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Evening star., 1936-04-12
Major Features
and Notes

SPECIAL Easter programs dominate
today's radio schedule. The out
standing include the tenth annual
Easter pageant at Mount Roosevelt in
the Wichita Mountains near Lawton,
Okla. (WMAL, AMI; sunrise serv-
ices at Soldiers Field, Chicago (WJSV,
Z am): sunrise services at Arlington
Cemetery (WJSV, 7;30 ann; sunrise
services at Mount Helix Natural
Theater. near San Diego, Calf. CWRC,
$50 ann; sunrise services in the
Grand Canyon CWMAL. 8 ann; SUM-
rise services in Honolulu (WRC, l0:45
ann: description Of Easter parade
in New York CWRC, 1890 PM: de-
scription of Easter parade in WASH
ington CWRC, 12:45 p.m).
Lily Pons, celebrated operatic So
prano. will be the guest soloist with
Erno Rapee's Symphony Orchestra on
WRC at 10 pm. She will sing Bach
Gounod's Ave Maria" "Polonaise. !"
from Thomas ''Mignon":; Hymn to
the Sun" and caro- Nome" from
Verdi's "Rigoletto."
The farewell concert of the Phila-
delphia Orchestra before leaving on
its transcontinental tour will be a
feature of the Magic Key" program
on WMAL at 2. The orchestra will
play several Easter selections. includ-
ing "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"
and excerpts from the third act Of
Wagner's ''Parsifal."
Frederick Jagel. Metropolitan Opera
tenor, will be the guest soloist with
Victor Kolar's Symphony Orchestra
during the Sunday Evening Hour on
WJSV at 9. His program includes
the recitative and aria from Men
delssohn's oratorio. Elijah" and the
"Improviso," from Giordano's opera of
the French revolution. Andrea
Chenier."
Father Finn and his famous Paulist
Boys Choir of rs voices will collabo-
rate with the Radio City Music Hall
Symphony Orchestra in special
Easter program on WMAL at 1890.
Star ball players OF both major
leagues will take part in radio
salute to the new season on WJSV at
$50. Microphone ''pick-ups" will be
made from Washington. New York,
Chicago, st. Louis. Chicago, Boston,
Cincinnati and Philadelphia.
A distinctive Easter program fea-
turing four unusual compositions by
Henry Purcell will be presented by
the New York Philharmonic SYM
phony Society Orchestra on WJSV at
3. The soloist will be Mishel Piastro.
Paul Whiteman, on WMAL at Gas,
also will present special program of
Easter music. featuring the famous
st. Paul Choristers of Brooklyn, and
Stuart Churchill, tenor.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
F. c. c. Calls Parley for Inventory
Of Impending Radio Developments

WITH many new radio miracles
visible on the radio horizon, of
which television is the most glamorous,
the Federal Communications Commits
sion has called an extraordinary con-
ference to take inventory of impend-
ing developments and to prepare for
what should be done in a regulatory
way.
Beginning June Is, and for perhaps
10 days thereafter, the Nations lead
ing engineers and scientists will troop
before the seven members of the
F. G. G. to give their views on future
radio. These, presumably, will cover
television, facsimile (Which is like
wirephoto over radio), so-called ultra
high-frequency broadcasting and other
types of public service, aviation, ship
and transoceanic communications,
along with present-day broadcasting.
The F. c. C. wants to analyZe the
radio spectrum from beginning to end.
1t seeks to ascertain what types of
present services will best perform on
what bands of radio channels and
what reservations should be made for
these services like television, fac
simile and ultra short wave broadcast
ing. After it gets these views it will
decide on future policies respecting
assignments of stations. Moreover, it
will throw safeguards around expert
mentation in the ether with the idea
OF Fastening development.
In ordering the hearings the F. C.
c. adopted recommendation of its
new chief engineer, T. A. M. Craven,
former communications expert of the
Navy. The problem presented largely
grows out of the harnessing of the
Evening star., 1936-04-12
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, April 11.-Television
out Of the laboratory by mid
1885, under restricted field experiment
tation plan. won't be the first occa-
sion that seeing by radio has sought
to break into public light.
Several times since the 30s came
into being attempts have been made
to conduct tests with a possible pub
lie audience. In this connection, sta
tions mainly in New York, Washing
ton, Chicago and Boston operating on
the medium short waves had regular
schedules over considerable periods.
Most of the transmission was confined
to 60-line pictures and mechanical
scanning.
These tests were fairly successful
80 far as they went, but the limitation
of this type of television, not to men
ton motors and cumbersome scanning
disks, was quite obvious. Lack of de-
tail In the received image confined the
best pictures to head and shoulders,
while the wave lengths used were sub
1ect to fading and other disturbances.
Under the latest plan for tests,
which are to be conducted by R. c. A.
and N. 3. c. engineers with trans.
mitters atop the Empire State Build
ing in New York and with special
studio in nearby Radio City, many of
the defects of the earlier systems have
been overcome.
For example, the detail has been
enhanced to 1853 lines per image.
Mechanical scanning has been cast
aside In favor Of electrical apparatus,
Evening star., 1936-04-12

