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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-28
Three Days
of Unparalleled
Values

Now is the time to come to The
Hecht Co. to share in the Half
Yearly Sale of Homefurnishings.
IL you have any furniture needs >.
any homefurnishings needs >. do
not delay. This sale will be ended
Saturday. However, assortments
are still large, varieties still wide
=. but you must choose before
they are broken. Follow the lead
of other wise homemakers who
have purchased abundantly in this
unparalleled sale. Act soon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-28
Freight
Charges
Prepaid

We sciN prepay
freight charges to any
shipping point in the
continental United
States. Purchases scill
be held, if desired, for
three months sCithOut
extra cost to you.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-28
Visit "Homc, Sweet
III ON e. on the
Fourth Floor

Visit also the Furnished Rooms located in another
section furniture department. IL you wish, any piece
suite Of furniture that you select will be placed in
corresponding of your that you visualize
the effect in your home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14
McNar1lee
Speaking

They brought In enough cushions to
stock furniture store. Some were TOO
fat and some were too thin and some
too hard and some too soft. It seemed
that on account Of this pianist not be-
ing much bigger than piece OF chalk,
he had to build himself to given level,
with no more lee-way than the thick
ness Of sheet Of paper. And the
worst Of 1t was, 1t was 2 minutes 10 b.
was beginning to think that we
were about sunk, when one OF the
pages found steamer rug which an
executive had left in his Office. BY
folding this with the number Of folds
exactly required, and placing 1t on top
Of the cushions, the Signor was boosted
to his working level and he CURLY
nodded his acknowledgment Of our
efforts, exactly on the deadline OF 8.
Then he played like a cherubim End
seraphim and flock Of archangels. It
was grand night.
At our studio we have q great chance
to observe eccentricitieS OF tempera-
ment, and I would find 1t almost as in
teresting as ball game. II 1t weren't
for that menacing deadlinc and the
desperate necessity Of maintaining our
schedule. Many great artists have no
particular artistic foibles, but virtually
all of them get the cold shivers the
first time they approach microphone.
John Mccormack and Lucrezia Bori
made their radio debut together.
Mccormack paced up and down like a
trapped lion, with perspiration rolling
down his face. Lucrezia Bori was as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14
CELEBRATION URGED
FOR EMERGENCIES
Experience in Locating Cleveland
Airport by Radio Beacon
Is Related.

Radio stations on the civil airways
should have their transmitting sets cali
brated SO that broadcasting can be done
on the radio beacon wave length In
emergencies.
This is the opinion Of Wesley L.
Smith, division superintendent Of Ma
tional Air Transport, in a letter to the
Department OF. Commerce.
A pilot in difficulty has no time to
tune his radio receiver from beacon
to q communication wave length but
needs to have both beacon and voice on
the same channel, Mr.. Smith asserts.
He describes an experience he had in
locating the Cleveland airport by radio
beacon and landing his plane under
low ceiling and poor visibility.
IT went by the airport on the course
at 500 feet and saw nothing although
could identify the port by the change
in the radio beacon signal" he said. II
then started to ease down again and
once more found that the ceiling and
visibility were too low for safe flying.
THE radio beacon at Cleveland is
on the northwest side of the airport
so that the east-west course laid out
by the beacon does not lead over the
improved part of the airport. But the
north-south course passes over the
western end of the developed part. So
I pulled UP TO safe elevation and new
southwest.
Just as I located the north-south
beacon course there was break in
the clouds and ! found myself over
Berea so that had double check on
my location. The ceiling was still too
low to stay beneath the clouds so
flew north and came down under the
clouds over the western end of the air
port landed safely at AIS pm.
while believe that I could have
reached the airport safely without the
aid of the radio beacon by means of my
knowledge Of the country, feel that
the beacon made it much safer pro-
cess.
I'm difficulties such as I had the
pilot needs to have both beacon and
voice on the same wave length"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14
RADIOS STORM AID
TO BE EMPHASIZED
international Conference on Safety
Of Life at Sea to Be
Held in London.

