Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1923, Page 41

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RED IT CO, o SES R N e, OfRoes in All Principal Oities, \ exclaimed Pat. | £ She's | stati pite a great deal of Interference, a8 progressed to a point where it s of great value, radio engineers agree that if the country is to realize the ETeater possibllities of wireless tele- phony without golng through years of ineffictent service and financial loss, broadcasting must ultimately be organized along national lines The questions of who eventually is to do broadcasting, or of how it is to be pald for, and how to utilize all available wave lengths so that the greatest good will come to the great- est number must be answered before broadcosting can be put upon an éen- during and satisfactory basis. Successful broadcast wireless tele- phony is only a little more than a {ear old. Broadcasting today i3 be- ng done by electrical manufacturing companles, automobile school papers, chambers of commerce, stal universities, department stores, gov- ernment departments, etc. Depend- ing upon the size of the station and clags of service rendered, the cost of operating these stations ranges trom $26,000 to $100,000 & year. It is popularly believed that radio communications can be carried on through the alr to an unlimited ex- tent. Unfortunately that is not true. The spaces in what scientists call the “ether.” through which communica- tlons may be carried are very limited. They are like a small number of par- allel paths or a city street, upon which only o many men can march shoulder to shoulder. In many Instances in the past year because of the limited number of wave lengths avallable for broadcast- ing and the large number of stations trylng to operate on these wave lengths. there has been a great deal of Interference. Generally one of two things has happened—either good programs have suffered from this in- } terference or stations capable of ser: ing many thousands of listeners have been asked to give up time on specific wuave lengths to stations less well 1equipped, which can at best serve only small communities and a limited number of listeners with local pro- grams. . The radio art, however, is advanc- ing very fast, and the ultimate effect | of broadcasting upon the economic, soclal, religious, political and educa- tional Jife of the country and the world 1s comparable only with that of the discovery of printing 500 years ago. Today broadcasting stations are sending out news, musle, lectures, concerts, crop reports, weather re- ports, time signals, religlous services, as well as fire and police warnings. Systematic broadcasting of educa- tional matter also s being experi- I mented with in many places. | Broadcasting has appealed to the imagination as no other scientific de- velopment of the time. Thousands of letters have been and are received by the broadcasting stations, most of them expressing profound apprecl {tion for the. services rendered, some of them commenting upon the quality of the service and the programs ren- dered. These letters show that the successful station manager, in order to satisfy the public, must in some measure be an Interpreter of public tastes and opinion, as a musical critic, | a spiritual adviser, a statesman and an expert upon education. New High-Power Station. The radio corporation of America is erccting a high-power station at Monte Grande, near Buenos Alres, in Argentina. It will consist of eight steel lattice-work towers, each €90 feet high, supporting the antenna, and two alternators of 400 kilowatts ca- pacity. It Is expected that the sta- tion will be ready for operation in July, at which time it will represent a_total Investment of approximately $6,000,000. ] Broadcasting Statistics. Two hundred and thirty-one of the 570 broadcasting stations in the United States are operated by electrical manu- | facturers and dealers. Newspapers and publications come second on the list with seventy-five stations, while educa- tional institutions are a close third with sixty-five station: Churches and Y. M. C.A.’s operate ten mations; eight are run by plumbing and hardware stores; automoblle dealers have seventeen: d partment stores, thirty: musical insti- tutions and stores, ten; banks, five; clubs and societies, four; railroad an power