The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, April 16, 1944, Page 4, Image 4

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THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher
Member of the Associated Press
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication ol all
newr dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper.
A New Symphony
A couple of weeks ago the Columbia Broad
casting company featured the first playing in
the western hemisphere of the new Eighth
Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovitch, the con
temporary Russian composer and erstwhile
fire watcher. Time magazine later said that it
had "all the usual Shostakovitch features, in
cluding special, deluxe non-collapsible cli
maxes, probably the most efficient roof-raisers
of their type known to the trade." While hardly
a review in itself, this should suffice for criti
cal comment on the music itself; Shostakovitch
has already proved in his earlier work that he
is an acquired taste.
Be that as it may, there is one purely mer
cenary point to be made in connection with the
playing of this work the fact that Columbia
paid some $10,000 for the first-performance
rights, sight-unseen, when the completed man
uscript was still a dream in the composer's
consciousness. Considering the days when Bach
composed on his regular wage as chapel organ
ist; when Mozart, no longer, a prodigy, made mu
sic practically for nothing; and when Beethoven
himself depended exclusively on the capricious
patronage of several wealthy Viennese families,
this Js indeed something of note. Even recent
composers, whose works became current in the
last forty years, have never known such bid
ding for unwritten works, and certainly no
such solid cash payments for the completed
products.
What this emphasizes again is something
that has come up Jrom time to time in connec
tion with the not infrequent bouts of John Q.
Public vs. Caesare Petrillo of the Musician's
union namely, that radio and the automatic
phonograph have, between them, popularized
mucin tn iifH an evtont trtnt this indtistrv has
never offered more attractive economic status
to its professional adherents than at the pre
sent time. Petrillo to his own satisfaction has
proved that recorded and relayed music has
kept a lot of musicians out of work; but no
fcody ever offered a composer $10,000 cash for a
first playing : until the contemporary era, and
corollary-wise, smce a new symphony must be
played by somebody, nothing ever contribut
ed to the ultimate wide employment of mu
sicians so much as the popularization of music
like Shostakovitch's (and the deathless creator
of Mairzy Doats) so much as the four-lung
receiving sets and the scratchy phonographs.
Rest easy, Petrillo; and you, Shostakovitch,
make it an even bigger and better Ninth!
ment could report, but the comparison would
doubtless be staggering. - 4 V
What is perhaps more pertinent Is to figure
the investment of every citizen of the world
who walks upon two feet in this undertaking;
Figuring the population of the globe at around
2,800,000,000 (two billion, eight hundred mil
lion) people, which may be a little bigger than
it really is, after some four years of Continental
stavation and mercy-killing in some parts of
Europe, and in Asia, the figure comes to $356
per person. That goes for the Brazilian abor
igines in the headwaters of the Amazon, for
the incredulous chieftains of native . dans who
come as part of the installed equipment of Pa
cific atolls, we capture, as well as every literate,
able American and Briton who thought in 1918
and 1919 never to have to subscribe to another
liberty loan. It
How will it be paid? For all countries who
participate, it will be a burden for this gener-,
ation and the next, and longer. Wi have this
hope that in this country our linances will be
wisely handled and that the 'world may be
spared another such expenditure in War. '
356 Per Person
The last war acquainted the country most in
timately with the million as a standard nu
merical counter for quantities, whether of shells,
men, shipping tons, or dollars.
The new, deal administration introduced the
nation to the billion in the same way, but most
ly in terms of money. Whereas by the end of
the 'twenties a million dollars was still quite
a pile, in public finance as well as private, by
1937 we were pretty well innured to having
our, change counted by the billion. "
Now this war brings us to the trillion mark,
although, happily, not in terms of the single
expenditure of our own government, or of any
other single government. Rather, according to
a New York organization known as the Tax
Institute, has this sum already been approached
in the total expenditures of all the belligerent
governments, and will probably be passed next
year if the war continues on its present scale.
A billion, obviously, is one thousand millions;
and a trillion is a thousand billions. What the
sum is in terms of silver dollars laid edge by
edge, or even stacked in a single pile, would be,
only mathematicians and the treasury depart-
Interpreting
The War Jlews
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Copyright 1M4 by the Associated Press
Mad mid-Aprtt weather over aU Europe this
weekend, set continental skies swarming with al
lied and Russian bombers night and day In ob
vious preparation for furious invasion battles, soon
to open against Qermany from east and west alike.
