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The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-28
HALIBUT PRICES

SEATTLE, Feb. 28.-Twenty-six
 thousand pounds of halibut sold here yesterday at 141k to TIE cents.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-28

In 19 winters Frank Collet of Beloit, Kas., has pushed a wheel barrow 250 miles between the coal bin and furnace at the courthouse.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-28

Menus for lumberjacks in the Dixon camp. near Hibbidg. Minn, are printed in English, Swedish Italian and Finnish.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-28

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Evening star., 1929-12-08
LISTENERS MORE
PARTICULAR NOW
Chicago Broadcast Authority
Tells How DiScrimina-
ton Gains.

Chicago, or at least some sections Of
1t, is becoming quite concerned over the
type. Of radio programs now going into
the air.
Taking up the burden of the COM
ment on his own initiative, McMurdo
Silver, whose name has been familiar TO
radio many years, comments
Tuning in radio programs has gone
past the fad, and people will not bother
themselves with it now unless they ex-
pecJ to get what they want
Musical Opportunities.
In further amplification of a sub
3ect that is close to him in more ways
than one. Mr.. Silver says. When we
do hear a broadcast which may be
clasSed with the best concert music.
there are no signs of originality or ini-
tiative in the choice of numbers They
give the impression that the radio audi
ence knows and likes about 10 or IL
of the worlds most famous songs and
is not concerned about hearing some
thing fine which is not already known
note for note.
Radio has a gigantic opportunity in
musical education by presenting some
of the less known great music But
that opportunity is being passed up
daily by program makers.
Programs in Minority.
Even the Stereotyped classical pro-
grams are in great minority. JasS fans
who sit up late at night are the listen
ers who take time to, write in that they
are pleased. Consequently program
makers put in such entertainment
whenever there is a chance and the real
music lovers turn away from their
radios.
of course programs must be ar
ranged to suit all types, but why should
favoritism be shown to one class?"
Evening star., 1929-12-08
'B|G CENSUS SHOWN
FOR SAFETY TOWN
Radio Feature, Protecting
Life and Limb, Registers
Unusual Popularity.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, December 7.-Safety
Town, with juvenile citizens scattered
in As States and foreign countries,
probably is one of the largest COM
munities in all radioland.
At any rate its present population of
nearly 100000 is far greater than it's
founder, Safety Sam and the Careful
Twins, ever dreamed 1t would be.
Safety Towns boosters, who range
from to Is years in age, have been
recruited through a ten-minute-a-day
broadcast from KNOX. They are or
ganized as the Careful Cnildren's Club.
Out for Members.
When they started preaching the
gospel of safety about three years ago,
Safety Sam and the Careful Twins
figured they might get $4,000 members
for the club If their technique was sue
cessful. The kids surprised them.
Every week the roster has grown by
the hundreds. Requests for the clubs
membership button, pledge card and
song still pour in with every mail.
Each night the Careful Twins, Known
as Handy Andy and Ready Eddy, have
some new stunt to bring home the idea
of eliminating carelessness and acci-
dents. Sometimes they read letters
from members telling how they have
helped the safety cause. Again they
present playlets.
"One Safety Thought"
Always the clubs slogan. zone
thought for safety is worth thousand
regrets" is emphasized. Handy Andy
and Ready Eddy, who are w. F. Yorger
and H. J. Brammeier of the st. Louis
Safety Council, know thousand ways
to put to across.
In their membership pledge the chill
dren promise not to take chances, not
to steal rides on automobiles or street
cars, not to play in streets, always to
look carefully before crossing an inter-
section, not to fool with firearms,
matches or stoves, not to touch dangling
wires or take medicine from a bottle
without label and to stay in shallow
water until they learn to swim
Evening star., 1929-12-08
Behind the Microphone
BY THE RADIO EDITOR.

