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Evening star., 1934-02-25

~ Ado promises to solve the
problem of maintaining COM
munication aboard freight
L Y trains, between engine and
caboose which sometimes are
separated by 2 miles of cars.
An installation of modern ultra
high frequency radio-telephone ap-
paratuS aboard a regularly operated
freight train of the New Haven Rail-
road is seen as the forerunner OF more
or less general use of this system.
Through use of the apparatus, en-
gineer and brakeman are enabled to
communicate at all times without
difficulty.
The equipment installed on the
New Haven train consists Of an ultra
high frequency transmitter and re-
ceiver with microphone and loud
speaker located in the engine cab and
duplicate equipment in the caboose.
Separate antennaS are used for trans
mitting and receiving. The equipment
operates from a 6-volt storage bat
terry supply and is capable of about
80 hours operation without recharg-
ing
Manufacturing companies have
been experimenting for many years
with railroad radio systems. In 1925,
the Westinghouse company made its
first installation on the Virginian rail-
road and followed this with other
installations in 1927 and 1923. Earl
Ter installations, however, were on the
long waves, and the equipment was
bulky and expensive. BY employing
the recently harnessed ultra-high
channels, however, simple, small and
relatively inexpensive equipment can
be employed.
The new equipment operates on
8requencies which have a tendency to
follow the tracks. This, technicians
gay, Is very desirable from the op-
Grating standpoint, and tends to min
imize possible interference with other
types of radio service. Moreover,
these short waves are limited in COW
erage, and large number of sta
tions may be operated on the same
channel without mutual interference,
with only few miles between the
stations.
The new railroad installation is
started in operation by the pressing
Of button located on the hand mi
crophone. The receivers of these
equipments are kept in continuous
operation while in service. A loud
speaker operating at high volume Is
located beside the engineer so as to
provide sufficient signal above the
noise OF the tracks and other trains.
Because of the tremendous pos
sibilities Of this form of communica-
ton and its relative simplicity, it is
confidently expected by manufacturing
companies that many railroads will
adopt this mode of engine -to-ca-
boose contact.
HIGH FIDELITY" radio receiving
i 1 sets, capable of reproducing
highest and lowest musical
notes with a degree Of clarity hereto
fore possible only with expensive
custom-built sets, may be the next in
novation offered the public by set
manufacturers.
Development and introduction of
sort of Rolls Royce" among receiv-
ers is being discussed these days in
radio circles, with the Radio Man
ufacturers' Association, National As
sociation Of Broadcasters, and nsti-
tute of Radio Engineers sitting in. De-
cision probably will be made before
introduction Of 1885 model receivers.
Broadcasters long have bewailed
the fact that they send music into
the air sweet" by virtue of expensive
and highly precise transmitting equip
Evening star., 1934-02-25
SALTzMAN QUITS POST
IN FLEET CORPORATION
Former Chairman Of Radio Com.
mission Helped Draft Com
munications Report

After some two score years as q
public servant, Maj. Gen. Charles
NICK. Saltzman, former chief OF the
Army Signal Corps and later chair
man OF the Federal Radio Commis-
sion, has resigned his post as vice
president of the Shipping Boards
Merchant Fleet Corporation.
Gen. Saltzman returned to public
life in 1929 shortly after retiring from
the Army He was appointed to the
Radio Commission by President
Hoover, and subsequently was elected
its chairman In 1882, however, he re-
signed form that post, announcing his
intention to stay retired" only to
turn up again the following year as an
official of the Fleet Corporation. He
was appointed to that post by Secre-
tary of Commerce Roper.
Gen. Saltzman played an impor-
tant part in the drafting of the COM
munications report by the Interde-
partmental Committee created by Mr..
Roper, which report now is pending
before Congress.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
TOWNSEND FAVORS
MALL Development
Cites Advantage Of Program to
Make Park Consistent With
Surrounding Buildings.