ultra thigh frequeacies above 10000
kilocycles, which for years had been
regarded as practically worthless.
Into this band, it is expected, will
fall such services as television and
facsimile. And engineers see the
time coming when local broadcast
ing stations, serving only small metro
politan areas, will find their haven
on these extreme short waves. Thus
perhaps hundreds of additional sta
tions might be licensed. Indeed,
more than a score of them already
are operating experimentally as So
called APEX" stations, and with
rather surprising results.
But the F. C. c. feels that, before
attempting to parcel out wave lengths,
it should ascertain the needs of pro-
spectNe users of these bands. The
Army and the Navy feel they can
use them to advantage. So do the
aviation companies and other gov
ernmental services. They also ap-
pear useful for point-to-point COM
munications without wires, but par
allellng the work of telegraph COM
panieA
Moreover, the present usable spec
trum, which ranges from 10 to $4,000
kilocycles, is about crammed full.
The phenomenal development of po-
lice radio services has taxed the
capacity of the medium high-fre-
quency bands, ranging above the
broadcast band, which ends at 1900
kilocycles. 1t may develop that ad-
vantages would result from the shift
ing about of certain types of services
to other bands, but there would be
involved in such moves the replace
ment of equipment now in service.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
SHORT WAVE FEATURES
TODAY.

Boston -11:15 am. Easter
service from Trinity Church. Bos-
ton. w1XAL, 49.67 m, 6.04 meg.
Paris-3:30 p.m.-Play at Ma
tional Theater of the Opera
Comique. FYA, 25.6 m, 11.72
meg.
Moscow pm.-Review of the
week; listeners questions and
answers; news bulletin. RNE,
so m, 6 meg.
London-6 p.rn.-Bells and
religious service, relayed from st.
Martin = in the Fields, London.
GSD, 25.5 m, Ills meg; Csc.
31.3 m, 9.58 meg, or GSA, 49.5
m, sos meg.
London-7:15 p.m.-The Wake
field Miracle-play of the Cruel.
flxion, together with a Cornish
mystery play of the Three Maries.
GSD, 25.5 m, Ills meg: CSC,
31.3 M, 9.58 meg, or GSA, 49.5
M, SOS meg.
Berlin-8:30 p.m.-Easter tunes.
Old folk music, DUG, 49.8 m,
500 meg.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
Rv the Radio Editor.

~ AY by day the mysteries Of the
strange habits of broadcast
waves are yielding to the
49, experiments of scientists who
conduct deep studies into what makes
the kilocycles tick and why they be-
have so queerly. But so far science
has not thrown much light on the life
and habits of the ionosphere or heavi-
side layer, that blankets the earth at
strength of rs to 100 miles.
It is this ceiling" of the radio realm
that two scientific institutions are
studying as a result Of special permis-
sion recently granted by the Federal
Communications Commission. The
grants are to Carnegie Institution of
Washington and Cruft Laboratory at
Harvard University. The Carnegie
scientists have construction permit
from the F. C. C. to send out incon-
ceivably brief radio waves between 500
and $500 kilocycles, which includes
the broadcast band and substantial
part of the short-wave band. What
they want to learn is the exact effect
of the heaviside layer on different fire.
quencies.
Since regular broadcast programs
would suffer from electric crackles and
ethereal sputterings if test waves were
transmitted on the 550-1 600 -kilocycle
band, and commercial, amateur and
Government signals would be inter-
fered with in the higher frequencies,
the tests will be made with signals that
last only one ten-thousandth OF a sec
ond. Such sounds are so brief that
the human ear will not register them
lust to make sure that the tests
wouldn't cause any annoyance, the
r. c. c. spent three months studying
the Carnegie and Harvard applications
for permission to explore the heaviside
layer
Well known to radio folk and to
many listeners is the difference be-
tween broadcast transmission in the
60o-kilocycle region and at the 1900
kilocycle end of the band. The higher
frequency signals tend to aim toward
the heaviside layer, thus developing
skipping habits which leave big blind
spots. Then the signals will suddenly
appear in remote region hundreds or
even thousands of miles away.
In the case of extremely short waves
the signals sometimes cannot be heard
much beyond the actual horizon which
can be seen from the antenna.
Already the Carnegie Institution is
sending out signals from its station at
Kensington, Md The signals are sent
on different frequencies and recordings
are made of their habits.
The Harvard experiments are being
made now with portable outfit which
is to be shipped to Siberia in June
where studies will be made of radio
waves during the forthcoming eclipse
In an effort to see just what relations
may exist between eclipses and radio
waves.
ETHEREAL bombardments from
across the Mexican border are
again disturbing the peace of many
American broadcasting stations by
curtailing their service to listeners.
About a dozen high-powered sta
Evening star., 1936-04-12

