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CAPITAL’S RADIO PROGRAMS TODAY’S PROGRAM APRIL 5, 1937. p \lJ wrc 950k j WMAL 630k I WOL 1,310k i WJSV 1,460k P.M. T-OO"Hour oTcharm .Let's Talk it Over Wakeman’s Sports Page Treasures Next Door 4:00 * „ „ tt ** *• " Harry G. Vavra 4; 15 4:30 Follow the Moon Johnny O'Brien Variety Program Chicago Varieties 4:30 4'45 The Guiding Light 'Evening Star Flashes Wakemans Sports Page_ 4 48 Too !Dari Dan Adventures 'Mary Marlin I Dance Tunes Evening Rhythms 5:00 R-15 Sundown Revue District Commissioners Johnson Family Betty Hudsons Tea 5.15 5 30 IJa ck Armstrong j Singing Lady Frontenac Ensemble Robert Horton 5.30 5.45 .Little Orphan Annie iThe Laff Parade___Terry and Ted_5^45 T-'nn Din~n eF~Dance *J. S. Army Band Tony Wakeman Apple Creek News 6:00 6 00 Dinner Dance .. Spanish Serenade Arch McDonald 6:15 .. .. Dinner Club News—Music Rep. Mitchell of 111. 6:30 ".'^5 .. .. Lowell Thomas Rick Robert's Orch. Pretty Kitty Kelly_6j45 “Too" Amos ’n’ Andy Mary Small’ Rick Robert's Orch. Poetic Melodies 7:00 7-15 Uncle Ezra Bughouse Rhythm Editorial Man vs. Woman 7:15 7:30 Goko ^ Lys John Herrick Dance Music Hollis Shaw 7:30 7:45 ink Spots Capitol Theater__“_Boake Carter_C45 Too" Fibber McGee and Molly Bert Granoff Gen. Albert L. Cox Heidt’s Brigadiers 8:00 g'.15 •< •• IGrenet’s Rhumba Orch. Philadelphia Symphony '* " 8:18 8 30 Firestone Concert Sweetest Love Songs Tonic Time Pipe Smoking Time 8:30 8.'45 •• | •• “ Stamp Club_“_8:45 Too"j 20.000 Yrs. in Sing Sing Good Times Society Detective Mystery Radio Theater 9:00 9-30 Jean Sablon Wilson Foundation Five Star Final “ “ 9:45 Piano Duo _i _“_ Rendezvous_“ _ill? 10700 .Contented Program The Champions Boxing Matcnes wayne v.u., 10T5 “ I “ “ " “ “ “ 10:15 10:30 'National Radio Forum: 'Minneapolis Symphony “ “ “Let Freedom Ring” 10:30 10:45 j Senator Wagner ot N. Y.j_“_“_ **_2_ - ■—L— 11700_ News—Nignt Owl 'Slumber Hour Pageant of Melody News Bulletins 11-00 11 -15 ! Arthur Reilly “ “ “ “ Isham Jones’ Orch. 11:15 11:30 Rubv Newman's Orch. “ “ Clyde Lucas' Orch. Jay Freeman s Orch. 11-30 11:45 j “ “ _“ " _ “_“___1— 12:00 Bill Strickland’s OrchT j Night Watchman t Tommy Dorsey's Orch. Ozzie Nelson's Orch. 12 :00 12:30 Lou Breezes Orch. I “ ” Leo Reisman’s Orch. |Ted Fiorito's Orch. 12:30 12:45 Maurice Sherman's Orch. “_j_|Witching Hour-_L_ ~1:00 SigtTofT ' Night Watchman (1~ hr.) Bob McGrew's Orch. '.Sign off_1:00 TOMORROW’S PROGRAM APRIL 6, 1937. _ -, R*h' 6 30 6:30 Gordon Hittenmark 001 „ 645 6:45 " "___-___f— "“7:00 Gordon Hittenmark Today’s Prelude Musical Clock Sun,Pia'M 7X5 •• - “ “ Art Brown . “ “ ^:3° 7:'45 « •• The Wake-Up_Club_ _“_“ “_1*5. "VocF Gordon Hittenmark Morning Devotions Art Brown Sun^Dial^ 8:00 •• •• Island Serenaders “ “ . ** - : «*«!» : : - - S;« % 45 *• _ _____ ■ --— "Wo" GordoTHittenmark News Bulletins Art Brown Sun Dial 9:00 9:15 lT!“ °“8r(,kf,«..C,»b ZS J;S News—Music Betty Hudson_M Trfnrf Mrs wms-Capt. Tim Healy Police Flashes-Music Betty and Bob 10:00 10.00 .1 - " ‘ iMa Pprkms Ballad Time Modern Cinderella 10:15 10 30 Ju^Plmn Bill 'Mountain Man Marriage Clinic Hymns of All Churches 10:30 Jo 45 Today’s CWldren 'Sallie Muchmore_ Singing Strings_John K. Watkins_i^45 ii'hn~ David~HarunT~ |The O’Neills At the Keyboard Milky Way 11.00 J x5 Backstace Wife Personal Column Leo Freudberg’s Orch. All Star Vaneties 11:15 1 -30 '?he Mv'terv Chef j Vic and Sad. Martha and Hal The Big Sister :30 M-45 ‘The Wife Saver 'Edward MacHugh _ Salon Music_Home Makers^ Exchange 11.45 Twrww-lMerrv Go~Round-Honeyboy and Sassafras Willard Amison, tenor The Gumps 12:00 hrvMi'fii Listening Post News-Music Your News Parade i 12:15 h:30 HePo Percy 1 Farm and Home Hour Dance Music Helen Trent Romance | 12:30 v'-45 Si-. Ensemble _ “ _ Church of the Air_Our Gal .Sunday- «*? “iloT Sylvia Clark- " Farm and Home Hour Dick Stabile’s Orch. MBert^Boys 1:00 S SStf Love and Learn Music of the Masters }*{ 1.45 Tune Twisters.