Radio Christmas Plays Highlight Kate Smith and Shirley Temple
Radio listings note Kate Smith’s The Small One and Shirley Temple Christmas for Two on WMT with 7 and 9 p.m. airings. Lionel Barrymore stars in Christmas for Two as a gruff headmaster. Friday features Information Please with Davies Struther. Wings of Destiny on WHO. Saturday includes Heirs of Liberty by NBC and School Newscast at 9 on WMT. Literature and community features appear across WAIT and Columbia’s Country Journal.
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Shirley Temple
Charles Tazewell
Kate
Lionel Barrymore
Scrooge
Shirley
WMT
D*rae
Joseph E. Davies
Russia
Jan Struther
WHO
Department of Justice
The
Patriots’ Committee of American Revolutionary Societies
NBC
James Monroe
Alexander Kirkland
Gail Phillipson
Clifford Johnson
Wilma Wilson
Wilson School
Vera Jeffries
McKinley
Mlarriet Elliot
Marjore Emerson
Cedar Rapids Radio Council
H C. Montgomery
Kenneth Weerner
Beth Schlampp
Dorothea Moser
Jack Chronic
John Holley
John Carr
Terry Spencer
Billy Stanley
Towa State College
Columbia
Country Journal
Des Moines
Frank Black
Playhouse
Veee
al Pearce
Radio Schedule Chronicle of Dec 19 1901 Evening Lineup
A dense hourly rundown of station WMT WGN WENR WHO and others detailing programs from 5 pm to 6 pm and into 7 pm with News Music Dance and early evening features featuring artists like Kate Smith Frank Black Burling and more across multiple stations.
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WMT
Easy Aces
WGN
Bradl
Wenr
Mr Keen
Elso
Magic Who
Alley
Bentle
WHO
Burlini
Hank Keene
Joe Parsons
Kate Smith
Cal Tinney
WLS
Auction
Ouiz
Frank Black
Presid
AWGN
Lone Rancer
Army Prostar
Ryan
WGN _ Hill
Sanders
Mike
Kitty WO
Art Kassel
Shirley Temple Jenkins
Three Rings
Destiny Wines
SWMT
al Pearce
Lume Abner
R. Himber
A. Rey
Leonard O
Breese O
Howe
Howard O
WAU
Broadway Wee Wes
Ynz
Amrica
WMT Radio Council
Martha
Helen
Stuart
Soneatoeue
Radio Station Schedule Highlights from Iowa Institutions
The list outlines broadcasting and program blocks for Iowa schools. WSUI Iowa City and WOI Ames are featured with morning and afternoon lineups including News Music Books Sports Farm Reports and Market Updates. Local organizations such as YMCA are listed among the scheduled shows.
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University of Iowa
Iowa City
Iowa
Iowa State College
Ames
YMCA
America
Roosevelt asks governors to merge state employment services
President Roosevelt announced that governors of states and territories will transfer all state and territorial employment agencies to the federal employment service to maximize wartime labor use. He cited full cooperation and a governors committee six point plan to prioritize defense, defer non defense works, maintain facilities, prep post war projects, retire debt, and safeguard democratic institutions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Federal Employment Service
Governors Conference
Council of State
Governors’ Committee
Mr Roosevelt
Roosevelt conference fails to reach work stoppage moratorium
Washington bureau reported the labor management conference convened by President Roosevelt recessed Thursday without agreeing on a moratorium on work stoppages. Roosevelt had urged a Friday deadline and requested a Thursday night decision if possible to keep wartime production uninterrupted.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Rosemary Lane Attracts Marriage Proposal From Westmore
Buddy Westmore of the makeup family plans to visit Rosemary Lane in New York for the holidays and to propose marriage. He says he will not take no for an answer and notes Lane is in a Broadway musical. Westmore was previously married to Martha Raye.
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Hollywood
Buddy Westmore
Makeup Family
New York
Rosemary Lane
Miss Lane
Westmore
Martha Raye
President Roosevelts War Powers Bill Signed
President Roosevelt signed the war powers bill signaling renewed authority from World War I era and broader controls including censorship.
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Washington
LLP
Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Pass Conservation Extension Measure
The Senate by agreeing to a conference report sent to the White House a bill providing a 5 year extension of the soil conservation act under which farm benefits are paid.
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Washington
Senate
White House
Laura Ingalls Arrested as Unregistered Nazi Agent
Laura Ingalls famed aviatrix was jailed on a charge of acting as an unregistered agent for the German Reich. Arraigned before U S Commissioner Needham Turnage she was given until Dec 26 to plead and held in lieu of 7500 bail. She claimed she acted as a counter espionage agent and overstepped.
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Laura Ingalls
Washington
U. S
Needham Turnage
Aviatix
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Womens National Committee
U.S
White House
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Miss Ingalls
Reich
Leader of Secret Society Kills Self
Sen Guy M Gillette reported in the senate that the president of the Imperial Comradeship Society, a pre-war pro Anix group headquartered in Los Angeles with 4800 members across California Arizona and Texas, killed himself Tuesday. The FBI has taken over the society’s papers and records.
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Washington
Guy M Gillette
Senate
Gillette
Imperial Comradeship Society
Los Angeles
California
Arizona
Texas
Federal Bureau of Investgation
Tokio
United States
Pioneering Woman Flier Noted for Transcontinental Feat
The text recalls a female aviator who completed a 16 000 mile flight from Miami to South America with stops in the West Indies and Central America. She departed March 8 and finished April 25 after forced landings in Florianopolis and Belmonte Brazil. She won the Harmon Trophy on March 10 1930. Her 1935 transcontinental non stop flight and other feats covered much of the nation.
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Nence
Miami Kin
South America
West Indies
Central America
Florianopolis
Belmonte
Brazil
Northwestern Plans Full Enrollment For High School Juniors
Evanston Illinois AP Northwestern University announces a plan to enroll high school juniors with exceptional records next fall. The first phase, from the school of speech, would involve 100 students taking three college courses this summer. Those who pass tests and maintain good records will enter as freshmen in the fall.
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Evanston, Ill
Northwestern University
School of Speech
Ralph B Dennis
Northwestern
British Take Key Airdrome In North Africa
Cairo dispatch reports British forces captured the critical Derna airdrome and the adjacent Mekili junction, driving into Libya over 200 miles as Axis troops withdraw. The operation included heavy Royal Air Force bombing and persistent attacks on enemy columns toward Pema and El Mekili, with strongpoints in BarDia and Ilalfaya pass holding under bombardment.
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Derna
Tibya
Middle East
Mekil
Derne
Libya
Rayal
Pema
el Mekili
Aais
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Ilalfaya
Salum
Cubans Jail 18 Jap Fishermen in Batabano
Eighteen Japanese men posing as fishermen were jailed in Batabano, a Caribbean sea village south of Havana. Some believed to be officers in the Japanese navy, they were detained amid wartime tension near Cuba.
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Havana
Caribbean Sea
Batabano
Psleo
Turkish rebuff to Italians reported in Ankara
An unofficial Ankara report says Turkey rejected an Italian proposal for a naval friendship pact like the one with Germany. The Italian bid, linked to control of the Mediterranean, was deemed impossible due to Turkey’s stated aims and alliances.
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Turkey
Ankara
Germany
Italans
Italy
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