Carnegie, Harvard Groups
Get Especial F. &C. Permits
Washington Experts Seeking to Determine
Ionosphere's Effect on Various
FreQuencies.

tions just across the international
border in Mexico have revived their
operations in such fashion as to cause
renewed protests to the Federal Com
munications Commission. Those sta
tions have "squatted" upon channels
assigned to American stations and by
broadcasting with high power in ef-
forts to reach American rather than
Mexican listeners, are causing all but
ruinous interference with reception of
the American stations on the same
or adjacent channels.
Mexico is not a party to the so.
called North American agreement, un-
der which nations on the continent
agree to share certain wave lengths
and minimize interference by Coop
erative measures. AS a consequence,
Mexican stations are operating on
what amount to pre-empted channels
assigned to this country.
The trouble, however, does not grow
out of operation Of stations in the in
terror of Mexico. 1t is restricted al
most entirely to those spotted just
across the Rio Grande whose obvious
purpose is to reach the American au-
dience. In nearly every case they are
operated with American backing
Among these stations are XERA, at
Villa Acuna. across from Del Rio,
Tex, operated by DR.. John r. Brink
ley, who once had station in Kansas,
but lost his Federal license because
his broadcasts were deemed dangerous
to public health. DR.. Brinkley imme-
diately set up a 15O,oOo-watt station
in Mexico, moved his hospital to Del
Rio and continued his business. He
has had several complications with
Mexican authorities, which once dis
mantled his station, but he Is back
at the old stand now.
THE Brinkley station, because Of its
high power. is causing no end Of
trouble for a half-dozen stations in
the West and Middle West. Federal
authorities, however, cannot touch
him, except through diplomatic chan
nels. While overtures were made sew.
eral years ago by the State Depart
ment and resulted in punitive action,
so far as is known, no steps have
been taken since the development of
the current difficulties.
Another alleged offender whose case
almost parallels Brinkleys is Norman
Baker. formerly of Muscatine, Iowa,
who also had his station there deleted
because of allegedly quack cancer
cure advertising He also ran a sani-
tarium. He is now operating KENT,
at Nueve Laredo, opposite Laredo,
with 10000 watts on $50 kilocycles.
The station has hedged in the service
of several American stations, it is now
reported at the F. c. c.
Ultimately Federal authorities hope
to find solution through action by
Mexico outlawing these renegade"
border stations. They maintain that
these are not Mexican stations since
they cater to the American audience
and that they have been established
in Mexico only to circumvent the
laws. These stations COM
ply with Mexican regulations to some
extent by making their announce
ments in Spanish as we'll as in English.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
Hollywood Scores.

THE changing ways of Hollywood
have overtaken Arthur jacobson
and Shaindel Kalish, longtime mem
bers of the cast of Grand Hotel" and
the First Nighter." They were heard
on those programs from Chicago and
now broadcast occasionally in the
First Nighter" from Hollywood.
jacobson is now known as Henry
Hunter, and Miss Kalish Is tagged Ann
Preston. Both will appear under those
new cognomens in Universal's What
Price Parole?" now in production.
Evening star., 1936-04-12

