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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1944
Page
13
The program Great Moments airs tonight featuring a selection of Christmas music. Listeners can expect holiday classics performed by familiar hosts and a seasonal lineup designed to celebrate the festive season.
Traditional Holiday program Great Moments in Music airs at 9 pm on CBS and WMT with soprano Jean Tennyson tenor Jan Peerce and baritone Robert Weede singing Oh Holy Night and Silent Night conducted by George Sebastian. Connee Boswell guest stars on Supper Club at 6 and 10 pm NBC. Ted Steele conducts orchestra with Martin Block emceeing.
Thursday December 10 1964 features farm programs on WMT and WHO with morning news on WGN and KXEL. Afternoon offers serials and music including Inner Sanctum Real Stories and Lets Dance at Northerners. Evening lineup includes News and Music on WMT WGN and KXEL with several talk and variety shows.
A fragmented daily radio grid shows station identifiers WRO WGN KXEL WMT and others interleaved with times from 2:39 pm to 5:45 pm. Names such as Judy Jat Joyce Jordar and Stanley Dixon surface among program notes and ad segments as a chaotic timetable emerges.
Major Don Humphrey 25 of Postville Iowa led a Superfortress squadron on his tenth mission in the Hankow raid. He said anti aircraft fire hit several B-29s but enemy fighters were reluctant to engage the group.
Washington report that Great Britain surrendered the right to maintain forces in Ethiopia except in agreed border regions. British troops in two Ethiopian provinces drew criticism after Ethiopians believed wartime danger had passed, prompting comments by Sen. Guffey.
The Office of War Information says tin can salvage and waste paper demand will stay high until Japan is defeated. Salvage drives for fats iron and steel remain active, while several campaigns like scrap rubber aluminum silk nylon hosiery and old clothing are discontinued. Old rags collection continues without special national emphasis.
Army and Navy teams received numerous calls Tuesday about a white balloon at 6,000 feet with dangling objects. Lt. Kinchfield confirmed it was a weather balloon with radio equipment, not a threat.
The Senate unanimously confirmed Laurence A. Steinhardt of New York as ambassador to the exiled Czechoslovak government in London. He is currently the United States ambassador to Turkey.
Washington AP reports the $500 million postwar rivers and harbors bill was killed as the Senate adjourned without reconsidering a controversial report on the measure.
UNRRA director general Herbert H. Lehman said fighting in Greece forced a temporary withdrawal of a substantial portion of the UNRRA mission after several staff members were wounded in the line of duty.
Official quarters learned Himmler the German home front dictator held command of forces at a Rhine bridgehead in southern Alsace. He reportedly established headquarters on the east bank as Allied Sixth Army Group moved in.
Hollywoods Charlie Chaplin angrily denies intimate relation with Joan Barry, claiming no crime was committed. He testifies December 1942 about Barry seeking shelter at his home and challenges cross examination as Judge Willis warns him to lower his dramatics.
In a heated exchange, Scott questions Chaplin about a woman who stayed in a guest room and vanished that night. Chaplin denies seeing her again that night, insisting he did not. The dialogue suggests inconsistencies in alibi narratives.
Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, commander of the British Pacific fleet, arrived at Pearl Harbor for conferences with Admiral Chester W. Nimitz on grand strategy to coordinate efforts against Japan, an official announcement said Tuesday night.
The Swedish Stockholm Tidningen reported that Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt was slightly wounded and not in a position to issue orders. The dispatch says Himmler issued any counter offensive order, not Hitler, amid German officers opposition.
Washington AP report states War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt will tour to rally support for western front manpower needs. details indicate a coordinated effort to mobilize resources and personnel.
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