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The Washington times., 1924-01-18
RADIO CONTEST
ST|LL.STANDS
At TIE
Many Others Coming In Do
Not Change Positions of
Times Prize Leaders

The radio aerial contest being con
Quoted by The Times Radio Editor
still stands at tie.
None, Of the replies received late
yesterday bested the counts reported
by two fans in different sections of
the city.
There remain, however. ten days
In which entrants win have the op-
portunity to count the aerials In
their block and submit the report in
The Times contest.
A prize Of $40 worth OF radio parts
or equipment will DO awarded to the
fan who reports the greatest count
in any one city block. All replies
must be submitted on or before mid
night January 26. The winner will
be announced January 20.
In entering the contest, fans should
state the four bounding streets Of
the territory on which they report.
In the event Of a tie at the conclu-
sion Of the contest that reply will be
termed the winner which, in the
opinion of the Radio Editor, has
made the best worded and explana-
tory report.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
RADIO To CARRY
PRIZE FIGHT
RESULT
WY Will Broadcast Greb-
Wilson Contest Blow by
Blow Tonight.

Radio will make another entry
into the prize ring in behalf Of the
fight fan tonight.
The battle between Johnny Will
son and AIRY Greb for the world
niddleweight championship win be
told, blow by blow. by broadcast
direct from the ring by the WY
station, New York.
The fight Is expected to DO some
thing Of q ''wow" by sport writer's
who are In the know and q re-
gained title for Wilson may be
the final story.
Major J. Andrew Wilson, whose
fight descriptions are well known
to Washington radio fans, viii be
at the ringside telling the broadcast
story.
Special arrangements have been
completed by the Radio Corporation
Of America to insure perfect facilities
for broadcasting the battle.
A special wire has been run into
Madison Square Garden and from
there the story of Major White will
be relayed to the WY studio and
thence to the air.
Several stations have taken up the
fight broadcast in the past, the most
notable instance having been the
radio account Of the Dempsey -Firpo
affair by WEAF and WCAP.
The main bout tonight will be
started at 9 o'clock, Eastern standard
time. Accounts of the preliminary
fights will not be carried on the air.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
Local Broadcast
NAA-Naval Radio Station.
Arlington.

Arlington.
$3.50 meters, G. w. arc.l
$40 p. m.-Fruit and vegetable
markets.
3:45 p. m-Closing stock.
p. INLAY and feed market
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
$50 p. m.-Daily market, grain.
10 p. m.-Weather forecast.
ABS meters, radiophOne.-
1925 D. m.-Livestock markets.
las p. m.-Fruit and vegetable
markets.
2:25 D. m.-Livestock.
2:45 D. m,-Weather report.
4:05 p. INLAY and feed.
4:25 p. m.-Dairy products.
(2,65O meters, sparI1.)
IL m. and 10 p. m.-Time signals.
1901 D. m.-Weather report. ship
orders, naval press news.
WCAP - Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Company.
(469 meters.
Silent night. a.
WRC-RadiO Corporation of
America.
(46O meters.)
sis d. m.-Instructions in inter
national code practice.
D. m.-Children's hour, by Ed
ward McCandlish, author and IL
illustrator. Stories of the Bunny
Tots, Tommy Turtle and the Pink
Pig.
6I5 D. m.-"Make a Budget" by
John Poole, president of the Fed
eral American Bank.
$50 p. m.-"The Question Box,
by arrangement with Pathflnoer
Publishing Company.
1870 D. m.-"He Said Tomorrow,
by Page NICK. EtchisOn, secretary
of the Mems Organized Bible Class
Association.
7:45 D. m.-Violoncello recital by
Frank Westbrook; Amelia Olmsted
at the piano.
8 D. m.-"The Public's Pulse"
by Senator Royal M. Copeland, OF
New York.
S:15 D. m.-Song recital, by Ray.
mond G. Moore, barytone; George
H. Wilson at the piano. Program:
my Lovely Celia" Higginsl. Noon
and Night" Hawley), "Carsoes"
Dobson).
$50 p. m.-"The State Of Affairs
at Washington" by Frederic VIII
liam Vile.
8:45 p. m.-Song recital by Ray
mond G. Moore, barrytone; George
H. Wilson at the piano; program:
Sylvia" (Speaks), Il Dunno"
CWells), 1.-THE Wage Of the Fighting
Man" (Stickles).
MARINE CORPS NIGHT.
9 p. ma talk on the marine
corps, by Brig. Gen. Logan Feland.
9:15 p. m.-Concert by the United
States Marine Band, under the
direction of Taylor Branson, second
leader. Program: March, Gan.
Haywood, U. S. M. c." (Sautei-
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
CANADIANS DANCE TO
d WCAP BROADCASTING