Radios Importance in protecting the
thousands who. ride on storm-lashed
ships in fog and iceberg menaced wa
tiers viii be emphasized at the Interna-
toinaI Conference on Safety Of Life al
Sea which convenes in London Tuesday
The American delegation to the con-
ference, representing all agencies of the
Government interestd in shipping and
navigation, is headed by Representative
Wallace White, jr., Of Maine, one OF the
authors of the radio act.
The radio delegate from this country
is w. T. Terrell, chief Of the radio divi-
sion OF the Department Of Commerce
Lieut.. Z. M. Webster of the Coast Guard
will act as technical adviser on radio
matters.
The international conference which
prepared the original convention fol-
safety of life at sea was held in Lon
don in 1914, after the disaster to the
Titanic. which sank with the loss of
], 400 persons April Ia, 1912, after coll
lision with an iceberg Great strides
have been made since that conference
in the development of safety devices
the advance in radio being more rapid
than In any other field.
The purpose Of the coming conference
is to bring up to date the standards OF
safety of life at sea and to adopt inter-
national regulations regarding the In
Stallation of life-Saving devices, the
broadcasting of weather reports, distress
calls, signal codes, the destruction OF
derelicts and the maintenance of the
ice patrol.
Radio questions to be considered are
the more uniform use of standard ap-
paratus, the equipping Of life boats with
radio. the use of the automatic alarm
signal device and requirements for APP
paratus and operators aboard ship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14
RADIO PRICE DROP
HINTS TRADE WAR
Rival Manufacturers Believed
Drawing Lines for Drives
to Get Buyers.
BY C. e. BUTTERFTELD.
Associated Press Radio Editor.

Down comes the price Of radio sets.
Along with the drop there are hints at
drives by rival manufacturers to attract
to their sides the greatest number OF
purchasers.
AS the battle cries of the campaign
that now is on in earnest, apparently
to continue until Christmas, there will
be only shouts of glee of the recently
great radio Duying public.
Console Models Cited,
The first attack, begun with the new
year, gave little indication that it was
the initial laying down of a barrage OF
less dollars per radio set. 1t took the
form of console model receivers having
dynamic speakers, with the price tag
reading around Sis without tubes. y
Little was heard from what is taking
on the appearance of front line trenches
for some time. 1t seems that the rivals
simply were building up their reserves
for counter attack. The ammunition
proved to be another console model
containing the latest type magnetic
cone, at so cents under 500.
The opening skirrnish demonstrated
what could be done toward dressing ur
radio In metal cabinets.
Memorial to Heroes.
In New York City there is memorial
10 the heroes of wireless, said to be the
only one of its kind.
It is granite shaft standing ir
Battery Park, where it was unveiled Il
years ago to disclose the names OF nine
men carved on the face.
Action of the weather each year ha:
made these inscriptions fainter, unit
disappearance was threatened. Living
key Founders decided that this should
not be, so the granite Inscriptions were
replaced with bronze plates which nov
include the names of Is other heroes
Each side of the shaft also has beer
provided with bronze plaque on which
other names may be placed.
The memorial was inspired by thu
death of Jack Phillips, who went dowr
with the Titanic.
Loud Speakers in Bass.
Is the ultimate radio consumer get.
ting tired of an overdose OF overac-
centuated bass notes?
There are without doubt thousand,
Of speakers performing today whose sol'
reason for existence has been blamed
by the radio engineer upon the listeners
plea, IT want to hear the drums" They
60 boom" more often than they hi
the high registers of the soprano.
An increasing desire of new types o.
speakers to climb up little in the
scale may be the answer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14
Blind KGO Speaker
Reads Radio Talks
From Braille Type

SAN FRANCISCO Cp).-Kath-
crime Foley reads her prepared
radio talks over KGO from pages
of finger-reading Braille type.
Miss Foley, herself blind, has
adopted the radio to reach many
other persons who have lost their
sight. She is employed by the
California State Library to teach
the blind to read.
Miss Foley has carried on the
work for more than decade by
travelling from town to town. Now
she gives instructions over the
air, visiting various schools Of the.
blind during the six days OF the
week she is not at KGO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14
3aaie Board Of Fiber.

