Evening Star Newspaper, October 21, 1928, Page 37

RADID TAKES ONUS OF POLITICAL RACE Campaign Speeches Spread| Over Nation by Coast-to- Coast Hook-Up. NEW YORK (#).—Radio, new to the game, is caffying the burden of the| 1928 political campaign | THE SUXNDAY ~STAR., WASHINGTONXN. D C, OCTOBER RADIO GOSSIP AND NEWS Naval radio, shunned by the Graf Zeppelin on her flight to the United States, probably will trail the dirigible to_her home shores, Intimations of the desire of the sponsors of the flight to have the bene- fit of naval contact by radio have reached the Navy Department and a conference with them has been ar- ranged. Failure of the airship to main- tain proper communication and get the best weather informstion from commer- cial stations on the flight here evi- dently will ad to the arrangement with the N: The Navy's offer to co-ope te on the westbound "voyage of the dirigil ble was It has spread & blanket of oratory |Yespectfully refused by the Zeppelin's , Over the country that has snuffed out owners on the ground that the flight most of the red-fire processions and the | ¥AS purely a commercial venture, de- rallies of the days of the past It has |Signed to prove the feasibility of com- brought the eandidate 1o the voter in |Mercial transportation by lighter-than- his home. Nominees for almost every office The Navy. nevertheless. picks radio air craft ed up the course of the flight by from President down are finding places | ©Ompass during its last stages, when in the air lanes through which the; seeking the good will of marker. committees. county committees the country. Coast-to-Const Hook-Ups. Coast-to-const hook-upd for the presidential eampalgners are becoming so commonplace that the once-awed | listener takes them as a matter of course parties place their phones in an Eastern city and make their voices available to almost every | set owner in the eountry. Other hook- | ups, not so extensive, include morning broadcasts intended to interest women Entertainment Has not been forgot- | NavY arrived at another position ten. for not all of the political broad- | Navy wirelessed back casts are made up entirely of speech |the position it had making. Stars of the stage have been | dirigible acknowledged it as called upon t0 give the listeners the | Withdrawing its variety they demand. Orchestras also | appear in the programs. Easily Picked Up. are | apprehension the ballot | Pelin's safety National committees. sm“\{l"m with the commercial stations and |Slight. even city organizations are sending out | first time their voices over nearly every station m]m lon the Atlantic the whereabouts | world | these craft was felt over the Ze] and when communi This is now disclosed for the intersecting bearings compass stations of the airship were known to the Navy as she proceeded up the coast from Bermuda and untii she arrived at Lakchurst on Monday Several ations along the coast tuned in on the signals of the By means of ken by naval radi Several nights a weck the big | dirigible and by computing their bear- aders before micro- | ings were enabled to ascertain the ap- proximate location. A good example of the accuracy of this &ystem occurred last Sunday night, when the dirigible reported her position but by radio compass mmpumnom_”w 'he to the dirigible alculated and the correct, message With the progress of commerce much attention is being directed to radio_equipment for ‘The Navy Department has dirigibles in The dial manipulator does not need designated the now obsolescent dirigible to be an expert to find one of these | litical progtams, as almost any place he turns during an evening he will find some one extolling the wmerits of & ¢an- didate. | Even programs heretofore considered standbys have given way to thie great- est_of campalgns via the ether lanes. Suddenly the radio bureau mansger decides that he needs a certain hour on a certain night already occupled by some sponsot who has made regular appearances at that time for weeks and months. Eleventh-hour negotiations are started. Another political broad- cast is on the aif. i STATION BREVITIES KSL. Salt Lake City, is the latest addition to the N. B. C. system. WLW, Cincinnati, has begun testing | #s new 50,000-Watt transmitter, erected | in 14 weeks. | Since KF1 installed a new crystal- controlled transmitter unit it has been * receiving DX letters from listeners in :’t_’w Zealand and other foreign eoun- ries. Twenty prominent clergymen are to participate in & series of sunset hours o be broadcast by WABC, New York, to begin at B p.m. Eastern standard time, each Sunday. The feature is to be known a8 the “A B C of Religions.” 24 Broadcasters To Carry Hoover and Dawes’ Talks By the Associated Press NEW YORK, October 20— Addresses of Herbert Hoovef, Republican presidential nominee. and Viee ident Charles G. Dawes at Madison Square Garden Monday night will be broadcast, starting at 8:30 o'clock, over WJZ and a network consisting of WHAM, Rochester; WJR, De- troit; WLW, Cincinnati: KWK, Y is; . Nashville; WHAS, Louisville; WCCO, Min- neapolis_and 8t. 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ArmyandNavyNews That the policy limiting the terms | ¢ of the chiefs of the supply and tech- nieal branches of the War Department | to one term of four be regarded as inviolable, was the im- | o pression given last week Rumors are rife in military circles as to the prospective filling of | the vacancies of the office of the judge rmen.” the Chicago Civic | advocate general of the Army, the pres- of which is Maj. Gen. John A. Hull, and the office of the chief of Chemical Warfare Service. the activities of which are ably directed by Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries will complete his four-year tour as judge advocate general of the Arm "Thia will be. the fret tme in 18 vears | oiber 16, 1038, Wil Oo R ohie 4 4 inate his four-year term as_compared | that “Oarmen’ has been chosen for the | 0 Wit hranch on March 20, 1090 retirement of Col need not | i certaln Gen. Hull Henry M. Mortow, J. A. G. D.. on October 29, it is said. preciudes the possibility of this officer from being appointed to succeed Gen. Hull, but the week’s gossip carries the intimation that Col lan, J. A. G. D. will be appointed as judge advocate general to succeed Cen. Prior to the departure of Col. . D, to Manila Dennis P. Quin- name prominently mentioned with respect to | succeeding Gen. Hull, but his name been removed from the list of | prespective appointees to succeed Gen. | Hull. Col. Winship has been named, | way of speculation, a8 the successor Maj. Gen. Frank Melntyre, chief | of the Bureau of Insular Affairf. who will reach the statutory retirement age limit of 64 years in January. Inasmuch as the term of Gen. Fries | will not expire until March 28, 1929, by which date the next administration will have come mto control of the Na- | tion's affairs, it has been intimated | that no Kiccessor to Clon, Fries will be indicated by President Coolldge. It seems to be considered as entirely fit= | ting that the present administration, terminating on Match 4, shall not pres | vent, by anticipation, the succeeding administration from filling the vacan= | cies in important Army billets occurring | after that date. The contention has | been made that it is considered unfair | to fill vacancies -that legitimately be- long to the new administration. which in this instance will be expressed by # change in Presidents. The predic- tion has not been made, in the case | Mt. Bmith i& eclected, as to what he on No- ‘tles will ‘The was | Mr. Hoover is chosen. it appears to be regarded as “settled” that former Sen- ator Wadsworth of New York. former chairman of the Senate military coms mittee, will be made Secretary of War. | This tale is further embellished by the prediction that he will u; the retention of Gen. Fri Navy. Discussion continugs in naval circles with respect to the office of the sur- geon general of the Navy. 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