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i , t: ii 1 v PAGE F0U2 TLr OZIGOIl CTATECIIAII, Co!a. Oregon. Friday Mcnisg. Mcrci 3, VAX r - 'J . 'No Favor Sway Vs: No Fear Shall Awi SVnm Pint CtitMinin Marrh M. 1851 ; .4 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUI, Editor and Publisher Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press Is exclusively "entitled to the use for publication of H news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. 1 War Loan Backfire Whatever was the intent of the timing of the release of the story of the atrocities Visited by the Japs on American and Filipino prison ers of war, it definitely injured the sale of bonds in the fourth war loan, with the opening of which it coincided, according; to Ted R. Gamble, assistant secretary of the treasury in' charge of war bond sales. He estimates it cost tne campaign nau ouuuu The Statesman does not believe that the release of the stories by the army and navy was prompted by a desire to stimulate sales of war bonds, but rather that the story was pried out by its own seepage. The military saw they couldn't bottle it up any longer. So the press bureaus let it go without regard! to its effect on the war loan campaign and perhaps with out realizing the campaign was being launched. Washington bureaus operate in such tight compartments that pne is apt to pay little attention to another. There is however no real reason to doubt the purpose of the war and navy departments in holding back the news of the ill treatment visited , on American nationals, which was to avoid provocation to the Japs to visit similar abuse on the Americans and Filipinos remain ing in their hands. Their judgment was wrong, this paper believes, but not the intent. It all comes back to this: that news is news, and while timing is important, obvious at tempts at timing flatten its effect. To be news it must have the quality of freshness, which tardy news releases never have. Maybe the experience with the atrocity story will acquaint the military mind with the importance of promptness in news releases, not to influence the public mind, but to inform it. r Where Is Jap Fleet? To the frequent question of two years ago, "Where is the American fleet?" there comes now the antiphony, "Where is the Jap fleet?" It wasn't In the Gilbert islands; it wasn't in the Marshalls; it wasn't in the Carolines; it wasn't in the Marianas? Where IS the Jap fleet?. ;"-'! . . Thequestion is not academic; lor there is a Jap battle fleet. It never has been fully engaged. While the Japs have lost heavy ships and aircraft carriers their principal losses have been in destroyers and light cruisers, i The answer seems clear that the Jap fleet is being held for defense of the home islands. The fleet may elect to make that defense in home waters; or it may cast the die in defense of the Philippines with the realization - that .once we regain strong, bases' in those islands then we can bomb their cities mercilessly, particularly if we gain a foothold on the China coast. It would seem therefore that the great naval battle of the war would occur somewhere in - Philippine waters, though the Japs may -hold back for defense of their real home land. f There is a Jap fleet; and the American fleet growing daily in might is trailing it down for the, last engagement. Reconverting Industry JamerPatton, president, of the farmers un ion, attacks the Baruch report covering re conversion' of industry-to peacetime pursuits Yet this report generally Is hailed as a blue' print to peace. : Surely it (deserves the most . thoughtful consideration of the American peo pie, for the problems; it attempts to solve are perhaps the most critical which we shall face on the domestic front. Already they are ap-4 pearing. The machine-tool Industry, first to be expanded, is now jrunning out of orders, f Take the Troutdale aluminum plant built by the "government jund operated by Alcoai What will Uncle Sam! do with it when the. war? is over? Close it? Sell it?: j Lease it? - Oper- ate it? There are aUj