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New York Sugar

NEW YORK. April 9 LP.-Domestic
sugar futures moved higher today on new
of raw supplies. Late prices were up l to
2 points; May, 245, and September. 2.4S.
LIQUIDATION and hedging. July sold at 0.79
and December. O.S912
A refiner paid $40 cents nearby ship
at 3.45.
Refined continued $40 cents.
Futures No. 8 closed unchanged to
higher Sales. .000 tons
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Commodity Prices

NEW YORK, April 9.-The Associated
Press weighted wholesale price index of
Previous day sl.4s; week ago s1o7;
1941 1910. 1899. 1933-3S.
High S1.96 1925 1922 9S14
Low 77.O3 6S.s9 637S 4l44
1926 average EQUALS 1909
Miscellaneous Markets.
COFFEE-Spot quiet: Santos No. 4. 9&-
10; Rio No. z, 634. Santos No. 4 ID fu-
lures closed A higher to / lower. Sales.
1880 bags. May. 926n; July, s. .46; Sep
tember. 961n., Rio No. "a futures 1
hishst cRuDE II RusBERLFutures SsIsE closed As to
so higher. Sales. No. standard: 3 con-
tracts: new standard, IA. Old May,
21 DON. Smoked ribbed, spot, % .62n.
RAW SLK-Futures closed 4 TO 5l2
cents higher. Sales, 910 bales. April,
$50: June, 2.S1b: July, 2.S2b.
RAW HIDES-Futures closed 8 to 5
lower Sales, 1920, 900 pounds. June
13.70-71: September. 1875; December,
13.77b: Spot, No. / Western light native
cows. IAN.
STRAITS TN-Futures closed un-
changed TO 2z higher. Sales, 22.40O
pounds. May. 81 ,05b.
No sales in lead futures.
COCOA-Futures closed Is to 21 lower
Sales; 3,6s5 tons1 on May, 6.s6n; July. $685.
Bid. Nominal.
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Cottonseed oil closed steady. Bleach
able prime summer yellow. S.45s; prime
September, s.23-24: October, Sab.
Asked. b Bid
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New Orleans Prices.

NEW ORLEANS, April 9 LPl.-Buying
on a favorable view of Churchill's speech
the farm appropriation bill erased early
losses caused by unfavorable war news
in cotton futures here today. Closing
Ia 1 mint lnMer
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Cottonseed Oil.
Bleachable cottonseed oil futures closed
IS to II higher. Sales 4S7 contracts.
May S.52b: July, sos; September
S.64-63: october, Sob.
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London Money Rates

LONDON April lp,.-Aoney. 1 per
cent Discount rates: ShoIt bills, 1882
per cent; three-month bills, 1-32-1is.
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New York Bunk Stocks

NEW YORK, April LP.-National As
sociation Securities Dealers, Inc:
lCloSinR QuotationS.D
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Winniper Prices
Winnipeg Cash Market,

,Wheat-No. ! Northern. 76as; No. 2,
oats-No. white, 36ss: No. 3. 347s.
Baltimore Quotation.
BALTIMORE, April 2 lP1.-Wheat, No
2 red, winter garlicky, spot, domestic,
90; April 90.
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CHICAGO Stock Market

CHICAGO April Q LP)-Following is the
complete list of transactions on the Chi
cago Stock Exchange today:
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BONDS ON N. Y. STOCK EXCHANGE
BY private wire direct to The star.
T r { A S U R Y.