vide proper protection against the
effects of Sleet, snow or ice.
Emergency repairs and power
failures have forced the station
off the air on but few occasions
The last occurred September 8,
when lightning struck the antenna
during the Radio Guilds preSenta-
ton of Macbeth" At that time
the programs were Cancelled for
the remainder of the evening and
resumed the following morning.
The art practiced by the radio
fan with the soldering iron COM
plex is far from becoming lost.
Each year seems to produce new
crop of those inclined to tinker
or build their own, despite the fact
that more factory y-made receivers
than ever are coming to light.
While without question there
has been a big decrease in the
home asSemblers over the earlier
years of broadcaSting, enough of
the "old timers" still stick to their
ScrewdriverS and pliers to give in
centive to parts and kits manu-
facturerS. In addition hundreds
each year take the place of those
who get tired of their experiment.
al bent. These newcomers largely
are made up of the youth of the
country who have that American
desire of making something with
their own hands.
Many instances are still being
cited of the deep interest in radio
building. There is a New York
banker who sets aside several hun
dred dollars a year just to play
around" in his basement labora-
tory with his pet hobby, radio. In
another section of life, an engi-
neer who certainly should have
enough of things mechanical and
electrical in his daily tasks, is sell
dom satisfied unless he is trying
to iron out the kinks in a set he
has put together.
Evening star., 1929-12-08
Major "Chain" Features

TODAY.
2:00-Roxy symphony concert
WRC and N. B. C. net
work.
4:00-National Light Opera Co.,
THE Sultan of Sulu'-
WBZ, WBAL, KSTP,
KFAB and WTMJ.
4:00-Cathedral hour-WMAL
and c. B. S. network.
5:30-Philco hour; Philadelphia
Symphony Orchestra, di-
rected by Leopold Stokow-
ski-WRC and N. B. c.
network.
7:00-Heroes of the world -
King Charles XII of
Sweden" dramatic sketch
-WRC and n. B. c. net
work.
s:00-Enna Jettick melodies;
mixed quartet and instru-
mental ensemble - WIZ,
WBz, WBAL, WJR, WLW
and others
S:l5-COllier's radio hour; dram
atization with musical in
terlude - WIZ, WBz,
KDKA, WLW, WJR and
others.
s;30-Choral Orchestra; popu-
lar program with Phil
Gilman and Victor Arden
-WRC and N. B. G. net
work.
9:00-Majesti Theater; George
Gershwin-WMAL and G.
B. S. network.
9:15-DOrsayS Partisan ro-
mancers; drama, Mod
esty," with musical back
ground WIZ. WBZ,
WHAM, KDKA, WJR,
KYW, Wink, WREN and
WCKY.
e:l5-Atwater Kent hour;
Katherine Meisle, con-
tralto, and Toscha Seidel,
violinist-WRC and N. B.
c. network
10:45-Sunday at Seth Parker's;
rural sketch --WRC and
N. B. C. network.
ll:00-Back home hour from
Churchill Tabernacle at
Buffalo WMAL and C.
B. S. network.
Evening star., 1929-12-08
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December 7-"Good-
night, pleasant dreams. God bless you'll"
This closing phrase was first uttered
at the initial broadcast over which S. l..
(Roxy) Rothafel presided seven years
ago. The response to these words
seemed to be SO far-reaching in its effect
that Roxy has since closed every weekly
broadcast with this signature. How
much 1t has come to mean to his grow
ing circle of millions of radio listeners
was revealed last week when he mad
vertently omitted the closing benedic-
ton.
Hundreds of letters came in. re-
proachful, questioning, resentful, curious.
about the omission. The omission was
purely 1nadvertent, due to the mechani-
cal exactitude of the radio, which moves
on the split second and which marked
the close Of the hour before Roxy was
able to utter his good might" How
ever. there is sufficient evidence now to
convince the impreSario that his closing
words are as much an integral bart of
the hour as the program itself.
This is the second demonstration from
the radio audience, providing a keynote
to their demands and preferences.
Recently Roxy questioned them over
the air as to whether they wished a
change in the programs, either in the
symphonic concerts broadcast every
Sunday or the Gang" performances
broadcast on Monday evenings.
This query elected a tremendous re-
sponse from the radio audience. Thou
Evening star., 1929-12-08
FORT SMELLING HAS
BROADCAST STUDIO
Army Radio Station Greets Public
With Elaborate Program,
Including Band.
~ the Associated Press.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, December 7.-An
Army broadcasting studio has been
opened at Fort Smelling, MINI, under
the direction of post officers and radio
engineers of KSTP.
The Sd Infantry Band, organized in
1874 as a unit of three men, a fife and
drum corps, played the inaugural pro-
gram. The band now has % men.
Sergt. Wayne Lovejoy. who directed
the first program, will wieid the baton
during future broadcaSts planned from
the new studios over KSTP at 3 pm.
on alternate Sundays. He is acting in
the absence of Warrant Officer Carl
Dillon, who is on leave after 80 years
of Army service.
Fort Smelling is the first post In the
country to undertake broadcaSting on
an extensive scale. Capt. F. M. Dyer,
the only commissioned officer who
serves regularly as an announcer during
the presentation of Army programs, is
in charge of all broadcasting. He is a
graduate of the University of Texas and
practiced law in Houston for nine years
before entering the service.
The main studio is 35 feet long and
"a feet wide, with an announcers room
next QOOEs
Evening star., 1929-12-08
Hundreds of Letters Reproach Roxy for
Dropping "Good-Night" Pleasantly

