Evening star., 1927-10-03
FARM PROGRAMS
! GET UNDER WAY
SO Selected Stations in Ma
- ton Participate in
u. S. Service.

. Uncle Sans farm radio service.
planned for the Department OF Agrl-
culture by Sam Pickard, began It's
: 1927-192S season today with 50 selected
stations throughout the country
participating
Reception in cities as we'll as IN
r,,roI homes is likely to be quite popu.
lar because of the nature OF some ol
the talks devoted to the interests Oh
children and housewives. The most
. ,,nn,,1o; features so far selected by the
( stations are the housewives CHATS tne
d roon.tir,e farm flashes and the raulo
!. farm school. The regular program
: also includes poultry chats. chats oy
the weather man, wild life frlenos anu
foes primer for town farms 1arm
news digest. farm playlets ana asii'
. cultural situation review:
stations within range of Washington
c.b;cb have scheduled the service IN
c,,,de WRC. Washington: WHAM ana
wHFC. Rochester; WGR and VIVIAN,
Ruffalo: WGY. schenectady; WOR ana
WAAN Newark: WCAO, Baltimore;
wCAE, Pittsburgh; WIFI, Phlladel-
mia. KNOX and WEN, st. Louis;
WHR and WDAF, Kansas CITY, "OS'
jefferson CITY: WRVA, 1ichmond'
WSTA and WTAR. Norfolk: WSB'
Atlanta. WGN. Chicago; VIII
Mooseheart, and WWJ. Detroit.
z .,o fret time since returning
from his vacation. President Coolldge
viii face the microphone tonight when
he addresses the opening session OF
the seventh annual convention OF the
American Red Cross in the Cnlteu
states Chamber of Commerce buliu
ing. WRC and n group or statlons
affiliated with the National Broao-
casting Co. will transmit the Presl,
dents speech and other features OIL
the opening program. which lncluues
a half-hour concert by the Ci1'eo
States Navy Band Orchestra.
Broadcasting of the Red cross pro.
.,,.,r, viii deprive WRC listeners of
the weekly entertainment by Roxy
and "His Gang" but the other regular
monday night attractions are sched-
nled These include the A. Il +.
Cvnsies. the National Grand Opera
~ and the Waldorf-Astoriaa and May
flower orchestras.
The Gvpsies will open their program
with an English horn solo. This Sc
lection will be Victor Herberts de-
scrintiye orchestral bit. Indian sum
mer" Other featured instrumental
presentations include "Cacnuca'.
..Dance de la Fee Dragee." "Cachuca
Il native rhythm of Spain, wnile
the latter is taken from the baiiet
..The Nutcracker Suite" of TschaikoW'
sky. -,
The National Grand Opera Co. Will
present a tabloid xersion of Ponchlelis
La Gioconda." The opera Will be ol-
rected. as usual, by Cesare Sodero.
AS IT'S late feature WRC will broad
cast a half hour of dance music by the
Swanee Syncopators.
A playlet by students of the OCon-
nor School of Expression and dance
program by Ted Newells Band are
the principal attractions scheduled to-
night by WMAL. There also will be
a talk by Caleb O'Connor and q radio
novelty by Pauline Healey, Lee
O'Haire and Bill Capps.
Radio reception seems to have
habit Of late of starting a new week
propitiously and degenerating gradu-
ally. Thus. the conditions for long
range dialing last night were excel
lent. Stations on virtually all the
broadcast bands responded with good
volume, accompanied, however. by
mild static manifestations. A few
of them also were inclined to fade,
but in general DIX hunting was pro-
ductive of satisfactory results.
Aside from the super-power stations
which send their signals into Wash
fngton with great regularity. the
others picked up last night included
KTNT. Muscatine, Iowa; KNOX, St
Louis: KWKH. Shreveport, La, ana
sWGBS, New York.