HOME OWNERS LOAN.
~ 1945-47 -- 1O1. 80 101. 80 101.30
IS 1944-52 reg 1061S 106.lS 106l8.
NEW YORK CITY BONDS.
3s 1880 1905 l00as 1908
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Chicago Cash Market

Inlcag0 IaSh MaTktt
Wheat. No. . red. 9994 No. . hard. a294
Sorn No s5, I yell9%T 657,S9; No 4 65ol65; os,.;
No. l red extra heavy, 80; No. ! mixed,
heavy, 30; No. l white, heavy, 39a4-40;
No. 3 white. 3sl7: No, 4, 3s; sample grade
white, 36i4-31. Barley mailing, $3.50.
nominal: feed 4s-53. nominal: screenings,
1851 u. nominal. Soy beans. No. . yellow.
1.14l4; No. 3. | 1914. Field seeds. per hun
dredweieht. timothy. 100; Alsike, Q So
- 90: fancy red top : sos 90: red clover.
S.00-l0.00. sweet clover. 3.50-4.5O.
Winnipeg Prices
WINNIPEG, April 9 LP.-Grain range
today: Prev
May -- - .1674 ~ .7654
July .1sSs .1sl2 .7sss 1874
May - .36H .35ss .3els 1855
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Apparently, I do what he says
because few seconds later there I
am, kneeling down on the ground
with a sputtering fuse in my hand
and stick of dynamite about 6
inches down the fuse.
I start off, and not slowly.
Don't run," shouts the captain
Walk"
Well, you can walk pretty fast,
even looking back over your shoul-
der. The field is full of holes and
when 1 catch up to the captain he
points to one.
IF you'd been running" he says,
"You might have fallen in that hole
and broken your leg. Then you
might not have gotten away at all
Captain Never Worries.
We have been walking for a long
time now, three or four hours esti-
mate, and I look back. The dyna-
mite is still only so feet away.
After several more hours, we are
out of danger and the captain says:
Come on now, and I'll let you set
off another charge. We are going to
blow up road"
Cant 1 watch this one go OFF,"
I ask
Well" he said, bored stiff, 'if you
you want to-"
Just about then, it cuts loose-a
red flame, dirty brown smoke and
lot of dust and noise. I look up
in the air, just to be sure that I
don't see any parts of me flying by.
The captain is a very brisk man.
He is a reserve officer who was a
mining engineer in civil life. He
has been handling explosives for
years, just like handle sugar. He
never worries when he's doing the
job, but the things that some of
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is still there, 50 I conclude that I've
done 1t right.
Take that pair OF crimpers and
shove it down into the stick Of
dynamite" he commands, land then
put the cap and the fuse in"
"We-e-n." Says Captain.
Couldn't I set this dynamite of,
showing things into it?" I ask.
"We-e-ll," says the captain, you
might, but not much chance. Go
ahead"
do.
Nov, take a knife and split the
fuse down about half and inch.
Don't saw on it. might cause fric-
ton. :. That's good. eNow come
on
We march hundred yards or so
out into the field. I am carrying the
dynamite and. might say, dynamite
was never carried more securely.
Eighty per cent of the men we
get here have never handled ex-
plosives," says the captain, They're
scared to death of them"
ME too" I say. Il guess I am
breaking the course record for being
scared"
Walk-Don't Run.
He cautions me to yell Fire in the
hole" before I strike the match.
This is a custom in demolition. No.
body knows what it means, but when
you hear the call you are supposed
to look around at your feet and
make sure there's not live stick of
explosive nearby.
Put it down here" he says. "Now
put the head of the match in the
split part of the fuse and scrape the
match box across it. Hold on to it
until the fuse starts to sputter.
Then walk aWay-don't run"
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Report Shows 15Firms
Got 53% Of Contracts
To Supply Army, Navy
Period Covered Fails
To Reflect Results Of
Distribution Division

