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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 28, 1942

Page

4

Radio and TV Show Schedule Highlights This Week

CBS musical revue shifts to Wednesday at 6 30 p m on WMT with guest star Paul Lukas in a war sketch. Kay duets and Walter Gross orchestra back music. six Quiz Kids total 60 years. Other programs feature Fred Allen on WMT and Eddie Cantor on WHO. Pearl Buck Huxley Valen tine speak on WENR. Tosca excerpts with Kullman Tennyson Weede on WMT. gossip notes include Lucy Monroe hiatus and Tremayne joining Chicago Theater of the Air.

Si AY Thompson and Co WMT Paul Lukas Lukas Kay Walter Gross Jim Backus Roosevelt WLS Ruth Duskin Richard Freeman Gerard Darrew Harve Fischman Richard Wiliams Claude Brenner George Jessel William Boehm Cleveland, O Fred Allen Star Theater Jessel Fry Charlies Kullman Metropolitan Opera Puccini Tosca Kullmar Lucy Monroe Martattan Merry-Go-Round Treasury Department Les Tremayne Chicago Juliette NBC Allgirl Kay Thompson Meek Christian “See Music Society Eddie Cantor Kay Kysers Great Music

Mixed Radio Schedule Fragments and Special Mentions

A garbled list of radio and TV program notes from various stations including WLS WHO WMT WGN and WENR with mentions of host names and show titles. Entries reference talent like Helen Trent Jenny and Norman and include times around the mid afternoon to evening, along with scattered remarks about sports and music segments.

Reviewing Stand With Henry McLemore horse as car replica

In Franklin, Henry McLemore jokes about buying a horse to replace his aging automobile. He visits Harlinsdale farm and tries Tennessee walkers as near automotive substitutes, weighing color and style options and imagining riding to upscale spots in evening attire.

Iee Harlinsdale Farm Alex Harlin Alex Tennessee

Beale Street Style Horse Echoes Road Worthy Car Metaphor

A humorous comparison equates a horse to a car with a wind blown top and white wall tires. The narrator praises a chestnut horse with flaxen mane and white socks, noting its three gaits and long lifespan while joking about costs and maintenance.

Alex Beale Street

Vacancies at Isaha Federal Land Bank May Be Filled Friday

The Isaha Federal Land Bank plans to fill three executive vacancies after the Jan 19 22 meeting where not all were reelected. Farm Credit board members from Iowa Nebraska Wyoming and South Dakota discuss successors as Washington pressure and recent visits hint at possible reorganization. Names mentioned include R J Baschnagel Oscar Helme Raymond Sayre Luther Bonham Fay Hill Laird Lassen and others with speculation on favorable candidates in Iowa.

Federal Land Bank of Omaha Powers Farm Credit Board of Omaha Farm Credit Administration Iowa Nebraska Wyoming South Dakota Federal Land Bank Federal Intermediate Credit Bank Production Credit Corporation Bank For Cooperatives R. J. Baschnagel Iowa City Oscar Helme Marcus Raymond Sayre Ackworth Luther Bonham Fairbury Neb Fay C. Hill Gordon, Neb L. E. Laird Worland Wyo S. H. Lassen Aurora S. D The Triple-A Schooler Fred Wallace McCamsey Land Bank

Radio Schedule Fragment from January 28 1942

A scrambled listing shows hourly radio program blocks for January 28 1942 with time stamps and show titles across networks WMT WGN WENR WLS including Easy Aces Saxophones Sports and Music segments. Audience notes appear to track daytime into early morning schedule with news and musical features.

Svening Easy Kern Vasee Howe

Radio station schedule highlights at Iowa Educational Institutions

Highlights outline Iowa state college station WOI Ames with a Thursday schedule. Programs include Midday Music at 12:45 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. Stands at 2:00 p.m. Masterware follows at 2:42 p.m. The listing shows a sports segment later in the day.

State of Iowa

WPB Abandons Move To Keep All Small Businesses Alive

The war production board abandoned efforts to preserve all small manufacturers. It told about 128 000 small firms it does not plan to sustain non essential industries when not tied to the war program. It offers a pathway for priority help as plants convert to war or essential work.

WPB Washington War Production Board

Wage Hour Act questioned as press freedom violation

Washington AP reports Elisha law to newspapers as unconstitutional interference with freedom of the press. The brief notes a challenge by press advocates against the Wage-Hour Act.

Washington

Two Jap Warships Damaged in First Midway Attack

Washington reports that during the December 7 night raid on Midway Island two Japanese vessels were seriously damaged by marine defenses. A cruiser and a destroyer came under fire at 9 50 pm as shore batteries illuminated them. One ship suffered three forward gun hits and a hit near the waterline, while the second vessel took two hits. Marines suffered two fatalities, including First Lieutenant George H Cannon who died after directing fire despite wounds.

Washington Navy Midway Island Midway Marine Corps George H. Cannon U.S.M.C Cannon Marine Corp Harold R. Hazelwood

Australian Industry To Be Reorganized For All-Out Defense

Perth Australia AP report says Prime Minister Kin Curtin will close non essential industries immediately and redirect labor to vital production. The government aims to mobilize all non essential workers to frontline defense, regardless of their current roles.

Perth Australia Kin Curtin

Wilbur Schramm to Serve Under Emergency Management

Wilbur Schramm professor of English and founder of the Iowa Writers Workshop will depart Iowa City to serve for the duration under the Office of Emergency Management. He is to be assigned to the Office of Facts and Figures directed by Archibald MacLeish with the Library of the Pearl Engle designated as editor of American Prefaces.

Towa City Wilbur Schramm Ee Workshop University of Iowa Office of Emergency Management Schramm Office of Facts and Figures Archibald MacLeist Library of Peal | Engle

Portland Music Teacher Invents Ac Ceette Stee

Portland, Oregon, music teacher creates an unusual instrument called the Ac Ceette Stee, described as a novelSounds device for classroom demonstrations and student engagement.

Portland, Ore

House Votes 17 Billion for Invincible Navy

The House passed a record 17.72 billion dollar naval appropriations bill to fund a massive shipbuilding program, munitions, bombs, torpedoes and navy aircraft at a rapid annual pace, with total year spending near 20 billion dollars.

House Invincible Navy Atlay

Tuberculosis Death Rate Figure Reported by State

A report notes Delaware's tuberculosis death rate at 57.6 per 100000 of the population. The state government owns four facilities related to health data and disease control.

Delaware

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