Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 293, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1930 — Page 20

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GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO AGAIN IS PROMISED FANS Better Reception Due to Lessening of Sunspot Cycle. B / Timrs Fnt riat NEW YORK, April 18.—Another golden age of radio reception, bringing to the mind of the DX hunter the halcyon months of 1922. when even a little one hundred-watt Nation could be heard half way across the continent, is about to cawn. But there is a howl and whistle menace threatening the listener on the farm. So O. H. Caldwell, editor of Electronics and Radio Retailing, and formerly member of the federal radio commission, told the Western Universities Club at a luncheon mating in the Hotel Belmont here f ids week. The promise of shrieks and howls menacing the peace of mind of the farmer and his family in their dialing for interesting programs lies in efforts now being made to persuade the federal radio commission to make changes which would put more than one station on present clear channels serving the rural areas. Trouble Forecast If these changes go through, said Caldwell, they will set up heterodynes and whistles, howls and shrieks which will render those channel:, useless for farmers. Return of the listener’s paradise this year on a visit which probably will extend through 1931 is due, Caldwell explained, to temporary subsidence of the influence of the sun-spot cycle on the circumambient. This cycle, a phenomenon with which scientists have become quite familiar, has a period mnning from eight to thirteen years, or an average of eleven years between minimums. Trees Show Cycle “Although radio has not been studied long enough to connect its cyclic vagaries fully with the sunspot cycle, the effect of the sun-spot period on many other things, such as weather and rainfall. Is well established. Records of the old Hudson’s Bay Company, going back hundreds of years, have shown that the seasons of heavy pelts and furs have recurred regularly every eleven years, as the animals protected themselves against the severe winters of those seasons. Trees also show this eleven-3’ear cycle in their rings. A big oak, cut down in Connecticut last month, revealed strikingly heavier rings every’ eighth to thirteenth year, indicating exceptional moisture or growing conditions during those years.’’ JANITORDASHES OFF SONGS DURING WORK Hums Lyrics While Mopping, Then Writes Musical Score. MARION. 0., April 18.—A budding song writer is Earl H. Coffey. As janitor of the Elite apartments here he spent several years in a more colorless calling. The name of Coffey has appeared on several popular songs published recently, the last of which was “There'S a Broken Chord Somewhere in Love's Old Sweet Song.” His song offerings are created both in and out of work hours. During ' leisure moments, he improvises the words. The lyrics he hums while plying it mop or performing other prosaic duties. Then during leisure time he writes the score. He says he never has taken a music lesson, but that hasn't deterred him from giving lessons on technique of the piano and most of the stringed instruments. As an instructor he claims a system all his own. Coffey Is 38 and the father of three children. To write a hit that will rival one of Irving Berlin's, is his dream.

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jWFBM (1230) Indianapolis (IndimnspoMa rawer and Llrht Company) FRIDAY I P. M. i s:oo—Musical Foursome (CBS). s:ls—Closing market prices <CBB'. s:3o—Paul Tremaine s orchestra 'CBS). s:4s—Mac and Ai. 6:oo—World Book Man. 6:os—Paramount orchestra 'CBS). 6:3o—Morrison's Merrymakers. 7:oo—Concert trio. 7:ls—Kahn Tailors. 7.3o—President Hoover's D. A.- R. speech 'CBS'. (Silent after 8. order federal radio commission) WKBF (1400) Indianapolis 'lndianapolis Broadcastine. Inc.) FRIDAY P M. 4:oo—Continued novel reading > 4 30-Dr. Rice's health talk, i 4 45- News flashes, j s:ls—Town topics. ! 7:oo—Silent. , : 8.00- The Regal hour 9:00 Wilkins's Jesse French hour. ’ 10:00—Lunatic's Jamboree 11:00—Marathon orchestra. 11 30—Zaring theater organ recital. I 12:00—.lack Til son s Athletic Club orchestra | 12:30—Sign off.

