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MARTHA ATTWOOD RETURNS TO AIR Metropolitan Prima Donna Will Sing Six Numbers Over N. B. C. Network. Martha Attwood.

prima donna soprano of the Metropolitan Opera returns to the microphone tonight to be the guest, soloist in the Kent hour, a National Broadcasting Co. attraction, coming into Washington over WRC. Supported by Josef Pasternack's Orchestra, Miss Attwood will sing six numbers Love a Little "Two Hearts in Three-Quarter "The Moon and "Indian Love and Me Back to Old Unusual and distinctive orchestral arrangements will feature the program of dance music by Nathaniel Shilkret's Orchestra, to be broadcast at 6.30 o'clock. The program contains eight numbers, the principal ones being Lonely You Sincere?" and a medley from Prophet Without Is announced as the biblical drama to be broadcast at 11:30 o'clock this morning. A special program by Deems Taylor will follow.

Regular Attractions Listed. In the afternoon WRC will broadcast the regular array of National Broadcasting Co. attractions. These include a concert by the Cleveland Bymphonv Orchestra and a concert by the Manhattan Guardsmen Band. The Duchess of Atholl will discuss five-year program in the regular Sunday international program which WMAL arid other Columbia stations will rebroadcast from London.

The Cathedral hour in the afternoon will feature the oratorio Te Deum In of Dudley Buck, organist and composer. The high light of the Symphonic hour will be the and finale from The regular weekly concert by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and a program by the Continental String Quartet are among the outstanding Columbia attractions on WMAL's program tonight. The Detroit Orchestra will play Love of Grieg and the scherzo from Mendelssohn's Night's D. C. Artists to Be Heard.

Two Washington artists also are to be heard over Ralon, violinist, who will broadcast at 12:15 and Howard Moore, baritone, who will give a recital In the Wash- lngton Musical Art Gallery program at i 8:45 Elizabeth Gardner Coombs, pianist, will be accompanist. WOL will broadcast the morning of Calvary Baptist Church and several musical features. These Include programs by Jack Ralston's Orchestra and the Ramblers. L. Z.

Phillips, prominent Washington trombonist, and Margaret Rlngrose, soprano, will contribute to the program of WJSV. This station also will broadcast its regular Sunday religious features. Major Radio Features BPEECHES. Five-Year by the Duchess of Atholl. WMAL, World's Business," by Dr.

I Julius Klein, WMAL, Drugs and by Dr. Howr ard W. Haggard. WMAL. by David Lawrence, WRC.

8:00. CLASSICAL. Deems Taylor Musical Series. WRC, Kent Hour, with Martha Attwood. soprano, WRC, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, WMAL, Russian Cathedral Choir, WRC, 10:30.

VARIETY. Jack Ralston's Orchestra, WOL. Choral Orchestra, with Maurice Chevalier, WRC, The Gauchos, WMAL, Muriel and Vee, strumental duo. WRC, South Sea Islanders, WRC. 11:00.

DRAMA. Moonshine and Honeysuckle, WRC, Daddy and Rollo, WMAL, i Big Brother Club, WRC, 8:45. HIGH LIGHTS ELSEWHERE. Fur Trappers: musical WNAC, WCAU and WHK. Dandies; Betty Smart, contralto: Ben Alley, tenor, and Freddie Orchestra WABC, WFBL, WEAN, WNAC and WCAU.

Scrapbook, KDKA, WON, WRVA and WSR. T.oo—Melodies; Betsy Ayres, Mary Hopple and WBZ, WBZA. WHAM, WJR, KDKA and KYW. Hour, talk by Arthur Somers Roche, novelist, and dramatic WBZ, WHAM. KDKA, WJR and WMC.

Stag Party; Raymond Knight, comedian WBAL, WJZ. WBZ. WBZA, WHAM, KDKA, WJR and WLW. to Richmond, Zoel Parenteau's WBZ, WBAL. KDKA and WJR.

by Floyd KDKA, WBAL, KWK and WBZ. Music: Ludwig Laui String WBZ, WBZA, WHAM, KDKA, WJR and WLW. 80:00 Saxophone Octet WBAL, WHAM and WOR. 10:30 Argentines: tango orchestra WJZ, WBZ, WJR, KDKA, WBAL and WREN. The Dial Log.

