Evening star., 1933-08-09
Veterans Welcome Change.

by the Radio Manufacturers Associa-
ton Is expected to put on even keel
an industry that has been wracked with
economic unrest through price wars,
''gyp" products and cut-throat COM
petition since 1929 Old-line manu-
facturers welcomed the opportunity to
return to trade stability.
Bond Geddes, executive vice presi-
dent and general manager of the Radio
Manufacturers Association. estimates
the codes labor provisions will give work
to 10000 people in radio factories and
increase the industry's annual pay roll
by S3,000,O00. The industry already
employs between $4,000 and $4,000
people.
OF greatest significance in the code
is the provision for uniform contracts
between manufacturers, distributors
and dealers, definitely establishing
standard discounts, relations and trade
practices in the marketing of sets.
Thus, with the guarantee OF uniform
wages and hours of operation by all
manufacturers, an effective means Ot
eliminating the price cutting set maker
is provided. A scale of minimum prices
for sets also would be established and
no set manufacturer would be per-
mitted to sell below the weighted aver
age cost of production.
4 S an aid in the Nationwide drive
IA against crime, series of Monday
night broadcasts has been scheduled
by the N. B. c. red network starting
next week The programs will be
conducted under the auspices Of the
National Council of rs United States
Flag Associations, formed to cooperate
with the Department of Justice in
the attack on racketeering. President
Roosevelt is honorary president Of the
council.
For the opening broadcast the
speakers will be Patrick j. Hurley
former Secretary of War. and chair
man of the council, and Col. James
A. Moss, president general. In each
broadcast Maj. Ernest w. Brown, super
intendent of the Washington police
department, is to explain how the pub
lie can aid in law enforcement.
CEORGE M. COHAN, famed as 9
~ Broadway playwright and actor. ha'
signed for his first extended radio
series. He is to take over the headline
| part of the Sunday night oil program
on WMAL and the N B. c. blue
network in which viii Rogers had {
seven weeks run. His opening dat:
is August 20.
HOWARD BARLOW'S SYMPHONY
L ORCHESTRA will present a con
cert made up entirely of MacDowel
compositions tonight at 10 over WJSV
At the same hour on WMAL, Viole
Wachter will direct her Doors" com
pany in a comedy sketch showing how
| the ministry and the medical profes'
sion would be affected by an N. r. A
code.
WMAL announces that the Breakfas
| Club and Jimmy Harbisons Memory
Contest, produced more fan mail dur
! ing July than any other attraction!
| originating in its own studios. There
were 4,286 letters for the Breakfas
Club and more than l 900 for HARRISON
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NJ B. C.'s New York studios have
~. just revealed that Roy Hallee
second tenor of the Rondoliers Quar-
tet, collapsed at the microphone during
last Sundays program. Neel Enslen
the announcer, carried Hallee to The
bench and called the nurse, while The
other boys, by expert filling and dou.
bling. kept the program on the air with.
out a break Hallee is now recovering
from acute indigestion, induced by 6
lobster breakfast with swim for des-
sert before the broadcast.