Radio Schedule Highlights and Quiz Question
The page lists a dense radio programming slate from 6:30 to 11:45 with hosts, features, and guests including Fantaasia and Ethel Merman. It includes a public affairs segment by Office of Emergency Management and a closing quiz referencing historic awards and laws with a question about Cross and Frederick William III.
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WJSV
Vox Pop
Fantaasia
Ethel Merman
Arthur Treacher
Shirley Booth
Cook
WMAL
Office of Emergency Management
America
RisPanea
Training Camp Slang Terms For Army Units
Here and There In Training Camps notes a slang lexicon used by soldiers at Fort Knox and Camp Clborne. The piece lists numerous nicknames and terms for equipment, roles, and daily life such as Gasoline Cowboy Barker Jeep G. I. War and Little Poison 37 mm gun.
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Associated Press
Fort Knox
G. I
Big John
Herd
Diva
Shack
G. I. War
Rainfall Statistics Through Winchester Laboratory
Present and past rainfall data show 0.38 inches in the 24 hours ending a.m. May date, with year to date 7.73 inches. Average monthly precipitation, based on 1913 to 1939, is 4.28 inches for May and 3.585 inches for June, with statistics courtesy of the Winchester Research Laboratory.
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Winchester Research Laboratory
Remembrance of 1911 Millersville graduate with goldfish
Mount Joy Pa May 29 David Witmer recalls his 1911 Millersville Normal School graduation and a custom of taking three goldfish home One fish remains healthy after 30 years in a barnyard trough growing to seven and a half inches.
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Mount Joy
David
Witmer
Millersville Normal School
Skeleton not admitted in Illinois damages case
In Urbana on May 29 Circuit Judge Ben F. Anderson barred a plaintiff from introducing a human skeleton as evidence in a $10,000 damage suit. The judge ruled X ray pictures were more competent to show the location of injuries.
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Urbana
Ill
Ben F. Anderson
Owl gets hooked by fishing plug tale from Independence
Barber Claude K. Y. Eskew went fishing when a derisive hoot prompted him to cast toward a hollow tree. An owl flew out hooting and became hooked by a wing on the lure, a humorous fishing mishap reported from Independence.
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Independence, Mo
Claude K. Y. Eskew
Eskew
Welfare Board Recommends Denial for Blind Applicant
A county welfare board recommended denying a blind woman applicant lacking documentary proof of being over 18. The State Board of Social Welfare proposed waiving the proof. The woman reportedly has five grandchildren.
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Des Moines
State Board of Social Welfare
Model Railroad Club Night Brings Tense Stranger
Henry Potter attends a rainy evening meeting of a model railroad club and meets a cast led by banker Stanley King and sculptress Susan Baker. Tension rises as John Ives arrives with a revolver under his coat, leaving Henry unsettled about danger in the basement gathering.
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Henry Potter
W. Um
He Vaceko
Wis Wood Lodge
Henry
Hans
Brown’s Hardware
Model Railroad Club
Professor Bisbee
Community Forum
Stanley King
King
Marcia
Phgaee
Laurence Harkness
Laurence
Bisbee
Tein
Plaster of Paris
Laurs Énice
Mr. Potter
Susan Baker
Louis Spinelli
Susan
Spinelli
Ives
John Ives
John
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U. S
Patent OffIce
Chic Young
Annette
Yvonne
T. Ans
Marie
Big Sister
Mr Nets
U. & Pillad Orr
Mace
Himble Theater
Popeye
Davy Jones
G-Man
By Les Forgrave
Mis
Flacram
Etta Kett
Aman
By Paul Robinson
Secret Agent X-9
Robert Storm
Muggs and
Skeeter
Jonson
BY Wally Bishop
Molitiott
Easy Aces
Mr. Keen
B’khage
Howard
Ng of Liberty
Louis Adamic
Rex Stout
WRC - Ee
Waring Amos
News of World
Janey Rose
Xavier Cugat
Ee Orches
Colgate Time
Aldrich
City
Sad Family
Bing Crsoby's
Hall! Bowes
Eraay Vallee
Glen Miller
Alr
John Barrymore
Pianos
Two Cities
Nean
Edwin C. Hill
Bors
Arch McDonald
Dunham
al Donahue’s
Wilson's Orch
Desire
Steheatre
Noble's Orch
Willamat
Wiliam
Frederick William III
Camp Clatborne
North Dakota
Chicago
Dorothy Gray
Baker's Drug Store
Dial
Oling & Cather
Richard Houghton
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