Heard In Washington Regularfy. Keys. WABO 860 WLW 700 WBAL 1060 WMAQ MW 670 WBZ WOC WCAO 000 WOR 710 WEAR 860 WPG 980 WOY 790 WRVA 1110 WHAB 820 WSB 740 WJR 750 WTAM 1070 WJZ 760 WWJ 920 WUS 870 KYW 1020 Flmhu from The Evening Star, reeume of world news, is broadcast daily by WMAL at 5:45 o'clock. Is Taught To Speak by Radio In Br the Associated Press. BROWNSVILUS, Tex teaches parrots to talk at W.

A. I King's International "parrot here on the Mexican border. King, giving a demonstration with his best tuned in a station. The parrots, which had been Jabbering loudly, first became calm and then started muttering and mimicking the program. pick up one language ttta same as King said.

main thing is constant i repetition, and the radio proves L. a great 1 i ii i Featured in Regular Radio Programs POPULAR STARS WHOSE BROADCASTS COME INTO WASHINGTON. Si Hfc: Folks Behind The Microphone BT THE RADIO EDITOR. PAULA HEMMINGHAUS, contralto of the National Broadcasting comes from a distinguished and musical family. Her father, of German descent, was a well known educator.

At one time he occupied the chair of languages at Capital University, in Columbus. Ohio, and at the time of his death was president of the Luther College, at St. Paul, Her mother, a French woman, was a singer. Born in Colum- I bus. Miss Hem- I minghaus began I her musical trainling earlv.

and at I the age of nine was making public ap-1 pearances. She I came to radio I about three years 1 ago, and has taken I part in a number of outstanding broadcast programs. Paula She Is a member of the National Grand Opera the National Light Opera and is now singing in the Summer series of Gilbert Sullivan gems. MORTON DOWNEY, popular tenor, has found time to compose another song, despite the demand on his time by radio, the theater, recording and other activities. Melody of is the title.

Downey thinks it will become as popular as his ENROLLMENT In N. B. O's. two piano playing classes Music in the Air and Keys to Happinesshas passed the 140,000 mark. School children of Arlington County.

will present a special radio program over WJSV Wednesday night at 7 o'clock. Lee Morse, blues singer, has returned from a vacation in Allen. and comes back to the microphone Wednesday night in the Personalities program on Columbia. GIRL RADIO STAR WILL GET DIPLOMA Sylvia Altman Will Graduate From New York University at Age of 17. NEW YORK (IP).

years old, yet a member of a 1931 college graduating class and a radio entertainer since 1925, Sylvia Altman has built an unusual foundation for her career. Sylvia, born in Buffalo, N. was 10 when her public school days were over, and at 13 she had finished high school. Now, at 17, she is to be graduated this year from New York University, having majored in psychology, music and English. She held a merit scholarship and has been awarded a Phi Beta Kappa key.

Her first radio experience came via station WCAP at Washington, D. six years ago. and she has made regular appearances since then in dramatic and musical programs. Her voice has been heard In both NBC and CBS network features as well as over several local stations In New York. For the last three and one-half years she has been piano soloist, accompanist and a member of the trio on Madge Tucker's NBC programs.

Besides her microphone presentations she has played in vaudeville and on the concert stage. dearest friend is my Sylvia said. it hadn't been for her I probably would not have progressed so fast. She taught me to read when I was two and a half years old, and ever since I was a baby she has seen that I did all that I could to help Among her fondest ia this comment from Roxy: "You have everything rypersonality and talent." Will Contact With Rum Rows A regular radio program sponsor is planning to forego Its usual weekly symphonic broadcast on the Columbia network to carry the microphone out to sea Tuesday night, to contact with a vessel off Rum Row, where Ford Frick, announcer, will describe his observations and regale the audience with tales of illicit liquor running. New Stations Authorized.

In spite of Its general policy against licensing new broadcasting stations, the Federal Radio Commission has authorised the construction of a new 100- watt station at Presque Isle, and a new 50-watt station at Waterbury, Vt. Both are to operate on 1420 kilocycles, a local channel. The grants were made without hearings in both Instances, It was explained, because Maine and Vermont are underquota in their radio facilities and the new stations will not cause additional Interference. laAD.o/eav.c^^ THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. JUNE 7.

FOUR. JhbmhHi Vh JEAN CARROLL, left, one of the first radio artists to qualify as a "television beauty Her beauty hints are now a regular Monday morning feature over WRC and other N. B. C. stations.

In the group, left to right, are Anthony Wons, Jacques Renard and Morton Downey, who are presenting a new dally series over WMAL and other Columbia stations. Today on the Radio (All programs scheduled for Eastern Standard Time.) WMAI 475.9 Meters. 53Q Kilocycles. Tower Service. Art program.

