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By F ll Radia D: y Frank Owen Louisville Radio Pioneer, C. F. Harris,

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—By Martin

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THEY ANT VERY FANCY CABINS, FOLKS - BUT THEYRE THE BEST WE CAN OFFER-

MINE IS FINE, CAPTAIN... BEGGARS DR. JASON, TOGETHER WITH THE MYSTERIOUS TWINS, ARE ON BOARD THE "HESTER" AN oLD CATTLE BOAT

I WANT TO GET IN TOUCH WITH JACK AS SOON AS 1 CAN,

BOUND FOR THE UNITED STATES.

"YTLANTIC CROSSED IN FLYING MACHINE”

NEW YORKERS WERE THRILLED BY THIS HEADLINE ALMOST ONE MHMUNDRED YEARS AGO.

BADLY IN NEED OF FUNDS TO HELP HIS SICK. WIFE, INVENTED A STORY OF THE ATLANTIC CROSSING OF MONCK MASONS DIRIGIRLE BALLOON, AND SOLD IT TO INNOCENT NEWSPAPERS AS AN ACTUAL HAPPENING.

TO FILL A DRINKING GLASS QUICKLY WITH COOL WATER. BY CUTTING THE STEMS OF THE APY TOCRENE, OR “WEGETARLE

SPRING” LIANAS, ©OPR. 1937 BY NEA SERVICE, INC.

€-% MONCK MASON, one of the pioneer balloonists, already had received considerable publicity with his balloons at the time Poe perpetrated his hoax, and, incredible as it seemed, everybody believed the story. Poe had just arrived in New York, and was familiar with Mason’s experiments in England, and took this means of meeting a desperate emergency. * * = NEXT-—How much coffee is consumed annually throughout the world? i

AND THEN, AS THE CAPTAIN RE - TURNS TO THE BRIDGE AND THE SHIP WEIGHS ANCHOR...

IN DUE TIME~ AND, SAVY... FORGET THE POCTOR" AND JUST CALL ME JM.

[ sav, CAP-WHO WERE THE FOLKS YOU JUST TOOK ABOARD?

GAVE HIS NAME AS MR. WILMER, PILOT. HE'S TAKING HIS SISTER AND TWO BABIES TO THE STATES... THEY'RE GOIN’

VERY INTERESTING, CAPTAIN. I WONDER IF, BY CHANCE, THEY COULD BE THE FLEEING COUPLE FOR WHOM THE POLICE HAVE BEEN SENDING RADIO ALARMS,

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

CERTAINLY. As advised in an articie that every couple | planning adoption of a child should read in the March Pictorial Review the author urges that at least a year’s “trial adoption” should first be made. Also every precaution

should be taken in fairness both to foster-parents and child—including ' medical examination, psychological | tests, family background of both the foster-parents and child and continued advice for many months by a trained social worker. = = ”

WOMEN have a passion for making things hard to do. If they wanted to do things easily they would wear trousers and have

E OF WHO WILL LATER SHOW VERY Rar MENTAL QUALITIES? VES ORNO ee

pockets instead of carrying hand bags and spending enough time hunting for things in them to get a college education or rear a family of children, They would hang all their belts on a nail .instead of tearing the house down hunting the belt to match their costume. As brought out in the New York Woman if a woman has a run in her stocking, instead of" carrying an extra pair in her hand ‘bag, stepping into a rest room and changing, she does one of three things —goes back home, buys another pair or hopes nobody will see it. x ® n

A LOT of articles are being

written on this. The opinion seems to be that spme people with

limited means or a hobo disposition will make the trailer a permanent home but that at least 90 per cent will make it an annual vacation. But it is not a passing fad. An old lady said to me she thought “microbes had come to stay.” So I think both trailer and microbes will stay with us.

NEXT—Can young people select a mate?

COMMON ERRORS

Never say, “I wish you hadn't of come”; say, ‘“hadn’t come.”

Every one is predicting war and preparing for it, and that is the very thing that will prevent it.—Dr. John R, Mott, New York.

