Great Moments in Music and Radio Listings on CBS WMT and NBC
The column notes musical programs for Wednesday night across CBS NBC and local stations. Stolz songs performed by Jean Tennyson and Jan Peerce with Igor Gorin join a sequence of broadcasts including Six Yanks in London on Allan Jones Frankie Carle, Judy Garland with Frank Sinatra, and Eddie Cantor at Sheepshead Bay. Additional appearances include Kay Kyser College of Musical Knowledge with Phil Harris replaced during July and August, Betty Grable and Laird Cregar on Soldiers with Wings, Dunninger library challenge on KXEL, Jack Carson show with Jane Wigman Alan Hale, and Spotlight Bands.
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Robert Stolz
CBS
Jean Tennyson
Stolz
Jan Peerce
Igor Gorin
London
Allan Jones
Frankie Carle
WMT
Kay Kyser
College of Musical Knowledge
NBC
WHO
Phil Harris
Kay
Phil
Jack Benny
Jack Carson
Jane Wigman
Alan Hale
Ee Ewes
Klavier Cugat
WGN
Eddie Cantor
Frank Sinatra
Dunninger
Nation
Soldiers With Wings
Radio Schedule Fragments From 1944 Dayparts
A fragmented list of radio programs and times from May 1944, detailing shows on WGN WMT KXEL RXEL AXEL and other stations. It lists news, music, dramas, soap operas, variety programs, and wartime fillers across morning to evening, with scattered hosts and titles such as Kitty Foyle True Story True Story, Judy Jane Foster, Johnny Betts, and Superman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ss. World News
Kitty Foyle
WGN Music
Exel True Story 9. A.m
WRO
Meto
WMT
Ledies
WGN Musical
Lull on Eastern Front Continues Amid Mixed Reports
London reports the Soviet war bulletin says no major eastern front changes and 14 enemy planes shot down. Berlin claims small-scale fighting after a German mop‑up near the lower Dniester river south of Tiraspol, with 2,000 prisoners and 47 tanks reported as losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Moscow
Berlin
Dnestr
Dubossary
Tiraspol
Sedition Trial Witness Identifies Bund Members
Peter Gissibl testified as the first government witness in the mass sedition conspiracy case, naming three of the 29 defendants as Bund members: Gerhard William Kunz August Klapprott and Herman Mex Schwinn. He also described his former Bund unit leadership in Chicago during 1937 38.
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Washington
Peter Gissibl
Bund
Gissibl
Chicago
Gerhard William Kunz
August Klapprott
Herman Mex Schwinn
Joseph W. Burns
Albert W. Dilling
Elizabeth Dilling
Felix Frankfurter
Sidney Hillman
CIO
Political Action Committee
Harold Laski
London
Klein
Roosevelt
O. John Rogge
Edward C. Eicher
Heaviest daylight raid hits Wotje atoll in war
U S land based bombers released a 230 ton bombardment on Wotje atoll in the eastern Marshall Islands, described as the war's heaviest daylight assault on a single Central Pacific target. Admiral Nimitz announced the attack and noted allied air forces, with no planes lost though ten damaged by light anti aircraft fire.
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U.S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Wotje Atoll
Marshall Islands
Central Pacific
Chester W. Nimitz
Mid-Pacific
Army
Navy
Marine
Wotje
Conferees Agree On Loans to Vets
Senate and house conferees reach agreement on a GI Bill of Rights proposal to provide government loans to ex-service men up to 2500 dollars at not more than 3 percent interest. The Veterans Administration would administer the loans and use various government agencies as needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INL
Senate
House
Rep
Rankin
Dmiss
House Veteran Committee
Veterans Administration
Sugar Canning Forms Available at Local Distribution Centers
Citizens outside Cedar Rapids may obtain supplemental sugar for canning forms at nearby centers including Coggan Center Point Walker Alburnett Springville News Letter Central City Mt Vernon and Marion Chamber of Commerce. Complete the form and mail to the Linn county office with required items.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
A. T. Pierne
Wedness
Coggan
Center Point
Walker
Alburnett
Springville
News Letter
Central City
Mt. Vernon
Marion Chamber of Commerce
Pattern Easy Does It 4802 Seventeen Size Dress Include
Pattern 4802 cuts sewing time in half with no sleeves to set in and easy ironing. Available in sizes 12 to 44 with size 16 using 3% yards of 35 inch fabric. Optional ready made ruffles. Also includes a needlework motif pattern for linens and garments. Send 20 cents to The Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Dept Chicago Ill. Include size name address and style number. Fifteen cents more for Anne Adams 32 page pattern book with free pattern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Pattern Dept
N. Clinton St
Chicago
Ill
Anne Adams
Stamp allotment details limit per person for location
Pleune explains that only 20 pounds per person are currently granted with one portion of 20 pounds. ten pounds will be released after August 1. The note cites spare stamp No. 37 allocated to each recipient at the location.
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Pleune
Land Grant Rail Rate Repeal Passes House
The U S House backed by 236 to 1 vote repealing land grant rail rate schedules and sending the bill to the Senate. Critics warned of large carrier revenue loss funded by taxpayers, while supporters invoked justice and military shipment savings amid a history of land grants to railroads and past rate compromises.
