Radio drama week features Steinbeck adaptation and more
Nadine Subotnik reports a Friday radio lineup beginning at 7 p.m. on WMT with Otto Kruger and Ralph Morgan in The Moor is Down. The Playhouse at 8 p.m. on WMT airs Sullivan's Travels with Melvyn Douglas. The First Nighter at 8:30 p.m. on WMT stars Barbara Luddy and Les Tremayne in Marry a Million. WENR offers Celebrity Theater at 8:30 p.m. with John Vandercook in The Most Dangerous Game. WHO at 9:30 p.m. presents Grand Central Station with Peggy Conklin and Eddie Nugent. Specials on WENR include The Ontario Show at 6 p.m. with Alec Templeton and Ed Gardner, hosted by Madeleine Carroll. Information Please guests Eric Knight and Christopher Morley appear at 7:30 p.m. on WHO. Claude Pepper speaks on Patents and Economic Warfare Friday at 9:15 p.m. on WBBM. Notre Dame prom broadcast from WMT at 9:30 p.m. and a Town Cedar Falls MacArthur Day program on WMT at 11:05 p.m. Saturday features School News cast on WMT at 9:45 a.m. The McKinley mixed quartet performs at 10 a.m. on WMT with a discussion on consumer problems on The Assembly Room of the Air led by Maurine Hamblin and Ruth Griffith.
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John Steinbeck
Otto Kruger
Ralph Morgan
Kate Smith
WMT
Playhouse
Melvyn Douglas
Preston Sturges
Sullivan
Barbara Luddy
Les Tremayne
WENR
John Vandercook
Ruth Suchomel
Mary Vokolek
Gail Phillipson
Wilson High School
McKinley
Frances Kacerovsky
Jane Watson
Bob Hinkin
Bill Moore
Angels of Mercy
Golda Missman
Phyllis Milbreth
Sharyl Lenzen
Florence Shonka
Catherine Waln
Bonnie Hampton
Air
Maurine Hamblin
Ruth Griffith
Relays Coverage From Drake Penn Events On Air
Saturday relay coverage includes Drake relays in Des Moines by Bill Brown and Harold Fair on WHO from 2 to 4 45 pm. Penn relays in Philadelphia described on WMT WENR WMAQ with varied times. A new music show Moods and Musi debuts on WIT Friday at 9 15 p m featuring Jerry Cooper Audrey Marsh an octet under Lynn Murray and organist John Gart.
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Drake
Des Moines
Bill Brown
Harold Fair
WHO
Penn
Philadelphia
WMT
WENR
WMAQ
Jerry Cooper
Audrey Marsh
Lynn Murray
John Gart
Radio Schedule Highlights From April 24 1942
A dense hourly rundown lists programs on WGN WLS WENR WHO WMT and others for Friday April 24 1942 including Easy Aces Mr Keen Modern Mus Penn Relays Lets Pretend Swing It and more across day parts with morning afternoon and late night slots.
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WMP
Easy Aces
WGN
Don Winslow
Ontario
Watt Penn
Penn
WMT
Dorsey O
G. Miller
Y G Miller
Wexner
Wampton O
President's Mother Leaves Estate Large in New York
Mrs Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of the President, left a net estate estimated at 1,089,872 after funeral and admin expenses and debts of 38,489. A New York state transfer tax appraisal shows a 48,431 tax. Under a will probated earlier, President Roosevelt receives nine tenths of the estate and his mother's Hyde Park property. Mrs. Roosevelt died Sept. 7 at Hyde Park. The proceedings show a 5,000 bequest to St. James' church.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Sara Delano Roosevelt
New York State
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. J
St. James’ Church
Trustees Establish Funds for Roosevelts in Hyde Park Case
Hyde Park known as the Presidents church and the establishment of trust funds for Mrs Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and the Roosevelts five children. Grants of 5000 each for the three executors in lieu of fees and commissions precede the residuary estate passing out right to the President. Executors are Henry T Hackett Poughkeepsie attorney for the estate the President and Arthur J Morris New York City.
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Hyde Park
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Senate OKs 19 Billion War Bill To Curb Profiteering
The Senate sent a 19 billion war bill to President Roosevelt to curb profiteering on government orders. It empowers the war and navy departments and the maritime commission to renegotiate contracts and strike excessive profits, with authority to deny salary boosts and other costly items. The bill funds 3.6 million troops and over 8.5 billion for army and navy air forces, including more than 30,000 planes.
