Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1935, Page 65

25 Super-Power Stations Considered by Engineers Experts of Federal Commission Study Plans, for Continuous Pro; of Country. . By the Radio Editor. LISTENER'S Utopia, @ which some 25 super-power stations with suf- ficient volume to be heard across the Nation practically at all times, may be the radio lot of the American people under technical plans being considered by Federal Communications Commission engineers. Almost every listener, at some time or another, has picked up WLW, A the booming 500,000-watt station in Ci power than any other station in the% world. Under tentative allocation | plans being considered by the F. C. C. | engineers, there would be no less than 25 such stations. | Engineers who specialize in radio research now apparently are in agree- ment that the only way to serve the | rural and remote listener is with super-power. As a consequence, F. C. C. technicians have come forward with a technical plan in which rural service and high power are the foun- dation stones. The plan involves more than the mere licensing of two dozen: addi- tional super-power stations; it in- volves the licensing of perhaps sev- eral hundred more 100-watt stations for smaller communities to appease the terrific demand for new stations, | mainly sought by newspapers. The | plan also would involve a realign- | ment of station assignments in other ! elassifications with the purpose of | increasing both the number and power of stations, rather than any curtailment. Ithue plans are simply tentative, | have not yet been presented to the F. C. C. in any formal way and prob- | ably will not be for several months. | Then it is likely that several more | months will elapse before any definite formula is decided upon and invoked. | The plan would be the most far- | reaching affecting broadcasting since the general reallocation of 1928, when | '\\/’ 90 per cent of the country’s stations | were placed on different dial settings. | F. C. C. engineers point out that| broadcasting today does not take ad- | vantage of modern technique for, in ® fleld as swiftly moving as radio, Innumerable advances have been made since the 1928 allocations. It is figured that about 40 per cent of the Nation's area and about 35 per cent of its population do not receive “primary” or excellent service during the evening hours. To reach the point where listeners everywhere in the country would be assured of some sort of reception at all times, the F. C. C. first would have to change the clear-channel allocations. Under present regulations, 40 channels of the 96 in the espectrum are designated as “clear” channels using a maximum power at night of 50,000 watts. N THE 15 channels of the former total of 40 clear waves, the F. C. C. engineers contemplate assigning dupli- cate stations on the two coasts with maximum power of 50,000 watts. Then the power of certain of the middle- class or regional channels would be increased from the present maximum of 1,000 watts to 5,000 watts at night, which they conclude would greatly improve the service. Finally the project contemplates opening three new channels in the range from 1500 to 1,600 kilocycles. ‘There could be assigned about 50 new stations to each channel so that the roster of stations would be increased from the present total of 620 stations to around 800 stations if all this is done. Super-power stations on the coasts would be required to install directional antennae to guide their signals inland. In key radio cities like New York, Chicago and Los An- geles, there probably would be more | than one 500,000-watter. | It is estimated that should this plan | be carried to fruition, the total in- | vestment in tangible property would exceed $15,000,000. 