Radio and TV Listings Spotlight 1940s Personalities
NADINE SUBOTNIK reports ARY announcer ANN MERCER hosts a Dreams interlude on Plantation Party with novachord accompaniment. The program features Whitey Ford Daring Sisters Michael Stewart Louise Massey, and guest Lieut. Gov. B. B. Hickenlooper of Cedar Rapids. Kate Smith program includes Gax ton Blair and Hazel Scott. Information Please invites Morley and Sandburg. Playhouse screens Meet John Doe with Melvyn Douglas. Election Day salute on Double or Nothing includes Fulton Lewis Jr. and Vaughn Monroe. WGN carries Mauriello Savold bout. First New York Philharmonic Young People's concert airs locally via CBS and WMT.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ary Ann Mercer
WHO
Dave Bacal
Mary Ann
Whitey Ford
Daring Sisters
Michael Stewart
Louise Massey
Fulton Lewis, Jr
Vaughn Monroe
WMT
Kate Smith
Frank Black
WGN
Navy
Tommy Riggs
Svening
Lewis
Bradley
EXEL
Brickn
Vander
Easy Aces
Holbr
Burlint
Cal Tinney
Godwin
Dinah Shore
Wm1
Heatter
Rbexel Gangbusters
Holler
Brewster
Sen
Herrina
Borieve
Grant Gon
Hugh Carson
WMO
Fred Waring
Brown
Chicago Nite
Burling
Kxel
Finchville
Farade
L. Brown
Jimmy Evan
Mxel Lombardo
Dunham G
N . Williams O ' Martin Co
Pietsch
Football Saturday Broadcasts From Major Networks
Local radio schedules list Navy at Notre Dame at 12 45 p m on WGN and Army at Penn on CBS. Iowa versus Purdue starts 1 45 p m on WMT WHO and WSUN with other games on WOT KXEL WMAQ and WBBM. Roosevelt high school reporters present School Newscast at 5 p m on WMT and junior red cross skit at 5 10 p m on WMT in Assembly Room of the Air.
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Navy-Notre Dame
WGN
Army-Penn
CBS
Iowa-Purdue
WMT
WSUN
Oklahoma-Ames
WOT
Alabama-Georgia
KXEL
Wisconsin-Ohio State
WMAQ
Northwestern Minnesota
WBBM
Dayton McMillan
David Birch
Carol Ann Holmquest
Miriam Morr
Roosevelt High School
Franklin, McKinley and Wilson
Patty Tracy
Jimmy Shive
Clay Phillips
Bob Minshall
Betty Ruth Konigsmark
Red Cross
Air
Sweeney
Better Farms
WGN Camp
Wolters
Iowa
Purdue
Usic
WGN Plano
Ander
Luna
WGN State
Grant
WGN Coast Guard
Owen O
Navy
Dorothy Dale
WGN Navy Board
E. Fitzgerald
WMT World Today
Radio Schedule Highlights From October 1942 Listings
Hour by hour program list shows stations WHO WGN WMT KXEL EXEL and others. Entries include news weather musical programs sports shows and dramatic readings with times from afternoon into midnight and the next morning.
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WMT Guatise
WGN Farm
Lem Turner
WGN
Aes
Eaven
Kxel Ae Circle
MTA
M. Woolfries
WMT Morn
Danny Baker
Jerry
Zelda
Pleasantdale
St'well
Reveille
Utley
Eddie Hewitt
WMT
Happy Hainer
KXEL
WGN Reveille
Shelley
Stan
Finchville
S A
Boones
Mary Miler
WGN Brush-Smile
WGN Life & Land
Helen Kxel
Jane Foster
Lone
GN News
Starcher Gang
WGN Rangers
Kidnapper of Girl Receives Long Sentence
William Thompson, 39, ex convict and former Portland shipyard worker, was sentenced in San Francisco to one to 25 years for kidnapping 4 year old Vivian Miller on Oct 13. Judge Alfred Fritz dismissed a related charge against Thompson's wife Charlotte Kathleen, 22.
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San Francisco
INS
William Thompson
Exconvict
Portland, Ore
Vivian Miller
Thompson
Alfred Fritz
Charlotte Kathleen
British Ship Sunk Off South American Coast
The torpedoing of a small British merchant ship off the northern coast of South America in mid September caused 21 deaths with 43 survivors rescued within two hours by a passing steamer, the navy disclosed Thursday.
