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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
ALEXANDRIA.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, April 2 (Spe-
ciaD The annual election of vestry-
men Of st. Paul's Episcopal Church was
held yesterday with DR.. George T. Kip
stein, w. B. Smoot, Urban S. Lambert,
E. c. Dunn, T. C. Perry, Arthur Her
bert, jr; G. S. Taylor Burke, James
S. Smyth, Sherman B. Fowler, George
H. Evans, Wilmer j. Waller, Edmund
F. TIGER, C. Phillip HeiShley, E. H.
Kemper and Robert S. Barrett being
elected to serve during the ensuing
year.
The monthly report of the Alexandria
Fire Department, announced today by
Fire Chief James M. Duncan, jr., shows
that local firemen responded to 81
alarms during March, Of which % were
local alarms, 4 general and suburban.
Fire loss for the month amounted to
approximately $4,660.
Ellicott F. Hoffman, clerk of the
Corporation Court, collected $542.67
for the State from taxes on deeds,
wills, suits, delinquent taxes and mar
riage licenses during March.
James M. Quirk, 2-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Matthew Quirk. of BIG
South Fairfax street, died at the Alex
andria Hospital yesterday afternoon.
EuIlcIdi dIIdueCllCAsto 4ldfC AOt bCCil
completed.
John Tyler, 10, of r. F. D. /, has
been turned over to Fairfax County
police on a charge of HOUSEKEEPING
and larceny. He was arrested Satur-
day night by Detective Sergt. Edgar
Sims and Police Sergt. Charles McClary
of the Alexandria Police Department.
Mrs. Ida Williams of 223 South Lee
street has reported to police the disap-
pearance of her son, Thomas II. Will
liams, IS, from her home. The youth
lost q leg when run over by street
car several years ago and walks with
crutch.
Rosemary wyman of Duke and Pit
streets, was injured slightly yesterda!
afternoon when struck by an automo.
bile, driven by Mary Kendrick OF
washington street extended.
The viii of the late Judge j. K. M
Norton was admitted to probate herr
yesterday, leaving the entire estate
valued at approximately $4,000, to nj
wife. Mrs. Frances w. Norton. Mrs
Norton qualified as administrative witt
A. II. Sands as co-administrator.
Masonic night was celebrated by thu
Alexandria Shrine Club last night. II
II. Newton, Ben West and j.. e. Cassed,
were in charge of the entertainment.
Mrs. E. E. Carver, president OF tn
general Parent Teacher Association o
this city. has been elected sixth vice
president of the Virginia Congress o
Parent- Teacher Associations and ais
director of home service. She will repre-
sent the eighth Congressional distric
at the National Congress of Parents an
Teachers to be held in Washington
Nav 4 to II. Mrs. ]. Owen Lynch 9
this city, is the alternate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
Embassy Liquor
On Docks Guarded
After Publicity
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April Publicity
directing attention to liquor ship
ments for foreign embassies and le-
cations at Washington, resulting
from recent interference with one
shipment and consequent new ar
rangements for making such ship
ments through this port, led today
to placing a special guard around
the Government warehouse here.
In the warehouse are about 200
packages Of liquor, waiting to be
called for by representatives Of the
Bolivian, Albanian, Costa Rican and
Nicaraguan legations and the Japa-
nese embassy. Previous shipments
through Baltimore had not attracted
such wide attention, John A. Janet
IKE, IT., Government appraiser, said,
explaining the posting Of the guard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02

free nursing was given by the hospital
to the city's poor during the past year
necessitating an expenditure Of $l2,-
657.81.
The total amount of securities and
cash held by the board Of trustees In
the endowment fund of the hospital
now amounts to sos, 1921.
Resolutions of respect for the late
Judge j. K. NJ. Norton, an active hos
pital worker, were passed at the meet
ing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
Charges Moonshine
Mash Clogs Sewers
OF City's Streets
snecial nisna,ch to rhe Star.


