Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1931, Page 39

10 BE BROADGAST *Ein Deutscher Sonntaggruss’ { to Come From Deck of i S. S. Europa. From the promenade deck of the S.8. Furopa at her dock in Brooklyn WRC and other National Broadcasting Co. stations today will broadcast one of the unique radio programs of the year—a German Sunday greeting, called “Ein Deutscher Sonntaggruss. ‘The program is scheduled from 9 to 10 o'clock this morning. It will consist of choral selections by the 1,000 officers and men of the big transatlantic liner and orchestral selections under the di- rection of Franz Koennecke. Bernice Claire, stage and screen star, is to be the guest artist in the Choral Orchestra presentation wnmht replac- ing Maurice Chevalier. will sing four numl “Romanc nnina Mia,” “Sweethearts Waltz” and “Italian Street Song.” Baritone on Program. Everett Marshall, baritone; Edwin Franko Goldman's Band and Fritzl Scheff also will contribute to WRC's program. The station in addition will carry its other regular Sunday attrac- tions. These include concerts by the Russian Cathedral Choir and the South Sea Islanders and & popular program by the Palais d’'Or Orchestra. Maj. Evelyn Wrench, founder of the English Speaking Union and the Over- seas Club, will be heard over WMAL and other Columbia stations today in the regular international rebroadcast from London, He will commemorate the centenary of the death of President James Monroe. ‘The Boswell Sisters will open their program with “South Sea Rosce.” Their other numbers include “The Bome Song” "Wllhou'. & Song,” and “Papa Di-Da-Da.” Ballads to Be Featured. Charlotte Harriman, contralto, and George Beuchler, baritone, will sing pop- ular ballads of outstanding composers during the Ballad hour. The orchestra will feature “Kiki,” by Savino, and Marchetti's “Sierra Morena.” Organ compositions by Bach, Pales- trina and Haydn will be the high spots of the Cathedral hour. The soloists will be Earl Palmer, tenor; Adele Vasa, so- prano, and Barbara Maurel, contralto. Stanley Bell. WMAL's principal an- nouncer, will be heard early this after- noon in a sacred song recital, accom- %nkfl by Raleigh W. Christie. Other ashington artists on this station's prozum include Leonard R. Davis, bari- tone, who also #nnounces for WMAL. ‘WOL will broadcast the morning serv- ice of the New York Avenue Presbyte- rian Church in addition to its regular muslcsl features. rogram of WJSV contains a new ntrut n, called the “Fellowship Hour,” %o be broadcast from 5 to 6 o'clock. HIGH-POWER PLEAS TABLED UNTIL FALL Action Withheld Until October on Proposal for Eight Clear Channel Stations. Higher power on the clear channels of American broadcasting. must . wait until October 1, and even then may mot be sanctioned by the Federal Radio Commission. Though it issued a license last week for the first 50,000-watt station west of the Rockies—Station KFI, Los Angeles—the Radio Commis- sion has definitely tabled any further consideration of high power until next Autumn. With Commissioner H. A. Lafount alone dx.sas:nt.l:':'gl the commission voted to hold in further abeyance the report of Chief Examiner Ellis Yost, recommending that eight clnr channel stations be granted power increases to 50,000 watts, and that the other clear channel applicants for higher power be granted 25,000 watts. The only reason that KFI got its high power grant through was that it ‘was authorized to build the new trans- mitter before the commission took action limiting 50,000 watts to only four clear channels in each zone, or 20 in all. Station KNX, Los Angeles, re- cently forfeited a similar opportunity to build a 50,000 watter by reason of failure to begin construction of the station as authorized. Except for the projected new 50,000~ watt transmitter of WABC, New York, which the Columbia Broadcasting System expects to have completed by September 15, there is practically no likelinood that more high power sta- tions will be added to the spectrum this year. Even if the commission decided to rule on the Yost report next October—and there is a growing belief here that the commission majority may attempt to shelve that report indefi- nitely—it would be impossible to have the additional stations ready by the end of this year. SPORTS, Base ball scores, WRC, 6:00 SPEECHES. “The World’s Business,” by Dr. Julius Klein, WMAL, 6:00; “Devils, HISTORY OF RADID | GALLS DESCRIBED Department