Nearness breeds contempt. We,
here in Washington, hardly realize
that we have two of the most
popular and powerful broadcasting
stations in the country. Results
prove, however, that is the case.
Our stations have distance records
not to be snuffed at by the most
powerful. WCAP has been re-
ported from England, the Pacific
ocean and Saskatchewan, Canada,
three exceedingly remote points on
the map, and all have spoken Of
the good programs received.
The majority Of letters received
lfavorably commenting on the pro.
grams have been from outside the
city and many of them come regu-
1arly from distant States and Can
ada. One received recently from
an organization in Toronto, Canada,
reported that dances were being
given by that organization, using
Meyer Davis lie Paradis music
rather than any closer brand. That
is a real tribute.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
WGY DOES BEST
IN DISTANCE
TESTS
General Electric Station Heard
Most Often in England;
WIZ Does Well.

Complete returns from the trans
atlantic tests conducted during the
week of November 81 show that sta
ton WGY, the General Electric Com
pany at Schenectady, n. Y, was
heard in England more often than
any other broadcasting station in
this country, according to data now
in the hands of the Radio Corpora
ton Of America.
These statistics show. that station
WIZ, the Radio Corporations New
York station, was heard more than
any other station operating on the
same power. Station WGY operated
on 1000 watts, and station WHAZ,
which was second on the list, also
used 900 watts, while WIZ, operat-
ing on 500 watts, was one-third
ahead of all other stations operating
on the same power and many using
more.
Because of the congestion of the
metropolitan area, WIZ has always
operated on 300 watts, and during
the week of the transatlantic tests
was one of the few stations which
did not increase it's power in an at
tempt to be heard in the United
Kingdom, since an increase of power
would drown out the programs broad
cast by the several other stations in
the New York city district, their re-
port states.
State Senator Paul Dupuy, speak
ing on January Z, jointly from sta
ton WY, the twin station of WIZ
and WGY, was heard in cities in
France, and his speech was even re-
ceived perfectly in Milan, Italy.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18

Police Are To Garry
Radio Sets AS
Thief Traps

TARRYTOWN, N. Y, Jan.
18.-Westchester policeman may
carry compact radio receiving
sets in the near future, accord
ing to plans under considers
ton today. They will be re-
quired to listen in every SO
often to WRW, the radio
broadcasting station here, from
which descriptions Of men want
ed by the police, instructions
and information Of a general
police nature will be broadcast
ed on q special wave length.
Every motorcycle policeman
is to have a set on his machine
and every patrolman is to have
one Of the portable sets now
being perfected. The latter are
said to be compact and Of
slight weight.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
SALvAT|ON|STS
FORM RADIO
CLUBS
Army Is Utilizing New Plan for
Interesting Boys in Or
ganization Work.

Radio is being utilized as q
means of diverting the youthful
imagination toward healthful and
beneficial recreation in the news
boys clubs being established in
in various parts of the country by
the Salvation Army.
Four of these clubs have recently
been established in the East, and
each of them either has been or will
be adequately equipped with COM
plete radio sets. Plans are under
way to establish evening courses in
the principles and practical handling
of radio.
The new clubs have been estab-
lished in New York City, Phila-
delphia, Newark, New Jedsey, and
in Rome, New York. The club at
Rome was the first of its kind, and
it has already enlisted the active
and enthusiastic support Of the
Rotary Club of that city.
New Movement.
These clubs form the vanguard in
a new movement on the part Of the
Salvation Army to help the poor
and under-privilege boys of the
country. They are nen-denomina-
ttonal In their appeal and are de-
signed to enable such boys to enjoy
themselves in a constructive way
without using the streets and alleys
as Fairgrounds.
The boys clubs Of the Salvation
Army are not the only phase of
Salvation Army work In which radio
is utilized. In all important cities
the organization is constantly broad
casting sermons, addresses and mus
ical programmes. The famous Ter
ritorial Staff Band Of the Salvation
Army of New York, composed of
officers connected with the New
York headquarters, has become
familiar figure to radio fans
throughout the metropolitan district.
Lands Benefits.
Brigadier William F.. Palmer,
head of the Young Peoples Depart
ment for the Eastern Territory,
whose office is in the headquarters
building of the Salvation Army in
New York City. believes wholeheart-
eddy in the use of radio as one
means ofsinteresting boys in whole
some recreation.
I'm our boys clubs" said Brig
adler Palmer, yesterday. I'VE are
trying to do what we consider the
intelligent thing in the handling Of
boys who have been deprived of the
right kind of recreation. We are
| trying to provide an outlet for their
natural enthusiasm, their desire for
constant activity, their innate love
of fun and their natural interest in
things mechanical"
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
BOSTON Is TO HAVE
BIG AMATEUR STATION

