Evening Star Newspaper, June 28, 1931, Page 55

STRAUSS T0 DIRECT SYMPHONY TONIGHT Gladys Rice and Fred Huf- smith to Be Soloists on Program. With the classical Kent hour off the air for the Summer, Oscar Strauss, noted contemporary composer, with a large symphony orchestra and a group of prominent soloists, will take its place tonight on WRC and a network of other National Broadcasting Co. stations. Gladys Rice, soprano, and Fred Huf- smith, tenor, will be the soloists in the initial broadcast. The program includes the overture to “The Queen,” the inter- mezzo from “The Chocolate Soldier” and “Women, the Spice of Life.” A program of light popular music will be offered by Nathaniel Shilkrey’s Orchestra at 6:30 o'cloek. Vocal choruses by “Scrappy” Lambert will be featured. “Beautiful Love,” “I'm Through With Love” and “Choo Choo” will be the orchestral specialties. Chevalier's Final Appearance. ‘Maurice Chevalier makes his final ap- pearance with the Choral Orchestra at 7 o'clock. He will sing three of his bes! known songs—"There’s No Other Girl, “A Hunk of Love” and “Valentine.” Concerts by Edwin Franko Goldman's Band and the Manhattan Guardsmen are among WRC's other musical fea- tures. The dramatic relief will be pro- vided by the “Moonshine and Honey- suckle” cast and the Big Brother Club. Columbia’s regular international re- broadcast today will bring before the microphone Dr. Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, principal of Manchester College. His topic is “The Moral Crisis of Our Times: A Call to Play the Man.” This talk and the usual array of other Columbia attractions will be carried by WMAL. In addition the station has scheduled several outstanding musical features to be presented by Washington artists. Continental String Quartet. Excerpts from some of the maturest works of Haydn and Mozart will fea- ture the concert of the Continental String Quartet. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra will give its final radio con- cert of the Summer. The farewell pro- gram is made up entirely of selections played in previous broadcasts. The Washington artists contributing to the program are Arsenio Ralon, vio- linist; Elizabeth Gardner Coombs, pian- ist: Henry G. Leef, tenor, and Thomas N. Leef, bass. Starting at 2:55 o'clock WOL will broadeast an inning-by-inning account of the base ball games. Its earlier fea- tures include a concert by Jack Ral- ston’s Orchestra and a program of organ music L. Z. Phillips, “the man who makes the trombone talk,” is featured tonight by WJSV. Roland Wheceler, tenor, also will be heard in a 25-minute recital pre- ceding the services of the First Church | of Ch: WWV CHANGES SCHEDULE Bureau of Standards to Transmit st Scientist. Test Signals on Three Days. A new schedule of standard radio frequency transmissions from Station WWV, of the Bureau of Standards, has been announced for July 7, August 4 and September 1. These standard signals, which are trans- mitted on various frequencies on fixed schedule, can be heard and utilized by stations equipped for continuous wave reception at distances up to about 1,000 . They are sent of enabling broad- ps and all other ers, as well radio T owners technically able to do 50, to calibrate their equipment to estab- lished standards. Complete schedules are available upon request from the Bureau of Standards. Major Radio Features SPORTS. Base ball returns, inning by inning, ‘WOL, 2:55; Base ball scores, WRC, 6:00. SPEECHES. “The Moral Crisis of Our Times.” by Dr. Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, WMAL, 11:30a; “The World's Business,” by Dr. Julius Klein, WMAL, 6:00 “Devils, Drugs and Doctors.” by Dr. Howard W. Haggard, WMAL, 7:00; “Our Government,” by David Law- rence, WRC, 3:00. CLASSICAL. Gilbert and Sullivan gems, WRC, 4:00; Grand Opera Miniatures, WMAL, 8:00; Oscar Strauss and his sym- phony orchestra and soloists, WRC, 8:15; Detroit Symphony Orchestra, WMAL, 8:30; Russian Cathedral Choir,”"WRC, 10:30. VARIETY. Jack Ralston’s Orchestra, WOL. 1:00; Choral Orchestra, with Maurice Chevalier, WRC, 7:00; The Gauchos, WMAL, 9:00; South Sea Islanders, WRC, 11:00. DRAMA. Moonshine _and Honeysuckle, WRC, 2:00; Daddy and Rollo, WMAL, 6:30; Big Brother Club, WRC, 8:45. HIGH LIGHTS ELSEWHERE. §:00—The Fur Trappers; musical pro- gram—WABC, WNAC, WCAU and WHK. 5:30—The Dandles; Betty Smart, dgn- tralto; Ben Alley, tenor., and Freddie Rich's Orches(ra — WABC, WFBL, WEAN, WNAC and WCAU. 6:30—Theatrical Scrapbook, “The As- tor Place Riot 7, KDKA, WGN, WRVA and WSR. 7:00—Melod Betsy Ayres, Mary Hopple and Wilworth's Ensem- ble—WJZ, WBZ, WBZA, WHAM, WJR, KDKA and KYW. 7:15—Sea Chantles; male octet and accordion _soloist—WJZ, WBZ, WHAM, KDKA, WJR and WMC. 8:15—The Stag Party; Tommy Lough- ran, heavyweight contender— WBAL., WJZ, WBZ, WBZA, WHAM, KDKA, WJR and WLW. $:15— World Adventures” by Floyd Gibbons—WJz, KDKA, WBAL, KWK and WBZ. 9:30—Slumber Music; Ludwig Lau- rier's String Ensemble—WJZ, WBZ, WBZA, WHAM, KDKA, WJR and WLW. 10:00—Clyde Doerr’s Saxophone Octet —WJZ, WBAL, WHAM and WGR. 10:30—Los Argentinos; tango orches- tra—WJZ, WBZ. WJR, KDKA, WBAL and WREN. The Dial Log. Stations Heard in Washington Regularly. K Keys. .. 700 .. 670 1000 110 980 Flashes from The Evening Star, @ resume of werld mews, is broad- cast daily by WMAL at o’'clock. A RS The fifst talking picture shown in French Merocco was an American pro- duction in English, 1 THE SUNDAY' STAR, WASHINGTON, D, C. JUNE 28 1931—PART FOUR.’ Two Outstanding Radio Artists BOOKED FOK MAJOR NE ' TWORK PRESENTATIONS. - - ELEN Friday night broadcasts on Col of musical comedy fame, who Today on (Al programs scheduled o 315.6 Meters. WRC 50 kitocyeles. 7:00a—Melody hour. 8:00a—Children’s hour. 9:00a—Jospe_Woodwind Ensemble. :30a—Lew White, organist. 10:30a—Jewels of Destiny. 11:00a—Rochester Concert Orchestra. 11:30a—Biblical drama. 12:00m—"Pop” Concert. 1:00—"Debunking Big Game Hunt- ing,” by Carveth Wells, 1:15—The Caribbeans. 1:30—Artists’ Service program. 2:0@~-Moonshine and Honeysuckle. 2:30—Manhattan Guardsmen. 3:00—Natlonal Sunday Forum. 4:00—Gilbert and Sullivan Gems. 4:59—Correct time. 5:00—Catholic hour. 6:00—Base ball scores. Woodland Theater at Hillsboro, Calif. 6:30—Nathanlel Shilkret’s Orchestra. 7:00—Choral Orchestra, featuring Maurice Chevalier. 8:00—"Our Government,” by David Lawrence. 8:15—Symphony orchestra, directed by Oscar Strauss. Big Brothers’ Club. 9 Goldman Band. 9:45—Sunday at Seth Parker's. 10:15—Phantom_Caravan. 10:30—Russian Cathedral Choir. 11:00—Weather forecast. :01—South Sea Islanders. 1:30 to 12:00—Palais d'Or Orchestra. Early Program Tomorrow. :30a—Tower health exercises. :00a—Gene and Glenn. :15a—Morning devotions. 30a—Cheerio. :00a—Parnassus Trio. 15a—Andy Sannella's Orchestra. :45a—Food pragram. :00a—College Capers. :15a—Hits and Bits. Tell 8 1 1 Me,” by Jean ‘Please Carroll. 45a—Hits and Bits. { 10:00a—The Blue Streaks. 15a—Radio Household Institute. :30a—Singing _Strings. 1 10:452—Al and Pete. 00a—Sweet and Low Down. 11:15a—"Mcods and Memories.” Capt. R. Henderson Bland. :30a—On Wings of Song. 00m—Palais d'Or Orchestrd, 30—National farm and home hour. 30—Classic gems 00—Women's Radio Review. 00—Dancing melodies. 30—Musical interlude. 4:00—The Lady Next Door. WOL 2289 Meters. 1,310 Kiloeycles. 10:00a—Organ melodies. 30a—Light opera gems. -ooa,—c:s}.‘e vices of Calvary Baptist ufch. :25 to 12:30—Birthdays. :00 to 2:00—Ralston’s Orchestra. 55—Inning by inning returns of the base ball games. Early Program Tomorrow. 7:00a—Musical Clock, 8:00a—Birthdays. 8:05a—Musical Clock. | 10:0va—Talk by Peggy Clarke. | 10:15a—Organ melodies. 10:45a—Novelettes. 11:00a—The Parents’ Forum. {11:15a—March of Music. 11:30a—With the Composers. | 12:00m—Luncheon music. ! 12:30 to 1:00—Dance music. | :30a by 1 2: 3 3 BRITAIN PLANS PROTEST AGAINST ADVERTISERS Director General Objects to Spon- sored Programs by Eng- lishmen Abroad. ‘That the British government will soon | protest to nearby foreign countries, not- ably France and Holland, against the use of their broadcasting stations for |tre sale of time to British edvertisers sezking to reach the radio audience in |the British Isles, was revealed by Sir | John Reith, di or general of the British Broadc: ng Corporation, dur= | ing his recent visit in this country. Sir John stated that a few firms in | England, finding the British radio not open to them for the sponsorship of | programs because the British broadcast- ing monopoly carries no commercial programs, have gone to neighboring countries where regulations against ad- vertising do not exist. Their . obvious intent, he said, is to attract thé home audience to their programs in order to advertise their products. The British radio chieftain, even after reviewing the way things are done in America, was firmly convinced that the sponsorship idea is not for his country. He said he felt certain that ths gov- ernments of the few European countries thet permit commercially sponsored programs along the American plan will acquiesce in the proposal that Brl:k:.h advertisers be barred from their - | tions. If foreign firms attempted to ex- ploit their goods in America via the radio, he said, the American Govern- | ment would probably enter the same protest. Radio Owners Fined $5,000. Prosecutions for “bootleg radio sets” | In England during the fiscal year ended March 31, 1931, numbered nearly 1,500, | with a little more than $5,000 in fines collected. These prosecutions followed detection by the British post office de- partment’s famous sleuth car, or “Black Maria,” of radio sets being used without | payment of the required $2.50 annual license fee to the gav?ment, e Gibbons to Challenge Rate. Floyd Gibbons, radio's rapid-fire talker, in his Electric hour broadcast Saturday night over WRC and other | | | | | 6:05—Walter Damrosch Concert from | OELHEIM (left), former prima donna of the American and Rochester Grand Opera ccmpanies, who is being starred in a series of umbia. On the right is Bernice Claire is to replace Maurice Chevalier on the Choral Orchestra programs for the Summer. N. B. C. carries this feature, the Radio r Eastern Standard Time.) 475.9 Meters. WMAL 630 Kilocycles. 10:45a—Watch Tower Service. 11:00a—"The Voice of St. Classical concert. 11:30a—Rebroadcast from London— “The Moral Crisis of Our ‘Times,” by Dr. Lawrence Pear- sall Jacks. 11:45a—The Vagabonds. 12:15—Arsenio Ralon, violinist, and E“T‘llubeth Gardner Coombs, pian- t. 12:30—Columbia Little Symphony. 1:00—Ann Leaf at the organ. 1:30—Elks’ Famous Forty Chorus. 2:00—8ymphonic_hour. 3:00—Cathedral Hour. 4:00—Evensong service from Washing- ton Cathedral. Louis"— 5:00—8k>tch by the Fort Lauderdale | yers. ‘The World's Business.” by Dr. Julius H. Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce. 5—Piano Pals. 30—Daddy and Rollo, 45—Boswell Sisters. 00—"Devils, Drugs and Doctors,” by Dr. Howard W. Haggard. 5—Kate Smith, crooner. :30—Kaltenborn Edits the News. 7:45—Monologues by Mary Randolph Rupp. 8:00—Grand Opera Miniature. 