Radio Network Plans Large Friday Broadcast Drive
A nationwide joint radio broadcast Friday will urge building resources and raise funds for 597 community chests. Over 350 stations, including WMT and WHO, air at 9 30 p.m. with guests Tom K. Smith, the Aldrich Family, a CBS orchestra led by Jack Miller, and remarks by Pitst reiie Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie before Grantland Rice football forecasts.
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WMT
Tom K. Smith
Community Mobilization For Human Needs
Grantland Rice
Frank Black
WHO
Lefty Gomez
The
Yankees
Eddie Cantipo
Charles Lindbergh
Wenr
Maya
Radio Schedule Highlights for Friday Evening and Beyond
A dense listing of radio programs across stations WMT WGN WENR WLS WHO and others detailing show times such as Easy Aces Chicaso Ni Mr Keen Presidents Con News Paths and varied musical acts. The schedule spans from early evening through late night with headlines of News and entertainment programs featuring performers like Kate Smith Lone Ranger and Jimmie F. It includes sports and musical features plus morning and daytime offerings.
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WMT
Easy Aces
WGN
Chicaso
Mr_ Keen
Rad
Maric
Wandel
C. Pet'ito O
Bentley
Burling
Town Towls
Lindbergh
Holly
New In
Destiny Winga
Jimmie Fid
Bradle
Wenr
Lum
Abner
WGN Modern
Rey'l
Busse O
Fred Waring
WMT World Today
O. Caswell
Wells
Brow
Powell O
Rivers
C. Thornhill
L. Welk
Don Pedro
Godt
A . Jurgens
Radio Station Highlights From Iowa Educational System
Program highlights outline stations WSUI Iowa City and WOL Ames and list a schedule of university and state programming. Includes Weather, Farm Flashes, 4-H Clubs, markets, news, sports and music segments across Saturday broadcasts.
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State of Iowa
University of Iowa
Iowa State College
WSUI
Iowa City
Wol-Ames
Msi
Chat Kit News Inc
Women Voters U
Towa-Michigana Science British Sky
Stows Away To See Bums Play In World Series
Bernard Lustig a 19 year old Brooklyn fan stowed aboard an airliner in Reno Nevada aiming to reach Brooklyn for the final World Series game. The plane made an unscheduled stop and he was turned over to the sheriff then sent toward the road east.
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Reno
Nev
Bernard Lustig
San Francisco
Brooklyn
Bernard
Japanese U boat sunk after collision
The sinking of a Japanese submarine after a collision with a surface craft was announced officially on Friday. Part of the submarine's crew was saved, but details were not provided.
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TOKIO
INS
Reds Position Strengthened by Front Reports Across Fronts
Cable dispatches report explosive Red army counterattacks easing the Leningrad siege and inflicting heavy losses on the southern front. Soviet forces reclaim Strelna near Leningrad and push Germans toward Lake Ladoga while Kyiv and Kiev area battles show matériel losses for Germany. Reports note Russian landing efforts and supply routes restored though German resistance and food shortages persist.
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Red Army
Leningrad
Smolensk
Vitebsk
Minsk
Odessa
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
Hitler
Berlin
Russia
Kronstadt Bay
DNB
Kiev
Strelna
Lake Ladoga
Kolpino
Babe Ruth loses season to literary silence in 1941
Reviewing Stand columnist Henry McLemore recalls Babe Ruth abandoning writing duties during the 1941 world series and jokes about his imagined literary genius. The piece reflects on Ruth as a rare athlete-author and notes past ghostwriting practices and other player writers from baseball history.
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New York
Belles Lettres
Rin Tin Tin
George Herman
Babe
Ruth
Tigers
Cardinals
Yankees
Joe McCarthy
Yanks
Christy Walsh
Yankee Stadium
Frankie Frisch
Bill Mckhechnie
Joe Cronin
Laborites Take Lead in Australia After Cabinet Resignation
Canberra AP: Labor Leader John Curtin accepted a commission to form a new Australian government after Prime Minister Arthur W. Fadden and his cabinet resigned following a 36 to 33 defeat on a motion the government called confidence in the budget setback. Curtin pledged wholehearted support for the war and said labor would seek cross party aid for war councils.
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Canberra
Australia
John Curtis
Arthur W. Fadden
Curtin
Labor
War Council
Motion on Budget Reform Sparks Censure Debate
Fad den indicated passage of the motion would be treated as a vote of censure. The motion followed a demand by the labor party to re cast the budget to ensure a more equitable distribution of the national burden.
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Fadden
Labor Party
Assembly Room Opens New Season With Quiz Program
The Assembly Room of the Air begins a new season with a quiz program titled Teacher I Know. Thirty sixth grade pupils from Cedar Rapids elementary schools will participate, with two students per school including Eunice Stepanek and Jo Ann Steen from Van Buren, Carol McLeod and Joan Bettle from Buchanan, Sue Smulekoff and John Kirby from Jolnson, and Joan Bice and Richard Sper from an unnamed school.
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WMT
Cedar Rapids
Eunice Stepanek
Jo Ann Steen
van Buren
Carol McLeod
Joan Bettle
Buchanan
Local Names List Reflects Regional Residents
Readable fragments show multiple individuals linked to towns including Fillmore Jackson Lincoln Polk Cleveland Garfield Taylor Hayes and others. Pairs such as Arthur Hartley with Francine Tylee and Richard Burgert with Mary Louise Hernandez appear among listed residents.
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KVED
Fort Dodge
KTRIT
Sioux City
Mutual
MBS
North Central Broadcasting System
Kate Smith
Merle Oberon
Tommy Dorsey
Johnny Burke
Nan Rae
Maude Davis
Tommy Tucker
Jack Miller
Theater of Today
Hollywood
Broadway
Elissa Lands
Michigan-Iowa
WLS
Iowa State-Nebraska
WOI
Notre Dame
Robert Young
Wes
Mid -Iowa
Sonstellows
Better Farms
Neb.f S.C
Merry Gold
Ind Wenr
Ricardo Mus
WHO Dairy
Martin
G. Miller
WGN McFarland
Halband
WGN R. Ginsb
Gav
Howe
Elson
Harmony
Utley
Jean Cavall
Ann
Ed Til'son
Ruth Hussey
Bob
Carl
Store
Dalry Cone
Jemima
Lanny
Ginger
Jerry
Zelda
Dirkin
Murte
Red Poley
Shelley
Wee . Vic
Lindlahr
Music
Stan
N Melodies
Ken
Slim
WGN Charlies
Jones
Millwheel
Grant
Ander
Jane Tucker
West
WLS Gov
Ryan
Joe Doakes
Plano
Martha
Helen
Harry
Evelyn
Mads
Norman
WMO
Weo
Ile
Rel
Serenade Ith
Nebraska-Isc
Armstrong's Theatre OF Today
PVD
REDS
Moscow
W. Averell Harriman
Lord Beaverbrook
Lydia
Mrs
Waterfall
Papel
Henry McLemore
Babe Ruth
Rube Marquard
Christy Matthewson
Giants
Athletics
Mr. Matthewson
Mr. Marquard
Baker
A’s
Conrad
Clout
de Maupassant
Hemingway
Shell
Paul Jerabek
Twelfth Avenue SK
Potosi
United States
Potos! Brewing Company
POTOS
Wisconsin
High Hill
Penn
South Carolina
Cinema Star
Ste
Aihie
AIT
Ukraine
Aid
Clan
Sardinia
Sicily
Auto Orange
FLAIN
Federal Discount Corp
Paramount
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