BOSTON, Jan. 17.-One of the
most powerful amateur radio sta.
tons in the world is to be erected
in Boston in the near future by
the Commonwealth Radio Associa
ton, aided by lobe c. Deuchmann,
American representative Of the Ger.
man Telephone and Cable Company
The new transmitting station will
% OF 1000 watts power. It is to
The Washington times., 1924-01-18

be located in the Refractory build.
ing at Franklin Park. The opera.
tors and assistant operators who
will run the new station already
have been selected. When the new
station is completed 1t is planned
to make official tests between the
new station and European stations
Most Of the equipment Of the
new station will be of German
manufacture and foreign to Ameri-
can operators. The Get will be
operated only between 1 and 4 q. m.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
RECEIVING SET WIRES
MUST NOT BE TOO FINE

The kind of wire used for wiring
the receiving set makes but little
difference provided it Is not too
fine. In actual experiments It was
found that the difference between
bus bar, annunciator wire and No.
% double cotton covered wire, If
there was any at all, was so small
that the ear could not detect 1t.
Many fans seem to be under the
impression that spaghetti tubing
makes the signals louder. It does
not, but it adds to the appearance
of the set and through preventing
short circuits 1t may add consider.
ably to the life Of your tubes. Bare
bus bar usually makes the best job,
simply because 1t Is bare and the
fan knows that he has to be careful
or he will have short circuit.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
WEEKS TIME NEEDED
TO BUILD ONE-TUBE SET

The minimum time required to
build a one.tube set should be one
week: for three-tube set. two weeks
or more. A good job cannot be done
in less time, especially by an mex
perienced fan. More than half the
pleasure is in the building anyway,
so. why hurry it up? 1t may take
you from three nights TO three
months to tune the set, depending on
which one you have.
For these reasons. 1t is a good
thing to take Your time and make
sure before you register kick"
against some circuit.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
Mexico Likes Radio,

\, According to the director general
sof telegraphs, an increasing number
of requests have been received lately
for permits for the establishment of
radio broadcasting and receiving
stations says a report from II. Bent
~ Mckenzie, assistant trade COM
missioner. Mexico City. Broadcast
ing stations are now subject to q
tax of 100 pesos a year, and receiv-
ing stations to tax of pesos per
year. At the present time there are
at least three broadcasting stations
operating in the city.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
Saturday Night.

A perusal of the Saturday night
fact nine cut Of ten programs are
filled with dance music. After all.
that Is about as it should be.
Saturday night generally is dance
night, and the radio comes to help
out. The use of the loud speaker
in ball rooms is growing and will
grow still more.
Just tune in on your favorite or.
chestra and let DIX records go hang
for a night.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18

MANN: overture, Martha" Clio
tow; solo for trombone, Forgot
ten" (Cowles), Musician Robert E.
Clark: excerpts from THE Fortune
Teller" HerberD, solo for violin,
"Nocturne" Opus 9, No. 2, Chopin,
Musician William F. H. Santel-
mann; waltz suite, Golden Show
ers" CWaldteufeD; reverie, "Nyrn-
phalin" (Sousa); suote de concert,
"L'Arlesienne'' (No. 2 BiZet :;
march, Marine Corps INSTITUTES"
(Branson) marines hymn, Halls
Of Montezuma;" 1.-THE Star-Spangled
Banner"
The Washington times., 1924-01-18

DIR. Frank Crane. one of Americas
foremost writer's. Is daily con-
tTibutor to the editorial page Of The
Washington Times. There q lnspl.
ration In his articles.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
|ROnping Around
Radio Dial
BY Listner-In-
Via Radio To Fame.

