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Evening star., 1937-03-28
adio-Newspaper Issue
Grows in Importance
Discussion of Plan to Split Control Deferred
Only Because Of Heated Debate on
Judiciary Proposal.

expression; the concern being felt Is
that Capitalization of control may
mean undue political weight one way
or another.
The whole issue of course, grows
out of the overwhelming newspaper
opposition to the present administra-
ton in the last campaign, and may
be aggravated by the preponderance
OF newspaper opposition to the Presi-
dents court plan. Few cases are cited
OF abuse of the radio privilege by
either newspaper or other opera tors
in the last campaign or at present,
but the fear is expressed that the
potential danger is there-particular
in view of the eager scramble in re-
cent years among newspapers to secure
radio stations by means OF purchase
or new grants from the Federal Com
munications Commission.
While the outcry against newspaper
ownership is believed to have had its
inspiration in administration circles,
even though Senator Wheeler is now
at odds with President Roosevelt on
'iiS SoNiS AoodC, dPplCIicIloIO!lS dlc ISIb
in other circles also. Labor has not
yet spoken out, except for sporadic
outbursts against alleged network
monopoly on the part of the Chicago
Federation Of Labor and in behalf OF
its own Chicago station, but last
week a high-ranking Republican spoke
quite significantly on the subject He
l.
chairman Of the House committee
in charge of radio legislation when the
first radio act was written in 1927.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Coronation Broadcast.

ENGLAND's second coronation Of a
King within year will find
American radio announcers on the
scene to broadcast their observations
via short waves from London. Already
the two major network organizations
have announced that they will send
their crack men to the coronation Of
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth,
scheduled to take place May II. The
American broadcasters have been as
sured every cooperation Of the British
Broadcasting Corp.
The Columbia network has an
nounced that Paul White, its director
of special events, and Robert Trout,
its ace special events announcer, will
sail April H. The National Broad
casting Co. has not yet selected its
men for the assignment. All the pomp
and pageantry of the day, including
the ceremonies in Westminster Abbey
will be broadcast to the United States
at various intervals. It is reported
from London also that the B. B. c.
is making plans to televise some of
the events over its London Television
Broadcasting Station.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Radio Testimonials Bill.
IF REPRESENTATIVE MALONE'

IF REPRESENTATIVE MALONEY
Democrat, of Louisiana has his
way, there won't be any personal in
| dorsements of articles over the air un-
/ less they are accompanied by state
ment that the Endorsement is paid for
! He has introduced a bill making it
] unlawful for any one to broadcast any
| recommendation of any article, lndi-
eating that he has used such an article
unless the individual shall, at the
time of the broadcast, also broadcast
the fact that the recommendation
was obtained by the promise Of pay
ment or payment of money or some
other valuable consideration.
Maloney declared in introducing the
bill his complaint was not against the
broadcasters themselves, but against
advertisers over stations. He Classics
such testimonials as an outright sub
terfuge. The bill is pending before
the House Interstate Commerce Com
mittee.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Programs Need Salt.

OWNERS Of all-wave radios, tuning
~ around the short-wave band at
or near 40 meters, can hear speech and
music almost any afternoon from
various Spanish short-wave broad
casting stations, but the credence they
place upon the news reports must de-
pend upon whether they sympathize
with the rebel or loyalist causes.
The bombardment of propaganda
and claims of victories continues un-
abated. with news obviously colored to
suit the militarists who control the
station of origin. The loyalists still
hold the important EAQ in Madrid,
but the rebels have stations in all of
their ngholds-some Of them
broadcasting on medium waves and
thus not heard beyond their immediate
areas and others using the short
waves to get world audiences.
Practically all radio stations in
Spain were either taken over and op-
Grated or else shut down by the
fighting factions, including many anna
teur short-wave stations.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Television Research.

