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civic and patriotic organizations will
take part.
The fair, which will combine indus
trial exhibits with amusements, will
open on June is, to continue for q pc
Rod of nearly two weeks, instead of
opening June 8, as previously an
nounced. The change of date was
made in order to make possible the Sc
curing of a location which the COM
mittee desires. Announcement OF this
location will be made later.
Lee Heads Ticket Committee.
More than 100000 tickets of admis-
sion have been printed and are ready
for distribution. They will be handed
by a special committee to be named by
Chairman Lee, who is now busy COM
pleting the organization of his forces
from the various locals, A meeting OF
the representatives of each OF these
locals will be called in the near future,
at which time a definite campaign will
be outlined. In addition to being
charged with the distribution of tickets,
the locals will be invited to sponsor
booths that are expected to be sub
scribed to by Washington business and
industrial firms.
Chairman Lee stated last night that
from all indications the Central Labor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10
CATHOLIC ALUMNAE
WILL RECEIVE 200
Bishop Shahan Will Celebrate Mass
at Induction of New
Members.

About 200 graduates of various
Catholic high schools and colleges afhli-
ated with the District of Columbia
Chapter, International Federation Of
Catholic Alumnae, will be received into
the chapter at the annual mass and
Church.
Bishop Thomas j. Shahan, rector
emeritus Of Catholic University, will
celebrate the mass, and Mgr. Edward
A. Pace, director of the organization.
viii deliver the sermon. Arrangements
are in charge Of Mrs. Adelaide ],
Cavanagh. Breakfast Will be served ct
the Maynower Hotel following the
church service.
Breakfast plans are in charge OF
Mrs. Philip E. Schreier, 1884 Connecti-
cut avenue, assisted by Mrs. James Col
liflower, Mrs. John r. Fitzpatrick and
Mrs. Lewis A. Payne. The musical
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Wednesday morning in the Senate
once Building.
The next stage In the commissions
inquiry will be to hear from Army Of
ficers the plans the War Department
has in mind for making the best use of
the material resources as well IS the
man power of the Nation, II another
conflict should ever occur.
Heretofore the commission has heard
principally from industrial leaders, men
who served on the War Industries
Board, Council of National Defense and
similar agencies in the last war. Heads
of various veterans organizations also
have given their views.
Bernard M Baruch, who was chair
man of the war Industries Board DUR
ing a part Of the World War, testifying
before the commission in March. adj
Vised against enactment Of an involved
statute that would seek to anticipate
the requirements of another war, but
recommended the preparation Of plans
which could be considered and revised
from time to time.
He did, however, suggest q brief stat
ute TO provide for the "freezing" of the
entire price level at the outbreak OF any
future emergency. This suggestion
formed the basis for discussion by other
witnesses. who appeared later before the
commission.
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LABOR TO SPONSOR
MEMORIAL BENEFIT
$4,000 Needed by Unions
for Quota; Fair Opens
June Is.

d A huge street parade, with floats and
bands, will inaugurate the fair being
arranged by the Central Labor Union
for next month to complete the raising
Of labor's quota toward the District of
Columbia War Memorial.
Frank w. Lee, general chairman of
the Executive Committee, s. arranging
details of the parade in which labor
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Union Fair will be the most pretentious
ever attempted by Washington organi-
cation.
Labor unions and organizations in
the District already have raised $4,000
mortal now being erected In West Po-
tomac Park. It is hoped that the addi-
tional $4,000 necessary to complete
the quota will be derived from the
proceeds of the fair.
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Throat Trouble
Sends Butler Back
To Base for Rest
BY the Associated Press.

FEooUDIUVVE W.T.
PHILADELPHIA, May g.
Mai. Gen. Smedley D. Butler of
the Marine Corps is back at his
headquarters in Quantico, Va,
under orders from a physician to
rest a bit. The general has
slight cold which settled in his
throat and DR.. Ellwood r. Kirby
of this city advised him to remain
at Quantico until he RECEIVERS.
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No Two Ruptures
Are Alike

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WAR COMMISSION
TO RESUME STUDY
Department Policies to Be
Heard Next BY
Board.

