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Opportunities Offered
For Guard Commissions
Enlisted Men Now May Become Officers
and Be Assigned to So-Called
Mobile alton Vacancies.

r, Baugh. sergt James A. Munro and
Sergt. John w. Mellick.
Warrant Ofiicer August II. Arsman.
United States Army, has been ordered
10 Camp Albert G. Ritcbie &C Cas-
cade, Md, IN connection with the
training of the l2lst Engineers.
CoFpl. Richard d. wellman has
been ordered reduced to the grade OF
private. without prejudice, In Battery
4, 260th Artillery.
sergt Stanley Hall has been ordered
reduced. without prejudice. to the
grade of private in the Medical De-
partment Detachment, 260th Coast
Artillery.
The feld training program for the
l2ist Regiment OF Engineers has Just
been Issued. II has been prepared IN
attractive pamphlet form, and the fly
leaf contains a large illustration OF
Col John w. Oehmann, commanding
the regiment. There are details map
ped out for each unit during the two
weeks in camp and fun program OF
the athletic schedule.
The objectives for the training year
are announced as follows: To main
tain the regiment in condition to
function efficiently at existing strength
and without further training, when
employed in minor emergencies by the
State or Federal authorities; to pro-
vide a sufficiently trained force, cap
aA II
strength, which. with the minimum of
delay, can be employed in time of war
as an effective component Of the
Army Of the United States.
For the field training period the
regiment Is to mobilize at existing
strength and move into the training
area, and put into actual practice the
instructions given during the armory
training period by the application Of
the appropriate field exercises.
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Daughters of America.

THE State Council In cooperation
L with the subordinate councils of
the District has arranged for the an
nual excursion and field day at Mar
shall Hall Park August /. The steam
er City of Washington will leave the
Wilson Line pier at $50, 2. $50 and
$3.50 pm. There will be athletic sports
upon the arrival of the afternoon
steamer.
Mizpah Council had officers in
stalled by Deputy Mrs. Grace Rob-
erts of Progressive Council, as fol-
lows: Councillor, Mrs. Florence Haw-
ley; vice councillor, Mrs. Jennie Col
lier; junior past councillor, Bill Bar
nette; associate junior past councillor,
Martha Donaldson; recording secre-
tary, Mrs. Mary Hoffman, reelected;
financial secretary. Mrs. Mary E.
Bauer, reelected; treasurer, Mrs. Ma
omi E. Swami, reelected; vice coun-
cilor, Lydia VaSco; associate vice
councillor, Emma Lovett; inside senti-'
mel. Louise Dyer, reelected; outside
sentinel, Clara Walker, reelected:
warden, Cora Marcy, reelected; con-
ductress, Jennie Day; trustee, Eula
Barnette, and State representatives:
Martha Donaldson, katherine Baum
and Lula Galleher.
The retiring junior past councillor,
Miss Margaret Lynch, was presented
with past councillors pin.
Triumph Council convened, with
Ill
presiding. She announced her COM
mittees as follows: Good Of the or
der: Chairman, Lulu Schwenk; Mrs.
Marguerite Grey. Mrs. Myrtle Case,
Mrs. Elsie Hill, Mrs. Eva Fines. Mrs.
Matte Thompson, Mrs Mary Gayles,
Mrs. Agnes Barbour, Thomas Nutwen
and j. w. Schwenk. Delinquent:
Chairman, Mrs. Katie Parker; Mrs.
Eva Fines and Thomas Nutwell. Col
or bearers: Mrs Elsie Hill and Mrs.
Hilda Peake. Trustees: Mrs. Hilda
Peake, Virginia Thompson and Laura
Smith. Representatives TO the State
Council: Mrs Edith Ford, Mrs. Katie
Parker and Mrs. Augusta Newland.
Pianist, Mrs. Myrtle Case. Drill cap
tain, Mr.. LoSsmann and press cor
respondent, Miss Alice NJ. Brum-
baugh.
The meeting of AnacoStia Council
was conducted by Councillor Miss
Helen Van Wormer. Past Councillor
Mrs. Nora Lee made a report on the
recent meeting Of the State Session
Committee Past State Councillor Mrs
Mary P James and Past Councillor
Mrs. Ella Smith gave brief talks
on the same committee. Associate
Junior Past Councillor Mrs Mary
Plumb was installed by Past Councillor
Mrs. Pearl Torney. Roland Lee was
given the degrees.
Mrs. Mary Plumb was presented
past officers jewel.
Independent Council was called TO
order by Councillor Mrs. Marie Jones.
With Associate State Councillor Mrs.
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B. P. O. Elks.

