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Evening star., 1936-08-16
Telerision Sho,cn Rapidly Progressing,
THOUGH 1t Has Much to Overcome

directly of film were satisfactory
enough to sustain eye interest.
Philco officials. asserting they do
not think the time is yet ripe to
introduce television 10 the public,
frankly stated that the 345-line pic
lures are not regarded by them as
the final answer. They announced
that the apparatus being displayed
would shortly be torn down to make
way for $50 to 460 line transmitters
and receivers, so as to attain the
standards recently laid down before
the Federal Communications Com
mission by the organized radio manu-
facturers through their Radio Manu-
facturers' Association.
That Philco, largest Of the radio
set makers, intends TO be factor
in the television field was indicated
not only by the first hibition of
it's television work. but by statements
by James E. Skinner. president OF
the associated Philadelphia Storage
Battery Co., and Lawrence E. Gubb,
president of the Philco Co. The
present pictures, they revealed, were
the result Of eight years of research
and the present definition was at
tanned only since last December.
Mr.. Gubb asserted his company
does not believe television is "just
around the corner" but he added
that when it comes it. will be
tremendous industry" Skinner stated
that Philco's aim primarily is to Sc
cure a picture comparable 10 home
movies in definition. The company,
rival of R. C. A. in both the set
manufac cturing and television expert
menting fields, thinks now that tele-
vision patent pool will have to be
formed to avoid chaos when the in
dustry gets under way, and Mr.. Skin
ner suggested that the patent pool
prevailing in the automobile INDUSTRY
might be good example to follow.
Reservation Held Essential.
Skinner, as president Of the Radio
Manufacturers Association, told his
listeners that television's chances Of
development will be nil unless the
F. C. C. adopts the recent r. M. A.
proposal that six 6,0oo-knocycle
paths" in the ultra-short wave
spectrum between $4,000 and 10000
kilocycles be reserved for visual broad
casting. Before sets are placed on
the market, which his colleagues pre-
dicted will not be this year or next,
an adequate picture broadcasting sys-
tenn will have to be set up and in.
teresting programs will have to be
provided, Skinner pointed out.
Those who saw the demonstration
left with the conviction that the big
Philadelphia manufacturing concern
will definitely be factor in television
when it crops out of the laboratory,
along with r. C. A. and FarnSworth.
whose systems have also aroused great
enthusiasm, but who are still guard
ing their tests with great secrecy.
The r. C. A. system was said to be
! much along the same lines as Philco's,
the pictures being almost the same
size, but reproduced somewhat more
clearly and more restful on the eyes
through a greenish hue on cathode
ray screen instead Of in black and
white.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
Major Features
and Notes

REV. CHARLES E. COUGHLIN,
famous Detroit radio priest;
Representative Lemke of North Da-
kota, Union party candidate for
President, and Thomas c. O'Brien,
his running mate, will be heard over
WRC and WJSV at g. The broad
cast will come from the national con-
vention of the National Union for
Social Justice in Cleveland.
Eve Becke, Titian-haired song
stress from England, will make a
guest appearance with Jack Shilkret's S
Orchestra and the Three testers dur
ing the "Tea Time Tunes" program
on WJSV at 4:30.
A description of the 1886 all
American soap-box derby in Akron.
Ohio, will be broadcast by WMAL at 2.
Graham McNamee and Tom Man
ming will be at the microphone.
The question about what wife
should do when her husband brings
home unexpected guests will be dis
c3ssed during the Husbands and
Wives period on WMAL at $50.
An all Scotch and Irish program
will be presented during the Com
munity Sing" program on WJSV at
$50. Alexander Gray, radio. screen
and musical comedy star, will direct
the broadcast.
Paul Whiteman's original arrange
ment of George Gershwin's Rhapsody
in Blue" will be heard in full during
the Musical Varieties broadcast on
WMAL at 8:15. Roy Bargy, COM
poser and pianist, will be at the piano.
Gov. Fitzgerald Of Michigan will be
the guest speaker and Dr. Walter
Damrosch guest conductor on the pro-
gram to be broadcast by WRC at 9
from the National Music Camp at
Interlochen, Mich.
Frank Crumit and Julia Sanderson
will revive the songs of past years
during their broadcast on WJSV at
$50.
An all-Brahms program will be
presented by Howard Barlow and his
Columbia Symphony Orchestra on
WJSV at 2:30.
Evening star., 1936-08-16

