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vacz rcun Tb OUTGO?? STATECMAIL GcIktl Qngoa. Thursday Mornings March S3. 1342 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. CHARLES A. SPRAGUZ, President Member of The Asvndated tress The Associated Press ts exclusively entitled to file use for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited tn this newspaper. Emergencies and the Law - The way it works out, Oregon's legislature Is not as "deliberative" as one might wish, par ticularly in the closing weeks after its pay has stopped. Well, perhaps we shouldn't have brought that up just now when the effort in tmost parts of the state is to induce someone to run for the legislature. But the point is that In spite of lawmakers' occasional bursts of speed, the process is slow; especially the pro cess of making state laws when the legislature meets only biennially. Congress can, in a pinch as it did last December when three declarations of war became necessary in as many days, toss rules out the window and act instantly but it doesn't unless the emergency is extreme. Lawmaking in a democracy is slow. Emerg encies, in times such as these, occur suddenly and without warning. The logical answer, if you're thinking solely of emergencies and how to meet them, is a dictator. But if Americans wanted a dictator they wouldn't have to fight this war. 'Nobody has suggested that we quit fighting. No matter how convenient in certain exigencies, Americans don't want a dictator. Yet when an emergency arises, someone who has a special stake in the solution or someone - who has strong feeling in the matter, invariably bobs up to suggest that the duly elected ad ministrative officials disregard the limitations of their authority and usurp, in this particular "good cause," the, lawmaking power. It has happened twice within the last week. Every right-thinking Oregon citizen agrees it is desirable that automobiles be driven, for the sake of tire and gasoline conservation, at a speed no greater than 40 miles an hour. From v national officials has come a request that state , governments institute such a maximum speed limit. But the' manner in which automotive speeds may be regulated in Oregon was estab lished after extensive study and debate and with great preciseness, by the 1941 legislature. , Yet from various quarters in Oregon including one leading newspaper came the proposal that , the governor, or the highway commission, ig nore that enactment and simply "declare" and enforce 40-mile speed limit. Next, it was suggested and by the same lead ing newspaper, that distressed taxpayers would be relieved if the tax commission should post- - pone the date for payment of the state income, tax inasmuch as it follows closely the federal income taxpaying .date and, this year for the last time, the property taxpaying .date. In this case an effort was made to so distort interpre tation of the law as to give the proposed mora torium the appearance of legality. But it was pretty thin. The law, it must be conceded, ought to be sufficiently elastic to permit of necessary ac tion in emergencies. In these specific cases the answer Is, first, that lawmakers are not sooth sayers; second, that neither emergency is so compelling as to justify the usurpation of law making powers. Automotive speeds may be limited by the weight of public opinion when were they ever actually regulated otherwise? The governor's proclamation on Wednesday, not intended to have the force of law, will give public opinion the maximum official support that is legally possible. As for the income tax, ' individual taxpayers may legally be granted relief in, worthy cases. But in general, we'll just have to make up our minds which is preferable; an orderly "gov ernment of laws" or prompt, incisive, unchecked administrative fiat. To our way of thinking, the decision was made in 1787. Sense in Rationing . ' When the terms of sugar rationing were first announced, this column pointed out one fea ture which tended to do an injustice by arbi trarily branding as "hoarders": those families, numerous in Oregon, which had normally pur chased sugar by the sack; and another indi cated feature which threatened to defeat na tional purpose by depriving families of the ad ditional sugar normally