The fifteenth annual charity ball
Of Washington Lodge Of Elks viii be
held at the Mayfower Hotel on
Thanksgiving eve Fred Catlin is
chairman Of the Dance Committee.
Exalted Ruler John T. Ready and
Past Exalted Ruler George E Strong
have returned from Kansas City.
where they attended the Grand Lodge
convention as delegates Of Washing
ton Lodge. They viii make reports
of the proceedings at the next meet
ing Of the lodge. The convention win
be held at Columbus, Ohio, next year.
The Tri-State Association Conven-
ton will be held at Hsgerstown Au-
gust II to Is.
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Ollie Montgomery as installing off,
Ger, the remaining officers were in
stalled as follows: Conductor, Ruth
Deane; warden, Frances Davis; out
side sentinel, Julia McWhorter; 18-
month trustee and State Council rep
. resentative, Mrs. Ethel Joiner. Mrs.
Joiner was Endorsed as nominee for
State Council treasurer at the State
Council Sessions, September 10 and
II.
At the meeting of Progressive
Council L. 4ollowtng officers we're
installed: Councillor, Mrs. Mary Hor-
ten; associate councillor, Mrs. Edna
Howe; Junior past councillor, Miss
Florence Lacey; associate junior
past councillor, Mrs. Ruth Clark as
sociate vice councillor, j. Bruce Hoof-
nagle; vice councillor, Mrs. Bessie
Meyers; warden, Miss Mabel Wolford;
outside sentinel, Mrs. Florence Wal
ton; inside sentinel, Miss Margaret
Walton, recording secretary, Miss
Blanche Neff; assistant recording sec
retary, Mrs. Mildred Purdy; financial
secretary, Mrs. Grace Roberts; treas
urer, Mrs. Minnie Rabbit, and Mrs.
Grace Roberts and Ruth Clark rep
resentatives to the State Council Ses-
sions. The councillor appointed Mrs.
Minnie Rabbit as chairman of the
good Of the order. c. T. Lacey,
past councillor, presented past coun-
cilor's pin to Mrs. Anna Anderson.
Fidelity Council convened, with
Councillor Miss Betty Lowen presid-
ing. Mrs, Annie Sullivan was in
stalled as treasurer, having been re-
elected, also as representative to the
State Council. The councillor ap-
pointed Past State Councillor Mrs.
Mable G. Downing as pianist and
Mrs. Elizabeth Owens as press cor
respondent.
Betsy Ross Council was presided
over by Associate Councillor Mary
Quade. The degrees were conferred
on several candidates. State Con-
ductress Mrs. Maude A. Wine presided
as the initiatory councillor. InStru-
mental selections were rendered by
Miss Margaret A. Halfpap, jr., pianist
Of Star Spangled Banner Council.
Miss Faye A. Frazier and Mrs.
Jeanne Ackerman have been chosen
as color bearers by Mrs. Grace Duck
EFT, drill mistress. A gift was pre-
sented to Junior Past Councillor Ida
S. Frazier from members of the
council.
Old Glory Council convened, with
the councillor. Mrs. Lillian Peterson
presiding. Mrs. Leila Ingle was
received by card. The council ap-
pointer Mrs. Blanche Robertson as
press correspondent, and representa-
tiveS to the State Council, Hiss
Orvilla Ridgwsy, Mrs. Ida Kerper
and Mrs. Merrill Jasper.
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tary service they should justify and
merit preferment for selection to en-
ployment opportunities.
A local delegation of approximately
300 members Of the Veterans Of For
eign Wars went to Alexandria, Va,
Friday night to participate in the cere-
monies sponsored by the newly formed
Alexandria Post, which rendered q tes-
| timonial dinner to Commander in
| Chief Van zandt. Representative C.
w. Darden of Virginia, who served In
the Air Legion Of the United States
Marine Corps; Comdr. Golden of the
District of Columbia Department:
Past District of Columbia Department
Comdr. Daniel e. Campbell: Mrs. Clay
Keene Miller, president Of the Ladies'
Auxiliary Of the District Of Columbia
Department, and Maj. Charles Bar
rett of the Marine Corps made ad-
dresses.
Comdr. Frank e. Hagan Of United
States Treasury Post attended the last
meeting Of the Ladies' Auxiliary Of the
post and presented a post check for
$40 to Mrs. Maud s. Bladen, the presi-
dent OF the auxiliary, in recognition Of
the services rendered by the auxil-
iary members throughout the recent
Buddy" poppy campaign. Irving T.
Johnson, chairman Of the Recruiting
Committee, was directed to make a
personal contact with members Of the
post who are in arrears. Charles w.
Cross and Arthur T. Quinn were
appointed on the Recruiting Commit
tee.
Chairman Daniel J. Leahy of the
Department Relief Committee has
appointed Comdr Hagen as secretary
Of the committee. During the Sum
mer post meetings will be held only
on the second Fridays Of the month,
and the next stated meeting will be
held August 10.
Comdr. Albert w. Masters Of Front
Line Post presided at the meeting
last Monday night at Junior Order
Hall. Glanton C. Cole was elected
trustee to fill the unexpired term oc-
cassioned by the resignation of wal
ter P. Boehm. He was also appointed
as chairman Of the Post Employment
Committee. Norman z. McMorrow
and r. S. Thornton were appointed
as sentinel and color bearer. Adjt.
Edward F. Clark has been appointed
publicity officer of the 9Th Marine
Reserve Regiment. John E Lynch,
brother of Quartermaster Joseph F.
Lynch, was elected and obligated to
membership.
The post voted to hold an enter
tainment and dance August 13, when
members Of the Ladies Auxiliary will
be guests.
Chairman Frank Topash of the
Ways and Means Committee was di-
rected to arrange a moonlight river
excursion In August. A lawn party
viii be held at the home of Emory
O'Berry on date to be announced.
Department Adjt. Arthur C. Fowle
and Leonard j. Bacon, both members
of Equality Walter Reed Post, spoke.
Follow Me Post met last Tuesday
night at the Soldiers, Sailors and
Marines Club. Comdr. Phillip r.
Belt presided Department Comdr.
Golden and Comrade Bacon of Equal
ity-Walter Reed Post, David Blake
man and Thomas j. DAILY, Junior vice
commander of Herbert L. EdmondS
Post, made addresses.
The members of the post and Of
the Ladies Auxiliary will hold an
outing at Epping Forest on August 5.
The post voted to discontinue meet
ings at the Soldiers, Sailors and Ma
rines' Club, and Comdr. Belt appoint
ed a committee, headed by Adjt.
Sigmund Milbrandt, to find other
suitable que s.
Evening star., 1934-07-29
MASONS PLAN
"GROTTO DAY.
AT 4 O'CLOCK
Open-Air Services Will
Be Held on Temple
Heights.

