The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-29

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feature, whats Your War Job?.
presented weekly In cooperation
with the War Manpower Commis-
sion. will be heard Sundays at IL q.
m. Ewr. over the BLUE Network.
beginning January 2. II viii replace
SOLDIERS OF Production" now In
that spot.
Written. directed and produced by
Alton Alexander. radio consultant TO
the War Manpower Commission,
What's Your War Job?" turns the
national spotlight on the labor
shortage. Its function Is to recruit
workers for war Jobs in areas where
the manpower crisis Is most severe
1t also features the music OF vibra-
harp wizard Lone, Hampton and his
orchestra.
We had a coinmodity--war jobs
to SELL" says Alexander. in explain
ing the successful job the series has
accomplished for war production.
I'VE 60 about selling them as Il
they were shoe laceS, automobiles OF
Jel-O. Our appeals for the public
to get into war work are treated as
commercials. Not too many, but
sharp and to the point"
To assist in the vital task, Alex
ander called upon the War Man.
power Commissions regional offices
in about 5000 cities. To him they
were dealers" After the program
puts its urgent message across, "cut-
ms" were arranged SO that the deal
ers' could provide information on
local labor needs.
And it has worked. Thousands
have shifted from non essential in
dustries into war plants, in response
to the program.
Radios pioneer war show, Vox
Pop, covers another phase of Amer
ica's struggle towards victory when
Parks johnson and Warren Hull
discuss unemployment of honorably
discharged service men in civilian
armament industry during their in
terviews with skilled mechanics and
ether war workers on the assembly
line OF Northern Pump Company
Minneapolis, largest ordnance plant
in the nation, on Monday. January
3, at 8 p. m, EWT, over CHS.
Former Navy men, who have used
Northern Pumps equipment in seV
engagements with the enemy, prob
ably will be among the Vox Pop in
terviewees.
Gun mounts and all manner OF
intricate hydraulic machinery are
manufactured by THE Pump" so
fast and far ahead of schedule that
the Navy and high government Off
Gals have exhausted adjectives OF
praise for the plant, its employees
and the fabulous boss, John B. Haw-
lev, Jr., a Texas inventor. who has
boone the country's foremost gun
smith for big sea-going anti-aircraft
guns.
One Of the weirdest twisters en-
countered by Ellery Queen will ring
in the New Years murder mystery
fare when the master sleuth broad
casts his Adventure OF the IN
visible Footprints" Saturday, jan
uary /, at 1880 p. m, EWT.. over
NBC.
Ellery has to discover how q hui
man being can walk In freshly fal-
len snow . foot deep without leaV-
ing prints of his feet. When he IN
ravels that puzzle, the slick sleutl1
will hold a clue to the strange muir
der Of old Captain Horn, q wealthy
ship-owner.
Two guest armchair sleuths, seat
ed in a separate room from Ellery
and his dramatic cast will have a
chance to engage in a mental
match with the redoubtable Queen
and give their solutions to the
crime before the conclusion Of the
program.
A brand new war ballad, "Silver
Trumpet" makes its network de-
but, when Roy Acuff sings it on the
Grand Ole Opry," on Saturday,
January l, at 1890 p. m. EWT.,
over NBC. Written by Fred Rose,
the song has both romantic and pa
triotic appeal. Whitley Ford, the
Duke of Paducah," ushers in the
New Year with a comic report on
his resolutions, declaring If all the
resolutions were laid end to end,
they'd still be broken" Roy Acuff
and his Smoky Mountain Boys and
Girls have scheduled "Greenback
Dollar" and We'll Understand 1t