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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 16, 1944

Page

9

Radio Variety Series I S A Premiere on Networks This Month

Radio plans a Charles Ruggles Cass Daley variety premiere nearly every night. CBS 7 to 7:30 p m Friday features a Ruggles Daley queen with Ruggles hosting and Daley singing. Guests include Diana Lynn and Keenan Wynn with Carlos Ramirez and the Williams Brothers. Other programs include Beyond the Call saluting war bond salesmen, Adventures of the Thin Man on NBC, and talks by Dr Herman Kretschmer Senator Murray and Archbishop Stritch.

Charles Ruggles Cass Daley CBS I Ruggles Miss Daley Carlos Ramirez Williams Brothers Carmen Dragon Harlow Wilcox Nick Nora Charles David Gothard Claudia Morgan NBC WHO Gothard Miss Morgan Ralph Morgan Frank Morgan CBS Suny Herman Kretschmer The American Medical Association Samuel A. Stritch Chicago WGN James E. Murray Montana WMAQ

Radio Schedule Highlights Five New Programs This Weekend

Stern plans a 9 30 p m Friday NBC WMAQ show. Saturday marks the fifth war loan day on Mutual with hourly appeals and special features. The Young People's Platform debuts Saturday at 1 30 p m on WBBM with four Chicago high school students. Caravana Tropical music from Cuba and Mexico airs Saturday at 1 p m on NBC and WMAQ. Twenty one Stars, Army Service Forces program directed by Major Wayne King, debuts Saturday at 2 p m on the Blue and KXEL with service veterans as guests. Service Command duties will be dramatized.

CBS WBEM Robert Lewis Shayon Colin Mackenzie Bend Mutual Chicago WBBM Army Service Forces Wayne King KXEL

Hour by Hour Radio Schedule Highlights

A garbled hour by hour list shows WGN WMT KXEL and other stations airing programs such as Amos and Andy, Nero Wolfe, Top Evening, Music Shop, Your America, and Curt Massey News. The dense OCR fragment includes times, names, and show titles with many unreadable portions.

WGN Weird Circle Nero Wolfe Music Shop Henle

Age Assistance Totals Released for Iowans

DES MOINES Iowas old age assistance was granted to 51 326 people this month at a cost of 1 457 896 dollars the state department of social welfare reported Thursday The average payment per person was 28 50 The department also reported blind payments totaling 43 460 to 1 360 persons in June and aid to dependent children of 81 293 for 3 046 youngsters Average blind payment was 31 96 and children s payment 26 69

Des Moines INS

Notice of Appointment of Administratrix in Linn County Iowa

Notice is hereby given that Carrie M. Stearns has been appointed administratrix of an estate in Linn County Iowa. Persons indebted to the estate are requested to make immediate payment to the Clerk of Linn County District Court. Dwight Kromboltz is attorney for the administratrix.

State of Iowa Linn County State of Iowa Linn Hannah May Rhinehart

Massacre of 490 Italians by Gestapo recounts in Rome

Italian photographer Umberto Romagnoli recalls the March 23 1944 massacre after a bomb killed 32 Germans in Via Rasella. Germans rounded up and killed 490 Italians and Jews, torturing men, arresting women and children, and forcing victims into a cave near the Appian Way.

Rome INS Mark Clark Fifth Army Umberto Romagnoli Romagnoli Gestapo Rasella Appian Way Cecil Natelia

DETAIL FOR TODAY Anchor Man

A navy Anchor Man is described as the lowest man in his class or the dullest in his company. In nine percent of cases he becomes an anchor man due to laziness or desire to do something else. He often does wrong things at the wrong time and struggles with simple tasks like distinguishing left from right.

Navy

Mass atrocity uncovered at Roman cave site

Eyewitness account describes German forces marching victims into a cave, executing them in groups of fifty, spraying bodies with a chemical that hardened like cement, and sealing ten layers of corpses before detonating the cave. Footnote evidence emerged as children uncovered some remains and Italian carabinieri guarded the ruins.

Rome

House Approves $49 Billion Army Funding Bill

Washington AP reports the House approved and sent to the Senate a $49,109,022,795 bill to finance the army's world wide operations for the next fiscal year starting July 1, issued shortly after word that American heavy bombers raided Japan.

Washington Japan House Senate

War Spending Totals Hit Four-Year Peak in 1940s

Between July 1, 1940, and April 36, 1944, the U S government spent about 184 billion dollars on war efforts.

United States

WLB Ends Ban on Records by Musicians in Labor Ruling

The War Labor Board ordered the American Federation of Musicians to lift the phonograph record ban and set up royalty payments. It did not mandate specific amounts, and both sides have 15 to 20 days to bargain on payment totals and distribution methods. If unresolved, the board will fix terms and appoint arbitration with a final decision on the money and process.

Washington War Labor Board American Federation of Musicians AFL Board of Arbitration Arbitration Board WLB

New Irons On Sale In About Three Months

Washington officials say new electric irons should reach stores in about three months as the War Production board informs the Office of War Information. The update notes production and distribution timing for consumer goods during wartime.

Washington War Production Board Office of War Information

Administratrix Appointment for Hannah May Rhinehart Estate

Carrie M. Stearn named Administratrix of Hannah May Rhinehart's Linn County Iowa estate on June 4 1944. Creditors owed must pay promptly. all claims should be filed with the Linn County Iowa District Court Clerk. Dwight Krumboltz is the attorney for the administratrix.

Carrie M. Stearn Dwight Krumboltz

Gas and Oil Reach Superforts Over Burma Air Route

Gasoline and oil for B-29 Superfortress engines are flown over the aerial Burma road with War Department approval. Curtiss Wright Corp and others, notably Douglas C-54 Skymasters, serve as flying pipelines to build up gasoline stores for raids. Communodos have aided this effort for many months.

Washington Burma Road Curtiss Wright Corporation War Department

Congress Votes Navy 27 Billion

Washington AP reports the largest navy appropriation bill ever approved, authorizing 27.559 billion in cash and 5.000600 billion in contracts, as it moves to the next stage.

Congress Navy Washington

Senate panel backs bill urging peak sea force funds

White House Thursday after the senate approved a conference committee report Senator Overton D La manager for the measure expressed the belief that the bill represents the peak of appropriations required for America s sea force even though the war lasts longer than is anticipated.

White House Senate Overton D-La America

Flying Giant Able To Protect Itself In Burma Encounter

The B 29 Super Fortress reportedly defended itself during a confrontation over Burma with about a dozen Japanese planes weeks before its first raid on Japan. The bomber is believed to have shot down two attackers, while taking minor damage and one gunner was slightly wounded.

Washington Burma Japan War Department

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