companies, four, and laundries, one. The remainder of the total number are operated by stock yards, poultry farms, grain dealers, mine supply houses, oll companies, telephone and telegraph compaples, parks, state bu- reaus, theaters, and one I8 conducted by a tombstone maker. Eighty-six sta- tions are Msted as ‘“‘business engaged In by the owner unknown. Program of Station WJH. The Luke Benton Orchestra and five Washington artista will give the pro- gram Tuesday night of Station WJH of the White & Boyer Company, it was announced last night by Willam M. : Doran, director of programs of the sta- tion. Those who will take part are: Miss E. Payne, violinist, accompanied by Miss England; Mrs. W. Owens Ison, reader; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Falk, pianists, and Miss Josephine T. Gould, soprano. Troubles of the Radlo Fan. The radio fan Is apt to experience disappointment when he finds that the high voltage leads from the “B' bat- t-ly have been accidentally connected atross the fllament posts of his re- ceiver and one or more tubes arc burn- ed out. Although the normal life of the average Radiotron fllament is consider- ably more than 1.000 hours, it requires but an instant # destroy this delicate filament when excessive voltages are applied to it terminals. hen fllaments are hortened across a twenty, forty or sixty volt battery in new condition the burn- out requires but a fraction of a sec- ond, and unless the user happens to be inspectimg the tube at the instant of the flash, the damage would not be discovered until the set was used agaln. It is a very easy matter to protect tube filaments by either of the following means: (a) Insert a 100-ohm (non-induc- tive) resistance for each 22-volt block of “B” battery in the circuit next to the positive terminal of the “B* battery. This resistance mav be left permanently in the olreuit with out any effects whatsoever in the normal life of the recelving set. (b) Probably the most convenient form of resistance is a 28-watt, 110- volt tungsten lamp, which will pro- vide sufficient protection for plate voltages up to and including 100 volts This resistance automatically increases with the current, s to act, in effect, as a protective bal lamip. Meet Storm Emergency. ‘With all wire service crippled by the storm which recently swept through the middle western states, 9ZN, the bi, owned by H. G. Mathews, central division manager of the American Radlo Relay League, succeeded in lo- cating trains on the Chicago Great ‘Western rallroad west of the Mis: sipp! river. radio,” as it is known by amateurs, was the only means of communica- tion between the railroad offices in this city and the division headquar- ters in Des Moines and St. Paul The morning that the telegraph and telephone wires failed, WDAP, the Drake Hotel broadcast station in Chi- cago, attempted to got information regarding the movement of traina throughout this territory by work- ing broadcast stations st Minneapolis and Davenport, Iowa. ' The manage- ment also attempted to work ama- teurs, byt was unable to do so on account of the difference in wave longths. Soan afterward Mathew: was asked to get in touch with di m fhlnz points by means of amateur o. 9ZN unfortunately was out of com. mission, due to the fact that some of the apparatus had been stolen. An hour later, however, the big trans- mitter started to call amateurs in Iowa and Minneapolis, and the am: teurs nlnkhv began to obtaln the in- ormation desired from their local lon nts. Amateurs had th age! right of way and hroadcast program ‘were interruptea irequently by the. |a thre The “hub of amateur|guirements for Small sages. From 0 o'clock in the eve- ning until 1 o'clock the next morning reports were received from station agents all along the route and for- warded to the office of the general manager. With the asi missing trains Plaint of British Publie. British radio fans are complaining bitterly of the arbitrary _system inaugurated by the post office partment of taxing each owner of a receiving set to luzrnrt the broad- casting _company which supplies & mediocre of -silly news reports and impossible dance music, according to recent news dispatches, The combined effect of government interference and {nefficient broad- casting, according to the reports, is to make thousands of so-called air