After q recess Of more than month
the War Policies Commission, created
by Congress to recommend methods of
equaliztng the burdens and minimizing
war, will resume hearings this week,
beginning Wednesday and continuing
for about 10 days.
The commission, presided over by
Secretary of War Hurley and including
members of the Senate and House in its
will convene at 10 o'clock
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In the last y years France, Great
Britain, Italy, Belgium and the Neither
lands have inaugurated colonial air
lines that reach to many of their over
seas possessions, but are maintained at
a loss,
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program is in charge of Mrs. George
r. Thomaides. Miss Elizabeth j. Dolan,
local governor, will preside at the
breakfast.
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Where Others Fail
We Succeed

These supports can now be seen
and tested right here in Washing
ton. A local man, whom we helped
last week said, IF the people in
Washington knew of these supports
you would sell thousands Of them
here"
For over sixty years we have made
and fitted these supports in Boston.
Patients have come to Boston from
all ports of the country for treat
ment. Only recently we decided to
establish sales and service rooms In
the larger centers throughout the
u. S. and a local aged lawyer patient
on learning of this fact, shook his
finger in the writer's face and said,
"Mr. Baker, If you don't carry this
TO the public you are criminally re-
sponsible."
I cannot here tell you the vast
difference in feeling in comfort be-
tween hernia supports which COM
press all parts of the lower body and
ours, which gives relief to the af-
fected parts without injury TO cir
culatory or nervous systems.
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Plans have been started for the grow.
ing of hemp on more than 1000 acre,
in Colombia. and it is hoped to produce
/ 000, 900 bags a year.
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is married, and Is somewhat Of a phil
osopher. Bird Is a spinster, and by
comparison with the more prosaic
Wash, she is Eighty" Bird has IN
herited a considerable sum of money,
and she and Wash embark on a tour
Of the world.
IT get my biggest kick from the re-
action of my Indiana friends and rela-
tives to these radio sllits. Each in her
way has contributed to the composite
Bird and Wash, and it's a funny thing,
but they all see their neighbors' like
nesses in my two girls but none their
own"
The names of many of the characters
that crop up during the various cpl
sodes are often those of real people.
And you can believe it or not. but more
than half of the incidents really have
happened.
And now more about Van Sickle
himself. He has been around the world
some five or six times. In Australia he
played 68 consecutive weeks in various
dramatic productions. While in Mel
bourne he conducted a column in AUS
tralia's smart weekly publication, Table
Talk, under the title LAS Others See
U.s."
He has written a number Of plays
and short stories, and as an actor he
has appeared in more than IS Broad
way plays, in support of such stars as
Patricia Collinge, Eva LeGallienne,
Alice Brady, Mrs. Fiske and others.
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Of Colorado, past national commander
in chief Of the United Spanish War
Veterans and member of the Ameri-
can Legion, last Tuesday night I'M
yelled life-sized bust Of George Wash
1ngton at a meeting of George WASH
ington Post, No. /, the American Legion,
at the post club house, 1441 Rhode
Island avenue.
In his unwilling address he paid
tribute to the first President of the
United States and emphasized the rela-
tlonship which existed between Gen.
Washington and the veterans he COM
manded in the Revolutionary Army.
Benjamin S. Fisher, past department
commander of the Department of Ore
gon, gave short address on the De-
troit convention, and stressing the vot-
ing on the bonus and eighteenth
amendment, which, In his opinion,
clearly demonstrated that the delegates
felt that their action in these two in
stances was what was thought to be
for the best interest of the country.
Both MessrS. Means and Fisher present.
ed transfers for membership in George
Washington Post, the former from the
Department of Colorado and the latter
from the Department of Oregon.
Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent
Of the Metropolitan Police and a char
IeT member OF the posi-, mace q snort
address. The invocation at the opening
of the exercises, following the saluting
OF the colors, was pronounced by Rev.
Howard E. Snyder, chaplain of the post.
Post Comdr. John Thomas Taylor,
presided. Maj. Gen. Mark L. Hershey
and Maj. Happy Coope, who have been
i'll at Walter Reed Hospital, and Rev.
Howard E. Snyder, post chaplain, who
has been for several months in Naval
Hospital, were welcomed by Comdr.
Taylor.
A telegram was read by Comdr. Tay-
Tor from Gen. John j. Pershing, another
charter member of the post, expressing
thanks for the congratulations sent him
on the occasion of his recent birthday.
Many OF the charter members of the
post were present throughout the eve
ming. Among the past commanders of
the post present were John Lewis Smith,
also past department commander;
Howard S. Fisk, Lew S. Mohler, Percy
B. Mccoy, Wallace Streater, Charles
o. Shaw, j. J. Murphy, Gilbert T.
Rude, Bernard c. MCGEE and William
E. Porter
The advisory council of the U. S. S.
Jacob Jones Post, No 2, met at the
home of Comdr. Helen L. Sprague last
Thursday evening.
The october meeting Of the post will
be held tomorrow evening in the small
ball room OF the Willard Hotel. After
short business meeting installation
OF officers for the coming year will take
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When the National Commission Of the
American Legion meets at national
headquarters in Indianapolis November
is and 16 1t will give careful study to
a number Of subjects contained in reso-
lutions adopted by the national conven-
ton in Detroit. These subjects include
immigration, undesirable aliens, ma
turalization, deportation, education,
study Of the American government, the
flag ritual, conservation, communism,
pacifism and the investigation Of So
called peace societies.
The regular meeting Of Victory Post,
American Legion, will be held Tuesday
evening in the Odd Fellows Temple, 4l9
Seventh street Post Comdr. G. w. Brown
ing will be present for the first time
since his return from the national con-
Vention. He served as q member OF
the Resolutions Committee and will dis
cuSs the work accomplished.
Plans for a Embarrassing campaign,
under the leadership Of Comdr. Brown
ing and Comrade Raymond A. Burke,
president of the drum corps, will be
announced shortly. It Is hoped that
sufficient funds can be raised to aid the
department in sending the drum corps
to the next national convention, which
will b held in Portland, Greg.
Adjt. A. j. Kearney has been dis
tributing the 1882 membership cards.
Comrade E. C. Minter, chairman of the
Membership Committee, has had sew
eral application blanks mailed to each
member Of the post and has adopted
for the membership campaign the slogan
Every Member Get Member"
At the regular meeting of the Costello
Post, Held in the board room of the
District Building last Tuesday, the fol-
lowing were accepted to membership:
Ernest E. Davey, William H. Wiles, Ray
mond G. Speight, Marshall G. Gangnon,
Herman D. Downey, H. Samuel Hines,
Lloyd H. Dopp, George c. Kaheley, Jo-
seph Paul King and Frederick Hess.
Comrade Phots, delegate to the ma
tional convention, gave a brief report.
Comrade I. D. Brent of Traynor Post
No. IS. Of Flint, Mich, was a guest.
Comdr. Cipriani announced the fol-
lowing appointments: Frederick A.
Thuee, finance officer; Jacob N. Halper,
judge advocate; Gerald Shelly, member
ship officer; Albert p. Tatspaugh,
adjutant, and Lloyd H. Dopp. assistant
adjutant.
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American Legion