In every American city are few
ambitious persons stepping high,
wide and handsome along the radio
road to fame
1t is q broad and beautiful high
way-this newly-opened road and so
far no inspectors have been sta
toned at its entrance to inquire into
the credentials Of those who seek
admittance.
Bally-hoos and bankers stand at
the main approach with calls to
passerS-by.
Not so long ago they stood along
another road enticing care-laden Pc
destrians to the moving picture
avenue that leads to stardom."
But just as the latter became
cluttered up with hopeful but talent
less crowds of misguided, and
finally was practically closed, so
will this new road to fame eventu.
ally be cleared OF congestion.
Entrants will be required to show
a blue card of ability or some other
right to admission.
Well out in front Of those who
are already on the radio road walks
Wendell Hall, slightly built, red
headed young man, picking a luke"
and humming a darby song.
Behind him comes a gang Of
musical artists, singing and play
ing their tunes under the lash of
"Roxy's' quips.
There are others who have found
the secret of radio personality and
are converting it into an accelerator.
They deserve the praise that is ac-
corded them.
But unfortunately there are many
in the pack behind them who should
have remained in their practice
rooms a little longer or inquired
a little further from the. crowds on
the main road to success just what
it is the public likes and what 1t
wants to hear.
Time, however, will teach them
or they will fall stricken along the
side Of this radio road to, fame.
For Wendell Hall and others in
this van of radio artists will be
fame and honor without stint.
Their names will be remembered
where those of the men who
grappled with science to make their
stardom possible will quickly be
forgotten. -.
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fair
banks bow to the plaudits Of the
world while the inventors of the
cinemetograph keep working at their
lenses. That is the world.
So while this band of radio ad-
venturers continues on it's quest,
let's give those who deserve it our
words Of encouragement.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
Radio Weather for
Tonight

Reception from distant
stations tonight will be
good in general, with
best results in the d.
rections of north and
south.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18
Don't Wire; Ante Up"

These thousands of dollars that
are spent in telegraph tolls by
listeners-in who want to let some
body know they heard something
could be put to a better use," writes
Thrift"
"The money that the telegram
costs could be mailed direct to a
studio for it's expenses. That would
be better than hurrying around to
the Western Union station to tell
Boston that it was heard in Gopher
Praire.
"Or if the listener-in must say
something and say it by wire let
him say a good word about per
former that he likes"
"Thrift's" letter fits in rather nice
ly with our own thoughts today,
and without further consideration we
pass it along to our readers marked
o. K.
The distance kilograms, of course
have assisted stations in the past
in ascertaining the ability Of their
broadcasting plants.
But now that the managers know
they can be heard around the world,
the DIX telegram becomes rather
useless.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18

Not satisfied with headlining the
Marine Band and General Feland
to broadcast Marine night pro-
gram tonight, WRC is offering also
a talk by Senator Royal s. Cope.
land of New York.
Senator Copeland is a proved radio
dispenser of helpful words, having
talked through Mike often at New
York studios. Perhaps his health
talks will become a weekly affair
at the Radio Corporation Studio.
We hope SO.
The Washington times., 1924-01-18

& Are you reading Helen ROwland's
witticisms on the magazine page:
Don't miss them today and every day.
Evening star., 1924-08-21
BRITISH COMPANY GETS
RUSSIAN MINE RIGHTS
Concession Granted Moscow Firm
With Big English
Connection.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, August 21.--A mining
concession for zinc, silver, lead and
copper at Tyutikha Bay, in the Pria-
mur district, has been granted by the
council of commissars to the Vladi-
vostok firm of Briner & Co., in which
the Becos Engineering Corporation of
England has an interest.
The concessionaires paid the gov
ernment 100000 for ore lying on the
surface of the earth, and has under
taken to spend $150,000 in five years
in exploration work and building
smelling and other plants. The con-
cession is to run for a period of IS
years, and the government has re-
served to itself the sole right to pur-
chase the entire output of the mines
for market.
In the days before the war the mines
in this vicinity were successfully
worked. In 1911 the output was
$4,000 tons of zinc, $500 tons of sill
yer and lead ore and 72 tons of cop
per ore. The mines were owned by
Germans.
Evening star., 1924-08-21
CAUSED 1QOF|RES
FOR EXCITEMENT
Young New Yorker Says He
| Has Craving to See En-
gines in Action.
BY the Associa ted Press.

