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OCEAN RADIO HELD IMPORTANT FACTOR Commission Indicates Intention of Examining Cross- Sea Services. Transoceanic radio services, already rivaling the cables, apparently are going to get first consideration from the' Federal Radio Commission in the disposition of short waves after the needs I for national defense, the civil airways! and emergency communications are met. This was indicated by the commission's order in calling together all applicants for public transoceanic sta- tions at a public hearing in Washington Monday morning. Competition from foreign countries in the use of the short waves has induced the commission to act on the matter before it acts on the broadcasting prob- lem. The commission has been "goaded ID to activity on this score by repeated i Assertions of private radio interests in I tnis country, the newspaper group, that other countries will preempt the transoceanic short waves unless the licensing authority of this country gets busy.

A recent development that has disturbed American communications groups was the cable-radio merger in Great Britain. The applicants for transoceanic short waves are being called to the hearing to present their respective cases for the assignments they ask. They are the American Telephone Telegraph the Radio Corporation of America, the Mackay Radio Telegraph the American Committee, the Robert Dollar the Tropical Radio Telegraph the S. P. Radio Co.

of New York, and the Pacific Communications Syndicate. The A. T. T. Co.

seeks to establish more firmly its rights to the channels on which it is operating the transatlantic radio telephone, which now links mast of the countries of Continental Europe, as well as the British Isles, with the United States. The R. C. A. already has a score or more radio circuits in operation across the Atlantic and Pacific and to South America.

It also has an application in for channels by which to connect 24 cities of the United States with a network of 65 short-wave stations for the purpose of establishing a domestic radio-telegraph system. The Mackay company, recently merged with the I. T. wants to co-ordinate its wire and cable communications radio, as Charles Evans Hughes, its counsel, told the commission several months ago. It now uses 42 shortwave channels, 34 for Pacific communications and 8 for point-to-point communicating along the Pacific Coast, and it has announced its intention of developing transatlantic radio circuits of its own.

This would place it in direct competition with the R. C. A. It proposes also to compete with the projected domestic system of the R. C.

for the Mackay interests applied for 46 domestic channels to link up American cities, supplemental to the Postal Telegraph system, even before the R. C. A. did The press group comprises press associations and newspapers handling a large volume of foreign news matter. It has asked for three exclusive wave bands in which to carry its own word traffic, saying the press already is operating 12,000 miles of radio circuits and is fully competent to handle its own traffic from abroad.

The others are chiefly steamship intake rests seeking to link up their port radio stations and to obtain more privileges for ship-to-shore communication. ASKS DIVORCE HEARING. State Department Employe Bequests Action on Suit. Felix Cole, Madison apartments, former American consul at St. Petersburg.

Russia, where he married a dancer named Tataiana Zakushnlak, yesterday asked the District Supreme Court to advance the hearing of his suit for an absolute divorce from her. He is now on duty at the State Department, but expects a foreign assignment, and tells the court it would be a hardship for him to have to return to prosecute his suit. Mrs. last known address was Turin, Italy. She has with her the only child of the couple.

No North American Holding Company. GEN. ALLEN PLANS TRIP. Chief of Infantry Will Go South 1 for Tour. fir Maj.

Gen Robert Alien, chief of Infantry, will leave Washington Mon-! day on an inspection trip of Infantry I activities in the South He will visit Fort Moultrie, Charleston, 8. Fort! Screven. Savannah, Ga. Fort McPher-! won, Ga the Infantry School, Fort Benning. Columbus, Ga, and Fort Oglethorpe, Ga While at the Infantry School Gen Alien will witness various demonstra- i tioru.

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LONG RANGE RADIO ENTERTAINMENT FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1928. Programs prepared tty the Associated Press. Scheduled, tor Eastern standard time. Meters on the left of call letters, kilocycles on right. 491.ft—74RAF New 4 4 BUI and Jill.

Savings hour. hour. 0:30 Boys. Service hour. 8 8 France Orchestra.

hour. music. 434 New Trio: violin. music. Spot Pals.

