Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1924, Page 36

MORE SETS NEEDED FOR D. C. “SHUT-INS” Appeal Again Will Be Made To- night Over WCAP for Addi- tional Apparatus. " PATHETIC LETTERS WRITTEN Financial Relief Being Offared to Needy. ‘With only about half the rumber af crystal receiving sets needed to meet the demand of the deserving ‘“Bhut- ins” in Washington, Le Roy Mark will again appeal to the radic. sudi- ence through WCAP tonight to do- nate more apparatus. The mors tan £,000 Boy Scouts in the District have volunteered to install the sets and erect the antennas, a few: cash com- tributions have been contributed tp ha]f pay for the wire, insulators, etc, all that is lacking to make th. §ampaign & success is more crywtal sets. A number of crystal sets, discarded by radio fans when they graduated to i the tube-receiver class, were left at the Piggly Wiggly groceries and Peo- ples Drug Stores during the week. as directed by Mr. Mark in his radio talk | last Sunday night. These stores will continue to act as receiving stations until a sufficient number of sets have been donated. Those wha plan to do- | nate their crystal sets to the poor and needy “shut-ins” should attach their name to them in some manner in or- der that they may be acknowledged Mr. Mark plans to give the sets contributed by the fans of Washing- ton to all “shut-ins” who furnish a note from clergymen or phystelans. More than 400 names of such persons | already have been sent to him. Since announcement of his plan last Sunday night, Mr. Mark has been literally swamped with letters recit- ing pathetié conditions: existing the homes of the “shut-ins” in Wash- ington and many of the eastern States. Numerous offers also were made to aid financially the poor worman whose appealing story was published in The Star last Sunday and told to the radio audience by Mr. Mark. Pathetic Lettern. Some of the additional pathetic cases callsd to Mr. Mark's attention are des-ribed in the following letters received by him: “Your voice over the radio tonight brought to my mind o very pathetic case of which I have Anown for sev- eral years. A girl who has such a large head she cannot raise it from the pillow. She has been helpless for many years. I first knew her at the Home of Incurablew, then fol- lowed her to the noor hotve, and then to her tiny home in the suburbs where she now is. I know that a radio would be a most wonderful diversion for her.” “You spoke over the radio Sunday night about installing radio sets for invalids. I would like to bring Your attention to a care of an old lady ‘who lives at —— M street. She jhas been helpless for ten vears, and in all of these years has only been out of doors but once, when she was moved by her old husband to another Bouse. She spends all of her tim day and night, in the same ! seeing nothing but the same tom— walls. *I"hope I am not too late with my letter for you to install one in her home, where it would be. like. sun- shine in a dungeon.” Nurse Fflfll‘.“ \-ne-‘ “T heard your talk concernirg %he wonderful work being accomplished for instelling radio for invalids. Be- ing a nurse it gives me extra pleas- ure to hear your plans to supply these sets for the shut-ins. 1 am sending you two names. “For over a year I nursed in‘the Home for Incurables, in Philadelphia, therefore, you can see that I know a lttle more than the average indi- vidual rhat this message of the air will bring cheer and comfort to the suffering, and. as the physicians say, take their minds off of themselves for many hours.” A Washington business man wrote Mr. Mark the name and address of & shut-in, and sald. “This man is certainly desgrving of some help. About eighteen months 2g0 he came to this country from Greece, without being able to speak the English language and at that time had only one eye. While work- ing in a grocery store a soda water bottle burst and he 1ost the other eve. Therefore, he is now totally blipd. When his wife found that he could never see any more she deserted him by running off with another man. The only way he has of earning a living is selling newspapers at the south- west corner of l4th and K streets. He can now speak broken English and states