Radio Digest (Oct 1923-July 1924)

;|-9I9:» ©C1B6CS912 New Wave Traps; Reflex Neutrodyne Circ Radio Di EVERY I aTEN CENTS REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. & DOM. OF CANADA Vol. VIII Copyright 1924 By Radio Digest Publishing Co. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1924 No. 5 CLAIM R.C. A. MONOPOLY DEAF MAN PUTS ON PHONES AND HEARS Affliction Is Overcome by Ether Waves After 26 Years DAVENPORT, IA. — More evidence that Radio aids the deaf to hear was received recently by Station WOC, Palmer School of Chiropractice, of this city, which made known a newspaper report that Levi Bullard of Lexington, Mo., who had been deaf more than 26 years, had been enabled to enjoy a concert broadcast by the station here. Bullard, while in a shop in Lexington, was induced to don a pair of earphones. Soon there came to his face first a look onsternation, tl uazement, then of pleasure and amusement. He shouted that he could hear. Bullard held onto the earphones until the end of tHe program and then announced that he was going to buy a Radio set at once. GOVERNMENT SAYS FIRMS ACT ILLEGAL Unfo Ids Patent Exch ange Big Five Combined and Conspired According to Sweeping Complaint of Federal Trade Commission Above is Dolores Cassinelli, the "Cameo Girl" of the screen; as Queen Isabella in "Columbus." She sang recently from WGR, Buffalo, winning a flood of applause. Below, Nancy Welford, of "Up She Goes, who pleased WDAR with her songs. (By L. M. Lamm, special Correspondent) WASHINGTON, D. C.— Illegal monopoly not only in the manufacture and sale of Radio apparatus, but in Radio broadcasting and communication, both domestic and transoceanic, is t lie sweeping charge, long awaited and finally made by the Federal Trade Commission against the Radio Corporation of America and its parent companies, which are no other than the General Electric Company, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, American Telephone & Telegraph Company (which controls the Western Electric Company), International Radio Telegraph Company, Wireless Specialty Apparatus Company and the United Fruit Company. Firms Named Have "Combined and Conspired" The charge was made in a complaint brought by the commission under its (Continued on page 2) -:-?-Kmm&sm%xw WBAP GOES 6,500 MILES TO SAMOA Fort Worth Plant Is Heard for Second Time in Distant Islands FORT WORTH.— Station WBAP, StarTelegram, has been heard for the second time in Apia, Samoan islands, an airline distance of 6,500 miles, according to a government Radio message received from Quincy P. Roberts, American consul at Apia. Only one station in the United States has been heard at a greater distance, this was by especially arranged tests on special power. The Radiogram from Roberts came by way of San Francisco and the Fort Douglas station of the army. Interest in Radio is mounting rapidly in the south seas, according to Roberts. Several good receiving stations are in operation throughout the Samoan group. Static conditions and a large volume of ship traffic are handicaps to fans there, which handicaps fail to dampen the enthusiasm of the fans. L e 1 a Johnstone, soprano of San Francisco Opera Company, who sings from KPO, Hale Brothers.