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FRIDAY /' —* P. M KDKA '9Bo'. Pittsburgh—Studio program. NBC Svstem —Concert orchestra: Cavaliers to WEAF. WTAM. KYW. WSAI. i WON i72o' Chicago—Varietv. : Columbia—Nit Wits in "Robin-Hood to * NBC* Svstem—The Pickard family to WJZ. I WIBO. WSM. WJR j WLS 'B7o'. Chicago— Marching men. —7:30 P. M.— | KTHS (10401. Hot Springs—Meyer's orches- | WON (720 k Chicago—Goldkette’s orchesI tra: Nighthawks. ; WSM 1050 , Nashville —Lowe Bros. —8 P. M.— ; Columbia—True Story hour to WABC, ■ WBBN^ Q (770). Chicago—Dally Times proj WON*"'72o). Chicago—Good Friday symj wx.S H! '860). Chicago—Melodies of Fritz j KtelSler ' —8:15 P. M.NBC Svstem —Clicquot Eskimos to WEAF, WWJ. WGY, WSAI , . NBC System—lnterwoven Pair—Jones and Hare to WJZ. KDtvV KYW, WHAS, WJR. WLW. —8:30 P. M.— W'BBM (770), Chicago—Master series. NBC Svstem—Old Cos. s songolog to WEAF, | WTIC. „ _ . , : WENR (870(, Chicago—Farmer Rusks i players. , ' NBC System—Armour program to WJZ, KDKA, KYW, WJR, WSM, W'HAS. WTAM (1070), Cleveland—Friday frolics. —9 P. M.— I Columbia—Quaker state program to ! WABC. WMAQ, WCCO. W'BBM <770), Chicago—Bedford program, i NBC System—Raleigh revue to WEAF, WWJ. WSAI. . , , I WKNR (870', Chicago—Variety musicale. WGN (720'. Chicago—Pat Barnes i NBC System—Armstrong Quakers to WJZ, KDKA. KYW. WJR. WLW, WHAS. —9:30 P. M.— | W'BBM (770>, Chicago—Songsters. Columbia —"Seven Last Words” to WABC, ; NBC Svstem—Kodak week-end to WJZ, KDKA. WJR, KYW, WSM. WMAQ (670), Chicago—Northwestern university singers. —9:45"P. M.— ! WP.BM (770), Chicago—Ted Weem’s orchestra. —lO P. M.— ] KYW (1020), Chicago—Book Man; news; ! features. ... i Columbia—Osborne's orchestra to WABC. ! WENR (870), Chicago—Mike and Her- | man; Easy Chair music, i NBC System —Wagner’s ‘‘Parsifal to i WEAF. WTAM, WWJ. , : WGN (720', Chicago— The Passion Play.” i NBC System—Sketch bok to WJZ, KDKA. j WSM, WSB, WHAS. I WMAQ (670). Chicago—Entertainers. —10:15 P. M.— ■ NBC System—Slumber Music to WJZ, KDKA. WSM 1650), Nashvile—Dot and Larry. —10:20 P. M.— ! KDKA (980), Pittsburgh—Gerun’s orchesI tra. I WGN (720). Chicago—Goldkette’s orchestra; Nighthawks. I NBC System—Amos ’n’ Andy to WMAQ, i KYW. WHAB. j Columbia—Lown's orchestra to WABC. —10:40 P. M.— ! WJR (750), Detroit—Bergin's orchestra; j Michigan Limited. —10:45 P. M.— KYW (1020), Chicago—Wayne King's orchestra. WBAP (800), Ft. Worth—Blackstone orchestra. WMAQ (670). Chicago—Pianist. NBC Svstem—Prohibition poll to WENR. WHAfe. —ll P. M.— I KMOX (1090), St. Louis—Dance orchestra. ; KSTP (1460), St. Paul—Bowen’s orchestra; WCCO (810), Minneapolis-St. Paul—Gold Medal orchestra. WGN (720), Chicago—Dream Ship; dance music (2 hours). WENR (870), Chicago—Air vaudeville (2 hours). NBC System—Huntley’s orchestra to WJZ. KYW, WSM. WMAQ (670), Chicago—Dance music <3 hours'. WSB (740), Atlanta —Concert. —10:30 P. M.— W.TR (750), Detroit—Diensberger’s orches- | tra. I KTHS (1040), Hot Springs—Stennett’s ort chestra. —l2 A. M.— ! KYW (1020', Chicago— Panico and Hunt- ) lev's orchestras. : WBBM (770), Chicago—Dance music (1 hour). WLW (700). Cincinnati—Castle Farm orchestra. —12:30 A. M WLW (700'. Cincinnati—lnsomniacs.