Best Short Waves

MONDAY

M.—News. Opera. 2RO, 11.81 meg. LONDON, 5:20 P, M.—‘‘The West Indies,” musical and descriptive tour, GSP, 15.31 meg.; GSO, 15.18 meg.; GSF, 15.14 meg.; GSD, 11.75 meg. MOSCOW, 6 P. M.-Political Review. RAN, 9.6 meg. PRAGUE, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, 5:30 P. M.—Opera. OLR4A, 253¢ m,, 11.84 meg. CARACAS, 7 P. M.—-"Orquesta Capitolio.” YV5RC, 5.8 meg. BERLIN. 7:30 ¥. M.—“For Shortwave Amateur.” DJD,

meg NDON, 8:45 P. M.—*The Taming of the hrew.”- by William Shakespeare. . 17.79 meg.; GSI, 15.26 meg., GSD. 11.76 meg.; GSB, 9.51 meg. PARIS, 9 P. M.—Musical Recordings. TPA4, 11.72 meg. BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, 1 P. M.—Dance Music. LRX, 9.66 meg. VANCOUVER, 11 P. M.—Mood Reminiscent. CJRO, 6.15 meg.; CJRX, 72 meg. 145 P

TOKYO. 1 y Songs. JZK 15.1 meg.

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HEADLINE NETWORKS' DRAMAS

This trio of stage and screen stars, Osgood Perkins (upper left), Helen Hayes (upper right) and Edward G. Robinson (lower) headlines CBS and NBC Sunday and Monday evening dramatic presentations. Mr. Perkins, who played at English’s last season in “End of Summer,” has a supporting role in Ina Claire’s NBC Sunday evening series, and was heard last night in the « ee late Sir James M. Barrie's “What Every Woman Knows.” Miss Hayes will be heard over NBCBlue at 7:30 o'clock this evening in the first of three O’Neill plays, “Beyond the Horizon.” The O'Neill | series replaces the Barrymore |

pictured above, as a shrewd and calculating crook in gangster pictures, will: play Petruchio in Shakespeare’ “Taming of the Shrew” over CBS-WFBM at 7 o'clock this evening. Frieda Inescourt, film actress, will be heard as Katherine, the shrew of the merry comedy.

Shakespearean cycle which held forth for six consecutive weeks.

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RADIO THIS EVENING

(the Indianapolis Times Is not responsible for inaccuracies in program nouncements caused by station changes after press time.)

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Hymns Hope Alden Hello Peggy Next Door

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Girl Alone Mary Marlin Markets Quartet

Three Spades Haenschen’s Or. Markets Farm Hour

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Milky Way Capitivators Bit Sister Aunt Jenny

Don Pedro Children Painted Dreams Melodies

David Harum Backstage Musiographs Interviews

Unannounced Sunshine Girls Andy-Virginia We Are (our

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Where to find other stations: Chicago. WBBM 770, WENR 870, WMAQ 670; Louisville, WHAS 820; Detroit, WIR 750; Gary, WIND 560.

Good Radio Music

By JAMES THRASHER

Tomorrow morning’s radio schedules disclose a chamber music broadcast tucked away among the ante-meridian serial stories. The program will come from the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Cal., where a series of summer concerts is being held. If you pick up the program,

which NBC will broadcast at 10:80 =~

o'clock, you may hear Bach's first | The Kreiner String Quartet three Brandenburg Concertos. play the “It NBC's publicity says that the and : Kolisch Quartet will be the artists, in E Minor. but it’s reasonable to assume that ! . assistance #73

Tells of Early Broadcasting Days; ‘Memoirs Relate Humorous Anecdotes

'WHAS Manager, After I5 Years, Reveals How

I+ All Started.