required, in season, for canning. V.tvv O. L. Price, Oregon's rationing administrator, has just returned from a national conference of such officials with news which bears directly on both points. Contrary to original announce ment, no one will be stigmatized as a "boarder" for possession of excess sugar at the time ration ing starts if that sugar was acquired in accord ance with the family's normal buying habit; and in any case there will be no penalty for such possession. In effect, sugar in possession will be treated as sugar purchased under rationing. But there will be and it is deserving to em phasizea : penalty: for t falsely reporting the amount of sugar in possession, A r Likewise provision will be made,! Mr. Price announced, for obtaining additional sugar for canning, over and above the weekly quotas. . Families which still have ample sugar to last them for several weeks after rationing starts, are however warned to register at the regular time, declaring.' the amount of sugar they have and waiting until it is theoretically consumed at the rationing, rate, before receiving ration ing books. This procedure is recommended in order to avoid complication in obtaining other commodities later to be rationed.' ;? It is our suspicion that eradication of the enumerated "bugs" from the sugar rationing program was - brought about through the in fluence of the state administrators like Mr. Price who carried to their national conference the complaints from the -"grass roots." The outcome affords reason for hope that rationing : of other goods, as- it becomes necessary will be administered with equal recognition of the practical details. J People are still occasionally Darnum to the effect that "there's one bom every minute..,; Earnum may have been right v. hen and if he said it but he is, away out-of date now, , Despite the widely lamented drop ii the birth rate, there is ess trxn every 14 "No Favor Sways Vs; No Tear Shall Am" from lint Statesman. March 28, 1831 In its reluctance to say the obvious, this column neglected to commend the blind Tilla mook veteran who has organized a guerilla force of 1000 men, handy with firearms, ready to fight invaders if they come. To our surprise we note that the Coos Bay Times calls this sturdy outfit "pathetic.'' taking the view that guerilla fight ing has no place in modern warfare. What kind of fighting, we ask, was it that stopped the Nips in China, the one place where they have been stopped? What kind of fighting was it that slowed down Hitler's drive into Russia by har assing his communications? What kind - of fighting is making it tough for the army of ' occupation on Luzon? " If Tillamook county is invaded well bet those 1000 guerillas swap better than even. i l mil miliar u i i Pass Mail quoting P. T, atesmatt The Medford city council has "postponed for 30 days"decision upon the installation of park ing meters. "Better make it 30 years," suggests the Mail Tribune. Why any city which has got ten along without parking meters heretofore should consider them necessary now is more than we can see. But maybe some of Medford's aldermen can see something that isn't apparent to the layman. News Behind The News By PAUL MALLON (Distribution by Kins Feature Syndicate. Inc. Repro duction in whole or In part strictly prohibited.) WASHINGTON, March 25 Ex-Maestro of War Labor Sidney Hillman qui'v slipped his resigna tion on Donald Nelson's overcrowded desk a few days back as the outgrowth of his peculiar inner personal situation. It is true, Mr. Nelson's new production campaign has run into hazy weather be cause it was based on new la bo r - management committees for each plant a setup which was apparently misinterpreted by both anagement and labor to some extent, as a socializing move rather than a war effort, despite Mr. Nelson's protesta- tions. But all around Mr. Nelson's WPB do not connect Mr. Hill , man's dejection with this event. As head of Nelson's labor divi sion, Mr. Hillman might have contributed the labor angle to this campaign, an . 