of Commerce to Berlin Conference. BY L. A. CORRIDON, Radio Division, Department of Commerce. No doubt there are thousands of radio enthusiasts who have deliberated .88 to why call letters are assigned to ‘radio statiens, especmly broadcasting stations, and as what significance there is in t.he dlflerenfi groups of these letters. In the early days of radio, or wire- less, as this scignce of communication at one time was called, there was not very much system in the use of these calls for station identification. After the establishment of the Radio Division of the Department of Com- merce, on July 1, 1911, to enforce the provisions of the radio act of June 24, 1910, which was the first radio act enacted in the United States. and, fol- lowing the ratification of the Berlin Convention of 1908, this country was allocated all combinations beginning with N, W and all of the K combina- tions, with the exception of certain calls then assigned to stations of other countries. Subsequently, all the K, N and W calls, with the exception of the groups heflnnin; with KA, KB and KC, were reserved for the United States. Calls Allocated. ‘The Radio Division, in order that the identification of stations may more readily be ascertained, allocated all K calls to land stations on the Pacific Coast and to ships plying the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico stations. The W calls were allocated to Atlantic and Gulf Coast stations and stations on the Great Lakes. Ships plying the Pacific Ocean also were assigned W calls. This practice worked smoothly until the opening of the Panama Canal. From that time on, with ships going from one ocean to the other, either K or W calls were of necessity used and assigned to vessels in both oceans. During the infancy of radio prac- tically all land stations were on the coast as all communication was done between ship-to-shore stations, there being no point-to-point communica- tion between stations within the coun- try. K calls at the time of the be- ginning of broadcasting were assigned to inland stations east or west of the Mississippi River; however, after the first broadcasting stations were erect- ed. '.hll river was made the dividing f K and W KDKA, East am the pioneer broadcasting flano:‘ vnlchplluwnu for these sta- tions having K calls assigned to Letters Exhausted. Along about 1917, when this country entered the world conflict, the call combination of three letters were ex- ted, making it necessary for the grouping of an_additional letter. The Internaticnal Radiotelegraph Confer- ence held at Washington in 1927 allo- cated the remaining combinations be- ginning with KA, KB and KC to the United States, due to the arrange- ment decided upon to assign only three-letter calls to stations in the international service—that is, land stations communicating with ships at sea and land stations communicating with foreign countries. The number of stations of this category had in- creased tremendously. Four-letter calls under the convention are now as- signed to ships and land stations in domestic point-to-point service and five-letter calls are given to radio- equipped aircraft. Shortly after the inception of hmd- casting the idea of giving calls broadcasting stations that would h-ve some special significance was conceived and, to begin with, assigned KOP to a station of the Detroit Police Depart- ment which since then has been placed out of n. With the popu- larity of this call came a deluge of requests for calls dslxmung the initials of a slogan, the owner's name, and Doctors,” by Dr. Howard W. Haggard, WMAL, 7:00; “Our_Gov- ernment,” by David Lawrence, WRC, CLASSICAL. Gilbert and Sullivan gems, WRC, 4:00; Grand Opera Miniatures, WMAL, :aKg‘:,Russlln Cathedral Choir, WRC, VARIETY. Jack Ralston's Orchestra, WOL, 1:00; Choral Orchestra, with Bernice Claire, 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. 