| By RALPH NORMAN | Do you remember the first radio you ever heard? | Can you recall the thrill of music or voice coming through those un- | comfortable headphones attached to 'a weird-looking contraption stretched out on the dining room | table and called a crystal set? ' + And do you remember — it was only 15 years ago—when this new “fad” was blamed for causing elec~ tric storms, and for causing floods or droughts, depending on the rainfall? o” n ” A radio pioneer, Credo Fitch , Harris, manager of Louisville's | WHAS since that station was opened in 1922, thought of all these | things, and a great many more, and { concluded they would make inter- | esting reading. He was right. Mr. Harris’ delightful account of WHAS’ baby days is called “Microphone Memoirs,” subtitled “Of the Horse and Buggy Days of Radio,” and is published by The Bobbs-Merrill Co. for release today. Because he never had any truck with radio engineering and its many complicated details, Mr. Harris skips that phase of radio development, and he happily sets forth a biography of radio from 1922 until about 1935, with frequent excursions into what we might call the automobile | and the airplane ages of this phenomenon. And it is by necessity the author’s autobiography, for he not only has managed, but has “lived” WHAS since the station was conceived by Robert W, Bingham, Louisville publisher. ”n n ” Broadcasting stations were rare when Mr. Bingham called his friend, Mr. Harris, one April morning in 1922 and told him he intended to build a “radio telephone broadcasting station,” and added, “I hope | you can organize it for me——get it | going!” | “I never heard of it till this morning—don’t know what it is!” | Mr. Harris tells us he replied. | “No one else does, much,” he (Mr. Bingham) answered. “It’s new, and amazingly incredible” — and he explained to Mr. Harris its unbe- | lievable ability to carry the voice { for many miles without use of wires. That's how WHAS was born, Mr. Harris was skeptical but in- | trigued, and the novel he was writing that day has grown yel< | low with age in his desk drawer. It probably never will be finished, for one gathers from “Micro- | phone Memoirs” that after 15 | years radio and the author are | not to be parted easily. Broadcasting permits, Mr, Hate | | |

ris relates, were obtained more easily in Washington then than now and he found his license ready, for him at the Department of Commerce. But he never could find out what WHAS stands for, why it was assigned to him, and why-—and this still troubles him —the station was assigned to 360 meters for ordinary programs and 485 meters for weather broadcasts. No one knew and no one seemed to care about this and a great many other things. No one took the “fad” very seriously in those early days, anyway, Mr. Harris learned,

" un ” With feeling that is contagious, Mr. Harris takes readers through that awful Tuesday, July 18, 1922, when WHAS was launched. He read his well-rehearsed announcement, and somehow got through that first broadcast, Mr. Harris writes, though the city officials merely bowed at the microphone, without even a “Good evening,” “Those silences were awful. They fairly thundered, seeming to shatter the calm air with ear-splitting roars,” the author recalls. He didn’t sleep much that night. Through many interesting. pages, he tells of nursing his problem child through those arduous baby days when no one thought of paying talent, and the problem was to keep ambitious though not talented per= formers away from the microphone.

zn = ” Mr. Harris regales his reader with rollicking tales of the skeptical era, when a terrified citizen reported seeing a blackbird killed in flight by a radio wave (Mr. Harris admits he could have been convinced it actually happened)—when a woman reported radio waves played fancy tones on her bedsprings— when still another thought her deceased husband’s spirit returned on a wave, then got lost and was wandering around on another—all these things make radio seem generations old, not just 15 years. Then came those trying days of the fanatics and “analysts” who had cures for everything and demanded WHAS time to prove it. There was an era of child prodigies, when it seemed to Mr. Harris every mother’s son and daughter was a violinist; still another era brought love notes to the announcer (Mr. Harris did all the announcing in those days) in copious streams. e also tells of a later experimental era, when WHAS established such record “firsts” as a broadcast of conversations between the announcer and a radio operator in an airplane, and another broadcast which was heard through a receiver far underground in Mammoth Cave.

2 ” ”n The author learned that his community’s pathos, as well as its happiness, poured through his station. He tells of touching incidents and quotes from many letters resulting from WHAS religious programs and the “Paging the Ether” broadcast which located missing persons and re-united families throughout the country. He concludes with a brief summary of his station’s remarkable flood relief work last winter. \ PEERY © Mr, Harris combines the many amusing happenings (though they , ‘ serious a few years