Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1929, Page 66

14 RADIO RECOGNIZED " FOR NTRUCTON Development of Benefit to Adults and Children Ex- pected to Gain. By the Associated Press With a member of President Hoover's eabinet taking official cognizance of, the educational value of radio in the home and schoolroom, the development of in- structional broadcasting for both adults and children is expected to go forward rapidly. Educators and chain broadcasters who met here at the radio education! conference called by Secretary Wilbur | of the Interior Department promised | hearty co-operation with the Federal Bureau of Education. They agreed that the adoption of a co-ordinated program of educational broadcasting methods is essential to real progress. Fact-Finding Commission. Determination of the methods to be | employed and the extent to which the Government will participate in formu- lating or supervising the broadcasts has been left to & fact-finding commission to be appointed by President Hoover. ‘The fact that Secretary Wilbur, for- merly president of President, politically and personally initiated the movement is taken to in- dicate that the project will be given close attention by Mr. Hoover. Although varied and sporadic ventures in’ radio instruction have been popular | and fruitful, there have been no unified efforts to link radio with the school system, particularly in the elementary grades. Fear of Commercialization. ‘Many educators, admitting the poten- tial vaiue of radlo as an adjunct of ithe classroom, have hesitated to accept the proffered services of stations because of a fear of “commercializing” their courses. For this reason some school officials have refused receiving sets of- fered by broadcasters and manufac- turers for use in the schoolrooms. Officials of the chain broadcasting systems are agreed that educational programs should be entirely devoid of advertising. They believe thul those programs should be drawn up or nave the approval of qualified educators. How a comprehensive project cf in- structional broadcasts can be financed is & question to be determined Ly the fact-finding committee. “Universities of the air" have been functioning with more or less success for several years. Chief among these have been the agricultural schools, while the farm radio service of the De- ent of Agriculture Nas been con- spicuously successful. i LSk B Building to Copy Radio Tube. CHICAGO (#).—A giant office build- ing resembling a radio tube in contour will be built here if tentative plans of an Eastern radio manufacturing com- pany are carried out. If architects re- port the idea economically feasible from a real estate standpoint, work is to start early in 1930, it is announced. Behind the listeners for the return oi Hank Simmons’ Show Boat | productions to WMAL. The lat- est came last week from Mrs. C. J. Hargis of Vienna, Va., who claims she is unable to hear the melo- dramas satisfactorily over WOR and other Columbia Broadcasting System stations which have re- tained this feature on their pro- | grams. ““It seems as if the stations have passed the mark of trying to please their listeners,” writes Mrs. Hargis. “There have been many complaints because WMAL has discontinued the Show Boat. It was one of this station’s best fea- tures.” There is no doubt that the Show Boat productions were one of WMAL's most popular attractions. But it would be unfair to criticize the station for their discontinu- ance, since it is known that Bill Pierson and others connected with the program department have been making strenuous ef- forts to have the melodramas re- stored. Leland Stanford | University and a close friend of the | The Show Boat was dropped from WMAL's schedule when New York went on daylight saving time, which would have brought its presentations into Washington an hour earlier than usual. Like nearly all other broadcasting sta- tions, WMAL depends on com- mercial or sponsored programs to aid in the maintenance of the station and it so happened that | the station had contracts with Washington advertisers for the use of its facilities during the hour which the melodramas now go out over the Columbia net- work. These contracts could not be abrogated or broken. WMAL was the Show- Boat. Officials at the station, however, realizing the popularity of the Show Boat pres- entations, have been in frequent communication with the Colum- bia headquarters in New York, endeaevoring to have Hank Sim- some other hour or on another night in the week when their of- ferings will not interfere