Evening Star Newspaper, March 3, 1929, Page 45

MANY CITIES PASS | | - RADIO LEGISEATION Electrical Interference and Loud Speakers Chief Sub- jects of Regulation. BY MARTIN CODEL. Only a few States, but a relatively large number of municipalities, have undertaken to regulate radio. Electri- cal interference and the loud-speaker nuisance that is sometimes blamed for the modern malady known as “radio insomnia” are the chief subjects of regulation outside the Federal authority, according to a survey of municipal and State laws on radio conducted by Louis G. Caldwell, chief counsel of the Fed- eral Radio Commission. Detroit makes it a crime to operate noisy devices, radio amplifiers in )glr- ticular, in any public or private p! j’l in such manner that the peace add good order of the neighborhood are disturbed or occupants of nearby prop-; erty annoyed. Memphis applies the ordinance to business places, such as the well known “radio rows” that have sprung up in many American cities. An ordinance like Detroit’s is in force in Oakland, Calif. The typical city ordinance covering interference is that of Spokane, Wash., where it is unlawful “to operate any in- } strument, device or machine the oper- ation of which would cause electrical interference with radio reception be- tween the hours of 5 o'clock p.m. and 12 midnight.” . There are such ordinances also in Portland, Oreg.; Minneapolis, Minn,, and Antigo, Wis., and so-called “vibra- tory charges” are prohibited in Minne- RALPH WENTWORTH NATION TO TUNE. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, ON WASHINGTON FOR INAUGURAL GRAHAM MSNAMEE | MILTON CROSS apolis and several other municipalities. Radio Zoning Laws. Many cities hav radlo zoning ordi- nances affecting the location of studios and transmitters. Minneapolis, for ex- ample, requires a permit for studios. microphones, wires or other apparatus and prohibits any broadcasting station of 500 watts power or more to oper- ate within the city limits. The dis- tance scale is graduated; 500 to 1,000- watters for example must be four miles away, and 25,000 50,000-watters at least 15 miles outside the city’s bounds. Antenna construction and electrical installations are covered by municipal codes in cities like Washington, St. Louis, Flint, Mich.; Berkeley and San Diego, Calif. These sometimes specify the height of masts or towers, prescribe fire precautions or prohibit extend- ing ‘radio wires to the wire lines of public utility companies without per- mission. Of the 37 State attorney generals who replied to Mr. Caldwell’s question- naire, only a handful indicated that their States had laws dealing with radio. Two States, 129.“‘""" and Ne- vada, have enacted lacing broad- casting under " the J\u‘bfl&wm of their State public utility commissions, giving them authority to promulgate rules and regu%sflonsd coverlnlmn broadeast trans- mission and reception. Maine has a 1927 law making it a crime to operate receiving sets regen- srating waves both in the and short-wave bands, largely because of neighborhood interference and be- cansa of the interférence with ship ¢nd~ and amateur transmissions that ‘The regenerative set‘is now ‘~ally obsolete and fast going out Ilinois Has Radio Libel Law. Tiinois has a statute extending the | 1aw of libel, including criminal libel, to cefamation communicated by rwn[ TMorida has established its own State act, ant er ave iziry them to ascquire sites and build their own stations. Minnesota s stations to broadcast information helpful in searches for stolen property power of the State to fare of its citizens,” Mr. and ordinances constitutional, while mate exercises of the State’s police power. Mr. Caldwell adds that it is impossi- ble to foresee where the line between the Federal and State autonomy will be drawn. It is noteworthy that the division of powers over radio has been one of the subjects causing most con- cern among members of Congress, judg- inug from the debates in House and Sen- ate. The only case of State or municipal regulation of radio known to have been decided by & court occurred several years ago in the District Court of East- ern Kentucky. ing to license radio stations was held unconstitutional on"the ground that ‘m’t“t“o communications are all inter- ate.” Copyright, 1920, by North American News- Paper Alliance.) CONDUCTOR REBUKES PARTY OF LATE-COMERS Toscanini Reprimands New York- ers Who Enter Concert Hall During Number. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 2—Arturo Toscanini, famous conductor of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, halted a concert here Thursday to rebuke a party of late-comers. Toscanini was about to open the sec- ond movement of Pizetti’s “Concerto de L'Estate” when the tardy ones clattered down the aisle and plumbed noisily into their seats. The conductor wheeled, crossed his Star announcers, including Graham McNamee and Milton J. Cross of N, B. C. and Norman Broenshire and Ralph | Wentworth of C. B. S., will be at the microphones for the Hoover inauguration broadcast. The principal part of the day's | events will be described from a stand erected in front of the Capitol steps. 'RADIO WILL TELL THE WORLD OF HOOVER'S INAUGURATION “Rounders” Return to “Mike.” “The Rounders,” headed by Dudley Chambers, have returned to KNX, Los Angeles. D. C, COMMISSION GIVES b RELAY LIGENSES 27 Frequencies Are AssignedE | Between 6,020 and 21,540 . Kilocycles. Assigning 27 frequencies between 6,020 | and 21,540 Kilocycles for relay broad- | casting, the Federal Radio Commission | has issued experimental licenses and | construction permits to six companies. Forty-one other applicants will be given hearings by the commission. | Six licenses have been granted to the | | Westinghouse company for long-dis- | tance experimental relay broadcasting | trom KDKA, Pittsburgh. One license | | each has been issued to the Great Lakes | | Broadcasting Co., Chicago; the Mono | Motor Oil Co., Council Bluffs, Iowa; the | | Atlantic Broadcasting Corporation, New York; L. Bamberger & Co., Newark, N. |J.. and the Crosley Radio Corporation, | Cincinnati. Relay Broadcast Authorized. ‘The commission had already author- | ized relay broadcasting by the Baru- chrome Corporation of the Radio Cor- poration of America and the General | Blectric Co. The commission issued the licenses with the stipulation that the wave lengths were made available experiment= ally only and were not assigned exclu- |sively to the present licensees, but | would be issued to others who qualified. |The commission says that longer licenses may be issued if after six | months’ trial the licensees are found to | be operating in public interest, conven- | lence or necessity. Definition by Commission. The commission defines relay broad- ' casting as “the transmission on high frequencies over long distances of broad- cast programs from one station to an- other or stations which re-broadcast to the public on the regular broadcast fre- quency of the recelving station.” Among the applicants whose caser will be heard are religious, educational, fraternal, technical and commercial en- terprises. They include the Immanus | the world, not once, but many times. MARCH 3, 1929—PART 4. RADIO SHOWS PRESIDENT IS NOT A “SILENT CAL”} While the retiring President, Calvin|in the White House. On other occa- Coolidge, has often been referred to as | sions he has gone to the Washington “Silent Cal" records of the National N. B. C. studios to broadcast. Ac- Broadcasting Co. prove otherwise. |cording to Ralph Edmunds, program During the past five and a half years manager of WRC, President Coolidge President Coolidge has made more than | takes his broadcasting very seriously 40 radio addresses, the majority of | A special manuscript stand, used only which have been carried over a national by the President and adjusted to suit network of N. B. C. stations, according : his height and eyesight, is used every to records. His most recent address| time he goes on the air. was vbroadcut Friday night, February| — .