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Evening star., 1931-06-14
CLAIMS FOR STEN0DE
RADIOSTAT DISPUTED
Inventors q. o. Representative
Protests "Abusive Attack"
by Engineers.

Protests "Abueive Attack"
by Engineers.
Because Of what he describes as a
very abusive attack" upon DR.. James
Robinson, distinguished British radio
scientist and inventor of the stenode
radiostat during a recent demonstra-
ton Of that device before group of
radio engineers in New York City,
Arthur H. Lynch, American vice presi-
dent of the Stenode Radiostat Corpora
tion. has resigned from the Radio Club
of America. His request for an apology
to DR.. Robinson has been met by a
reply from F. G. Pacent, president of
! the Radio Club, that the clubs board OF
directors feels mo action Is deemed
necessary"
Considerable difference of opinion
has been expressed in radio engineering
circles about the claims made for the
Stenode, which, according to its spon-
sors, considerably narrows the chan
nelS Of radio transmission and recep-
ton. One school of thought insists
| 1t cannot be done by the method, and
apparently 1t was this group against
| which Mr.. Lynch protested for "the
! ungentlemanly aspersions cast upon the
reputation of visiting guest"
| Another school regards the stenode
as a revolutionary accomplishment COM
parable in importance to the super
heterodyne, the super -regenerative and
! the neutrodyne circuits. A number of
radio manufacturers are understood to
be considering adopting the circuit,
/ which DR.. Robinson, former chief of
the British air ministry's radio re-
search and q scientist of high repute
in radio circles. recently demonstrated
in Washington and Chicago, as well as
in New York.
Evening star., 1931-06-14
LAFOUNT WILL MAKE
NORTHWEST RADIO TOUR
Purpose Of Trip Is Inspection Of
Broadcasting in Field, Com
missioner Says.

To obtain first-hand information on
radio conditions Federal Radio Com
missioner Harold A. Lafount will leave
this month for an inspection in the
Northwest Pacific Coast, Southwest and
South.
Commissioner Lafount said he was
anxious to take stock of all phases of
radio, primarily broadcasting, "in the
field" His trip, he asserted, will af-
ford him opportunity to get listener
reaction" to activities of the commits
sion and to radio conditions in general.
Leaving Washington June 81, when
the commission adjourns over the
Summer, he will go directly to Denver,
arriving June 20. He then will tour
cities Of the West, and swing through
the South. More than dozen stops
are on the itinerary, but he said he
plans to visit other cities and towns
not specifically mentioned. He viii re-
turn August IA.
While in San Francisco on July 81
and ~, Commissioner Lafount will ad-
dress the first regional meeting of The
National Association of Broadcasters.
Problems Of mutual interest to the
broadcasters and the commission will
be discussed.
Evening star., 1931-06-14
AMERICA TO HEAR
RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT
Counselor of London En-
bassy to Speak Over
WMAL.

