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Evening star., 1938-02-05
DEATHS REPORTED.

Frances T. Enoicctt. s., End and Ns.
Sarah HGean. =: 4ol4 IN st. NV.
josephine keithley' IS. 6:s North Carolina
Aired VI Dey. "a. $40 East Capitol .t,
William Hesen 13 1923 Ogden ST. NV.
Ida HauSreister, 90. Gallinaer Hospital.
John v. Littic. 81 Walter Reed Hospital
Eleanor Harrington, a. EMERGENCY Hos
Donald Leith Hay 1850 Wisconsin ave.
Maeeie Bowd Casper AZ 4312 Georgia ave
Cosmos NJ. Barbee 80. $500 block Of Con-
Dorothy Mae Hurdle: Rs. 1928 NJ st. NV.
Mail,n Robey, o5. Gallineer Hospital.
Abraham Rubin. 23: sihley Hospital
Agnes Kirby. 30, Sihiey Hospital.
Infant Thomas Atkins. Children's Hospital
Carrie Marshall -. 514 R ST. NV
Jane Duckett -, Freedman's Hospital.
Emmit Jones: IL. st. Elizebeths Hospital
Mollie Hawkins. or. ol6 Harvard st. nv.
George L. Brown. 81. Soldiers Home Hos
John b Hawkins, AZ. Home for Aged and
Inflrm.
Mary Young. Al. Gallinser Hospital.
William w. Harris, rs. Galineer Hospital
Jesse McKnieht, "a, 324S Prospect ave
George foyer. ~. 74s Navy pl. Sc.
Louis Gillespie. 30. Gallinaer HOSPITAL
Infant Annie Mae MUmford. Children 4
Hospital
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BIRTHS REPORTED.

James and, Marie Rideelv, sirls twins
Eobert and Sara Claiborne, boy.
William and Helen McAinsh. boy.
lanes and Mary Swsrt boy.
Charles and Madeline Williams. Girl.
Oscar and Rebecca Torreson, girl.
RAYMOND and Frances Harris. girl
Leroy and Joanna Fakes, bov
Wilbur and Georeette Brurer. boy.
Herman and Alma Rosn. boy.
John and Katherine Hall hoy.
Andrew and Mary Tobin. boy
Thomas and and susie n'1s oakleY' 'fss: hoy "'''
George and Arietta DeVane boy.
Robert and Eva Griesnv boy
Edwin and Edith TURNKEY, boy.
Emil and Clara Paschal girl
Herbert snd Mary Mueller eirl.
Francis and Lorena Shea, girl.
Max and Sonia Milask. girl
James and Marv Mattimore. eirl
Homer and Zelma Mccain. girl
Charles and Marion Reithmever. girl.
Thomas end Ellen Deckelmsn. girl.
lanes and IS Marsarst N.a Tayiorc girl.
Bradley ard Hope Smith boy.
Louis and Hilda Major. boy
Milton and Mabel Pike. boy
Ges5ss Gs5er snd and NsffsTf Ksbene wS5 %dod fr r
Donald and Alice Marian. girl.
John and Nellie Reeves. girl
Edward and Marsaret Hardy. boy.
Carlton and Florence Diversion. boy.
Theodore and Margaret Perripo. boy.
Claude and Gladvs Todd. boy
Walter and Mareie Cooper. boy.
Paul and Ruth Bower. boy.
Frank and Jane Conner, boy.
Delford and LHra Walthail, hoy.
George and Mildred Litz. boy.
Carl and Florence Linkins. girl
Joseph and Hilda Sullivan. girl
Thomas and Elizabeth EdmundS. sirl
Henry and Catharine Kirkpa rick, girl.
Bernard and Jean Napol. girl
James and Doris Coney. glrl.
Carson and Lucille Howell sirl.
Pete and Madeline Micale. girl
William and Annette Murphy. siri.
Frank and Florence Coon, girl
Robert and Susie Moore. girl
Edgar and Earlene Stanard. boy.
Thomas and Edith Robinson. boy.
Rudolph Acd Edna Lindsey bow
Stanley and Louise Jones. girl
James and Sally Marshall. girl!
Burnett and Marie Robinson. sirl.
George and Virginia Shields. hoy.
Melvin and zenolia Collins bov
Edwin and Lola WASHINGTON. bov.
Samuel and Martha Jones, girl
WASHINGTON and Hattie Hawkins girl
Frederick and Lillian Smoot, girl
Ermine and Dorothy Johnson. boy.
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work during the last two years to
increase the volume of foreign trade,
both exports and imports" the Com
merce Department reported. More
over, only part of the trade with
each country was specifically dealt
with in the agreements.
However, it seems significant that
to those countries which had reduced
or stabilized their tariffs or other trade
barriers on distinctive American prod
ucts through such reciprocal agree
ments our exports have for two years
past shown 4 consistently greater rate
of growth than to the other coun-
tries as q whole"
Evening star., 1938-02-05
LEGAL GROUP ELECTS
r. N. Benninghoren Named Sigma
Nu Phi Alumni Unit Head.

