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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-11-11
To Newark.

Miss Annie Dunn left Tuesday by
nav of Norfolk, Va, for Trenton, N.
: where she will be the guest of
W.. Paul H. Winter. She also ex-
Dscts TO visit in New York and Phila-
donbia before returning home.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-11-11
Miss Riggan Weds
Luther Mcdowell

Miss Saddle Elizabeth Riggin, of
Richmond, Va, was married to
Luther Harold Mcdowell, of Manson,
on Sunday, November z, 1887. The
wedding took place at the home of the
bride.
Mrs. Mcdowell is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Riggin, of Richmond,
Va.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-11-11
Class to Meet

~, Young Peoples Class of the
ln' coneregational-Christian church
fn II o,pet at the church Friday even
WILL -l o'clock with Miss Marie Ays-
ny md Rudy Hall as joint hostesses.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-11-11
school Invites Parents.

Tho rnior high school is observing
-, lr Week by issuing a cordial
i p to all parents to call on Fri
nv nv during school hours and observe
20! work done in each room.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-11-11
woman's Auxiliary Meeting.

7Aaro will be general meeting of
~ Womans Auxiliary of Holy In
m' church on Friday afternoon
=. o'clock. The Rev. l. w. Hughes
a all address the meeting. All MEM
.ars are urged to he present.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-11-11
In Hickory.

F. Cansler has gone 20
Mrs. where she will visit for sew
Hickory "i'''
ro1 DAYS.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-11-11
In New York.

p + Satterwhite, Mrs. Ray
MIS- Neal. and Mrs. Lonza Hughes
mona dino some time in New York
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-11-11
Play on Friday.

Play on Friday.
The seniors of Aycock school will
nesent a play, "Mammy's Lii Wild
Rose" in the school auditorium on
Friday evening, at 8 o'clock.
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Elaborate Time-Checking System
Controls Programs of Columbia

n EHIND the striking OF the mu-
* sical gong which gives the
time signals on the c. B. 8.
network lies series of palms.
taking time-checks and clock-set-
tings There are so clocks in Co.
lumbia's studios and playhouses. any
one Of which might be the one Sc
lected by an announcer when giving
the correct time" to the Nation.
Each one Of those clocks runs in
dependently and must be set by
hand. II it should be as much as
one second of. whole days program
ming could be upset. For one thing,
hind time are likely to miss cues
for station identincations, or they
might switch back to the originating
studios 4 second after . program
has begun.
The master-control room Is in touch
by phone with all studios. II. at 9:25.
= maintenance technician wants to
set the two clocks In Studio /, for
example, he FIRST stops both clocks
and sets them ahead five minutes
to $50. Next he phones up to master
control and asks for = cue At ex-
actly $50. On the half-hour mark
. technician in master control cries
"woof" (the accepted sisnal into the
telephone, and the maintenance man
throws = switch starting both the
clocks in the studio simultaneously.
ThA reliance on the master control
clock is not blind faith. That clock,
upon which millions Of people depend
TO catch trains, % 70 school Or 70
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Wanted: Writing Talent.

n Ado. in time, will develop some
Of the finest writing that ever
has been known in the entertainment
fleld. So says Charles Martin. author
OF the dramatizations on the johnny
Presents" programs.
Radio drama, contends Martin, like
both the stage and screen, has been
going through \ development stage,
always tending toward finer things. As
witness the recent Shakespeare and
the proposed Eugene O'Neill airings.
However. the kilocycles must do BY
the medium Of voice alone what the
stage and screen portray by both sight
and sound. That's why its dramatic
presentations must have more punch
per line, says Martin.
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Imported" Stars.
A MER1CA has been the land ,

