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MARTINELLI PLANS RECITAL ONN.B.C. WRC to Carry First Program of Season by Famous Tenor. Soprano on WJSV. G radio recital of the season to- night as the guest soloist on the Electric Circle concert over WRC and other N. B. C. stations. The concert is scheduled from 9 to 9:30 o'clock. Martinelli's con- tributions will con- sist chiefly of songs of his native Italy. The complete pro- gram follows “Santa Lucia,” Neapolitan Boat TOVANNI MARTINELLI, lead- ing tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Co., will give his first Song. “Love's Ol “Song of aéhfi," oya “Homing,” Del Riego “Come Back to Sorrento” “Vesti la giubba,” from “Pa Giovannl Martinelll. De Curtis iacel,” Leoncavallo Eddie Cantor will infgrrupt his vaude- ville tour in Springfidld, Mass., to re- tumn to New York to take part in the program with Rubinoff and his orches- tra from 8 to 9. Cantor will sing “That Means You're Falling in Love” and “Try a Little Tenderness.” For h violin solos Rubinoff will play “A Little Street Where Old Friends Meet” and “Where Are You Tonight?” Roxy Plans New Numbers. “Two Balkan Sketches’ by Afl_hur Hartmann, composer-violinist, and a new composition for the organ by Dick Leibert, Redio City staff organist, will be broadcast for the first time during the program by Roxy's “gang.” The Roxy Symphony Orchestra will play the Hartmann selections, and Leibert will play his own composition, “Valse Rhythmique.” “Good School Laws Make Good Schools” will be the topic discussed in the “Our American Schools” program from 6:30 to 7. The speakers will be Dr. William G. Carr, director of re- search of the National Education As- sociation. and Dr. Paul R. Mort, direc- tor of the School of Ecucation of the New York Teachers' College. The remainder of WRC's program is made up of its regular attractions. Outstanding among them are the con- aj. Edward Bowes' “family, oonshine and Honeysuckle” episode and Wayne King's Orchestra. Lotte Lehmann to Sing. Lotte Lehmann, leading soprano of the Vienna Opera Co. and noted star of the German and American concert stages. will be the guest soloist on the New York Philharmonic concert pro- gram over WJSV and affiliated Colum- bia stations. Bruno Walter will con- duct the orchestra. The program fcl- Jows: *“The Gambler” (Four characte from “Alceste”’; . Prokofieft lution.) Ari Divinities du S e : .Gluck Aria from “Oberon”: Mighty Monster”. Lotte Lehmann 6 in B Minor, Opus g ... Tschaikovsky Sir Hen trakosch. noted British banker and economist, will discuss world financial conditions in the interna- tional rebroadcast from 12:30 to 12:45. His talk will be short-waved from London. McClellan’s march on Richmond and the story of the seven-day battle out- side the Confederate capital will be dramatized during the “Roses and Drums” period. De Wolfe Hopper will egain portray the role of Stonewall Jackson. . Selections from Mozart's “Communion Service in B Flat” will be featured in the Cathedral Hour. The soloists will be Mildred Rose, soprano; Barbara Maurel, contralto; Theo Karle, tenor, and Crane Calder, bass. Will Play Concerto. Ernest Hutcheson, concert pianist, will play the famous “Emperor” con- certo in a recital of all-Beethoven compositions from 10 to 10:30. Other selections include the “Minuet in E Flat” and “Prometheus.” ¢ The Virginia Chapel Hour will be conducted by Rev. E. W. Aaron, pastor of the Alexandria Methodist Episcopal Church. : WMAL's weekly choral hour will be presented today by the choir of Epiph- any Church. This station’s other fea- tures include recitals by Mary Russell Williams, soprano, and Norman Frauen- heim, pianist, and a concert by the Harmonious Quartet WOL will broadcast the morning service of the Church of Epiphany, in addition to the regular Washington Catholic Radio Hour and the sermon by Rev. Charles E. Coughlin from the Shrine of the Little Flower. This sta- tion’s musical attractions inciude a concert of operatic arias and a 15- minute program by the Metropolitan Quartet. *“Symphony No. NEW ANTENNA TYPE MAKES FLYING SAFER | Insures More Signals Sent Out by Ground Beacons to Guide Aviators. Safer flying at night and in fog is predicted as the result of the develop- ment of a new type of transmitting antenna which insures more accurate reception of signals sent out by the ground radio beacons to guide avia- tors along the Federal airways. The| new antenna was developed by re-| search scientists of the Bureau of Standards in co-operation with the ajrways division of the Department of Commerce. It eliminates troublesome night effects which caused airmen con- siderable confusion. The Kennelly-Heaviside layer, which has frequently disturbed