Re broadcast from London" Russia's Five-Year by the Duchess of Atholl. Trio. Ralon, violinist, and Elizabeth Gardner Coombs, pianist. 12:30 Trail. 1:00 Gold.

hour. 2:00 hour. 3:00 Hour. 4:00 to 5:00 Evensong servics from Washington Cathedral. by Dr.

Julius H. Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce. 6:15 Pals, with Harriet Lee, contralto. 6:30 and Rollo. 6:45 Karle, tenor.

Drugs and Doctors," by Dr. Howard W. Haggard. Smith, crooner. Edits the News.

7:45 Male Quartet. 8:00 Opera Miniature. 8:30 Symphony Orchestra and Edgar Guest, poet-philosopher. 9:00 Gauchos. Builders, featuring Douglas Gilbert.

Moore, baritone. String Quartet. 10:30 the Samovar. Harmonies, featuring Vincent Orchestra. 11:30 Leaf at the organ.

forecast. Program Tomorrow. Commuters. Scrap Book. Dutch Girl.

the Morning Mail. Fixit. Parade. Youth a by Mrs. John 8.

Sheppard. Looklng-Olass. ljir Madison Singers. Biscuit Bakers. Modem Orchestra.

Revue. Central Orchestra. Ensemble. 12 Orchestra. 1:00 1:15 RecltaL Kings.

Salon Orchestra. Three Doctors. Leaf at the organ. States Army Band. 3:30 to 4:00 Orchestra.

Tjrr TCV Meters. WJ 1.460 Kilocycles. 11:00 to of the Fourth Presbyterian Church. of the Air. Melodies.

6:00 Spreading Association. 7:00 hour. Wheeler, tenor. at First Church of Christ Scientist. Rlngrose, soprano.

Story. Boat. Z. Phillips, trombonist. from the Free Methodist Church of Alexandria.

Quality Four. report. Early Program Tomorrow. King Tut. Chamblin, soprano.

to Housewives. by Federation of Clubs. hour. time. 12:02 in Sleepy Valley." 12:45 Orchestra.

King Tut. Gauldmany baritone. program arranged by Edith V. Smith. hour.

TIME OF TESTS EXTENDED B. C. Synchronisation Experiment Will Continue Until Sept. Synchronization tests being conducted by the N. B.

C. with WTIC operating half time on the WEAF wave length and WBAL on the WJZ channel, will continue until September 5, under renewal authorizations by the Federal Radio Commission. This experimental operation Is for three-month periods, but extensions will be granted from time to time in order to determine with finality whether this new system of enabling stations carrying the same programs to operate In synchronism on the same frequencies Je entirely practicable. The testa ao far have been satisfbetory, according to O. W.

Horn, general engineer of the N. B. In charge otf development of the system. Seek to Transfer Ownership. Another educational atatlon has applied to the Federal Radio Commission for authority to transfer ownership to a newspaper.

It Is WCAX of the University of Vermont, which has applied for voluntary assignment to the Burlington (Vt.) Dally News. Recently the University of Arkansas agreed to dispose of Its KUOA to the East St. Louis (111.) Journal. sales service tin ATWATER KENT nil RCA, VICTOR MAJESTIC PHILCO BOSCH Convenient Terme I 11 JOL 14th St. tt.Vf.

1 At asrvsra 315.6 Meters. 950 hour. hour. Woodwind Ensemble. White, organist.

Days. of Destiny. Big-Game by Carveth Wells. Concert Orchestra. drama.

12:00 Taylor Musical Series. Heas and his Budapest Orchestra. Service program. 2:00 and Honeysuckle. Guardsmen.

3:00 service by Dr. 8. Parkes Cadman. 4:00 Concert. 4:59 time.

5:00 hour. 6:00 Stager's Memories. 6:27 Lolita Cabrera Galnsborg, pianist. 0:30 Nathanial Orchestra. 7:00 Orchestra, featuring Maurice Chevalier.

by David Lawrence. 8:15 Hour, featuring Martha Attwood. soprano, and Josef Pasternack Orchestra. Brothers' Club. River Orchestra.

9:45 at Seth Parker'e. 10:15 and Vee, vocal and instrumental duo. 10:30 Cathedral Choir. forecast. Sea Islanders.

11:30 to 12:00 Orchestra. Early Program Tomorrow. health exercises. and Glenn. devotions.

Trio. Orchestra. program. Capers. and Bits.

