Rulers Say Goodbye as Royal Broadcast Sailaway
June 14 briefing from Halifax covers the king and queen’s farewells to North America. Empress of Britain voyage described. Friday broadcast schedules list Princeton track meet and Poughkeepsie regatta with WABC CBS and WJZ NBC. Radio lineup includes Dorsey Kay Kyser Woollcott and Smith speeches and public interest programs.
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Parewell
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England
Halifax
Gince
MBS
Princeton
Poughkeepsie
Wabc-Cbs
WJZ
NBC
WEAF
One Man’s Family
Tommy Dorsey
Fred Allen Kay Kyser
WABC
CBS
Jim McWilams
Quia
Paul Whiteman
Theatre of State
Alexander Woollcott
Eddie Guest
al Smith
Ransom Sherman
WOR
Philadelphia
Alfred E. Smith
Vic and Sade
Cbs-Chain
Army Band
Bob Edge
Edwin Co. Hill
Gift Coupon for World's Greatest Literature Volumes
Coupon offers any one volume from a 42 volume set with a 39 cent gift price. Collect at Grafton Sentinel Office in Grafton West Virginia or mail order with 6 cents postage per book to the World's Greatest Literature Department.
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Grafton Sentinel
Radio Schedule Highlights for West Virginia Station
A dense listing of WMMN 890 AM program timetables and radio theater. Entries include CBS NBC and mutual network segments with names like Buck Rogers Wordsworth Lum Abner and Dance Orchestra. Several obscure acts, orchestras, and novelty sketches fill the night from 5:80 PM to midnight.
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CBS
KDKA
Chet Smith
WGAR
Buck Rogers
Lowell Thomas
Doris Rhodes
MBS
Johnson Family
WPAR
WHP
International News
Amos 'N' Andy
NBC
Mr. Dist
WSM
Mr. Keen
Lum & Abner
Carl George
Howie
WOR
Richard Himber
WGY
Honolulu
WMMN
WGBI
The
Shadow
Leisure House
Hee Asad Shield
Ivony and
Gold
Paul Whiteman
Tommy Dorsey
WESG
Wesg—Symphonies and Songs. Whas—Dance Orchestra. Wpar—Parents Forum
NBC Town Hall
Star Theatre
WJZ
EKLW
G. E. Lowman
West, Virginia
WHAM
Billy Jean Burroughs
Columbia Workshop
WBT
Novelteers
Rosario Bourdon
Orches
Wpar—Radio Theatre Group
CKLW
Charles Baum
Johnny Messner
WHAS
Amos
Andy
WIZ
Wgy-News
WLW
Edwin C. Hill
Nbc——Dance Orchestra
Wsm—World In
van Alexander
Vincent Lopez
WGR
Bob Kelley
Billy Snider
Ickes Says Private Capital Ready for PWA Projects
Ickes reveals that private investors are prepared to provide about 75 percent or roughly $500 billion through bonds and other securities to fund municipal PWA projects. He notes local communities financed 87.7 percent of 1938-39 costs versus 50.4 percent in 1933-34, and says about $50 million in private funds have entered PWA works since last June.
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Ickes
O'Mahoney
PWA
Bankhead and McNutt Seen as Possible Roosevelt Picks
The report notes Bankhead's name might be proposed at the convention if Roosevelt does not run, with Alabama supporters seeking any chance to present him. A similar pattern surrounds Paul V. McNutt, as Senator Minton says his campaign hinges on the president not seeking reelection and that McNutt’s drive would end if Roosevelt runs.
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Garner
Roosevelt
Lister Hill
Alabama
Bankhead
Paul V. McNutt
Philippines
Indiana
Minton
D.-Ind
McNutt
Frank McHale
Masquers Play and Local Trials Highlight Wheeling News
Speaker Bankhead avoids candidacy talk as 1940 looms. Masquer’s play unfolds in Elliott home living room across acts I and II with a June setting and a cast including Nora Malone and Larry Elliott. In Wheeling, Dee Johnson receives ten years for liquor store holdups, while Frank P. Ross faces 17 counts of tax fund embezzlement in Marshall county. Public notices urge readers to use Sentinel want ads.
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Larry Elloitt
Nora Malone
Elliott
Rose Lobis
Wheeling
Dee Johnson
South Side
Moundsville
Frank P. Ross
Marshall County
Ross
First Flag of Colonists in Revolution and Harney County House
Report recalls the first flag used by the colonists at the Concord battle on April 19 1775 and notes a unique Borax House in Harney County Oregon built from evaporative borax incrustations. The house remains standing despite light rainfall and long weathering.
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Concord
Harney County
Oregon
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