Dinitri Bogomoloff, counselor Of the
Russian Embassy in London, today will
present the second of the series OF talks
on the Russian five-year program being
broadcast from Europe by WMAL ana
other Columbia Broadcasting system
stations.
Rogomoloff will devote his talk to
description. of labor conditions In the
Soviet Union. He will answer accuSa-
tions which have been made that con-
vict and other forced workers are en-
ployed to reduce production costs TO
point at which countries with dennite
wage scales cannot compete.
"Prize Song" in Concert.
A feature Of the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra concert will be violin solo
by Ilya Schkolnik. He will play
"Walther's Prize Song" from Wagner'S
"Die Meistersinger." The orchestra se-
lectionS include Sousa's march, Stars
and Stripes Forever" and the overture
TO "William Tell"
Harriet Lee, contralto, will assist the
Piano Twins in their popular program
at 6:15 o'clock. She will contribute
''I'm Through With Love" and by the
Bend of the River"
Characteristic and varied types Of
Spanish music will be played by the
Gauchos, under the direction Of Vim
cent Sorey.
Several washington artists also will
take part in WMAL's program. In the
early afternoon Frances van den Bogert,
contralto, will be heard in a 15-minute
recital. At night E. G. Thomas, Eng
lish baritone. will present special pro-
gram Of selections from the oratorios OF
Handel and Mendelssohn. Elizabeth
Gardner CoombO will accompany him.
Simmons Guest SOIoist.
William Simmons, baritone, will be
the guest soloist In the Kent hour to-
night over WRC and a network Of other
National Broadcasting Company sta
tions. The program is made up OF
ballads, including I'm the Cleaning
and the popular Indian song, Pale
Moon"
FRITZ Scheff, light opera star, is
scheduled to take part in program OF
VienneSe music to be broadcast at
O'Clock. Harold Sanford'sOrcheStra will
assist her.
Flora Macdonald" is the title Of the
dramatic sketch to be presented during
the Big Brother Club program. This
will be followed by concert by the
Goldman Band.
Other WRC Programs.
WRCS program also contains the
other regular Sunday attractions. These
include popular program by Nathaniel
Shilkret's Orchestra, concert by the
Choral Orchestra, with Maurice Cheva-
lier. and the Russian Cathedral Choir
VOL will broadcast the Flag day
services of the Elks tonight at the
Sylvan Theater In the afternoon 1t will
feature popular program by Jack Raj
ston's Orchestra and program of light
opera gems
James Walters will be heard over
WJSV tonight in a half-hour organ re-
cital The stations other features will
be a program by L. 2. Phillips, from
bonist, and recital by Roland Wheeler
tenor.
Evening star., 1931-06-14
Behind the Microphone
BY THE RADIO EDITOR.

family? This question the engi-
neerS do not essay to answer be-
yond saying that televiSion re-
ceiverS (which give a clear, bright
picture Of an acceptable color,
adequate detail, satisfactory size.
freedom from flicker, of sufficiently
wide angle Of view, and of the
requisite steadinesS Of position
will in all likelihood be CONNER
cially available within the next
few years."
The significance of the report,
however, rests in the fact that 1t
represents the first meeting of
the minds" of a diversified group
of radio engineers on the exact
status of television today. The
committee was headed by Dr.
Alfred N. Goldsmith, general en-
gineer Of the Radio Corporation of
America. Besides DR.. Goldsmith,
1t bears the signatures of the fol-
lowing: DR.. w. c. Cady, Wesleyan
University, Middletown, Conn.,; o.
H. Caldwell, former Federal radio
commissioner; E. K. Conan,
Columbia Broadcasting System;
w. E. HarkneSs, Electric Research
Products, Inc; Prof. Erich Haus-
mann, Brooklyn Polytechnic Insti-
tute; John V. L. Hogan, consulting
engineer; C.. w. Horn, National
Broadcasting Co.; DR.. L. NJ. Hull,
Radio Frequency Laboratories; C..
M. Jansky, jr., consulting engineer;
r. H. Manson, Stromberg- Carlson
Co., and Capt. Robert H. Marriott,
consulting engineer.
"TeleviSion broadcaSting" reads
their report, sis in an advanced
experimental condition at this
time. 1t has not yet been possible
to establish transmitting stations
capable Of giving reliable ,televiSion
service over a considerable area,
nor to provide on a commercial
scale receivers which give a clear,
bright picture of an acceptable
color, adequate detail, satisfactory
size, freedom from flicker, Of
sufficiently wide angle of view, and
OF the requisite steadiness Of posi-
ton. The problems involved are
under active investigation, and
there is a likelihood that within
the next few years equipment of
this sort will be commercially
available and that at least a
moderate. number of television
broadcasting stations capable of
supplying program material to
those having suitable receiving
equipment will be in operation.
The problem of network syndi-
cation Of television programs is in
less advanced condition. If a
program for a television trans
mission is recorded on motion
picture film, methods analogous
to the electrical transcription de-
Scribed above will doubtless be-
come suitable for Syndication. It
is also possible that wire line
facilities capable of carrying tele-
vision programs will be developed.
although these do not exist even
experimentally at this time"
Evening star., 1931-06-14