John w. Townsend, vice president
of the Cathedral Heights-Cleveland
Park Citizens Association, is an ar
dent advocate of the present program
that calls for expansion of Washing
tons great central park along the
lines laid down by L'Enfant, the Nc
MILAN Park Commission of 1901, the
Fine Arts Commission and the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
Il am heartily In favor of the long
range plan to develop the Mall" Mr.
Townsend said. THE plan designed
to save trees that are diseased or
rotting from old age is short sighted,
when you have mature, consistent
plan.
Since the focus of attention is now
on the triangle buildings fanking the
Mall, it is essential that the Mall be
developed consistent with the build
tngs that flank it. Especially the
area east of Thirteenth street should
be developed to conform to the new
grades established in front of the
Department of Agriculture Building.
''The program calls for the de-
pressing Of Twelfth and Fourteenth
streets, to underpass the Mall roads.
This LIS peculiarly the type Of work
that can be done under the Civil
Works Administration, employing
grading and filling. Under this
method more hand labor can be
utilized and SO employment can be
spread.
"The unsightly Botanic Gardens
buildings should go as soon as pos
sible, so that Union Square can be
developed in accordance with plans
that are drawn up by the Govern
ment. I think the Mall plan will add
immeasurably to the beauty of our
National Capital"
Mr.. Townsend, who is an attorney,
has served his association as presi-
dent and has long taken an active
interest in the improvement of the
city.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
MAJOR FEATURES AND PROGRAM NOTES.

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will
make an appeal for support of the
New York Philharmonic Symphony
Orchestra during its concert over
WJSV from 8 to 5. Arturo Tosca-
mini will direct the orchestra.
The Garden hour on WRC at $3.50
will feature Coe Glade, contralto star
of the Chicago Civic and Chicago
Grand Opera Cos. Her program in
cludes "Habanera," from Carmen"
WRC will broadcast at II q special
program from the Byrd Antarctic Ex-
pedition, which will originate in Hart
ford, Conn. An orchestra of As pieces,
a male chorus Of Il voices and q
comedy quartet will take part.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
C0HAN TO BEGIN THIRD
SERIES OF BROADCASTS
Headliners Program Over N. B. c.
to Feature Stage Star as
Will Rogers Successor.

George NJ. C0han, hailed as one Of
the outstanding radio acquisitions of
1888, returns to the air for his third
series Of broadcasts on the Headliners
program over an N. B. C. network on
Sunday, March II.
The famous stage star succeeds Will
Rogers, who has just signed a con-
tract which will bring him back to
the microphone later for a total of
70 broadcaSts in several short series
during the remainder of 1884.
Cohan, in turn, will be followed by
Irving Berlin, world famous popular
composer, who will make his radio
debut in series built around his own
compositions at the conclusion of Co
hans several weeks engagement.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
IS Studios in Soviet palace.

Soviet Russia's new Broadcasting
Palace, which is being projected as
the nearest rival to Americas Radio
CITY, will have 35 studios and an
opsn-air theater with seating ca
pacity of 10000, according to re-
port from Moscow. Competitive de-
signs for the big structure, to be To-
Gated on the Miusskaya Ploshchad in
Moscow, have been submitted by more
than 20 architects. The palace" is
expected to be built by January, 1886.
Evening star., 1934-02-25

'Whirligigs," on WMAL at BIS, will
be q variety show, featuring music,
comedy and drama. Gus Van, Tom
Powers, Lucille Manners, the Ram
blers Trio and Pappy, Zeke, Ezra and
Elton will contribute to this program.
George Gershwin, composer-pianist,
will take part in the program Of Fred
Warnings Pennsylvanians on WJSV at
$3.50. He will play two rarely heard
compositions, the second and third
"Preludes."
The Sentinels, on WRC at 4:30, will
feature a violin solo by George Bass.
He viii play on Q priceless Stradi-
vaytN1.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
ROLL CALL FOR WOMEN
War Service N.B.C. Feature From
D. c., Chicago and California

How members of the Women,s
overseas Service League helped win
the war on the battlefield and behind
the lines will be recalled tomorrow
from 5 to $50 pm, during a special
roll call broadcast over National
Broadcasting Co. networks from
Washington, Chicago and San Fran
cisco
With Miss Mary Frances Hall of
Brooklyn, the chairman, speaking
from Washington, other women will
address listeners from coast-to-c coast
in the half-hour program. Miss Hall
will introduce Representative Edith
Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts,, the
principal speaker. Miss Shirley Farr,
past president of the w. o. S. L.,
speaking from Chicago, will explain
How We Came Into Being" Miss
Faustine Dennis, national president
of the organization, speaking from
San Francisco, will discuss Our OBJ
jectives."
Evening star., 1934-02-25

Elisabeth Rethberg, soprano OF the
Metropolitan Opera Co., will be the
guest soloist on the program with the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra during
its concert over wNdAL from 8 to Z.
She will feature the dramatic Fri
lorna vincitor" from verdi's Aida"
Broadway's musical comedy brothers,
Willie and Eugene Howard, will take
part in the musical revue with Ted
Weems Orchestra on WMAL at Z.
In honor Of the guest artists, the Or
chestra will play . medley Of "Follies'
melodies
Evening star., 1934-02-25
PIANO FRIDAY FEATURE
Special Concert Program Ar
ranged by N. B. c. Orchestra.