______Real Lite stones_ijio "o'ino Band Lesrons Charies~Sears, tenor , Wakeman’s Sports Page W. P. A. Band 2:00 2.00 nano nts..uns „ .. ; Arthur Wright, pianist School of the Air 2.15 2:30 Mary Mason Music Guild | Wakeman. Sports Page ^ ^ ^__ JjX *§4r Pepper Young’s Family iTsTMarine Band WakemISysporta Page Bill Wright 3:00 I-3J vie ancfsade " " Sammy Kaye’. Orch. Concert Hall 3:30 T5T ciu,SS'-R55SS—;«S-BSjST- WakemanbSport* Page «.„«*.*« J:« EttS&fmmm !Dog Heroes V.rlb.y Pyo„,m Pop Conc.rt 4:3» jAo_ TheGuidmg ugnt-_-i_--, xea_Dance-’mies Evening Rhythms 5:00 5:00 ‘Beatrice LUl.e iSe^eher I Johnson Family Science Service 5:15 !;S Jack Armstrong The Singing Lady_1 Jess Kirkpatrick Robert Horton_5^30 PROMOTION GIVEN COL. WALTER BAKER Nominated to Succeed Gen. Brig ham as Chemical Unit Head. President Roosevelt today nomi nated Col. Walter C. Baker to be chief of the Chemical Warfare Serv ice, U. S. A., with the rank of major general, succeeding Maj. Gen. Claude E. Brigham. Col. Charles Burnett of the Cavalry ] Corps was named chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, with the rank of brigadier general, succeeding Brig, j Gen. Creed F Cox. At the same time the President , nominated Brig. Gen. Charles Doug Air Headliners Domestic. 3:30 p.m.—WJSV. Pop Concert. 4:43 p.m.—WMAL, Evening Star Flashes. Evening Programs. 6:00 p.m.—WMAL. United States Army Band. 8:00 p.m.—WJSV, Horace Hcidt’s Brigadiers. 8:30 p.m.—WJSV, Pipe Smoking Time. 9:00 p.m.—WMAL, Good Times Society; WJSV. Radio Theater. 9:30p.m.—WMAL, Woodrow Wilson Foundation Din ner. 10:00 p.m.—WJSV, Wayne King’s Orchestra. 10:30 p.m.—W'RC, National Ra dio Forum. 11:00 p.m.—WOL, Pageant of Melody. Short-Wave Programs. 7:00 p.m.—MOSCOW, The Soviet Far East, RAN, 31.2 m., 9.8 meg. 9:30 pan.—CARACAS, Dance Music, YV5RC, 51.7 m., 5.8 meg. 10:00 p.m.—CARTAGENA, Musi cal Program, HJ1ABE, 31.5 m . 9.5 meg. 11:30 p.m.—PARIS. News in Eng lish. TPA-4, 25.6 m., 11.72 meg. Classy ties, skirts, hats and suits A Don't look so good W with shoddy hoots 2 IM 1 SHOf lAk POLISH IV . las Herron to be major general in the Regular Army, succeeding Maj. Gen. Henry W. Buctner, and Col. Walter K. Wilson, Coast Artillery Corps, to be brigadier general, succeeding Gen. Herron. In the long list of nominations af fecting promotions in the lower grades of the foreign service sent to the Senate today w^as that of Eric C. Wendelin of Massachusetts, promoting him from vice consul to be foreign service officer of class A. Wendelin distinguished himself during the early days of the Spanish Revolution while he was in charge of the United States Embassy at Madrid during the absence of Ambassador Claude Bowers. In the same list were the names of Kenneth K. Yearns of the District of Columbia and Nathaniel Lancaster, jr„ of Vir ginia to be promoted from vice consul to foreign service officer class A. Ralph A. Boernstein of the District and Joseph G. Groeninger of Mary land were promoted from foreign serv ice class 7 to class 6, and Joseph L. Brent of Maryland was promoted from foreign service officer class 8 to class 7. RADIOLOGISTS TO MEET Triennial Convention to Be Held in Chicago. CHICAGO. April 5 (£>).