Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1926, Page 55

CONCERT BY ALDA ON WRC TONIGHT Second of Vesper Programs and Other Music Also- Is Scheduled. == Mme. Frances Alds, famous sopgano of the Metropolitan Opera Co., ‘will be heard by the audience of WRC tonight during the Atwater Kent radio hour. Her program will include several popular concert songs and arias in French. Spanish, Russian, German and Finnish. The featured attraction of local!E origin will be the second of the series of peopie s vesper concerts, which will again bring before the microphone | Miss Artie Faye Guilford. The pro- gram will start at 6:45 o'clock and will Include light music sup])lemen!ed by vesper hymns. The Capitol Theater program will Be broadcast as usual, starting at 7:20 o'clock. Church services scheduled by WRC include the morning service at the Grace Reform Church and the after- noon services af .Bethlehem Chapel, ‘Washington Cathedral, where Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Washington, f+] ‘will preach. WMAL will continue its Sundaw night broadcasts tonight of the con- certs of the \Wardman Park Little Symphony Orchestra under the di- of Moe Baer. NAA—Naval Radio Station, Radie, Va. 435.5 Meters). 9:55 p.m.—Time signals. 11 lm—&rflcfl from Grace Re- form Church—Dr. H. H. Ranck, Peta will preach. m.—Services from Bethlehem Chapcl. ‘Washington Cathedral.. Right ] 'ev James E. P:fimm.n.n.am of Washington, preach. Ipper: ‘M ‘rances Alda, Metro- PIn e People’s Vesper Coneert.| U e A Pp.m.—Musical program *broad- | politan Opera star. Lower: Artie Faye cast with WEAF from the Capitol Theater, New York City, Maj. Edward Guilferd, prominent Washington art- ist. Both are featured on the radio Bowes cond: 315 pm. to 1015 pum—Atwatsr | yontght of station WRC. 'DAY STAB WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 12, ‘ADIO'S BEST OFFERINGS TONIGHT. Capitol Theater, New York, program, WRC, WEAF and other em-on.s 7:20 to 9:15 o'clock Bonwit Teuer Ensemble, WCAU, 9:30 to 10 o’clock. H{}ENSES UMTED BY NEW RADIO LAW Measure Seen as' Waiver to Stations’ Claims' on " Air Rights. Atwater Kent hours with Mme. Frances Alde, soprano, WRC, WEAF and other sta- tions, 9:15 to 10:15 o'clock. “The Tenth Comrmandment,” a Bible story with musical setting, WEAF, 10:15 o'clock. ThegNutty Club, WBBM, 1 am. Boar Joins Foot Ball Scrum. TOLOUSE, December 3 (Corre- EXxisting broadcasting stations under | spondence).—A foot ball game was the new law may renew. their licenses | recently- imterrupted here by a wil for no longer than 30 days, while other | poar . which r'mP;lxh( lntnbtb: mi:l‘-i classes of licensed radio stations may | gle of a serum and scattered the renew for no longer than two years. | players in all directions. The boar Moreover, renewal applicants and|wa.“being chased by a hunting ations, st acsomrany thSl | geoup. ” Alredaiss pursuing the boax lost track of it during the confusion right or of any claim to any on the fleld and it escaped in an J s against the United States, Adjoining forest. wave length or to the use of the her in radio transmission because of previous license to use the same or beva.usn of the use Lhereuf ot “Waiver blanks,” together with copies of the resolution, went out of the Department of Commerce yester- day to its radio supervisors in the nine districts of the country marked eff for radio purposes. The supervisors are instructed by the Commissiom of N: ation, which handles radio mat- ters, that it is now necessary for all applicants for new radio station licenses or renewal licenses to sign and - submit to the the \'\rlt!en waivers. “The waiver, instructions read, “must be signed tive of the class of smtton‘ and tmrdore in- cludes amateurs.” The legislation retains to the Federa] Government sovereign rights to the ether in radio transmission. It pre- cludes State court jurisdiction over claims to priority rights which have been heard since the breakdown of President Coolidge's signature, just affixed to joint resolution No. 125, passed at the last session of Congress, makes a law a definite time limitation on the life of all radio broadcasting licenses. It re hat amounts to a waiver to any claims to vested rights on the air by old and new sta- tions. the North 9928 North 4896 Pot. 826 radio control led to the unrestrained use of power and wave lemgths. It looks to further enactment on radio control, and all that remains now is for Congress to draw up and pass a measure restricting and controlling broadeastin SRS Between 12,000,000 and 15,000,000 radio sets are in use in the werld, ac- cording to a recent survey. Traffic lanes in London are being marked by holes drilled in the paving Kent radic bour from WEAF. New York with Mme. Frances Alda, so- prane. Early ‘Temorrow. 6:45 to 7:45 p.m—Tower health ex- ercises. 11:55 a.m.—Arlington time signals. 12 (noon)—Live stock flashes. ‘ashington Radio (293.9 Meters). 7:30 to $:30 p.m.—Concert by the Wardman Park thtle Symphony Or- chestra. B T JAPANESE EMPEROR STILL HOLDING HIS OWI Temperature Normal. as Doctors| g Combat Bronchial Preumonia, |- Latest Complication: : By the Associated Press, TQKIO, Decem| valid Emperor, w! 1l at Hayama for several weeks, todl.v continued to fight the latest complica- tion in his iliness, bronchial pneu- monia. A bulletin issued from the household @epartment here at 1 o'clock this aft- ernoon said the condition of the im- perial patient was unchanged. His temperature at that hour was‘hormal.. {Illl g:llle registersd 110 and l'elpln- Befoge the bulletin wn l-lllfl Genro, elder statesmen of J § Household Minister ' Ichiki, . Premi ‘Wakatsuka and Count Makino, kfiw & of the privy seal, were in mntorm. g_the Emperor’s Prince Regent Hirohito and hh con: | sort left today for ‘Hayama, while Prince Chichibu, seéond son of the Emperor, cabled from England that he was returning to Japan at once. SR LD AMERICAN EXECUTIONER | IS ORDERED FROM CUBA!" Machado Issues Decree Expelling o Frank Davis of Savannah, Ga., Ex-Prisoner. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, Cuba, December 11— President Machado issued a decree yesterday for the expulsion as an un- desirable foreigner of Frank Davis, Savannah, Ga., negro, who was re- leased from the Sflnth‘o de Cuba Prison yesteiday morning and imme- dxntely arrested on a deportation war- ran Davis, serving a term for robbery, had acted as assistant executioner at the last three garrotings in the San- tiago jail. Supposedly for this service he was pardoned recently. He is now being held untll a suitable vessel touches at Santiago. The presidential decree-is said to be the outcome of & petitien, in behalf of Davis' fellow prisoness, that he be prfiventea from remaiming on Cuban soil. BANK SHORT $10,000. Tennessee Institution’s Officials Do Not Explain Deficit. LAWRENCEBURG, ‘Tenn., Decem:. ber 11 UP).—Doors of the West Point Banking Co. in West Point, South Lawrence County, were closed yester- day and the bank placed under con. trol of State Bank Examiner J. 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