'HAT Radio Corp. of America does | ' not regard the control of a motion | picture production unit as transcen- | dantly important in its ultimate plans ‘ for television is one intrepretation being placed in radio circles on its decision last week to sell a “substantial | portion” of its controlling stockhold- ings in Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp., | to the Atlas Corp. and Lehman Bros. | The action tame as somewhat of a | surprise in view of the general belief | that films will be the chief source of | | of its studio space for television and T SHOULD be clearly understood | A grams to All Parts ncinnati, which broadcasts with more ried with it provisions for supplying R. C. A. with film matter for tele- vision transmission was not disclosed. It is known, however, that Radio City was built with an eye to adapting some that conversations have been had with the American Telephone and Tele- graph Co. for linking Radio City with | the projected Philadelphia television | transmitter by means of the new “coaxial” cable. The Philco Radio & Television Corp. of Philadelphia has applied to the F. C. C. for two more bands of ultra- short wave lengths for experimental visual broadcasting. It asks for 250 watts on the 42,000-56,000 and 60,000~ 86,000 kilocycle bands. Both R. C. A. Manufacturing Co., subsidiary of R. C. A,, and Farnsworth Television, Ltd., have promised to have transmitters of television images on the air in or near Philadelphia by next Spring, and it is regarded more than likely that Philco will do the same. PPLICATIONS are now pending before the F. C. C.'s broadcast | division from about 40 newspapers | seeking radio stations. Newest of the THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON,.D. C, OCTOBER 20, 1935—PART FOUR. RADIO LISTENERS' UTOPIA MAY BE LOT OF AMERICANS Three More Beauties in the Microphone Parade newspaper applications to be filed are Sunday, October 20. those of the San Diego Union Tribune . Clipper to Broadcast HEN the giant Pan-American Air- ways clipper plane takes off from | San Francisco for China within the | next tew months, instituting regular | air mail and passenger service across the Pacific, it will carry an engineer | and an announcer of the National | Broadcasting Co., and broadcasts will | and the Ventura (Calif.) County Star. AM. | WRC—950k (Copyrigh EDYTHE WRIGHT. t, 1035) Eastern Standard Time. CARUL DEE; Radio Features and Notes PAUL ROBESON, famous colored baritone, will be guest artist of Erne Rapee and his orchestra on WRC WMAL—630k WOL—1310k WISV—_1.460k 8:00 8:15 8:45 9:00 9:30 9:45 10:00 10:15 | Melody Hour Willlam Meeder, organist; ;Tone Pictures |Marimba Orchestra | 9:15 N. B. C. Feature | This and That |Goldthwaite Ensemble | Radio Pulpit be attempted periodically during the |10:30 [Ancient Instruments flight—broadcasts that will be picked | 10:45 Sunday Serenade up by San Francisco and relayed over | 11:00 | News—Vagaries the network. radio equipment, it did not work well during the first demonstration flight | of the big 20-ton craft from its base on Middle River, near Baltimore, re- | Bus |On a {Southernaires | Musical Moments |String Quartet Flder Michaux Meditation in Psalms « - Radio Bulletins ‘Gospel Singer Salon Orchestra Dixie Harmontes Knights of Columbus Myste 1 PM. 111:15 |Vagaries Despite the elaborateness of the |11:30 iMuJ- Bowe: 11:45 " Family News—Listening Post Neighbor Nell Samovar Serenade AFTERNOON Waltz Organ Recital Church Services PROGRAMS Songs of the Church |Church of the Air News Bulletins Columbia Feature Reflections ‘Tabernacle Choir cently. However, the kinks are being | 12:00 (Maj. Bowes’ Family ironed out and the Pacific broadcasts |12:15 | are expected to be successful. These broadcasts are expected to| prove a big sensation in American | radio annals. The clipper is sched- uled to proceed to Miami tomorrow for final shakedown tests before going to San Franciseo for the Pacific take- off. It carries radiophone as well as | radiotelegraph apparatus and engi- neers say its radio plant is sufficient | to insure excellent voice transmission and reception. | Short-Wave_Notes TEMS of interest to short-wave lis- teners . . . Station PHI at Huizen, | Netherlands, is back on its accus- tomed Winter frequency of 11.73] megacycles . . . Japanese broadcasts | are now being heard through JVN | on 10.68 megacycles . . . best time to hear these is from 2 to 3 pm, . . . or through JVH on 14.60 megacycles on Mondays and Thursdays from mid- | night to 1 am. . . . the Chilean sta- | tion, CEC, can now be heard on| ‘Thursdays from 8:30 to 9 p.m. Norway, France, Belgium, Cuba, Guatemala, Bermuda, Argentina; Uru- guay, Switzerland, England and Mex- ico are said to be easy victims of the dialer in the 20-meter or 14-mega- cycle band . . . the International Short-Wave Club reports its members have logged 28 countries on this band during the past month. A short-wave station having the call letters ETA is reported to be located at Addis Ababa...OER-2, at Vienna, Austria, is now broadcasting regularly every day from 9 am. w‘l 5 pm. Art and Arch Again. 