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[ \z THE SUNDAY - STAR., WASHINGTON, n. . SEPTEMBER 16, 1928—PART P AONGRESSTOACT . ON RADIO CONTROL — Governient Commission Wi!lé | 1 Cease to Function March .15 Under Law, Gongressional action will be.neéessary | during the forthcoming short session of Congress® to provide for effective con- tinuation of governmental regulation of | .radio communications. Under existing Jaw, there’ are no funds available to earry op after March 15,1929, the func- “itions now exercised by the. Federal Radio Commission. -On tha! date the commission .will % cease to function = licensing and administrativé boc thereafter its functions will be to act as a court of ¢ mppeals- from * decisions of the radio divislon of the Department.of Commerce meeting irregularly as occasion may de- mand. : No' Money. Theoretically; the radio division wil carry on the licensing and administra- tive functiohs of the commission after March .15, but the difficulty ‘is that Congress had not provided the money upon which the division can maintain stself. S The total of appropriations to main- tain’ the cammission during the-present fiscal year, which ends June 30, 1929, is $860,000. Some of it will probably remain unexpended on March 15, but thereafter. as the law how stands, the commission will have no power to make expenditures except those necessary to maintain it a8 an appellate body. On the.other hand. the appropria- | tions for the radio division for the same period total $460.000. an amount’ pre- dicted on the activities which that division is now carrying on. and only & small paft of that appropriation is available for. salgries and other ex- penditures in the District of Columbia Personnel Increase. The staff of the radio commissiorf is several times as numerous and expensive . as the staff of the radio division.in ‘Washington. _ It would be impossible, ‘obviously, for the’division to take over the commission’s duties without a very. substantial increase in personnel An increasein personnel, of course, would mean an irrcrease in.expenditures #nd the only.placé from- which money could be obtained for such purposes would be-from Congress. If appropria- . tioris for such purposes should not ‘be forthcoming there would be danger of & serious breakdown in Federal regula- tion af radio communication. The radio division, as staffed at present, has plerity to ] wark and other duties Either the: duties would have to be slighted or its .new duties—now assigned to the com- mission—would have to suffer. (Copyright. 1928, by the Consolidated Piess.) BERMUDA SEEKS AIRPORT Pline Service to' New York Is Projected. HAMILTON, Bermuda H. Mayo of the Imperial Airways, Lim- jted, of London, has been in Bermuda making investigations with reference to . the establisiment of an airport in the colony. - * ‘While he has made no official an- nouncement, he stated at a luncheon at the Rotary Club that-jt would probably be some time before transatlantic serv- joe would be practicable, but that a serv- ice between New York and Bermuda might be established at an. ear]ier date: idouble . Wedding Halted. When two sisters named Taglor ap- | peared before Adjutant Tuffi, of thg Balvation Army at Goole, Ireland, to be married to two young men of the town, it was_found that both had failed to ob- tain the- registrar’s certificate. The Tegistrar was away from home, and-all efforts to find him failed. 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The 60,000,000 people in the United States who live more than 100 miles | from’ a _broadcasting station and who have been harassed by heterodynes will derive the greatest benefit from the new. allocation of stations, the engineers de- clare. With 74 of the 90 ¢ available for high grade receptic farm and small town listener, a: | as the city enthusiasf, is assured a va ety of programs free from whistles caused by station IR With wide gedgraphical distribution of high power broadcasting stations | aperating on cleared channels, the set- up provides for first class -reception inl all ections of the country. 