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34 LOCAL STATIONS MAY BE REDUCED Pickard Indicates Reordering of Allocations Is Possible to Aid Reception. Local reception" of local radio pro grams in most cities of the United Statts is good. But the question In radio broadcasting today is: Shall the •‘radio fishermen” be limited to a . choice of a few neighboring fishing • 'holes, or will he insist on the entire ‘ United States for his angling activi ties? That is the way Sam Pickard of the Federal Radio Commission put the present situation in radio in a speech the other day before the Radio Man Ufacturers Association in Now \ ork City Bluntly. Commissioner Pickard announced that “if hard-boiled, stiff armed tactics are necessary to reduce interference and listeners indicate the desire to sacrifice many of the local stations to this end. the commission stands ready to apply fully the inter est, convenient or necessity clause ot the radio act.” Apparently, it is outside reception that many listeners want, for Mr. Pickard then announced that the Fed ernl Radio Commission now has plans definitely under way to clear at least Cl channels of interference, lie said tha* broadcasting stations known to he parties to heterodyning complaints may expect notification of changes within a short time. Thus another reordering of broad casting allocations may be anticipated by listeners and station managers in the neat future. This month, accord lug to Mr. Pickard's thesis, broadcast ir.g faces the "cold weather test.” Bet ter reception that comes with the pass ing of Summer has brought out the DX fans, those who like to dial for distant stations. Properly within this classification •re the small town and rural listeners, described by Mr. Pickard as a most faithful and enthusiastic audience, numbering at least half the country’s total of fans. They necessarily must rely on more or less distant stations for service, particularly in the South and in certain portions of the Middle West. While city reception on the whole has been vastly improved under the recent reallocations, Mr. Pickard thinks much must be done to make re ception better for those who live out side the densely populated centers. The clearing of the 40 channels, nearly half the number available, will decidedly benefit rural listeners. But it will also afford those in cities to g_= .. ■ 1 KALE RADIO {• Batteries For Sale Where Better Batteries Are Sold ;? TALE ELECTRIC CORPORATION • C buage Brooklyn, N. Y. San Pramtime gggjYALEjgggj Distributed By Carroll Electric Co., Inc. 714 12th St N.W. Main 7320 Heat Your Car With Hot Water As Comfortable as Your Home j Odorless—lnexpensive Watson Stabilator Co. 20 J 8 14th St. North 3949 Has your RADIO Heart-trouble? Are its efforts at recep tion faltering and faint? Examine Us vacuum tubes. They are the heart of your set. Be fair to yourself in your treat ment of it. It is best to replace all of your tubes with RCA Radiotrons, once a year at least. Radiotron “The IHidiotrou is ihe Heart U your Radio Set.” RADIO’S BEST OFFERINGS TONIGHT. One-act play, “Doings of the Brown Family," WBBM. 8:30 o'clock. Hoover Sentinels, WRC, WEAK and affiliated stations. 8:30 to 9 o’clock. Metropolitan Orchestra and stage program, WNAC, 8:30 to 10:15 o’clock. Maxwell hour, with May Peterson, soprano. WBZ. VVBZA. KDKA, KYW. WBAL. \Y)R. W’LW. WHAM. WHO. WOW. WDAF. KVOO. WSM WHAS. WMC. WBT. WTM I, KPRC. WRAP and WSB, from WJZ. 9 to 10 o'clock. Town Club Havvai ian s, WMAL, 8:3!) to 9:30 o'clock. “Faust." by the Chicago Civic Opera Co.. WJZ. KDKA. WBAL and associated stations, 10 o’clock. tune m more readily on distant sta Cons freed from previous heterodynes. Only the stations deemed of highest merit will get exclusive or semi-exclu sive use of particular wave lengths, according to the commission’s plan Every listener who cares to “fish” in the ether is affected by this latest pronouncement from the Federal radio control body, and certainly every sta tion manager is vitaliy concerned. That the commission regards its pol icy of utmost importance to the indus try is indicated by Mr. Pickard's state ment that "the life blood of the radio industry to a large extent lies in the fascination and romance of dialing dis tant stations." The United States Army Band Or chestra, the Hoover Sentinels, the SERVICE on all kinds of RADIO RECEIVERS Intelligent Experienced Men Await Your Call SMITH’S Battery and Radio Service North 2119 18th St. N.W. t'nstr*t ami Host Radio Service in Town Licented by The Andrevi-Hammond 4-volt mod.l for Radiol* MUlor any / \ Corporal,on, under Patent So. rectiv.r u.ing .mall tub*., 527.50. # \ 1,6)7,795 and application Sli*Wy highar watt of tb« Rocfctet / f f \ Imagine running a vacuum /so cleaner from a storage batteryl B I This is no more impractical than / operating your radio set with energy stored by a charger in a N> »- battery reservoir. stitk,tyH ‘ thtr Wtitof,h * Roeki " ABOX takes the current direct Anyone can install an ABOX in from the light socket and delivers a few minutes and have care-free it to the set as hum-free, 6 volt light socket “A” power. Two direct current. Always ready at simple connections and the job the touch of a switch to supply is done—and done well. “A” power to any set using eight / / / tubes or less. ABOX never runs T , . . , ri . . down or causes trouble because it