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Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-27

} MINES FIELD, Los Angeles, Aog.
26, (U,P)-The race of the Graf Zep-
pelin to set a new time record for
the German commercial giant away
from its mOOringS tonight here,
hardly eighteen hours after its ar
rival from Toxic.
Only a few minutes after the dir
igible was safely moored at 5:35 a.
III. today, waiting ground crew
began transfer of natural and by
roSax gas that the ship might start
for Lakehurt, New Jersey, at mid
night.
1t was nineteen days ago at $40
p. m. tonight that the Zeppelin EN-
barked on its epochal sky journey
from Lakehurst. DR.. Hugo Eckener.
commanding, hopes to better the
present mark OF % days for a
round the world trip, by John Henry
MearS, and the late Capt. c.. c. B.
Collyer in 1928 The latter made
his circuit by plane and ship.
Two Day Trip
Under ordinary conditions with
even a low speed of sixty miles an
hour, the ship should reach Lake
hurst in less than two days,
The southern route via FL PaSO,
though perhaps not calling for 4
flight over that city, will be fol-
lowed.
1t was known only that DR. Ecke-
ner, with favorable weather condi-
tions reported, intended to take the
giant air liner out of Los Angeles
by way of the nearby cities of Po-
mona, Ontario Cotton, Redlands.
Banning and Indio. He hopes TO
pass over Arizona by way OF Yuma.
Tucson and Bowie.
In New Mexico it was thought he
would pass somewhere near Deming.
Weather to Set Route
1t did not appear likely that any
route past El Paso would be an
nounced. 1t was said at the field
that weather conditions alone would
select the course. There appeared
to be no chance of fog prevailing at
the takeoff
Behind an escort of motorcycle
police the passengers returned to
the field at 10::25 p m. and it ap-
peared at that time that nothing
would prevent takeoff at earlier
than the scheduled hour of mid
night should Eckener wish.
Refueling of the Zeppelin had
been completed before this hour ana
ground crews had been engaged in
shifting the ship about.
Dr. Eckener and his passengers
came to the field from a civic ban
quet a. which the famous COM
mander spoke briefly to more than
a thousand enthusiastic guests. He
expressed qualification for state and
federal cooperation in making his
visit success.
The roads about the field were
almost impossible as the hour OF
the takeoff approached The
crowd, which could not be estimated
IN the darkness, was judged to be
greater than that of Sunday when
the Zeppelin arrived
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-27
Packard Heir
Is Killed In
Plane Crash

DETROIT, Aug. 26 W.P)-Warren
Packard, 35-year-old heir to the
Packard millions, was killed late
today when his private seaplane
crashed into a marker in marsh
near GroSSt Pointe.
Talbot Barnard, who was pilot
ing the plane, was critically IN
iured and unconscious tonight, but
was expected to live.
Witnesses to the accident said
the engine of the plane stalled
while it was about one thousand
feet in the air. The ship fell into
a tailspin from which Barnard
could not right it.
He was unconscious when taker
from the plane at pm and dice
later in the hospital. He was the
son and heir of his father anc
uncle, who founded the Packard
Motor Car company.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-27

ton projects, created the feeling
that unified action was necessary to
forc3.an any such possibility.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-27

FOR RELIABLE NEWS
OF LAS VEGAS, NEV.,
GATEWAY TO BOULDER
DAM, READ THE AGE
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-27
.DIRIGIBLE TAKES OFF
AT12:l5 VIA SOUTHERN
ROUTE FOR LAKEHURST
Great Ship Headed For New Record Globe
Girdling Finish; Forty-Eight Hour Trip
To Atlantic Coast Expected; Yep stayed at
California MOOring But Nineteen Hours.

