The Bismarck tribune., 1928-12-14
RADIO FANS0FF
ON ORGANIZED
DRIVE0N NOISE
Meeting at A. of C. Rooms Aids
in Start of $4OO Fund for
Big Trouble Search
OFFERED UTILITY HELP
Hughes Company to Eliminate
Any Fault in Lines; Dealers
10 Give Half of Cost

Curfew was rung on radio inter-
ference in all forms in Bismarck,
last night. when Z score Of fans were
got together to finance q drive by
trouble shooters to clear the air Of
disturbance sources.
The score met at the Association
OF Commerce rooms. They heard q
pledge of 5000 toward the necessary
funds from the radio set dealers.
Then they Clipped In an additional
SOL as . starter and appointed a
committee to 60 after the remain
ing cash needed, which it was stated
will be about 5000 in addition to the
dealers contributions. That is,
about $400 will be required to keep
the trouble shooters on the job Of
locating the source Of disturbance.
This committee consists Of S. w.
Corwin, chairman; E. H. Morris, r.
D. Hoskins, Carl Nelson and A. r.
Tavis. It will canvass the radio set
owners Of the city for additional con-
tributions to the fund.
Electric Company to Aid
IT any trouble is traced to the
electric high lines, that will be taken
care Of by the Hughes company, S.
w. Corwin, who was chairman Of the
meeting, announced as a promise
from Manager Mattison.
The meeting was told that the in
reference that mars the evening
pleasures Of the radio set owner is
manifested from many sources, some
in the form Of high line static, some
created by motors, others by violet
ray machines, while flash buttons OF
the sparks from an abraded electric
line insulation will produce deton.
alton like the discharge Of a gun.
Trouble Shooters Here
The particular occasion for taking
up at this time the proposal to clear
the air is the arrival in Mandan OF
q pair Of expert trouble finders from
Fargo. Already they have begun
work and have located a number of
Mandan interference sources. They
have offered their services to the
fans Of Bismarck through interviews
with H. p. Goddard, secretary of the
Association Of Commerce, and S. w.
Corwin, Of Corwin- Churchill Motors
incorporated. They charge $1.75 an
hour and expenses for their services.
1t was calculated that this would en-.
tail at least $12O week as the cost
OF the local drive and that it might
require three weeks to clean up the
city's ether.
II. p. Goddard called the meeting
to order and S. w. Corwin was
chosen chairman, while A. r. Tavis
was called on to serve as secretary.
Chairman Corwin said this was the
third time the meeting had been
called, while about so fans had ex.
pressed their opinion to him that the
idea was fine one, none Of these
were present. The matter before
those present, he said, was q simple
proposition. Radio interference, he
said, can be run down, but it takes
money.
Some Forms of Trouble
The trouble shooters who are now
at work in Mandan, he said, supply
radio compass, while the fans must
furnish q man to assist and car
With q portable set, the experts can
almost walk direct onto the trouble
He said this trouble has been found
ten miles out of Mandan. It also
has been found to extend to Dickin.
son, while at Glen Ullin it is at the
worst.
Where the noise is caused by di.
rect motors, the chairman said, that
can all be eliminated. Either direct
or alternating motors can be ground.
ed out. The projectors Of the trouble
drive, he said, propose to locate such
plants as are causing the interfer.
ence, he added, and let them remedy
it. Violet ray machines are one o1