Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 279, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1929 — Page 16

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MAJESTIC RISE IS MARVEL OF RADIO HISTORY Capitol Electric Company Aids Greatly in Progress of Grisby-Grunow. Ri<C of the Gr by-Grunow Company cl C a; . a place of leadership in U;e ; ■■■.■:'> industry in the fhort'period ol it. month;- is noth* insr short of rp ha* Starting from “vraich it ' *:*>.. part of May. 1928. this Cos;, par.; ha produced more than one million Majestic radio sets to d-' However. ?!.< -tor- of GrigsbyGrunow would not bf* complete unless mention were n . ce of the Indianapolis concern which materially has aided Ore by-Grunow in its meteoric rlnnb to pre-eminence in the industry. Thd firm ;s the Capitol Electric j Company. 122 South .Senate avenue, i which this week st*;;;rd mto the na- ! jtionat radio lint* hrht when it. re- j reived for di.stribo f ‘on esent carloads ; |of Majestic rar receivers Accord-' ling to R. P. Obiins■ r. president, this j (shipment probably is the largest ever (received by a • uv. ie distributor in ithe state. Shipment Worth $250,000. Retail value of the Majestic radios j In thfc shipment is aimost $250,000, i .Obiinger said II represents one- j fourth of one and • production of the : iGrigsby-Grtinow Company’s great factories. Big as the order may seem, it still |s srnall in comparision with the .total iolume of business the Capitol iFleetric Company has handled in peven. months. Although the new [Majestic radio was announced the j latter, part of May 1028, it was not i kintil jjuly that production for sale j getuafiy was started. Sinie July, the Capitol Electric | Company has received and dis- j ‘ribuosd to dealers in central Indi- ! bna more than seventy-five cars of I -Majestic receiver . having a retail j :of approximately $2,500,000. “How the t -by-Grunow Company, makers of the Majestic, can 1 broduce radios on such a large scale ( and at low prices is a question asked i hie m&ny times,” Obiinger said, "and 5s on§ that no doubt will interest every -one. "At'the factories the alliance oG he man and the machine, or, as the | base may be, the girl and the ma- j hine, has produced its full measure | ■if efficiency. Automatic appliance. ! [he keeping of the inventories of ■aw and finished material at a mini- i bum requirement, minute division M labor process, cutting of cost and tost motion at every point where ffconotnics will not infringe upon jualitv—such, in t general way. is he story of the company’s plant operations. "All parts of the Majestic radio „ets, except the tubes, are made by company itself, which daily receives eight cars ot ra wmaterials—iteel. copper wire, lumber, etc. —and | Chips thirty-two cars of assembled j products. There is no warehousing ■ cither* of raw materials or manu- I actored goods.” The company w ill start making its wn tubes in the near future and Sri 11 ship all Majestic radio receivers direct from the large plants with liatched tubes. To insure perfect | orkmanship. 10 per cent of the factory force of 6.800 workers are la specters. During the last six months, the j papitdl Electric Company has been j inable to fill orders of dealers for Aajestic receiver- Obiinger said. ’’With this shipment we will be j blc to give all dealers a thirty-day j |upply bf merchandise.” he said.

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Here we ce R. P. Obiinger, president, and C. C. Mathews, general manager of the Capitol Electric Company, 122 South Senate avenue, di tribute’ of Majestic Radio Receivers, supervising the loading of the e:;.ht-car shipment, at. the Majestic factories, received by the local company last week.

Second Talk of Series on Radio 'Trouble Given

Times Engineer Tells How to Find Interference and Eliminate It. W. A Jacoby, Times radio interference engineer, gave the second talk over WFBM Wednesday dwelling on radio interference and remedies to aid the fans in clearing up radio grief that makes reception impossible at times. In speaking on electrical apparatus and wiring, he said: ’Electrical machinery in operation and defective electric wiring is probably responsible for more ‘back-ground noise’ in radio reception than any other cause, particularly in a city or town where there always are many electrical devices, appliances, and machinery in more or less contiguous operation. ’’Nature of the noise in each case will depend upon the type of machinery causing it and nature of the defect or electrical discharge 1 responsible for radiation of the disturbance. Many Sources of Trouble. ‘ Among the more common sources of trouble of this nature may be mentioned, electric motors or generators, street cars, broken rail bounds, arc lights. Neon signs, household electric appliances, flashing signs. X-ray or violet-ray machines, battery chargers (.vibrating type . air pumps, leaky electric power -ators, farm lighting systems, bad house wiring, telephone bell-ringers, dial phones and numerous other forms of electric apparatus, in fact any device which I produces a spark while in opera-! tion. "Source of the noise sometimes j can be found by careful investiga- I tion of the presence of electrical | appliances, defective wiring, loose fuses or lamps, etc., in the building or the immediate neighborhood. "For tracing ot larger and more obscure sources, however, the use of a small portable receiving set, operating from a loop antenna, can be resorted to. Tests made with such outfit, located at various points in