Kallipolis Grotto day will be OBJ
served today at the open-air religious
service on Temple Heights at 4
o'clock. The service, under direction
of DR.. John c. Palmer, chaplain Of
the grand lodge of Masons. will be
addressed by DR.. Simpson B. Daueh-
erty, assistant grand chaplain, pastor
of United Brethren Church: and the
music. under direction Of Past Master
J. Walter Humphrey. viii be provided
by quintet from the choir Of that
church, consisting Of Horatio A.
Rencia, tenor and director; Miss
Norma Simonson, soprano; Mrs. s. B.
Daugherty, soprano; Mrs. Kathry
Satterfield, alto; Philip Charles, basso,
with Mrs. Mary Boal as accompanist.
Kallipolis Grotto members, with
their families, win be special guests:
and, also the officers and members of
the following blue lodges, with their
families: Washington Centennial, Ben
jamtn B. French, Osiris and william
r. Singleton. Also the officers and
members of the following chapters
Of the Order Of the Eastern Star,
with their families: Esther, Areme,
Temple and Washington Centennial.
The committee states that ample
seating provision win be made for q
large attendance at the service.
Members of Washington Centennial
Lodge and their families win attend
divine services today ct 4 pm. ct
TeYraf1ie HafOhfa
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Meetings This Week.