these alternatives. j In general public opinion will favor, having the government get out of business. Yet there; are millions of the people's money in these" plants. This money jshould j not be lost or abandoned; nor should the plants be allowed to drift into monopolies. These new type plants are able to produce goods at lower cost than old plants, so the owners Cot; the latter fear; competition of . these Wew establishments. I ,vj Instead of trying to lay down a general rule either to dump the lot torj enter into so-j cialistic operation will it not? be wiser to con-f sider these plants operation by operation to4 salvage as much of thje government investment; as possible, pjjutilize jthe pahts! for consumers'; good as much as possible and lastly to deal; justly with private enterprise which has pro-! vided the 'great proportion of goods for war? 1 Here indeed is a task calling for practical; business statesmanship. ;f j j - f News Behind The News . The headline said "CCC life extended through June1 30." Wasn't the civilian conser vation corps abolished a couple of years ago? Yes, it was;' and this headline refers to the' commodity credit corporation. It suggests that there'ii hope for America after all. Beyond a certain point it will be necessary to abolish one bureau So another can borrow its initials. But let's see how many possible combinations are there in 28 letters of the alphabet? Why Co Any Further? Today's ffiaidS irogirainnis! By PAUL MALLON !!! and r II t cannot win without top. : Yet Mr. ! now (DlrtribiJtlon by King reaturct Syndicate. Inc. Rcpro Auction tn whol or in part strictly) prohibited.) WASHINGTON, March 2 It is very probable that Mr. Roosevelt will revise his government im mediately for victory and i the fourth term campaign. ' jjjjjjj . ' Ibrains jln the top places. With jure umuuv; : cuuuiuuu vuq world, with our ability to sur vive questioned on every front Uinancial, diplomatic, economic, military the i best - politics. . and simplest sense demands the best manpower in government as well I a in tn armvi fartnriM . and 'field. You Pa ml Malloa at the own senate leader has; what everyone else knew, namely and presidential advisers fall far senting the best intelligence and experience country. In the beginning, to'isatisfy this deficiency, Mr, Roosevelt brought in the Byrnes, j Baruch, Vinson, Jones set-up as a super cabinet As Senator Barkley noted, this has not been enough. ! ; Any ordinary man in Mr.: Roosevelt's would go out and draft the best tlon to handle subjects they know move along that line is imminent. Annonymous news has been appearing in the papers suggesting a few cabinet changes are under consideration. Hie question is whether they will go far and deep enough. Edward R. StettiniuSj the state: under-secretary, is receiving some mention as possible vice presi dential nominee instead: of the i left-leaning . Wal- im.t- U a L . . inis iaiK ongmaiea wim no more inienor power I hi iar. nooseveu a publicly proclaimed J that the cabinet short of repre-f of the! spot I men ox tne na best. A belated lace. KSLM FRIDAYUN Ke. t0 Cherry City Neva. I 75 Marion County Farm Horn program, - 7:1S Rise V Shina. tO Newt. 7:45 Morning Moods. ft-Cherry City News. S AS Program Parade. . S:10 Rhythm Tiva. S -30 Tango Time. SK Paitora Can. " 9:1-It's the Truth. flJO-Cote Glee Club. 9:45 Popular Music. 10:00 Cherry City news. 10-05 Song and A Dance. 1030 Music. 11.-00 Cherry City News. 11 :05 Sentimental Songs. 11:15 Maxin Burtn. 11:30 Hits of Yesteryear. 13 .-00 OrganallUes. 11:15 News. 12 M Hillbilly Serenade. . 13:35 Midday Matinee. 1 M Lum 'n Abner. 1:15 Orchestra 1 JO Polka Dots. 1:45 Spotlight jn Ehythm. 2.-00 McNary Tuner al 3 3 :00 KSLM Concert Hour. 4.-00 Charles Magnante. - 4:15 News 4 JO Spirit of Vikings. 4:45 Music 1 S.-00 Mahkm Merrick's Vocal Crousv 5:15 Let's Reminisce. j 9 JO Gypsy Orchestra. 9:00 Tonight's Headlines. 9:15 War News Commentary. 930 Kvenlng Serenade. ( 930 Ten-Two-Four. ! 9:45 Beyond Victory, What?; 7:00 Mews. 7:05 Clyde Lucas. ! I 730 Red Cross. i 7:45 Keystone. 