Radio Stars Set Weekend Programs Across Networks
NADINE SUBOTNIK outlines a slate of NBC and Blue network broadcasts features Skeets T eee in Goodnight Ladies and segments with Kathryn Card Art Kohl Sid Ekstrom Marion Mann and more. NBC WMAQ WMT KXEL carry guests including Mrs Knute Rockne and Ray Gram Swing.
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Blue Network
Winnis
Doneida Currie
Kathryn Card
Art Kohl
Sid Ekstrom
Marion Mann
Escorts
Betty
Rex Maupin
Gov George Wilson Transcribed Address To Iowa People
Another in Gov George Wilsons semi monthly addresses to the people of Iowa will be carried by WMT Saturday at 16 15 p m.
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Alaska
NBC
WHO
Daniel J. Tobin
Teamsters Union
England
Roosevelt
WMT
John Green
Marine and Shipbuilders Union
CIO
Labor For Victory
George Wilson
Iowa
Evening Radio Schedule for September 4 1942
Hour by hour listings show WGN WMT WHO EXEL AXEL and other stations airing a mix of news, dramas, music, and features. Notable items include War updates, dance bands, comedian bits, religious services, and late night programs on multiple networks.
Old Fashioned Revival Event in Evening Standby
A local notice announces an old fashioned revival led by E. Ol Byns and Geape Sundars at 6:60 pm. The schedule lists OMT-Elecrce as the venue or organizing group, with minimal readable details remaining.
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Sundars
Ensign D Mac Showers Joins Nimitz Staff
Ensign D Mac Showers son of Mr and Mrs Charles N Showers of near Iowa City is attached to Admiral Chester W Nimitz Pacific fleet staff. He is stationed at Pearl Harbor and was commissioned in naval intelligence in 1941. He attended the University of Iowa and was Iowa City correspondent for The Cedar Rapids Gazette.
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Iowa City
Ensign D. Mac Showers
Charles N. Showers
Chester W. Nimitz
Pearl Harbor
Ensign Showers
Naval Intelligence
University of Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Charles Walters
Mary Lou Poorbaugh
Nancy Blakesley
Florence Jean Buckner
Clermont
Willis Gress
Donald
Phyllis Wakeman
Cedar Falls
Iowa State Teachers College
Woodward
Gress
Waterloo
Elgin
Gerald Heck
Navy
Walter F. Kohier
Eddie Klingman
Fred Pinney
Kenneth Sschori
Des Moines
William H. Mueller
Elgin Rural
South River Road
Highland
Illyria
Oxford Junction
Walter A. Wolgemuth
Iowa Falls
Wolgemuth
Baldwin
Lew Beck
Lois
Max Wurster
Maquoketa
Kahoka
Maxine Davis
Lyle Sheldon
Los Nation
Wurster
Baldwin High School
Maquoketa High School
Independence
Buchanan County Red Cross
Lamont
Lyle Smith
Inas
Aurora
Z. F. Kelleher
Alva Norton
Centailian
Ruth Hollenbeck
Betty Halli
Robert C. Beane
Beane
Des Moines Ordnance Pliant
Coroner's Jury Rules Mrs Sprecher Slain by Neighbor
Coroner S. H. Luken announced that the coroner's jury found Mrs Katheryn Sprecher, 36, was slain on September 9 by Matt Nessius, a 62 year old farmer. The beaten body was discovered in her rural dwelling.
Murder Charge Filed
TIPTON AP Justice reports a man charged with murder after a Friday night incident in Muscatine County. He was jailed in Cedar County pending a preliminary hearing.
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Tipton
Muscatine
Cedar County
Wack Marriage Ends in Interim Divorce Delay
Irene and Robert E Brown, a Fort Des Moines soldier, had an interim divorce granted in Los Angeles on February 1. The marriage is not final until next year, and the couple plans to remarry in February after the final decree.
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Irene
WAAC
Can Angeles
Robert E. Brown
Fort Des Moines
Casey
Gerald Arthur Casey
Los Angeles
Verdivorce
Thirty enroll in CPT course at Iowa University
Iowa City reports University of Iowa enrollment this fall of 30 students in two CPT courses. Elmer C Lundquist says 20 in full time primary course and 10 in secondary work. Each eight week section includes 24 hours of classroom work plus military and athletic training. Registrants come from Missouri, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa.
