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14 25 RADIOSTATIONS MAYSHETON DI Cross-Talk Interference Elim- ination Plan Considered by Federal Body. BY MARTIN CODEL. ‘Twenty-six cleared channcl broad- casting stations, most of them hoard regularly by hundreds of thousands of radio listeners, may soon be tuned in at new dial points under a plan designed to eliminate cross-talk interference now being considered by the Federal Radio Commission. For the most part the proposed shifts, ‘which would be effective May 1, simply contemplate a transposition of stations 1in order to widen the mileage separation between those on adjacent wave lengths. This, the commission engineers say, would eliminate blanketing and cross- talk with the least amount of inconven~ dence to stations and listeners alike. ‘The fundamental scheme of cleared- channel and high-power operation would not be disturbed by the shift. Proposals to revamp the broadcasting scheme as a whole await a confzrence of Depart- ment of Commerce radio supervisors with the commission about the middle of this month. Even then no radical changes may be effected before Con- gress enacts new legislation. Some of the stations which would be shifted—notably KYW, Chicago; WHAS, Louisville, and WOWO, Fort Wayn., Ind —are understood to object strenu- ously to the proposed changes for vari- ous reasons. This may precipitate court action to restrain th: commission. ‘The cost to the stations of making the changes amounts to only a few hun- | dred dollars for new crystals, but lc their listeners it means tuning to their new wave lengths at new dial settings. These are the shifts proposed: KYW, Chicago, from 1.020 to 1,180 kilocycles: WHAS, Louisville, from 820 to 1,020 kilocycies; WTAM, Cleveland, from 1,070 to 1,080 kilocycles; WBT, Charlotte, N. C. from 1080 to 1,040 kilocycles; KMOX, St. Louis, from 1,080 to 1,110 kilocycles; WRVA, Richmond, from 1,110 t0 1,150 kilocycles; KRLD, Dallas, from 1,040 to 1,070 kilocycles; KTHS, Hot Springs, Ark., from 1,040 to 1,070 kilo- cycles: KSL, Salt Lake City, from 1,130 0 1,090 kilocycles; WAPI, Birmingham, from 1,140 to 1130 kilocycles; KVOO, Tulsa, Okla.. from 1,140 to 1,130 kilo- cycles; WHAM, Rochester, N. Y., from 1,150 to 1.160 kilocycles; WOWO, Fort Wayne, Ind., from 1,110 to 1,180 kilo- cycles; WWVA, Wheeling, W. Va., from 1,160 to 1,180 kilocycles; WCAU, Phila- delphia, from 1,170 to 820 kilocycles; KOB, State College, N. Mex,, from 1,180 to 1,170 kilocycles; KEX, Portland, Oreg.. from 1,180 to 1,170 kilocycles: “Graham THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, McNamee UR studio “cat”—no funny re- marks, please—nearly lost her job the other d: The ‘“cat” is Gertrude For: contralto on several programs, and the only person around the place who can do ‘a satisfactory cat-purr in front of the mike. Miss Forster was purring away in utter contentment in a scene replete with peace and placidity. Sud- denly the ears of the control operator, who had noticed nothing untoward in the studios, were assailed by what sounded like a volley of rifle shots. It turned out Miss Forster had broken her necklace, and the beads clattered around the mike like gunfire. All peace was ruined for that particular program. Those beads remind me of the time our studio staff and the great Chaliapin Ellyed “button, button, who's got the utton?” on a studio floor. It was at the rehearsal for the singer’s micro- fhone debut. He had no sconer gotten nto action than he shed his coat. Next came his vest and his collar and tie followed a few moments later. But when the rehearsal was over he couldn’t find his collar button. Paul Dumont, then an announcer but now an.author and end man, began crawling under pianos and lifting musicians’ feet. Chaliapin’s secretary, and then his ‘accompanist, joined the hunt. Pages were called in to help, and finally Chaliapin himself started crawling around on his hands and knees. Aha! Button Is Found. ‘They were just getting ready to call an electriclan to wire his collar to his shirt, when Chaliapin himself found the button. “I win! I win!” he shouted, while Dumont sent out a