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Washington
Senate
Bll
Und
Congress
Plasma Production Impeded by Strike at Parke, Davis
A two day strike by 1,900 Parke, Davis employees halted production of penicillin plasma and other medical supplies in Detroit. The union CIO notified officers it would not act on wage appeal until the stoppage ends, hindering processing and supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Parke, Davis and Company
WLB
United Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers’ Union
CIO
Liberators Bomb Airfields on Biak Island
Allied headquarters report powerful Liberator formations bombed Biak island in the southwest Pacific destroying fuel dumps and two airfields Sorido and Barokoe. The blasts left a smoke blanket as Gen MacArthur’s force immobilized the bases with no serviceable Japanese planes found since May 19. The action followed a nighttime convoy attack north of Namlea and a dawn raid on Truk hitting Faloe Island.
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Allied Headquarters
Southwest Pacific
Biak Island
Hollandia
Dutch New Guinea
Biak
Sorido
Barokoe
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Namlea
Boeroe Island
Netherlands Indies
Admiralty Islands
Truk
Faleo Aland
Pilot Hurt When Plane Crashes on Farm Near Toledo
Frank L. Hytha of Chicago, a Chicago police officer and CAP member, was injured when his privately owned Aeronca plane crash landed on the Free Breja farm southeast of Toledo while en route to visit his uncle. He sustained broken ribs and cuts with possible internal injuries.
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Toledo
Frank L. Hytha
Chicago
Aeronca
Breja
Hytha
Chicago Police Department
The
CAP
Joe Palek
Pilot's crash on Breja farm after rainstorm at Marshalltown
A pilot who had flown from Marshalltown attempted to land at the Fred Pitka farm but hit a rainstorm and crashed on the Breja farm. He was treated by a local physician and transported to Marshalltown Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalltown
Fred Pitka
Breja
Bramoe
Marshalltown Hospital
Old Bank at DeWitt Will Be Liquidated
Stockholders of the First National Bank of DeWitt voted unanimously to liquidate the institution. Liquidation begins Thursday, as announced by President George Myers. Over 90 percent of shares were represented. the bank has existed 60 years and remains sound, but liquidation will maximize returns to stockholders.
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DE Whtt
Ila
First National Bank of DeWitt
George Myers
Myers
More Variety Put Into Ration C
Brig. Gen. J. E. Barzynski announced changes to ration C at the Chicago quartermaster depot. The ration expands from three to seven meat units and from one to four biscuit units with meats such as meat and beans meat and vegetable stew and ham and eggs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Quartermaster Corps
J. E. Barzynski
Chicago Quartermaster Depot
Iowa corporation amends articles to raise capital stock
A noted Iowa county corporation adopts an incorporating amendment increasing authorized capital stock to 150000 par value common shares at 100 each, with two thirds stockholder vote required for further amendments. Transfers require entry on company books. Class B stock references are struck. Attorneys Simmons and Trewin sign.
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Pike
Corporation County
Iowa
Council of
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Mor
Ton Downey
Sheepshead Bay
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Eddy Howard
Betty Grable
Laird Cregar
Hollywood
Barry Faris
International Ews Service
Marjorie Lawrence
Metropolitan
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Robert Stillwell
National Safety Council
Morton Downey
Helen Ove
Huny Betts Rangers
Nalenborn
wHo Bovetty
Mary Miles
Dick Baker
Vic Lindlahr
Gm wHo
F Voelker
Wishing Weil
Sweet River
Wit Norths
Alan Jones
Plarho
Sizing Neves We
Nelson
WGN Hopemakers
WGN Snoothies Bael Lumeoc Ab
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New Drrtsis
WGN Cugat
Eddie Canto
Frank Sinat
Sael Dunnitzer
Nick Cart
Atty Jack Cars
Ban
Kay Kroger
Arch Ward
Stowe
Fred Waring
Axel
Parm
Mern
Dreier It
Linder Reveille
BBC Music War Sing
Cowboy GN
Rael News
Om. Wag
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Godwin
Kxel Sardi
Vie
Sade Lee
WMT Horizons
Axel News
Mas’o
David Herum
Jenny Wgn
Judy
Jane
Kate Smith
Carter Jane Foster
Kxel P Painter
Lem Turner
Helen Trent
Hollers
Boyse Smith
Neon
Vic Parms
Grant
Jack Bereh
Gros
Owen Cowder
Kerrigan
Morse
Prom Town News
Wae Toder
J. Jordan Wen Melodies
Dr. Malone Stude
Scientisst
Meadhouse
Mary Marlio Breakfast Club
Raxel Rosa Ric
Higems Bore
Ma Perkins
Life
Johnny Betts
Werser Adene
WGN Serenade Kael Etc
Alb't
Stella Dallas
Jonn Nebiewt
Lorenzo Jones Goldbergs
Judy & Jane
Prtia’s Life
Meiodr Lane
Gxel Hi
Nelehbor
BNE
Superman
Kxel Terry. Frrates
Dixon
Chick Carter
Harricsa
Dr. Bradley
Kienson
WGN Safety
Armstrong
Terry Smith
Stolz Melodies
Robert Stols
Jon Peerce
Trner Iger
Gorin Kersione
Celanese Corporation of
Amerwa Sing
U.S
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Art
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Atateica AT and Power Co
Monarch
Second Avenue SE
Old Bank
DeWitt
Johns Manville
Ney
Tang
Mom and Pop
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