that he would be more than pleased if some good Samaritan ‘would give him a radio, as he has no amusement whatever. WJZ PROGRAM TONIGHT. Six XNoted Artists Will Be Pre- sented. Presenting six artists who have met with unusual favor with the radio esudience in previous nch-ul station WJIZ will broadcast a series of re- sitals tonight by Josephine Evans, Buth Bruns and Florence Oetje: John Marshall and Creighton All srnd Emilie Goetze and Harriet Youngs. Miss Evans is one of the most popu- lar of radio contraltos, her success in the concert fleld In the east having been duplicated by her several broad- cast recitals. Ruth Bruns, the phe- aomenally gifted young violinist, and Florence Oetjen, pianist, have given two prior recitals from station WJZ sponse from the listening audienc Creighton Allen, who was formerly a member of the staff of Broadcast Cen- tral as musical c¢ritic and who has been devoting his entire time since Mareh 1 to an intensive course of studv, is one of the most widely known concert planists in radio, and the joint recital by Mr. Allen and John Marshall, baritone, marks his 8rst radio appearance during May. ille Goetze, pianist, Harriet Joungs, soprano, are both familiar awures to Z fai both having given solo and joint recitals from that station. Fire at Ocean Clty,_ltd BURY, Md.. May 17—Flrl be- Meved to have been of ndlary origin early today destroved !!ln Ho- tel Frisch at Ocean City, Md,, and a time thréatened the southern end of the seashore ri L !!r‘ m panies from four ea: oco- moke, Berlin, Snow Hl“ lnd Sl“l- hury. ‘were called to the assistance of * the beach resort. RADIO’S BEST OFFERINGS TONIGHT. Musical program by “Roxle" and “his gang” from the studio of the Capitol Theater, New York, WEAF, New York. and WCAP, Washington, 6:20 to 8:15 p.m. Concert by six vocal and in- strumental artists who have met with unusual favor with the radio audience in previous recitals, WJZ, New York, 7:45 to 9 pm. Radio open foruu:. KDKA, Pittsburgh, 8:15 :15 paa. Organ nmal from th; Skin- ner studio, WEAF, New York ::9 \G'CAP Washington, 8:15 Long Range Radio Entertainment SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1924. The Programs of the Following Distant Stations Are Scheduled for Eastern Standard Time i Conces P .:g:-«rvm- of the hn Eud G ~Services o St Fean make: cholr oF 54 volean 10 10:004 ~Chapel services of Services of the Temple of organ mus! Services of the Church venan! Central Church ACI‘I'V s masie % ' 11:4%.—Sunday Symphony Society 12:00—Services of - Nareiee Cuuren ‘Pt ure) 1.:—|nui==x exercisea from the Beihany 1:30—-Organ recital from the Ficst Methodiet Radio Binie dia 1:45—LConcert program 2:00—Sacred program from the First Reformed nmn» Concert Izic quartet rmmnfnnmu and nou-scctarianfrom “Sungay Hvma Sh ki vocl i 2:13—Sacred recital 2:30—Zion_Band or T Symoliny Bithest i Ghapel, Services trom the "stadio Orchestra concert Radio chapel services Program by Mame. Mi Fowlcr, tenor “G»r;c‘w.mnxm- at Mount y D) Cniman of the Chiversity of Foonsyivamis, WDAR 37TO 4 3:00—Orean recital by Charles Heluroth . Concert by Esteile Sparks Interdenominatior ew York Federa ert: music la)-—\lunul program hapel services: StRees Sy B W ‘Wilkinson . 4:00—Vocal and instromental concert. Twilight program; address; ulus Hyman wi $:15—Josepha C 5:00~—Concert program Organ concert : Rostheast Hign Sei rel etioit News Orchestra . 5:15—Base bail 5:30—Vespers on Ernest Newton tion Crchestra Be45—Services of the Ameriean Dhitarian from the Arlington Street Church 6TO 7 6:20—Program same a: SRS Gy s of the Calvary Episcopal Church SQI":P:I ;{ I‘M l;’et'lun.yt .?n:zpy.lefll:’{'h 45— Servi hllll’ lt dhl Church. 7TO8 7:00—'“The Annalist's Talk for Business Men" -Preliminary services from the Chicago Evening Club uw Bible class of the First Presb; Sol Cohen. musie - e 7:15—Nathan_Abas andhis orchesira Hotel Commodore Orehestra . rvices of the Eirst Presbrterian Chiurch. Soisices of Bt Paule Fpiscopal Cathedral 7:45—Josephine Evass, contral 8:00—Ruth !rnnl. vlnhnh! B 8: u—nme ‘open ed by 'Rev. s ot 'the Eagy WCA arsha’ Musical program Bervices of the First & mal Classical pmlmflfl 8 Weriey Stemori Jules Herbaveauz's’ Orchestra 9 TO 10 ‘ces of the Bethel Baptist Church . Emilie Goetze. pianist, and Harriet Yous| Harry Lawe: 'of the’ Cente Instrumental selectior Concert: First Presbyteri g0 Mosie memory compens . 