Radio mirror (Jan-Oct 1923)

R940 Flewelling Set Questions Answered— Page 15 Radio Di EVERY I TRADE-MARK •7i a TEN CENTS Vol. IV R^fcV!?.. / CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1923 No. 3 REPORT EXPECT VOTE IMMEDIATELY ON RADIO BILL ON LAW Committee Makes Unanimous Favorable Report to House of Representatives Hoover-Denby Fight Ends Special Action Asked — No Opposition Expected — Amateurs Get Wider Wave Band (By L. M. Lamm, Special Correspondent) WASHINGTON.— After months of careful deliberation the merchant marine committee has made a unanimously favorable report to the House of Eepresentatives on the White Eadio bill. The report, unavailable for a few days, urges immediate action on the bill on the part of the House. The committee authorized its chairman to ask for a special rule for RADIO VOICE GOES PAST THICK WALLS Inventor Talks Through Four Foot Barrier with His New Instrument NEW YORK. — A demonstration of how Radio can be directed through walls of steel and concrete was given at the Radio Exposition here recently. It was a most remarkable performance. The inventor of the apparatus, Bernays Johnson, stood behind a wall at least four feet thick and directed his voice at will through it. It is possible, according to Johnson, to place himself and his machine, which needs no aerial or ground, inside the largest steel vault in the country and he will talk to outsiders without the slightest difficulty, metal doors and walls having no deferring effect. In his experimert Johnson has taken his apparatus 200 feet into a coal mine and talked through the solid walls in a very clear manner. Johnson first made experiments in 1908. immediate consideration of the bill by the House. If this is allowed, which seems probable, the bill should pass the House shortly after this dispatch has gone to press, according to a statement made bv Representative W. H. White of Maine, ' ' father ' ' of the bill. BUI Smooths Out Difficulties The bill as reported out on the floor of the house by Chairman W. S. Greene of Armstrong Sees World Wide Radio Concert Only Necessary to Increase Power of Transmitters, He Says BOSTON, MASS. — Sheldon H. Fairbanks, manager of the Boston Radio Show, who has just returned from New York, where he was advisory director of the /*■' THIS RADIO SPEECH WAS A "BLOW UP" MEDFORD HILLSIDE, MASS. — A "powerful" subject was that of the talk broadcast January 20 from Station WGI here by Arthur La Motte, of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours company. It was full of pep and possibilities and told the farmers what they could do with dynamite. I \ Sara Southern as the little lame girl in "The Fool." Channing Pollock's new play, which was broadcast from the Times Square Theater, New York, direct from the stage by telephone wires leading to WJZ, the Westinghouse station. This was the first time a play had ever been broadcast direct, although operas had gone on the air from KYW, Chicago, in this fashion, over a year the merchant marine committee, is identical with the bill introduced by Representative White two weeks ago, which embodied all the changes suggested by the committee. This bill compromises the controversy between the Secretary of Commerce and the war and navy departments which arose relative to the licensing of army and navy Radio operators by the department of commerce. Among other things the new bill will enlarge the wave length band assigned to amateur transmitting stations. The bill was changed in this fashion so that it could be favorably reported to the House without amendment. No Opposition Expected in House • No opposition to the bill is expected in the House. (Continued on page 2) American Radio Exposition at the Grand Central Palace, quotes Major Armstrong, the inventor, who was in charge of broadcast reception, as predicting that it would not be long before Radio concerts would be broadcast around the world. "All that will be necessary," says the Major, "will be to step up the power of the transmitting station, receive it at a central station — say in England — and relay it all over Great Britain." He predicted that broadcasting round the world would come in an amazingly short time, and pointed out the tremendous possibilities for promoting better understanding between the nations. Million and Half Sets in U. S. A canvass of the country shows that there are about 1,500.000 Radio sets in homes. It is estimated that Pittsburgh has a set in one home out of every six and that Detroit has between 40,000 and 60,000 sets. President Has Secret Transmitting Set, Rumor Harding May Plan to Use Outfit to Address Nation WASHINGTON. — In the basement of the White House at Washington, President Harding is said to have a Radio transmitting set. Very few people know of this. The fact has been kept secret from most of the very high officials, who are popularly supposed to be "in the know" with current happenings at the United States capital. The station has never been used. There is considerable speculation as to whether President Harding plans to address the whole nation in the future upon ultra-important questions. The set is said to be powerful enough to enable him to do so.