with the sponsored features. And there is reason to believe that the Colum- bia officials are trying to make the change for WMAL and its audience. * ok kX What will radio do next? The thunderous roar of Niag- | ara Falls and a description of the world’s greatest lighting spectacle | by airplanes, bombs and billion- | candlepower searchlights above the giant waterfall will be broad- cast Saturday night over a trans- BY THE RADIO EDITOR. PPEALS continue to l:et A made by Washington radio forced, therefore, to discontinue | mons and his troupe broadcast at | THE SUNDAY STAR, WA Microphone | continental network of National ,Bmadcasnng Co. * Plans have been made to install microphones in the Cave of the Winds and on the Falls View Bridge above the Nlagnza Gorge, to pick up the actual sounds of | the international “Festival of Lights” and relay a vivid descrip- tion of the scenic spectacle. Graham McNamee and Phillips Carlin will head a corps of radio | announcers to be posted at points of vantage for the unique broad- cast. 4 The program is scheduled dur- ing the weekly General Electric Hour, which comes into Washing- ton over WRC. It is designed to mark the 250th anniversary of the discovery of the falls by Father Hennepin. McNamee will be stationed on the bridge, midway between Can- ada and the United States, to de- scribe the scene lighted by a bat- tery of 1,300,000,000-candlepower searchlights, aerial bombs and electrically lighted airplanes. In the Cave of the Winds beneath the actual waterfalls will be Car- lin to broadcast the “booming” voice which primitive Indians worshiped. In the Niagara Hotel beside the upper rapids the 3d Battalion Band from Toronto will be stationed for musical inter- ludes. | " Radio reached out recently to | reunite two old friends. It hap- pened during a sermon by Dr. J. Stanley Durkee, in the Friendly Hour, a National Broadcasting Co. Sunday attraction. Dr. Durkee will be remembered in Washington as the former president of Howard University. He was standing before a micro- phone in old King's Chapel in Boston. A boyhood chum, Capt. McKinnon, was walking down a street in Moncton, New Bruns- wick, 1,500 miles away, and heard a hauntingly familiar voice com- ing out of a loud speaker in a radio shop. He stopped, listened, then decided it was his friend, Dr. Durkee, and went in to hear the rest of the sermon. . Dr. Durkee, according to re- orts from his friends, is intense- y interested in radio and is going seriously about the business of mastering the technique of radio delivery. He is pastor of the old Plymouth Church, in Brooklyn, N. Y., made famous by Henry | Ward Beecher and a line of | famous preachers. EREE May Singhi Breen, the “ukulele | lady,” according to persons who | | have seen her before the micro- phone, carries two ukuleles into the studio when she broadcasts. | “If a string breaks, presto, I have | another ukulele ready,” she told them. And here’s a secret. Miss Breen and Peter de Rose, song writer, who appears on the weekly radio programs with her, have an “un- derstanding,” which is to result in matrimony” within the next few months. * % k X The fight of organized labor for the right to establish a Nation- wide broadcasting chain, created around the key station WCFL in Chicago, has been carried to the Court of Appeals of the District. Plans for the establishment of the chain have been vigorously resisted by the Federal Radio Commission from their very in- ception, when WCFL filed an ap- plication for 50,000 watts power. full-time operation and a clear channel. The petition filed in court by the labor organization contends that the commission, in its refus- al to approve WCFL’s application, acted contrary to law, contrary to the evidence in the case and against the public interest, con- venience and necessity. It seeks to have the court reverse the commission’s decision. Once before the Court of Ap- peals reversed a decision of the commission. It was in the fam- ous WGY case. * k kX Further experiments in the perfection of airplane and broad- casting co-ordination will be made at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, when the engineers of the Columbia Broadcasting Sys- tem, the radio engineering labo- ratories and the National Air Transport tie up two airplanes, an orchestra in New York and speakers in Philadelphia and Washington on a Nation-wide network. Broadcasting from a single lane and rebroadcasting on a arge network has been success- fully accomplished repeatedly in the past, but this occasion marks the first time that a