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—l A. M.— KYW (1020'. Chicago— KasselTs orchestra (1 hour). WLW (700) Cincinnati FRIDAY P M. 4:oo—Home economics period. 4:3o—Livestock report. / 4:4o—Program chats. 4 45—Freda Banker, piano lessons. s:oo—Orchestra. s:3o—Benrus time announcement. s:3o—Crosley dinner concert. 5 59—Hv Grade weather forecast. 6:oo—Hotel Gibson orchestra. 6.ls—Judge J. Ezra Butternut (WOR). 6:3o—Vocal and piano. 6:4s—Tonv’s Scrap Book. 7:00 Stud A baker Champions. 7:3o—American Scribe. 7:4s—Craddock Terry program (NBC'. B:oo—The Interwoven Pair (NBC). 3:30- Heatrolatown. 9:00 Armstrong Quakers. 9:30 —Crimelights. 10:90 Eenrus time announcement. 10:00 —Estate weather man. 10.00 —Howard trio and Jane Froman. 10:30 —Croslev Burnt Corkers. 11:90 —Hotel Gibson orchestra. 11 30—Sweet and Lown Down. 12:00 M.—Castle Farm orchestra. 12:30 —Insomniacs. _ . I:oo—Benrus time announcement; sign off.

WFBM (1230) Indianapolis (Indianapolis Power and Light Company) SATURDAY A. M. 7:00 —Pep Unlimited Club, record program. 9:oo—Butter and egg men. 9:ls—Grenadiers (CBS:. 9:3O—U. S. Army band (CBS'. 9:4s—Dessa Byrd organ program. 10.30— Saturday syncopators (CBS). XI 00—Adventures of Helen and Mary (CBSi. 11:30—Yoeng’s orchestra (CBS'. li:4s—Record program. 12 Noon —Farm Community Ne-work (CBS). WKBF (1400) Indianapolis (Indianapolis Broadcasting. Inc.) SATURDAY A. M. 6:4s—Church federation morning worship. 7:oo—Talk o’ Town. B:4s—Stewart's Radio, Inc. 9:05—K0-We-Ba program. 9:2s—Morrison's style talk. 9:3s—Hoosier Code Club. 9:4s—Standard Nut Margarine cooking chat. 9:ss—Home message. 10:00 —Pomal makes Pomolay. 10:05—Indianapolis Paint -and Color Com£any. . S. Ayres •& Cos. 10:30—Market reports. 10:35—Organ recital. 11:00—Woman’s Club Part 2. 11:15 —De Voe Paint Girls. 11:30—Announcement program. 11:45—Sue Carolyn. P. M. 12:15—The Farm Adviser. 12:30—Jansen-Overman Company. 12:35—Market reports. 12:40—Mid-day records. I:ls—lndiana theater stage presentation. 2:00 —Jac Broderick dance studio. 2:ls—The Rhythm King. 2:3o—Tom and Wash Laugh Club. 3:oo—Silent. 3:3o—Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music. WLW (700) Cincinnati SATURDAY A. M. 7:ls—Organ. 7:4s—Popular bits 'NBC'. B:oo—Aunt Jemima Man (NBC). B:ls—Crosley Woman’s hour, with health talk. 9:ls—Orpheus trio. 9:3o—Livestock reports. 9:4o—The Garden Clinic. 10:00—Donhallrose trio. 10:30—Weather, river and market reports. 10:55—Time signals. 11:00 Organ concert.

Joyous Easter Dance Parties —NOW— New Lyric BALLROOM Every Night 8:30 to 11:30 Dancing Free tc Theatre f Patrons t Special Ballroom Prices For Those Who Wish OnJy to Dance Ladies Gentlemen 15c 25c WALTZ NIGHTS I { Mon., Wed, and Fri. FREE DANCE INSTRUCTION Tues. and Thurs. Nights

BANDBOX Opposite Traction Terminal SATURDAY ■RPLgP oi Uic“ E *B%%" () Most ■Sensational Play/ ‘WHITE, CARGO AT LAST!—The talking screen is permitted to present the vivid realism of the play. THE PICTURE THAT WAS BANNED BY WILL H. HAYS, MOVIE CZAR

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runi oiro Apru 24,25.26 LnULlOn 0 Pop- Mat, Sat. BKOCK PBrBEBIOS Presents The Sensational Comedy Hit “STRICTLY DISHONORABLE” By Preston Sturge. Staged by Antoinette Perry aad Mr. Pemberton Seats Monday—Stall Orders Now Eyes., SOe to S2.So—Sat. Mat., 50c to ft

