The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-21
Greatest World Broadcast
Features Inauguration
of Naval Farley.
HUNDRED STATIONS LINK
Thousands in America Stay
Awake to Tune In on /.
Historic Event.
BY JULIUS FRANDSEN
United Press STAFF Correspondent

NEW YORK, Jan. 21.-The great
est international radio broadcast in
history lifted the veil of secrecy
from diplomacy today.
To radio listeners throughout the
world came the words of King
George v of England invoking the
distinguished delegates Of five great
naval powers to renewed efforts in
the cause of peace.
They heard also the addresses Of
the leading statesmen Of those five
powers-the United States, Great
Britain, France, Italy and Japan
as they gathered in the house Of
lords at the opening of the London
conference on disarmament.
A hundred radio stations linked In
the networks of the Columbia
Broadcasting Company and the
National Broadcasting Company
brought the ceremonies to listeners
in Of the United States. The words
spoken in London were flashed
across the Atlantic by short-wave
transmission and then rebroadcaSt
from New York.
Thousands Hear Program
Just how many persons in Amer
lea arose to hear the program could
not be estimated. 1t was q. m.
in the east and a. M on the Pa
cif1c coast when King George be-
gan to speak
Certainly, however, there must
have been thousands who sacrificed
sleep for the thrill of hearing the
monarch and his prime minister,
Ramsay Macdonald, and their own
secretary of state, Henry L. Slim
son.
York, exclusive apartment houses
were dotted with lighted windows,
while the streets below were dark
and silent. Nine is perhaps the
usual rising hour for residents Of
such places and observers could de-
duce no other conclusion but that
occupants of those apartments
we're tuning in on London.
The broadcast generally was
hailed as the most successful Of any
Of those by which Europe and Amer
lea have been linked. For the most
part the voices of the speakers in
the house of lords came through
with clarity rivaling that Of a
domestic program.
Both the National Broadcasting
Company and Columbia system
opened their programs with musical
selections from their New York
studios and switched to London just
before King George began his adj
dress.
For few moments only the con-
fused sounds rising from the floor
of the conference chamber could be
heard, sounding like the roar of the
waves of the Atlantic itself. Then,
without announcement, came the
voice of his majesty. Occasional
bursts of static distorted parts of
the kings brief address, but the
transatlantic channels soon were
cleared.
The kings voice was pitched low
and he spoke slowly, as If deliberat~
ing over each phrase. Some words
he accented in such a deliberate
British manner that Americans had
difficulty in catching them, but no
one could have failed to understand
the tenor of his address.
Premier MacDonaldS address was
at times a bit difficult to under
stand because Of his Scotch burr,
but the ringing voice of Secretary
Stimson came through with utmost
clarity.
The words spoken In the house Of
lords in London travelled through
many relays to reach American ears.
They were transmitted by land wire
to the British Broadcasting Com
pany's station at Rugby and flashed
across the Atlantic on two wave
lengths on this side.
The radio waves were picked up
by stations of the American Tele-
phone Company at Houlton, Me,
and Netcong, N. j., and brought by
land wire again to New York, thence
to be fed by turn Of switch into
networks of the broadcasting com.
pon'es.
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