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OPERAS Of PUCC|NI III
TO Be BROADCAST
WEAF Is Key Station ofl23
Scheduled Coast-to- :,
Coast Programs.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the hSSoCldteu FIeSS
NEW YORK.-Lovers Of the musical
classics are to hear a series Of Giacom0
Puccinis operas on the radio for the
first time.
Beginning with the presentation or.
Mime. Butterfly" Saturday night at 2
O'Clock, over a coast-to-coast network
Of IS stations associated with the N.
B. C. chain, six Of his operas are to be
presented, one each month. WEAF is
to be the key station.
Permission for the broadcasts has
Just been granted by George Maxwell,
American representative of the house
the copyrights. He reserved the right
to supervise all artistic details.
Change in Policy.
The copyright owners previously had
declined requests to present these mu-
steal productions on the air. The
change in policy came about through Q
belief that radio now has reached the
point of development whereby the fun
range of classical music can be trans
mitted.
OF all Puccini's music, only two num-
bers have been broadcast. The f1rst
was the duet from La Boheme" fiVe
years ago and an aria from Nine.
Butterfly" later.
operate stars are TO participate WIN
an orchestra conducted by GennAro
Papi who was director Of Italian operas
at the Metropolitan Opera House, New
York, for IL years.
Notable Singers.
Singers will include Mime. Frances
Aida, Mario Chamlee, Pasquale Anato,
Alfred O'Shea and Merle Alcock, all
widely known on the operate stage.
Deems Taylor composer and common
tator, will recite the lihretto.
In addition to Mime. Butterfly" these
operas will be heard in this order at
monthly intervals: La Tosca," Girl
of the Golden West" "Manon Lescourt,
1.-The Trypich," the name by which
three short operas, I'll Tabarro," Clan
nj Schicchi," and "Suor Angelica" are
known, and La Boheme."
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this country look to the future use Of
these channels for point-to-point serv-
ice and beam and facsimile transmits
sion. according to license records OF the
Federal Radio Commission. The expert
mentS generally are intended to deter
mine the characteristics of the frequen-
cies. such as reliability and pecu-
liarity, but are often conducted also to
aid in the development Of low-capacity
vacuum tubes.
Extremely short antennae sometimes
are used to radiate these short-wave
signals. A recent scientific radio jour-
nal told how Japanese engineer, using
common pins as antennae, was able to
transmit signals distance OF about 100
yards via certain ultra-short waves.
(Copyright, 1929. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance)
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Station Anniversary.

In observation of its tenth anniver-
sary as a broadcast station, KDKA
which anno1Rces itself as the pioneer
broadcasting station of the world, pre-
Sented q 4o-hour program.
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Song of Bakers.

The first published song written by
Ell Sullivan. bakery wagon driver at
New Bedford, Conn. is to be sung by
the Happy Bakers and associates Wed
nesday
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Golf Trials Subject.

Crucial moments in golf cham
pionship will be described by Phillips
Carlin on WIZ and network Thursday
as his part of the Sparkers' program.
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Gold King" on Radio.

"The Gold King" in four acts, is to
be presented by Hank Simmons Show
boat cast Wednesday night, on the
CHS chain.
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Rhodesia threatens to break away
from the Union of South Africa and
have q separate tariff.
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New Director at WWJ.

Hermann Hoexter has joined the stan
of WWJ to become program director
He formerly was chief of the N8C re-
search bureau.
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THE AZING FADA ACHIEVE =
Nj Mt AT HI IS Re v % L U 90
TITO IZED RADIO R &C PIT n
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doza conducting broadcast every
Tuesday night at 10 o'clock, East
srn Standard Time, from Station
WMAL, Washington, 475.9 meters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-08

Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Taylor an
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Miss Elizabeth Warner, sister Of the
Assistant Secretary Of the Navy for
Aeronautics, Mr.. Edward p. Warner,
left yesterday for Cambridge, Mass,
where she will remain until Saturday,
in Wardman Park Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-08