CUMBERLAND, Md. April a.
City Commissioner Charles F. Heller,
who has charge Of streets and sew
ers, yesterday In the City Council
charged that certain sewers in the
city were choked with devitiated
mash, evidently the by-product of
distilling or brewing operations.
Police Commissioner Herbert Lee
Blye asked him in which sections Of
the city this was true. Mr.. Heller
replied that 1t was in good residen-
tial sections.
The subject was brought up when
Commissioner Heller asked under
whose jurisdiction the practice of
local garages in depositing refuse. oil
in sewers came. Mayor Thomas w.
Koon said it was up to the Police
Department to make arrests If the
sewers became clogged as result
of this practice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02

for $4,000 in each of two cases. One
of these is pending in the United States
District Court Of Appeals and the other
bond Is in case which originated since
then involving manufacture and pos
session. Officers declare they found a
complete brewing plant in operation
when they recently went to serve a
restraining order on him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
Letter From President Hoover Received
By Cumberland Woman 81 Years Old

terested in my campaign last Fall and
want you to know of my qualification
in receiving the support of one who has
seen so much of the development of
our country. With best wishes Cor your
continued good health, am. Yours
faithfully. HERBERT HOOVER.
Mrs. Morris is very active for her
age. She resides with her two daugh-
tiers and finds much diversion in bridge,
at which she plays splendid game.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
Mueller Is Seriously III.

BERLIN, April tE).-The gravity of
Chancellor Mueller's illness, bilious
affection, has increased with the setting
in of kidney and liver complications.
The chancellor has been indiSposed for
about week and it had beon hoped
that he would be able to resume work
after Easter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
Special pisps tch to The star.

CUMBERLAND, Md, April Mrs.
Grace Morris, Grey Gables Apartments,
who is nearly 81 years old, and who
voted for President Herbert Hoover in
the last presidential election, has re-
ceived a personal letter from the Presi-
dent thanking her for her support. The
letter says:
my Dear Mrs. Morris: 1t has Just
come to my notice that you were in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
GROUP TO ENTERTAIN.
Elizabeth Somers Glee Club SEIZED
ules Concert Tonight.

The Elizabeth Somers Glee Club, fea-
turing Katherine Riggs, harpist, and
Emily Coville, soprano, will give a con-
cert this evening at BIS o'clock In Bar
ker Hall of the Y. w. G. A. building
Seventeenth and X streets, under di-
rection of Imogene B. Ireland.
Katherine Meritz will play incidental
violin obbligatos and Alta M. Smith, So
prano, will sing. Miss Smith Is as
sistant director Of the club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
GIRL FATALLY HURT o
IN FALL FROM AUTO
Thrown From Car by Sudden
Start in Return From Easter
Egg Hunt.
gpecIal pIspatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DANVILLE, Va, April 2--An Easter
tragedy was recorded today when Nellie
Bigger, IS, daughter Of ]. r. Bigger.
died from a fractured skull sustained
in an automobile accident near here.
The girl, with friends, was returning
from an Easter egg hunt in an auto
mobile driven by Bonnie Pruitt, who
was carrying the children home.
Pruitt stopped at road intersection
and thinking the child had alighted
started his car. She was thrown off
and fell on her head.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
FORMER BREWER POSTS
$1,000 ADDITIONAL BOND
officers Say They Found Complete
Plant on Carl Schlosstein's
Premises, in Maryland.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md, April 2.-Karl
Schlosstein, former brewmaster of the
old Frostburg Brewing Co.. was required
to post SIS 900 additional bond by United
States Commissioner Thomas j. An
derson yesterday on a charge OF vio-
lating the Volstead act on his premises
Schlosstein was already under bond
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02

There is an exhibition Of French
painting Of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, unique, says the Transcript,
SO far as Boston is concerned because
Of its scope and the many important
pictures open at the Fogg Museum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
L. E. Carr, Rail Attorney, Dies.

ALBANY, N. Y, April 2 tP.-Lewis
E. Carr, widely known Albany attorney,
for many years chief counsel for the
Delaware g. Hudson Railroad, died at
his home here yesterday. He had been
i'll for several months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
Mellon Policies Commended.

"The women of Colombia are not yet
ready for the VOTE" says Sonora &c
Carreno. Being barred from entrance
to the universities, they find nearly all
the professions and higher official posts
closed m them -
Evening star., 1929-12-15
PATIENTS ENJOY
RADIO PROGRAMS
Earphones Needed in Govern
ment Hospitals to Enable
All to Hear BroadCastS.

