Radio listings feature stars and broadcast times this Thursday
Entertaining service men overseas airings include John Garfield with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello at 9 p.m. on NBC and WHU, Connie Haines and the Freddie Rich orchestra, Elvin Allman and Ken Niles. Q Herbert Hoover speaks on The Needs of Boys from New York at 6 45 p m over the Blue. Orson Welles stars in The Dark Tower on Suspense at 7 p.m. over WBBM. Four high school essay winners discuss Does Youth Want Social Security from cradle to grave on Town Meeting at 7 30 p.m. over The Blue and KXEL. Gov John Bricker keynote. Gene Kelly visits Bing Crosby's Music Hall at 8 p.m. over NBC and WHO. Preston Foster guests on Joan Davis Jack Haley at 8 30 over WMAQ. Cass Daley and Shirley Dinsdale visit Bob Burns at 8 30 over WHO. Sinatra and Navy personnel perform on Major Bowes at 8 p.m. over CBS. Academy Award winner Charles Coburn drops in on Dinah Shore at 8 30 p.m. Thursday over WMT.
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Herbert Hoover
The
Boys Clubs of America
New York
Blue
KXEL
Margaret H McDowell
Lexington
Frank Coss
Toledo
Ohio
O. Paul Berg
Rockford, IL
Robert Dean Quinn
Pocatello
Idaho
John W. Bricker
Gene Kelly
Bing Crosby
Music Hall
NBC
WHO
Preston Foster
Movies
Joan Davis
Jack Haley
WMAQ
Comedienne
Cass Daley
Shirley Dinsdale
Bob Burns
WBBM
Brice-Morgan Ettees
Aldrich
Major Bowes
WMT
Dinah Shore
Abbott, Costello
Evening Radio Schedule Highlights May 4 1944
A dense list of radio programs across stations WHO WMT WGN KXEL MXEL EXEL and KNXEL for Thursday evening May 4 1944. Entries include Cliff and Helen Love Mystery Johnny Betts Ranger dramas News bulletins and various music and soap programs with times from 6:30 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. including The War Board and Treasury Boat segments.
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Cliff & Helen
WMT
AWGN
Johnny Betts
Kxel Rangers
WGN
Gross
Burling
Mr. Keen
Holbow
KXEL
Kaltenborn
Itty Foyle
Libby Vaughan
WGN _ Homemaker
EXEL
Honeyman Hill
Sardi
Vic and
Sad
Virg
Roberts
Helen Trent
Holbr
WMT Gal
WGN Boyce Smith
Dady
Grant
WGN Dock Berch Xel
Bleehiey
Inehville
Wora
Derry
Zold Tam
Dretwank
Mary Marlin
Wiggins
Ma Perkins
Mus
Youngs
Johnny Bottsses
Judy & Won
Wendell Hall
HEXEL
Ethel & Albert
Bstella
Dallas
John Neblett
Gardens
Lor
Jones
WMT Goldbergs
Judy
Jane
Chick Carter
Farrer
Harrican
Dick Tracy
Dr. Bradley
Henson
WGN Safety
J. Armstrong
Terry
Pirates
World Today
Superman
Dixon
KXNEL
KSO Sold by Cowles to Meet FCC Ruling
Radio station KSO in Des Moines is sold by Town Broadcasting to Kingsley H. Murphy of Minneapolis for 275000. The sale, pending FCC approval, keeps KSO as a Des Moines station and allows a 60 day transfer window while KRNT remains under Iowa Broadcasting. Both stations may share transmitter facilities during wartime.
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KSO
Cowles
FCC
Des Moines
Town Broadcasting Company
Kingsley H. Murphy
Minneapolis
Murphy
WTCN
Federal Communications Commission
Iowa Broadcasting Company
KRNT
Blue
Mutual Broadcasting System
Columbia Broadcasting Sysem
Architects Advise Builders to Rely on Prewar Methods
INDIANAPOLIS AP Dreamers of push button homes were told by board members of the American Institute of Architects to keep to down to earth ideas in the immediate postwar period. About 20 leading architects said construction would use prewar materials until new options can be tested. Walter R. McCornack of MIT led the concluding session in President Raymond J. Ashton’s absence due to illness.
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Indianapolis
American Institute of Architects
Walter R. McCornack
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Raymond J. Ashton
Salt Lake City
Utah
Nazis Report Allied Feints Along Channel
German reports reaching Stockholm say invasion shipping in English Channel harbors is swelling and that invasion of Europe is imminent. Berlin hints Allies feint to induce premature German countermeasures as Rommel warns daily airborne threats and a broad invasion likely.
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London
Stockholm
English Channel
Europe
Berlin
United Press
Naples
Badoglio
di Corriere
Italy
Jean Paqui
Paris
Two License Plates For Trucks in 1945
Iowa motorists will have one license plate for passenger cars in 1945 while trucks receive both front and rear plates. A windshield sticker with the license number IA and year 1945 will replace the front plate on cars. Production orders total 700000 passenger car stickers and 125000 truck classification stickers.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
R. B. Laird
Department of Public Safety
Laird
Meyercord Company
War Production Board
Anamosa
Bob Hope Undergoes Eye Cyst Removal
Hollywood AP reports Bob Hope had a cyst removed from beneath his left eye on Wednesday. He will be absent from his current movie for a few days while wearing a bandage. The cyst followed a cold contracted on a Mediterranean service tour. Hope joked that he caught the cold when Bing Crosby greeted Frank Sinatra.
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Hollywood
Bob Hope
Mediterranean
Bing Crosby
Frank Sinatra
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By Nadine Subotnik
Lou Costello
WHU
Connie Haines
Freddie Rich Orchestra
Elvin Allman
Ken Niles
Orson Welles
George Kaufman
Alexander Woollcott
Thursand Wbbm
Jmen
New London
Conn
CBS
Charles Coburn
Nick Carter
Wno
Abbott
Cost
KNXEL
Dale Carnezi
Joe E
Arthur Hal
Fred Warin
Lewis
Gro
WMT Fiere
WGN New
Treasury Boat
WGN D
Texel
Wan Eas
Dick Baker
Aim
NYMT
Vie Lindlat
Allen Roth
Wan
Lora Lawte
Davis
WHO Guiding Light
WGN Deacon Kxel 1540 Club
Teeee
Jordan
WGN Bondwagon
Malone Exel
Batty Crocker
AL Spec
Plymouth
DODGE
Desoto
Chrysler
Siegel's
Iowa Loan CO
Second Avenue SE
Radio Berlin
Erwin Rommel
Western Defense Forces
Atlantic
Transocean Agency
Germany
Bucharest
Universal
Penney
Coats
Libby
Clapp
America
Cabb AG
Stanley
Staley
Grandpa
S Oz
Pka
Sue
Aya
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LC P
Buffalo Kitchen
Tan’ Boc
Ifor
Shen
Gal
Jug
Fats
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Paramushiro
Pacific
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