sands of letters from various parts of
the United States and Canada arrived
at his Office vigorously protesting any
suggested change in the programs that
he has presented. They came from va
rious types of people and from the him
terlandS and the populous cities. Let
Ohio Missouri. Canada and cities, both
large and small, near and at great dis
tance from New York.
Evening star., 1929-12-08

Walter Damrosch has done for instru-
mental ensembles, 1t was stated.
Arrangements completed between N.
B. c. and Werrenrath provide that
he be heard on the air only through
the company's networks and that his
advice and counsel will be applied to
the company's programs as a whole.
Werrenraths activities at N. b. G. will
not interfere, however, with his perso-
nal appearances in concert.
Edmonton, Canada. is to spend 81, =
22O,330 on public improvements.
Evening star., 1929-12-08
Popular Song Review.

Songs by many popular writers will be
reviewed in the popular half hour of
WEAF stations Tuesday. The Rodemich
Orchestra and male trio will present
them.
Evening star., 1929-12-08
Singers Celebrate Anniversary.

The Seiberling Singers will celebrate
their second anniversary on the air with
a request program Thursday. This is
q WEAF coast-to-coast broadcast.
Evening star., 1929-12-08
NOTED BARITONE HoN0RED
Reinald werrenrath Will. Becom
N. B. c. Vocal Supervisor.

N. B. c. Vocal Supervisor.
Reinald Werrenrath, noted American
baritone. has been named vocal super
visor of the National Broadcasting Co.,
it was announced yesterday. He will
direct special choral groups which will
be heard in radio presentations and will
do for vocal music on the air what
Evening star., 1929-12-08
15-Minute Announcements Urged.

Listeners have renewed their cam
paign for station announcements every
Is minutes. Many stations comply with
not.
Evening star., 1929-12-08
Sherwood to Tell of Circus Life.

side show Friday on WIZ and stations.
Evening star., 1929-12-08
Concert Singer in Recital.

Charles Moore CasSel, concert singer,
is to give song recital at WBAL Fri
day. He is baritone.
Evening star., 1929-12-08
Langworthy's Real Name.

The real name of Yolande Lang
worthy featured in numerous CHS pro-
grams, is Frances Reid.
Evening star., 1929-12-08

Saturday Knights" on Two Lines.
The Saturday knights, originated at
WLW, also are broadcast by WOR.
Evening star., 1929-12-08

Receivers 2,O00-Hour Capacity.
A life test showed that the average
receiver would run 1000 hours contin-
uouSly without attention.
Evening star., 1929-12-08
c. B. S. Has Exclusive Orchestra.

Will Osborn and his orchestra have
been signed as exclusive CHS artists.
Evening star., 1929-12-08
COOKING SCHOOL OPENS.

First Broadcast Will Deal With
Christmas Cookies.
The Winter term of Betty Crocker's
Radio Cooking School," broadcast by
WRC, will open Thursday with a les
son on baking Christmas cookies.
Holiday cooking also will be featured
in Miss Crocker's Tuesday morning
talks preceding Christmas, as well as
in all of the Thursday cooking school
classes before Christmas.
Evening star., 1929-12-08

For the first time since the erec-
ton of the broadcasting towers
and equipment of WIZ, in Novem-
ber, 1925, the station will cancel
scheduled programs and be silent
from 8 to 10 o'clock this morning,
while engineers replace the inSula-
ton units of the antenna to pro-
Evening star., 1929-12-08

Available in the same
cabinets. MicrO-ba l.
anced chassis nine
tubes, including rec
tifiers, at slightly
lower prices.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-11-13
GRUNDY CALLED
YELLOW"