~ 22, when he addressed the student body NEW HUM EL'M'NATOR = | MOUNTED ON SPEAKER of George Washington University. It has been estimated that a coast-| to-coast network of radio stations' S reaches mc=s than 50,000,000 listeners. Tevice Consists of Filter Condenser Thus President Coolidge has not cnly | i spoken frequently but prob:gly has| of Approximately 3,000 Micro- been heard by more persons than any other " President. or ‘national leader. farads Capacity: Inasmuch as his speeches have fre-' gy onhjectional hum noticed in many 110-volt 60-cycle A. C. dynamic quently been rebroadcast on short waves from associate N. B. C. stations, his voice actually has been heard around speakers can be eliminated by a hum | eliminator—a new device that may be work when he took oath of office as Mounted directly on the speaker successor to the late President Warren | chassis. G. Harding, August 2, 1923. Though| The hum eliminator consists of a the President was heard frequently after | taking office he established a record for | m:”: f"r“‘:';“s" "‘lt"’f’"?"s‘t”y 3,000 radio-speech making in 1928, when he | Microfarads capacity an connected He ‘was first heard over a small net- | made 16 radio addresses. The majority | across the field coil terminal or the of these were carried on coast-to-coast | Jow-voltage output side of any recti- networks of the N. B. C. Two radio| gor gt less than 12 volts. Addresses each year have become 8&| “rne condenser produces a filter capa- part of the presidential routine. Thesc | iq of ‘passing two Or three amperes are the semi-annual business meetings| yhich is considerably greater than the ae t{'f d?o‘""m:gfi- s "‘"‘lc‘l‘ ‘h; fr"‘ f‘ load carried by the low-voltage rectifier. ent discusses the financial affairs of | > When the alternating current is rec- the Government. tifled, as in the case of the A. C. dy- Pollsroiby; Mioophone. T e Ppeaker cireuls, "whiCh 5 5 lonulnd v}’g‘ée I;‘eenNhlgdl ecd n:rfiulh s?cmepletely eliminated by the new de- Station s e N. B C. Plck-iD|The hum eliminator is easily in- bolnt In Washinglon. cloReVer. Jadlo | stalled by attaching the battery clips microphones have followed President| i, he rectifier contacts of the dynamic Coolidge about the country. On several | speaker occasions he has spoken from his study i The hum eliminator measures 5%ix 44 xl inches, and is furnished as a sep~ e mn?"'?"t‘e"t Sterlin gineers y actual tes erling en Soclety, | have found that the hum eliminator Symons Investment | increases the volume of the speaker Wash.; Experimenter | output in cases of low-line voltage or Missionary College, Berrien Springs, Mi Oakland Educational Oakland, Calif.; Co., Spokane, Publishing Co., | Federation of Labor and the Voice of | tional advantages are not noticed, how- Lou at the correct line voltage New York; Chicago| when the rectifier is old. These addi- | Inaugural Radio Plans in Brief Tnauguration radio plans have been completed. Two of Washe ington's stations, WRC WMAL, will serve as “key” sta- tions for the major networks of the country, both of which will carry a vivid and full verbfl.flo- ture of the ceremonies from start to finish. The National Broadcasting Sys- tem, through WRC, will begin its inaugural broadcast at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. WMAL and other Columbia System stations are scheduled to start at the same hour, WOL will be silent during the inaugural broadcast. TROOPS WILL GUARD | MEXICO CONVENTION ! Delegates of Obregon's Party Or- }‘ dered to Leave Firearms at | Door During Session. | | By the Associated Pross. QUERETARO, Mexico, March 2.— Heavy military guards were distributed about this city yesterday for the open- ing of the convention of the National | Revolutionary party. | Orders were issued that delegates | must surrender firearms as they entered the convention hall. There, during the next five days;the party which: claims the late Gen. Alvarp. Ol 0 a8 its father, will select ‘a ate for'the 18| Mexican, presidency, sfi% to na- | tonal electfons in vfl: 3 | The precautions, - which included | bringing” of a large mumber: of ‘troops | from Mexico City, 154 miles away, were | taken to prevent disorders Whieh might | grow out of the .ntense rivairy between "!afilons in cmAe wty.:. g present -Aaron’ Ssenz, governor of Nuevo Leon. and Pascual Ortis Rubio, former Minister to ‘Brazil, are ldlm for the party's nomination, with | their strength apparently even, o Ottawa, Canads, is {o have & mew $3,000,000 grain elevator. IN. B. C. and C. B. | A Nation, ears and receivers tuned to catch every word, will center its atten- tion upon Washington tomorrow to Through an all-day broadcast, the National Broadcasting system and the Columbia Broadcasting system, each feature of the inauguration will be pre- in detail. More than 100 sta- tions on the broadcast band