Cheney Legion Hits Jap-American Ban

CHENEY, Dec. 9.--(AP)--The Cheney American Legion Post No. 72 has sent a communication to the Oregon and Washington Legion departments protesting the action of the Hood River, Or., post in excluding names of 16 Japanese-Americans from a county war memorial, Paul Rozell, post commander, said yesterday.

Rozell said the communication stated ".... we think such action is contrary to the Americanism we have sworn to support and defend. To foster such racial persecution and discrimination is to imitate the methods of our enemy, and to betray the ideals of America and also the Legion."