The Senate's lobby investiga-
ton got off to a blazing start
today with Senator Caraway ID.
Arkansas, the chairman, calling
Joseph r. Grundy, the Pennsyl
vnia protectioniSt. "a welcher"
and yellow"
Grundy was put on the witness
stand again for a grilling on his
previous testimony that southern
and western Senators came from
backward states" and should
talk darn small" on tariff mat
tiers.
When Caraway. endeavored to
get Grundy today to elaborate
on those statements, and to list
the Senators and the States that
he considered backward" the
ruddy-cheeked Pennsylvania re-
fused to do so, and Caraway de-
clared that he was "welching"
and was yellow"
Caraway was smiling in a
friendly manner when after he
excused Grundy he walked to
the rear of the committee room
to shake hands with him and say
Il kind Of like him." i..IaHs
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-11-13
SEEN
IN BOTH
HOUSES

Announcement that Senator
Arthur Capper of Kansas Is pre-
pairing a bill to curb judges in
contempt cases and protect news
paper condolences brought prom
Uses today of support from both
sides of the Capitol.
The support is due to belief
that such a measure would pre-
vent other cases like that in
which three reporters for The
Washington Times were sent to
Jail for As days for refusing to
become "snooperS" and proSecu-
ton witnesses for the Grand Jury
and the office of the United
States District Attorney.
Members of both the Senate
and the House Of Representatives.
interviewed today, declared that
they are heartily In favor Of the
steps Senator Capper Is taking at
the instigation Of The Washing
ton Times.
Capper a Publisher
Senator Capper. newspaper man
and publisher of many years
standing, is held by his colleagues
to be the ideal member Of the
upper house to prosecute the
kind of measure necessary to en-
able reporters to write without
being called upon to take over the
duties of those charged with en-
forcing the law.
Rep. John c. Schafer. Of Wis
consin, declared that enactment
Of such protective legislation is
absolutely necessary If the press
is to remain free and untrammeled
in it's moral obligations to the
public.
TOO great care cannot be
taken to insure the newspapers
that freedom of investigation and
expression which is their inherent
right as representatives of all
the people" asserted Represent
alive Schafer.
THE Imprisonment of the three
staff men of the Washington
Times is an excellent case in
point. These men have every
degree of right on their side. in
my opinion.
All the information they had
gathered that could be of value
to the authorities had been placed
before the grand jury by another
cmploye of their paper. Thus
they could not be placed in the
position Of withholding infOrma-
ton in the interest of promoting
crime.
They are innocent victims OF
an attempt to pervert a pro
tesSion which has always had the
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-11-13
COOL To
HOOVER PLAN

The somewhat cool reception
which Europe has given Presi-
dent Hoover's suggestion Of max
ing food ships immune from at
tack or seizure in war time did
not greatly surprise nor disap-
point him.
Hoover anticipated the objec-
tions that would be raised
against his proposal abroad, and
he is content to let the whole
project be hammered out ION
the anvil of debate" as he him
self expressed it, confident that
the more the world thinks about
it the better it will think about
Reports that the President con-
templates inviting the worlds
naval powers to "A conference on
the subject were authoritatively
described today as without foun-
dation. Mr.. Hoover has no such
idea, it was stated.
Perhaps in the distant future,
after the January naval confer
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-11-13
Sec. Good Has
Dangerous
Operation

An operation was performed on
Secretary of War James w. Good,
this morning for the removal Of
his appendix.
Good was stricken suddenly
with acute appendicitis at his
home late last night. Mrs. Good
summoned an ambulance and re-
moved him to Walter Reed Army
Hospital, where, after night of
diagnosis, the physicians operated
this morning.
Secretary Good first became ill
yesterday afternoon, but after
treatment by a War Department
physician went to his home.
The operation was described as
a very difficult one.
The ordinary appendix removal
takes Is to 20 minutes. The gan
grenous condition of the appendix
had created a local peritonitis
and measures were taken to pre-
vent this condition. from becom-
ing general.
Physicians we're chary about
making any definite prediction.
Any abdominal case, it was said.
is a matter for concern for the
first 70 hours after the operation.
and the War Secretary's age, plus
the diseased condition. further
complexities his case. The man.
ner in which he withstood the
prolonged period under anaes-
thetic, however, is giving them a
"fair amount of optimism"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-11-13
D R D P
WORRIES

NEW YORK. Nov. 13.-Heavy
blocks Of stock changed hands
on the New York stock exchange
today with the trend downward.
Many stocks were at the lowest
levels in three years.
The market made a brave at
tempt to rally, and then at the
end of the first hour weakened.
The Stock Exchange today be-
gan what is construed in some
sources as an effort to inquire
into the source Of the heavy
short selling which has, been an
important factor in hammerins
the market down to its present
low level.
Announcement was made that
the exchange is notifying mem
bers they must file with it not
later than moon Saturday, Nover1-
Der is. as Of the close Of business
on November 12-and out-of-town
members not later than noon
Monday, November 13-and daily
changes thereafter until notified
the following:
"A list of stock borrowed
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-11-13