MednWllle TWO BOOO OlQ SJdLQDyS
promise to be with us all season: Ben
Bernie, who has just signed for anoth-
er 26 weeks on his present spot, and
Fibber MCGEE and Molly, renewed for
another year on N. B. C.'s Blue net
work.
Gilbert Seldes has cooked UP a
news broadcast formula which bows
on the same network April 26, and
gives his promise you'll hear only the
news that's apt to raise the price of
your shirts or throw your cousin out
Of work.
roth c. B. S. and the two N. B. C.
networks will pick up the first
American radio address of King Carol
of Rumania May 10. Reinhold
Schmidt, whose voice is bound to
please the fans who 60 for basso solo,
lists. has a regular Friday program
on N. B. c. Phil Duey is due to go
dramatic as well as vocal on his new
show.
The broadcasters have agreed to
make it darby" not derby" this
year in the May airings from
Churchill Downs :. Clem Mccarthy,
just opened in a three-a-week IL pm.
Sports Shots" series on N. B. c.,
draws the April "a assignment to
cover the Maryland Hunt Cup races
Bill Slater and the Mrs. sail
July Is on the Manhattan. in COM
pany with the Olympics athletes and
committee Announcer Slater will
relay the games from Berlin for
N. B. c.
MRS. JESSE CRAWFORD is ready
Az to pinch-hit as organist for
N. B. c. again this week while her
husband helps dedicate WHY'S new
studios . Mrs. Robert Speer, hon.
orary president of the Y. w. C. A,
does a tea-time stint on N. B. c.
today, 5 pm. -. Ruth Etting will be
back at the microphone Tuesday,
guest-starring for Ben Bernie {.
Adolphe Menjou and Verree Teasdale
have signed for the Mary Pickford
show for April 21 Maria Forbes,
who gets her big chance on Paul
Whiteman's program next Sunday, is
the Boston debutante of several sea-
sons back who set society tongues
wagging when she started out warbling
professionally with Ranny Weeks or
chestra in a nighterie in her own
home town.
Howard and Shelton are due for
their own comedy series on c. B. S.
next month :. there's talk that Tony
Wons w. L. S. program will go network
in May and chatter is also going
the rounds that prospective sponsor
favors Benny Goodman for a new
Dance Parade" hour.
MORTON DOWNEY will be of for
N England and Ireland again next
month Frank Parker's Saturday
show will shift to 7:30 pm. May 2
Parker has a birthday this month,
by the way, his twenty-ninth. on
April 20 o.. With Benny Fields get
ting his due at long last on that
Saturday night Columbia series, the
broadcasters are beginning to ogle
Mrs. Fields blossom Seeley) as
radio possibility. too D.. Lennle Hay
ton is getting ready to tour Con-
rad Thibault leaves the Show Boat"
cast. but Lanny Ross and the orches-
ira stay on and Radio Row has
it that the newly instituted guest
star policy will continue through the
Summer, although so far they have
been signed on a week-to-week basis.
Richard Himber says he'll continue
to concentrate on the music. even if
Evening star., 1936-04-12
R.C.A. and N.B.C. Engineers Planning
Field Experimentation of TeIeuision

both transmitting and receiving, with
specially designed cathode ray tubes.
These devices have necessarily COM
plicated the circuits required, but that
is not looked upon as disadvantage.
The r. G. A. tests, set to begin
June %, will use ultra short waves
under five meters. These permit al
most interference-free transmission, a
requirement much more important in
sight than it is in sound. While these
waves are limited in their range, this
factor is expected to make possible
station duplication on the same wave
within hundred-mile radius or so.
Evening star., 1936-04-12

he's turning loose Of the baton long
enough to step up to the microphone
for a conversational turn OCCASION
ally these Friday nights Jack
Hylton can't be lured into wearing
the ribbon Of the Legion of Honor,
but he owns one . and It's Just as
well that Bob Ripley also is modest
about his collection Of badges and
membership buttons he's radios
champion joiner. lining up with the
Royal Geographical Society, the
American and National Geographic
Societies, Royal Society Of England,
the Circumnavigators' Club, Lotus
Club, Friars' Club, Adventurers' and
New York Athletic Clubs.
"R ED" NICHOLS admits he's feel
ing pretty SNUG after getting
radio installed in every room in his
Forest Hills. L. l.. home .. Amos n
Andy pack up Monday and leave Palm
Springs. Calf, but won't get into Chi
cago until next month. inasmuch as
they will stop for personal appear
ances en- route it's a sylph-nke
Marion Talley the Hollywood cameras
are turning upon these days
she's a trim little figure after Drop
ping % pounds and speaking Of
hlm folk, Howard Price may be in
that class soon .. he had his hlm
tests on Thursday.
John Charles Thomas has given up
his plans for a European vacation
and will go to Florida Bob Hope
is grooming girls vocal and .dra-
matte show for the air =. June 28 will
see the wind-up of the Sunday CO.
lunbia concert series for the season.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
Debut for Folies.
"EoLIEs BERGERE OF THE Ar

"EOLIES BERGERE OF THE AIR.
a new variety series starring
Willie and Eugene Howard, musical
comedy headliners, will make its debut
on N. B. c. Wednesday at $50 pm.
The Howards will be presented as a
pair of Broadway entertainers unex-
pectedly tossed into the whirl of Paris
night life.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
DR.. Pergler to T ak.

