the vast prob
lems of war and global security!.
Meanwhile a resolution was pro
posed in the senate, to be put be
fore President Roosevelt and Eden
on Sunday, to tell the world that
the senate favors this nation's par
ticipation . in an international un
dertaking to settle disputes peace-J
fully after this war. (Story j'bn
page 2.) - - v. .fi-;
The president invi ted Eden ) lor
dinner and a talk, the White House
announced. Another guest vas
John G. Winant, the American
ambassador to London who 'has
been in . this country for sevefal
weeks. '.?!
Saturday afternoon the British
foreign secretary conferred With
ministers of the British dominions,
Canada, South Africa, New 2a-J
land and Australia following- a
luncheon with Winant and Lord
Halifax, the British ambassador.
-. His Initial meeting with Mr.
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Andral Bloore
War Prisoner :
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. WASHINGTON, March M.H?)
-The swar ; 'department Saturday
announced names of . 257 , United
States army personnel held pris
oners by the Japanese. Additional
lists will be published. 4 '
Saturday's list included: . j ; t.
f Oregon: ; 1 : V "
Pvt? Paul R, Fleming; father,
Arthur Fleming, Harper. .
- Tic." Andral G. Moore; mother;
Mrs. Katherine Moore, 590 South'
22nd street, Salem..'.' v r
American artillery fire so ef
fectively that the enemy mor
tars were silenced, the citation
saJeV Moore Js a jsatfro of Ells
worth, Me. 6 '
: MaJ. Geri. Gilbert R. Cookv di
visional commander, presented
the medal before the assembled
division, then allowed Mrs. Moore
to pin , it upon her husband's
breast r -
The timberwolf division's other
two generals. Cook and Brig Gen.
William C Dunckel, are also wear
ers of the silver star, won by them
In World War I in France . . i 1
Moore was promoted to briga
dier general last month and as
signed to C&2 Adair.
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eds Advance
Smolensk to Counteract
t.
tho Associated Proas
JSONDON, Sunday,. March
I
fresh ground in the!
flaming fight
cow bulletin announced Sunday,
frankly, termed the
dredS of tanks and
thousands of
three! sides of the Ukraine citadel. i j :
iThe German high command declared that elite SS guards
men I had -"shattered enemy re- I
sistapi :e" and advanced - to : the
main railway statiorj, but did not
claim the f recapturej cjf the city,
where it - said a Violent street
struggle fsiill was gefing on. : . 1
- The nazi-controlled Paris radio
said JDccupa tion was "almost com
plete," .with the red army de
fenders falling back slowly .but
steadily J : r ". '. '
The Moscow ballet In reeord
I ed by the soviet Monitor said
! the! Russians : :- hid - absorbed
hesfvy jbounter-attacks on
north 1 : and southf jsldes.
the
south; sides, bat
acknowledged - - anbther with
drawal fto new ; jnlUonsrP4n
the wesi. where It jiald large
enemy tank and infantry forces
sneceeded, , after repeated ' at
tacks and at the cost of severe
. losses, ln ' pressing I back oar
'troops.t ! ' !;! ;:; r ;' --;Xf
" "faking up, new j positions, our
forces Withstood the Onslaught! of
the Jenemy's numerically superior
lurqcs, repeiujig mi piueriie at
tacks arid causing iem enormous
losses." jii : ' j ,-'
Heavy I i fighting raged also
north of the city, this communique
said andf to the sbujth ' the Ger
mans were said to have : Jhrown
dozens pf tanks agiinst the. soviet
lines without breaking .them. ?" .
."After H losing .11 tanks and
about 500 officers I and men, the
Hitlerites! fell backjtd their initial
positions' it said of that sector.
Tbe Russians Officially have
acknowledged ! four withdrawals
In the last two days. : -.-J . .
Skjuadcon after squadron i of
German4 iplanes wOrej reported to
have further : devastated : Khar
kov's dentral section already
heavily, damaged by Itwb previous
contests ffor the cityj ' .-J:
, A Berlin broadcast quoted - a
Kharkov: front wai- correspondent
as saying Russian I resistance was
"incredibly, . stubbpr at first,
but "waning ; thereafter from
hour to hour j j
?!Whole squadronsj . of Stukas
roared down in consecutive waves
on; the enemy, who lis being at-
Tum to tago z-piory .) .
