Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-21
LONG-TERM RADIO
PERMITS DELAYED
Board Proposes to Study
New Allegations Before
Extending Licenses.

During the next six months at
least the Federal Radio Commission
does not propose to issue any long
term licenses to proadcasting sta
tions, although under the radio law
1t is empowered to do so for periods
up to 3 years.
This is the stated policy of the
commission. made known about the
time the newly effected ALLEGATIONS
were to go in force. The plan of
the commission is to observe care
fully how conditions are under the
present 60-day license, which became
effective for all stations June 10. and
then to make all reissues for periods
of either so or 80 days. The aim is
to make the early experimentation
as thorough as possible.
In the meantime numerous changes
I'm wave and power assignments may
be expected. depending chiefly on the
new interferences that are set up
for it. is futile to assume that perfect
order will ensue in the ether from
the new broadcast alignment. In
fact, preliminary reports TO Washing
ton indicate that heterodynes have
been noted in the last five days on
some Of the leading stations in the
country.
Commissioner Bellows thinks there
will not only be many changes due
to new-found interference or other
reasons, but there will be a natural
mortality" among the broadcasters.
These. he says. will be in the nature
of voluntary suspensions of service
or revocations of licenses for viola
itons of the radio law or of the COM
missions orders and regulations I'M
der the law. A few cases of the
latter have already been brought to
the commissions attention
Some station owners have applied
for licenses in the hope of obtaining
favorable conditions of operation
which they might transfer to high
bidders along with their apparatus.
This was a presumption based on the
known intention of the commission
to issue licenses to all stations which
appeared under old licenses. but. ac-
cording to Mr.. Bellows, most of these
spectators found their stations rele-
gated to the least desirable broadcast
channels and thus had nothing very
valuable to sell. Moreover. under a
ruling of the commission, power and
wave ALLEGATIONS do not necessarily
so with a transmitter when it is
sold
The next six months or so the COM
mission plans to sit as quasi-judicial
body and review all cases brought
before it. These cases will involve
disputed frequencies or complaints by
stations that others are induly inter-
fering with their progress. Public
hearings will be held in Washington.
The last stand of the intrepid Gen.
Custer before the wrath of the Sioux
Indians will be vivified in the Great
Moments in History" tonight at 1870
o'clock over WRC.
Two selections by the string quartet
OF the Eveready Orchestra and a
xylophone solo by Joe Green will be
features of the Eveready hour to be
broadcast at o'clock. The favorites,
Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes"
and THE Londonderry Air" will be
played by the string quartet. Joe
Green, whose eXhilarating fantasies
on the xylophone are well known to
radio audiences, will play the inter
rnezzo. bIewels of the Madonna.
A series of familiar numbers will |
follow by the Eveready Orchestra. in |
Guiding the suite of Indian Love |
Lyrics" arranged, it is said, in a sin. |
gularly striking fashion for saxo- |
phones: I'm the Shadows Every |
Morn / Bring You Violets," Victor
Herbert's "Badinage," Rudolph
Frimls Love Everlasting" and Pol |
diEi's Dancing DOLL" The closing Is
minutes of the hour will be devoted
to popular dance music.
The last OF his craft, Bob" Sher- |
wood, a clown of the famous P. T. |
Barnum's greatest show on EARTH"
whom many present day radio fans |
have undoubtedly seen in the sawdust |
ring, will be heard over WRC at b:45 |
O'Clock on THE Sawdust Trail to Boy |
hood" Other features include the |
Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra. Robert |
Trucksees, whistler and guitarist; |
"L'Eternelle Chanson," by Nine. Ber- |
tina Dupee; Ritz Male Quartet, May |
flower Orchestra, 1.-The Coca Cola Girl" |
"the Radio Cavalcade" and Janssen's |
Hofbrau Orchestra.
The wave lengths offered unob |
structed passage to the signals Of the |
out-of-town broadcasters last night |
and dialers had a rare opportunity for |
this season of the year to obtain eX-
cellent results from an excursion over
them. There was some static and
fading, but neither was prevalent
enough to interfere seriously with re-
ception. Signals from the Middle West
seemed to have the best volume, al
though those from other sections were
considerably stronger than they have
been for many weeks.