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PAGSFOU3 .Th OZZGON ETATECMAH, Cdaa. Oregon. Sunday X-'csls rclsry 27, ISSi "No Favor Sway Us; No Fear ShaU Awe",, , ' From Tint Statesman. Uarcb 2S, 1831 ' : THE STATESSIAN PUBUSHINC COMFAOT, CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher . ' Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. Fifty Four-Forty or Fight It must have been almost exactly a century tury ago that Sen. William Allen of Ohio, ac cording to one version of history at any rate, in discussion of the "Oregon Question" on the floor of the senate, coined that historic alliter ative phrase. The centennial must be 1 just was made in 1844, and the democratic national convention that year which adopted it as the slogan for James K. Polk's successful candidacy occurred in May. ".'!-' Centennial or no, this year 1944 may seem an inappropriate time for discussion the epi sode, for every schoolboy knows that word "fight was hurled straight at Great Britain, which is now our ally. But there was a prom ise in this column some weeks ago to deal with the matter further; and besides, the events of 1844 afford material for making a point which may be helpful today rather than the opposite. As for the slogan, is scarcely figured in those events except as a vote-catching phrase which helped install Jim Polk, a mediocre party wheelhorse though destined to play a major role in the shaping of the nation's boundaries, in the White House. It was shouted by cam paign speakers, flaunted from parade banners, painted on covered wagons which rolled labor- iously along the Oregon Trail. After the votes were counted it lived on principally to embar rass the successful candidate, who was worried by visions of two simultaneous wars,, with Mexico and Great Britain. , Temptation to delve at great length into the "Oregon Question" is offset by the circum stance that its details, no less than those of the Champoeg meeting, are shrouded in myth and controversy. Emerson Hough made ! "Fifty Four-Forty or Fight" the title of a historical novel whose history is no more accurate than its geography. Hough relates that the British warship Modeste, which played an important though disputed role in the affair, came up the Columbia and anchored "above Oregon City and well below Vancouver." Try it out on your map. The book is full of beautiful women who shaped the destiny of nations, and other nuusciise. . Then there is the version of those irrespon sible historians who cared less for facts than for their objective which at this point was to 'prove that "Whitman saved Oregon." Perhaps he did, though dispassionate modern students deny it. Whether he did no not, W. H Gray and his followers distorted history So we're not going into that, except to con cede that there was some friction between the United States and Great Britain over Oregon. MM M . a . A ine nntisn waniea everytning norm ana west of the Columbia; the United States wanted everything up to 54-40 where the Russian claims left off. But even before Polk took office the two governments were heading rap idly toward the eventual compromise on the 49th parallel and the Strait of Juan de Fuca; the dispute was carried on thereafter chiefly by out-of-of fice hotheads in both countries. Polk was embarrassed by his campaign slogan but. It turned out, democrats in the south were cool to the whole business and he found an "out." So the issue was settled amicably, in 1846, though there were some flurries later; in. 1859 a dispute over San Juan island, which both nations claimed, led to a near-clash of arms, the immediate incident involving livestock trespass. Bloodshed was averted when the British admiral in command refused to act ; in such manner as "to involve two great nations In war over a squabble about a pig." The pre cise boundary in the strait wasn't settled until 1872. But generally speaking and it is a point I worth emphasizing in the light of Anglophobia which still persists in some quarters review ing the history of the Oregon Question now highlights the fact that there has been no