'e which revived memories of the Murray plan for industrial councils. But Hillman and Nel associates Imply that far from being a resin: of bad advice Mr. Hillman's low spirits were t' ae to the fact no one has been asking him for any advice. Mr. Roosevelt's special labor committee of three AFLers and three ClO'ers has been meeting fre quently at the White House with Mr. Hillman not present. He was not invited, and lofty CIO circles claim CIO President Phil Murray suggested he stay away. It just seems nobody loves him. AFL feels the same way. He has been working in the middle, between these two forces, since the days of the original Roosevelt advisory council on national de fense. When that ran out, he was upped to co head of OPM with Knudsen. Now Mr. Knudsen has. a lieutenant generalship, but Mr. Hillman is only head of one of the six divisions of Mr. Nelson's WPB and Nelson had apparently forgotten bis telephone number. Even to a less sensitive - person than Mr. Hillman, this would seem to constitute a cold shoulder.' Basis of government policy on inflation, rationing, and taxes is the assumption that "everyone Is making more money. It is becoming increasing ly clear this premise Is false. Some people and some corporations are mating a great deal more money than before the war, but a great many people and many old leading corporations are mak ing less. The shocking testimony showing the Jack and Heintz company making XS per cent on an airplane starter and throwing money away like John May nard Keynes, helps to further the popular illusion that war contractors are getting rich. The biggest of them, concerns like US Steel and General Motors are in fact getting poor. Their earnings are down, their stock price is sharply down from pre-December 1 days. Others like American Locomotive and Bald win (which earned nothing during the depression) ' are enjoying an earnings bonanza. These bonanzas are so rich the overall figures of earnings, col lected by the government (which are not up to the minute in registering what has happened since the war began) show increases and mislead gov ernment economists into believing "everyone- is making more money. '; vow .' " ' . y: Take a specific industry, the first big industry to feel the weight of war change (but not the last) automobiles. Certainly no one connected with autos now is roaking more money. There are 95,296 dealers who are now running bowling alleys, used ear lots and what not They and their 110,000 employes cannot be assumed to be making more money. The thousands of tourist trades people along the highways of the country -wul not make more money, nor will filling station ' proprietors, tire dealers. Vacant stores can be found in every block of. the busiest parts of Fifth avenue and Broadway in New York to stand witness mat the shopkeeping class of business in non-booming communities is not making more money. Nor are people in the financial district " Yet shipyards, small iron works, contractors in boom centers, real estate speculators in some locali ties are making tremendous profits. - So also with people. Tanner and union labor are- two class groups who, statistics suggest, are getting larger Incomes. But there are no statistics for clerks, white collar workers, including gov ernment employes, teachers, doctor, dentists, taxi drivers, soldiers In the army, sailors in the navy all of whom, and many more, are getting the same or much less salary due to taxes and prices. ' - ' To these must be added the untold, unenumerated unemployed thrust out. of work in small . manu facturing businesses, or those who will be thrust out when rationing is extended as promised. " Thus the problem of stopping inflation, of cur tailing buying power, of tax- "excess earnings" is- not the overall problem which the government has assumed it to be in its initial economic war policies, but specific problems affecting tly speci fic cro9S of people. fyp. - ! .tr ;- - i sW. ,V-'T 'Summer Time" It's Bte for BreaCtfasft By R. J. HENDRICKS Pioneer life in 1-28-42 the Oregon Country as seen on Fourth Plain near Vancouver, Washington: S V s The Oregon Historical Quar terly for March has an article by Elizabeth Gidney depicting Oregon Country pioneer living f conditions in the first settle ments around Fort Vancouver, Washington. This column will copy liber ally from the informative para graphs contained in the Gidney matter. The first installment fol lows: S m "1. Clothes, Houses, Parties. Fourth Plain lies seven miles northeast of Vancouver, Wash