to say when and how long TO laugh
and applaud. Evidently the ladies
and gentlemen at the broadcast ring
hammered guest who pays no admis-
sion can do Is applaud any entertain
ment dished up for him.
Shows being dished up right now
for Fall and Winter consumption have
several artists ready for a come back
up the trail of radio popularity, among
them Freddie Berrens, ore-time Man
haitian bandsman, and Annette Han
shaw, missing from the air-lanes for
almost a year now, and Harry Reser,
who emerged from a long silence last
year for a successful commercial series
and then retired from the radio scene
in which he had previously played a
stellar part for II long years.
PERRENS' band and Belle Baker
make up the talent for new
So week commercial debuting next
month on WOR-MBS. Reser. best
remembered as batoneer Of his "Eski-
mos" will have cigarette commercial
at N. B. c. And speaking Of Miss
Hanshaw's promised come back, Show
Boat" on which she formerly starred,
comes into port for rehauling before
setting sail again Thursday with
Lanny Ross at the kelm. Ross, arriv-
ing on the Tormandie tomorrow,
takes charge Of a radio craft whose
decks are cleared of Charles Winnin-
ger, Mary Lou and the Westerners.
Winifred Cecil, last seasons star,
plans to remain abroad for some time.
Wonder If Mark Warnow will be
the Hit Parade's" next maestro ).
and If Rudy Vallee's answer that he
can't marry until after May %, 1887,
when his divorce from Fay Webb
Vallee becomes final, will dispel those
romantic rumors linking his name
with that of Niela Goodelle. -. Won
der Of Lewis Bray doesn't give thanks
that he's a pianist and not vocalist,
for what singer would like to see him
self billed as Mr.. Bray?
THIS seems to be open season on
l. announcers who persist in coy
questioning of radio singers as to what
numbers they plan to sing, Just as II
they hadn't spent all afternoon re-
hearsing in preparation for putting
those very numbers on the air. But
anything can be excused at the tag
end of the season, when you remember
the broadcasters. along with sponsors
and artists. must feel like a bunch OF
jugglers trying to keep the present
show going on while they turn their
attention to plans for the season to
come. Promised among the Fall shows
now in the making is Harry Horlick' S
orchestra, tuning up for Charles Pre-
WINS former sponsor, with Edwin c.
Hill doing a news comment between
musical interludes Guy Lombardo S
orchestra, succeeding Jack Shilkret on
that bread commercial :. . Frank
Parker doing a lot of singing for
Paul Whiteman's sponsor, instead Of
the bill with Ann Leaf.
CARL HOFF will get an N. B. c.
~ coast-to-c coast network from Hoi-
lywood in October, touting the wares
Evening star., 1936-08-16
SHORT WAVE FEATURES
TODAY.

ROME-1:2O p.m.-Varied pro-
gram from Italian stations. 2RO,
31l m, 963 meg.
Moscow pm.-The old
Russian village and the village
today. RNE, 25 m, IL meg.
PARIS-5:45 pm. - Concert
from Radio Paris. TPA4, 25.6 m,
ll.72 meg.
LONDON-5 pm.-Beethoven's
sonatas for violin and pianoforte
GSP, 1876 m, 1881 meg; GSF,
1873 m, 1914 meg; GSD, 25.5 m,
ITS meg.
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands u
p.m.-Special transmission for
Central and South America. PCJ,
312 m, $50 meg.
BERLIN p.m.-Closing cere-
mony at the Olympic games.
DJD. 25.4 m, 11.77 meg.
CARACAS-7:30 p.m-Dance
music. YV2RC, SIT m, So meg.
BERLIN-9:30 pm. Military
concert. DJD, 25.4 m, 1177 meg.
WINNIPEG IL pm Live.
Laugh and Love" CJRO, 48.7
M, 6.15 meg; CJRX, 25.6 m.
11.72 meg.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
Bv Martin C0del.