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University of Iowa
Elmer C. Lundquist
College of Engineering
Instruct Inc Innnd
Missouri
Indiana
Ilinois
Iowa
Iowa U Collects 23 Tons of Scrap
The University of Iowa sold over 23 tons of scrap metal this week. Most material came from the old Iowa field stadium with remaining pieces from earlier collections. Beginning at 8 am Tuesday, Sept 29, about 30 men from the Junior Chamber of Commerce and American Legion will canvass farms along seven Iowa City mail routes.
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the Gazette
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Fred Ambrose
Iowa Field
Junior Chamber of Commerce
American Legion
Damages Sought in Case Over Fatal Iowa Crash
Claud Mask of Kingham files a $12,000 damages petition in Black Hawk County Court against George Willits associate Black Hawk county engineer. Laura Mask, his wife, died in an August 28 automobile crash four miles east of Reinbeck when her car, driven by Ila Foley, was struck by Willits’ vehicle.
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George Willits
Black Hawk County
Black Hawk Nty
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Kingham
Laura Mask
Reinbeck
SUI Graduate Returns From Japanese Prison
Iowa City University of Iowa graduate Walter Frese has returned to the United States after months in a Japanese internment camp. He earned a 1928 commerce degree with highest distinction and later did graduate work at the university. He was involved with stabilization funds through the Treasury Department before his capture in Hong Kong.
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Iowa City
Walter Frese
University of Iowa
United States
Hong Kong
Frese
College of Commerce
SS Eee
S. Treasury Department
899 New Tires for Iowans in October
Washington AP reports Iowa tire quotas for October announced by the Office of Administration. New tires will go to class A eligibles.
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Washington
Iowa
Office of Administration
West Branch Cruises Past Wapello 27 0
West Branch defeated Wapello 27 to 0 in a non conference game Friday night. Rain and snow slowed both teams as West Branch led 7 0 at halftime and extended the lead in the second half.
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the Gazette
Wapello
West Branch
Ar Production Board Announces Head of Branch
The AP reports the AR Production Board has elevated the head of the branch, confirming continued leadership and a refined organizational focus.
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Brandon Town Council Votes Bond Investment in War Savings
In Brandon a town council meeting approved investing 1000 in war savings bonds. Separately a marriage notice announces the daughter of Fred Zs Cooper of Fort Worth Fort Lee is wed on September 5. Local schooling is noted in northeastern Town.
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Fort — Lee
Fort Worth
Brandon
Local notes from East Central Iowa towns and people
Reports from towns including North Liberty Anamosa Independence Decorah and Decorah area about court sentences marriages elections and school news. Mentions jail terms, naval enlistments, a bombing of a pickup accident, civic meetings and wartime campaigns with numerous local names and dates.
Flying Tigers Pilot Reed Destroys Eight Jap Planes
The article chronicles Bill Reed of the American Volunteer Group on the Moulmein raid from Toungoo to a Japanese airfield. Reed and mate Jernsted shot down eight enemy planes, with Reed earning credit for six in the two-pass strike and all accounts noted a cautious return to Magwe before dawn.
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Burma
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Womans Overseas Service Leader Urges WAACs to Win War
Mrs. Herman J. Bakker of Rochester New York, president of the Women’s Overseas Service League, told 117 graduating WAAC third officers at Fort Des Moines that their mission is to help win the war and maintain postwar peace. She noted 23,000 women served in the last war, including 10,000 nurses and 13,000 from 140 organizations.
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Rochester
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Women's Overseas Service League
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Iowa cancels student trip to grid game for 1942
President Virgil M. Hancher announced the annual University of Iowa student trip to a football game is canceled due to wartime restrictions. The Nebraska, Great Lakes, Camp Grant, Purdue and Wisconsin games will feature the Iowa football band Highlanders and drill units performing maneuvers between halves while the school forgoes the Minneapolis Minnesota clash.
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Virgil M. Hancher
University of Iowa
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Minnesota
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Great Lakes
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Purdue
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