Roland N. Benninghoren was elect
ed chancellor OF the Washington
Alumni Chapter OF the Sigma Nu Phi
Legal Fraternity for the coming year,
it was announced yesterday.
Other officers elected we're Harry
L. Clendening and DR.. Garrett c.
Rush. first and second vice chancel-
lor, respectively; DR.. Earl L.. Edwards,
master Of the rolls: Elmer l.. Haber-
korn. registrar of the eXchequer. and
Daniel S. O'Brien, marshal.
Evening star., 1938-02-05
Card Tells of Rescue.

Installed in the British Museum in
London. the manuscript of Kipling's
RAcessional is accompanied by a card
telling how it was rescued from a
Wastepaper basket.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-13

The technical troubles of tele- vision used to be the only ones em- phasized Now, says Hanson, the engineering side is so far ahead of the program side that it will take considerable time for the latter to catch up.
 The engineers still have their problems, though. Hanson finds the present television screen, 71a by lo inches, too small for ideal recep- ton. We don't want to enlarge il indefinitely" he explains, but oui experiments indicate that in the average living room 12-by-16 inch screen is most satisfactory.
 Television studios are too small too; Hanson thinks movie-size stu dio Tots" will be required eventu- ally. Just now he is planning a studio 50-by-80 feet, with a 30-foot ceiling, large enough to hold the three or four sets necessary to a television program of any variety Remember that in television, un- like the movies, scenes cannot be
 (Cn,afi,arod a,1 DGop GiXl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-13

in 1889 New York will have two competing telewsion broadcasting stations.
 Thomas IT. Hutchinson, NEG tel evision production director, says that since July, 1886, about 800 persons have made a total of 1000 appearances before NBC's cam eras.
 Several thousand televiewers, , he says, have seen several fashion shows, vaudeville acts. detective drama, science demonstrations, mo- tion picture travelogs, puppet shows, newsreels, high and low comedy, Instrumental soloists, vocalists and, most notable of all, a recent tele- vision presentation of a scene from the Broadway play, Susan and God starring Gertrude Lawrence. ''
 They're Black and White
 Television pictures, originally tint ed green. are now received in black and white. "The new shading close ly resembles that of the movies, says o. B. Hanson, NBC's chief en- gineer, which we find is healthful and agreeable to the eyes"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-13

dial and tune in talking pictures any time you like but l938 will go into the record as the year the public got it's first look at tele- vision.
 In the National Broadcasting
 Company studios in Rockefeller
 Center, they're offering the public
 "television tour" which is visual
 proof that television is here. It's the first time. too, television has earned a penny of income. The charge is 90 cents (plus tax).
 One firm is offering televislon receiving sets and another has kits for sale out of which the mechan- ically-minded can construct their own receivers. At least ten more companies are equipped to turn out receivers at the drop of an iconoscope.
 Daily experimental broadcasts flow from the cloud-scratching an- tenna atop the Empire State build ing.
 Columbia Broadcasting Company is installing it's new transmitter in
 the Chrysler Building and early
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-13

Continued on Page Six)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-13
PLOT-HUNCRY
 AUTHOR THEME 0F NEW FL N
Novel Mystery Angle in She Asked for It. Ending
 at Coliseum /

Enc terrible problem that besets thc author who has run out of plot jdtas is the theme and source of all thC complications in the new mys- tely-cCaledy, "She Asked For It. '" wh ch ends tonight at the Coliseum Tlca're
 William Cargan .s a writer of delective stories who has created master sleuth in his books, but suddenly finds himself completely cut of ideas for a new story. He vanishes and takes his place in q neW home under the name of his great detective, and waits for someone to bring a mystery to him, in hopes of getting a story out of the actual case
 It's not any time before Vii vienne Osborne comes to him with the story that her brother has been receiving several threatening letters She asks Gargan to help her out, believing him to be the big detective.
 Gargan goes to the country home of Miss Osborne and finds food for mystery all over the place, until wealthy old man dies in q fall from high balcony, apparent ly by accident Gargan, hoping for story, tries to find evidence of murder, making notes and a pie torial record of the event with a candid camera. His first hint that his suspicious are based on fact comes when his car is forced off the road in an attempt on his life. This is the first of three tries, one of which is foiled by Orien Hey ward who plays Gargan's wife.
 In time Gargan discovers that the death of the old man is con- nected with the death of his own uncle some months previously, and that both deaths are the work of a group of men who make a busi- ness of preparing accidents which kill wealthy people for the benefit of the heirs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-13