8:50—Detroit Symphony Orchestra and | Edger Guest, poct-philosopher, 9:00—The, Gauchos. 9:30—Fortune Builders, Dcuglas Gilbert. . 9:45—Thomas N. Leef, basso, and Henry G. Leef, tenor | 10:00—Continental String Quartet. | 10:30—Around the Samovar. 11:00—Quiet Harmonies, featuring Vin- cent Sorey's Orchestra. 11:30—Ann Leaf at the organ. 12:00—Weather forecast. Early Program Tomerrow. 8:00a—The Commyi‘ers. 8:30a—Tony's Scrhp_Book. —The Duich Girl., 0a—Opening the Morning Mail. 9:30a—Mr. Fixit. 9:45a—Melody Parade. 10:00a—"Shoot the Works,” by Hey- wood Broun. featuring i | | 5a—Three Modern Maids. 11:00a—Don Bigelow's Qrchestra. 11:30a—Columbia - Revup. 12:00m—Park _Central’ ‘Orchestra. 12:30—Harry Tucker's Orchestra. 1:00—Dale Wimbrow. 1:15—Rhythm Kings. 2:00—Columbia Salon Orchestra. 230—The Three Doctors. 5—Columbia Artists’ Recital. 3:00—United States Army Band. 0—Thirty Minute Men. 0 to 4:45—Dancing by the Sea. 205.4 Meters. 1.460 Kilogycles. WISV | 11:00 to 12:15—Serviees of the Fourth | Personal mouthpiece, not only to at- Presbyterian Church. 2:15—Church of the Air. —Organ melodies. 6:00—Gospel Spreading Association. 7:00—Twilight hour. 7:30—Roland Wheeler, tenor. 7:55—Service at FPirst Church of Christ " Scientist. 9:05—Studio feature. 9:20—Song Story. 0—L. Z. Phillips, trombonist. 45—Dream Boat. 10:15—Evangelical Church of the Air. 11:00—Weather forecast. Early Program Tomorrow. 8:57a—Down South in Dixie. 9:00a—OIld King Tut. 10:00a—Elizabeth Chamblin, soprano. 10:15a—Hints to Housewives. 10:30a—Program by Federation ‘Women's Clubs. 11:00a—Sacred hour. 12:00m—Correct time. 1 —Farm news. 1:30—O0ld King Tut. 2:30 to 3:00—Afternoon musicale. of RADIO NEWS CORPORATION GIVEN FIVE SHORT WAVES Additional Channels Assigned to Organization to Overcome Summer Static. Five short waves have been added to the two long wayes granted by the Fed- eral Radio Commission to the American Radio News Corporation, Hearst sub- sidiary, which is developing an auto- matic radio-typewriter system of news distribution te newspapers in various parts of the country. The system is the invention of Willlam H. G. Finch, well known radio engineer, who is supervis- ing its install n. Because of “Summer static on long waves of 95 and 99 kilocycles, the com- mission has authorized the Hearst com- pany to tramsmit during daylight hours also on 7,625, 7,640, 9,230, 9,390 and 10,- 090 kilocyclés on the condition that no interference-results to foreign countries. The first two channels are used by the Federal State Marketing Service in Cali- fornia and the three latter are at present used in international services by radio- telegraph stations in Australia, China, Norway, the Philippines,,Germany, Bra- zil and the Canary Islands. Commission engineers expect that no interference will result during the day- | time, the stations using 5,000 watts power. The long-wave stations are built | 'or building at Carlstadt, N. J.; Tinley | Park, Ill, and San Mateo, Calif., where the short waves will also be used. There is a possibility that Press Wireless, Inc., co-operative radio subsidiary of a grou |of leading American newspapers, wil protest this short wave grant, since it was made without a hearing and since the courts last year rejected Hearst's claim to right to develop an independent radio news distributing service on the short waves. N. B. C. stations, will af tempt to show that the Declaration “of &lflvmflum was not signed on July | Residents at 12-A Barnard street, London; - are displeased becauss place is to be renumbered 13, RADIO EXAMINERS | KEEPING AIR CLEAN Small Group Has Been Suc- cessful in Combating Ob- jectionable Broadcasts. BY MARTIN CODEL, Paralleling - the notable job of the corps of youthful Federal agents in bringing gangdom to justice is the work of a similarly small group of bright young men here in Washington who are rapidly clearing the radio wave lengths of the vulgar, the profane, the indecent and the objectionable. They are the lawyers and examiners of the Federal Radio Commission, whos> proceedings against radio’s sev- eral so-called “bad boys” have up to now, practically without exception, been sustained by the commissiop and by the courts. Just as the Federal operatives have been forced to prosecute income tax cases against gangsters known to be violating other laws, so the commis- sion’s legal staff, unable to proceed against recalcitrant broadcasters with any authority to impose censorship, have prosecuted these broadcasters un- der other sections of the radio law with great success. No less than four major offenders are now off the air as a re- sult of their efforts. Commission's Powers Broad. The Radio Commission’s powers to d:termine whether a licensee is operat- ing in “the public interest, convenience and necessity” are exceedingly broad, but they are not broad enough to keep the commission from stepping w"fl when censorship of speech is involved. To shut down a radio station by refus- ing to renew its license is the most po- tent power of censorship the commis- sion could have, and though for sev- eral years it has been subjected to con- siderable criticism for an apparent lack of courage in facing radio's “bad boys” and their political supporters, the com- mission has lately been taking the bull by the horns and acting summarily and vigorously. First of the offenders to feel the effects of the radio law and the power of the commission was Robert Duncan, self-styled “Oregon wildcat,” who used a little station