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the neighborhood of the disturbance, noting the intensity of disturbance and direction of the loop points, often wall enable the origin of the interference to be located, if the person making the survey understands how to trace the different types. Remedies Are Given "It would not be possible here to attempt to suggest remedies for the various noises caused by different forms of electrical apparatus however, we may say that, generally speaking, the only satisfactory remedy in most cases consists of some sort of filter applied to the source of the disturbance, that is the sparking contacts from which the interfering radio frequency currents are radiated. "This filter will consist of either a simple condenser, two condensers in series, with ground lead from the point of their connection, or two condensers so connected, in conjunction with R. F. chokes. ‘‘ln a few cases, some improvement in reception is had by changing the position of the receiving aerial, but the most practical procedure is to locate the source and apply one of the forms of filter suggested. Should Notify Engineer ‘lf the changing of the anter A ia does not aid reception. The Indianapolis Times radio interference engineer should be notified by mail and he will make a survey of your trouble and see that your grief is cleared. "The interference engineer can be reached daily by phone from 5 to 6 p. in., by calling Riley 5551. If you have an interference that you want to talk about and get some information, this service will aid you, as The Times has the only interference department in this city.” Radio Pianist Going to Europe Frank Zanta, radio pianist, will spend his spring vacation in Europe, j He plans to collect recent European piano compositions for presentation over the air.

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SAFETY DRIVE SCHEDULED IN RADIO SERIES Thirteen Addresses Are on Program; Schwab Will Be First. Bu Timm Sperial CHICAGO, April 11.—“ Universal Safety” soon will be carried directly into millions of American homes, through a series of thirteen weekly radio addresses by national leaders, the first of whom will be Charles M. Schwab, Saturday night, April 20, at 6 o’clock. Alarmed by the accident fatality toll which claims nearly 100,000 lives each year in the United States, the National Broadcasting Company, in ro-operation with the National Safety Council, will present this “Universal Safety Series.” in an effort to awaken the America ple from an attitude of seeming indifference toward a national problem of vital importance. In addition to Schwab, who will discuss "Safety as a Factor in Industry” the following speakers are announced: Robert P. Lamont, secretary of commerce: “Safety as a National Problem.” James J. Davis, secretary of labor: “Safety and the Worker.” Madam Schumann - Heink: ‘‘Safety in the Home.” Dr. Miller McClintock, director Albert Russell Erskine bureau of street traffic research. Harvard university: “Making Our Highways Safe.” Grover Whalen, commissioner of | police, New York; “Enforcement as an Aid to Safety.” Joseph E. Sheedy, executive vicepresident United States lines: “Safety on the High Seas.” P. R. Crowley, president New York Central: "Railroads and Safety.” President Henry A. Reninger of the National Safety Council will outline the series and introduce Schwab. I The other twelve talks to be given j on successive Saturday nights will go on the air at 6:15 and will be ; of fifteen minutes duration. All speakers, with the exception of the two cabinet members, will lalk from the New York NBC ‘ studios. Lamont and Davis will 1 speak from Washington. GOVERNMENT STATION FOR RADIO ADVOCATED Senator Nye Thinks Programs M ould Help Country A federal broadcasting station over which the government would broadcast information and political parties would present their arguments is proposed in a bill about to be introduced in congress by Senator Gerald P. Nyc of North Dakota. Nye believes such a station would bring the government closer to the people, would provide a valuable educational influence and would give political candidates free and fair use of the air instead of putting them at all times at the mercy of private broadcasting interests. Well Supplied Government figures gathered in Canada show that the Dominion had 226,400 licensed radio receiving sets in operation within its borders last year.

