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PORTLAND, Ore., Mar. 8.—(U.R) -Foo tsore and weary Portland j police, given the run around for [three months by an elusive |**brace-and-bit” burglar, admitted tonight that they still have a ^ong hunt ahead unless their man lakes an unexpected slip. Reports today indicate the >urglar added to his list of almost loo crimes with at least one entrance over the weekend. Detectives pointed out: “What in we do ... we drive the rowl cars all night without lights we walk until our legs give it . . if that fellow sees a |ngle light on the street or a strian even a block away, he jparently gets right out of
Tht.”
They added that the burglar— 10 uses a brace and bit to bore [rough window frames—takes ^thing but cash. In this way, manages to operate without a snce” for his loot.
tage Door' st T ryouts d This Week
pducer William C. DeMille and nt director George Goldberg select the cast for the all-ity production of “Stage [’ upon the completion of stu-bryouts at. end of this week.
|rty-three widely diversified 22 to be interpreted by wo-ind 11 to be played by men, h the off:ng. Tryouts, which |enced last Tuesday, will con-until every student who to try for a part has been |a chance to do so. The only ;ment is a grade average
INTMENTS OPEN
jtments for tryouts may be [in the play productions of-[7 Student Union. Those who participated in previous uniproductions need not make Lments, but should file ap-[ns indicating they wish to
[ict of a George S. Kaufman-perber collaboration, “Stage Let with sparkling triumphs |n Broadway and on the Margaret Sullivan starred Itage version, and Katherine p, Ginger Rogers, and Menjou portrayed in the )icture roles.
RECOUNTED
>ed by the critics as a iding tear-provoking drama >or” is the story of a group thrown together by their love—the theater.
fccess of the seating ar-it employed in last semes->u Can’t Take It With >mpted the producers of to utilize the same plan in Bovard auditorium on (he play will be continued Uay 1, 2, 3. and 5.
Explains
Dispatch
London Paper’s Story of Convoy Movements Had No Positive Facts
LONDON, Mar. 8—(U.P.)— The dispatch printed in the London Daily Mail during the weekend reporting movements of “great convoys’' of American troops and material •to the southwest Pacific “contained no positive facts having any relation to new convoy operations’’ in that area, ,the navy department announced tonight.
The news dispatch, written by Walter Farr, the Mail’s Washington | correspondent, ostensibly was written “at sea” but the navy said it was actually filed for transmission at Honolulu where Farr arrived Mar. 2 from California.
NAVY ISSUES REPORT
The navy issued this “note to editors for publication if desired,” regarding the incident:
“This is a final navy department report on the Farr (London Daily Mail) incident.
“Late information reaching Washington now locates Farr’s filing point at Honolulu, where he arrived Mar. 2 direct from California.
“ ‘The speeding through the southwest Pacific’ story was filed by Farr in person, ashore at Honolulu. It was dispatched by commercial communications after review by a public relations officer of the Pa-! cific fleet, who is also ashore.
NO FACTUAL DATA
“Farr was given transportation from California to Hawaii by the ; navy.
“Further analysis of the story, in | the light of now known circum-! stances, suggests that it contains no factual information about movements to Australia which has not been published by the American press prior to the London Daily ! Mail publication.
“It is now our impression here ; that the Farr story contains no , positive facts having any relation i whatsoever to new convoy operations in the southwest Pacific.”
Evasion of Rules | Denied by Editor
LONDON, Mar. 8—(U.P)— Arthur Horniblow, editor of the London Daily Mail, today denied Washington assertion that Walter Farr, a correspondent of the newspaper, had evaded American regulations and taken advantage of United States navy courtesy.
The moot dispatch, published by the Daily Mail yesterday, said that “great convoys of ships carrying American troops, pilots, planes, tanks, and guns” were traversing the southwest Pacific and “naval and air battles without parallel in history are developing.”
No Win, No Play
WASHINGTON, Mar. 8.—(U.R)— Humiliated by failure of his numerically superior Japanese troops to crush Philippine resistance, Lieut. Gen. Masaharu Homrria is reported by “hitherto reliable” sources to have committed hara-kari, Gen. Douglas MacArthur informed the war department today.
MacArthur said he was investigating the reports and added the ironic note that the suicide of the Japanese commander and his funeral was said to have occurred in the same suite atop the Manila hotel which MacArthur himself occupied before the evacuation of the Philippine capital.
The report was contained in army communique No. 139 which also told how concealed American artillery wiped out an estimated 800 Japanese troops in a surprise attack on a regiment moving up to reinforce the Japanese line north of Abucay on Bataan peninsula.
