The talking machine world (Jan-June 1925)

112 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD February 15, 1925 Baltimore Trade Activities (Continued from page 110) history of the firm, not excepting December, which has always been the banner month with us. The demand for the records of John McCormack since he went 'on the air' on New Year's night has simply swamped us and it has been practically impossible to keep dealers supplied with these records. "Far from hurting the talking machine the radio is going to prove one of the greatest benefits and I predict right now that there is going to be another shortage of machines before the year is over." J. S. Leland in New Territory J. S. Leland has taken the North Carolina territory of the Brunswick, formerly covered by M. M. Kuhn, who has been made a special representative of the Baltimore branch. Planning Local Radio Station Plans for the establishment of a $50,000 broadcasting station in Baltimore are now beingworked out by the Radio Board of Trade of Baltimore under the direction of a committee headed by the president, Captain Lepper. The plans for a 500-watt station and a start towards raising the necessary funds were made at a meeting last week when pledges were made by the jobbers, dealers and radio fans and a committee appointed to wait on the city authorities and secure an appropriation for its establishment. Association of Stores Formed to Do Joint Buying A group of nine stores, specializing in popular-priced merchandise handled in large volume, has formed the Associated Retailers of America, for the purpose of co-operative purchases and retail research. The stores affiliated do an annual business in the neighborhood of $100,000,000 and are: Bloomingdale Bros., New York; Gilchrist Co., Boston; The Outlet, Providence, R. I.; the Boston Store, Milwaukee, Wis.; The Golden Rule, St. Paul, Minn.; Lansburgh & Bro., Washington, D. C. ; BernheimerLeader, Baltimore, Md.; Howland Dry Goods Co., Bridgeport, Conn., and England Bros., Pittsfield, Mass. B. Guy Warner Dead B. Guy Warner, proprietor of the phonograph shop bearing his name at 549 Nostrand avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., and one of the oldest exclusive Edison dealers in the Metropolitan section, died suddenly at his home on February 2. The deceased was a former vice-president of the Talking Machine and Radio Men, Inc., and was prominent in Masonic activities. The Lynch Radio Corp., Brooklyn, N. Y., was recently incorporated at Albany, with a capital stock of $10,000. Carl Pfanstiehl Speaks Walter S. Gray Executives on New Theory of Radio Discuss Plans at Meeting International Clearing House Arranged for Prominent Inventor and Manufacturer to Give Address at Wanamaker Auditorium The International Clearing House of New York, Inc., distributor for New Jersey, eastern New York and eastern Pennsylvania of the Pfanstiehl radio receivers, recently arranged for Carl Pfanstiehl, world famous inventor and physicist, and head of the company which makes the radio sets bearing his name, to deliver a lecture at the Wanamaker Auditorium, in New York, on the new theory of the true nature of radio waves. This address was delivered on Wednesday, January 28, and in addition to being heard by a large audience was given wide publicity in the daily papers, the Evening World devoting whole columns to the lull reproduction of the talk, together with reproductions of the charts with which Mr. Pfanstiehl illustrated his talk. W. A. Hanft, manager of the Pfanstiehl division of the International Clearing House, states that the address and resultant publicity has caused much interest in the Pfanstiehl receiver. The address given by Mr. Pfanstiehl was of a highly technical and scientific nature and while delivered in language understandable to those who were present at the meeting, was too detailed to be briefed in this issue of The World. The new school of physics, of which Mr. Pfanstiehl is a scholar, contends that its experiments of the true nature of radio waves, based upon the radio-active theory which has disproved the old atomic theory of the indivisibility of matter, now tends to disprove the ethereal hypothesis of the transmission of radio waves. Ware Statement of Earnings The Ware Radio Corp., New York, manufacturer of the Ware neutrodyne receiving sets, in a recent report, disclosed that its net earnings for 1924 amounted to $331,888, after preferred dividends had been paid, or $4.33 a share on the 75,000 shares of common stock outstanding. Gross sales for the period amounted to $1,616,669, gross profits totaling $495,880. The net operating profit amounted to $369,954 and the total income $387,240. W. F. Alfring on Holiday William F. Alfring, vice-president and general manager of the Aeolian Co., New York, is vacationing at the Biltmore Sevilla Hotel, Havana. Mr. Alfring sailed recently on the United Fruit Liner S. S. Metapan. On his return Mr. Alfring will stop for a week at Belleair, Fla., where he will doubtless indulge in a little golf. Executives and Selling Organization of Pacific Coast Wholesale Firm at Three-Day GetTogether in San Francisco San Francisco, Cal., February 3. — The Walter S. Gray Co., the prominent jobbers of phonographs and accessories, held a get-together meeting in this city recently of the executives and selling organization to discuss plans and policies for the year 1925. There was a threeday session which was participated in not only Walter S. Gray Co. Executives 1. Cass Altshuler, secretary; 2. Walter S. Gray, president; 3. James J. Southard, manager radio department; 6. Robert S. Gray, vice-president; 7. Wm. A. Hiecke, manager record department, all of the Walter S. Gray, Co., San Francisco. 4. J. Grimsey, manager Walter S. Gray Co., Los Angeles. 5. George W. O. Neil, manager, Walter S. Gray Co., Seattle, Wash. by the members of the local staff, but by the managers of the Los Angeles and Seattle, Wash., branches. There were some interesting and resultful talks on merchandising plans for the year so recently opened, and it was unanimously determined by the assembled forces of the Walter S. 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