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8 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1930. Debs Memorial Radio Fund Station Ordered Before Commission for Hearing The Park Sisters, Frances (left) and June, one of the latest vocal and Instrumental duos on the air. They are heard every Tuesday evening at 6:45 o'clock on WEAF-N. B. C.

The artist catches Frank Black as he accompanies the Brigadier's Quartet on the General Motors Family Party on WEAF-N. B. C. Monday evenings at 9:30 o'clock. He is also arranger for the quartet as well as leader for the string orchestra heard on these programs.

Annette Hanshaw, star singer of the Van Heusen Program on WABC-Columbia every Thursday night at 9 o'clock. WEVD Must Appear To Answer Charges; Gerber Feels Animus Find Babylon Shack Old Marconi Station llomejy Little L. I. Hut Identified as First Com-niefeial in U. S.

of Pioneer Major Armstrong Buys and Removes to Rocky Point Circuit Court Says Langmuir Patents Valid Reverses Decision May Give G. E. 'Non-Gase-ous' Tube Royalties Philadelphia, Nov. 19 Turning di Washington, Nov. 15 WEVD, the Debs Memorial Radio Fund station in Manhattan, still is under charges by the Federal Radio Commission as a violator" of regulations.

Representatives of the station have been ordered to Murder Trial Jeanette MacDonald, stage and screen star, guest artist of Camel Pleasure Hour on WJZ-N. B. C. Wednesday night at 9:30 o'clock. had grown In size and resources, had begun conducting extensive radio service along the coast.

The fact that Marconi had established a wireless station at Babylon was well remembered, however, by some of the pioneers who have remained In radio communications throughout its growth. Residents of the neighborhood relate that boys interested in electricity used the shack for elementary experiments, but eventually it lost even that dignity and was employed as a paint shed. Riding the Waves By JOHN Television Held Up for Public for Two Reasons tacfe of Channels as Well as Alleged Pressure on Federal Judges are back again on our could be-developed In a most Intellectually enterprising manner If we felt so Inclined. Fortunately, there Is neither one of our periodical brainstorms hovering over us, nor need we worry about setting down here more than fac What has been generally regarded for a great many years a an ordinary and somewhat homely little shack marring the landscape near Babylon, L. has been identified the first commercial wireless station built by Marconi in the United States, and consequently a a structure of unusual Interest and significance In the history of American radio.

It is to be preserved for historical exhibit through the efforts of Major Edwin H. Armstrong, radio inventor and engineer. According to the best information available, Marconi erected the station In the late autumn bf 1900 or the early winter of 1901. This gives It a date In radio history prior to the inventor's experiments in transoceanic radio communications, and previous to the achievement, by which he amazed the world, of flashing the letter "8" through space across the Atlantic. Marconi located his Long Island sending post at a point on the outskirts of Babylon, near the coast, where he could reach incoming ships while they were yet some distance from New York.

He erected the tall wooden pole which was the mainmast of early radio; sunk into the earth the great zinc ring that was used for a ground connection, and began on favorable days a com munication with vessels as far as 60 miles at tea, at a rate of approx imately ten words a minute. The station was operated by the Mar ton! Wireless Telegraph Company of America, which Marconi had Just organized. Placed at Rocky rolnt After Major Armstrong had estab lished that the shack actually was the starting place of the present- day American system of wireiess communications, he purchased It and offered It to the Radio Corpor ation ot America, the successor to the American Marconi Company in the field of radio communications. Major Armstrong went to Babylon, loaded the little building on a truck and removed It to Rocky Point, L. where he placed It beneath the great transmitting and receiving towers of the R.

C. A. Communlca tlohs, station. The Babylon site was abandoned by the Marconi Company after other stations with greater range and newer equipment had been constructed on Long Island and after the American Marconi systcm.which At top Gilbert E. Gable, paleontologist explorer, on the life of Navajo and Hopl Indians on WJZ-N.