In the Summer of 1919, before re-
turning to the United States, Fogarty
wore the colors of the United States in
the Olympics, running the mile against
seasoned stars. In the semi finals at
the Colombo Stadium, Paris, he was
accidentally spiked in the heel when
coming down the final stretch in the
lead. Larry Shields. University of Penn
sylvania star, won the race.
After being discharged from the
service in the United States Fogarty
returned to Great Falls. Mont, and
worked for eight months in the whole
sale fruit business with brother. But
the call of a musical career inspired
him to go to New York to study
Eventually he was drawn to radio.
y 4 4
TILDA GRAY has Cancelled her radio
engagement on Columbia July
because of European trip
James Barton, stage comedian, will take
her place before the microphore. 4. /. Les
Refs and Arty Dunn, song team, have
been booked for q series Of sustaining
programs on Columbia.
Evening star., 1931-06-14
KTNT is OPERATING
UNDER COURT ORDER
Appeal Pending on Suspension of
Baker Station by
Commission.

Banished from the air by the Fed
eral Radio Commission as one of
radios bad boys" Norman Baker, the
stormy owner of Station KTNT, at
Muscatine, Iowa, is operating his sta
ton under a restraining order from the
courts.
Baker, who is widely known through
out the Middle West for his TRADES over
KTNT, was the victim of the deter
mined campaign of the commission to
clean up" broadcaSting. Before the
commissions summary action became
effective, however, he succeeded in OBJ
tanning q stay order from the Court Of
Appeals, here. permitting continued
operation of the station during PEN
dency of the appeal.
In informal legal circles, however,
the opinion is prevalent that the court
ultimately will sustain the commits
sion'S action. This view is based on
the courts decisions in two other cases
paralleling the Baker case in which 1t
affirmed the commission.
Baker, whose slogan is "The Naked
Truth" couldn't measure up to the re-
quirements of the commissions yard
stick of public interest, convenience
and necessity in the operation of his
5,000-watt station. He admitted he
used his station in advertising his
Cancer Institute, mail order business,
magazine, newspaper, and sundry other
enterprises he maintained at Musca-
tine, and the commission found as a
result that he was operating the station
mainly as a private mouthpiece" and
was subordinating the interests of the
public to his own.
But beyond that the commission
found that the programs broadcast
over the station have included per
Sonal and bitter attacks upon individ-
ualS, companies, and associations. and
whether warranted, or unwarranted,
such programs have not been in the
public interest, convenience or neces-
sity." Direct-selling and price-quoting
of Bakers merchandise, both practices
frowned upon by the commission, were
found to have been rampant over the
station.
In addition, the commission con-
cluded that obscene and indecent Ian
guage was used by Baker over the sta
ton, and that this fact, alone, would
have been sufficient ground for revoca-
ton of his license under the terms Of
the radio act.
Evening star., 1931-06-14
BRITISH ARE FIRST
TO TELECAST SPORTS
Scenes at EPSON Downs Derby Are
Transmitted-Results
Pleasing.

NEW YORK R.-- England ha
beaten America to the broadcasting Of
an outdoor sporting event by television.
Although engineers in this country
have been experimenting with outdoor
pickups of one sort or another, they
have not tried 1t as a part Of a regu-
larly scheduled broadcast.
The transmission in England by the
Baird system consisted Of scenes of the
English derby at EPSON Downs, includ-
ing the parade of the horses before the
start OF the race and crowds at the
finishing post.
Although there was considerable in
reference, engineers there were pleased
with the results.
Recent tests in America have been
conducted at PaSsaic, N. j., at the
jenkins laboratories, where such out
door scenes as automobiles passing
along the road, an airplane in flight
and a speeding train have been picked
up.
Most of them have been what might
be termed Studio" tryouts, as only
the view of the airplane was trans
mitted one afternoon over W2XCD.
Previous to these pickups,. the Bell
Telephone laboratories and DR.. e. r. w.
Alexanderson at Schenectady, N. Y,
had made tests with outdoor television.
Evening star., 1931-06-14
HOLMES AND WATSON PORTRAYED
BY CLEVER RADIO ENTERTAINERS
Richard Gordon as Great Detective and Leigh Lowell
American and Brton Men of Stage Experience.