Phi Beta Kappa Announces Essay Contest
The 20th annual essay contest of the southern California alumni of Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic honorary, is now in full swing, according to an announcement from Dr. Benjamin F. Stel-ter. Occidental college chairman of the committee on awards.
The contest is open to all students of southern California junior colleges, colleges, or universities, and offers prizes aggregating $105. SUBJECT NAMED
Subject of the 1942 competition will be ‘'The Problems, Present and Future, Which America Faces.” Essays must not exceed 3000 words in length, nor can theV contain less than 2000 words. Originality of thought and subject matter, and the importance of a high standard of English are stressed in judging.
First prize of the contest will be $50, with a second award of $35, third prize amounting to $20, and an honorable mention award of $10.
Any phase of the world situation affecting America will be acceptable as a theme in the contest, Dr. Stel-ter announced.
SC ’41 WINNER
In last year’s contest, SC won first place in the university division, and is generally considered a top competitor for honors in the yearly affair.
Information on details of the contest may be obtained from Prof. Bessie A. McClenahan, chairman of the essay committee for Epsilon chapter of the scholastic fraternity, or from Professors J. Eugene Harley, Julia N. McCorkle, B. A. G. Fuller, Roy Malcolm, and Wilbur H. Long.
e Ruth to Appear as Guest nnual Father, Son Banquet
>ment that Babe Ruth, ISwat,” will be guest of len Trojaneers, Trojan irs and their sons meet ie football squad at the
mances in 1942 will be the highlight of the evening when Headman Sam, Barry and former Trojan grid star, Ben Sohn offer their forecasts.
Top-flight sports writers from Los Angeles newspapers will attend the banquet which is scheduled for the Foyer of Town and Gown, and showing of an especially prepared burlesque newsreel will provide a portion of the evening’s entertainment. Among newspapermen who will appear are George T. Davis, Braven Dyer, Robert Myers, Al Santoro, Paul Zimmerman, Ned Cronin, and Rube Samuelson.
Isadore Dockweiler and President Rufus B. von KieinSmid will address guests early in the evening.
ners of a drawing conducted among high school boys attending the banquet.
Besides members of the football team and club, guests will include
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Struggle
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Nazis Mass Millions for Spring Offensive; Reds Call Reserves
BY UNITED PRESS
European dispatches said yesterday that the most massive struggle the world has ever known was brewing on the Russian front.
They said Adolf Hitler was massing 5,000,000 men to hurl against Russia and that Josef Stalin was preparing to counter the onslaught with an equal
number of fresh reserves to be added to the Red army which already has rocked the German invasion force back on its heels.
Hitler, according to Stockholm reports, already has arrived in Kiev, German-oocupied capital of the Ukraine, to establish his headquarters for the spring offensive, the dispatches said, he expected to throw 250 divisions of German troops and about 30 from the axis-dominated states.
SOVIET ALSO STRONG
As if in echo to the Stockholm accounts, Soviet quarters in London said Russia had ready 367 new divisions, fully trained and fully equipped, to bulwark the millions of Soviet troops already in action.
Not waiting for Hitler's spring offensive, the Russians continued battering the Germans along every section of the Leningrad-to-Crimea front.
The Leningrad radio announced that a Soviet unit, blasting a new gap in the German siege arc below the old capital, had slaughtered 6000 enemy troops, while another 1300 were accounted for in violent battles on the southern front.
RAF RAIDS AGAIN
Moscow reported that the Russians had crashed though German positions northwest of the capital, Chalking up a tactical victory. In a neighboring sector street fighting raged for a strategic town.
In western Europe the Royal Air Force struck again at industrial targets in the Paris region, even while the French were observing a day of national morning for those killed in the raid last Tuesday night.
British bombers in an afternoon raid blasted at a factory in Poissy, 17 miles northwest of Paris, “which was known to be working for the enemy.” It was the same label attached by the British to the suburban Paris targets Tuesday night, the main one being the big Renault motor plant.
German-controlled newspapers in Paris, still seething over the Tuesday attack, published dispatches demanding that British nationals in unoccupied France be seized and executed in numbers proportionate to French deaths in any further British raids.
Author-Lecturer to Speak Before Civic Conference
Author and former lecturer at the United States army and navy colleges, Dr. William Star Myers, professor at Princeton university, will speak at the opening assembly of the 12th annual women’s civic conference, to be held at SC on Mar. 26, according to an announcement made Friday by Lawrence D. Pritchard, director of coordination.
An estimated 2000 women are expected to attend the conference. Dr. Myers will address the women on the subject “After the War— What Kind of Peace.”