5:00—The Fur Trappers; musical lnm—wABC ‘WNAC, WCA LE ao—'me Dnndlu Betty Smart, con- ; Ben Alley, and Rich's WFBL, ‘WABC, and WCAU. no—mmw Scrapbook, amble Storms New York" szv KDKA, WGN, WRVA and WSR. 7:00—Melodies; Betsy Ayres, Mary Hopple and Wilworth's m- ma—w.vz WBZ, WBZA,WHAI( accordion sc\om,-—wJZ. - WHAM, KDKA, WJR and WMC. 15—The S Party; Mary McCoy, sopenn:.lnd Nat Brusiloff’s Or- chestra—WBAL, WJZ, WBZ, WLW. '15—"Wnrld Adventures” by mfl Gihbonl—wlz. KDKA, WBAL, nd WBZ. .:SD—SIumbn Music; - Ludwig Lau- rier’s String Ensemble—WJZ, WBZ, WBZA, WHAM, KDKA, ‘WJR and WLW. Io:oo-—clyde Doerr'u Saxophone oem w WBAL, u:no— C | that stetion’s slogan, vis. the name olnchorsnhlnvNch a station may be located. Calls Represent Slogans. ‘The station of the Radio Corpora- tion in Washington asked for WRC, which readily can_be seen to stand for Washington Radio Corporation. ‘Then along came a number of others, including WGN, Chicago, which stands for the slogan of the Chicago Tribune; WCCO, St. Paul, Washburn Crosby Co.; WACO, Waco, Tex., as one can observe, spells the name of the city in which this station is located; WJJD, Mooseheart, Ill., forgetting the initial letter which must be assigned, stands for James J. Davis, director general of the 1 Order- of the Moose, for- mer S iry of Labor and now junior Senator from Pennsylvania; WMMN, Fairmount, W. Va., stands for Senator Mansfield M. Neely of that state; WGP, Atlantic City, World's Greatest Phyrround is very appropriate. There are many others using exceptionally appropriate calls. In Florida, at Miami Beach, officials could not the call requested, but, thinking of Florida's semi-tropical climate, assigned WIOD, which became the Inmnl letters of » “Wonderful casting stations which are incorporaf have used their call letters for their corporate name or as the name of ownership, 0ld Calls Reassigned. A number of the calls used today were formerly assigned to stations now out of existence, some of which have xperiences. KGB, now the transmitter WBZA, WHAM, KDKA, WiR, | im e Luckenbach, sunk by & the Prench coast in 1917, Assigns Letters According | LYDE DENGLER, tenor, and Polly Waters, soprano (left), who will intro- duce a new musical series Wednesday night et 8:30 o'clock. life they are Mr. end Mrs. Dengler. Broadway musical comedy prima donna who has .In private On the rllht is Helen Gilliga: been u(ned by Co- lumbia for several different features. Today on the Radio (All programs scheduled for Eastern Standard Time.) 315.6 Meters. WRC 950 Kilocycles. 7:00a—Melody hour. 8:00a—Children’s hour. 9:00a—Ein Deutscher Sontagsgruss— A German Sunday greeting. 10:00a—Neapolitan_Days. 10:30a—Jewels of Destiny. 11:00a—Rochester Concert Orchestra. 11:30a—Biblical drama. 12:00m—"Pop” Concert. 1:00—"Debunking Big Game Hunt- " by Carveth Wells, 1:18— Caribbeans. 1:30—Artists’ Service program. 2:00—Moonshine and Honeysuckle. fl 05—Fritzi Scheff in Gly Vienna. 6:30—Works of great composers. 7:00—Choral Orchestra, featuring Bernice Claire. 8:00—'‘Our Government,” by David Lawrence. 8:15—Everett Marshall, baritone. 8:45—Big Brothers’ Club. 9:15—Goldman Band. 9:45—Sunday at Seth Parker's. 10:15—Phantom Caravan. 10:30—Russian Cathedral Cholr. 11:00—Weather forecast. 11:01—South Sea Islanders. 11:30 to 12:00—Palais d'Or Orchestra. Early Program Tomorrow, 6:30a—Tower health exercises. 7:00a—Gene and Glenn. 17:15a—Morning devotions. "7:30a—Cheerio. 8:00a—Parnassus Trio, 8:15a—Andy sannellu Orchestra. 8:45a—Food progra 9:00a—Mrs. Bllkea Radio Column. 9:15a—Hits and Bits. 9:30a—"Please Tell Me,” by Jean Carroll. 9:45a—Hits and Bits. 10:00a—The Blue Streaks. 1o 15a—Radio Household Institute. Strings. 0:30a—Singing 10 dbt—Al and Pete. weet and Low Down. u :15a—"Moods and Memories,” Capt. R. Henderson Bland. 11:30a—On_Wings of Song. 12:00m—Palais d'Or Orchestra. 12:30—National farm and home hour. 1:30—Classic gems. 3:00—Women's Radio Review. 3:00—Dancing melodies. 3:30 to 4:00—National Press Club’s reception to Gatty and Post. WJSV 205.4 Meters. 1.460 Kilocycles. 11:00 to 12:15—Services of the Fourth | Presbyterian Church. 2 15—Church of the Air. 3:00—Organ melodies. 5 W—Pbl.lowshlp hour. 1 Spreading Association. 10— ight hour. :30—Roland Wheeler, tenor. 7:55—Service at First Church of . Christ Scientist, 9:05—Studio feature. 9:20—Song Story. Program from the ‘Temple Baptist Church. 10:00—L. Z. Phillips, trombonist. 10:15—Evangelical Church of the Alr. 11:00—Good-night. Early Program Tomorrow. 9:00a—Down South in Dixie. 9:05a—Weather report and Grand- father's Clock. 9:40a—Hints to Housewives. 10:00a—Elizabeth Chamblin, soprano. 10500 Program. by ‘Women’s cluh. 11:00a—Sacred hour. Stations nend In Wunlnmn Begulatly. | Flashes Iram The Evening Star, @ resume of world news, is broad- cast datly by WMAL at 5:45 o'clock. \British Use Records. Although = the Amerlcnn networl have eunmntl: refused to bronac: ted nbnolnr Tecords or even special re- cordings for broadcast purposes, grams Tecordings, as they are ealled ln ,_are a regular feature of the British Corp. Christo- fiur ,Stone’'s “Hour of Gnmophone usic” is a pa'{..