Fifteen companies were awarded
contracts for 53.3 per cent Of the
supplies for the Army and Navy
from June, 1910, through September,
1941, report of the Bureau of
Research and Statistics of the Office
of Production Management revealed
yesterday.
These Is companies held, during
this period, commitments totaling
S8l68 100000 for such items as
ships, airplanes, tanks. guns, food
and fuels. The study did not include
contracts for cantonments, fortifica-
tions, arsenals and factories.
Total commitments listed amount
ed to $15,274, 100000, of which only
So .662 100000 was contracted to 1922
smaller companies.
ia Per Cent to 3 Companies.
The report disclosed that 3
companies held commitments for
ia per cent of the total outlay;
companies, 34.6 per cent: COM
panies. 405 per cent: Is companies,
53.5 per cent; % companies, 65.3
per cent; A companies, 728 per
cent; 63 companies, 772 per cent,
and 100 companies, 82.6 per cent.
Contracts for the three leading
companies range from $500 100000
to 81 ,000000,000 and totaled S2.657,-
100000 sum within S5,200,00O of
the total commitments to the 1922
smaller companies. The latter in
clude concerns holding individual
contracts ranging from $4,000 to
$17,7OO,OO0.
Antedated OdIum's Unit.
The report. in the main, covers the
Nations production program prior
to the establishment of the o. P. M.
contract distribution division. This
agency was set up September 4,
under Floyd Odlum, for the express
purpose of spreading defense con-
tracts among smaller businesses to
expedite production and avoid un-
employment.
Officials observed that the next
statistical report undoubtedly will
reveal different picture, with in
creasingly large commitments to
smaller companies.
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the selectees do with the charges
have aged him before his time.
Look Out Below!

the selectees do with the charges
have aged him before his time.
Look Out Below!
There is q road running through
the Demolitions Area and during
the morning, the captains selec-
tees have mined it. They have
backed a mobile earth auger up,
drilled half a dozen holes in the
road and dropped 160 pounds of
nitro starch in the holes.
They can do this in very few
minutes, after they've had prac-
tice. They are blowing up the road,
theoretically, to block the advance
of tanks.
All the charges have been wired
and before I know what is hap
pening, I am standing there with a
detonator in my hand.
Go ahead" the captain saws,
yell. count ten and twist the ham
die TO the right. Watch out for
what comes down."
"NoW?" I asked.
eyes, noW," he said.
Fire in the hole" 1 shouted. but
so weakly that the captain had to
yell it again. Then I started to
count, what is probably the longest
ten-count since the Tunney-Demp-
sey fight. Then I twisted the
handle.
Those Babies Get You"
All of a sudden the earth in
front of me took off. The whole,
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landscape, apparently, just lifted
itself up to the sky. There was a
terrific conclusion as the brown
earth mounted 300 feet into the air.
Then the pieces start to come
down - clump, bump, clumpety-
clump. 1t seems like everything is
down now and I turn to the cap
tain and grin. Just then, Wham!
About 20 feet away a big piece
comes down with a thud. seconds
after everything else had settled.
Those are the babies that get
you" the captain says. THE ones
that have been way up. You are
supposed to look up so you'll see
them coming Then you can
dodge"
There are three huge craters in
the road, about 25 feet across and
IS feet deep. 1t looks like I did a
good job.
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case of .1dent," he says. nod
and he >ontinueS:
"T IS brass thing is a dynamite
r ~ Very sensitive. If it goes off,
1t will blow your hand off and also
your head"
Take 1t Easy, Brother.
He produces a tool that looks like
pair of pliers and a long fuse.
which he hands to me, along with
the dynamite cap.
you'll see there's an opening in
one end of the dynamite cap Insert
the fuse in it, gently. Don't go at
it too hard or you'll cause an ex-
plosion."
The captain takes a couple of
steps back. I don't think he is
having much fun. I push the fuse
in. ever so gently, brother. Nothing
happens, which surprises me.
Nov this is the most dangerous
part" the captain says. Take your
crimpers and squeeze the brass tight
around the fuse so it won't come out.
Get it up near the end, or it will
blow up"
I get grip on myself and then
on the dynamite cap and give a
squeeze. I feel for my head and it
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Riding back to the camp, the
captain and I were talking about
how nervous some .selectees were
when they first handled explosives
and he told me how quickly they
got used to it.
was feeling pretty good by then,
having blasted at everything in
sight.
Il saw one of those boys down
there in the woods" I said. His
hands were doing a little shaking" "
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The captain gave me q long, sad
look.
You should have seen your hands
when gave you that dynamite" he
said. You were shaking so, I
didn't think you were going to get
the fuse lit"
I certainly was hoping I wouldn't,
Captain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-12
ROAMING THE AIR WAVES
Dial Doings
By JIM PARKER

