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' Colored Lights Used ' To Aid Deaf in Learning Inflection Pitch of Voice Acts On Electro-Magnetic Tuning Forks By doing tricks with rows of little colored lights, deaf children may hope to acquire near-normal speech, according to A. E. Coyne, South African Inventor, who demonstrated his voice-pitch indicator yesterday to a group of teachers of the deaf In the Gallaudet College chapel. Mr. Coyne, a lecturer at Cape Technical College, Cape Town, be came interested 12 years ago in the problems of those who devote them selves to aiding persons unable to hear. He conducted experiments at the Sheffield School for the Deaf in England, as well as in South Africa, and out of them has come the ap paratus that .he brought to Kendall Green yesterday. Two Rows of Bulbs. Standard models of the invention consist of a large black box on the front of which are two vertical rows of colored lights, separated by a surface upon which the instructor may write with chalk directions to subjects. One row of bulbs is for male voices, the other for the higher tones of women and children. Within the box is an array of electro-magnetically actuated tun ing forks of varying frequencies. As the subject speaks through a microphone, his voice is translated into electrical impulses which op erate the tuning forks correspond ing to the pitch of his utterances. These, in turn, affect the various lights. After some experimentation. Mr. Coyne declares, the deaf user is fible to associate particular vocal efforts with particular lights, and, after extended practice, usually finds himself capable of controlling inflections through watching the lamps. “Breathiness.“ which causes the lights to flicker, often may be overcome by the pupil's concentrat ing on producing a constant glow. Immune to Harmonics. Tn the interest of simplicity, the inventor has designed the indicator to be immune to harmonics. It re acts only to any one of a series of fundamentals spaced two semi tones apart. If it succeeds in as sisting deaf persons to control the Jips and downs of their voices, it has served sufficient purpose. Mr. | Coyne feels. The harmonics con trol the quality of a voice as dis tinguished from its pitch. Mrs. Coyne, a teacher of the deaf ft the Dominican School in Cape Town, emphasized at the demon stration yesterday that only through weeks of practice could substantial progress be achieved. Several of tlie children from Kendall School who used the apparatus proved adept at linking their utterances With behavior of the lights. Mr. Coyne also exhibited his voice pitch indicator Friday night at the Washington Society for the Hard of Hearing. — To Repeat Passion Play “The Third Cross." a passion play, will be repeated tomorrow night and Tuesday night in the Holy Name Auditorium. West Virginia avenue and Neal street N.E.. by the Catho lic Players Guild for the benefit of the Father Burgess Chapter. Feder ated Colored Catholics of Washing ton. The colored public has been Invited. The play proved popular during a run of two weeks which ended Sat urday. The production is directed by Paul Mcssink. VOICE AID FOR DEAF DEMONSTRATED—Three young pupils of the Kendall School for the Deaf view apparatus designed to help them toward intelligible speech. Shown (left to light) are Mida Scott. 11; Gertrude Scott, 8. and Roger Scott, 9, all of 639 Lexington place N.E., and the inventor, A. E. Coyne, during a demonstration yesterday at Gallaudet College. —Star Staff Photo. Newmeyer to Officiate Af Father-Son Dinner Alvin L. Newmeyer. Washington attorney, will officiate as master of ceremonies for the 16th annual father-anci-son banquet of Wash ington Hebrew Congregation, ac cording to an announcement by Sidney Lust, general chairman of the affair. The banquet is to be held April | 23 in the Mayflower Hotel. The Rev. Maurice Sheehy of Catholic University, Canon Anson Phelps Stokes of Washington Ca thedral and Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police, have ac cepted invitations, Mr. Lust said yesterday. Not to be outdone by the men and boys, the Sisterhood of Washington Hebrew Congregation, through Mrs. E. R. Haas, has announced that it will sponsor a mother-and-daugh ter party on the same night at 2400 , Sixteenth street N.W. The father-and-son banquet will be featured by vaudeville entertain ment from downtown theaters and the Johnny J'. Jones Exposition, which is to be in the city at the time. The youngsters also will have opportunity to meet their favorite Washington Redskin professional football players. (ANY SIZE) $ Developed and Printed, 6 or 8 r"10Stir'' Rolls | ; i § CAMERA CENTERS 1 I 11 2 G ST.N.W. 1 „.i.l±6, llfil SI.N.W. the HECHT eo. * STtllt AT tIVINTH NATIONAI >100 Modernize your eyewear Optical Frames Our Regular $7.50 and $5 values specially priced This Week Only All are quality made ... to give you serv ice. All are fashion-right to give you i keen enjoy I ment in wear \ (A) OAKFLEX rimless mounting in white, gold filled. (B) RUNYON white engraved gold filled frame. (C) FASHION white engraved folding oxford frome. (D) SHELLOID FRAME in light and dark tones, pearloid tippped. Oculist Prescriptions Accurately Filled USE YOUR REGULAR CHARGA-PLATE ACCOUNT IN THE OPTICAL SHOP . (Optical Shop. Main Floor.) Arlington Camera Club To Show British Prints An exhibition of prints from the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain will be displayed un der the sponsorship of the Arling ton (Va.) Camera Club at the Nat* ural History Building of the Na tional Museum from Tuesday, April 4, to April 15. The work of about 60 American photographers will be hung with the more than 200 prints to be exhibited. After the showing here the exhibit will be taken to Boston. Members of the Arlington club will display more than 70 of their own pictorial prints at another ex hibit during April at the Arts and Industries Building of the National Museum. W. A. Ray is chairman of the committee arranging both exhibits, whose membership includes J. B. Scruggs. William Oram and Miss Mary Eleanor Browning. Second Huge Dredge Will Go Into Action % At Gravelly Point Crew of 100 to Operate It With 50 Men On Pipe Lines Shortly after midnight tonight, a second huge contract dredge, the Gulf Stream, will go into action at the site of the Gravelly Point Air port. Brought here by the McWilliams Dredging Co. of New Orleans after taking up tons of mud from the lower Mississippi River, the Gulf ANY MAKE WATCH Cleaned and Adjutted GUARANTEED ONE YEAR» Special with this cou- vp. pon, Mon. and Tues., / HC mainsprings from I V PHILIP FRANKS 812 F St. N.W. 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Regularly $50 And you'll have pleasure in choosing from among the smart cotton and wool fringed Bath Room Rugs, as well as the new imported and American Sum mer Rugs—Sea Grass, Rush, Fibre, Sissal, Cotton. Whatever the need—for mansion, apartment or cottage—Sloane's Floor Covering Month holds interest. Our staff of experts will be glad to advise and give estimates—without obligation, of course. Sloane Capital Garage 711 Twelfth Street Stream has been refitting at Alex andria. It about the size of the dredge Pennsylvania, now working off Hains Point, but its 4,000-horse power pumping engine is a bit more powerful. The Gulf Stream is to start on the downstream end of the airport site at Daingerfield Island, near the Commerce Department's radio bea con, and dredge up the Pour-Mile Run stretch. In this area it is ex pftited to get sand and gravel for building the runways and levees and will be engaged four or five months in the work. Each of the contract dredges is capable of supplying a half to three quarters of a million cubic yards of fill a month for the airport. A small Government dredge also is at work. With the three dredges working, the United States district engineer's office said the capacity will be close to 2,000.000 cubic yards of fill per month. A third contract dredge is anticipated to arrive in June, it was said. The Gulf Stream weathered a rough trip around the Florida Keys without mishap. It will be operated by a crew of about 100 men and 50 additional men will work the pipe lines. -.. . BABY CHICKS g $3.95 per w v a.ndottf.8 W 100 Name '! or .‘I Choice Heavy aborted. •!.->, »l.?ft; -,0. $e.M. I»r«e type Irihoru broiler*. »•' per 100. C. O. II.. IIHr. live delivery guaranteed. General Cbirkery, IIO N. », Phila., Pa. INLAID LINOLEUM A . INLAID KOLORTHRUl 89« W Wsq. Yd. 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