The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-18
WORDSF ROM RONE
 ID FROZEN ETAH
Radio Gives Weekly Sum mary Of Events To MaCMil-
 Ian Party In Arctic

Copyright. 1928 in U. s. and Great Alliance for The Ags-Herald. Ali rights
 CHICAGO, Nov. 1T. For the first time the puff of a photographer 8 flashlight. tounched off in Chicago, has been heard instantaneously by men marooned more than 1000 miles north, frozen in above the Arctic out-station, Etah. The event, recounted today, was an incident of the regular weekly dispatch of news to Dr. Donald B.. MacMillan, who hailed north last June on the schooner Bowdoin, the first to carry wireless into the far degrees of the North Pole, from tho north for elaborate experiments in air communication. pr. MacMillan went as special Arctic correspondent of The Herald.
 Every Wednesday night news, let ters and messages from friends, and regular broadcast features are sent to the Bowdoin. which is within Il degrees of the North Pole,, from the Zenith -Edgewater Beach hotel broad casting station. It begins at mid night sharp. central standard time,
 It was from this station the puff of the flashlight went winging.
 At midnight, E. F. Mcdonald, IT,. president of the Zenith Rario Cor poration, sat before the microphone reading the news to Dr. MacMillan. Right in the midst of MT. McDon- aids reading, the cameraman pressed the trigger that exploded the flash.
 Did you hear that, Mae? asked Mcdonald.
 He waited a second and then:
 That was a flashlight exploded by photographer"
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 Wife In Scotland Heard From.
 When it's time to talk to the Arctic, the Zenith -Edgewater station changes it's call letters from WJAZ to it's ex- perimental call letters 9XN This sta- tion Is powered with 4,000 volts and 10 kilowatts and has & fan shape antenna, extending 175 feet into the air. At the stroke of F, the audience that has been listening to the class ical concert broadcast from the Crys- tai studio of this station hears the familiar wording repeated several times This is 9XN calling WNP."
 Then follow greetings from the station to Dr. MacMillan and his crew of seven men; then letters and mes sages from friends and relatives are read, messages telling of births in the families of the crew, of weddings, of happenings in their home, doings of their chiIdren-anythfng at all that fight be of interest.
 Once in a while a message of a death has to be reported. Only short time ago, Dr. MacMillan was apprised by radio over this station of the death of his dear friend, the explorer. Lang don Gibson.
 pr. MacMillan receives each week from 9XN a report from his secretary in Boston. Tom McCue, the mate, has had two messages from his wife in Scotland Richard Goddard, who is representing the Carneige institution, has been reinforced by the Depart ment of Terrestrial Magnetism with instructions which he had failed to receive before his departure. 1nforma tion of every hue and eseription sallies forth these Wednesday nights from 9XN to the destination forth of Etah.
 Ranchmen Listen In.
 As often as possible, a personal friend of Dr. MacMillan speaks from 9XN. The president of his fra ternity, Joseph W. Cook; the vice president of the fraternity, F. W. Thurman. and a fraternity brother, Rev. Gardner A. MacW hOrter, nave ralked to him. Others are Lee Ham inond, under whom pr. MacMillan served in the field of aviation during the World war. and U. J. Hermann, whose yacht was built alongside of Dr. MacMillan's schooner, the Bow doin.
 The friends and relatives of the party direct their letters to the of flee of the Zenith Badto corporation. where they are then typewrltten and placed in the order they are to take when broadcast at midnight the fol- lowing Wednesday, When these messages have gone their way over the air lanes, they are followed with a resume of the weeks news of the outstanding importance
 This news is very carefully pre- pared so as to be comprehensive and still brief and entertaining.
 This weekly news finds more will ing ears than those of the MacMil- Jan party. Many letters are received from residents of isolated districts in northern Canada mining camps numbering camps and ranching dis tricts expressing appreciation and entreating that the service be con tinued even after Dr. MacMillan's return to the states. In many cases, this Is the only source of informa- tion. From one numbering camp the request. Please be sure to tell us If another war starts"