—'The Office of the International Congress of Radiology announced yesterday its fifth triennial meeting would be held September 13-17 In Chicago, the first time the congress has convened in America. Dr. Benjamin H. Orndoff, general secretary, said that more than 2,500 delegates and visitors, including hun dreds of distinguished workers in the field, would attend and more than 250 scientific papers would be read. Dr. Arthur C. Christie of Washing ton, D C., is president of the congress. ■ -•-* Aviator M. McAdam reports seeing two rare white elephants in Tangan yika_ ★ TONIGHT * CLARK GABLE JOSEPHINE HUTCHINSON ADOLPHE MENJOU in “Farewell to Arms" LUX RADIO THEATRE Directed by CECIL B. DeMILLE 9 P. M. Eastern Standard That WJSV and Coast-to-Coait Columbia Network WHEN \OuWfoCWN Pep up with a cup of hot Steero, the deli* cious beef drink. Mokes you feel tike a new person. Drink it before and after shopping .. . whenever you're chilled .. . whenever L you're tired. At ell drug, grocery and deli* I catessen stores. American Kitchen Prebecti Ce. 781 Water Street New Yerk Dittribeietf by Sthieffelln 4 Ce.. New Yerk City “A «Ult MAKfS A cur" AlMtiM •* )2.*0 •fttf )00 tvfctt ITIItO THI OtlOINAl lOUUlON CUM WAGNER TO TELL OF HOUSING AIDS _ Sponsor of Bill Speaks in Forum Tonight at 10:30. SENATOR WAGNER, Democrat, of New York will discuss Fed eral aid in better housing dur the National Radio Forum to night over WRC and a eoast-to-coast network of other National Broadcast ing Co. stations. The forum, arranged by The Wash ington Star, will be broadcast from 10:30 to 11 o'clock. Senator Wagner is author of the housing bill, now pending before the Senate Committee on Education and j Labor. He was the author of bills in this field in the last Congress and has made a comprehensive study of the question of housing. The need for Improvement in the housing of the people has been stressed frequently by President Roosevelt, who has referred to the American people as one-third ill-clad, ill-housed and ill fed. . The problem is a large one and its solution, as proposed by Senator Wagner, not only looks to improved housing conditions, but should result in producing more jobs. "pAREWELL TO ARMS" will be the Radio Theater presentation on WJSV at 9. Clark Gable will play the leading role, supported by Josephine Hutchinson and Adolphe Menjou. Between the acts Cecil B. DeMille will interview Frank Borzage, the film director who won the academy award for his work on the picture "Fare well to Arms,” and Courtney Riley Cooper, author and criminologist. pjIGH LIGHTS of a dinner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation in New York will be broadcast by WMAL at 9:30. Secretary of State Hull will be the principal speaker. ^ NOVEL rhythm tune, "Goombay Drums,” will be featured by i Horace Heidt's Brigadiers during their program on WJSV at 8. The program also includes "Dodging a Divorcee.” pHE story of Bill Gaunt, member of a safe-cracking gang who was "taken for a ride,” will be dramatized during the program of Warden Lewis E. Lawes on WRC at 9. “When the Dead Returned" is the title of the sketch. -—♦ ■ - APPLE GROWERS URGED TO USE SPRAY AT ONCE U. of M. Pathologist Says Failure to Act Will Result in Scabby Fruit Crop. i.y me Associated Press. COLLEGE PARK, Md„ April 5 — Dr. Robert A. Jehle. plant pathologist for the University of Maryland Exten sion Service, warned Eastern Shore and Southern Maryland apple growers today that fungus spores on their trees are nearly ripe and trees should be sprayed immediately. The spores, Dr Jehle said, will be ! discharged with the next "wetting” ; rain. He recommended application of pre-blossom apple scab spray. This, he asserted, is the mast im portant spray for control of apply scab and failure to apply it thoroughly be fore the first spores ripen and are dis charged will result in scabby fruit. Other sections of the State, he said, should begin use of the spray within a week or two. “FATHER OF LLOYDS” DIES AT AGE OF 88 t hy trie Associated Press. LONDON, April 5.—Sir John Henry Luscombe, who was called "the father of Lloyd’s,” died yesterday In his home at Crawley, Sussex, at the age of 88 years. When he was 22 he was the young est member of Lloyd’s and he had been an underwriter for 61 years when he retired in 1931. 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