Mr.. williams, who is president Of the
Royal Society of Miniature Painters,
has taken a studio at 1924 Connecticut
avenue, where with Mrs. Williams, he
will be at home Friday afternoons.
Mrs. Lee Lands entertained at nine
tables of bridge yesterday afternoon,
in compliment to Mrs. Horace w. V.
Money of California, who is visiting DR..
and Mrs. M. A. Mitchell.
Additional guests were invited for tea.
when Mrs. Phyllis Lamar and Mrs.
Edward Joyce. jr., presided at the tea
table. Others assisting Mrs. Lands
generally, we're Mrs. Samuel Rhodes,
Mrs. Roger Williams Evans, Mrs.
Charles Martin, Miss Adele Henry and
Miss Alexander.
The Misses Sutro entertained at
luncheon yesterday at the Carlton in
honor of DR. and Mrs. Henry Hadley
after their salon musicale in the Wash
ington Club where group of musicians
played a number of DR.. Hadley'S COM
positions.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lucius Seymour Storrs
Continued on Fifteenth Page)
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The newly appointed military attache
of the French embassy, Gen. Raymond
Casanave, will arrive tomorrow, and will
occupy an apartment in the Wardman
Park Hotel. Nine. Cassnave and their
two children remained in Europe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-08

Brig. Gen. William E. Horton will
leave this afternoon to inspect buildings
being erected by the Construction Serv-
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tContlnued on Fifteenth Page)
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and Mrs. Everett Sanders. Mrs. Fair
banks Is a son of the late Vice PreSi-
dent Charles Warren Fairbanks Of
indianapolis.
The president of Cornell University
and Mrs. Livingston Farrand announce
the engagement of their eldest daugh-
ter. Margaret Propert, to Mr.. Harry A.
F.. Eaton of Washington. The wedding
will take place in March.
Miss Farrand attended Miss Ma
deira's School In Washington and grad
uated from Vassar College in the class
of 1925.
Mr.. Eaton is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry M. Eaton Of Washington. He
graduated from Cornell University in
1916, later serving overseas In the
American Expeditionary Force. He Is
now a member of law firm in Wash
ington.
HEr a~A HFye Gaar~A . To UJnN
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nounce the engagement of their daugh-
ter, Harriet Alice, to Mr.. Howard Som
ervell, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Howe Somervell.
Miss Taylor is graduate Of Friends
Select School. Philadelphia, and at
tended Hood College.
Mr.. Somervell is an alumnus of
Webb Institute. New York City. and Of
George Washington University Law
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School. He is a member of Kappa
Sigma and Phi Delta Phi Fraternities
and the Society of the Cincinnati Mr.
Somervell is connected with patent
law firm in Chicago.
Mrs. Minnigerode Andrews is spend
ing today in Washington and will speak
this evening before the Jewish Com
munity Center on Thomas Jefferson,
who through his statute on religious
freedom gave assistance to the citizen
ship of the Jewish people. Mrs. An
drews Is member of the board of gov
errors of the Monticello Memorial AS
ISOLATION.
Mr. Charles Conkling. who has been
the guest of his uncle and aunt, Mr.
and Mrs. Cabot Stevens, has returned
to his studies at Harvard University.
His brothers, Mr.. George Conkling. and
Mr. William H. Conkling. jr., have re-
turned to their studies at Dartmouth
Mrs. William H. Conklin entertained
group of young people at dinner for
her sons the evening before their de-
parture.
Mrs. Stevens was hostess at luncheon
Saturday for her schoolgirl niece, Miss
Margaret Conkling, having as her
guests Miss Kathleen King, Miss Janet
Large. Miss Susan Shepherd, Miss Jean
Burger, Miss Jean Creech and Miss
Margaret Swing.
Mrs. Stevens and Mrs. Conkling have
Cancelled their social engagements for
this week because of slight illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allyn Williams after
spending the Summer in their country
home, Barracks Hill, at Plumpton, in
Sussex England, have returned to this
country and are spending the Winter
in Washington.
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The Secretary Of State and Mrs. KeI-
Iopp will be the honor guests at dinner
this evening of the Ambassador OF Ger
many and Frau Won Prittwitz und Gar
from.
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THE President and Mrs. Coolidge
will be entertained at dinner
this evening at the Willard Hotel
by the Attorney General and
Mrs. Sargent. This will be the
fifth of the series of dinners given in
honor Of the Chief Executive and Mrs.
Coolidge by the members of the Presi-
dents official family.
Mrs. Coolidge attended the Senate
ladies' luncheon at the Capitol today.
The Vice President and Mrs. Dawes
will be the honor guests at dinner this
evening of the secretary to the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Everett Sanders, who VIII
entertain in the Chinese room of the
MaYf1oWer.
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SOCIETY.
The Chief Executive and Mrs. Coolidge
to Be Feted Tonight by Attorney
General and Mrs. Sargent.