A bafile board capable of making the
dynamic perform satisfactorily may be
made Of fiber. A bafiie to reproduce
notes as low as rs cycles should be
about four feet square. The baffie pre-
vents sound waves, issuing from the
cancelling each other on the low side
Of the voice range.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14

cold as ice, her body inert with sort
of paralysis. Louise Homer was taut
and obviously exercising great self
control, but outwardly calm. Nine
Schumann -Heink met the ordeal calmly
and humorously, but it was an ordeal,
just the same. Emilio de Gorgoza also
took 1t easily. On the whole, think
women, while they are fastidious about
details, are less afraid Of microphone
than men.
copyright. 1920
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14
CANADIAN SETS GAIN.
Increase in First Ten Months Of
Fiscal Year Is Reported.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia Up.
Considerable increase is reported in
the number Of licenses issued to receiv-
ing set owners in British Columbia dur
Ing the first 10 months Of the fiscal year
l928-l929 as compared with the entire
season Of 1927-192S.
The number for the last 10 months
was 20,777, against 1861 for the previ-
Gus period. Vancouver is credited with
043l licenses
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14
RADIO HELPS CHILDREN.
Students Give Programs Weekly
Over WEDH.

ERIE, Pa. Oo).-Co-operation with the
schools in developing future broadcast
units is a feature of the work being
done by Uncle Charles Junior Radio
Club of WEDH
Each Saturday evening group TO
students from one school is presented
in musical and literary program. The
work has the Endorsement of school
principals, who realize its value in de-
veloping self control and poise.
In recent concert was presented a
5-year-old GIRL June Sullivan. who all
though not of school age. has been CIV
ing recitals of merit. Her work is at
tracing much attention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14
RADIO FANS ACTIVE.

Mail of Broadcasters swells From
Year to Year.
CHICAGO UP1.--Radio fans do not
tire Of sending letters to broadcasters.
Predictions made four or i've years ago
that the listeners soon would discon-
tinue the practice have been proven
false, say directors OF WENR. Chicago.
The mail Of WENR and other widely
known Chicago stations has increased
each year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14
Power Increased Ten Times.

The directional power of W2XAF.
short wave companion station, of WGY,
has been increased 10 times by the erec-
ton of a special antenna. 1t faces the
south and is used only once week
to broadcast to the Byrd expedition. 1t
is of the horizontal checkerboard type.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14
WFBM CLAIMS RECORD.

Has Broadcast Boxing Contests for.
Three Years.
INDIANAPOLIS CR.--WFBM claims
to have broadcast more boxing contests
than any other station in the United
States.
Every Tuesday night, from october
to May for three years, WFBM has
given its listeners a blow by blow de-
scription of the semi windups Of Amer
lean Legion shows staged In Indian
apolis. Officials at WFBM said they
had received kilograms from practically
all parts Of the country and from
Canada.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14
Mike Fits Flyers Face.

SAN FRANCISCO (R.--A micro
phone which fits over the face and is
supported by the helmet which con-
tains the earphones is an important
part Of the equipment for aviation radio
work. 1t is designed SO that it win
always be in position, no matter how
much the aviator moves his head.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14
GERMANY ADVANCES.
Paying Radio Subscribers Increase
81 Per Cent in Year,

BERLIN LP).-The number of paying
radio subscribers in Germany increased
from 2,009,84 in 1927 to 2.6S5,567 last
year, gain of 81 per cent, according to
a report of the German Federal Broad
casting Co., the organization which con-
trolls the various German broadcasting
concerns.
From October /, 1928, to January l.,
1929, 301, 314 new subscribers we're re-
corded. a-,i.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14
New Voice in Radioland.

CHICAGO (R.-The golden notes of
Gounod's majestic Ave Maria" brought
new voice to radioland-that of Rich
ard Earl Thompson, 14-year-old Oak
Park boy-soprano. Eastertide provided
the background for the debut of the
young singer.
The Washington times., 1929-07-08
Elimination of Road Houses in
Prince Georges County

nECISIoN Of the commissioners Of Prince Georges county
- Md. Washington's neighbor to the east
licenses to roadhOuses dance halls creditabe
with overwhelming public sentiment The policy of the county
commissioners should be permanent one for the good
county and its fine communities.
Neither public private morals advanced improved
by the presence Of establishments permitting nightly dancing
carOusng, drinking and gambling The intentions pro-
preors Of Of these places may be good but they
unable control the bad characters take advantage Of
their wide open features.
The decision Of the commissioners does interfere with
clubs cafes doing legitimate business these are re-
striCted to not than nights dancing week
American rOadhouses blot the well being of
the United States and its young people nnumerabe crimes
and murders traced to their evil influences to speak
the ruin Of good and the breaking up Of homes and
lives.
Washngton splendid reputation throughout the country
city of homes and high moral atmosphere partly due to
the fact that have comparatively few Of night
Public sentiment here will never tolerate them either
The Washington times., 1929-07-08
THREE-MINUTE JOURNEYS
BY Temple Manning.

