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The New Oregon Statesman Salem. Oregon, Wednesday Morning, October 10, 1928 7i) 1 mmu uni ill. m. m. wmwrn I I 1 If" A TUULIWAUtb -Brisk Competition With Wire Systems Puts Pep Into Radio Game Zero Hour At a Big Radio Studio 3 WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. (AP) -With the political campaigns and the new allocation of stations hniriinr the radio spotlight, the firht of commercial enterprises for the valuable short wares has attracted relatively slight public Radio men and givernment ob servers, however, declare that the scramble for these .assignment, land the threatened battle between the land wire companies and the radio concerns for the communi cation business in the United t Btates is of major public contmer ' ciai liuyrui. Having heard arguments of ri- Tal applicants for point to point t radio service In the United states ; the radio commission plans to get : the recommendations of engineers Preparatory to formulating a pol- . lev in the assignment of these ! channels. With the supply of i Wavelengths Insufficient to meet all of the requests, the commis sion says ."priority of claims must be determined on the basis oi greatest public service. Wave Length Shortage Because of the shortage of wave-lengths, the commission heretofore has ben reluctant to assign radio channels for com munication purposes where wire facilities are available. Some time ago the Radio Manufacturers association recommended to -the commission that radio be used where wire commnnlcation Is Im practicable or Impossible. Three rival companies now seek permission to establish networks of radio telegraph stations hand ling public messages In competi tion with the wire systems of the , country. Representatives of the Radio Corporation of America One of the applicants, maintain that the service they propose would be clearly in the interest of the public. They claim that the Radio Corporation's competi tion In xhe trans-oceanic field re sulted in the first reduction In cable rates in 38 years. Other Applicants The other applicants are th' Mackay Radio and Telegraph company and the Universal Wire less Communications companw. s new corporation formed at Buffa lo. The Mackay concern contends that it is better equipped to serve the public because of its connec tion with an established land wire aysem, the Postal Telegraph com pany. The Universal Wireless company bases its plea for prior ity on the fact that it was first to propose the establishment of a national radio network to com pete, with the wire lines. C n 41 Si ... 8 ' ill gw-- ev 3 'fi l - i ' I '. i - Exclusive Wave Lengths are Allocated to Radio Broadcasters While thousands of radio fan prepare to tn ne In. It Is one minute to nine o'clock in the great room in the National Broadcasting Company bull ding and the Philco hour feature la about to go on the air. Thousands of radio fans have written as king for a bird's-eye view "Behind the scenes with the mike." Harold Sanford, left, stands with bat on upraised, ready to call for the opening number. Next in order among the stars are Henry M. Nee ly, "Old Stager"; Colin O'More, tenor and leading man: Jessica Drazonette. soorano star of the hour: Charles Robinson, haas-baritoae; Emily Wool- ley, soprano; JMary Hopple, contralto; Kitty O'Nel 1, mezao soprano; Muriel Wilson, soprano; Walter Preston, baritone; Dan Gridley, tenor. Winter Promises Thrills For American Radio Fans RADIO FANS TO SEE 111 WORK CHICAGO, Oct. 9. (AP) Fans of Chicago, eager for a glimpse at television, will be giv en the opportunity at the seventh annual radio show here October 8 to 14. The show, like the Radio World's fair Just concluded in New York, is sponsored by the Radio Manufacturers' association and it provides for the display of the latest In receivers, speakers and radio necessities. The television layout will be similar to that shown to the pub lic for the first time in New York It will Include transmitters and reproducers, which win be con nected by wire rather than radio A part or the display win be a picture of the transmitter built for WMAQ. y Dr. R. E. Harris, head of the department of (physics at Lake Forest college has been named technical consultant of the show, He will be In charge of the tele vision display and exhibits from the country's foremost scientific laboratories. A broadcost studio Is being fit ted up, and radio stars will pre sent their programs In riew of the show visitors. Included In the local stations to broadcast these features will be KLW, WGN. WLS. WENR and WMAQ. Artists to appear will include Amos and Andy, Uncle Bod. Mike and Her man- and the Salerno brothers. Jack Kelson, pioneer Chicago an nouncer and director, will be in charge of the programs. WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. (AP) America's host of radio llf.al