ANGELES 81 WP)-The Zeppelin
the world when Oft
Municipal Airport today 1915 pointing
the American continent for the first
19 drigible floated
moorngs Monday morning that left for Lakehurs j. starting
lobe-circling
slowly lights marking
path of its
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Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1929-08-27

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Aug, &c Wp
"A city fireman rescued a small
boy from blazing barn here to-
day and unknown to himself left
his own small daughter to perish
in the flames.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-19
ISOLATION OF
CITY BROKEN
Air Line Places Tuxtla
In One Days Journey
Of Mexico City

TUxTLA GUTIERREZ. Chiapas,
Mexico. Dec. 1,.-fP-This city,
capital Of the state Of Chiapas,
which previously was almost isolated
from the remainder Of Mexico, has
been brought within a days jour
ney Of Mexico City by the Inaugural
ton Of an air mail and passenger
line.
Tuxtla IS situated IN the noun
tains about 80 miles from the rail-
road. An exceedingly poor motor
road connects the city with the rail-
road. but the road Is unusable dur
ing the rainy season at which time
it takes ten days on horseback to
reach Arriaga. after which a rail
journey Of two or three days is re-
quired to reach Mexico City.
The Fir line will connect the cap
ital with the regular Mexico City
Guatemala lines and either capital
can be reached within a few hours
after leaving Tuxtla.
DesDite its isolation. Tuxtla Is n
city Of about 10000, and one Of the
most beautiful n southern Mexico.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-19
MANY TO BID
ONT.U.LANDS
$3.50 Acres Advertised For
Lease Next To
Oil Field

AUSTIN, Dec. IL University
land board has Advertised for
award in Jon. leases on $3.50 acres
ga OF each OF sections 2 to 10
inclusive in Block 4, Andrews
county. This land Is just north OF
the new Deeprock & Ogden produc-
ing well, and promises 70 bring high
bonus offers and spirited bidding,
oil men here said.
In order to share stiII farther IN
Possible high values II oil Is pro-
0uced. the university reserved a
quarter section out Of each. It re-
Quired one-sixth royalty Of oil and
cashinghead gas and n eighth
dry gas.
The state reserved the northwest
quarter Of Section 2. 8, 8. IL and -;
the southwest quarter Of section 4,
8, IL; the northeast quarter sections
5. z, 10, and southeast quarter sec
ton 8.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-19

an airplane, and does not bear down
upon the supporting power and the
says, like an automatic elevator.
The monorail or wire providing
the electrical current will Be placed
upon cement pillars posted every 200
or 500 yards according to the ma
ture Of the country traversed.
Electric devises, reversing the cur
rent and the propeller. viii stop the
plane inside Of 100 yards but mn
aero-dyramic brake in the shape Of
an umbrella placed at the rear Of
the monoplane body and automatic
cally opening when the current is
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-19

shut off, viii assist In bringing the
suspended car 70 q quick halt.
The installation and flying stock
cost Is reakoned by the inventor at
about one-thirtteth Of that Of a rail-
road.
M. Archer already e~nvisages the
application OF his invention for ira
vel over the ocean. Paris to New
York in 10 hours. But inasmuch as
the uprights would require anchoring
On some 10000 heavy buoys or float
ing islands. he has decided 70 await
the result of his experiences on land
before embarking upon q sea ven
ture.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-19

PARIS, Dec, i9-CP-Paris TO Pc
kin in 80 hours and the solution Of
the ever increasing problem Of city
traffic are two Of the results pro-
missed by the light airplane trolley"
an invention which Joseph Archer. q
French engineer. intends to demon
strate in Paris within a few months.
Traffic in the air Will decrease
and relieve traffic in the streets"
M. Archer says. Instead Of enter
ing our houses through the street
doors we will enter them from the
roofs"
The invention Is based upon the
following principles:
The vehicle. a monoplane body,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-19

