The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-03

the Japanese tortured, starved, and sometimes murdered American sOl- diers who were taken prisoners In the Philippines will be reported by Commander Melvyn H. Mccoy, U. s. N., on the March of Time, on Thursday, February 3. The pro- gram goes on the air over NEG at 1O:30 D. m. EWT.
 Commander Mccoy, one of the three who survived the starvation and torture of the Japanese priS- on camps, and lived to tell of the agony they endured, was taken prisoner at COrregidOr and escaped after almost . year from the con- centratiOn camp in LuZOn.
 The Westport, Conn, folks. who number some of Americas greatest stage, screen, opera and radio stars are out to break their war bond ceiling record together with Sta- ton WIN on Wednesday. Feb. g.
 Show will be held from 7:30 to midnight from the Fine Arts thea- ter in Westport. Standing record for the last War Bond rally there was $353, ,O00 worth sold to 720 peo- pie, the nations top record for a one-shot theater sale per person.
 WHN will broadcast an hour of the show from 10 to II p. m. Fea- tured will be a Radio Round Table on the subject "Analyzing the German Character with Quincy Howe, Wallace R. Deunel, Sigrid Schultz and Rep. Will Rogers, Jr.
 Other stars participating include James Melton, Eddy Green of "Duffy's Tavern" Rae Whitney of CBS and NEG musicals, Colonel Stoopnagle, Jeri Sullivan, Muriel Smith of Carmen Jones'" Mary Margaret Mcbride of WOR, Sig mund Spaeth, Helen Oldheim and Lawrence Tibbet of the Metropoli- tan and many other Westport residents and guests.
 In c0mmemOratiOn of the first anniversary (Feb. 13) of the wo- mems reserve of the Marine Corps, the National Broadcasting com pany will present 8 special pro- gram originating in its Washing ton and Hollywood studies and at Camp Lejeune, New River, N. C., largest Marine camp in the world, Saturday, Feb. 12, at 3:3O p. m., EWT.
 Speakers include It. Gen. Alex ander A. Vandergrift, Marine Corps cOmmandant; It. Gen. Ruth Che ney Streeter, head of the "WR's" and Pfc. Dorothy Mae Graves, only woman ski jumper in the United States with a record of 204 feet in competition, from Washington, D.. c.
 From Hollywood, Lieut.. Helen Cream, holder of the Croix de Guerre for heroism under fire in World War I, will be interviewed. The balance of the program will come from Camp Lejeune, where Majcr General Henry L. Larson, the cOmmandant, and veterans of the war in the SOlomOns will pay tribute to the work of women Ma rineS.
 The musical portion of the broadcast will be provided by the 45-piece all-girl orchestra at Camp Lejeune and Corporal Matalda Fsnl1binder, formerly sOloist on Station WOR under ahe name of Ann Morrison.
 A condensed version of the new Walt Disney film cartoon Chicken Little" broadcast direct from the Disney sound stages in Hollywood with the producer introducing 1t, is one of the highlights of CBS' Re port to the Nation" Tuesday, Feb ruary 8. (WABC-CBS, 9:30 to 10:0O p. m, EWT).
 Chicken Little" is barnyard fantasy with a whole new cast of Disney characters-the title player described as the barnyard playboy and yo-yo champ, the villain Foxy Loxy, cock of the walk Cocky- Locky and other feather -brained inhabitants such as Ducky-Lucky Goosey-Poosey and Turkey-Lurkey.