ing studio. His experience on the stage
included the part of Holmes with o
stock company for many years.
Lowell, like Gordon, has had varied
stage experience. Coming TO the United
States after the war with an extensive
career on the English stage. he became
an actor-manager of q stock company.
For nearly IL years he directed and
acted In productions.
Four Years In Radio.
Nearly four years ago radio attracted
Lowell. Besides acting in radio dramas
and adaptations of standard plays he
would perform singly. re-enacting scenes
from well-known plays.
With Gordon, Lowell performed in an
early series of Sherlock Holmes dramas
for NBC and was called in as the logical
actor for the current series.
Lowell looks much like one might ex-
pect DR.. Watson to look, while Gordon
on or of the air can't hide that famous
sleuth manner.
The Arthur Conan Doyle series IA
adapted for the microphone by Edith
MeiSer, who acts many Of the feminine
parts.
Evening star., 1931-06-14
HIGH LIGHTS ELSEWHERE.

b:00-The Fur Trappers; musical pro-
gram-WABC, WNAC, WCAU
and Wink.
6:30-The Dandies; Betty Smart, con-
tralto; Ben Alley, tenor, and
Freddie Rich's Orchestra -
WABC, WFBL, WEAN, WNAC
and WCAU.
6:30-Theatrical Scrapbook, Minstrel
Memories KDKA, WGN,
WRVA and WSR.
7:OO-MelodieS; Irwin S. Cobb
Betsy Ayres, Mary Hopple
and Wilworths Ensemble
WIZ, WBZ, WBZA, WHAd
WJR, KDKA and KYW.
7:15-Sea Chanties; male octet and
accordion Soloist-WJZ, WBz
WHAM, KDKA, WJR and VINO
S:l5-The Stag Party; Connie
Mack, jr. WBAL, WIZ
WBZ, WBZA, wHAM, KDKA
WJR and WLW.
S:45-Zoel Parentau's Orchestra-WJZ
WBZ, WBAL, KDKA and WJR.
e:l5-"World Adventures" by Floyd
KWK and WBz.
9:30-Slumber Music; Ludwig Lau-
rierS String Ensemble--WJz
WBZ, WBZA, WHAM, KDKA
WJR and WLW.
iO:00-Clyde Doerr's Saxophone Octet
VIZ, WBAL, WHAM and
WGR.
io:3O-Los Argentinos; tango orches-
tra-WJZ, WBZ. WJR, KDKA
WBAL and WREN.
Evening star., 1931-06-14

NEW YORK (P)-Sir Conan Doyle's
two famous detective characters have
come back to life.
Through the medium Of broadcasting
two veteran actors Of the stage, one
English and the other American, por-
tray Doyles Sherlock Holmes and DR..
Watson.
Richard Gordon interprets the role
of Sherlock Holmes, while Leigh Lowell
plays the admiring friend, DR.. Wat
son.
In the Sherlock Holmes drama the
original plots and dialogue are followed
as faithfully as exigencies Of radio
permit, and the producers strive to pre-
sent Holmes just as he has been pic
tured by the American public.
High Pitched Voice.
He Is heard as q shrewd, analytical
individual who speaks in high pitched,
cracked voice. Lovell's tremulous voice
contrasts with Holmes confident speech
and draws explanations which reveal
to listeners the trail Of the master de-
tective's pursuit Of crime and the
criminal
Gordon brought q career Of nearly
80 years on the stage to the broadcast
Evening star., 1931-06-14
NOVEL experiment to deter
mine the most popular type
\ of radio program was an