| ice of the Quartermaster Corps, at Fort
Jay and Fort Wadsworth, New York.
Gen. Aston Hamilton, U. S. A.. of
Schofield Barracks, Philippine Islands,
who came to Washington for the serv-
ices yesterday for the late Mrs. Hamil-
ton. is spending some time at the Grace
Dodge Hotel With him are his daugh-
ter Miss Aston Hamilton, and his son,
Capt. John c. Hamilton of Fort Riley,
Kan: Mrs. James S. Chenoweth and
Mrs. B NJ. Creel of Louisville, KY; Mr.
B. v. Hamilton and Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
P Plurnmer of Petersburg, Va, and
Mrs. Thomas P. Bryan of Richmond,
Va. Mrs. Plummer and Mrs. Bryan are
travelling by automobile.
Mrs. Richard v. Taylor and Mrs.
Frank McManamy, wives of Interstate
Commerce Commissioners, entertained
the wives of the other Interstate Com
merce Commissioners at an informal
luncheon today at the Columbia Coun-
try Club.
Mrs. Edward Hale Campbell will en-
terrain at luncheon tomorrow at the
Mayflower, following the musical
morning" concert to be given by Mr..
Paul Kochanski and Mr.. Felix Sal
mond Among other luncheon hosteses
tomorrow at the Mayfiower following
the concert will be Mrs. James Couzens,
Mrs. S. Wallace Dempsey, Mrs. Camp
bell Turner, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. Mrs.
Karl Klemm, Mrs. George c. Thorpe,
Mrs. Henry T. Oxnard. Mrs. William
Lybrand, Mrs. L. r. Eakin, Mrs. David
H Blair, Mrs James A. Lyon, Mrs.
Elonzo Tyner, Mrs. Lindsay Morehead,
Mrs. Delos A. Blodgett. Mrs. Sydney A.
Cloman, Mrs Walter r. Tuckerman and
Mrs. Harry P. Huse.
Mrs. Richard Henry Leigh will re-
ceive tomorrow afternoon informally
from to o'clock and will observe
Wednesday afternoons at home, in
formally, through January and Feb
ruary.
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Congressional Club
Gard Party this Evening.


Members of the Congressional Club
were Mrs. Edward w. Pou. Mrs. NJ
Clyde Kelley, Mrs Carl MapeS, Mrs.
Edgar Howard, Mrs. Carleton E. Moran,
Mrs. John N. Sandlin. Mrs. Joseph A.
Herbert, Miss Helen Hudson and Mrs.
Thomas A. Walden.
Prof. C. j. Coffman, dean of the
School of Enumerators of Los Angeles,
will present a program at the club Fri
day afternoon at 3 o'clock on the sub
iect, Your Face and Your Head" Tea
will be served at the conclusion of
his talk.
The regular evening card party will
be given tonight at $50 o'clock in
the Congressional Club, with Mrs.
August H. Andersen as hostess.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Fairbanks and
their daughter, Miss Edith Fairbanks,
of Indianapolis will be at the May
flower until the end of the week They
will be among the guests attending the
dinner to be given this evening by Mr.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-22