Even across the Pacific seasonal weather condi
tions rated high in the making of allied operation
. al plans against Japan. The approach of the wet
monsoon period in the India-Burma theatre, had
some relationship to dispositions to meet the only
Nipponese offensive move in months, the Invasion
of India across the Chindwin river. :.-
. . The monsoon rains, when they came in Assam
and northern Burma, will increase ten-fold the
supply difficulties of enemy columns . operating
scores of miles from Burmese rail or river com
munications. They will much less hamper allied
movements in eastern India, or the slow but steady
progress of the Ledo road conection with China
the Japanese thrust into Assam was designed to
Check. -
In the Pacific perimeter from New Guinea to the
. Kuriles, monsoon weather is not a factor. Here
was ample evidence that new and deeper thrusts
- into the Japanese defensive belt were impending.
In the southwest General MacArthur's bombers
were "spraying enemy bases on the New Guinea
coast as an Indicated preliminary to further ad
vance by his American-Australian ground troops.
In the central. rone Admiral Nimitz mighty air
sea force appeared grooming for new power drives
closer to the heart af Japan Itself. Tokyo rumbled
with warnings of American bombing attacks to
come.
It was In Europe, however, that the weight of
both Russian and allied air power was coming into
. its own as weather conditions improved. The mid
April -weekend saw the most sweeping and sus
tained seven days of night and day attack from
the west and the linked long range allied bombing
from bases in Italy brought to its culmination. Shat
tering blows at nazj air defenses were struck at
.UbW4 W I I. ...... W. .... 1 0 ' W
were few spells of even hours during the week
when cazi radios were not off the air because of
thousand-ship fleets of fighter escorted allied bomb
ers rovirs continental skies. -
Sen. Reed of Kansas wants to trace the let
ters from Vivien Kellems to a German officer
in the Argentine which Rep. Coffee claimed
he was reading from in an address tq the house.
They were purely personal "mash letters;
and how possibly could they have gotten from
the postoffice to a congressman? Military in
telligence or FBI might use them f or investiga
tion, but they should not be made a politician's
prpperty even if Miss Kellems made a stupid
remark about not paying taxes Which she
later paid. ' if f
V'
Henry J. Kaiser's penchant for fusing the
phrase "lead time to mean the time that is
available in advance of need in time of peace
to prepare for war, in time of war to make a few;
preparations for peace is mentioned in a na
tional publication. And if it hadn't been for
Henry J. Kaiser and others like himf the "lead
time" we had to prepare for this war would
have been tragically insufficient. j Jj
i :.
News Behind
The News
By PAUL MALLON f
( Distribution by Kins Features Syndicate, Inc. Repro
duction In whole or in part strictly prohibited.)
WASHINGTON, April 15 A New York col
umnist on Washington affairs, Westbrpok Pegler,
missed the bus rather critically (by this, I mean
he fell on his face) in Interpreting the advent of
Mr. Roosevelt's leading press
propagandist, Lowell Mellett, to
the newspaper columniing field.
The New York writer wrote
that the press always had pub-1
lished Mrs. Roosevelt's view-:
point in column form and he,
, therefore, defended! the, free-:
dam of the press on that
ground. Mrs. Roosevelt's col-
I J. I. S umn is sold commercially by
LiZi 11 the same syndicate which sells
rani tanoa Pegler, and apparently his un
derstanding of the whole American press is limit-'
ed to that syndicate as he frequently mentions by,
name, pro and con, writers for his syndicate, but;
has not, to my knowledge, even mentifaed others.'
