Radio and Film News Highlights of the Summer Season
A whirlwind of stars and projects dominates radio and Hollywood. Bea Wain returns with Starlight Serenade on Mutual Thursdays while Maj Andre Baruch handles affairs. George Raft leads Johnny Angel from RKO. Burl Ives signs with Twentieth Century Fox for a techicolor Smokey. Richard Tucker may debut on NBC replacing John Charles Thomas. Don McNeill marks 12 years of The American Breakfast Club since 1933. Jennifer Jones and Joan Leslie join Duel in the Sun cast, Rosina Galli life story eyed for a Warner Bros. biopic. Other notes include Jimmy Durante dancing, Felix Knight and Francia White costarring, and Georgia Gibbs drawing bond buyers’ attention.
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Private owes his life to K-Rations on Luzon
Pvt. Gerald B. Ashburn of Texas says K-rations saved his life when a Japanese shell exploded five feet away on Luzon. A large pack on his back partly absorbed the blast, mitigating injuries he would otherwise have suffered.
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Navy saves life at sea after appendicitis on gale swept convoy
John Peter van Roon 18, fireman first class from Washington, was treated for appendicitis on an Atlantic convoy ship during 40 degree rolls. Lt Joshua Cambles and Pharmacist Mate John Cake performed emergency surgery as the ship navigated toward port. The crew maintained a 24 hour watch and used penicillin and IV fluids to sustain him.
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John Peter van Roon
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John Cake
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Blind Lead Blind Eye Dog Proves Sightless
Coral Gables Florida story about Joe Yates a blind cigar stand operator and his guide dog Pedro once trained as a Seeing Eye guide. Pedro suffered a heart attack and was deemed sightless though his remaining senses kept him leading Yates accurately.
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Airplane theft ends in forced landing near Jewell Iowa
Two 15 year old boys surrendered to police after stealing a three place Stinson airplane once owned by Gen George S Patton. They confessed the craft ran out of gas and wrecked as they forced a landing near Jewell Iowa about 75 miles north of Des Moines. The plane valued at 3500 dollars had been missing from a local airport. Police planned to release the youths to their parents.
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Vandals Wreck Interior of West End Church
Dr. Oscar R. Keller reports vandals caused thousands in damage at West End Christian church in Louisville. The cross and a picture of Christ were torn down, parts of the organ shattered, pulpit and pews overturned, and lights and switches damaged.
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Imperiled Family Saved by Marbles in House Fire
Fire started by a short circuit at the Oscar Steiger home threatened the sleeping family. Flames reached a cotton bag of marbles. the bag burned and marbles rolled downstairs awakening the family. They extinguished the blaze and returned to bed safely.
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Churchill misreads socialism in wartime debate
A Western Newspaper Union piece argues Churchill overstated the dangers of socialism, noting Ontario's Coop Cooperative Commonwealth Federation setback and Labour leader Atlee defending private enterprise. It contends competition protects consumers, warns against government monopolies, and cites Canadian railways to illustrate economic limits of state ownership.
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