B. C. Tuesday nights at 8:43. In circle Arturo Toscaninl, who is to direct the New York Philharmonic concerts over WABC-Columbia beginning this afternoon at 3 o'clock. V.

of Iowa Prepare Pupils at Announcer Iowa City, Iowa, Nov. 16 Preparation of the nation's future radio announcers has been undertaken on a college campus for the first time at the University of Iowa. A course In radio broadcasting Is being taught by Prof. A. Dale Riley of the department of speech.

A survey of leading broadcasting chains and stations was made to determine the qualification! most sought for In announcers a a preliminary to opening the course. The instruction is given before a microphone in the classroom. A number of students, both men and women, art taking the Instruction. hockey Battles At Madison Sq. Garden on WOR Jack Fllnian, Speed An- nouiicer Back at 'Mike' In Tuesday Night Report With Jack Fllman, unique an nouncer ot professional hockey by radio at the microphone, the current series of lee contests at the Madison Square Oarden will bt broadcast over WOR beginning next Tuesday night at 10 o'olock, It has been learned.

During his broadcasts last vear. Fllman excited much comment With hi ability to follow what it con aidered by many authorities to be the fastest sport. Though tht broadcasts will not start with the beginning of the game, Fllman Will give a brief resume of what has already hap pened, and Conclude with his rapid report of the closing periods. nit announcer is known as an authority on tht came. In addition, ht knows every player In tht league Intimately, and can Identify them Immediately in the midst of tht oft occurring melees.

The games will be heard every Tuesday night at the same time throughout the season. Oratorio Croup Sings Verdi 'Requiem Today The first part of Verdl Imtnor tal "Requiem" will be sung by the National Oratorio Society under the direction of Relnald Werrtnrath over WEAF-N. B. C. this afternoon at 11:30 o'clock.

Shortly after the death of Rossini In 1868, Verdi suggested that the most prominent Italian eom-posrs of tli day should unit writing a requiem as a tribute to the renowned deceased, but It was abandoned, Allesandro Mansonl, poet and beloved friend ot Verdi, died In Milan and Verdi himself undertook to compose a requiem in memory of tht poet, tht last movement of which was tht "Liber Me," originally composed for tht Requiem of RunL a appear for hearing to answer these charges. A request Dy Mr. O. August Gerber of the Debs fund lor cancellation of tht order for the hearing has been denied. In answering these charges, Mr.

Gerber said: "A grare question in the people's minds today is steadily crystaliting, and in time the people In no uncertain way will demand an answer. Can any government agency afford even the appearance of showing special consideration to the big monopolistic Interests, especially when such consideration is at the expense of really independent t4-tlona which unmistakably serve tht masses of the American people. "It may be merely an incidence that our station should be called before tht commission to defend its rights to exist; it may be merely a coincidence that WEVD la harassed by petty charges of the commission's rules, yet If the whole thing were part of preconcerted plans. It 1 difficult to believe that the commission nurtures special animus against our station. "Monopolistic Interests continue to lodge charges and com plaints against us with malevolent intent to destroy, but I like to be lieve that the commission would not permit Itself to be mads party to such fell design." High fewer Spreads The entire World Is becoming In trigued with the idea, for the use of high power for broadcasting, according to a report made by L.

D.I Batson on the electrical equipment division of the Department of Commerce. Through the establishment of cleared channels? wider coverage and clearer signals is the goal, he says. In the United Stated the number of cleared channels those wavelength which are devoted exclusively to one station is 40 out of a total of 90 channels, but use of high power Is restricted to 20 of the 40 rhanneU by a rule of the Federal Radio Commission, the subject of many recent protest at hearings before the commission's examiners. Throughout tht world 13 stations of super power are being built, while promise of more Is In the offlnir. Russia plans stations of 100.000 watts: Johanncsberg, South Africa, Is combating tronlcal stotle with 15.000 watts; Italy Is building two 10.000 watt station, on In Rome and one in Milan; a bl Irish Free Btat station IS beln worked upon, while Kngland i replacing Its present network with several 80,000 watt outlets.