Only those of the listening radio au-
dience who have been confined to their
homes with illness or undergone hospi-
talization in one Of the Government or
civic hospitals can realize the true
benefit and delight Of receiving the
splendid broadcasting programs now
available. The casual listener who Is
able to get about and enjoy other forms
of entertainment. of course, appreciates
broadcast programs when he chooses
to listen in, but there Is little entertain
ment available to the bed patient, eSpe-
cially if he is in hospital where the
lights go out at 9 o'clock and there Is
nothing left for him to do but consider
his own misfortunes or go to sleep,
According to Carl H. Butman, secre-
tary of the Federal Radio Commission,
who has Just been discharged from the
Naval Hospital, there is nothing which
the patients look forward to more anx-
iously than the receipt of the broadcast
programs in the afternoons, and eSpe-
cially in the evenings after 9 O'Clock,
which is literally taps" in this Gov
ernment hospital. OF course, loud
speakers cannot be used. Not all the
patients are able to enjoy the privi-
lege of listening in individually because
the hospital is short 100 head phones,
and it is in the interest Of the patients,
particularly in the Government hoSpi-
tails, who are denied this privilege that
this article is written in the hope that
Evening star., 1929-12-15

nounce a program. A man must
have a good voice, be able to speak
at least three languages, under
stand something of history, sci
ence, literature and have a fine
appearance. You do not see him,
Of course. But the artists who
perform do, and he is for the time
their manager. His pay envelope,
like that of the artists he directs,
varies greatly. A good announcer
gets from $100 to $500 a week or
even more; artists may receive
from $25 for a single turn to $500
an hour.
1.-THE most important factor
dominating radio performance is
time. Radio is run much as any
newspaper or magazine. They sell
space to advertisers; radio sells
the waves it controls for certain
length of time.
Suppose a soap manufacturer
buys a half hours radio time. If
the broadcasting studio protractS
that half hour by one minute, and
the program given is being relayed
by so stations, that 1 minute is
multiplied by 60; the manufac-
turer has really received an extra
hour of radio time, for which he
has not paid and which may have
to come off another mans time.
GAS a result of this time selling,
watches and clocks all set to-
gether fairly permeate broadcast
ing studios. Specially regulated
stop watches are everywhere, in
the hand of the announcer, on
music racks, on the piano. And
the director is fairly strung on
time. His is the responsibility. AS
he finishes, another studio holds
performers waiting, tense, to go
on. AS his act ends the invisible
audience must at once have an
other.
"'Five seconds of silence" say
the broadcasterS, are enough to
lose thousands of listeners. There
must not be a seconds waste. If
number finishes too soon, the
company must fill in, or the an
nouncer must. An announcer who
can improviSe in such emergency
is jewel. Never can we be silent"
Evening star., 1929-12-15

ceived is in excess of those needed by
the Naval Hospital, they will be given
to the Walter Reed Hospital or other
local hospitals short of such equipment
Given New Receiving Set.
The Naval Hospital radio equipment
has been augmented recently by the
donation of a new receiving set from
a radio manufacturer, so that two re-
ceiving sets are now available. The
operator will now be in a position to
offer continuous programs from fairly
early in the morning until approx
mately IL or II at night. Due to the
fact that the hospital had only one set,
it was only operated half time, since
its constant operation would possibly
cause excess wear and tear and might
put out of commission the only receiv-
ing set available for carrying the pro-
grams to the various wards. AS the
system of wiring at the receiving sta
ton provides for the immediate SWITCH
ing of the ward circuits from one set to
another. it will now be possible for the
operator to change from the program
of one station to that of another with
out undue interruption, or even to sup
ply two programs, one to certain wards
and another to the balance, which was
not possible in the past.
~ ID DCAACNCN IAlClb okAOL Wy LAlC ICNuCSt
of the chaplain for a microphone and
suitable connecting equipment will soon
be filled. so that the chaplain or the
executive officer will be able, when de-
sired, to address all patients in the hos
pital by means of the present wire syS-
tenn. This will make possible the con-
Quoting of religious ceremonies on Sum
days, the transmission of any tmpor-
tant communications of a general ma
ture to all patients and even the deliv-
cry OF a local program presented IA
some part of the hospital to all the
patients and service men confined there,
approximately 65 per cent of whom are
patients sent to the Naval Hospital by
the Veterans Bureau.
II the listeners could visit the wards
after hours and see with what interest
the patients assume their head phones
when the programs are available, it is
felt certain that those who have serv-
iceable head phones would gladly re-
spond to this plea.
Listeners who have available phones
are urged to leave them at the district
office Of the American Legion at their
earliest opportunity, so as to insure
their delivery to the hospital before
Christmas. Then every patient may
have the privilege of listening in to
the Christmas programs. instead of
only those of the 400-odd who have
been in the hospital long enough to
rate a pair Of head phones.
Evening star., 1929-12-15

"Hill Billies'" Return.
The Pickard family will be back on
WIZ and stations Saturday evening
with their hill billy songs.
Evening star., 1929-12-15
MORE CHANNELS
ARE HELD NEEDED
Lack of Wave Lengths Is Re-
garded as Greatest Prob
lem of BroadcaSting.

