Radio NOTES AND COMMENT ON FRIDAY NIGHT SCHEDULES
Radio notes describe Friday night slots with Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore, Candy Candido, Howard Petrie, and Suzanne Ellers. CBS WMT carries 730 PM and Information Please ends June 25. fall plans undecided. audience hopes for five nights. Other programs feature Lucille Ball, Joe Laurie Jr, Alvino Rey, Craig Wood, Bill Stern, Jack Smith, and Gildersleeve. Our Town Speaks heads to Detroit with Joe Louis Edgar Guest Malcolm Bingay and officials. Tom destroys angles and transcriptions and disc jockeys cited as easy living for stars.
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Jimmy Durante
Garry Moore
Candy Candido
Howard Petrie
Suzanne Ellers
Roy Bargy
Cbs-Wmt
Lucille Ball
Joe Laurie
Mutual
WGN
Alvino Rey
Ginny Simms
CBS
WMT
Craig Wood
Bill Stern
NBC
WMAQ
Clark Sisters
Jack Smith
Detroit
Joe Louis
Edgar Guest
Malcolm Bingay
Abcenel
Headliners Tonight My Dorsey Signs Transcription Contract
Former band leader Dorsey signs an agreement to produce a transcribed program linking popular acts with radio and stage audiences. The move aims to expand exposure for his band business and secure new national bookings.
Radio and TV Notes From The Airwaves And Stages
A disc jockey series will be sold to stations nationwide with each hourlong show featuring guest stars and a five million dollar ten year contract for Dorsey. Cedar Rapids schools offer a half hour Music Festival assembly at 3 30 on Saturday over WMT with Barbara Beck announcing, next week another half hour with John Tisdale. NBC’s Frank Papp and Noel Warwick leave for three months in Europe to record field workers church leaders and relief officials for a Church World Service series. Paul Whiteman to conduct Gershwin Festival on ABC’s Saturday Concert for three weeks in June, first such airings. Mutual’s The Casebook of Gregory Hood looks unlikely to continue as sponsor drops time. The State Department has been sending America’s Town Meeting overseas since February.
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Cedar Rapids
WMT
Barbara Beck
John Tisdale
Rogram
NBC
Frank Papp
Noel Warwick
Europe
Paul Whiteman
ABC
Mutual
Gregory Hood
State Department
America
Hour by Hour Evening Radio Schedule May 23 1947
A fragmented listing of radio programs for Friday May 23 1947 across stations WHO WGN KXEL WMT and others. Includes entertainment news music drama sports and public affairs with a dense roster of show titles host names and times throughout the day into night.
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KXEL
WGN
WMT
Voice of
Iowa
Ander
STGN
WGN Navy
Knel
Blair
Capitol News
Palace
Harry Wismer
WNO
Intelligence Boosted By Drug Says Research
New York AP reports a drug named glutamic acid may raise intelligence in children and adolescents. In a study of 30 youths ages five to sixteen, all but one showed IQ gains, primarily within six months, with average year one gains up to 17 points and faster mental-age growth.
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New York
American Psychiatric Association
Frederick T. Zimmerman
Tracy J. Putnam
Bessie B. Burgmeister
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia _ university
I.Q
Orlando Fails in Effort To Form Italian Govt
Rome Italian premier Victor Emmanuel Orlando aged 87 announced Thursday night that his bid to form a coalition cabinet had failed, ending his attempt to pool support for a new government during the war period.
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Orlando
Rome
Victor Emmanuel Orlando
Bus Driver Bears Scalding To Save School Children
Byron Ill. bus driver James Lafferty, 21, a former Marine, stood in a burst hot water pipe to shield 22 children on a Lake Michigan trip. He was burned second degree, hospitalized, and kept his mother from knowing his injury.
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Chicago
Byron
Ill
James Lafferty
Belvidere
Lake Michigan
Holland
Mich
Lafferty
Grayce
Iowa's Property Tax Up 9 Million
Iowa's total direct property tax bill for the year will reach 123,966,692.49 dollars, up by 9,450,069.05 from last year. Valuation of real property rose 12,231,858, prompting higher levies while assessors were told not to consider new first-time listings. Real property valued at 3,073,410,652 dollars, up 12,321,858 from 1945, with valuation in real estate occurring every four years. The largest increase, 6,020,607.04 dollars, went to schools, making school taxes 65,750,123.32 of the total.
