The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1943-05-15

TOURIN' THE
RADIO WORLD
Ry ISAAC JONES
! VISITED BERLIN
WEST INDIES NEWS PAGE
IN BROADCAsTINC

last SATURDAY EVENING.
my dial set NJ lo.s meters In
shoffwaves when picked up a
very powerful station A musical
program in progress I decided
70 stick around few minutes
foping that the announcer would
say something in English A few
minutes later the announcer
said. This is Berlin calling in
the North America Broadcast
his voice was clear as a crystal
his English slmos, perfect In
The background could hear
laughing and loud talking "a
new program was about to bit
the air' what d. you suppose II
Was about twenty-five American
soldiers captured as war prison
trs IN The Tunisia battle in Az
riea we're brought 10 the mike
each sem 2 personal message 10
Wives mothers swcethearis ~
relatives IN the TSA Earh sol.
dier would give his name. home
aedress and requested any one
hearing Tho program 10 relay the
message 20 their loved ones
Each soldier repeated this phrase
= have been captured hv the
Germans IN Tunisia and enpec,
70 hc IN Germany soon Don't
Worry I'm all right" One SOL
der who hailed from Pennsyl-
wanna broadcast back 10 his parents
End ended the message with me
following words Keep 'em nv
'nr' Loud laughing could he
heard in The Background when ne
said this \ few n the soldiers
nid not want 20 broadcast Ivould
hear the German officers saving
Come on Come on Speak np'r
THEY all spoke In English MI
Won are interested in listening 10
SOME % Rerlins lies nine in
shcr'waves ~ 1913 meters ahou,
Z ? m and voull find THIS Ger
man station pntting IN a STRONG
SIGNAL You will hear pleniy
nhou the united nations war 81
forts that You'll know IL not
true
SUNDAY NIGHT was amazed
again with broadcast I picked
NJ from the German capital II
was religious seryice which WAS
hroadcas from 10 lo.l5 M
The installation Of tho new.
Catholic Archbishop; don't know
Whether this Archbishop was be-
ing Installed in Germany or
in Italy ANYWAY It was broad
cast 10 North Africa from Rey-
lin
Vor WILL REMEMBER ! told
YOU about the Voice or Amer
lea PR gram In this column last
week This program e broadcast
tc the world by tho powerful
shortwave station WRIT Boston
Mass and may he picked M ~
Tho Is meter hand ahout 20 pm
There Il one edition Of this
program (which is divided in'o
manvl called the West Indies
Newspa per u gives tn activl
Ties 81 The peoples below the
Rio Crande especially the dark
races SO II YOU are Interested
in what the colored people ~
Nest Indies. Jamaica Bermuda.
and other islands are doine be
sure 10 listen 10 this program
every evening Here's 2 note ~
interest heard on The West In
dies newspaper last FRIDAY eve
ming y WAS related bv woman
announcer She said. Our beloved
Marian Anderson LETT last niehi
for hve-week tour ~ Mexico She
will give her firs' concert IN
Mexico CITY next week
heard good iazz hand from
England which was termed as
Britains leading band and boore
tho name Jerry Rock and bis
Rand"
TIE IN stations are just as ad-
vertised are tree from static.
also free from long commercials
Dnring = rsinstorm last week
was ahlc 10 continue 10 listen
TO the FM station without any
interference rntil next week \
GOOD LISTENING"