BY the Associated Press.
Broadcasting's greatest problem from
an engineering standpoint is still the
lack of wave lengths.
Despite many experiments in syn
chronization, the cleared channel Sys-
tenn and the division of time, "too few
channels for too many stations" is said
to be the chief cause of poor reception
conditions and the constant worry of
governmental engineers.
Radios big trouble, says Capt. Guy
Hill, chief engineer for the Federal
Radio Commission, is that of too many
broadcaSting stations.
The Middle West, or fourth radio
zone, has long been considered the
"sore spot" of broadcasting. Conges-
ton of stations, particularly in the
Chicago area, has been one Of the
toughest ALLEGATION problems. Several
stations, recognized as giving superior
program service. have been required to
share time with two or more stations
on the same channel owing to the lack
of wave lengths.
When the commission shifted several
stations in the fourth zone to improve
reception, number of broadcasterS,
adversely affected by the change in
frequencies, appealed to the courts.
What had benefited some stations ap-
parently had injured others.
SynchronZation tests have failed, in
the opinion of the engineers, TO develop
a practical method for simultaneous
operation Of high power stations on a
single channel without interference.
The most feasible method, that of syn
chronization by wire, is said to be too
costly for use by stations located long
distances apart.
Several big stations, now dividing
time, are urging establishment of more
cleared channels to allow them full
time opera ttcn.
Evening star., 1929-12-15

Choir to Broadcast Program.
14o voices is to give Christmas eve
program on WPG, Arthur Scott Brook,
orgarist and director of the choir, will
be at the organ.
Evening star., 1929-12-15
Behind the MicrOphOne
BY THE RADIO EDITOR.

novelty broadcaSts, unusual eX-
perimentS, etc. Too much music,
too many talks and lectures and
too many novelties began to create
interest in radio plays and the
continuity sketches in which the
same characters were heard from
week to week.
Probably it is true that music
will always be the foundation of
broadcasting, but the listening
public demands and will continue
to demand real variety in pro-
grams. 1t has found out that it
quickly gets Surfeited of too much
of any one kind of entertainment.
It has become educated in mod
Grafton through the forcible les
son of contrast that has come
when any immoderate emphasis
has been placed on one particu-
lar radio feature. 1t has realized
that too much of any one thing is
not good.
A balanced variety program is
what the radio audience wants
and what it should get.
Why is it that the unseen lis
tenerS" would rather hear con-
traltoS and baritoneS, and yet the
most popular singers are sopranos
and tenors? The science of radio
may be mysterious, but it is not
more SO than the WhimS of the
radio audience. TheSe-and what
happens at the studio end of the
ether waves-are vividly described
by Helen Christine Bennett in Nc
Calls for January:
From millions of letters the
radio broadcaSter believes that
orcheStraS which play dance
music selections are the most pop
ular of all entertainments. Paul
Whiteman's, Ben Bernie's, Vincent
Lopez orcheStraS are high in IA
vor. So far, the violin is the most
popular solo instrument. These
two instrumental features are
more popular than singing. In the
singing field male voices are far
more popular than female and
baritoneS lead the list.
ut is true" she says, that bari
tones are generally the most pop
ular. But the most popular stars
today in male voices are tenors
When a singer gets a following it
doesn't seem that the general rule
applies. Rudy Vallee, Wendell
Hall, James Melton, Franklyn
Baur, Morton Downey and Red
fern Hollingshead have built q
personal following that eclipses
for the moment that of any bari
tone.
Women are far less popular
than men, and contralto voices in
general are more popular than
sopranos. Yet at the present time
Olive Palmer, a coloratura So
prano, and Jessica Dragonette, a
lyric soprano, have bigger follow
ingS than any of the contraltos
We know these things definitely
through letters and the demands
for personal appearances.
Singing is far more popular
than talking, but the most popular
talking performer is the an
nouncer. Our announcerS are al
most matinee idols.
I'm times past every one wanted
to be on the stage; now every one
wants to be in the movies or on
the air. 1t is no small job to an
Evening star., 1929-12-15