are to be linked into Washington, while a num- ber of short wave transmitters, operat- ing in conjunction, will make the story available to listeners anywhere in the world. g Microphones so placed that none of the will be missed, will begin to function long before noon, to continue until late in noon. of the many microphones will be manned- by announcers whose | voices are familiar to radio. First Time in Senate. N. B. For the first' time microphones will" will be - be placed in the c Senate chamber where Senator Curtis takes the oath as Vice President. Others will be located on the Capitol steps where Mr. Hoover is to :e.:vmnmmmuummb- ! Than 100 Stations Hooked to Capital. the after- | S. Will Have More happenings. Some of them are in soundproof booths and others are port- able. From them numerous features | besides the inauguration and the pa- rade are to be presented, including & description of an elaborate aerial dis- play by Army and Navy aviators. Chief among the announcers to be heard over the Columbia system will bs Norman Brokenshire of WCAU, Philadelphia, who gave the radio story of the Coolidge inauguration in 1925. Other voices will be those of William S. Hedges, manager of WMAQ, Chicago, and head of the National Association of Broadcasters, and Ralph Wentworth and Ted Hussing of the Columbia staff. In this chain will be the 43 regular stations as well as numerous extras. The system also will come on the air at 10 o'clock and remain until later in the afternoon. WMAL will act as the key station. g McNamee will watch the morning callers at the White House for the C. * m Hedges of in a similar-pest- for Columbia. n_the President-elect’s party leaves ‘White House for the Capitol, the scene will be switched to the Senate chambgr, where David Law- rence will describe the swearing in of Vice President Curtis for the N. B. C, chain, while Prederic Willilam Wile, Washington correspondent, will narrate the events for the Columbia chain. Taft to Give Oath. Then the controls will bring in the ceremony before the Capitol I)hn, where & vast throng will see Chief Jus- fice Taft read the oath of office to Herbert Hoover, while an audience of the | millions will hear these words and the ting: broadcasts on record of voices from the clouds. Columbia’s _aeronautical broadcaster will be Sam Packard, its newly named vice president, The former member of the Pederal Radio Commission from Kansas is a war-time pilot who was | shot down in battle in France, and he sees it from a Navy torpedo plane. The National Broadcasting Co. will place Paul Dumont, announcer, aboard one of the Army's non-rigid dirigibles to tell what he sees below. Tell of Parade. Prom points of vantage, announcers An ordinance attempt- | and political experts will tell what is oc~ . The N. B. C. panel, where lines can be switched to bring in the voices from one point or another. The central station of the Co- lumbia Broadcasting system will be handled by Henry A. Bellows, former radio commissioner and practical broad- caster in charge of Columbia’s arrange- ments. Aside from the aural and -aerial broadcasts, listeners who have tele- vision receivers will have an opportu- nity to see the inauguration shortly after it is held. In.the evening C. Francis Jenkins, television inventor, is planning to transmit moving pictures of Mr. Hoover taking the oath. Another feature of the evening will ity ball over both the National and Co- lumbia chains. McNamee and Phillips Car- lin will head the announcing staff of the N. B. C. stations, which will include more than 50 regularly on the chain in addition to others who join national hook-ups only for special events. Other arms and fixed blazing eyes on the of- | with a big corps of assistants. The fending group. “You are late,” he said sternly. It was the first time in the memory of concert-goers that a conductor has rep- &unnnded members of a New York au- ence. — . Airships, Keep Off. English airmen are prohibited from flying over large gatherings of people except with special permission of the government officials. ~There are locali~ ties where they are absolutely forbidden, which includes the neighborhood of Posyth, Alloa, Sheerness, Chatham, Portsmouth, Poole Harbor, Portland, Devonport and Pembroke. Should an airman inadvertently