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Evening star., 1935-02-10
Inside
the
Studios
listeners Strike" Pro.
posed in Fight on
Juvenile Programs.
BY PETER DIXON.

III u.
Alvin C. Busse of New York
University made an address be-
IL fore the Palisades IN. J.) Par
ent-Teacher Association. Prof.
Busse lambasted radio programs for
children and said very much the same
things a lot of other educators have
been saying about juvenile radio en-
tertainment.
Despite their growing frequency, at
tacks on juvenile programs don't seem
to worry the broadcasters and the
advertisers. But Prof. Busse made one
suggestion in his address that deserves
attention. He suggested the Palisades
Parent Teacher Association urge a
listeners strike by the National Parent
Teacher Association. Even that isn't
terribly serious until one knows the
membership of the national organi-
Zation.
There are more than a million and
a half members enrolled in the Ma
tional Parent-Teacher Association.
More than IS per cent of these men,
berS are mothers, and they are the
buyers of the food products and medi-
cines that sponsor juvenile radio pro-
grams. A listeners strike" is a mild
way Of putting it. Actually, it would
be felt as a buyers strickland the
buying power of million and more
mothers is something to reckon with.
I have heard advertising men refer
to the protests of the various parent
teacher groups as the "outbursts OF
Evening star., 1935-02-10
VETERANS OF 98
TO
Memorial Exercises at Fort
Myer to Be Attended by
Cuban Envoy.

Memorial exercises will be held by
the Spanish War Veterans next Fri
day at Fort Myer riding hall at 1890
o'clock. The Cuban Ambassador and
other prominent officials will take part
in the program. Leon McCord OF
Montgomery, Ala, commander in chief
United Spanish War Veterans, will be
the speaker.
Music will be furnished by the Ma
rine Band ''Taps" will be sounded.
There will be detachments from the
Army, Navy and Marine Corps present.
Solos will be sung by outstanding local
talent. Immediately following the
service in the riding hall wreaths will
be laid at the foot of the Maine Mast,
with appropriate ceremony by the aux
iliaries of the United Spanish War
Veterans.
A banquet in honor of Comdr. In
Chief McCord will be rendered by Dis
trict of Columbia Spanish War Vet
Grams next Friday at 7:30 o'clock at
the Mayf1ower Hotel. Music will be
furnished by section Of the Marine
Band and local talent.
Col. James S. Petit camp met with
Col. James S. Petit Auxiliary for the
joint installation of their officers. Past
Dept. Comdr. Samuel J. McWilliams
installed the following officers of the
camp: Commander, Calvin B. Lucas;
senior vice commander, Charles Co.
hen; Junior vice commander, Charles
H. Appich; adjutant, Charles A. Stro-
bel; quartermaster, William p. Irving;
chaplain, William L. Deshazo; officer
of the day, Lemuel D. Jones; officer of
the guard; P. P. Quinn; patriotic in
structor, E. ]. Robb; historian, William
Peacock; quartermaster sergeant, Ike
Hirsch; senior color sergeant, Edward
liam F. Finn, and chief musician, r.
R. Burrows.
The meeting Of Gen. Henry w.
Lawton Camp last Monday was called
to order by Comdr. Charles e. Haw-
kins. The department commander,
accompanied by his staff, was present
for the regular visitation.
At the last meeting of Gen. M Emmett
Urell Auxiliary the following officers
were installed by the department pres
ident, Catherine Dintler: Alice Bruner,
president; Louise Freeland, senior vice
president; Louise Adams, Junior vice
president; Margaret Binnix, chaplain;
Ruth Roth, historian: Grace Byrne,
conductor: Mabel Wehrle, assistant
conductor; Catherine Baughan, guard;
Catherine Shugrue, assistant guard;
Carmen Ramos, secretary.
Col. James s. Petit Auxiliary met,
with President Ethel e. Finn presid-
ing. Past National Treasurer Carrie
e. Nolan installed Mary Grace Hand
as musician and Pauline Thompson Is
reporter.
Evening star., 1935-02-10
THREE WILL TAKE
M|DSH|PMAN TEST
Fleet Marine Corps Reserve
Enlisted Men Are Des-
ignated.

