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THE Behind the Microphone UTiLITy UUES"UN BY THE RADIO EDITOR. broadcasting map of the United States are in the offing. Not only by the ac- quisition of financial interest in more stations, but by the intro- duction of new engineering tech- nique, the major national chains have revealed their purpose to widen their scope and influence in the broadcast structure. Probably the most important of | the chain projects now awaiting| the sanction of the Federal rulers of radio is the proposal of the Co- lumbia Broadcasting System to erect a 250-watt “booster” station here in Washington to be synchro- | nized with WABC, its New York | key station in order to furrish the Nation's Capital with Columbia service on a full-time basis. Not merely because of its local aspects, but because it again fore- shadows the day when Nation-| wide chain broadcasting may be accomplished on a single wave length, this radical engineering departure is significant in the ex- treme. Columbia intends to sever | its connections with WMAL, thz| independently owned outlet here | which it has unsuccessfully sought | to purchase, and through the “booster” give Washington the identical programs being broad-| cast by WABC over New York| through all the waking hours of | ihe day. | Almost coincidently with this| proposal, which awaits authonzbi tion by the Federal Radio Com- missior;, came the announcement that the National Broadcasting 0. has formed a "parmershl?"\ with the Chicago Daily News in the ownership of WMAQ, Chicago. | It is understood that N. B. C. has, purchased 50 per cent interest in | WMAQ. | This means that WMAQ will go | off the Columbia network and| henceforth subscribe only to N. B. C. programs, one of which— | Amos 'n’ Andy—it has originated | for the N. B. C. since the blackface air went on the network. Co-| Rxmbla must now cast about for a | new outlet or outlets to supple- | ment WBBM. Chicago, which it/ owns, but which is licehsed only to broadcast four-sevenths time on the clear channel it shares with KFAB, Lincoln, Nebr. | The apparent sparring between | the two chains for supremacy in| the matter of station outlets also broke out in another way in Wash- | ington. Reports which the parties | concerned would neither verify | nor deny were current that N. B.| C. would shortly add StationWJSV | as a regular outlet for its “blue network programs. WJSV is a| 10,000-watter operating on 1460 kilocycles, which channel it uses| simultaneously with KSTP, St.| Paul, also a 10,000-watter. At present the N. B. C. owns and| operates WRC, which provides| Washington with programs from | both its “red” and “blue” net- works. The probability was that if]| WJSV goes on the network it would match crystals with KSTP in order to eliminate the inter-| farence which KSTP claims it has been suffering from WJSV. This engineering method, already being tried by a group of Pennsylvania | and New York stations on the Co- | lumbia net, may also furnish further proof of the efficacy of simultaneous operation on a single channel. Speculation was rife as to what | the proposed Columbia ‘“booster” | development in Washington and the other developments would mean to clear-channel broadcast- ing. Should Columbia secure a “booster” station in Washington, the wave of WABC, which has been rebuilt to 50,000-watts power, will no longer be a clear channel. By the same token, however, the channels of WEAF, which now synchronizes half time with WTIC, Hartford, and of WJZ, which syn- chronizes half time with WBAL. Baltimore, are no longer clear channels. VITAL changes in the network ook ORE than a score of policemen armed with riot guns will line the one-block route between the television studio of the Columbia Broadcasting System at Fifty- second street and Madison avenue, New York, Tuesday night when more than $1,000,000 worth of gems and precious jewels are to be sent from a jeweler’s vaults for a television broadcast. Natalie Towers, Columbia’s “Miss Tele-| vision,” will wear the jewels, in- | cluding several prized and valu- | able historical pieces, in a sight broadcast program between 9 and 10 o'clock. The unusual broadcast has been arranged, according to officials of the television station, primarily as a further step in the experimental | broadcasting of difficult objects. | No other program, they said, will | present such difficult and inter- | esting problems involving reflec- | tion of light rays. A second pur- pose, from the usual program point of view, is to let receiving- set owners see what a million dol- lars’ worth of real gems looks like. The jewelry will be transported to the studio in an armored truck, accompanied by a heavy police escort. In addition to the police who will line the route, other uni- formed and plain clothes guards | will form a cordon in the office | building at 485 Madison avenue, | around the bank of elevators and | to the studio. Other guards will be posted on the roof of the build- ing, on the stairways and at the fire and service exits. * a2 FREEDOM of speech on the radio —so long as the broadcasting | P! §tatlon is conducted as “an open forum of the air in wnich respon- sible versons interested in op- posite sides on public questions may be heard”—is upheld as a cardinal principle of radio regu- lation in the report of Chief Ex- | aminer Ellis A. t, recommend- | ing that the