ser ious threat of British aggression for a full interpreting ; The War News' By KUtKE L. SIMPSON Cseyrtsnt 144 by the AMdaM Except for the seeming and temporary allied nazi stalemate in Italy, the war on all fronts is surging toward crises which indicate March, 1944, will be no less a month of deceslve developments than was March, 1918r In Warklwar I. raat montn, zs years ago. German . armies - launched their last futile effort to snatch victory from defeat .They struck in France on March It their last offensive blow of the First World war. It deeply dented the allied front but failed to break through. - Just over seven months ; later Germany surrendered. . - : 1? The plight of nazi Germany as March, 1944, 1 approaches is imcomparably graver than war that of Imperial Germany in March, 1918. It offers as yet no assurance that the German collapse will com before another war winter closes in on Europe; but there Is equally no certainty: that it will not. And it seem clear that the foreshadowed . developments of this March will see the war strain .' - chance of succor from Hitler's Japanese accomplice. That can be read unmistakebly in the events : of the last seven days in the Pacific, over Ger - many, and in the Atlantic But most of all it can be grapsed In nazi surrender of the last segment ' of the Dnieper front above Kiev in Russia,' desper- ately held for months as a threatening bridgehead. I, of renewed German eastward attack once the mas- -sive had worn itself out . , There has seemed no point in German reten tion of that upper Dnieper foothold after the col lapse of both the Baltic and Black sea flanks un- less it was with the hope of ultimately stemming J the lUzzzlin tidal wave and striking back at the , I loscow h-zrt of soviet Russia, With that last ixlhcli Jo: V the nazi retreat from all Russia is on., -, Germany 1j finally committed now to. a short- . t.;c 1 enrtrm Czfzms front off Russian soil in prep aration' t V. ' : t the poised allied second-front attach fccra the west whsa it ccscs, : ; T in. I century. . In truth, viewed now dispassionately, it might be conceded that the slogan of the Polk campaign represented an American threat of aggression. The United States was aggres sive then in pushing its frontier westward, and some question still : persists as to the justice of the Mexican war. But this is part of the lessonaggression was not deprecated a cen tury ago as it is now. So recollection of "Fifty Four-Forty or Fight" serves as a reminder that two great democrats have lived at peace side by side for a century their boundary lines the greater part of that time undefended. Mention was made here recently of one school district declining to give up its "little red schoolhouse" and merge with a larger one nearby. A more extreme case has just come to light in Washington county. The Blooming and Fern Hill districts have not been operating their own schools, but have instead been transport ing their pupils to Cornelius. Yet the consolida tion proposition was voted down though only by the margin of two votes in Blooming. Be cause it was a three-way merger it does not go into effect as to Cornelius and Fern HilL They will have to vote again. One reason for the op position in Blooming district is eloquent; it has been able to get along without a special tax, but would have had to levy a four-mill tax to merge and close its books. Too much support from out side sources encourages uneconomical systems at the expense of the county and state. ; News Behind The News By PAUL MALLON ' Distribution by Kins Feature Syndicate, Inc. Repro duction In whole or in part strictly prohibited.