9:00 War Fronts In Review.: 9:10 Orchestra. 930 Music 9:45 Treasury' Star Parade. 90 News 9:15 CasUes In the Air. 9 :4S- Arthur Wilson. 100 Serenade m S win (time, j 1030 News. 10:45-Slgn Oft S:45-Ted Malone. 30 Hollywood News ITashes. 3:15 News. j 330 Ho Hum. I 3:45 Blue Frolics. 40 Music. j 430 Hop Hani ran. 4:45 The- Sea Hound. 90 Terry and the Pirates 8:15 Dick Tracy; 530 Jack Armstrong. S:45 Captain Midnight 90 The Three iRomeos. 9-15 News. I 6:30 Spotlight Bands. 9:55 The Story Teller. 70 J. W. Vandercook. " 7:15 News. 1 730 Nero WoUS. 90 News. r ' 9:15 The Parker; Family. 930 Gang Busters. 90 Meet Your Naw. 930 News Headlines Ik Highlights. 9:45 Art Baker, r 100 Bal TabarUt Orchestra, 10-3O Mxule. j 1 19.-45 Music ! ! 11:00 Concert Hour. 4 ; At long last another Mae West picture. The manpower situation must be more critical than we thought. Interpreting The War News By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Copyright 14 by the Associated Press Racing against impending spring thaws, red armies on. the Russian Baltic flank are on the verge of at victory that will do more than rout the last nasi invaders from Russian soil in the northwest. : They are within sight of wrestling little Estonia from Hitler's grip as the first Ger man conquered country in continental Europe to be freed : of nati domination. - With both the Narva and Pskov gatewaya to Estonia and the nazi base at Vitebsk virtually encircled by the Russians, only a miracle could prevent early collapse of the German front over 400-mUe span. The fall of any of them, par ticularly Pskov, must open the way for Russian incursions in both Estonia and Latvia that could convert Estonia into trap for nazl forces cut off -there. It is questionable whether a' German retreat from Estonia and northern And northeastern Lat via is not already in progress. The Narova river, crossed by the Russians, was a strong defensive front It is fringed with marshes on both sides. Yet the Russians drove through on a 22-mile-wide front to- outflank Narva and all but cut its westward communications. - The implication is that only Nazi rear guards, posted to delay the Russian advance across the Narva Isthmus, manned that front. - If that is true, it must mean that nazi evacua tion of all Estonia has been ordered in antidpa tlon of a Russian breakthrough at Pskov which could .trap German forces north of the Pskov-Valk-Riga railroad and highway or the Pskov-Riga trunk line below it -' - - There have been significant reports from Mos cow that German traffic on .those routes has been, west bound for several days. - There are even reports of nazi execution of German generals who failed to stall off the Rus sian triple-pronged drive on Pskov. Red forces already have driven the nazisfrom all Russia In the north except for a narrow wede-shaped seg ment between the Latvia-Estonian borders and rrsv-rc1:!-.'; izllzzy with its r;cx at IY.icv. KALE MBS FRIDAY 1339 Ke. 9:45 Dave West ! 70 News. an authority than democratic National Chairman VZiiimr' ! Hannagan. ! ii 1 i 1 90-Bible Institute, ! - Mr Stpttinfiia ha on v'i.i!! Ktidnau V3V I 930 News. - .7" Ti,r, "V--! . I 9:45-Whafs New? ' ground in Morgan business not unlike that of Mr. ass How Do You Say XtT i Willkie. Certainly StetBnius ii fcemg groomed to S tt-k 9MTfT- m ' succeed Mr. Hulh wherf and it . , Foreign Economic Administrator Crowley also I- 9:451 Hear Music, i has mounted the toboggan and a successor is ioioNw ,emlm' I needed for him. j 5 ) 10-15 Curtain Caus. . A sounding-out rumjjir has been published that I lSIcrccte Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones j might- go to the I n as Marketing. " i to Britain, replacing him. The rumor is probably off the mark. " ' . : ) .