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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1944
Page
8
The Words at War dramatic series shifts airtime to Fibber McGee and Molly’s program block. The move places wartime excerpts and scripted features on a familiar laughter-filled slot, expanding audience reach during evening listening hours.
NBC and other stations carry War Books installment with Carl Van Doren narrator and H E Bates selection Fair Stood the Wind for France. Dick Haymes hosts Ella Mae Morse. Ginny Simms session airs with Bombardiers. Duffy's Tavern final season tonight. Jack Pepper series debut. G O P convention coverage continues across networks with Hoover and Luce speaking.
A page from Cedar Rapids notes hourly radio programming and schedules for WMT WMAQ WGN EXEL and other stations. It also reports an unidentified convention visitor seeking a ticket to the 1948 Republican convention in Chicago and includes newspaper masthead details and advertising blocks.
Gov. Earl Warren speaks to delegates, urging national unity in war aims and a postwar push to open opportunities and create private sector jobs. He stresses bipartisan cooperation, opposition to politics in war and a plea for a peace that protects American interests.
A fragment notes calls for labor groups and city workers to unite with farmers for mutual benefit rather than oppose each other, highlighting the need for joint effort.
The Army Air Forces announced the discontinuance of all Wasp training after current student pilots finish their courses. Gen. H H Arnold cited the House rejection of the Costello bill granting Wasps commissioned officer status as the reason for not admitting new candidates.
Montgomery Ward and Company announced it will file in U S district court in Washington to enjoin the War Labor Board from enforcing a directive issued June 6 that requires maintenance of membership at its Chicago plant.
American forces press on Saipan nearing Garapan and Tapotchau with 20 000 Japanese defenders backed into a death trap. Carrier task force strikes Guam and Rota as Nimitz reports the Kagman peninsula and Aslito airfield under control and the island cut into sectors.
The communique says 36 enemy tanks destroyed and 40 captured. Vice Admiral Mitscher’s carrier planes struck the Bonin Volcano and Marianas groups, inflicting damage on Guam and Rota. A Tokyo broadcast claimed 170 small planes raided Guam with 16 shot down. UPI correspondent Johnson notes American artillery on Saipan bombarded Tinian across a strait.
The navy announced that the destroyer escort Fechteler was sunk by the enemy in the Mediterranean during May. Casualties were not released. The 1,300 ton vessel carries about 150 officers and men.
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