the reception from broadcasting stations, produced changes in the position of the courses transmitted by the radio range bea- cons as well. As flyers at night or in fog maintain their courses by means of these beacon signals received through headphones, this interference proved disturbing as it caused an apparent shift in the course of flying. Tests of the new antenna over the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania proved suc- cessful and 45 of the beacons of the Federal airways system are to be equipped with the new type. The Dial Lo Stations Heard in Washington Regularly. Accurate yesume of world news, is daily et 5:45 p.m. by WMAL, THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 29, 1933—PART FOUR. New Singers Rise Rapidly to Fame Before Microphone INCREASING POPULARITY WINS REGUL AR SPOTS ON EXTENSIVE NETWORKS. L YOUNG MAN GETS Bl RADIO GHANCE Herbert L. Pettey, Kansas City, Heads Inaugural Subcommittee. U velt for the existing vacancy on the Federal Radio Commis- sion. has been placed the task of mar- shaling and supervising the rival radio forces that will broadcast the Roosevelt inaugural ceremonies to America and the world on March 4. The youth is Herbert L. Pettey, a na- tive of Kansas City, who handled all adio activities of the Democratic Na- BY MARTIN CODEL. PON the shoulders of a pleasant youth of 30, who is a probable choice of President-elect Roose- I recent presidential campaign | Admiral Cary T. Grayson's Inauguration Committee. him a group of radio officials and news- paper men as committee members to ad« vise him in his work, although the ac- tual detailed plans for broadcasting the inauguration are in the hands of the ‘ri\'al national networks. For Commissionership. Mr. Pettey is now the most promi- for the fourth gone radio commissioner- ship left open by the resignation last Summer of Maj. Gen. Charles McK. Saltzman, former Republican chairman of the commission. Since the party in power has a right to a majority of the five commissioners, it is 1egarded as a certainty that President Hoover, having delayed his selection thus far, will leave the choice to President-elect Roosevelt. One other vacancy occurs before President Hoover leaves the White House. The term of Judge E. O. Sykes, Democratic third _zone ~ commissioner, expires February 23. It is practically certain that he will be reappointed either by Mr. Hoover or Mr. Roosevelt, probably as chairman of the commis- sion. The strong support he has from Southern Senators and radio interests, and the yeoman service he performed as chairman of the American delegation to the recent International Radio Con- ference at Madrid, lend to the convic- tion that he will win a reappointment. He is the only remaining member of th;7m‘|ginfll commission established in 1927. With Movie Concern. Pettey literally stumbled into radio. After leaving the University of Kansas in 1923, he was with a leading moticn picture distributing concern in Kansas City. Then he joined R. C. A.-Victor Co.'s photophone division in a sales capacity. Shortly before the recent campaign his superiors assigned him to sell a motion picture campaign idea to both the Republican and Democratic National Committees. At Democratic headquarters he was so well liked that Charles Michelson, publicity director, invited him to handle the radio details of the campaign. He acquitted himself masterfully in the job, winning the esteem not only of the publicity chairman, but of the Democratic chieftain himself. Sources close to Roosevelt are responsible for the writer's statement that young Pet- tey has a good chance to win the radio commissionership from the Middle Western zone. Kansas City is in that zone and he can thus readily qualify. JAPAN TIGH'TENST!ULES Prerogative in Use of “Chin.” Because a well kncwn bprofessor of medicine at a Tokio university, speak- ing over JOAK, Tokio, used the Japa- nese pronoun “chin,” meaning “we,” but used in an idiomatic form reserved exclusively for use by the Emperor himself, the chief of the Social Edu- cation Bureau of the Ministry of Edu- cation in Japan raised such a bitter protest that thcre has been a severe tightening up of the Japanese censor- ;shin on all broadcast programs. The savant, seeking to brighten up his talks in answer to criticisms that dry. also had made an ellusion to mar- | ital life that raiscd an immediate out- cry from conservative listeners. These incidents, it is reported from Japan, have conduced to a rigid censorship that is at all times severe. Technocracy Talk Too Big to Crowd in 15 Minutes on Air NEW YORK, January 28 (#). A difference of 30 minutes ap- parently has eliminated, for the time being, a prospective broad- cast about