-: , 1 Mr. Kennedy's finance-business brain is re garded as the best in the country and the place for him is treasury, yrhen big! business leaders get in trouble, they call on him to straighten themf out for an extraordinary fee which they must pay because no one else can do the iob. In the current International financial dilemma ! (Keynes-white International currency stabiliza tion and even domestic; taxes), Mil Roosevelt could get him for a $10,000 a year cabinet salary, where- f as a private corporation seeking his services would have to pay 10 to 20 times as much. Why not? The only objection !is political. ; Mr. Kennedy is erroneously designated by certain' contrary political elements as an appeaser and conversely I also as an anglophfle. j y ' ' So also with Herbert Hoover and the interna-' tional food distribution problem; Mr. Roosevelt! hired 1 the popular ex-Governor Tinman, who I knows nothing of the subject, and discarded Mr. I Hoover whose life was spent acquiring superior knowledge and experience In; that particular line.f Why? , Because Hoover la politically unpopular. Ex-Governor Cox, an ardent League of Na- 5 tions democrat, is likewise idling outside govern ment service. There 1'are hundreds of them ! throughout the country; men of great ability, good democrata, good republicans experienced men. I The. above named are offered merely as examples. This is world war, Sand more1 than that, it Is 1 world revolution within war. The people of the f country really care far less whether a man is a I good political appointment than 1 whether he can neln win for us. Th tsn mmi : ji w rw vuivi v . POUUCS. y K ;-qf The politicians still mouth pnrases aoout liberalism or conservatism, when i the real question , Is whether we, aa victors, will be able to survive. Furthermore, we do not seem f to be winning fast enough to ! warrant careless ' administration. j! fj . ' :; .2 In a life and death world fcrbes like this, we , cannot choose political directions or political ap- polntees, whether leftists or rightists. .The only ) direction in which the) country - imust look is not ' to the right or left tout tip, tip io survival In this 1 deteriorating and degenerating struggle. - A morough, change Is ' called for and is . imminent ......1 ::f I i 11:45 Music 130 News. 12:15 Luncheon Concert 13:45 On the Farm Front 13:50 Melody. 10 Walter Compton. 1:15 Luncheon with Lopes. 130 Jerry Sears. . 1:45 Sentimental Musie. -30 RavDady. 3:15 Texas Rangers.' 330 Yours for A Song. ' 3:45 Wartime I Women. . 3:50 News. 4 ' 30 Radio Tour. j 3:15 Stars of Today. j 330 Lean Back and Listen, s 3:45 Johnson Family. , 40 Fulton Lewis. Jr. , ! 4:15 Music. 430 Music. : 4:46 News. " ' " - - S0 Shady Valley Folks. !. : 9:15 Superman. 930 Show- Time. 1 8:45 Gordon Burke. , I 99 Gabriel Heatter. 9:15 Believe It or Not 930 DoubJo- or Nothing. - i, 7.-09 Dale Carnegie. ! 7:15 People's Reporter. j - 730 Lone Ranjcer. .-..! a.-00 Wilkinson Time. . l:lS-Shangrt-La. i, 930 Name of That Song. ! 90 News. J 9:15 Speaking of Sports. I ' 930 Music. ' i 945 Fulton Lewis.- 190 Freedom of Opportunity; 1030 News. . . 1, 10:45-Music. r 110 Yankee House Party. I 1130 Learn to Dance. . KKX BN FRIDAY 1199 Ka. i row IBC FRtnAY 29 40 Dawa Patrol. 5:55 Labor News. 90 Mirth and Madness. 930 News Parade. 935 Labor News. 70 Journal of Livtnc.- 7:15 News Headlines Ss Highlights., 730 Reveille Roundup. - 745 Sam Hayes. j 90 Stars of Today. 9:15 James Abb Covers the News. 930 Drama. ! 9:45 David Harutn. 90 Personality Hour. 100 Benny Walker's Kitchen. 10:15 Ruth Forbes. 1030 News i 1045 Art Baker's Notebook 110 Tho Guiding Light. 11:15 Today's Children. 1130 Light of the World. 11:45 Betty Crocker. 130 Women of America. 13:15 Mai Perkins 1330 Peuper Young's Family. 13:45 Right to Happine 100: Backstage Wife. 1:15 Stella Dallas. r 130 Lorenro Jones. 145 Young Widder Brown. 80 When A Girl Marries. 3:15 Portia Faces Life. 330 Just Plain Bill. 345 Front Page; FarrelL 30 Road of Life. 3:15 Vie and Sad. 330 B. Boynton.. 3:45 Rambling Reader. h 40 Dr. Kate , ' 4:15 News of the World, 430 Tropicana. ; . 4:40 Golden Gat Quartet 4:45 H. V Kaltenbom. 50 OK for Release. 5:15 How Do You Do It? 830 Day Foster, j Commentator .5.-45 Louis P Lochnec 90 Walts Time. S JO People are Funny. 70 Amos and Andy. 730 Bill Stem bpurts NewsreeL 745 Music. i 90 Fred Waring in Pleasure Time 9:15 Fleetwood Lawson. -1 930 Your All -Tim Hit Parade. . 