%d:i;l feature, Mr. Stone accompanyj e recital commentaries on the e are records umber, or 17,576, making available ‘a United States sta- wuh the growth of Tation IN o »vht:;n and the times that n lhflof&t'lu I-llnm 0 | clency duri Wnd a I 475.9 Meters. 630 Kilocycles. 10:30a—Watch Tower Service. 11:00a—"The Voice of St. Louis™ Classical concert. 11:30a—Rebroadcast from London— Talk by Maj. Evelyn Wrench. 11:45a—Watch Tower Service. 12:15—Stanley Bell, baritone, and Ra- Little symphony. 00—Ann Leaf at the organ. 1:30—Ballad Hour. 2:00—Symphonic_Hour. 3:00—Cathedral Hour. 4:00 to 5Dl)—lvemc ng service from Dr. Julius H. Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Piano Pals. 'l :00—"Devils, Drugs and Doctors,” by Dr. Huwnrd W. !nnlr Builders, featuring Douglas Gilbert. 9;45—Leonard R. Davis, baritone. 10:00—Continental String Quartet. 10:30—Chicago Variety program. 11:30—Ann Leaf at the organ. 12:00—Weather forecast. Early Program Tomorrow. 8:00a—The Commuters. 8:30a—Tony’s Scrap Book. 8:45a—The Dutch Girl. 9: oon—openln; the Morning Mail. -Me! lody 10:i oo:.—"ahoot the Wurn " by Hey- wood Broun. 10:15a—The Looking-Glass. 10:! ;h_o-—me Madison Singers. : lodern Maids. 11:00a—Don Bigelow's Orchestrs. 11:30a—Cuban_ Orchestra. 12:00m—Earl Carpenter’s Orchestra. 12:30—Harry Tucker’s Orchestra. 1:00—Dale Wimbrow. 1:15¢-Rhythm Kings. 2:00—Columbia sulon Orchestra. 2:30—The Three Doctors. 2:45—Columbia Artists’ Recital. 3:00—United States Army Band. 3:30—St. George's Orchestra. 4:00 to 4:45—Dancing by the Sea. WOL 3756 Kieeseten 10:00a—Organ melodies. 10:30a—Popular vocal gems. 11:00a—Services of thg New York Ave- | nue Pregbyterian Church. | 12:25—Birthdays. |12:30—In Funnyland With Uncle Jerry. 1:00 to 2:00—Ralston’s Ore Early Program Tomorrow. 7:00a—Musical Clock. 8:00a—Birthdays. 8:05a—Musical Clock. 10:00a—Talk by Peggy Clarke. 10:15a—Organ melodies. 78 STATIONS CUT DOWN DEVIATIONS ‘WOC Among First to Meet Require- ments of New Order of - Commission. Practically coincident with the pro- mulgation of the Federal Radio Com- mission’s order giving American broad- casting stations one year to narrow | their “wave wabbling” or frequency de- viations down from 500 to 50 cycles, the Department of Commerce announced TS in various ports o already -chlev;: that technical profi- !Y. ‘The commi 's order gives all sta- 0| ions uncl June 22, 1933, t0 equlp them- that e ‘3,; kg gk g i | i ¢ E i ik had inl flelds by R. Federal Radio Com: Congress ber. Radi communications and broadcasting sul lice: Far from cul] prescribed from Senator En“lomnl o case to go try appoln! ith the commission ma) ission he asserted, adding case.” guni Radi Corporal in built. oe be to ste: Equally in- oly in A. mmissioner Rol ld have bee hicl e urts ides Charges of C. A. are being ly e hobiasen ap fykes. appointment Fel Commissioner Saltzman’s in 1 many quarters that Chairma Presids Pl]lITIL'Al FIGHT SEENINR.C.A.ROW Radio Commission Expected to Face Bitter Attack When Congress Meets. BY MARTIN CODEL. Political recriminations rnhbly will heap with renewed intens| ty upon the shoulders of the ml-lon after the new venes in December. The commission has already been severely criticized from political sources for its recent 3-to-2 decision holding that lo Cor~ poration of America and its meul sidiaries should not forfeit their 25 '.'l.-le ha l d B.“‘é L’l\l’?fi; eral courts have foun of an lmumd monopoly of the radio % completely abeolved sec- tion 13 of tion, long a target of attack I.n will face p«rhnimon bitter onslaughts than ever m Congress reconvenes. Democratic Criticism Severe. Rather mild criticism of the eom- mluhn'- action came shortly after the ummm " cairmag of the blll:ll‘l of M e 3 in Charge of Radlo. Not so mild, however, were the criti- cisms of Senator Dill (Democrat) of Washington, co-author of the radio and Representative Ewin ocrat) of Tennessee, ranking minority member of the House Committee in Chbarge of Radio, who will become chair- man of that committee if the Demo- crats control the next House. Senator Dill asserted that the com- mission has rendered the anti-monopoly provisions of the radio act a “dead let- t.er and should have permlmd the to the Supreme Court for test. He hinted broadly of political ef- fects when he declared that “the coun- needs a new President who will t new members of the commis- sion to enforce the anti- monopo|y pro- visions of the present law. Rnpnunhuvo Davis flatly disagreed majority, flechflng tnn he himself helped write section 1 -'w apply only to future acts, in order to give the radio monopol; to desist from its unlawful practices, which it has failed to do.” The com- should have enforced the lnl , that he hopod some patriotic citizen will appeal Davis (Dem- opportunity New Barrage Foreseen. It is practically certain that there will be no af 1, for none of the inter- venors in case lndluml his intention to carry the to the courts. But the fact mnll.nl that the decision will, unless a new attitude to- ward R. C. A. is devel het'een now next Comml-lan and the Radio In fact, Oswald Schuette, prime mover in the various fights lnlmt the alleged radio monopoly, makes it plain that he will pursue his fight in Congress rather than the courts, his ultimate object be- lng a dissolution of the patent pool upon Ich R.C.A. is tion. The commission’s decision was very much a surprise, since it was generally expected it would elect to ‘pass the buck” to the courts. Especially lur- prising was the vote of Chairm: Charles McK. Saltzman, known to the White House contact man on the commission and a personal appointee of President Hoover. So f litical effect is concerned, Gen. Slrl‘?m!lnl vote on the mmomy side can now pointed out by the administration as its answer if any effort is made fagten upon it the onus of favoritism toward an alleged radio trust during Lheielecuoneerlng that is soon to come again. Commissioner Sykes voted with Gen Saltzman to refuse to renew the R. A. licenses, holding that section 13 leu the commission no discretion in the matter. ualls ng as Gen. Saltz- man’s_vote, not more_so, was the vote of former Chairman Ira E. Robi son, lonx an outspoken critic of monop- radio, and of R. C. In&lrtl - lar. Cor missioners Lafount lnd Starbuck ‘con- stituted the majority which declared that section 13 did not apply. Appointment Expires Soon. ‘That the better part of political dis- cretion for the commission woul n to deny the licenses and permit e case to go to the courts is patent. In spite of his high standing with the anti-trust faction on Capitol Hill, Judge Robinson undoubtedly took his political life into his hlndl by his vote in favor of R. C. A. which he accompanied with a strictly legal opinion declaring that he was “holding that which, as an xrerienced lawyer, I know the col 1 eventually hold.” Judge Robinson’s appointment expires next February. If he is reappointed by President Hoover he will undoubtedly face a fight in the Senate for con- firmation, especially in view of the fact that “radio trust” charges are being involveud in the mV‘H‘l;:A‘l pleées of udk: legislation com: fore Congress 8! the next session. of domina- tion of American radio by R. freely made by the labor, the farm and the educational interests that are all seeking wave length privi n appointment is for the | | o | more_stations. Behlnd the Microphone BY THE RADIO EDITOR. LASBIC, semi-classic and allied types of music were broadcast somewhat more frequently than jazz and the so-called “popular” songs dur- ing the first six months of 1931, according to a su ux of its pro- -ams just comple! by the Co- frmbh. ‘Broadcasting System. * It was a close decision. The exact ratios were calculated at 33.4 per eent for the classics and their melodic neighbors and 328 | per cent for dance and ballad numbers. Although figures for previous years are not available, program officlals at Columbia believe that “popular” music heretofore has hel lal:remncy and declare thn the chan response to more mfinm-ud public mfie ll ely developed by radio broad- Tou‘l broadcasting time over the Columbia network from Jan- uary through June amounted to 3, hours, 30 minutes—an aver- rage of 130 hours, 10 minutes weekly. Of this total 2,458 hours, 30 minutes (or 72.14 per cent of the time) wel:‘e ;l‘n’v%te to(mu;'l’tf&l programs, an ours (or r cent) to “talk”—which term ncludes addresses, radio plays and special events broadcasts. A comparison between figures for the months of January and > | June show striking differences be- tween amounts of time given to various programs as dictated by the change in the seasons. In January, for instance, broad- casting of classic, semi-classic and light music registered a combined total