in Portland allegedly to vilify and abuse prominent citizens of that city. Broadcasting on behalf of his own unsuccessful candidacy for Congress against tha present incumbent, Franklin Korell, he was charged with | using vulgar and indecent language, and after being haled into court by the Federal district attorney was convicted of violating the section of the radio act which, while prohibiting censorship, also prohibits indecent, profane or ob- scene language on the air. He was sentenced to one year in the peniten- tiary, a sentence upheld by Judge Cur- tis Wilbur in the Court of Appeals and sustainad by the refusal of the United | States Supreme Court to review it This was the first direct conviction |under that particular section of the radio law, and the commission forth- with refused to renew the license of the station Duncan was using. It is now off the air. Building New Station. Next to fall by the wayside was Dr. John R. Brinkley, the Kansas “goat gland specialist,” whose medical advice broadcasts were held inimical to public health, and his station therefore held to be operating contrary to public in- terest. The commission ruled him off the air, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia sustaining its ver- dict in a sweeping opinion. He is now Teported to be building a new station in Mexico just across the Rio Grande from Del Rio, Tex. At about the same time the commis- | slon upheld Chief Examiner Yost's find- ing that Rev. John Sproul, militant Pittsburgh evangelist, was not operating his 100-watt station in the public in- terest. That station also went. off the air and is still off- by reason of its failure to secure a stay order in the Court of Appeals here. - The ehief case against Sproul, who drew his support from - contributions from his audience, was that he was bankrupt and finan- cialiy unable to operate the station in the public interest. Latest of the offenders to feel the tightening arm of the radio law is Norman T. Baker, stormy operator of KTNT, Muscatine. Here again the commission sustained Chief Examiner Yoit's recommendation that Baker be denied a license renewal beceause his station was being used largely as a tack persons and cocieties, including | the local newspaper and the American Medical Assoctation, but for the direct selling of goods and the advertising of his cancer cure hoepital. KWKH Case Undecided. The summary action of the Court of Appeals, in first granting Baker a stay order against the commission’s decision and then in summarily dismis- sing that stay order, came as & com- pleie surprise to everybody, including the commission counsel, who moved for dismissal of the case. Station KTNT thus went off the air, probably to stay off until the appeal can be argued be- fore that court next October or Nov- ember. There was also a report by Examiner Elmer Pratt, excoriating “Hello World” Henderson, ~the stormy petrel of KWKH, Shreveport, La., also for using his station for alleged abusive and questionable language and as a per- sonal mouthpiece. This led to the is- suance of only a temporary renewal license to KWKH, the commission hav- ing yet to decide that case. Chief Examiner Yost went to Los Angeles to hear thé charges against the Rev. Robert (Fighting Bob) Shuler that he was villifying persons in and out of public life over his station, KGEF." The report remains to be sub- mitted in that case, but. Yost's previous record would indicate that it will be enything but favorable to Shuler, in spite of the strong political support from the dry faction which Shuler commands. This case undoubtedly will not be decided until next Autumn, when_the commission reconvemes after the Summer recess. Shuler was in :«'l{;hlflgfim last week in his own be- alf, | Other Cases Pending. The commission will also not get the case of WMBC, Detroit, until next Fall, even though it was being heard before one of its examiners this week. This is the station used by Jerry Buck- ley, who was shot down by gangsters for his political comments on the air. The commission is inquiring whether the station was not used for rackteer- ing and blackmail purposes to deter- mine whether it deserves a license re- newal “in the public interest.” There are various other cases pend- ing, but most of them have to do with failure to comply with agecmc Teg- ulations or with charges that stations are guilty of broadcasting lotteries, drawings or fiames of chance. The commission will support legislation in the next Congress, placing radio sta~ tions under the same restraints as | newspapers in this respect, although in the meantime it has warned stations that it looks with disfavor upon such broadcasts. The staff of examiners, which con- ducts the public hearings and submits recommendations to the commission, is headed by Ellis A. Yost, a West Vir- inian, and includes Elmer W. Pratt, alph S. Walker and R. H. Hyde. All are law graduates. The legal staff is headed by Col. Thad Brown of Ohio as - general counsel, with Paul D. P. Spearman, Duke M. Patrick and Ben S. Fisher as assistant counsel. With the exception of their chiefs, all of the examiners and llm are.men in their Mr. er in their early T P Peat, author of numerous war books, | P Inventor in Holland Preserving Food by Use of Short Waves Bad eggs ‘will soon be things of the past in a new sense if Robert Pape of Boest, Holland, can sub- stantiate his claim of being able to arrest the decomposition . of organic produmn? means of ultra-short wave radiations from a