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 A week after Mr. Roosevelt's demand for a civilian draft bill,-bis floor leader Barkley had not emitted a word of approval. His leaders on the house side went fur ther and assured newsmen, i off the record, the bill would not be passed. , . f Indeed, the prevailing congres sional suspicion seems to be that the president had possibly en tered upon promotion of the bOl (in his message, at least) to re move the curse from his record Aft. j rt ! j . w ui nnce siiuauon. in any MMlt 01 hill will w h mmrmmt JsYui7 considered unless some rami Mane manpower or strike emergency arises, which the leaders obviously do not expect. The printed reaction out in the country was somewhat amazing. Endorsements came from conservation commentators largely but also from the Bridges communist controlled Longshoremen's union on the Pacific coast. When you get com munists and conservatives together, you may be sure someone is being fooled. The reaction of the man in the street, as I get it conversationally, was likewise surprisingly ap proving. People generally hate strikes and sym pathize with the unequal positions of the soldier with the war worker. They are irrefutably right in these positions. But, in their righteous wrath, they are apt to be misled into espousing a remedy far more un just than the injustices they want to cure. Few of them have studied the ball (Austin's revised pro posal, January 10) and understand what it would do to them and the country. Congress knows. To me, it seems as unjustified as using an axe to eliminate a flyspeck on glass, and in this case, the glass is the final container of individual hu man rights, individual liberty all that we are fighting for and including our "way of life" in favor of male and female enslavement to the state for war reasons that are not apparent to all in cluding congress. Theoretically, it would practically declare na tional martial law on all the people to make a few work and this in a nation whose production (work) is already so good that Mr. Roosevelt , justly brags it is the best in the world. I You can see this clearly by a detailed study of the bill-empowering the president by proclama tion to move anyone anywhere; away from his home into any other job at any rate of pay (that is, anyone except federal, state, county, and local officials, including bureaucrats who are exempt along with pregnant mothers and those with minor children, and the other established military ex emptees, although I do not see clergymen exempt.) One phase promises exemption to those "neces- , sary to the maintenance of national health, safety and interest," and another warns the boards -against being "unfair, arbitrary; or causing per sonal hardships.". But' obviously the door is left wide open for local boards to differ in their inter pretations and to enter new fields of politics, graft and corruption.- : ; ; . ( - Appeals could be taken to t&e national draft director and to the coorts, but only after the deed is done, and we all. know what crowded places those are now for timely justice. (Incidentally,, no provision is made for the drafted, civilian to vote away from home, a rather pertinent matter this year.) ; , -;j v The urge for this thing is the injustice of draft- ing the soldier. Not even there do the proponents propose justice in lieu thereof. A drafted soldier has his life provided by the federal government and all are treated alike as to pay and special privileges, including Insurance, allowance for de pendents, medical care, etc - - - ; Nothing comparable is promised the : civilian . draftee.- He can be uprooted from his home, sent across the country to work in a field at half the salary or less and all the government would give him is transportation and a polite invitation to the . draft boards to consider housing conditions in the area to which he is sent' It would only equalize present injustices by creating more. In short, its theory Is to absorb the human be- -ing completely Into state totalitarianism. Mr. , Roosevelt's pen slipped badly when he wrote congress: "National service is the most democratic way to win war." It proposes final abandonment of civilian demo- ' fascism and communism, but bears no slight re-: era tic independence, j Its theory is that of both .semblance to that of democracy which espouses voluntary contributions of effort and ' individual freedom of patriotic conscience. - . . It would leave the deepest scar of this war on f eraocrtcy . , . 