Federal Radio Com- mission renew the license of Sta- | tion WMBC, Detroit. The Detroit station is the one over which Gerald E. Buckley‘ broadcast his political commen- | taries until struck down by an| assassin’s bullet last year. It haa been cited by the Federal Radio Commission for permitting the use of its facilities in a manner al- leged to be inconsistent with public interest. Among the charges were those that “Jerry” Buckley had heen using it to “shake down” the vice element in Detroit for | 13 | high speed will be carried out. | acknowledged that this study will in- blackmail and that welfare funds had been solicited over it by false representations. Upon examination of more than 1,700 pages of testimony take:. in Detroit, where Col. Thad H. Brown, chief counsel of the commission, conducted hearings in the case, Yost absolves the owners of WMBC from culpability in the use of the station for raising the welfare | fund, holding that there is no con- | clusive evidence that the moneys were misapplied or embezzled. The charges that Buckley was closely associated with Detroit's underworld, with the knowledge of the station owners, Yost dismisses as hearsay evidence. The chief examiner’s conclusion | is that “consideration of the entire record warrants a finding that | public interest would be served” by | casting stations are utilities of a sort. allowing the station to remain on the air. The commission will prob- ably act on the report within the next month. * ® ¥ ¥ OTHER and her grown-up daughters are the most ardent | radio fans. At least that is what the Minneapolis Council for Adult Education found in a recent survey among adults in 10,000 radio- owning families of that city. Of the questionnaires distributed through children in the public schools, who were asked to have the adults in their families answer them, 4,375 replies were received, and some interesting facts ad- duced. More than 21 per cent of the listeners included in the study said they listened to their radios more | than four hours a day, 16.5 per cent said three to four hours, 17.8 per cent said two to three hours, 19.7 per cent said one to two hours, and 7.5 per cent said less than one hour. Mothers and grown-up daugh- ters were preponderant among those who listen more than four hours daily, while fathers and grown-up sons led the group in the one to two hour category. The most popular hours for listening, it was found, are from 6 to 9 p.m., when 65.5 per cent of the persons included in the study said they listen; from 9 to 12 p.m., when 453 per cent listen, and from 6 to 9 a.m., when 18.9 per cent listen. Asked their preferences as to types of programs, mothers gave first place to comic characters like mos 'n’ Andy and placed finan- cial reviews in last place; fathers and sons alike placed athletic con- tests first and beauty talks last, grown-up daughters placed dance music first and birthday parties last. The groups as a whole ranked comic characters first and birth- day parties last. The 10 most popular programs in order of preference by the groups as a whole were: (1) comic characters, (2) popular music, (3) athletic contests, (4) dance music, classical music, (8) light drama, (7) talks of the Lowell Thomas-Floyd Gibbons type, (8) news flashes, (9) plays, and (10) church services. Ranking from forty-first to fiftieth, or the least | popular types of programs, were stock market reports, fashion talks, readings, health exercises, beauty talks, farm and horticul- tural programs, language lessons, finance reviews, bridge games and birtnday parties. __ (Continued From Fourth Page) _ A liquid-cooled engine with retractible radiator is used’ and their best speed, is obtained at about 12,000~ feet, with the radiator pulled in out of the wind- stream. The airplanes are well stream- Jined, but liquid-cooled engines are highly vuinerable to gunfire and are by no means as relieble as our American air-cooled engines, which have given 50 many recent exhibitions of their de- pendability under adverse conditions. “There are at the present time planes under contract in the United States which, it is believed, will equal the per= formance of this foreign type, and which will be admirably suited for the very arduous tasks acsigned them when operating over the open seas from carriers which do not remain in the vicinity of safe-landing fields. “The money to be spent in high- speed development in the United States, therefore, does not mean the actual turning out of a product to win a specific race, involving an outlay of approximately $3,000,000, it means the collection of data (over a much longer period of time than it takes to rush to completion a purely racing project) on each step taken in a service devel- opment program. This data will be used to maintain the efficiency of our service aircraft which, at the present time, is unsurpassed by any other coun- try in the world, and at the same time keep abreast all other nations on the subject of speed development.” The funds which now are available for high-speed development, Admiral MofTett explained, will make it possi- ble for the Bureau of Aeronautics ac- tively to carry on a development pro- gram which has been impossible under the former system which required that all funds be used for the provision of fighting planes for this active squad- ron “It is now possible,” he continued, “to go into the actual