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Radio notes announce tonight's lineup featuring Richard Harkness and music selections. The note lists upcoming program segments and the host credits.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1944
Page
6
Radio notes announce tonight's lineup featuring Richard Harkness and music selections. The note lists upcoming program segments and the host credits.
In Nazi controlled Liege Belgium a troop of American GIs turns a quiet night spot into a swing show. Sgt Bruno Manni and five soldiers play accordion trumpet drums and piano while locals cheer and throw flowers. The jam session ends as the band packs up and troops leave with tommy guns slung over shoulders.
Exiled Polish government in London claims Germans are executing Polish Patriot Army members in gas chambers after surrender with Lt. Tadeusz Komorowski in Warsaw. It reports Oswiecim camp deaths and 12 400 others awaiting execution since Oct 7 with 200 Poles killed in one barracks incident.
The West Indies island in Treasure Island’s Dead Man’s Chest is linked to the Virgin Islands. Kingsley’s At Last notes a Saint Ursula’s Day discovery and Saint and her 11,000 virgins naming, though buccaneers later gave harsher names to many islands.
Present and Past Rainfall reports show 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. with none and October to date 1.71 inches. Year to date 34.52 inches. Average annual rainfall over 31 years 35.95 inches. Monthly averages for 1913-43 are listed by month from January to December, with values from 2.51 to 3.74 inches. Data courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
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