7 Unwilling to let their brethren
of the Western World surpass
them in the developing field of tele-
vision, officials Of the government
controlled Japanese Broadcasting
Corp. are constructing a laboratory
especially designed for television re-
search near Toxic and have allotted
100000 yet, or about $l,500,o0o, for
television research during the current
year. This is reported to the Depart
ment Of Commerce in dispatch from
its Toxic office, which states that the
laboratory will be completed by next
March.
The report states that Prof. Takay-
anagi, Japan's chief television re-
searcher, has been successful in most
of his experiments with a television
receiver that can be viewed in day.
light 1t is proposed to erect a tele-
vision broadcasting station near Toxic
and it is hoped to have it in daily
operation, with enough sets sold, SO
that the Olympic games in Toxic can
be televised in detail in 1910.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
~ kept for the fact that Con-
l. gress is 50 deeply absorbed in
the Supreme Court issue, the

~ kept for the fact that Con-
l. gress Is so deeply absorbed in
the Supreme Court issue, the
IL question of newspaper owner
ship of radio broadcasting stations
would be one of the big issues before
that body. First raised by Senator
Wheeler of Montana, chairman OF the
Senate committee in charge Of radio
legislation, discussion Of the problem
has been deferred largely because Of
his present absorption in the fight
against the Presidents proposal to
reorganized the Supreme Court.
But Senator Wheeler remains firm
in his intention of introducing a bill
to divorce newspapers from radio
ownership, and one such bill has al
ready been introduced in the House.
That the issue will not be dropped is
evident, and current developments
lend credence to the conviction that
II 1t is not thrashed out in the pres
net Congress it will be in the next
With the records indicating that
Of the nearly 700 broadcasting sta
tions in the United States now operat-
ing or authorized for construction,
exactly 205 today have some sort Of
corporate newspaper identification,
the suggestion is now being made
that not only the newspapers and
radio, but the movies and radio should
be separated. These are the three
most vital mediums Of expression, it
is said, and they should not be in
common hands. Nobody on Capitol
Hill or elsewhere has proposed that
they be restricted as mediums for free
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Television Step Taken.

E9ED carefully by American tele-
vision experimenters who have not
yet brought their results out into the
open for the public to view, the newest
development in television in London,
recognized as the proving ground"
for televlsion, may point the way for
further action here. Latest reports
from England state that the govern
ments advisory committee on tele-
vision has ordered one of the two
systems being used to be discarded,
leaving only the Marconi- Electrical
& Musical Industries system of trans
mission for the British Broadcasting
Corp. to work with
The Marconi-E. M. I. system is
practically the same as that being
tested secretly from the Empire State
Building in New York by Radio Corp.
of America, which has patent and
idea exchange arrangement with the
Marconi interests.
No sooner was the Baird system Of
transmission dropped, simplifying the
old dual tranmission method, than
bIItLoil tSleFlSlOI receiving SET lItdIlu-
facturers announced a reduction in
price by about one-third and agreed
to rebate that much on old sets and
to service all new sets for year Thus
televieWers, as the English call them,
now range in cost from $315 to s420-
and these prices are expected to go
down as mass production is war
ranted.
London has had public television
for about six or eight months, the
Marconi and Baird system being al
ternated for one hour each day, except
Sundays, from transmitters in Alex
andra Palace. The reaction of the
London public, it is reported, has not
been overenthusiastic, but this is par
TALLY attributed to the high cost Of
receivers. 1t remains to be seen now
whether the reduced cost will stimu-
late new attention to looking in"
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Radio Class to Open.

THE third session of the Radio
Workshop Of the New York Uni
versity, which collaborates with the
Federal educational radio project Of
the United States Office of Education
in training persons seeking to enter
the broadcasting field, will be held for
six weeks, from April to May Is. 1t
will offer instruction and practice in
program production, script writing.
acting and th> use Of music in radio.
Students will write and produce their
own programs. possibly over local
New York station.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
New Air Channels Explored.