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INS
South America
Navy
Labor Chiefs Say F R Decided No Work Draft Now
Washington reports quote AFL leader William Green and CIO chief Philip Murray confirming President Roosevelt has shelved a compulsory labor draft for now. The plan would rely on tighter use of the U S Employment Service to direct war workers and prevent pilfering or hoarding while awaiting further study and possible executive orders.
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Washington
Roosevelt
William Green
AFL
CIO
Philip Murray
Paul V. McNutt
McNutt
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Green
Murray
U. S. Employment Service
WMC
Congress
Labor-Management Advisory Committee
Nation eyes standard time switch for winter months
Washington report says Rep Harold Knutson introduces a bill to revert to standard time in November December January and February claiming farmers find wartime daylight saving exceptionally inconvenient in short winter days.
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Washington
Harold Knutson
R-Minn
Morgenthau Flies Home from Lisbon
US and State Department report Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr left Lisbon by transatlantic plane for New York after a brief stay and an hour of talks with Premier Salazar. He had arrived from London earlier Thursday morning.
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Lisbon
Us&s
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
New York
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
Morgenthau
London
Eisenhower Reported Called Home for Parley
Lieut. General Dwight D. Eisenhower commander of U S army forces in Europe was reported to have been called home for important consultations with the high command. Reliable informants said he would be in the United States within the week. The reason for his return including a possible second front was not stated.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States Army
High Command
Eisenhower
Europe
Blind and crippled workers to aid in bomber project
In San Diego AP report Consolidated Aircraft Corp plans a job evaluation program to assign tasks that match physical handicaps. Blind workers will use touch, the blind and crippled will be placed in suitable roles, one armed and leg injured employees will perform sit down or tactile tasks as appropriate. The effort aims to open factory work to those previously excluded by disability.
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San Diego
Calif
Consolidated Aircraft Corp
Harry Woodhead
Consolidated
Girl Shot by Lover Drives 20 Miles to Doctor
In Reading Pennsylvania Marie Wike 27 drove 20 miles to a doctor after a beating by her former sweetheart who shot her in the abdomen during a quarrel on a county road. Private Lester Lucas said she told him not to shoot himself and that she would not die. The man was held without charge while her condition was assessed.
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Reading
Marie Wike
Lester Lucas
Lucas
Ensign Ensign Commissioned as Navy Ensign
Huntington West Virginia AP John Ensign was commissioned Thursday by the navy as an ensign Ensign Ensign serves on the board of directors of a wholesale grocery firm.
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Huntington
W. Va
John Ensign
Navy
Ensign Ensign
Medals Don't Count, Says Flyer Bagging 6 Planes
Major John F. Dobbin, a Marine ace in the South Pacific, says medals are secondary to results in combat. He notes patrol and fighter crews carry high risks, praises steady work, and recalls life on Guadalcanal with pride and humor.
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Washington
Marine Corps
John F. Dobbin
Dobbin
South Pacific
Guadalcanal
Louis John Dobbin
Boston
Ellen
Rosanne
Mary
Indictment of 95 for Receiving Stolen Gas Rationing Books
A federal grand jury indicted 95 men on charges of receiving thousands of gasoline rationing books stolen by two 16 year old boys from rationing boards in Norristown and Philadelphia. Agents recovered 1,358 of 4,529 books. 3,171 were discarded before arrest. The youths were not charged.
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Philadelphia
Norristown
President Urges All Citizens to Vote in Election
President Roosevelt declares a wartime effort to preserve democracy and asks employers to let workers vote without pay loss. He plans to vote by absentee ballot or in person in Hyde Park New York, and hints he would oppose Republican Rep Fish in his home district.
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Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Rep. Fish
Waterloo Man Injured After Bee Struck by Car
Robert Corey aged 50 of Waterloo was listed in serious condition after his skull was fractured when struck by a car driven by 17 year old James Krausman in Waterloo. The incident occurred Thursday night at a Waterloo hospital.
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Waterloo
Robert Corey
Corey
James Krausman
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Hazel Scott
Jerry Lester
Christopher Morley
Carl Sandburg
Melvyn Douglas
John Doe
Playhouse
Tom Mauriello
Lee Savold
Madison Square Garden
New York Philharmonic-Symphony
Rudolph Ganz
Ernie O
BBC News
Wilo
Godt
Franklin
WGN L
Brown O
WGN News & Afusie
Destiny
Close
Ms Te Corporation
Tonight
Feta
Lil
F.R
Incorerios
Bako
Second Street
U. S. Army
Gen. Eisenhower
Valhalla
Tojo
Schickelgruber
First Avenue
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