Ludlow. Rock concert. rig ley review. music. music.

427.3—1V0R 5 Cole: ensemble. music. Men. Fences. 5 9tory heur.

9 La Palina Smoker. 9 home with the masters. Witching hour 272.fi—WPG Atlantic 6.ls—Organ and features. orchestra. musical.

ball. 28.5.8—W8AL mueie, review. 9 BA Enseni hie. music. 60S El Savings hour.

Brother Club. program. programs (1 hours). Dutch hour: dance. tfil AC Smilers.

orchestra and features. 7 Sportsmen 7 Swallows. programs hours). 99 States Marine Band. Savings hour.

programs 13 hours), Surdam'a Orchestra. 545.1—H MAR Orchestra, quartet: talk. hour. B.OO—WOR programs (2 hours). I.o:os—Dance music.

TIC Savings hour. program, fl College. 7 recital. 8 9.oo—Palmolive hour. 309.1—WARC New features.

7 gh-Ho and 8 Bock Boys trouts. ft IB.fi—WORK New 4 satophone: piano 394.5—W8N New 7 Orchestra period; concert. 9 poems. dance music. 270.2 14 MCA New 7 Entertainers hoursi.

8 Life. Orchestra. 9 JI music. NYC New 6 lessons. College: talk.

talk 8 joint recital. recitai. 260.7—H'CAtl 6 trio. I Players. 7 8 programs hours).

music. WLIT fi service hour. 8 8 Frame Orchestra. hour. 10.00—Orchestra.

3103 fi music: talk. 7 Instrumental trio: quartet. 8 Master Singers. 9.3o—lianne music. 310.0 EUR A I Symphony: children.

tours. 0 Program. Ludlow. Rock concert. 8 review, JAR ft Savings hour.

features, a 8 music 9 hour. 780.2—WHAM Players. 7 '3o White Rock concert. 8 review 9.oo—MacKowns; Meiodians. ft.oo—Mutual hour, 0 30 7 hour 8 athediai Brltoes 0 hour.

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. FRIDAY. STAY IT. "This is the last of you!" she heard Peter snarl as he paused on his way to the rear door to blaze away with his pistol at Starcourt.

She remembered uttering a it was a cry of Matilde threw hcrsolt 'upon Peter, clutching at his arm. The shot went wild. Peter tried to fling the woman off. Gerane herself fell and from her knees saw Peter and Starcourt fire at close range. A second later her cousin doubled up and plunged to the floor.

Gavan Starcourt, with her own pistol In his hand, stood over him, watching! But Peter did not move. There was a bullet in his brain. Then she crawled back to her father, laid her hand upon his swooned. Starcourt. whoso head had 333.1 Snot Pals.

(I Cup. 7.oo—Bcllhii Boys Rock concert. review. 9.os—Orchestras. Alts 9 IS7 AG Savings hour.

orchestra: studio. Serenaded. studio. hour. A min on ft.

quartet. program. 10.00—Little orchestra. 434 4:15 program 3fto.o hour recital. 11 music.

tvOITHERN 200 9 music. 4 J.ft 7 review. 0 hour. 10:00 243.9—W 1)011 Mint 7.oo—Feature 8 9 310.7 MJAX children period. and assistants.

review. hour. dance music. 332 HAS programs. review.

hour. flltl.9—WMC review. 9 hour. music. 330.9—M5.M review.

hour. and Dude. mandolin. 11.00—Organ. 2.S4.I—HRVA review.

quartet. Club. 11 CENTRAL 070 review. feature. Club: studio.

205.6—HKRH-HJJD leg France Orchestra. 10 music. 410.4—WGN-W LIB 0:36 Hosiers. 9:00 Palmolive hour. Popular urograms.

344.fi—WIJ4 Chicago Choir. Showboat i 2 hours I. 428.3—H I.W 0.15 Memories: dance. concert. 8 review.

