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Show Radio Reports Opening of . Edison V Desk on February 8 with radio-active metals. . The desk is located beneath an Edison-invented electric clock that his family claims stopped exactly the moment his heart stopped beating, 3:27 a.m., Nov. 18, 1931. The "Bands for Bonds" show, heard Saturdays from 12-12:30 p.m., CST) , has been cancelled for Feb. 8 to permit the Edison broadcast. t Thomas Alva -Edison, consid-: consid-: ered;- the greatest modern-world inventor died at 3:27 a.m., Nov. '18,. 1901; exactly ohe month after he locked his roll-top desk in his laboratory library for the last . time. . , On Saturday, Feb. 8, when the desk is unsealed and reopened a. radio reporter will be on hand to teil exclusively over the Mutual Mu-tual Broadcasting System exactly exact-ly what mysteries the inventor had sealed, in the old oaken desk that had been his paper workbench work-bench for 32 years. The pro- gram' will be broadcast fromi U-12:15 U-12:15 p.m., CST, and is part of a centennial celebration commemorating com-memorating his birth. Remarks of the inventor's widow, Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, his son, former for-mer naval secretary and ex-Governor Charles Edison,' of New Jersey, and his lifelong friend, Harvey Firestone, Jr., will also be heard on the program. No one knows yet what will be uncovered. There is a possibility, pos-sibility, however, that the curtain cur-tain will he lifted on- many modern conveniences which the inventor had no time to perfect per-fect for the world to use. It has been definitely known, for example, ex-ample, that Mr. Edison was experimenting ex-perimenting with goldenrod-rubber, goldenrod-rubber, one of the earlier synthetic syn-thetic rubber products, and |