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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1946
Page
12
Immy Stewart will star in a tragic comedy radio play adapted from a film. The program marks one of Stewart's rare post service radio appearances. He avoids mentioning his military record on air, a fact noted as part of his enduring popularity.
Olemary De Camp returns as Judy Price on CBS WMT Wednesday at 6 30 PM after baby leave. Janet Waldo filled in during absence. Also this week Adventure in Tutoring a comedy airs with Jean Hersholt as the doctor. Ted De Corsia stars in ITS ABOUT EM Shirley Mitchell co stars.
An archival radio program grid lists hourly segments across stations WHO WGN KXEL and EXEL from early morning to evening. Names such as Paul Porter Beatrice Ray Jackson Smith and Beatrice Hunt appear alongside program notes including News WGN Breakfast Club and Baseball Master segments.
A readable OCR snippet lists daytime radio shows and times on stations WMT WGN WON and others. Entries include names such as V Lopez Maione Buckaroos John Anthony Happy Street Perkins Ginsburg House Party and Backstage. The note mentions a visiting segment and an afternoon program lineup.
Washington reports the United States intends to claim about 200 million dollars in Japanese gold to cover occupation costs. It also seeks revenue from Japanese exports and holds that assets in neutral hands may be used, with alien property assets in the US applied to war damages.
The housing program expands priority to 27 more materials and stoves and lighting fixtures, extending holds for veterans housing to indefinite terms. The goal is to finish a large volume of houses before winter, according to a federal announcement, while industry groups warn 200 000 to 300 000 partly finished dwellings may stay incomplete despite efforts.
Mount returns show John Bell Williams a 27-year-old one-armed war veteran defeating Dan R. McGehee in the Seventh District runoff. With 116 of 316 precincts reporting, Williams had 9,493 votes to McGehee’s 6,867 and led in every reporting block.
In Chicago Adolph Waszkiewicz first claimed to be 80 when applying for a marriage license then corrected himself to 68 He said he was nervous. His bride Mrs Theresa Bialeruski aged 78 was accurate on first try.
Silent Screen Star Gloria Swanson was slightly injured in a taxi cab collision in Queens on Tuesday while en route to LaGuardia airport. She planned to go to Washington but returned to her New York apartment and rests under a physician’s care.
Washington authorities ordered the Army to release Donald Chisholm an American held in China over Shanghai news broadcasts he made during the Japanese occupation.
Solomon Menuhin a 17 year old second cousin of violinist Yehudi Menuhin was detained by British authorities in Jerusalem on Tuesday night as the suspected operator of a clandestine radio net.
Washington AP reports President Truman announced 900 additional regular army officers, including 11 Iowans, to raise total regular army officers to 25 000 with 25 000 more authorized by Congress. The list includes Captains First Lieutenants Majors and a JAG officer from Iowa towns such as Ottumwa Council Bluffs Storm Lake Ames and Belle Plaine.
The University of Iowa plans to remount a large refracting telescope stored since 1942 for a navy Preflight building. Professor C. C. Wylie leads the astronomy studies as the instrument returns to use at Iowa City observatories.
Justice officials announce a U S charge accusing Roswell Pierce Biggers a 65 year old Georgia farmer of keeping five African Americans in peonage. Identified as owner of a 3000 acre plantation he was arrested by an agent and waived hearings at arraignment before a U S commissioner in Atlanta with bond set at 4000 dollars.
Sen. Hatch of New Mexico urged colleagues to back a constitutional amendment to set House terms at four years to align with presidential elections. He argued divided government harms the country and cited historical examples. The proposal would require two thirds in both houses and ratification by three fourths of the states.
The Civilian Production Administration reports June lumber output at 3,154,207,000 board feet, up 2.6 percent from May and 15.3 percent higher than June last year. June production trails only the August 1944 peak in the past three and a half years.
A San Francisco message to his father reports Sgt Kenneth Schussel to be released from Belgrade after six months. The note says the case is settled and he will leave for Paris in about two weeks. Two other soldiers are mentioned in the same dispatch.
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