A few vacancies exist in the drum
corp for any comrade who desires tc
join. The corps will meet Monday night
at the National Guard Armory, Sixth
street and Pennsylvania avenue, at
pm.
Clyde B. Stovall, former department
finance officer of the American Legion
and now chairman of the World War
Scholarship Committee, was elected
commander of Kenneth H. Nash Post
at a meeting Thursday night at the
Hamilton Hotel.
other officers elected were Israel r.
Zaontz, senior vice commander; Will
liam d. Mulkey, junior vice commander
Thomas j. Dickson, chaplain; Ellis r
King, judge advocate; Lewis A. Snider
quartermaster, and William S. Towner
sergeant at arms.
The Kenneth H. Nash Unit, No. 8, OF
the American Legion Auxiliary held its
october meeting Wednesday at the
Hotel Hamilton. Owing to the fact that
the installation Of officers chosen at
the last meeting had not been held. the
past officers conducted the meeting.
Mrs. Bertha Yoder Werthner, past
president, presided
MIS-. William -. Mulkey, president
elect, announced her committee chair
men, and discussed her plans for the
coming year. Miss Mildred Nash gave
a short talk on finances and also spoke
in regard to the work of the Member
ship Committee and its plans to in
crease the membership.
Mrs. Joseph Minis, past president of
Victory Unit and president of the
Presidents Federation, spoke on the
Detroit convention, particularly in re-
gard to the securing of the charter by
the auxiliaries of the District. Mrs
Fawcett, past president of the Henry C.
Spengler Unit, and Mrs. Turley, for
merly Of Phoenix. AriZ., also spoke.
Past Comdr. Madden of the Nash
Post invited the auxiliary to join the
post in a card party next month for the
benefit of the Nash Post.
The place of the installation will be
announced at future date. An Ex-
ecutive Committee meeting will be held
next Wednesday at the home of Mrs.
Werthner at 1101 Euclid street.
In the presence OF one Of the largest
gatherings for some time past, former
United States Senator Rice w. Means
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new ENGLAND LEADS
IN RADIO OWNERS
Every Other Home Has Set, Census
Reveals-0ther Reports
Are Awaited.

