Radio Highlights Feature Star Poll Award Night Schedule
Radio highlights list multiple events and speakers across WMAL WISV and WRC stations. Notable items include the Movie Radio Guide award in the Quiz Kids division, the Twenty sixth Anniversary Dinner of the New York Young Democratic Club with Wallace Flynn Farley and Thomas Boyle as chairman, and a national broadcast on the defense stamp and bond campaign with Morgenthau Walker and Roosevelt. The day’s program also lists regular time slots for music news sports and entertainment during the evening.
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WMAL
Movie Radio Guide
Wallace
Edward J. Flynn
James A. Farley
New York Young Democratic Club
Thomas Boyle
WISV
WRC
Roosevelt
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Frank Walker
Des Moines
White House
Easy Aces
Fred Waring
Amos 'N
Andy
Mr. Keen
News of World
Lanny Ross
Claude Mahoney
Veee
Tony Martin
Manhattan
Plantation
Dr. Christian
Fred Allen
N. Y
Bernie Cummins
Desire
Nose For News: Dog Bites Dowcatcher and Takes Part of His Nose
Indianapolis report says Dowcatcher Marion Woods arrived at police headquarters with his nose in hand after a dog attacked him outside 337 West Fourteenth. Woods explained the dog suddenly bit him as he bent to look at the animal.
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Indianapolas
Marion Woods
Soane
West Fourteenth
Terry
Bill
Térry
War News Censored Warns Readers of The Star
The Star cautions readers that European war news is censored before transmission to the United States, indicating restricted information and potential gaps in reports from the front.
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the Star
Europe
United States
State Deaths in 1940 Led by Pneumonia in Virginia
Virginia's vital statistics show 29,550 total deaths in 1940 with pneumonia causing 1,867. White deaths totaled 19,289 and 10,261 were Black. Tuberculosis caused 1,408, influenza 692, and January records the highest monthly toll at 3,068.
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Richmond
Virginia
Bureau of Vital Statistics
W. A. Plecker
Registrar of Vital Statistics
Plecker
Rainfall Totals and Monthly Averages From 1913–39
Presentation shows 24 hour rainfall none, April to date 2.13 inches, year to date 6.35 inches. Includes average monthly precipitation based on a 27 year period from 1913 to 1939, inclusive.
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Winchester Research Laboratory
Beach murder on tropical isle shocks vacationers
On a sunlit island retreat, Betsy and Tom discover a dead man with a clean gunshot wound near a cypress creek. As fear spreads, the group calls police while Major Edmonds and others guard clues, wary of a hidden killer among them.
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Major
Mrs. Edmonds
Tom
Betsy
Natalie
Brooks
Lucy
Orwin
Bill
Terry
Fellows
June
Donald
Heath
Gladys
Forman
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Eastman
Eddie
Ted Steele
Cantor
Sa-Ay
Blondie
U. S
Patent Office
MR. Big
Chic Young
Big Sister
Thimble Theater
Popeye
Wortk
U. 3
Othen
Thumone
Davy Jones
By Les Forgrave
Rover
Old Boy
Rabbit
VV eKe Sons
Thas
CMON
Olive
Ouch
Etta Kett
BY Paul Robinson
Secket
Ugh
Kim
G-Man
Robert Storm
Fritz-Johns
Kim Trip
Muggs and
Skeeter
Ham
Katy
Zombie
Reggie
BY Wally Bishop
Aiy
Dorothy Gray
Cologne
Dorothy Gr
Jasmin
Baker’s
Court House
Georgette
Georgettes
Moling & Cather
Washington
Timberlake
Palace Theatre
Antietam Paper CO
Hagerstown, Ma
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