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test Of the weight OF President
Hoover's stand against downward revi-
sion of wage scales appeared likely to-
DAY, when the directorate of the United
States Steel Corporation meets in New
York to consider such action. This
meeting will be watched closely by ad-
ministration leaders here.
Formal denial was made at the White
House today that the administration has
changed its view of its policy in the
advocacy of wage maintenance.
This denial was based upon the in
terpre tation placed today upon the let
ter Of Secretary Of Commerce lamont
to Representative Condor OF Rhode
Island. in which the former discussed
the Governments relation to the wage
problem.
White House Stands Firm.
The White House statement follows:
mo member of the administration
has expressed the view or holds the
view that the policy of the administra-
ton in advocating maintenance OF
wages should be changed. 1t has not
been changed"
Meanwhile Secretary Of Labor Doak
reiterated today that the policy of the
administration in opposing wage cuts
stated emphatically that the admins
tration has not and will not condone
such wage cuts as have been made"
The Secretary made his statement as
he left the cabinet room after a cabinet
session today, but said the matter had
not been discussed at the meeting.
1t became known late yesterday that
while the administration was making
an appeal to the Steel Corporation lead
ers to exhaust every expedient before
considering reduction Of wages, the ad-
ministration, through Secretary Of Com
merce Lamont, had taken a stand that
interference in cases of wage reductions
is not the duty of the Government.
Doak Says Policy Holds.
However, Secretary Doak. short time
after Mr.. Lamont had stated his views.
asserted that If the policy of opposing
reductions had been changed ut surely
would have come to my attention"
The Labor Department has estimated
that only IL to Is per cent Of the in
dustries reporting to it directly have re-
duced wages, as contrasted to reductions
OF 90 per cent in these industries in
1921. However. administration leaders
are known to have the fear that should
the Steel Corporation make a cut 1t
might let down the barrier throughout
the COunITy.
Lamont Gives Views.
It Is understood here that the princi-
pal object of the Steel Corporations d.
rectorate is to take slice out of divi-
dends and that this move might be a
forerunner of a wage cut.
Mr.. Lamont's views were expressed in
a letter to Representative Condor, DEM
ocrat. of Rhode Island. The letter
pointed out the influence of a confer
ence between President Hoover and
business and industrial leaders early in
1929, at which wage maintenance poll
icy had been approved. The influence
has. according to the Commerce Secre-
tary, succeeded in q marvellous manner
in sustaining wages"
He said that as the period Of the de-
preston lengthens many corporations
are finding themselves in extremely DIFF
ficult positions, because they are not
protected by reserves accumulated in
good business years. Many Of them. he
added, have cut dividends and salaries.
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400 ICE CREAM POISON
VICTIMS ARE TREATED
Sicilians Crowd Hospitals After
Cafe Patrons Are Stricken.
None Dead.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CATANIA, Sicily, July 2S.-Four
hundred persons have received hospital
treatment here for poisoning attributed
to ice cream. There have been no
deaths.
In a garden cafe Sunday night a
woman screamed and writhed in pain.
Soon scores of persons did likewise, and
panic resulted. Police closed the place
and arrested the proprietor.
Physicians worked all night at i'm
provised hospitals which were crowded
by persons who were unaffected, but
sought preventive measures.
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BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO. July pa 15-year-old
model boy" who shot a policeman TO
death when ordered out Of high school
swimming pool. was sentenced to 18
years in Joliet Penitentiary today.
His teacher called Warner Cory
model pupil Alienists testified the boy
had an "underdeveloped sense OF moral
values"
Judge Joseph SABBATH, who heard the
case after the boy pleaded not guilty,
read a seven-and- half-page sum-
mary Of the case, severely criticizing
the parents and imposing penitentiary
sentence, despite the lads youth. He
pointed out he had made arrangements
with Warden Henry c. Hill for Corry's
incarceration, and that he would be
eligible for parole in 10~years and 3
months, at the age Is.
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ZEPPELIN REACHES
ARCTIC RENDEZvOUS
Graf Anchors Off Hooker Is
land to Exchange Mail
With MaIigin.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany. July
28.-Dr. Hugo Eckener. commanding
the Graf Zeppelin on her Arctic cruise,
notified the Zeppelin Works by radio
today that the big dirigible had landed
briefly in the bay of Hooker Island,
Franz Josef Land.
For - minutes she rested on the
still waters of the bay near the Rus
sian icebreaker Maligin, which sailed
into the north with a party Of tour
lists and anchored of the island for the
rendezvous.
Floating ice in the Arctic Bay made
1t inadvisable for the Graf to remain
on the water longer than she did.
Atmospheric disturbances made radio
reception difficult, but it was said that
the landing took place early last night
and the Graf and the Maligin ex-
changed mail.
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GRAF ENTERS ARCTIC AREA.
Grandeur Of Northern Regions Fasci-
mates Ship Party.
BY ARTHUR KOESTLER.
,isnaf ch IN rT'ba Gfar