1. ; ' . t KSUS-StJICDAT IIS ft. MM Lansworta Foursome. m -: S 30 Gospel. - .. . ; JW-Newsm BrUt, S AS Music. S30 Popular Salute. 10 M World in Review. , 1 as Moonbeam Trio. 10-ao Hit Tun of Tomorrow. ' SI M American Lutheran Cnureb ' U:00-Suiuet Trio. ' lJrlS War Commentary. U30 Kate Mendelaohn. 1:00 rtfm ravorites. ' 1S35 Youns People a Church ef Air IM-bM of Paradise. , Sas Voice of BestoranoB . I Vocal Varieties. 30 Wings of Healing. - ; r t J30 Tent Square Church. 40 Bertrand Klrsch. ' . 430 Bible Quiz. . S0 Old - Faatuoned Revival Bear. 0 Tonlghrs Headline. S:15 Anita and Tom Boyec. - 30 Shep fields. To Bob Hamilton and Qutntonea. - TOO LangworUi Novelty end Baton i Group. - 80 Tint Precoytexlaa Church. S:30 Muste. S& Newa Summary. t:13 OrganaHties 40 Back Homo Hour. ; 10:00 News. 105 Dream Time. 11:00 Sign Oft KEX BN SUNDAY I1M K, S0 Your War Job. S30 Dr. Ralph Walker. S:43 Seagle and Trinity Choir. 0 The Quiet Hour. 30 Music. - :5 The Moylaa Sisters. ' 100 John B. Kennedy. 10:15 News. IS -.30 Music, 11 0 Chaplain Jtm. USA. 11 Jo National Vespers. 1S0 Ufe of RUey. . - U 30 Hot Copy. j. 10 Al Peerce's Turn Valley. 130 Metropolitan Opera AudlUona. 10 Where Do We Stand? S Jo Musical Steelmakers. J Radio Han of rame. 40 Know Your Allies. 4:15 Dorothy Thompson. 430 Be Alert. S0 Christian fcclc S 30 Waiter Duranty. H5 Drew Pearson. Walter WtncheH " as Basin St. Chamber aCuste. :45 Jimmle rVUer. 70 Gertrude Lawrence. 730 Look at the future. 7:45 Music. 0 Choir. :15 Sports. 30-Quht Kids 90 Deadline Drama. 30 News Headlines and Highlights :45 For All Humanity. 100 Muste. 1030 The Quiet Hour. 110 Concert Hour. KGW NBC SUNDAY CCS Re. 40 Dawn PatroL . 40 World Newa Roundup. :15 Commando Mary. 30 String Quartette. 70 National Radio Pulpit, 730 Words and Muste. 0 The Church m Your Rome. 30 Visiting Nurse of the Air. .45 The Carol Sisters. 0 Carveth Wells. Commentator. :15 News tn Adverttsins. 30 Stradivari 100 A Layman Views the News. 10:15 Labor for Victory. 1030 Chicago Round Table. 110 Those We Love. . 1130 John Charles Thomas. 110 World News. 11:15 Upton Close, Commentator 1130 The Armv Hour. 130 Garden Talk. .10 NBC Symnhonv S0 News -Headlines and HlghHghte 3 J 5 Catholic Hour. 145 Newsmakers. Monday's Radio Programs KSLJtf MONDAY USO , 70 News. rYeJtam. 75 Farm and Home 7:15 Rise a Shine. 730 News. 745 Morning Moods. S5 Cherry City News. 30 Tango Time. 0 Pastor's Call. :15 It's the Truth. 30 Music 100 Cherry City News. 105 Music 110 Cherry City News. 115 Music 1130 Hits of Yesteryear. 13 0 OrganaUties. 13:15 News. 13-jo Hinbilly Serenade. It'Trt M""T 10 Lum and Abaer. 130 Will Bradley. 130 Music. 145 Spotlight on Rhythm. 10 Isle of Paradise. 3:15 BUI Roberts. 130 Langworth String Quartet. - 145 Broadway Band Wagon. 10 KSLM Concert Hour. 40 Round Up Revelers. 4:15 News. 430 Teatime Tunes. 50 Music 5:15 Lefs Reminisce. 530 Music -40 Tonight's Headlines. 4:15 War Commentary. 30 10-1-4 Ranch. 45 Treasury Salute. 70 News. 7:13 War Commentary. 730 Keystone 0 War Fronts In Review. JO Lew White. 30 The Aristocrats. I4S Treasury Star Parade 0 News. S:15 Saath MyrL 45 Arthur Wilson. 100-Swlng. ' 1030 News. KOIM CBS MONDAY asS Be 00 Northwest Farm Reporter. 6:15 Breakfast Bulletin. 30 Texas Rangers. 45 KOIN Ktock. ; 7 as Headline Newa. . -730 Bob Green. News. 745 Nelson Pringle. - sw consumer Nee . arlS Valiant Lady. 30 stories Amer :45 Aunt Jenny. 0 Kate Smith Speaks. :1S Big Slater ) Romance of Helea Trent 45 Our Gal Sunday. , 100 Life Can Be Beautiful. 10:15 Ma Perkins. 10:30 Tlrnadlno Flyaa. 10:45 The Goldbergs. -110 Youns Dr. Malrme 11:15 Joyce Jordan. 1130 We Love and Learn. 1145 News. .; 110 Neighbors. 11:15 Open Door. 1130 William Winter. Ne 1341 narhelor'a Children. 135 AuvFlo of the Ate. - 130 Science at Work. -10 Mary Mar au las Newspaper ef the Atr , 1:45 American Women. 10 News.' 1:15 Lyn Murray. I 130 Songs. 145 The World Today. a as uiet iruntiey, tit . ew stars of Today. . 4 a 5 News. 430 The CotoneL 50 Galen Drake ' S-1& nmtfn Cm 30 Harry Flannery. Ni a news. - 35 BUI Henry. ' 40 Radio Theatre. ' ; 70 Screen Guild Playere 730-Blondie . . t0 I Love A Mystery. :15 Ed Sullivan Kntertatna '' ; 30 Gay Ninettes. 