procurement of & high-powered engine, and dependent on the results obtained experimentally, to determine in what degree modern naval aircraft with extremely high- powered engines might be useful in the naval aviation program. “Since 1923 comparatively little has been done in the United States along the line of development of speed alon As has been pointd out, speed has ex- tended into the question only as was necessary to each particular type of rplane. With the 1932 appropriation available, the experimentation and re- search necessary to the developmtrfi (;: tensify creative thought, and the re- sulting developments should be directly icable to service aircraft. “In the development of a lightweight, Jarge horsepower aircraft engine, which is contemplated, certain ideas will be worked out which should be applica- ble to the service engines now in use, *“The research to be carried out on aero- dynamic forces of high-speed planes, on structural materials (in which weight will be reduced to a minimum and at the same time strength retained to withstand the forces to which it will be subjectzd), and on the studies of shapes thought suitable for high speed, will certainly bring out ideas which can be incorporated into our military alrcraft and, of course, become availab'e to the manufacturers who build com- mercial aircraft as well. “The research work on the propeller will opcn up a broad field in the de- velopment of high speed. An improved propeller will certainly increase the efficiency of aircraft, as will also the studies of aerodynamic forces. “The incorporation of increased high speeds in 1 ht;l;x n‘afie modified bomber types woul v 'm greatly aug- ted - possibilities a8 ogewn ns.” IN RADID' ARISES Industry Facing Future Set- tlement of Public’s Right to Use. BY MARTIN KODEL. Are radio broadcasting stations public utilities, under common-carrier obliga- tions, as are railroads, street cars busses and the like, to serve all who would use their facilities? In other words, since radio wavelengths are used under franchise from the Government, have you and I as citizens & right to speak or sing on the radio for what- ever cause or whenever we choose? Judge Ira E. Robinson, member of the Federgl Radio Commission and its former chairman, insists that broad- If one commercial interest is allowed to broadcast, or if one side of a con- troversial issue is presented. all inter- ests and all sides must be accorded the same opportunity to use this great natural medium of ccmmunication, ac- ording to Judge Robinson. 1 The ex-chief justice of the Supreme Court of West Virginia, who is one of the legal lights of radio, restricts his view, however, to mean an equal op- portunity up to the limit of radio’s fa- cllities. = Since there are only a few velengths and only 24 hours in the idav—and since wavelengths and hours feannot be multilied as can railroad coaches—such a limitation is, of course, | Inevitable. Governs Politicians, The only limitation placed in the radio act upon the discretion of broad- casters as to whom they should sell or give time has to do with political broad- casts. The statute requires that if one candidate for political office is accorded the privilege of using the radio, all other candidates for the same office shall be given the same privilege under the same conditions. But the law does not make it compulsory to give any candidate time on the air. This fine legal question is particu- larly interesting at this time in view of the decision of the Columbia Broadcast- ing System not to scll any more time to preachers or religious institutions, but rather to allot fixed periods on! s gratis to the three major or- ganized faiths. One of the reasons for this move was obviously to avoid the| deluge of applications from organiza- tions and individuals willing to pay for radio time in order to promote their particular causes. Columbia found that if it sold time to one, it could not very well refuse to sell time to others. It was faced with the prospect of unbalancing its pro- grams to such an extent that the pro- {motion of certain causes might occupy 50 much time that popular interest in its broadcasts might be greatly reduced. | It seems to be generally accepted ' among the small group of lawyers who |are specializing in radio that public utility standards of some sort must cne | day be established in radio. It re-i mains for the courts, however, to de- |fine them. The Federal Radio Com- |mission's position was stated some | months ago by its chief counsel, Col. | Thad M. Brown, in addressing the Na- | tional Association of Broadcasters. Policies Different, | “The commission.” he said, “has not, considered radio broadcasting stations | as public utilities. Its policy, however, with respect to commercial radiotele- graph stations (which carry messages for toll) has been to regard them as| public utilities and to impose upon a | licensee the duty to serve all alike and | without discrimination. The very na- ture of the two services necessarily makes for a different policy with re- spect to them. “Radio broadcasting stations could | not provide enough time to allow every | | American citizen to use them: there- fore, it has not been conducive to public interest that broadcasting stations be considered public utilities in the sense | that they must serve all comers equally.” | Col. Brown follows the theory first