a MER1CA has been the land of
promise for many persons of for
eign birth in many fields. Radio has
been no exception. Peter van Steeden,
maestro of the Town Hall Tonight
program forwards some interesting
information regarding the number OF
persons born in other countries who
have come here and won radio fame.
Russia contributed such perform
ers as Andre Kostelanetz and Al Jol-
son. contends Peter France gave
us Lily Pons and Jean Sablon Bob
Hope is native of England Joe
Penner was born in Hungary and
Igor Gorin Is native Viennese
Xavier Cugat is from Spain
Thomas L. Thomas was the contribu-
ton Of Wales .. Great Britain also
sent over Ray Noble and Phil Bakers
Harry Bottle McNaughton and
Oscar Bradley j.. NJ H. H. Joachim,
creator OF Your Unseen Friend" was
born in India Edgar A. Guest
was born in England The Martinez
Brothers, Tito Guizar and Tito Coral
crossed the Mexican border Harry
Horlick was born In Russia during
the Cars regime Anne Jamison,
soprano OF Hollywood Hotel" is the
only native OF Ireland currently STAR
ring on an important program"
Evening star., 1937-08-08
No Stopping Raiders.

hNE OF the constant worries OF radio
bandsmen is raids on their Or
ganization by other maestri But moth
ing, says Horace Heidi, can be done
about It,
Once the word gets around that this
trumpet player or that drummer is
becoming standout performer with
a particular orchestra, he Immediately
finds himself with several handsome
offers. No attempt is made to prevent
his going with another organization,
and it Is up to the man himself
Raids on bands have been going
on as long as there has been music"
says Heidi. 1T is necessary for every
bandsman to have list OF '24-hour
men, musicians who can be called in
at a moments notice to flll a gap
caused by some ones resignation until
a permanent choice can be made"
Strangely enough, Heidi, although
constantly facing the problem, has had
only two designations in his IA years
before a band. A saxophonist re-
signed to get married and go into busi-
ness, and a piano player quit to organ
ize his own orchestra.
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Music Stimulated.

DETER VAN STEEDEN maestro Of
the Town Hall Tonight, observes
that radio definitely has stimulated a
return to the old-time desire for music
creation. Peter feels that two of the
most active stimuli in that direc-
ton are the amateur hours and the
widely advertised salaries Of radio
entertainers.
When radio first became recoS-
nized as an entertainment" says Van
Steeden, we became more music
listeners and less music creators
However the rule OF so-called easy
money and the temptation to embrace
radio careers is causing the average
layman to find out just how much
talent he really has in his system and
as result the sale Of musical in
struments has gone up accordingly"
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Radio Scalpers.

TICKETS to broadcasts have be-
come 10 scarce that scalpers are
operating in the vicinity of Radio
City.
Morton Bowe, tenor star of N. B.
c.'s Friday night show with Tommy
Dorsey's band, Is months behind in
his ticket requests even though he
broadcasts in studio seating 1900
persons.
The height of something or other
was reached the other night when
Morton alighted from a cab in front
OF the studios for his broadcast. A
sharp-looking fellow drew him to
one side.
Listen, buddy" the man whis-
pered, Il can let you have two tick
cts to the broadcast for 81 apiece"
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Role for Wynne.
GIBSON has been selected

"YNNE GIBSON has been selected
w to play the feminine lead op-
posite Jack Holt in his newest star
ring vehicle for Columbia, THE
River of Missing Men" She was
previously seen under the company's
banner in Come Closer Folks" and
"Racketeers in Exile"
Miss Gibson came to pictures from
the New York stage. where she ap-
peared in many successful Broadway
productions before making her film
debut in Nothing But the Truth"
Some Of her latest pictures include
"Sleepers East" Crosby Case" East
of Java" Il Give My Love-" His
Night Out" and Gambling"
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Courtesy Won Chance.

