Evening star., 1924-03-17
ERECTION OF RADIO
SHOW BOOTHS BEGUN
Preparations to Be Rushed for
Opening of Exposition Wed
nesday Afternoon.
So AMATEURS ENTER CONTEST
Prizes to Be Awarded for Best
Home Built Sets.

Actual preparations for the opening
Of Washfngton's first annual radio
show wero started yesterday after
noon. when scores Of carpenters. elec.
tricians and laborers began the work
Of erecting the booths and installing
electric lights in Convention Hall.
Before tho last of the automobiles
which had been on display at the au-
tomobile show last week, had been
taken out OF the big auditorium the
men were at work and will continue
incessantly night and day in order to
have everything in readiness when
District Commissioner Rudolph gives
tho signal for the official opening OF
the great exposition Wednesday after
noon at 8 o'clock.
Erect 100 Bseths.
One hundred booths are to be erect
cd in the main auditorium for the eX-
lribits of the manufacturers. jobbers
and dealers. y midway will ue con-
Structed on the ground floor where
John J. +. Mullane will conduct a
freak radio exhibit. Dancing, novelty
games and other forms of amusement
also will be feature of the midway.
Thirty-three radio fans in Wash
ington, MarylarE and Virginia have
entered their homemade receiving
sets in the amateur builders contest,
which will be conducted as an auxil-
iary feature of the show. Valuable
prizes, ranging from an immense
loop aerial donated by DR.. }. Harris
Rogers of Hyattsville, Nd. inventor
of underground wireless, to receiving
sets, table takers and other appa-
ratus will be awarded to the prize
winners. A prize also will be award
cd for the smallest and most efficient
crystal receiving set
Entries Close Soon.
Entries in this contest will be
closed soon, and all radio fans who
plan to enter are urged to register
at show headquarters, room 33i, star
building. before the opening of the
show. The contest has been divided
into five classes and prizes wilf be
awarded in each class.
Those who have entered sets are:
f. c. Warren, 1905 10th street
northwest; Harold F. Lane, 91o
Transportation building: Lawrence
Owen Evans. 551S 14th street south
east: Clifton L. Adams. Silver. Spring
Nd; Suzanne ID Tealey, 905 Sth street
northwest; v. l.. NorcrosS. 1855
Crescent plar' northwest; Merle L.
Weeks. 1913 Duke street. Alexandria
d.
northwest; David Doody, 1929 Euclid
street northwest; II. y. Burch, Brad
dock, Va; Dewey /. Suit. Cherrydaic,
Va; H. Evans. 1915 T. street north
vest: John c. IIoeniE. 2i30 18th
street northwest; John w. Augustine
1854 Eastern avenue southeast; f. F.
Wing, jr.. Walter Reed Hospital: G.
q. Roberts. ir.. S13 Ingraham street
northweS'. Merrin J. Ullman, 1911
Wyoming avenue northwest; Mrs. c.
Cramer. IA Strickler avenue north
west; Herbert Shepard. 1895 Jefferson
street northwest; Charles Reumer
1928 18th street northwest: Sheppe
Howard. 446 10th street southwest
Albert w. Small; Brinke G. Darne
13c Tennessee avenue northeast
Donald Basin, 541 Tennessee avenue
northeast; Will IIesher, $40 f street
northeast; Samuel Shapiro. 1888 NJ
street northwest; J. w. Beers, Forest
Glen. Md; G L. Norcross, 302 Hibbs
building, and e. L. Cecil. Brook.
land, d. c.