The Washington times., 1924-03-17
HALL BEING PUT
IN SHAPEFOR,
RADIO SHOW
Laborers at Work Erecting
Booths in Preparation for
Opening Wednesday.

Actual preparations for the open.
ing Of Washington's first radio
show were started today when
scores of carpenters, electricians
and laborers began the work Of
erecting the booths and installing
electric lights in Convention Hall.
Before the last Of the automobiles
which had been on display at the
automobile show last week had
been taken out OF the big audi
forum the men were at work and
will continue necessarily night and
day in order to have everything
in readiness when District Com.
missioner Rudolph gives the sig.
nal for the official opening Of the
great exposition Wednesday after.
noon at 8 o'clock.
One hundred booths are to be
erected in the main auditorium for
the exhibits of the manufacturers,
jobbers and dealers. A midway
will be constructed on the ground
floor where John j. P. Mullane will
conduct a freak radio exhibit. Dane.
ing, novelty games and other forms
Of amusement also will be a feature
Of the midway.
Contest for Fans.
Thirty-three radio fans in Wash.
ington, Maryland and Virginia have
entered their homemade receiving
sets in the amateur builders con-
test, which will be conducted as an
auxiliary feature Of the show. Valu.
able prizes, ranging from an i'm
mense loop aerial donated by DR..
j. Harris Rogers of Hyattsville, Md,
inventor Of underground wireless,
to receiving sets, table takers and
other apparatus will be awarded to
the prize winners. A prize also will
be awarded for the smallest and
most efficient crystal receiving set.
Entries in this contest will be
closed soon, and all radio fans who
plan to enter are urged to register
at show headquarters, room 334
Star Building, before the opening
OF the show. The contest has been
divided into five classes and prizes
will be awarded in each class.
Entered in Contest.
Those who have entered sets are:
E. c. Warren, 1906 Tenth street
northwest; Harold F. Lane, 915
Transportation Building: Lawrence
A. Laser, 1917 Kenilworth avenue;
Owen Evans, 551S Fourteenth street
southeast; Clifton L. Adams, Silver
Springs, Md; Suzanne D. Tenley,
905 Eighth street northwest; Z. l..
Norcross, 1855 Crescent place north.
west; Merle l.. Weeks, 1919 Duke
street, Alexandria, Va; H. F. Lane,
1924 Argonne place northwest;
David Doody, 1929 Euclid street
northwest; H. N. Burch, Braddock,
Va; Dewey L. Suit. Cherrydale
Va; H. Evans, 1915 E street north
west; John C. Loenig, 2430 Fifteenth
street northwest; John w. Angus
tine. 1854 Eastern avenue south
east; F. F. Wing, jr., Walter Reed
Hospital; c. E. Roberts, jr., S13 In
gram street northwest: Mervin ].
Ullman, 1911 Wyoming avenue
northwest; Mrs. c. Cramer, 144
Stricken avenue northwest; Herbert
Shepard, 1926 Jefferson street
northwest; Charles Reumer, 1929
Eighteenth street northwest: c.
L. Adams. Silver Springs, Nd:
Sheppe Howard. 446 Tenth street
southwest; Albert w. Small; Brinke
& Darne, 1872 Tennessee avenue
northeast; Donald Basin. Sal Ten.
nessee avenue northeast; Will Les
her, $40 E street northeast; Samuel
Shapiro, 1888 NJ street northwest:
J. w. Beers. Forest Glen, Md; C.
l.. Norcross, 302 Hibbs Building
and e. L. Cecil, Brookland. ID. q.