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Evening star., 1925-09-06
No. si.-Tips From a Local.

. A new local station can be a help
or a hindrance. just as you prefer
Smith learned this in a rather CON
vincing way the other night.
This new station is a fine pest -
he complained, fiddling with the dials
impatiently. II can't seem to hold a.
thing tonight and l get mighty little.
With this business on the air I'll not
be able to have, an evenings com
fort.,t
why don't you tune in on the
local station and find out what's
wrong with the others?" / suggested
Smith was puzzled, but he followed
the suggestion, nevertheless. Within
few minutes he had discovered that
the local station was coming in
rather poorly.
Something wrong with the set :"
he concluded Everything comes in
poorly"
Something's wrong with the at
mosphere," | suggested Il tuned in
just before I came over. My set
works just the same way
Smith had learned this with the aid
of the local station, but the following
evening he was to pick up a few
more tips. He determined upon a
definite course OF procedure, tuned in
for the local station and sat back and
observed
In the midst Of q concert the ether
was silent. Not a sound came from
the speaker and Smith rushed to the
set TO see what was wrong.
Don't bother your head about
that said. TITS a new station
The, generators are new, too. They've
probably had to stop them a moment
to cool off,
Hardly We're the words out when
the concert came through again lust
as splendidly as before the break.
That s new one on me-" Smith
admitted. why only the other night
l had a new station about 900 miles
away. The same thing must have
happened. All at once IL faded out
but, of course, j didn't wait for it to
come back. 7 just assumed that ii
was either trouble in my set or some
freak of nature
Close attention to the local station
was beginning To produce results. One
of the things Smith noticed in par
ticular was the time consumed in
announcements and the number of
minutes that We're blank. These rep
resented delays in announcing, DELAYS
in starting numbers and delays due to
smoothing out the difficulties Of sta
tions operating through what is
known as remote control, where the
current Is boosted by motor truck
equipment in order TO be sent over
the wires from a hotel, concert hall
or church to the broadcasting sta
ton.
Evening star., 1925-09-06
PAN N-AMERICAN AFFAIRS
IN BROADCAST PROGRAM
First of Series Will Be Presented
by RRC October speakers
Of Prominence Listed.


The first of series of. pa.n-Ameri-
can programs to be broadcast by Sta
ton WRC at Washington this Fall
and Winter will be presented October
j, under, the auspices of the Pan
American Union.
The speakers for the first OF these
performances will be Gen. James G..
Harbord, president of the Radio Cor
poration of America, and DIR. Leo S.
Rowe. director general of the Pan
American Union. An elaborate musical
program has been arranged to inau-
gurate the new series OF Latin Ameri-
can nights, which will be featured by
music by the United States Army
Band, directed by Capt. William j.
Stannard; a double saxophone seXtet
of the Army Band, and a group Of
Washington's most prominent vocal
and instrumental soloists. The SOLO
lists include Grace Washburn, colo
ratura soprano: Helen Corbin HeinI,
pianist; Fred East, baritone, and Henri
Sokoloff and Jose de Huarte, violin
lists. All of the music to be played in
connection with the program will be
by Latin American composers pro-
vided for this event by Franklin
Adams. counselor Of the Pan-Ameri-
can Union. The entertainment will
be broadcast jointly with WRC by
Station WIZ, New York, direct from
the courtyard of the Pan-American
Building.
Evening star., 1925-09-06

