Evening star., 1924-04-19
RADIO CURFEW LAW
i APARTMENT ISSUE
Summer Coming On and Open Win
dUws Will Keep Many
s. Awake.
litter WAR is PROMISED
VIII Court Declare Loud Speakers
Nuisances

BY Consolidated PresA
NEW YORK. April IA new bat
tie for freedom of the ether has burst
on the radio world. But this time
it is a battle OF the apartment house
courts, rather than the courts OF law.
At least it has started out that way,
though there is every prospect that
1t will end up in the law courts
The issue in this new war, which
The landlords of apartment houses
face with fear and trembling. is
whether or not the ether after, say,
IL o'clock at night shall be made free
for ormancy. In other words, shall
or shall not the traditional II o'clock
noise curfew'' be maintained?
IL O'Clock waking Time.
Radio, as everybody who owns
knows. IS just getting steamed up at
IL o'clock. From then on until about
in the morning the wild ether
waves are made to shimmy to the
strains Of jazz, sent forth from
dozen or more late sending stations
here and throughout the country.
Radio bugs" certainly haven't any
idea of passing up these concerts SO
that their more sedate neighbors may
Just as little idea of lying awake
until a m. listening to re-broadcasts
via the loud speaker route, II they
can help it
Edward P. Doyle of the new 1orh
Real Estate Board declared today
that the city's organized landlords
hadn't taken up the problem yet. put
that undoubtedly they would have TO
arrive at some concerted policy.
Summer Brings Problem.
1.-The problem has not been serious
through the winter" he said ,,ed ne
cause most of the radio fans could
he induced to keep their windows
closed. But now that good weather
is coming on the difficulties are
going to increase daily. Apartment
house courts are going TO reVeroeSt
with midnight jazz-and impromptu
.nidright dances promise to be quite
mo rage.
I'm New York the problem is com
plicated by the emergency rent laws
which forbid a landlord to oust a
tenant without taking him to court
and proving him undesirable L
think there is little doubt the courts
would hold that midnight radio is
nuisance. But still the landlords are
up a tree, for in many apartment
houses the number OF radio fans ex-
ceeds those who don't listen in"
Counter offensivea probably will
be started by some e&asperated
houSeholderS and II Will De raolo
versus phonograph, saxophone or
piano in many an apartment house
court
There isn't any doubt that the bat
Gle is going to be a bitter one. The
correspondent spent Thursday night
in the very foremost trenches of
upper Manhattan and is able to pre-
sent the following exclusive account
of the opening of the spring offensive
IN this sector:
Description OF Battle.
At midnight the BohemianS (from
station WIN. invisible Bohenia'D
attacked with a voIley by Jazza-
rimbo's Brass Band.
The DormancistS counter attacked
with a salvo of caterwauls, boots and
Kisses. Led by a powerful baritone,
they had almost repelled the attack
when Bohemian Molly Pitcher hurl-
ed her voice into the breach.
Il know that voice." she screamed
you are the man that kept me
awake half OF last night quarrelinG
with your wife. Shut up"
Their leader fallen, the Dorman-
cists wavere6f but reformed their
lines and rallied to the defense.
The engagement ended indecisively
at am.