35 Joseph C. HarscH. - - 0-sTreasury Star Parade. :15 Lyrics by Liorraine 30 Von Pop "- . 100 Five Star Final. 10:15 Wartime Women 1030 Hollywood Rhythinairc 1030 Music -.- . ' ' . : 1045 Hesthmaa Melodies. - 11 0 Doroth Allen At Milton. Char lee . . , -- s 1130 Orchestra ' . 1145 Organist. 1135 News. Midnlght-4 .-00 a jn Music and KALE MBS MONDAY 1330 Re -' -445 Dav West, Cowboy." ' 70 Newe"' TOl- Texas.' Rangers. .- 40 Jack .Benny. ' 430 Band Wagon. 455 Tom Reddy, News. . S0 Charlie McCarthy. ." JO One Man's ramUy. 0 Manhattan Merry -Co-Round. 030 American Album at FamUiar Musis. T0 Hour of Charm. T 30 Bob Crosby As Co. S0 The Great GUdersleeve. 30 Symphony Hour. . 30 Land of the Tree. 35 Musical Interlude. 100 News rushes. 10:15 Orchestra. , 10 30 Symphonette. 110 SC rrands Hotel Crchestra. 1130 War News Roundup, 11.45 News. 110-30 a-m-Swln Shirt. . scsf r. arww..i scwpay im sxa. 0 Wesley Radio League. 30 Voice ef Prophecy. 0 Detroit Bible Classes. C S30 Early Morning News. : ' A5 Al Wilhams. e . 100-News. loas Romance of the Bl-Ways. 130 Hookey HaH. 110 Pilgrim Hour. . U0 News. ltas Voice of the Dalrr U30 Dr. riovd Johnson. 10 Wide Horizons. 130 Abe Lincoln's Story. S0-Oreen Valley. USA. S3 Portland Bible 50 First Nlshter. 40 Old rashloned Revtval Hear. S0 Mediation Board. ? 5:45 Gabriel Heatter. ' 4 0 Cleveland Symphony OreK T.00 Cedrie roster, tat Music of the Masters. T30 Hlnson Memorial Church. -30 Jack Benny. 0 News. , :15 Rex MHler. 30 Wings Over the West Coast. 100 Old rashloned Revtval Hour. 110 Youne Peoolea Church. ROOT CBS SUNDAY OS 0 News of the World. . 4:15 -Music, l -. 5 New Voices m Sons. 70 Church of the Air. 730 Wings Over Jordan. saw warren Sweeney. N 5 Blue Jackets Choir. 30 -Invitation to -rg 0-Satt Lake Tabernecla. 30 Garden Talks. 5 News. 100 Church ef the Air. 1S30 Trans-Atlantic CalL 110 Ceiling Unlimited. 11 30 World News Today. 1135 Songs of America. IS .-00 Philharmonic Orch. 130 The Pause That 10 The Family Hour. 145 Woman from Nowhere. 10 Silver Theatre. 130 America in the Air. 40 William Snlrer. News. 4:1S News.- 430 The Whistler. 50 The Star and the Story. 5:15 Talks. - 530 William Winter. Mews. 45 Stars of Today. S35 Ned Calmer. Radio Readers Digest 30 Fred Allen. 70 Take It or Leave It. 730 Adventures of the Thin' Man. Crime Doctor. 35 Bob Greene. 30 In Time te Come. " 0 I Was -There. - 30 We Work for Wlsce. 100 Five Star Final. ' 1 0 JS Wartime Women. 1030 Horace Heidt 112 1130 Phil Harris Orehastrn. 1145 Orch. 1135 News. 130-40 a.m Muste and News 730 Memory Timekeeper. 0 Bible fnstttute. 30 News. :45 Wax Shop 35 How De You Say Ut 0 Boake Carter. as Woman's Side ef the News. 30 Buyers' Parade. 451 Hear Music 100 News. 10 JS Curtain Cans. 1030 This and That. 110-Cedrie Foster, lias Marketing with Meredith. 11 30 ConcertGems. 1145 Melody Rendezveue. 110 Newa. 11:15 Luncheon Concert. 1145 On the Farm Front 1130 Melody Time 10 Walter Compton. 1:15 Luncheon with Lopex. . , 130 Music. 10 Ray Dady. 1:15 Texas Rangers. 130 Yours for a Song. 3:45 Wartime Women. 130 News. 10 Radio Tour. 1:15 Stars of Today. 130 Lean Back and Listen. -145 Johnson Family. 40 Fulton Lewis. Jr. 4:15 Shady Valley Folks, 430 Music 445 News. 50 Rainbow Rendezvous. 805 Superman. 530 Showtime : S45 Gordon Burke 0 Gabriel Heatter. SUS Believe It or Not 30 Paul and Jerry. . 70 Gladstone 7:15 People s Reporter. 730 Lone Ranger.. . 00 Serenade - :l5ttL Laundry, f 30 Point Sublime 90 News. 1 :15-Sahite to Our Heroes. . 30 General Barrows. 45 Fulton Lewie Jr. 100 Treasury Star Parade. 10as Music . 1030 News. 10:45 Chicago Theatre 110 Yankee House Party. , 1130-earn to Dance v .' r; - : - -:4 KOAC MONDAY 454 KsV 100 .. Nswe -' ' loas The Hocnemakers How. 110 School ef the Air. lia$ Familiar Songs. 1130 Concert HaU. 130 News 13:15 Noon Farm Hour. 10 Rldin the Range' 1:15 Names tn the Newe 130 Variety Time 11 Home economies Spedallsta. . 130 Memory Book ef Kusle. 1:1 s Music of the Uastera. 40 Pianist. 