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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-02
Folks Behind
The MicrOphone
BY THE RADIO EDITOR.

~ OCONUT may be all right for
some people, but not Al Hough-
ton, Kenwood's broadcasting
~ pro. 1t is not permitted in his
house. 1t is not even men,
toned in his presence. 1t would be
safer to wave a red flag at bull or
kick a sleeping lion in the face than
to say anything about coconut to this
ordinarily peaceable young golfer.
Here's the reason:
While waiting to take his turn at the
mike at VOL recently Houghton helped
himself freely from box of coconut
candy. Five minutes before going on
the air he suddenly developed violent
case of hiccoughs
The announcer handed Al q large
glass of water which he drank without
delay and also without success. A sec
ond glass produced the same results.
In desperation Houghton reached for
the third glassful. If it didn't work
this time he was lost. 1t didn't. His
capacity was reached. His tank was
filled
1t was now As seconds before AL was
due to be introduced on the ether
waves. All sort of hiccough-chasing
stunts had been tried to no avail and
Houghton sat dejectedly in a corner
watching a proxy prepare to read his
script He had abandoned hope of be-
| ing able to take his place at the mike
when suddenly his face frightened. He
drew long breath gingerly and then
another more boldly Making a dive
for the substitute, Houghton Snatched
the script from his hands and went
on the air, not a second too soon.
Houghton thinks he tucked out" on
| the hiccoughs. He feels that the
"sluice" method was not only unsuc-
cessful, but was also most uncom-
| Portable.
THE secrets out. That mystery sing
i err of hot" tunes with Sam Lanin's
Orchestra on N. B. G, Is Robert Sim
mons, operate tenor.
When the addition was held to pick
singer on this program Simmons got
the job in competition with a half
dozen singers who specialize in hot"
music exclusively. He's just Is and his
father is a minister.
4
a RTHUR PRYOR'S BAND, which
IA finished series on Columbia Sat-
urday, moves to N. B. c. November z
for a number of Saturday night con-
certs. Marion Harris Is to have
, a program all her own on N. B. C..
starting tomorrow night at IL. 8.
Statisticians have discovered that 1t
requires something like 100000 miles
of wire lines to hook together the ap-
proximately 200 stations on the N. B. G.
and Columbia networks for the special
unemployment relief programs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-02
BIRTHDAY PROGRAM.
OF KDkA ON WRC.
Pioneer Broadcast Station
/ II Years 0Id--Connecti.
cut Tribute Tonight.

A special program designed 70 mark
the eleventh birthday anniversary oi
KDKA. pioneer broadeasting station oi
the world. viii be- broadcast tonight by
WRC and a network Of other National
Bfoadcasting Company stations.
The program will originate in
KDKAs own studios IL will feature a
concert by Zoei Parantaaus cavaliers
q male quartet and vocal chorus
The Parade II the States program nj
D.30 win honor Connecticut A medley
OF Yale songs. a march. THE Spirit OF
Connecticut" and the Twenty Second
Connecticut March OF Bagley are
among the principal musical selections.
Il Wanted 10 Kill' Is the title OF the
Story Hour dramatlzAtion at 10 O'Clock.
The story Is an autobiography Of a war
veteran. who returned from France to
ind the girl he thought he was engaged
70 In love with another man.
Concert on WRC Program.
A concert at $50 O'Clock featuring
Gladys Rice, James Melton and VIII
liam MerriRan Days Orchestra and
Ghc weekly program OF the Gypsiss, with
Veron ca Virgins as sooist, are among
WRC's other major presentations.
From ITS own studios WRC viii broad
cast popular program by the
Schneider Orchestra and a concert by
Harold Veo's Orchestra.
WMAL and associated stations will
broadcast tonight ceremonies at which
the Columbia Broadcasting Systems
medal for distinguished contributions
eto radio viii be presented To Leopold
Etokowski, director OF the Philadelphia
iOrchestra. The presentation will be
made by William s. Paley. president OF
Columbia
Columbias competitor for Amos m
ANDY a serial dramatic sketch to be
known as "Myrt and Marge," will be
introduced at 2 o'clock The sketches
will be on the air five nights week.
Bing Crosby baritone. will start a
new series of program at tbs. Carl
Fenton's Orchestra also viii contribute
70 this program.
Irene Bordinf TO Sing.
Irene Bordini will assist Guy Lom-
bardo and his Royal Canadians in the
Panatela program at 10 o'clock. She
will sing Thrill Me" and Two Loves"
Political talks in the interest OF vari-
Gus candidates for public office in
Arlington County, Va, will be broad
cast tonight by WJSV. One program
ut o'clock will be under the auspices
of the Republic Committee of Airing
ton County. Other political speeches
will be made by z. o. Hines and Law
renee Douglass.
Dan and his Gang, Osborne Miller,
tenor, and the Jones Family are fea-
tured tonight by VOL. A dinner con-
cert and recordings by Joe Green's
Novelty Marimba Band also are on the
program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-02
PANTAGES' ATTORNEYS
TO ASK RETRIAL JURY
Defense for Rich Theatrical Mag.
nate Upsets Plans for Review
of Dancers Charges.

