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iOudy INC kentucky Derby Oc-
cupies the headline position with
the broadcasters. About 100
radio stations in the U. S. A..
Will spread the air account of
the Churchill Downs turf classic.
and the news will be sent by
short wave length across the seas
to England.
Teo Husing and Graham Nc.
Nance will be at the mikes" for
Columbia and NB.C., respectively,
While Glenn Mccarthy, real vet
eran OF the racing form, will as
SlSt the NB.C. announcer with
inside" stuff.
l hope the Kentucky event is
blessed with fair weather, so that
the race can be calle1 at the va
rlouS posts. Last year Clyde
van DuSen SplaShed through a
sea OF mud to emerge the victor,
Since the first of the year the
Radio Home-Makers have offered
a wide variety of topics and many
distinguished speakers as part of
their daily 10 to noon program
over WABC and the Columbia
Broadcasting System.
The list of speakers includes
William Green. president of the
American Federation of Labor;
Carrie Chapman Gait, leader of
the National American Woman
Suffrage Association: the three
goodwill messengers from Japan;
Judge John Barton Payne, chair
man of the American Red Cross;
Daniel Carter Beard, national
Scout commissioner; Baron de
Meyer, French fashion expert;
AuguStin, Margherita and Eliza
beth Duncan, members of Isa-
dora Duncan'S family; Represent
atives Florence Prag Kahn. Mary
T. Norton. Ruth Bryan Owen and
Edith N. Rogers: Philip Merivale,
actor; Christopher Morley, writer;
DR.. SebaStio Sampaiio, Brazilian
consul general; Senators Arthur
Capper of Kansas and Thomas
D. Schall of Minnesota DR.. Al
bert Shaw. editor of Review of
Reviews, and the presidents. re-
spectively, of the General Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs, Daughters
of the American Revolution and
the National Young Women'S
Christian Association.
A spelling bee with the ladies
of the press competing against
the championship team of gentle
men of the press will be broad
cast by the National Broadcast
ing Company from the National
Press Club tonight from $50 to
$50 o'clock.
The supremacy in spelling re
Gently was won by the news
paper men in a tournament with
a team composed of members of
the House of Representatives and
the Senate.
Alice Roosevelt LongWorth, wife
Of the Speaker of the House and
daughter of the late President,
will be one of the judges. Mrs.
Alfred J. BroSseau, former preSi-
dent-general of the Daughters of
the American Revolution. will be
another.
HighlightS on today's programs
are:
$50 p. NJ.
WRC-WMAL-Broadcast direct
from Churchill Downs, KY. of
the famous Kentucky Derby.
1880 P. NJ.
WRC-A spelling bee from the
National Press Club. The women's
team is announced as follows:
Martha Strayer, Washington Daily
News (captain), Kate Scott
Brooks, Chicago Tribune; Eliza
beth May Craig, Portland Me-
PreSs-Herald and Express; Cath
crime Hackett burlington, Wo-
mans Journal; Nell Ray Clarke
Herrlngton, Philadelphia Public
Ledger: Stella McCord, Washing
ton Post; Maud McDougall, Cleve-
land Leader; Mary McCracken
Jones, Edgar News Service. AL
ternates, Ruth Hanna McCor-
mick, Mrs. Frances Parkington
Keyes, Isabel Story, editor of
National Park Service Emma
Perley Lincoln, Washington Post.
and Blanche M. Joyce, Public
Roads Press Bureau.
The mems team-Ray Tucke..',
New York Telegram captain;
Farmer Murphy, Baltimore Sun;
David Rankin Barbee, Washing
ton Post; Wilbur Forrest, New
York Herald-Tribune; Floyd S.
Roosa, Universal Service; Fred
Emery, United States Daily: Paul
Anderson, st. Louis Post-Dispatch,
and John D. Rhodes, official
Senate reporter.
8P. M.
WMAL-Bartley Campbell'S
"The Danites," a five-act "meller-
drama" of the Far West in the
early days, will be adapted to
radio presentation by Phil Maher
and Harry C. Browne and broad,
cast during Hank Simmons
Show Boat" period. This play is
really a claSSic-a play that was
done by the late Mckee Rankin
and his wife.