Evening star., 1933-09-10
IKE automobile radio fans,
airplane pilots have long
found radio a pleaSurable

means OF Willing away the
monotony of long flights. Night
flyers of the airmail are particu-
larly we'll known to be ardent
radio fans, tuning back and forth
from the special wave lengths
carrying weather reports, direc-
ton signals and landing instruc-
tions to their favorite broadcast
ing stations along the route.
It remained for the research di-
vision of the AeronauticS Branch
of the Department of Commerce
to hit upon practicable applica-
ton of the popularity of Amos n
Andy and Ed Wynn among pilots
to the problem of flying. An
nouncement has just been made
of the perfection of a 'homing de-
vice" or direction-fl finder for air
planes that utilizes any radio
channel, broadcasting or other
wise, to help guide a fiier along
a true course
Development Of the direction
finder was undertaken in recog-
milton of the need for providing
directional guidance for civil air
craft not flying the regular air
ways, which now have radiobea-
con service. The new direction
finder operates on any received
station, using any receiving SET.
This is supplied with small loop
antenna and compact converter
unit, which picks up the station
desired and indicates through a
dial on the planes dashboard
whether the plane is h e d d
straight for it.
Thus a pilot hearing Amos m
Andy from Station WOR, Newark,
for example, can tell while he is
enjoying the comedy pair whether
he is headed in a beeline for the
transmitter of that station, and
thence toward Newark airport.
The system has been tested be-
tween College Park, Md, where
the Bureau of Standards has a
radio experimental station, and
Washington and Baltimore. and
was reported entirely satisfac-
tory"
A RATHER wholesome object
"A lesson is discerned by the
standing committee on COM
munications of the American Bar
! Association in the decision of the
Court of Appeals Of the District
last year in which it upheld the
Federal Radio Commission in its
refusal to renew the broadcasting
! license of Rev. Robert P. Shuler.
Los Angeles evangelist, because of
his sensational broadcasts.
In its report to the annual
meeting of the association at
Grand Rapids. the committee re-
views the Shuler case. among
other examples of legal decisions
in the field of radio during the
last year, and concludes:
This case should and doubt
less will act as a deterrent to a
type of 'broadcaster which unfor-
tunately has been altogether too
numerous. It clearly establishes
that the right to broadcast IS a
privilege which gives rise to cor
relative rights and obligations and
not an absolute right to be exer-
ciSed when once obtained in per-
petuity and according to the whim
and caprice of the individual Ii
cenSee."
Shuler has been using his Los
Angeles station to attack the Ro-
man Catholic Church along with
public officials, organizations and
individuals who differed with his
views, and in two cases had been
convicted of attempting in his
radio talks to obstruct the orderly
administration Of justice. Driven
from his wave length, he lost an
appeal and thereupon unsuccess-
fully ran for United States Sen
ator against William G. McAdoo.
WHEN Fannie Brice steps on the
w stage of the N. B. c. Times
Square Studios for her We'd
nesday night broadcast with
George Olsen and his Music on
the Tea Program over an N. B. C.
network, she has every right to
feel at home. It was on the same
stage that she reported for her
first job in a Broadway musical
show.
The studio was the New AM
sterdam Theater roof garden then,
and Fannie was IA years old. The
show was a revue which Sam Har-
ris and George M. Cohan were
producing, and young Miss Brice
had landed job in the chorus.
Her only previous experience was
in an amateur night at Brook
lyn theater.
Fannie didn't stay on the New
Amsterdam roof long, however,
that first time. She lasted one
J ANSWER TO YESTERDAYS PUZZLE.