of 41.7 per cent of the month’s broadcasting time as op- posed to 32.6 per cent for popular music. With the coming of Sum- mer the ratio for dance music rose to 488 r cent, while classic music fell to 30.7 xger cent. The greatest increase in any one type of program was regis- tered by comedy acts and humor- ous monologues. The percentage of 1.16 in January rose to 187 in May and June. Other types of presentation occupied substan- tially the same amount of time durm; the enfire slx months. EITHER the National Broad- casting Company nor the Co- lumbia Broadcasting System is in the market to purchase more broadcasting stations. From M. H. Aylesworth himself the Federal Radio Commission has heard that the N. B. C. intends to buy no From authorita- tive Columbia sources it is learned that that network will buy no ad- ditional stations unless “abso- lutely necessary” in order to pro- cure a needful outlet. Though each of the chain organizations serve well over 80 stations, they own only a handful in their own right. The N. B. C. holds title to WEAF and WJZ,| New York City, and WRC, Wash- ington, and has a lease-and- purchase arrangement for the operation of WENR, Chicago, and WTAM, Cleveland. In addition it manages KOA, Denver, and KGO, Oakland, both owned by General | Electric. All but WRC are clear channel stations. The only other broadcasting stations in the so-called “radio family” group are General Elec- tric’'s WGY, Schenectady. Westlnghonse 's KDKA, Pittsburgh; KYW, Chicago, and WBZ, Boston. Though efforts are known to have been made to have N. B. C. take | over the management of these stations, there is little likelihood it will do so in the near future. Columbia owns outright Stations WABC, New York City; WBBM, Chicago, and WBT, Charlotte, N.C. It owns 51 per cent of the stock of KMOX, Louis, and one-third interest in WCCO, Minnelpolx.s and has a leasehold on WPG, At- lantic City. All are clear-channel stations. There is also a close cor- orate affiliation between Colum- ia and WCAU, Philadelphia, also on a clear channel. Actively interested in broad- casting ventures personally is|& Sam Pickard, Columbia vice presi- dent ‘and former Federal radlo commissioner. Pickard owns 70 per cent of the stock in WKRC, Cincinnati and also holds mlnoflty stock interests in WDRC, Hart- ford; WOKO, Albany, and WHP, Harrisburg, Pa. In addil on Pickard through his broth -law has an indirect interest in WGST, Atlanta. The market for broadcasting ! stations is still bullish, present owners asking huge prices predi- cated mostly on their license rights. The result lately has been nlg dlmlmmon in the number of and | stations changing hands. Rumors post, will not serve be- yond a year or two more on the com- mission. Judicial Discretion Involved. In qualified legal circles there seems to be an almost unanimous belief tblt t.he courts would ultimately have held, did the jon majority, for the idea of imposing such a drastic penalty for a trade abuse, without re- fll‘d to the priority and property rights n the communications and broadcast- gained over the last decade C.A,is repuxn-ne to many l-w [oT the legal lights q t, it wm:ln the provh:ce of tlu courts thn held 3 that the N. B. C. will shortly pur- f the Prairie Farmer, ltz- | Chicago, which has half time on the clear channel occupied by WENR, which N. B. C. took over from the Insull interests, are flatly denied by the management of WLS. These rumors arose out of the recent resignation of Edgar Bill, manager of WLS, to take over WMBD, Peorla. According to C. V. Gregory, vice president of WLS, the Prairie Farmer has no intention whatever to sell WLS. It is known that . B. C. made an offer for the t | station, which was rejected. Later an arrangement was made where- | year inipy WLS used the 50,000-watt transmitter of WENR, but retained act | jts own license privilege. . s s of the increment STRIPPIZD rvice, quality ined by lon of g:o(nm and %he rived actual cost of bufld!ng and oper- de-|ating a radio bmdcmlnx sta- tion? Some interesting flgures. throw- the he|ing authentic light on the fiscal be | side of radio, are presented.in a Paley Talks in Britain, “Your Broadcasting and Ours” was the l.u;m of an address delivered over zadio flm report on first cost and annual maintenance of stations compiled for the National Adv'laory Councu on Radio in Education, a dowed vol nect country. e thou:h they must vary in various parts of the r