The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-14
DOC BRINKLEY
To Be TARGET
OF RADIO WAR
u. S. and Canada Will Seek
to Block Program for
Gigantic Station.
PERIL TO BR0ADCASTING
Many Stations Would Be
Drowned Out If Plans
Go Through.
By seriDps-Holeard Newspaper Alliance

By Scripps-H 0icdrd Newspaper 4 Alliance
WASHINGTON, Oct. IA. - DR..
John R. Brinkley, the radio-medico-
politico Kansan, who broadcasts
panaceas for the physical, economic,
and governmental ailments of man.
will be the subject of diplomatic
controversy in far-off Madrid's in
ternational radio conference.
In the Spanish capital, as now
in Washington. Mexico City and
Ottawa, he will be discussed as a
menace to orderly radio broadcast
ing in the North American CONT
nent
Meanwhile. as an independent
candidate for Governor, he har-
angues the voters of Kansas, PROM.
Using to convert the dry prairies of
the Sunf1oWer state into a Garden
OF Eden by building a lake in each
county and promising to make Kan
sas a Utopia by driving out the two
major political parties.
Probe Radio Activities
The state department and the
radio commission have sent the
American delegation in Madrid in
formation concerning Mexico's re-
cent authorization to Brinkley to
construct the worlds largest broad
casting station.
1t is hoped tie American dele
gates at Madrid will talk the Mexi-
can delegates into an agreement to
prevent actual construction of the
giant station, which, it is feared, will
drown out the broadcasts of many
American and Canadian stations.
If the Madrid negotiations fail, it
is believed that the state department
will ask Canada to join in informal
protests to Mexico City.
Brinkleys present station, XER,
at Villa Acuna. Mexico, across the
Rio Grande river from Del Rio
Tex already has a power of $4,000
watts, the highest power used on
this continent, and greater than any
in the world except a few European
stations with power up to 100000
watts.
Protests Are Voiced
His 75,00O-watt broadcasts, over a
wave length of 735 kilocycles, al
ready have aroused protests from
American and Canadian stations.
But the broadcasters of the United
States and Canada say that the
Brinkley station will interfere far
more seriously if the doctor is al
lowed to go ahead with his plans
to increase the power to 100000
watts and change the wave length
to 655 kilocycles, which have been
authorized by the Mexican govern
ment.
These international difficulties
are the Outgrowth of the action of
the federal radio commission in
resembling the license of Brinklev's
Kansas station in 1880, after hear
ing doctors representing the Amer
lean Medical Association and Johns
Hopkins university testify that
Brinkleys goat-gland advice and
patent medicine sales were danger
Gus to public health.
Promises Board Abolition
Over Senator Arthur Capper's
radio station in Topeka, which is
forced by law to allot to Brinkley as
much time as it gives his Republican,
opponent, the doctor is telling the
voters that one of his first acts as
Governor will be to abolish the state
medical board, which revoked his
medical license in 1880.
He declares he will install two
nlicrophones on his executive desk,
through which he will talk directly
to the people, since the newspapers
of Kansas are unanimously hostile.