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Heinl Radio News Service
8/20/47
THEY CAN'T SEEM TO LEARN "POMPEII" BROADCAST FOOLS PUBLIC
Mount Vesuvius "erupted" so realistically during last Monday night's radio dramatization of "The Last Days of Pompeii" that people called The Washington Star and Station WTOP, CBS out¬ let in Washington, D. C., to inquire the name of the announcer who "burned with the buildings."
Switchboards at The Star and WTOP became busy just after the lines "Mount Vesuvius has erupted," the "old mountain is on fire," and "the lions are running out," crackled through the ether to District listeners. A woman inquired if it was really "true that Rome was burning."
John Daly, correspondent for CBS News in New York, offered an explanation after stressing that the broadcast was only a play and recalling the excitement when Orson Welles broadcast his drama of the invasion of the earth by men from Mars.
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BENTON OFFERS TO SHARE SHORT WAVES WITH SMALLER NATIONS
Wm. Benton, Assistant Secretary of State, addressing delegates of the International High Frequency Broadcasting Con¬ ference at Atlantic City last week offered to relinquish some of the short broadcasting facilities of the United States to enable smaller nations to engage in world-wide communication.
"Frequencysharing is an innovation in international affairs. At first glance frequencysharing may seem to entail a loss of sovereignty.
"However, that is not the view of the United States. Frequencysharing appears to us in the United States to be a means through which high-frequency broadcasting can continue to grow as a world force.
"It may be necessary for some nations now to reduce their operations somewhat. The United States is willing to reduce its transmitters, and we are willing to accept fewer frequencies than we are now using. If other nations will do the same, all of us should be able to obtain a fair and equitable share in the available frequencies.
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