Don't worry about old man winter. No matter how much he may blow and blustsr outside. he cannot come into your home if you have a Sun Flasne Oil B urning Hsatez: For here's a hester that is, built to delixsr the heat to your rooms, where you want it, rather than to waste it up the chimney.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-13
STAR MAKES BOW HERE AS
 COM E D|ENNE
Gladys George in Capitol Film, Love Is a Head-
 ache" Ending Here

The story of a vitriolic Broadway columnist and stage star, Love Is Headache" ending tonight at the Capitol Theatre, offers Gladys George and Franchot Tone in a de- lightful melange of romance and comedy.
 Love Is Headache" concerns Miss George as beautiful stage star involved in mix-up over some orphaned children, Mickey Roouey and Virginia Weidler, caused by Broadway's ace column ist Franchot Tone.
 Tone has been criticizing Miss George for her recent series of flop shows. He is in love with her and thinks that he is helping her. Always looking for the human side of the news, Tone discovers the story of window washers or phaned children and he broadcaSts their story, asking someone to adopt them.
 Using this as a publicity stunt, Miss Georges press agent. Ted Healy, has her adopt the kids. Tn no time, they win her over but her discarded suitor, Ralph Morgan, asks the police to step in and take the children from her
 Miss George is accused of kid mapping the children. but when Tone sees that her affection for the kids is real he decides to help her. He pleads with the police department to let her keep the kids, but is refused. In the mean time, Miss George and the kids have fled and Tone, knowing that the offense is now really serious, takes out after her He finds her in a small-to hotel whose owner is also the sheriff and justice of peace.
 When he hears Miss George say that the only way out of the mess is for them to be married, they arc married
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-13

charge of the arrangements: Din- ing room Mesdames Walter P. Scott, George Johnson, T. A. Nor gan. Sid Thompson, H. Iffert, B. R. Glass, Homer Nordling. Stacey Nor man David Wood N Lester TroaSt, Bill Douglas Agnes Parkenson; cashier-Mrs. M. s. Whittier; cof- fee-Mrs. Katherine Hooker, Mrs. John Rogers; coffee seryice-Mrs. J. w. Leivers; decorations-Mrs. John A. Glasse, Mrs. J. F. Morley; kitchen-Mesdames R. D. Peterman, George Rice, E. E. Robertson, Caro- line Armstrong. F. J. Bowling, R. W. Marshall, E. M. Richardson, lDaiey Cunningham.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-13

eladies will be held Wednesday, October 26, at the Fritz Cove home of Mrs. Dave Dishaw
 Members present last evening in cluded Mesdames Garry Banta, Tom Barksten, Mae Mielke, Victor Man vile, Jerry Pederson, Virgil Newell, Norman Cook, Vic Spaulding, Frank Willard, Milton Ward, Clarence Wittanen, Dave Dishaw, James De Hart, J. Webb, D. D. Thompson and the hostess, Mrs. Arnold.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-13
MrS.ArnO|d Hostess AtChape|adiesMeet

Members of the Chapeladies met last, evening at the home of Mrs. Harfy Arnold on the Fritz Cove Road, during which time plans were discussed for the Halloween party which is to be held at the Chapel-by- -the-Lake, Saturday eve ming, October 9.
 A farewell gift was presented Mrs. Garry Banta, who is leaving for ketchikan
 It was also announced at last evenings meeting that the Rev. John A. GlaSse will conduct services at the chapel next Sundey evening at 8 o'clock, everyone in the com munity being cordially invited to attend.
 The next meeting of the Chap
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-13
Martha Society
 Dinner Attended
 By Two Hundred

Approximately two hundred per- sons attended the annual turkey dinner last evening given in the parlors of the Northern Light Pres byterian Church by members of the Martha Society.
 Dinner was served between 5:30 to 7:30 o'clock and bowls of fall flowers formed attractive decora- tions for the tables.
 The following committees were i
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-13

Western South Carolina farmers estimate that it. costs them about twice as much to raise mule colt as a yearling calf.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-13

What is teIcvision doing to- day? What it is likely to be doing tomorrow? To answer these questions. Jack Stinnett went to the men to whom tele- visicn is business, not labor atory miracle. This is the first of two stories telling what they had to say.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-13

