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Show MOTHERS' DAY MDIOPROGRAM The Fraternal Order of Eagles, which conducted a pioneering campaign for the national Mothers' Moth-ers' Day observance, is cooperating cooper-ating with the ABC radio network net-work in a nation-wide salute to Mothers' Day, Thursday, May 9, over the ABC network, it was announced today by Robert Moore, president of the Bingham aerie. The program may 'be heard over station KLUB. Malone. a widely known radio commentator, and narrator, who broadcasts daily over the ABC network, each year devotes a program to Mothers' Day, in which he salutes mothers, and relates the story of how a day came to be set aside in their honor. Malone is a writer and producer produc-er for radio shows, as well as a commentator. He has traveled throughout the world on assignments, assign-ments, which included the coronation cor-onation of Queen Elizabeth for the ABC network, and his extensive ex-tensive adventures both in Europe Eur-ope and the Orient have been thrillingly detailed to large radio audiences. The Eagles started the campaign cam-paign for a national Mothers' Day back in 1904 after one of their leaders, the late Frank E. Hering made the first public plea for such an observance at an Eagle meeting in Indianapolis, Ind. The Grand Aerie placed Motners Day on the Eagle calendar for observance by all local aeries, and later the Eagles were active in the drive in Congress for enactment en-actment of a national Mothers' Day, which was effected in 1914. I o |