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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1944
Page
3
Edward Everett Horton will lead the new Joan Davis and Jack Haley television program. The casting signals a marquee comedy pairing as producers announce plans for the showcase.
The article lists upcoming radio programs and guests across NBC CBS and local stations including Joan Davis Jack Haley Horton Davis Haley Davis Haley, Verna Felton Sharon Douglas and Dave Street, Billie Burke as guest, Ed Begley Paul Muni and Mary Small. It notes a two month vacation for some stars and summer replacements on Charlie Chan and Corliss Archer.
A dense listing of radio programs across stations WMT WGN KXEL EXEL WHO and others for Friday July 6 1944 and Friday July 7 1944. It catalogs times program names hosts and network affiliations including news music fiddles drama quiz shows and serials across morning afternoon and evening slots. The timetable captures a lively wartime broadcast week with programs like Road of Life Johnny Betts Family Hour and The Aldrich Family along with news bulletins and feature dramas.
Iowa Triple-A fieldmen report rapid corn improvement due to favorable weather. North and east areas run 75 to 80 percent of normal. big cash area about 70 percent. South central and southeast around 50 percent. Accompanying gains in acreage could push production past 600 million bushels, a figure Iowa has rarely reached besides 1932 1942 and 1948. Soybeans planted late due to floods may still meet a 2 890 000 acre goal with good fall weather. Oats are fair, hay yield is excellent, and total feed production is expected high.
London reporting that Wing Commander Johnny Johnson, a British ace, shot down two more Nazi planes on Wednesday, bringing his total to 35 aerial victories. He holds the record for the most kills credited to an Allied fighter pilot in World War II.
Judge Edward C. Eicher dismissed attorney James J. Laughlin from the sedition case for contempt after Laughlin sought impeachment of the judge. Defendants James True and Eugene Nelson Sanctuary face further delays as True is hospitalized and Sanctuary's attorney Klein requests withdrawal, risking continued postponement.
The six attorneys and one defendant wore ECC badges in court last week. Judge Eicher, angered by the deliberate contempt, sought explanations after learning of the incident from newspapers. Albert W. Dilling admitted founding the organization on behalf of his former wife Mrs Elizabeth Dilling of Chicago.
Des Moines AP Jesse Grandstaff former operator of a Service Oil station drove from Wellsburg Iowa to Des Moines and posted a 1000 bond in federal court on a charge of selling gasoline without ration coupons. He is the fourth former Service Oil employee to post bond on similar charges since Saturday. Others are George Freeborn Cecil Gourley and A H Kuhlman. The four were among seven Service Oil workers suspended from handling gasoline by OPA on June 12. They face possible fines up to 10000 each or a year in jail or both under the new charge.
American infantrymen captured Kornasoren Airdrome on Noemfoor island completing two thirds of the invasion task. Gen Douglas MacArthur ordered the shore assault on Sunday. near Ka miridrome they moved three miles along the northwest coast. Only Namber Airdrome remains to be secured and resistance was limited to light sniper fire.
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