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Max 31
Radio D
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Weekly Review of '^adio News '"TTioughi and Opini&n
RADIO MAY PREVENT
PRISON ESCAPES
The city of Auburn, N. Y., has applied to the Federal Radio Commission for a permit to erect a radio police station for use iu preventing riots and escapes at the New York state prison. The penitentiary has been the scene of several of the bloodiest revolts within the last few years.
Reconstruction work is under way at the prison now, it was explained, and some of the walls have been torn down to permit trucks to carry supplies \\\side more easily. Many of the convicts are temporarily stationed on farms and at camps.
With police squad cars equipped with radio receiving sets and a transmitting station of about 35 or 40 watts at headquarters, an attempted escape could quickly be frustrated, Chester J. Bills, Auburn police chief, testified.
SOUTH CAROLINA
TO TAX SET OWNERS
Blanks on which all radio sets in South Carolina are to be reported to the state tax commission by May 30th have been sent to several thousand radio owners.
The tax is graduated according to the value of the set and the rates are as follows: Fifty cents for sets costing less than $50; $1 for sets between $50 and $200; $2 for set between $200 and $500, and $2.50 for sets costing more than $500.
HOOVER INTERESTED
IN TELEVISION?
There is a report that President Hoover has installed a television set in the WTiite House, and at odd moments is experimenting with receiving pictures by radio.
RADIO TRANSFER PUSHED
The immediate transfer of the functions, personnel, and apparatus of the radio division of the Department of Commerce to the Federal Radio Commission is proposed in a resolution introduced in the senate by Senator C. C. Dill of Washington.
Declaring that there is no apparent opposition to the move, the senator said he hoped that it would be adopted by congress before adjournment for the summer. The provision for the consolidation is included in the Couzens bill, now under consideration by the senate Committee on Interstate Commerce.
TO TEST RADIO
ON ILLITERATES
The National Advisory Committee on Education by Radio is planning to test the value of radio in schools by experimenting with 100 receiving sets in TOO homes where no member of the family can read and write.
"This will give us a chance to see just what influence we can bring to a family isolated from neighbors and isolated because of inability to read the printed word," said Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary of the interior, who named the committee.
PICK UP S. O. S.
AUTOMATICALLY
A recent development aimed at increased safety at sea is the auto-alarm, a device which rings an alarm in the radio room and on the bridge when an S. O. S. or distress signal is picked up by the unattended receiver. This device, which has been employed experimentally on certain foreign ships, has been refined to the point where its mechanical intelligence disregards all signals except the S. O. S. or distress call, which sets off the alarm.