Radio Music Stars Set for Wednesdays Great Moments in Music
Soprano Jean Tennyson and tenors Jan Peerce and Robert Weede headline the Great Moments in Music program at 9 p.m. Wednesday on CBS and WMT with arias and songs from Rose Marie Vagabond King and The Firefly. The broadcast also features Winged Victory cast members Peter Lind Hayes Henry Slate and Richard Travis, plus air force wives, with J. C. Flippen hosting Battle of the Sexes at 7 30 p.m. on KXEL. Freddy Martin's Bandwagon reviews hit tunes at 8 p.m. on Blue and KXEL, Alan Ladd guesting on Eddie Cantor's Time to Smile at 8 p.m. on WHO, Kay Kyser's Desert Training Series at 9 p.m. NBC, Gibson O Neil and Petrillo 11 05 p.m. on CBS WMT, then Ginny Simms Home Front Matinee at 3 p.m. CBS with Alfred Drake emceeing.
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Jan Peerce
Robert Weede
CBS
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Rudolf Friml
Army Air Forces
Peter Lind Hayes
Henry Slate
Richard Travis
Air Force
J. C. Flippen
KXEL
Freddy Martin
Blue
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O’neil
Petrillo
Paul Gibson
Danny O'Neil
Caesar Petrillo
Easy Aces
Eer
Sammy Kaye
Xavier Cugatee
WGN
Eddie Cantor
Carson
Reeee
Kay Kyser
Kay Kyser Eeenr Who 9:00 Great Music Eee. 9:00 Alec Templeton
Gibson, O'Neil
Radio Schedule Highlights Dec 8 1943 Evening Lineup
A wartime broadcast grid lists programs on WMT WHO WGN KXEL EXEL and more for December 8 1943 with news, music, and dramatic readings. Notable entries include The Juke Box Spoti ts Bands, War Journal, Vic and Sade, and early morning Farm News.
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WGN
Irving
Zack Carson
Honeyman Hill
Exel Sarai
Vic and
Sade
Dreier
WMT Horizons
Woolf
EXEL
Mar
Kxel War Journal
David Harum
Jenny
1540 Club
Kats Smith
wEo
Joe & Sartheark
Farm Bureau Tactics Questioned At Chicago Convention
Chester C. Davis, president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve, challenged the American Farm Bureau Federation to improve public relations and prove its policies align with national interests. He urged a clear wartime price stance, a positive program for tenant purchase, and a focus on the average farmer to sustain postwar production and jobs. Davis warned that postwar policy depends on broader industry and labor changes and cautioned against relying on scarcity economics.
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Chicago
American Farm Bureau Federation
Chester C. Davis
St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank
Davis
American Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
E Bureau
Byrnes urges lay of inflation pistol to hold line
Washington AP Byrnes presses wartime restraint as inflation threat, seeks to keep subsidies to prevent higher food prices. He demands savings and higher taxes, warns against wage pressure, calls for unity with labor and industry, and notes progress in mobilization while urging firm policy.
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Byrnes
Pearl Harbor
Congress
America
Hitler
Hirohito
War and Navy
Board Buys Heat Control System for Jail and Courthouse
Linn county supervisors authorize purchase and installation of a Marsh automatic heat control system for the courthouse and county jail for 1987 dollars. George W. Turner of Cedar Rapids supplied the system. The 1942 contract with Iowa Electric Light and Power CO caps annual heating charges at 3300 dollars, with an estimated steam savings of about 1.4 million pounds per year.
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Linn County Board of Supervisors
George W. Turner
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Iowa Bachelor Perishes in Fire
KANAWHA AP Guyes 62 a bachelor died Tuesday when the house he lived alone burned. Coroner Kenneth F Boughton led an inquest that ruled the death accidental. Officials believe the blaze started from an overheated stove.
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Guyes
Kenneth F. Boughton
Hagan Estate Trust Income All to Drake
Des Moines AP judge Loy ruled the Hagan trust income should go entirely to Drake University. The 1941 will left income to Drake and Penn College equally, but Penn College no longer exists, so the fund now benefits Drake for scholarships.
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Drake
DES Moines
Loy Xvdd
William In College
Oskaloosa
Drake University
Penn College
William Penn College
Lottie R. Hagan
Los Angeles
Governor Pardons Ex-Convict Who Joined Army
Governor B. B. Hickenlooper granted Iowa’s first pardon to Marvin Wessling, a 1941 larceny convict paroled in May 194? who enlisted in the army that day and received a medical discharge on October 30. The case followed a 1941 reformatory sentence in Poweshiek county.
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Des Moines
B. B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Armed Services
Marvin Wessling
Poweshiek County
State Reformatory
Anamosa
Law Grants Pardons to Paroled Prisoners in Armed Service
A new law provides that prisoners released on parole who later serve in the armed forces will receive complete pardons upon their honorable discharge. The measure outlines eligibility and the timing of the pardons for veterans returning to civilian life.
Allied air drive steps up strikes on Cape Gloucester
Allied Liberators and Mitchell bombers, escorted by Thunderbolts, dropped 150 tons of bombs in an eighth straight day raid on Cape Gloucester, New Britain, bringing total tonnage to 547 since last Friday. MacArthur said fierce fighting persists in Wareo, Huon peninsula, as Australian forces advance on the Finschhafen area with tanks, artillery and air support.
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Southwest Pacific
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Farge
Mitchell
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Wareo
Huon Peninsula
New Guinea
Finschhafen
Woman Who Kept Baby to Be Given Mental Examination
Chicago AP report says Mrs. Marjorie Mittleberger 24 was ordered to undergo a mental exam after arrest for not returning a 3 month old. Case continued to Dec 20 in domestic relations court. Charge reduced after mother Mary Bateman 31 said she had given permission to keep the child Sunday afternoon. Police traced them to a Salvation Army lodge and Passavant Hospital where the infant was treated.
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Chicago
Marjorie Mittleberger
Mary Bateman
Victor A. Kula
Salvation Army
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