Smith could readily appreciate that
fan 500 miles away might be tuning
for the particular station only to hit
it during the blank periods and be
come discouraged. He could see what
a mistake he had made by continually.
fishing around for distant stations in
stead of giving each one a fair trial.
Another thing was the inexeprience
of the artists and the inability. OF
the studio director and announcer to
get them to- register for best results.
One woman vocalist apparently was
too near the microphone when reach
ing the high notes. A lecturer. from
the: reception, must have been talking
down toward his notes instead of out
to his audience. This made it appear.
as though the radio waves were fad
ing or were subjected, to strange in
reference, but Smith was close
enough to the situation to recognize
the variation as Of human origin.
He thought more of his set, and also
made up his mind to have more con-
sideration for those who are engaged
in entertaining and instructing him.
Local Program Engrosses.
So many of these points came to
light that before Smith realized it
the local station had run through
two straight hours of entertainment.
II guess. we've had enough of this"
he suddenly announced. Besides, the
station seems to be getting poorer" :"
Why not tune it over again." !
suggested. Don't you know that a,
set has tendency to detune itself
while it's operating. With some sets
that operate only on the most critical
adjustment you must keep at the
dials all the time"
Smith picked up the evening paper,
observed that at 10 O'Clock the local
station was scheduled for jazz, al
though it was still sending through
an operate aria.
''There're off their schedule" he
informedsnne.
Nothing unusual in that" 1 re
piled. How are they going to cut off
fine bit of singing like this just
because they're running a little be-
hind timer"
Smith was suddenly eiated why"
he exclaimed, II never thought of
that. Many a time I've tuned in for
WEAR and thought 1 was getting
something else just because the pro-
gram l heard at the moment was not
what 1t was scheduled"
MANY things may happen to
station TO cause il to get off its
schedule"
The jazz had started and the fam.
lily was begging Smith to help arrange
the room for a dance.
Next week, No. S2-"Function of
Wave Traps"
tCopyright. 1925 by The Ullman Feature
e
Evening star., 1925-09-06
THE INDUCTANCE COH-THE
SOUL OF THE RADIO CIRCUIT.
PART iii,

We have so far taken up three
methods by which the tuning char
acteristics of coil can be varied
One makes use of a slider contact
arrangement, another makes use of
a tap system using tap or inductant
arrangement, another makes use of a
tap system using tap or inductance
switches. while the third makes use
of a variable condenser connected
either in series or in parallel with
the coil.
Another method of changing the
inductance in circuit makes use of
two coils connected in series and
mounted so that one coil can rotate
inside of the other. When the turns
Of wire in one are in the same di-
rection as the turns of wire in the
other coil the inductance effect is
additive, or, in other words, one coil
aids the other, and the total in
ductance is greater than the in
ductance of either coil. When one
of the coils is rotated so that the
direction of the winding Of one coil
is no longer the same as that of the
other coil a counter effect is produced
which gradually increases and can
reach a point where it neutralizes the
inductance of the first coil and reduces
the inductance of the coil arrange
ment to a minimum.
Variometer Explained.
The instrument which accomplishes
this effect is called a "variometer."
By it's use the inductance of such
an instrument and consequently of
the circuit in which It is connected
can be varied continuously from the
minimum to the maximum value, or
vice versa. The variometer does for
inductance what the condenser does
Evening star., 1925-09-06
BY JOSEPH CALCATERRA,
Noted Authority on Radio.
All Rights Reserved. Reproduction Prohibited

for capacity. 1t provides a finely
graduated means of varying the in.
ductance characteristic of a circuit.
The next method of varying the
inductance characteristic of a circuit
or coil makes use of the change in
coupling between two coils connected
in two different circuits.
As the coupling between two coils
is increased or made closer the sys-
tenn of two coils approaches the con-
dition of two conductively coupled
circuits using a single coil between
them. EXperimenters who have used
inductively coupled tuners or trans
formers have found that as they
varied the coupling between two in
ductively coupled coils it became
necessary for them to also vary the
capacity of the variable condenser
which tuned either or both coils. The
reason for this was due to the fact
that the variation of coupling changed
the inductance characteristics of the
circuits and it was necessary to
make up for 1t by changing the ca
pacity values of the circuits in order
to make up for the change in Undue
tance.
Variable Condenser Used.
1t is also possible to affect the con.
stants of one circuit by connecting
a variable condenser across a coil
and placing the coil in inductive re-
lationship with the coil which is con-
nected in the radio circuit which ii
is desired to affect
A careful study of practically all
receiving circuits will reveal some
form or other of the methods men
toned in this series has been used
to obtain the combinations which
give such remarkable results in ef-
ficiency.
These circuits will be anaIyZed in
a forthcoming series of articles on
tuners and radio frequency trans
formers and coupling devices.
Evening star., 1925-09-06
AGITATORS ARRESTED.
seventy-Eight Alleged Plotters
Against Latvia Held by Police.