expounded by Louis G. Caldwell, his| predecessor as chief counsel of the com- | mission, in a priority case discussed in the 1928-9 report of the commission. In { it the emphasis on public utility stand- ards is said to be placed on the receiv ing end. Service to the mass of lis- teneds—i. e, a well rounded program | service catering to all tastes—is the | prime requisite imposed upon radio sta- tion managers. As Col. Brown puts it. the millions !of radio listeners are interested in what | they can hear rather than in the oppor- | tunity to be heard. He adds that the ratio between the listening public and those interested in staging broadcast programs is_probably 25000 to 1. | Mr "Caldwell's brief, it is also asserted | that “the commission doubts that any | improvement would be effected by plac- ing the public at the mercy of each in- dividual in turn who desired to com- municate his hobby, his theory or his grievance over the microphone. or at the mercy of every advertiser without regard to the standing either of himself or his product.” That the broadcasters are sensitive to their public service obilgations is evi- dent from the fact that many of them, especially the networks, turn down many more proffered “accounts” than they accept. for the reason that cer- tain types of advertising or programs might offend the general taste. So far, self-regulation on this score appears to have been quite successful, aithough recriminations from certain rejected in- | terests have occasionally been heard. Held Not Utinty. The view that radio broadcasting is not a public utility in the commonly ac- cepted sense was taken by M. H. Ayles- worth, president of the National Broad- casting Co., testifying some tim» ago before a Senate committee. This 10- yer-old art, undefined with finality as yet by courts, legislatures or the com- mission, he regards as a public serv- ice, subject to regulation as such, but not as a public utility. “It is not a monopoly,” he explained. t is not a primary necessity, and it is not paid for directly by the public. The latter fact especially distinguishes it from point-to-point communication by radio for-toll, which beyond doubt is a public utility. Radio broadeasting pros- pers solely by giving acceptable service and receiving in return good will. “Every sponsored program offered by the National Broadcasting Co., no less than those for which we pay all of the costs, is subject to our refusal, and if we do not think that the program meets cur standards of quality it is refused. Radio is subject to the severest public censorship that I believe it is possible to devise. Specifically, the listener has but to turn a knob and that program, o far as he is concerned, is ended for- ever. Whenever a sufficient number of owners of recelving sets tune out or fail to tune in, the broadcasting com- pany, whichever one it may is through. “I realize that the enormous power concentrated in the hands of a few men controlling a vast network of radio stations is a matter for the considera- tion of statesmen. This fact is so keenly recognized by the N. B. C. that the greatest care has been taken to place this power and responsibility un- der the supervisicn of a representative advisory council. to which appeals can be carried over the heads of the operat- | ing_executives. “The N. B. C. must be fair or the death penalty will ba exacted by the public. Our hope of existence is de- pendent upon the public's confidence. Even before we reach the public we pass throvgh the censorship of our asco- ciated stations. We do not control them or even have contracts with them. They are free to refuse any or all pro- ms. Consequently, if what we of- gr.ed was objectionable, the units of our own network woul d destroy our organization. All of these facts, I be- lieve, mark the sha distinction be. tween the N. B. C. an a public utility. SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 6, 1931—PART FOUR. Microphone Attracts Two More Stage Stars MUSICAL COMEDY CELEBRITIES FEATURED ON NETWORK PROGRAMS. M Columbia. ADGE KENNEDY (left) popular comedienne, who will be heard Friday night over an N. B. C. network. Walter O'Keefe (center), luminary of the “Third Little Show,” will assist Rudy Vallee in presenting the Sunshine Hour Thursday night over another N. B. C. network. On the right is mend Harriet Lee, who has been booked for a series with the Rhythm Kings Folks Behind The Microphone BY THE RADIO EDITOR. ADIO lost its shortest announcer when Paul Dumont deserted the microphone to devote himself almost entirely to the dutles of | production director of the Na- | tional Broadcasting Co. He is still heard, however, in several sponsored programs. Dumont is only 5 feet 2 inches tall. He gives Brooklyn, N. Y. as the place of his birth and his age as 43. Dumont_came to radio in 1924 fol-| lowing & varled career s stenog- | rapher, salesman and singer, which | began following his | Trom n baritone voice was first heard on_the | air through WJZ in a recital. From that time he met the microphone in frequent concerts, eventually joining Station WMCA as | announcer. Later he became program director at WRNY and was studio di- rector and announcer at WAGH-WABC before joining the N. B. C. in 1927. The vocal career of Dumont included work in the choir of the Central Con- | gregational Church. in Brooklyn, which houses the pulpit of Dr. S. Parkes