Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 176, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1928 — Page 17
DEC. 13, 1928.
RADIO TO WELD ALL EUROPE IN HARMONYCHAIN Vast Network to Extend to Important Parts of Continent. LONDON, Dec. 13.—Ten years after the war, radio is being looked upon as a means of welding the na tions of Europe into harmonious understanding. This is being done by creation of a network of broadcasting stations in Germany, Belgium and England, which later will be extended to include practically every large country west of Russia. Great events, wherever they may occur, important musical programs and other worth-while features wiil be broadcast at the same time through stations linked together across the frontiers that a decade ago were barriers of hostile countries. This accomplishment just has been announced by officials of the British Broadcasting Company. Broadcasting is expected to begin this winter, with the juncture of stations in England, Belgium and Germany, but before the season is over, Holland may be added to this international network. Three Years in the Making By next winter, it is hoped, the Scandanavian countries, which already are linked up for radio broadcasting, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland will join. France is the orrty country of western Europe that is still in doubt about joining this international network, but this depends on the formation of its new broadcasting authority. First programs for international broadcasting are expected to go out this winter. These will be sent by cable lines from point of origin to the central control points of the nations involved and thence to the local stations in the national networks. When Holland comes into the network it will be a matter only of extending the line from Brussels to Rosendal in that country. Long Link Planned Then the link will be from London to Brussels and from Brussels to Rosendal and Cologne. Anew cable is being laid from Cologne to Berlin for extension of these lines and further extensions will be made to Hamburg, Stuttgart. Frankfort, Munich and other centers. Following completion of this network, extensions will go on to Switzerland, Austria, Hungary and Poland. And later on Italy and the Scandanavian countries will come in. This is expected to be accomplished by next winter. SET BUSINESS”|S”HEAVY December Volume Is Forecast at Record Notch. Volume of radio business in December will be the largest reached since radio broadcasting began, according to J. D. R. Freed, president of the Freed-Eisemann Radio Corporation. “There is a decidedly satisfactory difference between the demand that existed five years ago and the present one,” said Mr. Freed. “The main appeal then was novelty ; neither merchandise nor broadcasting was particularly well developed. Today electric sets and broadcasting are stabilised. The existing demand which is so great now is based wholly on expectations of long and continued satisfaction; the element of novelty does not enter.
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Westminster Choir to Give Air Program
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The increasing public demand for worth-while radio programs will receive recognition Monday night, Dec. 17, when an innovation in broadcasting will be undertaken by a presentation of the famous Dayton Westminster choir of sixty voices.
COMPOSERS OF FAME ON AIR Columbia to Tell of Lives of Great Men. y The Columbia Broadcasting System has prepared a series of dramatizations of incidents in famous composers’ lives that will be presented before the chain’s microphones. The first of the new programs will be heard over station WABC Thursday night at 10 o’clock. Each successive week another composer will be selected an interesting incident of his past, said to be not generally known, will be presented in dramatical form over the air. First of the series will concern the life of Franz Peter Schubert, the centennial of whose death is now being commemorated. Following weeks will bring to radio listeners incidents in the lives of Beethoven, Wagner, Liszt and many others of note in the world of music. The lives of these men have, according to the chain, many romantic possibilities, end the most of these will be made by a large group of artists who will perform both dramatically and musically the incidents in question. CARILLON TO GO ON AIR New Jersey Church Bells Will Chime for Radio Fans. Beginning today at 6 p. m. and continuing daily until Jan. 1, WOR, Newark, N. J., will broadcast carillon music from St. Peter’s Episcopal church in Morristown, N. J. The broadcasts will last from fifteen to thirty minutes, depending on the day of the week, the longer periods being on Sundays and holidays. The concerts are being sponsored by the Newark Evening News. The bells in the tower of St. Peter’s are thirty-five in number, with a total weight of 31,400 pounds. The largest weighs 4,495 pounds. International authorities on chimes rate the bells as being among the best the world affords. They were “inaugurated” on April 13, 1924 and were given by various individuals and g-oups. Rabbit Growers Organize By United Press MARION, Ind., Dec. 13.—The Central Indiana Rabbit and Fur association has been formed here by several men interested in rabbitraising.
DR. STOCK NOW ON AIR Famous Chciago Symphony Conductor Directs Radio Concerts. One of the great music masters of the United States who will become better known among the ra-
dio populace this year is Dr. Frederick Stock. Dr. Stock is conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which holds an upper rung in the musical ladder. During the concert season Dr. Stock’s orchestra broadcasts an hour of its music every
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The program will originate in Dayton and will be carried by wire to New York, where it will be put on the air over a coast-to-coast network in the General Motors family party. The choir will be under direction of Dr. John Finley Williamson, its leader, one of the outstanding trainers of choir directors.
12 MECHANICS TO GETMEDALS Ayres Building Craftsmen Win Honor. Twelve mechanics whose craftsmanship has been outstanding in construction of the new Ayres annex, Meridian and Pearl streets, will be given certificates and gold buttons by Robert Frost Daggett, president of the Indianapolis Building Congress, next Wednesday at 11:45 a. m. This is the first award of the craftsmanship certificates to mechanics under the congress’ plan of recognizing worthy workmen. The men to be honored Wednes-
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day in the ceremony on the third floor of the new’ building are: Dave Carroll, steel erector; John Porter, concrete worker; Albert Lawson, ornamental iron worker; Frank Jones, hod carrier; Edward F. Raasch, brick mason; Charles Hamilton, metal lather; Albert R. Wenner, stone mason; Elza M. Elder, hoisting engineer; Emmett Payne, carpenter; William Siegmon, cement finisher; Charles Sherry, steam shovel operator, and E. E. Kelly, asbestos worker. The committee of award, which designated those recognized includes A. V. Stackhouse, chairman of committee on recognition of craftsmanship of the building; Frederic M. Ayres, L. S. Ayres & Cos., representing ow’ners; Arthur Bohn, architect; Eld Strathmann, builders; Charles Wilson, labor. Another award will be made to the finishing trades just prior to completion.
RADIO TRADE 1$ FAR OVER MARK HUNG UP IN 1927 Actual Shortage Exists in Sets, Speakers, Tubes, Says Dealer. An actual shortage of radio sets, loud speakers and tubes now exists throughout the United States, and, as a result of the demand for radio equipment, 1928 will go down in history as the most successful radio season, by far, that the country has ever experienced. These facts were revealed at the meeting in Chicago of the board of directors of the Radio Wholesalers’ Association, a division of the Federated Radio Trade Association, the national organization in the distributing end of radio. From the east, w’est, north, south and middle west no reports of prosperity were duplicated. From no section of the country came news of “slow” business. “Business for Oct., 1928, was double that of October last year,” said Harold J. Wrape, St. Louis, president of the Federated Radio Trade Association. “Considering October of this year, with business of 100 per cent, November was 90 per cent and December undoubtedly will roll up another 100 per cent score, the same as October. “The season as a whole is expected to be 70 per cent better than the 1927-28 season. Such a super-vol-ume means that the American people are going to be bound together closer than ever before, and only this new means of communication could do it. “Just as cities wipe out township lines, so does radio tend to obliterate state boundary lines, and more
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BUY LAKE_ LAND Cottage Owners Acquire 50 Acres of Property. A delegation of forty Bass Lake cottage owners, headed by Robert T. Virtue, president of the Knox Business Men’s Association, and John Moorman, Knox, Wednesday, bid the appraised SSO an acre for fifty acres of meander land around the southern end of Bass Lake The bid was made with the assurance that the state conservation department will receive a forty-acre park, near the lake, with a half-mile shore line bordering the state highway on the east shore.