conversation between two planes in flight will be broadcast. It also marks the rst time that the key control of n entire broadcast network will be transferred to the air and speakers and music announced from three different cities. The entire feat is to be an experiment. STUDEBAKER R. McREYNOLDS & SON 1423.25.27 L St. N.W. Decatur 686 NEW CARS USED CARS T}éere Are l}y,/lgnl Ur}usual Features In This New Two Door Sedan Car illustrated is Model 612, six cylin- der, five passenger, two *895 at factory, special equipment extra. Jootod N Unusually wide doors permit easy entrance to the rear com- partment of this Model 612 two door Sedan. The front seats slide forward or backward at the touch of a lever, providing adjustable leg room, additional entrance space, and extra storage capacity when needed. The beautiful and substantial body is built in Graham-Paige plants, from care- fully selected hard woods cut and seasoned at Graham-Paige mills in Florida. All pillars and braces are extra large and heavy; the dash and supporting structure are of heavy-gauge steel, bolted, riveted and spot-welded at all joints. Seats are extra wide. Upholstery is of fine mohair. Moulded-on door Sedan rubber floor boards in the front compartment are air-tight and noise-proof. Arm rests, fittings and appointments are durable and handsome. mounted on rubber, is modern and quickly responsive. The 62 horsepower motor, A Car is Ready for You to Drive Graham-Paige Company of Washington, D. C. Factory Branch—1526 14th Street N.W. E. B. Frazier Motor Co. 518 10th St. N.E. Logan Motor Co. 1812 E St. N.W. Mayflower Motors, Inc. N 2819 M St. N.W. ational Auto Sales Co. 33 N. Y. Ave. N.E. ter D. Seymour, which will be other by Assistant Postmaster | Each of the WMAL, will cover the progress of | and announcer. flying and the part radio has| in making air travel for pleasure, commercial and Government pur- | poses safer. der examination. the broadcast, complicated, does not involve the use of any new developments in radio receiving or transmission. Each of the two planes engaged | quarters. s N played and will continue to play | Radiophone May Link Colonists. PARIS (#)—A project for linking up lonely colonists by radio-phone is un- If adopted, all colo- SHINGTON, D. C., JUNE 9, 1929—PART 4 5 Eln the experiment will be of the &NORTH Pm_E EXPED|T|0N made in Philadelphia, and the |cabin type to exclude motor noise. | {)lnnes also will carry, General Glover, in the studio of |beside the pilot, a gadlo engineer | to Magnetic - PLANS EXPERIMENTS' Short Wave Lengths to Be Tested Conditions. ‘ MILAN, Italy (#).—The Albertini ex- The technical equipment for | nists living many miles from towns in pedition now on its way toward the while somewhat | Morocco and Southern Algeria will be | supplied with a receiver and a trans- | mitter, working on short waves and en- abling them to keep in constant touch with one another and with local head- North Pole in the whaler Heimen to search for the six lost members of the Nobile expedition also will make ex- periments in short wave radio. A chain of listening-in posts has 1 | been set up in: Italy and outside this |country to study short wave phe- nomena in relation to the influence of the earth’s magnetic field and atmos- pheric conditions. Directing this chain is Dr. Giovanni Gallarini of this city. The Heimen Is equipped with a long wave transmitter for communication | with neighboring Scandinavian sta- | tions, and with a short wave transmit- ter for communication with Milan and Rome. RICHigND. Va. (®) —Immediate construc of a new 5-kilowatt trans- mitter for WRVA near here has been | announced. The transmitter is to cost approximately $100,000. and Atmospheric Honest Values that assure DEPENDABLE TRANSPORTATION/ The Chevrolet Red “O. K. That Counts” Tag Protects Your Used Car Purchase Used car buyers in this community have learned that they can have perfect confi- dence in any used car that has attached to its radiator cap the Chevroletred “0.K. that Counts’’ tag. Under the terms of Chevrolet’s national used car policy, originated to protect the used car buyer, every reconditioned car we offer for sale is identified by means of this red tag attached to the radiator cap. This tag is the purchaser’s assurance that the car to which it is attached has been gone over carefully by expert mechanics —that it has been thoroughly recon- ditioned—and that the price is based on the car’s actual ability to render service. Due to the overwhelming popularity of the new Chevrolet Six in this community, we have on hand at this time an unusually large group of these “0.K.’d’’ used cars. If you are in the market for a dependable’ used car—come in. You are certain to find the car you want—at a price that will posi- tively save you money. Make a small down payment and drive the car away— pay the balance on easy terms. BARRY-PATE MOTOR CO. 1218 Connecticut Ave. 2525 Sherman Ave. H-B CHEVROLET SALES, Inc. 1209 Wisconsin Ave. N.