Tell by Jean Carroll. and Bits. Blue streaks. Household Institute. Strings.

and Pete. and Low Down. and Memories." by Capt. R. Henderson Bland.

Wings of Song. Orchestra. 12:30 farm and home hour. recital and dental talk. Radio Review.

of a concert by the Quartet from Leipzig, Germany. melodies. Lady Next Door. i sr 9 Meters. i 1,810 Kilocycles.

melodies. Poster melodies. opera gems. of the Calvary Baptist Church. 12:30 to Jerry in Punnyland.

Orchestra. Rose Orchestra. Ramblers. Early Program Tomorrow. Clock.

Clock. by Peggy Clarke. melodies. Porum. of Music.

the Composers. music. 12:30 to music. Columbia to Give Medals. Columbia Broadcasting System has had a symbolic medal struck for presentation to distinguished speakers and musicians appearing before the microphone, the first of which will be presented to Sir John Relth, director general of the British Broadcasting Corporation, when he speaks over the Co-1 lumbla network from Chicago Tuesday.

i Britons Hear Broadcast. Sports, Jazz and other broadcasts of the lighter sort are taboo on the British radio on Sundays at the dictate of Sir John Relth, director general of ths B. i B. now visiting the United States. One was put over on Bir John shortly after he left England for the United States, however, according to a British report, when the B.

B. C. shocked 16,000,000 British listeners by reteoadeastlng the Kentucky Derby from the United States until nearly 12:16 a.m. Sunday. The time difference between England and the United States explains, the late broadcast.

Radio: Service Exchutn fc We Never Offer Any Used Care but Used Cars" MOTT MOTORS, he. 1520 14th St. N.W. Dec. 4341 MIDGET RADIO SETS TO DOMINATE SHOW New, Powerful Tubes Reducing Static and Television Also to Be Features.

BY MARTIN CODEL. CHICAGO, 111., June new In radio? Here, on the eve of the annual Radio Association trade show, one hears much talk of midgets, television, the variable-mu and pentode tubes, new long-life battery sets, the SUnode home talkies and many other things. All of these developments in radio and its allied arts will be on display during the forthcoming week. Thousands of radio dealers are gathering from all parts of the country to preview the latest the radio industry has to offerings these same dealers will be making to the buying public from this time forth. Follows Engineer Meeting.

The R. M. A. trade show is following close upon the annual convention here of the Institute of Radio Engineers, a meeting which this week brought the engineering minds of radio out of laboratory and factory for a mutual exchange of views and Information. These men.

who discussed not only what they have perfected for the ensuing year's market but that which mav be expected in the future, closed their sessions today. Doors of the radio exhibit halls are not 3'et opened, but enough information has seeped out to give some general ideas of the new development and trends. roremost, perhaps, is the emphasis being placed upon the production of the small, compact, low-priced receiving sets generally called midgets. They will be evident on ah hands and for the most part they, like the larger sets, are employing the superheterodyne circuit. They are exceedingly light weight and in all shapes.

They may or may not be the product the demand for cheaper radios, due to the depression, but the fact remains that they now dominate the market. Large Sets Continue. The larger sets, of course, will continue in great evidence, for much more can be done with them in ihe way of engineering true tone values. The super, heterodyne dominates all classes of sets, hardly a major manufacturer today Ignoring that circuit. Then, too, with a wide market still prevailing for battery sets, especially among the nonelectrlfled rural regions, the new low-voltage batteries, one with a life of about 1,000 hours, will be considerably in evidence.

The two new tubes, the variable-mu and pentode, are scheduled to be very important features of the Autumn and Winter markets. The variable-mu is a screen-grid which permits stronger signals to be fed into the radio frequency amplifier without causing crosstalk and which eliminates hissing back- ground noises and does away with the need for various controlling devices to compensate for the different intensities of distant and local signals. It reduces manufacturing casts and makes passible more compact cabinet designs at lower co6t to the consumer. The ordinary radio receiver cannot use the variable-mu. Neither can It use the power pentode, which is a tube with many times the usual amplification of the power tube and, therefore, does the work of two or three ordinary amplifiers.

It takes special circuits for both these tubes, and the special circuits are Incorporated in many of the seta being offered to the public this year. Television Foremost. Television is a foremost topic of discussion. and every shade of opinion prevails about its imminency. This much is certain, that the television experimenters are a zealous lot who have attracted thousands of experimentallyminded persons to look-in with them on the pictures now offered over 20 or more stations east of the Mississippi.

