Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1929, Page 57

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGYON. D. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28 1929.' been nearly completed by officers of the 'WHO OWNS ETHER? INAUGURAL BALL s e | ing under the direction of Capt. Wilson SEN. DILL FAVORS PLANS HUGE STATION. | PRAGUE (#).—Czecnoslovakia soon | will claim the most powerful broad- | casting stations in Europe, the govern- | ‘The scene of the ball practically is ready for the affair, decorations having - [y 299 Major “Chain” Features TONIGHT. 8:30—Sentinels; popular airs— Flashes From Star Brings Heavy Mail | i " Brown, chairman of the committee on Q i Ll LR ) From Radio Fandom | decorations. The ticket sale, which be- | Ment having appropriated nearly $500.- | | . WGY. ; - | gan last Saturday, is moving along sat- | 000 to acquire asuitable site near U | WCAE, -WTAM, WWJ. Y {sfactonly, according fo word received | PTague and to purchase the necessary | \ 5 woN, ~WHAS, WsM, “Flashes From The Evening | | | by Roland S. Robbins, chairman of the | €quipment in the United States. | .L \ . WSB/WBT. Star.” a daily WMAL feature, has | | b | ticket committee. . Two 60-kilowntt stations of the latest | 4} yo, get % | 9-00—“:“11;;95\?5’"}) ,‘7;‘:'[0-“ {’:‘nfim- A i hundreds of regular Mr,ccnorii xm i e RSP, American type will be buil! Court of Appeals Verdict May | WABG, wran, wiac, | [Caldwell Tells Radio Audi-| | Weshington Marviand and Vir; | |Ragio Stations Will Picture| woman clerks and stenographers in | Incompa 5 4 4 “fan ‘mail” received at The Star | | : "i:;{:""?h :‘Icflé:‘l‘;'"' up rowing to keep We overhaul and help_sell_your } . React Against Other Big ence Control of Air Is office and also at the station. Charity Event Slated e, | Reception WHK, WLBW, WMAL. “Flashes From The Evening Star” is broadcast every evening by WMAL from 7 to 7:15 o'clock. It is a colorful, unopinionated presentation of the world news as gathered by the Associated Press and The Star's own staff of re- porters and correspondents. 9:30—House concert, the ultra- modern opera—WJZ, WBZ, WBAL, WHAM, KDKA. " Stations. Monday Night. Estimates Free Radio Service on All Sets BRENT DANIEL Immaterial. over your Radio | when you use SHEPHERD 3044 (Formerly of Bureau of Standards) t L= | Marathon tions WRC and WMAL the music and | R d l bl ? 3 ceremonies of the afalr, fo be held at ; : 1 adlo 1rouble’| ! the Auditorium Monday night. The ra- | | | | dio announcers wil tell of the entrance | | Call ADAMS 4673 of the notables attending the ball, the i . - ‘Wholesale Distributors ALL-ELECTRIC Capltol Radlo serv'ce | Southern Wholesalers, Ine. ception to tho Vice President and siting governors and the music played Columbia Wholesalers. Ine. RADIO 3166 Mt. Pleasant St. N.W. EASY TERMS . | BY MARTIN CODEL. ‘Those who oppose high-power broad- easting and nationally cleared channels far exclusive use by superpower stations are citing the decision of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia in the WGY case as backing their stand. If their theory is correct, the legal de- | ciston may also react against othes powerful stations on cleared channels | and against the new stations of 10,000 watts power or more that have been au- thorized by the Federal Radio Com- mission. Such new stations, all of them en- The inaugural charity ball is to go on the air. Arrangements were concluded today to broadcast through radio sta-| “Who owns the ether?” the question that popular conception has placed fore- most among all others involving the thriving young art of radio, is probably the least important of the multitude that must be solved. This homespun question of radio law i that parlor politicians so often discuss doesn’t mean anything, in the opinion of Louis G. Caldwell, former general | counsel of the Radio Commission. He | burst the bubble in a talk to the list- eners themselves over a network of the National Broadcasting Co. and in a general discussion of the status of radio WBT, WJAX, WRVA. 10:00—Old Counselor; fireside entertainment — WEAF, WEEI, WTIC, WJAR, lems that remain tobe solved. Almost daily