~ PHILADELPHIA, Pa. August Is.
- -Television'S amazing strides
| forward we're once again dem
onstrated this week when
Philco Radio & Television Corp,
leading radio set manufacturers and
one of the three or four major tele-
vision experimenters in the United
States. permitted party Of so news
paper men to view for the first time
what it has accomplished thus far
in laboratory and field tests.
The spectators, looking at two
model television receivers in sub
urban Philadelphia home miles
avav from the sight-and-sOund trans
mitter atop the factory plant, were
told by company officials that tele-
vision will not be ready for the pub
lie until pictures comparable to home
movies in clarity and definition II
not In size were perfected.
Clear and Satisfying.
The pictures were seen framed in
hlarn and white on the oval end OF
a Pinch cathode-ray tube. They
lacked much of the definition and
detail of home r:ovies, but were re-
markably clear and quite satisfying
to the eye. They were about Sx7
inches in size, black and white. and
they we're formed by bombardment
of electrons within the tube that
painted" them at the rate OF 60
345-line images per second. The re-
ceiving apparatus was a 36-tuoe al
fair looking exactly like a console
radio receiver with six control knobs
three for pictures and three for sound.
Close-ups of still photographs, Of
a. package Of cigarettes held in hand,
of a watch ticking away the seconds
and of persons sitting and standing
before the television camera were
nroiected from the Philco 1.000-watt
governmental ultra-Short wave sta
ton at its plant miles distant from
the home of William H. Grimditch,
Philco chief engineer, in suburban
Rvdal at the north end of the city.
The electrical sight-and-sound Inn
pulses were broadcast simultaneously
and in perfect SynchronlSm on the
81 900 and 54,25O kilocycle waves,
respectively.
Full-length direct views of per-
formers before the television camera.
including solo singers, an employe
quartet. two boxers and Boake Car
ter. the radio commentator. were
picked up with very few defects, and
a newsreel was also shown. Carter
was seen picking up telephone, call
ing the Grimditch home and con-
versing with several of the spectators
there.
CIose-ups Clearest
The pictures were exceptionally
clear, especially the close-ups and
observers who have seen both as
serted they compared very favorably
with the excellent televised images
disclosed in laboratory demonsTa-
tions by Radio Corp. of America
in its plant across the river in Cam
den. N. j. While the close-ups were
probably acceptable, there was some
question whether the full-length v1eW
and the reproduced nswsreel taken
Evening star., 1936-08-16
"Sir Donald" Is Hit.

John MOORE, handsome young
actor, who has just joined the N.
B. c. artists group via Ireland, Eng
land, Australia and Honolulu, finds as
fascinating as anything in his colorful
career his new role in the "ONeill
Family" He is cast as Sir Donald of
the British Flying Corps.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
Benny to Return.

lack BENNY, ace comedian of the
" airways. will return to the micro
phone in September under the same
sponsor that has paid him since the
Fall of 1884 Mary Livingstone MRS.
BENNY will come back with him.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
Soprano Fete Queen.

WHILE MORRIS, soprano star of
w N. B. C.'s Sunday night "Fireside
Recitals." has been chosen queen Of
the centennial celebration to be held
in her home town of Mexico, Mo.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
u. S. Forest Income.