'WO of WJSV's most popular an- nouncers—Messrs. Arch McDonald | 1 supply of television subject matter and Arthur Godfrey—will play im- ‘when visual broadcasting emerges as | portant parts in the Halloween pa- an everyday reality alongside sound |rade, October 31, sponsored by the| broadcasting. Whether the deal car- | Greater National Capital Committee. FOREIGN SHORT-WAVE STATIONS CITY. b7, T —— 1 .o Sydney -----eoo--..VKIME valencis ---oooee----YVERV STATION. MEGACYCLES HOURS. ) ad s8g888gs © SuveuakIeRRNg wZ =2 “o gas s.EEE sEEnE= Z2 = eagaa s82sg sk 85~ o C X -E ) - §s Friday. to 10:15 am.; noon to 1 pm., 1:45 to 2:30 pm. 5 to 9 am., 9:30 to 11:30 am. . . 6 to 10 pm. = @ 12 112:30 |Chicago Round Table | Pageant of Youth | Music Hall Romany Road to “ Moods and Modes |Music Hall Bible Highlights e lletins Guy Lombardo’s Orch. Flashes—Music George Grier ‘Tabernacle Choir | Musical Footnotes |International Broadcast | Watch Tower Italian Trio Dance Rhythms Olie Speaks, songs Church of the Air Eddie Dunstedter Sisters of the Skillet Sinding: “Homeland Mine,” by | Gretchaninoff; “Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen,” and “Deep River,” i “Water Boy” and “Short'nin’ Bread. | The orchestra will play Schubert's “Unfinished Symphony,” “Variations,” from Delibes’ “La Source”; the adagio | from “Faust” and the Farandole from “L’Arlesienne” suite, and “Hungarian —{ Rhapsody No. 2.” 12: 1: Verdi's “La Traviata” will be the | third program in the cycle of the famous Italian composer’s music, which the Music Hall of the Air will | present on WMAL at 12:30. ican concert pianist, returns as guest artist on the Sunday Evening Hour |on WISV at 9. Prantz will offer an impressive and varied program of tamous compositions, including the Rondo and Allegro Scherzando from Beethoven’s “C-Major Concerto for 45 | Piano and Orchestra,” and D’Albert’s noted setting for piano of Bach's “Organ Fugue in D.” The young | pianist also will play a Chopin “Etude 45 | in E Major,” George Gershwin's “Pre- 00 15 | )| Bible Dramas {The Magic Key Italian Broadcast The Widow's Sons Your English The Merrymakers Sunday Serenade ‘Church of the Alr Radio Kiddies | Spires of Melody | Columbia Orch. Between Bookends Blue Flames Radio Kiddies Underworld Cathedral R N. Y. Philharmonic 2:0 2: 2: 3: 3: 3: | lude No. 2" and the “Ritual Fire 0| Dance,” by Manuel de Falla. 15 ‘The selections to be played by the 30 | New York Philharmonic Orchestra on 5 | WISV at 3 o'clock, under the direc- 00 | tion of Otto Klemperer, include the 15 | prelude to Wagner's “Lohengrin,” 30 | Tschaikowsky's “Symphony No. 5 in 45 | E Minor,” and & new suite for string Temple of Song College Sweethearts Sundown Revue National Vespers Tea Time Design for Listening Paul Whiteman’s Orch. Spanish Rhythms Piano Specialties N. Y. Philharmonic Penthouse Serenade (Dream Drama Al Goodman Roses and Drums Chats About Dogs Gabriel Heatter P.M. Church Services EVENING PROGRAMS | Melodiana. Crumit and Sanderson 4: 4: 4: 4: 00 1 orchestra by Arnold Schoenberg. 15| Roses and Drums will celebrate the 30 | anniversary of Gen. Sheridan's ride 45 | from Winchester in a special radio drama on WMAL at 5. Right Rev. Henry Wise Hobson, Bishop of Southern Ohio, will conduct | | the morning service of the Church of the Air at 10 and Rabbi Gerson B. | Levi of The Temple, Chicago, will | speak during the afternoon program Catholic Hour Sports Review—Music Bulletin Board |Evening Album Tony and Gus Grand Hotel Popular Rhythms Bob Carbauh Ave Maria | Amateur Night Smilin’ Ed McConnell Arch McDonald lat 1 o'clock, both broadcasts over WJSV. A real fight between a hard-fighting goat and James Mandy will be staged in a special studio ring during Ozzie K-7 Drama “ Fireside Recitals Sunset Dreams Jack Benny Ozzie Nelson's Orch. Bowes’ Amateur Hour Musical Comedy Merry-Go-"Round Album of Familiar Music Life Is a Song P Walter Winchell Niela Goodelle endrik Willem Van Loon| I Old Tolerable Symphonic Works “ . Stephen Foster Music Alexander Woollcott Headliners “ . Nelson's program on WMAL at 7:30. Robert I. (Believe It or Not) Ripley will give a blow-by-blow account. The Pine Mountain Merrymakers, a Eddie Cantor Leslie Howard Jaysnoff