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The Washington times., 1933-12-29

Near the gate she noticed
Operators Dodd and Cammock
chatting with two soldiers on
guard; and when she caught
Cammock's eye, she summoned
him with a slight movement of
her pretty head.
Any news, ma'am?" he asked
respectfully, touching his hat as
he came up.
Eyes; I'm going to Montreal
with a Secret Service operator
whom you don't know. He'll be
here in a few moments. You are
not to notice him or me when
we go through the gates. Tell
that to Mr.. Dodd. And see that
those soldiers on guard don't
stop U.S."
Very well, ma'am I hope to
God you catch that fellow Gail
lard short of the Canada line!"
II shall try to put an end to
Captain Gailliard's mischievouS
activities" she said Smilingly.
A moment later she caught
sight of her lover in the crowd,
and made her way to him and
gayly took his arm.
The gates are just opening"
she said. Don't notice those
soldiers when we show our
tickets. Here's take mine. too,
and let us look as married as
we can!"
"You shouldn't have done
this, GAIL" he said to her under
his breath.
Past the Gates
you'll be safer with me on
your arm. Try to look like a hus-
band, darling"
She was laughing as they
reached the gates. He displayed
the two tickets with amiable
carelessness; their ragged negro
porter followed them, whistling
as he shuffled along at their
heels.
Their sleeping car already
glimmered feebly with oil lamps.
AS they climbed aboard, fol-
lowed by the musical porter
Gailliard noticed the two val
ises; and when they were seated
together, he asked the girl why
she had brought them.
I'm mine," she said, "are
sandwiches and cake and a bot
tie of champagne" And, she con-
tinued, ''I took your valise from
your room and packed your
things into it, and put on an al
paca cover so your shirts and
collars wouldn't spill out. who
slit your valise open, darling?"
she inquired innocently.
It don't know. You are a
very wonderful girl; do you
know it?"
"I don't know whether I am
I'm tired; I know that
much" She lay back in her
seat and closed her eyes; and
The Washington times., 1933-12-29
OPERATOR 13
Operator 13 Boards Train With
Captain GaiIIiard As His
Pretended
READ THIS FIRST

beautiful and daring Union Operator
49, Cupeper VG to ceckde the ok Antonio Ford
Confederate ho had Kept Gen. eb Stuart oe informed
SoneGn the Union caUGly leader able to
surprise him.
Operator became guest party
Jack G1i1rd gallant Confederate Don she had
oued captured only him. He did
because in their earlier encounters she had been dis
guiSd as q colored GIRL
No,O hoDever himself Nth
already oue with him. kissed him and promised thuSoe
time Dife. ride Dith
toniG Ford secret mission.
Uok that Antonio Ford captured but
colleague Babcoc reached the quarters
Colonel Sharpe chief of the Federal Secret Sevice After days
summoned BY Colonel Sharpe and told that Captain
uprising sympdtz
seize Illinois, indiana Ohio and Missouri OF all Union spies she
11rd personality kneW 10h1t he looked like
Therefore she must hunt him do obtain all his and either
kill him. capture him lin whh he Ooud be hGnged) drive
him to Canada.
heart accepted There
hotel she met GdGrd and persuaded him to dit for her in
and stole all his Whh turned to her COL
leagues the uice Gaard discovering their loSS
pared to flee to Montreal Operator 49, nong he could not
unless she protected him. told him Doud ride part With
She sent him on ahead to the railroad station.
(Repubished from Cosmopolitan Magazine and to
appear the Cosmopolitan Production made by
Metro Goldwyn Mayer and starring Marion Davies)
By ROBERT w. CHAMBERS
In the throng of people filling the station policemen were
numerous, busy watching the arriving and departing
crowds In fact the whole place swared with metropolitan
police and municipal and Federal detectives Soldiers too
standing with fixed bayone beside all entrances and
exists to train platforms.
The girl had secured porter to carry her lovers vase
and her She had ten minutes to wait before the gates
to the Montreal Express were opened and she took up
position where she could all arriving passengers
The Washington times., 1933-12-29
CIVIL SERVICE
PARLEY DUE