Three enlisted men Of the 5th Bat.
talon, Fleet Marine Corps Reserve
have been designated to take the en-
trance examination for appointment
as midshipmen, United States Nava
Academy. on April II.
They are Pvt. Alfred Everett Saw
age, 4812 Military road; Pvt. Robert
Gwathmey Merritt, Forest Glen, Md.
and Pvt. Andrew I. Lyman, Quantico
Va.
Savage is a member of the 5th Bat
talon Band and is a student at the
University of Maryland. Merritt is
member of Company D, 5th Battalion
and is a student at Bulls Preparatory
School. Lyman is a member of Com
pany B, 5th Battalion. He Is the sor
of Brig. Gen. Charles H. Lyman, U. S
M. c., commanding officer Of the Fleet
Marine Force, now at sea on maneu.
vers with the U. S. S. wyoming.
Four Now at Academy.
There are now at the Naval Acad'
envy. in each of the four classes, for
mer enlisted men Of the local Fleet
Marine Corps Reserve organizations
Three former Marine Corps reservist:
also are eligible at the Coast Guaro
Academy, New London, Conn.
Two former enlisted men are now
commissioned officers in the regular
establishments. They are Ensign
John H. Forney, U. S. c. G.. U. S. S
Mendoza, Norfolk, Va, and Ensign
(Supply Corps Warren W. Whiteside
U. S. NJ, on the U. S. S. Hatfield.
The newly authorized insignia ol
the 5th Battalion, Fleet Marine Corps
Reserve, will appear on 500 District
of Columbia automobiles, Identifying
the machines Of the personnel OF the
5th Battalion.
New Insignia Recognized.
The new insignia, affixed to the low
er right hand corner of the windshield
will be recognized for passage to and
from the Marine Barracks and Post at
Quantico, Va. Such recognition was
authorized by Maj Gen. Harry Lee
U. S. M. c., commanding general at
Quantico.
The insignia consists Of the Marine
Corps emblem with the motto Sem
per Fidelis," in gold and silver, with
the designation 18th Battalion, Fleet
Marine Corps Reserve" under the de-
vice The entire design appears on
black jet background framed in gold
Evening star., 1935-02-10

the VoclferouS one-tenth OF l per
cent" These people, though a minor
ity, are organized. and the power and
effectiveness of an organized minority
has been demonstrated too many times
to need review here. And an organi-
zation a million and a half strong Is
something to be reckoned with.
don't think juvenile programs are
as bad as some parents and teachers
believe. But some of them are bad
enough to irritate a very militant
group of women. I believe that in
the next few months the parents and
teachers are going to cause lot of
headaches IN the executive offices Of
the broadcasters and advertisers.
n X r. X
WE SUGGEST you listen to Dark
w Enchantment on WOR at $50
Tuesday nights Probably one
of the most unusual and completely
interesting programs on the air. Writ
ten by William LennoX, special music
by Bob Armbruster and directed by
Marion Parsonnet, the program repre-
sentS just about the best in radio. In
other words, like it -. The SYM
phony concert from Detroit last Sun
day night was excellent. That concert
on the air at 9 o'clock from CHS,
now And that amateur program
in charge Of Ray Perkins (CBS-Sun-
day at p.mD entertained me lot...
FREDDIE BERRENS and that string
J. orchestra from the Flying Trapeze.
now doing three broadcasts week
from WOR-Tuesdays, Saturdays and
Sundays. It's recommended music.
Curious resemblance between the
singing voice of Theodore Webb and
the speaking voice of Tiny Ruffner.
Webb sings on programs directed by
Tiny, too -. Sounds like fun for
listeners when Edna Thomas starts her
singing series on CHS. She promises
to prove that the average Southern"
song has never been south of Phila-
delphia and that the real Southern
song Is something else again 6.
Henry King and orchestra to make q
short movie in mid-February.
ENOCH LIGHTS nomination for
Il jazz classics Of all times are "St.
Louis Blues" Tiger Rag and
"Dinah" Noble Sissle Is writing a
book, "Jazz-From Africa to Broad
way" Frank Daley and his orches-
ira replacing Joe Haynes and his band
at the McAlpin Roxy qualified as
crack pistol shot in the U. s. Marine
Corps Jack Johnstone, author and
director Of Buck Rogers" is student
Of ancient history . Virginia Rae
and Edgar Sittig (Mr. and Mrs.
Sittig) back after a Southern vaca-
ton.
THE unwritten law of mo dogs al
i lowed" at the CHS Radio Play
house is rescinded for 'Rowdy," !"
Lucrezia Boris grey miniature
schnauser. During Miss Boris pro-
grams, Rowdy sits quietly and dis
cretely in her dressing room Z.
Willard Robison's private gymnasium
is used constantly by the Robson
musicians as well as Robson himself
. If radio gave pretty gold stars for
perfect attendance, Al Shayne would
get several. He's been on the air for
his present sponsor for more than two
years, and he's never missed pro-
Evening star., 1935-02-10