to point out weghtier and wcrthier reasons If the
growth of industry and business responsible, it
will be his mission to emphasize and capitalize this
tendency.
His selection itself is symbol that the south has
changed politically 1t shows the administration at
Washington recognizes the difference between the
south of fifteen years ago and For had not
these considerations influenced party strategistS,
Huston would not have been thought of.
In other ways the administration shows its eyes
the south. The Presidents frequent visits to
Virginia, his pre-inaugural stay in Florida, his in
sistence on party reformation, his location of his
summer camp on the historic Rapidan his confer
ences with leaders of the Cannon Republican coa-
ton in the old doinions pending political contest
his projected trip to Texas-these reveal the extent
of his interest.
treated generously by the tariff makers and the fed
have been forthcoming since March L. Under such
ship pays dividends.
Huston, incidentally industrial and po-
ltical pioneer in the south. Twenty-eight years
ago he arrived in Chattanooga from Indiana his birth
state and Immediately launched a career as eff
cheney expert. His figures large in the in
dustral financial and commercial record of the com
munity well in similar circles in New York
City.
In 1920 he raised the sum of 100000 in Ten
nessee to finance the G. o. P. campaign there On
election day Tennessees voice was silent when the
roll of the Democratic solid south called.
Now he apparently has been drafted to finish the
work he helped to begin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-22
A Promise. at Least

At last there is promise of action to probe thor
oughv into the situation Of glaring inefnclency mis-
MANAGEMENT and waste in the motor transport wv
sion of the state highway department.
so far il is only promise, with Highway Director
John J Brown directed by the commission 70 hVesu-
gate the charges and report his findings BACK 70 tiS
orour gut il is start in the right direction which
can be made the means OF saving thousands oil dollars
to state taxpayers, if pushed vigorously
It NAV be sour" task for the highway chielS' DE-
cause in measure they will be sitting on trial them
selves despite the fact that the report OF expenditures
for 1927-1928 recently rereaed by The lleS covers
p period before Brown became director.
However, this report shows that waste was Wanton
.,d economy nuch-neglected virtue and the COM
mission should have known how affairs we're being
conducted even if it didn't.
Perhaps the highway director can ind OUT Wfla'
THE Times was unable to learn from the transport
chief whether the antiquated Dodge that received
tender ronstrations costing the state sl099 IN Che
YEAR of the Report left to limp along on us qSSo
worth of newly acquired parts?
Or whether since last October, a Few more
hundreds in materials, labor overhead and aonOVi
tive expenses were bestowed on the antique cralt IN
spirit of tender generosity.
And as MIR. Brown checks down that list OF some
1890 state-owned cars perhaps his curiosity Will DC
niored enough to make inquiries about other paSSe
ger cars trucks and tractors, whose one-year ndni
tensnce clearly we're unreasonable and unWarrall-eo'
What has been this years upkeep cost OF those
Fcrds that ran as high as $1,000 the Essex fleet that
averaged $685. and the surplus LibertyS that
mounted as high as $2935 for repairs in one year.
# costs in the report are so much water over the
dam the director and commissioners might turn theH
ewes upstream before the current hScal year coieS
70 an end Sept. 30 and the books are closed on an
other wears report-one which the public VIII want
~ inspect without the delay that attended the
last one.
And while the highway directors eyes are nXed
m the road building program, he should keep ears
sttned to the squeaks and rattes OF totterng equip
rnent that would better be sienced IN the JUNK Pie
than bv the oil of taxpayers dollars
What the motor transport division Itself appar-
+1 needs is an operation it has bestowed SO gen.
erouslv on highway equpment-"the valves grouno'
carbon removed and complete overhauling"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-22
Cleveland Sticks to City Manager

