Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-18

Commerce goes it's own lugubrious
way in announcing to radio fandom
that more stations have been licensed
to broadcast and more have changed
their wave lengths and power. With
all the promise of further congestion
this connoteS. it announces IL new
stations, wave length changes, 2 to
higher channels, and l increase in
power.
Dill Gives Facts.
The radio bill which has been
drafted for the conference committees
consideration, it has been learned
from an official source for the first
time, provides for a commission
vested with discretionary power as to
designation Of power, ALLEGATION of
wave lengths and determination of
broadcast hours, with the Department
of Commerce administering it's deci-
Sions.
Utmost secrecy on the control fea-
ture has been maintained by the COM
mittee, but a few definite facts came
out Saturday when Senator Dill told
Senator Mcclellan, Tennessee, on the
floor of the Senate
provides that the commission have
certain powers. very largely of a
judicial nature, and the Commerce
Department shall have certain powers
IN administering the decisions of the
commission and carrying out the or.
ders and regulations of the commits
sion. The commissions powers, he
added, will be real" and supreme"
and not advisory" and these powers
1t will retain" whether or not it sits
as permanent body.
ThatS the main feature of the ten.
tative proposal to be laid before Con
gress. These are the additions and
changes in the broadcast realm that
heighten the cry for action:
New Stations Licensed.
New stations licensed. their power
and wave lengths-WSEA, Virginia
Beach Broadcasting Co., Virginia
Beach, Va, power, 500 watts, wave
length, 5l6.s meters, $50 frequency
kilocycles; WBMH, Braun's Music
House. Detroit, 100 watts, 1921
meters, $50 keys; .KGER. c. Merwin
l9obyns, Long Beach, Calf 100 watts.
1893 meters 920 keys; WCOT, Jacob
EAonn, QiFeyyille. RI T., 100 watts.
$500 meters. ,1So keys; WMBII, Ed
WIN dudley Aber, Chicago (portablel.
Ivy watts, $50 meters, 1911 KEYS. :
k tAQ, Fred w. Hermann, Mime
apoiis, 90 watts, $50 meters. COS
keys; WMBJ, VIM. Roy McShaf frev
Monessen, Pa, so watts, 277.6 meters
l,OSO keys; KGEN, E. r. Irey and
f. M. Bowles, Ell Centre. Calf TX
watts. 28l. meters. 1,067 keys; WMRK
John G. tSlade, Hamilton, Ohio. 10
watts, $50 meters, 10 keys; KEGS
Central Radio Electric CO., Central
4aty.- Nebr., 10 watts. 2O5. Il meters
l,46O keys: WMBE. DR.. C. s. Stevens
p; Paul watts. 22O meters. 1858
4 changes-KFKB, DR.. ]. R. Brink.
Isy' MliIofd, Kan, /. wave length
changed from 1914 meters. SOS kcvs
to 4s4.5 meters, $50 KEYS: WAED =
Albert b. Parfet Co, location chaneed
from Port Huron, Mich, to Detroit
and wave length changed from 275 /
meters, 1,O9O keys, to 1928 meters
900 keys; WKBO, Camith Corn. Ter,
sey CITY, wave length changed from
1888 meters, 1866 keys, to 22o a
meters, 1860 keys; WBMS. Georee
julius Schowerer, location chanqed
from North Bergen, N. j., to Union
CITY, n. j., and power increased from
10 to 100 watts. N--'
It was announced In addition
WkBR, operated by Charles J. Heisar
at Auburn, N. Y, has Suspended
broadcasting. 0u
Bugs" Baer, the lumorist and car.
toonist. who broke into the RAMS ~
newspaperdom in Washington not 80
many years ago, is billed as tha besd1