technocracy by its chief, Howard Scott. Scott said 45 minutes would be necessary to make an ade- quate speech. The C. B. 8. chain, over which the broadcast would have gone, advised it was in & position to allot only 15 minutes at the hour in question in view of programs already scheduled. orchestra's broadcasts over Columbia. tional Campaign Committee during the | He has| just been assigned to Washington as| chairman of the Radio Subcommittee of | He has gathered around | nently meationed Democrat advanced | Tokio Professor Invades Emporer’s | programs_over the station were too | ORETTA LEE (left), who left New Orleans for fame and fortune and found her niche with George Hall's Orchestra. She sings the solo numbers in the | In the center is Sara Ann McCabe, soprano, who sings on the Words and Music over WRC and other N. B. C. stations. Mae Questel (right), who appears before the microphone as Betty Boop. She is heard over the N. B. C. “blue” network. Today on 205.4 Meters. WJSV 1,460 Kilocycles. 8:00a—Elder Michaux and Chorus. 9:00a—Columbia Junior Bugle. ist. of the Alr. ‘The Compinsky Trio. Virginia Chapel Hour, 12:00m—Salt Lake City Tabernacle Choir and Organ. 12:30—“Why There is Poverty in a World of Plenty,” by 8ir Henry Strakosch, from London. |12:45—The Street Singer. 1:00—Thirty Minute Men. 1:30—0ld Songs of the Church. 1:45—Warren Sweeney's Classic in Melody. 2:00—Smiling Ed McConnell. 2:30—Sunday Matinee of the Air. 3:00—New York Philharmonic Sym- phony Orchestra. 5:00—Roses and Drums. 5:30—Elder Michaux and Chorus. 6:00—"Current Events,” by H. V. Kaltenborn. 6:15—Little Jack Little. 6:30—Cathedral Hour. 7:00—“The World’s Business,” by Dr. Julius Klein. 7:15—Walter Smith's Band. 7:45—"Your Child,” by Angelo Patri. 8:00—Sketch, “John Henry — Black River Giant.” 8:15—Mary Eastman, Male Chorus. 8:45—Second episode of “John Henry —Black River Giant.” 9:00—Bath Club Revue. 0—Parade of Melodies. 10:00—Errest Hutcheson, pianist. {10:30—The Gauchos. 11:00—Isham Jones' Orchestra. 11:30—The Globe Trotter. 11:45—Eddie Duchin’s Orchestra. | 12:00—Ben Pollack’s Orchestra. | 12:30—Jan Garber's Orchestra, 12:45 to 1:00—Hal Kemp's Orchestra. Early Program Tomorrow. 7:00 0 soprano, and | a—Elder Michaux and Chorus. 8:45a- 9:00a—Tony Wons. 9:15a—Little Jack Little. 9:30a—Health talk. Y:45a—Reis and Dunn. 1 10:00a—Artells Dickson. | 10:15a—Melody Parade. | 10:30a—The Merrymakers. 10.45a—Vacal Art Trio. 11:00a—Morning Moods. | 11:30a—Academy of Medicine program. 11:45a—Ben Alley, tenor. 12:00m—Buddy Harrod's Orchestra. 12:30—Columbia Miniatures. 12:45—Concert Miniatures. 1:00—Blanche Calloway's Orchestra. 1:30—Atlantic City Musicale. 2:00—National Student Federation of America program. 2:15—8Sylvia Sapira. 2:30—American School of the Air. | 3:00—Eton Boys. 3:15—Savitt String Quartet. 3:45—Sam Praeger, pianist, 3:55—Virginia News. 4:00—Frank Westphal's Orchestra. 4:30—Cclumbia Artist recital, 5:00—Columbia Miniatures. 5:15—Fred Berren's Orchestra, 5:30—Skippy. WOL 289 Meters. 1,310 Kilocycles. 9:55a—Police Bulletins. 10:00a—Concert _Vignettes. !lfl:aoa—oldl-!-‘ashioned ‘Gospel Taber- nacle. | 10:45a—Organ Reveries. 11:00a—Services of the Church of Epiphany. 12:15—Beautiful Ballads. 12:29—Birthdays. 12:31 t 1 3 1:15—Stamp Club of the Air. 1:30—Rodney Hart's Vikings. 2:00—Operatic Arias. 2:30—Three-Quarter Time. 3:00—Bonanno String Quartet. 3:15—Rhapsody in Black and White. 3:30—Metropolitan Quartet. 3:45—Artists’ Musicale. 4:00—Sermon by Father Coughlin from the Shrine of the Little Flower. 5:00 to 6:00—Washington Catholic Radio Hour. Early Program Tomorrow. 7:00a—Musical Clock. 8:00a—Birthdays. 8:05a—Musical Clock. 9;30a—Health Talk by Senator Cope- land of New York. 9:45a—Musical Clock. 9:55a—Police Bulletins. 10:00a—Monday Blues Chacer. 10:30a—Mothers’ program. | 11:00a—Organ Echocs. 11:15a—This and That. 11:30a—Songs We Love. 11:45a—Tango Argentina. 11:59a—Weather Report. 12:00m—Lost and Found. 12:05—Midday Musicale. 12:30 to 1:00—Tunes of the Times. 3:00—Variety Hour. 3:55—The Book Man, 4:00—Children’s Program. PLAN COOLIDGE TRIBUTE Special Memorial Service to Be Held on Two Chains February 6. The late Calvin Coolidge, former President of the United States, will be paid a tribute in a special memorial service, which will be broadcast over Columbia and National Broadcast Co. networks Monday, February 6, at 1. O This Special tribute wil take place 8 ul ] before a joint session of the House and Senate. The detalls of the service are by & committee the Radio All programs scheduled for Eastern Standard Time and are subject #o change without no 315.6 Meters. WRC 950 Kilocycles. 8:00a—Melody Hour. 9:00a—Children's Hour. 10:00a—Gordon String Quartet. 