Radio and TV This Week Highlighted by Abbott Show and Broadway Acts
Nadine Subotnik reports Abbott's A Highland Fling leads a Friday CBS lineup at 7 p.m. with Ralph Forbes Margaret Curtis and Kate Miller's orchestra. The Kate Smith hour features Burns Allen and a gong song on NBC 7:30 p.m. Your All-Time Hit Parade. Also Friday TV events include Meet Your Navy on KXEL, Joe Baksi Lee Savold boxing from Madison Square Garden, Stage Door Cantine on CBS WMT, Gail Patrick on Sports News, and a poetry broadcast from Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs. Saturday includes School News and Assembly Room of the Air segments from WMT with McKinley Roosevelt Wilson students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Burns
Gracie Allen
NBC
WHO
Eddie Cantor
Bert
Mad Russian
Gordon
Nora Martin
CBS
WMT
Gail Patrick
Bill Stern
WHIAQ
Cedar Rapids
McKinley, Roosevelt and Wilson
McKinley
Mercy
Lucille Manners
Kate Smith
WGN
Meet Your Navy
Moore-Durante Sonce
Amos ’N’ Andy
Axen Noveakt
ABS
Mary Miles
Dick Baker
Evenin
Land of Freed
Cliff Helen Allen Roth
Johnny Betts
Exel Rangers
Omar
WMT Press
Kxel Gardens
KXEL
Holber
Betty Moore
Ppaltenborn
Ars
WGN Homemaker
Lucille Man
Cecil Brown
Andy Devine
Mual
Exel Jr. Forum
WGN Opportunity
Wight
Tom Howar
EXEL
1540 Club War News
Today
Nick Carter
Jane Foster
Hickenlooper
Radio Schedule Fragment from 1944 Daily Listings
A fragmentary hour by hour radio schedule for May 27 1944 shows programs across stations WGN WMT KXEL EXEL and others. It lists news talks music shows dramas and public affairs with multiple hosts including Helen Allen Betty Moore Lucille and Jane Foster alongside syndicated features and midmorning homemaker segments.
Yanks Reach Maffin Field in New Guinea
Allied forces on the Dutch New Guinea coast reached Maffin airdrome five miles west of the Tor river after overcoming Japanese resistance. In Hollandia Sarmi area, U S troops killed 151 and captured 29 as they cleared remaining enemy forces. Kenney's Fifth Air Force attacked Geelvink Bay, destroying 11 planes and damaging four others at Namber and Noemfoor. A Liberator bombed Namoi in the Carolines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allied Headquarters
Southwest Pacific
Dutch New Guinea
Maffin
Tor River
Tirfoam River
Douglas MacArthur
Wakde-Sarmi
L. 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 Removed by WFA
Washington AP report says the War Foods administration lifted all farm slaughter and off farm meat delivery restrictions to align livestock numbers with tighter feed supplies. Officials note farmers must still collect ration points on beefsteaks and roasts sold from farm slaughter under OPA rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Foods Administration
WFA
OPA
Ford and Quaker Oats challenge Pennsylvania tax power
Ford Motor Co and Quaker Oats Co appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court arguing the state cannot tax property outside its borders while Dauphin County rulings require payment of 69 940 by Ford and 16 637 by Quaker Oats under the 1935 foreign franchise act. The deputy attorney general cites a recent US Supreme Court ruling upholding a higher Texas assessment.