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To some fans, {the making of new logs and the search for familiar, distant stations on new frequencies will add zest to a favorite pastime. Tl SAYS HE SANK SUB. " Ordering Bombardment. PARIS (#).—The man who says he ik the British submarine, L-55, with 43 men aboard, off Cronstadt, s driving a taxi in Paris. He calls himself “Maj, M. N. N." in telling his story to an afternoon ne vs- paper and made himself known only to story straight, he says. “I was the one who caused the L fo be bombarded and sunk, May “I was in_com mand of the fortress Krasnaja-Gorka at Cronstadt.” Pinned and sealed in the middle of a street a live bomb was found recently and enjoy. A combina. on new to radiol the Paris Cab Driver Tells Story of | YOUTH PERFECTS TELEVISION SET lSpamiard Claims to Broad- cast Images on Wave Bands of Stations. CHICAGO (#).—A youth of Spanish lineage has perfected a television trans- | mitter which he and his sponsors claim has gone far in the art of projecting | images by radio. U. A. Sanabria is his name, and he is only 22. The apparatus will be dem- ‘nnstl’u!td at both the radio world’s fair |at New York and the Chicago radio | show. His demonstrations have been | conducted in co-operation with A. J. Carter, Chicago manufacturer. Sanabria says that his machine en- ables the broadcasting of an image on | the same wavebands that broadcasting | stations use, and he hopes eventually to broadcast sound and light synchron- ously. The reduction of interference and a greater leveling of light he names as the apparatus’ greatest addition to | the advancement of television. Send Test Pictures. For several weeks station WIBO has Leen broadeasting test pictures with the | Sanabria machine, receivers scattered | throughout the ~city picking up the images. WMAQ also is planning to in- ail the broadcasting apparatus. Sanabria four years ago transferred | his interest from th: wire transmission of pictures to radio. He has devoted | all his time to the experiments. A mil- | lionaire newspaper publisher, ~who {financed him, becoming impatient, | abandoned the youth just a few months before his machine was perfected. | The present machine will project only | one image. 1t will, however, show clear- ly a pefson talking or singing. The inventor hopes to develop it to a point where it will broadcast and pick up any number of images. The image | projected is somewhat like a sepia half- tone reproduced in newspaper picture | sections or magazines Disc Revolves. The subject to be broadcast stands or sits before a hood like a megaphone. | A ray of light from an arc lamp is thrown through a scanning disc and a lens on to the subject. As the disc, in which there are three series of per- forations, cut in the form of spirals, revolves across the light rays, the beam becomes a series of shifting bars of light. At top speed the bars merge into a screen of light, not unlike the screen of a_photoengraving. Forty-five images are broadcast per second. "Thai is almost twice as many as any oth- er apparatus can broadcast, the in- ventor said. Four photo-electric cells are used in the transmitter. Each 13 or 14| inches in diameter, spherical in shape, clear on the half into which the light rays are reflected and coated with a' light-sensitive cathode which covers th entire back on the inside of the glass Radio Raises Musical Taste. Radio is one of the strongest forces |at work for the betterment of music, and will sooner or later raise the mu- sical taste of America and fmprove grand opera, says Claude Warford, New York composer and singing teacher. France s the qnly country-in Europe whose present, birth rate shows an im- | provement on pre-war figure: | e —— LONG RANGE RADIO ENTERTAINMENT SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1928. Programs prepared_by the Associated Press. Scheduled for Eastern standard time. Meters on the left of call letters, kilocycles on right. . 491.5—WEAF New York—610 11:30a—Cozy hour. 12 oodwind Ensemble. 