gram Leon Belasco is one maestro
it's difficult for song pluggers to see.
The other day he discovered that SOME
body had bribed the elevator boy in
his apartment house to whistle GER
tain tune whenever BelaSco rode the
lift. Whether the plugger's ingenuity
won him an audience, the story doesn't
say Amos n Andy have taken to
the road again Until after the 18th
their broadcasts will originate from
the cities in which they happen to be
playing. Their announcer, Bill Hay,
stays in Chicago, opening and closing
each broadcast from the N. B. G..
studios there.
Evening star., 1935-02-10

-. A. n.
Livingston Manor Chapter met al
the home Of Mrs. Alanson D. More
house, 1926 o street northwest, the
regent, Mrs. Andrew P. Anderson
presiding. It was voted to give two
medals for good citizenship, one for
a boy and one for a girl, to the
District school children, and to pur.
chase one volume of Braille for the
needy blind. A membership in the
Children of the American Revolution
was presented to little Sarah Billopp
McAlliSter, daughter of the former
regent.
A card party will be held at the
home Of Mrs. Addams s. McAllister
3100 Highland place. the afternoon
of February 19. Mrs. Frank S. Ray,
former regent of the chapter, will
speak over WRC at lis pm. Feb
ruary 20. Miss Mary Hooe Liv-
tngston read paper on the Living
ton Family, for which the chapter Is
named and from which she Is de-
scended.
The Goth birthday anniversary was
celebrated at a luncheon February
2, at the Admiral. Among the guests
were the State officers, represented
by Mrs. Jean Labat, Miss Ramona
Newman, Mrs. Joseph A. Richards,
Miss Linda Nance, Mrs. John F.
Little, Mrs. Samuel H. McCrory and
former State Regent Mrs. Harry C.
Grove. Violin selections were rem
dered by Mrs. Rose M. Dickey, ac-
companied by Mrs. Louise Freitag
Miss Lillian Chenoweth sang, with
Mrs. James Shera Montgomery at
the piano.
Dorothy Hancock Chapter was en-
tertained at luncheon Tuesday at the
Raleigh Hotel, when the following
members were hostesses: Miss Anne
Tuohy, Mrs. Ralph Van Orsdel, Mrs
Maxwell Warren and Mrs. Lloyd B
Wilson.
At the chapter meeting which fol.
lowed, the regent, Mrs. Catherine
Mrs. Richard Hynson and Miss Mary
Harlow were elected to form q Nomi'
mating Committee. Alternates for the
National D. A. r. Congress In Apri
| are Miss Emma Kent, Mrs. Charlie.
Holmes, Miss Anne Tuoly, Mrs. Ches.
ter Merwin, Mrs. Vernon West, Mrs
] Lanier McLachlen, Mrs. j. Craig King
Mrs. Lloyd Wilson and Mrs. Le Ro!
Sawyer, jr.
Evening star., 1935-02-10

The National Membership Com
mittee met Thursday in Continental
Hall, with the State registrar, Mrs
John F. Little, presiding. The guest
speaker was Mrs. Stanley F. Reed,
registrar general, National Society,
D. A. r,
Evening star., 1935-02-10
New Commentator Tonight.