Among the 61 participants in the all-day address and panel seminars are government and arnr
Resistance in
Australia Looms as War Theater
by United Press
The Japanese began their invasion of New Guinea island off northeastern Australia yesterday and today it appeared that they were preparing for a gigantic effort to invade the Australian sub-continent where they will face thousands
of American soldiers and scores of United States fighting
planes.
Meantime they appeared to be having hard going in Burma, where Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, after losing the battle of Java through no fault of his own, was fighting tooth and nail to hold the eastern approaches to India and to maintain his tenuous land communications
with Chungking and “Free” China.
Java . . .
The resistance of .the united nations on Java appeared virtually to have collapsed and the Nipponese conquest of the hundreds of islands which formed the Netherlands East Indies was near completion.
All communications between Java and the outer world were in Nipponese hands and axis radiocasts claimed that the last stronghold of Dutch resistance in the Bandoeng mountain region was being overrun.
Burma . . .
On the Burma front British Imperial forces, aided by American-made tanks, were fighting the Japanese to a standstill north of Rangoon but it appeared that the Japanese had cut the Rangoon-Manda-lay railway and highway connections at a number of points and were threatening rail and highway communications to the westward on the route from Rangoon to Prome.
How much longer Rangoon, already partly destroyed by the British, could hold out, was a question.
Philippines . . .
From the Philippines Gen. Douglas MacArthur, continuing his successful resistance to the Japanese on the Ba.taan peninsula of Luzon island, relayed an unconfirmed report that Gen. Masaharu Homma, former military attache in Washington who commands Japanese forces in the Archipelago, had committed suicide because of his failure to break American resistance.
Whether the report was true or not was of little importance. The important thing was that American resistance was continuing, with amazing success, and that Manila bay — one of the finest sea bases in the Orient — still is denied the Japanese because of dominant American guns on Corregidor and MacArthur’s adjacent forts.
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MELBOURNE, Mar. 8. —(UR) — Japanese troops invaded New Guinea today, advancing by 240 miles the eastern prong of their pincers threat to northern Australia with a landing at Salamaua, 430 miles from the northern tip of this island continent.
Australians increasingly predicted that the enemy would turn to this country from conquered Java in a few days and launch either a full-scale invasion attempt of mass aerial laids.
RAAF communiques issued during the weekend reported sustained aerial activity in the New Guinea area. The Japanese raided Port Moresby, 170 miles southeast of Salamaua, twice yesterday afternoon and Lae, 25 miles northwest of Salamaua, yesterday morning. Bulolo, gold-mining town in the interior of New Guinea, was bombed Friday.
Australian bombers continued pounding at the Japanese at Gasmata, on the southern coast of New Britain island.
New Capitulation
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 8.—(Ui!) —Tokyo radio, in another recapitulation, today claimed that a total of 114 American, British, and Dutch warships have been sunk by the Japanese since the outbreak of the war in the Pacific. The broadcast was recorded here by the United Press listening post.
The Japanese asserted 53 warships were “badly damaged” and four were captured.
The Japanese alleged the following warships were sunk:
American battleships: Arizona type, Maryland type, California type, Utah type, on of “unidentified type”; American cruisers: Augusta, Houston and two “unidentified type”; American aircraft carriers: Lexington, Langley, and a “new type carrier”; British battleships: Prince of Wales, Repulse; British cruisers, Exeter, Perth, Hobart; Dutch cruisers: Java, De Reuyter, Sumatra, Tromp; 10 British destroyers, eight American destroyers, four Dutch destroyers, 34 submarines.
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SC Motor Vehicle Laboratory Tests Aptitude of Drivers
by Marilyn Johnson
How are your reflexes? Do your muscles coordinate properly? Are you left-eyed or right-eyed?
In case you’re interested, the latest addition to the SC campus, a laboratory supervised by the California motor vehicle department, will provide the answer. It is located in
the anthropology department’s
quarters.
Laboratory equipment is for testing eyesight, muscular coordination, and reflexes of drivers. SC women who took the first part of the am-bulance-driver training are required to pass the tests given before they complete the course.
Repeating traffic violators may be summoned at any time to take the tests, and st]
strings and maneuvers them into position.
Next comes the color chart. Unless you tre color blind this is simple—just read the colored numbers inside volor-dotted circles. Ability to detect objects after intense glare, side vision, and distance detection complete the visual test.
Reflexes and coordination are ob-
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Amy Lowell, poet of the ear
be the topic of weekly poetry day at 12:05 pj lecture room oi library.
Miss Lowell w^ the poets of h< poems were th< all that she large, almost wrote delicate spring, and bin
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