twisters, from crystal Set to su perhet listeners, are promised one of the most enjoyable winters in the annals of broadcasting. Members of the Federal Radio Commission, radio engineers and fans who have analysed the new allocation plan, are confident that reception will be improred for virtually all listeners. The 60.000.000 people in the United States, who live more than 100 miles from a broadcast ing station and who have been harassed by heterodynes, will de rive the greatest benefit from the new allocation of stations, the en gineers declare. With 74 of the 90 channels made available for high grade reception, the farm and small town listener, as well as the city enthusiast. Is assured a varie ty of programs free from whistles caused by station Interference. Wide Distribution With wide geographical distri bution of high power broadcasting stations Operating on cleared channels, the set-up provides for first class reception in all sections of thejeountry. Forty-one station channels are distributed equally among the five zones. The listener on a ranch In Mon tana, in a small tows in Missouri. Alabama or Connecticut, will, be servtfl primarily by eight high power stations located In his zone and sending programs on exclu sive wavelengths. Additional ser Screen Grid Aid To Transmitter's NEW YORK. Oct. 8. (AP) Use of the screen grid tube in the quarts crystal oscillator pt the broadcast transmitter will develop greater output than Is possible with three element tubes. The quartz crystal or piezo-elec-trie oscillator is used to maintain a station to its assigned wave length. J. R. Harrison of Wesleyan unl versity, Mlddletown, Conn., In a paper read to the institute or Ra dio Engineers, said that the screen grid tube piezo-electrlc os cillator also is more stable in op eration than Is the case with the three element tube, developing greatest power at the lower fre quencies and comparing favorably at the higher frequencies. Mr. Harrison's paper described the results obtained from single and two pair crystal holders. vice will be afforded by regional and local stations dividing time or placed geographically at distances designed to reduce Interference. While all classes of listeners will benefit by the new allocation, the farmers will gain the most, said Dr. J. H. Dellinger, chief en gineer of the commission. "They will not only be able to receive more stations reliably without in terference but practically all points on the dial .will be free from the pest of the heterodyne whistles. The city listeners will gain through heterodyne free re ception of their local stations and also reception of distant station? free from Interference." One factor in the new allocation is expected to be a temporary source of trouble and annoyance to bath station operators and lis teners. It is the change in fre quencies, or wavelengths, of sta tions. To some fans, however, the making of new logs and the search for familiar, distant sta tions on new frequencies will adi. zest to a favorite pastime. Air Station Talk K. L. Williams, distance fan of Pimba. South Australia, ends word that he has added another station to his list, which includes many in the United States. It is WBBM, Chicago. KGO. San Francisco, has in its files a letter signed by ten Indian fans, who listen to its programs through the medium of a receiver owned by a white man who lives near their tribe. "Ham" arl "George." two ne gro Janitors of a New York apart ment house, are telling their trou bles to the world over WABC New York, each Tuesday evening. Besides a comedy skit, their half hour period consists of music. WBBM, Chicago, has added John Stamford, veteran Chicago announcer, to its staff. He for merly was with KYW and WMBB 97.000 For Relief JACKSONVILLE. Fla., Oct. 9. (AP) Station WJAX raised approximately $7,000 through special benefit programs broad cast, to abtaln aid for the flood sufferers at West Palm Beach. The damage, and loss of life was greater than at first estimated and the radio station did Its bit In raising the $50,000 which the citizens of Jacksonville contrib uted. Two chain broadcasts, which will include stations on the Pacif Ic coast in addition to those clos ed to the key station WEAF. New York, will be offered radio listen ers on Saturday evening and Sun day afternoon. The Saturday night feature will have 39 stations while that on Sunday will number nearly as many. The Chinatown Rescue society will be back on the air Sunday. Oct. 7. Its services are conducted by Tom Noonan, whose voice will go out over WMCA, New York; WOKO, Peekskill; WDEL. Wil mington, Del.: WFAN. Philadel phia, and WRDG. New Haven. The broadcast starts at 3 p. m. Clock Runs Li?ht On Florida Coast JACKSONVILLE. Fla.. Oct. 9. (AP) A semi-automatic radio beacon, the first of its type to b installed in the United States, has been placed in operation at St. John's River Lighthouse. Florida. The apparatus consists of stand , ard 2 00-watt radio beacon trans mitters designed by engineers of the lighthouse bureau, power be ing furnished by two automatic en cine-genera tor units.' The four year ownership and operation of WLS by Sears-Roe buck company, terminated on Oc- taber 1, when the tsatlon became the property of the Prairie Farm er, agricultural magazine. Tha old staff was retained and tie policy, giving farm programs prec edence, win be maintained. June Pursell, after celebrating her fourth anniversary of her ini tial Broadcast over khx, Lios An geles, received thoueands of tele- I grams and letters from listeners. o Ro oflis ttflc Oooo" IZJp mmTmm r SU m 1 DHvaitft it!