pirates, who refuse to pay any tax whatever on homemade sets. Through various Independent _organizations amateur receivers are expressing their bellef that no excuse exists for giving sole broadcasting rights to the British broadcasting company or any other one firm, nor is there any necessity for revenue if healthy pri- vate competition is allowed full sway. As the law now nds eve! ecelv- s0ld must be under the stamp h broadcasting company, which means that the extra prize - cluden the government tax. Thousands of companies outside the combine, however, it is said, manus facture and sell individual parts from which satisfactory sets are easily made. The home manufactire today is mo great that fully 75 per cent of the recelvers are of “pirate typ license being obtained for the' as- sembled product. Dozens of private firms are willing to undertake broad- casting programs immedlately with- out any charge to the public. Under the present system many owners of receiving outfits tire quick- Iy, and after listening to one or two mediocre programs turn all their in- genuity to strengthen their instru- ments 8o as to hear programs in other countries. Little hope of breaking the post office monopoly exists, but the British fans think they can force the official broadcasting company to improve their programs and give out real news instead of soclety items. History of WIL. Station WIL was the first station to broadcast mueic and concerts in this city, and it {s considered the ploneer broadcasting sgation of this city. Its aerial system 18 one of the main and most important parts, and it is due to this advanced aerlal system that such extraordinary results have been obtained. There are two towers: one 18 forty-eight feet from the roof, which {s located in the front part of -story bulldlnf. and the second tower is sixty-four feet high. and is located in the rear of tF bullding. The height Sbove the g ®1d is 110 feet above all. These towe.s are co structed of Oregon fir two inches square, and are designed after the standard Navy-type towers. The towers are guyed with No. 10 phos- phor bronze wire. Two thousand feet of this wire was used to guy the towers so as to support the aerial equipment suspended between them The lead-in is of the cage type, and it Is composed of six wires sixty-five feet long. The aerial is of the flat- top type, and it i{s also composed of six wires sixty-five feet long on twenty-foot spreaders of two-inch clear spruce pine. Directly under this aerial is a six-wire counterpoise sixty-five feet long placed thirty-five feet’ from the flat-top aerfal. The wires carrying the power from the wet to the aerial is of No. 4 stranded wire, and the power wires to the counterpolse is also of the same size wire. The transmitting set is composed of two five-watt tubes: one is used as oscillator and the other is modula- tor. The circult employed in this set is known as the improved British alr- craft circuit, designed by Mr. Stanley of the Royal British Radio Corpora- tion. The power for the set is fur- nished by a motor generator. The power that {s dellvered to the two tubes can be varied from 350 to 550 volts of direct current. All leads from the set to the aerial and counterpoise are of hollow brass tubing, which al- lows nothing to be lost. ‘The modu- lating system of this set is known as & Hysing system. There are two microphones used in conjunction with the transmitting set.” One Is a Magnavox special tone arm for the sending of grafanola se- lections. The other {s a Stromberg- arlson No. 2 microphone, which is used for making announcement of the selections to be played. An acousticon is used for special concerts when the sound has to be picked up from a large area. The output of this set under normal working conditions is one and a_ halt amperes, which about one-half of what the set ls capable of putting out The motor and generator are two separate units. Jne has no metallic connections with ‘he other, no that there is no genera- tor hum delivered into the ether while he broadcasting Is In progress. This ‘e taken care of by a speclal no- reakage coupling between the two *nits. The station has been heard as far wuth as Little Rock, Ark., and as far torth as Springfleld, Mass. Verifica- lons have been received from Los Angeles, Calif, and also from Essex, alif. Several