The life of @ a9 ss.s. sTy s.sa 9 e . sHs $ nd sn Effects Department and recently he struck nag nag or ma M G @ x pe collections of authentic sound there effects which couldn't sHa ts% 5 %acee Me na @ C wSn script called the sound of such devices WoR % soTndmen ciai Features chief help Police Commioner Commissioner replied that he'd like Os its against % the aw o bsc ssmS aag w could least the sounds of wheel and machine again he Is master of elusive sounds.
 wATR-N1Bs features c:45, Voices of Yesterday 5.aISs @ Mss % whp sw s%th @ Adventures Rhythm Rhythm '''''
 Perhaps you've heard reports contrary Benny will SS Wees Hr ne Guild plans greatest of all time on the air Stars are o o Rss Monday Ap % 5 derne sn additional midveei evening cowboy :' @ oBs s n aS Program will be known "1ouera Parsons Presents"
 through his work with WT1c Hartford
 1s"na ns the h 3 When he announced initial sns hsdS &' 5 the ~nsR Sn volunteered his services and much to his delight got his Candy % with M slick vocal Jo Stafford The gal singer with the this break Reverse side presents another of pair the The King s @ e Kings on at hi the Sisters had recordings opinion the Jm my Dorsey contrasting vocal treatments by Bob Eber and o'oonnen
 When a Hartford copper jaywalkins during Hartford vocalist Popularity poll Barrymore % . @ " get Of s x sn ans v o' % March program
 eight months has been sending her ardent fan letters and a very charming little girl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-12
STRAND

Plenty of sure-fire entertainment was afforded theatergoers at the poplar Warner Bros. Strand theater today where High Sierra" excite- ment-packed dramatic thriller, opened four-day engagement with Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart in the co-starring leads.
 Moving inexorably to his doom Mad Dog" Earle, as portrayed by Bogart, is the enemy of all that is decent and good, defiant of every law on earth; except the High Sierras. He Is strange man, and his is a strange story that grips our interest with It's powerful fascira- ton. .
 When the prison gates swing back to release Roy Earle, he is not yet @ free man. First he must pay back the debt he owes to the mob leader who bought his freedom.
 This job takes him to California and 8 mountain cap in the High sierras, where he is to hide out un- til the time Is ripe for him to pull the "caper" that will pay for his freedom.
 Bogart is said to turn in @ mag niflcent performance as Earle, play ing the role with @ sureness that the gangster comes sharply to life as a man you pity, hate, love and fear. Miss Lupino in the romantic lead opposite Bobart gives & bril- liant Interpretation of Marie, the Los Angeles dance hall girl, that definitely ranks with the finest of this or any other year.
 Other outstanding performances are contributed by Joan Leslie, Ar- thus Kennedy, Alan Curtis and Henry Travers.
 And for your further enjoyment
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-12

ROBERT MONTGOMERY is Holly woods own Horatio Alger hero of from riches to rags and rags to riches. Born at Beacon, N. r., son of Henry Montgomery, a vice-pres- ident of the New York Rubber O., he was educated at expensive pri- vate schools at home and abroad. At IA he toured England, France, Switzerland and Germany; at 16, through the death of his father and the loss of the family fortune, he was left penniless. With his brother Donald, Robert went to work as an engine wipe in the New Haven rail- road shops. He later shipped as a deckhand on Standard Oil tanker Caddo, out of Bayonne, N. J., for San Pedro, Cal, and saw Hollywood but didn't dream he'd one day be of 1t. Back to New York, he signed off and met a man who changed the course of his life. He was Steve Janney, ambitious to write stage plays and making ends meet as he wrote by playing bits on Broadway, one of which he got for Montgomery in William Faversham's Mask in the Face. Answering theatrical paper ad for a young actor in a stock company, Robert trekked to Rochester, where George Cukor took him into one of the most famous repertory theaters in America and gave him such training that, after working in seventy plays, he re- turned to Broadway and bcame 8 favorite. That brought him to Hol- lywood in "So This Is College" and to prominence when he played aGr- bo's lover in Inspiration" Since then he has mounted steadily in fa-, vor to his current co-starring role with Carole Lombard in RKO Ra- dio's MT. and Mrs. Smith,. While playing in England, in tn spring of l940, Montgomery joined an ambu- lance corps in France, and served until the surrender.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-12
IN The Local
 TheNteTS
STATE