by the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. November AT
torneys for Alexander Pantages wealthy
theatrical magnste charged with as
saulttng Eunice Pringle, i7-year -old
dancer, announced they would demand
q jury to hear the case when brought
up for retrial here today. The state
had planned to try the case without a
jury.
Pantages was convicted on this charge
October 81, 1929, and for several months
was held in the county Jail before OBJ
tanning release en- bond pending appeal.
The State Supreme Court eventually
granted him new trial en- the ground
the lower court erred in excluding de-
Tense testimony as to Miss Pringle's
reputation.
The alleged attack took place In
Pantages' Office when she applied to
him for a stage position August 8, 1929.
Pantages contended it was a frame-up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-02
MAN KILLS WIFE AND SELF,
FIRES HOME, JURY FINDS
Woman Slain With Hatchet by
Husband Who Ended Life,
Coroner Decides.
az the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
DAYTON, Ohio, November Floyd
A. Gilbert, As, and his wife Emma, 43,
were found dead and their home par
TALLY burned as the result of what
Coroner Maurice Cooper pronounced a
murder and suicide here yesterday.
The coroner said Gilbert apparently
had struck his wife over the head FIVE
times with Ratchet and then shot
himself through the head after setting
the house afire. A number Of empty
beer bottles were found near the bodies.
Neighbors found that the bed, floor
and walls of an upstairs room had been
soaked with kerosene and fired.
Nearby residents told the coroner
they heard the couple quarreling late
Saturday night, and that early yester-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-02

Two hundred airplanes are expected
to arrive and depart daily next year at
the 25o-acre airport to be opened in
Moscow, Russia.
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HIGH LIGHTS ELSEWHERE.

A:5o-National Symphony Orchestra.
directed by Hans Kinder
WEAF, WGY, WTANd, WCAE.
Raising Junior: domestic skit--
WIZ, WBAI1. WHAM, VICAR.
6:45-Topics in Brief by Lowell
Thomas WIZ, WIZ, WBAL,
wABC. WIKI wMAQ. KDKA,
WLW and WRVA.
T:30-The Boswell Sisters-WABC and
WOKE.
T:45-The Goldbergs; comedy sketch
--WEAF. WSAI, WWJ, WGY
and WCAE.
7:45-Waves of Melody; Victor Ar
den's Orchestra--WJZ, VIDAL,
WIS, WHAM, KWK, WSM and
WHO.
s:so-Death Valley Davis. dramatic
sketch-WJZ, WBZ, WBAL and
WHAM.
soo-Roy Bargy's Orchestra and Male
Quartet--WJZ, WIZ. VIDAL,
KDKA. WJR and WHAM
c:oc-Nfrzi-,l Dominos: orchestra,
Leonard Hattoa and Phil Wahl,
end p2eno duo-W.IZ, WIZ,
ca1 K w.
ice man ard Arden. piano dIo.
nl"'2 trio ard novelty orchestrH
VIZ, WIZ. VIDAL, KDKA,
WLW and WJR.
i9.S0-Eccl Folks: sketch Of small
town hfe--yJZ. WBZ, wBAL
, WBZA KDRA. wLW and KYW
I2:0o-Mildred Bailey and the King'S
testers. dance music VIZ
WBZ, WBAL and WHAM.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-02
Don't Pay
~ This Falls
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-02
Major Radio Features
SPECIAL EVENTS.