A new type of news commentator
broadcasts will be introduced by
VOL tonight at $50. "Old Toll
erable," the commentator, will pre-
sent q distinctive view Of what Is
going on In the world.
Evening star., 1935-02-10

Mrs. Alfred L. Talbot, vice regent
Constitution Chapter, is chairman Of
the card party to be given by the
chapter at the Raleigh Hotel March
l. Mrs. Mae Helm will be chairman
Of patronesses, assisted by Mrs. Rob-
ert H. Mcneil.
Evening star., 1935-02-10
upper Air Tests to Decide
Pursuit Plane Effectiveness
March Field Laboratory Experiments Involve
Actual Operations Against New High
Speed Bombardment Type.
BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON.

ITO DETERMINE the effectiveness of the modern pursuit air.
plane against the hgh-speed bombardmen aiplanes
which forcing rewriting of air tactics the 1st Wing
Army Air Corps, is carrying out series Of upper air
laboratory tests" at March Field, Calf.
involve actual operations by pursuit against bonn
variety conditions Up February
interception problems flown
being carried by the s4 3d and s5h Pursuit suadrons Of
the 18th 31st Bombardment
Squadrons of the h Bombadment Group under direction OF
Lieut. Col H. H. Arnold wing commander and leader of the
Alaskan flight of last Summer.
The tests with Boeing pursuit airpanes
Martin BIZ bombers The pursuers armed with
synchonzd 80 aber machine guns with fixed nchronized
caiber machine small and each carried
bombs of from to 10 pounds each The aane carried
full mil
Evening star., 1935-03-20
D. C. WOULD SHARE
In ROAD FUNDS
Senator Hayden Offers Amend
ment to Work Relief Measure
Providing for $4S7,000.

The District Of Columbia. along
with all the States. would be allo-
Gated a definite portion of any public
road funds distributed under the
work-relief bill as the result of an
amendment Senator Hayden, Demo
crat, of Arizona, had added to the
DILL in the Senate this afternoon.
AS the bill came from committee
it contained a provision indicating
various types of projects for which
the 1000, 900 900 should be used. While
this list included highways and grade
crossing eliminations, these were re-
ferred to only in a lump sum and
without definite ALLEGATION.
Senator Hayden's amendment would
REQUIRE the highway fund to be ap-
portioned on the sane basis that has
been followed in emergency legisla-
ton of the past two years, namely
according to the area, population and
mileage of rural mail routes in each
jurisdiction.
A sample table prepared for Sena-
to Hadyen shows that if 100000
is distributed for highways out of the
pending bill, the District would be en-
titled to a grant of s487, 900.
Evening star., 1935-03-20
FIGHT ON BLANT0N
PLANNED BY CITIZENS
Every Civic Organization Will Be
Asked to Join in March
on Capitol"

Plans for a proposed demonstration
March % to request the House to
remove Representative Blanton, DEM
ocrat, of Texas from his assignment
on the House Appropriations Commit
tee were discussed at meeting last
night of the Executive Committee of
the Federation of Business Mems As
sociations
A march on the Capitol" where
petitions would be presented to Speak
er Byrns demanding Blanton's re-
moval from the committee, was pro-
posed. Every civic organization in
Washington. it was stated, is to be
invited to participate.
Arthur Clarendon Smith, president
of the federation, who initiated the
move for the demonstration, criti-
cized Blanton, commended the Crime
Committee for its courage, and point
ed out there could be no effective en-
forcement of law until the Police De-
partment is divorced from politics.
Smith also called special meeting
of the Federation in the La Fayette
Hotel at $50 o'clock tonight to fur
ther plans for the proposed demon
Stration.
Evening star., 1935-03-20
LANCER FLUSTERED
AS CASE is ARGUED
Appeal Marked by Admission He
Solicited Relief Worker Funds
by Mistake.
BY the Associated Press.

