NAEB Newsletter (Oct 1941)

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NAEB NEWS LETTER -5- OCTOBER I, 1941 15. Programs of Interest to Women, KFKU. 1 6. University of Kansas News Letter, September 27, 1941. 17o School Broadcast Conference announcements. I8o WILL radio programs, October-November, 1941 0 W R U L PLANS EXPANDED PROGRAM Plans to “try to break the German people away from the yoke of Nazi ism” BY MEANS OF”INTENSIFI ED” RADIO BROADCASTS FROM AN AMERICAN SHORT WAVE STATION THAT IS BESIGNED TO BE THE MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD, HAVE BEEN DISCLOSED BY WALTER S. LEMMON, PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD WIDE BROADCASTING FOUNDATION. Founder of station W R U L, which now is the strongest short wave unit in THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE, LEMMON SAID THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION HAD AUTHORIZED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW TRANSMISSION FACIBITIES THAT WOULD EVENTUALLY ADD ANOTHER 100,000 V'ATTS OF POWER TO THE FOUNDATION^ RADIO ARM, HE SAID HE KNEW OF ONLY ONE OTHER SHORT WAVE STATION, A RUSSIAN ONE, THAT WOULD APPROACH IT IN POWER, AND DECLARED IT WOULD BE MUCH STRONGEa THAN H|TLER*S RADIO VOICE AT ZEISENv Declaring plans already had been made to ’’double oir broadcasts within SIXTY DAYS TO THE GERMAN PEOPLE AND TO THE GERMAN-SPEAKING PEOPLE IN OCCUPIED COUNTRIES,” HE ADDED* ”UP TO NOW, OUR BROADCASTS TO THE GERMANS HAVE BEEN MAINLY DIGESTS OF NEWS, BUT NOW, WE * RE REALLY GOING TO MAKE A DRIVE TO REACH THE PEOPLE AND SHOW THEM WHAT THEY HftVE LOST IN CULTURE UNDER THE HITLER REG I ME .” KFKU RESUMES BROADCASTING On THE STROKE OF THREE IN THE AFTERNOON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, KFKU RESUMED ITS SEVENTEENTH YEAR OF BROADCASTING TO THE RADIO AUDIENCE OF Kansas and neighboring states. Programs have been arranged for all ages AND INTERESTS. “America in Crisis” will be the theme of this year’s University of Kansas Roundtable dicussions. Some of the topics, listeo for the next two months include: ”Hi tler s s Strength if Russia Loses;” “Our Relations with Russia;” “After Convoys—What?”; ’’The Federal Tax Bill of 1941;” “Price Fixing;” and “Extending Social Security for Farm Labor.” The department of English is sponsoring three programs from station KFKU, These are designed to help listeners to become better acquainted with new BOOKS AND TO INTRODUCE (OR RE-INTROOUCE) THEM TO SIGNIFICANT PIECES OF LITERATURE WHICH ARE A PART OF OUR CUffyURAL HERITAGE. Another new feature to be presented from KFKU this year is the Speaking ro Women program which will discuss many consumer problems pertinent to OUR_ PART.I CULAR REGION--SUQH AS PURCHASING, HEALTH AND NUTRITION, TEXTILES,