Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 172, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1928 — Page 2

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RADIO IS HURT RY CHARGING OF BATTERIES Autoists Found to Blame in Many Instances of Interferences. Efforts of Old Man Winter to produce cold automobile motors and run-down batteries have brought many old style battery chargers back into use, with disastrous results to good radio reception. The type that has the vibrating arm home chargers causes interference from two to five miles. Many letters have found their way to The Times radio interference department in the last week, all with different ideas as to cause of the trouble. The Times Radio Interference Man would like everybody with chargers to find out if they are the type that broadcast. If they are, don’t put them on until after 11 p. m. The eight-hour charge will bring your battery up to the amount needed to run the starter. More than fifty cases have been found and in some cases chargers ■were being used by those who sent in the letters. Here is one case of charger trouble: Times Interference Man: Radio Editor Times—We have had poor reception in this locality for two years. The noise at times sounds like a motor, at all times popping and also a strong A. C. hum There are high tension fines in the rear of 2627 Southeastern avenue. On rainy nights we can see and hear leaks from the insulators and see the sparks jump, making a loud, cracking sound. It is signed by P. A. Chapman, 2627 Southeastern avenue; L. M. Wall, 2534 English avenue; E. E. Branham, 2723 Southeastern avenue; Frank Schier, 2609 Southeastern avenue; Harry Lewis, 2520 English avenue; Roy Styers, 2400 English avenue; Delbert Julian, 2422 English avenue; and Frank B. West, 2515 Southeastern avenue. The Times interference ;oan made a check on the trouble in the neighborhood, finding that most of the interference was caused by battery chargers of old type that were broadcasting an A. C. hum for more than a mile. Also, the power station at Southeastern avenue and English avenue was interfering with low wave stations. D. E. Morgan, 316 West Twentyninth street: This is the second time that we have found that the power fines of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company have caused interference in your locality. The fight company has been notified and promised that if the trouble could be found in the Forty-ninth and Keystone station it would be removed. Arthur Purkheiser, 2918 East Michigan street: After a check, looking for your trouble, I find that the interference comes from the street car lines. You are receiving a three-block interference, made as each car passes. G. A. Berdon, East Michigan street: You were right about the car rails for three or y four blocks. They are in bad condition. The car company has been notified and your trouble soon will be less in volume when these rails are repaired. Mrs. T. William Engle, 462 North State avenue: .After a check on th? trouble you have in your locality, I find that the East Michigan cars are causing quite a bit of it. Going east, the cars have an upgrade and must increase power to make the hill. Also, the rails have been wet lately, and that, with the dirt on them, would make a bad ground. The car com pany has been notified in this case and will do everything possible to clear your trouble. Ralph E. Brooks, 1605 North New Jersey street: Your trouble is not in the power fines, as you said. I made a careful check of that locality and find that you have two small cases of trouble that will be cleared up by Monday. Esther Sabanchy, 3823 Graceland avenue: Yous trouble was in the street car fines, broken bounds now will be taken erne of.

City Stations SATURDAY YVKBF (1 -t(10 Kilocycles) INDIANAPOLIS (Hoosicr Athletic Club) A. M. 10:00—Recipe exchange. If):ls—Studio program. 10:25—Interesting bits of history, courtesy Indianapolis public library. 10:30—Livestock and grain market; weather and shipper’s forecast. 10:10—WKBF shopping service. P. M. ' s:oo—Late news bulletins and sports. 6:oo—Santa Claus. 6:3o—Bair’s theaters urogram. 10:30—Indianapolis Athletic Club. SUNDAY P. M. I:3o—Betsy Ross quintet. 2:3o—lndiana Federation of Musio Clubs. 3:3o—Studio hour. 7:oo—First Presbyterian church. WFBM <IOSO Kilocycles) INDIANAPOLIS 'lndianapolis Power and Light Company) SATURDAY A. M. 11:00—Speech by American Legion commander, McNutt. P. M. s:4s—Santa Ciaus. 6:oo—Longine’s time; weather forecast; dance marathon news. 6:IS—YVFGM concert trio. 6:3O—WFBM mixed quartet. 7:oo—Baldwin Piano Company quintet. 7:3o—Kenwood Tire entertainers. B:oo—Christmas Seal program. B:3o—Studio harp recital, by Pasquale Montani. B:4s—Kilowatt hour. 9:4s—Edison minstrels. 10:15—The Columnist: Longine’s time; weather forecast. 10:30—Dick Powell’s orchestra. 11:00—Charlie Davis’s orchestra from Columbia Club and Sleep Tomorrow Club. 1:00—Good morning. WFBM (1.000 kilocycles) INDIANAPOLIS (Indianapolis Power and Light Company) SUNDAY A. M. \ o:3o—Christian Men Builders. 10:45—Roberts Park M. E. church. V. M. 1:00 —International Bible Students’ Association. 3:oo—Baldwin Piano Company classic recordings. 3:4s—De Pauw university program from Grcenrastle. 4:4s —Second Presbyterian church. o:oo—Longine's time. 6:ol—Stutz hour of muslr, 7:00—El Verso hour. 7:3o—Dance marathon news.