Commercial television receivers are available today for those minded to dabble with an art that is just about at the stage of perfection that ordinary radio was seven or eight years ago. Advance reports have ft that Dr. James stenode radiostat will be a stellar attraction at the trade ahow next week, with several manufacturers showing models of the British scientist's new system ol exceedingly sharp tuning. The models to be displayed by several manufacturers, it is said, will incorpot rate the pentode and variable-mu tubes. The broad claims made for the stenode, especially for its reduction of beck.

ground noises and static in receivers, as well as its reputed potentiality for'narrowing the channels of radio transmission and thus making more wave lengths available, will merit considerable attention from the radio world. Ship clocks being made In England for use in the tropics are baked In ovens, while these to go to the Arctic regions are frozen, to Insure their standing the extreme weather conditions, YOUR OLD SET ACCEPTED AS DOWN PAYMENT ON THIS STEWART WARNER RADIO t. C. or D. $74.50 Less Tubma i Complete with of the highest standard duality, $87.25 Nothing THE LIBERAL ALLOWANCE SERVES AS YOUR DOWN PAYMENT Okay Radio Co.

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THIS OFFER LIMITED Behind the Microphone BY THE RADIO EDITOR. THOUGH the radio Industry i has not escaped the effects i of the current business depression, there is no calamity nowling among the manu- facturers and a decided feeling of i optimism prevails. The condition i of the industry, now fairly well stabilized through conservative operation, is much more secure than the times and the decreased purchasing power of the populace would seem to indicate. These are the conclusions of i Kenneth A. Hathaway, technical! radio adviser of the Chicago Daily News, upon the completion of his annual survey tour of the district lying between Chicago and the East Coast, where by far the greater portion of American manufacture and research in radio apparatus is located.

Not only commercial factories and laboratories, but governmental and experimental centers of radio research, 50 of them in all, were visited. The radio industry Is not flourishing as it did until the industrial depression began, declared Mr. Hathaway. But it is going forward with such high hopes that even the complications of such new developments of the general adoption of superheterodyne circuits, the introduction of new tubes and the advances in television are stimulating rather than dimming the initiative of the men who are making radio. Laboratories and factories alike have not let up in the least in their pursuit of the new, the more efficient and the more economical to offer to the radio public.

That fact alone, said Mr. Hathaway, is best Indicative of the spirit that pervades radio. This is not simply "Pollyanna Mr. Hathaway adds; the industry has good reason to be hopeful of a revived market, for the Census Bureau figures released thus far indicate that not many more than 30 per cent of the homes of the country at large are radio equipped. Mr.

Hathaway said, been subjected to a consistent uphill pull during the last 18 months. After a period of abnormal buying on the part of the public, the producers were suddenly confronted with an era of financial depression that has continued with untold frenzy. Nevertheless, members of the radio industry have strengthened their position by overcoming obstacles that have arisen and the Spring of 1931 finds them individually and col- lectively better fitted to maintain I radio as one of the largest and most important BY Its failure to sustain the validity of the Langmuir high vacuum tube patent, one of the key devices in the radio and allied arts, the Genreal Electric Co. lost one of its most important contributions to the patent pool of the Radio Corporation of America. The Supreme Court decision, written by Associate Justice Stone, a former professor of physics, also means that the hold of R.

C. A. on tube patents has been considerably weakened. Inside the radio industry the Supreme Court decision is being construed as a definite blow at the R. C.

A. patent-licensing arrangement, whereby 15 or more companies have been licensed to manufacture radio tubes upon payment of 7V 2 per cent The Langmuir patent hitherto has been regarded as basic in that I An Opportunity to Own 1 I A Victor Radio 1 I At a Saving of $61.50 1 (1 If Lowboy Model 21 tive cabinet (38 in. high, 8 1 WF Complete with in. wide, in. deep).

Com- gi Small Down Payment Makes It II No Added Cost for Liberal Credit! i 1 Seventh and Streets N.W. I was deemed to cover the evacuation of gas from all an application of science which Justice Stone held was not an in- I vention. With numerous new types of i tubes appearing on the radio market this year from other i sources as well as from R. C. informed opinion in radio circles was to the effect that R.

C. A. will have difficulty in imposing a royalty of per cent on all radio tube production hereafter. In fact, some opinion has it that many tube makers, especially those with important developments and inventions of their own, will now escape paying tube royalties altogether, O. S.

Schairer, R. C. A. vice i president, explains that the de-1 cision does not affect the right of the R. C.