example, in erecting and | w, tenna, local cost of labor, founda- tion and super-structure (because of local soil conditions), ete. In fact, the committee states, it is conceivable that the variance apward might be as muca as 100 Kr cent becausz of the uncer- lnty applying to figures of cost ‘prope; on which the trans- mmer is built, furnishings and fittings, type and size of power sub-station and length of lines. The figures do not include pro- gram costs either, and those, of course, vary according to the manngament of the station. The committee dealt only with three classes of stations, namely 1,000, 5,000 and 50,000 watters. The 1,000-watt station, the com- a|mittee ‘Teported, represents an initial capital investment of $44,- 900, of which $30,400 pays for a crystal-controlled transmitter and its installation, and the rest pays for towers and antenna, engineer- ing services and station furnish- ings. The annual maintenance d operation of studios, offices and plant amount to $64,400 on a 10-hour per day schedule—mnkxng a grand total of investment and openunsocuu for the first year of $109, A sooo-wnct station represents $127,000, of which $64,000 pays for | a transmitter and installation and the rest for land, building, an- tenna, englneerlng services, of- fices and studios. The annual maintenance and operation of studios, offices and plant amount to $154,100 on a 10-hour per day schedule—making a grand total of investment and operating costs for the first year of $281,100. A 50,000-watt station (the max- imum power allowed by the Fed- eral Radio Commission) represents a capital investment of $338,000, or which $200,000 pays for the transmitter complete with an- tenna system, and the rest for land, building, transmitter house, service, offices and studio. The annual maintenance and opera- tion of studios, offices and plant amount to $206,150 on a 10-hour per day achedule—mlklng a grand total of investment and operating costs for the first year of $634,150. ‘The power bill for the 1,000- watter would be $1,550 a year, for the 5,000-watter, $4,500 a year, and for the 50,000-watter, $30,000 year. Technical staffs would de pend upon the size of the station. Operators’ salaries are fixed at around $2,000 a year, with $2,500 for chief opernwr. SHORT-WAVE RELAY SYSTEM GETS START|: International Service Would Re- broadeast Programs—Eastern Station Planned. Pirst steps toward the establishment of an international relay broadcasting service, over which American radio programs will be transmitted by short waves to be picked up directly or re- broadeast in foreign countries, were ac- complished last week when the Federal Radio Commission, adopting the recom- | mendations of Chief Examiner Yost, authorized the formation of the Short ‘ave Broadcasting Corporation as a union of the short wave interests of Aviation Radlo, Inc., of New York City, and the research laboratories of Short Wl;:.gld ‘Television Laooratories, Inc., ‘With the commission’s authorization, the four short waves previously - ed to Aviation Radlo, Inc., will be turn- ed over to the new corporation for the projected international service, which has as its purpose particularly the fur- Countrles during the next vesr " sepen next year. Ja China and the Far East ayr; also ‘g‘;‘e served, and arrangements are being made for service to cerfain European countries. ‘The nucleus of the system will be a new 15,000-watt station to be locat RM? licensed to Aviation Radio, Inc., at New York City. The frequencies used will be 6,040, 11,800, 15,250 and 21,460 kilocycles. an initial capital investment of |¢n "I RADID PROMISES MORE OF UNUSUAL Two-Big Networks to Expand Their “Special Events”- Services. BY ROBERT MACK. More of the unusual and the spec- tacular in radio programs is in store for listeners, it became evident yes- terday as plans of the two Nation-wide networks were divulged for expansion of their “special events” services. In vying for the favor of America’s~ radio audience of some 50,000,000, the networks are not showing their hands until the propitious moment. By means of short-wave pick-ups they already have rebroadcast from submarines un- der water, surface craft plowing the seas and from airplanes overhead. Pro- grams from nearly every corner of the world, flashed across the oceans by short waves, have become commonplace, and Nltkm-wldg hook-ups are routine ter it was suggested that perlupl 3:: networks will