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...that figure." Thus last week in Chicago did thin, baldish Dr. Walter H. Silge address the members of the German-American National Alliance. Although the doctor was not on the air, his remarks were typical of the propaganda that the G. A. N.A. broadcasts daily over Station WHIP in Hammond...
Owned by the Hammond-Calumet Broadcasting Corp., of which Dr. George F. Courrier, a Methodist minister, is chief stockholder, WHIP does a lot of religious broadcasting. Welcoming the estimated $1,000 a week that G. A. N. A. pays for time, WHIP's director, plumpish, blonds Doris Keane, asserts: "Our programs are 100% American." Among commercial touches on the G. A.N>A> show are occasional plugs for Dr. Silge, who is a Chicago optometrist. Says Dr. Silge: "The newspapers may call us fifth columnists, but they can't prove it because it isn't true...
Keeping tabs on the G. A. N. A. are a civic committee and a self-appointed squad of businessmen, while the station in turn has spotters watching "certain Hammond businessmen." With everybody claiming to be helping the F. B. I., Hammond has taken on a fine Balkan atmosphere...
...John Hammond, pinko, Negrophile, jazz-purist and talent scout for Columbia, WPA seemed insulting to workers, degrading to Negroes. "It's inciting everything that's lousy," proclaimed Mr. Hammond, and took steps. He asked Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. to alter the offensive lyrics. They refused. Thereupon Mr. Hammond squashed a projected Columbia recording of the song, and called the cops-the New York local of the American Federation of Musicians...
...LADY WEPT ALONE-Carolyn Byrd Dawson-Crime Club ($2). Miss Matilda Brockett, the Grand Old Lady of the whole town, and Sheriff Tim Hammond untangle the jams into which Jay Halliday's shooting plunges his wife, exwife, Andy the ex-wife's suitor...