AUSTIN, Dec. 18-HouSton girls
have started a fad that may prove
popular. But remember when they
started the spare stocking" fad
IL wasn't long before they abandon
ed the spare and the others too.
This new fad is to take q spare
boy along on q date for emergencies.
1t looked so odd TO officers when a
third boy tagged along in the rum
BILE seat Of a two-date occasion
that they inquired and found he
was the reserve or spare boy
friend.
This woman wants q divorce be-
cause she says her husband taught
their one-year-old son to smoke
cigarettes and made a confirmed
smoker out Of him at three.
II you want 70 know whether
there's q Baumes law in Texas, ask
Thomas McGrew. colored, OF Port
Lavaca. McGrew got a life SEN
tence for stealing 80 cents and a
chocolate pie. The sentence was
imposed for habitual offenders.
W. r. Scott, at Fl Paso. didn't
complain about having been bounced
out of an automobile on his head.
But his upside-down landing jolteo
800 out Of his pockets when his
a and another collided. and he
wants somebody to do something
about 1t.
A iurv decided to test the evil
dence when half a gallon OF moon
shine was brought in during p
trial OF q woman on a liquor
charge. The testing was such a sue
cess the evidence all disappeared,
and one Juror paid a fine for being
drunk. Now the woman VIII get q
new trial, and there won't be n
evidence.
rortv-six ~rattlesnakes under one
rock. This epic OF West Iexas
comes out Of Throckmorton, ana
Albert Thomas and N. l.. Loundon
are credited with killing EN-.
Back TO the primitive. Elgin re-
sldents are disturbed at night ny
the howls Of packs Of wolves as the
wolves are being run In a bounty
drive to exterminate them.
Because the corn failed to pop.
purchasers have filed suit for $4,000
they paid for a whole carload Of
what they thought was popcorn.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-19

moves upon 9 suspended monorail OF
wire.
The motive power is a propeller
which obtains its current from the
monorail or trolley wire. The weight
worked by q 15HP electrical mctol
Of the machine Is cushioned upon
the air by fin-like wings Just as il
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-19
TEXAAS
TOPICS

Infant Smoker
-Baumes Law Indeed
Thirsty Jury
Spare Date
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29
PAN AMERICAN UNION
ARRANGES PROGRAM
Special Concert Will Be Broadcast
Monday Night by Sta
ton NAA.

A special concert Of Latin-American
music, arranged by the Pan-American
Union, will be broadcast tomorrow night
by station NAA and q network of Ma
tional BroadcaSting Co. stations. NAA
will broadcast the entire concert from
9 to IL O'Clock, while the network will
carry portion of it between 1890 and
IL o'clock. An attempt also will be
made to send the concert to South
America and Europe over the short
wave station of WGY, in Schenectady.
While this program will feature many
Of the seasons great successes among
the works OF American composers
1t also will contain number of Selec-
lions which will receive their first rem
dition. The successor in popularity to
the now famous "Three O'Clock in the
Morning" is another waltz from Argen-
tina, entitled Nelly" This selection
has been received enthusiastically in
the Southern republics, and win make
its debut In the United States on this
program. Folk music from the various
Latin American lands also will be fea-
tured.
The guest artist will be the interna-
tionally known mezzo- contralto, Mar
guerite d'AlvareZ. Nine. dAlvarez is
a native OF Peru. Her father was Min
lister to the Court of ST. James, and her
brother Is first secretary of the Peru
Wan embassy in Washington. Nine
d'Alvarez has come to the United
States from triumphant concert tour
Of the music centerS Of Europe.
The United Service Orchestra, under
the leadership Of Capt william j.
Stannard of the Army music group and
Lieut.. Charles Benter Of the Navy group
will introduce two Soloists, Sergt. Joseph
L. Young, marimbiSta, and Bandmaster
Louis Goucher, VibraphoniSt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29
Charles w. Hamp.-Marjorie E. Willis