hearings are held by the commis- sion in which disputes arise as to legal precedent, and they practically do not exist. On many questions, the commission, its lawyers and the lawyers represent- ing the stations “are feeling their way cautiously, trying to find helpful analo- gles from the rules that govern other WHAS, WSB, WBT. by five orchestras Heads of the three military services will be paid special honors at the ball, Mrs. John Allan Dougherty, general chairman of the ball committee, however, regarding the probable effect of the decision on th® basic realloca- tion plan with its provision for the equalization of radio facilities among zones and States. The decision appar- tailing equipment expenditures running and to work out principles that will in- 3 - . Fort Worth, Dallas, Minneapolis, In- | XPressed his growing conviction that| sociation, his talk was one of the series | developments that are sure to come in|gra (hited States Army. Admiral al 3 dianapolis, Nashville, Shreveport, At- lanta, Louisville, Charlotte, Raleigh and Like WGY, instead of retaining or obtaining cleared channels Los Angeles, exclusively, themselves these stations may find occupying wave lengths simultaneously with other stations using either high or low powers. Senator Dill, one of the legislative Ieaders who would limit power and re serve few or no cleared channels told | ently leaves out of consideration the the constitutionality of the Davis equal- ization amendment was now open to grave doubt. There was also considerable differ- ence of opinion regarding the court's decision really answers the property, priority and vested rights questions raised in the case. i Other Litigation Other radio litigation attracted at- i tention, while th: Senate was turning law and the vast legal field radio has on Jum&mdence being sponsored by tha association. Until somebody finds out what the ether is, or whether it even exists, he suggested, it is hardly worth while speculating as to who has title to it. So, he concludes, the future of radio does not hang on the slender thread of “who owns the ether?” In fact, he stated, the “ether” exists only in the imagina- | ton of scientists, and is just a hypothe- kinds of business and human relations the future,” he said. A mwln tribute to Herbert Hoover and relation to radio was paid by Mr. Caldwell. “No more fitting conclu- sion to a talk on radio law could be made than a reference to the optimism which we may all feel for the future of radio regulation and radio law during the next administration,” he asserted. ““The great American citizen who be- comes our President next Monday isi neunc: ‘The various branches of the an- | For Free Home Charles F. Hughes, chief of operations of the jeune, rine Corps. Navy, and Maj. Gen. John A. Le- retiring commandant of the Ma- | Each man will be escorted through a lane of honor, formed by sol- diers, length of the Auditorium to the stage. Each sailors and marines, the‘ will be given the proper number | of flourishes by buglers and the service | thems ! orchestras will play the established an- | of the three services. Admiral AND SPECIALTY CO. 1741 Conn. Ave. OYAL ADIO the Senate yesterday that he believed the court has applied “the rule of com mon sense” tady station to remain on its present channel, using 50,000 watts, while KGO, Oakland, Calif., also stays channel with 10,000. Admitting. that heterodyne whistles | are bound to occur outside the imme- diate Jistening areas of the two sta- tions, Senator Dill construed the court’s decision-to mean that it was better.to n euthorizing the Schenec- | on the same | s interest to the bill to extend the life of the Foderal Radio Commission. In the same Court of Appeals, counsel owned by the Insull Public Utility in- terests: WLS, Chicago, owned by the Agricultural Publishing Co. and Sears, Roebuck Co.; WCBD, owned by Wil- bur Gleen Voliva, Zion City, Ill.; WNYC, {owned by the city of New York, and for the commission moved yesterday to dismiss the appeals of WENR, Chicago, | cussion of electrical phenomena and | light rays. } No One Owns Ocean. “No one owns the ocean or the air {and yet it is possible