90 Furlough Fun. 930 Music. , I I 935 Musical Interlude. . ! 100 News Flashes. ' 10:15 Your Home, Tows News. 1935 Labor News. I03O Organ Concert- ' F 1045 Voice of A Nation. 110 Hotel Biltmor Orchestra, l 1130 Wsr News Roundup. , . 130-8 aun-Swing Shift 745 Nelson Prlngle. News. - 90 Consume News. ' 9:15 Valiant Lady. 930 Stories America Loves. , 9:45 Aunt Jenny. 90 Kate Smith Speaks. 9:15 Big Sister! . 930 Romance of Helen Trent 9:45 Our Gal Sunday. 100 Life Can Be Beautiful. 10:15 Ma Perkins. 1030 Bernadin IFlyna. 10:45-The Goldbergs. 110 Young Dr.i Malon. 11:15 Joyce Jordan. 1130 We Lot and Learn ai45 News. i. 130 Mary MarUn. 13:15 Neighbors. I 13 30-William Winter. News. 2245 Bachelor's Children. 10 Broadway Matinee. 135 Air-Flo of ; the Air, 130 This Living World. - aww jpen voor, 9.15 Newspaper of the Air s : American women. 90 News. ! 3:15 Lyn Murray Show. 330 Songs t 3:45 The World Today. ! 3:55 Chet Huntley. News. 40-Stars of Today. , 4:15 Bob Anderson.- 430 Friday on Broadway. S0-Calen Drake. 9 J5 Red's Gang. 930 Harry Flannety, News. 5:43 News - j 535 BUI Henry 90 Lefs Walts. 9:15 Oregon at I War. 930 That Brewster Boy. 70 Jimmy Durante Si Garry moo re 4 7-30 Stag Door Canteen. 901 Love A Mystery. 9:15 HcUo Soldier. 9:30 It Pays to Be Ignorant 90 Kate Smith. 35 What's Become of- t 100 Five Star Final. 10:15 Wartime Women. 1030 Horace Heidt 1030 Meaning of the News. 1035 Musie.- i i -10 45-Vote of the Army. 110 Milton Charles. 11-30 Orchestra, j 11:45 Orchestra. 1 1135 News - "; Midnight to 90 a jn. Music St News Alcohol Plant ; Said Assured .. ... v- ....( For Springfield Requests of lumbermen in the Eugene area for authority U erect $2,500,000 : wood, sugar-ethyl alcohol plant at Springfield will be granted and the plant will be the first in the United States to utilize a patent held by the alien property custodian for a process now in general use in Germany, Lynn F. Cronemiller predicted to members of the Salem Lions club at their luncheon meeting Friday. Those requests, he declared, in dicate the faith which lumber In dustry has In the chemists plans for utilization of what has been the "waste" from nulls. More than 30 per cent of the saw log remains as ' sawdust slab and trimmings, when the lumber has been cot, Cronemiller, long with the! state forestry department said. j The plant, planned for Spring field, would produce an estimated ,400,000 gallons of ethyl alcohol per year, Cronemiller explained. V Among its products would be lignin, which properly treated with ammonium, Is an ideal ferti lizer or which may be used as a base for blue or In the manufac ture of methyl alcohol. i i Physical changes In wood pro ducts over the past few j years were described by the forester, who i traced the ! developement of plywood from the glued ply known in the days of King Tut to that of today strengthened by its bond ing agent ' ',: I ' Seeking i a system by Which wood could be seasoned rapidly, scientists discovered that by forc ing components of simple resin Into the fiber they not only drove out the water and made the wood rot-resistant but also ; strength ened it Into a steel-like substance. j-which can be bonded satisfactorily with steel for a variety of; uses. This product alone may revolu tionize not only actual construction but also manufacture of plumbing KOAC FRIDAY 59 Ke. 100 News. J 10:15 The Homemakers Hour. 110 School of the Air. 11:15 School Safety. 11.-30 Keyboard Classics. 1130 Concert Halt 130 News. i 13:15 Noon Farm Hour. 10 Ridin' the Rang. ' 1:15 Names in the News. . (1:30 Variety Time. 30 Club Women's Half Hour. 2:30 Memory Book of Music. ' 30 News. ! 3:15 Music of the Masters. 40 Music by Leibert. - 430 Dane Band of the Week. - 445 Science News of the Week. 90-On the Upbeat. - , 530 Story Time; 545 It's Oregon's War. 9:15 News. 930 Evening Farm Hour. 730 Wake Up. America I : 90 Trad Winds Calling. - 8:15 John Buchanan Sings. 930 Music That Endures. 9:30 News. 48 Evening Meditettons. 100-Sign -Off, i i - -t KOIN CBS FRIDAY- Ke. 90 Northwest Farm Reporter. 