30—Art Hickman's Orchestrs Da8Tver Cate” Tvio 10 TO 11 10:00—George Olsen's Concert Orchestra Miss Ruth Fablan, in song recita Musical chapel services: vocal soles Organ, recial from the First Methodist Musical 11:00—Ambassador Hotel rogram 12: iner comcert . Crockett’s Texans' 1:00—Cinderells Orchbestra. TO 11 AM. the Omaba Gospel Tabe cepe! rnacle 12'NOON T0 1 B, First 5! urch. Services o6 the Fim umf&'fif"&u‘r’& : Bethany Sonda 1 services nnder the auspices of Churches: ua by Dr. Frederick Staces e Springfield Municipal Chitme, Bad Christien Chorch . ] 1 g8 Gunfl . WB3 Omaba Pnadelphla B enrar Detroit Louisville £553K & BB EER S%3%E8S B BB 2 i Louisville Giaciunats New *Fork Atlanta Fort Wi E Br yess B 3% E§.§§ § 1 Los Angeles Los Angeles Philadelphia Los Angeles New York Pittsburgh \&m Woo .38 5!’5’ g Yow Yorx Bosto lu San g0 528 &8 San Franet New Tork®” Ihiladelph nectady Chicago Davenport Detroit New York Philadelphia EX3 Pittsburgh New York F New York i n New Yarl Phils |-aelnh Philade BE¥E¥ B¥ & ¥ %3S !led e e & £EEBE E3ENe £538s - S Pittsburgh Springfield Pittsbargh Boston P g J§88 New York Fort Worth New York Springtield Pittsburgh $E B 8 urch; or- £ B 35 asabe yuamedies Davenport Chicage New York Pletsbareh New York Ginctazaet York MeT oS e 308 Jefterson Oity 441 New York 360 Daveny Atlants Elgin, 1. Jobn 492 5 = paa aBE P 5 y82s 5;&553!3 858z By S E Los Angeles Los Angeles Los Angeles gw PN, 8§88 Portl'd, Oreg. Dallas” T F Omaba 3 s st 28 254 Episcopal 88 & Los A: hieagar Dallas Davenpart " E 1ot B! Los Aungeles Los Angeles San Francisce 35 4 & b ¢ § A es Bt A 3 B E J STAR’S RADIO APPRECIATION CARD WCAP—Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. 723 I3th St. NJ. WRC—Radio Corporation of Americs, 14tk St. and Park Rd. N.W. Mmmfiemnuuutmmwlmm brosdcasting station on .. = * The chief friendly suggestion I wish to make is: renessesssensiai - Nambers especially sppreciated FLORIDAN IS SELECTED AS CIVITAN CLUBS’ HEAD Stockton Broome of Jacksonville Succeeds Ernest Greenwood of . Capital——Session Ends To&\y. 2y the Assoctatot Froee MTAMY, Fla, May 17.—Election of af- ficers for the coming year occupied main attention of " delegates to. the fourth annual convention of Interna- tional Civitan at the second day’s ses- sion here. Stockton Broome, Jacksonville, Fla., unanimously was electsd ruidcm to succeed Ernelt Greenwood, ington, D. C. Upon the shoulders of !fllndl he carried to . ‘where he ation. named included Jelks Blnnlnrhun. first _vice |\ was voliced his ap] Oth dent of s.m.. club, rmra vice pre-ulu:t. A D. ‘Winchester, Dr.J W Tankersley, Greensboro, N €., and Rus- =R Waile, Denver, are new address were: ... S Had Been That Way Before. From London Answers. ‘The two women were friends, u:a 80 what more natural than that, wi they met in the street, they lhbllld stop for a few moments’ conversa- tion? After touching on numerous taplu they started discussing a wed- ding t had taken ‘place at one of ae Ienl churches on the previous “And, do you kn". said one, “ju-t as Fr and the widow started up the al w the l.lla-r the electric cur- rent failed, and every light in the church went out.” ““Why, goodness me,” exclaimed the second woman, “whatever did the couple do?* R, the; vuronun "wum- Leply: “tho,ar knew the ‘M' THE CU'".ERY SHOP 903 G St. N. W, MISS MARY LANGLEY, Whoss pleasing soprano voice was heard recently by radio fans, coming trom the studio of WOAP. So many oquests Rave heen received by Wil- lam T. Plerson, director of programs tion for a return enxage- ., that Miss Langley probably will be booked for another somg re- cital {n the near fature. Mixs Lang- ley is an employe of the Chesapeake and Potomsc Telephone Company, and first demonstrated her talent in a_minsttel show given by the Tele- Pphone Soclety of Washington. Local Radio Entertainment Sunday, May 18, 1924. NAA-—-Naval Radio Station, Radio, Va. (435 Meters). 10:05 am. and 10:05 p.m.—Weather reporta. ‘WMU—Doubleday-Hill Electric Com- st (281 Meters). en WIAY—~Woodward & Lothrop (273 Meters). Silent. Early Program Monday. 