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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 13, 1943

Page

9

Notable Radio Week with Anderson and More

Arian Anderson will sing on Monday’s Telephone Hour at 8 p.m. over NBC and WHO with Donald Voorhees and his 57 piece orchestra. Orson Welles hosts Ed Sullivan at 6:15 p.m. over CBS. Vox Pop features Norwegian navy trainees at 7 p.m. over CBS. Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter headline Radio Theater at 8 p.m. on WMT. Frank Morgan and Fay Bainter present Holy Matrimony on Screen Guild Players. Education for Freedom debuts at 9:15 p.m. on MBS. Joan Davis in Blondie Has Secretary Trouble at 9:30 p.m. on WMT. Dr Tsiang Ting-Fu guests Information Please at 9:30 over WHO. Landon speaks on Foreign Policy at 10 p.m. over NBC and WHO in Milwaukee. Lonely Women becomes Today’s Children, a weekday NBC WHO drama at 1:15 p.m.

Arian Anderson NBC WHO Donald Voorhees Miss Anderson Griffes WMT Frank Morgan Fay Bainter Monty Woolley Gracie Fields Screen Guild Players Joan Davis Blondie Tsiang Ting-Fu Alfred M. Landon Milwaukee Ed Sullivan Alfred Landon Sewn

Evening Radio Schedule for December 13 1943

Hour by hour entertainment and news lineup across stations WGN KXEL WMT EXEL GN WHO and others. Includes World News at 6 15 pm and a mix of music dramas and soap operas like The Clinic Farm Home and Mary Miles WGN Good Mornings and Sunrise programs reflected in a dense hourly grid.

WHO Burling WMT Symphonette WMT Eco Sullivan WGN Kxel Amigos L Sports Mary Miles Sweet River Helen Trent Holbr KXEL Buckaroos Jerry Zelda War Journal Happy Haines Mary Marlin Anteen Ukhage Besant Ginsbureh True Story

Allied Air Raids Hit Balikpapan and Macassar Refineries

Allied Liberator bombers conducted a 2500 mile round trip raid hitting Balikpapan on Borneo and Macassar in Celebes. Fires and destruction reported at refinery plants and storage tanks and port installations. Simultaneously Australian jungle troops pushed along the Huon peninsula toward Finschhafen despite heavy rain.

Allied Southwest Pacific Japan Balikpapan Borneo Douglas MacArthur Macassar Celebes Dutch East Indies Finschhafen MacArthur Vitiaz Strait New Britain Bougainville United States Empress Augusta Bay Solomons Island William F. Halsey Bergen Bay Cape Gloucester Cape Bushing Dampier Strait New Guinea

garbled TV listings tease with scattered program times

Fragmentary schedule notes show mixed television listings with scattered times and program names. The partial text mentions Portia's Life and Dick Tracy with various channels and random question marks, indicating an incomplete prime time lineup.

Teenage lover held after wire strangling murder

Grand Rapids authorities say David Filgas, 15, was placed under technical arrest after Patricia Winters, 17, was found strangled with a copper wire tied tightly about her neck. The case suggests the death followed an affair between the youths.

Grand Rapids, Mich David Filgas Patricia Winters

WAC Life As Shown In Wartime Slang And Rules

Tales from World War II era WAC life reveal strict rules on dating sign‑offs and appearance. The text notes portable powder rooms, lipstick limits, girdle usage, and taboos on jewelry while detailing slang for stockings ladders and cosmetics dry ammunition. It also highlights famous relatives among WACs and quirky anecdotes about uniforms and discipline.

Africa

WAC duties and pay gaps draw sharp questions

An officer notes a WAC has not drawn pay for five months while a recruit jokes about pay. WACs live in a convent building and must be inside by 7 pm except one weekly pass to 11. Gen Eisenhower praises WACs as among his best troops after reviewing them. An MP in North CA stops a WAC for failing to salute second lieutenants and she retorts about being saluted.

Wacs England Kingman Army Airfield Ariz Evelyn Biggs Muriel Hubbard McCormick Rockefeller G.I WAAC George C. Marshall Douglas MacArthur Alvin C. York Wyetta Garden Air-Wac S. S. van Dine WAC Algiers Eisenhower North

Bigger Job For Rommel

London reports say Erwin Rommel now heads the defense of Axis Europe against any Allied invasion. Dispatches also indicate he may have gone to Norway with Marshal Keitel after inspecting Denmark’s Jutland defenses. Rommel has led forces in southern France, northern Italy, and the Balkans.

London Marshkal Erwin Rommel Desert Fox Africa Europe Sweden Rommel Norway Wilhelm Keitel Denmark Jutland France Italy Balkans Berlin Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau

Cinema Schedules From Sunday Theaters

The Gazette lists Sunday showings for Paramount Iowa Palace Rialto Times Strand and Marion theaters with times for features and shorts including Best Foot Forward The Corn Is Green Northern Pursuit Murder on the Waterfront Bataan Hi Buddy Wings over the Pacific The Fighting Buckaroo Aerial Gunner When Johnny Comes Marching Home Forest Rangers The Great Gildersleeve Happy Land So This Is Washington with specific screening times for each venue.

Rialto Pacific Johnn Strand—“Forest Rangers

CIO spokesman condemns congressional action on soldier voting bill

Nathan E. Cowan of the CIO denounces what he calls a dastardly congressional action that killed the soldier vote bill in a letter to Rep Worley of Texas. Worley says the Senate substituted a state's rights measure to mask removal of overseas service members voting rights.

Washington INS CIO Nathan E. Cowan Rep Worley Texas Committee On Congress Senate

Sonja Henie Signs Technicolor Deal for It's A Pleasure

Hollywood notes report Sonja Henie has signed with William Goetz International Pictures for It's A Pleasure to be filmed in technicolor after leaving 20th. The Screen Actors Guild weighs whether Hollywood Canteen cast should be paid full salary or minimum wage.

Ollywood INS Sonja Henie 20Th William Goetz International Pictures Sonja Ice Queen Goetz Screen Actors Guild Hollywood Canteen Jesse L. Lasky Hollywood

Mosquito Bombers Maintain Night Raids on Western Germany

London AP reports British Mosquito bombers continued the Allied air offensive with a third consecutive night raid on western Germany Sunday night. One Mosquito was lost while coastal command Beaufighters lost two planes and destroyed three aircraft over the Bay of..."

London Germany Coastal Command Bay of

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