BY ARTHUR KOESTLER.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ABOARD THE GRAF ZEPPELIN,
July 20 (By radio, NAN.A).- Contrary
winds, buffeting our ship, are reducing
its speed considerably. AS an additional
deterrent we have run into another
slight fog.
To conserve our fuel. we are using
only three of our motors.
:, In the ships saloon the temperature
Is comfortable. but our cabins are posi-
lively icy. Those fur-lined sleeping
jackets, which at the beginning Of this
voyage were such a grotesque encum-
brance, have become one Of heavens
finest blessings. The cold compels us
to keep the windows shut.
This experience is one of continuous
fascination. When night falls, it brings
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Atlantic Flyers OF.

ny the Associated Press.
FLOYD BENNETT AIRPORT, New
York, July 28.-Two powerful mono
planes took off within Is minutes CT
each other on nonstop transatlantic
flights today
The Bellanca monoplane Cape Cod,
manned by Russell Boardman of Bos-
ton and John Polando of Lynn, Mass.
rolled down the 4,100-foot runway at
exactly am. Eastern standard time.
and SKINNED away at an altitude OF not
more than 60 feet until 1t was lost to
sight. They are heading for Istanbul,
Turkey, about $500 miles away.
Hugh Herndon, jr.. former Princeton
student. and Clyde Pangborn, veteran
circus flyer, rolled away at BIB am
on an intended flight around the
world, with Moscow. $500 miles away,
as their first objective.
Weather Reported Ideal.
Weather conditions across the entire
Atlantic we're described as ideal Tor the
flights by DR.. James S. Kimball, Gov
eminent meteorologist and unomcial
starter.
For the first time since the Byrd
flight DR.. Kimball arrived at the field
to see the take-offs of both planes. An
other visitor was Giuseppe Bellanca,
designer of both planes.
Field officials feared the Boardman-
Polando plane might meet with din
culties because of its great weight. II
carried 7l8 gallons of gasoline and rs
gallons Of oil, sufhcient fuel to keep it
going 1000 miles If necessary. It Is
propelled by a 300-horsepower Wright
engine.
This plane has yellow wings with
black trimmings and a black and yell
low fuselage with the words Cape
Cod" painted in blue. Its number Is
"NR-76l-W."
Had Narrow Escape.
They hope to eclipse the present long
distance record set by Coste and LIE
Brix, who few 4,9l2 miles nonstop.
Herndon and Pangborn's red mono
plane has 50o-horsepowered motor
and Is capable of cruising at l25 miles
an hour 1t carries $50 gallons of gaso-
line, enough to travel for $500 miles
without halt.
Their first attempt 10 days ago at
Roosevelt Field almost cost them their
rise at the end of the runway and al
most crashed into hangar and tele-
graph poles. They were forced to dump
half of their gasoline to gain altitude
TO save themselves from crashing.
Although their plane has slower
cruising speed than the Winnie Mae,
Herndon and Pangborn hope to beat
the round-the-wo record by flying
longer distances. They have dual con-
trolls.
Hours after Boardman and Polando
took of. officials were anxiously await
ing news of them. because when last
seen they were going in the wrong di-
rection.
There was a west wind blowing and
so the flyers had to take off into the
West. The heavily loaded plane rose
sluggishly and SKINNED out over the
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CONGRESSMAN DYING
Representative Sam Major of Mis-
souri, Suffers Paralysis.

FAYETTE, Mo, July % LP).-Physi-
clans attending Representative Sam C..
Major Democrat. of the seventh Mis-
souri, congressional district, today vir-
tually had abandoned hope for his re-
covery.
He suffered stroke of paralysis at
his home here July 19. Physicians
said last night the patient was "gradu-
ally growing weaker" Major. defeated
In the Republican landslide in 1928 by
John r. Palmer, Republican, was elect
ed to his fifth term In Congress In the
1890 election.
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Constitution Thief Jailed.