4:15 Listen to Lelbert ' 430 Treasury Star Parade 44 Highlights ef the W s.oe on tne upnees. -30 Story Time S 45 It's Oregon's War. J Newe 30 Evening Farm Hour. 730 4H Club Program. :is A to Z n Novelty. " 30 Newe ----i-vS-'L'':-. 145 evening Medltattone ; tone bn .i mondav me Ke 40 Musical dock." as National Farm and Home -45 Western Agriculture 70 Home Harmoniee - 7 as Newe -'.'.; ' .; : . 730 James Abbe Observes, '745 Trie' , - S0 Breakfast due. My True, Story. 30 Breakfast at SardTa. -190 Tony Morse loas Sweet River. 1030 The Baby Institute .' 110 Baukhage Talking, lias The Mystery Chef. ." ti3Q Ladles Be Seated. 110 Songs by Morton Downey. 11:15 News Headlines and KiKhUffhtS 1330 Home Demonstration Agent 13:45 News Headlines and Highlights 10 Sam Hays -. - . .- 1:15 Blue News Room. ,-. 10 What's Doing. Ladlee -. 130 Voices in Harmony. 149 Labor News. 145 Ted Malone. 10 HoUywood News Flashes 1 as News. - - 130 Ho Hum. 345 Elue - Frolics.' 4-r -5e1ctng of Clamour. : 4.15 UasiC " rnr tpcd i"ro: (Continued from Page 1) have no knowledge of Japan ex cept from what their parents told them. They know America and want' to remain here. 'Sec ond; the danger they might be faispected American' armored forces , if they returned to Japan as Am- , erican citizens or as agents of the United States, will be great Assassination " is -a ' convenient tool in Japan, arid these nisei. . returning . as "ambassadors' to Japan would be regarded as trai tors because the Japanese gov ernments asserts its claim V to authority over all of the Japan ese race.. I think we are exaggerating the difficulties of the problem of the Japanese in America. Those who have acknowledged loyalty to Japan will probably go to Japan. Those who ' have disclaimed any loyalty to Japan will want to remain here, both Jap nation als and Japanese -Americans. The case of Jap nationals will be covered by- our treaty with Japan, which, will .probably guarantee " protection on - both sides to nationals of one coun try residing in the other. Japan ese - Americans - have and will claim their rights under our con stitution and laws. Local com munities will have nothing to say, unless they do so in an ex tra-legal manner. During the first world war sentiment against . pro-Germans flamed very high; but it subsid ed after the war. In. fact there was some- ' shamefacedness tor the shabby treatment which in some cases had been given those people. If we give Japan itself a crushing defeat there will not be the pressure to punish Japanese Americans whose loyalty has not been called into question. Why not accept this as the simple and natural solution and end the talk about what to do" with the Japs in America? Is -any one proposing that Italians or Germans be deported when thewar ends? Practical Religion by Rev. John L. Knight. Jr, .Counselor on Religious life, Willamette -anlverstty. - - "Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?" So asks Robert Burton m hb "Anatomy of Melancholy.' Surely the an swer is obvious: what we - do motivates unconsciously the same type of response in others. A yawn motivates a yawn, smile invites a smile, a frown solicits a frown. So often we speak of "dull evenings' and "uninteresting people. But have we stopped to consider the fact that the atti tudes of our associates is often simply a reflection of our own? At home, among friends, In so ciety our daily attitudes! are more important and more influ ential than we suppose. : - 430 Hop Harrigan. - 4:45 The Sea Hound. 50 Terry and the Ptratee 5:15 Dick Tracy. 30 Jack Armstrong. ' 545 Captain Midnight. 40 Music. ' : C30 Spotlight Bands.' 35 Story Teller. 70 Raymond Cram Swing 7 as War Correspondent. : 730 Horace Heidt. 0 Newe S:1S Lum and Ahner. 130 Counterspy. 0 Blind Date. - 30 News Headlines and Highlights : Art newer. 100 Music . 1030 Broadway Bandwagon. 1045-Boy. Girl. Band. , ll0-Concert Hour. KGW NBC atOKPAV 40 Dawn PatroL 38 Leber Newe 40 Mirth and. 38 Mean 35 Labor Newe 70 Journal ef Living. 7:13 Wsws Headlines mm 730 Reveille Roundusw 'Highlights -7:45 Sam Hayes. 0 Stars of Today. 4:15 James Abbe Covers the News. , A45 David Harum. - 0 Personality Hour. 1S0 Sketebee in Melody. 