ington. Originally a part of the Hudson's Bay Company's farm, it was one of the first settle ments around Vancouver. Rich ard Covington, a company clerk who became a settler, built on the Plain the house reputed to be the oldest in the state. Young Lieutenant Grant while sta tioned at Fort Vancouver, was a frequent guest there with fel low officers, for the Covingtons bad one of the first pianos in the county and their house was al ways open to company, The mode of living on Fourth Plain in all the years before the 1890's was by no means Indigenous to that dis trict The seven miles to town' was too short a distance to per mit the development of. a cul ture. . "In outward appearance life on Fourth Plain went on much v the same as in any settlement in the Oregon Country. - In dress the women of the Plain followed the mode of the day, though modified to suit their active life. As long as bustles were fashionable, they wore bustles. They breathed a Today's Garden By ULLDS L, ' MADSEN - N. R. asks if she can success fuly plant out a hothouse azalea ' given her on Valentines day. She says it has finished bloom ing, and frequently looks a little wilted. c Answer: This should be nlant- ed out in late April 'or early 'May. Keep it well watered and' sprinkle the foliage each day. If possible keep it where it can have some fresh air each day without letting it set in a draft When planting it choose a loca - tion where it win not suffer, from the direct afternoon sun in ; summer. .. ' Most of these azaleas given as blooming pptted plants during the winter are hardy in this cli mate. Occasionally we find one which cannot stand the frost? If one is purchasing an azalea for a winter gift It is well to ask the florist if it is a hardy one. Most people, unless they are living in apartments, prefer aza leas they can later plant out-of-doors. S. M. writes that all the buds on her Christmas cactus dropped . off, at Christmas time in spite of good 'care and fertilization. She 'set the plant away and has giv en it little care since and now it is again full of buds. She won ders if it will bloom if she gives it good care now or if the earlier neglect will make the buds falL - Oddly enough, the neglect is probably what ; brought about the buds. Too industrious care of the Christmas cactus makes the buds drop. Do not over water or fertilize now and you will prob ably have a Christmas cactus in bloom for FastW. it 4S - Beginning to Get Hot sigh of relief when bustles were no longer necessary, although, having worn them so long, one might feel shamefully nekkid.' Even for Sunday most .of the dresses were of calico, but on washday, and on other days when they were fairly sure of having no company, they wore dresses made from sacks, stain ed a dull grey-brown with dye made from the alder bark. Ev-, eryday aprons were made from gunny bags, sometimes trimmed with a border of feather-stitching in bright worsted, but com-' monly just gunny sacks opened out, cut a little smaller at the top, and pinned securely at the waist The only woman's vanity was a bit of ribbon pinned about j the throat No matter how or- dinary her clothes or how rough her task, nearly every woman wore her bit of ribbon. s The men wore overalls and denim shirts, winter and sum mer. But their beards compen sated for any monotony of cos tume. There was every style full beards, goatees, mustaches. Every man considered his whis kers his proudest adornment and prized them accordingly. It was a manlesa household indeed that did not boast at least one mus tache cup'. The young bucks, not content with beards alone, dressed up for Sunday with high-heeled boots and flashy red ties. The older men merely put on a clean pair of overalls and trimmed their whiskers., "The houses of the early set tlers on the Plain were common ly of logs, put together with pegs. A few were box' houses, made of twelve -inch boards standing upright, with battens over the cracks. Most of the Vancouver houses were' of box construction; as late as 1873, there were only three brick buildings in town. A man on Sauvie Island .