people in Omaha, Neb., and Canadian amateurs have picked WIL up on several occasions. The set waa deaigned and bullt b‘ d at the firm, witl Inspection to the public, and the oper- ators will be glu.d to explain anything relative to the station to them b tween the hours of 9 a.m. and 6:; .m. This station was formerly known as 3 B.V., the pioneers of radio broad- casting in the District -of Columbia. It conducts an experimental labora- tory and construction department for ‘4o benefit of radio people of this city, and will be glad to give all in- formation as far as its forces can on this subjeot. PLAN TO SAVE MILLIONS TO BUILDERS OF HOMES New Government Code of Standards Will Greatly Simplity Construction. More than a billion dollars was spent in this country last year in the construction of small one and two- family homes, bullt under the vary- ing restrictions and standards im- posed by three hundred odd bullding code: about forty of which are changed every year with such per- sistent regularity that contractora tear their hair and weep in impotent rage. g Bright promise for the relief of such a situation is held out in th amateur radio stationed | publication of a report by the De- partment of Commerce's division of bullding and Mousing and advisory Mmm":ttn on bullding codes, whic has just gone to press under the tle: *“Recommended ~ Minimum Re. Dwalling - struction.” Boiled down, the chief recommen- dations contained in this report— which, it is believed, will be made standard for all bullding codes— show that oight-inch walls are strong enough for two and three- story houses under certain conditions, whereas many building codes now in use require twelve-inch walls. Floor loads of forty pounds per foot for timber construction, and thirty for monalithic types are wlfld aut- ficlent as a basis for caloulation strength, instead of the sixty ane seventy-pound loads now required in some cities. Within a short time & subcommit~ tee of plumbing codes, which is work- ing with the dlvision of building and housing, eéxpects to make recom- mendations which probably ‘will be embodled in_the standard buildtng codes. The Bureay of Standards 1z now working on experiments in amal! hou plumbing tallation, and these teats already ehow that & n-!ni e In lace of {ag four-in¢h piDe uses, lace o oW Faquired by hait the bullding codes in the countri I ! Defeat of Legislation Intended to Elim- ‘inate Confusion in Ether Lanes Saves Blow to Pastime of American Youth. BY PAUL GRIGGS. The Senate filibuster of the recent- ly expired Sixty-seventh Congress in- directly affected American radio both advantageously and disadvantage- ously. i It served to forestall on the one hand, hasty consideration and po: sibly favorable action by the Senats| on a bill passed by the House con- | taining a provision which reverses | what may be characterized as one of | our national radio policies and hith- erto regarded as traditional, if the word may be used in the infant sctence of radlo. The provision in the bill in ques- tion (H. R. 1377%) establishes the re- markable precedent of Imposing a “tax” on the most fascinating hobby avallable to the wverage Awmerican boy—the ownership and operation of a radio- transmitter as well as a re- celver with the resultant facilities afforded him for practical experi- mentation in, and techpical study of radio. On the other hand the Senate fili- buster indirectly prevented the pass- age of this bl which was framed primarily for the laudable purpose of eliminating as far as humanly possi- ble the confusion bordering on chaos In ether lanes, an accomplishment advocated and desired by every one including the radio amateur. Under our existing radio laws the amateur is restricted but he is not taxed. He is restricted to the minia- ture wave lengih of 200 meters, whereas the commercial, govern- mental and other agencies employing radio utilize waves ranging in length from, 200 meters to_the monster waves of 25,000 meters. These cles may employ even longer waves or waves shorter than 200 meters if they wish, but the amateur is assigned a single wave in the ether lanes and he stays there. Restrictiow of Amateurs. Likewise under existing law the amateur is restricted to an electrical power input into his transmitter of only one kilowatt, whereas the power vhich may be employed by