Radio and TV Variety and Sports Notes Around Friday Schedule
Friday highlights include Abbott's A Highland Fling at 7 p.m. on CBS with the original cast led by Ralph Forbes and Margaret Curtis and Kate and Jack Miller's orchestra. NBC and WHO televise Your All-Time Hit Parade at 7 30 p.m. George Burns Gracie Allen host the segment. Friday features former entertainers Harvey Crawford and Joe Johnson on Meet Your Navy at 7 30 p.m. on KXEL. The Joe Beaski Lee Savold heavyweight bout airs at p.m. on Mutual and WGN. Eddie Cantor and gang star Stage Door Canteen at 9 30 p.m. on CBS and WMT. Gail Patrick visits Bill Stern's Sports News at 9 20 p.m. on NBC and WMAQ. Bernice Ladd Halvorson broadcasts poetry from the Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs contest at 2 45 p.m. Saturday on WMT. McKinley Roosevelt Wilson students report Newscast at 3 30 p.m. Saturday on WMT alongside McKinley drama production Qualities of Mercy for Assembly Room of the Air at 3 45 p.m. on WMT.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Burns
Gracie Allen
NBC
WHO
Eddie Cantor
Bert
Mad Russian
Gordon
Nora Martin
CBS
WMT
Gail Patrick
Bill Stern
WMAQ
Cedar Rapids
McKinley, Roosevelt and Wilson
McKinley
Mercy
Radio Schedule Highlights Friday May 2 1944 Evening Lineup
Hour by hour radio programs listed for Friday May 2 1944 across stations WMT WGN KXEL WME RXEL and more. Entries include World News Hit Parade Amos n Andy Fib segments and theater features with times from 6:15 p.m. through 1:45 p.m. the following afternoon. Names such as Lucille, Rex, Carter, and Billie Burke appear among variety shows news and music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WME
WGN
KXEL
Pretend Jr
Porum
Billie Burke
Kai
Wee Parm
WMT Melodiers
WGN Pieno
Ander
WMT
Grant
Pecker Kxel
Gee
Yanks Reach Maffin Field In New Guinea
Allied forces broke Japanese defenses at the Tor river and reached Maffin airdrome five miles west of the river. MacArthur announced the advance as part of sweeping operations in Dutch New Guinea, with further mopping up of enemy forces in the Wakde Sarmi area and air attacks by Fifth Air Force on Geelvink Bay.
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Allied Headquarters
Southwest Pacific
Dutch New Guinea
Maffin
Tor River
Douglas MacArthur
U. S
Hollandia- Aitape
George C. Kenney
Fifth Air Forces
Geelvink Bay
Wakde
Namber
Noemfoor Island
South Pacific
Carolines
Namoi Island
Truk
MacArthur
Farm Slaughtering Restrictions Listed
Washington AP reports War Food Administration moved Thursday to loosen farm slaughter and off farm delivery rules to align with OPA rationing. WFA officials said beefsteaks and roasts sold from farm slaughter would be subject to ration point collection under new standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Food Administration
WFA
OPA
Quaker Oats and Ford Challenge Pennsylvania Tax
Ford Motor company and Quaker Oats challenged before the Pennsylvania supreme court the state's right to tax all divisions of a corporation doing business in the state. Ford argues taxing outside state limits exceeds power while Quaker Oats seeks true value of business within Pennsylvania and cites franchise act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Ford Motor Company
Quaker Oats Company
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Commonwealth
Ford
George Ross Hull
George A. Keefer
Quaker Oats
Pennsylvania
Dauphin
Ford Company
Quaker
Depu- Daugh
U.S Ou
A . Ocakeey
Reds Ask Japan on Allied Prisoners Treatment
The Soviet Union has approached Japan at the request of the United States and Britain to discuss the treatment of Allied prisoners in the Far East and the possible shipment of supplies. Eden stated the move is a joint U S Britain Soviet effort with Japan considering using 15 000 tons of American supplies stored in Vladivostok.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Soviet Union
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Far East
Anthony Eden
State Department
Vliadivostok
Pacific
Eden
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr
Moscow
Egg Dealer Fined On Four Charges In Decorah Plant Case
Meyer of Milwaukee pled guilty before Justice Howard F. Barthell to four charges related to buying and selling eggs without proper possessory documents and mislabeling. He paid fines and costs totaling $260. The plant operated at Ridgeway under Klempf, who faced similar violations including operating a car without a registration certificate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
Decorah—Meyer Eee
Milwaukee
Justice of the Peace
Howard F. Barthell
Klempf
Ridgeway
Corrigan Sued Over Navy Contract Work And Suspension
John D. Corrigan former president of Corrigan Osborne and Wells New York management firm was suspended from active Navy duty as a grand jury and Senate Truman Committee probe contracts with navy contractors. He said his absence in service slowed business while he worked on a new secret weapon for the Navy and testified about continued salary and details of fees billed to nine firms.