DS the hSoOSIdtcu EItSS
KANSAS CITY, March 20.-Seek-
ing solace in cigars, William LANCER
former Governor of North Dakota
faced another session before a three
Judge appellate court today as attor-
neys argued his appeal from felony
conviction.
Convicted in Federal Court on con-
spiracy to obStruct Federal relief
work by soliciting relief workers for
political purposes, the immaculate
keen-eyed LANCER listened intently
yesterday TO arguments in which he
was compared to burglar by Gov
ernment attorney.
His face flushed as P. w. Lanier
United States district attorney OF
Fargo, N. Oak, opened the arguments
by which the Government hopes to
sustain the conviction. as well as an
18-month prison sentence and a
$4,000 fine.
Francis Murphy, one Of Langer's
attorneys, conceded State employees
were solicited to contribute per cent
of their pay to the deposed Governor
political organ, The Leader, and
told the court that five or six en-
ployes" in the State Relief Bureau
were solicited by mistake.
1T is upon this accidental solicita-
ton of a handful of relief employees
that the Government predicates its
case" Murphy said.
He argues that solicitation of relief
employees was no concern of the Gov
ernment since they were paid with
money which the Government had
loaned or given the State.
Evening star., 1935-03-20
DAMS TO CONTROL
FLOODSSURvEYED
Mississ sippi Commission
Head Asks $50, 1000, 900 to
Curb Tributaries Waters.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 20.-One
of the worst Mississippi Valley tribu-
tary floods in years was battled today
by an army of engineers, National
Guardsmen. convicts, Red Cross
workers and volunteers.
The swirling Yellow waters were
giving less trouble to the north in
Missouri but southwark in Arkansas
and Mississippi they offered new
threat to lands and homes.
Gen. Harley B. Ferguson. president
of the Mississippi River Commission.
announced plans at Vicksburg, Miss.
to recommend to Congress the con-
struction of a s50,000.000 reservHi.'
system to curb further rampaging Of
certain streams.
Inspects Seven Dam Sites.
Gen. Ferguson made his announce
ment after an inspection tour of seven
proposed reservoir sites in the Cold
water and Tallahatchie Basins of
North Mississippi.
ne IeSe-NOIS, VIII DdSlIlS SuAll-
ciently large to care for all surplus
water the rivers might be called upor
to carry, would be created through
the erection of dams Three would be
placed near Greenwood, on the Yalo-
busha River, one near Batesville, on
the Yacona; two on the Tallachatchie
and one on the Coldwater near Arka-
butla.
The Coldwater and Tallahatchie
Rivers were receding today. They
usually are among the first of the
mississippi Rivers tributaries to be-
ccme unruly following excessive rains
Convicts Sandbag Levee.
1t was the YaZoo River that was
giving the most trouble in Mississippi
today. One hundred and fifty State
Prison convicts we're Sandbagging a
danger point" in the Yazoo Levee al
Swifton. 80 miles south of Greenwood
In Arkansas the Cache River began
to misbehave. A break north of Devals
Bluff late yesterday sent water over
10000 acres OF land and forced 200
families from their homes.
Most of the trouble in Southeast
Missouri appeared at an end. Guards
continued to patrol levees. however.
The White and st. Francis, still
rising in North Arkansas. had water
over thousands of acres of farmland
and about $4,000 lowlanders we're out
ftheir homes.
Evening star., 1935-03-20
MARTIN J. INSULL
WILL BE DEP0RTED
Action Under Old Order Would
Prevent Former Financier Be-
coming Public Charge.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT. March 20.-1mmigration
officers announced today that Martin
j. insult. who once handled millions,
will be deported here Friday because
he might become public charge.
The 69-year-old brother Of Samuel
insult will be excluded under de-
portation order issued last March,
when he was brought across the border
from Canada to stand trial in Chicago
on an embezzlement charge.
He is a British subject and carried
on a strenuous legal battle in Canada
against his return to the United
States to face charges in Illinois
growing out of the collapse of the
insult utility companies. The immi-
grafton officers said insult would
arrive here at 750 am. Friday. He
will be escorted across the Detroit
River to Windsor Ontario, by In
spector James Warner.
Evening star., 1935-03-20
SACKETT SEES ACT
PARTLY UNSUITABLE
Former Ambassador Says He Saw
No Indications of War While
in Europe.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 20.-Frederick
M. Sackett Of Louisville, KY, former
United States Ambassador to Ger
many, said last night upon his arrival
on the Majestic that he thought Ger
many's rearming was a partially
justifiable act"
Sackett, who was accompanied by
his wife, attended the London con-
ference called by the Carnegie En-
dowment for International Peace.
Asked if he regarded Germany's re-
arming as justifiable, Sackett said:
I'D say it is. Partially justifiable. y
Sackett said he would remain in
New York for several days and then
would go to Washington to visit the
State Department before returning to
his Louisville home.
The former Ambassador praised the
London conference, remarking that
while he was in Europe he saw no
indication of war.
There is no money for wars; nor
credit in the United States to man
them," he added.
Evening star., 1935-03-20
Death and q Halo We're Rewards
For Good Little Boys of 1922
But Naughty Youngsters Had to Liue
to a Ripe Old Age-And Face
Worse in the Hereafter.