rush order for clothes brushes and soap all around, and thanked whatever fate presides over radio folks' destinies that another ex- pected spell of temperament had failed to develop. And speaking of losing things, did I ever mention the musician who was always losing his bass viol and had to hunt for it in studios where pro- grams were being broadcast? Well, believe it or not, a bull fiddle can be mislaid, and I've seen that man almost turn a studio inside out to find his. But he's no longer with us. One night he forgot his bull fiddle in a freight elevator, and he never did catch up with it until the program in which he was to play was half over. I haven't seen him in months. I sup- pose he's a plumber by now. That would be appropriate, The latest advice our engineers are giving to microphone novices is to “be yourself.” In other words, they tell actors who want to know something about microphone technique to step back just a little from the mike and to talk in an ordinary tone of voice. “Frying” Sound Eliminated. Back in the early days, when we used to use carbon microphones, there was WMBI, Chicago, from 1080 to 1,040 |a reason for getting close. The old kilocycles; WCBD, Zion, Il1., from 1,080 | “carbons” caused a faint frying sound to 1,040 kilocycles; WJJD, Moose- when much amplification was used, and heart, Ill. from 1,130 to 1,090 kilo-|if a person sang or spoke close to them cycles: WHDI, Minn<apolis, from 1,160 to 1.170 kilocycles; WDGY, Minneapolis, it was unnecessary to amplify to the point where the “frying” would be no- from 1,180 to 1,170 kilocycles; WKEN, | ticeable. The newer mikes do not have Buffalo, from 1,040 to 1,060 kilocycles; | this disadvantage. They work best, in WKAR., Lansing, Mich,, from 1,040 to 830 kilocycles: KSOO, Sioux Falls, S Dak. from 1,110 to 1,100 kilocycles; fact, when one stands a couple of feet away—that is, of course, unless the di- rector is looking for some trick effect KTNT, Muscatine, Iowa, from 1,170 to | which has to be performed in an un- 1,160 kilocycles. (Copyright, 1930 by North American News- paper Alliance.) Band to Play Series. First of four concerts by the Manlius School Cadet Band of Syracuse, N. Y., will be broadcast by WABC and chain E:turday afternoon. The band has 33 s. Male Quartet Featured. An arrangement of “Liebestraum” for voices and orchestra will be sung by a male quartet in the Quakers' pro- usual manner. The letter “s” is a bad actor in sound reproduction, and when people who have a tendency to accentu- ate this letter stand too close to the mike it is likely to come through with a whistle. It was the old carbon mike that de- veloped the crooner—that and the fact that a small voice volume was less likely to damage the ticklish apparatus of the early days. The crooner is with us still and is likely to remain, for the technique makes it possible to obtain some pleasant voice effects that would otherwise be lost. But for most pur- poses it is now best not to try to “kid the mike.” An effect of naturalness is gram, WJZ and chain, Friday evening. | what we want from our actors and HIGH SPEED, MORE POWER INTHIS |OW-PRICED SIX DE LUXE DOWN PAYMENT ONLY $325 Balance in easy monthly pay=- List prices $695 to Prices f. 0. b. Toledo, $850. Ohio, and specifications sube ject to change without notice. Speaking—" singers, and the best way to get it is for the persons in front of the mike to be natural. This improvement in micro- phones in the last two years has prac- tically driven the “stagy” actors out of the studios. In the old days it was pos- sible for them to get by in character parts, but the new microphones are merciless to anything artificial. The new mikes have also made pos- sible better direct-from-stage opera pick-ups. We used to have to use as many as 18 mikes, hidden all over the stage, but now we can do a better job with four in the footlights. This ability of modern mikes to pick up sound easily from a distance also had a great deal to do with the success of the talkies. But the little tin box will still whistle the “s” if the speaker gets too chummy with it. But that teaches a lesson in proper respect. Tonsils