10:30a—Impressions of Italy. 00a—Radio Rubes. :15a—Maj. Bowes' Capitol “Family.” :15—Roxy’s Gang. 15—Fjve-minute program. 20—Musical Interlude. 25—Musical Moments. 30—*“Pop” Concert. 45—The Beautiful Lady. 50—"McKinley and the Carnation,” by Lewis G. Reynolds. 05—Musical Interlude. | 1 1: 1 1 1 1 1! 2 a: 2 3:00—Wayne King's Orchestra. 3:30—Hour of Worship. ' 4:00—Five-Minute Program. 4:05—Jane Froman. 4:15—Vee Lawnhurst, pianist. 4:30—Dramatic sketch and Frank Black's Orchestra. 5.00—"Tocday's News,” by Lowell Thomas. 5:15—Dream Dramas. 5:30—Manhattan Guardsmen. 5:45—S8uccess Hit of the Day. 6:00—National Catholic Hour. 6:30—"Our_American Schools.” 7:00—The Golden Bird. 7:15—Dramatic sketch. 7:30—Concert Ensemble and Rose Chanelle. 7:45—Trade and Mark. 8:00—Rubinoff and his orchestra. 9:00—Sunday Circle Concert. 9:30—Album of Familiar Music. 10:00—Weather Forecast. 10:01—"Atr-o-Torials,” by Alan Kauf- man. 10:15—""Current Government,” by David Lawrerice. 10:30—Auto Show Program. 10:45—Sunday at Seth Parker's. 11:15—Last-Minute News. 11:17—Sam Herman, xylophonist. 11:30 to !lzzoo—dule Crawford, organ- ist. Early Program Tomorrow. 6:45a—Tower Health Exercises. 8:00a—Organ Rhapsody. 8:15a—Morning Varieties. 8:30a—Cheerio. 9:00a—Three Mustachios. 9:15a—Current_Events, by Ann Hard. 9:30a—Flying Fingers. i | 10:30: 11:00a—Melody Three. 11:15a—Radio Household Institute. 11:30a—Sonata Recital. 12:00m—Johnny Marvin, tenor. 12:15—On Wings of Song. 12:30—National Farm and Home Hour. 1:30—Emerson Gill's Orchestra. 2:00—The Revolving Stage. 3:00—United States Marine Band. 4:00—"Peter Ibbetson,” by the Radio Guild. & 5:00—Whispering Banjos. 5:15—Aunt Sue and Polly. 5:30—The Flying Family. WMAL 435.9 Meters. 630 Kilocycles. 9:00a—Musical Varieties. 9:15a—Colonial Club Orchestra. 9:30a—The Christensen Players. 9:45a—Readings by Dee Shannon. 10:00a—"Starting_the Week Right,” by Rev. R. Y. Nicholson. 10:15a—The Leef Brothers. 10:30a—Watch Tower Service. 10:45a—Studio Program. 11:00a—Services of National Christian Church. 12:00m—Ben Bernie's Orchestra. 12:15—Smart Set. 12:30—Ray Miller's Orchestra. 12:45—Regent Club Orchestra. 1:00—Brokenshire’s Hawalians. 1:15—Salon Orchestra. 1:45—Mildred Dupee, pianist. 2:00—Madeleine McMahon and Minnie Cox. 2:30—Choir Hour, with the Choir of the Epiphany Church. 3:00—"The House of Rimmon,” by the Washington Readers’ Club. 3:30—Old Hymn Book H 4:00—Tea Ensemble. 4:30—Monclogues by Zeida Barnette. 4:45—Mary R. Williams, soprano. 5:00—The Singin’ Cowboy. 5:15—Harmonious Quarte! 5:30—Pete Macias’ Orchestra. 6:00—Robert Ruckman, organist. 6:30—Earl Carbauh, baritone. 6:45—Heart songs, by Kathleen Galla- horn. 7:00—Meyer Goldman's Orchestra. 7:30—Norman Frauenheim, pianist. 8:00—Character sketches by Marjorie Webster. 8:15—Evening Serenaders. 8:45—Monty, Mike and Skip. 9:00—Salon Orchestra. 9:30—Robert Ruckman, organist. 10:00—News Flashes. 10:15—Glenn Jones’ Orchestra. 10:45—Meyer Davis’ Orchestra. 11:30—Ear]l Hines’ Orchestra. 12:00—Weather Report. Early Program Tomorrow. 8:00a—Bob White. 8:15a—Morning Devotions. Recital. 8 0Ca—Brosdway Echoes. :;g;—\lvuud‘e lsnflord‘l Orchestra, :30a—Musical program. 9:45a—Jack Den';xy'l Orchestra. City igh Spots. 10:15a—Ellen H. Wheatley, 10:30a—Guy Lombardo's estra. | 10:45a—Home Chats by Alice Stewart. 11:00a—Elsie J. Reilly, soprano. 11:15a—Irving Miller’'s Orchestra. 11:30a—Phil O'Brien and Jimmy Sant- meyer. 11:45a—National Troubadours. 12:00m—Robert Ruckman, organist. 1}:30—0}::% Jones’ Orchestra. 1:18—Norman ’s Orchestra. 1:45—Monologues by Mary Ruff. - 3:00—Afternoon, Frolickers. CLAIS 25 YEARY' BROADCAST RECORD KQW, in California, Enters Controversy Over Pioneer Radio Programs. BY MARTIN CODEL. NTO the perennial dispute over who was first to broadcast radio pr in America now comes | little Station KQW, San Jose, Calif., which claims that on Janu- ary 16 it will observe its twenty-fifth anniversary. Since all. previous claim- REAL RADIO HEROES ARE BEHIND SGENES Maintenance Engineers Ris! Lives While Performers Get Public’s Applause. BY ROBERT MACK. Special Dispatch to The Star. ITTSBURGH, January 38.