-Four stars and the best picture of her career" is the unanimous aclaim critics have afforded Deanna Dur bins f&Sth and latest hit "Nice 0irl7" which opened a four day en- gagen1ent at Warmers State theater this afternoon.
 Long before Deanna achieved her present record of nine straight hits, questions about the quality of the stars films were abandoned. The only argument which remained was which one was the best?"
 A likely choice for the answer to that query was found today when Nice Girl opened its current run.
 Easily Miss Durbin's most mature vehicle, and one of her most enter taining, the new picture has mo- rnents of romance, hilarity and music as moving as any in all her eight previous successes.
 The producer, Joe Pasternak, gave Miss Durbin what is easily her most versatile supporting cast to date. So many stand-outs are marked in the cast that 1t would be difficult to to list them all, but those who are superb include Franchot Tone, Wal ter Brennan, Robert Stack, Robert Benchley and Helen Frederick.
 Deanna appears as a small town New England "nice girl" daughter of Robert Benchly and sister of Ann Gillis and Anne Gwynne. Robert Stack Is Deanna's boy friend, the boy next door," who is more inter- ested in automobile engines than in romance. Tired of her mice girl" role, Deanna recklessly goes on an exciting romantic adventure with a young New Yorker, portrayed by Franchot Tone. Her actions make her subject of town scandal, and 1t Is only through a combination of hilarious circumstances and situa- tions that her name is saved.
 Deanna was given one of her most outstanding musical scores, and she responds in the customary impress sive manner. Four of her numbers are popular and include the stirring patriotic song "Thank You, Amer ica." stephen Fosters "Old Folks at Home" is also beautifully rendered by the star.
 The second big hit is Mfr. Dyna- mite" with Lloyd Nolan, Irene Her. vey and J. Carol Naish.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-12
MOvieS Playing
 Today -
POLI'S

A serious problem presented with deft overiay of light comedy is Q dramatic pattern perfectly suited to the skillful talents and scintillating personality of Kay Francis.
 Such a picture Is "Play Girl, g highly entertaining drama accented with the stars glowing performance of Q hard and glittering lady Of adventure who is finally redeemed by an unsuspecting soft spot.
 Play Girl" opened at the Loew Poli theater this afternoon for an engagement of three days. The story is concerned with the reckless exploits of Q fascinating woman of the world who lives lavishly and luxuriously by the simple method of bewitching men with her charm, then cold-bloodedly dissecting their bankrolls.
 But the day comes when two suc- cessive failures convince her that she is getting too old for her man. hunting game. The average rich playhoy of forty or more apparently is more interested in young inno- cence. So she reefs her sails and starts grooming 6 beautiful but penniless young lady of nineteen to bait the gay dogs.
 The humor, pathos and poignant drama of the story develop from the amazing adventures of this dangerous pair in the winter and summer playgrounds of the nation, the young girl combining her beauty and youth with the older womars experience.
 James Ellison, in the role of a wealthy cattleman's son, has the romantic lead. Mildred Coles as the young girl is delightful new per- sonality with rare talent and beauty. Tn addition to the sterling work of the three principals, other fine portrayals are given by Nigel Bruce, Margaret Hamilton, Kath- arine Alexander, George P. Huntley, Kane Richmond, Stanley Andrews and Selmer Jackson.
 On the same program Is another smash hit, Murder Among Friends" with John Hubbard and Marjorie Weaver.
 In cooperation with the Amuse- ment Industry Division of the Greek War Relief Drive, 8 midnight screen show will be held at the popular Loew Poll theater on Sat- urday night, March 29th. Admis- sion Is 50 cents for all seats, and the tax is exempt.
 Opening at Ioew's on Saturday for fotS-day engagement is the technicolor production, "Western Union," starring Randolph Scott, Robert Young, Dean dagger and lovely Virginia Gilmore. The sec- ond hit Is Blonde Inspiration.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-12
In nHoIIywood