10:15 Ruth Furbee 1030 Newe 145 Art Bakers Notebook 110 The Guiding Light. 11 :15 Today's Children. . 1130 Light -er the WorkL ' . 1145 Hymns of All Churches 110 Women ol Aatertea. -13:15 Ma Perkine 13:30 Pepper Young's rseauy. 1145 Right te Happtneae 10 Backstage Wife las SteUe DaUae , 130 Lorenzo Jonee 145 Young Widder Brown. ' 10 When -A Girl Marries 1:15 Portia Faces LUe. 130 Just Plain BilL 143 Front Page FarreS. 10 Road of Ltfe las Vis and Sade ------ 130 B. Boyntun. 1-45 Rambling Reader. 40 Dr. Kate , 4:15 News - 430 The Carol 8 latere 440 Golden Gate Quartet. , 445 H. V. Xaltenbora. S0-OR for Release 5:15 How Do You De. Rt 30 Richard Crooke 00 Bombs Away.. 30 Dr. L Q 70 Contented Hour. 7 :30 Information Please - S0 Fred Waring In Pleasure Time as Fleetwood Lawton. Commenta- . tor 30 Cavalcade of America. 0 The Telephone Hour. 30 Hawthorne House 100 News riashes 10:15 Your Home Town Newe . 10i5 Labor News. -10 Iljn for Dancing. ,1 10 :S Voice ft A Nation. 11 i T-tel r..;:more Crchestra. lia ,ar U3 sua. wj 1.1 . Top Allied Chief s Review Trainees Ttv WTfXIAM SMTTH WHITE SOMEWHEJtE IN ENGLAND, Feb. 25-C-IThe three top men of the supreme allied command Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, bis deputy commander in chief of the western front. Air turner iviarsnni Sir Arthur Tedder, and- Gen. Sir r?prnnrrf ' jv Montgomery m- txaininK for the invasion, and left every indication they were pleased st what they. saw. :-:-M.--:' On a three-hour inspection in tM area the leaders rode bounc t half-tracks ' and' looked into everything that went on, not hesl- tatint! to use their hands. v Eisenhower, in regulation dress uniform but weexmg. short, -.Brit ish-type leggings, was alternately grave and joking. His face was massively Immobile, ana men crinkled with smiles and he talk ed amiably with officers and pri vates. He listened Intently, to every thing to the GIs talk about their chow, among other things. toxaXgoautry, a small, immense- ! alive figure whose eyes are never still, was wearing the well- known black beret, tankers trous ers and a pale-tan greatcoat "British warm.' Tedder was the -most silent of the three. His fur flier's coat but toned closely, he was always at Eisenhowers side. Again and again, inspecting a column of vehicles, they passed Italian prisoners working along the roadside or at haystacks. In variably they looked blankly at the face bobbing under Montgom ery's black beret. He didn't seem to be aware of them. At a miniature shooting range Eisenhower spotted a target for enlisted tankmen to shoot at, and when they hit it squarely he ex ultantly called Montgomery's at tention to such shooting. US Sub Chiefs Credited By CHARLES McMUHTRY US SUBMARINE BASE, Pearl Harbor, Feb. 28 -P) American submarine skippers who have sunk nearly 500 Japanese ships were credited by Adm. Ches ter W. Nimits with a big share of the success of the con quest of the Gilbert and ' Mar shall islands. "The enemy did not come to the rescue of his beleagured gar risons in the Gilberts or Mar shans for reasons best known to himself,' -the commander in chief of the Pacific fleet said at a mony decorating two admirals and 19 officers and men of the submarine service. However, I believe that insuf flcient shipping and an unbalanced fleet were among the " reasons This acute- shortage of shipping and lack of sufficient screening types is the result of the-steady whittling down of his merchant marine and combatant ships. Our gallant submarines have done much of the" " whittling aown." Would Prevent Myiiis For 50 Years SAN DIEGO, Calit. Feb." 28-flPV MaJ. j Reuben Fleetl said our present enemies should not be permitted to fly any type of air craft for perhaps "SO yearsuntil their peoples learn to prefer peace to war . r - -.c . ; Fleet; senior consultant ta the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft cor poration, spoke before the San Diego chapter of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences. "We should -deny . our nresent enemies for a time the rieh in snake any type df aircraft, or wea pon against aircraft, or to use