A special concert program played
by the N. B. c. Symphony Orchestra
under Frank Black, Friday, will pre-
sent orchestral arrangements Of sew
eral Of the worlds best known piano
numbers.
Composed originally as piano solos,
these works by famous musicians have
been adapted for symphony orchestra
and will be heard in the broadcast
from II am. to IL noon in their added
beauty of instrumental tone and vari-
ETY.. The program will be broadcast
over combined Nationwide N. B. G.
networ.zs in place Of the Music Ap-
probation hour.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
Viscountess Rhondda to Speak.

Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhond-
da, editor and industrialist. will
speak from London over the Colum-
bia network Tuesday, March 6, from
$3.50 to 4 pm, in the whittier Brit
ain?" series. She will give the wom-
ans viewpoint on future developments
and trends in English life and
thought.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
EDUCATORS TO SPEAK
Entire Nation to Be Represented
on Two N. B. c. Programs.

weIl-known educators from all parts
Of the United States will be heard
on the air over National Broadcasting
Co. networks In two special programs
to be presented tomorrow and Tues
day In connection with the sixty
fourth annual convention of the De-
partment Of Superintendent Of the
National Education Association.
The convention will be meeting In
Cleveland on those days, and the
broadcasts will be relayed from that
city.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
POLICE CHANNELS
OPENED TO ALL
ReaNocation Enables Any
Town or City to Install
Broadcast Service.

Every town or hamlet that can af-
ford it now can obtain a permit to
erect a police broadcasting station
with all the trimmings as the result
Of new ALLEGATION of police radio
channels by the Federal Radio Com
mission.
The reallocation, which becomes ef-
fective May /, was made possible by
the redistribution Of frequencies at
the Mexico City conference last year.
The changes should provide better
operating service for existing stations,
according to the commission, since
the size of zones required to share a
single frequency is reduced and the
average separation between zones re-
quired to share the same frequency Is
increased.
Rapid Strides Made.
Police radio service has made rapid
strides within the last five years,
growing from an experimental stunt
to highly practical and useful aid
in the apprehension Of criminals. So
sensational were the results of these
experiments that soon applications
for permits began pouring into the
Radio Commission from all parts Of
the country
At the beginning the commission
assigned three channels to the ex-
perimenterS, then nine frequencieS for
more practical police use; a year ago
the number was increased to II and
under the new plan 20 channels will
be available to State and municipal
radio systems throughout the Nation.
There are now 1913 cities and 8
States which have radio police COM
munication systems. More than 1000
police cars are equipped with receiving
sets, and 1t is expected that all will
be shortly equipped with two-way
communication services.
Filing Of Reports.
reports filed at intervals with the
| commission regarding the activities
Of, and the results accomplished by,
| the police radio service" the commits
| sion said, prove conclusively they
are rendering distinct public service
in protecting individuals and COM
munities from offenders of organized
society,""
There are no "air pirates" oper-
ating in the police band as it is
] closely checked by inspectors in
| charge of the field service. Every po-
lice service is licensed by the Radio
| Commission.
No change was made by the COM
mission in the regulations governing
| city police broadcasting, but a hmita-
| tion Of power to five kilowatts in the
| daytime and one kilowatt at night
was placed on State police trans
mitters.
In addition to the stations licensed
for police service in the conventional
medium, the high frequency band,
! there are outstanding experimental
authorizations which permit so mu-
inequalities to operate 125 stations in
the ultra-high frequency range.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
NEEDY RIDE TAXIS
Oklahoma City Poor Take Food
Dole Home in Cabs.

OKLAHOMA CITY P).-Oklahom
City's needy often take home their
dole of food in a taxi.
give men get together, chip N
few cents apiece and all ride home
with their food" workers at the Fed
eral commissary said. give can -ide
as cheaply as one." the taxicabs ad-
vertise.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
Dutch Radio Trade Large.

Radio is far from Greek to the
Dutch in a business way. In 1898 ex-
ports of radio sets and radio equip
ment from the Netherlands amounted
to nearly SIS, 100000 or approximately
the same as during the preceding
Yeay.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
NAZIS HEAR MOSCOW
improvements Employ.
ed-Tax Delinquents Fined.

