Radio guests and programs listed for Thursday night
Radio plans feature Groucho Marx and Vera Zorina guesting on WHO and WMAQ with other stars including Joe E Brown Jack Carson and Constance Bennett. Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee shows also cited along with Army and OPA speakers and a tribute to the Flying Tigers on WGN and WBBM broadcasts.
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Miss Bennett
Brown
Rudy Vallee
WMAQ
Carson
al Pearce
WHO
Groucho
Evening Radio Schedule From 1942 Turbulent Summer
Hour by hour listings show June 1 1942 radio programs across WMT WGN WENR WLS and WLS. Dances news sports dramas music and soap operas fill the night from 6 p m through midnight with figures like Mr Keen Death Valley and Abbott activity across Chicago and Des Moines markets.
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WGN
Dinsburgh
Miller
Elson Went Keen
Tracer
Vander
WMT
WLS
Beatle
Hurris
Hal Culver
Death Valley
E. Duchin
Fanny Brice
Pam
Scott O
Aldrich Pam
T. Weems
Dor
Thompson
Bowes
Heatter
Wenr
Holl
Die
Ramparts Odt
Sum Wenre
Bats
Hell
al Pearce
Will Sander
Mr Keen
Burns-Allen
Lum & Abn
Rosemary
Hunt
Gran
Wendell Hall
Tim
Davis
Chicago Nites
Burling
Bob
Sunny Sue
Jonnie & Oy
Wio
Grant
Owen Chays
Unilorn
Bentley
Shelley
Norman
Wakely
WGN Dereon
WLS Ramblers
Joyce Jordan
Licht
Melody Lane
Cavanaughs
Betty Crocker
Malone
LS Hanners
Storm
Perkina
Prescott
Bestival
Aleneher
WES Men of Sra
Vic
Widder Brown
Radio Schedule Fragments Display Evening Programming
A scrambled radio grid shows time stamps and station call letters with varied program notes. Mentions include WMT Wendee Wenr WGN WH and mismatched program titles such as theater, news, music, and sports. The fragmentary list hints at a prime time lineup and sponsored segments but lacks coherent sequence or station mappings.
WLB Presses Swift Action on Labor Rulings
The War Labor Board majority seeks faster decisions amid delays in major wage disputes. Dean Wayne Morse criticized the slow process in key cases like Little Steel and General Motors, noting 13 other stalled matters. AFL board member Robert Watt backed the call for speed.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Dean Wayne L. Morse
Robert d. Watt
AFL
Ard
Morse
Waterloo Woman Named Woodmen Circle Head At District Convention
Mrs. Tressa Pott of Waterloo was elected president of the Northeastern district of the Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle at a one day convention near completion at the Roosevelt hotel. She follows Mrs. Emma C. Taylor of Cedar Rapids. Over 80 attended with officers including Mrs Harriet Reardon of Waterloo as vice president and Mrs Marion Jean of Waterloo as secretary. The event closed with a banquet and formal installations.
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Tressa Pott
Waterloo
Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle
Roosevelt Hotel
Pott
Emma C. Taylor
Cedar Rapids
Harriett Reardon
Limit Allgood
Jessie Curtis
Mason City
Beatrice Graham
Marion Jean
Edna Clark
Iva Fenner
Mary Campbell
Arthalinda Smith
Inner Sentinel
Anna Wheeler
Outer Sentinel
Carrie Kouba
Ural Brietske
Hazel Morrison
Mary Alice Allgood
Ruth Edwards
Waynetta Lauser
Many Never Suspect Cause of Backaches
A classic ad asserts tired kidneys cause backache and other pains. It claims Doan’s Pills cleanse kidney tubes, remove poisons from blood, and relieve swelling, night pain, and fatigue, urging readers to ask their pharmacist for Doan’s Pills as used by millions for over 40 years.
OPA Drops Freezing Of Women's Clothes Prices
Washington AP The Office of Price Administration abandoned its freeze on price ceilings for women's girls and children's fall and winter clothing. The new order allows cost plus a fixed percentage markup as charged last fall meaning higher labor and material costs will be passed to consumers.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
Ponder Subsidies Considered to Ease Price Ceilings
Washington sources report the administration drafting a plan to pay wholesale and retail sellers subsidies to cover cost increases since March. The program targets those who cannot sell profitably after price ceilings were set, aiming to head off further opposition.