special transmitter. declare that his invention, gen- erating waves between 25 centi- meters and l.meter, will after 10 days and within a radius of about 20 feet set up an electromagnetic fleld in which no organic product can decompose. In the inventor's house, accord- ing to the reports, food several months old has been seen in an odorless and undecayed condition. Included were broken open on l":‘!lt?,dl‘zll e d\:i‘]:d but :lhfll no sign of , while e at had been lwre! away a y.:r ago were opened and found “beauti- fully yellow and without odor.” EARLY TELEVISION RESULTS EXPECTED Members of Radio Commis- sion Impressed by Reports of Progress Made. By the Associated Press. Official recognition of television’s ar- rival at the public' service stage of de- velopment now is expected to come sooner than was anticipated a year or even some months ago. Members of the Federal Radio Com- mission indicate they have been im- pressed by confidential reports of Te- cent technical advantages in the art of transmitting pictures and images. In view of progress in visual broad- casting and the Increasing interest in that branch of radio, it is considered probable that the commission within a year will lift some of its restrictions on television. Commission Cautlous. ‘The commission has kept television on an experimental basis, believing that it should not be placed on the same footing as sound broadcasting until it is of recognized edwcational and enter- Yainment value to the general public. Some workers in television insist, however, that radio sight has reached a stage comparable to radio sound in the head-phone listening days and that fur- | ther development will be hastened by putting it on a commercial license basis. About 20 television stations are oper- ating rather regularly on short wave lengths with experimental licenses. Four bands of frequencies, each 100 kilocy- cles wide, are allotted to these stations, which of necessity divide time on the air, Wave Lengths Problem. Once the commission puts television on a commercial basis, a scramble for wave lengths similar to the rush for audible broadcasting licenses is ex- pected. Finding available frequencies to ac- ;:mnrnodam the demand will be a prob- em. It is possible that a suitable and “roomy” place for television will be found in those uncharted regions of the ether, the extremely high and un- wsed frequencies above 40,000 kilocycles. ‘The commission already has granted construction permits for television sta- tions which will experiment in bands from 43,000 to 80,000 kilocycles. Folks Behind The Microphone BY THE RADIO EDITOR. VT. HAROLD R. PEAT, of war- time fame in the Canadian army, now i§ commandant of an army of N. B. C. radio head- liners. magazine writer and lecturer, is the executive director of the special features | division of the N. B. C. Artists Service. He will arrange the transcontinental tours of Seth Parker and his cast, Irvin 8. Cobb, Sir Hubert and Lady Wilkins, Floyd Gibbons, Graham McNamee, Lowell Thomas, Deems Taylor and others. Peat has mixed adventure with busi- ness ever since he was a youth of 15 years. At that age he ran away from his home in St. Anne's, Jamaica, West Indies, to seek fame and fortune in Western Canada. Asked what he considered the high- point experiences of his life, Peat named (1) his boyhood truancy, (2) the first killing of a man in battle (3) being shot and confident he was about to die, and following closely, he named “facing the microphone for the first time.” * K X % HE Melody Moments program, pre- | sented cn the WEAF group of N. B. C. stations, shifts Wednes- day to the WJZ chain, thus depriving WRC of this feature. This program has been on the alr continuously for the last 22 months. * ok ok K 'HE first program of the Columbia camp concerts, & Summer exten- sion of the American 8chool of the Air, will be broadcast by WMAL and its ascociated stations Wednesday afternoon at 3:30. These programs are designed for the more than 3,000,000 children in° Summer camps. Orchestra Director Substitute. Gustave Haenschen will relieve Leon- ard Joy Wednesday as director of the all-string orchestra on N. B. C. The orchestra is heard weellly in the Grant- land Rice sports series. Monroe Program Planned. Columbia will commemorate the cen- tenary of President Monroe's death with an international rebroadcast from Lon- don next Sunday. The speaker wil be Maj. Evelyn Wrench, founder of the English Speaking Union and the| Overseas Club. ‘Will Broadcast Turf Classic. The Arlington Cup race, the Chicagb turf_classic, will be broadcast July 18, by WMAL and a network of associated Columbia station. The race, originally uh;duled for July 11, was postponed a week. Net Finals to Be Broadcast. ‘WMAL and other Columbia stations will carry a play-by-play description of the final matches of the National Professional ‘Tennis Tournament &t ! Bernard Shaw, Forest Hills, Long Island, July 10 and 11. Ted Husing will be at the mi- crophone. 