10:30 a.m —Phonograph and piano setections. . ‘WMD-—Churck of the Covenant (234 Meters ). am—Everygirls' Bible Gl- mss Mabel N. Thurston, t 1T o clock—Morning service, sermon by Rev. Charles Wood, “Suicidal Self- ishness”; anthem by the quartet. 8 pm.—Evening service, sermon by Rev. Charles 'ood on “Famillar Things Making for Progress: (1) Wealth” Choir of 100 voices; Miss Richie Mclean, contralto solo. WRC—Radlo Corporation of Ameriea (469 Meters). Silent. Barly Program Monday. 3 pm —Fashion Developments of the Moment, prepared by Women's Wear. 3:10 p.m.—Song recital. 3:25 p.m.—Current topics editor of the Intermational preter. 3:35 p.m.—Plano recital 3:50 p.m.—“What Women Are Do- by Mrs. Willlam Atherton by the Inter- 4:10 p.m.—Book review under the auspices of the League of American Pen Women. 5:15 p.m.—Instruction in Interna~- tional code. 6 p.m—Stories for children, by Pegey Albion. :30 p.m.—A talk on education, un- der the auspices of the National Edu- cation Association. WCAP—Chesapeake and Potomao Tel- ephone Company (469 Meters). 11 a.m.—Service at the First Church of Christ, Scientist; subject, “Mortals and Immortals™; Mrs. Flora McGill Keaefer, contralto solofst. 3:30 p.m.—Open-air services at the N‘.Hnnfl Cathedral of the Episcopal Church at Mount St. Albl.n addresses by Rt Rev. James E. Freeman, Sen- u.ar George Wharton Pe]}per and Gen. Juhn L. Hines, U. S. A. 6:20 pm.—Musical program direct from the Capitol Theater studio at New York city. 8:15 p.m.—Organ recital direct from the mgno a{ lhke gklfln.r Organ Com- any, New York dit . 9,5 nn—FrldeHl: J. Haskin in & talk on “American Government.” 9:30 p. m.—llu}_t:’t;nnl' a‘eu:!lis of the instal: 0 sets in the homes oplh'nnt‘:u-mr in the District of Co- lumbia, by Le Roy Mark. Scientific Phones Havy type Our experts will build you a radio set as you want it. Drop sround and inspect our dis- 708 WHTE B TODAT. LEON LAMBERT 581 Bouth Volutsia. Wichits, Kansas. THE ATOMITE Loud and Sensative THE CRYSTAL SET $5.00 GETS D STATIONS B. JAR VISDOYLE IRADIO GOSSIP AND NEWS Radio enginesrs of the Unlted States naval research laboratory were 8o Impressed with tleir results ot Tecent experiments with short- transmission and reception in dvll‘hl that they have designed 2 new short-wave transmitter for the naval alrship Shenandoah, according to Dr. A. H. Taylor, chiet of the laboratory. Through the co-operation of ama- teurs In more than forty states, some stations distant 1,000 or more miles. NKF, at Bellevue, D. C., has secured excellent results In two-way com- munications on 3,000 kilocycles, or 100 meters, in radio telegraphy and also in radio-phone transmission tests The reliability of short waves and their ability to carry for long dis- tances, espe~ially in the daytime, Dr. Taylor points out, has resulted in the construction of & transmitter which will g0 as low as 80 meters with a steady wave. He believes that short waves do:not follow ordinary trans- mission laws. ‘The ehort-wave Shenandoah set, just completed and tested during the past week, Is for use on 3,000 kilo- cyocles. This set was designed for use when the Shenandoah goes to the north pole, where it will be daylight most of the time. It is operated by a 24-volt storage battery, kept charged during operation, but good or & number of hours’ transmission emergency. Telephone trans- on for a short distance, as in mnkin‘ landings and mooring the ship, can be handled by this set, and also CW transmission. A motor gen- erator will supply a plate voltage of 750 volts. In keeping with needs for economy in welght and space aboard the airship, this one-wave set is both small and light. The above is the alrcraft's auxili- ary transmitter. She will also be supplied with the most powerful transmitter ever installed In an air- ship. The big set operates ACCW over a range between 500 and 200 kilocycles, be operated muitaneously with the short-wave The intensity of short-wave sig- nals received is so great, Dr. Taylor, who is especially interested in ama- teur short-wave work, is looking for further co-operation during the northward flight of the Shanandoah, and expressed a desire that all 100- meter recelvers be on the job. The