complete equipment may be assured in
the form of Christmas presents.
Although the Naval Hospital is wired
so that phones may be attached to
every bed, and there are 435 beds in
the various wards, the hospital can
supply phones for only three out of
four patients.
Requirements Are Needed.
Some time ago, through the aid OF
the Roxy fund, local hospitals were
wired and equipped for the reception
and relay of broadcast programs to
every bed, but in the last few years
many head phones have been worn
out, been damaged beyond repair or
lost. The Roxy fund Is now exhausted,
and official adviceS to the hospitals In
dicate that no more head phones can
be secured from this source. Appropri-
ationS Of the Navy are not available
for this purpose, and SO an appeal' is
being made to the radio listeners who
have sets of head phones IN good con-
dition which they no longer use since
the adoption of the loud speaker, so
much more attractive and adaptable
for use in the living room. Broadcast
listeneners are therefore urged to look
through their discarded radio appara~
tuS to ascertain If they have not one
or more pairs of head phones in good
shape which they might donate as a
Christmas present to the Naval Hospi-
tai In the event such phones are
found, it is requested that they be de-
livered to the headquarters of the De-
partment of the District of Columbia,
American Legion, Room 211 Transpor-
tation Building, Seventeenth and H
streets.
Austin S. Imirie, director of welfare
IaF AF l1a oVtT, ff 10
District of Columbia of the American
Legion, has offered to take charge of
these phones in the event the radio
listeners respond to this appeal. and
turn them over to the hospital. In
the event the number of phones re-
Evening star., 1929-12-15
w WASHINGTON today loses
M one of it's veteran radio
Wv executives, Ralph Ed
rnnn1rndc n,nn u nnH, of Sta

M one of it's veteran radio
" " executives, Ralph Ed
mundS, manager OF Sta
ton WRC, who goes to New York
to take a new and more important
position in the National Broad
casting Co.
Ever since the opening of WRC,
back in August, 1923, Mr.. EdmundS
has been an outstanding figure in
the development of the station.
Starting as its program director
he later became manager, which
position he continued to hold
when the National Broadcasting
Co. took over the management
and operation of the station.
In New York Mr.. EdmundS will
work with Keith Mcleod, general
musical director of the National
BroadcaSting Co. The work of
this department includes the Sc
lection of artists for the network
programs and supervision over the
musical features.
The post was given Mr.. Ed
munds because of his long expert
ence in musical work. For more
then 20 years before identifying
himself with radio he was in the
concert field and had been asSo-
ciated with the Metropolitan
Opera House in New York, the
Chicago Civic Opera Company, the
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra
and many other outstanding
musical organizations.
Born in London, Mr.. EdmundS
received his education in the pre-
paratory schools of England and
France, at Eaton College and the
Lycee Louis lie Grand. He came to
the United States in 1900 to ac-
cept a post at the Metropolitan
Opera House.
Radio broadcaSting, particularly
the broadcasting of entertain
ment, was comparatively new
when Mr.. EdmundS came to WRC.
In those days the station operated
only few hours a day, local tai
ent supplying all of the entertain
ment. Since then a tremendous
change has taken place. WRC op-
crates more than II hours a day
and program material is supplied
from all parts of the country.
x n x
Radio broadcasting is proving
daily that the American people
are believers in moderation and
temperance. It is indicating un-
mistakably that they are not in
favor of extremes. And it is re-
vealing itself as the mightiest
force in the interest of education
since the invention of printing.
Several years ago surveys and
letters indicated that jazz music
bands were the popular favoriteS
of the listening public. Every sta
tion in the country Immediately
featured jazz. For time the lis
teners were literally drowned in
a flood of blue notes.
Slowly, but with increasing
force. the fans rebelled. The
broadcasters, quick to sense the
change in sentiment, switched to
other forms of music, such as
semi classical, symphony music,
classical music and simple tunes.
For a time, however, music was
/ about all that could be heard over
the air. This was followed by a
reaction against too much music,
and the listeners became interest
ed in talks, lectures, travelogueS
and speeches. Too great a per-
centage of music and talks, lee
lures, etc, in program whetted
the listeners appetite for novel
ties, such as comedy sketches,