Delegates from various organ
izations of Government employees
and other groups interested in
the civil service will attend a
joint conference Of the Civil Ser
vice Reinstatement League on
Tuesday and Wednesday nights
Of next week in Thomson school,
Fourteenth and L SITS. N. W., to
plan correction of injustices in
the Governments economy pro-
gram.
Twelve resolutions, which will
form the basis Of the conferences
deliberations, were, adopted by the
League last night. They call for
reinstatement of ousted or fur.
loughed Government workers,
abolition of the pay cut, creation
Of a civil service court of appeals,
dismissal wage, and restoration
Of 80 days annual leave.
One long-debated res olut ion
contended that 10000 civil service
workers had been dismissed under
the economy act, and that 1900
patronage appointees had been
given Jobs.
The Washington times., 1933-12-29
RObber Kills Farmer
For Christmas Gifts

SUFFOLK, Va, Dec. 29.-Wide-
spread search vas being made to-
day for the aSsailants Of Norfleet
Hargrave, SIS, Southampton coun-
ty farmer, who was fatally at
tackled and robbed Of Christmas
presents near Courtland.
The Washington times., 1933-12-29
Wife Who Threatened
Suicide Still Missin0

No trace has been found of Mrs.
Lucy G. Evans, 27, who telephoned
her husband, William, Wednesday
night that she was on "the wharf"
and was going to jump overheard.
The telephone message followed
her disappearance from their
home in the 1900 block Of E st.
N. E,
Evening star., 1933-09-10
Behind the Microphone
BY THE RADIO EDITOR.

week, and then they fired her be-
cause she couldn't dance. The
stage struck girl. was so ashamed
of her failure that she told her
mother they fired her because she
was too thin. Then she set out to
learn to dance
The $14.35 were gone and the
only way Fannie had of paying
another chorus girl to teach he-
to dance was with clothes. She
finally learned, but her wardrobe
was practically exhausted in the
process. In the end, however, she
landed another job and kept it.
She was playing the lead in a
burlesque show when Florenz
Ziegfeld saw her.
Then she went back to the New
Amsterdam. and as star of the
Ziegfeld Follies and of the Zieg-
field Midnight Revue, which was
staged on the roof garden where
she once was fired, she remained
for 10 years. When she finally left
to enter the movies, she was one
of Broadway's most celebrated
headlinerS.
Last Winter she came back to
the New Amsterdam roof. now the
N. B. C. Times Square Studio. to
make her radio debut and to start
the series of broadcasts which has
added a radio success to her stage
and screen triumphs.
Evening star., 1933-09-10
Permanent SOLUTION
OF CHANNELS SOUGHT
Recommendations Specifying Way
to Continue Orderly Broadcasts
in North America Drafted.

While the Federal Radio Commis-
sion is considering plans to maintain
order on the broadcasting wave lengths.
especially if Mexico should reassign its
powerful border stations to even 10
kilocycle spacings instead Of their pres
ent midchannel positions. the organized
broadcasters are themselves making
ready to propose to the commission
ways and means Of bringing about a
permanent solution of the North Amer
ican wave length problem.
James w. Baldwin. former commls-
sion secretary, who represented the Ma
tional Association Of Broadcasters at
the recent Mexico City conference, has
drawn up a series Of recommendations,
details of which are as yet undisclosed,
which will be placed before the asso-
ciation's convention in White Sulphur
Springs, w. Va, october to IL. 1t
is understood that the recommendations
will urge certain things be done to con-
tinue orderly broadcasting in all the
North American countries.
Though the Mexico conference was
q complete failure so far as reaching
an agreement on the division OF the
broadcasting channels was concerned,
officials here confess they are little dis
turbed about what Mexico will do next.
Technical regulations adopted at the
conference require all stations to use
even 1O-kilocycle spacings, which means
that a number of Mexican stations, es-
pecially the powerful ones on the bor-
der. may be expected to. shift their
wave lengths shortly.
They are unlikely to squat on United
States clear channels. it Is believed
here, because the American stations
would do as much damage to them as
they could do here. More danger faces
the Canadian clear and regional chan
nels which, being used farther away,
may be pounced upon by the Mexicans.
In the meantime the chances OF q
widespread reallocation of stations IN
this country are practically negligible
at this time Indeed. the fact that the
short wave agreement at Mexico re-
served the 1901 ,600-kilocycle band
for future broadcasting services, and
that Canada has already assigned a
station to 1910 kilocycles, lends
strength to the belief that American
interests will shortly also seek places
on the 10 additional channels thus
made available.
Evening star., 1933-09-10
American Legion
Auxiliary