—This 1s a tale of radio’s unsung heroes, of those men who keep the radio show” gol at any ex- pense, who toy with apparatus carrying thousands of volts, where a slip means instant death. Of the valiance and courage of these men, the maintenance engineers, the public never hears. Their voices never g0 on the air and their names seldom appear in print. Yet it is they who render your receivers responsive to what goes over the ether and who are constantly improving the fdelity of your reception. It was my privilege to inspect Sta- tion KDKA, Pittsburgh, the world's first broadcasting station. Not KDKA located in a modern, downtown hotel burg- Pittsburgh—where the giant transmit- ter is housed and where the mainte- nance engineers are stationed. My trip was arranged by Walter C. Evans, who at 34 is the head of all the radio operations of Westinghouse Elec- tric & Manufacturing Co., including complete management of its four big stations. My immediate escort was Earl Harmon, 27-year-old engineer, whose latest achievement, soon to be disclosed, is certain to startle the radio world. He has developed a process of doubling the signal strength of stations ‘without incres power output and with almost negligible construction cost. Booming Transmitters. Here were the booming transmitters, not only of KDKA, with its output of 50,000 watts, but of the world’s most powerful sef, which catapults 400,000 waits into space in testing the advan- tages of high power and which romps up and down the radio spectrum dur- the early morning hours when America sleeps. Then there are two high-frequency stations which carry KDKA'S programs to the four corners of the globe—another pioneering ven- ture for Westinghouse—which it does without monetary return, but which is designed to promote international good will and to provide entertainment for those little patches of humanity in the frozen North and in other remote por- tions of the world. Behind row after row of mammoth electrical machinery we marched, with big signs, “Danger, High Voltage,” star- ing us in the face. Elwyn Sollie, KDKA maintenance engineer. joined us and they kept me sandwiched in the mid- dle to make sure I wouldn't against a live wire or gadget. It was anly by adroit questioning that I succeeded in learning of some ants to pioneer distinction in America and world radio date their anniver- saries back only a little more than 12 years to 1920, the entry of the Califor- nia station into the contest has aroused considerable curiosity. The flat assertion is made by Fred J. Hart, owner and operator of KQW,| that it was founded in 1908, that it began broadcasting music in 1909 and that it has been on the air ever since. | Thus it is said to be fully twice as old | as KDKA, Pittsburgh, generally re-| puted to be the first broadcaster in the | world to go on the air with scheduled | programs and to remain on the air con- t’u“lus!;lg' since its birth date, November , . | Older Than KDKA. Even WWJ, Detroit, which is known to antedate KDKA by some months, | but which did not remain on regular schedule, although it still exists, is al- leged to be superceded as a pioneer by the San Jose station. There were many other amateur or experimental wireless telephone stations before KDKA and WWJ, including those of Dr. Lee DeForest, but none of these is still existent. | According to Mr. Hart's story, Charles | D. Herrold, an inventor of San Jose, | early in the century had studied the | and others with the new-fangled thing | called wireless. He decided to under- take some experiments of his own. Quietly and unostentatiously, he con-| structed a huge “carpet” aerial con-| taining_some 11,500 feet of wire. He suspended it between two 7-story build- | ings in San Jose and began sending, out both telegraph and telephone mes- sages. Newhy, who now resides in San Fran- cisco. Between 1909 and 1912 they devised a means for modulating the voice in the antenna circuit, hooking four microphones directly to it and cooling the apparatus with a water- circulating system to keep the current from breaking it down. 1912 two- way voice communication was estab- lished between Dr. Herrold in San Jose and Gecrge Davis in Oakland. That the experimenters were notr aware of the importance of their work is indicated by the fact that their first broadcast — literally — was not staged until 1913 when, instead of con- fining their messages to a restricted receiving point, they played a record of “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” for all who could hear. Radio operators at the naval radio station at Bremerton, Wash., wrote in that reception was very clear. First National Radio paw. It was in 1912 that the first inter- national radio treaty led to the first national radio law, then regarded as applying only to maritime radio. Dr. Herrold immediately applied for a license, which has been reissued to the station regularly ever since except for the World War period when all private radio was shut down. One of his licenses authorized the variable use of any wave length between 150 and 25,000 meters and any power up to 1,000 watts. In 1915, as related by Dr. Herrold to Mr. Hart, Lieut. Ellery Stone, then Federal radio inspector at San Fran- cisco, later president of Federal Tele- graph Co., and now a vice president