Cad- man, and as community song leader for the city of South Or‘anse, N. J. | * x Paul Dumont. B. C’s four principal religious . radio programs return to the air | October 18. These are the Ni tional Youth Conference, conducted by Dr. Daniel A. Poling; Dr. Harry Emer- son Fosdick's National Vespers, the Catholic Hour ans the Jewish Hour. W OLUMBIA heralds the approaching | foot ball season with an announce- ment that it already has booked 13 of the leading gridiron games. The initial broadcast will be the Army- Northern Ohio game September 26. ‘Ted Husing will describe the games. Major Radio Features \ | INTERNATIONAL REBROADCASTS. | “What Ergland Reads,” by Desmond | v, from London, WMAL. | New Government of | *“by President Uriburu, from Buenos Aires, WRC, 2:00. | SPORTS. | Base ball scores, WRC, 6:00 | SPEECHES. “Debunking Big Game in Africa,” by Carveth Wells, explorer, WRC, 1:00; “Your Child” by Angelo Patri, WMAL, 7:45; “Dovils, Doctors,” by Dr. Ho gard, WMAL. 7:00; ment,” by David Lawrence, WRC, | 8:00. CLASSICAL. Howard Barlow's Symphony Orchestra | with Theo Karle, tenor, WMAL, | 6:00; Through the Opera Glass, | WRC, 8:15. i VARIETY. Choral Orchestra, WRC, 7:00; Tony Parenti and his singing saxoohones, | WMAL, 7:30; South Sea Islanders, | WRC, 10:30. | DRAMA. | Moonshine_ and Honeysuckle, WRC, | 2:30; Daddy and Rollo, WMAL, | 6:30; Big Brothers Club, WRC, 6:30. — | HIGH LIGHTS ELSEWHERE. | 4:00—Sabbath Reverias—Dr. Charles | L. Goodell, organ quartet; | sacred music, WJZ, WBAL, WLW, WSM. 5:30—Radio luminaries; Breen and de | Rose, Sam Herman, xylophonist { —WJZ, WREN, WBAL. 6:00—"Over Jordan,” Negro Bible stories dramatized—WJZ, WSM, ‘WJR. 6:30—Candlelight Musicale; Mme. Frances Pelton-Jones — WJZ, WBAL and WJR. 7:00—Melodies; Betsy Ayres, Mary Hopple and Ensemble — WJZ, WBZ, WBZA, WHAM, WJR, KDKA and KYW. 7:15—Evensong: Armchair Quartet and Keith McLeod, organist— WJZ, WBZ, WHAM, KDKA, WJR and WMC. 7:30—Harbor Lights; tales of an old sea captain—WJZ, WBZ, WBAL, WLW, WJR apd KDKA. 8:15—The Stag Party; The Oklahoma Cowboys and Nat Brusilofl's Orchestra—WBAL, WJZ, WBZ, | WBZA, WHAM, KDKA, WJR | and WLW. 9:15—The Ponce Sisters — WJZ, KDKA, WBAL, KWK and 'BZ. ‘WBZ. 10:00—The Pilgrims, mixed sextet— WJZ, WBAL, WHAM and WGR. 11:00—Henry Thels and his orchestra— ‘WJZ, WBZ, KDKA, ‘WBAL and WREN. ——e O’KEEFE TO BE GUEST Walter O'Keefe, star of the “Third Little Show,” will be the guest artist in the Sunshine Hour with Rudy Vallee | Thursday night over WRC and other N. B. C. stations. O'Keefe has been a newspaper col- umnist, poet, salesman, master of cere- monies, song writer, movie actor, foot ball player and co-author ‘of successful stage and film musical productions. Special Program on C. B. §. A special hour’s program to include Gus Van, Harry Richman, Ruth Etting, De Wolfe Hopper and Ben Selvin's Or- chestra is scheduled by Columbia for September 13, A 'LACK OF SOUND OF CRYING BABY DRIVING RADIO MEN TO TEARS Real Child and Common Pin Proposal Vetoed—Duck Quacker Nearest Approach by N. B. C. Experts. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 5.—How to | make a baby cry when you have no| baby—it's a problem that is driving four strong men to the verge of tears. A duck quacker, played with certain menual modifications, is the best the National Broadcasting Co.'s “sound ef- fects department” has been able to do so far. It sounds pretty good over the air, but the four young men of the de- partment, stern realists always, fear it doesn't sound good enough Hence the endless quest and multiple experiments of the past few months, all leading to the despairing conclusion that there probably isn't any radio sound in the world just like a cater wauling voungster. Some wag Sug gested the department add a real baby and a common pin to its effects, but the suggestion was vetoed. “The noisiest room in the world” is what they call the tiny laboratory on Fifth avenue where the department prepares its noises. The building col- lapses, thunder, steamboat whistles, rainstorms and gunfire radio fans have heard in the last six or seven years are there—ready to burst into clamor again at_a moments notice. Ray Kelly, director of noise, is par- ticularly proud of his lion. It has a history. It is the same lion that roared backstage at the Broadway premiere of the motion pictures Theodore Roosevelt took on his {amous trip to South Amer- | ica. A funny-looking lion it is, consist- ing. as it does, of a whisky keg topped with a stretched skin, through which a rosined cord protrudes. Pull on the | cord and even a veteran jungle hunter | is apt to look around for his gun. and radio listeners think a house is collapsing. A wicker waste basket hugged by a brawny lad sounds like the | soueak of a camel’s harness. It takes hree men to get a train out of a sta- ion, one to work th: whistles, another | the steam (which looks like ‘wash- | board agitated by a wire flail) and a third to make the sound of the wheels, | which consist of furniture rollers ro- tated on a sounding board. | _The sound experts stick to the real !thing if they can. For instance, they | make the sound of a door closing by closing a door, although a squeaky door {is a base fiddle bow drawn across the ! edge of a cardboard box. They like to tell about sound effects men in the movies who once tried to get the noisc of water pouring out of a barrel. The xperts from rolling peas on oiled paper to & complicated surf machine. Finally a mere underling had a bright ide: “Let’s pour water out of a barrel,” he said. That worked. | A sound man'’s life is no snaj get requisitions for such things as sound of soap being sliced” and lurch of an airplane in flight. They thought those were the limit, until one happy day one of the experts entered the laboratory to find Director Kelly fainting a In his hand was a requisition saying: “Dear Mr. Kelly please make us the sound of snow falling. he; e “the Today on the Radio (All programs scheduled for Eastern Standard Time.) WVRC 315.6 Meters. 