Needed Attention. Bpelkh':g’ of_voice characteristics in broadcasting, I wonder if I have ever mentioned the classic retort of one of our engineers assigned to the broadcast of the Democratic convention in Hous- ton. It was hot in Houston. All of us felt it, but the engineers, in a cramped little booth without much ventilation, felt it worst of all. It's a wonder they didn't come back in padded compart- ments. One day an orator was orating fit to blow the mike off the table. The engi- neer was spraining his wrist trying to keep the volume within bounds. Just then a message came over the Morse circuit from our New York studios. It sald: “Speaker has bad nasal tone. What can you do about it?” And the engineer replied - “Give us half an hour and we'll take his tonsils out.” I con- | heard about it on my return to New | York, ‘but the telegraph supervisor vanked it out of his files to prove it. the wire has always refused to com- ment. Maybe he is afraid of being bawled out for impertinence, but I maintain he should have been given a raise for resourcefulness. Another engineer, assigned to the broadcast of some banquet speeches, re- celved a telephone message from the studios that there was a very bad creaking coming over the wire, and to find out the trouble and get rid of it. After checking his apparatus twice over, the engineer, sitting in a nook directly behind the speakers, discovered that two men near an open mike had very stiff dress shirts. “Apparatus O. K.,” he reported, “but I am getting a strong pick-up on two squeaky shirts. Am I authorized to | douse them with water?” 1 remember at one banquet that a strange noise was traced to a speaker who had fallen asleep and was snoring, and it is of record that at another ban- quet one of the microphones had to be moved from the vicinity of a well known personage because he drank coffee very audibly all through the speeches. And once upon a time a microphone came base. The only speaker who sat near that particular microphone has his name in New York's social register and is a model of elegance. An Incorrect Address. An incorrect address on a telegram once nearly led to bloodshed around the studios. A production man received a wire from an orchestra leader with telegram said merely, “Go Wash an Elephant.” ment, the production man didn't think it merited an insult, and he wired in return, “Telegram received. You are through.” phone call. The orchestra leader. en- raged, was at the other end. “What's the idea of firing me?” he demanded. “And what's this about a telegram? I haven't sent you any telegrams lately,” ‘he production man, very stiffly, ex- | age limit, but men approaching middle | The man who is supposed to have sent | back from a rather high-hat banquet | with & wad of chewing gum stuck to its | was whom he had had a disagreement. The | In spite of the disagree-| A few hours later he received a tele- | plained. “Good gosh, man,” the con- ductor answered. “That wire wasn't for you; it was for Mr. — in the mu- slc department. He wanted me to wire him the title of the comedy song to be spotted in our next program, and ‘Go Wash an Elephant’ its title.” But even today it isn't wise to ask that pro- duction man if has washed any ele- phants lately. McNAMEE’S QUESTION B Q. What_has become of Gamby?—P. O. Claire, Washington, D. C. A. Maria Gambarelli, who was known as “Gamby” when she sang on Roxy’s programs, can sometimes be heard ‘in ifternoon programs called “Dancing With Gamby.” Although she spends most of her time teaching stage dancing to girls, she still sings over the air oc- casionally. Q. I do not hear Edward Thorgensen on the air as guuch as formerly. What lfinsyhappencd to him?—E. B. P, Utica, A. He has been promoted to super- visor of.announcers and his executive duties are so heavy that he cannot s%end as much time before the micro- shone as formerly. Q. Is there an age limit on an- X;'ol:’ncers?