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Washington
INS
Senate
Roosevelt
War and Navy Departments
Maritime Commission
Taft
Rohio
Congress
Army
Navy
Maritime Commmission
George
D-Ga
Senate Financing Committee
Jesse Jones Denies Magnesium Firm Profit Claims
Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones told the Senate defense committee that promoters cannot profit 4000 percent from the magnesium plant in Las Vegas Nevada. He defended Basic Magnesium Inc and said the plant is a government project built as economically as possible with production expected to start by next August.
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Washington
INS
Jesse Jones
Senate Defense Committee
Las Vegas
Nev
Truman
Sen. Bunker
D-Ney
Defense Plants Corporation
Jones
Subcommittee
Basic Magnesium, Ince
Picket Line Formed Over Rubber Balls Theft
Six 10 year old children picketed the Minneapolis home of a neighborly couple claiming over 15 years they seized about 100 rubber balls from the children's yard. They marched with crude signs accusing the pair of hoarding the balls and being unfit for democracy. Police dispersed the line.
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Minneapolis
Germany
Beaverbrook urges second front to aid Soviet army
Lord Beaverbrook told the American Newspaper Publishers Association dinner that a major western offensive is needed to help the Soviet army against Germany. He said a successful Russian effort could topple the Axis, offering a chance to end the war, while warning that Soviet defeat would remove such an opportunity.
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Beaverbrook
Second Front
New York
Lord Beaverbrook
Russia
Germany
Bureau of Advertising
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Coast Gets Plane Detectors With 100 Mile Range
Secretary Stimson disclosed on Thursday that air raid listening posts with more than 100 miles detection range are being erected rapidly along strategic points of the U S coastline. He announced this at his weekly press conference following a recent personal inspection tour to a detection station.
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Washington
INS
War Stimson
United States
Stimson
Foster to Campaign For Write In Vote In First District
Foster, West Branch Democratic speaker of the Iowa house in 1937, will campaign for a write in vote in the First district congressional race in the June 1 Democratic primaries. His nomination papers were rejected for insufficient signatures in each county. Other Democratic candidates include James M. Bell, Vern W. Nall, and Henry F. Willenbrock.
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Des Moines
LaMar Foster
West Branch
Iowa
Immigrant Mother Refuses Insurance in Death of Son
A Polish born American citizen in Cresson Pa refuses $5,000 federal life insurance for her sailor son killed in the battle of Java. She says the government needs the money more than she and her coal miner husband and quotes them as having enough to live on. Chief Signalman Charles Lynch identifies her as the family contact.
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Altoona
Poland
Charles Lynch
Cresson
Java
Lynch
Twelve year old indicted for murder of guardians in Carroll
Twelve year old Billy Geiseman was indicted by the Carroll county grand jury on two counts of first degree murder for killing his guardians Mr and Mrs Charles Krug Johann with a .22 caliber rifle. He confessed that the slaying followed spankings after hockey. Judge Dixon appointed attorneys Robert L Morris and Franklin A Stransky and ordered psychiatric exams by Dr Paul L Schroder and Dr George J Mohr to report after a 1 pm Wednesday evaluation. Geiseman appeared unfazed in court as he spent days in jail working crosswords and reading comics.
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Mt, Carroll, IH
Billy Geiseman
Carroll County
Charles Krugjohann
Geiseman
George C. Dixon
Robert L. Morris
Lanark
Franklin A. Stransky
Dixon
Paul L. Schroder
Institute of Juvenile Research
Chicago
George J Mohr
Institute of Psycho-analysis
Billys Adoption Hopes Amid Family Changes
Billy's mother died three years ago. His father William Sr and his three married brothers Walter John and Allen sent him to live with the Krugjohanns. William Sr moved to stay with two sisters at Sibley. The Krugjohanns planned to adopt Billy.
House Ways and Means Approves Tax Exemption Bill
The Ways and Means Committee on Thursday advanced a bill to exempt defense contractors from state and local gross income, sales and use taxes. The measure aims to speed up the war program and prevent defense appropriations from being diverted from their intended purpose.
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Washington
INS
House Ways and Means Committee
Petersburg Named Richest Town Per Capita in Alaska
Petersburg, nicknamed little Norway for its residents, is identified as the wealthiest town per capita in Alaska, reflecting strong local incomes and economic activity among its population.
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Petersburg
Norway
Alaska
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