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FARLEY TO SPEAK ON RADIO TONIGHT National Forum to Present Address on “Politics and Patriotism.” POSTMASTER GENERAL JAMES A. PARLEY will dis cuss “Politics and Patriotism” during the National Radio Forum tonight. The forum is ar ranged by The Star and broadcast over a coast-to-coast network of Na tional Broadcasting Co. stations, with WMAL carrying the program locally at 10:30. Mr. Farley’s address has Rroused much interest in view of talk of reprisals by party leaders against members of Congress who opposed the President’s Supreme Court re organization plan. Although the text of the talk has not been made public, the Postmaster General and'"- Democratic National Committee head is expected to make a further effort to restore harmony. DUEL P. TOLMAN, acting director of the National Art Collection of the Smithsonian Institution, will dis cuss this week’s releases of reproduc tions in The Star's Art Appreciation Campaign—WMAL at 7:30. CIR ERNEST MacMILLAN is the ^ guest conductor of the Philadel phia Orchestra—WMAL at 9 o’clock. The program: “Corioianus Overture" _Beethoven Orchestra. “Sanctus"_17th Century Mass Chorus. “Second Symphony." third movement, Schumann Orchestra. “Serenade for Strings”_Haydn Orchestra. "Magnificat" ..C. P. E. Bach Chorus and Orchestra. “Rhapsody No. 1”_ Enesco Orchestra. gING CROSBY and Joan Blondell present & radio version of “She Loves Me Not” in the Radio Theater— WJSV at 9 o’clock. JIMMY SCRIBNER, man of many voices, is the guest of Georgie Price on WOL at 9:30. Selections from Kal mans “Countess Maritza” are to be Rung on the Impressions program over the same station at 11:30. JJURNS AND ALLEN return to the WRC schedule at 8 o’clock. Phil Spitalny broadcasts from the studios of WRC at 9:30. 43-OUNCE INFANT DIES; MOTHER, 16, IMPROVED Death early today ended the strug gle for life of a 43-ounce infant born prematurely Saturday in Sibley Hos pital, after an operation had been performed on his 16-year-old mother. Hospital attaches reported that the mother, Mrs. Ernest B. Payne, 445 Tenth street S.W., although not en tirely out of danger, spent a "com fortable” night. The battle to save the life of the boy. who spent his 37 hours of life in an incubator, was fought with the aid of a blood transfusion from his father. Ernest B. Payne, 17, employe of a bakery, but the odds were too great. Doctors fed the child with injections of glucose and a milk com pound. An oxygen-breathing appa ratus was also used in the fight. The Paynes will have been married a year Friday. REWARD FOR SLAYERS JERUSALEM, Nov. 8 OP).—Police yesterday posted a reward of $5,000 for information leading to conviction of the slayers of two soldiers of the British Black Watch Regiment who were killed Friday near Silwan Pools, beneath the old city walls. Soldiers and police dogs were search ing north of Silwan village, where women were wailing over the death : and destruction resulting from yester day’s punitive search. Air Headliners Afternoon Programs. 3:15p.m.—WMAL. Herbert Hoover. 4:30 p.m.—WMAL, Evening Star Flashes. Evening Programs. 7:00 p.m.—WMAL, Variety Show. 7:45 p.m.—W R C, Washington Discovers Art. 8:60 p.m—WMAL, Gen. Hugh S. Johnson; WRC, Burns and Allen; WJSV, Hor ace Heidt's Orchestra. 8:30 p.m.—WMAL, Vanity Fair; WJSV. Pick and Pat. 9:00 p.m.—WJSV. Radio The ater; WMAL. Phila delphia Orchestra. 9:30 p.m.—WRC. Hour of Charm; WOL, Georgie Price. 10:30 p.m.—WMAL, National Ra dio Forum; WJSV. Brave New World. Short-Wave Programs. 7:00 p.m.—LONDON, Beethoven Symphony, GSP, 19.6 m., 15.31 meg.; GSD, 25.5 m., 11.75 meg.; GSB, 31.5 m., 9.51 meg. 7:55 p.m.—PRAGUE, Variety Program, OLR4A, 25.34 m., 11.84 meg. 8:30 p.m.