airship can recelve anything between 135 meters and 25,000 meters, he says. Listen for Eiffel Tower. Radio amateurs of the TUnited States and Canada are listening for test signals from the Eiffel Tower in Paris through speclal request to the American Radio Relay League from Gen. Ferrie, director of telegraphs for the French government. A special short-wave radio trans- mitter has been installed at the tower for this purpose, and reports of re- are to be sent to the A. R. R. L and forwarded to the French government. During his recent visit to Paris, where the International Amateur Ra- dio Union was formed. Hiram Percy Maxim, president of the A. R. R. L., esarned from Gen. Ferrie that his government was desirous of obtain- mx rJu co-operation of American mate: A defln!h schedule of transmrission has just been received b{ amateur the Eiffel Tower sta- Bchne , tr‘fllc man- ager of the A has advised all amateurs to Illtnn for the special te, v!. u!(ndl the rest of this month. he object of these tests is some- wut similar to that of the bureau of standards when it undertook to collect data on fading with the as- sistance of amateur stations. The department of telegrap! of th French government, however, is pa: ticularly desirous of securing infor- mation on the strength and range of short-wave radio transmitting equip- ment. Battle Still Rages. Another battle of composers and broadcasters was staged before the House committes on patents recently, but no decislon was announced. Al though a compromise agreement is looked for, no legislation s expected this session. Thirty-six radio broadcasting sta- tions out of about 560 are paying the American Soclety of Composers, Au- thors and Publishers $16.500 per year for the privilege of broadcasting songs copyrighted by members of the society, E. C. Mills, an official of the soclety, testified before the commit- tes on patents during the hearings, when several copyright bills, includ- ing the Newton and Johnson meas- yres. were under consideration. Mr. Mills said that WEAF and WCAP are paving the soctety 3500 sach. " WOR, he sl.(d is paying the soclety $750 a Mr. Mills explained that the Radio Corporation and the other “big four” broadcasters are not paying any- thing, although the Radio Corpora- tion had offered to enter into a five- year agreement with the soclety. Discussing the several bills under consideration, Mr. Mills pointed out that the enactment into law of any of them would be a step backwar: contending that less than 10 per cen! of the songs are commercially valu- able. He aiso stated that the society is not hostile to the radio, and ad- mitted that members of the society are not all agreed as to the value of radio publicity. They are all agreed, however, he declared, that a charge should be made for broadecasting ocopyrighted material. Even if com- posers permitted free use of thelr copyrighted materfal, it would not save the public anything, he believes. Since the radio has come into use the music pubdlishing business h: been very poor, he said, adding he did not belleve more than five musio publishing houses were solvent. Charles H. 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The bill propo 1n: !o exempt broadcasters from l ent of royalty for reproducing Bope ular songs, he said, would be uncon- stitutional, because It would destroy &mvnny rights under the presemt Gene Buck, president of the Ameri- can Soclety of Compusers, Authors and Publishers, went into detail re- gardinig the revision of the copy- rght laws. as provided for in the Newton and Johnson bills. John Philip Sousa and Victor Her- bert also appeared before the cos mittee on behalf of the American s, clety, contending that the composers were entitied to compensation for the use of their selections by radie. (Continued on Page 31.) ~ Recharge Your Battery by Telephone Phone us before 10 a.m. and we will call for your battery and deliver it the same evening fully charged for $1.50. SMITH’S North 9928 2119 18th St. N.W. Col. 3078 Wardman Park Garage RADIO Below Cost We can’t sell these sets for new, be- cause they’ve been used in our show- room, or traded in after short service. 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