Sisters Good-Will Court Sunday Evening Hour w' oW Erno Rapee's Orch. “« . Seth Parker [News Bulletins Velvetone Music Good Will Court Family Circle ‘Wayne King’s Orchestra The Old Timer Penthouse Party new series of programs dealing with Kentucky mountain folk, will be in- augurated over WMAL at 3:15. The broadcast will feature John Lair, authority on American folksong and legends of the hill country. “Starved” Beets Rot. A SUGAR BEET disease which was first discovered in 1932, one which caused leaves to dry and rot at the The Melody Master 'News—Night Owl G n e Dick Fid] Orchestra Sammy Kaye's Orchestra, ~—:— Sign Off —— Gordon Hittenmark Gordon Hittenmark w w Slumber Hour R ——— s o —— | |______ News Bulletins Johnny Tucker Slumber Serenade Carl Hoff's Orch. Frank Dalley’s Orch. center, the effects often running down into the heart of the beet, has turned out to be no disease at all, but rather a case of malnutrition. Soil experts, studying the problem —:— Sign Off —:— EARLY PROGRAMS TOMORROW ‘The Grab Bag Hi-Hilarities Yodeling Philosopher News—Pioneers Gordon Hittenmark Morning Devotions 20 Fingers of Harmony Cheerio Musical Clock “« o« )| Gordon Hittenmark Rosa Lee Fields and Hall Morning Melodies News Bulletins Breakfast Club News—Fashions Home, Sweet Home Sweethearts of the Air City Voices Edward MacHugh Music Box Police Flashes—Music Organ Recital News Bulletins News Bulletins Dick Messner’s Orch. Vincent Lopez's Orch. . Sun Dial Jean Abbey News—Music Sally at the Switchboard, :22 | 5| have discovered that a lack of boron | in the soil was responsible for the F—9 British Ban on Aloisi Talk Is Seen as Piece of Bungling Freedom of Radio in America Brought Into at 10 pm He will sing “Light,” by | Dalies Frantz, brilliant young Amer- | Sharp Relief by Foreign Office Censorship. By Marti comparative freedom from W from the foreign office, refused to rela n Codel. HATEVER else may be-blamed upon American broadcasting, its official restraints so far as public utterances are concerned was brought into sharp relief last week when the British radio authorities, apparently under instructions y Baron Pompeo Aloisi’s speech from Geneva to America via their international short wave station at Chelmsford. ‘The talk was to be delivered to the American radio audience by Italy's tions in reply to a speech delivered by the head of the Ethiopian delega- tion a week earlier over the same hookup—a telephone line from Geneva to London and thence via short waves to New York. Baron Aloisi was cut off before he began, as an application by Britain of sanctions against Italy for her Ethiopian invasion. ‘The incident, seen through Amer- ican eyes, revealed incredible stupidity on the part of some one in authority in Britain. Hardly had the scheduled speech been cut off than officials of the Columbia Broadcasting System, which was to have carried it here over its Nation-wide network, forthwith invited Baron Aloisi to deliver the same talk from Rome. This he did last Sunday. It was relayed via short waves direct from Rome to New York without the intermediary of Chelms- ford. Forgetting the respective merits of | the Ethiopian and Italian cases, with : which the American radio mana- | gers were not concerned, the inci- | dent served once again to prove | the sharp variance between what may | be termed the American vs. the Euro- | pean “idea” of radio—the operation, on the one hand, of radio as a regu- | lated but uncensored private enterprise as against its operation, on the other hand, as a government monopoly subject to rigid censorship. | NJORE than that, it resounded dis- tinctly to the disadvantage of England, which is America’s chief rival in the field of international wire and wireless communications, for it enabled those supporting proposals for a direct New York-to-Paris telephone link to | say “I told you so.” Only last week | the Federal Communications Commis- sion authorized the American Tele- | phone & Telegraph Co. to establish a direct radio-phone circuit with Paris, | and thus with continental Europc. to | supplement its present trans-Atlantic | circuit, which is only with England and through England with the rest of Europe. | In other words, London, since the trans-Atlantic radio-phone was inau- | gurated four or five years ago, has | been the relaying point for all tele- | phone calls to and from the European