Legitimate columnists came up in the newspa
pering (not the political) business. The good news-j
paperman scorns propaganda, the political pub-:
licity man lives by how much of it he can put
over on the newspaperman and the public. Never :
the twain should meet. " ,f
Mr. Mellett was Mr. Roosevelt's gbod proparf
ganda adviser for the third term campaign. At that;
time he worked from inside the White House,
traveling with the president, advising oh press re
lations and promoting same. if
When he left his position as one of Mr. Roose
velt's assistants the other day to start a; newspaper
column, with the campaign coming on, both he and
the president made it publicly clear tbit they had
not fallen out, that neither had changed his views:
or purposes, but that both thought Mellett could
do better work on the outside. The exact words;
of Mr. Mellett's resignation letter were:; ij
"I honestly believe I can be as useful doing thai
(writing a column) as I would be if : 1 .remained
in more obvious public service.' i -
This plainly seemed to me to mean Mr. Mellett
"is going to do his campaigning job inside the news
papers this time instead of inside the White House;;
and he expects the newspapers to pay fo it I think
the whole new deal publicity wing hits reached
somewhat the same decision, namely)! that their'
work has not been effective from official position
and believe they would be more effective if they
could work on the outside. it f
Some other lesser new deal publicist! have left
recently to go into the movies or into newspaper-i'
ing. They are obviously right Yu can readily see
that Elmer Davis and Robert Sherwood are prac
tically wasted in OWI adniinistratlve work, for in
stance, whereas, before, were doing the Roose
velt cause or the war cause more practical good,
Davis on the radio and Sherwood as playwright
Now, the function of American journalism is not
to circulate propaganda, but facts. Every news
man knows they must take a lot pf propaganda in
official government handouts, speeches; and such,
but at least the newspaper before never paid for it
Never In all the history of Journalism did the
press set up a system of paying its own good money
for official viewpoints until Mrs. Roosevelt, Hop
kins, Ickes, et al (the latter two mostly in mag
azines) discovered in recent years they could sell it
In full justice then, should not the'Mni. Roosevelt
. and Mellett columns be furnished free? Furthermore
Is it not necessary for the papers publishing them
j to get columns from an equal number of republican
officials, and publish these alongside the official'
campaign columns? -
In this case, Mrs. Dewey could well be circulated
by Mr. Peeler's syndicate to balance Mrs! Roosevelt,
and if Dewey has an official news propagandist, or
cares to get one, he should be writing a column
to balance Mellett but all free. s; ; ,
That would be the fairest way, the; free press
. way, the democratic way, not the delusive - way
Into which Pegler has lightwittedly faen at Mr.
-Roosevelt's invitation. That is how they did it. in
the last campaign when Charles . Michelson dis
pelled, without cost,' the fog democratically and
Carlisle Bargeron redirpelled it republicsnly.
KSLM SUXBAT W9 Ka,
T .W MUSIC '
1JO Sunday Prelude,
Wesley League.
S 30 Voice of Prophecy. '
9.-00 Radior Bible Class.
1 30 Lutheran Hour.
10:00 G Una Hardy, News. -
10:13 Voices from Southland.
10:30 Bobby Hookey.
. 11 AO American Lutheran Church.
IS .-00 War Commentary.
12: IS Voice of the Farmer.
1230 Dr. Floyd Johnson,
1 DO Symphonic Swing.
130 Young People's Church, !
1:00 Voice of Restoration. j
S 30 Local Young People, . !
3 :0O Wings of Healing.
330 Foursquare Church.
40 Old Fashioned Revival.
5 .-00 Mediation Board.
:3 Gabriel Heatter.
60 News.
6:15 Cleveland Symphony.
7:00 Cedrie Foter.
1:15 Tommy Tucker Time.
T30 Langworth Gypsy Orchestra.
:00 First Presbyterian Church.
8:30 Jack Benny.
9 .DO News.
9:15 Anson Weeks.
9:30 News. j
9:43 Back Home Hour.
10 DO Old Fashioned Revival
11 DO Rev. Percy B. Crawford.
SEX BN SUNDAY UN K.
S 00 Your War Job.
30 Dr. Ralpb Walker.
:45 Sesgle and Trinity Choir.
9 DO Builders of Faith.
9 30 Message of ; Israel.
10 DO John B. Kennedy.
10:19 News.
10:30 Music.
llDO-Chaplain Jim, USA.
1130 Sunday Favorites.
12 DO Life of Riley.
1230 Hot Copy.
1D0 Al Pearces Fun Valley.
130 Metropolitan Opera Audition.
3:00 Mary Small Revue.
' 330 Musical Steelmakers.
3.00 Radio Hall of Famo '
4:00 Music .
4:15 Be Alert
4:45 Dorothy Thompson, t
SD0 Christian bdenco Program.
S:l 5 Serenade.
5 30 Walter Duranty.
8:45 Drew Pearson.
S DO Walter WinchelL
1:13 Basin St Chamber Kusle.
:45 Jimmie fldler.
I DO Listen, the Women.
730 Look to the Future.
T 5 Music
DO Greenfield Village.
8:15 Hotel Sherman Orchestra.