contains no battery in any form. IT Srnd for interesting booklet, T1 []_ “ABOX and The Light Socket ” JJ The /Ibox Company 215 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois North ni HTHPI ffp 18th& 4896 W |%/l I I I—l W Columbia 9928 ———————————— _ - SOUTHERN WHOLESALERS, Inc. 1519 L Street N.W. Phone: Decatur 130 Wiliam E. O’Connor, President 4 F. C. Berber, Secretary THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1927. Clicquot Club Eskimos and the Smith brothers are prominent among a galaxy of attractions scheduled to night by WRC. The Army Band Orchestra will play from 7 to 8 o’clock, while the Hoover Sentinels, who will broadcast at 8:30 o'clock, have arranged to feature a special Armistice day selection. "War Memories," rendered by the “quartet of quartets," composed of brass, woodwind and string groups and a male quartet. A "lady eskimo” will be introduced by the Clicquot Club entertainers. She is Annette Hanshaw, noted for her soft crooning voice. The Smith brothers will feature the song hit, "Shaking the Blues Away,” from the "Follies”: “My Baby’s Driving Me Wild,” "Sugar” and "Under the Moon." WRC’s other attractions include a | talk by John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross, and a late dance program by the Le Paradis Band. WMAL’s principal musical attrac ions tonight will be provided by Borsch's Doughboys, the Town Club Hawaiians. Mabel L. Loftus, con tralto, and Harry Relda, w ho will give a novelty presentation of popular airs. Two talks will intersperse the mu sical numbers. One will be given by Maj Uen George Barnett, chairman of the District Chapter of the Amor IS/Lay Peterson from WBAL tonight \yfUSIC lovers! Your opportunity to hear a iVI voice that ha 3 thrilled Paris. May Peterson, formerly of the Opera Comique, will sing tonight during Maxwell House Coffee Hour, 9 to 10 P. M., Eastern Time. She will be supported by the Max well House Coffee Concert Orchestra. Nathaniel ) | Shilkret, Conductor. Hear this famous star! And, \ for your after dinner coffee, enjoy those mingled i flavors in Maxwell House—the blend that i 3 win ning the nation. , . IT WJZ. WBZ, WBZA, WHAM, KDKA. W.tR.TI * I J KYW.WTMJ. WOC.WHO.WOW.WCCO.KSD. L \ i rMflcncl WDAF, KVOO, WBAP. KPRC, WSB. WSM. f /l / Stations WMC. WHAS. WLW WBAL. WBT. WJAXjJ U Maxwell House /gfijßs? Coffee %adio Program every Thursday, qtolO P.M. - Tlmi) lean Red Cros». The other will be the weekly presentation of Science Service and will concern "The Novem ber Evening Skies/* With tremendous volume and excep tional clarity, signals of most of the out-of-town broadcasting sta’ticns re sponded last night, maintaining the excellent reception conditions which havw prevailed thus far this week. The most vociferous signals came from the Middle West, but those from the South and North had more volume than necessary for satisfactory loud speaker reproduction. Static and fading continued to make their presence felt on the wave lengths, but neither was a serious detriment to general reception con dltions. 35 STATIONS IN CANADA. Dominion Leads in Broadcasting Outside of United States. Canada has the largest number of broadcasting stations of any country outside of the United States. Ot\ly one in a city can be on the air at a time because the city groups us? the same wave length. This reduces the number of effective stations to 3ii. - JURY AWARDS $3,500. Returns Verdict for Damages in Automobile Mishap. A Jury in Circuit Division 1, be fore Justice Stafford, yesterday award ed a verdict of *3,500 damages against Frank C. Prepriet. 3G54 New Hamp shire avenue, in favor of John C. ICasow, a minor, 1126 Eleventh street, for personal injuries. The plaintiff was struck by a car of the defendant -September 26. 1326. at Eleventh and M streets. He was represented by Attorney H. W. Kelly. John C. Reid, a minor. 1311 L street southeast, was given a verdict for ’.750 damages by a Jury in Circuit Division 2 before Justice Bailey —1 ' - | 1 Never the same in 1 a million years Except over Ortho-sonic radio, never will you be || able to bring in those same clear and lifelike tones b which only the Federal Ortho-sonic circuit pro- £ duces. No other radio tones are like them. None fgj ate comparable in that purity which makes radio 1 truly pleasurable. 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Sherwood, 51 Randolph place, for an absolute divorce m* the District Su preme Court. She charges miscon duct. They were married in January, 1916, and have two children. They separated November 7. 1926. Attorney Paul i. Sedgwick appeared for the wife. Russia Has 38 Stations. .Russia has 38 radio broadcasting stations in 3S cities. Ail use either very low or very high power. ■ ■ ■■■ i # lIHK Has New Schedule. Station HHK. the government broad caster of the Republic of Haiti, Is now on the air with a new schedule. The wave length is 361.2 meters. Assigned to Flying Duty. First Lieut. Louis J. Tatom. Signal Corps, at Bolling Field. Anacoatia, has been assigned to duty involving dying for the purpose of testing Signal Corps and aviation equipment and to obtain meteorological data. Authorized Dealer FEDERAL RADIO SPENCER’S Battery and Elec. Service 2417-19 Pa. Ave. N.W. West 2995 Authorized Dealer and Service for FEDERAL RADIO CAPITAL RADIO ENG. INSTITUTE, INC., 3166 Mt. 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