other classes of stations is unlimited and actually reaches as high 1,000 kill- watts- In present practice. In addition to these restrictions the amateur must obtaln from the gov- ernment a license for his transmitting tatibn and another for himself as an operator, and under the same gen- eral conditions as those applying to the largest commercial radio con- cern, before he can operate his sta- tion. Effective restrictions and absolute governmental control are therefore mnaintained over the radio amateur under existing law and obviously the imposition of a tax on the amateurs will not strengthen this control, if this is the motive for the tax. Nor will it eliminate or lessen the existing confusion in radio, because the interference complained of is in the ether lanes occupled by the broadcast waves Tanging in length from.300 to 400 meters and higher. The amateurs working wave of 200 meters will not ordinarily interfere with the programs broadcast on wave lengths of 360 meters employed the majority of Tadlophone statio: for example. s In exceptional cases, where an ama- teur station situated {n the immediate vielnity of receiving stations and us ing oWsolete transmitting equipment wfih consequent very “broad” wa or where an amateur station is tuned to & wave higher than that allowed, such interference may sometimes oc- cur. The remedy for such poesible vio- lations of present radio law, however, are provided for in the existing statutes themselves. Exasperating interference experi- enced in present-day radio, other than matu own “static” Interference, is traceable to the existing congestion in the narrow band of broadcast and due to the numerous t stations of long and short range, all utilizing these broadcast r lanes at the same time. ‘Harmonics” and other forms of in- terference given off on superfluous waves of length shorter than their working waves by the higher power radio_telegraphic stations are also a prolific cause of annoyance. Shorter Leagth Waves. The amateur cannot be charged with such forms of interference, because harmonics or other superflucus waves are always of a length shorter, rather than longer, than the stations work- ing wave which gives them off. Any disturbance which may exist in the ether on wave lengths shorter than 200 meters do not interfere with any radlo service, for the reason that waves shorter than 200 meters are not used in present-day practice. Neither a desire on the part of the overnment to strengthen its control ver the amateurs, therefore, nor the elimination or lessening of the ob- Jectionable interference can logically e ascribed as the motive for the pro- posed tax. The only other logical motive of the framers and supporters of the ama. teur tax gruvlllan in_the bill must theref e the question of revenue, On th! umption we are confront- ed with a precedent involving the levying of a direct tax on redio and, unfortunately. the placing of by far the greater burden of the tax net on i 1 l the various agencies which employ radio either directly or indirectly for financial profit, but on a comparative. 1y small number of our juvenile popu- lation, who save their pin money to buy apparatus from the commercial agencies #o that they may employ their lelsure time in radio experi- ments and study and conversing through space in the language of “dots and dashes” of the radio code with other distant amateurs, rather than patronising the street corners and the poolrooms. The bill provides that all radio transmitting stations (excepting only the government stations) from the great high-power transocean stations to the minature amateur stations, must obtain from the Department of Commerce a “station license” and one or more “operators’ licenses” before they can be operated, which, under existing law, are also required, but are granted free to the commercial agencles as well as to the amateur. A mchedule of license “fees” is pre- vided for, ranging from $300 for the high-power transocean commercial stations, of which there are at pres- ent ten; 350 for the average power coastal ' telegraph and ~radiophone broadcast stations, of which there are now approximately twenty of the former and, say, 600 of the lat down to $10 for the less restrict. and $250 for the more restricted amateur stations, of which there are now a total of possibly 