S30-Quis Kids
DO Deadline Drama.
930 News Headlines and raghnghjsj
9:45 For AU Humanity.
10 DO Guy Lombard i.
1030 Builders of Faith.
11 DO Concert Hour.
KGW NBC SUNDAY 429 Ks.
4 DO Dawn Patrol.
5 .-00 World News Roundup.
9:19 Commando Mary.
6:30 String Quartet
1 DO National Radio Pulpit.
1 30 Words and Music.
5 :00 The Church in Your Home.
830-VisiUng Nurse of the Air.
-.45 The Carol Sisters.
9:00 Carveth Wells. Commentator.
9:15 News in Advertising.
930 Stradivari
10 DO A Layman Views tha News.
10:15 Labor for Victory.
1030 Chicago Round Table.
II DO Those We Love.
1130 John Charles Thomas
12 DO World News.
1230 The Armv Hour.
130 Garden Talk.
1:45 Memory KasseL
3 DO NBC Symphony Orchestra.
3:00 News Headlines and Highlights
3:15 Catholic Hour.
3:45 James Lionel Harris.
4 DO Jack Benny;
430 Band Wagon.
4 -55 Tom Reddy. NewsJN
DO Charlie McCarthy.
830 One Man's Family.
6 DO Manhattan Merry -Go-Round.
30 American Album of Familiar
Music, f .-
1 DO Hour of Charm. 1 V-' -
130 Bob Crosby At Co."
DO The Great Gildsrslteve.
9:30 Symphony Hour.
930 Lands of the Free.
35 Musical Interlude. -19
DO News Flashes.
10:15 Hotel BUtmora Orchestra;
1030 S yen phone tte.
11 DO St Francis Hotel Orchestra.
1130 War News Roundup.
11. -45 News.
UDO-X OO a-nt-Swlng Shift
KALE MBS SCNDAT 1339 Ks.
9 DO Wesley Radio League.
930 Voice of Prophecy.
9D0Detroit Bible passes.
930 Early Morning News.
10 DO News.
19 JS Romance of the Hi-Ways.
1030 Hookey HaO.
11 DO Pilgrim Hour.
12 DO Ntws.
13:15 Voice of the Dairy Farmer.
1230 Dr. Floyd Johnson.
I DO Wide Horizons.
130 Abe Lincoln's Story.
J DO Green Valley. USA.
930 Portland Bibie Classes.
3D0 Roosty of the AIT.
330 Upton Close.
3:45 News '
4 DO Old Fashioned Revival Boar.
8 DO Mediation Board.
' 9:43 Gabriel . Heatter.
9 DO Cleveland Symphony Orch
f DO Cedrie Foster.
LIS Music of the Masters.
730 Hinson Memorial Church.
9:30 Jack Benny.
9D0 News.
9:15 Rex Miller. '
930 Human Adventured
10:00 Old Fashioned Revival Hour.
II DO Young People's Church.
1130-Califonua Melodies.
KOrN CBS SUNDAY 9SS Ks.
D0-News of tha World.
9:15 Music
730 Wings Over Jordan.
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mo mors
9 DO Warren Sweeney. News, r
SD5 Blue Jackets Choir.
30 Invitation to learning.
9 DO Salt Lake Tabernacsa. , . i.
30 Garden Talks.
A3 News. ,
10 DO Church of the Air.
10 30 Trans-Allan tic CsJL ;
11D0-Celung Unlimited.
1130 World News Today. I
MM-Songs of America. - -XX&0
Philharmonic Orch. Concert.
130 The Pause That Refreshes
2.00 The Family Hour.
2:43 Woman from Nowhere.
3 DO Silver Theatre. s
330 America in the Air.
4 DO William Shir ex. NewS.
4:15 News.
430-Tht WhUtler. . i
5 DO The SUr and the Story..;
130-Wuuam Wmter. Nswa.
9 .-43 Stars of Today. I.
A3 Ned Calmer. I
DO Radio Readers Digest
930 Fred Allan.
: 7 DO Take It or Leavs It
730 - Adventures of the Thin
9 do Crime' Doctor. -1
35 Song of the Week. .
30 In Tune to Come. .
9 DO I Was There. i-
930 We Work for Wisco.
IS DO Five Star Final. . i
19:18 Wartime Women.
1020 Horace Heidt
10 JO Orchestra
11 DO Orchestra. c
1130 Orchestra.
115 Orch. i I
115-Newa.' -' - i .