BERLIN. July 2S R).-Walter Wohl-
gemut, an artist, was sentenced to three
years imprisonment and three more
years loss of citizenship today upon
conviction on a charge Of stealing the
German constitution Of 184S from the
Reichstag archives year ago.
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Herndon- Pangborn
on Way to Moscow
to Circle Globe.
BOARDMAN-POLANDO
HEADED FOR TURKEY
Bellanca MonOplanes
Leave New York Only
l8 Minutes Apart.

Nv the Associated Press.
The air today was full OF the ma
chimes that man has made to EMU
late the birds.
Two planes were on their way
across the Atlantic, Russell Board
man and John Polando headed for
Instanbul in quest Of long distance
record, and Clyde Pangborn and
Hugh Herndon streaking for Mos
COW on their way around the world.
The Graf Zeppelin reached Franz
Joseph Land in the Arctic and set
tied for a brief visit to the Frozen
Bay of Hooker Island.
The Linoberghs completed the
formalitics at Washington and turned
their faces toward Maine, where they
will bid their baby son good-by be-
fore starting for the Orient.
Miss Amy johnson continued her
fight across Germany on her way
from London and Toxic.
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~OL. AND MRS. CHARLES A.
4 LINDBERGH took of from
the Anacostia Naval Air Sta
~ ton early this afternoon on
the beginning OF what prom
Uses to stand as an aviation epoch--a
1000 mile vacation" fight to Japan
and China.
The take-off came after more than
two hours of hard work under a blaz-
ing sun, while several hundred we'll
wishers, including ranking Government,
aviation and diplomatic officials stood
patiently by to speed them on their
WY. Work on the planes radio outfit.
upon which the Lindberghs must rely
for communication with the civilized
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GLOVER HAS GRIPPE

Assistant Postmaster General Is Ill
in San Jose, Calf.
SAN JOSE, Calf, July % R.-W.
Irving Glover, Second Assistant Postmas-
ter General, was suffering from an i'll
ness a physician diagnosed as la grippe
here today. He was confined to bed at
the home Of Postmaster John r. Chace.
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world during their passage over I'M
charted miles Of Canadian and Siberian
wilderness. consumed most CT the two
hours:
Finally Lindbergh pronounced him.
self satisfied and after going to the
Office of Comdr Warren G. Child, COM
handing officer of the station, to bid
farewell to a half dozen of the Nation
leading aviation figures. they climbed
aboard their red and black seaplane
and TAXED away from the concrete sea-
plane beach.
For nearly Is minutes Lindbergh
TAXED slowly up and down the river
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Radio Program, on Page C.;
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WEATHER.

co. 8. Weather Bureau ForecasD.
Generally fair and continued warm
tonight and tomorrow. followed by local
thundershowers tomorrow night; cooler
Thursday. emperatures-EIighest, 81,
at pm yesterday: lowest, 70. at $50
am. today. Full report on page 8.
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"nT 1888 Meters.
w OA 1910 Kilocycles.

VOA 1910 Kilocycles.
3;00-Variety hour.
4:00-March Time.
4:15-Novelties
4:30-Tea Time Tunes.
5:o0-One- time Opportunities.
5:30-Paul Gable, organist.
6:00-Sportorial.
6:15-Turner's Troubadours.
6:30-The Jones Family.
645-The Town Crier.
7:00-Dinner Music.
7:20-News flashes.
T:30-Northern Dramatic Co.
8:00-Deacon Browns PeacemakerS.
8:15-Advertising program.
8:30-Johnny Graham, pianist.
S:45-Recording of the Boswell Sisters.
9:00-Osborne Miller, tenor.
9:15-Celtic Trio.
9:30-Wrestling Matches at the Wash
ington Auditorium.
Early Program Tomorrow.
00a-Musical Clock.
800a-Chimes and Birthdays.
05a-Musical Clock (continuedO.
10 :00a-Program by the American Red
Cross.
10:15a-Musical Interlude.
10:30a-Program by the tuberculosis
Association.
10:45a-Request program.
11:15a-Walter Reed Hospital request
program.
II :45a-Organ i1terlude.
IL :00-Dance music.
1880 to 1:00-Luncheon music.
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NEW SERIES BEGINS
ON CHAIN TONIGHT
Frclic, to Be Heard on WRC,
Will Feature Ferdie Grofe'S
x.x Orchestra.