R0melle Schneider will be married soon afterward. Marlene Die- trich wanted John Wayne to play opposite her In "The Flame of New Orleans" But Republic, which owns the actor, has cast him with Ona Munson In "The Lady From New Orleans"
 DIRECTS PICTURE
 IN THREE TONGUES
 Typical of Hollywood and the bold front maintained by movie people is this sign in Q boulevard dress shop: Everything in sports apparel for that weekend at Palm Springs. We gladly cash relief checks"
 Director Reuben Mamoulian tries to make everyone feel at home on the set of Blood and Sand" He speakes Russian to Nazimova ,Span- ish to Anthony Quinn, and Texas to Linda Darnell Spencer Tracy refers to himself as we" since he went into the dual role of pr. Jek- yll and MT. Hyde.
 .. Paramount wants to stage Q national poll 50 that the public can cast "F'or Whom the Bell Tolls" But Ernest Hemingway IS insisting that Annabelle play Maria.
 Casualty Notes: Jimmy Glea- son rose from Q flu bed to play q scene in "Affectlonateiy Yours"- an easy scene, he was assured, In which he could lie down all the time. So he lay on . couch and was repeatedly drenched by an overhead sprinkler tfor . comedy sequence. Edward Arnold has Q spralned ankle and can't walk, but high saddle chair has been rig ged up with wheels SO that he ap- pears to be moving about in scenes for The Lady Prem Cheyenne" . Kent Taylor with Q broken collar bone, turns only his left profile to the camera 50 that Q bulky neck brace won't show. MARY MARTIN fa TAKES OFF AGAIN
 A nasty title change has been made by Warners-of 'Winged Victory" to Shining Victory" Somebody reminded 'em that Wing
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-12
BY PAUL HARRISON NEA Service Staff Correspondent

Hollywood, March 11-Behind the screen: After an actress had recei- we'd about a dozen visitors and twice as many messages on the set the other day, an impatient assistant director remarked, "That dame's got more guys chasing her than the Italians have"
 A London company, Ealing Stu- dios, announces production of Q documentary and satirical film made from the newsreel clips and based on the life of Mussolini. Tentative title: "Top Wop."
 And speaking of the Black Shirt country, It's purchase of the films "rntermezzo" and "Rebecca" have brought a good deal of criticism in Movietown against David Sel2nick. Attitude here is that his sale of the Pictures not only is counter to the boycott of Italy declared by Holly wood before war began, but that the action may look to Italians like an encouraging gesture from the U. s. "The least we can do now" sugges- ted a British actor, lis give the money to the Greek war relief" DICTATOR" DEBUTS
 DOWN ARGENTINE WAY
 The Argentine government finally passed Charley Chaplln's Dictator" after the film originally had been banned because of protests by Ger many. Confessions of e Nazi Spy," though remains on the shelf. .... Chaplin and Paulette Goddard are together again, living at the beach home of her agent and planning Q Honolulu trip when she finishes her new picture.
 Cecil De Mile cabled on offer for q part in Reap the Wild Wind" to Rex Harrison in England, and got this reply, Sorry, but busy with the greatest role of my life" The actor is a private in the British army.
 The James Roosevelt becomes
 final on March !, and friends say
 that he and his former nurse,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-12

12:00-War News A. M. l2:05--Larry Clinton's Orchestra l2:30--Wayne Kings Orchestra l2:b5--News
 1.00-Silcnt.