Eleanor S h eppard, a
trained nurse and close
friend of the dead woman,
was the last witness before
the Grand Jury adjourned
shortly after 2 o'clock
Miss Sheppard. it is under
stood, emphatica1ly denied the
possibility of the dead woman
having committed suicide, as
claimed by the husband.
Mrs. Mabel Chenault, wife OF
an Army dentist who lived in the
PARK Lane Apartments, is be-
lieved to have testified that no
walls emanated from her apart
ment that night. as charged by
the police homicide squad. She
declares that a girl friend" had
a baby which died that night at
Columbia Hospital.
Lillian Conway and Sue Thomp-
son. telephone operators, and
Betty NOVEL;, Washington Times
reported, also testified.
Testimony of three physicians,
representing different phases of
the investigation into the murder
also was heard by the jury.
| DR.. Joseph Decatur Rogers.
deputy coroner, was the first wit
messed called.
He is believed to have testified
| to the autopsy he made at the
District Morgue and to have ex
pressed his opinion that there were
no marks of violence on the body
DR.. I. Rutoski, Emergency Hos
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-11-13
SHERIFFS Held
IN 5 DEATHS

MARION, N. c., Nov. Is 1N.SO
Indictments were returned today
by the Mcdowell county grand
jury against seven deputy sheriffs
charging them with murder in
connection with the strike riot at
the East Marion Manufacturing
Company early last month.
The indicted men we're B. L.
Robbins, w. A. Fender, Dave Jar.
rett, Jim Owens, Charles L. Tate,
Taylor Greene. William TwiggS
and Tobert Ward.
They we're charged with the
murder of Sam Vickers, Luther
BrySon, T. L. Carver, James Rob-
ertS and George Jonas.
The five men were killed and
20 other persons wounded. some
seriously. on October 2 during a
riot precipitated by a walk-out
at the Marion Manufacturing
Company.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-11-13

The petition of the street car
companies for 10-cent fare was
denied by the Public Utilities
Commission today.
The decision contained the sig
nificant statement;
1T is at once apparent that
the two companies have in.
their own hands the remedy
for the conditions Of which
they complain, without further
taxing for their benefit those
whom they serve"
A merger was suggested as the
remedy. The decision states:
Saving in Merger
1.-The combined increase in net
revenues which the two COM
panieS estimate land again but
an estimate) would follow the in
creased fare sought. is about
/ 5000, 900; the estimated savings
due to unification. if as esUi-
mated, about $1,000 If real
lied, would therefore produce a
larger net return than the higher
fares.
The record shows that if a
corporate merger is effected there
will be quite certainly very
considerable less amount needed
to operate the resulting single
street railway system thus
brought into being. while at the
same time there will be no less.
ening, but probably an improve,
ment in both the, quantity and
quality of the service rendered
For example the overhead ex
penses for a single company will
be manifestly less than the a9
gregate of the cost of the same
item for two companies.
Increased Return
"A single management car
bring about reforms in the rout
ing of cars, the probable aban
donment of certain trackage, the
elimination of duplication of Ger
tain facilities and in these anC
other ways indicated in the
record can materially increase
the rate of return upon the fail
value of the property of the sin
gle company used and useful ir
service, over and above the rates
Of return now prevailing for two
seperate companies
The Capital Traction Company
petitioned for an increase fare
on June 10. 1929, and asked
that the Washington Railway
and Electric Company also be
granted the same increase anC
the latter company joined in
the request. Hearings began July
20 and ended October 6. The
commission received 2,348 pages
of evidence and 140 exhibits.
The commission summarized its
view of the evidence as follows:
Il. There is no valuation as ri
today of the properties of these
two railway companies and there
fore no rate basis upon which tc
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-11-13

NEWSPAPER ETHICS AND THE
LAW
The three Washington newspa-
per men who have been released
on bond in a contempt case have
done nothing but what was both
honorable and courageous.
In getting up a story on pro
hibition enforcement they visited
speakeasies where in order to get
their facts they pledged them
selves to reveal no names Of per.
sons engaged in the sale Of liquor