i A0 HcSAuSC ANC AcH1pletON, pima
English pianist, is invariably oblig-
ing that he got his first important
break as radio performer. The
star Of the Sunday evening Universal
Rhythm" broadcasts was entertained
1T tea few years ago At the home Of
friend in London. He WAS, Of course,
asked to play. and obliged. In addition
to playing some classical numbers, he
performed some Of his intricate i'm
provisations. After he had finished
his performance, one OF the women
present at the tea lpoke to him.
Il liked your playing a lot," she said.
Il am only sorry that my husband
isn't here to hear you"
Not bothering to ask her who her
husband was, where he was, or why
he should care to hear him play, Alec
echoed her regret and added:
IT you care to figure out way for
me to play for him, I would be glad
to do So"
The woman was Mrs. Jack Hylton.
Alec played for her husband and soon
was = sensation In England as the
star Of Jack Hylton's orchestra.
Evening star., 1937-08-08

are 2 sopranos. contrAlto, J meNo.
sopranos, 4 tenors, 2 baritones and Z
bass voices. They all posseas out
standing musical and radio training,
thus giving the group . versatility
generally unknown to musical COM
binations 10 this type.
Thumbnail sketching the -Four.
teen." you find 0enevieve Rowe, who
Is = winner OF an Atwater Kent
addition and q National Federation
OF Music contest; Marion McManus,
soprano, who appeared recently at the
Hollywood Bowl with Neson Eddy;
Frances Adair, contralto soloist and
duetist, who appeared in George
whites Scandals as prima donna
and is network artist OF major
proportions; Judy Freeland, Beverly
Freeland and Helen Jackson. mezzo-
sopranos all, who were heard as The
Blue Flames
Also Norman Horn, tenor who sang
two years with the Detroit Opera
Co.; Gordon Cross, tenor, q church
singer OF note; Floyd Sherman, tenor
ana SOlolst, runner-up for the
AtWater Kent additions and soloist
with the Paris Opera Comique for two
years; Fred Roberts, tenor, who ap-
peared several seasons with the Amer
lcan Opera Co., and Glenn Cross.
baritone, who started earning his liv-
ing ~ cartonNt on q Seattle
Newspaper, later singing IN . choir
and f1nally entering the radio world.
Then there u George Kirk. baritone,
who won the National Federation
Music Club contest and has been fea-
tured in such musical productions as
New Moon and Revenge With Mu-
SIC; William Hargrave. bass, and
former member of the American
Opera Co. and Roger Kline. bass,
who has been soloist on many i'm
portant network programs.
A COMMON phrase among the
workaday people of the world is,
III only had the time"
To Jean Paul King. c. B. g. an
nouncer, this trite phrase doesn't
mean . thing, for he hasn't the TINA
to worry about anything, and when
he does. he crowds into his already
loaded weekly schedule . new and
different type Of activity.
The latest working diversion TO be
added Is the part-ownership of the
Mass. where he presents weekly, in
cooperation with his partner. Neil
McFee Skinner, such outstanding
Summer theater productions As Her
Matters Voice" with Blanche Ring,
and Its = Wise Child with David
Rollins. Not content with theatrical
activities. Jean has established 4 class
OF "a ardent radio students who re-
ceive instructions from Prof" King
in such radio subjects as dramatic
acting, writing for radio, practical
radio technique. microphone place
ment, sound effects and announcing.
And all Of these multifarious ac-
tfvities are crowded into 4 week end
of Friday to Monday, when the busy
Jean is not announcing the 'Myrt
and Marge' series, Floyd Gibbons
broadcast, the Jessica DraeonettA
show. being the voice" on 4 twice.
weekly newsreel and roadcastinR q
f1ve-day- week news report Some one
approa ched Jean the other day with
an opportunity of doing a series Of
movie shorts He accepted, because
he has couple Of idle hours that are
at present on the loose"
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Kipling Was Right.
DREPARING proeram, for

PREPARING programs for Eastern
and Western listeners gives a con.
ductor many headaches. and Wilbur
Hatch has to keep on his toes in order
to please all audiences. AZ music di-
rector for Hollywoods KNX. Columbia
outlet in the fllm colony, Hatch has
two broadcasts for Eastern listeners
each week, and several others weekly
for the West Coast.
Hit tunes don't register in every
locale at the same time" says Hatch,
"A few weeks ago. the biggest hit In
Hollywood was 'Carelessly,' and vet It
reached its Eastern peak two months
before. More recently the biggest hit
in California was Where or When vet
my New York representatives informed
me that it was just being recognized rs
= hit In the East"
Hatch conducts weekly SURVEYS along
the Atlatic and Pacific to keep in touch
with the hits in each locality.
Evening star., 1937-08-08

work, is set every so minutes by Ar
lington time signals. To catch Ar
lington's signals technicians have built
a special radio receiving set which
tunes in Arlington and nothing else
1t looks just like any other radio set,
but time signals are all one can get
on 1t.
Naval Observatory gives the hour
"a times day, which means that
the special radio, which Is always
turned on. keeps quiet for 50 minutes
out Of every hour. During its active
moments 1t says: "Beep."
Evening star., 1937-08-08

