Radio Audition Finals Set for Sunday Broadcast
Ten top American amateur singers, five women and five men, vie for the national crown at New York on Sunday December 13 in the Fifth National Radio Audition. Winners receive 5000 dollars plus medals and tuition. finalists from 1000 communities have been vetted by a panel of experts and the event will be broadcast by Station WBAF across 46 NBC stations.
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United States
New York
Atwater Keng Foundation
Northeast
Salida Knox
Kearny
N. J
Jay Alden Edkins
Somerville
Mass
Mid-West
Lillian Meyer
Jamestown
N. C
Eugene Byron Morgan
Painesville
Ohio
Dixie
Thelma Gaskin
Orlando
Fla
Austin Summers Butner
Nashville, Tenn
Southwest
Lavon Graham Holden
Pittsburgh
Kansas
John Bennett Metcalf
Austin
Tex
Eleanor Coryell
Santa Cruz
Cal
Andrew B. White
Tucson
Ariz
American Institute of Music
Mme
Louise Homer
Otto H. Kahn
Elmer James Ottaway
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Charles Wakefield
Cadman
Glenn Frank
Reinald Warrenrath
Washington
Atwater Kent Foundation
White House
National
Metropolia
Quick Change Paul Riblett Switches From Football To Penn Basketball
Paul Riblett, a husky Penn football end, is shown ready to begin another cage campaign as he pivots from football to basketball at the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of Pennsylvania's versatile athletes.
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Paul Riblett
University of Pennsylvania
Riblett
Pennsylvania
New Federal Tax Plan Prompts NC Sales Tax Debate
North Carolina legislators and voters face a clash over a proposed national luxury sales tax expansion. North Carolina's ten House members and both U.S. Senators oppose raising federal tobacco taxes, fearing higher prices would curb consumption and hurt growers while states with existing sales taxes see mixed effects on tobacco pricing.
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North Carolina General Assembly
North Carolina
Democratic Party
General Assembly
A. D. MacLean
Josephus Daniels
Congress
House
Frank Hancock
Fifth
Washington
South
Hancock
New Gold Rush Seen in Decade for Black Hills
Rapid City D D December 10. A new gold rush is predicted for the Black Hills within the next decade by Bancroft Gore head of metal engineering at the School of Mines. He says mining of other ores will slow as gold interests rise and labor and materials become cheap again after wartime highs. The shift toward gold mining could boost Black Hills activity.
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Black Hills
Rapid City
Bancroft Gore
School of
Nes
Gore
Huge Turtle Sighted Near Chapleau Ont
Fishermen near Chapleau Ontario report a giant turtle with a shell over three feet wide. Tom Godfrey says the creature nearly capsized his canoe when it surfaced and its head resembles a snake. Local Indians estimate the animal is more than 75 years old.
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Chapleau
Ont
Tom Godfrey
Red Cross Canteen Feeds 600 Near Detroit From Ford Farms
A former ramshackle dance hall near Detroit has been converted into a canteen to feed 600 people. Soup, fruits and vegetables distributed by the Detroit Chapter of the American Red Cross are rationed to needy families, using food produced by Henry Ford farms.
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Detroit
Henry Ford Farms
American Red Cross
Soviet to Expand Fish Canning Industry In Two Years
The Soviet government plans 59 new factories for canning fish, with 36 ashore and 23 afloat, producing 327 million one pound cans over two years. In 1933 total output aims at 2.4 billion cans, including 600 million fish cans.
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Washington
Dec
Russia
Commerce Department
Experts estimate average earthquake shocks last 45 seconds
Experts estimate that the typical quake shock endures about 45 seconds on average. This figure reflects measurements from seismologists across various regions and reinforces expectations for short but intense shaking in future events.
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New Canteen
Maitland
Santi
Buddy Bikes
Lane Cedar Chests
Cut-Rate Furniture Company
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