Radio and TV Highlights With Navy Relief Benefit Fight
NADINE SUBOTNIK previews a Friday debut for Bob Hawk's How'm I Doin with Vaughn Monroe orchestra Bert Parks and Oscar Levant. the Joe Louis Buddy Baer title bout airs on WGN with Navy Relief proceeds. Also coverage of NBC Blue and WHO/WMT programs, and 1940s public affairs and school broadcasts across stations.
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Bob Hawk
WMT
Hawk
Vaughn Monroe
Bert Parks
Joe Louis
Buddy Baer
WGN
Don Dunphy
Bill Corum
New York
Madison Square Garden
Navy Relief Society
Yank and British Raids Hit Bangkok Again
Allied air and naval strikes against Bangkok escalate the war in Southeast Asia. An RAF assault Thursday left large fires and damaged targets while American aircraft reportedly destroyed several Japanese planes. one raider missing. Chinese forces mass near tri-border area as Thai operations shape regional strategy.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Mandalay
Burma
Edaotan
Chungking
China
Singapore
Malaya
Headliner Schedule Shifts Across Radio Tonight
Radio guide lists Kate Smith Hour on WMT then WHO First Nighter and Dog House. WGN airs Red Hawk at 9 30 Central and NBC Reserve Officers at 9 45. Pleasure Time from WHO concludes the lineup with 10 00 slot.
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Kate Smith
WMT
Dog House
Ee Aeen
WGN
Red Hawk
Island Central
NBC Biwe
Pleasure Time
Radio Schedule Fragments From Early North American Stations
Fragmented listing of radio programs across stations WESR WMT WGN WLS and others dated January 1948. Includes talk shows music blocks news segments and performer lineups with times ranging from morning to late night across multiple markets.
Highlights of Radice stations owned and operated
Readable fragments detail station ownership by Educational Institutions of Iowa, with mentions of Lee Carrae and various towns. The text lists a university in town and cites presence in Ames and Saterdar a.m. town, indicating a statewide educational radio or communications network.
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Radice
Educational Institutions of
State of
Iowa
University of Town
Conference Board figures show fourth wage winner wave
The Conference Board compiles figures for about two million wage earners and notes that the current wave of winners is the fourth since a prior benchmark period.
Radio Series By Coe College Musicians Begins Saturday
Professors Max Daehler and Joseph Kitchin of Coe college konservatory of music start a weekly 30 minute radio program on WMT at 5 p m Saturday. The series runs weekly through March with music students and alumni assisting. Mrs Flora MacKay Kitchin will join in two numbers. The first program features works by Grieg Chopin Bach and other composers. the broadcast is repeated with a mix of violin and piano pieces performed by the two professors and guests.
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Coe College Conservatory of Music
Max Daehler
Joseph Kitchin
WMT
Daehler
Professor Kitchin
Coe College
Flora MacKay Kitchin
Kitchin
Grieg
Chopin
Bach
Frite Kreisser
Opus Grste
Professor Daehier
Daehier
Gen Wilby Named West Point Superintendent
Maj. Gen. Francis B. Wilby aged 61 and a Detroit native will become superintendent of the U S military academy at West Point on Monday. He succeeds Maj. Gen. Robert L Eichlberger who moves to a tactical command, the War Department said Thursday.
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Washington
INS
Francis B. Wilby
Detroit
U. S. Military Academy
West Point
Robert L. Eichelberger
War Department
British Commons Debates On War Course Criticize U S Actions
In London the House of Commons voiced unease over Allied setbacks in the Far East. Foreign Secretary Eden defended Japan’s reverses as far more notable than Napoleon, asserted full responsibility for Malaya defense, and rejected neglect claims. Attlee praised U S entry but critics warned Singapore and Guam could fall without stronger US and Allied effort.
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House of Commons
Anthony Eden
Germany
Malaya
Eden
British Isles
Europe
Australia
United States
Thomas C. Hart
Attlee
Malayan
Africa
Near East
Russia
Commons
Lord Moyne
House of Lords
Japan
RAF
O. F. Liardet
Britain
Japanese SSS Troops Linked to Plunder in Philippines
A Japanese army elite unit called the Special Service Section is accused of funding operations through plunder in occupied territories. Reports claim SSS shells out gains to high-ranking officers, with narcotics and gambling licenses profiting in Shanghai and Nanking.
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Lemaras
Washington
Special Service Section
Philippines
SSS
Manila
China
Shanghai
Hollywood
Peiping
Ya River
Nanking
Wake Island Battle Heroic Stand Cited by President
The Navy Department releasing the Wake Island account cites the President’s praise of the U.S. Marine defense under Major James P. S. Devereux and Major Paul A. Putnam from Dec 8 to 22 1941. It notes waves of enemy attacks, aircraft and ships damaged or sunk, and the steadfast work of aviation and ground crews despite dwindling planes and harsh conditions.
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Navy Department of Defense
Wake Island
Washington
Navy Department
United States
White House
Wake Isla
Paul A. Putnam
Wake
Marine Aviation
W. Baylor
Bayler
Devereux
Baylor
Marine Corps
United States Pacific Fleet
Oahu
General Quarters
Division ‘V
Pointblank
Peale
Major Putnam
Putnam
Kinney
Hamilton
Minnesota Man Acquitted Of Threat Note To President
Walter Pearson, 20, of Bautlett Minnesota, faced federal charges for sending threatening postcards to Franklin D Roosevelt and U S senators. A federal court jury acquitted him, with defense arguing free speech but prosecutors claiming illegal threats mailed.
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Minnesota
Fergus Falls
Minn
Walter Pearson
Bautlett
Roosevelt
U. S. Senate
Japs Willing To Suffer 75 Per Cent Casualties
Batavia dispatch reports that Japanese are willing to endure about 75 percent casualties to reach their goals. A war correspondent for the Geestadt Army newspaper notes detachments are ordered to seize objectives and may choose their own routes.
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Batavia
INS
N. E. I. Army
Geestadt
Pene
Saiis
Heat prostration hospitalizes worker in Coldwater
It was 14 below zero in Coldwater Michigan when Merle Potter twenty eight was stricken at a moulding job in a foundry. He was hospitalized for heat prostration after collapsing at work.
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Coldwater
Mich
Merle Potter
Denture Powder Promises Firm Hold and Fresh Breath
Advert states powder improves denture stability for upper and lower plates with no sour taste. Claims reduces slipping and rocking and eliminates denture breath. Available at any drug store.
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Eny Drus
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