20,000. Proportionate Expense. Thus, from the point of view of gross revenue, leaving out of con- sideration the high overhead cost of collecting and accounting, especially as regards the widely scattered 20,- 000 individual amateur stations, the agencies which operate stations for financial profit will pay collectively about one-half the total sum for shore station fees or tax that the radlo amateurs will be required to pa b Assuming that even only 10 per cent of the amateurs should be granted the less restricted license to operate their 2,000 statlons, leaving the bal- ance of 18,000 amateurs to pay the lower tax, they must annually pay $65,000 in fees. inst $34,000 paid by the concerns which operate their stations either directly or indirectly for financial gain. These figures, while approximations, are sufficlently accurate to clearly | lustrate what obviously must be re- garded as additional unjustifiable r rictions on the radlo amateur—re- rictiens which, if put into effect, will undoubtedly result in the actual suppression of many existing and prospective amateur radio stations, especially those of the average Amer- fcan boy of no great financial means. Radlo amateurism has flourished in the United States as in no other coun- try. The amateur is a national as- set in American radio as a volunteer, self-contained, radio reserve force for the national defense; in the interests of safety of life at sea; as a factor in the gradual unfolding and develop- ment of the science of radio, and in our pre-eminent position in the inter- national radio fleld. The hampéring of his efforts by the imposition of an annual fee or tax should be submitted to the ocourt of public opinion for approval or dis- approval before such provisions are enacted Into law. (Copyrighted, 1923. 21at Century Press.) $250,000 ALLEGED BADGER GAME LOSS | New York Woman, Accused by Jewelry Salesman, Held in $5,000 Bail. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 7.—Christina Magruder, a modiste, was held In 95,000 bail today on a charge of stealing jewelry from Max Bernstein, & jewelry salesman, after Bernstein's lawyer had accused her of particl- pating in a badger game by means of which Bernstein had lost nearly $250,000 in gems. Opposing Miss Magruder’'s plea for an adjournment, Benjamin A. Hart- stein, Bernstein's lawyer, said to Magistrate Stmi “I denounce this woman as a clever badger worker, who preys on rich married men, and I charge that she is somewhat im- plicated In a quarter-of-a-million- dollar robbery in Baltimore in 1921, when my client was robbed of a large quantity of jewelry by two men, who, we belleve, are: friends of hers and who now are serving terms of ten and twenty years.' WEEKLY BANK REPORT. NEW YORK, April 7.—The weekly clearing house statement showed de- creases of $79,640,000 in loans, Al counts and investments, and $56,- 237,000 in net demand deposits and 10,466,000 in the reserve of member anks in the federal reserve bank. Cash in own vaults was increased By $2,144,000, and time deposits by $8§ €18,000. 'Aggregate reserve totaled :‘Ol.lt ,000, leaving excess reserve of 12,276,570, a decrease of $2,622,930 be- low that of last week. Radio Fans, Here’s Opportunity Sale of Bankrupt Stock of Radio We purchased this for such cause, and you the stock lasts. Aerial Insulators ... 23 Plate Variable Condensers.... Supplies At Savings Apparent on Sight! bankrupt stock at the bargain rate that applies when goods are sold can profit largely while Be prompt, for these low prices mean quick action. Note these low prices! Stromberg Carlson Plugs, each... Western Electric Phones: .70c $6.00 00 $1 Thordarson Transformers ._...._..$1.75 LANSBURGH EEER——TT, —Ragte Dept., Fourth Floor. & BROTHER 420-430 Seventh St. N. Schedule of Wireless News and Entertainment. DISTANT STATIONS. All ‘programs scheduled for eastern standard time. WSB—Atlanta Journal (400 Meters). 11:64 a.m.—Bervices of the First Presbyterian Church. o 6 to 7 p.m.—Sacred concert. 8:30 to 10 p.m.—Services from the Wesley Memorial Church. WDAF — Kamsas City Star (400 Meters). 6 to 6 p.m.—Concert program. WWJi—Detroit News (400 Meters). ;km —Detroit News Orchestra. p.m.—8ervices from St. Paul's Cathedral. WGY—General _Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. (370 Meters). 11 am.—Services of St. George's Episcopal Church. 