Radio lineup highlights guests and programs this week
Bing Crosby hosts at The Music Hall with Ink Spots and regulars Victor Borge and Jerry Lester. Other broadcasts feature Baby Snooks, John Scott Trotter, Pearl Buck, Krishnala Shridharani, Henry Wolfe, Cesar Romero, The Great Gildersleeve, and VFW Hello America with Paterson and Donahue. Programs air Thursday and Friday on WHO WENR WMAQ and Blue network with live music and discussions.
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Colored Harmony Group
Bing Crosby
Krishnala Shridharani
India
Willmot Lewis
Washington
London Times
Henry C. Wolfe
Orient
America
Air
WENR
Cesar Romero
Great Gildersleeve
Hal Peary
Rudy Vallee
John Barrymore
WMAQ
Evening Radio Schedule March 26 1942 Dense with Programs
Hour by hour listings show a full broadcast slate across WMT WGN WENR and other stations on Thursday March 26 1942. Notable shows include Easy Aces Burns & Allen Fibbing with Harold Keene Hank Keene and Band feature Troupes. The schedule includes News Music and Spotlight segments with multiple times and station changes throughout the evening.
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WMT
WGN
Easy Aces
Hank Keene
Wenr
Keen
Tracer
Vander
Illinois Woman Found Safe After Arizona Snowstorm
After a four day search Mrs. Francis Bigus of Melrose Park Illinois was found alive and exhausted in a cabin twenty miles from the stalled car. She had wandered an estimated 50 to 60 miles through deep snow before reaching shelter while her daughter Ann Bigus and sister Bess Bruzinski, who were also separated, reached ranger stations in sub zero temperatures en route to Mexico City.
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Flagstaff
Ariz
Ins
Francis Bigus
Melrose Park
Ill
Senate Panel Backs Murray Plan For Small Business Unit
The Senate banking committee reported favorably the Murray bill to form a $100,000,000 corporation to speed war contracts for small business. War Production Board Chair man Donald M. Nelson gains jurisdiction instead of Jesse Jones as secretary of commerce. Nelson will appoint five directors. RFC will service and collect loans.
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Washington
INS
Senate Banking Committee
Murray
War Production Board
Donald M. Nelson
Jesse Jones
Senate
Small Business Committee
Sen
D-Mont
Nelson
RFC
James E. Gorman Dies at 78 Rock Island Official
EVANSTON Ill AP James E Gorman 78 trustee for the Rock Island lines and corporate nogee of the Chicago Rock Is and Pacific Railway company died Wednesday in St Francis hospital after an illness of several weeks He began his railroad career over 60 years ago and had been with the Rock Island since 1909 first elected president in 1917 He served as federal under
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Evanston, Il
James E. Gorman
Rock Island Lines
Chicago, Rock Isand Pacific Railway
St Francis Hospital
Gorman
Rock Island Railroad
Juliette Compton Divorces Bartram in Los Angeles
Juliette Compton former Follies beauty and movie actress won a divorce Wednesday from James Bartram wealthy British industrialist and gained custody of their daughter Judy age 14 in Los Angeles AP report
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Los Angeles
Juliette Compton
Follies
James Eee
Judy
Buchanan backs Midwestern alcohol plants for war needs
Dr. R. E. Buchanan testifies before a subcommittee headed by Gillette that grain surpluses in the Midwest should fuel industrial alcohol production. He argues plants in the corn belt would yield industrial alcohol, glycols, and glycerol for explosives and synthetic rubber, while WPB objections cited copper and other metals priorities.
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D-Ia
Middlewestern
Corn Belt
War Production Board
Buchanan
WPB
Senator Gillette
United States
Milkweed Insulation Explored At Ames Conference
Dr Boris Berkman outlined a plan to grow milkweed in the United States for fiber to replace kapok and burlap, noting its potential as insulation for aviator suits and seed fiber for industry. He cited yields of three tons per acre and described a milkweed gin to separate seed from fiber. The council urged farmers to pursue chemurgic uses to reduce reliance on imports.
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Boris Berkman
Berkman
National Farm Chemuing Council
Wheeler McMillen
Philadelphia
University of Munich
Pasteur Station
Moscow
Iowa State College
Ames
United States
India
Southern
Asia
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South
Anaia
Midwest
America
Iowa City man killed in streetcar crash case verdict
Des Moines Railway company must pay $7,000 in damages after jurors found liability in the death of Merwin Coakley 30 an Iowa City University physics department employee killed when his auto collided with a Douglas avenue street car on May 30. Administrators E W Coakley and John W Picart sought $30,000 in damages.
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Des Moines Railway Company
Merwin Coakley
Joseph E. Meyer
Coakley
University of Iowa
Douglas Avenue
E. W. Coakley
John W. Picart
Gas Price Boost Approved in 17 States
The government approved an immediate price increase on gasoline and fuel oil in 17 eastern and southern states and the District of Columbia due to higher oil transportation costs from tanker sinkings. Tank wagon gasoline prices rise half a cent per gallon across the area. service stations may raise prices except in Georgia and Florida. Also affected are Maine New Hampshire Vermont Rhode Island Massachusetts Connecticut New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia West Virginia North Carolina and South Carolina.
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District of Columbia
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Florida
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Connecticut
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New Jersey
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Maryland
Virginia
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South Carolina
States must produce essentials for war within borders
The speaker condemns those who oppose domestic agricultural development as sabotage of national defense, arguing that every item vital to military or civilian strength must be produced locally and that critics are economic isolationists.
Stockholm reports Nazi close Baltic traffic
The London Daily Mail dispatch from Stockholm says Germany has closed the Baltic to all traffic and that no German mails have been received in Stockholm for several days.
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London
London Daily Mail
Stockholm
Baltic
Roosevelt Jr. Hospitalized With Bronchial Infection
New York AP report states Lieut. Franklin D Roosevelt Jr. again hospitalized for bronchial infection after recent release from hospital following appendicitis surgery. He was moved from his hotel in an ambulance.
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F. D. Roosevelt, Jr
New York
Franklin D. Oo Jr
Wife Sues Crosby for Cruelty in Chicago Divorce
Mrs. Jane Crosby of Chicago sues George Robert Crosby known as Bob Crosby for divorce on cruelty grounds. They wed in 1938 in Spokane and have a 2 year old daughter Cathleen with another child due in July.
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Los Angeles
Jane Crosby
Chicago
George Robert
Bob” Crosby
Bing Crosby
Cathleen
Spokane
Gentle Kruschen Salts Claim for Liver Aid
Advertisement touts Kruschen Salts as a daily dose to stimulate bile flow and improve digestion. It promises relief from headaches biliousness and fatigue with a half teaspoon in water before breakfast and offers a money back guarantee via May’s Drug Store.
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May
MacArthur Receives Congressional Medal for Gallantry
In a radiogram to General Richard Sutherland President Roosevelt ordered Nelson Johnson to present the medal in MacArthurs name. The citation praises his leadership in preparing the Philippines to resist conquest and his gallantry under heavy fire which inspired troops and the Filipino people.
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Bataan
War Plant in Indiana Awarded to Detroit Firm
Senator Frederick Van Nuys announced the war department awarded a contract for an Indiana war plant to William Ward Kapp of Detroit. The deal covers architectural engineering services for a project costing over 5 million dollars.
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Washington
Frederick van Nuys
D-Ind
War Department
Indiana
William Ward Kapp
Detroit
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