Other high power ststlona Of other lnnds include the 00.000-watt Oslo, Norway statloh; the 40.000-watt stations of Lahtl, Finland and Hluzen. the Netherlands, and the roneentratlon of Oermany's sta tions into 11 of so.ooo-watt power ecn. Though tile Croslev Radio Corporation has not made application. the use of the contemplated short wave channel for broadcasting to rhaln of radio universities, would ronstltute a violation of the radio law. according to the Federal Radio Commission.

The channel lies In the transoceanic band. It said, and Its line therefore In connection with domestic rehroadcastln. especially es this channel la reserved for the Interchange nf foreign lntelllenee, would be a misinterpretation of the law. 'Copper Beeches' iNfxt Holmes Radio Mystery With tht co-operation of a young woman and his companion. Dr.

Watson, Bherlork Holmes solves the mvstery of "The Copper Beeches" during the series "The Adventures nf Sherlock Holmes'1 to be broadcast over WEAF-N. B. C. tomorrow night at 10 o'clock. Richard Oor-don, state and radio actor, portrays the part of the master detcctlvt Virginia Carrlngton-Thomas, organist of the recitals from Carnegie Hall, heard on WOR every Sunday afternoon at 3:30.

SKINNER old subject which we think flnd-the-frequency-for gamt would be over. television Well, thl column builder Is pretty young in years, but la pretty old as far a broadcasting is concerned. Thus, we remember, sitting in our laboratory torn eight years ago up in the New Hampshire hills, listening to tome of the first program to come from MJ. Edward Bowes' Family party. And so, down In New York's hulls of steel and stone, we are going to sit and listen and like Ik 'Julius Caesar' Chosen for 2d Radio Guild Play Webster, Malonc, Warbur.

ton and Kibble Are in Presentation Friday; Bhakespeare'i "Julius Caesar" will be the vehicle of the Radio Ouild players in the second ot the National Broadcasting Company dramatic educational series next Friday afternoon on The play I another of those1 culled from the reading lists of secondary schools and college In tht United States. Vernon Radclifle, N.B.C. production representative, who directed tht original Radio Ouild piograms, Will makt tht Shakespearean adaptation and direct the presentation. The play will last for an hour, beginning at 4 o'clock eastern standard time. Such well-known microphone players a Charlet Wtbster, Florence Malohe, Charlet Warburton and Ouy Kibblt will portray tht various role in an especially adapted radio version of the classic "Julius Caesar" wa first published In 1623, seven years after the death, of Bhakespeart, It Is regarded as a tragical dramatic history, with unusual rhetorical quality of verse, rather than pure and tlmple trag-dy.

CMINEC2 ENVOY ON Chao-Chu Wu, the Chinese Minister to tht United States, will explain the modern probltm and characteristic ot hi vast country In a tslk entitled "China Today" over WABC-Columbia this afUrnooa Irom 1:30 to I o'clock. INDIAN BASSO SINOINO Chief Yowlache, distinguished Indian basso and a. full-blood Indian chief of the Yakima tribe of Waan. Ington, will be featured on tht Modioli Concert Hour, entitled "Th First Ameriran," hext Wednesday night on WEAF at no o'clock. rectly back on Its decision ot a year ago, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals hist week ruled that the vacuum tube patents held by the General Electric Company are valid.

It is one of the most Important de clsions handed down by a court which affects radio and radio tube manufacturers. Provided the decision remains, the Oeneral Electric Company is entitled t6 a monopoly on the manufacture and sale of "non-gaseous'' vacuum tubes. It Is expected, however, that the DeForest Radio Company, sued by the aeneral Electric Company for Infringement of patent, will appeal to the Supreme Court, The circuit court ruled In October, 1928, that the patent were invalid. The case was reargued and a reversal of the decision in favor of the General Electric Company followed. Involves Millions Millions ot dollars may change hands If the decLilon is upheld, since Oeneral Electric would be in a position to collect royalties from competitors producing tubes similar in design In the five years the patents have been operating.

