Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1924, Page 35

-BELL SYSTEM DENIES :, “MONOPOLY OF AIR” -' hjun;:ti.ol_:”l’roqeedings Dech.red Brought Only to Protect . Patent Rights. PUBLIC HELD BENEFITED Officiaf Explains “Action in New " “York Court. By the. Associnted Press. NEW-YORK, March 7.—The Ameri- can Telephone: and Telegraph Com- | fully half will be “heavy stuff,” such | Thomas Jefferson.” pany does not desire “a monopoly of the alr,” H. B. Thayer, its president, declared in commenting on the suit “brought by the corporation to re- straln station WHN from broadcast- ing A. T. & T. radlo programs. The action was only an attempt to pro- tect--patent rights controlled by the _complainant for. radlo broadcasting devices, Mr. Thayer said. Station WHN is operated here by Blarcus Loew and George Schubel. “When the public became interested ! in entertainment . by wireless tele- phonie” ‘broadcasting.” Mr. Thayer said, “the telephona company ar- ranged so that these Inventions could become available to the public by pur- chase of apparatus at reasonable prices. Attempt to Limit Stations. “When it appeared likely that a multitude of ' broadcasting stations would destroy the value of this enter- tainment, the t@lephone company es- tablisked & station and offered its fa- cilities for hire, with the hope and expectation that that arrangement Would do away with a large number of - stations interfering with each other, and thus |n\errermg with the enjoyment of the public. For the same reason it has re- fused to license other stations to operate for hire. s whole matter of entertain- ment of the public by wireless tele- phony is very new and regulations necessary for Its preservation have not been established, but have been under consideration h) the only body which can legally provide for their establishment, and that is the Con- &ress of the United States. Whenever Congress acts. we shall gladly ac- cept its regulations as relleving us from any obligation to protest the public. "We have no desire for a monpoly of the air. v Intringement Claimed. “Some of our patents which can Dbe used in broadcasting have been in- fringed, many times carelegsly and sometimes wantonly. We have offered to license the infringers at reason- able rates. “The courts have held that unless the owners of patents protect them- selves and prosecute infringements, the patents lapse: so that when | licenses are not accepted we must either prosecute infringers or ‘M «effect dedicate to the public valuable property.” . Weather Radio Service. Chile is planning to establish a broadcasting system to carry weather | and meterological reports to its farm- | ers. The plan is similar to that used by the United: States Department of Agriculture. Radio telephone methods will be employed, so that all may listen-in without mastering the na- tional code. One-Tube Receiving Set that receives with clarity and strength SAVOY Jr. Complete with WD-12 2.800-ohm phones, anten: groand ‘Ira. Insulators, tery and “B” battery. Small Payment Down—Then $1 A WEEK Ha\:;?o;:lmé;cle Sales Co. 522 10th St. N. W. Matn 6588 Open Saturday Evenings. Army Supply Co. 1203 Penna. Avenue - BEGINNERS' CRYSTAL SETS, $L75 b Other - complete Crystal Sets, $875 and $10.75, in- cuding aerial, headset, insu- lators, crynlIBnnd bell wire. U. S. Navy Tubes Standard ‘Socket ... ....... .50 Deroren Ampifier and De- tector Tube $325 Radiotrons, all kinds. . HEADSETS Stromberg-Carlson ..... $3.95 -Single Headset, Army style, $L75 Aeclodion Headsets CR VSTALS Reflex Fixed Ci Spe:iy-‘l“-":_ $1.25 B-Metal Loud \\\1{] }/ o T.lkmgogrynd Solid Gold Sciderin, lr#a onglne. 48¢ Dry CeB “A” Batter, “B” INDOOR AERIALS. VICT! ATTAGH- MEN ‘I‘ 57¢c 2,3 and 4 inch dials. Aerial Wire, 7x22 . R. C, Condensers, 23. R. C. Condenser, 23- ONE-TlfiE Sl T'.en plete an phoncs, “tube, - headscl bat bat- tories, insulators, Bell wire. NEW CHICAGO STATION WILL SERVE FARMERS | | Opens About April 1 and’ Will Be Veritable Radio University for Agriculture. Special Dispatch to The St | CHICAGO, March 7.—The nation's farmers will have a veritable radio university at thelr disposal when the great new Sears-Roebuck broadcast- ing station opens about April 1, ac- cording to plans announced by the company today. Ninety-five per cent of the prn- grams to be broadcast from the yet unnamed station, it was stated, will be designed especlally for rural con- sumption, and of this 95 per cent, us farmers might get if they had time to desert their acres and go to agricultural schools. The four main features of the pro- Erams as projected are: . A complete and detailed course in co-operative marketing, conducted by lecturers of the foremost universi- ties of the country. This caurse, it is claimed,” will be more comprehensive than the farmers could get in. any one university ‘in the world. 2. “The best agricultural story of Edgar L. Bill, director of the Illinois Agricultural 'Association, will have charge of this feature an: will obtain by wire from special cor- respondents in various sections of the country what he regands as the out- standing farm news of the day. The “best story” will be broadcast the same night it Is received. 3. A question and answer period, during which experts wil] answer any query the farmer in Seattle or Fort Worth may want to ask about crop conditions in Syracuse or San Fran- cisco, and vice versa. 4. Light entertainment. But even this will have a farm flavor. The bedtime story, for instance, .will be designed to catch the fancy of the boys and glrls down on the farm. U. . FIRM GETS OIL FIELD. Concession Granted by Spain in Two Provinces. MADRID, March 7.