The Vincent B. Costello Unit, No.
is, met at the District Building on
Tuesday evening to elect officers Mrs.
Gregory Cipriani, president, presided
Miss Nicie Perrell was unanimously
elected president and Miss Irene Shee-
han and Mrs. Blanche B. Knott treas
urer and secretary, respectively, were
elected vice presidents. The other OH
GERS are: Treasurer, Miss Alice Co.'S
teilo; chaplain. Mrs. Mary Murray: ser
geant at arms, Mrs. Agnes Hazard: COL
or bearers, Mrs. Sarah Sheedy and Mrs.
Brown; historian, Mrs. Viola Costello;
parliamentarian, Mrs. Margaret Frank
lin.
Mrs. Cipriana, retiring president, ap-
pointed q committee consisting of Mrs
Franklin, Mrs. Knott and Miss Perrell
to audit the treasurers books. A new
member, Mrs. Cora Irene Boone, was
obligated by Mrs. Franklin.
At the recent Department Conven-
ton Mrs Gregory Cipriani was elected
vice president and Mrs Ellis Chrisman,
color bearer Mrs. Cipriani was pre-
sented with a corsage Of yellow roses
by her unit.
The delegates and alternates to the
convention were as follows: Delegates
Mrs. Margaret Franklin, Mrs Blanche
B. Knott. Mrs. Ada Murray, Mrs Mary
Kehoe. Mrs. Mary Kohlos and Mrs
Ellis Chrisman. Alternates-Miss Bama
Brill. Mrs Mary McKeever, Mrs. Agnes
Hazard. Miss Florence Buechley, Mrs.
Sarah Sheedy and Mrs. Florence
Thompson. Mrs: Franklin. chairman
Of the delegation, was nominated to
represent the unit at the National Con-
vention to be held In Chicago. Mrs.
Cipriani was named alternate
Evening star., 1933-09-10
PRESIDENT TALKS
ON MARCH Of TIME
Roosevelt and First Lady to
Be Impersonated by Two
Radio Artists.

THE President and Mrs. Roosevelt
will appear on the March Of
Time program over q Nation
i wide Columbia network this
Fall through the voices of Will
liam Adams and Marion Hopkinson,
respectively.
Adams impersonation Of the Demo-
cratic candidate during the 1882 presi-
Dental campaign and after March 4.
when Mr. Roosevelt had entered the
White House, was one Of the high
lights Of the last radio season. Listen
ers in every section Of the country
communicated with Columbia head
quarters to ask whether or not record
ingS Of the new Chief Executives 8
speeches were being used.
Adams was brought up In the stanch-
est Democratic tradition. His father
was an outstanding Ohio Democrat
and at his death was being groomed
for the governorship.
Marion Hopkinson. who will portray
the First Lady Of the Land, Is a New
York society girl who embarked on q
radio career by accident. For several
seasons she has been studying for
opera. When the March of Time need
ed some one to take the role Of an
opera star for q news dramatization,
the director, Q friend Of hers, thought
Of her. She had never been before a
microphone before, but she showed
such high-caliber dramatic ability that
she was taken on as q regular mem
Der Of the March Of Times panel Of
performers.
Evening star., 1933-09-10
HITLER JAILS' RADIO MEN
two Prominent Figures Accused of
/ "Squandering."

Continuing his "purging process"
IN radio as in other fields of endeavor,
Chancellor Hitler, according to 1nfor-
nation received here, has ordered two
former heads of the ReischS Rundfunk
Gesselschaft, Germany's broadcasting
system, confined in the concentration
camp at Oranienburg on charges OF
'souandering public moneys" They
are DR.. Kurt MagnuS and DR.. H.
Giesecke, both of whom are prominent
figures in world radio circles.
DR.. Magnus is remembered here as
head of the German delegation to the
Washington Radio Conference of 1927,
which drew Up the first world treaty
covering radio. DR.. Giesecke was a
vice president of the European Broad
casting Union, also well known in
America. They were among the latest
of the hundreds OF officials and en-
ployes ousted from German radio aft
er it was placed under the direct su-
pervision Of Minister of Propaganda
GoebbelS.
Evening star., 1933-09-10
"MYRT-MARGE" SERIAL
TO BE RESUMED SEPT. rs
New Characters, Plots, Settings and
Situations to Be Revealed In
Forthcoming Episodes.