1:00—Summer Radio Church. 2:00—Sixty musical minutes, 3:00—Soprano and pianist. 3:30—String orchestra. 4:30—Ballad_singers. 5:00—Stetson parade. 8:00—Werrenrath concert. 6:30—Capitol Theater Family. 8:00—David Lawrence 8:15—Atwater Kent program. 8:45—Biblical drama. 9:15—National Light Opera. 434.3—WJZ New York—660 :00a-_Children’s hour, 12:00—Concert: String Orchestra. 12:30—Mary Damrosch program. 1.00—Roxy Stroll 2700—Continentals. 3:00—Question hour. 4:00—Twilight reveries. §:90—Musics], hour, B nglo-Persians. 7:00—Echoes of the Orient. 7:15—Collier hour. 8: 8:45_E| Tango. 9:15—Organ; Islanders. WOR Newark—3i10 2:00—Americana. 3:00—The Madelaine. 4:00—Spencer Kences. 6:30—Organist. 7:00—Choir Invisible. :00—Playhouse. 9:00—French trio_and tenor. Yi3u—Pipe dreams. 9.1—WABC New York—0i0 5a—Church_services. 200 symphonic, hour. 3:00—Catnearal hour, 5:00—International Bible students. 6:00—Orcaesira. 7:15—Songs. 7:30—La Palina Smoker. §50—'1 Wo_BIACK UTOWS. 9:00—Audions. 9:30-Come Lo the fair. 6—WPG Atlantic City—1,100 ~Community program. services. glo-Persians. liier hour. ters. )—steison parade 00—Hour of hospitality. 8:00—Piano: A, K. Drogram. 8:45—Biblical drama WNAC Boston—650 6:00—Evening services. 7:30—WABC programs (2% hours). S—WGR Buffalo—990 9 45a—Church services, :00—Sixty musical minutes. 5:00—Stetson parade. §:45—Chureh_service. 8:00—David Lawrence. #il5—Aiwater Kent program. 515-1—WMAK Buffalo—350 50a—Church services. 00— WARC program; 30—Como_Orchestra. §:35—Church services. 8:00—WABC programs. 535.4—WTIC Hartford—560 5:00—Stetcon parade 6:00—Werrenrath concert. 6:30—Capitol Theater Family. 8:00—David Lawrence —WCAU Philadelphia—1,150 4:00—Chuich services. 5:00—Concert orchestras. 00—Jubilee Singers. 6:30—Universal Players. 7:00—Central Pioneers. 1:30 -WABC programs (2% hours). 405.2—WFL-WLIT Philadelphia—i10 9:20u-Chuich services. 5:00—Steison _purade 600 Werrenralh concert. G—WJAR Providence—620 ammer Radio Church. xty musical minutes. elson parade. ‘errenrath concert. apitol Theater Family. id_Lawrence. B30—KURA cicisburgh—950 10:00a—Church services. 5:00—Concert 5:30—Anglo-Persians. 3:15—Collier hour. 8:15—Choristers. 213.1—WBZ Springfield—900 1:00—Roxy Stroll 5:30—Anglo-Persians. 7:15—Collier hour. 5 hor i (2 hours). i 280.2—WHAM Rochester—1,010 10:30a—Church services. 3:00—Question hour. 3:30—Concert: Twilight reveries. 5:30—Anglo-Persians. 7:15—Collier hour. 8:15—School of Music hour. 9:15—Orzan recital. 5—WGY Schenectady—790 10:00a—Church services. 5:00—8tetson parade. 100 Werrenrath_concert. 00—D. nce: A. K. program. 516.9—WTAG Worcester—580 5:00—Stetson parade #:00—Werrenrath corncert. rogram. hospitality. 8:00—David Larence. 131.3—CFCA Toronto—090 10:00a—Chureh services. 443~ Hawkisstone Trio. 6:00—Church services. SOUTHERN. 296.9—WWNC Asheville—1,010 11:00a—Church services. §:00—Evening services. 35.0—WSB Atlanta—630 2:00—Sixty musical minutes. 8:00—Vesper services. 7:00—Capitol Theater Family. §:00—D. Lawrence: orchestra. 9:15_National Light Opera. 310.3—WJAX Jacksontille—880 11:00a—Church_services. 6:30—Dinner music. 7:30—Evening services. WHAS Louisville—030 apitol Theater Family. #:00—D. Lawrence: orchestra. 8:45—Biblical drama. 9:15—Orcaestra. .0—WSM Nashville—890 12:00—Church services. 6:30—Capitol Theater Family, 8:00—David Lawrence. 251.1—WRVA Richmond—1,180 11:00a—Church services. CENTRAL. 6—KYW Chicaso—530 7:00—Dr. Long; Collier hour. 8:17—Good reading; home folks. WLW Cincinnati—700 . 6:30-— 8 9:15_Gembos nout 10:30—8wiss Gardens Orchestra. 361.2—WSAL Cincinnati—830 8:00a. orning services. 4:30—Ballad singers. 5:00—Stetson parade. 6:30_Dinner music. 7:00—Soprano: hymns; sermonet. 8:00—D. Lawrence: A. K. program. 45--Biblical drama. 9.15--Castle Farm Orch 499.8—WTAM Cleveland 2:00—Afternoon concert. 5.00—Stetson parade: pi 8 8:30—Studio program. 9:00—Old_Timers: quart 10:30—Darce music (12 hours). 140.9—WCX-WJIR Detroit—680 0:00a—Church services. anders. dance music. 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