—CARACAS, Bachelors’ Club, YV5RC, 51.7 m„ 5.8 meg. !lux radio j THEATRE Ml TONIGHT Eu3 BING CROSBY Q JOAN BLONDELLU NAN GREY H “SHE LOVES H [ ME NOT' ■ I Cecil B. deMillel 1 LOUIS SILVERS, flg ■ Musical Director I 9 P.M. I § Washington Time 1 1 WJSV I |9 Ceast-te-Ceest Catimkii NUsvk I k Capitals Radio Program TODAY'S PROGRAM NOVEMBB 8, 1937 P.M. WMAL—630k [ WRC—950k 1 WOL—1,310k |WJSV—1,460k 4:00 Rochester Orch. Lorenzo Jones Wakeman's Sports Woman Mike News 4:15 " " Guiding Light " " Chicagoans 4:30 Evening Star Flashes Mary Marlin " " Evening Rhythms 4:45 Tea Time Sundown Revue" _Dr. A. R, Dafoe 5:00 Education Week Sundown Revue Cocktail Capers Follow the Moon 5:15 " Terry and Pirates " " Mary Sothern 5:30 Singing Lady Jack Armstrong Johnson Family Arch McDonald 5:45 Tom Mix_Little Orphan Annie Musical Program_Hilltop House 6:00 U. S. Army Band News—Music Sports Resume News—Music 6:15 Dinner Dance News Bulletins Arch McDonald - 6:30 News Bulletins News—Music Vocal Favorites Slim Jim Jcr.es . 6:45 Lowell Thomas Dinner DanceRay Keating's Orch. Glen Gray's Orch. 7:00 'Variety Show Amos V Andy Henry Weber's Orch. Poetic Melodies 7:151 " " Uncle Ezra Five-Star Final Backstage 7:30 jArt Broadcast Vic Arden's Orch. Stamp Club Jay Freeman's Orch. 7:451 Harry Reser's Orch. To Be Announced Dance Rhythms Boake Carter 8:001 Gen. H. S. Johnson Burns end Alien Volga Boatman Horace Heidt’s Or. 8:15 G. W. Home-coming 8:30|Grand Hotel Richard Crooks Jack Denny's Orch. Pick and Pa* 8:431 " " " " " '' 9:00 Philadelphia Orch. Fibber McGee Way to Peace Radio Theater H tt tr it tt tt it 9:30 " " Hour of Charm Georgia Price •• « « tt tt tt t* M 10:00 Warden Lawes Contented'Program Fulton Lewis Wayne King's Or. 10:15 " " " " Boxing Bouts 10:30 Radio Forum Music for Moderns " " Brave Now World 10:45 '' _" _" _" 11:00 News Bulletins News—Coyle Art Brown Arthur Godfrey 11:15 Your Music Dance Time 11:30 " " Midnight Frolic Impressions News—Horizons 11j45 " _** _"Horizons—Olson 12:00 Jim McGrath Don Bestor’s Orch. Tom Dorsey's Orch. Maxim Lowe's-Orch. 12:15 12:30 " " Lang Thompson's Or. Chas. Gaylord's Orch. Orrin Tucker's Or. 12:45 " _" _" _" 1:00 |Jim McGrath. 1 hr. jSign Off _|News Bulletins |Sign Off A.M. j TOMORROW'S PROGRAM. 6:00 Gordon Hittenmark 6:15; 6:30 Today's Prelude 6:45 _"_ 7:00 (Todays Prelude Gordon Hittenmark Musical Clock Sun Dial 7:15 Prelude—News 7:30 (Lee Everett " " News—Music ” v 7:45;__"_Musical Clock_" 8:00 Lee Everett News—Hittenmark Musical Clock News—Sun Dial 8:15 " " Gordon Hittenmark j " " Sun Dial 8:30 Dick Leibert ” " 1 " 8:45 Lucille and Lanny ! _News—Music_" ”_ 9:00 News Bulletins Gordon Hittenmark Musical Clock ,Sun Dial 9:15 Breakfast Club " " \ ■■ ■■ j " 9:30 Bkfst. Club—News Songs—News Morning Concert Jean Abbey 9:45’Landt Trio _Ranch Boys _News—Police_Bachelor's Children 10:00,Mary Marlin (Mrs. Wiggs (Singing Strings I Pretty Kitty-Kelly 10:15 Vaughn de Leath John's Other Wife ‘Choir Loft Myrt and Marge 10:30 Mountain Man (Just Plain Bill iGet Thin to Music (Emily Post 10:45 Better Business Today's Children Louis Rich’s Orch. Piano—News 11:00 The O'Neills David Harum 'Potpourri Mary Lee Taylor 11:15 Road of Life Backstage Wife ; • " " Air Magazine 11:30 Vic and Sade Hi Boys (Jean King Big Sister f 1:4j Edward MacHugh Mystery Chet INegro Achievement Real Lite Stories K.n. i__ 12:00 Thought Tim* News—Music Belled Time :N. Y. Auto Show 12:15 News—^iusic The Goldbergs News Bulletins Your News Parade 12:30 Farm and Home Hour Carlisle and London Black and While Helen Trent 12:45 _"_iRosa Lee_We Are Four Our Gal Sunday 1:00 Farm and Home Hour .Dick Fidier’s Orch. Dick Stabile's Orch. Betty and Bob 1:15 " " {Words and Music Marjorie Mills ;Hymn Program 1:30 Love and Learn i " " Dance Music 'Grimm's Daughter 1:45 Jackie Heller_Dan Harding's Wite j In Hollywood 2:00 Ranch Boys Fun in Music .Wakeman's Sports B. Strickland 2:15 Have You Hearu " " \Mary Williams 'Afternoon Rhythms 2:30 Consumers Program Mary Mason Wakeman's Sports School of the Air 2:45 Armchair_ Quartet _ " _ "_I _"_"_[ " _ 3:00 U. S. Marine Band Pepper