THE up-to-date radio receiver,
already geared to foreign, air.
plane. police, radiotelegraph and other
wavelengths, may soon offer listeners
new field for other exploration, for
the Federal Communications Commits
sion has just reopened the high-fre-
quency band to broadcasting stations
for experimental use
From this research in the vaguely
charted frequency areas the F. C. C.
hopes that new place for new local
broadcast stations will be found and
that broadcasters will add to the still
Scanty fund of facts so far revealed
about the mysterious ultra-short
waves.
Last year 80 stations were licensed
to operate short-wave adjuncts in
connection with their regular broad
cast service. Now the F. C. c. is
issuing licenses for more such sta
tlons, the grants ranging all the way
from $500 to 100000 kilocycles. In
cidentally, this new research may yield
new data which will speed the de-
velopment of teleVision because visual
broadcasting is also to be placed in
these extreme portions of the radio
spectrum
Already manufacturers are turning
out transmitters for tra-high fire.
quency broadcasting in standard units
OF 100 watts power, and it is under
stood that 1000 watts soon will be
developed for use on frequencies up
to $4,000 kilocycles.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Sitdown Enforces Sitdown

WAUPACA. Wis. (P).-The sheriff's
Office has ''sit-downer" who hopes
they get that strike settled so he can
get up and around again. Royal My
hill was hired to drive new radio
car, but delivery has been held up by
the General Motors sit-doWn strike.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Short.Wave Programs.

6:l5 pm.-B Err LIN. Easter
Concert, DJD, 25.4 m,
1177 meg.
ZOO pm.-M is COW. Soviet
Housewives at Leisure,
RAN. 3l.2 m, 96 meg.
9:47 p.m.-LONDON. This Is
England" CSC, 3l2
m, 9.58 meg.
HOO pm.-V A N c OU Y Err.
Sweet and Low"
GIRO, 48.7 m, 6.l5
meg.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Ear Becomes Loudspeaker,
Radio Researchers Learn
Havard's Scientific Tests May Uncover
New Ways of Aiding Deaf
Persons to Hear.
By the Radio Editor.

millions of that tuned daily to radio loud
Eddie
singing they
~ enjoy
o
But scientists place
Evening star., 1937-03-28

phia Orchestra during the Magic
Key program on WMAL at 2.
The Germon songs are "Marienlied'
and Hat Dich Die Liede Beruhrt" and
"Er 1st."
MRs. L1zErrE KRoTH, cellmate
of Edith Cavell, Engllshwoman
who was executed by German firing
squad in one of the most celebrated
of early World War incidents. will be
the guest OF Robert Ripley on WMAL
at 7:30 The story of the execution
will be dramatized during the broad
cast.
THE entire third act of Wagner's
"Parsifal" presented in concert
form, will be broadcast by the New
York Philharmonic Symphony Society
Orchestra during its concert over
WJSV at g. Artur Rodzinski will di-
rect the orchestra.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
CAPITALS RADIO PROGRAMS
PROGRAM MARCH 2S 1887

lEosert
Of
and a Philadelphia
Faster from Chicago UNAL at 730
Easter fromS. RC JST
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Air Headliners
Domestic.
Evening Programs.

2
500 pm-WJSV, Joe Penner.
ZOO pm-WRC, Jack Benny.
730 pm.-WMAL, Ozzie Nelson
and Bob Ripley.
800 pm.-WJSV, Victor Moore
ana Helen Broderick; !;
WRC. Want to Be an
Actor; WMAL, 1T
Rings True"
$50 p.m.-WJSV, Eddie Cantor.
900 pm-WOL, Five Star
Final. WJSV, Sunday
Evening Hour
$50 pm.-WRC, Album of Fa-
miliar Music.
1000 p.m.-WRC, Emo Rapee's
Orc hestra; WJSV,
Community Sing.
HOO p,m.-WMAL, Slum Der
Hour.
Evening star., 1937-03-28