sTyHE sea trip from Genoa to
Naples is delightful. 1t would
be well worth while were there
nothing but the beautiful Mediter-
ganean and the clear, cloudless
sky. But there is more-there
are islands, such historic islands
as Corsica and -Elba. II one cares
to. one may take a boat which
will stop at either or both of these
places. The larger liners, how
ever. go direct from Genoa to
Naples.
Corsica, the larger of the two
islands l have mentioned, was
the birthplace of Napoleon and
.. was also the home of another
sterror-the vendetta. Both Napo-
leon and the vendetta are things
of the past-mere memories. Napo-
leon, through the passing Of time.
and the vendetta through the
efforts Of the Italian government
to make Corsica a more pleasant
Rnd safer place in which to live.
j EIba is the island to which Ma
Doleon was exiled and from which
he escaped to make triumphant
march through France to Paris.
SUIT his triumph was short lived.
Came Waterloo and defeat at the
hands Of the English.
The Bay Of Naples is as beauti-
&tll . spot as can. be found in all
Italy. It, Is a setting from which
enc can wen imagine there might
arise the romance which charac.
tsrizes the Neopolitan and which
has made immemorial his folk
u0ngs.
Naples proper extends along
The Washington times., 1929-07-08
ALL IN THE AIR
BY Herbert Kaufman

THE Hindu Yogi who insist that they have mastered the
secret Of separating the astral body from flesh
veops boast ability to sleep in spot and matezs In
another.
Or ransating the stunt ABcs adept will cast hm
self into and release his soul rambs whatever
neighborhood fancy elects.
All Of which smacksd Of long bow stuff until tslsyiEOn
began suggest that there might be hOroughrs for
wizards well as sound and vision.
pictures and voices locate channels IN tine ether
along which bound from continent continent it not
unpausbe that certain highly developed spiritual forces may
haunt unapparent highways and At this moment Be IN
dulgng in phenomena beyond temporarily restricted cOmpre
hension.
miracle Of telegapng images in full action and cOors
Man fast approaching millennium, when his command Of
energies enables him radio automatically accurate
motion through the walls Of to audience hum
dred feet away.
Which precisely what DR.. Herbert managed to
compish last week in the Bell laboratories
After that nothing is improbable
BY contrast the transmission Of metals play
Instead soothing the pretensons Of alchemy should
wonder why science lost much time in Catayng the
baser ores reassembg their into valuable
structures.
Hope for flames anew and valiant imagina
ons are stimulated to rettack battling problems Of due
tile glass; artificial rubber and frcOnless machinery
We dare 10 believe now that the suns rays shall ult
matey stored central heating plants replacing the
use Of less efficient fuels
And the folk who have lately prophesed driven
automobiles suddenly appeal talking common
Impossiby electricity and Hertan Waves don't speak
the same language.
Progress has earned the right claim there gaps
too wide for Inventions bridges
Tomorrows brain kits will be rich in tools and rules
that projects which discourage today shrewdest equipment
will eventually rank in commonpIacene with telephones and
vacuum cleaners.
Your grandchildren will ride in winged carriages,
trated pellets
CorrosOn corruption won't Outlast the century Not
single existing method Of transportation communication win
survive contemporary generations.
One miniature cabinet will hold the futures school
theater library picture gallery and medicine chest
Vibration viii provide entertainment exercise sanitation,
instruction and amusement.
It's all in the air
by and Herbert Ksutman
The Washington times., 1929-07-08

MY room for a while fronted
ANA the road that winds into the
high Sierras from Jimtown to
Sonora. That road turns somer-
saults. Half the time you don't
know whether you're going or
coming. A wise motorist eases
down to about Is and keeps his
fingers crossed. But ali motorists
aren't wise, of which received
abundant evidence.
Every day--sometimes two or
three times q day-up that road
comes the tow car, with a wreck
trailing after. Often that wreck is
blood despatched and after it fol-
lows an ambulance with a silent
burden.
Now here's the strange part
EACH ONE OF THOSE POOR
CHAPS THOUGHT THAT IT
COULDN'T HAPPEN TO HIM.
They didn't figure it out-didn't
decide upon any reason why they
should be immune from the COM
mon unfortunately just FELT
it. Other peoples cars might col
Tide, 90 over a bank, climb q tree
not THEIRS. They could take
,chances-they'd taken them scores
of times-nothing had ever hap
pened--therefore nothing ever
would. And so they went on tax
ing chances until one day, when
they least expected it, something
DID happen-PLENTY!
They were like those other
wrecks who trail through my of
hce-heart.brol1en, desperate, furi-
Gus folk, caught in every con-
ceivable sort Of emotional smash.
These, too. had viewed the mis-
fortunes which came to others
The Washington times., 1929-07-08
Our Airport Problem

