Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-09
MANY FANS SAT IN
ON FLIGHT WATCH
W0R Supplied Nation with
: ChamberIin Reports
During Trip.

There were hosts of radio listeners
who, like Haywood Broun, "sat up"
long hours with Station WOR, New
ark, as 1t conducted it's 40-hour broad
cast of the Chamberlin- Levine Berlin
flight. Here was perhaps the most
tant, bits of broadcasting in the annals
Of program radio.
The estimable New York critic says
he suffered many sleepless hours
awaiting the periodic news flashes
that went out from the Bamberger
station, the same station that a few
years ago established first radio con-
tact with the dirigible Shenandoah,
which had broken its mornings and
was tossing haplessly over the Jersey
shore until WOR's signal told its Off
GERS her bearings on the basis of re-
ports from natives who had sighted
the airship and had phoned in it's
whereabouts, enabling naval officers
to transmit radio instructions.
At the studio of WOR, in New York,
a weary but exultant group of young
men who manned the mike" during
the long hours of the Berlin hop,
pointed to an increasing mass of let
ters and kilograms thanking them for
the extraordinary news service they
furnished.
Not the least of those indebted to
Edmund King, Donald Clark, Seth
Gamblin and Charles Rath, the engi-
neering, entertaining and announcing
force, We're Mrs. Chamberlin, Mrs.
Levine and the Bellancas, who say
they sat by their radio sets almost
continually those long hours.
From the time of the take-off of the
giant Bellanca plane until its landing
in Germany they could hear Is or 30
minute news reports from WOR, often
full, sometimes slender, always accom-
panied by entertainment features in
between, once an improvisation by
Mr.. Roth, pianist, dedicated to the
flyers Many people heard the latest
details of the fight intersperse their
morning radio exercises at Gas O'Clock
Monday.
1t was the intensity of the interest
in the transatlantic flight Of the Bel
lanca plane, evidenced by incessant
phone calls to the studio for more
news, that prompted this remarkable
service, beginning early in the morn
ing last Saturday and continuing with
relatively few breaks until toward
noon Monday. A press association
furnished the news reports that were
read into the microphone by Alfred j.
McCosker's enterprising young aides
at regular intervals. More than half
the country, it is estimated, was able
to tune in on WOR, particularly dur
ing the wee hours. when all other sta
tons had signed off.
The W., B. & A. Quartet, regularly
heard from WRC on Friday nights,
will go on the air tonight from
to $50 o'clock. The sponsors of this
attraction gave up their Friday
night period this week SO that WRC
might broadcast the speech of Pres
ident Coolidge tomorrow night at
the semi-annual meeting of the Bu-
-eau of the Budget.
The Kilt Hour of Music, another
wRC attraction, will feature Helen
McGraw, pianist, and Thelma S.
Klein, soprano. other features in
clude an "Old- Time Fiddlers' Con-
test. the Cliquot Club Eskimos, the
LIE Paradis Band, the Raleigh Or
chestra and another of the series OF
"Half Hour With Great Composers
The concert of the Army Band on
the east plaza of the Capitol and
the weekly offering of Dorsch's
Doughboys, are the principal attrac-
tons scheduled tonight by WMAL.
Selected readings by Caleb O'Con-
nor and recitals by Thelma Beckett
and Elizabeth Jordan, sopranos,
complete the program.
Slightly improved reception condi-
tons last night gave DIX dialers an
opportunity to make a limited excur-
sion over the wave lengths. Static
had relented somewhat from its VIC
lent attack of the previous night, and
it was possible to bring in some OF
the out-of-town stations with sufficient
volume to overcome the noise. Fad.
ing. however, was more prevalent
than it has been at any time this
week.
wRVA, Richmond. Va, whose sig.
nal strength has been consistently
good for some time, was the most
vociferous station recorded. Signals
were fairly strong. nevertheless. from
Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and
New York