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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1946
Page
20
A new program on ABC WENR scheduled for Tuesday at 7 p.m. will feature amateur chefs who are celebrities, with audience participation and taste tests. Host Allen Prescott will emcee, and first guests include Russell Patterson and Frank Back.
NBC carries Japanese surrender special Wednesday at 10 30 a m with Vice Admiral Kinkaid Commander Buckley McCampbell Wake Island defender Devereux and Solomon Islands raider Edson. NBC WMAQ airing Unto Us the Living at 6 30 p m with six veterans.
Hour by hour listings show broadcast times and programs across WMT WHO WGN WMT stations from 6 p m to 10 45 p m including News Music and entertainment features with actors hosts and shows such as Judy's Date Falcons You Know Doctors Talk and The Night Life. The schedule also lists morning programs for the following day including Farm Forum Reveille and Musical Clock with times and stations.
A detailed timetable lists programs on WMT WHO WGN EXEL and other stations from 12 noon to 5:45 pm. It includes farm markets, dramas, soap operas, quiz shows, and music segments with hosts such as John Kennedy Perry Mason and Paul Porter.
Carbondale Illinois two teachers Misses Maxine Daily and Kaiie Salmo urge parents of first graders to avoid scaring the child relying on them for dressing or feeding him to keep him from staying with him on the first day and to not expect reading in the first week.
Minnesota polio total reaches 1052 as state fair activities for 4-H youths are cancelled. Six new Minneapolis cases and ten more in St Paul raise Twin Cities infantile paralysis to 561. Fair opens Aug 24 and county 4-H exhibits will be arranged by adults to keep youths from attending.
The long missing body of Benito Mussolini, exiled Italian leader, was discovered wedged in a trunk in Sant Angelo Dei Minori monastery at Pavia after being stolen from Maggiore cemetery in April 1945. Monks revealed the find. two monks and three men were detained as investigations continue.
Padre Alberto of Sant Angelo Dei Minori monastery told police where the body was hidden after false reports circulated. He said one thief had disclosed the secret to him in confession and he would seek permission from certain fugitives before revealing the location.
The United States granted full diplomatic recognition to Bolivia's provisional government led by President Nestor Guillen after weeks of study. The regime, formed by students and professionals, overthrew the military government of Gualberto Villarroel, who died in the uprising. The U S joins Venezuela Cuba Uruguay Chile Peru and Paraguay in recognizing Guillen as the seventh American power to do so.
Lottie Lockman asks Jefferson county authorities to exhume bodies of people under her care claiming innocence and delivering a signed paper authorizing exhumation of her late husband Frank Lockman. The 62 year old widow sent her lawyer Joseph Cooper with the request.
Mrs Lille B. Winter, 76, was indicted by a Wayne County grand jury on murder charges in the death of her 3 year old great grandson Donald Eugene Martin from arsenic poisoning. Bond was denied. trial tentatively set for October. The panel also heard a chemist report finding arsenic in the stomach of Lorena Clark, Winter’s sister who died in 1921, though no immediate grand jury action was expected. Exhumation of Winter’s husband’s body showed no poison evidence.
A Chicago jury acquitted Donald Murray of murder in the slaying of Maj. John Fletcher in a Morrison Hotel room last May 27. Doris Murray testified Fletcher swung a chair at Donald before the fatal shot, in a case involving a romantic tryst and a nude wife.
A spouse testifies with hands to her face recounting events surrounding Fletcher's death last May 27 and affirming her love for her husband.
A fire Monday night destroyed a loading dock of the North Western railroad freight house and partly burned eight box cars on nearby sidings. Much merchandise on the loading platform and in the cars was damaged by the blaze.
A blaze at a North Western yard was brought under control in 40 minutes by Car roll volunteer fire department. District auditor C S Folliott put the damage at several thousand dollars. One car of explosives was sprayed and moved to safety while merchandise was moved out and box cars saved. Office records and fixtures were destroyed as the fire remained mainly at the west end loading platform.
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