stray into one of these areas, he will be promptly warned off by the firing from anti-aircraft ns of projectiles burst- ing white smoke by day and white stars by night. The pilot of the airship must then give one of the usual signs of dis- tress in answer to the chall en&\m and proceed at once to land outside the area at the nearest aerodrome. The penalty for failure to comply with these directions is the opening of fire on the defaulting craft. A some- what grim reminder that the English government is determined at all costs to guard the secrets of their dockyards and fortified harbor bascs from the un- welcome attentions of possible spies operating from above. A session of the Ohio State Senate National stations will open the broad- cast at 10 am. and continue until 4 o'clock. Use 30 Microphones. scattered about the Capital to make | | Stations Listed For Broadcasting Of Inauguration | Stations broadcasting the inau- { ration ceremonies from Wash- E“ n will include the following: N. B. C. stations—' Z, I others. . 8. statlons—WABC, WNAC, WEAN, WFBL, WKBW, WCAO, WJAS, WADC, WKRC, WGHP, WBBM, WOWO, KMBC, KOIL, WSPD, WHK, WLBW, WMAL, WCCO, KLZ, KDYL, KMTR, KYA, KEX, WTAR, 15 to be broadcast by WLW, Clncin- natl, as part of its school of the air rograms. The date has not beeu set, it it is planned to select a day when an interesting debate is in prospect. WWNC, WLAC, WDOD, WBRC, WREC, KFJF, KTSA, KFH, WISN, WDSU, KRLA, KRLD and others. will describe the inaugural scene as he | be a presentation of music at the char- | announcers will be Milton J. Cross, | John B. Daniels and Willlam S. Lynch, Thirty N. B. C. microphones are being | yro . yorker Dies of Shot Received available all of the details of the day's | words of the new President’s inaugural address via radio. Norman Broken- shire, who described the 1925 inaugural, the first network broadcast of the his- toric quadrennial occasion, will be at the microphone for the Columbia sys- |tem and Milton Cross will announce for the N. B. C. The inauguration parade follows, President Hoover and his party passing the Peace Monument and swinging into Pennsylvania avenue, followed by a four-mile parade. All along the line the announcers of both chains will be at “mikes” to describe the colorful pageant. Graham McNamee will be heard again as the parade passes the Treasury Building, with John Daniel taking turns at the “mike.” Ralph Wentworth will be at the “mike” for Columbia. It is expected that the parade will not end until about 4 p.m,, and relief will be furnished from the tedium that may ensue through speeches by notables in public life, either during or after the pageant. The N. B. C. has not announced those who will speak on its program, but Columbia announces Sen- ator James Watson, probably the next Senate floor leader; Judge Ira E. Rob- inson, chairman of the Federal Radio Commission, and Miss Belle Sherwin, president of the National League of Women Voters, among others. The social side of. the inaugural will be taken up over the two systems at 10 or 11 p.m. Phillips Carlin will be in charge of the N. B. C. as announcer, describing the arrival of notables in the Government and diplomatic corps at lche inaugural ball. Columbia has se- cured as its chief announcer Mrs. Elsie McCormick, daughter of Mark Hanna and newly elected Congresswoman from Illinois, who will describe the gowns of the women and the pageant of the ball. \DINNER GUEST SUCCUMBS TO WOUND IN HOLD-UP While Grappling With ! Robber. | Dy the Associated Press. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, March 2.—Shot by & hold-up man while he | was a guest at a fashionable Palm Beach dinner party at the home of Mrs, Vin- | cent Hall last Saturday, Horace M. + Wells, Southampton, Long Island, auto- | mobile dealer, died in a hospital here yesterday. Wells was wounded when he at- i tempted to grapple with the robber ‘lfler the latter had relieved the six | guests of their money and valuables, | He was shot through the abdomen, i . T. Southworth, who said he was from Massachusetts, was captured two hours later at Stuart, Fla., and confessed the ! hold-up and shooting. He pleaded guilty to two charges of robbery and was sen- tenced to 30 years' imprisonment. 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