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One of the youngest and yet one of the biggest men in the radio industry today is Herbert E. Young, general sales manager of Grigsby-Grunow. In the short space of two months, "Herb.” as he is known to his fellow workers established almost 10,000 Majestic dealers in all parts of the United States and Canada, which is a real sales record. NATION-WIDE SURVEY OF RADIO LAUNCHED Federal Commission Sends Questions to Many Stations. Bji lintcJ Press WASHINGTON. April 11.—A na-tion-wide survey of the broadcasting situation, the most comprehensive undertaken in this country, has been instituted by the Federal Radio commission. Questionnaires are being sent all broadcasting station owners seeking information on transmission and reception problems, interference, the number of listeners served, the amount of advertising and or chain programs used and whether the stations are being operated at a profit or a loss. The engineering questions are for the purpose of giving the commission a line on broadcasting conditions. This information will be used as a basis for gradual improvement of reception in various regions without impairing it in other sections. Desultory reports received heretofore have been too incomplete and conflicting to be of much value, the commission says. BUTCHER IS AIR STAR Denver Meat Cutter Takes Times Off for Songs. KOA. Denver, lays claim to having the only singing butcher on the air. Joe Flood, the "Singing Butcher,” really owns a butcher shop in Denver and takes time off to baritone a few numbers for radio fans. The Grigsby-Grunow Company, manufacturers of Majestic radio receivers, shortly will introduce the new Majestic radio tube. This tube will be manufactured in the new tube plant covering almost a city block, recently completed, adjoining the Dickens avenue factory in Chicago.

BAD RECEPTION REPORTED BY RADIO OWNERS Times Aid Is Asked to Clear Interference, Causing Much Grief, Radio fans of the city still are encountering considerable interference I Among the letters asking aid of The Times is this one. received today: * "I telephoned you “Trouble Shooting Department” last night, and, as you requested. I am mailing you the names of a number of persons who are having the same trouble with their radios. "I listened in on most of these radios and they all have that grind- j ing noise, seeming equally bad on all stations. On some of the radios it is i so bad that they are compelled to turn them off. Several inform me that it comes on about 6:30 p. m. and continues throughout the eve- j rung. I tuned in at 9 p. m. last night and it did not seem quite so ; bad to me as earlier. Street Lights Sputter “One fan says the street lights are flashing and sputtering every evening at the corners of Twentysecond street and Ashland avenue, Twenty-first street and Ashland avenue, and Twenty-first and Bellefontaine streets. The JohnsonMaas Lumber Company is working nights also. “In as much as they have been i for several weeks now and this | trouble did not make its appearance Iha this neighborhood until last Saturday night, it would seem that it was coming from another source. I mention the lumber company as you might feel it worth while to look into the electrical appliances that i are being used. “Inasmuch as the light company | has repaired the lights, I have held I this letter up to find out how radio reception would be in this locaity. Wants Motor Ground While that grinding noise has been j cleai’ed, there still is a great deal of | interference from factories work- . ing nights* I wonder if you can i prevail upon them to ground their ; motors, so that we may get some j use from our radios, j The letter is signed by Mrs. W. E. Bales, 2321 Bellefontaine street: Mrs. W. G. Loos, 2243 Bellefontaine; Mrs. Leslie, 2241 Bellefontaine; Mrs. Charles Eskew. 2245 Bellefontaine; C. H. Shadday. 2247 Bellefontaine; C. F. Darringer, 2249 Bellefontaine; Mrs. H. E. Eccles, 907 East Twenty-third street; Mrs. H. Netter, 909 East Twenty- | third; J. R. Kelly. 2226 Bellefontaine; D. | D. Mulkey 2240 Bellefontaine; H. W. Cail- | lard. 2222 Bellefontaine; A. H. Vandercook, j 2220 Bellefontaine: R. G. Mclntyre, 2206 | Bellefontaine: Mrs. George Kriech, 2211 Bellefontaine; Mrs. Lavina Owens, 2201 Bellefontaine; Mrs. Jesse Webster, 2156 Bellefontaine; Henry Russel, 2132 Bellefontaine; Carl W. Lindquist, 2215 Bellefontaine: Harry Bobbe. 910 East, Twentysecond street: Mrs. E. C. Carpenter, 820 East Twenty-first street; J. A. Hilsabeck, 2057 Cornell avenue; Mrs. Roger McCann. 2050, Cornell; Mrs. Elnora Jackson. 2048 Cornell. The Indianapolis Times Radio Engineer made a test survey of this section and has found many cases of trouble, all of which can be cleared up.

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