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Washington
John D. Corrigan
Navy
Grand
Senate
Thorecay
Corrigan, Osborne and Wells
New York
Truman
Sus
Sen. Truman
D-Mo
Corriigan
Corrigan
Ordnance Bureau
Truman Committee
New York Engineering Service
Marvin J. Wagner
Robert H. Wells
Senators
Wagner
Os and
Wells
Hugh Fulton
Bureau of Ordnance
American Cystoscope
Bell and Howell
Farrand Optical
Bodies Recovered After Cedar River Drowning Tragedy
Firemen and Cedar Rapids boat club members retrieved the bodies of Walter G. Gallery, 34, and his son Walter Gallery, Jr., 12, from the Cedar river about seven miles downstream from the Sunday boating accident site in Waterloo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Walter G. Gallery
Walter Gallery
Cedar River
Landing Craft Fund Approved by Senate
Senate approves legislation authorizing construction of an additional million tons of landing craft and other small vessels. Estimated cost is 1.8 million dollars. Navy pledges vast amphibious operations lie ahead. White House awaits transmission.
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Washington
Navy
Senate
White House
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War Labor Board vetoes extra holidays for retail staff
Washington UPI reports the War Labor Board unanimously denied the National Retail Dry Goods Association request. The plan would have granted 7 000 stores extra paid holidays before Christmas and the Fourth of July. The board ruled that local conditions should decide such holiday grants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Labor Board
National Retail Dry Goods Association
Decco
WLB
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Nadine Subotnik
Harvey Crawford
Griff Williams
Joe Johnson
Meet Your Navy
Joe Beaksi-Lee Savold
Madison Square Garden
Mutual
Bernice Ladd Halvorson
Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs
Lucille Manners
Kate Smith
Amos 'N’ Andy
Stage Canteen
WHO World News
Gro
Lucille Man
Rex Vireste
Who Weitz
Tom Howara
Heath
Nick Carter
Amos
Andy Moore
D'rante
Stowe
Victory
Fae
Reece Kxel
Lewis
Chicago
Symphonett
V! Dian
Wee
Bre Fez
Rownes
Exel ‘Breaktt Club
Iee i
Omar
WMT Kids Revue
Wan Boots of Mus
Kxel Homemaker
A.m
WGN Homemaker
Kxel Shoppers
O Hickenlooper
Wee . Turner Co
Ollyw
Bis
WGN Gissbureb
Sp.m. Exel
Rxel
H Weidt
Naser Martin
Rheriden
America
Corliss Archer
Belleton Tray
WGN Music
Dixon
Ut Henze
Cana
Eeismer
Work World
Todas
Johnny Betts
Fussell
Maffin Field
New Guinea
Danly Aoe. Specialties, Inc
J. S. Thorne and Company
Philadelphia
Bell and Howell Company
Lincolnwood
Ill
Peedi Op Tical Company
Woodlawn
American Sie Ieee Inc
Brooklyn
N. Y
Wilmington
Del
Carl L Norden, Inc
New
ee _ L
Norden
Inc
van Downington Manufacturing Company
Downington
Averti
Craemer's
Youths’ Center
BUYA
Craemer’s
Chabettes
P.M
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