—An oil conces- sion has been granted by the govern- ment to the Spanish-American Petro- leum Company, says an annoyncement in the official gazette. The conces- slon gives the company the right to drill for oil on property owned by the state. The borings will be started in the provinces of Burgos and Alava, where oil deposits have been found. — e The Unlversity of Chicago has a foun- tain pen filling station where a pen may be filled for a_penny. HEAD SETS | Goaranteea. $2.65 Guaranteed . These head sets are markable value. They are very sensitive and loud on {1l any kind of set and are guar- i|ll anteed to satisfy or money s ... $2.50 Il crystaiset, witn $4.95 3,000-ohm phones Thomas Radio Basement 806 Eye St. NNW. a re- A Coupon Witil‘ Every 25¢c Purchase —at this store redemable on a_beautiful set of Rogers Silverware. Save the cou- pons and get the latest in ;elvcrwure the “King Tut” t. Cry: l:ut. PhSe i e $6.50 23-plate Vernier Dials, 5195 Sp-gettv.—ulw-ys Special MYERS’ TUBES Redyced to— Little Radio Shoppe 2926 14th St. N.W. U. V. 201 A Tubes . Loud Speaker . Music Master Horn : Aerial 720 12th $25.00 Manhattan Loud Spedker .. Music Master Metro CM :on'plete o Reflex Koehler Varlometer, Koehler Varicoupler. 1008 Penn. Ave. N.W: d|a Atwater-Kent No. 10, complm Open Evenings ' C.Ha.rdmg&Co.,lnc. RADIO SPECIALS * $18.49 $1000 Brandes \Rlce Head Pboneo $2.95 FRANKLIN SQUARE RADIO SHOP Open Emm(l-—&mlo, 2 P.M. Religlous services lrom the Eighth Street-Temple-of :>e Washington He- brew Congregation, followed by a concert by the United ‘States Navy Band Orchestra, are featured on the broadcast program tonight of WCAP. Appeals for the support ‘of the Emer- gency Hospital campaign and the movement to purchase Monticello as a national shrine will open this sta- tion’s program. Edward Clifford, chairman of the Emergency Hospital campaign will talk on “Why Emer- gency and Casualty Hospitals Must be Kept Open,” and John Barton Payne, former Secretary of the Inte- rior, will speak on “Monticello and The services of the Washington Hebrew Congrega- tion and the Navy orchestra concert will be interspersed with s talk by Jesse C. Suter on “Some Pertinent ¥acts Regarding Auto Reciprocity Between the District of Columbia and Maryland.” Are radio fans ever satisfied? An_experiment, conducted by sta- tion WSAI, Concinnatl, in conjunction: with the Cinainnati Post, in which the heart trobs of Miss Frances Jones, musical directress of the sta- tion, ‘were broadcast, brought a re- quest from a Wisconsin radio fan for test of a canary's heart beats by radlo. According to this “bug.” hu- man heart beats should ha: more or less easy to broadcast. When Paul A. Greene, WSAI engi- neer, was shown the letter he swoon- ed. Greene had spent a month exper- Imenting with and designing appar- atus with which to broadcast the ‘heart beats. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D. clurly for nearly an hour on that 'Ttls gueation lkewise is answired by .GEORGE G, DAVIES, Clarendon, and J. HOWARD HILL, Church, Va., the latter, nov-vor uylnx that the station is controlled y the Canadian Pacific Rallway Com- E‘HY. and :dflln‘ that the stations d by L. H. B. broadcasting & ket bl.ll game were CKCH, at Ot- wa and CHYC, at Montreal, Canada. FRANCES M. BAUMANN, Bowle, M, also sends a 7eply to thia ques- tion, and says that during the early part of the evening CKCH was broad- casting Jolntly With CHYC, at Mon- real. HAMMOND BROWN, 1124 B street northeast, makes this inquiry: “Could you tell me what station was broadcasting a talk about the United States government between 11 and 11:156 Tuesday, March 47 He mentioned about the President and of the state legislature, 1 am an owner of a crystal set and have gotten good results from it.” C. 1. SMITH, 1905 15th street, asks: “Can you tell me what station was broadcasting between 2 and 2:30 am. Tuesday, during which a man whom they called ‘the Ealy Bird’ was singing? One number he sang was ‘It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo’ and_another something about ‘Land of Dreams’ I understood the an- nouncer to say they were broadcast- ing from the Brinkley-Holmes (?) broadcasting station, but did not get call letters. H. L. V., Benning, D. C., makes this Inquiry: “’Can you let me know, through the N | radio column, at what station a man gave a very clear and accurate talk on birds and animals this evening (Tuesday) at about 7:30 o'clock? The Pittsburgh bedtime story cut out the above announcement for me. The (Continued on Thirty-sixth Page.) More than 5,000 fans throughout |.. the country reported having heard the throbs. ‘The experiment was can- ducted during one of WSAI's Satur- day midnight popular programs. t T Were King” will be produced tonight by the WGY Flayers: R. C. WOOLFOLK, 400 Shepherd street northwest, sends this answer !D a query in this column: “Answertmg_the query of JOHN DAVIDSON, Kensington, Md., the sta- {tion he heard was CKCH, Canadlan Natlonal railway, Ottawa, which was opened February 27. 1 received them $2 Installs Qur Sets. J-D-y Specisl— $8 Crystal Sets, ¥4 i . Including® s ,000-Obm Phones and wh‘ $2 Spring Aerial (125 ft.).. Long-Distance Crystal Sels In 8xl4 Cabinet, $6 Phones' Included, $18 Distant Stations Guaranteed or Money Refunded Gl Mamtecturers Baprysntacive, 13 EX. aily, Sundays, 10-13 AM._ er 35 P.M. Boony 285,156 14th N.W. 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