A new program of music and comedy
to be known as the Frolic will have Its
premiere tonight over network OF Ma
tional BroadcaSting Co. stations in
which WRC is to be a link.
Ferdie Grofe, composer conductor, and
his 16-piece orchestra will take major
part in the new series. Pratt and Sher-
man, famous radio funmakers, will pso-
vide the comedy. The Soloist will be
Jane Froman. blues" singer.
Rosetta Duncan of the Duncan Sisters
team will be featured in the Theater Of
the Air program. Ginger Rogers, screen
Star. also will take part.
The Eskimo Night Club will have
Ruth Anna Watson, contralto. as its
guest artist Raymond Knight will be
master of ceremonies.
Peggy Wood. who starred for three
years in Bitter Sweet" will assist Leo
Reisman and his orchestra with their
weekly broadcast at $50. She will sing
a group of old and new favorites. The
orchestra announces popular program
made up of such numbers as Sweet and
Lovely and MY Song" from George
Whites Scandals
The Service hour, at 8 o'clock, con-
tains a variety of selections, ranging
from the popular to light opera Jessica
Dragonette. soprano. will sing you're
Waters of Minnetonka"
Other WRC Attractions.
Otto Beck's organ recital dance music
by Al KamonS Orchestra and a concert
by the Southern Orchestra are among
WRC's other outstanding attractions.
Meyer Davis Washingtonians a new
15-piece orchestra. makes its radio
debut tonight over WMAL in the Gold
enberg anniversary program. This new
orchestra is one of the largest radio
units ever assembled in Washington. 1t
contains full sections of violins, brasseS
and a rhythm group consisting of piano,
banjo. bass and drums.
WMAL'S chief Columbia feature will
be an address on Short Selling" by
Richard Whitney, president of the New
York Stock Exchange. The talk will be
picked up from a meeting of the Cham
Der OF Commerce of Hartford. Conn.
The March of Time dramatiZations at
$50 will depict the woes of the new
Spanish government and the attempt
to force the resignation of Ramsay Mac
Donald. Relations between China and
Japan also will be treated briefly.
Radio reproductions at 9 o'clock will
bring representations of three famous
stage stars. The names Of these artists,
however. have not been revealed.
Eiolinist to Be Feature.
The Pageant program. at 10 O'Clock.
will feature Toscha Seidel, violinist, in
one of Fritz Kreisler's most popular
compositions iebeslied" Theo Karle,
tenor. will sing "Ah. Moon Of My De-
light" and Sam Lanin's Orchestra will
contribute special arrangements of some
of the hits from sally" and the Fol
lies"
The first act of Caste" a three-act
comedy drama. will be presented over
VOL tonight by the Northern Dramatic
Co. The play deals with the eternal
struggle of the classes. The two other
acts will be presented in subsequen:
broadcasts. VOLS musical features will
be provided by the Celtic Trio and
Johnny Graham. pianist.
The Rhythm Makers. the Loew Nevin
Concert Orchestra and Preston Hart
man. baritone. will contribute to the
program of WJSV.
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Folks Behind
The Microphone
BY THE RADIO EDITOR.

- ERALD CHATFIELD, director
of programs at WEAF and IA
mlliarly called 1.-The impresario
~ of WEAF," is one of those eX-
ecutives on the staff of a broad
casting station whose name is never
heard lover the air." He is one of
those actively engaged in bringing
"super-progfams" to the loud speaker
of the vast army of listeners, yet al
ways remains behind the scenes"
Mr.. Chatfield's first training for his
present responsibility began in his child
hood days. when he studied voice and
piano and warbled in boy choir. This
fundamental education in music later
paved the way for a position as choir
master, and several churches in Con-
necticut had their choirs trained by
the present WEAF program director.
The Aeolian Company of New York
sought some one to direct their pub
licity recitals" and Chat as he is
known by his friends, stepped in. This
also added to his fundamental training
for program arranging and coupled
with the wide knowledge and expert
ence gained by the management of
concert artists he has every qualifica-
ton necessary for the huge task which
he handles.
In addition to concert management,
Mr.. Chatfield at one time was tenor
soloist and assistant organist in St.
Marks in New York City. It was he
who first arranged the Continuity
programs" emanating from WEAF,
such as "Eveready Hour" and the
Packard Touring Talks" the latter
calling for a scenario effect taxing the
ability of director to supply musical
settings for traveloguc. The presen-
tation of the A. & P Gypsy Ensemble
the Atwater Kent Radio Artists and
many ether features, which are heard
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Major Radio Features