9.9o—Music studio music and studio. 301.2 WBAI Club. 0 i Serviie hour. Siraiibook. Golfers.

hour. 399.8 WTAM fi Service hour. 8 France Orchestra. hour. 10.00—Studio program, 440.9 WCX-WJR Chasers- Irish tenor, 7 Rock conceit.

review. Pairs static. 352.7—WWJ fi music. Service hour. 8 8 Frame Orchestra.

bout. music. 11 Frivolities SPECIAL I I I 'tillvor can has a quick msp-onsnd off tap whuh makes it aasy to ktsp unused portion propsrly ssalad for future Karp can on hand. This offer holds WALTER COMPA i 421 Tentl been cut by a glancing blow from barret, looked dazedly at her before leaping to her side. Matilde reached her at the same time.

has fainted, and no wonder," cried she, her voice shaking. Then she sat up straight and put her hands to her bosom, her eyes fixed on Starcourt's. "We shall be free! I knew they would come. Something told me they would come! After all these these years! tfow wonderful! Jonlfer dead! No one left but you and Oerane and me! But now I must brush her hair I and dress her are you He had leaped to his feet and was closing the door. Before answering, he dropped the bolts into place.

Then he passed his hand over his forehead, as if to clear away a fog that was bothj erlng his eyes. 1 "We must lock them out. They must not get in here! We "Lock them out?" she almost screamed. "Open that door! I have prayed for 20 years for them to come and you close the door in their faces and "Hush! my dear Matilde! lam keeping out. the the soldiers.

Don't you realize that sonic of them will I rush in Just as I thought! I closed it in time. Some of them are trying to get in already! Lucky thing I thought of but wait! It may be Broadaxe or Strade or Mastil. Hello! Is that you, Julius? Who is it?" Matilde spoke, calmly now. is none of them. Col.

Starcourt. You will find their dead bodies where the fighting has been thickest. They are like Jonlfer Davos. Their forefathers fought with the Duke of Droon. Come! Carry her to her room.

Then leave us. I will care for her. She needs me now more than she needs you. She must open her eyes on a friend They are scarcer and rarer than lovers, my He took Oerane in his arms and carried her into the room beyond the curtains. As he laid her on the couch he bent and kissed her forehead.

"Now you are all mine, my own. darling. There is no one else, poor, poor little girl." His impulse was to seize weapons and rush out to join in the conflict, but common sense stayed him. He could do nothing; he would be an easy target for a score of deadly marksmen, and his place was with Oerane, the daughter of the man on w'hose head the crown had put a price. Running to one of the windows, he peered in the direction of the gap.

His heart sank. There were less than 50 dragoons in view, and they were still standing motionless, a short distance from the entrance. They were outnumbered! He could see the robbers running toward them, spreading out in wide, straggling formation. To him it looked as though the soldiers were at a loss to know whether these men were friends or foes, for as yet no shot had been fired. Heavens." he gulped "Thewwill pick those boys off as if they were rabbits.

What is the matter with In his excitement he yelled, forgetful of distance and his own isolation: "At them! Come on! stand there and Then the robbers began to shoot. He saw them stop, take aim, and fire, and then, leaping in zigzag fashion, run forward again, only to halt and shoot once more. Sick at heart and groaning he turned away. Suddenly he was conscious of a darting, cruel pain in his head. He put his hand up to feel and took it away instantly, wet and sticky and warm.

For a moment he stared at it in the faint light from the window crack. And at once he was the soldier again. His brain cleared, his nerves and muscles were alive and responsive. Hurrying over to one of the palls of water near the door to the kitchen passageway he washed his face and hands; then, with nervous, impatient fingers, he wound a towel about his head, knotting it tightly at the back. The room was heavy with acrid smoke, grajAy dark; the atmosphere, charged with the smell and dust of powder, was suffocating.

He stood looking about him with narrowed, pinched eyes. There were three dead men in the over yonder bv the door. He must get them out of the way and cover them up before Oerane appeared. She must not see them. But what of her? Was she He strode to the curtained door and listened.