SPECIAL EVENTS,
Presentation of medal to Leopold Sto-
kowski, WMAL, 800; KDKA Ami
versary Program, WRC, 1880.
DRAMA
Myrt and Marge, wNAL, TOO; story
hour, WRC, 1000.
VARIETY.
Morton Downey, WN1AIs, 7:45: the Gyp-
sizes, WRC, 900; Parade of the
States, WRC, $50; Palace of Hap
piness, WNdAL, ll:00; Lew Whites
organ recital, WRC. ll:45.
DANCE MUSIC.
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Cana
dams. WMAL, 1000; Cuban Or
chestra. WMAI1, 1880; Earl Hines
Orchestra, WRC, 1900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-02
Radio AnnOuncers
Play Checkers While
Waiting to Announce
By the Associatkd Press-


NEW YORK. November a.
Checkers Is still q game in good
standing. even in the big cities.
Behind the scenes in radio the
owners of familiar voices indulge
the same as you and /. Up at
WABC-CBS in the announcer's
room there's always a game going
when George Boucher and Harry
Won Zell, program tntroducers,
get together.
Then, there's Mr.. and Mrs. B.
A. Rolfe of N. B. C. Their night
cap Is a game Of backgammon,
no matter If the hour is 2 am.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-02
BATTERED BODY FOUND
Woman Cab Driver Claimed to Be
Member of Rich Family.

RIVERSIDE. Calf November 2 14'i
The battered body of Mrs. Alice
Pspanti 40, who for 10 years operated
her own taxicab here. was found In an
orange grove yesterday. several hours
after her bloodstained automobile was
discovered at Cotton, miles north Of
Riverside.
An autopsy was ordered.
Mrs. Papanti, apparently well bred,
claimed 10 be member of a wealthy
Boston family whose name she never
disclosed. She often declared she was
graduate Of an exclusive New England
school.
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Today on the Radio
ran Programs Scheduled for STANDARD TiureJ
W7DC 1855 Meters.
w ~ $50 KilOcycles

WRC s sls'S x Mssers:
3oo-Woman's Radio Review.
4:ob--National Music League Hour.
4:30-The Good Neighbor.
4:45-vocational Guidance, by the
Kiwanis Club.
5:00-Studio feature.
5.l5-Ivy Scott, soprano.
5:30-The Happy Laundrymen.
5:45-Report of the National Indus
trial Conference Board.
5:4T--The Pilgrims.
5.59-Correct time.
6:00-Schneider Orchestra.
6:l5-Fairfax program.
6:45-"The Stebbins Boys"
7:00-"Amos m Andy"
7:15--Ianin's Orchestra.
7:30-Alice Joy and Paul Van Loans
Orchestra.
7:45-Harold Veo's Orchestra with Mar
guerite Cromwell.
s:OO-The Merry Dairymen.
8:15-Fine Arts String Quartet
8:30-Gladys Rice and William Merri-
gan Days Orchestra.
9:00-The Gypsies.
9:30-Parade of the States.
10:00--Story Hour dramatization.
i0:45-Harry Kogen's Orchestra.
! ] :00--Last-Minut News.
IL :02-Slumber music.
IL :30-Weather forecast.
ll:3l-Songs by Russ Colombo.
ii :45-Lew White, organist.
1900 Earl Hines Orchestra.
IL :30a to :00a-Eleventh anniversary
program from KDKA.
Early Program Tomorrow.
6:45a--Tower Health exercises.
S:00a-Gene and Glenn.
8:15a-Morning devotions.
6:30a--Cheerio.
9:00a--Morning Glee Club.
9:l5a--Waring's Troubadours.
9:45a--Food program.
10 00a--Mrs Blake's radio column.
10:l5a-U. S. Navy Band.
10 :30a--Morning Serenaders.
IL :00a-"Your Child" by DR.. Ella OPP
penheimer.
l1:l5a-Radio Household Institute.
IL :30a-A"Timely Garden Suggestions"
by w. r. Beattie.
IL :45a-Hugo Warrants Orchestra.
IL :00m-The Home Circle.
l2:15-Black and Gold Orchestra.
Farm and Home Hour.
l:30--New Yorker Ensemble.
2:30-Dorothy Daubel, pianist.
2;45-"Woman's Place in Aviation" by
Amelia Earhart.
3:00-Woman's Radio Review.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-02

the International Invention and Gen.
eral Trades Exhibition In London that
he has spent $4,000 leisure hours" on
his hobby Of making models Of famous
hr;fldirOS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24
Chinese Explorer
 Coming To Hartford
Roy Chapman Andrews, the Man Who Discussed
 DiOnoseurs Eggs, to Lecture There Oct 30