for a person to | take a bottle, fill it full of water out of ! the ocean and thus make it his prop- erty,” he said. “Likewise, a person can compress air into a container and make it private property. So far, however, sls which is very convenient for the dis- | {the same as he who, as Secretary otl | Commerce, guided the destinies of radio | so ably and efficiently during the years | | preceding the breakdown of the law in 11926, He understands radio’s problems, soth legal and engineering, as few others do, and the radio world is looking for- ward to his administration with un- ! bounded confidence.” (Copyright, 1929, by the Consolidated Press.) Puts “Plum Tree” in Dictionaries. Hughes and Gen. Lejeune will have seals W ! Phillip Rhinelands on the stage, and Gen. Summerall it_in the box of . and M Less Tubes INAUGURAL CEREMONIES With the New SPARTON RADIO THE NEW I WTRL, Midland Park, N. J. In each|no one has detected any ether with any | with new type i’l S, "-&'i'ufi"%f@fufi'?fi:“&""&’fl”&?fi ‘gl ‘hc-:; :55:’;- t:i;‘: commis:fin l?mm- of his five senses or caught any and put| In Japan the plum is a token of | YP! I, EQUASONNE x| tains that the three mon cense | it, into a bottle.” . remier, Ray- H | Tords (e cevice Baeasof the nearty | Perods authoreed by the radlo act| atr” Gaidwel can foresee dangerous 70l pincares has ntervenea. o - | Electro-Dynamic :“ MODEL 930 n v , .S international entanglemen . 5 | 3‘1}"% °5‘“m°:s "‘;‘3“‘\1";" Y{m‘ g;‘;} appeal from the commission's assign- | courts ocre Pty m“'.ny'p,mn or any | Sure the word “mirabellier,” or plum | Speaker turbance that distant. listeners might g on the present rights of the parties. |ether extends throughout the universe, ' Acads 8 Tubes i O s Mo Lot | o SRl cmadopes ol provaled se i cverybodys mme wnd pracsicsty [PERRLNS 11, 19, T, LS, Incuding Reciter ‘ et i | e B St Bl SF o | ST i B, 8, BER | T U SR S | ator- “said+he was convinced | e xte he life o € | nations, the waves transm y sta- 2 i LE . e e e Sonvineed | Federal Radio Commission for another | tioacin his. country. radiatig in_ all | dictionaries, but it must henceforty be AllElectrie more and more localized and that only | would ~ pass, despite’ Senator | dgirections, crossing international bound- | included as a result of b acion. e l'.nllrely Dry a small minority of listeners tune in | Copeland’s insistence that he will not|aries and defying the abstract sov- | Wword is ht:omm}on Sooiph oyt mr;"ger 4 7 régularly to distant stations. The chief | Iot 1t come to & Yoie Wioex e jompro- |ereignty of other natians. sm;g:s.:é f{".?-:i e mLaeRy ] No Aerial . v vhe, S ountries similarly are s i fi?:crhg;'cli;:sdb?l:‘ln;‘:}sh £ that | authority will be given back to the De- | gisturbances into. the United ‘States,| M. Poincare undoubtedly recalled | Needed this is the chly way to serve rural and | Partmept of Commerce not later than |<Manifestly, if any one owns any ether | some valley in'lorr‘xllne,|whlc3 he fi::‘ sHdoisiE remote radio listeners consistently. | Djcember' L of this vear. it isn't doing him much good.” he ob- |as a boy, where the plum trees blos- | EXouISITE While Senator Dill praised the de-|..Neither Senator Watson nor Senator | serves. somed in theuspr 8 rlnw Y‘llum! i Fres Heme elsion for its apparent blow at the engi- | Dill -is willing to compromise. Both | “Recounting to the listeners the laws | ward the delicious. yellow pl s Demonstration theory, which generally favors Wm and- cleared channels, he told his colleagues in the Senate that he believed the decision was reversible because the court rendered it before the final “briet’ of . counsel forthe Federal Radio Commission had been submitted. He also interpreted the decision to mean that no ‘station” has any property or vested rights in the ether and that all d!clshnsb;:! “t;el commhs{;)l? must be “reasonal and in the public interest” n‘;:leu of theoretical technical de- Much -confusion continued to prevail, [ 1220-26 .GOOD- HOPE RD. rking space. KOLSTER RADIO Now for the auguration tion by experts. Grove’s Radio Service assures complete satisfaction. 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