"Myrt and Marge," the Wrigley five-
a-week dramatic serial of back-stage
life, will return to an enlarged coast
to-coast Columbia network Monday
September Is, on their former time
schedule.
Starting their third consecutive year
on the air, the popular pair and tneir
supporting cast will be heard each
Monday to Friday, inclusive, over So
stations.
New characters. new plots. new set
tings and new situations will be re-
yealed when the series returns to the
microphone. Myrtle Vail, author and
lead, has spent most of the Summer
in South America with Director Bobby
Brown and Mrs. Brown, gathering ma
terial and writing forthcoming episodes
While the exact plot trend Is still
secret, the South American visit leads
to the belief the Broadway locale may
be abandoned, temporarily at least. Tor
q series of episodes in the Latin Ameri-
can setting.
Evening star., 1933-09-10
MISSION CLEE CLUB WILL SING
OYER VOL AGAIN At SAME HOUR
Station Restores Popular Feature, Starting Saturday
Night, on Appeal of CreaCrandmother
and Hundreds of Other ''Shut.Ins.'

With hundreds Of similar pleas from
"shut-ins," the VOL management de-
cided 1t would be heartless to deprive
them Of the little comfort and enter
tainment these unfortunates obtained
from the old camp meeting songs of
happier days. So they called up Supt.
Bennett and told him to start Satur-
day.
The Glee Club of the Central Union
Mission is unique in radio circles. Ac-
cording to Bennett, they are all for
mer down and -outers" who drtfted
into the mission from the streets,
picked up jobs and now are making
good" and living IN what the mission
calls its Converts Clubhouse. As q
local program. started last December,
they rivaled Seth Parker IN his appeal
to all classes
One of the singers, Fred Flinther,
was sent by the mission this Summer
to Homer Rodeheaver's singing school.
It will be recalled that Rodeheaver
appeared on the initial program with
the Central Union Mission boys last
December.
Evening star., 1933-09-10
CHINA-U. S. RADIOPH0NE
SERVICE is PROJECTED
Stations in Far East Planned With
Connection to America and
Europe.

Radiotelephone communication be-
tween China and the United States
along the lines of the service now pro-
vided here with practically all OF Eu-
rope and most of the capitals OF Cen
tral and South America, is being plan
ned by the Chinese ministry OF com
munications, which has met consider
able success in operating 80 wireless
stations in the larger cities OF CHINA
to augment land lines
According to advices from Vice Con-
sui Douglas jenkins, jr., in report
made public by the Department OF
commerce, it is planned to build radio
telephone stations in Hankow, T1ents1n,
shanghai and Canton and to line them
with an internal long distance service
for China. with a connection to Amer
lea and Europe via Shanghai.
Most of the equipment Of China S
radio stations Is of American origin,
and it is believed the Chinese phone
link may be made ready by the time
the United States-to-Japan service, for
which a station is now being built IN
California, is placed in operation. The
Far Eastern service from this country
will also connect with Hawaii, the
Philippines, Australia and New Zea-
land.
Evening star., 1933-09-10

They are returning on the air Sat-
urday night, those glee club singers of
the Central Union Mission, whose ab-
sence during the Summer has left
void In the lonely hearts Of thousands
Of Washington's cripples and shut
ms"
At the Presbyterian, Methodist and
Episcopal Homes for the Aged, Blue
Plains and other institutions, little
groups of elderly people and youngsters.
too, will be gathering to tune in on
Station VOL when news Of the renew
al Of the missions weekly broadcasts
gets about.
a great-grandmother's plea was part
" responsible for the management Of
VOL in donating the old hour, $3.50 to
9 pm, on Saturdays to the Glee Club
for its return engagement She wrote
on behalf Of herself and her great
grandson John, named after Supt John
s. Bennett Of the Central Union Mis-
sion
Please have the boys sing again
There Will Be No disappointment in
Heaven for Johnny and me-" she
wrote.
Evening star., 1933-09-10