A NOVEL experiment to deter
~ mine the most popular type
n Of radio program was an.
4 n nounced last week by the
National BroadcaSting Co.
Beginning July /, programs oi
four distinct types are to be pre-
Sented at the rate of one a week
over a network headed by WIZ
Each program will be entirely diff
ferent, running the scale Of en-
tertainment from drama to old
time minstrel shows.
The initial broadcast will be q
program of popular melodies by
Josef KoeStner and his orchestra
A dramatic sketch, "The Private
Affairs of the Jones Family" will
be presented the second week
For the third week an old-fash-
ioned minstrel show is announced
The final program will be varied
including harmony, organ music
and readings.
The program receiving the
greatest response will be adopted
as a sponsored feature and will
be carried the balance of the year
r Ado sound effects engineers
expect to reproduce accurate
ly the noise of a railroad train
from a wooden box, 3 feet by
feet by feet
Raymond Kelly, who is respon-
sible for the innovation, spent
hours in the Sunnyside yards OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad on
Long Island, recording train
noises. His novelty is expected
to reproduce railroad effects even
more realistically than those now
heard on the Empire Builders and
Fast Freight programs. A minia-
ture rail system operated by four
men is used to reproduce the
sounds of the Empire Builders.
Kelly'S apparatus will be oper-
ated by one man. Control levers
and buttons will be located at one
end OF the box, which will house
compreSSed-air tanks and cleo
trically driven pistons, ratchet
wheels, cylinders, exhausts and
other intricately designed ma
chinery.
"TNELEVISION broadcasting is in
an advanced experimental
condition at the present time"
In that statement IL of the best
engineering minds in the radio
fraternity have concurred. It is a
rather general statement, but it is
amplified to some length in the
report of these engineers, prepared
for the National Advisory Council
on Radio in Education, which is
inquiring into the present status
and development trends in radio
and allied arts as viewed from the
standpoint of their application to
education.
If televiSion is in an advanced
experimental condition" when
may we expect it to emerge as a
full-fiedged member of the radio
Evening star., 1931-06-14
POWER INCREASE ASKED
KSTP Wants to Experiment on
Improved Broadcast, ,Antenna.

Claiming it has perfected a new and
improved antenna system that will sup
press the sky wave effects that cause
skip-distance and other interference,
Station KSTP, st. Paul, has applied to
the Federal Radio Commission for
authority to increase its power expert
mentally from 10000 to 25 900 watts.
The development is the work of Ray
mond M. Wilmotte, former British
post office department radio engineer,
who has been engaged by KSTP for
the experiments. The new system is
said to widen the service area without
ting greater interference than now
exists on 1460 kilocycles.
Evening star., 1931-06-14
SUIT CASE CONTAINS
THEATER EQUIPMENT
Radio, Talkie and Public Address
System Compose Com
plete Outfit.

NEW YORK [P).-A suit case ac-
commodities a combination talking
movie machine, radio receiver and
public address system.
The compact outfit contains about
everything needed to turn the home
or even the hotel room into a theater.
Demonstrated here, it was operated
first as a talking movie machine, the
cover Of the carrying case, which
weighs SO pounds complete, being
placed at one side of the room as the
screen.
The cover also contained the loud
speaker. Sound was supplied by a
record.
A couple Of switches were turned,
and it became a radio set. The aerial
was supplied through the light socket
that also furnished the power.
Then a microphone was plugged In
and the outfit used to address the
listeners.
Evening star., 1931-06-14
Programs Continued in Summer.