stage a Tocket voyage to Mars, with Graham McNamee and Ted Husing describing for their respective radio “publics” the trip en route. “That’s about the only left for them to do,” was this of- 's observation. Authority for Sets Asked. Columbia Broadcasting System has asked the Federal Radio Commission for authority to operate four new short- wave portable sets of the type used in stunt broadcasts and in Covering major events for the radio audience. Colum- bia already has two of these perambu- lating radio stations which can be strap- ped to the announcer’s back. National Broadcasting .Co. also has two short-wave channels for *“temporary pick-up service,” as this new twist in broadcasting is called by the commis- sion. Inquiries brought’ the information that this network, too, is planning an expansion of service. Columbia asks for two additional transmitters of power of only one watt each and two of 50-watt output each. The one-watt outfit is the kind carried by the announcer, with the microphone strapped to his chest and cupped over his lips and the rest of the parapher- nalia on his back. Such a set has a range of 2 or 3 miles, although usually it has only to carry the announcer’s voice a few hundred feet to the “pick- up” set which feeds the network. The announcer thus is enabled to rove about, making his observations and de- scribing them to the audience, un- & hampered by a trailing connecting wire. Beginning of Pick-Ups. How Columbia happened to begin the use of short-wave pick-ups was recalled recently by Harry C. Butcher, director of its Washington office. It was at the Pennsylvania relay carnival at Frank- lin Fleld, Philadelphia, last year, which Columbis had arranged to broadcast. It was discovered, however, that the fleld could not be d up for the laying of wire to feed the program m ny Station, and_ it was decided to fry & portable short-wave relay. Authority from the Radio Commission was ob- tained, and Ted Husing, Columbia’s ace announcer, became the “site” for its first portable radio station. (Copyright, 1931). Folks Behind The Microphone BY THE RADIO EDITOR. made his way to the microphone from the farm. Not quite 30 years ago Dean was born in Valley Head, Als. and learned to milk his grandfather’s cows soon after he began to walk. Then he clerked in his mndtl'.her'l store, and earned enough to I-y hh l ‘OUIS DEAN, Columbia announcer, Louis Dean: In his report, Yost, emphasizing the need of keeping intact the short wave lengths registered by the United States with the Berne Bureau of the Interna- tional Telegraph Union, commended efforts of the promoters of the project and stated that afple financial re- ing, New York City. ARMY’S RADIO SYSTEM GETS NEW COMMANDER Maj. Gen. Carr Succeeds Gibbs, ‘Who Becomes Officer of Inter- national Company, ‘The United States Army's vast radio and wire communications service se- cures a new chieftain and the private communications field another able executive with the appointment of Col. Irving J. Carr as chief signal officer of the Army, succeeding Maj. Gen. George S. Gibbs, whose retirement Amr 33 years of Army service became effective June 30. Gen. Gibbs, who still had a half of his four-year term to serve as chief signal officer, but who was eligible to retire after 30 years’ service, assumed his new duties as vice president of the International Tele, e & Telegraph Corporation ‘on July 1. An expert on good will de- | that therefrom, what is the| ey ly year tour of du&y with the rank of major general. A na- l;l.lil. Wis, 56 a 50,000-watt station the cost of | Radio Commission installation together with antenna d m vary by | Sun. and ground syste: mynrydy mlny'-h@-n Ey- pending' upon . . b ‘0 e % 33 ly found a job in the studios of & pho- nograph company in New York. From working with microphon- in the recording processes, Dean developed an interest in radio, md wen'. to Sta~ tion WGY for a job. There wornd for several years in every branch of the studio business, and then Columbia ' selected him for network announcing. * ok % OUISE BAVE, soprano, will cele~ brate her third anniversary with the Capitol Theater “family” in the broadcast by N. B. C. Friday. Robert MARY MecCOY radio and operetta star, entertains with songs of Revolutionary and presentdays. Tonight,8:15 o'clock “BAYUK STAG PARTY” Wiz VLV KYW., KWK WBAL WREN, WK, WHAM, KDKA, BZ, WBZA. and nominal Phone Gol. 9068 COLONY RADIO SERVICE 4838 Georgia Ave. N.W.