3 pm—~WGY Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m.—Choral Evensong, accord- ing to English Cathedral use from St George's Eplscopal Church. WHAS — Loulaville Courier-Journal (360 Meters). 10:57 a.m.—Organ music, followed by mervices of Broadway Baptist Church. 5 to 6 p.m—Concert by the First Christian Church Endeavor Society of Louisville. WIP—Gimbel Brothe (400 11 am.—Services from the Holy Trinity Memorial Chapel. 2 to 3:30 pm—Popular classical orchestra recftal. 7 p.m.—Bedtime story; roll call. WEAF — American 3 p.m.—Lecture Dwight Hillls. 3:40 to 5:80 p.m.—Men’'s _conferen at_the Bedford branch, Y. M. C. A. 720 to 9 pm._Musical program direct from the Capitol Theater. 9:15 to 9:30 p.m.—Talk. 9:30 to 10:30 p.m.—Organ recital by Dr. Newell 145 a.m.—8ervices of the East End_Christian_Church. 2:30 p.m.—Bible story for the children, by Rev. W. A. Logan, pastor of the Alpha Lutheran Church, Tur- tle Creek, Pa. 2:45 p.;m—8acred concert. 4 gan recital by D Hefnroth, organist and di- rector of the Carnegle Institute. 4:45 p.m—Vesper services of the Shadyside Presbyterian Church. 45 Pm—Services of the First Chieago Meters). 12 noon—Central Church services. 4:30 p.m.—Chapel services. 8 p.m.—Chicago Sunday Club services. WJIZ—Westinghouse, Newark, (360 Meters). 10:30 am.—Musical program. 11 a.m.—Services from St. Thomas' Church, Gth avenue, New York cit 3 p.m.—Radio chapel services by Rev. B. F. Dickizon, pastor of the Central Methodist Church, Newark, N.,i; Sacred music by the church choir. 3:45 p.m.—Concert by Ruth Bear Addls, contralto. i 4:15 p.m.—“Something for Every- body,” ‘copyrighted stories by the Youth's Companion. 6:30 p.m.—"“Readings and Record: from the Bubble Books That Sing. 7 p.m.—"“Coming events cast their shadows before—what present world vain and interpretation” by " the nterpretation the York Times Annalist. X 7:16 p.m—Organ recital from the Estey Auditorium, New York City. Real _Significance of by Ellen Marle Jensen an American lecturer. 8:15 p.m.—Concert by Agnes Nen- orff, soprano. 8 p.m.—Concert by the Wal- Astoria Symphonic Orchestra. The sololst for this evening is Joseph Sherman, violinist. 9:65 1o 10 p.m.—Arlington time signals, we.ther forecast. 0:01 p.m.—Concert by Bianca Sherwood, soprano from Loulsiana, and who speclalizes In southern songs. WLW—Crosley Manufacturiag Com- pany, Cincinnati (360 Meters). 12 noon.—Services of the Church of the Covenant. ‘WOC — Palmer School, Davenport, Towa (400 Meters). 8 p.m.—Church Servic \ 9 p.m.—Musical program. WGM — Atlanta Constitutio: Meters 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.—Special concert. 10:30 to 11:30 p.m.—Concert. —_— DIVIDENDS DECLARED. NEW YORK, April 7.—National Department Stores, Inc., has declared an initial quarteriy dividend of 1% per cent on first preferred, payable May 1 on stock of record April 20, and an initial dividend of 2% per cent on second preferred, covering four months ru‘led to June 1, being at the rate of 7 per cent per annum, able June 1 on stock of record 20. Dividends hereafter on sec- oncll preferred will be payable quar- terly. (400 Evening N. 3 direct (400 Dr. Wood on “Self C LOCAL STATIONS. ival Radio Statie Ra 10 Merernyr 10 V! 10:06 a.m. and 10:05 p.m.— r bureau report. g NAA—N WDM—Church of the Covenant (380 Meters). ¢ 11 am—Morning service: ser: by Rev. Dr. Charles Wood, pastor. 3:15 ° ‘p.in.—Preliminary = musical program, 3:30 p.m.—Afternoon service; ser- mon by Rev. Dr. Wood on “Finding God in Light and Electricity”; solos by Mrs. Flora McGill Keefer, con tralto; ‘Miss Elsa Raner, violluist, ichard Lorleberg, violon-cellist. § p.m.—Evening service; sermon by lture as a Means or an End, Illustrated in the Life of the German Poet Goethe”; evening cholr of 100 voices. WIAY—Woodward & Lothrop Meters). 4:45 p.m.—Musical vespers from the First Congressional Church; program by the Colgate University Glee and Instrumental clubs of forty musiclane (380 WJH—~White & Boyer Meters). 8 pm.—Services of the Vermon® Avenue Christian Church: sermon by Rev. Earle Wilfley, pastor; music b cholr, and mixed and male quartet MAYOR ONE OF TRIO GIVEN PRISON TERMS Jurors in Rock Island, Ill., Saluted After Finding Politicians Guilty. By the Associated Press. ROCK ISLAND, L, April 7.—Mayor H. M. 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