Sing" the 0ershwin brothers fashioned
"Wintergreen for President" Cole
Porter, with three-quarters Of An hour
to wait for 4 party, walked to =
piano and gave the world What Is
This Thing Called Love?"
Noel Coward. unique as always,
scribbled with stub pencil on a scratch
pad while riding in 4 cab from Times
Square to Sixty-Seventh street and
produced his best-known song I'm
See You Again." Benny Goodman
was playing dance date at the
Savoy ball room when he got the
inspiration for "Stompin' at-the
Savoy" And the most famous OF al
songs written In double-quick order,
composed during the booming of heavy
guns fred at Fort McHenry, is Francis
Scott Keys 'Ths Star spangled
Bannery"
Evening star., 1937-08-08

smiths say the numbers that have
been outstanding hits were turned out
in few minutes" says Harry Salter,
orchestra leader OF the Hit Parade"
THE classic example," continues
Salter, els George NJ. Cohan's Over
There written in 10 minutes"
While "Bombo" was in the tryout
stages at Atlantic City in 1921, AL
Jolson and Buddy De Sylvia, waiting
for sudden rain to stop, sat In
Boardwalk cafe and penned April
Showers" Watching the famed bath.
ing beauty contest at the shore resort
during an an engagement of the Royal
Canadians there, Carmen Lombardo
wrote "sweethears on Parade" Be-
tween rehearsal acts OF "Of Thee I
r.
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Can't Quit Benny.

/1GGY ELMAN, featured trumpet
er in Benny Goodman's Swing
School, keeps trying to quit Bennys
band to return to his two clothing
stores in Atlantic City. Ziggy resigns
every 80 often at pm. but rejoins
the band at 7-Goodman swing has
rot" him.
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Oracle Ex.Stenog.

GRAC1E ALLEN, the pride OF her
secretarial class, was holding
down her first job as somebody's
stenog' when she met George Burns,
and they decided to team up rs 4
vaudeville act. He was doing a song
and-dance routine with Billy Lor-
raine.
Evening star., 1937-08-08

Ophelia in Ham
] { IT, s he Is
scheduled to read
Ohvia's lines in
the radio produc-
tion Of Twelfth
Night" on Au-
gust 80.
A m ng Miss
Menken's earlier
creditable 8 t ag G
efforts were those
in the Broadway
shows, "Humphy
Dumpty.' at h e
Pied Piper of
Hamelin, wit h
De Wolf Hopper.
Evening star., 1937-08-08
John Barrymore is Signed
FOr2COmedies on Radio
"The Animal Kingdom" and accent on
Youth" to Be Heard September and
13, Respectively.
By Chris MafhiSeu.

seems to have developed marked odnes for the
mcrophone months
ceuoid
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Helen Menken Increasing
Her Popularity on Radio
Stage Veteran, Now in Serial Drama, Began
Career on Boards in Production of
Midsummer Nights Dream"

MNkEN stage veteran but radio newcomer made her
boards .
"Midsummer Nights of
which
essayed at the
he Daros
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Air Headliners
Afternoon Programs.