"a We MARIA" from Verdi's
Otello," and three German songs
will be sung by Elisabeth Rethberg
when she appears with the Philadel-
Evening star., 1937-03-28

CONGS, music and drama and COM
edy of so years ago will be con-
trasted with those of modern times in
1T Rings True" a new radio drama
tization to be broadcast by WRC at g.
The play was written by Peter God
frey, English author and dramatist
X 1RSTEN FLAGSTAD, Wagnerian
soprano. will be the soloist with
Emo Rapee's Orchestra on WRC at
TO- The program follows:
Overture to Russian and LudmiIla."
The Washington times., 1937-08-05
1000 MORE idle
IN AUTO DISPUTE

DETROIT, Aug. 5 G.N.S0.
Bringing the total numENr of idle
to $4,000, 1000 more men were
thrown out of work in the auto
mobile industry today because of
the closing of the big Plymouth
plant of the Chrysler Corporation
by a labor dispute yesterday.
Further layoffs were threatened.
The Plymouth plant, employing
1000, remained closed today
after a riot in which 10 members
of the C. I. O.'s United Automo-
bile Workers Union and the hide
pendent Association of Chrysler
Employees were hurt yesterday.
This morning one unit of Briggs
Body mpany manufacturing
Plymouth bodies was forced to
shut down, throwing 1000 out of
work. Chrysler officials, going
into a conference with U. A. w.
leaders, said further layoffs would
result in Chrysler parts plants un-
less the dispute is settled today.
The Washington times., 1937-08-05
Contracts Awarded
For Naval Stations

Q.N.S0. - The Navy Depart
ment today announced award of
contracts .totalling $1.496,946 for
improvement of naval stations,
principally at Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii.
Contract for 100000 was
awarded the Hawaiian Dredging
Company of Honolulu for improve.
ment of the harbor and channel
at Pearl Harbor; 100000 went to
the Standard Dredging Com
pany, of New York city. for sim.
liar work there, and $277,15O to
the Hawaiian Dredging Company
for fleet moorings at Pearl Har
Dor. A contract for $17,496 fol
boiler work at the Puget Sound
Navy Yard, Bremerton. Wash,
was awarded the E. J. Bartells
Company, of Seattle.
The Washington times., 1937-08-05
China Gets 1OO-MilliOn
War Loan in London

cial dispatches said. The Japa-
nese bombed troop trains and
military concentrations and routed
small Chinese attachments.
While fighting continued, Gen.
Gen Sugiyama, war minister, told
the budget committee of the Diet,
now considering an immense war
chest, that Japan was making full
preparations to take punitive
measures against Chinese nation.
alist troops in the event the Chi.
nese take the offensive.
Japanese casualties up to noon
Tuesday, the war office an
nounced, were 1854 dead and S69
wounded. The Chinese lost $500.
killed at Nanyuan alone, said the
report, and $50 at Tungchow.
The Washington times., 1937-08-05
Measure to Be Called
Up Next Week
By WILLIAM S. NEAL

U.N.SO. The Administration S
minimum wage and maximum
hours program was assured OF
congressional enactment today.
Major opposition apparently
crumbled as the House Labor Com.
mittee approved a revision of the
Black wage-hours bill passed by
the Senate, which was said to
satisfy both the Administration
and organized labor.
Southern members threatened
a fight before final action by the
House, but opponel IS generally
conceded passage.
House leaders made plans to call
the measure up for passage early
next week. and then seek a speedy
agreement with the Senate in con-
ference.
The House committee met the
demands of organized labor for
protection of collective bargaining
by adopting amendments sub
mitted by President William Green
OF the American Federation Of
Labor.
One split threatened as the COM
mittee struck out the Wheeler
Johnson anti-child labor rider"
adopted by the Senate and re-
stored the original anti-child labor
provisions recommended by the
Senate Labor Committee.
Chairman Mary T. Norton CD
Of New Jersey Of the Labor Com
mittee declared that amendments
voted by the committee greatly
restrict powers Of the five-man
board created to administer the
law.
The committee, which voted II
to 2 to report the bill, overwhelm-
ingly defeated the Wood amend
ments permitting the board to cut
the work week to IS hours and
boost minimum wages to 10 cents.
Organized labor won three
amendments. One prohibits the
board from establishing wages
and hours unless collective bar.
gaining agreements do not cover
a substantial portion Of workers.
Another makes wage.hours agree.
ments between employers and
unions prima facie evidence Of an
appropriate minimum wage and
maximum work week. A third
prohibits wage-hours orders below
those prevailing in a community.
The Washington times., 1937-08-05
dead, 40 Injured
In Factory Blast