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Ponder
Washington
Produce auction stalls withhold from market due to costs
Readable text notes farmers already withholding their produce from selling at the market as a response to rising costs affecting profits and supply dynamics.
Coquillette Named On Iowa Victory Fund Committee
Herbert L. Horton of Des Moines was named chairman of the Iowa Victory Fund Committee. The group includes S E Coquillette Cedar Rapids James A Cummins Des Moines V O Figgee Davenport T Henry Foster Ottumwa C I Frederick son Sioux City F C Heneman Mason City Chas S McKinstry Waterloo E OH Mulock Des Moines Gerard S Nollen Des Moines JJ Quail Davenport John W Rath Waterloo FW Hubbell Des Moines and Max Von Schrader Ottumwa.
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Chicago
Herbert L. Horton
Iowa-Des Moines National Bank and Trust Company
Des Moines
Victory Fund Committee
State of Iowa
Clifford S. Young
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
S E. Coquillette
Cedar Rapids
James A. Cummins
V. O. Figgee
Davenport
T. Henry Foster
Ottumwa
C. IL. Frederickson
Sioux City
F.C
Jack Oakie Hospitalized With High Fever
Hollywood report states film comedian Jack Oakie was admitted to Cedars of Lebanon hospital with a high fever on Wednesday. Friends in Hollywood expressed concern over his illness.
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Hollywood (Ap
Jack Oakie
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Hollywood
Made Senior Grand Warden at State Masonic Meeting
E E Sparling, secretary and a past master of Crescent Iudge No. 25. A. F and A M of Cedar Rapids, was elected senior grand warden of Iowa’s Masonic grand lodge Wednesday afternoon at the ninth ceremony.
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E E Sparling
Crescent Iudge No. 25
A. F and
A M
Cedar Rapids
Iowas Masonic Grand Lodge
Dubuque Grand Lodge Elects Master and Officers
The fifty ninth communication of the grand lodge at Dubuque announces F. L. Van Hoesen of Des Moines chosen as grand master. He joined Herald Lodge No 455 at Maxwell Indiana in 1906 and has held multiple posts including worshipful master in 1932 and secretary since 1927. Also noted are reelection of C. C Hunt as grand secretary, C. Emil Ask as junior warden, and Ben F Butler as grand treasurer with others affiliated in Iowa Masonry.
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Dubuque
F. L. van Hoesen
Des Moines
Herald Lodge
Maxwell
Sparling
Crescent Lodge
Iowa
Court of Honor
C. C Hunt
Cedar Rapids
C. Emil Ask
Ottumwa
Ben F Butler
Waterloo
Japanese Troops Reported Disembarking in United States
Buenos Aires based Medio Dia published an extra edition with a bold Tokio dispatch claiming Japanese troops have landed in the Aleutian islands, a pro Nazi afternoon paper reporting such a development as part of its editions.
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Buenos Aires
Medio Dia
United States
Tokio
Aleutian Islands
Traer Man Found Hanging From Tree
The body of John Kubik 59 Traer Ia was found hanging from a tree in a Davenport area location. Investigators labeled the death as under inquiry and medical examiners awaited autopsy results. Further details were unavailable at press time.
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Traer
Davenport
John Kubik
Death ruled suicide after missing from sanitarium
A death in a heavily wooded area west of town was listed as a suicide. Kubik had been missing from a local sanitarium for ten days before the body was found Wednesday.
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Here
Kubik
Hickenlooper Leads In Tall Corn Song
Iowa Lieutenant Governor Bourke R. B. Hickenlooper impressed recruits at Great Lakes during Governors Navy day by leading the group in singing the Tall Corn Song at a chow session.
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Great Lakes, Ill
Bourke
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Great Lakes
First Boy After 38 Girls Born in Copeland Family
Lima Ohio reports Lawrence Copeland Jr born to councilman and Mrs Lawrence Copeland. He is the first male child in this generation on either side after a long line of 38 daughters. The newborn, one day old, brings unexpected joy to a family noted for its all female succession.
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Lima
Lawrence Charles Copeland
Lawrence Copeland
Penguin range defies cold myths in equatorial Galapagos
Not all penguins dwell in Antarctica. The Galapagos penguin thrives on the equator in the Galapagos Islands, adapting to warmer climates than most penguin species.
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Antarctic
Galapagos
Equator
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Iowa Victory Fund Committee
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