Afternoon Programs.
loo 0p.m.-WMAL, The Magic
Key.
200 p.m.-WJSV, Columbia SYM
phOny Orchestra.
Evening Programs.
500 p.m.-WRC, Jane Froman.
$50 p.m.-WJSV. Harry Won Zell.
200 p.m.-WRC, w. C. Fields:
WJSV, Milton Berle and
Wendal, Hall.
1:30 p.m.-WJSV, Eddie Stanley.
500 p.m.-WOL, Five Star FL
nal; WJSV, Rhythm
Show.
$3.50 p.m.-WRC, American Al
bum of Familiar Music.
900 p.m.-WRC. Sunday Night
Party, VOL, Good Will
Hour.
Short Wave Programs.
1880 p.m.-CARACAS, Dance
Music, YV5RC, SIT m,
So meg.
900 0p.m.-LONDON, Anthology
Of Period Verse, CSC,
1853 m. 1879 meg;
GSI, 1876 m, 1926 meg:
GSD, 255 m, ll.75 meg;
GSB, 3l5 m, 9.5l meg.
9:l5 5p.m.-B ERLIN, Comic
Opera. DJD, 254 m,
1l.77 meg.
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Many Outstanding Musical Hits
We're Turned Out in Quick Time

~ ADIO's Hit Parade pro-
- gram acquaints listeners
N with the 10 leading songs
Il of the XAAk hut fhA SOM.
Evening star., 1937-08-08

Portia IN THE Merchant Of Venice"
Calpurnia in Julius Caesar" and
Evening star., 1937-08-08

Lure, prelude ana 1ugue from Bach
Abert's "Well-tempered Clavichord"
md Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
WJSV at 8.
time to time it appears de-
sirable to point out that the
hishly-paid network performers do
hot possess what is described in the
circles OF the literau as soft touch" :"
6t may not be As desirable as 1t ap-
pears. but 1t continues to be done
N. B. c. statisticians have deter
mined that DR.. Frank Black spends
IN average OF II hours and 80 min
lltes preparing his Monday night pro-
gram. The figure was arrived at
through breaking down 1,079 total
hours spent on rs half-hour programs
tnto-don't 60 'way-13 hours actually
on the air. 1856 hours of rehearsal, 3l2
hours working on arrangements, 130
hours in airplanes, 468 hours on
trains. Ida Bailey Allen, kitchen coun-
kelor. declares that she spends IL
hours in writing script for each
broadcast, that six hours are spent in
typing, four in editing
In addition, things happen during
the final presentation of program
that no one thought would happen
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt found Z
pass OF her script missing. She hesi-
t9ted for . few seconds, went on.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-29
MAGUIRE GIRL
IN DEATH NJ A Y
AID SCIENTISTS
Autopsy Due to Reveal
Mystery MaIady
BY PHILIP G. REED

HICAGO, Sept. 20 Q.N.S).
Medical science may write an his
toric epilogue to the tragic story
Of Oak Parks sleeping beauty"
When Patricia Mcguire slipped
quietly into death last night at the
age Of 80 after a sleep lasting five
years and seven months. Doctors
were left as puzzled as ever over
her strange malady.
AUTOPSY PERMITTED
But today the girls grief
stricken mother consented to a
poSt-mortem examination and it
was performed Immediately.
1t was hoped that some light
may be shed on Patricia's illness
and reflected on humanity as a
whole.
In the 81 months that Miss Ma
guire lay in her unfathomable
coma, doctors the world over have
studied her case. Scientists from
both this country and abroad have
Travelled to the little stucco bunga-
low in suburban Oak Park to try
70 unTaVel Cne mystery.
But repeated examinations and
diligent research resulted only in
Q diagnosis that she was suffering
from form of encephalitiS lethar-
glca, or sleeping sickness, which
they did not recognize and for
which they knew no cure.
AWAITED OPERATION
Only the girls unwaveringly op-
timiStic mother, Mrs. Peter Miley
and their family physician DR..
Eugene F. Traut, remained stead
fast in the hope that through their
efforts of her own that Patricia
some day would awaken.
That hope was shattered last
night In a room at the Presby-
terrain Hospital. There Miss Ma
guire had been transferred last
week to prepare for a major alb
dominal operation.
But pneumonia developed and
surgeons could not operate. When
sh, failed 20 rally under two
blood transfusions, all hope was
abandoned.
RECORD LENGTH SLEEP
Miss Mcguire was just 26 in
January, 1882, when she became
Ill. She was athletically inclined
and apparently in good health fol-
lowing an influenza attack. Early
in February she became drowsy
and dropped into the coma from
which she never awakened.
The length of her sleep was one
Of the longest on record. A 10
year-old7 Russian girl awakened
after a sleep of seven years and
two months, while Jim Easlinger,
Of Fort Smith,, Ark, slept for
seven and half years.
Every conceivable type of
remedy was tried to rouse her.
Serums, sun baths, heat treat
ments, the electric ray. artificial
fever, blood injections, special
diets, all were used for a time and
abandoned when she failed to re-
Spond.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-29
3 in Coast Guard
Get Hero Medals