A. to make and sell i tubes, adding that the decision 1 deals with the Langmuir patent and has no relation to the other patents under which the Radio Corporation has rights and has granted William J. Barkley, vice presl: dent of the De Forest Radio which was sued for infringment and which carried the case to the high court, explains that the decision circumscribes the licensing field of the G. E-' R. C.

A. group, since, if held valid. the high vacuum patent would have created a virtual monopoly of all the industries which depend for their operation on vacuum PARISIAN newspaper men referred to John W. Elwood, one of National Broadcasting several vice presidents, as Ambassador of American radio in during Mr. recent honeymoon trip to Europe.

Among other things, Mr. Elwood arranged for more international 1 exchanges of radio programs with British, German and Italian radio officials and in Paris he was quoted as striving employ radio to enable all peoples to know each other and the attractions of their respective All of which led Wireless World of London, leading European radio periodical, to make this comment: this is his sole idea we encourage it whole-heartedly; but if, as has been uncharitably suggested, there is even the motest intention of swamping Europe with American advertising, we shall not be alone in making an early RADIO artists from all of the Washington broadcasting stations are going to the Naval Hospital tomorrow night to assist in the dedication of a new amplyfying system. The idea is to give the patients an opportunity to see and hear in person their favorites on the air. Peggy Clarke of WOL has arranged the program at the reauest of the hospital patients. Those already booked to take part include Strickland Gillilan, Arthur Godfrey, Joe Turner, Stanley Bell, Les Colvin, David Martin, Hook Kennedy and some of the talented children who broadcast under the colors of Edith Reed.

RAYMOND KNIGHT comedy onnouncer of ifflfion of the nmtlui ill mmuso yom tonight o'clock STAG wjz, wiv, inr, kvi. wbal, CAR, WHEN, SCHOOL STATIONS FIND ROAD ROUGH 53 Have Been Stricken From List, 23 Transferring to- Commercial Enterprises. BY ROBERT MACK. Educational radio stations are ir.g the road to radio fame a tortuou one, with many shifting their license-: to commercial enterprises. In the face demand of one I educational group for 15 per cent of all broadcasting chanhels to be employed In bringing education into the home, many educational stations have been forced out of the radio picture.

Unstable financial situations and Inability to meet the rigorous competition of commercial stations largely are held responsible for the condition, together with the recent regulations promulgated by the Federal Radio Commission requiring drastic improvements in station apparatus. A survey of official records of the Federal Radio Commission made recently discloses that 53 educational stations have abandoned their enterprises since the commission's establishment in 1927. i Now approximately 50 such stations are licensed. 23 Now- Commercial Projects. Os the 53 stations stricken from the 1 lists as affiliated with institutions of learning.

23 were transferred by the I schools themrelves to commercial eni terprises, which now are operating the stations as business rather t'ran purely educational enterprises. Ten of the total were deleted by the commission in August, 1928, as a part of its general reallocation in which it sought to irtl; I prove radio conditions. The other score, i for sundry reasons, either were dropped by the commission or forfeited their 1 licenses. A half dozen applications now are be. fore the commission from educational 1 stations seeking transfer of their licenses to commercial enterprises.

With the broadcast spectrum crammed i full, station licenses of any character are at a premium. The sentiment is i prevalent that many educational sta) tions feel it is futile to compete with commercial outlets and that tional programs can be given the pubi lie more effectively over these cial stations, most- of which have been 1 eager to obtain educational features. 1 provided they are properly arranged i and not dull and uninteresting. 1 Middle West Suffers Most. During the commission's four-year tenure, the Middle West has suffered most heavily in educational station losses.

In the fourth radio zone 22 such stations have relinquished their licenses, while in the Western States and the East-Central States the educational station losses have been 10 each. The South lost nine and the Eastern tier of States only two. A survey made last March by Federal I Radio Commissioner Harold A. Lafount showed that 6 minutes out of every 60 on the air are devoted to educational programs. The surprising part of the I survey, broadcast by stations operated by educational institutions actually was 5 educational.

Os 51 stations then licensed to educational institutions, 42 responded to the commissioner's questionnaire. These devoted 286 hours and 9 minutes to what they described as educational grams, while they were on the air ing the week under survey for a total of 1,027 hours and 10 minutes. The same survey showed that those educa- I tional stations were silent during many I I of the hours assigned them for regular operation. 1931 Authorized Service Leece-Neville, Dyneto, Weatinghouae, Startera Generator Repaira MILLER-DUDLEY CO. lith at.

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