The sound of voices, I hushed and low, came to him, spurring him to swift action. Dragging the bodies of Jonlfer and Peter to the far end of the room, he covered them with curtains ruthlessly jerked down from the windows. He was thus employed when suddenly it dawned upon him that the firing not only was nearer, but had also increased in volume. Springing to a window, he glued his eyes to the crack, expecting to heart leaped! He began to yell like an enthusiastic boy. madly, exultlngly.

The whole lower end of the meadow swarmed with dragoons, while from the mouth of the crevasse a stream of horsemen poured. Scores of them, hundreds of them! They were everywhere. In the fields, along the road. he croaked hoarsely. "Come on.

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Nam rood May 11 to 14 MORGAN Inc. St, N. W. I out off from the sheltering forest, running before the green and red avalanche, whirling as they ran to shoot aimlessly at the troopers. The carbines of the dragoons were spitting Are and sabers gleamed In countless hands.

He saw men In the road dismount and, abandoning their horses, disappear among the trees on the heels of those who nad succeeded In reaching the wood; he saw empty testimony to the deadly aim of the robbers; he saw the troopers close In about the huddle of men not far below house, like a pack of hounds pouncing upon a cornered fox. No longer in doubt as to the outcome, and satisfied that no harm could now befall him or Gerane, he Jerked down the window bars and pulled out the protecting block of wood. As It tumbled to the floor, he could not help noticing that the side exposed to the fire of the besiegers was riddled with bullet holes. For a moment he stood, drinking In the crisp, fresh air, his gaze roving over the miniature battlefield. Here and there a lone figure, running through the snow, could be always there were horsemen riding toward him! So this was the end of the robbers of Droon Forest! And still the soldiers came up from the troopers, these, from the regular army.

The green and red own sweeping on toward the house. They were now less than a quarter of a mile away, A hand fell upon his arm. He whirled and faced Gerane. Her eyes, dark and with a hunted look in them, were gazing past him out upon the white meadow; her face was as white a "Oh, my he cried, throwing his arm about her. "Look at me! Look at me, Gerane out there! nothing can happen to you now.

I will shield you, protect you now, the rest of your life. You are not alone! You she whispered tremulously. soldiers! And whereoh. where, are all my people? She stiffened suddenly and, lifting her chin, looked into his eyes. is my father? Tell me! I must look at his face once more before do not fear for me, Gavan.

I am not a coward. I have been brought up to She withdrew herself from his arms. As he led her away from the window. Matilde, coming up from behind, cried out: "Watch her! She has a Startled, he caught the arm as it was quickly raised. His horrified eyes fell upon the glittering dagger in her hand.

Then they went slowly to her face. Her fingers released their grasp on the knife and it went clattering to the floor; her body sagged against him, as if all the strength had gone out of it. He caught her in his arms. You wouldn't have done She lifted her eyes. she asked, so calmly that he could not believe his senses.

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Starcourt," she Interrupted. am your prisoner now." "My prisoner? Nothing of the sort! You are my promised wife. You may forget, but I do not, Gavan, that I am the daughter of Jonlfer Davos. I am one of the wretches the crown has sworn to destroy. Just as those men out there are toeing destroyed.

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please. I promise not tolet me see my for a moment. 1 shall never ask to look upon him again. I shall not try toto escape "Oh. love you so, am sure of It, He led her to Jonlfer and turned back the covering.

She stood for a moment, as rigid as stone, peering down. Then she said, hastily, but without a break in her voice: "That Is all, Oavan. Cover him again." i shall never forget that he died de; fending said he. "They are cried Matllde from the window. "They are lng the they are wary.

An I officer is exclaimed 8 tar court, hla arm about Oerane. as ha drew her quickly toward the door. "You are safe, Oerane! These are my friends. Do not he she cried out, scornfully. "Let them (To be continued.) Would Increase Pensions.

An increase In the pensions allowed widows of Civil War veterans from S4O to SSO a month is provided in a House bill passed last nleht by the Benate. The widows would have to be 73 years old to receive the benefits. More coal was mined In Canada last year than in any previous twelvemonth. 35.