RIGA, Latvia, September P).-
Seventy eight agitators who, accord
ing to the Latvian political police,
have been operating under the direc-
ton of Moscow with the aim Of over
throwing the Latvian government
have been arrested in Riga and the
provinces.
The Latvian police said that seven
leaders among the agitators had false
passports. The police announce that
instruction from the Third Interna-
tionale were found on some, of the
prisoners, including plans for dis
banding the Latvian army, the liqui-
dation of private property and the
arming of revolutionary workmen
during the forthcoming parliamentary
elections.
Evening star., 1925-09-06

lieve, If they would only buck 1t.
His own set, which employs a detector
and two stages of audio, has only
been idle seven nights since last Oc.
tober, he reports. On the whole, he
believes this has actually been a
radio Summer, his reception has been
so good. x ~
, One of the important points to in
sure good reception, Jones says, is a
good ground. He now uses four
grounds. and with the installation of
each additional pipe in the earth he
improved his reception. Two-thirds
of the reported interference he be-.
lieves is due to poor operation by
set owners.
Evening star., 1925-09-06
radio Tour" Is Ending.

The radio tourists, who are taking
a trip around the world with stations
WRC and WIZ Of the Radio Corpo-
ration OF America, are nearing the
last lap Of their globe-encircling trip.
On Tuesday evening. September %,
the musical travelogue arranged by
Thomas Cook & Sons will take the
listeners on brief visits to Yokohama,
Toxic and Nikko
Evening star., 1925-09-06
0rganists to Appear.

Among the organists who will ap-
pear on WRC's noon programs during
the week, beginning September 81,
are Gertrude Smallwood, Charlotte
Klein, Nation Boyce, George F. Ross
and Adolf Torovsky. These recitals
are daily features of the radio enter
tainment provided by WRC, and are
played on the organ at the First Con-
gregational Church.
Evening star., 1925-09-06
U. S. Experts to Explore Peten.

SAN SALVADOR, September CApD.
-Advices from Guatemala say that
contract has been signed by the Qua
temalan government and the Carnegie
Institute for archaeological explora-
ton in Peten, a department In north.
ern Guatemala. This territory once
was the seat of ItZa Indian.
Evening star., 1925-09-06
Crew Of Lost Ship Saved.

HOBART, TASMANIA, September 5
RD.-The entire crew of the Karamu
of the Union Steamship Co. of New
Zealand, which foundered yesterday,
was saved, it was learned today A
wireless message from another vessel
yesterday said II of the men were
missing.
Evening star., 1925-09-06
Variometer Explained.
SPECIAL RADIO PROGRAM
is SCHEDULED BY WGBS
Worlds Fair Celebrities to Have
Broadcast Prominence, Week
Beginning September ID.

Every afternoon during the week
commencing Monday, September IA,
except Saturday, WGBS will broadcast
special half hour programs from the
second annual Radio World Fair to be
staged in the Kingsbridge Armory.
These are to commence at 2:30 daily and
many of the regular WGBS broad
casters as well as many other celeb
rites are to be heard from. A few
of those to participate are Vaughn de
Leath, THE Original Radio Girl;
Jack Cohen, famous jazz pianist; Alice
Brady, stage star; the Blossom Heath
Serenaders, Strand Roof Orchestra
and others.
Evening star., 1925-09-06
Union Miners Arrested.

HENRIETTA, Okla, September 5
LR.-Seven union miners were ar
rested here yesterday by county off,
GERS and taken by automobile to Ok
mulgee County seat. No untoward
event has occurred here recently, and
the basis of the arrests was not
known.
Evening star., 1925-09-06
WRC-Radio Corporation Of America.
(46S.5 Meters)
? Program Tomorrow.
BASE BALL GOES ON AIR.
WRC to Broadcast Games Played
by. Washington on Trip. +,

The final series of base ball games
to be played by the Washington
world champions away from home
will be broadcast, play by play, by
WRC, September 80 and October /,
2 and 8. These games will be played
with the Boston Red Sox at Fenway
Park, Boston. Since the opening of
the base ball season in the Spring,
WRC has broadcast similar accounts
of all of the games of the Washington
team on it's road trips.
Evening star., 1925-09-06
John Smith and His Radio
BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL

haze benefited therer he
evening Smith faculty fnding things
oa radio
Evening star., 1925-09-06
BASE BALL, PLAY BY PLAY.
WRC to Broadcast Washington.
Philadelphia Game Monday.