continent. It is this telephone circuit that is also used chiefly for trans-At- lantic broadcasts, at least when direct radiophone connections with other | countries are rendered impossible by atmospheric conditions — which is often. England took advantage of her po- sition as relaying point to cut off Aloisi, yet the Italian simply had to hop a train for Rome to get his talk on the international radio. England | thus acted as a voluntary censor of a | speech that was in the nature of news | and opinion for the American ear—| a censorship that is unheard of in a | country that demands both sides of controversial issues over its radios| | and that even permits a Huey Long and a Father Coughlin to speak their minds on the air more often than President Roosevelt. AMHHCA'S position of neutrality and the President’s embargo on shipments to the belligerents in the Crabbing With Eels. | 'RABBERS in the Chesapeake | “ waters find that they have the | greatest success when they use eel for | bait. | | " Fishing of this type comes some- | what under the head of “which came first the hen or the egg?” | Using soft crabs for bait, the fisher- | men set their eel pots and often have great success in landing the eels. | Having brought in this catch, they | put the eels in a brine to cut the | slimy coating from them. After that | | they are cleaned and pickled for a&| | time in & heavy brine which will pre- | | serve them for several years if neces- | | sary. The eels are then cut into pieces | | about three inches long and tied on | chief delegate to the League of Na-g | was ItalosEthiopian affray is not expected to affect radio broadcasting here. Full and free discussion of public affairs can only be stopped in this country, under the communications law, if a “war or a threat of war or a state of public peril or other national emer= gency” prevails or if the President of the Unlted States decides that our neutrality in armed conflict is at stake. In such cases, the President can order the shutting down of any or all radio stations and can have them taken over by the military if deemed necessary. It is significant that on March 5, 1933, when President Roosevelt went on the air with his banking crisis speech, he did not regard the emerg=- ency as great enough to impose any restraints upon the freedom of radio. Nor does he apparently think our best interests at present demand silence on either or both sides in the Italoe Ethiopian affair so far as radio discuse sion is concerned. In the writer's recollection, the only time Uncle Sam has even half-way tried to impose & censorship upon broadcasting was when the State Department frowned upon first proposals to broadcast from Moscow some years ago. Yet even before Soviet Russia was recognized such broadcasts were carried to Amere ica In this case England’s loss will solide ify France's gain, even though they may both be “in the same boat” with respect to their attitude toward Italy and sanctions. The A. T. & T. Co, it is known, was not anxious to estabe lish an additiona! trans-Atlantic radio= phone circuit to the one in London for economic reasons. It seems that most trans-Atlantic calls to and from America are with English telephone subscribers. Not more than six or seven calls are placed daily with France, via London, and only two or three a day with the rest of continental Europe. Therefore the Paris station, which may be used also as the relaying point for other countries of Europe, not regarded as a profitable venture, On the other hand, the American military authorities want it and the French were anxious to be relieved of having their phone calls—and their occasional relay broadcasts—cleared through Chelmsford. So the circuit will be established direct with Paris regardless of its economic need. It will not go into operation until some time next vear due to the fact that the French must yet build the powerful sending and receiving station needed at their end. Renovizing that is mot commonplace A. EBERLY’S SONS 1108 K NW. DISTRICT 6557 Dionify_your_home. ___Phone “Eberly's® : = FREE INSPECTIONS ON_ANY MAKE RADIO BY OUR RADIO EXPERTS SPECIAL_PRICES ON ALL-WAVE AERIALS UIN A 938 F ST. N.W. LN Met. 3500 For Quality Radio Reception Call o Qualified Radio Service Engineer GUARASNTEE 3442 FOURTEENTH SZ£ NW. Member of R. M. S. and A. R. M. Phone Columbia 6653 | the crab