By JACK STINNETT
 AP Feature Service Writer NEW YORK-You can't flip
The Washington times., 1938-09-27

who came and went mySteriously.
1t was through an unwilling indis-
tcretion that she had learned of the
little papers," The general i'm
preston was that some favored
ones were given private lessons in
sign language and that writing
was also involved in the tests.
1T is not fair" Liselotte grum-
bled. After all, we all pay the
same subscription and there
should be no favored ones. Also
how can they benefit after one
lesson? There was one waiter
from the Hotel des BergueS in
Geneva-he came only once and
left Immediately after his lesson.
And many others, too"
1t was easy to ascertain that
those whom Liselotte called "the
favored ones" we're all recruited
from among the ranks of foreign
walters, plying their trade either
in Switzerland or in other coun-
tries. There we're two conspicuous
cases of Swiss walters employed
in famous hotel in London, who
had come to Thun expressly for
the convention, attended after a
few days a private class and
left Immediately thereafter.
"It may be the mysterious out
fit we are after" one of my close
collaboratorS in Berne remarked,
when I reported the matter. 1T is
certainly worth watching and if
this is the case, it is an ingenious
idea.
Nobody suspects these freakiSh
conventions and they may be act
ing as a clearing house for a
wide spread system of espionage.
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little papers are given the pupils
and l believe that the greater
knowledge is in those little papers,
but we, who want only to learn
the sign language, are never ad-
mitted to those special classes and
we never have anything to do with
the little papers,
1t suddenly occurred to me that
Liselotte might, in her stupid way,
have stumbled on the truth: the
greater knowledge" might GER
tainly have to do with those little
papers.
Liselotte brought me more news
Of interest: the special classes"
we're mainly composed of people
The Washington times., 1938-09-27

and it is wise to take precautions
This convention is holding classes
In silent speech for all those, like
you and me, who may be stricken
with deafness in the future-free
claSseS-but it is not easy to be
accepted-no, for the organizers
rather favor people of the working
classes" she added proudly, sud
denly conscious of her superiority
over me, you could not qualify,
but I can
And the upshot was that LiSe,
lotte begged two extra evenings
off in order to attend classes in
silent speech" at Thun.
The convention was called I'm
ternational" somewhat erroneous
ly, for there were representatives
only of the Scandinavian coun
tries. of Holland, Switzerland, Ger
many, Austria, Turkey and va
rious more or less neutral states.
It was my young son who sud
denly made me realize that the
International Deaf Aid Corpora
tion" might be something differ
ent from what it appeared.
STUFFS HER TRUMPET
Once, he came to me, his eyes
dancing with mischief, and Whis
pered confidentially: "Mommie
that Madame Seitz, she is not deaf
at all. 1 stuffed my hankie in her
trumpet when she was not look
ing-just for fun, you know-an'
then spoke to her very low, JUS
like L speak to you-an' she heard
every word-she did, homes Injun,
mommie :"
Upon questioning him learned
that, when not observed, all our
conspicuouSly deaf guests laid
aside their various appliances and
converSed normally. He was sure
of the fact.
Then I was off at tangent and
questioned Lisolette. She was get
ting somewhat diSpirited, she told
me-she was not improving her
mind as much as she had hoped
to. The classes had taught her
about a dozen conventional signs
but these were being repeated over
and over again and no new knowl
edge was coming her way.
1T is all the fault of the little
papers, gnadige Frau" she com
planned, most of the other pupils
attend separate classes and they
bring little papers with them ano
these are carefully gone over By
the chairman and the most i'm
portant delegates and then Other
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TALKS TO DETECTIVE

Liselotte numbered in suddenly,
holding yMlng Claudio firmly by
the hand, gave her one venomous
glance and began to speak even
before she had come to my side.
"Well, gnadige Frau" she an
nounced with some satisfaction,
Il have fixed these so dishonest
people and I am going to claim
my ten francs back, unless of
course, they admit me to the pri-
vate classes and give me money
for attending. You remember
that Samuel Clot, gnadige Frau,
the detective from Lausanne. who
pretended that he was in love
with me and then with you :"
well, I told him all about it,
and he sympathized with me and
he said that he will look into that
convention affair at once. He said
The Washington times., 1938-09-27

he had heard of 1t and he
thought it queer and he asked
me ever so many questions--and
the names of those who attended
private classes and where they
were from-and he said l might
certainly claim my subscription
back, since they had acted so un
fairly by me "
Then her gaze fell on the Stout
figure at the writing table.
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LSEL OTTE IMPROVES Her kND Daily Short snc Brett rm"
By Marie Brett Perring

had been quietly apprehended at
the various frontiers and uncere-
moniously jailed.
Madame Seitz left her black
trumpet behind and for months
afterwards it was one of sons most
cherished possessions. AS for Lis
elotte, it was weeks before he
stopped bemoaning the lack Of sue
cess attending her endeavors to
improve her mind.
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GOOD for her she's as deaf as
a post" she chuckled wickedly
otherwise she'd have heard what
that Samuel Clot is cooking up
for her precious convention
But Madame Seitz had heard. I
watched her face in the mirroc.
She had heard every word and
that without the aid of the con-
traption reposing on the blotter in
front of her.
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Daily Short Story