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 County
Ford Company
Quaker Company
H. F. Stampbaugh
U. S. Supreme Court
Texas
Reds Query Japs On Treatment of Allied Prisoners
The Soviet Union, at the request of the United States and Great Britain, urged Japan to discuss treatment of Allied prisoners in the Far East and the possible delivery of supplies. Britain and the United States pressed Japan after a note proposing moving 15 000 tons of American goods from Vladivostok. Eden said the move, tied to prisoner concerns ahead of expected Allied offensives, marked a hopeful shift. Archibald Kerr reported Britain’s concern to Moscow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Soviet Union
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Far East
Anthony Eden
State Department
Vladivostok
Pacific
Eden
Sir Archibald Clark Kerr
Moscow
Egg Dealer Fined On Four Charges
Meyer Klempf of Milwaukee pled guilty before Justice Howard F. Barthell to four charges including buying and selling eggs without a state license and possessing adulterated eggs. He paid fines and costs totaling $200. Klempf operated a plant at Ridgeway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
Decorah
Meyer Klempf
Milwaukee
Justice of the Peace
Howard F. Barthell
Klempf
Kiempf
Ridgeway
Navy officer testifies firm cost voyage of service leave
Comdr. John D. Corrigan, suspended from duty, told the Truman Committee that his absence in the navy has hurt Corrigan, Osborne and Wells. The firm billed nine navy contractors for management work while Corrigan inspected their contracts as a trouble shooter. He described his focus on a new secret weapon project for the navy and noted prior duties analyzing contract development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John D. Corrigan
Navy
Grand
Senate
Corrigan, Osborne and Wells
New York
Truman
Corrigan
Ordnance Bureau
Truman Committee
New York Engineering Service
Marvin J. Wagner
Robert H. Wells
Senators
Wagner
Osborne
Wells
Hugh Fulton
Lincolnwood
Ill
Farrand Optical Company
Woodlawn
N. Y
American Cystoscope Makers, Inc
Brooklyn
Edgemoor Trant Works
Wilmington
Del
Carl L. Norden, Inc
Elmira
N.Y
van ‘Downington Manufacturing’ Company
Downington
Bureau of Ordnance
American Cystoscope
Bell and Howell
Farrand Optical
Bureau
Bodies of Drowning Victims Recovered in Cedar River
Firemen and boat club members recovered the bodies of Walter G. Gallery 34 Water loo and his son Walter Gallery 12 Cedar River about seven miles downstream from the drowning site in a boating accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Walter G. Gallery
Walter Gallery
Cedar River
Landing Craft Fund Approved by Senate
Washington AP reports the Senate approved and sent to the White House a measure authorizing construction of an additional million tons of landing craft and other small vessels for the Navy. The extra tonnage is estimated to cost 1.8 billion dollars as vast amphibious operations are anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
Senate
White House
FASTEETH Promise Firmer Teeth and Comfort
An advertisement notes FASTEETH alkaline powder helps keep dentures firm and comfortable. It claims soothing gums and cooling effects with reduced acidity and urges readers to buy at any drugstore.
Retail groups vetoed for extra paid holidays
Washington. The War Labor Board denied the National Retail Dry Goods Association's request to grant employees extra paid holidays before Christmas and on the Fourth of July. The board said local area practices should determine such holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Labor Board
National Retail Dry Goods Association
WLB
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Nadine Subotnik
Harvey Crawford
Griff Williams
Joe Johnson
Joe Baksi-Lee Savold
Madison Square Garden
Mutual
Bernice Ladd Halvorson
Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs
WGN Lewis
Lewis
WGN Chicarco Nig
Mane Me
Ulou Mills
WMT Melodiers
WHO Farm
Ander
Bob Lee Gross
Crank
Shelley
Owen Cowboys
WGN Golinsburgh
Songfellows
Joe Wenm
Gov
Grand Ctra
Jolas
Ann
Ft. Rheridan
Your America
Corliss Archer
Navy Board
Murray C
WGN Music Mart
WMT Amn
Melody EL
Nancy Martin
Dixon
Curt Massey
Henson
Wismer
WMT World Today
EL L. Henderson
Wes
Maffin Field
New Guinea
Sen. Truman
D-Mo
Danly Machine Specialties, Inc
Chicago
J. S. Thorne and Company
Philadelphia
Bell and Howell Company
California
Craemer
Chabettes
P.M
Bes
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