The Washington times., 1929-01-12
HOOVER 7 TALKS.
FROM WRC
TONIGHT

President.elect Herbert Hoover
will make his first radio speech
since Election Day this evening
from WRC in the elaborate program
with which the Great Northern
Railroad celebrates the opening of
it's new tunnel in the Cascade noun.
tains.
The program is one of the most
intricate mechanically that has bean
presented by the National Broad
casting Company, being centered In
fine sections of the country and
will start at 9 o'clock with an
orchestral selection from New York.
The center Of listener interest will
then switch to San Francisco where
Nine. Schumann-Heiuk will sing a
group Of songs. Another switch will
bring the program to Washington
where President-elect Hoover will
speak from the library of his home.
Then Johnston B. Campbell, chair
man Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission. will speak from the
.WRC studio. Following this Gen.
W. w. Atterbury Of the Pennsyl.
vania railroad will talk from New
York and the scene of operations
will again so west to the eastern
portal of the Cascade tunnel.
There Graham McNamee will
introduce President Ralph Budd, of
the Great Northern railroad. After
Mr.. Budd talks, both he and Nc.
Nance will board the Oriental
Limited and pass through the tun-
mel as the first train to make the
trip. At the west portal, McNamee
will leave the train and describe
the trip to radio listeners, and the
program will close with selection
by George Olsen's Orchestra in New
York.
NEW TUNNEL
EIGHT MILES LONG
The program will be heard through
40 broadcasting stations of the NBC.
from coast to coast. The Cascade
Tunnel is eight miles long and Is
100 miles east of Seattle. 1t cost
$14, 100000 to construct and trains
through it are electrically operated.
Immediately before the switch.
MISUNDERSTANDING outburst. an.
other interesting feature will be
heard from WRC during the Ma.
tional Symphony Concert, beginning
at 8 o'clock. when Director Walter
Damrosch will interpret the second
movement of Ernest Bloch's prize.
winning symphony. America.
There is some relation between the
spirit Of the music in this most
modern of symphonic compositions
and the program following it, as it
tells the story, on music, of the
days preceding. during, and after
the Civil War and the development
Of the American spirit by its trail
by fire.
1t was at this time that the late
James ]. Hill, founder of the
Great Northern Railway, first be-
came known in St. Paul and its
vicinity. where his empire building
ideas terminated and developed into
the great railroad associated with
his name. America" was recently
awarded a $4,000 prize and was
first played in public about two
weeks ago by the New York Phil
harmonic Orchestra under direction
of DR.. Damrosch.
The WMAL schedule provides
for another of the Saturday evening
all washington programs; one fea-
ture Of which will be the return of
the Crescendo Male Chorus to the
mike. Col. Charles Lindbergh is
scheduled to speak at an aviation
banquet in Philadelphia which
WCAU will broadcast beginning at
o'clock. There will be a revival
of the famous play David Gar.
rick" by the WIZ players at 10
and dance music of all kinds from
all misunderstanding at 10 o'clock
with the coast-to-coast Lucky Strike
outburst.