- built himself a lumber house, but when its vir tues . were ' generally applauded he donated it as a school house. S S ' "Fireplaces were a part of ev ery house, both for. heating and for cooking. In the fireplace the women used big black iron ket tles in which even bread, could be baked, since the heat could be held and distributed evenly. When the kettles were eld, they could be used about the yard un til a hard frost finished them off. "The men made all the furni ture tables, benches, V chairs, and beds, usually simple in style and as stout as possible. In the winter," however, with time to putter, they made' fancy chairs, bending young, " well seasoned poles into strange shapes to form the chair backs. Often they left the bark on the poles and cut it out in regular patterns for. trimming. Rustic benches and sofas they made the same way. Furniture was built to last and - last it did,' with many an. old piece still remaining in Plain TfKSnes. ' 1 U W "By and large the. homestead ers were poor, with little, money 'for ornamenting their houses. A story : Is told in illustration of their poverty. 'The law required : mat each man, to prove up on his claim, must have at least one glass window in the bouse. Sev eral families, according to the . story, went together in the pur chase of a glass window.. As a man got ready to prove up on his claim he borrowed the win dow, put it up, and invited the inspectors. After their. visit, he took the window down, put it under the bed ready for the next horn-ste?4'?r, - and nailed up a s - hid? t" v" wind out IS "The. only pause from work in the lives of the Fourth Plain er came on Saturday nights. Every Saturday evening at one house or another the neighbors began to gather. The whole fam ily came. There were no nurse maids on the Plain to care for the children. So the youngsters, however small, were fetched along. As darkness ' fen, the youngsters would troop upstairs to bed. The party would be lasting until dawn, and young bodies needed their rest. V "By about nine the guests would all have arrived, the men in their clean overalls and the women in calico, all filled with - the party spirit They worked as hard at having a good time as they did at putting the crops in. The result was that they enjoyed themselves enormously. Dance lacBio IPfrogramnis KSLM THURSDAY 13M Ke. 30-Kis K Shine; 7 .-00 News in Brief. 1M-Rise N Shin, t JO News. 7:45 Sunrise Salute. S.-OO Musical Horoscope. JO News Brevities. S :3S-lforninc Pick Up. . SO Pastor's Call. S:1S Sunset Trio. 1 30 Pled Piper. 10:00 World in Review. 10. -05-SonM like it Sweet 103 Women in the News, 1SJS Bert Hirseb Pr ants. 11. -00 A Sons Is Born. 1130 WU CbapeL 11:09 Iran Ihunars. U:l-News. 1130 HUIbiHv Serenade. 1135 Willamette Valley Opinions. ' Hi Tune Tabloid. ia Milady-a Melody. 130 Isle of Paradise. 1:45 Herb Jeffrey. 10 Tour Notes. 1:15 US Aran. - 130 Sing Song Time. 1:45 Alpine Troubedors. .DO Old Opera Hooaw, ettV-Tats Waller. 4 JO This Tbing CmOeg Lave. 4:15 Una.- ' 430 Teattme Tunea. :OS nere Comes the Bawd. 830 To the Ladies. . 535 Dinner Hour Music. OO News, Tonight's Headlines. S:1S News Analysis. 030 Evening- Serenade. 7:00 News in Brief. 1:05 Interesting racts. 7:15 Lud Cluskin. 730 Willamette Valley Opinions. T:SO-4IoUywood Quartette. 80 War Fronts in Review. : S:l-Interlude. :15-History of Hymns. , S30 Travelogue Magic Carpet. -I ' :00-News. . 05 The Bounehtn. ' S. -45 Sincerely Tour. 10:00 Let's Dance. 1030 News. "T y- ' , 10:45 South American Salute. 1140 Pot Pourri. 1130 Last Minute News. . , - KEX TBXrKSOAT-lM Kb . -00 News. -, .- " 6:05 Sunriae Serenade. l U5 National Fans St Home. . .-45 Western Agriculture. ? , 7:00 Floyd Wright. Organist. 7:15 BreaUast Club. . S:15 What Can I Do. 30 Stella Unrer. 35 Musical Pleasantries. 5 S Keep Fit Club With Patty Joasi 9M Andrmi Continentals. :15 Christian Science ProgTasaV ' 30 Breakfast at Sardi's. 10 KM Baukhace Talking. 10:15 Orphans of Divorce. , k 1030 Amanda of Honeymoon JOS. ; lt9 Jotm s other Wife. 110-Just Plain BUI. 11 J S Current Events. ' 1130 Stars of Today. - 11 MS Keen Fit Chib WUn Pat 11 SO. Hews Headlines and Highlights 11:15 Tour Livestock Reporter. . 1230 Market Reports. 1135 Rose- City Calendar. . 11.-45 To' be announced. - 1:00 Club Matinee. ' SUS News, t lit Htm. , ... V":- 10 The Quiet Hour. 130 A House in the CwUj. -:5 Stars of Today. - 3:00 Between the Beokaads. , 130 String Time. 15 Traveling Cook. I 1 30 Dance Hour. 4:4ft US Marines, f 40Adventure Stories - :1S Flying Patrol. - 30 News- of the World. stS Tom Mix. Straight , .w secret uty. 4:15 RolUe Truitt tm. 30 Music by kvtro. 