Fishing The Air All references are Central Standard Time.

INDIANAPOLIS radio fans now have opportunity to learn something which a great number of them have been waiting for. The Indianapolis Radio Club, 460 Century building, has completed arrangements for establishing a code school in the Century building clubroqm, to be held every Friday night at 7:30 The school will be conducted for two classes, those who know the code and have not enough speed in receiving to get licenses, and those interested, but with no knowledge of the radio or continental code at all. The school is open to anyone who desires to attend and the club wishes to get as many new members in attendance as possible. a a a a a a "Naughty Marietta,” an operetta by Victor Herbert, will be the feature of the Philco hour, broadcast with Jessica Dragonette and Colin O’More in the leading roles through the NBC System Saturday night at 8 o’clock. a a a a a a The Indiana Federation of Music Clubs radio hour, a regular Sunday afternoon feature from 2:30 to 3:30 over WKBF, Hoosier Athletic Club station, will be presented by members of the student section of the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale. Feature will be three groups of organ numbers by Mary Helen Brook, Mrs. C. Harold Larsh and Mrs. Dante L. Connor, three of this city’s younger organists. These organ programs are arranged for by Mrs. C. A. Brockway, members of the radio committee of the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs, of which Mrs. Frank B. Hunter is state chairman. a a a a a a Astounding revelations of the wonders radio still holds in store for the audience will be given by Dr. Lee De Forest, "father of radio,” in the De Forest Audions broadcast at 9 o'clock Sunday night from a network of stations associated with the Columbia broadcasting system. Having been engaged in pioneer radio research work for almost a quarter of a century, no one is better qualified to speak on the possibilities radio still holds.

HIGH SPOTS OF SATURDAY NIGHT’S OFFERINGS 7:OO—vVEAF—NBC Network—National Symphony orchestra. 9:OO—WEAF —NBC Network—Lucky Strike orchestra. B:OO—WJZ—NBC Network—Philco hour. 7:OO—WABC—New York—Telegram tryout hour. 9:IS—WJZ—NBC Network—Melodrama.

The adventures of the explorers searching for proof of prehistoric man in the wastes of Mesopotamia will be related to Chicago Daily News fans Saturday night, between 7:25 and 8 o’clock when Henry Field delivers the radio photolog over WMAQ. Field, assistant curator of physical anthropology at the Field museum, will deliver the photolog. Field will call upon his own experiences as a member of the Field museum-Oxford university expedition to Kish, Mesopotamia, of which he was a party sent to collect human skeletons to try to discover racial characteristics of the earliest inhabitants. a a a a a a Second symphony concert by Walter Damrosch and the new National orchestra in the elaborate series exclusively for radio will be broadcast from coast to coast through a nation-wide network of the NBC Saturday night at 7 o’clock. a a a a a a Another request repeat program will mark the coast-to-coast broadcast of the Lucky Strike dance orchestra over the NBC system Saturday night at 9 o’clock at 10 o'clock, eastern standard time. These popular numbers include “The Rag Doll,” the tango fox trot, "Underneath the Stars;” “My Memories of France,” “Grieving” and “Ida! Sweet as Apple Cider.” Other numbers from Broadway hits will be "Pompanola” from “Three Cheers” and “Anything Your Heart Desires” from “Just a Minute.” a a a a a a Three Spanish dances, one of them rarely played, will enliven the La Palina hour Sunday night at 7:30 by stations of the Columbia broadcasting system. a a a a a a The Chicago symphony orchestra, Dr. Frederick Stock conducting, will present the third of a series of broadcast concerts, Sunday night, through the NBC system. The program will be put on the air from the Chicago studios of the National Broadcasting Company at 6 o’clock.