of the International Telephone & Tele- graph Co., suggested to Dr. Herrold that he broadcast regular programs for recep- tion at the Panama-Pacific exposition at San Francisco. This was done for six to eight hours daily, and many persons still remember hearing the strange phenomenon of voice and music, coming from 50 miles away without wires, in the listening booth established in the ‘Tower of Jewels. Contemporaneously. Dr. Lee DeForest, venerated as the “father of radio” for his invention of the vacuum tube, had a radio booth at the exposition. But his transmitter failed, and reception in his booth was also from the San Jose station. Not only were the pro- grams heard in these booths, but en- thusiastic amateurs for miles around reception. ‘The call letters KQW were assigned to Dr. Herrold’s station on December 9, 1921, and he continued on the air with the same transmitter used for 10 {un previously. Dr. Herrold trans- lerred his license to a church in 1925, and its nt owners bought the station in 1926. One of the other claims ::- :mtncuel? made for ngW lu that partially supported by voluntary memberships of $2 a year in its “KQW Radio Club,” and that one of its lis- teners actually willed the station & Jegacy. Director Never Been West. Herbert Rice, who writes, directs and plays in the C. B. 8. feature. “Bobbie " . act, is an m‘h who has never been of the ventures of these boys behind the radio gun. They were modest to the point of bashfulness. Finally, I made discoveries while we were inspect- ing the “cellar,” where are housed the oig vats in which the transmitting tubes are cooled by water and oil to prevent blowouts. It seems that the lead conduits, con- necting these tubes with the transmit- ting circuits, wear away by friction every few weeks. To repair them when the circuits are “dead” would mean a 6-hour wait for the oil. in which the tubes are bathed, tb drain off. During that time there would be danger of the same thing happening to the spare set So young Scllie, the “swimmer” of the | crew, strips to the waist and jumps | into the vat, replacing the broken lead under ice water. Loyalty and Courage. PFrom others around the plant I learned of equal feats of loyalty and courage with the single thought cf keeping the stations on the air, A new transmitter had been rushed to com- pletion in time for a special program. ‘When the program was about to go on the air. a sputtering developed. Hur- ried examinaticn disclosed a faulty splice in a 3,500-volt plate cable, which was burning itself apart. The main- a pair of insulated gloves and held the two high-voltage wires together in his hand for 45 minutes, until the pro-% gram ended. Another tale concerns KYW, the Westinghouse station at Chicago. There a sleet-laden Northeaster driving in cff Lake Michigan carried away the ice- roated antenna about 40 minutes before -Behind the Microphone BY THE RADIO EDITOR. ESPITE depressed economic conditions, broadcasting shut the books of 1932 with increased revenues over 1031, although the margin of increase was far below the average. The two Nation-wide networks had an aggregate turnover for sale of time over the air of about $39,100,000, an increase of $1,600,- 000 over 1931. Although figures are not available for the entire industry, embracing 600 stations, it is unofficially estimated that about one-half of them showed revenues equaling or exceeding those of last year, while the other half, as usual, lost money. Gross receipts for all stations are esti- mated at $100,000,000. N. B. C. and Columbia achieved their new financial records in the face of a bli drop in business last Summer which had them pruning expenses through release of em- ployes, salary cuts and slashing of other appropriations. Decem- ber, usually an excellent month, also fell far below expectations. The balance sheets show that N. B. C. realized $26,504,891 during 1932, exclusive of revenues de- rived through its Artists’ Bureau, which have not yet been an- nounced. This was an increase of $897,850 over its 1931 revenues for sale of time. Columbia’s earn- ings amounted to $12,601,490, ex- clusive of its Artist Bureau re- gg;x;ts, or $706,451 more than in In 1927 when network radio began and N. B. C. was in the fleld alone it had gross receipts from sponsored programs of $3,- 760,010. Columbia came into the picture in 1928, and in that year the two networks reported a total income of $10,252,497. In 1929 the figure jumped to $18,729,571; in 1930 to $26,815,746, and in 1931 to $35,791,999, IN an attempt to aid listeners in xemmnf as much as ible of radio lectures, the National | Advisory Council on Radio in | Education has issued six sugges- tions, based on psychological laws of learning, for improving ane’s memory. The suggestions follow: 1. Decide in advance what questions you hope the speaker will answer. 