Evening star., 1924-01-31
RADIO NEWS

A concert by tho United States
Navy Band Orchestra. under the di-
rection q Charles Benter, will fea-
ture the broadcast tonight or WCAP.
The concert will be broadcast direct
from the Marine Corps Institute
Two hours of dance music by the LIE
Paradis Band will follow the con-
cert.
The impression prevails that the
radio audience is writing less letters
than formerly in appreciation or the
pragrom rendered by boadcasting
artists Figures made public by sta
lion WEAF. however. contradict this
claim A year ago the average num-
approximately zoo per day. This
number gradually increased in the
early months of the year followed by
n slight summer slump which reached
its maximum in June. These hgures
do not include the letters received
by artists directly. \ gradual rise in
the mail followed through the fall
some 800 'letters PER day being the
average for October. nearly 500 in
November and 500 in December. The
increase has become still greater Dur
ing the first two weeks in January
nearly 25.o00 letters were received
from WEAF's audience commenting
on the reception Of WEAF's pro-
gramS.
HARRY l.. vEIHMETER, 3o01 Foote
street northeast, writes the radio ed
ttor: ''Will the radio editor or some
fan let me know through The Stars
radio news whether a weather report
was being broadcast in ST Louis by
woman announcer on Monday
night, January %, at about l 1 o'clock?
Have only crystal set, but re-
ceived Troy, y. Y, very clearly about
this same time. There was instru-
mental music and a vocal solo. Love
Sends a Little Gift OF Roses" sung
by man, accompanied by d violin
obbligato. The announcement from
Troy was very clear, but the an
nouncement of the above mentioned
weather report was not quite so
good. 1t sounded like kSD, and the
woman's voice was sending out. from
the time we picked it up until the
signing off, reports for a large num-
ber OF western states.
"Of course. we get the usual sta
tions received by crystals every night
such as KDKA, WGY and NAA.
Am all wrapped up in your radio
news"
Yes. the station you heard was KSD.
St Louis.
"R. o. asks: Can some one in
IcFIn me as 10 "ndt station was
broadcasting at am. eastern stand
ard time, January 80? heard a
banjo solo and also heard the an
nouncer say something about Atlanta,
Ga, and some city i'll Mississippi, but
could not distinguish the call letters"
''P. X" writes: Tuesday night be-
tween 1880 and Il o'clock | was on
some station broadcaSting on wave
length of about $50 meters, listening
to music which was not very clear
after which there was a reading by
a man of "Gungha DIM" which came
in much better. At the end of this
reading and before the station was
announced a loud whistle came in
that cut this station out for me.
Would some one of your fans kind
ly advise me through your column
what this station was?
Il enjoy your column very much
every evening, and the only improve
ment you could make on it would be
to enlarge it,"
"E. NJ. B." asks: What station was
broadcasting Sunday between 1880
and 12 pm, something about COM
poser who had written about 140
hymns? This is practically all I
could hear except a few remarks as
to the benefit his hymns had been
to Christianity, etc. Must have been
referring to some special number, as