9:15 Breakfast Buuettn. 930 Tesas Bangers. :45 KOIN Ktaek. , Yds Aimt- Jemima. 7:15 Headiln News. 730 Mews. - I Today's Gordon ;By ULUE; MADSEN their wom-out 9:15 National Farm and 9:45 Wesern Agricultur. i do rtome ttarmonies. 73 Musie .' 7:10 Choral Singers. 7:15 News. , 730 James Abb Observes - -7:44 The Listening Post ' 30-Breakfast Club. i 90 My True Story.' ' 930 Breakfast at Sardl's. ! " 100 News. ! 10:15 Sweet River. : r . 1030 Baby InsUtute. . 10:45 Music. 11 0 Baukhage TaDctag, ' -11:15 The Mystery Chef. 1130 Ladles. Be Seated. 1 ' -11X0 Songs ny Morton Downey 13:15 News Headlines A Highlights 1230 Treasury Song Parade. 1245 News Headlines at Highlights 10 News. '. . 1:15 Elue Newsroom Review. " , ' t 00 What's Doing. Ladles.' S:30 Voices n Harmony. - 3:40 Labor News. . , N. W. asks if; soil in which seeds are planted should be fer tilized. i - -1 'Answer: We ? are told that most seeds germinate more rap idly if sown in soil which is not ; fertilized. V r - - . Mrs. F. C asks what soil is best for delphiniums, and when they should be set out She wants to buy the plants. - 1 ' Answer: It is plenty early io plant them out; But when the soil is workable; ana tne grow ers have the' plants ready to selL then get them into the ground. A good garden soil is all right Set the crowns about two inches below the surface and spread the ' roots out well. The , ground should be well drained. If water ' stands over the ; crowns of del phiniums " they may decay. A trowelfull of hardwood ashes spread loosely over the top and - a good collar of ashes around the plant will help condition the toil and keep the slu3 away. 3 Local Men Enter Race Additional hats were hurled into the city and county political ring Thursday when three local men, two of them incumbent county of ficers announced their Candida cies for the May 19 primaries. Delbert Long, f 645 South 12th street, school teacher for several --I - ; years in this vicinity, filed for the republican nomination for consta ble of the Salem district, a posi tion now held 'by! Earl Adams, democrat Long's campaign slo gan is, "No election ever" changed my politics. i ., i . County Treasurer Sam J. But ler filed for. reelection on the re publican ticket his ballot state ment reading, "Conduct office in courteous and business-like man ner.' - . ; Boy J. Rice, county commission er pro tern by appointment, for mally entered his candidacy for the position as a republican nom inee at the primaries after Wed' nesday announcing his Intention to run 1 following . withdrawal of Ralph Girod, on leave of absence from the post to serve with the lined fsrees. . fixtures he said. in the xostwar world, Adair Staff Sets High Bond Record CAMP ADAIR, Ore, March 2- As the war department phase of the fourth war loan drive Speeds into its final days, Adair civilian employes have placed this post on the ninth service command's! hon or roll of installations that have reached or bettered the "ninety and ten", goat The figures now stand at 62.67 per cent of all employes partici pating, j with an overall average payroll deduction of 10.49 per cent and to quote Maj. Earl F. Armstrong, post war bond1 officer, we are not stopping here.. "Camp Adair civilian employes are to be commended for the mar velous way in which they have responded to the war bond pro gram," said Major Armstrong, "and Camp Adair Is now right up among the leaders service command. in the (ninth 4 Cities Win Trtiffic Contest Klamath Falls, Pendleton, On tario and Warren ton finished first In the 1 1 respective population groups in the 1943 Oregon dtiej traffic safety contest Secretary of State Robert S. FarreU, jr an nounced Thursday. - The contest is sponsored by the safety division of the stats- de partment' - v The - first division, in which Klamath Falls was first includes cities- with a population of 10,000 or over. Pendleton was first in the second division, with a popu lation of from 6000 to 10,000 while Ontario was first in the third di vision including cities from 12000 to 5000. Warren