Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-09

O4lIOuSA1Oub O11C WILL
pay tribute on Armistice day to
those who were lost in France
during the World War. The most
impressive part of the ceremonies
will be complete silence of all sta
tions for two minutes beginning
at ii o'clock Tuesday morning.
Speeches, military pageantry
and silent tribute will distinguish
three programs which the Ma
tional Broadcasting Co. will pre-
sent. In addition, both Columbia
and National BroadcaSting Cos.
will broadcast the Armistice
day memorial services at the tomb
Of Woodrow Wilson.
Radios observance of the pa
triotic anniversary will begin at
HAS o'clock tomorrow night,
when an Army bugler sounds
"flrst call" for the maSsing of the
colorS at the tenth annual Amer
lean Legion victory ball at the
Hotel Astor in New York. The
broadcast description of this cere-
mony will last for As minutes.
Gen. John ]. Pershing, Secretary
of State StimSon and Secretary
Of War Hurley will close the
Armistice day observance on the
networks by broadcaSting from
Washington. The memorial Serv-
ices at the tomb of Woodrow Will
son in Bethlehem Chapel OF the
Washington Cathedral will come
in the afternoon at $3.50 o'clock
and will be featured by COM
Ynemorative tribute by Bishop
James E. Freeman and choral in
depreciation of hymns and pro-
ceSSionalS.
The Columbia BroadcaSting SyS-
tenn win transmit President Hoo
Yer's address before the World
Alliance for international Friend
ship in Washington Tuesday
morning at IL o'clock. At 2:25
O'Clock in the afternoon peace
message written by iona Gale will
be read to the children OF the
Nation.
Throughout the day a major
number of the sponsored pro-
grams will have ArmiStice day as
the general theme. Tribute will be
paid in the form of musical Sc
lections and dramas.
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CLOSER af1liation of the two
national networks and their
various station units apparently is
becoming an important factor In
chain broadcaSting.
Through a movement which has
been under way for some time,
ARRANGEMENTS are being made to
insure program outlets within a
certain territory at any time with
out the possibility of a chain fea-
ture being Cancelled because a
local sponsored hour has been
billed for the same time.
Under this plan six stations In
various parts of the country have
been placed under direct manage
rnent of the National Broadcast
ing Co., while seven are more or
less similarly affiliated with the
Columbia Broadcasting System.
The N. B. c. chain now has di-
rect charge of program direction
of WTAM, Cleveland, which was
only recently leased; WEAF,
which is owned outright; WIZ,
New York; WRC, Washington;
KOA. Denver, and KGO, Oakland.
The last four are individually
owned, but are under N. B. G.
MANAGEMENT. WIZ and WRC are
Radio Corporation OF America
stations.
In the C. B. S. set-up, besides
WABC, the New York key station,
and owned outright, there are six
stations which either are directly
managed by the network or are
closely affiliated in an official ca
pacity. They are WPG, Atlantic
City, which is under lease; WHIT,
Charlotte, N. c.; WCCO, Mime
apolis; WBBM, Chicago; WCAU,
Philadelphia, and KNOX, st.
Louis, which is partly owned.
This closer aff1liation between
station and chain is not to cause
any change in relationship be-
tween the networks and the nu-
merous other broadcaSterS which
comprise the bulk of the present
coast-to-coast set-ups. That will
continue as heretofore, with a
station taking whatever chain
features it believes Of entertain
ment value to its local audience.
4
EXCELLENT reception of distant
broadcasting stations will be
forthcoming this Winter as a re-
suit Of the present decline in solar
activity, according to both as
Economical and radio experts. The
main peak of sun-Spot activity,
which is known to have a detri-
mental effect on radio reception,
was passed in 1928 and 1929, and
as the decline is reached improved
reception Of more distant pro-
grams is predicted.
DR.. Harlan T. StetSon, director
Of the Perkins Observatory at
Ohio Wesleyan University, in an
article in the Journal of the
Franklin Institute, published in
Philadelphia, declares that by the
time Winter comes there will be
q noticeable improvement in re-
ception conditions. He says, how
ever, that while sun spots effect
radio reception, and Northern
Lights, too, many things are
blamed on this activity.
1.-THE mention of sun spots In
wariably raises the question OF a
possible connection between spots
On the sun and terrestrial phe-
nomena," he says. Some stats
&icians with an Unsuitable appetite
Cor correlations have attempted
20 connect with sun spots almost
every cycle in world affairs, from
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