WRC will resume the play-by-play
accounts of the base ball games
played by the world champions when
they take their final stand against
Philadelphia in the Quaker City on
Monday. Both games of the Labor
day double-header will be given to
Washington listeners-in in detail.
Special arrangements have been made
to include in the story of the game
all of the interesting events in the
field and in the grandstand. The
morning game will begin at 910
o'clock and the afternoon contest is
expected to get under way at 1855
o'clock.
All horizontal aerials have q didec.
tive tendency and the lead-in should
be brought in from the direction re-
ceiving most.
Evening star., 1925-09-06
WCAP-Chesapeake G. Potomac TeIe
phone Co. 1855 Meters).

WCAP-Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co. 1855 Meters).
II a.m.-Service at Reformation
Lutheran Church OF Washington. Rev.
John Weidley, pastor, will preach the
sermon.
p.m.-Service held at the Peace
Cross. Washington Cathedral. Canon
Lubbock of Washington Cathedral win
preach the sermon.
$40 to SIS p.m.-Musical program
by Maj. Edward Bowes and the
Capitol Gang" direct from the Capt.
tol Theater, New York City. The
first part of the program will be taken
direct from the stage of the theater
and will consist of music by the fea-
tured artists and the Capitol Grand
Orchestra. The second part of the
program will consist of a special pres
entation by Maj. Bowes of vocal and
instrumental artists direct from the
studio in the theater. To WEAF,
WEEI. WAR, WCTS, WWJ and
WCAE.
Sis to 9:15 p.m.-Studio program.
No Early Program Tomorrow.
WRC-Radio Corporation Of America.
(468.5 Meters)
Silent.
Early Program Tomorrow.
$40 a.m.-Playby-play account of
the philadelphia base ball
game.
1:55 p.m.-second game.
Evening star., 1925-09-06

Light, Whitefish Point Light, Detour
Light, Detroit River Light and Buf-
falo Light. In the Gulf stations at
Galveston and South Pass Jetty, at
the mouth of the Mississippi. are be-
ing equipped with radio beacons. On
the Pacific radio is being placed in
lightships and houses at Los Angeles
Light. Point Arguello Light, Point
Sur Light, Cape Blanco Light and
Gray's Harbor Light. Cape Spencer
Light, Alaska, is also to have a radio
fog signal.
Eighteen more radio fog signal sta
tlons are proposed; four on the lakes,
eight on the Atlantic, three on the
Pacific Coast, and also three in
Alaska. With the 13 in operation
and the Is new stations under con-
struction, there will be a radio bea-
con service along the coasts Of the
country at AZ stations, which will
practically guarantee safe navigation
for the radio-equipped mariner.
Compared to the protection guaran.
teed to the owners OF vessels, the ini-
tial cost of equipping ship for re-
ceiving this service, approximating
81 500, is very small indeed. 1t is said
that the value of a great ocean liner,
together with it's cargo, is around
$500, 900, which shows the ratio of
equipment cost to vessel value About
80 per cent of the millions of prop
erty lost at sea annually is due to
accidents in foggy weather. The fog
signal system now protecting the
coast of this country. with proper CO.
operation on the part of owners and
masters of vessels, should eliminate
practically all these losses.
To protect the smaller craft, IN
cluding fishing vessels and pleasure
yachts, new and less expensive
radio compass has been developed to
cost but little more than a good
radio broadcast receiver
Evening star., 1925-09-06
BumsteadsW WormSVruD

ITO children an angel of mercy" When d-
rections are followed 1T NEVER FAILS.
Despite scarcity and enormous cost OF SAN
TOEIN. 1t contains full dose. Stood sixty
years test. Sold everywhere. or by mail. SOC
a bottle.
Est. C. A. voorhees,. NJ. D.. Phjladelphia
Evening star., 1925-09-06
Urges Fans to Know Sets.