ton topped in the fourth division, with a population of from 1000 to 2000. j The winners will receive a large highway plaque which will be erected along side of highway en trances of each city, together with a framed certificate of award to be displayed in city offices, j Second ; place winners in the four divisions were Bend, Baker, Burns and Vernoniai Third places went to Eugene, Corvallis, Cot tage Grove and Rainier. j Standings are based on the per centage of improvement in the ac cident, experience" for the contest year, compared to each city's pre vious three year average. , i " Phone Company Backs Ked Cross The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company is contribut ing $130,000 to the 1944 Red Cross war fund, according to an an nouncement by N. R. Powley, president, Just received by H. V. Collins, district manager here. Our contribution exceeds by more than 50 per cent the $83,000 we gave last , year," President Powley said. ?In ; contributing $130,000 this year, it has been our earnest endeavor to . subscribe as liberally as possible to assist In ' "meeting the added needs of i the . Red Cross as expressed by its in creased budget for 1944." I . The company's 1944 Red Cross war fund contribution has been apportioned, based on the rela tionship: of the county quotas to the total quota, to the counties which it serves In Oregon, Wash ington, California, Nevada, and Idaho. On this basis Marion coun ty's allocation . was $525, and a check for this amount was turn ed over to the local chapter cam-. paign chairman Tuesday by Col lins. - ;'-' Cannery Union Hears Labor Talk Marjorie Church Brewster spoke on organized labor and its future at Wednesday night's meeting of the Salem local of Cannery and Process Workers union. ' Other secretary of the Eugene local, and Mrs. Leona ZUkoski, Eugene. former AFL organizer fori the union. - I - The meeting was devoted prin cipally to providing Information for employes of ; the Blue Lake cannery, where an election to de termine whether or not the union is to be the bargaining agent will be held today and Saturday Farm Labor Plan Details Due Soon :. i i . OREGON STATE COLLEGE Early completion of organization details ; connect with the farm labor program In thss state is ex pected with the return of Exten sion service leaders from Denver, where they conferred with federal and. state officials on procedure under the new congressional act Just passed. Major responsibility and au thority within each state was given the Extension service for the farm labor program, as was done last year. Discretion is again given each state as to just how the de tails of the Jotf are to be handled, according to Wm. A. Schoenfeld, director of Extension, and Ralph Beck, state supervisor of farm labor. - i Small AST Unit Assured OSC OREGON STATE COLLEGE A minimum assignment of If rom 225 to 250 AST students here next term is in prospect with the cur tailment by the army of its campus units. 1 Approximately that many advanced ' engineering students will remain after this term's grad uation March 27. The number could be Increased if advanced area and language students re main or If other advanced en gineering students are assigned here, but no assurance of -such action was given in the first an nouncement Dominate Offices at OSC OREGON" STATE COLLEGE This Institution, long a haven for men. Is now , "ruled' by . nearly complete co-ed student - govern ment Crowning feminine invasion came when Don Han, student body president from Hoquiam, Wash., relinquished his office to . Mar guerite Johnson, St Helens, first vice-president Hall will, be grad uated in engineering at the end of this term.. j The posts of second vice-president secretary and yeU leader are all filled by co-eds, plus the editor of the Beaver, college yearbook, and manager of the Barometer, sruaeni newspaper, uo-ea regis-. yrtratloq alone now totals 1485. i Stevens Ozly A Sfsvczs : Is As Good A3 Tt3 EIC7CZ3 Alt Jewelry Work, ' Diamond Setting and Engraving Done ta Oar Own Shew r::.:.,r Credit If Desired Si