Virtually every other home In the New
England States had a radio when the
radio census was taken, along with the
decennial census Of population, on April
/, 1880. This is revealed with the issu-
ance last week of the Census Bureaus
radio census report for Massachusetts,,
which shows that State taking the lead
among all of the AZ States and District
Of Columbia thus far reported in its pro-
portion of radios to homes.
OF the 1,024,527 families counted in
Massachusetts, by census enumerators,
500, Jos, or 57.6 per cent, replied in the
affirmative when asked by the census
enumerators whether they had radios.
Massachusetts, thus noses out little
Rhode Island for top ranking, a pre-
vious report having shown that 94,594
of Rhode Islands 1881 families, or
ST. per cent, had radios when the CEN
Sus was taken.
Reports for the other New England
States showed: Connecticut, 213,821 out
Of 389,596 homes, or $40 per cent; Ver-
mont, 39,913 out Of 80. 439, or 44.6 per
cent; New Hampshire, 53,111 out of
119, $50, or 44.4 per cent, and Maine,
7T,803 out of 1882, or 1872 per cent.
The combined total for all six States is
1,069,347 radio-equipped homes out Of
1887 1895, or 49.6 per cent.
Call1ornla SILL maintains its lead IN
aggregate number of homes having ra-
dios with 839,991. Ohio ranks second
with 810,767 and Michigan ranks third
with 599,l06. Massachusetts ranks
fourth in total. due to the smaller pop
ulation it embraces. It's top place in
proportion is accounted for by the fact
that nearly every community in its
bounds shows that better than SO per
cent of its homes are radio-equipped.
Because 18 months have elapsed since
the radio-Set census was taken, the
totals and proportions for each State
have increased materially In the in
term. Nevertheless, the Government
figures furnish the first approximate
index to the radio-set population of the
United States, despite the fact it is
we'll known that many persons, fearing
the set count was a forerunner to a
radio tax, refused to divulge whether
they had radios.
The New England States, led by Mas
sachusetts, show consistently higher
averages than any other section, though
some sections figures cannot be COM
piled until the reports from New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois and
Texas are made available. The Census
Bureau hopes to have these out within
the next month or two. 1t is anticipated
that these reports will bring the total
for the United States to somewhere be-
tween 100000 and 100000.
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place. This ceremony will be followed
by an entertainment and dancing.
Under the leadership of Comdr,
Sprague the posts Americanism pro-
gram was rated highest in the District
OF Columbia Department, making the
John Lewis Smith trophy a permanent
possession of the post. Comrade Briggs,
whose work with the orchestra of deaf
children is well known, announced that
~ new members have been added to
the orchestra and they are now starting
on the new school term. Comrade Ethel
Jane Rule, who is in charge of the
Braille for the American Red Cross,
requested comrades attend the classes
which meet at the Red Cross Chapter
House, 1880 E street northwest, the
flrst and third Tuesdays of each month.
The blind scholarship awarded last
year by this post, through the American
Foundation tor the Blind, has been re-
neWed this year and has been presented
70 young student who otherwise would
not have been able to continue her
education.
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Folks Behind
The Microphone
BY THE RADIO EDITOR.