UD0-9D9 aja. afusto and News.
Monday's Radio Programs i
(Continued from Page 1)
metals without the salvage from
. the old battleship. It is reported
now that the navy Is bargaining
to buy the hull for some spe
cial purpose. If It does it will
probably pay a lot' more than
the i $35,000 it received for the
whole ship. But at least the
steel shell might really go to
war! and be of some service.
Having as governor labored
to save the battleship from the
scrapheap though willing to let
it go into service again as m
fighting or supply ship I am
disheartened at the botch which
appears to have been made of
the whole : enterprise by the
government authorities. ; Cer
tainly there was poor planning
; both as to probable need and
. time for converting the vessel
into; usable material. ' It - may
eventuate that when the war is
; over material from the Oregon
' will be offered just for junk.
It seems to me the navy and
the j war , production board - owe
an explanation to the people of
Oregon and particularly to the
Spanish - war Veterans - who "
. prized this ship, if the facts are
as stated by Edwards in his ar
ticles in the Oregonian.
KSLaf MONDAY 1399 Ke.
30 Rise 'n Shine. . ii
6:43 News.
7 DO News. j
7:15 Farm and Home.
730 Shady VaDey Folks.!;
7:45 Morning Moods.
9 DO Dr. Louis Talbot :
30 Woman's Way.
S:45 Wax Shop.
935 Les Huff Trio.
9:00 Pastor's CalL
9:15 It's the Truth.
3 30 News.
9:45 Harry Brewer's Nor. Orch.
10 DO Glen Hardy. News. .
10:15 Jack Berch.
1030 Luncheon with Lopes.
10:43 Bartal Orchestra.
11 DO Cedrie Foster.
11:15 Walts Time.
1130 Skyline Serenade.
115 Around Town.
12 :00 Organalities.
12:15 News.
1230 HiUbUly Serenade.
13:45-Music -
1D0 C. C." News.
1:15 Lum 'n Abner.
130 Music. .
2 DO News.
2:15 Don Lee News Reel
2:45 Radio Tour.
SD5 Concert Hour.'
3:45 Johnson Family.
4 DO Fulton Lewis.
4:15 News.
430 Lullaby In Rhythm.
4:43 Round Up Revelers,
8 DO March Militaire.
8:15 Superman.
830 Bertrand Hlrsch and Violin.
8 :45 Gordon Burke.
9D0-Gabriel Heatter.
9:15 Believe It or Not
-30 Cote Glee Club.
7 DO Air NAC
7:15 War Commentary.
730 Lone Ranger.
9 DO Orchestra.
930 Point Sublime.
9 DO News.
9:15 CecU Brown.
930 Fulton Lewis.
' 93 Music
10 DO Sherlock Holmes.
1030 News.
10:45 Glen Gray.
11 .-00 Sign Off.
. KOIN CBS MONDAY ISi Ke.
DO Northwest Farm Reporter.
:1S Breakfast Bulletin.
30 Texas Rangers.
9:45 KOIN Klock.
7:15-Headllne News.
730 Bob Green. News.
7:43 Nelson Pringle.
DO Consumer News.
;15 Valiant Lady.
930 Stories America Loves.
:45 Aunt Jenny.
9 DO Kate Smith Speaks.
9:15-Big Sister
930 Romance of Helen Trent
9:45 Our Gal Sunday.
10:00 Life Can Be Beautiful.
10:15 Ma Perkins.
1030 Bemadine r'lynn.
10:45 The Goldbergs.
11 DO Portia Faces Life.
11:15 Joyce Jordan.
1130 Young Doctor Malon.
115 News.
II DO Mary MarlUW -,
12:15 Neighbors. , ','
1230 Bright Horizons. ' " j.
12:45 Bachelor's Children. - f
1 DO Broadway Matinee.
133 Air-Flo of the Air.
130 Science at Work.
2 DO Open Door. .
1:15 Newspaper of the Air.
3:45 American Women.
3 DO News. - .
3:15 Lyn Murray.
330 Songs.
3:45-The World Today.
355 Harsch. Meaning of th News.
4 DO Stars of Today.
4:15 News.
430 Builders of the West:
435 Organ Interlude. -
8 DO Galen Drake.
8:15 Red's Gang.
930 Harry Flannery, News.
9:45 News.
935 Bill Henry.
DO Radio Theatre.