ISSOLUTION of Tin Pan Alleys
musical combine, called the
American Society Of Com
poserS Authors and Publishers,
is sought in test case filed
in the Federal District Court of South
ern New York by Newton D. Baker.
former Secretary of War and special
copyright counsel for the National As
sociation of Broadcasters. The suit was
brought by Station WIP, in Philadel-
phia, and alleges that the society Is an
Illegal monopoly.
Long threatened, the suit is designed
to bring into open court the allegations
of broadcasting stations that the So
ciety, which controls the bulk Of the
copyrighted music used on the air,
forced stations to accept "extortionate"
contracts for the payment OF royalties.
Radio stations, beginning this month.
pay the society per cent Of their met"
receipts plus fixed sustaining fee. Last
year the broadcasters turned into the
society approximately $l,500,000 In
royalties.
Based on Copyright Contract.
The suit names the society, Gene
Buck, its president; Jerome Kern, COM
poser; Louis Bernstein, publisher. and
e. c. Mills, general manager, as officers,
agents and members Of the organiza-
tion. It is based on the copyright con-
tract which WIP charges it was COM
PEELED to sign as part OF The socletyS
"attempt to interfere with interstate
commerce" Just a year ago the So
ciety threatened to withdraw from the
radio all copyrighted music unless sta
tions accepted three-year royalty con-
tracts calling for a substantial increase
over the fiat fee Of 81 100000 previously
paid.
The court is asked by Mr.. Bakers law
firm and by l. D. Levy, Philadelphia
lawyer representing the station and an
official of the BroadcaSters' Assocla-
ton, to disband the society as an IL
legal combination" and to declare void
the contracts between it and its COM
poser and publisher members. 1t also
Is asked to enjoin individual members
of the society from interfering With
interstate commerce" by bringing IN
fringement suits, at $3.50 per infringe
ment.
All Stations Interested.
The suit is test case for the entire
industry since some $50 stations have
signed contracts similar to that COM
planned about by Station WIP. More
over, the case is being handled by MT.
Baker and Mr.. Levy for all stations,
rather than for WIP alone.
Filing of this suit, 1t Is explained, mas
no bearing whatever upon the investlga.
tions into the society being conducted
by the Department Of Justice and the
Federal Trade Commission. These Fed
eral agencies for several months have
been inouiring into the corporate set
I'D of the society to ascertain whether
It Is an illegal monopoly operating in
restraint of trade.
Evening star., 1933-09-10
Major Radio Features
VARIETY.

VARIETY.
Capitol Theater Family. WRC, 10:15a;
Radio City Concert WMAL. 11:30a; !;
Wee Lawnhurst, WRC, 3:15; Rubin
offs Orchestra, WRC. TOO; Head
liners, with George M. Cohan,
WMAL, 800; Manhattan Merry
Go-Round, WRC, 500; Freddie
Rich Entertains, WJSV, 900.
SPEECHES.
Col. Louis McHenry Howe, WRC. 900;
Bainbridge Colby, WRC, 10:15.
CLASSICAL.
Pop Concert, WRC, 1:15; Opera Gems,
WMAI, TOO.
RECITALS.
Henri ~peering. WMAL, $40; Lucille
Manners, WRC, 500.
Evening star., 1933-09-10
In miss Lonelyhearts."

Lee Tracy staccato-voiced screen
favorite, has been signed to star in
Miss Lonelyhearts" for Twentieth
Century Pictures, to be released by
United Artists M-G-M was persuaded
to spare the services Of this popular
star on the strength of the unusual
role the story affords him.
Miss Lonelyhearts' will present
Tracy in the role of the editor OF an
theatrical newsgatherer, Tracy Is wha:
the press fraternity would call a vet
eran scribe. having scored his biggest
hits in the New York stage production
of Front Page" and the screen ver-
sion Of Blessed Event.
Evening star., 1933-09-10
new GRIDIRON FEATURE
Christy Walsh Will Interview
Coaches on Big Games.

The views and opinions Of the coun-.
try's leading coaches and sports writer's
will be heard as the "All-America Foot
Ball Show" follows the 1888 gridtron
campaign over a Nation wide Columbia
network on Fridays, beginning Septem-
Der %.
Each Friday night q prominent foot
ball coach will face the microphone as
Christy Walsh's interview guest and
will discuss the important contests Of
the coming Saturday. In addition he
will be asked to describe IN detail the
outstanding example Of sportsmanship
that he has witnessed during his ex-
periences on the foot ball field. This
incident will be re-enacted later In the
program.
Evening star., 1933-09-10
ROSS GOES IN MOVIES
"Show Boat" Star Signs Five-Year
Contract With Paramount.

Lanny Ross, star Of the N. B. C..
"Show Boat" programs, has signed .
five-year contract to play feature roles
in pictures for Paramount Productions,
Inc. He will 60 to Hollywood to begin
his movie career about January l.
N. B. G. says the screen contract will
not interfere with Ross radio work,
and he will continue in the "Show
Boat" programs.
Evening star., 1933-09-10
Bells PLAYED as Break Signal.

Using an automatic vibraphone. op-
Grated by small hammers striking steel
plates fixed to tubes Of varying lengths
broadcasting stations in Bavaria play
the bells of the Holy Grail from the
opera "ParsifaT' as their interval"
or station break" signals.