A gold life saving medal has
been awarded Boatswain's Mate
Albert Lees and silver medals to
Seamen Anthony s. De Vito and
Eugene E. Daley, all Of the U. s.
Coast Guard cutter Pontchartrain,
Secretary Of the Treasury Morgen-
THAI announced last night. They
rescued Seaman Andrew j. Donald.
son last summer when he fell into
the Hudson River off Pough-
keepsie, NJ
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-29
AUGUST AUTO
SALES INCREASE

NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (c!TP.sJ
r. L. Polk g. Co. raised It's prev
ious August new passenger sales
estimates to over 100000 units
from $4,000.
Passenger car sales in July were
seen at 1856, 900 units and 262,912
in August ayear ago.
Thirty-seven States reported
37,402 new truck and commercial
car registrations, a 40 per cent
drop from July and six.tenths of
one per cent under August, 1885.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-29

HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Sept. 20
(C.TPS0-Another film extra
beat the 10000 to / odds against
her today when Rebecca Wassem.
a restaurant waitress, was chosen
for the major role of Lola Mon
tez" in the current Paramount
production, wells Fargo" Miss
Wassem has been engaging in ex-
ira work for the last four years.
Because of her close resemblance
to the famous dancer who dis
rupted the court of Louis I Of
Bavaria, and later became the
belle of old San Francisco, Miss
Wassem was chosen by Producer
Frank Lloyd from scores Of candi-
dates.
Lloyd, after Paramount execu-
tives viewed the rushes of her
scenes. issued an interview call.
Learning that Miss Wassem had
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-29

Increasing the foothold Of the
Committee for Industrial Organ
ization in Washington, an affili-
ated union today announced two
local shoe repairing establish
ments have signed agreements
providing for a closed shop.
The announcement came from
Jack Mink, business agent for the
United Shoe Workers of America,
Local Union No. 1873, who declared
the new agreements bring the
total negotiated here to IL.
One OF the concords, reached
with a department store, provides
for a 48.hour week and increases
in wages ranging from IS to As
per cent. The other pact, Mink
said. also provides for a 48-hour
week and wage boosts from IS to
so per cent.
The United Shoe Workers Is
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-29
BLACK MARIA
LOSES PATRON

NEW YORK.-Ruth Derry, 40,
wanted in Newark on a shoplifting
charge, stepped, fell or slid out of
a police patrol wagon along Park
Avenue.
She was being taken to the
West 1920 Street station. With
her was another prisoner, Nancy
Altman. 81.
Looking back as he stopped for
q traffic light 1t Park Avenue and
Fifty-first Street. the patrol wagon
driver saw one prisoner was gone.
The Altman woman said she saw
her companion jump out.
The lock of the patrol was open.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-29
6. l. O. Unit Signs 2 Stores

one Of the few c. I. o. unions
playing a salient role in labor or.
ganization in Washington, where
unions are reported predominantly
sympathetic with the American
Federation of Labor. The other
C. I. o units of any importance
here are the United Fur Workers,
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
and United Mine Workers,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-29
SEE AUTO PLANTS

DETROIT, Sept. 30 GN.S0.
Motor vehicle commissioners and
safety officials from is States to-
day were scheduled to make a tour
of Michigan automobile factories
en- route to the fifth annual meet
ing Of the American Association
of Motor Vehicle Administrator
at Cincinnati Thursday.