by tne Associated PreSS.
NEW YORK, August 21.-A self
styled "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. HYDE" an
unassuming man of 26, blandly con-
had caused over 100 incendiary fires
on Manhattan Island in the last few
months-"just to see the fire engines
in action
1T was a lot of fun" he explained
with smile, Ito stand in front of a
burning house and know that the
people running from the place so
madly didn't know that the one who
had made all the excitement was
right there looking at them"
The prisoner, George c. Gustow,
former bank clerk, and son of a. pat
ent attorney, was held for examina-
ton by lunacy commission to be ap-
pointed by a court. 1t will be his
second experience with alienistS, for
he was incarcerated in Bloomingdale
and Middletown Asylums from 1915 to
1919 after his arrest for a series of
incendiary fires he started as a boy
of ii years.
Limp Gives Police Clue.
Baff1ed by the absence of any ap-
parent motive for the remarkable Sc
ries of incendiary fires, the authorities
had no clue to the pyromaniacs iden-
tity until GuStow was seen at an
Amsterdam avenue fire yesterday and
recognized as man with a limp
who had been seen to leave the fam
ing building just before the blaze was
discovered.
Taken to police station he admitted
authorship of two letters to Fire
Marshal Brophy. in which he had writ
ten that ''the man who is setting all
these fires is a person of dual per-
sonality and a very shrewd person
He will never be caught
1t was to this dual personality"
which he attributed to an attack of
spinal meningitis which he suffered in
1914, that GuStow credited his mania
for the sight of blazing buildings and
the subsequent excitement caused by
the arrival of fire apparatus and
fighters
Causes No Casualties.
He told the authorities earnestly that
he never caused a fire which resulted
In death. He explained that he
craftily started his blazes in untenanted
dwellings, and lofts, or in such places
in tenanted houses that all occupants
would be certain to escape the conse-
quences of his acts
CUSTOM said he had never chosen
scene of operations in advance. When
the pyromania overcame him, he ex-
planned, he merely stuffed some news
papers in his pockets and walked the
streets until he found a likely building
for his purposes. For a time at the
start Of his career, the sending of false
alarms of fire satisfied his craving for
excitement, he explained. But this
soon became too tame to bring about
the desired excitability, he said.
Evening star., 1924-08-21
VERMONT TO EXTRADITE
ALLEGED KLAN ORGANIZER
William Meyers, Held in Tennes-
see, Said to Have Led Raid
on Cathedral.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BURLINGTON, VT, August Ell
State officials last night were pre-
pairing to set in motion legal ma
chinery for bringing William Meyers,
alleged ku Klux klan organizer, to
this State, to stand trial on a charge
of burglary. Meyers, arrested in New
market, Tenn, on charge of grand
larceny, was said by the authorities
to be the kleagle organizer who led
two candidate klansmen in a raid on
St. Mary's Cathedral here.
The authorities assert that Gordon
Wells and William McCreedy, candi-
dates for KIan membership, were led
in the raid in an effort to discredit
another kleagle. According to ad-
missions by Wells and McCreedy, the
police say, the two were informed by
Meyer that ammunition and guns to
be used in religious war had been
stored in the cathedral basement
Both are held in $4,000 bail.
Evening star., 1924-08-21
FINDS GIRL WIFE OF MAN
HELD FOR SHOOTING HER
Sheriff Reports New Angle in Case
Involving Miss Nash and
r. j. Whiddon.

BY the Associated Press.
GAINESVILLE, Fla, August 21.-Miss
Viola Nash, who was shot and dan
gerously wounded last Friday while
in the company of Robert J. Whid-
don, was married to Whiddon a short
time before the shooting, according
to Sheriff p. G. Ramsey of Alachua
County. This new angle to the case
came to light Tuesday, Sheriff Ram
sey said, when he was informed by
Judge Paul Thompson of Gadsen
County that the couple were married
recently in Quincy, Fla.
Neither Miss Nash nor Whiddon
will make a statement. Miss Nash
is reported to have fair chance for
recovery. Whiddon is being held in
Jail and Is either insane or feigning
insanity. He refuses to eat or don
clothing, it is said, but smokes Gig
aretteS almost necessarily.
Evening star., 1924-08-21
Plane Propeller Kills Man.

NEWPORT, r. l., August 21-Sam
Goldwater of Taylor, Tex, an aviator
rigger with the United States Navy
scouting fleet stationed here, was
killed instantly here yesterday when
he was struck by the propeller of one
of the planes.
Evening star., 1924-08-21
La Guardia Backs La Toilette.

CHICAGO, August IF. H. La
Guardia, New York Representative,
Will speak here September IA, in an
effort to organize Italian-American
Voters for the La Toilette progressive
party, it was announced at La Fol-
Iette headquarters here
Evening star., 1924-08-21

Half the worlds electric light is
used in the United States.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-10-09

Mr.. Cecil W. Schroyer, of Friends
vile, called at The Republican office
on business Tuesday.