PATERSON, N. j., Aug. 5
GN.SO.-One man was killed.
another was believed fatally hurt
and twoscore other persons were
injured today when terrific ex-
plosion ripped through the mould
ing department Of the Worldbes-
tos Brake Lining Company plant
here.
Many Of those who escaped I'm.
hurt were literally blown to safety
by the blast, which broke win
dows and shook buildings within a
radius of several blocks. John
Lougharty, 40, of Paterson. was
killed instantly. George Walms-
ley, So, was not expected to live.
Twelve others were rushed to St.
Joseph'S Hospital.
The Washington times., 1937-08-05

G.NS3. Earle Herbert Bogar-
dus, a Scotia, N. Y, lawyer to
day was disbarred from further
practice before the I. C. y. for
making false and fictitious rep
reservations" A commission re-
port said Bogardus represented
himself before the commission
as acting in behalf Of a group
Of truckmen, while at the same
time he was threatening the
truckers with reprisals and
punishment" if they failed to
employ him as their representa-
tive.
U.N.S.) The Interstate
Commerce Commission today
authorized the consumers
counsel of the National Btu
minOus Coal Commission to in.
tervcne> in reorganization pro-
ceedings Of the Chicago and
Eastern Railroad.
The Washington times., 1937-08-05
MINIMUM PAY 50 ARE JAILED
bill PASSAGE in PHILADELPHIA
SEEN IN HOUSE TRUCKING STRIKE
Settlement Fails To
End Violence

PHILADELPHIA Aug.
G.N.S).-violence continued to
day in the wake of the city-wide
sympathy truck strike settlement
in spite Of the "state of emery,
ency" created by Mayor S. Davis
Wilson.
Fifty striking truck drivers were
jailed in hand-to-hand clashes
with police and IT others were
freed on charges growing out OF
mass disturbances, which for a
time ruled the waterfront.
Bands of defiant truckmen were
accused by police of hating ship.
ments of produce and supplies.
Much of the violence occurred
near headquarters of the Team.
sters Union, whose m e m be S
struck in protest against the en-
ployment Of guards for Great At
lantic and Pacific contract haulers.
Want Closed Shops
Despite discharge Of the guards,
many drivers protested they would
not return to work Until closed
shop was won for both A. & P.
drivers and the drivers for the
firms contract haulers.
Mayor Wilson, sitting as a COM
uniting magistrate, held the so
demonstrators seized in the raid
at the teamsters' headquarters in
$4,000 bail for further hearings
Wednesday.
Taxi Strike Near
Wilson warned after the settle
ment that he will use his power to
declare a state Of emergency as a
weapon against future general
strikes. He promised that the city
will not again be tied up by a
trucking strike as it was for two
days.
threatening taxicab strike fur
tkar complicated the picture, after
l,l00 Yellow Cab drivers voted to
strike If negotiations for renewal
Of q new contract, which expires
tomorrow midnight, fail.
The Washington times., 1937-08-05
BELIEVES SPARK
BLASTED plane