-W. WOLFE MOTOR CO. Silver Spring, Md. OURISMAN CHEVROLET SALES CO. 610 H St. N.E. 13th St. and Good Hope Rd. S.E. Anacostia, D. C. "COALE SANSBURY CHEVROLET SALES Upper Marlboro, Md. CAMP SPRINGS GARAGE Camp Springs, Md. OWENS MOTOR CO. 6323 Georgia Ave. R. L. TAYLOR MOTOR CO. 14th and T Sts. N.W. BETHESDA MOTOR CO. Bethesda, Md. Here are a few ex- amples to be found in today’s classified columns advertised “with an O.K. that®, Counts’”’ by the dealers listed below. CHEVROLET TOURING CAR, Late 1925, Mechanically OK. $120, WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS CHEVROLET CABRIOLET, 194§, This car must be seen to be appreciated. $450. WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS CHRYBLER 1926 4-cylinder SEDAN. New Tires, perfeci con- dition. $350. WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS CHEVROLET SEDAN, 1927. Has ‘been Kept in perfect con- dition, A good buy at $375, WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS CHRYSLER 1926 four-door SEDAN. In good condition, $350. WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS ESSEX COACH, 1926. Late model. Paint and rubber good. Price only $200. WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS FORD COUPE, 1927. Wire wheels, Looks and runs good. $225. WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS CHEVROLET COACHES, Three 1928. All in perfect con- dition. Good tires, paint, etc. Only $425 each. WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS CHEVROLET SED.N, 1928. Excellent condition throughout. $475, WIT& AN OK THAT COUNTS CHEVROLET ROADSTER, 1927, New Looks good, $215. WITH AN OK_THAT COUNTS CHEVROLET COUPE, 1928, Good tires all around. Fine shape. $400. WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS CHEVROLET 1928 COACH. Low mileage, Excellent condition, fully equipped. A bargain at $445. WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS 1978 CHEVROLET COUPE (Late). One of the few being offered in similar condition; has bumpers, spare tire and other extras. Priced special at $460, and guaranteed. WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS 1927 CHEVROLET SEDAN. Finished beautiful blue Duco; fully equipped and carries our guarantee. Only $375. WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS FORD COUPE, 1926. $125. If sold immediately will give set of new seat covers free of charge. Terms arranged, WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS CHEVROLET COUPE, 1927 Motor just overhauled and guar- anteed for 60 days; 4 brand-new tires, paint, upholstery, etc., in fine shape; $325. $130 down, balance to suit you. WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS CHEVROLET COACHES, 1926. $200: several to select from: all in good mechanical condition. Only $80 down, balance to suit you. NITH AN OK THAT COUNTS 1920 CHEVROLET “6¢" CABRIOLET. (Rumble Seat). Used a few weeks. Two-tone Duco; disc wheels. Fully equipped, very _ sporty, Unusual at $725. WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS 1927 CHEVROLET COACH. Paint, tires and mechanical con- dition OK. Slip covers and other extras. Low price $325. _WITH_AN OK THAT COUNTS CHEVROLET TOURING, 1928. Motor recently overhauled. Clean as new inside and out. 5 good tires and fully equipped, An unusual oportunity. $360. Terms. * WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS 1928 CHEVROLET CABRIOLET. Convertible top; rumgle seat: Iatest tan. Fully equipped, including Balcrank bumpers, Looks like new and mechanically perfect. Priced Tight. WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS b CHEVROLET COACHES. two 1920. Save $100 on each of these cars. Price now $596. Both in splendid condition, Very low mileage. Don't overlook these buys. Terms. TH AN OK THAT COUNTS CHEVROLET COUPE, 1927. Ducoed latest 192 Mechanically perfect. 5 excellent tires. A real buy, $345, WITH AN OK THAT COUNTS or. LUSTINE-NICHOLSON MOTOR CO. Hyattsville, Md. MONTGOMERY COUNTY MOTOR CO., Inc. Rockville, Md. BOYER MOTOR SALES Capitol Heights, Md. AERO AUTO CO. 1101 King St., Alexandria, Va. Wilson Blvd. and Holly St. Clarendon, Va. USED CARS “with an OK that counts 77 L]