,oa,,se Cleveland was the first large city, and the
largest of American cities, to adopt the manager P
Of government, there much national interest Ii
this weeks election in the Ohio city.
And interest was especially keen here in Indian
snoIis with this city to take up this business
like form of government
For the third time in two years the manager plan
has been assaulted by combination Of machine poll
ticans and disgruntled independent voters ana LOT
the third time the manager plan barely has squeaKeo
through.
Two young idealsts presented SUBSTITUTE plan
which was defeated by only 31Oo votes out of the
$1,000 cast. That plan weak edition OF the ola
nnavor-ward system, was absorbed early by coah-
ton of powerful machine politicians headed by Maui
rice Maschke, Republican national committeeman
from, Ohio and Harry L. Davis, former mayor and
former Governor of Ohio.
The regular Democratic machine fell in behind
progressive government committee organized TO osN
fend the manager plan.
The fight was bitter and the result in doubt from
the outset.
The outcome is scarcely vndication of the man
aeer plan and the present manager W. H. HopXlns
Rather it points to the need for searching review OF
the weakness of the plan it has operated in the
fifth city.
Cleveland undoubtedly made two grave mistakes
In the setting up OF the manager plan ohe VI "leln
organic, the other tactical.
Instead of small council of nine, which Woulo
concentrate attention of the electorate and Whlcn
would be elected at large, the Cleveland set-up was
council of twenty-five elected by districts The large
council has scattered attention of independent voters
and has permitted the od-line machine politicians 70
dominate.
The tactical error was the failure Of the people who
voted in the manager plan to set up any kind OF
charter defense party.
The plan was left on its own the manager was LETT
N an EXPOSED position and the machine politicians
captured the council.
To these two fundamental weaknesses OF man
srer plan technique has been added the TACT tna'
W. r. Hopkins the manager. while an able ana htei
cent man. has somewhat mistaken his function ana
hss allowed himself to become something OF CIVIC
sr.eter instead of entirely business executive
It seems clear that the lesson OF CleVelanoS eA-
erence is not that the manager plan is itself weak
or faulty. but that its application to Cleveland mas
not been perfected
Most critical and intelligent observers OF govern
roent Who have known Cleveland under both mayor
and manager systems concede that the manager plan
should so
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-22
Victims of "JuStice'


Mrs. Wllebrandt says she disapproves of wire tap
ping by the government to get evidence against boot
eggers.
Yet in the Olmstead case, where liquor law vio-
lator was convicted on such evidence, and his con-
vction upheld by the courts, she recognizes that the
Interpretation of the Constitution against the law
breaker and in favor of the governments right to
catch him is prohibition victory of no small pro-
portions"
This sounds suspiciously like the reasoning which
has kept Tom Mooney jail for thirteen years. I'VE
may have the wrong evidence, but have the right
man." citizens who we're otherwise orderly and law
abiding have said. And because widespread belief
in the guilt of Mooney had been built up through
efforts of his enemies, few people have been con-
cerned about the processes of law that put him, and
kept him, in jail
Does any man doubt that public opinion might be
inflamed against him. too? Is anyone willing to throw
away, of little Importance the guarantees the law
can give him that in case he he will be tried
fairly?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-22
Society Note

A ND speaking of this same
IN Protestant hope, note that
George Akerson, secretary to the
President has established rule in
the matter of White House letters.
In refusing to answer a communl-
cation from an organization opposed
to blue laws, Mr. Akerson says:
"I return herewith your letter ad-
dressed to the President. This office
no longer receives letters addressed
to the President which are given
publicity prior to their receipt and
acknowledgment.
1 think upon consideration you
will agree that this course should be
followed, because the office OF the
President is entitled to the same
courtesy that is universally accorded
between ladies and gentlemen IN
such matters" .
But upon careful consideration it
seems to me that Mr.. Akerson is
entirely wrong. The open letter is
hallowed by tradition. A letter to a
mayor or Governor or President
questioning his policy upon some
public matter is not intended for
his private ear alone.
Recently President Hoover re-
ceived a delegation from the Lords
Day Alliance and listened to the
argument which its members ad-
vanced for strict Sabbath OBJ
servance law in the District OF CO.
lumbia. A little later he refused
to meet another delegation which
wished to present the case Tor the
opposite side.
Professor Henry FURY sent an
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-22
The Place of the Dirigible

The gobe-circling flight of the Graf Zeppelin is
spectacular and interesting aair-the sort of thing
that may well take hold OF the public imagination
and restore the drigble the place it formerly held
in the minds of men.
A dozen years ago all specuations above long dis
lance commercial aviation dealt exclusively with dirig
ibles It was not imagined that the arpane could
be developed to the point where it could carry
enough passengers and cargo to pay It's way as a
means of transportation.
The development of the airplane, however, has
been rapid that the dirgibe has been sideracked
in the popular mind at any rate. The great achieve
ments of the airplane have made the dirgfble look
slow, cumbersome and expensive.
There still is wide field of usefulness for the
dirigible however The round the-world fight Of the
Graf Zeppelin may focus public attention on this
fact II so, it will have been useful trip.