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Des Moines
Itowa
State Tax Commission
Marzani Guilty On Fraud Count
Carl Aldo Marzani an Italian born New Yorker was found guilty by a federal court jury of defrauding the government by concealing his Communist party ties to keep his state department post earning 7100 annually. The jury of twelve including nine Negroes deliberated two and a half hours. He was accused of willfully and feloniously giving false information to the FBI and other agencies while employed by the government.
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Washington
Carl Aldo Marzani
Communist Party
State Department
Marzani
Federal Bureau of Investigation
G O P Solons Ram Economy Bill Through
Washington AP Republicans rushed through Congress a deficiency bill with a trick amendment that cancels 641 832 000 owed by the Commodity Credit Corporation to the treasury, boosting GOPs pledge to cut next year spending while halving the current year surplus forecast. Taft defends the move as a year lagging accounting shift. The measure funds the post office state grants the needy aged and blind and the farm labor program.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Senate
House
The
Treasury
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
Taft
Ohio
Republican Policy Committee
Post Office Department
Thel
Truman faces funds push for agencies via deficit bill
The report notes a combined house and senate increase of 40 million dollars. President Truman must sign the deficiency appropriation bill after accepting a bookkeeping revision to enable agencies to receive the requested funds.
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House
Senate
Truman
Grinnell to Honor Dr Ivy with Science Degree
Grinnell College will award Dr An drew Conway Ivy the honorary Doctor of Science at a Monday convocation. President Samuel W Stevens said Ivy will speak on the Nuernberg medical trials where he testified against 23 Nazi doctors. Now at the University of Illinois as VP in charge of the Chicago professional college, Ivy previously advised army and navy units and directed Naval Medical Research Institute work on seawater desalinization, burn protection cream, and life ration tablets.
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Grinnell College
Ivy Grinnell
Andrew Conway
Ivy
Samuel W. Stevens
U. S
University of Illinois
Chicago
Navy
Germany
Naval Medical Research Institute
Navy Air Forces
Nine Boys Held for Damage to Cemetery
IOWA CITY AP Police report nine Iowa City youths, average age 16, admitted damaging headstones at Oakland Cemetery. The juveniles were taken into custody after discussing their exploits and will be turned over to juvenile court. Seventeen headstones were toppled or mutilated, with damage estimated in the hundreds of dollars.
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Iowa City
Oakland Cemetery
E. J. Ruppert
Ruppert
Oscar Abern Named Rent Chief for Region Six
Oscar G. Abern was named rent administrator for Region Six by Housing Expeditor Frank R. Creeden. The Minneapolis native succeeds Tighe E. Woods, now deputy housing expeditor in charge of national rent administration in Washington. Region Six covers Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota North and South Dakota Iowa Nebraska and Lake County Indiana.
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Chicago
Oscar G.abern
Region
Frank R. Creedon
Abern
Minneapolis
Tighe E. Woods
National Rent Administration
Washington
Region Six
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Iowa
Nebraska
Lake County
Indiana
Fraud Sweeps Veterans Benefits as 200000 Claim Overpayments Seen
Washington AP reports the Veterans Administration believes about 200000 World War II veterans may have collected unemployment or subsistence benefits not due them, by error or fraud. The finding coincides with Rep Edith Nourse Rogers urging a subcommittee to back a higher subsistence allowance for GI bill students. Serious cheating cases have been referred to U S district attorneys for prosecution. state agencies conduct separate probes and report their results.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Edith Nourse Rogers
R- Mass
House, Veterans Committee
U. S
Veterans face court actions over improper benefits collection
VA representatives discuss cases with veterans involved as one state reports 300 court actions after sifting 9 000 records and finding 1 600 potential improper collections. Penalties include loss of benefits, fines, and imprisonment, though some judges show leniency with a one day probation for a veterans group.
Commons Pass Peacetime Draft Narrow Lords Hurdle
London AP reports the House of Commons approved a peacetime conscription bill by 232 to 44. The measure extends military service for five years starting January 1, 1949, and now goes to the House of Lords for potential action.
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London
House of Ommons
House of Lords
French and Czechs Set to Start Mutual Aid Talks
Paris sources say French and Czechoslovak diplomats will begin negotiations within five or six days on a mutual aid treaty. Informants added that talks will later extend to Poland, covering political economic commercial and military ties.
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Paris
Poland
All-American Soap Box Derby Opens Entries for 1917
This year boys aged 11 to 15 can compete in the All-American Soap Box Derby. Local winners advance to Des Moines for the state finals, with the Des Moines winner moving to Akron, Ohio, for the national finals. The national champion earns a four year college scholarship and multiple trophies. Enter now.
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Des Moines
Akron
Ohio
United States
Canada
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