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8/22/41
PORL'IGN LANGUAGE PROGRAIIS OLD STUTF FOR NBC
V/e are indebted to Bill Neel, of the Press Department of the National Broadcasting Company in V/ashington for the following correction :
''I noticed in yopr August 12 Letter a note on United states shortwave programs being printed in three languages for dis¬ tribution outside the United States,
"I thought you might be interested in the enclosed NBC has been printing short-wave programs in foreign languages for some years, and mailing them all over the v/orld,”
The enclosure Llr. Neel sent v;as a copy of the ''Short Wave News'* containing the programs of NBC-RCA short-wave stations V/RCA and \TO3I for the month of July, These programs v;ere printed in inglish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and German, P’urthermore , as Hr. Neel correctly states, and this writer in his lucid' moments well knows, these programs have been sent out by NBC for several years ,
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AI.IATEURS COOPERATE IN WAR GAII^S
The Army is trying for the first time, apparently with success, the voluntary mobilization of amateur radio operators for defensive aid in the current West Coast war 'maneuvers of 100,000 men.
Two h'undred operators are cooperating in a secret radio espionage network by which the defending forces learn of troop, mechanized and motorized movements long before they could be ascertained by normal chan-nels. The radio plan was developed by Haj, Gen, Kenyon A, Joyce, commander of the 9th Corps Army, and has proved particularly valuable in the ¥/ild Olympic peninsula forest area. The civilian operators include farmers, forest rangers. State patrolmen, water patrol'men, fishenmen. Coast Guardsmen and others,
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FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OP BROADCASTS TO EUT.OPE OBSERVED
The fourth anniversary of regularly scheduled daily programs in German, French and Italian, heard by European Short-Wave listeners over stations ’iVRCA and V/NBI, was observed last Wednesday by NBC*s International Division, virhich recently celebrated its tenth birthday,
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