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11:30—Hotel Gibson orchestra. 11:50—Livestock reports. P. M. 12:00—National Farm and Home hour (NBC). 12:30—Keystone program (NBC), I:oo—Crosley Dealers’ matinee. 3:00 Merrymakers (Syi. URGE PORTABLE SCHOOL TYPE Officials Favor New Kind After Inspection. Recommendations for anew type of portable school will be made to the school board by members of a party of school officials,- who returned Wednesday night from a two-day inspection tour through northern Indiana, A. B. Good, school business director, said today. Good, D. T. Weir, acting superintendent, and W. A. Hacker, social service director, visited East Chicago, Gary, Hammond, South Bend and Kokomo. Local officials were most favorably impressed by the Gary system, where a number of portables connected by a central corridor, heated by a central steam heating plant, and equippted with an auditorium, gymnasium and offices form one unit. Portables of this type could be used to advantage in Indianapolis, it was pointed out, in rapidly growing districts where there are as yet no school buildings. WIRE USED TO CUT MARBLE IN QUARRY Strand 1.400 Feet Long Saws Huge Slabs From Hillside. NEW YORK, April 18.—A quarterinch, three-stranded steel wire, 1,400 feet long, driven by an old fourcylinder automobile engine, is sawing huge slabs of marble from a hillside in the Ozark region of Arkansas. Wire sawing already has proved Its value in slate quarrying in Pennsylvania, and this is one of the first applications of the method to other fields, W. M. Weigel, mineral technologist of the Missouri-Pacific railroad, told the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers here. Sand, hand-fed into the artificial crevice the wire makes, does the actual cutting. The wire travels twenty feet a second and cuts a complete section from the hill without wearing out and breaking. The entire operation is carried on by one man.

TOMORROW! Here's a picture mcdn(juofsl’! j And what a cast! Look at these names! Every one of ’em does amusing things! And when Buster Beaton talks, dances and sings—well, he’s the king of talkie comedians now! AND —music! Dazzling scenes! See ALL the ‘‘Free and Easy” dance! Hot! . .. .*•., Hear a half dozen song hits! LAUwHINv^ Throw care aside—-come and feel * taee^Easy |>A with a brilliant ALL STAR cast .including—* Anita Page-Trixie Friganza RobertMontgomery -W-Haines j Lionel Bariytnore-Fred Niblo Karl Dane - Cecil B.DeMille mi *RUSTER KEATONS® Come on . . . see how the talkies are mads In Hollywood! Get behind the microphone-cameras! See how a beauty contest winner failed as a star . . . and how her dumb manager became a real star! FUNNY! SUNNY! CHUMMY! Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Talking Picture LIONEL BARRYMORE in today “THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND"

f^iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiits I Your Theatre JOYOUS EASTER WEEK iLwPROGRAMME STARTING 1 1 TOMORROW | ' WHAT A SENSATION! E Indianapolis will acclaim it the most jS. = , More Dazzling Than “It” =j ~ I,earn the truth about women whe £ “ marr>' for money and about husbands who take terrifle revenge o* 1 Warner Baxter • 1 i s&ss lUNGEBOLS i ~ Don Joan who teaches ms S Z bride a tremendons lesson. Wm. Fox All-Talking Drama *—** i

STATE SURVEY OF HOSPITALS IS CONDUCTED Dr. King Reports 28 County Institutions User Far Below Capacity. Although private and most city hospitals in the state are crowded to capacity, twenty-eight countyhospitals are being used to but 49 per cent of their bed capacity. Dr. William P. King, state health commissioner, declared today. He based this assertion on a survey recently completed by A. E. Wert, director of the division of housing and industrial hygiene of the state board of health. Wert, under King's orders, visited every county hospital in Indiana. Results Are Disclosed The result disclosed the following figures: Total cost of twenty-eight county hospitals, $2,723,832; appropriated by counties for construction, $1,916,000; maintenance appropriations, $285,982; bed capacity, 1,091; patients at tiihe of survey, 526, which is approximately 49 per cent capacity and considered normal; patients from urban communities, 303; rural patients, 223; pay patients, 447, and charity cases, seventy-nine. Lack Regular Staffs “In general all of these county hospitals were found to be well built, well equipped and served by competent, trained nurses,” Wert's report states. “The lack of patronage of county hospitals generally is considered to be due to the lack of a regular hospital staff. Many physicians seem to prefer to send patients to staffed hospitals in larger cities rather than to their own county hospital. Anderson Man, 84, Dies Bm Time* Special ANDERSON, Ind., April 18. John Colle, 84. retired railroad engineer. is dead at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Ozro Lewis. He was bom in Collendorg, Germany, and came to this country when 19 years old. Duke Book Collection Huge Bp United Press DURHAM, N. C.. April 18.—One of the largest collections of medical books in the south is located in the Duke university hospital library here. Nearly 20,000 volumes are in the collection.

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