950 Kilocycles. 7:00a—Melody hour. 8:00a—Children’s hour. 9:00a—Josepe Woodwind Ensemble. 9:30a—Lew White, organist, 10:00a—Neapolitan Days. 10:30a—Jewels of Destiny. 11:00a—Sparklets. 11:15a—Echoes of the Orient. 11:30a—Biblical drama. 12:00m—"“Pop"” Concert. 1:00—"Debunking _Big Game Africa,” by Carveth Wells. :15—The Caribbeans. 30—Artists’ Service program. 00—Rebroadcast {from Buenos Aires of address by President Uriburu of Argentina: 2:30—Moonshine and Honeysuckle. 3:00—National Sunday Forum.: 4:00—Dixie Jubilee. 5:00—Catholic_hour. 6:00—Base ball scores. 5—Program Highlights. The Russian Singers,’ :15—Wilkins program. :30—Club of the Air. :00—The Choral Orchestra. 8:00—"Our Governmerit,” by David Lawrence. 8:15—Through the Opera Glass. 9:15—Best Sellers. 9:45—Sunday at Seth Parker's. 10:15—Ralph Kirbery, baritone. 10:30—Correct time. 10:31—South Sea Islanders. 11:00—Weather forecast. 11:01 to 12:00—Palais d'Or Orchestra. Early Program Tomorrew. 7:00a—Gene and Glenn. 7:15a—Morning devotions. 7:30a—Lew White, organist. 8:00a—Parnassus Trio. 8:15a—Tom Waring's Troubadours. 8:45a—Food program. 9:00a—Mrs. Blake’s Radio Column. 9:15a—Hits and Bits. ° by Jean in 1 1 6 6 6 L 9:30a—*"Please Tell Me,” Carroll. 9:45a—Hits and Bits. 10:00a—The Blue Streaks. 10:30a—~June Meredith, pianist. 10:45a—Al and Pete. 11:00a—The Troubadour. 11:15a—Breen and de Rose. 11:30a—On Wings of Song. 12:00m—Palais d'Or Orchestra. 12:30—Na! al farm and home hour. 1:30—Address by Frank Morrison of the American Federation of Labor. 1:45—Clascic gems. 2:00—1’:\;‘1);1“55 by Secretary of Labor ak. 2:40—Women's Radio Review. WJSV 205.4 Meters. Kilocycles. 10:30a—Salon music. 11:00a to 12:15—Services of the Fourth Presbyterian Church. 2:00 to 3:00—Church of the Air. 0—Gospel twilight hour. 5:30—Bible training school. [ oo—oomel Spreading Association. 00—Twilight ’;mur. . 7 7:30—Roland Wheeler, tenor. 7:55—Service at First Church of Christ Scientist. 9:05—Studio feature. 9:30—Organ melodies. 10:00—Songs by Sammy Brown. 10:15—Evangelical Church of the Air. 11:00—Good-night. Early Program Tomorrow. 7:30a—Over the breakfast table. 8:00a—Health exercises. 5 —Organ reveille. 1 Treasure Chest. 0:00a—Hints to Housewives. 10:30a—Program by Federation of Women’s Clubs. 1 WMAL 475.9 Meters. | - 630 Kilocycles. | 9:00a—"Land O' Make Believe.” | 10:00a—Dugts by Julia Mahoney and (. : Chatles Carlisle. 10:15a—Edna Tromas, “The Lady From | Loulsiana.” | 10:30a—"The Voice of St. Louis."— Classical concert. | 11:30a—Rebroadcast from London— | ‘What England Reads,” by Des- | mond MacCarthy. i 11:45a—Watch Tower Service. 12:00m—Rhythmic Melodies. | 12:30—Columbia Little Symphony. | 1:00—Ann Leaf at the organ. 1:30—Instrumental and vocal music. 2:00—Symphonic Hour. | 3:00—Cathedral hour. 3:45 to 5:00—Labor day service from the Natonal Cathedral. 6:00—Howard Barlow's Orchestra and ‘Theo Karle, tenor. 6:15—Fray and Braggiotti, piano duo. 6:30—Daddy and Rollo. 6:45—Boswell Sisters. 7:00—"Devils, Drugs and Doctors,” by Dr. Howard W. Haggard. 7:15—Kate Smith, crooner. 7:30—Tony Parenti and his singing saxophones. 17:45—"Your Child,” by Angelo Patrl 8:00—The Masters. 8:30—Around the Samovar. | 9:30—The Gauchos. 10:00—Continental String Quartet. 10:30—Red Nichols and his orchestra. 11:00—Don Bestoro Orchestrs 11:30—Ann Leaf at the org: 12:00—Weather forecast. Early Program Tomorrow. 8:00a—The Commu'ers. 8:30a—Tony’s Scrap Book. 8:45a—The Dutch Girl. 9:00a—Opening the Morning Mail. 9°30a—The Singing Vagabond. 5 elody Farade. ehind the Microphone,” by Edward Harris. e Madison Singers. ont Page Personalities,” by -Anne Lazar. 10:45a—Character education. | 11:00a—Don Bigelow's Orchestra, 11:30a—Columbia Revue. 12:00m—Ear] Carpenter’s Orchestra. 12:30—Harry Tucker's Orchestra, 1:00—The Street Singer. 1:15—Rhythm Kings. 2:00—Columbia Salon Orchestra. 2:30—The Three Doctors. 2:45—Columbia Artists’ Recital. 3:00—Gypsy Music Makers. 3:30—The Dictators. 4:00 to 4:45—Dancing by the Sea. WOL 22 Meters. 1,310 Kilocycles. 10:00a—Organ melodies. 10:30a—Symphony orchestra. 11:00a—Services of the First Congrega- tional Church. 12:25—Birthdays. 12:30—In Punnyland With Uncle Jerry. 1:00 to 2:00—Bob Garber's Orchestra. Early Program Tomorrow. 7:00a—Musical Clock. 8:00a—Birthdays. 8:05a—Musical Clock. 10-00a—Musical features. 10:15a—Organ melodies. 10:45a—Novelettes. 11:00a—Parents’ Forum. 11:15a—March of Music. 11:30a—With the Composers. 12:00m—Luncheon music. 