Far from allowing radio programs to
lag this Summer, radio stations and
the national networks are assuring the
radio audience that they will continue
their efforts to offer consistently higher
quality programs regardless of season.
Since the season of warm weather
usually attracts more people to the out
of-doors, 1t was formerly the practice
Of program sponsors to desert the air
waves for that period. Now, as a rule,
they continue their programs through
the Summer.
Evening star., 1931-06-14
NEW AID TO FLYERS
TO BE INAUGURATED
Invisible Beams to Keep Pilots, on
: Course-Eight Stations
Planned

Flyers on the Los Angeles Kansas
City section OF the midcontinent air
way are to have a new aid to navi-
cation by September /.
Visual radio range stations, which
transmit invisible beams that are
picked up as guides by simple device
on the instrument board of q plane, are
to be established at eight points by the
aeronautics branch of the Department
of Commerce.
Metallic reeds which vihRate and
appear to the pilot on his course as
two white ribbons of equal length are
the visual guides.
The airway section, nearly 1,400
miles long, Is to be the first to be
equipped with the visual stations
though practical service trials were
carried on with installations at Belle
fonte, Pa, and Detroit.
Evening star., 1931-06-14

Ills CdAC1ANC wy
hood days were in
terrupted, however,
when at Is years
of age he enlisted
in the I'd Mon
tana, 163d Infan-
try, and served
three months in
the tren C h e S in
France. He saw
action at Chateau
Thierry, st. Mihiel
and Argonne, serv-
ing as a sergeant.
At the time of the
S gn ing Of the
armistice he was q
second lieutenant IN
an officers train
ing camp.
Evening star., 1931-06-14
Police Radio Expanding.

Forty-flve police squad cars are
equipped with radios in Los Angeles.
The radio dispatches the policemen inn
mediately to the scene Of q reported
crime. More and more cities are in
stalling police radio systems, latest
records of the Federal Radio Commits
operation
Evening star., 1931-06-14
Singers Directing
To Being Called
Radio ssCrOOners''

NEW YORK [P).-Most micro
phone singers object to the ap-
pellation Of "crooner."
The reason they give is that
it Is being too generously ap-
piled to any one who vocalizes,
or attempts to, in any form. de-
part from the conventional"
Vaughn de Leath, considered
one of the pioneers in this type
of singing; Rudy Vallee and Lew
Conrad all dislike being referred
to as "crooners."
Evening star., 1931-06-14

The great mystics OF the Middle Ages
were men and women of action. Even
the rare surviving anchorites were
forced to justify their existence by per-
forming social duties-stationing them
selves near ferries or bridges or in path
less woods and remote valleys to offer
help and hospitality to the chance way
fnYar
Evening star., 1931-06-14
Major Radio Features
SPEECHES.

SPEECHES.
"Labor in Russia" by Dimitri
Bogomoloff, WMAL,, 11:30a; The
Worlds Business, by DR.. Julius
Klein, WMAL, 500; Devils,
Drugs and Doctors" by DR.. How
ard w. Haggard, WMAL, TOO; Our
Government" by David Lawrence,
WRC, 800.
CLASSICAL.
Gilbert and Sullivan gems, WRC,
1900; Kent Hour, with william Sim
mons, baritone, WRC, 8:15; Detroit
Symphony Orchestra, WMAL, $3.50;
Russian Cathedral Choir, WRC,
VARIETY.
Jack Ralston's Orchestra, VOL, 100;
Choral Orchestra, with Maurice
Chevalier, WRC, TOO; The GauchoS,
WMAL, 900; Muriel and Wee, in
strumental duo, WRC, 1915; South
Sea Islanders, WRC, HOO.
DRAMA.
Noonshine and Honeysuckle, WRC,
200; Daddy and Rollo, WMAL,
$40; Big Brother Club, WRC, 8:45.
Evening star., 1931-06-14
Wales Asks Blind Fund.

As president of the British wireless
for the Blind Fund, the Prince OF
Wales is making appeals over the Brit
ish radio for $75,0O0 with which to
provide Ndics for blind persons
throughout the British isles. Since
Christmas, 1929, more than $150,O0O
has been collected and $4,000 complete
receiving sets distributed.