OUR large trade and civic organizations appear to be
~ marking time on the problem Of modern municipal
airport for Washington They not committing themselves
and reserng the right to determine their attitude in the
light Of developments in Congress the coming winter
In the meantime privately owned aports increasing
their facilities and preparing handle commercial and other
business in the field Of aviation That may be one Of the
for increased reluctance to have Washington tax
payers tied up to heavy expenditures for an airport
Washington people cannot afford big citv with
out adequate facilities for caring for arriving and departing
apanss Unless private capital does fully provide for avia
ton needs here it will be necessary for the District to do It's
full share toward having this great city equipped with
best possible air field.
The evident fact that there be competition from pr
vaey owned fields for municipal airport built another
argument that the Federal Government should furnish the
money for airport and control for It's own purposes
The Washington times., 1929-07-08
SD OSWALD MosLEY, BAIT, AND MR. NOEL BUXTON. Mp

UESS for hour and you will guess that both Of
these with top hats fine Clothes title and plenty Of
money are British SOCIALISTS and LABoRITEs
Sir Oswald Mosey Bart is Socialist member Of Parlia-
n and in Ramsay MacDonads Cabinet he Chancellor Of
The Duchy and Mr. Noel Buxton Minister Of Agriculture
In America Of this type would think themselves
lngH dsgraced they had anything do with Socialist
sr Labor party. Not in England where think for
themselves and many Of them NOT guided by the
~ their pockets.
The that such interest themselves in radicasn
8oCalm and labor politics good thing for Great Britain
and good thing for Socialism and Labor.
The British including wise Ramsay Macdonald know it.
In many places in America proud population would
refuse vote for these men, in spite Of their ability simply
because they top hats and look amazingly Clean
That isn't the way they do in England.
The Washington times., 1929-07-08
WISE SAYINGS.

The blunders of youth are pref
cradle to the triumphs Of man
hood or the success Of old age.
-Disraeli.
How poor are they that have
not patience!
What wound did ever heal, but
by degrees? Shakespeare.
In a polite age almost every
person becomes q reader and
receives more instruction from the
press than the pulpit.
Goldsmith.
In every parting there IL an
image Of death. George Eliot.
Certainty Is the mother Of Quiet
ness and Repose; and Uncertainty
the cause Of variance and conten.
tons. Coke
His is an evil end who dies
known too well to all men, but
without knowledge Of himself.
Seneca.
The only reward of virtue Is
virtue; the only way to have
friend is to be one. Emerson.
Courage and perseverance, have
q magical talisman before which
difficulties disappear and obstacles
vanish iAte air. Adams.
The Washington times., 1929-07-08
ONCE-OVERS
Avoid the scanaalmOpger!

Avoid the GcandalmOnger!
DE careful what you say to the
II person who comes to you with
. bit Of gossip concerning an.
other person.
He or she is a scandalmonger
who enjoys saying things deroga-
tory to any person about whom
an evil report may be started.
Usually such people are not
particular about the exact truth.
The one who peddIes gossip
deals largely In fiction.
A trifling matter can be made a
serious one by very little twisting.
And the one who goes the
rounds with stories is seeking
your opinion to add to the morsel
Of sensation.
You might be quoted accurately
or otherwise, but do you want to
figure in gossiping tales that do
not concern you?
The person who will tell you
bad stories Of others would Just
as willingly circulate evil reports
about you.
1t is hard to understand why so
many take pleasure in OBTAINING
others.
There should be more enjoy.
ment in circulating favorable re-
ports,
But to say something to boost
another's good name il not a
trait Of the scandalmonger, who
Is always looking for the unsa-
worry.
Such . person lie one whom YOU
should avoid.