wednesday, 9 p.m.-Overseas
Military Band. Drum and
Bugle Corps, National Guard
Armory, Sixth street and Penn
sylvania avenue.
Thursday, 8 p.m.-Herbert L.
Edmonds Post, No. 2460, Ham
ilton Hotel.
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Patriotic Order of America

Camp No. 10 viii give a lawn fete
at George Washington headquarters,
305l M street, next Tuesday and
Wednesday.
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Hayes Will Be Speaker
At Legion Meeting Here
vention August 8-l0-Col. Joyce of Fort
Myer VIII Lead Parade
Meetings This Week.

NiNEE9IFkH THE NEENs
MOnday-Yincent 3. Costello
Drum and Buele Corps. Ma
tional Guard Armory. 9 pm.
Thursday-Fort Stevens Post No.
30, Germans Hall, l07 Upshur
street. pm.
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Terrorists Are Active.

Terrorist organizations are becom.
ing active in Bengal.
Evening star., 1934-07-29

Members Of washington Centennial
Lodge and their families win attend
divine services today ct 4 pm. ct
Temple Heights.
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Independent Council was called to
order by Councillor Mrs. Marie Jones.
With Associate State Councillor Mrs.
Evening star., 1934-03-08
'A|RBREAKS' TITLE
OF RAD|0FEATURE
Stars of Future to Be on
Extensive Tryout Pro-
! qram March Is.

~ Ado stars of the future will
~ be given their first break on
IN an extensive network in a
i Y new series Of "tryout" pro-
grams to be presented over
National Broadcasting Co. networks
each Friday afternoon beginning
March 16, under the title of Air
breaks"
rAirbreaks" will be a variety en-
tertainment featuring new group of
artists each week, all of them new to
the networks. although many have
b6en heard on local stations in various
parts of the country.
Ernest j. Cutting, in charge of au-
d1ionS for the National BroadcaSting
CO.. conceived the idea for the pro-
gram and will be in complete charge,
h{aring additions. writing continuity,
pfpducing the show, conducting the
orchestra and introducing the artists.
The talent will all have professional
background even though they are new
tdth networks. They will be selected
frpm the thousands Of aspirants who
h4ve had additions with N. B. c. Dur
ing the past year, Cutting points out,
many thousands of artists of all sorts
singers, instrumentalists, comedians
aid vocal groups-have had additions
and of these thousands about one in
a hundred is catalogued as desirable
talent. But even after they are listed
as good talent, there is often no place
for them on the air. These are the
people who will get the 'break" in
"Airbreaks."
The talent for the first broadcast
Evening star., 1934-03-08
SHORTAGE OF METAL
WORKERS REPORTED
Heavy Auto Production Demands
Cause Novel Situa.
ton.