2. Have a pencil rea |down a word or p! ¥k ¥ x ! dy to jot hrase that will brush | serve to recall the most important | jec points he makes. The very act of deciding whether a point is | worth remembering helps to fix {it in mind. 3. Think about what is said. Raise questions in your own mind. Challenge some of the speaker's statements. Supple- ment the information given you by recalling {llustrations from your own observation or reading. 4. At the close of the address, see at onee how many of the main points you can recall. This" greatly helps to fix them in mem- ol rg. Tell some one the facts you have éut heard. This is an ex- cellent way to clinch them. Then argue about them and discuss the questions raised. Form a “listen- . ers’ discussion circle” within the family or among your friends, in order to get the greatest value from the 12ctures, 8. Link what you have heard with added facts and different points of view. Consult books or. some other readings bearing on the subject. The sooner you get to the library shelves, the better you will be able to weave together what the speaker says with what'” other authorities have written, You may find that the volumes... are ready on the reference shelves. If not, the librarian will be g‘nd to help locate one or two of the most interesting and ine - forming books on the subject. * * ¥ ¥ LATET of the radio expansion schemes reported is an all- Michigan network, to be fed out | of Detroit by Station WXYZ, be- | gining January 31. According to, | an announcement by George W, | Trendle, president and general | manager of the Detroit station, |the network represents the cule | mination of g]ans under way for® so@e time that also embrace a project for a new national net- work. Links of the network will be WOOD-WASH, Grand Rapids; WIBM, Jackson; WELL, Battle Creek; WKZO, Kalamazoo, and - WFDF, Flint. With WXYZ as its key station, the network will fea- Lure programs of Michigan intere st. WXYZ left the Columbia net- work last June, its place in the | Detroit area having been taken | by Station CKOK, across the in- ternational border in Windsor, {Canada. Mr. Trendle declared he {has had in mind for some time i past the formation of a State network. Each link in the nete work is individually owned, he declared, and in it are repre- | sented holdings approaching the { million-dollar mark. Eventually this State network y constitute a part of a pro- ted third Nation-wide chain, | now rumored in the East, with Ed Wynn, Broadway comic, as its Imoving spirit. “Talk has been heard of a project to combine several different “third chain” en- . terprises in the near future with Wynn's Amalgamated Broadcast- ing Corporation as the parent organization. ima 'NEW MICROPHONE IS UNBREAKABLE Brush Development Company Con- tributes Device From Dregs of Imported Wines. | An unbreakable microphone, using as its basic element a substance de- | rived from the dregs of imported wines, lis the contribution cf the Brush De- velopment Co. of Cleveland to broad- | | casting and the field of acoustics. Developed by A. L. Williams, former | Navy and now president and chief en- | gineer of the Brush company, the mi- crophone was put through a test of amazing abuse without noticeable ef- fect. It was thrown against a stone | wall, kicked about the floor and then | placed under a faucet and cold water | run through it. Hitched up to a radio | | circuit immediately afterward, it func- | | submarine commander in the British | work of Marconi, Poulson, Arco, Carty tenance engineer in charge pulled on | Dr. Herrold still lives in San Jose, | tioned perfectly. the end of the evening program. The | Microphones heretofore have been cperator on watch secured a length of | and his operator at the time was Ray | rope to the aerial, fought his way up the glazed ladder of the tower and cucceeded in temporarily securing the wires. The show went on. Back in East Pittsburgh I was shown :hrough the expiremental laboratories of Westinghouse, a veritable house of magic, where television experimenta- tion goes forward and where astound- ing results have been attained in “micro-ray” transmission, another story. (Copyright, 1931 . RADIO ANTI-TRUST SUIT ) End of Era of Bad Feeling Seen ‘With Agreements Involving $30,000,000 Claims. Dismissal of the Grigsby-Grunow Co.’s $30,000,000 anti-trust sult against the Radio Corporation of Amer- ica and affiliated companies, fol- lowing the consent decree that re- cently ended the Government’s suit against the same group of companies charging monopolistic practices in re- straint of trade, practically