THE National f0reStS are not all OUT
lay. In fact, considerable revenue
is received each year from the forests.
Forest income will run around $3.0o0,-
900 a year. The greater part is de-
rived from timber, which Is cut under
superyision of forest rangers.
Evening star., 1936-08-16

~ PHILADELPHIA Pa. August Is.
- -Television's amazing strides
| forward we're once again dem
Evening star., 1936-08-16

Law Requires Impartiality
In Sale of Radio Time
Pay Same as That of Republicans and
Democrats Offered in Campaign
Period Series.
By the Radio Editor.

n ECURED law afford equal opportunity all candidates and
utilize their facilities
|
about Columbia Broadasing System
aroused permitted Browder the Communist
Communist
Evening star., 1936-08-16
Come-backs to Be Feature
Of Fall and Winter Radio
Freddie Berrens, One-Time Manhattan
Bandsman, and Annette Hanshaw
Among the Ambitious.
By Dorothy MaftiSOn.

yoNDER what the folks out in -Four Square Corners think the
audiences
out loudpeaker? Jokes 20
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-04
The Weather

District Of Columb ia-Fair,
slightly warmer tonight; Sunday
fair, war..ler; minimum temperar
ture tonight about SO degrees; gen.
tie variable winds tonight, becom-
ing moderate south on Sunday.
Maryland and Virginia-Fair,
slightly warmer tonight; Sunday
fair and warmer, followed by
showers in extreme west portions
In afternoon or at night.
Tide Table
High tide today at 6:28 a. m.
and at $40 p. m.
Low tide today at 1879 a. m.
and at 1909 p. m.
High tide tomorrow at 7:09 a. m.
and at 1923 p. m.
Low tide tomorrow at 1928 a. m.
and at 1854 p. m.
Sun and Moon
The sun rises today at $40 a. m.
and sets 6:34 p. m.
The sun rises tomorrow at SAT
q. m. and sets 6:35 p. m.
The moon rises today at 4:46
%. m. and sets 1923 a. m.
The moon rises tomorrow at
6:44 p. m. and sets 4:47 a. m.
Temperatures
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-04
GET
BUS SERVICE

Bus transportation for crippled
school children, abandoned three
weeks ago because of a short
age of funds, will be resumed
Monday, Assistant superintendent
Of Schools Robert L. Haycock has
announced.
Resumption of the service was
made possible through an agree
ment with the Bureau Of the Bud
get to move for a deficiency ap-
preparation of $500 which will
be sufficient to assure the service
for the remainder of this term.
DR.. Haycock said that while the
service for the crippled children
will be resumed, the fund will not
permit resumption of similar serv.
ice for students in the sight con-
servation classification.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-04
NEW PROTESTS
HIT TAX BILL
CONTINUED from Page II

Continued from Page II
paid and impounded processing
taxes. He said:
THE small packer is perhaps
in a different business from
the big packer. II the sO-caIIed
'windfalP tax is assessed against
US, we are bankrupt. We can't
take it,"
Representative Fuller CD Of
Arkansas nterjected:
"You passed this S2.25 tax
on to the consumer"
1--WE tried to, but we
couldn't"
'HOw are you selling your
prOceSSed meat, compared with
when the AAA tax was on?
Three or four cents less on
hams"
He told Fuller that the AAA
processing tax drove people from
pork and almost ruined the small
packer.
MiIIers Want Cut
It is impossible, he said, to show
whether the processing tax was
passed on. Committee members
pointed out that the "windfall'
tax did not apply If the porcessor
absorbed the tax.
Allen Cornelius, of Nashville,
Tenn, representing 81 millers of
Self-rising and procesSed flour in
Southern States, urged that the
"windfall" tax be cut from 80 per
cent to between 80 and 80 per
cent. He also urged modification
of floor tax refund provisions to
insure return of all taxes on floor
stocks existing on January 6. 1886.
Cornelius told committee mem
berS that the AAA processing tax
was passed on to the consumer.
The tax bill was given full right
of way by House leaders today as
the Ways and Means Committee
prepared to close hearings.
Passage by April 20
Tentative plans called for pass
age of the measure embracing
President Roosevelt's proposed
tax on undistributed corporation
earnings not later than April 20.
Chairman Doughton CD OF
North Carolina said that drafting
of a bill would begin as soon as
the hearings are ended.
One of the outstanding spokes-
men for buSineSS-the United
States Chamber of Commerce
may delay testimony until the bill
reaches the Senate.
A representative Of the cham
ber's tax committee sought per-
mission for members to testify
some time next week, but Dough
ton would give no definite assur.
ance that the chambers tax COM
mittee would be heard after Mon
day.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-04
B0RAH COURTS
REAL TEST

