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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Nov 20, 1944

Page

4

War Loan Broadcasts Spread Across Major Networks

NADINE SUBOTNIK reports on a sixth war loan exhibit as Vox Pop programs air at 7 p.m. on CBS and 9 p.m. on NBC and WHO, with Navy veterans Johnson and Warren Hull presiding. Percy Faith and Reinhold Schmidt lead the performances. Lt. Robert Lone will appear as Admiral in the Admiral’s Cavalcade. A slate of radio guests includes Bing Crosby, Charles Lain, Dick Powell, Susanna Foster, and Boris Orloff. Madison Square Garden live events tied to the drive feature Blind Date Quiz Kids Spotlight Bands and Doctor L Q. The Cedar Rapids Radio Council plans a Mayflower Descendants program on WMT.

Vox Navy CBS Iheeram NBC WHO Fame Pacific Theater Ee Robert A Admiralty America Motion Picture Blue KXEL Mutual WGN Les Brown Howard Barlow Screen Guild WMT Percy Faith Bob Hawk Fences Dr. 1. Q

Radio Schedule Digest for November 21 1944

Daily hour by hour programming from WMT WGN WHE Wじ KXEL and EXEL lists shows for morning afternoon and evening including news broadcasts drama comedies quiz shows and musical variety with hosts and guest names scattered across stations and times.

AFL Urges Unity Front With CIO to Unite Labor

At New Orleans the AFL executive council delivered its 64th annual report denouncing CIO raids and urging a restored unity among labor groups. It called CIO leaders to abandon divisive tactics and join in building a solid front for postwar labor. The union reported total membership around 6.8 million.

New Orleans AFL CIO American Federation of Labor Executive Council AFL Council Labor Abor Nee St Seers

Postwar Plan Proposes Office of War Mobilization and Adjustment

The article notes a gain of nearly 50,000 in membership with the International Association of Machinists leading at 665,900 paying members after leaving the AFL in 1943. It records a plan for a congressional Office of War Mobilization and Adjustment, plus an economic commission of workers, employers and farmers to guide mobilization, reconversion and reemployment.

International Association of Machinists Machinists AFL Council

Notice of Appointment of Administrator No 17755

Linn County Iowa notice announces the appointment of Joseph J. as administrator of a named estate. The document directs all persons indebted to the estate to settle debts promptly and provides the attorney Pv H Kubicek as counsel.

Lowa Linn Dan Imam Imm Laone Ceater Inn Seamer Ions

Apartment Blaze Kills Seven on Chicago South Side

Seven people, five women and two men, died in a three story Chicago apartment fire officials labeled incendiary. Firemen rescued many tenants, some in nightclothes, from ladders along the building as the blaze swept through early Monday. A tenant, Harold Tidmarsh, 31, reported smelling smoke and seeing a blaze near the first floor landing.

Chicago Jaze Harold Tidmarsh Michael Cody

Early European Settlement Efforts on Solomon Islands

Early European attempts to settle the Solomon Islands faced violent resistance including cannibalistic practices by local natives, framing initial contact as fraught with hostility and danger for explorers.

Solomon Islands

Stampede to Bond Counter Is Pyle's Plea

ERNIE PYLE urges readers to help blood supplies and likens it to a wartime need. He recounts a hospital ship in which plasma and whole blood were used for wounded soldiers, noting a rush to donate would mirror a stampede to bond buying to support those still fighting.

Pyle France America Navy

Mother Lies Dead Two Days as Child Believed She Slept

Barbara Newman, seven, found her mother Barbara Newman dead on the living room floor in St Paul after two days, thinking she slept. The father, Arthur J Newman, was away on a business trip. the family had just moved from Duluth with no local friends.

ST. Paul Barbara Newman Arthur J. Newman

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