—\!ahn Kennison, Omaha, ebr. A. Ordinarily there is no arbitrary age are not usually hired. They are not so adaptable, and their voices are not usually fresh. However, Edward Thorgersen tells me that he had hardly | taken over his new job when an appli- | cant turned up who could offer as his only qualification the fact that he be- lieved he was the youngest living vet- eran of the Civil War. Q. Who is the girl who plays in “The Adventures of Polly Preston"? Does she take part in other programs? —Murray Flood, East Walpole, Mass, A. Lucile Wall. She also plays in | the dramatic sketches in Collier's hour, fess I didn’t believe the story when I} and irregularly in several other pro- grams. Q. We have missed Colin O'More Is he singing on somz other station?— Mrs. F. J. jr., Wilmington, Del. A. Mr. O'More is not singing at present, but he is engaged in building programs for microphone presentation. His desertion of the microphone prob- ably will not be permanent. Q. Are Billy Jones and Ernie Hare married?—*"Millicent, Superlor, Wisc. A. “No” for Jones; “yes” for Hare. Q. What are the names of the Rev- elers? Are they the same as the g[e:hel’linl Singers?—W. C. B, Gulfport, ss. A. James Melton, first tenor; Lewis James, second tenor; Elliot Shaw, bari- tone, and Wilfred Glenn, bass. They appear in the Palmolive and Seiberling programs. Their broadcasting experi- ence goes back to October, 1921, when they sang over WJZ. This was that station’s first actual program. Pre- viously it had broadcast phonograph records. The Revelers sang for nothing then. Now they are the highest paid male quartet on the air. Q. Are Mary Hopple and Welcome Lewis the same person?—Mildred P., Toronto, Ontario. A. No, they are really two pergons, and it has never seemed to me that they even sound alike. Miss Hopple has been on the air, chiefly in light opera programs, for about three years, while Miss Lewis, who leans to “blues” songs, is a comparative newcomer. Miss Lewis, you may remember, was the girl who got into radio when her voice ‘“‘discovered” on ‘a phonograph record. Q. What has become of “The Gos- sipers”?>—M. V. P, Youngstown, Ohio. A. "The Gossipers” are off the air, and the last time I saw him, Jack Shannon, who wrote the comedy and played one of the old Irish women in it, was working on another act, with male voices and German dialect, which he was planning to try out in vaude- ville. He also planned to return to the air later in the year. Q. Does a woman stand any chance of getting a job as an_announcer?— Florence Bixby, Seattle, Wash. She would stand no chance on the networks. Woman speakers are almost never popular with the evening 72 MILES AN HOURE 48 IN SECOND GEAR ... 65 HORSEPOWER . . . RICH BROADCLOTH UPHOLSTERY . . . INTERNAL 4-WHEEL BRAKES ... RUBBER INSULATED ENGINE WILLYS S| PRODUCT OF WILLYS-OVERLAND, INC., TOLEDO, O. WOODSON MOTOR CO., Silver Spring, Md. R g Windhiester, Ve X MID-CITY SALES COMPANY, Distributors ' Parts i e Car Sales Boome—1711 14th St. N.W.—Dec. 5050 NEARBY COLLEGE PARK AUTO PLACE, ollege Park, Md. BAUSERMAN MO, in| J. A._SW, CA’ DEALERS HUI‘!T MOTOR CO., INC,, C. LEO McKENNEY, Alexandria, Va. ol BAONE D. C., APRIL .6, Armyand Navy News Navy. Unless vacancies not foreseen at this time occur in the meantime, more, than three scere line officers of the Navy will become due for promotion to the next higher grade between now and June 6. In the event the line person- nel proposal (Britten bill) is enacted into law, the Navy promotion situation will be altered materially and the se- that will be convened at it recommend additional officers for advancement to most of the grades. Two vice admirals and seven rear admirals will compose the 1930 line selection board that will meet at the derlnment next month, They are as follows: Vice Admirals Lucius A. Bostwick, commander of the battleship divisions of the Battle Fleet, and Wil- liam C. Cole, commander of the Scout- ing Fleet, and Rear Admirals Mark L. Bristol, chairman of the executive committee of the general board; Jehu C. Chase, member of the general board; George C. Day, also a general board member; Luke McNamee, director of fleet training division at the Navy De- partment; Frank H. Clark, commander of the light cruiser divisions of the Scouting Fleet; Ridley McLean, Navy Department budget officer, and Henry V. Butler, commander