little reason to be merry. for those
who are wicked have more need to cry
than to laugh"
Tabitha never could get home fast
enough to report any misconduct OF
her brothers and sisters, for "She
held it was the duty of parents. mas
ters and mistresses to reprove those
under their charge for sin" When
she was 10 years old she burst a
blood vessel in her lung but. with
the consciousness of such an ex-
emplary career of tale-bearing behind
her, "she said that she desired to die
that she might go to heaven. and she
did with a great deal Of cheerfulness
give up her soul"
The leader of Rev. James JaneWay's
troop of pious children in Paradise
doubtless is John Harvey.
OF all the good little girls and boys
whose edifying lives the learned cleric
recited, John is entitled to the blue
ribbon. The others appear to have
contented themselves with reprovine
other children for wasting precious
hours at play. John. firmly but kindly
reprimanded his elders for their oc-
casional lapSeS into worldliness.
This paragon makes his appearance
In Rev. Mr.. Janeway's pages when he
is years and months old-but long
before that he must have INDUCED in
some profound reflections on the
deeper meanings of life and deter
mined on the road he would follow.
Revealed as a Prodigy.
At that time his parents, judging
he was little too young to be sent to
school, let him have his liberty to play
little about his home. But instead
of playing he found out school OF
his own accord, hard by, and went to
the mistress and entreated her to
teach him to read. He then had a
very great hatred of whatever he
knew to be wicked, and would be
much displeaSed if any gross sins
were committed before him.
When he was at play with other
children he would be oftentimes put
ting in a word to keep them from
naughty talk or wicked actions Nay
once. hearing a boy speak very pro-
fanely, and that after two or three
admonitions. he was so transported
with zeal that he could not forbeal
falling upon him TO beat him, for he
could not endure foul words from sc
wretched boy.
When he perceived either hi;
brother or sister pleased with new
clothes he would, with a great deal Of
dignity. reprove their folly, and wher
his reproof signified little he would be.
wall their vanity"
Evening star., 1935-03-20
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
Revo1ts by Congress
Due to Be Feeble
for Rest of Session.
BY PAUL MALLON.

BY PAUL MALLON.
THE process by which President
Roosevelt regained his grip or
the Senate has been guarded
L state secret.
The six Senators who
switched their votes to him on the
relief wage issue are doing little
talking Some are doing none at all.
Others are publicly offering what are
obviously inadequate explanations.
Cloakroom belief at the Senate
is that Mr.. Roosevelt passed around
a tew hidden slices OF political pie.
This may be partially true, but q
more fundamental reason irdS Of
tered confdentially to the deserted
labor lobbyists by Senator ipho
said:
I'VE must ,Dork ,Uith him for at
least tDo more years. We can't
repudiate him notC."
That tells the story. 1t implies that
the President has little to fear from
this Congress anytime soon, If ne
watches his step. Congressman, espe-
cially Democrats and PrOgressives
realize, when they get right up against
the gun, that breaking with the Presi-
dent involves responsibilities they dc
not care to assume except in extreme
emergencies.