), "I'll be glad to see Samuel Clot, "
I said in a clear voice, 10y the
way, when does he intend raiding
that convention?"
This very evening, gnadige
Frau" Liselotte whispered gloat.
ingly. ZACH, I told him I'll be
there :"
Madame Seitz rose with a smoth'
cred exclamation and waddled out
The Washington times., 1938-09-27

of the lounge in such a hurry that
she forgot her trumpet, on which
my son pounced instantly.
There was no silent speech"
class that evening, the various
delegates having scattered sud-
denly to the four winds. But it
seemed that Samuel Clot had had
his suspicious when he came to
Oberhofen, for learned that
Madame Seitz and several others
The Washington times., 1938-09-27

There may be a genuine basis Tor
the whole shown fact we know
that such a society exists, with
headquarters in Amsterdam, but
it would be easy for them, under
the convenient screen of an above
board convention of this sort, to
get into touch safely with their
foreign agents, collect their re-
ports and give them fresh orders.
You keep your eyes open"
LiseIotte did that on my behalf.
How she managed to gate-craSn
her way into the private room
where the special meetings were
taking place never knew, but she
was hristling with righteous in
dignatron when she reported wha;
she h9n found out.
1T is too much gnadige Frau,
she complained these people, they
are not honest Ten Swiss francs
we each pay for the course of II
lessons, and then the favored
ones" they are chosen from among
us and taken 70 that private room
and there this fat woman Seit5,
she reads their little papers and
she gives them money-large sums
of money, gnadige Frau, more
than hundred francs. I am sure. >
SUSPECTS DEAF OUTFIT
So great was her resentment,
that she managed to collect names
and addresses I compared the
notes 1 bad begun taxing and came
to the conclusion that the Inter.
national Deaf Aid Corporation"
might well be the mysterious out
fit we were after.
Two Swiss walters from London; !;
one from Rome; a SWede or two
from Paris; odd neuJrals from vari-
Gus other cities. All in full posses
sion Of their unimpalred hearing,
all members OF the society-jour-
neying to the convention from
their various, sometimes distant,
places of work and, after a few
days, leaving hurriedly again.
There was one suggestive fea-
ture Of the show: most of the mem
bers from abroad belonged to the
waiter class and those admitted 10
the classes in Thun were selected
from among the same class.
I handed a list of suspects to
the service and awaited develop
ments Meanwhile, the question of
whether or not the chairman,
Madame Seitz was genuinely deaf,
exerci5ed my mind.
Meanwhile Liselotte had man.
aged to gather a following Of NAL
contents around herself, with
whom she had discussed heatedly
the various classes of students.
Her resentment was now at boil
ing point.
1t was pure chance that I came
down too early for lunch and sat
in the almost deserted lounge,
near a bay-window overlooking
the Lake of Thun and that Ma.
dame Seitz, vulcanite trumpet
well in evidence, sat at one of the
writing tables, facing large wall
mirror, a dozen steps away from
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THE WOMAN was sit
ting facing the mirror with
her back to is. There was
no longer any question that
her deafness was just a
pose. She heard every word
we said, then hurried out.
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TT WAS Liselotte who first
drew my attention to the
freakish society that went
under the ambitious name Of
international Deaf Aid Corpo-
ration" and it was at a mo-
ment when we were pursuing
elusive clues of yet another
and far-reaching espionage
service.
TT Is indeed sad, there being
&C many deaf people in the world, :
said Liselotte, shaking her head
dolefully.
Yes. very sad" I answered
with feeling.
But there are good Christian
people who care a lot for these
poor deaf ones and do all they
can to help them" Liselotte added
thoughtfully.
DEAF" CONVENTION
1t appeared that this body was,
at that very time, holding con
Vention in Thun and Liselotte. who
had seen the advertisements in a
local paper, had prowied curiously
around the Convention Hall and
got into touch with some of the
Swiss delegates.
"Ach. dige Frau" she
breathed ecstatically. 1t is such
q worthy cause. We are all threat.
ened with deafness on account Of
the terrible noise in great cities,