116,299 Radios in Oregon. First of the Far Western States f which the Census Bureau has re) a census of radios is Oregon, where.116,- ?ggool the 267.59331;!11]1& lil':cdm census, or 43.5 per cent, I they havé radios. School Teachexs Organize. An associ school sum“ol'th:dx“ broadcast pro- lation_of more than 8,000 :1U Behind the Microphon e BY THE RADIO EDITOR. NTO sectional politics this year and national politics next year there wilf be introduced a rela- tively new sort of radio speech- making technique. It is the broad- cast interview, whose voiue gives promise of increasing to the point where it may very largely displace the broadcast address. Not only in politics, but in the radic treatment of other subjects, tremendous ad- vantages are to be gained by em- ploying the conversational method rather than straightaway speeches. Having spent nearly $1,000,000 for radio time during the last pres- idential campaign, the major olitical -parties, through their eadquarters in Washington, are already turning their attention to the possible uses of radio in the 1932 electioneering. Informal ad- vices from their headquarters are to the effect that radio will be used liberally again next year, al- though the amounts to be spent on that medium of é)ubllch.y ave yet to be determined. From the headquagters of at least one of the pafties it was heard that plans are under way to test the radio interview with the idea of employing that technique regularly when party proponents go on the air. Qut in Iowa Sena- tor Brookhart, who has already begun stumping the State for re- election next Winter, i8 going on the air in a Series of interviews on | political subjects over Station ‘WMT, Waterloo. The question and answer meth- od is so simple and so obviously effective in holding listener inter- est in subjects that might other- wise be dry to the majority of the | radio audience that it is amazing | that only a few commercial spon- | sors of programs have thus far| employed it, except in a few iso-| lated instances. Its first use in a discourse on public affairs on the networks was Frederic Willlam Wile's recent interview with Sena- tor Borah over the Columbia sys~ tem. Grantland Rice’s interviews with sport notables and Louella Par- sons’ interviews with screen celeb- rities are established and popular features on the networks. Now the network executives are asking themselves why the same tech- nique should not be applied to obviate the tedium of radio| speeches, which, if the truth be told, are regarded inside radio cir- cles as being among the least popular features of broadcasting with the rank and file of the lis- tening populace. | In England the interview has| long been u: in political broad- | casting. Sir John Reith, chief of the British Broadcasting Corpora- tion, during his recent visit here, | said that he himself very often interviews the party leaders o] candidates during the British n(# tional elections. Each party in England gets the same "polmcal} equality” on the air, so far as time | is concerned, that is guaranteed | by the American radio law, but| the radio is not used at all in the| by-elections or to promote local| candidates, as in this country. The chief advantage of the in-| terview is that it renders conver-| sational a discussion that might| otherwise trend toward the ora- torical. Psychologically, it also has the effect of keeping the lis- tener's mind better keyed or at-! tuned to the subject-matter, espe- clally if the subject is a heavy one. For example, when the interviewer | asks a question, the listener him-/ self often frames a reply as he| would make it, then hearkens| closely to the reply of the person | being interviewed to compare xq with his own. | Henceforth, the American radio | ublic may expect many more in-| terviews on the air, both from na- tional and local sources, and cov- ering, perhaps, dissertations on the merits of various brands of pickles, perfume and whatnot, as well as shedding simple light on various theories or facts about politics, Government, economics, science, adventure and other sub- | jects hitherto left exclusively to| speechmaking. & ¥ *x % x H 45 broadcasts from .12 cities in 8 European coun- tries, the Columbia Broadcasting | System set a record during the| first six months of 1931 for trans- | atlantic radio events. + Programs brought to American listeners from the Old World ranged all the way from a 150- year-old opera, performed on the| stage of the Royal Opera House,| Covent Garden, to a description | of the scene on the eighteenth green at Carnoustle, Scotland, when Tommy Armour won the open golf championship for the| United States, Jose Jurado missing the three-foot putt which ‘xe needed to share the honors. Speakers have. included Pope Plus, heard both when the Vati- can City radio station was opened and when he outlined his encycli- cal on labor; the Presidents,of Austria and of the Irish Free| State; the Prince of Wales, the| prime minister of England, the| foreign minister of Poland, George who refuses to visit America, but has broadcast twice over the Columbia network. LI W HEN & company advertises radio sets for sale, it must specify whether the })rices quoted include an outfit of tubes with each set. The Federal Trade Com- mission so0 ruled last week in the case of a manufacturer, whose identity was not disclosed, but who was found advertising “in a way which tends to deceive buy- ers into believing that the prices quoted by the company for its sets include an outfit of tubes with :ac:x set, when such is not the act.” A stipulation agreement was entered between the company and commission, under which it was agreed that “the company will also not advertise its price for its radio set where such price does not- include an outfit of tubes without at the same time disclos- ing in type equally as conspicu- ous as that in which the price is rinted the fact that an outfit of ubes is not included or that the cost of the necessary tubes is to be added to the‘ price stated.” * * x VARIETY in dance