The type of the tube Involved in the suit is widely used In receiving sets. The Circuit Court was divided two to one. The controlling decision, which covers 16 typewritten pages, was written by Judge Joseph Buf-fington and was concurred in by Judge J. Warren Davis. A dissenting opinion, consuming 28 pases, was filed by Judge Victor B.

Woolley, who felt that the patents covering Dr. Langmuir's Invention are in-Valid. Davis Changed Mind The reversal of the court's attitude on the patent It due primarily to the fact that Judge Davis, who sided with Judge Woolley a year ago In declaring that thev were Invalid, changed hi mind after the reargument and agreed with Judge uumngton, wno dissented from the prior decision. The Langmuir' patehta are for what are known commercially as "non-gaseous" vacuum tubes, defined at a process for minimising me use of gas as a conductor ele ment. The decision Is a reversal of the rinding of Hugh M.

Morris, former Jtldge of the Federal District Court of Delaware, who dismissed the suit on the ground that tht patents were Invalid. Lawyers saw an Interesting side light to the litigation that two Federal ludges. Woollev and Morris have expressed the opinion that the Langmuir patents are not valid, and two others. Bufflngton And Davis, conclude tney are. SUSTAIN LANGMUIR PATENT The vacuum tube patent of Lang tftnlr No.

1,068,438, Issued Oct. 20, 1925. has been sustained by the united States circuit court of Ap peals in Philadelphia in a suit brought by tht Oeneral Electric Company against the DeForest Radio Company. The Court's onln Ion, which reverses the decision of Judge Morris In the District Court of Delaware, is signed by Circuit Judges Bufflngton and Davie. A dissenting opinion it filed by Circuit Judge Woolley.

HUNGARIAN COUNT ON Count Aloert Apponv, for half a century an outstanding patriot, statesman and the voice of Hungary, mnkes his Initial appearance before an American radio audience throliah WOR next Thursday. In the Hungarian Hour of th Plymouth worm Tour. The program, which Is an electrical transcription, begins Drama on Air; Hearers Jury 'Trial of Vivienne Ware' Heard on Six Nights to Be Decided by Jurr The first murder trial drama ever to be presented to a radio audience Will be broadcast for six successive nights over WJZ beginning Tues day, Nov. 25. Tht entire production, "The Trial of Vivienne Ware," Is under tht per sonal supervision of John Golden, noted theatrical producer.

A notable cast of radio star and three prominent members of tht New York Bar will take part. George Gordon Battle, Internationally famous lawyer, will take the part of the attorney for tht defense. Miss Vivienne Ware, beautiful young Park Avt. resident, It formally charged With flrst-defret murder for allegedly shooting Damon Fenwlckt to death in his home on Washington Height the night of Oct. 6.

Take Stodit Slant The story of tht shooting of Fen wlckt will be told by tht witnesses as they take the stand in tht Tunes Square Studio of tht National Broadcasting Company in such manner at to glvt tht unseen audi ence a clear and vivid picture of the chain of evidence involving Mies Were. The drama was written by Ken neth M. Elll, featurt writer, tape dally for presentation to a radio audience and the continuity follows so smoothly as to make it unneces sary to re-enact any part of thl scene at or subsequent to tht mur der. The story itself 1 written In such manner as to reran the popular short story "Tht Lady and tht Tiger," for the radio listeners Will not be given a verdict in tni case. They art to be the Jury and tht sponsors of the broadcast will seek verdict and tht reasons therefor from the invisible audience.

Olvst Real Effect According to records. It it believed that an actual murder trial ha never been broadcast in this coun try; but the lines of Ellis' murder trial drama treat the various phases of an actual trial with tuch fidelity that the radio listeners acting as Jurors will be parties history making radio broadcast. The actuai story I eonsldtred one of the best constructed radio dramas ever written, ft, Aries worth, president of tht National Broadcasting Company, declared "The manuscript establishes new standard in tnt artation or radio plays. Tht simplicity and ndelitr of the theme, together with the colorful word and character pictures, stand out in this new nrlil nf idaotlvt wrltlnC." The author wrote and staged the largest outdoor spectacle In tht United Stales, "Tht Pageant of the Apostle Island," at Bayfield, Wis In 1034. In which 2.600 OJibway In dlnns and whites participated.