DR. CHARLES PERGLER, dean Of
~ the National University School of
and Government, will
discuss "The Interpretation by the
Courts of the Constitution" over VOL
Tuesday at 9:15 pm. This will be
The second of a series Of programs
arranged by the Society of American
History and Government.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
Radio Law Skirted.

A T LEAST one cab company in New
= York has skirted around the
city's ordinance against radios in cabs
for the entertainment of drivers.
The radio does not operate until the
driver throws the flag" on the taxi
meter and the passenger turns on the
switch. THE radios" says this COM
pany, thus are primarily for the en-.
tertainment of the passenger rather
than the driver, and observe the city's
police regulation in this respect"
Evening star., 1936-04-12
"Maison du Radio"

CORRESPONDING to Radio City in
~ New York and the various radio
centers established or being estab-
lished in London, Berlin, Vienna,
Rome and Moscow, France may soon
build q "Maison du Radio" in Paris
for the international exposition to
be held there in 1887.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
Gang End on N. B. C..

THE end of the Dillinger gang, which
came when Homer Van Meter was
killed in st. Paul, will be depicted
during the Gang Busters" dramatiza.
ton on N. B. c. Wednesday. It was
Van Meter who planned many of the
hold-ups for which the Dillinger gang
was notorious.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
First Game on Air.

COLUMBIA has completed arrange
~ ments for a play-by-play broad
cast of the opening game in New York
Tuesday between the Giants and
Dodgers. Ted Husing will be at the
microphone In the Polo Grounds.
Evening star., 1936-04-12
New Shows Will Take Air
For Previews in Summer
Ben Bernie Signs for 26 Weeks More-Gil-
bert Seldes to Take Bow April 26
With News Broadcast.
Ru RorotL, UTotf;cou
By Dorothy Mattison.

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I'M start few network innovations Just at the season when Of
the big air shows getting ready
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proverbia thumb
Evening star., 1936-06-14

are to do whatever the Governor
wants"
The Governor" referred to the
presidential candidate, Gov. ALI Lam
don Of Kansas. Earlier the energetic
Chicago publisher wired Landon that
IT gladly place myself under your
orders and will undertake to dis
charge every assignment with all the
vigor and ability I possess"
Knox will leave Chicago Monday
night to confer with Gov. Landon and
other high-ranking Republicans, on
the coming battle to unseat the Dem
ocratic national administration.
SECRETARIES transmitted a news story
to the colonel in which Gov. Landon
said it would be a lighting cam
paign." Knox did not comment, but
his office aides said that's right down
the colonels alley. He loves good
fight"
The coloneps telegram to Gov.
Landon gave a hint that the sandy
haired former rough rider" would
welcome orders for up and at 'em"
duty.
He said political and economic con-
ditions call for "a display of the same
qualities" both men, who were Bull
Moosers in the turbulent days Of 1912,
admired In Theodore Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1936-06-14

After June 3Oth prices
viii be materially in
creased. This low price
includes 1S-in. Red Flash
boiler. 500 II. radiation.
G radiators and AUTO
MATIC JANITOR CLOCK.
Completely installed by
graduate heating engi-
neers. Free estimates.
Evening star., 1936-06-14

Of that body have predicted it will
pass the bill within two hours.
Presenting the principal argument
for the bill at yesterdays session,
Charles P. O'Neill, chairman of the
National Conference Of Bituminous
Coal Producers, contended the meas
ure was a necessary stop-gap to en-
BILE the industry to solve its problem
Of over-productive capacity.
'This industry, with 5000 mines in
27 States, has got to have some help
against organized buying and selling, I"
O'Neill declared. He said, in defense
of the price-fixing provision, that most
of the equipment and supplies pur-
chased by coal producers were bought
at fixed prices.
This is simply a stop-loss provi-
sioI.," he argued, mot a monopolistic
device to rob the public"
O'Neill declared "a lot of operators"
opposed the bill mot because they're
afraid Of oil and gas competition. but
because they're afraid to compete
fairly and squarely with their fellow
coal operators"
Bread and Butter" Proposition.
Describing the bill as "a bread and
butter proposition to $4,000 miners" 4"
Lewis told the committee his organi-
zation was "petitioning" Congress to
pass 1t "only as last resort" He
explained the union wanted such pro-
lection as the bill would afford, al
though it did not regard price,
fixing alone as the answer to the in
dustry's problems.
Earlier in the day, r. L. Ireland.
jr.. vice president of the Hanna Coal
Co. of Cleveland. told the committee
the 'infieMbility" of the bills price-
fixing features would destroy the in
dustry eventually"