line which often will have as many as 300 baits. Early in the morning, the fisherman rows to his crab line, puts one end application of borax to the soil 00 quickly brought the beets back normal growing. Dr. G. H. Coons of the Bureau of Plant Industry reports from Germany, where he is visiting sugar beet ex- periment stations, that the disease in Michigan is the same as the European heart and dry rot disease—also caused by boron deficiency. In Europe the cause of the beet heart and dry rot disease had been determined before Dr. Coons and Dr. J. E. Kotila, also of the Bureau of Plant Industry, com- pleted investigation of the Michigan 00 | disease. Boron deficiency had been 15 | reported in the United States in con- nection with other crops, but these cases have been in regions far removed Juliet Romeo Variety and Value Musical Novelties ‘Wesley and Romey Josephine Gibson Harmonies in Contrast -|Carlton and Shaw Saundra Brown's Songs from sugar beet growing areas. Michigan growers at first overlooked the disease as they thought that the death of young beet top leaves was U. 8. Navy Band “a AFTERNOON Morning Concert Lawrence Gould Varieties Views of the News PROGRAMS ‘Weber and Beck News Bulletins Famous Bables Voice of Experience 'The Gumps News—Music Between Book Ends Happy Hollow School of the Air Motor City Melodies “ w -0 e e 5858 £8E8 caused by crown rot or was due to mechanical injury. But in 1934 as many as 15 per cent of the plants in some Michigan flelds were affected and incipient stages of the disyase oc- curred in at least 25 per cent of the plants in some areas. It was most prevalent in plants growing in sandy or gravelly soil underiain by & porous subsoil. Doctors Coons and Kotila found in tests that organisms and bacteria play no part in causing the disease, but that it is caused solely by the lack of boron as a necessary plant food in the soil. Plant injury may vary from a slight shortening and discoloring of the leaf stalks in the center of the crown to & dying-off of the growing point. Roots of the more seriously injured tops ere usually cankered and show a brownish or bluish discoloration inside. The plant pathologists used injured 5858 did not receive boron again developed characteristic leaf injury. Plants » manifestations of the disease and the %l over a reel and then rows one-handed | along the line. As the bait is pulled to the surface, he scoops in the crabs | | before they let go and the job is done. | Milk Output Up. Mn.K production and output of dairy products show a consid- erable increase this year, the totals running above the average of the past five-year period. ‘The supplies for the coming Winter, therefore, will be somewhat above the figures of last year. The low price point for this season has passed and from now on conditions are expected to improve for the dairyman. | One factor which has contributed | to the improvement is an increase in the price of British butter, amounting to 8 cents a pound. Despite a 14- cent tariff on butter, the price at Liverpool at one time this year had dropped so low British butter could be imported to this country and sold on an equal footing with the American product. mately 10 inches taller at the end of @ 35-day test than those grown with- out the nutrient. Those transferred to a nutrlent lacking boron began to show symptoms of the disease within 14 to 20 days—regardless of their age. Applications of borax, which con- tains boron, at the rate of 1 to 5 pounds an acre in the sand nutrient tests were insufficient to prevent injury. All signs of injury disappeared when borax was applied at the rate of 10 pounds per acre. Plants which received borax in tests at the rate of 20 pounds an acre grew more vigorously than the plants re- ceiving 5 to 10 pounds an acre. When the nutrient was applied at the rate of 40 pounds an acre, appreciable toxic effects on the plants were noticeable after 11 weeks of growth. The ex- perimenters think it probable that in- jury from too much boron might not be 80 great in the flelds as in sand cul- » Sales and Service Service Charge. $1 General Motors Concert ” DALIES FRANTZ Pianist Guest soloist tonight with * THE FORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS * VICTOR KOLAR Conducting WISV 9:00 to 10:00, E. S. T. Complete Coast-to-Coast CBS Network FORD SUNDAY EVENING HOUR RRLLSL/ILLDEXRRSS >