7 DO Screen Guild Players.
730 Blondie.
DO I Love A Mystery.
:13 Ed Sullivan Entertains.
30 Gay Nineties.
935-Chet Huntley.
9 DO Three Cjuarter Time.
9:15 What's News.
30 Vox Pop
10:00 Five Star FmaL
10:15 Wartime Women.
1030 Western Stars.
1030 Music '
10:45 Heathman Melodies.-.
11 DO Jantzen Beach Orchestra.
1130-CBS.
11:45 Organist j
1135 News. I
Midnight-SDQ ajL Muste and News.
KALE MBS MONDAY 1339 Ks.
930 Yawn PatroL
1 DO News.
7:18 Texas Rangers.
730 Memory Timekeeper. I
9D0 Bible Institute. I
30 News . - - - j
S:43 Wax Shop. J
835-MuslC. -' f . - ' -
9 DO Boa ke Carter. !
9:15 Woman s Side of the News.
930-tBuyers Parade.
9:45 Learn to Dance.
10:00 News.
10:15 Jack Berch.
1030 Pases from Life.
UDO Cedrie Foster.
11:14 Marketing with Meredith .
1130 Concert Gems.
11:45 Around the Town.
13 DO News.
13 :15r-Luncheon Concert - t
13:45 On the Faim Front
1330 Mountain Hoed own.
I DO Walter Compton.
. 1:15 Luncheon with Lopez.
130 Music.
3 DO Ray Dady.
3:15 Texas Rangers. J '
230-Curtain Calls.
2-45 Wartime Women.
2:30 News..
3 DO Griff en Reporting.
3:15 Stars of Today.
330 Lean Back and Listen.
3:45 Johnson Family.
4 DO Fulton Lewis, lr.
4:15 Songs.
430 Music.
4:45 News .-. i
8 DO Learn to Dance. -- s
8:1 5 Superman., ;
830 Showtime
8:45 Gordon Burke.
8 D9Gabrlel Heatter.
930 Array- Air Forces.
7D0 Gladstoce.
. 7:15 Peoples Reporter. I
730 Lone Ranrer.
8 DO Serenade. '
:15 Narl. Laundry.
30 Point Sublime.
DO News.
9:18 Salute te Our Heroes, s
930 Fulton Lewis, Jr. 5
-95 Songs o Our Antes.!
10 DO Music.
10:15 Bien Venidos Amifoa.'
1030 News. i
10.-45 Music , s - -
11 U3 Learn to Dance.
1130 Yankee House Party, r
KOAC MONDAY 599 Ka. i ,
IS DO News. -.- -3
10 J3 The Homem alters Hour.
II DO School of the Air.
11:13 Familiar Songs. -11
30 Concert HalL
' 12 DO News
12 a 5 Noon Farm Hour. ; .
. 1M Rsdia me Range 4 ,
15 Names in tha News, t
30 Variety Time. 1
8 DO Home Economics extension
Specialists
330 Memory Booh of Musl
' 4M MM. -
3:15 Music of ttie Masters. . .-
. 4-wiB. 1
4a8 Listen to Lelbert .
430 The Waits Lives On.
4:43 Highlights of the Week.
DO On the Upbeat
5:30 Story Time J
8:45 It's Oregon's War.
t:l& News.;
8-30 Evening Farm Hour.
730 4H Club Program.! .
DO Starry Skies.
:15 A to Z in Novelty. -..
930 Music I
930 News.- ' ' ! .
9:45 Evening Meditations.
10 DO Sign Off. j
KEX BN ttUNDAY 1199 Ea.
DO Musical Cloclct 1
:13 National rann and Home.
:45 Western Agriculture.
7 DO Home Harmonies, i
7 D5 Top of the Morning:
7:15 News.! !
- 730 James! Abbe Observes.
7:43 Trio.
DO Breakfast Club. 1
9 DO The Baby Institute.
9:15 Voice of Experience.
9:30 Breakfast at Sardi's
10. DO Tony Morse.
10:15 Sweet River.
10 30-Ted Malone.
10:45 Pantry Party.
10:33 Polly Patterson.
11 DO Baukhase raikina.
11:15 The Mystery Chef.
1130 Ladles Be Seated. I
12 DO Songs by Morton Downey.
12:13 Hollywood. i
1230 News. 1
1 DO Sam Hayes.
1:15 Bob Nichols.