, The story of the central Asiatic expeditions in the most terrible desert of the entire world" as President Henry Fairfield Osborn i terms the Gobi, is full of thrills, and the Children's Museum is | much pleased to have the privilege of presenting so noted and scien- tif1c an explorer. and moreover, | largest natural history museum in the United States. For pr An drews is almost as much museum man as expedition leader.
 His book, Ends of the Earth" relates in humorous manner the way he secured his first "job" in the American Museum of which he is now vice-director. Just after | his graduation from Beloit college he entered the taxidermy depart ment where part of his work was to scrub the floors and he ayers that because they were museum | floors he loved the work!
 The same determined persistence and gallant spirit which carried Roy Andrews through many prob- lems of mounting whales by origin al processes, collecting birds and small mammals in the Dutch East Indies, Borneo and Celebes, and from the deck of the U. s. s. Alba tross dredging the sea bottom, have | had full play the past few years, when he has been directing re- searches in Central Asia.
 His lecture and pictures will show the contrasts, of an explorers
 life. Chasing the elusive. dollar in the canyons of Wall Street." as preliminary to financing the ex- petitions, carrying on diplomatic relations with two factions of the I Chinese government, outwitting bandits. entertaining Tibetans with the latest tunes from America, played on an electric photograph, mapping the desert. bringing up pet eaglets or gazelles, and above all searching constantly for fossils and suerintending the excavation and packing of the valuable
 finds" are among the activities
 which have occupied his days.
 | Dr Andrews has keen sense or humor and his audiences may ex-
 pect to be transported to prehis- toric times both truthfully and de-
 lightfully as his pictures indicate
 ''the fate of the rash Platybelodon''
 and his lecture relates both the
 hardships and the pleasures of re-
 constructing the early history oi
 our earth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24

11:30 p. m., Armstrong was charged with criminal negligence and placed under a bond of $7,500 for appearance in court this morn- ing. Harrison D. Schofield, assist ant prosecutor, took part in the examination.
 Caught After Chase
 At the time of the accident, Armstrong, who was driving the truck loaded with four tons of freight, was being pursued by Po- liceman William Mccormick of the West Hartford police depart ment. The policeman claimed that the driver was clocked at 35 miles an hour down the grade running west towards Trout Brook and that he was attempting to overhaul the truck when the fatality occurred
 The trolley car came to halt at the foot of the hill, opposite the street on which Miss Lorentzen lived, and the truck kept moving at fast rate of speed, according to the policeman. He saw Miss Lorentzen alight from the trolley car and run down by the truck which continued to race up the hill towards the center of Wes' Hartford. The policeman turned his machine to the left of thu trolley car and continued thu chase, overtaking Armstrong 1T front of the Central Theater, abou one-eighth of mile from thu scene of the accident.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24
T rucker Kills West
 Hartford Girl
Armstrong, Operator of Grove Company Vehicle,
 Claimed Under Influence of Liquor

While being pursued by a po- liceman a truck owned by the Grove company of Waterbury and operated by Edmund D. Arm strong, 32, of 216 Alder street, struck and fatally injured Miss Lillian N. Lorentzen, 22, of 3 Nichols court, West Hartford. The accident, which was the first fatal tragedy to occur in West Hartford in over year was witnessed by the father of the unfortunate young girl. He did not recognize her until he reached her side to render assistance. He was so shocked to recognize his own daughter that he nearly collapsed. Armstrong was placed under ar rest. The police of West Hartford ence of liquor. An assistant es- capped from the scene when the truck was brought to standstill. an eighth of mile from the scene of the accident. Miss Lorentzen was run down as she alighted from a trolley car. Miss Gertrude M Lorentzen. 20, sister of the vic- tim narrowly escaped similar | fate. She was about to step from the car when the truck whizzed by.
 | Armstrong was taken to tho {, West Hartford police station ant
 examined by Dr F. Earl Kunkel police physician. who pronounced him under the influence of liquor At a special examination by Judge l Albert S. Bill in police quarters al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24
|OTHER SIDE OF
 SOVIET RUSSIA
Vice-President of George town University Replies
 to G. Bernard Shaw
A DARK PICTURE