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, March 8.-Partly the
result of heavy production demands
by the automotive industry, a shortage
of skilled metal trades workers was
reported in Cleveland yesterday for
the first time since 1929.
A survey Of numerous employers
developed statements that first-class
tool and diemakers, good machinists
and, in some cases, lathe workers and
molders are becoming increasingly
hard to find.
The reasons assigned included the
increasing output of automotive parts,
the limitations Of N. r. A. codes upon
hours of working, the drifting of
many metal tradesmen into other
fields and q shortage Of apprentice
replacements
Union leaders added that some
manufacturers do not pay wages high
enough to attract skilled help. d.
Evening star., 1934-03-08

ident's proposal to control communi-
cation lines become effective, it would
enable administration to largely in
fiuence and circumscribe the dis
semination of news"
There Is nothing" Reed said, in an
interview, 80 important in q democ-
racy rs free and fair dissemination
Of information, the telegraph, tele-
phone and radio have become almost
as important as the press ITSELF"
Evening star., 1934-03-08

will include Dave and Joe Wallace
the Banjo Aces: La Texana, Spanish
character vocalist; Bill Whitley, popu-
lar baritone, and Rita Delano, per-
sonality singer All of them have had
vaudeville or concert experience, and
Whitley has been heard on a Local
New Jersey station.
X X X X
THARLES EVANS HUGHES, CHIEF
~ Justice of the Supreme Court is tc
be heard on Columbia the night Of
March 20, when he speaks from Wash
ington to celebration at Cambridge
Mass, in honor of the Tooth anniver-
sary Of the birth of the late DR.
Charles William Eliot, president OF
Harvard University from 1869 to 1909
THE Beauty Box Theater, bringing
i to the air in full hour versions
the greatest operettas of the past
and present, sung by outstanding stars
of stage and the microphone, will ring
up its curtain over an N. B. c. coast
to-coast network April 3.
With Gladys Swarthout, soprano OF
the Metropolitan Opera Co.; Theodore
Webb, noted concert and radio bari
tone; Frank Mcintyre, of the old
vaudeville team of Mcintyre and
Heath, and numerous other stars
heading a permanent stock company
the Beauty Box Theater will bring
radio listeners the masterpieces of the
greatest composers of light opera.
The Vagabond King" will be the
first performance. in the new series
and will be followed on succeeding
weeks by special radio versions of
"Aileen," "The Rogue Song,' "The
Student Prince" Robin Hood. n
Princess Floria" and many other out
standing stage hits.
Evening star., 1934-03-08
MAJOR FEATURES AND PROGRAM NOTES.

Adele Starr, contralto. will be the
guest soloist during the Romantic
Melodies program on WMAL at 7:30.
She will be assisted by Eric Sager-
quist's String Ensemble. .
Rupert Hughes, American author
and playwright, will speak during the
Voice of America" program on
WJSV at $50. His topic is What the
Voice of America Means to Me"
AL Jolson will present a dramatic
Evening star., 1934-03-08

sequence based on the new film. viva
Villa" during his broadcast with Paul
Whiteman's Orchestra on WRC from
10 to 1890. He also will sing March
ing Through Mexico" and "Whatn I
Do Sunday"
Representative Randolph Of West
Virginia will discuss crime conditions
in the United States in a special
broadcast over WMAL at 1870. His
topic is "Open Season is Declared
on Criminals"
Evening star., 1934-03-08

Dorothy Parker. famous author
poet and wit, the Hall johnson Choir
and Lee Wiley, radio songstress, will
contribute to Rudy Vallee's Variety
Hour on WRC tonight from 8 to 9.
Vallee also will have as his guests
the Avon Comedy Four, vaudeville
comedians, and trio of young Broad
way theatrical stars-Eddie Craven
Elizabeth Love and Millard Mitchell
who will be heard in a one-act play,
"A Cup of Coffee"
Evening star., 1934-03-08
Show Export Gains.

The United States Shipping Board
reports Norfolk, Va, and Newport
News, Va, the only ports on the At
lantic seaboard to show gains In ex-
port tonnage during 1892.
Evening star., 1934-03-08
REED HITS U. S.
CONTROL OF WIRES
Former Senate Firebrand Sees
Peril to Democracy in Com.
munication Bill.
By the Associsted Press.