Senator Borah yesterday said
his defeat Thursday in the New
York Republican primary was mo
surprise" to him.
real test" of his strength in
the Republican presidential NOM
nation race will come in the Wis
consin primary April 7, and that
in Illinois a week later. he said.
He will leave today for a speak.
ing date in Milwaukee. He has
several speeches scheduled in Illi-
noiS.
Borah, entered also in Nebraska
and Pennsylvania, said he is going
into Pennsylvania for the same
reason he entered New York-"to
carry the fight all along"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-04
Senate Upsets Move
To Aid Judge Ritter
International News Service

A sweeping motion by counsel
for Federal Judge Halsted L. Rit-
ter, Of Florida. to reduce the num-
Der Of charges against him in his
impeachment trial was overwhelm-
ingly rejected by the Senate.
Counsel for Judge Ritter sought
to strike q c1nspiracy charge out
of his indictment, and to elimi-
nate a basket" charge. Senator
Nathan L. Bachman CD Of Ten
nesSee, presiding at the trial, over
ruled the first part Of the motion,
was upheld by the Senate, and
then submitted the second part to
q vote of the Senate. Again the
Senate ruled against the defen-
dant Judge.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-04
Spring Is Here!
Cleanup Week
Set April Is

An unmistakable sign Of spring
came from the offices Of the Dis
trict Commissioners today when
they issued the annual proclama-
ton setting aside the week Of
April 10 as Clean Up Week" in
the District.
In preparation for this week the
Commissioner ordered that streets,
alleys, municipal parks and other
municipality owned space be given
a thorough cleaning during the
week of April 6. The proclamation
urged all District citizens to clean
up and beautify their premises by
Kidding yards and vacant lots Of
trash and by repairing or modern
izing houses and other structures. I"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-04
CHERRY TREES
DECLARED AT
THEIR BEST
Blooms, Undamaged
BY Freeze, Awaiting
Thronqs Tomorrow

Apparently unchanged by the
freezing temperatures of last night
and early today, the famed cherry
blossom array around the Tidal
Basin in West Potomac Park was
reported "at its best" this morning
as park and police officials pre-
pared for the expected thousands
of visitors there tomorrow.
The japanese blooms were re-
tarded slightly in their develop
ment by the cold snap, officials
said, but with rising temperatures
today the buds are expected to be
in full bloom tomorrow.
Rules for Traffic
Special regulations to control
the heavy influx Of motorists to
the basin area were ordered today
by Superintendent of National
Capital Parks c. Marshall Finnan.
One-way traffic around the Ii
dial Basin will move clockwise and
automobiles may enter the Basin
drives as follows: One way south
on Seventeenth Street from Con-
necticut Avenue, Lincoln Memorial
Circle via French Drive, southeast
Memorial to West Basin Drive
and then east around the John
Paul Jones statue into the East
Basin Drive; south Of Fourteenth
Street to south of outlet bridge,
then around South Basin Drive
across inlet bridge to Riverside
Drive and West Basin Drive.
Roadway west from Fourteenth
Street in rear of Sylvan Theater,
around Park Lodge and thence to
East Basin Drive.
Auto Traffic Exits
Automobile exits from Basin
drives are as follows:
Fourteenth Street north and
south: Riverside Drive to Lincoln
Memorial and north via Bacon
Drive, Twenty-third Street N. w.,
and the parkway approaching
drive; Fifteenth Street north from
East Basin Drive; Riverside Drive
south Of inlet bridge, around Hams
Point via Washington Channel
Drive and Fourteenth Street; Con-
stitution Avenue east and west.
The cinder road bordering the
West Potomac Park golf course
will be closed at Tidal Basin Road.
Persons wishing to reach the links
may use French Drive, entering
at Lincoln Memorial, and leave by
the same route.
The road from the Ericsson
Memorial along the river, under
the Memorial Bridge and along
the parkway approach to ConSti-
tuition Avenue will be one way
north. Riverside Drive will be
two way from K Street to the Lin
coin Memorial.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-04
DUCE RECALLS
BAD0GL|0 TO
HEAD ARMY
MussoIini Thinks War
INEVITABLE Pushes
Preparation