12°30 to 1:00—Dance music. | R 3 | Mailed on September 18, 1905, at | Brighthouse, England, a post card has | just been delivered at the Brighton | oo0000000000000000000000s Squash a peach basket in your hands tried everything | @] inventor, describes the sponsored tele- 'FEATURES TO RETURN Dr. Klein and Frederic William Wile to Be Back on Air. Two regular features are scheduled for return on Columbia this month. One is to be Dr. Julius Klein's weekly talks on “The World's Business,” and the other is the series on “The Political Situation in Washington Tonight,” by Frederic Willlam Wile. Dr. Klein starts September 20. The Wile series begin September 26. TELEVISION PETITION HEARINGS ARE SET Radio Commission on Examiners | to Receive Arguments on Over Score. Practically all of the score or more of pending applications for television wave lengths kave been ordered set for hearings before examiners of the Fed- eral Radio Commission during the next few months. Eight cases were placed on the docket this week, and the com- mission ordered its docket clerk to schedule dates for hearings on exactly a dozen others. On October 7, the commission exam- iners will conduct their inquiries into the public service merits of tre visual broadcasting applications of WCAO, Baltimore; WXYZ, Detroit. and the Hochschild-Kohn Co., Baltimore de- partment store. On October 8, the three St. Louls applications, WIL, KMOX and KWK, will be heard. On November 2, hearings will be con- ducted on the applications of WMCA, New York, and WGN, Chicago. Most of these applicants have des- ignated frequencles in the television bands between 2,000 and 2950 kilo- cycles, though KMOX and WMCA fave also asked for channels in the ultra- high frequency bands between 43,000 and 80,000 kilocycles. It is probable that KMOX, which is controlled by the Columbia Broadcasting System, will withdraw its application entirely, await- ing other television developments which the New York headquarters of Columbia are watching. Ordered set for hearings, probably some time in November or December in view of the fact that the hearing | docket is now filled to November 5, were the applications of WLW, Cincinnati; WJR, Detroit; WMC, Memphis: WSB, Atlanta; WIP-WFAN, Philadelphia; the Easton Coll Co, New York: Pilot Radio & Tube Corporation, Lawrence, Mass.; the National Co., Malden, Mass.; American Television Laboratories, .Ltd. (Lee DeForest System), Los Angels Callf.; Television Laboratories, Ltd. sworth System), San .; Traveler Manufac- turing Corporation, St. Louis, Mo., and | Indiana’s Community Broadcasting Cor- | poration, Hartford City, Ind. 'RADIO AP PLICATIONS | MEET 10 OBSTACLES | Chief Counsel of Commission Ana- lyzes Examiners' Data on Denial of Permits. ‘There are at least 10 convincing rea- ' sons why it is next to impossible to get| authority to bulld new broadcasting | stations in this country, Benjamin S.| Fisher, acting general counsel of the | Federal Radio Commission, disclosed yesterday. In a legal analysis of reports sub- mitted to the commission by its exam- iners during the past year having to do with hearings, Mr. Fisher brought out that there are certain “fundamental | findings” that have been maintained consistently by the examiners in ar-! riving at their decisions. To a very large extent, he said, these have been ' gnullrly sustained by the commission | !itselt” Alfogether, the legal division studied 180 reports presented to the commission | by its examiners and arrived at 10 prin- | cipal conclusions of law, which in al-| | most_every instance were the basis for | the deniai of applications not alone for | |new stations but for improved facili- | ties for existing stations. During the last fiscal year, exactly 10 | new stations managed to batter their! way into the radio picture, being the | only successful applicants among sev eral thousands. To offset these add | tions. however, approximately the same | { number of stations were deleted from | |the lists, either by outright removal; {from the air or by consolidation with other stations. | All of the legal reasons as to why {new applications stand little chance | |can be traced to the condition of ex- | | treme overcrowding in the broadcast | wave lengths. On the 90 channels| available to the Nation, some 610 sta- | tions are assigned, but the bulk of the | stations are in the low-power class {2nd are duplicated on the small chan- In 60 of the 180 cases acted upon, the examiners recommended denial of the applications on the ground that satisfactory service now is being ren- |dered in the particular localities in- i applicat’ons would not improve the service. “Under this same head might also be placed the conclusion that by granting a new facility to a particular community it would create an inequal ity of radio facilities in that particul portion of the State,” Mr. Fisher said. (Copyright. 1931.) “Animated Trademarks” Seen. “Animated trademarks” is the way Hollis Baird. ‘the youthful television i vision program of the future. It seems | to be accepted among American radio circles that television will derive its support from advertising in the same manner as sound broadcasting of today, inasmuch as practically the same interests which developed sound broad- casting are doing the major develop- mental work in the visual radio art. Gotham to “Radioize” Police. New York City's Police Department has been authorized to spend $100,000 with which to equip all squad cars, po- lice lJaunches and the force's two police airplanes with radios. Although it has one long-wave radio station for its har- bor police, New York City never has “radioized” the rest of its force, as have some 50 other American citles, includ- ing