Several imprisonments for listening
to broadcasts from Moscow, which are
prohibited by Nazi decree. have been
reported from Germany, but the ma
jor radio crime" Of German listeners
seems to be q reluctance to pay the
monthly radio set tax collected by the
postman and amounting to marks.
Up to last September 245 persons
were fined in the Reich courts for
failure to pay the license fee, and
there were eight cases of persons sent
to prison for the offenSe.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
BUSINESS CARD AIDS
Thief Flees Without Loot From
Detectives Home.

PORTLAND, Oreg. R).-Why should
a policeman with all his marks Of
Identification have a business card?
Fellow officers have often put that
question to Detective Bert Mulligan
and now he has an answer. A burglar
who broke into his house saw the
card and departed, sans loot, Mulligan
related.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
LILY PONS ON SATURDAY
Coloratura to Be Heard in "Iucia
di Lammermoor,, Broadcast.

di Lammermoor" Broadcast.
Lily Pons, famous coloratura So
prano, will be heard again in the role
in which she made her sensational
debut with the Metropolitan Opera
Co. three years ago when Donizettis
opera, Lucia di Lammermoor, Is
broadcast direct from the Metropolitan
Opera House over combined coast-to-
coast N. B. c. networks Saturday.
Vincenzo Bellezza will conduct the
opera, which will be broadcast in its
entirety. Nino Martini and Giuseppe
de Luca will support Miss Pons In
the leading male roles.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
Rails Washed Away.

Railways were washed away In
many places during the recent violent
storms which broke South Africa's
long drought.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
BY THE RADIO EDITOR.

~ Ado promises to solve the
- problem of maintaining COM
II munication aboard freight
L Y trains, between engine and
Evening star., 1934-05-28

Of Takoma Park entertained on Sat-
urday evening in honor of the mem
bers Of the washington String Quar-
tet. Mr.. Milton Swartz, first violin;
Mr.. Paul Brightenberg. second violin;
Mr.. George Wargo. viola, and Idr. Sid
ney Hamer, cello. Other guests were
Prof. and Mrs. Harold A. Miller, Mr..
and Mrs. Clarence Marvin, DR.. and
Mrs. A. w. Truman, and their daugh-
ter, Miss Violet Truman; Mr.. and Mrs.
Antonio Ralon, Mr.. and Mrs. Millward
Taft, Miss Nina Munson, Miss Elsie
Wesley, Miss Martha Ivy, Miss Mil
dred Glenn and Prof. Floyd Ritten-
house. The quartet played several
numbers, among them being THE
Hunt" by Mozart, and Molly on the
Shore" by Granger. Mr.. Ralon, who
Is also a member Of the National
Evening star., 1934-05-28

play IN the sun parlor and ball room
of the club house.
Among the exhibits were water
colors and oil paintings by well
known artists living in Montgomery
County and in Washington. A fea-
ture Of the display was an exhibit of
New Chelsea pottery by Kathleen
Wheeler of Somerset, Nd. who Is
said to be the only person in this
country who makes this type of pot
terry, and Q collection of hand ham,
mered silver and copper pieces con-
tributed by the art section of the
Womat's Club Of Chevy Chase. An
other exhibit, which, because Of its
originality. attracted special atten-
ton. consisted of handmade pieces
of iron work to be used for house.
hold decorations.
The clubs first art exhibit was held
six years ago at the suggestion of
Mrs. w. B. N. Brooks, then president
of the club, with the idea of bringing
to the attention Of the public the
work of local artists. Since the date
of this years exhibition comedies with
the twenty-tbird anniversary Of the
founding Of the club, the tea table at
yesterdays reception was decorated
with a birthday cake In honor Of the
occasion.
Alternating at the tea table we're
Mrs. Reginald B. LOCKER, Mrs. Ford
E. Young, Mrs. Charles Reed. Mrs
Herbert Evison and Mrs. E. w. Bran
denburg
About 500 persons attended the
opening of the exhibit yesterday af-
ternoon. The exhibit will be open
daily to and including Thursday, from
II am. to S pm.
DR.. and Mrs. Samuel M. Becker
have changed from the Woodley Park
Towers and are now occupying their
new home at 3547 Sixteenth street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard r. Metcalfe
Evening star., 1934-05-28

members and their friends to cele-
brste the opening of its annual art
exhibit. Guests were received by Mrs
Edwin E. Etz, chairman of the clubs
Art Committee. who has been in
charge of arrangements for the ex-
hibit, after which they were given an
opportunity to view the rs or more
paintings included in the exhibit as
well as the other art objects on dis
Evening star., 1934-05-28