COLON, Panama, Aug. 5
G.NSD Belief that the Pan.
American-Grace air liner Santa
Maria exploded when it hit the
water because a spark ignited
escaping gasoline, was expressed
today by Capt. Harold Harris,
vice president Of the company, on
his arrival here to investigate the
tragedy which took IA lives. He
added:
Reports the liner might have
been struck by lightning are
absolutely without foundation"
Captain Harris completely alb
solved Stephen Dunn, the pilot
of any blames for the accident.
The Washington times., 1937-08-05
DISTRICTS new
TAX BILL READY
FOR PRESIDENT
His Signature Expected
Within Few Days

After a five.month battle, the
Districts new tax bill today
awaited the signature Of the
President.
Designed to raise 100000 to
meet an expected deficit in Dis
trict funds, the new bill. passed in
its last stages without objection in
either Senate or House. probably
will become a law within two or
three days.
The measure provides for bust
ness privilege tax of twofifths OF
per cent on gross receipts as well
as q SO license fee for all busi'
nesses and professional men.
Inheritance Taxes
In addition, it provides as fol-
lows:
A tax Of SITS per hundred on
real property; a weight tax on au-
tomobiles ranging from S. to $12.
with commercial vehicles to be
taxed as high as $3.50; tax Of
per cent on inheritances in excess
Of $4,000 from parents, 3 per cent
in excess Of $4,000 on inheritances
received from brother or sister.
and 5 per cent in excess Of $1,000
from others; teeth" in the in.
tangible property tax. and an in
crease in the tax on insurance
premiums.
The District is authorized to
borrow funds from the Federal
Treasury until the new taxes
begin to be collected. Although
the first payments are due Sep
TENDER /, taxpayers are given 9
period Of grace for so days.
Veto Unlikely
Although the President is re-
ported to be opposed to the Miller
Tydings rider, it is not expected
he will veto the tax bill because
of his objection.
The Tydings amendment, which
permits manufacturers and re-
tailers to fix a minimum sale
price on manufactured goods. was
put into the bill, although it has
no direct relation to the District,
above the protests Of the PreSi-
dent.
The Washington times., 1937-08-05
Continued from Page u

(COnLlnueu from rage l.
the front" along the Peiping.
Hankow railroad clashed at LANG
slang with the Japanese force
which had gone southwark to meet
them. The Japanese, according to
Chinese government accounts,
were turned back.
Another Japanese column is
dashing northwestward from Pei.
ping, and authorities here believe
it will collide with the Chinese
army from Chahar at Nankow, 80
miles from Peiping.
Bombing and Strafing of the
three major Chinese armies con
verging from south and northwest
on the troubled Peiping- TientSin
sector by japanese airplanes con
tinues. The whole country is in
turmoil, and the roads southwark
from Peiping Tientsin, toward
Marking and Shanghai, are glut
ted with refugees.
Out of the south today came
one Of China's greatest national
heroes to offer once more to take
up arms against Japan. He is
Gen. Tsai Ting-Kai, commander
Of the famous Nineteenth Route
Army, which alone battled Japa
nese forces in 1881 in a futile at
tempt to save Shanghai.
The Washington times., 1937-08-05
2 Hurt in Virginia
Automobile Upset

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Aug. 5.-A
Brooklyn IN. " couple were in
jured when their automobile over.
turned down an embankment after
being forced off the Richmond
Highway, south Of Hunting Greek.
late last night.
Mrs. Belle Bressler, %, was ad.
mitted to the Alexandria Hospital
with undetermined injuries. Her
husband, Louis Bressler, was
treated for decorations.
The Washington times., 1937-08-05
Court Backs Bay
Floor Ownership

TIC CITY, Aug. S
GN.SO. - Lehman H. Garrison
was upheld today in his claim
that he owns the bottom of Della
ware Bay at Fortescue, Cumber-
land county, N. j., to q point
1900 feet from shore.
An order restraining Samuel
Engle from operating a fishing
pier over Garrison's Bay was is
sued by q vice chancellor, who
held that his rights extend only
to the high.water line.