Young INews Bulletins Home Counsel 3:15 " " Ma Perkins Wakeman's Sports 3:30 " " Vic and Sade " ’’ Cincinnati Orch. 3:45 " _The O'Neills_ " | "_ 4:00 On Co-operatives Lorenzo Jones 'Wakeman’s Sports Women Make News 4:15 Club Matinee .Guiding Light " " Evening Rhythms 4:30 " " iMary Marlin " ” Story of Industry 4:4r ; " _I Sundown Revue_" 5:00.Evening Star Flashes Sundown Revue Cocktail Capers Follow the Moon 5:15 [Tea Time Terry and Pirates Talk—Music Mary Sothern 5:30 Singing Lady Jack Armstrong Johnson Family Arch McDonald 5:45 Tom Mix little Orphan Annie Musical Program Hilltop House ROBBERY SUSPECTS ARE ARRESTED HERE Six Will Be Held for Possible Identification in Police Line-up. Six men were arrested as robbery suspects in an early morning round up at a rooming house m the 300 block of Third street N.W. The men will be held for possible identification before a police line-up. Today’s was the third such foray made by the robbery squad under Lt. John Fowler. Burglars and bandits obtained more than $100 in four robberies re ported late yesterday and last night. Apparently entering her room by way of a fire escape and through an open window, a thief stole a purse containing $52 from Mrs. Evelyn Campbell, Sixteenth street and Flor ida avenue N.W. Pointing a rusty revolver at James Swanner, manager of a gasoline sta tion at Twenty-first street and Ben ning road N.E., a bandit took *50 from the cash register. Howard L. Mitchell, 2141 K street N.W., reported that two men who posed as policei*en robbed him of S9 in a downtown hotel room. Mr. Mitchell said that the men. after tell ing him they were from headquar ters and were going to “take him in," searched his pockets and departed with the money. Two colored men held up Clarence Holms, 1505 R street, and robbed him of *12 as he was walking in the 1300 block of R street. .- ■ 1888 Motor Cycle Exhibited An 1888 motor cycle has been placed on exhibition in Munich, Germany. r=BACK=i] TONIGHT By,Popular Demand Gcunfiancu “GRAND HOTEL” 8:30 P.M. I WMAL I 50° sKS 50° All Makes Repaired PHONE 8 A.M. TO 8 P.M. LtETH BROS. mo Met »7«4 FI KILLIAN DIES; Established His Concern Here 50 Years Ago—Was Active in Organizations. Franklin V. Killian, 72, founder and owner of the Franklin Laundry here, died Saturday night in Temple Uni versity Hospital, Philadelphia, after a long illness. Mr. Killian, who lived here at 2101 Connecticut avenue N.W., entered the hospital following an extended illness at his summer home at Ocean City, N. J. A native of this city, Mr. Killian attended the Franklin School and began work in the office of the old Washington Sentinel newspaper. Sub sequently he entered the laundry business and, after becoming man ager of a laundry, then in the 1300 block of F street, he established the Franklin Laundry in the 500 block of Thirteenth street N.W. nearly 50 years ago. A pushcart was used in making the laundry's first deliveries. Mr. Killian had been active in many organizations, contributed to many charities and took a keen in terest in the development of the city. Long prominent in the Masonic fraternity, he was a member of Fed eral Lodge, No. 1, F. A. A. M.; Al bert Pike consistory of the Scottish Rite and Almas Temple cf the Mystic Shrine. He also belonged to the Na tional Laundry Owners' Association, the Laundry and Dry Cleaning Own ers' Association of the District of Co lumbia, the Merchants and Manufac turers Association, the Washington Board of Trade, Washington Lodge of Elks, the Columbia Country Club, the Congressional Country Club and the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia. 'Among survivors are his widow, Mrs. Beatrice L. Killian, formerly Miss Welcker, and a sister, Mrs. Til lie Kendrick. Funeral arrangements were to be announced later. ——■ • " •-- - Germany's new sports stadium In Nuremberg will hold 405.000 spec tators Dies FRANKLIN V. KILLIAN. $100,000,000 Flower Crop. Flower* grown In England tn the last year were valued at $100,000,000. i Richmond Parley Opens With Pontifical Mass by Bishop O’Hara. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Nov*. 8.—Business ses sions of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, which has brought high dignitaries of the church to Richmond from all parts of the United States and Canada, will begin today and Will continue through Wednesday. This is the fifteenth annual gather ins of the body, which was formed to co-operate with national. State and county rural groups working for a solution of economic, social, educa tional and religious problems. Outstanding among the religious services to which yesterday was de voted was a pontiflical high mass at the Sacred Heart Cathedral, with a sermon preached by Bishop Edwin V. O’Hara of Great Falls, Mont. At 10 altars erected in rooms at the John Marshall Hotel masses were celebrated during the forenoon by more than 60 visiting bishops and priests. This year’s conference is under the patronage of the Most Rev. Peter L. Ireton, D. D., coadjutor bishop of Richmond, and is sponsored by the Catholic Business and Professional Club of this city. Following a midday dinner, the local organization piloted the conference members this afternoon on a motor sightseeing trip to Williamsburg. The Rev. John J. liawe of St. Louis > University will preside at the busi ness sessions today and the Rev. Ed gar Schmiedeler of Washington will review tHe problem of land tenancy. Dr. O. E. Baker, senior agricultural economist of the United States De partment of Agriculture, Washington, also will speak. DIES IN AUTO CRASH NORRISTOWN, Pa., Nov. t OP).— Carroll Larrimore of Bridgeport, Mont gomery County, was killed yesterday when an automobile crashed through a bridge guard railing and dropped 30 feet to the tracks of the Reading Railroad at Valley Forge. Ellsworth Meeklns of Audubon. Montgomery County, was critically in jured. Both men formerly lived in Chestertown, Md. Proud of his Growth of Hair Young men, under 30, married, who are blessed with one or two children, delight in having their youngsters pull at their hair. If yours comes out easily, take this as a warning. There is something wrong and now is the time to take corrective steps. For a free consultation phone National 6081. F* D» JOHNSON SCALP SPECIALIST tOM SHOREHAM BUILDING HOURS ( A.M. UNTIL T f. M. IT’S evident that people find something extra choice in those finer, MORE EXPENSIVE TOBACCOS in Camels. If you’re not now smoking Camels, try them. Costlier tobaccos DO make a difference. & h World's first 4 +.^jr&& Arrowbile with ita winga detached. When handled like a conventional automobile the propeller dorr not revolve. Drive ia through the rear wheela. The Studebaker engine and High Geared BLUE SUNOCO give the "automobile” a top road a peed of 70 mitea per hour. “Jerry" Philtipe, Hollywood, California, pilot of one of the Studebaker powered Waterman Arrowbilee, the world'a firat flying automobile. In flying thie ahip from California to New York, Phillips encountered all kinda of weather—eunahine, bitter cold temperaturea, rain and blinding anowatorma. * decaube, ab Pi£ct Phittipb AwjA: • • (/) "It snaps the motor into instant life, *“'• ' '* '¥ even on cold mornings. (2) It performs as well in this motor as higher-priced aviation gasolines.” * • Sunoco Motor Oil is used exclusively Pilot Phillip* limply drive* into any Sunoco Nation and ill* the tank. Heaay*, "The performance of the plane i* a* good with Blue Sunoco a* with premium priced air plane fuel*." Once the Arrowbile ha* reached the airport, the wing* may be attached in three or four minute*, and it i* ready far the airway*. Removing the wing* i* equally aimple, and they may be Noted conveniently. 'rowbile, powered with a Studebaker Six i Automobile Motor, was on display at the New York Auto Show A A $ I a