Yoo Hoo Lear to Broadcast on CBS Treasury Hour
New York Aug 27 The Cantor decision to appear on two networks collapsed to CBS only at 8 pm The NBC blue plan to air Lieut Gen Benjamin Lear address at 6 40 pm Thursday was abandoned The talk centers on morale and war maneuvers in Arkansas and Louisiana The gas price probe questions are outlined including shortages misinformation and tanker transfers
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yoo Hoolear
Hahot
New York
Special News Service
Eddie Cantor
Nbc-Red
Ben Lear
M. C
Nbc-Blue
Benjamin Léar
Radio Schedule Headlines and Station Lineup Logs
Central West Virginia stations WMMN WEAF WABC WJZ and others outline daily music news and program blocks. Containing time slots from 5:30 to midnight with orchestra, quiz, drama, and sports segments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WMMN
WEAF
Brave
WABC
Mary Marlin
CBS
WJZ
Irene Wicker
WIJZ
WEAP
Thin Man
Woodbury
Grand Central Station
Cal Tinney
KDKA
Manhattan
WBLK
Dr. Christian
Boake Carter
Charlie Spivak
Orch
Edwin C. Hill
WLW
WJJZ
Bill Stern
Don Goddard
WJB
Bill Henry
WTAM
Betty
Bob
Paul Sullivan
Hollywood
Jose Bethencourt
WOR
The
World Today
Lowell Thomas
Cbs—News
Jack McCarthy
Motorists
Mr. Keen
News of the World
Fredda Gibson
Bob Hannon
Pied Piper, Jr
Vancouver
Ted Steele
Glenn Miller
Kay Kyser
Raymond Gram Swing
Author'’s Playhouse
Dolly Dawn
Jack Coffey
Benny Goodman
Bob Chester
Shep Fields
Governor Neely Presented West Virginia Guide Book
Governor Matthew M Neely receives a copy of West Virginia A Guide To the Mountain State by Roy Lee Harmon State Supervisor of the West Virginia Writers Project Bruce Crawford Secretary of the Publicity Commission and former Supervisor of WA Project and Paul H Becker Assistant State Supervisor The 600 page Ameri can Guide Series volume is just off the press and includes more than 60 full page photographs 25 motor tours and maps
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matthew M. Neely
West Virginia
Mountain State
Roy Lee Harmon
Paul H. Becker
Strand Theatre Brings Martha Scott In They Dare Not Love
Martha Scott, star of Our Town and Cheers for Miss Bishop, leads in They Dare Not Love at the Strand with George Brent. A romance of two heroic refugees set amid war's upheaval, the drama features Paul Lukas as the villain and Kay Linaker as the wealthy Austrian refugee who eyes Brent. James Whale directs a tense, dignified epic praised as a must see of the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Scott
Our Town
Miss Bishop
Virginia
Sci-N
Columbia
Strand Theatre
George Brent
Brent
Miss Scott
Paul Lukas
Roman Bohnen
Tukas
Kay Linaker
Edgar Barrer
Egon Brecher
Erwin Kaiser
James Whale
Outlaw Strike Editorial Critiques Defense Effort and Mobilization
The association of Army ordnance officers and civilian engineers criticizes defense production management while praising momentum in armament output. They urge decisive central authority, decry defense strikes, and warn against lip service to mobilization. A Wellsburg post office was struck by lightning as heavy rain caused telegraph outages. Clarksburg saw 1.3 feet river rise with 98 inches in 23 minutes, though floods remained limited.
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Nance
Army Ordnance Officers
Army
Wellsburg
West Fork
Clarksburg
Charleston
U S warned cities would dim out in a possible air raid
Aug 27 report from Samuel J Hibben of Westinghouse outlines American blackout plans. Cities would dim rather than fully blackout to reduce panic and maintain traffic flow. Major roads would have lights cut to disrupt enemy targeting while using techniques like black light and venetian blinds. New York serves as model for national planning with guidance shared to War Department.
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Fairmont
United States
Samuel J. Hidden
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing, Co
National Technological Civil Protection Committee
London
Hibben
New York
Broadway
Dibben
War Department
Shipyard Takeover in Kearny After Strike War Orders
The Runs Kearny Plant of appeals reversal by the board awaits a Supreme Court review this summer. Philip G. Phillips, regional labor board director, demands membership lists today as proof of substantial interest in an election. Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen assumes production at Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co in Kearny New Jersey after an 18 day strike halted work until Roosevelt ordered government takeover and resumed work on 49 million dollars of government orders.
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Harold G. Bowen
Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Company
Kearny
N. J
Roosevelt
Lady parachutists plan limits on recruits
Major Nolan explains that only women aged 18 to 40 without children or dependents will be accepted as parachute jumpers. Married women must obtain written consent to their removal to field dressing stations. About 10 percent of each company from the men’s hospital battalion and the women’s unit will be trained for parachute work to provide immediate ground aid and transfusions to wounded soldiers on the field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nolan
Noland
German claims of Luga and Dnieper power center unconfirmed
The Moscow press did not confirm German claims of capturing Luga 90 miles south of Leningrad or the Dnieperopetrovsk hydro-electric center. An early morning communique said Finnish forces on the Karelian isthmus had not advanced beyond Kakisalmi, 75 miles north of Leningrad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Luga
Leningrad
Pskov
Dnieperopetrovsk
Dnieper
Karelian
Kakisalmi
Storm Floods Huntington After Sudden 1.05-Inch Rainfall
A storm dumped 1.05 inches of rain in 25 minutes flooding Huntington. The Upper Ohio valley saw .86 inches from a sequence of electrical storms as authorities tracked the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
Ohio Valley
Alarm Clock Disrupts Screening In Memphis Theater
In Memphis on August 27 a wrapped alarm clock bought by Mrs Irene Busby exploded during a movie, breaking the quiet of the theater. Another patron unwrapped the package and switched it off.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
Irene Busby
Daylight Time Snares Pike County Agent's Schedule
In Pike County the daylight time switch halves work routines as County Agent Jim Harrison must rise at daylight and retire at standard time to satisfy conflicting regions. A Department of Commerce report notes waste molasses used by a Japanese manufacturer as a glycerin source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comb
Miss
Pike County
Standard
Jim Harrison
Department of Commerce
Du Pont Plant Workers and union dispute detailed
An independent group claims 2100 workers on its list while the AFL says 2500 belong to its union. Titler informs the national defense mediation board and John Steelman that the action was to protest discrimination and demand recognition or an election without delay. The ACE, organized in 1937 to replace an older entity, is labeled a company union by the CIO, a labor board examiner noted it was not.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Ritchie
ACE Counsel
American Federation of Labor
Titler
National Defense Mediation Board
Federal Conciliation
John Steelman
ACE
CIO
Labor Board
APPEASEMENT Continued From Page One
President Roosevelt rejects rumors and says reports of misuse or lease lend funds are false. He criticizes sensational stories as rumors, distortions, or plain dirty lies and defends war aid for England and China against unfair allegations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
China
Washington
Roosevelt
In memory of Charles Wagner Nephew remembered in poem
In memory of Charles Richard Wagner who left us on Aug 26 1940. Safe in the arms of Jesus our darling lies in Gloryland. He followed in his Master's will and now rests with Jesus, his work on earth finished. From his uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Herbert Nicola.
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Charles Richard Wagner
Jesus
Gloryland
Earth
Christ
Mrs. Herbert
Nicola
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the Abbotts
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Radio Tube
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St. Grafton
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Page
Altman
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Horse & Mule
W. Va
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Lao
Ohio River
DU Pont
West Virginia Business College
T. B. Cain
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