By the Associated Press.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. March
8.-Former Senator James A. Reed of
Missouri, one time Democratic fire
brand in the Upper House, in an in
terview asserted that should the Pres
Evening star., 1934-03-08

Average Family Larger.
North Carolina claims statistics
prove its average family is larger
than that of any other State.
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can extended research be undertaken.
Q-How many species of fish are
there?
A-Approximately 10000.
Q-When was Cameo Kirby
first produced on the screen, and
who played the leading role?
At was produced first in 1928
as a silent picture with John Gill
bert in the leading role. j. Harold
Murray was featured in the talk
ing picture version. released in 1880
Q-Do bObwhites build their nests
in bushes and low trees?
A-Usually they build on the
ground.
O-What is the meaning of one
point rise or tall IN the stock mar
ket2
At is the unit of variation in
price for each share of stock.
O-Wh9t is a bisque in golf?
49, handicap with a stipulated
tl--I5-- Of strokes to be taken at
the o1Icn CT the recipient. It is a
French word meaning odds"
Q-Name the American ambassa-
dor to Argentina.
A-Alexander w. Weddell.
Q-Does frost cause trees to
split?
A severe freeze with consid-
cradle moisture in the trunk may
cause trees 10 SpHU.
Q-Whcre and what is the Gin
gerbre3d Castle?
At is located at Hamburg. N. J.
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and was designed by Joseph Urban.
Both the house and gardens are
filed with elves, gnOmes and char
acters from Mother Goose" The
house is built of concrete and stone
in a variety of colOrs.
ON which borough of New
York City are Welfare and Ran
dalls Island?
A-Manhattan.
Q-What is yellow journalism?
A-The term is applied to that
type of newspapers that make a
speciality of playing up sensational
news with blatant headlines and
pictures.
O-Name the time belts IN the
United States.
A-Eastern, central, mountain
and Pacific.
Q-Who invented the telephone?
A-AleXander Graham Bell.
Q-What is the most important
factor in causing tides?
A-The moon.
Q-Who wrote the operetta,
The New MoOn?"
A-Sigmund Romberg composed
the music and Oscar Hammerstein
wrote the lyrics.
Q-What was the annual expen-
diture for liquor in the United
States before prohibition?
A-The estimated amount was be-
tween two and one-half and three
billion dollars.
Q-What are the names of the
womenS colleges at oxford univer-
sity and when were they founded?
A-SOmerville, founded in 1879;
Lady Margaret. founded in 1879;
St. Hughes hall, founded in 1886,
and St. Hilda's, founded in 1893.
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Many were the keen ears and sensitive nostrils
that carried the message Of his passing to their
owners, but only to did the strange mingnng
of the scent spoor Of the bull ape with that of a
-Tarmangani suggest a condition worthy OF in
vestigation
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BY Ahern

The strange white creature would furnish the
excuse for another Dum-Dum dance. Secure in
his might, conscious OF few enemies that might
with safety to themselves modest him. To-yat did
not take the precaution of silence, but wandered
on needless of all dangers.
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Weak from exhaustion and shock, thoroughly
terrified by the hopelessness Of her hideous po-
sition, Fora had lost consciousness To-yat feared
that she was dead; but he carried her on, never
theless that he might at least have the satisfac-
ton Of exhibiting her to his tribe.
The Washington times., 1934-05-19
Shoreham Terrace
To Be Opened
Shortly

The dinner dances at the
Shoreham Hotel soon will be
moved to the Shoreham Terrace,
one of the coolest dancing spots
in town during the hot summer
evenings. Plans are being made
to make the terrace the most
picturesque outdoor dancing
place in Washington.
The bolero, a tango and the
carioca will be offered to the
Washington public by two inter-
acknowledgement dancers, Char
lotte and Mirez, who are the
headliners of the Shoreham floor
show this week.
Washington patrons Of the
Shoreham will be impressed by
the charm and beauty Of Char
lotte, who is considered one of
the most beautiful dance per
formers.
Another dancing team on the
lavish program consists Of Rosa
lind Shaw and Allen Ray, well
known in musical comedy for
their singing and dancing. The
repertoire also includes soft shot
and tap rhythm routines.
A program of acrobatic waltz
and oriental and Spanish num-
bers are offered by Waneyo, an
exotic dancer.