Radio Highlights and Schedule Digest
Radio lineup includes Julius Marx joining Information Please solo at 8:30. WISV presents My Favorite Wife with Madeline Carroll and Burgess Meredith at 9.00. Evening features News and talk segments with Lum n Abner, Glenn Miller, Information in two cities concert, and quiz segments before 10 PM with Michael and Uncle Walter plus Kitty News.
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Charles Martin
Playhouse
Madeline Carroll
Burgess Meredith
Wife
Kate Smith
Sen. Shipstead
Simms
Choosy Mice Taste Test Finds Bread Then Bacon
IOLA Oct 31 The idea mice prefer bread over bacon appears from Richard Tobey's home experiments. He trapped mice to learn their taste and found bread ranks first, bacon second, with the outcome still incomplete.
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Iola
Eas
Richard Tobey
Tobey
Women Now Labor in Bomber Parts Subassembly
Women work in a sub-assembly department handling drills riveters and heavy machinery once done by men. Harry F. Vollmer says wartime defense goals require many women, with equal pay and opportunities, trained from public vocational courses. Some are married, some single, all with basic training.
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Harry F. Vollmer
Vollmer
Afternoon News Late News Times Across Cities
The STAR notes late edition timing with references to 9 PM in London 10 PM in Berlin and 1 PM in the Balkans indicating press time alignment across regions.
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London
Berlin
Rome
Balkans
Rainfall Data From Winchester Laboratory
Present and past rainfall figures show 24 hours ending today at none and October to date at .77 inches. Year to date totals reach 22.12 inches, with average annual rainfall for 28 years at 35.80 inches. Monthly averages from 1913 to 1939 list 2.52 inches in January through 3.77 in June and 2.38 in December, per the Winchester Research Laboratory data.
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Winchester Research Laboratory
Douglas High School forms first athletic club
Douglas High School reports a new athletic club led by Thomas Haywood, inviting 8th to 11th graders to build fitness and discipline with boxing as the main feature. Workshops in manual arts advance wood and cement projects, with plans for electricity, auto mechanics and radio repair. The Home Economics department hosts an invitational Halloween party on Friday October 30 supervised by faculty.
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Douglas
Thomas Haywood
Hampton
Earl Pinkett
Kate Smith To Sing God Bless America On CBS Tonight
New York October 31 Kate Smith will perform God Bless America on CBS Tonight marking a rare reteaming with ASCAP tunes after a ten month gap and a steady NBC CBS schedule fit. The song has been a staple in Smiths broadcasts since its debut, paused during the ASCAP dispute.
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New York
Special News Service
ASCAP
NBC
CBS
Kate Smith
CBS Co Tonight
God Bless America
Society
the Chains
New York City Life Echoes in Hallie and Louise
In March a wind-swept day in New York frames Hallie and Louise at Louise’s apartment. Hallie ponders New York as a woman while preparing for her baby and reflecting on past loves, family, and a looming Sheila Sherman scandal. A late twist hints at a life-or-death call from Miss Sherman.
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New York
Louise Fennell
Central Park
Fifth Avenue
Hallie
Louise
Lou
Tobby
Toby
Europe
Mr. Chamberlain
Eric
Hilda
Daddy
Dr. Singleton
Sherman-Herrick
Sheila
Herrick
Broadway
Sheila Sherman
Katie
Annabelle
Miss Sherman
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