Washington. Short-wave stations covering the five boroughs will be built. PRESENTS| Another Sunday Afternoon Prosram “The Singing Violins™ | cial volved, and that the granting of the|pa - 5 SON OF PRESIDENT - 1S TELEVISION FAR Herbert Hoover, Jr., Watch- ing Closely Developments - in Visual Radio. BY ROBERT MACK. Television, Tadio’s promising young :* offshoot, has captured the fancy of * Herbert Hoover, jr. ‘The eldest son of the President. is watching closely the development of the visual art and in recent weeks has. witnessed several demonstrations of ex- perimental television systems on ‘the # Pacific Coast. During a recent visit to Washington he discussed the technical development of television with engineers of the Federal Radio Commission, e A radio engineer by profession, cializing in its aviation communication _ aspects, the younger Hoover is a close student of the entire . Therefore, his friends say, it is not surprising that he should evince deep interest in tele- vision and, perhaps, do a little experi- menting on his own at his “workshop" at Palo Alto, Calif., where he now is residing wile teaching at Leland Stan- ford University, the alma mater of both himself and his father. Studies Developments. Much of the phenomenal develop- ment of television during the past year has taken place in laboratories on the Pacific Coast. There the younger Hoo- , ver has had opportunity to observe these developments, which doubtless are re- sponsible for his strong interest. In the inventive line, his latest undertak. ing has been the development of a radio direction-finding system, de- signed to keep aircraft on their charted . course, and it is being considered by , the Army Air Corps as standard equip- ment. His enthusiasm over television, his friends think, may cause Herbert, Jjr., to try his hand in visual radio ex- periments. In his twenty-seventh year, the younger Hoover is president of Aero- nautical Radio, Inc., the public utility aviation radio corporation which has es- tablished in this country a Nation-wide network making possible communica- tion between planes on the charted air- ways and ground stations. He has been the directing head in the setting up of this network during the past two yea:s. On Leave From Company. In addition, he is communications engineer of Transcointinental-Western Air, Inc., one of the largest commercial aviation companies in the world. Por the past year he has been on leave of absence from this company, due to im- paired health. Now he is teaching two classés at Leland Stanford, one in radio engineering and the other in business administration. Herbert, jr., has been interested in - radio since he attended grammar school, and is an amateur of long standing. He is the present licensee of station W6XH at his home at Palo Alto, and in the past has held special experimental licenses for exploration of the ultra high frequencies, now re- garded as utterly useless for commer- communications purposes. As early as 1921, when little was knewn about the vagaries of the short waves and their skip-distance characteristics, young Hoover built a high frequency fet with which he made contacts with radio amateurs in Europe. Until Pebru- ary 1, 1929, when he became associated with Western Air, his experience in ;1:‘1’;0 had been purely in the amateur (Copyright, 1831) NEW RADIO BEACONS WILL GUIDE PLANES Forty-five Range Stations Due for Completion by July 1, 1932, Besides Ten Others. Thirty new radio range beacons for the guidance of aircraft in flight and 10 new airway communication stations for broadcasting weather and other in- formation to pilots will be installed along the Federal airways during the current fiseal year, according to the Aeronautics Branch, Department of Commerce. In addition, 15 uncom- pleted radio beacon s:iationis are ‘to be placed in operation before July 1, 1932. Twenty-eight of the thirty beacon stations will be located at Paulsboro, N. J.; Charl:ston, 8. C.; Raleigh, N. C; Jacksonville, Fla.; Alma, Ga.; Mobile, Ala: Montgomery, Ala.; Birmingham, Ala.: Gainesville, 3 Jackson, Miss. Smiths Grove, K Shreveport, La New Orleans. La.; Little Rock, Oklahoma City. Texarkana. Ark.: Pontiac, Il Minneapolis Crosse, Wis.; Fargo, Diego. Calif: Gilroy, Calif.; Coalinga, Calif., and Spokane, Wash. Sites for the two others remain to be chosen. The 15 beacon stations to be com- pleted are at Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, .; Wichita: Amarillo, Tex.: Wins- Ariz.; Kingman, Ariz.: Albuquer- city, Medord, Oreg.i Oreg.: Portland, Oreg. and Seattle. The 10 new weather broadcasting stations_are to be located at Mobile, Ala: Titusville, Fla.. Miami, Fla: Houston, Tex.. San Antonio, Tex: Springficld. Minneapolis-St. Paul: Pueblo, Colo.. Milford, Utah, and Spokane, Wash. N. B. C. Signs Gladys Rice. Gladys Rice, sorrano. has signed a six-month contract to continue as soloist with Nathaniel Shilkret's Or- chestra on N. B. C. on Wednesday nights. ( Radio Engineers to Meet. ‘The Wasbington section of the Insti- tute of Radio Engineers will meet ‘Thursday night at 8 o'clock in the lec- ture room of the east building of the Bureau of Standards. The speaker, Eduard Karplus, associate engineer of the General Radio Co., will discuss “Communication With Quasi Optical ‘Waves.” Newest 1931-32 BABY GRAND $4995 Complete WMAL 1:30 00 IN RADIO Wk. OKAY RADIO CO. 417 11th St. N.W. 1760 Pa. Ave, N.W.