Radio Stage Door Canteen Stars Lead Friday Broadcasts
NADINE SUBOTNIK notes Stage Door Canteen airs at 9 30 p m Friday on CBS featuring Rich Boswell and Woolley with Bert Lytell as officer of the day and Raymond Paige conducting the orchestra. Also listed are Phil Silvers Dean Murphy Marcy McGuire on Charlie Ruggles show. and other radio events across CBS NBC and local stations including It Pays to be Ignorant and Vic tory Parade of Spotlight Bands with Navy stories and Shirley Temple visiting servicemen’s hour.
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Rene Rich
Connee Boswell
Monty Woolley
Phil Silvers
Dean Murphy
Marcy McGuire
Charlie Ruggles
WMT
House Jameson
Mr.Aldrich
WHO
Marion, Ia
John M. Tender
John H. Freeman
Marion
Freeman
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Guadalcanal
Aleutians
Morning Radio Program Schedule from 1940s Newsroom Snips
A fragmented broadcast grid shows hourly segments across stations WGN WMT WHO KXEL for a morning and afternoon lineup. Notable items include Breakfast Club at 5:15 a.m. and Pet Parade at 11 a.m. with various news updates, music, and live reads.
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Wes
Trace
Andy Devine
Bille Burke
WGN
KXEL
Croatway Kxel
Who
Treasury
WMT
Howard GN
Leland Stowe
Airman’s last letter urges unity on home front
TEWKSBURY Mass. UPI. The final letter written by Marine airman Paul Houlihan to his mother is published. He describes instructions to forward the note if he does not return from raids in the South Pacific and urges the home front to stay united for years after the war, expressing faith, duty and sacrifice.
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Tewksbury
Mass
Marine Corps
South Pacific
Paul Houlihan
Jeremiah Houlihan
Canned Vegetables Again Return to Ration Points
The Office of Price Administration restored ration point values for canned peas tomatoes and asparagus effective Sunday. No. 2 cans of peas and tomatoes receive five points while asparagus is set at ten. Other vegetables remain ration free and overall civilian supply will be 15 to 20 percent lower for the new pack year. Curtis Rogers noted higher armed forces requisitions trimmed civilian allotments.
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Ores Odenes
Ceres
Mars
Ieee
Tomasoes
Aggie
Ramon
Edeer Deans
Dachett
LCL
Ceneel
Panes
Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Price
Chester Bowles
Curtis Rogers
Railway Worker Admits Wrecking Signal Systems
A veteran Pennsylvania Railroad worker Stemmer confessed to tearing out wiring and burning signal boxes that delayed trains. Investigators tied his gambling-financed movements to the cases as a motive, with the threat of up to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
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Chicago
INS
Fedoe Eae Dak Bam
Stemmer
Pennsylvania Railroad
Drayton
Count withdraws suit against Barbara Hutton
Hollywood report shows Count Kurt Haugwitz-Reventlow unexpectedly withdrew his suit against his former wife Heiress Barbara Hutton. He accused she used coarse language in front of their son and let the boy's teeth decay.
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Hollywood
Kurt Haugwitz-Reventlow
Barbara Hutton
May Ship Production Surges to Historic Highs
Washington AP reports May set a record in naval construction with a 26 percent jump in output. Navy ship completion exceeded 400000 displacement tons, up about 100000 from November’s peak and 58 percent above April. Landing vessels rose by 19800 tons, over 50 percent above April. Arms output lagged slightly, but weapons for invasion showed strength, while radar and heavy trucks missed schedules amid manpower shortages and warnings against overconfidence.
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Washington
War Production Board
Marooned Flyers Reach Grand Canyon Mesa After Rescue
Goldbloom Flight Officer Maurice Cruickshank and Roy Embanks parachuted from a disabled bomber and landed 800 feet above the Colorado River. Ed Laws and Prof. A. A. MacRae then completed a perilous rope descent to reach them after a failed first river crossing. The rescue party faced a 4,500-foot cliff and 3,200 feet of shale and sandstone in rugged canyon terrain.
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Grand Canyon
Ariz
Goldbloom
Pittsburgh
Maurice J. Cruickshank
Lawrence
Mass
Roy W. Embanks
Kalispel
Mons
Colorado River
Ed Laws
A. A. MacRae
Wilmington
Del
Colorado
Mincillary Administratrices Named in Iowa Probate
Notice in Linn County Iowa states that Anna Quigley is appointed Ancillary Administratrix of the estate of Catherine Alberte Anty. The court docket lists authentication of filings in Linn County District Court with attorney B L Wick.
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State of
Iowa
Linn County
Catherine Alberte
Anty
Gierk
Towa
Anna Quigley
B. L. Wick
Sixth Man Arrested In $62,000 Widow Fraud Case
DES MOINES AP An elderly Sioux City widow, Mrs. D B Flagg, was swindled of 620000 in cash and securities beginning in spring 1939. Hillary Mayen 55 of Mexican-Spain descent is jailed on interstate transportation of stolen bonds and faces removal to Dallas Texas. Other linked figures include George Washington law 18 months Ned Davis 10 years and Robert Henry Jones who pled innocent.
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Des Moines
E. E. Kuhnel
Sioux City
Hillary Mayen
Kuhnel
FBI
Mayen
United States
Mexico
D. B. Flagg
Ities
George Washington Law
Ned Davis
Robert Henry Jones
Dallas
Tex
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