130 Blue Newsroom Review.
2. DO What's Doing. Ladles.
2 30 Home i Demonstration.
3:40 Labor ! News.
2:43 Ruby Lloyd.
3 DO Hollywood News flashes.
3:15-News.i '
330 Ho Hum.
3:45 Music: I
4 00 Speaking of Glamour.
4:19 Sergeant Toley and Glenn.
4 30 Hop Hani ran.
4:43 The Sea Hound.
8 DO Terry and the Pirates.
8:15-Dick Tracy.
830 Jack Armstrong, i
8:45 Captain Midnight 1
DO Army Variety Show.
30 Spotlight Bands.
9 :55-Story Teller.
7 DO Raymond Gram Swing
7:13 Top of the Evening.
730 Horace Heidt.
9 DC News. ;
8:15 Lum and Abner.
8:30 Counterspy. j
9 DO Blind Date. !
930 News Headlines and Highlights
: Art saker.
10 DO Music
1030 Broadway Bandwagon.
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11.-00 Concert Hour.
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Marion County
Boasts 1028
Greed Guards
Marion county boasts a mem
bership in the Green Guards 61
1028, acordihg to Judge Grant
Murphy, county chairman of Keen
Oregon Green. This youth division
oz the publicly sponsored fire pre
vention program has been en
larged to include a year-round
program for; Oregon youth, the
chairman pointed out
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"We hope that even more of
the young people of this county
join the Green Guard." the chair
man continued. "We need the sup
port these young people Jean give
us in times like these to nrotect
our farms, fields and forests from
ore. These war years present ad
ded dangers .from fires, and we
must depend ! more and more on
the alertness I of young boys and
girls to stop devastating fires.
Each Green ' Guard is riven
bodge, an identification card and
a manual of instructions when he
joins tte organization. This is an
important war and neacetime ser
vice and will dividends Jn future
good citizens, good business, happy
lives and a prosperous land, the
cnairman suggested. ; -f ?
Any person desiring, to join this
youth activity should write Keep
Oregon Green, state forestry bull
aing, saienv Uregotv There la no
charge for membership.' and Green
Guards have ! many opportunities
to help do Dublic service for
their state. i -. K
New ExpeHmceRatesto Save
Oregon Employers &J,oyu,vuu
Oregon emDloyen wm save approximately $3,600,000 as a re
sult of the new experience rates for 1944 payrolls, the state un
employment rommission announced here Saturday. ,
The new list ol'reduced rates WiU bring the average contri
bution down to about 2J2 per cent as against 2 J per centst
year apd the normal tax of 2.7 per cent. s r ; - '
Of the 6829 employers whose employment experience oi more
than three years entities inem xo
Oregon Will v
Have Vacancy
At West Point
WASHINGTON,' DO; April 15
(Special) - Representative James
W. Mott of Oregon has been ad
vised by the war department that
the first congressional district of
Oregon will have a vacancy at the
United f States Military academy,
West Point, . NYn to be filled in
1945. ; , - : r
To determine the eligible can
didate of the first Oregon district.
Congressman Mott has requested
the civil service commission to
hold a preliminary qualifying ex
amination in that district on July
29, 1941. The first district em
braces Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop,
Columbia, Lincoln, Marion, Polk,
Tillamook, Washington and Yam
hill counties.
The qualifying examination is
open to all candidates from the
first Oregon district within the
eligible age, including those who
are serving with the armed forces.
Congressman Mott said arrange
ments will be made for boys serv
ing in $ the army, navy, marine
corps and coast guard to take the
examination at whatever place
they are serving on July 29, 1944,
whether In the United States or
overseas. ,
Candidates for the military acad
emy are eligible for admission
from the day they are 17 until
the day they become 22 years of
age, on which latter day they are
not eligible.
In addition to selecting a prin
cipal for the West Point academy,
three alternates will be selected
at the same time. In order to make
the . required arrangements it is
necessary that applicants notify
Congressman James ,W. Mott,
United States Bouse of Represen
tatives, Washington, 25, DC, in
writing: not later than June 1 of
their desire to participate in the
examination. In the case of ap
plicants in the armed forces, pre
liminary notification may be sent
to Congressman Mott by their
parents or guardians. Such notifi
cauon should . include the serial
number of the applicant
State Bar Test
Attracts 14
Fourteen applicants, compared
wish 18 in 1943 and with the av
erage of more than 100 annually
in years immediately preceding
the war, will take -the state bar
entrance examinations here July
11 and 12, Arthur S. Benson, clerk
of the state supreme court said
today, i
"ling of applications closed
April 11, but there may be two
or three others among the group
examined if applications now
pending are approved, Benson
said.