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2: Battleships
Cf Japsj Sunk
In November ,
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JWASHINGTONj March IZ-(JP
The navy announced- Saturday
night that two Japanese battle
ships actually were! sunk in ! the
great -sea battle off Guadalcanal
iitJmid-Novemb j 'i ':. ... !j i
I Previous, official reports had
claimed the sinking pf one battle
ship .and one vessel;' identified as
either a battleship! or heavy cruis
ejri A itudy of lter inteUigence
reports; proved the big warship to
have been j a batticwagoiu iv
The navy Issued a recapitula
tion of the Solomon Islands na
val campaign from j its start Au
gust 7 through Fjebfuary 7 when
Japanese, resistance! on Guadal
canal was ' coming to an end. It
totaled i! Japanese ! combatant ship
losses at 40 sunk and non-combatant
ship losses at 24 sunk . or
destroyed,' a total of 64. ! i
The enemy warships sunk were
two battleships, 12; cruisers and
25 ' destroyers, y; In ! addition nine
worships were .lifted as probably
sunk and 81 as damaged for a
total of 130 combatant types sunk
or: damaged. r ..i ,( ---v .,
One .non-combatant vessel was
listed ; its prcbahty-lsunk and 27
is damaged for f a 1 total, Includ
ing those sunk, of 52. Ships sunk
or damaged for all types amount-
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5!
Assault,
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on Thrt3e Sides;
Steadily on
14-(P)-German troops gained
for Kharkov, a midnight Mos
and the Russian field dispatches
situation ''serious'' as the nazis threw hun-
Infantrymen into an assault on
General Sees
'Axis.in Sea' !
Only Patrol Fights
1 .Reported Saturday;
1 Aircraft Active
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, March 13-yp)
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower has
told his troops that German, and
Italian 'forces In "Tunisia are
doomed to be pushed into the tea
and eventually destroyed mow that
three of their efforts to break cut
of the encircling allied ring have j;
been smashed. ; .'
Actual fighting as reported Sun
day in "the allied communique
was confined to vigorous patrol
activity all along the front and
a j repetition, of smashing allied
aerial blows directed particular
ly at Tunis and Sousse.
Gen. Eisenhower's order of the
day, which Was released for pub
lication : Saturday, was dated
March 1, just two days after Gen."
Sir Bernard . L. Montgomery ol
the British r Eighth, army had
promised that "it will then bo
our turn to attack" after giving
the enemy a "very bloody nose
as a result of his attempted of
fensive out of the Mareth line.
! Heavy and medium US
bombers gave the docks . and .
railway yards at Sousse, 2
miles south of Tunis, and the
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Shade Factory
Chances for
War Contract l,
."; Salem . loses an industry this
month and in its place gains a .
wartime: manufacturing plant em
ploying more than four times the.
personnel that engaged in the
manufacturing of window shades
and Venetian blinds at the Rein-,
holdt St Lewis factory during ,
peace and the first - year of the ,
war. 'j ...y -. -
Changeover to new equipment
to be used in the 100 per cent
war industry is to be completed -this
week, Lloyd C Reinholdt and
Rollin C. Lewis, partners - in the
venture, believe, . and Monday,
March i 22, should mark the com
mencement of work on a $123,000
contract. :' '" ' ' . -
Fifty persons are to be employ
ed where 11 formerly worked. The
entire force has been lined up or'
Is being secured through the US
employment service office here.
Lewis said Saturday. .
The contract is estimated as a
six-months job.'; Although the
plant has never before been en
tirely on a war production sched-.
ule, it did fill the entire contract
for shadework ' and blackout at '
Camp I Adair, for shades at four
other j military projects and for
seven : federal housing . projects.
Still to be completed are shade
work J: contracts at Bend ' and
Mountain View, Idaho.
"'.. No i manufacturing for com
merce outside war tasks is con
templated at the plant, although
Reinholdt & Lewis will continue
to sell blinds, a representative of
the firm said Saturday. With
goods manufactured outside the
city, the firm plans to cere fcr
its customers needs and it v. T 1
continue to service its insta!", -tlons,
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