HIGH SPOTS OF SUNDAY’S PROGRAMS 6:OO—NBC Midwest Network—Chicago symphony orchestra. 6:OO—WEAF—NBC Network—Reinald Werrenrath, song recital. B:IS—WEAF—NBC Network—Atwater Kent hour. 7:IS—WJZ—NBC Network—Collier’s radio hour. 2:OO—WOR Newark—Philharmonic symphony orchestra; from Metropolitan opera house.

“Candy Sticks,” a novelty selection by Shilkret, will be played by two pianos as a feature in the Sylvestre hour to be broadcast by the NBC system through WEAF, Sunday morning at 11:30. a a a a a a “Gypsy Dance” from Bizet’s Spanish opera, “Carmen,” will be played by the Whittall Anglo-Persians through the NBC system, Sunday night at 5:30. a a a- a a a Hulda Lashanska, soprano; Toscha Seidel, violinist, and Wilbur Evans, baritone prize winner of the 1927 national radio auditions, are the featured artists in the Atwater Kent concert to be broadcast through the NBC system, Sunday night at 8:15. a a a a a a The next in the series of Old Company’s programs featuring Reinald Werfenrath, baritone, will present a group of “Songs of Rboert Schumann” as the weekly broadcast through the NBC system, Sunday night at 6 o’clock. a a a a a a The Butler College Girls’ Glee Club and Ruth Otto, soloist, will furnish the musical program from 8 to 8:30 Saturday night over Station in a special Butler night, donated for the weekly Christmas Seal hour of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association. College songs and other musical numbers have bsen arranged and Don H. Gearheart. director of Public Relations of Butler university, will deliver a short discussion of the work of the Christmas Seal among college students throughout America. Professor F. R. Taylor of the Metropolitan School of Music has trained the Butler College Girls’ Glee Club and Emily Mauzy is president of the organization.

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HOOVER GETS FIRST VIEW OF CHILEANCOAST President-Elect to Confer With Officials of Bolivia Today. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent ABOARD THE U. S. S. MARYLAND, Dec. B. President-Elect Herbert Hoover had his first view of the Chilean coast during his good-will tour of South America today, when the Maryland arrived off Antofagasta, Chile. Mr. Hoover was to stop in Antofagasta to confer with a delegation of officials of the Bolivian government, who came from La Paz, capital of Bolivia, for the conference. David Kauffman, American minister to La Paz, accompanied the officials from La Paz to Antofagasta. Alberto Palacios, acting foreign minister of Bolivia, headed the group. Since leaving the Peruvian port of Callao, the Maryland has been traveling under clear skies. There has been a slight swell of the sea but it hardly was noticeable on a ship the size of the Maryland. Hoover has spent most of the last two days resting after the strenuous program in Lima and preparing for an equally strenuous one in Santiago, the Chilean capital. The stop at Antofagasta is the last one before the Hoover party bids farewell to the Maryland, unless the trans-Andean railway still is tied up by recent landslides and it is found necessary to go to Buenos Aires by way of the Straits of Magellan. Such a route would be rough, however, even for the Maryland, due to the severe storms in the straits at this time of year. It is understood that Hoover has accepted the offer of President Hipolito Irigoyen of Argentina for a battleship to convey the party to Montevideo, Uruguay. At Montivedo, the party will join the U. S. S. Utah. Dial Twisters Central Standard Time WLW (700 Kilocycle*). CINCINNATI SATURDAY P. M. 4:4o—Market reports with novelty notions. s:oo—Henry Thless and his orchestra. s:3o—Dynacone Diners. 6:oo—Two Unique trios. 6:3o—Farm talk. 6:4o—Henry Thless' orchestra. 7:oo—Hotel Gibson orchestra. 7:3o—Football scores. 7:4o—Mansfield and Lee. 8:00—Philco entertainment. 9:oo—The Hawaiians. 9:ls—Lucille and Mary. 9:3o—Cino Singers. 10:00—Weather forecast. 10:00 —Hotel Gibson orchestra. 10:30—Hotel Slnton orchestra. SATURDAY —NBC System (WJZ. 760 Kilocycles)— 7:oo—Godfrey Ludlow, concert violinist. 8:00 Philco operetta. "Naughty Marietta. ' —WMAQ. Chicago <O6O Kilocycles)— 7:2s—Photolog. "Mesopotamia. ’ —NBC System (WFAF. 660 Kilocycles)— B:oo—The National orchestra. 9:oo—Lucky Strike dance orchestra. —WFI. Philadelphia (7,60 Kilocycles)— B:3o—Philadelphia Women's symphony orchestra. —WJZ, New York (760 Kilocycles)— 9.ls—Play. "Fool's Revenge.” SUNDAY —W'WJ. Detroit (020 Kilocycles)— 2:3o—Detroit symphony. —WGN. Chicago (720 Kilocycles)— 6:oo—Chicago Symphony orchestra to WDAF. W’CCO. WTMJ, KSD. —NBC System (WEAF. 660 Kilocycles)— 6:3o—Acou.4l.lcon hour. B:ls—Atwater Kent hour. —NBC System (WJZ. 760 Kilocycles)— 7:ls—Coilier’s hour. —Columbia Network—--7:3o—La Palina hour: Two Black Crows. Firemen to Buy Uniforms Hu United I‘rvtts * BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. B. The city council has decided that it would be cheaper to increase salaries of firemen and let them buy their own uniforms than to have the city provide them. William Knuth Gets Divorce William Knuth. 2023 Brooksid avenue, was granted a divorce from his wif2, Mrs. Leona Knuth. Thursday in superior court. Othniel Hitch, judge p.o tern, gave .•..nuth tne decree.