The radio fans inability to operate
his own set properly lies back of a
large percentage of the interference
complaints filed with the Government
and reported in the press, in the
opinion of Charles j. Jones of Nash.
vilie, Tenn. This fan proposes a new
slogan, Know Your Set.'' which he
suggests to the Department of Com.
merce should be adopted by the radio
world at large.
Starting at home, as he should, Mr..
Jones says he can read his set inst
as he does his watch, and for this
reason he has little difficulty in re.
ception. Jones has received stations
from PIT to 545 meters and can. go
below and above. He believes that
most people make a mistake in leay.
ing their sets idle during the sum
mer on account of static, which he
insists is not half as bad as many be.
Evening star., 1925-09-06
RADIOS BEST OFFERINGS

TONIGHT.
Musical program by Maj.
Edward Bowes and the "Capi-
tol Gang" direct from Capitol
Theater, New York City.
WCAP, WEAF, WEEI, WAR
WCTS, WWJ and WCAE,
6:20 to BIS o'clock.
Program from Atlantic City
Steel Pier, WIP, WMAF and
,sWGBS, 7 o'clock. ~
Musical program from Brook
lyn Mark Strand Theater,
WNYC, 8 o'clock.
Bankers Life Trio. WHO,
$50 to 9:30 o'clock.
Marion Mckay and his orr
chestra, WKRC, II o'clock.
Evening star., 1925-09-06
radio Girls" Making Good.

First we had the telegraph men,
then the telephone girl, but now it's
the radio girl. Perhaps it is the re-
suit of a sort of electrical evolution.
Surprising their fathers, who click
ed out dots and dashes over the tele-
graph wire, and their mothers, who
handled telephone switchboards, girls
today are broadcasting, managing
broadcast stations, teaching com
munication through the air and even
manufacturing radio apparatus.
welding electricians tools as
adroitly as they might use knitting
needles, hundreds of girls still in
their teens are working in the great
Atwater Kent factory at PHILADELPHIA,
Every radio set made there is put
together by girls, its coils wound and
its dials painted by feminine fingers.
These girl Edisons" perform some
tasks that literally are hair-raising.
Those who operate polishing lathes,
Tor instance, have their bobbed tresses
pulled as erect as porcupine ouilIs
by the electric energy or static which
the power belts create. Since thew
are not near enough the belts to be
In danger many seem to relish the
experience of having their hair stand
on end, claiming 1t is equal to an
electrical treatment.
These modern radio girls are max
ing good in every line Of the radio
game" they have entered. their s,,.
perViSOrS report,
Evening star., 1925-09-06
Local Radio Entertainment
Sunday, September s, 1925

Radio Station, Radio, Va.
(434.5 Metersl
1905 am. and 1895 p.m.-Weather
reports.
Evening star., 1925-09-06

An anti-slicing golf club has been
perfected by a Boston man.
Evening star., 1925-09-06

1906 G 81
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-08-19

PORT ANGELES, Aug. I9.-clnudc
Alexander conlou, better known as
Alexander. tho Man who Knows,
IL host NJ Ocean Beach 10 JesTc
f.asky. motion picture maRnatc.
Alexander has retired LasIzy Is
studying ocean and cloud effects. for
movie use. In the Mora district.
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YOUNG ON STAND
Dentist to Claim Wife Took
Her Own Life

Los ANGELES. Cal, Aug. 10.
Or. Thomas w. Young. accused
dental gas slayer. plans to take
the witness stand in his own dc,
tense and tell a jury that his wife.
Mrs. Gmcc Grogan Young, com,
mitted suicide.
The dentist and his attorneys an.
bounced their first line Of defense
would include an attempt to show
shc committed suicide IN a jealous
rage. Or. Young IS accused or ad.
ministerinE poison gas TO his wife
md sealing her body In cement
rtstern. He Intends 10 admit bury,
ing the body. it was said. but will
contend she took her own life by
inhhaling exhaust fumes from her
automobile.
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The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1925-06-17

HE best thing about the national
: parks of the United States is that
they are yOurs-set apart forever by
congress as natural history muse
| ums, scientific and educational exhib-
! its and public recreation places for
the American people. The Outstand-
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Of the future. The ever-increasing
National Park Army" of enthusi-
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about 125 affiliated organizations