The pageant outlined 200 year of hit' torv. The murder trial drama will bt heard over WJiB Tuesday, Wednes day. Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, Nov, 21 to 30, fiiclimlve, from 10: JO to It O'clock, Faatem Standard time, txcenttnt on Saturday night, when It will be broadcast from 9 to 9:30 0 Clock. Coincidental Discovery Discovery of the existence of the station and verification of the part it had played in early American radio came about partly by coin cldence. The coincidence was that Capt.

H. J. Round, one of the lead ing radio engineers of the British Marconi Wireless Company and an associate with Marconi in the letter's early work of extending the use of his discoveries and inven tions, happened to mention the Babylon station while he was visit ing Major Armstrong at Bayport, Long Island, last year, and ex pressed curiosity as to what had happened to it. Captain Round's first real job in radio was that of third assistant technical officer at Babylon, Just after Marconi had pushed up an antenna there. Captain Round and Major Armstrong drove over to the town.

They found that It had extended toward the coast and that many houses had been built in What was open country 30 years before. A new street had been cut through from the old road, but Captain Round soon oriented himself, left the car, and glanced into the field where the shed stood. He identified it immediately. Kept Cltixena Awake "This is the place. I can remember that house over there," he said, pointing across the road to a large dwelling partly concealed by trees.

The story is told that the early station was not popular at Babylon, as residents sometimes were awakened In the night by the loud crashing of the spark transmitter, Captain Round kicked his toe into the earth a bit and almost where he had been standing there was revealed a portion of the old Please Turn to Page 10 i FIRST U. S. MARCONI STATION tual matter Why don't we have television In the home? Apparatus has been developed which is not beyond the reach of the average pocketbook. There are several station In tht United States which are putting on regular television programs. In fact, one of the Chicago stations broadcast the recent election returns by visual radio.

There are really two reasons why television is hot more widespread. The first is that, since a television wavelength requires so much more air space than the audible broadcast, there are Insufficient wavelengths to grant to all those wishing to put television on the kit. The second la that, since much political Influence is held by large broadcasting corporations, pressure is said to be placed upon Government authorities until the corporations oan evolve a mode ot visual broadcasting suitable to their tastes and profits. Yet let US look at this. "The Federal Radio Commission," says Oerald Oross, "one of Its engineers, "has maintained a policy of permitting and encouraging the type of legitimate experimental research work in television which will advance the art.

For this reason the present frequency assignments to television stations are made upon a purely experimental basis. All of these stations are eubject to the provlslona of Oeneral Order 84, covering experimental stations. "The Federal Radio Commission." he continues, "because ot the scarcity of available channels, has been forced to deny a large number ot requests for television stations from applicants who wert not Interested in television from an experimental research standpoint, but merely from it commercial aspects. "Slnct a large part ot experimental television work can be conducted In the laboratory long before any need exists to conduct the transmtoslon of radio waves, and the actual radio transmission is In reality one ot the more advanced stages of thl development work, the commission how requires a showing of laboratory research previously carried on by the applicant before considering new frequent assignment to new nations." Much was hoped last September when Dr. James Robinson sailed for America with his Stenods Rndlostat.

ft has been demonstrated several timet since then, and, though by no mean perfect, has shown its ability to tune In in an Inconceivably sharp manner. If thu new device could In tome manner be a nerftct in tonal reproduction as it I in selectivity, then the whole problem of the 738 1. Jr III Major Edwin H. Armstrong at the old Marconi wireless station. The station was located and identified by Major Armstrong and Capt.

J. Round, engineer of the British Marconi Wireless Company and an early associate of Marconi. at ociock..