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Dick, grand champion at the International Livestock Show at Chicago, is the ’prodigy” of 12-year-old Clarence Goecke of State Centre, lowa. Clarence is shown at right with nis sister Emma, 17, who exhibited the animal for him.

Lad’s Hereford Steer Wins Three Prizes and Grand Champion Stake. BY JOE LOVE NEA Service Writer CHICAGO, Dec. 7.—A record never before equaled and which stockmen doubt will be tied was made by Clarence Goecke. 12-year-old farmer lad of Marshall county, lowa, when his entry "Dick.” a 16-months-old 1150-pound Hereford steer, received three first prizes, besides being chosen grand champion at the International Livestock Exposition, in progress here. Quite a distinction, in addition, is the fact that a youngster came away with the top prize in competion with breeders of much longer experience. Being a 4-H Club member Clarence entered “Dick'’ in the junior feeding contest and came off with first prize in that division. The second priz< was awarded to Goecke’s animal as the champion steer in the Hereford class, making it eligible for entry in the grand championship. In open contest the animal won the yearling prize, making a total of three ribbons. Clarence fives on a farm with his parents near State Centre. la., in Marshall county, which is famous for its fine calves. He picked out “Dick” from a herd of ten calves belonging to his father and raised it for exhibition purposes. Picked a Good One In telling how he cared for it, Clarence modestly admits that if the calf wasn't almost perfect at first he couldn't have done much with it. "This calf was a blocky’ type, the right kind to raise for shows, so 1 Train Kills School Girl' It,ll l inn s Sin cinl RIDGEVILLE. Ind.. Dec. B. Martha Curtney, 11, was killed by a Pennsylvania train at a crossing while on her way home from school. “Angel at Church, Devil at Home” CHICAGO, Dec. B.—Declaring her husband, a sexton, was an “angel at church and a devil at home" Mrs. Julia Hallgren has won a divorce from John A. Hallgren.

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“You know I really didn’t think that ‘Dick’ would win more than one prize at the most. But now look what he did! He won four of them,” he says proudly. Clarence believes that he will take the money which he receives for the steer and use it to help him go through school. He thinks that high school will be his limit, because he is anxious to raise a young herd of his own.

.DEC. 8, 1928

WAR SCARE IN SOUTHAMERICA Bolivia-Paraguay Situation Admittedly Serious. BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. B.—Officials took a serious view today cf hostilities between Bolivian and Paraguayan border troops in which twenty persons were reported to have been killed. The dispute between the two nations involves ownership of a large area roughly triangular in shape and about five hundred miles long and 300 miles wide. The controversy began with the birth of the two nations. A series of treaties and agreements seeking an understanding have failed to discover a mutually satisfactory solution. Although diplomatic observers do not believe war would result from the border clash, there is no disposition to belittle the potentioal importance of the situation which apparently has become worse instead of better with the passage of time. It is believed possible that Boh-vian-Paraguyan relations would figure prominently in discussions during' the Pan-American arbitration and conciliation conference which convenes here Monday with all American republics except Argentina represented. Vagabond to Speak Harry A. Franck, known as “a modern Marco Polo,” will speak at the Rotary Club luncheon at the Claypool Tuesday. Most of the years since his graduation from the University of Michigan in 1903 Mr. Franck has spent vagabonding about foreign countries and the United States. His subject will be “Mv Vs abond Journey Around the WOl Id.”