Radio Tonight Airing A Chorus Of The Era
Radio notes list tonight’s programs across stations WMAL WRC WTOP and more. Guests include Duffy Bob Crosby Ed Gardner and the stars Bob Hope Judy Canova and Fibber McGee while musical features and dramatic readings fill the schedule.
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SS Wrc
Duffy
Bob Crosby
Bob Hope
Archie Gardner
WMAL
Agatha Christie
Mystery Theater
WRC
Frank Morgan
George Burns
Gracie Alien
Columbia Presents
Corwin
Dorie
Dorie Miller
Pearl Harbor
WTOP
Robert Sherwood
MacArthur Praises U S Landing Force In New Guinea
General Douglas MacArthur praised the American landing force at Hollandia and Tanahmerah Bay in New Guinea after their assault trapped 60,000 Japanese. He personally walked ashore in a small barge and inspected supplies, calling the operation one of the best executed and predicting further local battles as Japanese forces try to break out.
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Dutch New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Holland
Tanahmerah Bay
MacArthur
Hollandia
Humboldt Bay
Tanahmerah
Macerthur
Whitacre Boy Enlists In Navy
Howard Grant Whitacre, son of Mr and Mrs Thomas J Whitacre, enlisted in the Navy through Chief Mead in the Post Office Building Winchester last week. He was born in Martinsburg West Virginia April 10 1927 and has lived in Frederick County seven years. He attended Gainesboro High School and has six brothers and four sisters among whom three brothers are in the Army.
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Howard Grant Whitacre
Thomas J. Whitacre
Navy
Mead
Winchester
Young Whitacre
Martinsburg
W. Va
Frederick County
Gainesboro
Melvin
Hawaiian Islands
William
Australia
Walter
New York City
Goldie Place
Mary Whitacre
Whitacre
Dorothy Smallwood
Lucy Martzy
Baltimore
Paul
Robert
Alvin
Howard
Washington, D. C
Gore
Service Women Fret About Civvies
London reports that discharged service women fight for better civilian clothing and benefits. WRENS may keep uniforms plus small payments, while WAAFs receive limited shoes undergarments and cash grants, yet many say allowances fail to match post service needs and weight changes.
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London
Waafs
Douglas School News Seventh Grade Victory Garden Beginnings
Douglas School notes the 1944 victory garden project with each seventh grade pupil and teacher tending a row. Mrs Wright received a birthday cakeApril 20 from Beulah Bannister Joyce kins Meta Turner and Mil bert Taper. English teacher F M Jackson donated blood to the Red Cross totaling a quart. Reporter Zelma Pinkett.
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Wright
Beulah Bannister
Joycekins
Meta Turner
Milbert Taper
F. M. Jackson
Red Cross
Prayer bulletin prompts aid for first man met
In Topeka Kansas Rev. Mikay McKay posts a daily message on the First Baptist church bulletin board. A woman told him she had prayed for any man for months but found no encouragement.
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Topeka, Kas
iKay McKay
First Baptist Church
500 Pound Bomb Only A Lullaby
CAPE GLOUSTER. The worst a Japanese bomber could do couldn't rob a couple of Marines of their sleep reports S H Barr Marine Corps combat correspondent The air raid sirens sounded but Pvt Charles A Petre of Lake Charles La and Pvt Chas feet away half covered with debris they brushed themselves off crawled back into their hammocks and went to sleep again
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Cape Gloucester
H. Barr
Marine Corps
Charles A. Petre
Lake Charles
Chas
Drivers Dream Comes True
Salt Lake City reports Herbert Diaz filed a complaint after a police car ran a red light and struck his vehicle. The officer said the pursuit of a traffic violator justified the maneuver.
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Salt Lake City
Herbert Diaz
Rainfall Totals and Averages for Winchester Area
Report shows 24 hour rainfall ending 8 a m at 2.22 inches. April to date 1.97 inches, year to date 12.19 inches. Average annual rainfall over 31 years 35.95 inches. Monthly averages from 1913 to 1943 list inches for each month, with January 2.51 and December 2.43. Courtesy of Winchester Research Laboratory.
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