Charles w. Hamp.-Marjorie E. Willis
Utica, N. Y.
A. Pinkie Hunter Is not broadcasting
and I have been unable to locate him
Charles W. Hamp is now on tour but
probably will be heard over the air
again this Winter. I mentioned him
last week.
Q. Have you any idea when television
Will be in general use?-E. B. O., Salt
Lake City, Utah.
A. The practicability of television. 1
am advised, is established now, but re-
ceiving sets cost considerable to manu-
facture and would be equally expensive
to the purchaser. / imagine that when
manufacture costs diminish there will
be number Of sets on the market and
television will then come into general
use.
@. A friend of mine in Honolulu told
me that he heard programs from Seoul,
Korea; Toxic, Japan, and San Fran
nary receiving set. Doesn't this just
about set a record for pulling In dis
tant StatiorS?-J. L. B.
A. You've got me on that one, be-
cause haven't any official figures on
the subject. DIX fans sometimes obtain
marvellous results. Perhaps some of
them will write me whether they have
equaled or bettered your friends ac-
CompliShment.
@. What is the reason for the chimes
we hear between network programs?-
Williamson Hager Detroit, Mich.
A. The chimes are to indicate that
there VIII be pause in the program
for New York to allow local stations to
announce their call letters. Use Of a
simple cue Of this sort is necessary In
order to avoid confusion. When the
local announcer hears it coming over
the wire he drops his own station from
the network, announces his call letters
and then switches back to the network
The interval allowed is Is seconds.
@. Is Kathleen Stewart. the pianist,
married?-Mrs. L. A. p, Benning-
ton, VT.
A. No.
@. What has become Of Don Clarke?
We never hear him on the air any
nfore.-Russell Davies, Utica. NJ. Y.
A. He has become continuity editor
OF Columbia Broadcasting System and
spends his time writing things for the
air, rather than announcing.
g I have heard that broadcasting
stations often substitute photograph
H. M. Los Angeles. Calf.
A. Not in the sense I think you
mean. The Federal Radio Commission
has ruled that every photograph rec
ord must be announced as such, and
the rule Is obeyed. Records are used
very frequently by the smaller stations,
but not with deception. Recently q
number of records designed only for
broadcasting have been made. These
also must be identified as records.
(Copyright, 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29
NEED FOR ENGINEERS
HAS LONG BEEN FELT
Appointment Approval Of Congress
Meets With Ideas Of
BroadcaSters.

When Congress gave It's ofiicial APP
proval to the appointment by the Fed
eral Radio Commission Of chief engi-
neer with q salary of $4,000 1t took
action which has been urged by broad
casters and others.
The need Of high-grade engineer,
familiar with the practical problems
Of broadcaSting and able to serve full
time permanently, has been manifest
since regulation was placed in the
hands Of commission, radio authori-
ties say
The chief engineer will receive the
same salary as the commissioners and
the chief of the legal division.
Some radio men are Of the opinion
however, that a $4,000 salary Is not
particularly attractive to engineers who
are recognized as the leaders In their
profession.
The prospects of tremendous develop
ment along communication, television
and aircraft lines have placed the serv-
ices of the outstanding experts on q
highly remunerative basis.
The big broadcasting stations also pay
large salaries to their chief engineers,
serve various companies in an advisory
capacity amounts annually to what is
considered big money" in the profess
sion.
1t Is believed that the recommended
tions Of Mai. Gen. Charles Saltzman,
member of the commission from the
Middle West zone, will have consider
able weight In the choice Of o chief
engineer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29
McNarnee
Speaking

artists and photographers and discuss
ing various business details. BY 2
o'clock he has to appear at q large
movie theater In New York or Brook
lyn, and from then until 1890 at night
he Is busy playing five shows a day,
seeing visitors in his dressing room and
running over new music. At IL O'Clock
he arrives at his supper club and plays
until 2:30 in the morning. He gets
away at and sends the next half hour
discussing the next days schedule with
his personal representative. He gets to
bed by 4 o'clock, and five hours later
he begins all over again.
Incidentally. he has no conception of
how. widely his popularity has spread
outside New York. He doesn't seem to
understand fully that he means as
much to q crossroads hamlet as he
does to Broadway and he can't see
what all the shouting Is about, any,
way. He thinks of himself first as an
orchestra leader rather than as the
singer who has made q million women
sigh.
when all this wears or" he said
the other day, "therell be plenty of
work Tor q good dance orchestra"
Jazz Versus Classics.
The next battle of the century won't
be fought in squared ring, but before
a microphone. refer to the struggle
between Jazz and the classics, which
got of to q fine start the other day
when E. @. Mills, newly chosen to wed
broadcasting and music publishing, took
what was interpreted in many quarters
as a sWlpe at popular music. It struck
me that what he was really aiming at
was more noise masquerading as music,
but whatever he meant. I feel certain
that he will put 1t across,
Mills Is one of the most dynamic fig
ureS behind the microphone. For years
he ptloted the American Society of Au-
thorS, Composers and Publishers and
the Music Publishers Protective Asso-
citation, and back in 1928 he lambasted
the companies engaged in the new bust
ness OF broadcasting into paying fat
fees for the privilege of putting copy
righted music on the afr. He fought
over his desk and he battled in the
newspapers, and won in both places,
He's the busiest man ever saw. He
starts working in the morning before
he has crossed the room to his desk,
and more often than not he forgets to
take OF his hat until the middle of the
morning. He can cite from memory fig
ures covering the music publishing
business as If 1t were poker. yet when
he seems to be bluflng he always holds
the cards.
don't think he has any confidence
in any one who wouldn't go to the mat
with him in an argument. Before he
has really settled down to his new job
he will have shocked the daylights out
of half a dozen broadcaSting executives,
advertising agency officials and clients,
but before they have a chance to get
sore he'll have them convinced he's
right. In other words, I have a feeling
that our popular music will be less noisy
and more melodious
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29
McNAMEE'S QUESTION
BOX