Mrs. Norman c. Evans. last night
The guests were Mr.. and Mrs Henry
Utley Milne, Mrs. Louise E. Grogan,
Miss Mary Louise Grogan, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank L, Carter, jr.
Mrs. Everett B. Sherman has come
from her home in South Dartmouth.
Mass, and is at the Shoreham for a
visit She was Joined at the hotel
over the week end by her daughter,
Miss Betty Sherman, who attends the
Chevy Chase School.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Lee Corbin
entertained at dinner at Tilden Gar
dens Saturday evening, when their
guests were the secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution and Mrs.
Charles Greeley Abbot, the dean of
American University and Mrs. George
B. Woods, Mr.. Edwin B. Child, the
we'll known portrait painter of Dorset,
VT; DR.. and Mrs. Gerrit S. Miller, jr
DR.. and Mrs. Delos O. Kinsman, DR.,
and Mrs. Austin H. Clark, Dean Mary
Louise Brown, Miss Mary S. Apple
and Miss Jessie M. Olin. A short mu-
slcal program followed the dinner.
Mrs. j. P. Woodley has as her
guests in her apartment at the Shore
ham over the week end, Mrs. w. c.
Nellis of New York City, Mr.. John
Conwell of Norfolk, Va, and Mr.. Rob-
ert Van Denbergh of the University
of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fielding M. Lewis Of
Lyon Village, Va, were week end
guests of Mrs. Thomas Henning of
Richmond, also visiting at their for
mer home in Powhatan County.
Bethesda Club Art Exhibit
Opened Yesterday With Tea.
The Woman's Club of Bethesda
kept open house in its headquarters
m Ganrratnuyo road xoetavlou f<
Evening star., 1934-05-28
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Bethesda Club Art Exhibit
Opened Yesterday With Tea.
The Woman's Club of Bethesda
kept open house in its headquarters
on Georgetown road yesterday tt
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-17
Southward Traffic
 In Waterbury Heavy
Average of 7,2zI Cars Pass Through Section Daily;
 NOrthbOund Motorists Slightly Lower

tions were at points outside Water vile and Naugatuck. Traffic was found to be greatest on United States highway No. at Greenwich and Bryan Hill where 15,324 cars passed the checking station each day.
 Traffic was found to reach its highest peak between the hours of and p. m. about S.1 per cent of the traffic in 24 hours being checked at those hours. The lowest point Is between 1880 and 3:30 a. m. with sharp rise between and a. m..
 Of greatest interest to the av- craze motorist is the data on ac- cidents. The peak was found to be between 5 and 2 D. m. The bulletin states:
 ''The most important fact that this survey shows very clearly is the relationship between traffic, ac- cidents, fatalities and lighting. The high traffic hours are between 2 a. m. and 2 p. m. during daylight. At all times during the day except at the peak hours the accident and fatality percentages higher than the traffic percentages.
 Inadequate highway lighting, augmented by headlight glare and fatigue are to a large degree re- sponsible for this condition. The bad accident peak between 12 mid night and 1 a. m., when 6.S per cent of the accidents occur at time when traffic Is less than 2 per cent of the total for the day cannot be explained by any facts that were obtained during this Suryey."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-17
High Court To Hear
 Monetary Problems
New Deal Policies Docketed for U s. Supreme Tribunal
 Next Year-DevaluatiOn of Gold Among Questions

ance Corporation has advanced 1t $23,134,800.
 The St Louis federal district court upheld devaluation.
 The remaining two cases which will be argued before the court in volve the gold clause in Fourth Liberty Loan bonds and gold cer- tificates. They have been certified to the supreme court without preliminary decision by the court of claims.
 Liberty Bond HIsolder
 Tn one case the holder of the Liberty bonds demanded payment at S1.69 on the dollar when the bonds were recently called for re- demption. In the other the holder of gold certificates demanded that the treasury pay him on a corre- spending scale.
 The government will contend on argument of the case that the pow CT of Congress to regulate the cur rency is a paramount power which belongs to every sovereign and that the power would be meaningless if it were found it could not impose it on every phase of commerce where money is used.
 SRpecific provision is made in the Constitution that Congress shall provide for the general welfare of the people and shall have the pow CT to "coin money, regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures"
 Claim Congress Lacked Power Against this argument those de- manding exact fulfillment of the contracts will contend that alter ation of private, or governmental contract with private citizens Is be- yond the power of Congress. It will be recalled in this con- nection, however, that the same argument was raised during Sem ate debate. Constitutional authori- ties there met it with the answer that the 14th amendment, relied on by their opponents, does not prohibit the federal government from altering a contract but does prohibit the states from doing SO.