orchestras, so that no longer need listeners comment that “all dance bands sound alike,” is the goal of Co- mbia’s program experts. Under the guidance of Ralph meu, gnu!fi' [ mc‘ muu' N 'has a staunch following among | factors in Paul Tremaine’s music, | man for the fourth district, this district assistant to the program director, each orchestra heard over the net- work has been selected in consid- eration of its type and appeal. For radio fans who enjoy the quick tempo and unusual effects of continental dance rhythms, there is Felix Ferdinando and his Park Central Orchestra. Having layed thmn,l}out Europe and the est Indies for'a number of years, Ferdinando has imporied an in- teresting. collection of tangos and other foreign rhythms. Harold Stern, director of the St. Moritz music, also specializes in the Euro- pean method of playing. A decided contrast to their offerings is the slow, soft music and slnglnf of Will Osborne, which has Its ‘greatest following among the younger set. Ou{ Lombardo’s unit has its individual tempo, with arrange- ments entirely different from any other orchestra. The instrumen- tation of his Royal Canadians, which excludes string instru- ments, is largely responsible for |be the popularity of the music. With one exception, every member of the band hails from Ontario and for the past seven years they have played as a unit. As a result, each man knows the capabilities and moves of the other, so it is pos- sible for them to improvise. “Hot” is the term used to de- scribe Nat Brusiloff’s tunes. He those who prefer their music “sweet and heated.” Jacques Renard and Jack Denny both present the smooth, melodious type of dance music, emphasizing the melody itself, rather than sub- merged in complicated arrange-- ments. Strings are their forte. ‘The Negro spirituals and elabo- rate orchestrations are the main which, incidentally, contains the only harp in a broadcast band. Tremaine makes the scores for his 17 musicians himself, and it is the crescendo that holds the most appeal for him, although he often rojects into his programs light terpretations. The spirit and gayety of Harlem are expressed in the music broad- cast by Fletcher Henderson, who leads his orchestra from the piano keys in one of that section’s brightest spots. Ben Bernie, self- styled “the old maestro,” enhances his rich, full dance music with in- congruous wise-cracks that make him one of the most personable baton wielders on the air today. Freddie Rich goes in for the sym- phonic arrangements requiring much time and effort. Disabled American Veterans One of the largest delegations to the national convention of the Disabled American Veterans left this city last week for Wilkes-Barre, Pa., headed by Comdr. Lee T. Turner, Past Comdrs. E. Claude Babcock and L. Har- old Sothoron, Thomas Kirby, national legislative chaifman; Adjt. George W. Phillips, Liaison Officer Earl G. Hendrick and Michael J. Hanley, where the sessions of the eleventh national convention were held. Maj. Ernest Thrall of Baltimore was elected national executive committee- including Maryland, Virginia, West Vir- ginia and the District of Columbia. Past Depfttment Comdr. E. C. Bab- cock was appointed chairman of the committee to consider and make rec- ommendations for changes in the con- stitution. Ralph L. Chambers has charge of the supervision of the School for Liaison Officers. Mrs. Helen Evans O'Neil, chairman of the delegation from Rea Chapter Woman's Auxiliary, was appointed on the Resolutions Commit- tee. Other women attending the con- vention from this city were “Mother” Steed, Mrs. Laura M. Wafers and Mrs. Daniels of the Women's Overseas Serv- ice League, The period of silence which marks the opening of the national conventions was also observed here, a wreath being placed on the tomb of the Unknown Soldfer by _Dr. W. L. Kline, regional medical officer, and a delegation at 9:30 a.m. Monday, when the convention was officially opened. Y. W. C. A. News Miss Virginia Wingfleld, membership- recreation secretary, will lead a discus- sion on recreational and social methods at the Christian Endeavor Conference July 1, 2 and 3 at Western Maryland College, at Westminster, Md. Seventy-two young girls between the ages of 12 and 18 the past week were at Kamp Kahlert. Tomorrow about 30 more will go down. A large group of business and industrial women will go to the camp from July 3 to 5. Busses will_leave Beventeenth and K streets on Friday at 6:30 &.m. Camp Stay-At-Home opened last week in the Girl Reserve club rooms. Activities included a hike up the canal, a campfire luncheon and a trip to Great Falls, where the girls enjoyed the rowboats, climbed over the rocks and hiked up the river above the falls. The senior high school Is have started hobby groups including swim- ming classes dramatics and music, - binding, pinhole camera making, tennis, “m?ncn"' leather craft and sandwich making. ! ‘The younger girls have for projects the making of a doll house, with all of the furniture, and hobby groups includ- ing leather craft, dramatics, music, swimming classes and camp craft. All girls between the ages of 12 and 18 are invited to take part in this real camp pn:'nm in town at any time dur- ing the Summer. Monday, Wednesday and Priday mornings are for senior high school girls and Tuesday and Thurs- day mornings are for junior high school ] girls. The following are registered for the camp activities: Kathryn Abbott, Lilllan Chaney, Pauline Cole, Mary. Craig, 1da Dagger, Agnes