brings to a close the “era of bad feeling” that marked, the radio manufacturing in- dustry during the flush years pre- ceding the depression. Today, practically all radio set, tube and parts makers who recognize the R. C. A. patent holdings, which in themselves were never seriously dis- puted, have entered into amicable agreements with that company for li- censes to use those patents on a royalty basis. Not only have royalties been re- duced substantially, but many of the former onerous trade and patent re- ;‘m%lm: have been removed by Roxy May Go to Europe. Although Rexy is out of the hespital, he has not sufficiently recovered from an operation to resume his duties in Radio City. Before he does he may take s trip to Europe. Continuing ru- mors that he has resigned are as per- sistently denied. HOTEL CONTINENTAL Facing Capitol Plasa for Banquets—Bridge Parties Meetings—Luncheons Our Attractive Ball Room Available for Dances Tel. Nat. 1672 But that’s | DISMISSAL WELCOMED! regarded as extremely delicate. In the | early days of radio, the slightest rustling | | of the fragile instrument threw it off | | tangent. Whiie modern mikes are more | durable, they cannot stand rough treat- ment and are thrown out of kilter by & severe jolt. Many a mike has been “blown out” by a loud blast directly in front of it, and even tubes of the transmitters have been shattered by exceptionally raucous performances be- fore mikes of early vintages. The new mike is said to be unaffected by vibra- tion or shock and cannot be overloaded. The secret of the Brush “grille mi- crophone” is the use of crystallized rochelle salts, procured from the dregs | of imported wines. The crystals are called piezo-electric “sound . cells,” which become energy converters. As such they are employed not only in the manufacture of microphones but for practically all branches of the radio and acoustical arts, including loud speakers and elements used in phonograph pick-ups, relays, oscillo- graphs, and in television. The same sort of crystal is used by broadcasting stations to keep them on their wave- lengths. | DOWNEY CHANGES TIME Morton Downey, now heard every Monday and Friday at 10 pm., will broadcast his sustaining programs on a | new schedule, beginning the week of January 29. The popular high-note tenor will offer his songs every Thurs- day at 10:45 p.m., starting February 2 and every Saturday at 10 p.m. In addition, Downey will be featured on the Columbia Guest Revue nta- tions each Monday night at 10 o'clock. Besides his radio activities, both on the National and Columbia networks, he is filling & number of vaudeville engage: ments in the vicinity of New York City. k) Cormiriato F sTreer ’coflEN AND * KELLY'S °* Major Radio Features CLASSICAL. New York Philharmonic Sympho: Orchestra. WJSV, 3:00; Cathedrs Hour, WJSV, 6:30; Electric Sunday Circle Concert, WRC, 9:00. VARIETY. | Capitol Theater Family, WRC, 11:158; Roxy's Gang, WRC, 12:15; the Street Singer, WISV, 12:45) Vee Lawnhurst. WRC, 4:15; Little Jack Little,” WJSV, 15;" Rubinofl’s Orchestra, WRC, 8:00; Parade of Melodies, WJSV, 9:30, A DRAMA. Moonshine and Honeysuckle, WRGC, 2:30; Roses and Drums, WJSV, 5:00; Dream Dramas, WRC, 5:15; “John :I%r&ryfimack River Giant,” WJSV, SPEECHES. Dr. Julius Klein, WJSV, 7:00; David Lawrence, WRC, 10:15. HIGH LIGHTS ELSEWHERE. 10:30a—Fiddlers Three—WJZ, WBAL, | WLW and WBZ. 11:00a—Morning musicale—WJZ, WBZ, WBAL, WLW and WHAM —Baby Rose Marie — WJZ, WBAL, WHAM and WLW. 1:30—Golden Revue, Hzrold Levy’s Orchestra and scloists—WJZ, WBZ, WBAL, KDKA and WHAM. 2:00—"Current Aflairs,” by Sir Robert Horne, famous British indus - trialist—WEAF, WTAG, WTAM, WCAE and WGY. 2:30—The Foamers: Charlie Agnew’s Orchestra—WJZ, WBAL, WHAM and WBZ. 3:00—"Our American Music”; Thomas Belviso's Orchestra—WJz, WBAL, WGAR, WRVA and WWNC. 3:30—Manhattan Merry Go Round; Gene Rodemich’s Orchestra and soloists — WJZ, WBAL, WLW,'% WMAQ and WJR. R 5:00—National Vespers; Dr. Ralph W. Sockman—WJZ, WBAL, WLW and WSM. 6:00—Josef Koestner's Orchestra and Quartet—WJZ, WBAL, WBZ, KDKA, WLW and WHAM. 6:30—Paul Whiteman's Rhythmic Con= cert—WJZ. WBAL, WHAM, ‘WBZ and WGAR. 7:30—"“Great Moments in History”; dramatic sketch—WJZ, WBAL, KDKA and WLW. 8:00—Russian Gayeties; balalaika ore « * chestra—WJZ, WBAL, KDKA, WLW, WJR and WHAM. 8:30—"Red Adams,” dramatic sketch— WJZ, WBAL, WLS, KDKA and WJR. 9:00— Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing.” dramatic sketch— WJZ, WBZ, WBZA, WHAM,. WBAL, WJR. KDKA and KYW, 9:30—Walter Winchell-WJZ, WBAL, " WBZ, WLW, WJR and KDKA. ~ 10:00—D. W. Griffiths Hollywood; | dramatic sketch—WJZ, WHAM, . WJR, WBAL and WGAR. "RADIOSERVICE } | 12:00m: STAR RADIO CO. 409 11th St. N.W.