45 Streamlined Fairy Tales. 70 Rudy Valle Show. 730 Red Ryder, . 4)0 Dorothy Thompson. :15 Flowers for the Living. . S: 30 Your Blind Oate. :15 News Comments. i Kews Head H ns and P -CrMav : Priiadiirm Ballroom drbetro. Bv EDITH BRISTOL Chapter One The right place to start the story of the crimes at Castaway would be far, far back, long be fore I was born. , . Back in the days when Wal ter Gregg, then a young man, dug with pick and shovel in the bills above Castaway before it was called Castaway. There was bravado as well as pride in the name Gregg gave to his spreading acres of rolling hills, gouged here and mere with deep gashes, sharply cut arroyos running to the sea. With gnarled and spotted sycamores lining each dry watercourse. With bold cliffs and the tireless surf end lessly lapping or lashing at their cruel, rocky feet. ; ;-v..;v-;.";-u";;.?:;t. T was a castaway, Walter ; Gregg boasted with bitter pride. "X never saw my father. My mo ther died when I was a little shaver. X came no the hard way and after I made the money to buy these hnis where I had worked in the quarry, I named my ranch Castaway Just to show folks X was proud to re- , member how I started. That, you see, back in Gregg's early manhood is really the place to start this story. Back where the threads of the lives of Pau line, Es telle, Durkee, Craven and the rest were all distinct and separate. . . Before greed and envy, jealousy and revenge, had snarled them into a tangle so . hopeless, so desperate, that only death wift, sudden, ugly death could slash the web. But I am only 22. All I know ' of those earlier years of the act ors in the Castaway drama I learned in one crowded, crucial October. And even now I am not sure that I could piece together all of the fragments of the story, logically and in order without the help of the little blue diary that Lance thinks is school-girlish and sflly. "Write it down," Lance urged,, after the excitement of the tra- : gedy had subsided, "just as things happened. Everybody's read in the papers about the Castaway case. Better write it after dance they would go through, pausing only to mop their faces. When a caller was exhausted, there was a new one ready to take his place with 'a . brand new set of calls. "Gay as they were, they kept one ear cocked for the caller's shouts. At each new and timely quip they grinned in tired but no less appreciative mirth. At twelve o'clock they stopped for supper. The ladies had an brought their contributions sandwiches,- pickles, cake and they beamed proudly as the men aplauded each cake as it was taken from its basket Through super the men talked crops. (Continued tomorrow.) These scfteNcs are sappBed sy tte respective stations. Aay varia- tioas asted by nstaners ara dae ta aae ay i to this the air at Mafl off 35 News. 10 America's Town rf rating 11 ae This Moving World. lldS-Organ. U 30 War News Roundup. 30 Memory Timekeeper. 7:0 News. - 1M Memory Timekaeoec. SO Breakfast Club. -J5 Breakfast Cmb. . a .-45 Aa thva Twlf tm JS John S. 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KOTH TBimSBAT-50 Ke. oaw wonnwost rarm iw J5 Breakfast BeUlettav 30-Koia KJock 1 llS HwlDMrt ' 3n Rnh CmrrmA T.45 Neason Prmglo. sao isne Kadieott. :15 Consumer News. :50 Valiant Lady. 4 stories America aw ft-sio anutsj B:15 Ri SliatM- 4S Oar CLml SUnul It AO Ufa Can Be Pisuttntt Mas-Wotnaa ia white. 1030 Vic and Sa M4S Mary Lee Taylor. 11 AO-Bright Horisoav ; Haft Aunt Jenny. 1130 Fletcher Wiley. ? 11 45 Ksts HsbMm ' 11 AO Man , I Married. 11:15 Knox Manning. - i:ju Joyce joraan. 11:45 Woman mt Courage. :a. mam news. . . t -.15 William Winter. , 130 The OTfeillaL S45 Scattergood Balnea. SAO Jimmy Billiard Orchestra. S:l 5 Golden Cat Quartet. 130 Vera Barton. S 45 News. At Second Mrs tft'toa. , 4:15 Young Dr. U alone. . 