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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1942
Page
14
Cab Calloway presents an all Negro jive jamboree tonight at 8 30 pm on WENR aimed at armed forces Negroes. Guest performers include Bill Bojangles Robinson Hazel Scott Kenneth Spencer and Ann Robinson. News by Fulton Lewis follows at 6 45 pm on WMT.
A dense grid of program timings lists stations WMT WENR WHO WLS and others for Wednesday evening June 17 1942 and into Thursday June 18 with a long slate of news music drama and variety shows. Notable entries include The Thin Man 7 p.m. on WMT and Dr Christ Play on WMY 7:30 p.m. plus Eddie Cantor and Lone Ranger segments across WENR WGN and WLS. The morning and afternoon blocks on June 18 show Breakfast Club Martha and Helen WGN Markets and Kate Smith with News on WMT and WGN.
A cluttered listing shows WGN WMT WENR WLS WLS program blocks from afternoon to early evening. Entries include dramas, soap operas, news, and musical segments with multiple titled shows such as Dr Malone Moon Stella Dallas and Harmony featuring various studio hosts and actors.
James One-Eye Connolly, famed gate crasher, returned to Lowell to secure a birth certificate so he could hire into war production work in Detroit. This would be his first job since selling newspapers as a boy.
Evansville Indiana dispatch reports engineer Harry Orndorff and fireman J F May both of Louisville Kentucky were killed instantly when a Louisville and Nashville passenger engine struck a switch engine in Howell Evansville suburb rail yard. The passenger locomotive tumbled down a 20 foot embankment.
Barbed wire used by Uncle Sam’s fighting forces is heavier and features longer barbs than farm wire. The Marine Corps pays fifty cents for twelve yards of this wire. The Army and Marine Corps need thousands of feet for defense. Invest at least ten percent of wages in War Bonds each pay day. U S Treavy Department.
Washington AP reports a bill for dependents of soldiers and sailors passed the House and goes to the White House. It authorizes deferment for family heads and reclassifies draft groups, prioritizing men with dependents and preserving the home institution as Congress aims to delay draft of married men with families.
The passage lists categories of men by marital status and children including those with unemployed wives and those with wives and multiple children, indicating a fragmented statistical fragment.
Two crowded buses collided at Vermont Avenue and U Street Northwest during the morning rush hour. Eighteen people were seriously injured and taken to hospitals while police estimated 29 others sustained injuries or shock.
The navy will expand the Great Lakes training station to accommodate 66 000 recruits, up from 46 000, as part of a broader plan. Secretary Frank Knox announced the expansion and noted three other stations at Port Deposit Maryland Lake Pend Oreille Idaho and Lake Seneca New York are under construction to finish the current program.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union of Philadelphia adopted a resolution asking President Roosevelt to impose national prohibition by executive order during the war. The report notes that wax is produced by bees and also by birds animals and many plants.
Chicago grain storage officials move to implement a permit system June 25 to curb congestion. The plan requires permits for all grain shipments to Chicago for storage and includes a proposed embargo on shipments from a broad region west and south of the Mississippi and from several Minnesota and Wisconsin cities.
Willie Willis muses on family lineage with a humorous line about not having famous ancestors. He reflects on wars past and the idea that neither his father nor grandfather could claim fame through combat, leaving him to ponder his own legacy.
Two men were injured in a Des Moines area crash when their car failed to negotiate a curve and struck a retaining wall just north of the city. James McCully, 39, of Texarkana Arkansas, died later in a hospital.
Several hours after the accident Orville Romaine aged 25 of Fort Des Moines sustained a left ankle injury and cuts and bruises to the head and face.
Price Administrator Leon Henderson suspended gasoline deliveries for 15 to 30 days to 14 filling stations in New York and Pennsylvania for flagrant violations of rationing regulations.
Mrs August Hunzelman Jr 82 was killed by a freight train at a downtown crossing after walking under the gates Railroad workers reported. The report notes the fatal incident occurred in State Center Iowa and adds an unrelated line about birds diet percentages.
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