TRANCE how authors find their
inspirations where one would
least expect it. Take Raymond
Van Sickle. for instance. 1t was
the memories of the many I'M
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AIR ASTROLOGERS UNDER
COMMISSION FIRE
TWO Stations Criticized for Pro-
grams May Lose
Permits.

Following through with its threat of
drastic action against stations engaged
in ''quackery." of any nature. the Fed
eral Radio Commission has cited two
stations, on opposite sides of the coun-
try, for alleged sponsorship of i'm
proper astrological programs.
One Zorro of station KTAB. San
Francisco, and one DR.. Richards of
station WCBA, Allentown, Pa, are the
astrologerS against whom complaints
have been leveled. The commission
has cited the stations for possible can
collation. Of their licenses because of
these broadcastS. The stations must
stand hearing on renewals of their
licenses in the near future.
Action was taken on recommendation
OF Col. Thad H. Brown, general coun-
sci of the commission He alleged that
the programs of "Zoro" were question:
able as to public interest. The system,
he said, seems to be for Zorro Ito re-
quest over the air that the public send
in three questions, together with 81,
which pays for a star map and the
answers to the three questions"
The last Japanese census gave Japan
grand total population of over d.
600 .0O0
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least expect 1t. Take Raymond
~ Van Sickle. for instance. 1t was
the memories of the many I'M
happy times he was almost forcloly
dragged by his mother to prayer meet
ings, ladies' aid gatherings. and similar
functions, that provided him with inc
inspiration for BIRD and wash"
Although this program, heard daily
over the Columbia network, is still IN
what might be called its swaddling
clothes. it already has attracted con-
siderable attention for its authentic
Characterization Of two middle-aged
townswcmen OF a Midwestern COM
munity. ;,
Reverting to Raymond's boyhood,. 1t
is only fair to say that it wasn't be-
cause his mother was inconsiderate Of
his feelings that she insisted he accom-
pany her on these expeditions. She
had a good reason, and that was be-
cause most of these social affairs OF
Frankfort Ind, were held in the eve
ming You see, the Van Sickles lived
lust outside of town, and Mrs. Van
Sickle, being tinid soul, felt that she
needed her sons escort.
And, according to the author, "At
first I put up terrific struggle when
ever I had to go along. hated 1t, and
even offered to practice my piano les
sons, but it didn't help. However,
after awhile didn't mind so much"
Years later, when the same Raymond
was residing in Australia, he found
time hanging heavily on his hands, so
he decided to derive some benefit from
those meetings. Accordingly, he fabri-
Gated two characters that were COM
posites of the Club" women of Frank
fort. His brain-child first took the
form of a series Of letters from Vashti
Snodgrsss to her friend Bird Gokey
back home in Indiana. Later he found
that for authenticity their style would
have to be verbose, so he brought them
together in a series of sketches.
Van Sickle claims he finds it lot
of fun to take these two women on a
tour of the world via the radio. Wash
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Canada Television Grows.

Canada has seven licensed television
broadcaSting stations, according to the
latest log of broadcasters issued by the
Department of Marine and Fisheries at
Ottawa. Like the United States, the
Canadian radio authorities license such
stations on an experimental basis. Like
the American authorities, too, they al
locate them to the same bands of fire.
quencies, although none of the Cana
dian experimenters has as yet been as
signed to the ultra short waves.
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BRITISH DEVELOP SHORT
WAVE BROADCASTIMG
Secret Work on Seventh eter
Waves for Program Expan-
sion Advancing.

The secret development of ultra-short
wave broadcasting is reported from
London, where British Broadcasting
Corporation engineers are known to be
working on plans TO harness the waves
around 40, ooO-4 900 kilocycles, approx
mately 7 meters) for the purpose of
providing further channels. These eX-
periments, paralleling the development
of the ultra-shorts for television and
communications in the United States
and other countries, have been prompt
ed by the overcrowding Of the European
ether