of the aircraft squadrons of the Battle Fleet. Comdr. R. 8. Crenshaw, on duty in the Bureau of Navigation at the Nayy Department, will act as recorder of the board. ‘The officers who will become due for promotion between now and June 6 and the dates of their promotion are as follows: April 6—Capt. William D. Leahy, Comdr. Willlam A. Hall, Lieut. Comdr. Donald B. Beary, Lieut. Willlam ‘W. Warlick and Lieut. (junior grade) —————————— radio audience. Ideal speaking voices are much harder to ind among women than among men, and there is a defi- nite feeling that most wom-n sound slightly artificial. Many of them have been highly successful in home eco- nomic talks, but stations that have tried them as announcers have almost invaribly given up the experiment. There are some woman announcers on local stations, but they are rare. Q. How Is it possible for the same programs to be broadcast from several stations at once? Do they pick it up and rebroadcast it from each other?— K. T. B, Atlanta, Ga. . Programs are distributed to the various stations on the networks by telephone lines especially maintained | for the purpose. They differ from ordinary lines in that they carry only programs for broadcastng, and are one- way circuits. (Copyright. 1930.) FROYES . .. AIR-COOLED | various grades, as of May 12, has not 1930—PART FOUR. Byron S. Anderson. April 7—Lieut. (Junior grade) Gerald U. Quinn. April 9—Lieut. (junior grade) Kenneth O. Ekelund. April 13—Lieut. Vincent R. Murphy and Lieut. (junior grade) Rob- ert A. J. English. April 18—Lieut. (junior grade) Carlisle H. Thompson, and April 23—Lieut. (junior grade) Karl A. Theime. Those due to be advanced during May are: May 1—Comdr. Douglas L. Howard, Lieut. Comdr. Charles J. Moore, Lieut. Charles W. Styer and Lieut. (junior grade) Harold C. Patton. May 2—Lieut. (junior grade) Thomas Aldred. May 11—Comdr. Arthur L. Bristol, jr.; Lieut. Comdr. Thomas Moran, Lieut. Thomas L. Sprague and Lieut. (junior grade) Willlam C. Cross. May 16—Lieuts. (junior grade) John P. Bennington, Frederick S. Hall and David W. Hardin. May 21—Lieut. (junior grade) Malcolm M. Pemberton, and May 27—Lieut. (junior grade) Luther B. Stuart. ‘Those due for promotion up to June 6 are: June 1—Lieuts. (junior grade) Ralph Earle, jr.; John L. Pratt, Charles W. Crawford, Richard C. Sherrer, John P. W. Vest, and John Y. Dannenberg. June 2—Lieuts. (junior grade) Albert | K. Morehouse, Thomas D. Wilson, John B. Dunn, John L. Westen, Kenmore M. McManes, George L. Menocal, Francis B. Johnson, William B. Terrell and Donald W. Gardner. June 5—Lieuts. Owen E. Grimm and Einar R. John- son, and Lieuts. (junior grade) Harold G. Davis, Matthew S. Q. Weiser, Ralph H. Wishard, Hugh W. Lindsay and Al- fred J. Homann. June 6—Lieuts. Ma tin J. Connolly, Paul L. Meadows, Fred- erick S. Holmes, Thomas B. Inglis and Earl E. Stone, and Lieuts. (junior grade) Harold R. Stevens, Walter W. Rockey, William V. Saunders, Daniel W. Harrigan, William P. Davis, Francis J. Mee John G. Mercer, Albert E. Chapman, Daniel B. Candler, jr.; Ke: neth M. McLaren and Harry R. Car son jr. The exact number of officers to he selected by the 1930 board has not as | yet been ascertained, as the computa- tion of the number of officers in the been made. The exact number of offi- cers that will be selected for promotion to rear admiral, to captain and to com- mander will be announced about the time the board is convened at the Navy Department. The indications are that approximately five captains for promo- tion to rear admiral, 20 commanders for promotion to captain and 25 lieutenant | ccmmanders for promotion to com- | mander. will be selected. War Department that there be a re- organization of the depots of their re- spective branches so that important economies in their operation may be affected. It is desired that this shall achieve a saving of at least one-third in the outlay of Army funds in this direction. This change in depot oper- ation will mean considerable work of adjustment. 