Q. Can anything be done to forbid
Florida broadcasterS from talking about
the weather? When the thermometer is
about 10 above outside 1t rather rubs
me the wrong way to hear an an
nouncer in Miami, for example. gloating
about tropical moon, palm trees
shimmering sand and temperature OF
rs or so.-RoSe H. Allen, Cherrydale
Va.
A. know just how you feel. but I'm
afraid nothing can be done unless you
go to Florida yourself. When I'm down
there in the Winter time I don't OBJ
iect to that kind Of conversation.
O. Are the American Singers on the
air now? Does ShamuS O'Daugherty
appear regularly or as guest artist?
How does one join the DX-er's Club?
How can find out what programs are
scheduled for distant stations Mar
garet w. Trundle, Baltimore, Md.
A. The male quartet formerly known
as the American Singers appears in the
Old Co.'s Songalogue on WEAF and
o'clock. Shamus ODaugherty has no
regular program at present, but he ap-
pears as occasional guest artist. He is
likely to pop up anywhere. There are
several clubs for distance hounds main
tanned by newspapers, and all operate
more or less informally. You may OBJ
tain detailed information by writing to
the headquarters of the one in which
you are interested. am sorry, but
since 1 am not an engineer cannot at
tempt to answer technical questions.
But don't blame your set when distant
stations fade. Everybody has the same
trouble. 1t can't be avoided.
@. Will you kindly advise me If
Pinkie Hunter, formerly with Emerson
casting from New York. I would also
like to know what has become Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29
POLITICAL WRITER
GETS MANUSCRIPT
Frederic William Vile Presents
Self With Hoover'S Message
as Christmas Gift.

Frederic William Vile, chief Of the
news service Of that name and creator
Of that dynamic epic of the air, 1.-THE
Political Situation In washington To-
night" which is broadcast every Thurs
day night from station WMAL over the
Columbia Broadcasting System, gave
himself a Christmas present this year.
The present consists of the original
manuscript used by President Hoover
when he broadcast message to the
American people from his study in the
White House the evening OF September
10 last The occasion was the dedi-
cation of the New York studios of the
Columbia BroadcaSting System, when
the President was introduced to the
Nations air audience by Mr.. Vile.
It was the first time in history that
the presidential study was ever con-
verted into q broadcasting studio. Sta
ton WMAL, washington, acted as the
key station, with its manager, Milton
H. Baker, at the controls.
1.-THE Presidents notes." said Mr..
Vile, struck me as possessing such
historic value that I ventured to ask
him to give them to me, which he I'M
hesitatingly did, accompanied by let
ter from one of his secretaries express
ing the hope that would be able to
read the last-minute changes I de-
cided to have the document appropri-
ately framed, after asking Mr.. Hoover
to autograph it. and will hang 1t
on my Christmas tree"
The many manuscript corrections
penciled by the President in his own
handwriting indicate the infinite care
that Mr.. Hoover exercises in all that
he undertakes. The salutation itself
was changed three times. There were
transpositions and other copy" alter
atoms. Mr.. Hoover read the address
while sitting in the same room In
which Abraham Lincoln signed the
proclamation Of the emancipation of
the Negro race.