th air for the operation of any type of aircraft, Ik said. Maj. FJeet sugzested Amert should welcome its opportunity to enter, into a pact with other na tions to insure peace. He added: "I suggest America's commit ment be 25 per cent; Russia's 23 per cent; the British empire's 23 r cent and China's, with the rest ox ue world, 23 per cent- ; America should 4 welcome its opportunity to make a commit. ment to insure world peace." - Ii As Good Aj' n i-3 i,lbu3 ! l Credit If Dtzlrti Stevens 50 Per Cent Draftees -Flunk By TOM REEDY WASHINGTON, Feb. 25HV More than half the draft regis trants now being called up are flunking the physical tests, selec tive service revealed, and hence it has become necessary to take drastic steps to meet army quo tas. . : , This is the situation, ' congress was advised; ' r ' ; The armed forces need 1,200,000 men to reach the desired goal of 1L300.CC0 by July 1. They must come from the father stoud. those deferred because of their jobs, the 4-Fs who can do limited ser vice and the youngsters reaching ' When all the normal possibili ties are exhausted, the total still will be 200,000 short So The deferment granted men over 22 in industry may be can celled soon. The minimum age may be raised to 28. Farm labor must be screened again and those who. cannot show they are producing "substantially to the total amount of food for the nation are to lose their de ferment. - - The problem was outlined to the senate agriculture committee by Ma). . Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, draft director, and to a house military subcommittee by his aide, Lt CoL Francis W Keesling. Hershey said the 4-F situation had complicated the problem greatly of late. There are 3,500,- 000 ' men now classified thus. which means they have defects mitigating against military ser vice. Chaplin Counsel Strikes LOS ANGELES. ' Feb. 25- Counsel for Charlie Chaplin op ened a two-front attack today in an effort to free the English-born comedian of charges of Mann act violation. Attorney Jerry Giesler, obtain ing a delay in Chaplin's plea, moved to quash the Jury which Indicted the actor-producer. Then he filed a demurrer, con tending the Mann act was intend ed only to reach "commercialized vice or the traffic in women for gain," and that no offense was charged against Chaplin "within the jurisdiction of this court or of the laws of the United States." Federal Judge J. F. T. 0Conng set tomorrow for ruling on both issues. He: instructed Giesler and US Attorney - Charles H. Carr meantime to confer with the grand Jury commissioner and clerk in an effort to reach a stip ulation on whether women were discriminated against In selection of the grand jury. e Around Oregon By the Associated Press Postwar planners at Bend urged taxation as a means of accumu lating city, county and school dis trict funds for improvement pro jects . . . an organization of 200 Portlanders pledged themselves to work for a sewage disposal system which , would stop pollu tion of the Willamette river . . . The CIO International Wood workers was certified by the na tional labor relations board as the bargaining agent for road con struction workers at the Booth Kelly 1 umber company at Eu gene ... The search continued for C M. Spore, 70, retired Harris burg farmer, who was believed swept from the. rocks while fish ing at Yachats last weekend . . . The Point Adams Packing com pany at Hammond said its tuna capacity would be increased by construction of two storage rooms and a freezer . . . T. 2. "Dad" Watson, who brought the square dance back to popularity during depression days, died in Portland at the age of 92 .. At North Bend, Kruse & Hanks shipyard launched its sec ond 183-foot navy tug, tenth war time craft from the yard . . William P. Vandevert. son of Lane county nianeers and the first ranger of the Deschutes na tional forest, died in Bend at the age of S3 . . . Dr. Wlllard BM Spalding will arrive in Portland Tuesday from Passaic, NJ, to as sume the post of school superin tendent. - A3 JewcTry TTerk, Eiaaona I i.'.lzj r3 -2XTavirv Dr-i Lx Czr Own ILz? Physicals