1t is imagined that the principal opportunity for the economy contemplated must necessarily apply to the personnel. Reduction in quantities of supplies kept at the depots is xrob- ably not regarded as apt to yleld the necessary economy, and when it comes to a reduction of personnel, there is no question but that protests will be made to the Secretary of War. ‘Though it was fumored some time ago that Col. William G. Turner, V. C., chief of the veterinary division, office of the surgeon general, would apply for retirement after more than 30 years' service, to become effective about the first of June, he was ordered by the Wer Department, this week to be re- lieved from his present duties on May 10 and has been assigned to duty as station veterinarian at the Presidio of San Francisco, Calif. Upon the re- linguishment of his duties in Washing- ton in May, Col. Turner will take about a month’s leave of absence and will sail for his new station on the Pacific Coast on the transport that will leave New York on June 18. Col. Purner will be relieved of his duties as the chief of his corps by Col. | Walter Frazer, who has already arrived | in Washington. Other: changes of duty assignments of officers in Washington are: Lieut. Col. William W. Gordon, Cavalry, will ba relieved from duty in the office of the chief of Cavalry on June 30 and will g0 to the Motor Transport School, Hola- bird, Md., as a student. Maj. Lawrence ‘W. McIntosh, A. C., now on duty in the office of the chief of Air Corps, will be relieved of this duty on July 10 and will be assigned to duty as com- mandant of Crissy Field, Calif. Upon completing _his present course of in- struction at the Command and Gen- eral Stafl School at Fort Leavenworth Maj. Hamilton E. Maguire, F. A, will come to Washington for duty in_the historical section of the Army War College. Game Talks Arranged. A series of talks under the direction of the American Game Protective Asso- clation will be started on WEAF and stations Tuesday. The series will con- tinue through April. AIR FIGHTING RADIO RECEIVER TESTED Equipment Weighs 25 Pounds and Is Installed in Rear of Plane. A new radio receiver, developed for the fighting pursuit ships of the Afr Corps. is being given its first service tests at the 1930 field exercises in Sac- ramento, which close April 26. Described as a “high-gain” receiver, it has sufficient sensitivity to operate on & 6-foot antenna with a daylight range of 200 miles and is capable of being remotely controlled. The equipment weighs 25 pounds and remote control will allow its installation in the rear of a plane, leaving the tiny cockpit of single-seat ships less crowded. A small control, similar to and alang- side of the throttle, will allow the pilot to tune in on ground stations 200 miles away or talk with planes in the air 30 miles away while still flying in close formation. The equipment was de- veloped by the Signal Corps. Radio ic playing a major part in the field exercises with the most exten- sive tests of plane-to-plane and plan to-ground communication ever at- tempted. Pursuit ships, speeding high in the air at three miles a minute, execute verbal orders from a ground message center, huge bombers rumbling along below, and observation ships. Ground-combing attack ships, hop- ping hedges for surprise attacks on an imaginary enemy, are directed by means of radio, which is employed to co-ordinate the operation of all planes | In_the air. Wave lengths used allow the average home radio owner in the vicinity to listen in on orders and reports, and experiments will be rebroadeast on sev- eral occasions throughout the country over two chain systems. Revelers to Entertain. Percy Wenrich's song, “Make My Bed Song Writers Featured. Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, writers | of popular songs, will be guests of the | Happy Bakers, WRC and chain, Tues- | The chief of staff of the Army has | instructed the chiefs of services in the | o day evening. A score or more of their most popular numbers will be played, ' and they will sing a popular duet. e 84 Down 1a Dixieland,” will be sung by the Revelers' Male Quartet in Olive Palmer’s program on WRC and coast- to-coast N. B. C. chain Wednesday night. 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