Three of this year's applicants
ar women, a number equal to
that of some prewar years, he
said.
varying rates, 5063 will share in
the savings. A total of 1682 will
receive the lowest rate of 1 per
cent, 1623 at 1.5 per r cent and
1812 at 2 per cent. All other cov
ered firms will pay at the normal
rate of 2.7 per cent, including
2628 " whose employment '.. experi
ence is three years or less.
Combined payrolls of j the new
firms amounted to $245,408,641
last . year, more than the entire
covered wages reported for 1939
and 1940.! Included in this group
are several shipyards and other
war plants which will have suffi
cient reserve to gain a reduced i
rate by 1945.
j Employers entitled to reduced
rates reported 1943 payrolls ag
gregating $362,241,874, more than
half of the taxable wages total
ing $715,874,982. In addition, em
ployers exempt payroll of $62,
158,118, paid to employes earn
ing -more than $3000 in one year
with one employer.
j In addition to the savings for
employers entitled to low rates,
649 firms saved $163,070 which
they would have paid in penalty
rates' if the "6 per cent ceiling"
had not been exceeded by the
employment trust fund.
I Publishers, financial houses and
utilities made the greatest savings
of any industrial groups, while
construction, lumbering and min
ing were at the' other end with
less- than half of these firms se
curing reduced rates.
The analysis disclosed 52 firms
with more than a million dollar
average annual payroll. Only two
of these were in the penalty rate
division, while 44 secured reduc
tions from the normal tax.
Of the 1100 firms with payrolls
averaging from $50,000 to $999,
000, reduced rates went to 813,
while 68 were in the penalty rate
classification.
Cpl. Bothwell
Dies in Italy
Data has been received about
the death of Cpl. Eugene E. Both
well in Italy, January 17, 1944,
through a letter to his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Fred D. Bothwell, now
living in Portland, but formerly
residents of Salem.
J According to the notification,
CpL Bothwell was on a duty sta
tus in the camp area of Gli As
troglia, Italy. His rifle, hung on a
strap in his tent, fell and dis
charged, killing the young soldier
almost instantly. ,
j CpL Bothwell had gone through
all the major battles, was with the
first to land at Casa Blanca,
North Africa, Sicily and other
points in Italy. He was with the
field artillery. He was the only
child of Mrs. Fred Bothwell, and
enlisted at Salem on September 7,
1940.
Portland Firm Bids Low
For Retaining Wall Job
PORTLAND, April 15 A.
D, Ford & Sons, Portland, sub
mitted a low bid of $11,447.30 on
reinforced concrete retaining walls
for a sub-station building near
Salem, the Bonneville administra
tion said today. '
Educators Seek to Create
Single State Fund for Schdoh
Iliminary initiative petition for a constitutional amendment
which "would essentially provide for one levy to raise approxi
mately $12,000,000 a year In state tax funds; for support of pub
lic schools of Oregon was filed here Saturday.
Supported by the Oregon State Teachers association, with Beryl
Holt of Salem as co-signer, the petition would place on the No
vember general election ballot an
amendment to the state constitu
tion creating a single state fund
for suport of common and ele
mentary schools to include all
funds now derived by state taxes
and to be in amount sufficient to
provide not less than 4$ cents per
child per day of school attend
ance, i
The measure further provides
that this fund shall be in addition
to the income from the common
school fund and that it shall be
distributed by the legislature. Un
til June 30, 1950. the legislature
would be required to distribute it
so - that $8,000,000 of the total
amount would be used to reduce
property: taxes levied in. local
school districts, with the provision
that such distribution shall not af
fect the tax base of any district.
Current state school taxes in
clude the two min levy adopted
by the last session of the legisla
ture and a $5,000,000 levy. The to
tal of the two would fall approx
imately $4,000,000 short of the 45
cents per day per shild require
ment, state department of educa
tion offices estimated Saturday.
. If the initiative ' proposal ap
pears on the November' ballot,
sponsors must file completed pe
titions with the secretary of state
by July 8. School officials said pe
titions would be in circulation in
a few days. ;
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