Evening star., 1929-06-10
CHAINS TODESCR|BE.
CEREMONIES TODAY.
N. B. C. and Columbia Sys-
TENS to Broadcast Corner
Stone Laying Events.

The networks of the National and
Columbia broadcasting companies will
carry to the Nation this afternoon the
ceremonies incident to the laying of
the corner stone of the new Depart
ment of Commerce Building, the
largest CT the group Of Federal struc-
lures 10 BE- erected on the PennSyl-
vania avenue-Mall triangle.
President Hoover, who was Secretary
Of Commerce when the new building
was planned, is to make the principal
address. There also will be a group
of other speakers notable among them
being Secretary of Commerce Lamont,
Senator Smooth of Utah. Representa-
tive Elliott of Indiana. and George B.
Cortelyou, the first Secretary of Com
merce. The United States Marine Band
will furnish the musical portion OF the
program.
Lamont to Take Part.
Secretary Lamont also will take part
in a unique radio program tonight
which has been arranged to mark the
CiaDii-+::I"a from Chicago of The Empire
Builder. a new las: tranScontlnental
train. While the major portion of the
program will cCme from the new Union
Station in Chicago. Secretary Lamont's
talk will be made in the studio of WRC,
WHICH II W SClNS IliS hCy cooc1OAA
for a coast-to-coast National Broad
casting Co. network until the broadcast
shifts back to Chicago. At the conclu-
sion of his talk he will press a key
ringing a gong in the railroad station.
signaling the starting of the train. A
little later the radio audience will be
taken to the outskirts of Chicago where.
from position along the tracks will
be heard the approach of the Empire
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as 1t plunges through the night on its
first 2,200-mile journey to the Pacific
Coast.
Graham McNamee and staff of as
sistants will describe the event. Reinald
Werrenrath, grand opera baritone;
band, a Pullmans porters quartet and
the tom-toms of Blackfeet Indians will
furnish the music.
WRC Features Tonight.
WRC's principal musical features to-
night will be provided by Roxys gang"
the A. g. P. Gypies, Sousa's famous
band, the Firestone Entertainers and
the National Grand Opera Co. which
has scheduled tabloid version Of Mas
senets "Manon." Cesare Sodero will
conduct the performance.
Gladys Rice, who has just returned
from the national radio convention in
Chicago, will be heard again with Roxys
gang" She will sing Miss You"
character song of the type that has
won her distinctive popularity. An in
teresting feature of the program. how
ever, will be the Roxy Male Quartet's
version of "A Night in May 1t will
be sung with a coloratura obligato by
Beatrice Belkin.
For the sixth of his series of 10 radio
concerts Sousa has arranged pro-
gram designed to demonstrate in
striking way the use of all the various
instruments of a concert band. The
speciality will be medley of Sousa
marches by a flute sextet.
Aside from its regular Columbia at
fractions. WMAL has scheduled tonight
a broadcast of the banquet to be given
in the Mayflower Hotel by the JET
ferson Democratic Association In honor
of Juett Shouse, newly elected chair
man of the executive committee of the
Democratic national committee. Robert
N. Harper will be master of ceremonies.
Columbia Presentations.
The Columbia presentations will be
Coco Couriers, the Physical Culture
Hour, and a two-plane five-way COM
. munication broadcast, which is designed
as q further experiment in the per-
fection of airplane and broadcast CO.
ordination. Engineers of the Columbia
system and the National Air Transport
will tie up two planes and an orchestra
in New York and speakers in Washing
ton. The speakers will be Capt. Lester
D. Seymour and Assistant Postmaster
General Glover. The former will speak
from Philadelphia, while Mr.. Glover
will make his talk N the studios Of
WMAL.
A novelty entitled Piano Puzzle"
played by the composer, Arthur Schutt,
will be feature of the Coco program.
Trio and orchestral numbers will make
up the remainder OF the program.
The Opus Trio and David Martin,
baritone, will provide the musical fea-
lures for VOL tonight, while WJSV has
scheduled its usual variety of attrac-
tions. In addition, this latter station
will broadcast a talk by Maj Gen. Eli
A. Helmick, u. S. A., retired, former
inspector general of the Army. He will
speak under the auspices of the Dis
trict Of Columbia Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution.