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Show LEW FREE PRESS, LEHl LTAH i Parrots, Mice Make Circus Out of Radio .......win in mi, r i iiiiiji I jj , , $ Pt vie we J bf "J CARTER FIELD (ft w W f :3 ' -I J I J- casting company recently answered "No" to the following radiogram: MtMW "Still interested in singing mice? one in Aieuwen, l m ('. MM ' in IIIIH It M If WlM Willi fc 11 I ' ml m until rim m ', SlGrIn canine language, that's the "GET BACK THERE. ASD rodents auditioned the coach, mouse gives roaring singing . warning Peggy, : f vj lernun me contest international hhuuji. jor Holland, tings like a canary. A white mouse to boot!" It's only a few years since radio held its first singing mouse contest. More recently star performers from every avail- Horace en- music from New York. Every time a familiar melody was heard, Horace would move his four tons about the golf course at Jinja, making appreciative grunts. Royal decided to serenade Horace with a special broadcast from Radio City. They chose Jerome Kern's "The Hippopotamus" for this occasion. She Has an Understudy! Canary birds are among radio's Six most seasoned performers. years ago one sponsor signed up "Blue Boy," a virtuoso with a repertoire of 300 songs. It was the first bird, according to amateur ornithologists, to sing tunes other than its natural ones. "Blue Boy" was considered so valuable that her sponsor engaged another canary as an understudy. First heats in a new Olympic canary tournament were broadcast in December from San Francisco, where 100 birds participated. National and international contests are scheduled to follow. A. A. Schechter, director of NBC special events, once thought a talking parrot contest would be fun for radio fans. When parrot fanciers got wind of the plan their suggestions, warnings, comments and parrot pedigrees poured in en masse. Wrote one Californian: "Our parrot is bask- ing in the sunshine ready, willing and able, sans bronchial and pneu- how fellow-passeng- joyed the able genera and species have been invited to appear, lest mice gain a monopolistic grip on the microphone. Today's list of animal formers reads like the index of WPA's book, "Who's Who at the Zoo." Everything from a boa constrictor to a cuckaburra bird. Public interest Is responsible, which is the same reason municipalities maintain zoos. A Headache to Radio Men. But while the animal kingdom fascinates radio fans, arrangements have been a succession of violent headaches to broadcasters. The wire and letter correspondence relating to these arrangements look like the legal briefs in a Supreme court suit. Worry No. 1 is animal temperament. If a beastie comes into the studio minus microphone manners, there ensues petting, coaxing, cajoling and perhaps a merry can. Production men assigned to such programs have evolved their own technique, learning the language of birds, elephants and lions. They well remember when Horace the Hippo made her radio debut with a snort from Jinja, Africa. John F. Royal, NBC's vice president in charge of programs, was crossing the Atlantic when he heard from a short-wav- e monia germs, to chatter, guzzle, whistle and snap at a cracker. Kindly send prize at once." Mabel Up and Died. Final auditions of the talking parrots were presided over by a group of speech authorities. Secretly, Schechter was passing the buck. He didn't want to hear any more parrot talk. He had received letters from Local No. 9 of the New England Association of Parrotcasters and from guys who signed themselves Bob White, R. U. Perroquee, etc. The New Englanders maintained that "Oscar is the best of the lot," but admitted that "he is most discouraging at times." From Colum bus came praises of "Mabel," who was coming along in fine shape until she died unexpectedly. From all points of the compass came: "I've got a parrot . . . I've got a macaw. I've got a talking crow! I've got a warbling pigeon." Then, at the height of this parrot fever, Schechter wrote to his special events men throueV.out the network: "Dr. W. Reed Blair, director of the Bronx zoo, has advised us there is decided danger in holding the contest at this time. Tropical parrots are susceptible to bronchial we will, pneumonia, etc., etc. therefore, postpone the contest to the warmer month of May The broadcast actually came off in May, whereafter Schechter de clared a holiday for all hands. Radio Becomes a Circus. There is considerable speculation about what future radio holds for the animal kingdom. Going down the list of past events, historians already espy programs featuring Clyde Beatty and a cast of African lions; jungle snakes and crocodiles encountered in South America by the Holden expedition; a zoo ship arriving in Boston with specimens of the animal kingdom from Africa; a frog jumping contest; a trout fishview ing tournament; a word's-ey- e of a busy beehive; a debate between turkey gobblers, no holds barred ; a whaling expedition in San Francisco harbor, and a convention of crickets on the hearth. "HERE, TRY THIS" The announcer gives suspicious squatckers a Radio these days is a menagerie, whiff of the microphone in order to prevent "mike fright" during the an aquarium, a zoo; in other words, it's a circus! talking parrot contest. behind-the-scen- ' catch-as-catc- h 1I7ASHINGTON. American V aviation turned an impor-- I tant corner here, authorities agree, with the unprecedented public showing of the United States army air corps' most ad- - KXn ..." Jj"i T;'T1F i i ... equipment which Ivanced been shrouded in to originally in- - form congress of the latest developments of military avi' j ation, the demonstration was so convincing to President Roosevelt that at his instigation it was kept open for three additional days, giv ing thousands of average citizens a chance to see the results of the between the miliclose tary branch of Uncle Sam's de- fense forces and the American aircraft supply industries. Held at Boiling field near here, the army air exhibit consisted of two feature attractions: a lineup of ships in which one or more of each type of plane used in the army was featured; and two hangars jammed with an array of camouflaged pursuit ships and enough aviation instruments and tricky equipment to make a would-bspy deliriously happy, despite shrouds of taped canvas which blan- keted certain vital mechanisms. three-quarter-mi- le e f wH tm tin OS PARADE Spectators looking over a standard Douglas bomber with special armament equipment, during the army air corps exhibit at Boiling field. New equipment still in the "secrecy" or experi' mental stage was concealed by tarpaulins. President Roosevelt spent 50 minutes at the field. others were black and dull green, while a flying fortress was a nightmare of shocking pink and weary blue. However, the crazy-qui- lt pat- terns served the purpose of blurring outlines and eliminating reflections from wings and otner surfaces, offi Show "Mystery Ship, cials explained. Certain to have a salutory effect A headliner was the army's "myson future support for America's miltery ship," the interceptor pursuit plane, itary aviation was the evidence of said to have flown more than 500 the public's keen interest in underm.p.h. in test flights. Nearby was standing many of the features which a garish group of weirdly camou- hitherto have been regarded as intelligible only to most advanced aerflaged pursuits," including the which has a tricycle landing gear. onautic engineers. Both governSome were covered with blobs of ment officials find the public took dark, dusty green and foggy gray; ample Vm., to digest information much-discuss- Air-acob- ra P-3- , aYaudUic Shirred Dress With COrSiCtte ai$t TV accounting; auditing by the genera! office. ificient unto it- No for reason, hittprlv .el. the TV AalfcSoSofficeaf. vnth the ge.ner There is " rusanshipi most from its ch.arge no -- cwunung aga xst the general uum little complaint fixe There is in most strong kw Deal agent". "'f pose c!u2vanoltueforAAA i TnE 9 presented to them in the form of animated displays, charts and cutout models. Newest methods of testing wing strength and stress and the famous Goodrich an inde-ice- r, device which genious officials said has done more than any other single development to make and winter safe, were presented. Aerial photographic equipment, complete with portable developers for fast wartime scouting, was ranged near compact communications units with which headquarters can maintain contact by radio, telephone or telegraph with planes in the air. high-altitu- fly-in- g W me corselette .scheduled for n,ch this coming season) trobabhV? vT cause it makes you look guilingly slim. sp This a . about it. ha hr. peat sa. ness and a rippling .km, t the top. that 1 . "".' ' the various functions audit-- , are which of all L Ickes. etc.. ; office account ed by the genera, T A is the fact of matter As a to sub-..- . in not being required q,e .... i..kc tn the G. A. O. mil us TVA Bitter Against General Accounting Office TVA admin So desperately is the ao tne gen:i istration against the left .... in the of leaders n; Some thst WASHINGTON v"been cuuniii-- recognized that if the May wingers in the New Deal have i house with should prevail, tVxa an amendment actively flirting Senator Burton K. te tantamount to ueical...5 WilWheeler, of Monpropnation outright.tookSpeaker on floor the Bankhead tana. They bang liam B out that him on the back, the amendment and pointed and whisper in his tht.r mi?ht not be time to get TVA un-- j ears at big dinners through legislation putting m where the diners onice the accounting der circulate. They tell sion, whereupon the appropriation him they are for would be held up. him. At the recent He did not say why there might dinner of the fabe time, but everybody in the not mous Alfalfa club They rmo nf his voice knew. several spectators sen. Wheeler of TVA in friend every that knew nearly had heart atand senate would fight tacks when they saw J. Bruce both house bitterly. such legislation Democratic Kremer, for many years Mr. Bankhead was able to rally national committeeman from Monon this tana, greet the senator warmly, and the Democrats sufficiently to ijo the heart amendment, to beat May engage in an apparent heart to 132. As a matter ot tact, wmp& talk. Now this was "hot stuff" to the had been beating the bushes to get to tne politically minded audience for more administration members than one reason. It was the first floor, partly as a result of the tertime Wheeler and Kremer had rific administration opposition to office spoken pleasantly for many years. having the general accounting in auditing forced on TVA, and partly feudists old are political They Montana. As a matter of fact, it because the previous votes had been was Bruce Kremer who figured in so close as to throw a scare into the original coolness between Presi- TVA friends. dent Roosevelt and Senator Wheeler. TVA officials, from David E. Wheeler was one of the "For down, have made no bones Roosevelt Before Chicago" leaders. of their hatred of the general acWith his then colleague, Senator counting office auditors. Thomas J. Walsh, he did yeoman But TVA critics say that if the work in that preconvention cam accounting office forced the general paign of 1932. But unlike nearly TVA to keep its books in orthodox all the rest of the early workers in fashion certain things would come the Roosevelt vineyard, Wheeler to light that the TVA wants to keep didn't share in the grape harvest. hidden. TVA critics do not charge The answer was Bruce Kremer. corruption. But they do think that Kremer was an old personal friend the much vaunted yardstick would He stuck closely to vanish in thin air. of Roosevelt. After him during the campaign. election it was Kremer and not Radical Views Credited Wheeler who got all the plums so To Dewey in New York far as Montana patronage was conPerhaps the most interesting cerned. Wheeler didn't like it and development in the presidential to his friends about it. was But Slihlih!! U. S. Exposes Air Secrets Conceived no lvffilirMl 'I . Broad- lificationsthe National Mt uinger, are .aid to be flirting with Senator JV A s ii heeler . office makes general accounting further appropriation doubtful Rad niter congress ad hums . . . Thomical vieu s are credited to as E. Deuey in dountoun Vu York rumors. - U singing mouse. That was why without reflection on the vermin's qua- mym - : ; $ Ls ' .....",".- rs" fhrt ET. Ordinarily speaking, the European war is more important than a in . - ' XTEW YORK. ' ii MX By HOWARD NELSON rEcWed by Western Newspaper Union. sensational n in A! 'Animals Give Headache to Broadcasters, but It's All Good Fun ! A n.m Mim fi i f NATIONAL AFFAIRS 'Are We Mice or Men, My Friends?9 i.M . ilvjSv Jjl 1 Lili-enth- frank Kremer said nothing, but kept on putting in his thumb and pulling out plums. Disregard of Wheeler Cost Roosevelt Plenty There are those who suspect Roosevelt paid a pretty high price for this disregard of Wheeler. They think that if Wheeler had been provided a fatted calf or two at the patronage table, and his old enemy had been ignored, Wheeler would have been unwilling to make such a smashing attack on the Roosevelt court packing bill, and the Repub licans could not have gleefully made him leader of the fight. bo when Jvremer walked up to Wheeler and seemed to be trying to bury the hatchet, right under the nose of the President who was the guest of honor at this Alfalfa dinner there was considerable buzzing "Kremer must think Wheeler has a real chance," was a comment made by dozens of the spectators, many of whom had never figured themselves that the Montana sena tor was in the running. Remember how John L. Lewis bashed Wheeler during that court And now is inviting him fight? to speak to a union meeting! It isn t Lewis who is causing the Wheeler talk, however. It is dyed Roosevelt men men who would give anything in reason to have Roosevelt get a third term. The trouble is they don't know any more about what Roosevelt is going to do than Paul McNutt, and they want to play safe. They do not want McNutt. That is one point on which the left wingers are set. They realize they can't get Robert H. Jackson, whom they prefer to anybody, and they are beginning to think that, if worst comes to worst, and Roosevelt will not be drafted, maybe Wheeler would be better than somebody else that might be foisted on them. And they want a welcome at the White House if Wheeler should happen to make it! charming on slender figures. The sqiiare neckline is quite deep, the sleeves very round. This dress will be very pretty cottons made up in like percale, calico or girjgham for house wear, with rows of ricrac braid. And you'll also like a dress like this for street and informal afternoons, of printed silk or flat crepe. It's one of those easy, becoming styles that you'll repeat campaign now get- several times. Your pattern isew ting under way will ncludes a helpful be some speech to chart. be made by ThomPattern No. 8634 is designed for as E. Dewey revealsizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size ing his philosophy 14 yards of requires 3 about taxation, re1 yard binwithout material nap; lief bold-figure- d step-by-ste- I . p n and economics. It is likely to be interesting because Of the Wild rumors Washington has ding; 8V4 yards ricrac. QonH vnnr nrrtpr in Thp Sewinf 14Q New D,ttam a0 nnt Pranrisro. QQ . , igvjuit 1 y iiv., Calif. Patterns 15 cents (in coins) been hearing, mosteach. ly from downtown Thomas E. New Yorkers. If Dewey any fraction of what they have been saying is true, most conservative Republicans will be thumbs down on the New York disby helping nature build up trict attorney. 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Thus you eat more; y improves; your body gets grester The wild things thev are savin a digestion nourishment which helps nature build up JO about Dewey's philosophy may not resistance. , So successful has Dr. Pierce's Golden FIGHT COLDS cold-fightin- 1 J- . Mea-ic- al be true, observers admit, but there must be some reason why they are so strongly against him. When it is eventually made clear just what that motive is, the situation will be BoDiscovery been that over 30,000,000 ttles have already been used. Proof of its reGoWes markable benefits. Get Dr. Pierce's Medical Discovery from your druggist tow, or write Dr. Pierce, DeptN -- 100, Buffalo, a-- y for generous free sample. Don't suffer unnecst-saxUfrom colds. clarified. Conceivably, the downtown New York opposition to Dewey mieht Strong Through Suffering prove an enormous asset in the rest Know how sublime a thing it oi me country. to suffer and be strong. i Such Economic Philosophy if ould Lost Dewey Votes One New Yorker attacking YEARY DESPOilDffl told friends in Washington n0, that Dewey thinks the government should GIRLS: f eel7 inC0me above LSlnn a year. Dewey has never real "woman's friend" in Lydia E. ruur said ham's Vegetable Compound. Try tu anything to that effect in public Presumably, if that is an LydiaLPinkham'sSSS statement of his economic accurate philosLittle Chance for More ophy, he will advocate it speech to be made before the presiDeeds as Words Appropriations for TV A dential primaries are held. with This Let correspond deeds for TVA more Prospects approseems logical because if re- words. Plautus. priations, after this session of con- ally believes that, which Dewey the writer gress ends, don't look any too bright very much doubts, he would also as a result of the closeness of the U W3S political doc" votes on various would-b- e crippling trineV amendments in the house of repreCandidates generally try to avoid sentatives this session. being smoked out in advance isThe administration could muster sues. !..:' ,. They like to fim.r- a majority of only six 110 to 104 But Mr. Dewey will not against an amendment which would wait until he sees whetherhp Dem-ocra- DASH IN f'THff - ,1 rl the 40 million dollar TVA have cut the renominate Roosevelt, name appropriation in half. And this when another New Dealer, or place a there are 97 more Democrats than servative at the head of their ticket Republicans in the house! Another before mak.ng his amendment, aimed at the same ap- eral essential issues position on sev- MORE FOR Y0DR very clear. He propriation, but directed specifically will have to do it before the first at the Coulter Shoals dam, was de- important Read the advertisements. primary test in which he They are mora than a selling feated by only 112 to 109 a margin ets Server Robert A. Taft of aid lor business. They form of three. Ohio and Senator Arthur H. Vanden Then Representative Andrew J. an educational system which berg of Michigan. May, whose own interest in his coai is making Americana the He will be constrained to do so miner constituents has gradually buyers in the world. ther reason becase at turned him- - into a hater of hydroThe) advertisements are part is getting all the disadelectric power, and who has been oi an economic system which of his the. spearhead, of .the .fight thia ses- vantages is giving Americans mors views and none of the advantages sion as he was last, 'proposed that for their money every day. gd ts f.l 0 IJ LeLn. E |