Deaton, Betty Evert, Katherine Fitts, Helen Hogge, Estella Hough, Eva_Goldenberg, Sarah Lee Greenburg, Frances Laughton, Nancy Linthicum, Kitty Rupsina, Betty Raw- don, Harriet Sauber, Grace Schop- meyer, Mary Stuart, Laura Talbott, Helen White, Betty Wilkinson, Dorothy Wyville, Edith Alberg, Vera Barnes, A. M. Browne, Cameron, Chloe Estes, Betty Curran, Louise , Martha Dodson, Alice Graham, Dorcthy | Green, Helen Jones, Eleanor Kender- dine, Lois Lainhart, Gladys Schellin, Maftgery Lipski, Polly Nolte, Jean Otter- bach, Winifred Semmies, Polly Sniffin, Nola Btone, Helen Sunday, Lesta Wake- man, Mary White and Lillian Wyville. A new airmail service between New York and Colombia, will make the flight Im and one-half ds | Adaland, * economic 9 RADIO CHIEFS PLAN ANNUAL VACATIONS Members of Commission and Staff to Leave Capital Until September 1. Federal surveillance over brosdcast~ ers and the broadcazt wave lengtha will be relaxed to some extent during the Summer, for July and August are to be the vacation periods of the rulers of American radio. Recessing yesterday, the Federal Radio Commission and its staff, not to forget the broadcasters who come here in great nufnbers throughout the year, will all but desert Washington until September 1. One or two of the commissioners will be on hand for routine matters about which there is little or no dispute, but, all will be gone on vocations some time or other during the next two monmths. No Rearings will be held, and inasmuch as the courts here also are adjourning until Autumn, no appeals decisions may until, perhaps, next Oc- tober. Will Inspect Zone. Commissioner H. A. Lafount will be the first to leave. He plans to combine an inspection tour of his fifth zone of Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast States with his vacation, being gone for six weeks, Leaving Washington June 27, he goes directly to Denver, thence to his home in Salt Lake City and to' va- rious points in the West, returning via Atlanta on August 14. July will find Commissioner ,I. E. Robinson vacationing at his home at W. Va., while Chairman Cherles McK. Saltzman goes on his va- cation to upstate New York. Both Commissioners W. D. Starbuck and E. O. Sykes will remain here during July, Starbuck planning & vacation in August and Sykes planning to go to his home in Jackson, Miss, during the same month. Col. 'Thad Brown, general counsel of the commission, es July 20 for & visit with his motter on a farm near Mount Gilead, Ohio, after which he will take a trip on the Great Lakes with his son and go camping and fishing in the Lake of the Woods country in Canada. Duke Patrick, assistant general counsel, plans to leave August 10 for a trip to Canada. Ben Pisher, assistant general counsel, will motor through Virg in July with his family. May Go to Canada. Tliness may preclude Paul D.P. Spear- man, the third assistant general coun- sel, from carrying out his plan to va- cation at his home in Mississippl in August. He is at present confined to a local hospital. { Examiner Ellis A. Yost has not decided upon his. va- cation plans, but may go to Cana Dr. C. B. Jolliffe, chief engineer, re- turns from the Copenhagen radio con- ference at the end of this month along with Gerald Gross, assistant engineer. They may be here most of the Summer. V. Ford Greaves, broadcast engineer, plans a tour to an unannounced desti- nation in July, and in August Andrew Ring. assistant broadcast engineer, goes to his home in Franklin, Tenn., for short visit before embarking on an au- tomobile tour. ‘William D. Terrell, chief of the Radio Division, Department of Commerce, will spend several weeks on his farm in Vir- ginia, his staff of inspectors throughout the country taking their vacations 2t various intervals. Among the other no- tables of Wasbington radio, Louis G. Caldwell, former commission counsel, is planning & trip to Europe. Philip G. Loucks, managing director_of the Na- tional Association of Broadcasters, leaves here about July 1 to visit broad- casters in Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. He will return in Au- gust via the Southern States and Atlanta, A nal meeting of Pacific Coast members of the association will take place July 21 and 22 at the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, with United States Senator C. C. Dill and Commissioner Lafount among the leaders of radio planning to be present. GERMAN RADIO FANS INTERESTED IN ‘WAR’ Koenigswusterhausen Station and Russian Broadcasters Fight- ing for Ether. By the Associated Press. KOENIGSWUSTERHAUSEN, Ger- many.—The interest of German radio fans is centering upon a “war” between the German Koenigswursterhausen sta- tion and the Soviet broadcasting sta- “u:is' nearly all of which are high pow- ered. German radio fans eagerly watch for the outcome of this ether fight by alter- nately tuning in on Koenigswuster- h‘luscn and the various Russian sta- tions. The fight started when the “Deutsch« landsender” annunoced a series of lec- tures in German on agricultural, social. and cultural condition in Soviet Russia. The opening talk was excellently received in Russia, but it aroused much comment. Soviet authorities resorted to counter measures immediately. The German Communist Wilhelm Pieck was engaged to speak over the Russian broadcasting station about the same conditions in Germany. As soon as the Deutschlandsender be- gins with its lectures the Soviet stations start broadcasting Pleck’s talks. 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