Rev Edward A. Walsh, S.J., vice president of Georgetown univer- sity, takes issue with George Ber- nard Shaw on the benefits of So- viet rule in Russia. Father Walsh said in part
 Instead of the factories to the proletariat, 1t is the proletariat to the factories and the mines under the lash of the Five Year Plan, there to toll as serfs or convicts, and be paid, if paid at all, in de- preciating currency by the sole owner of the factories, the state itself. Should the victims mur- mur or protest, they are executed without trial as 'counter-revolu- tionists.' Instead of unlimited freedom of the press, there has been created state monopoly m absolute control of the printed word. Instead of liberty of speech, there is the eternal threat of the G. P. U. and the haunting spectre of universal espionage. Instead of freedom of religion, there has been initiated an obscene war on God, financed by the state it. self, and designed to suffocate the inalienable rights of conscience. {. Instead of freedom of labor and occupation, there has been draft ed a set of decrees empowering public authorities to seize and transport workers thousands of miles away from their homes to re- gions of obligatory labor.
 Instead of inviolability of per- son, home and possessions, there have been 13 unbroken years of terrorism, summary acquisitions, domiciliary visits. and wholesale executions without trial before hidden tribunals. It Is over this, the most hideous of Soviet in- iquities, that Mir Shaw makes most unnatural meriment. Instead of di- rect equal and secret ballot, there | prevails a limited, unequal and public voting stem by show of hands under the scrutinizing eyes of government inspectors. Instead of equal rights for every citizen six categories are disenfranchised by the Constitution (Article 69) on purely class grounds and treat ed as parasites and political pa. riahs."
 Addressing his remarks directly to MT Shaw, Father Walsh said: ou say that Tn the unlVersa peace, order, efficiency and securit,
 prevailing in Soviet Russia hel
 people are employed to the las
 man. Now you were in Russia fol ten midsummer days and doubt
 less base your statements on wid' personal observation. Did yo, ever fall in behind that last man II
 one of those conveys of dispos
 sessed peasants being herded to Si
 beria for forced labor in the lum
 Der camps of Karelia or in the un
 speakable depths of the coal mine
 of the Donet basin, or among tn
 rigors of Solovetsky Island? Di'
 you not observe the Red Guard
 with fixed bayonets walking befor
 and behind those columns of prole
 tarians. with their bowed head
 and broken hearts?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24
THIS CITY SHOULD HOLD CELEBRATION The Old Took Active Part in War of RevOlu=
 ton SUBJECT FOR STUDY

Quite a good many cities all over the country are holding home celebrations on the 150th observ- ance of the surrender of Cornwall lis at Yorktown. Why wouldn't it be a good idea for Waterbury to step into the limelight and tell the boys and girls of to-day the
 part the early settlers of this town played in the Revolutionary war?
 Even though nothing more should be done than mention the names of the officers and men who went from here to that conflict 1t would be an education for the youth of the community. At this time, one thinks of the many talks the late Judge George H. Colwell used to give about the war of the Revolution. One of his most in- teresting anecdotes had reference to a dance the girls gave on the Frost road for boys who were leaving for the war. These are in- teresting subjects and should re- ceive more consideration than they do. Dr Anderson's History of Wa terbury should be familiar to every boy and girl in Waterbury. Ii contains a lot of information about this city and neighboring towns which formed what was known as Mattatuck before and for some time after the United States cut loose from Britain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-24
Dressler, Moran
 at New Garden
Politics Their Starring VehiCle-Usual Coz
 feature

Beginning Sunday the attractions at the New Garden will be the comedy riot Politics" with Ma rie Dressler and Polly Moran. Ma rie shows 'em the hand that rocks the cradle can also throw a brick. The co-feature is Kept Husbands" with Dorothy Mackaill, Joel Me- drama of wise wives and sucker husbands.
 The change of bill Monday and Tuesday will bring Waterloo Bridge" with Mae Clark and Kent of the worthiest products that Hol- lywood will send out in this year of super effort. The companion feture is Secrets of Secretary" with Claudette Colbert. Another fascinating triumph for the charm girl of ''The Smiling Lieutenant" Wednesday and Thursday comes John Barrymore in "Svengali" with Marion Marsh. master of a thou sand emotions creates his most amazing role. The companion pie ture Is Always Good Bye" with Elissa Landi, Lewis Stone and Paul Cavanaugh. For Friday and Satur- day is "Side Show" with Winnie Lightner and Charles Butterworth. A real circus for the kids. thrill- ing romance for the grownups. Also on this bill is Not Exactly Gen. tlemen" with Victor McLaglen and
 Fay Wray.
 The gift days for women are
 Pyroloid dressed ware on Tuesday Chnia dinner ware on Wednesday
 and an extra attraction, Country
 Store Is held every Saturday night
 when 80 baskets of choice eatables are given out to patrons.