Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 248, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1925 — Page 19

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TWENTY-FIVE MILLION FANS TO HEAR COOLIDGE

Inaugural Address Will Be Broadcast From More Than Thirty Radio Stations —A. T. and T. Makes Arrangements for Huge Task. By CARL FOUL, Times Radio Editor. Twenty-five million people will listen in simultaneously when the inaugural address of President Coolidge is broadcast and rebroadeast by more than thirty of the larger stations covvering the country from coast to coast.

This wiU be by far the greatest audience ever assemb'od in the history of the world. That nearly one-quarter of the citizens of a nation should listen* at one time to the words of Its chief executive Is almost beyond the most extended limits of the imagination. It will be the first time that the inaugural ceremonies have ever been broadcast. Not- alone will the voice of the President be carried to every radio set in the United States of America, but a public address system at the Capitol will enable the expected crowd of 125,000 people there assembled to hear, word for word, the aznpl'Sed voice of the President. No Expense U U. S. No expense will be incurred by the Government to accomplish this unprecedented feat of broadcasting. Arrangements have been completed by ’the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, The Radio Corporation of America and the Cheeapeake and Potomac Telephone Company. The inaugural pro*jredings will be broadcast through WEAF, the experimental station of the A. T. & T. company in New York City, coming from Washington over the long distance lines of the company, and in return it will be transmitted by a network of telephone lines to the stations throughout the country _ that will broadcast the ceremonies simultaneously. The thirty stations broadcasting this event will be strung from coast to coast, so that every part of the country will be able to listen In. The list of stations that will be linked together, at the present time, include WEAF. New York City; WEEI, Boston. Mass.; WJAR, Providence, R. I ; WTIC, Hartford, Conn.; WOO, Philadelphia. Pa.; WCAE. Pittsburgh, Pa.; WGR. Buffalo. N. Y.; WEAR, Cleveland, Ohio; WLW, Cincinnati, Ohio; WWJ, Detroit. Mich.; WMAQ, Chicago. 111.; WDAF, Xansas City, Mo.; WHO, Des Moines, Iowa; WCCO. Minneapolis St. Paul, Minn.; WSB. Atlanta, Ga.; KFI, Eos Angeles. Cal.; KPO. San Francisco, Cal., and KLX, Oakland, Cal. The proceedings will also be broadcast by the Radio Corporation of America through Stations WRC, Washington, D. C.; WJZ, New York, N. Y., and WGY, Schenectady, N. Y Other stations will be added to this list of broadcasting stations who will transmit this notable event into the ether for the benefit of a vast radio audience who otherwise would be unable to “participate. ’* Mac on Job Graham McNamee, one of WEAF’s popular announcers, will give his familiar “Good Morning, ladies and gentlemen of the Radio au'.tence,” to the chain of stations connected with WEAF at approximately 11:15 a. m. from his position on the platform and after, a brief description of the local color about him, will Introduce to his listeners the United State Marine Band which will be heard at 11:57. At 11: 58 a fanfare of trumpets will call the assemblunge to order and immediately the justices of the Supreme will approach the platform fol- i lowed by the chief justice, cabinet

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members and President Coolidge. At high noon the Preladent momentarily ceases to hold the office of President of the United States, but at the next moment takes the oath of office for the term of four years. Fallowing a short prayer, President Coolidge will address the multitude, not only visible but invisible, and at the conclusion of his address the United States Marine Band will render the "Star Singled Banner” bringing the ceremonies to a close. SMOKER PROGRAM 10 BE BROADCAST Fort Officers Will Entertain Indianapolis Club, Officers stationed at Ft. Benjamin Harrison will be hosts at a smoker tonight at the Officers Club for the Army and Navy Club of Indianapolis. > Music by the 11th Infantry orchestra will be heard from 8:30 to 9 p. m. At 9 Colonel E. J. Nowlen, president of the Ft. Harrison Club will take charge and introduce the speakers. The prlnclal address will be by the Rev. Frank S. C. Wicks, pastor of All Souls Unitarian Church of Indianapolis. Brig. Gen. Dwight Apltman, commandant at the fort, also will talk. Beginning at 10 there will be music by the 11th Infantry orchestra. Refreshments, prepared by students at the Ft. Harrison Cooks and Bakers School, will be served. The entire program will be broadcast direct from the officers club by the Ft. Harrison Radio Sta lon IyFBY, with a wave length of 258 meters.

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Hook-Up for Inaugural Speech

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HERE ARE SHOWN RADIO ENGINEERS AT WORK AT THE GREAT SPEECH INPUT AND LONG DISTANCE PANEL, AT WEAF. NEW YORK CITY. WHERE THE INAUGURAL SPEECH OF PRESIDENT COOLIDGE WILL BE RECEIVED OVER A WIRE AND THEN REBROADCAST THROUGH STATIONS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.

PLAN NEW STATIONS Australis to Communicate With England and Canada. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26—Two beam radio stations to communicate respectively with England and with Canada will be erected In Australia under an agreement by the Amalgamated Wireless, Ltd., and the Marconi Company, Ltd., according to reports to the Department of Commerce. N The Marconi Company, which is supplying the apparatus and material, has guaranteed that the station for English traffic will have a capacity of 43,000 words duplex daily. The stations are to be in operation twelve months from date of signing of the contract. The sum involved in the contract is said to be 120.000 pounds. Station on Yap Isle Japan plans to erect a monster radio station on the island of Yap, which was taxen from Germany during the war. and is under Japanese p.r.’idate

Thousands Write in for Prizes Bv SEA Service HILL. N. Y., I Feb. 26.—Eighty mlnL* utes of announcements from the broadcasting station WAHG brought in more than 46,000 letters from all over the United States, Canada, Cuba, and even South America. This is how WAHG offers credentials for the popularity of radio. In this case the station announced several prizes in a ravjio St. Valentine’s contest.

Southern Radio Ba>t Programs from broadcasting stations to the south are more easily received than those from the east, at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, report officials of the Prince Albert Radio Club. The belief Is that the great northern (Ontario mineral belt Intervenes.

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NAVAL RADIO IS i PERFORMING BIG SERVICE IN U. S. Saving of $2,500,000 Annually for Government in Messages, SPA Service Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 Uncle Sam’s naval radio communication service. Invaluable as it is expected to be in wartime, is proving a valuable asset in peace. It is saving lives at sea through the service of its compass stations. It is saving the government some $2,500,000 annually messages sent out for other departments. It is more than paying for itself. Not counting the transmitters on naval ships, airplanes and other mobile units, the service has a total of sixty-three radio traffic stations dotting the continental United States, Alaska, the canal zone and its insular possessions. Besides these, fifty-two radio compass stations along Uncle Sam’s coast fines maintain safety at sea. Free Aid to Ships The navy’s compass stations provide positions and bearings to ships, navy, commercial, American and foreign, on request. And the service is free, in contrast to charges collected for such Information by British stations and those of other countries. If the Navy were to charge for this service, it is estimated, many thousands of dollars would roll Into the treasury. But the department earns enough money in the commercial service it renders ships at sea, when no private station can take care of it* messages. Such messages brought in *1300,000 last year, more than the cost of operating the entire naval communications service. Messenger for All Besides these and its own messages, messages to and from all other Government departments are handled through the naval radio stations. In this way the Government is said to save about $2,500,000 annually. Yet the United States Navy pays for messages that happen to l>e handled through foreign stations. For instance, If a naval ship in Borneo. not within communication of a United States naval radio station, sends a message through the Dutch station there, Holland sends in a hill for the service, and Uncle Sam foots it.

By Roy Grove