- r 1 24ISTAT1S -ARE FAVORE Student Keeps Explorers In Touch With The World A rainstorm by radio came to tourist while crossing the Mo- jave desert. He was listening to KOA. Denver, which was broad casting an outdoor concert when a sudden rain came up. The listen er in the desert sail that the re production "bver his portable re ceiver was so realistic that he had to reassure himself by looking at the sun. WASHINGTON, Oct. f . (AP) I Designed to give ' theoretically perfect reception, especially in the rural sections, high power radio stations will start operating on 40 cleared channels November 11 under the new broadcasting allocation. Only one station at a time will be allowed to operate on each of these channels in the evening. If the stations keep on their assign ed wavelengths, their channels will be virtually free from heter odynes, radio engineers declare. Twenty-four stations get evclu- sive channels for night time op eration. In the east these seven stations have "been alloted full time operation on cleared chan nels: WEAF. New York; WJZ, New York; WOR, Newark ;KD- KA, Pittsburgh; WABC. New York; WHAM. Rochester, and WCAU. Philadelphia. Eastern stations dividing time on cleared qhannels are WBAL. Baltimore with WTIC, Hartford: WPG, At lantic City, with WLWL. Newark; WBZ, Springfield, wjth WBZA, Boston. Three In South Three stations in the south will be allowed to operate full time on the cleared . channels. They are WRVA. Richmond? WSB, Atlanta and WSM. . Nashville. Southern stations dividing time- on the cleared channels will be WBAP, Fort Worth, iwth KTHS. Hot Springs. Ark.; WHAS. -Louisville, withWWVA. Wheeling; WBT, Charlotte, with WPTF. Raleigh; WAPI, Auburn. Ala., with WJAX. Jacksonville; WFAA. Dallas, with KRLD, Dallas'; WRR, Dallas, with WOAI, San Antonio; WWL, New Orleans, with KWKH, Shreveport. In th central" states exclusive channels were assigned to KYW, Chicago; WGN. Chicago; WMAQ. Chicago; WCX, Detroit; WWJ. Detrait; WCCO. Minneapolis and KMOX, St. Louis. Central Stations Central stations given clear channels on a time sharing basis are WLW with WSAI. both of Cincinnati; WLS and WENR. both of Chicago: WTAM with WEAR, both of Cleveland: KFAB. Lin coln. Neb., with WBBM. Chicago; WOWO. Ft. Wayne, Ind., with KTNT, Muscatine. la.; WCDB. Zi on. 111., and WMBI, Chicago. The radio commission announced It will grant Iowa's plea for one of the above cleared channels, with WHO. Des Moines and WOC, Dav enport dividing time on it. Western Stations operating on channels cleared forjhem at night will be KOA. Denver: KFI. Los Angeles; KGO, Oakland; KJR. Seattle; KPO. San Francisco: KNX. Hollywood and KSL. Salt Lake City. Some of these stations will share central channels during the day time in other parts of the country. Western stations divid ing time on a cleared channel are KOB, 8tate College, N. M. with KEX, Portland. WISCASSET, Me., Oct. 9. (AP) Much of the loneliness and isolation that once -was the part of arctic explorers lias disap peared In theseslays oi radio. The Rawson-MacMIUan Field expedition to northern Labrador and Baffin Land, home after 14 months In the arctic, used short ware radio and regular broadcast receivers to banish the old-time isolation. Clifford E. Hymoe of Glendale, Calif., a student at the Massachu setts Institute of Technology on leave of absence, handled the transmitting' key and receivers of the expedition during the long stay pi the north. Hymoe, operating on a wave length of 20 meters, kept in con- SUES STIMULATED IN RADIO CIRCLES With the approach of the sea son of. best radio reception, radio Bales are being stimulated throughout the west, according to Willis Clark, local manager of the Western Auto Supply company. Hr. Clark reports that tin the territory west of the Rocky moun tains that is served by the more than 150 Western Auto stores, sales have greatly increased dur ing the past few weeks and it has only been recently that the out put "could keep up with the de mand for the new and popular A. C. Bets. "The Western Air Patrol radio receiving set, Model 100, A. C, is exceedingly popular with west ern radio owners," says Mr. Clark. "This set is generally