e ROME, April 4 Q.N.S0 TO
head Italy's army Of more than
a million men and to take charge
of sweeping military prepare
tions for the war that Premier
MuSSolini regards as inevitable"
Marshal Pietro Badoglio shortly
will be recalled from Africa. &C
cording to reports today in we'll
informed circles.
His place as commander-in-
chief of the italian forces in
Ethiopia will be taken by Gen.
Rodolfo GRAHAM, commander on
the southern front and ranked
as one of Italy's foremost CO.
lonial fighters.
Reports that Marshal Badog-
lilo, who is still Italian army
chief of staff, would return to
buckle on Italy's armor for the
Forthcoming European outbreak
klhhCar UGCA NA4 ca AAt Ava oNAA4@ SAAAA~'
Now, however, it has been re-
yealed that his wife and daugh-
ter already have gone to Asmara
to accompany him home from
Eritrea.
Pursued by Italian airplanes
dropping bombs and squirting ma
chine-gun bullets, Ethiopian troops
commanded by Emperor Selassie
fled headlong to the south today,
according to a special military
communique.
This statement was issued after
an earlier communique said the
Italian army first corps, pushing
further southwark into central
Ethiopia, had routed the remain
der of the imperial bodyguard"
after a bitter clash with troops
unler the Negus. That clash sec
ond of the week with the EN-
peror's personal army, occurred
yesterday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-04
BARES
RED TACTICS

Persuasion of "the gullible"
through books. interviews and
written articles obtained for Soviet
Russia recognition by the United
States, the Rev. Edmund A.
Walsh, S. j., declared last night
in a lecture at Georgetown Uni
verSity.
Those in command of the
Soviet Government, he said, al
ways act "ruthlessly" to obtain
their ends and in securing recog.
milton by the United States the
third internationale was allowed
to Subdivide while articles were
written, books published and in.
terviews granted to convince the
gullible that the world revolution
had been abandoned"
Pointing out that the Soviet
government has adopted a policy
of allowing children of land-own.
ing peasants to attend schools,
Father Walsh declared:
Experienced observers will
look beyond the appearances for
the true reality. Japan Is
threatening Russia by way of
Mongolia and ManchukuO. In
formation begins to appear, for
foreign consumption, emphaSiz-
ing the liberaIiZed tendencies
and stressing internal strength
Of the Soviet government, which
now makes such generosity ad-
ViSabIe."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-04
HUGE HOUSING
FUNDASKED

A bill creating an $s76,0O0. 900
fund for loans and grants to State
or local housing authorities, was
introduced in the Senate by Sen
ator Wagner CD Of New York.
Wagner declared enactment of
the bill was necessary to stimulate
recovery, revive the construction
industry, provide new homes for
families of low incomes aad en-
courage slum clearance. He said
the bill would permit loans and
grants to States and cities and to
limited dividend companies.
The Federal funds would be
raised under the bill through bond
issues, which would be guaranteed
by the Government. An imme-
date appropriation Of ISL 200, 900
was asked to start the program.