DRAMA.
Northern Dramatic Co. VOL 7:30
March of Time, WMAL. $50; Lib.
erty Hour, WMAL, 9:15.
SPEECHES.
Short Selling" by Richard Whitney
WMAL, 1890.
VARIETY.
Gene Austin and Pliers Orchestra
WMAL. 7:15; Maj BoweS' Family
WRC, 1870: Morton Downey, tenor
WMAL, 7:45; Service Hour, WRC
800; Arthur Pryor's Band, WMAL
800; Eskimo Club, WRC, 900; Lee
Reisman Orchestra, WRC. $50; The
Pageant, WMAL. 1000; The Frolic
WRC, 1000; Theater of the Air
WRC, 1890: Palace of Happiness
WMAL, 11:10.
DANCE MUSIC.
Eddie Duchin's Orchestra, WMAL, IL 40
Tweet Hogan's Orchestra, WRC
12:30a,
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INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS
GIVE MEDAL TO WOMAN
DR.. Lillian Gilbreth Honored for
distinguished Service to
Management"

BY the Associated Press
PITTSBURGH, October 16.-Dr. Lii
liam Gilbreth, prominent as a consult
ing engineer, business woman, lecturer
author and member of the Clifford
Committee on Unemployment, last night
was hopored by the Society of Indus
trial Engineers, when she was given the
first medal "for distinguished service
to management
DR.. Gilbreth, who is the mother of
IL children, is president of Gilbreth
Inc, consulting engineers, of Montclair
N. j., and Is carrying OH the work of
eliminating unnecessary fatigue of fac
tory and other workers which her hus-
band, Frank B. Gilbreth, who died
seven years ago, began
The engineers are in annual conven-
ton here.
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regularly from WEAF, are supervised
entirely under his direction.
X
A 65-PIECE symphonic band d.
"A rected by Peter Vacallo Is to play
over an N. B. G. network Sunday
afternoon. Bernice Claire sings
with Leo Reisman's Orchestra on N. B
G. next Friday. Phil Cook is to
take his army of voices" on a personal
appearance tour He will continue his
oally broadcaSts while away. .
Westell Gordon. tenor and cellist,
celebrates his fifth anniversary with
MAJ, BoWes' Capitol Family" on N
B. c. october %.
HATE SMITH, Washington's own
N crooninggenius, has Just signed one
OF the largest known contracts on Broad
way. 1t calls for frequent appearances at
the New York and Brooklyn Paramount
TheaterS during the coming IL
months. Bing Crosby, baritone, also
VIII be heard and seen on the same
stages soon. Arthur Pryor has
written more than 300 compositions.
including light opera The Mills
Brothers, the sensational new Negro
quartet on Columbia, range in age
from II to 81.
Better buildings at less cost" is the
motto recommended by the committee
In charge of reconstruction in the
earthquake area of New Zealand
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FOUR MISSOURI BANKS
CLOSED BY DIRECTORS

Two National and Two State In
stitutions, With More Than $7oo,
600 Deposits, in Examine rs' Hands.
By the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, october 16.-Four Mis-
souri, banks, two Of them national in
situations, closed their doors yesterday.
All were closed by the boards Of d.
rectors.
The national banks were the First
National of Brunswick, near Moberly,
and the First National of Versailles
Both were turned over to the national
bank examiner, with headquarters here.
The closing of the First National of
Brunswick was followed by the closing
of TIE Bank of Dalton a State insti-
tuition. A notice said the closing was
temporary. The other State institution
to close was the Moscow Mills Savings
Bank, in Lincoln County.
The closings brought to five the num-
Der of banks to close in Charlton Coun-
ty in the last three weeks.
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AMOS STAYS ON RADIO
DESPITE HISILLNESS
Gives Nightly Breakfasts With
Andy Through Microphone
Installed at Bedside.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, October 16.-"Amos" is
III. but that fact hasn't kept him from
gong ahead with his radio act with
his partner, Andy"
The National Broadcasting Co. an
nounced last night that Amos" whose
name m real life is Freeman s. Gosden.
has been confined to his bed with an
inf1amed throat and fever. but that he
has had the microphone placed in his
room SO that his nightly broadcast
would not be interrupted.
Amos" has been sick since last Mon
day. On one occasion his temperature
got up as high as 1O3.