4:." Nrwspsper of the Air -." SAO Eyes of he Worid - exactly as It was before your memories get blurred." "Then IT1 have to rose my di ary." X protested, "and you think all diaries are foolish even a atenographer's notebook 1 where a few lines can tell a lot and not everybody can read It" Writing in a diary does sotmd quaintly Victorian, I'll admit Telling yourself all about your self It sounds like bangs and bustles. But I think my little blue diary with the red lines on the delphinium "cover was Just my way of whistling in the dark, keeping my chin up when the jobs didnt materialize. "Write It down," Lance's eyes, hazel-brown, keen and kind, gave me encouragement So here it is s J Im Gerry Lane.' An orphan. As I mentioned, ZZ. on my col lege diploma it says "Geraldine." But Geraldines should be tall and stately, radiant blondes or statuesque brunettes. Fm neith er, rm small f and. quick, with rusty, reddish hair that doesn't stay put; ; freckles'1 in the sun shine, happiest in slacks and sweater. So Pm Gerry. Through college a generous uncle helped me. Helped me, too, in getting my first job. It seemed so easy. So it wasnt until he died and I started out to see the world that I realized that the lit tle bit of money he left me was n't a fortune. Isnt that just the sort of thing an impulsive, red headed girl would do? Start out to see the world with a few dol lars.and some references? ' First class references, too, both as to ability and character. But hundreds of other girls in San Francisco . must have had some just as good. For weeks I looked for work, my money dwindling, alarmingly, day after day. First, I was looking for a good job. At last, for any kind of a job. I answered advertisements. X rang doorbells. I died out ap plication blanks. Sat in waiting rooms with other girls who looked just as scared as I felt uir i . t : . nai iaing anyone on, jus now. . . maybe later in the sea son. . . " I knew all the answers. I just bit my lips when I heard them again. In my bag, worn shabby now, was my last ten dollar bilL What did a girl do, I- asked SByself, sitting there in the em ployftt agency? What did she DO, when that last limp bfll was gone? - Perhaps I wouldn't have been so sunk waiting there in that drab, dull room, except that I'd been skipping lunches lately that left me all weak and qua ky inside. By this time I knew the manager. She was blunt but sensible. (To be continued) SJS Heath man Melodies, b: rxx uarran. n 153 Elmer Davis. AO Major Bowes. 30 Big Town. 7:00 Glenn Miller. 7:15 The First Line, 7:45 Frailer Hunt. . 30 Death Valley Days, t. -00 News. - AS Dance BansL 30 Maudie's Diary. 10.-00 Five Star rtaaL 10:15 World Today. 1030 war Time w 1035 Air-Flo. H 45 Defense Today. 11 AO Wilbur Hatch. 1130 Manny Strand 11 Aft News. UAO-CAO a. m. Music A tf e KGW NBC rarmsBAT- 30 War News. AO Quack of Dawn. 30 Early Lards. 7 AO News Hearth and BlgkAgfaM 7:15 Music mt Vienna. 7:40 Martha Titton. 749 Sam Hayes. AO Stars mt Today. J 5 Symphonic Swing. 40 Lotta Noyea. 41 David Harutn. AO Beas Johnson. :1 5 Bachelor's ChUdren. 30 Deep River Boys, 45 Musical Bouquet. iv w woman's world. ie:i News for Boa 10 30 Rrthrmairea. 1045-Dr. Kate. ' 11 AO-Light ei the World, 11:15 Arnold Grimm's Daughter. 1130 Guiding Light. 1145 Hymna of All Churches. 11 AO Against the Storm. ; 1 11:15 Ma Perkins.- 1130 Pepper Young's raaoOy. 1145-Vic and SadNaT 1A0 Backstag WUo. US Stella Dallas. . - 130-Loronso Jones. 14ft Young Widder Brown. tAO-When a Girt Marriaa. S -J 5 Portia races Ufa, 30 We, the AHtotts. . 145 Stary of Mary Mariuv - SAO Right to Happtoess. . . SJS Lone Journey. 3 30 Pattie Chapin. 1:45 Personality Hour. . 44ft Woman's Anglo. . SAO Stars of Today. ' 130 Student Theatre. AO Music Hafl. . VA0-A1 Pearce St Ceng. t 730 Frank Pay. AO Fred Warms ha 1 Lum and Abnsr 30 Coffee Time. AO Aldrtch ramuy. 30 EUary Queen. 10 AO News riaahea. lOdS Your Homo Town Mo isr Musieal lnaarmde. 1030 Moonlight Sonata. 11 AO Bal Tabarta Cafa 1130 War Mews Ronadma. KOAC THURSDAY Urn 10 AO . Review of the Day. 14 A5 News. 10:15-Homerfiakera Ha 11 AO-School of the Air. ii 30 music of the 11 AO News. 11:15 Farm Hour. 1A0 Favortfa ; 1:15 Variety Time. ,!V: s 145 Melody Lane. " , " SAO-Homa Carder Bow. 30 Memory Book. SAO Great Songs. ' ' . 1J5 U. 8. Army. : 30 Piano Concerto. S 45 News. - 40 "Pops" Coaeert v ' 430 Stories for Boys and CMrkv AO Campus Swing. - t ?-Wiu the Old Masters. 45-Evening Vespa? Sanrlea, AO Dinner Concert. , JS-News. 30 Farm Hour. ' - 79 Vniversitv Radio Warfcxftosv. t . 0 higher Lducation Speaks. t-i J oremts i Act'wa. J "It Wt lorg-t." iO Musmi ae u Masters