considered to be the latest work in radio en gineering. Three -models of this set are now being shown: tbe ta ble type, console, and highboy. All are six tube sets. "These sets are equipped with dynamic speakers which have es tablished a new standard of tone reproduction. The dynamic speaker that ia wed with the Western Air patrol faithfully brings out the details and the most delicate shadings of Instru ment or voice without any me chanical smothering effect. "We believe that the Western Air Patrol offers . an exceptional value a value that is typical of those found at Western Auto Suo- piy eempany. In addition to the value of the radio receiving set. me customer receives local ser vice, regardless of where he lives and our 'west-wide' reputation for fair and honest dealing, backed by our 'Customer Is always right Honey, assures every ouyer or a western Air Patrol of complete ana lasting satisfaction." tact .with amateur radio operators A radio interview with Lt. Com- mander'Donald B. MacMlllan, ice- locked in Bowdoin Harbor, Labra dor, last February, was carried out through the cooperation of Hymoe and Station 1-XV of the Massachusetts Institute of 'Tech nology at South Dartmouth, Mass. Hymoe was heard from many times thereafter, performing his share of vigil during the search for Bert Hassel and Parker Cra mer. Rockford. 111., to Sweden flyers. Eskimos and Indians delighted in broadcast- programs of dozens of stations in the United States when they were guests at the ex pedition headquarters. Radio sets supplied by MacMll lan expeditions in preceding years have helped brighten life for Mo ravian missionaries and even tbe governor of Greenland. The sets installed in the homes of missionaries at Naln and Hope- dale enabled them to listen night ly to broadcasts from their homes in Germany and England, as well as to American programs, Com mander MacMlllan says. CHICAGO STATIONS 2 J CHICAGO, Oct. 9. (AP) Dli vorces and new unions have dls-1 turbed the tranquility of the radio broadcasting in Chicago. WJJD, the Loyal Order of Moose station, no longer shares time and programs with WEBH, the Edgewater Beach hotel. The former now Is sharing time with WCFL, owned and operated byU thejllinois Federation of Labor, v Although WEBH has consoli dated with KYW. owned by the Westinghouse Electric company, it is believed the hotel will dis mantle the station. WEBH and WJJD formerly drew their pro. grams from the Chicago Herald . and Examiner. The paper now,. operates KYW. The broadcasting., of the hotefs music, the chief rea son for maintaining the station, , now Is on the Herald and Exam-r iner programs broadcast over!' KYW. An attempt has been made by &' State street hotel manager to in terest retailers of the loop dis-,r" trict in a program to be broadcast" by WJJD and WCFL "to be known1' as the "Voice of State Street." Revivals of several famous op eras and selections from the standard repertoire of the Chicago Civic Opera company are to be broadcast daring the 1928-29 sea son. Dne act of the opening per formance the evening of October 31 will be put on air by the NBC system, and each Wednesday eve ning thereafter until January 23, an hour will be Cevoted to the opera. WOC, Dapenport. has prepared a questionnaire asking the opinion of Its listeners on the wave length assignment for the station under the changes going into ef ectf November 11. Ships In Siam's Waters Get Radio SINGAPORE. Oct. 9. (AP) Ships in Siamese territorial waters hare been granted permission by the government to communicate by radio with the land stations of the Post and Telegraph depart ment. Ship owners or agents desirous of making use of the radio service are required to inform the Post and .Telegraph department of the names of ships in question and de clare themselves responsible for the payment of non-delivered tele grams. The Porto Rico relief commit tee adopted a resolution thanking WOR. Newark, for Its coopera tlon In appealing to its listeners for funds to help hurricane suf ferers. Ati-Americon lUohuwKOyrporution EDO 22 ft RADIO It's MARVELOUS The Clarity of Tone The Beauty I The UnfoiUng Accuracy , o the Wonder Set A $213 - r 1 ANYTHING! YOU WANT . gets them all PERFECTLY $175,50 Complete SEE IT! .HEAR TT! Then youH know 71 Bordeaux Testa Sets BORDEAUX. France. Oct. 9. (AP) A municipal radio compe tition was staged by Bordeaux of ficials. On a large open souare entrants lined up their instru ments, some on the park benches. otners on taricabs or private au tomobiieg. An aerial was nut at the disposal of competitors, and each in turn was given a couple or minutes in which to demon strate what his receiver could do. A special program has been ar ranged for Saturday night, Oct. 6. when WSM, Nashville, observes its tnira anniversary. The pro gram is to start at 7:30 o'clock. 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