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July 9, 1927.
PRESTO-TIMES
has long prevailed in the New York and Chicago
areas has been cleared up to a large extent. There
are still some conflicts in the New England district.
On Basis of Advices, the Federal Radio Commission Commissioner O. H. Caldwell is now making a sur-
vey of that section with a view of adjusting difficulties
Declares Results Satisfactory.
which prevail.
The Federal Radio Commission announced on June
"The Commission is most gratified over the broad-
30, on the basis of advices received by it, that satis- casting situation and it is the firm belief of the
factory results are being obtained with few excep- members that it will not be necessary to make any
tions from the new allocations of wave lengths, from radical changes in the set-up on August 15, when the
the standpoint of both the broadcaster and the lis- present 60-day licenses will be renewed for another
tener.
short period.
As a result, the Commission was said to believe it
will be unnecessary to inaugurate any radical
SEEK RADIO QUEEN.
changes in the system on August IS when licenses
First entries in the annual contest to determine the
will be renewed temporarily.
Queen of Radio reached officials of the Radio World's
The statement, in full text, follows:
Fair in New York from California and Connecticut.
"Official and unofficial reports reaching the Fed- There is nation-wide interest among feminine listen-
eral Radio Commission are to the effect that the new ers who not only are proficient in operating wireless
allocation of wave lengths, with the exception of a equipment but write in glowing terms of what radio
few isolated cases, is working most satisfactory from is doing for the women of America, which is the sub-
the standpoint of the broadcaster and the listener.
"An almost ideal condition seems to prevail in the ject of this year's essay competition, ending August
far west and the south, while the congestion which 31.
RADIO RECEPTION GOOD
OTTO R. TREFZ, Jr.
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Pacts in Various Lines of Commodities Which Enter
Into Musical Instrument Manufacture.
The United States Department of Agriculture de-
clared last week that it has never endorsed the name
"Philippine mahogany," as applied to Philippine
woods.
The old rules for measurement and inspection of
hardwood lumber, veneer, thin lumber and plywood
have been superseded and the rules created by the
National Hardwood Lumber Association have been
adopted by the organization named and the hard-
wood Manufacturers' Institute.
American pneumatic piano pedals are offering very
keen competition to German manufacturers, resulting
in an almost total abandonment of such local produc-
tion. American pedals imported in the unfinished
state and finished locally sell at a lower price than
the German product, reports Consul Hernando de
Soto, Leipsic.
Rights to export rubber from Malaya and Ceylon
restriction areas are issued in the form of permits,
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which are passed from seller to buyer in each trans-
The D. W. Lerch Music Company. Canton, O., action. These permits are issued by the restriction
has organized the Canton Boys' Bugle and Drum administrative officials and are generally spoken of
Corps. This company has been instrumental in recent in the trade as coupons.
weeks in forming several musical organizations and
With an army of 160 men the Bureau of Entomol-
free instruction is given members of the various ogy and the United States Forest Service is carrying
organizations.
on an intensive campaign against the pine beetle this
year in the lodgepole pine forests along the Conti-
nental Divide in the Bitter Root and Bcaverhead Na-
A FEW NOTES.
tional Forests of Montana. This is the largest under-
George Lester Atwater of New Haven, Conn., is taking in pine beetle control ever launched in that
a composer of three songs which are highly favored district.
by students of Yale. "Boola," perhaps the best known,
Four hundred flock masters are expected to attend
was a favorite of John Philip Sousa, and is played the annual convention of the Wyoming Wool Grow-
by the college band at every important athletic con- ers Association, which will convene at Lander, Wyo.,
test, together with Atwater's other two, "Bingo," and July 20, 21 and 22.
"Good Night, Harvard."
The organized lumber industry of the United
George E. Brenner of the Pacific Coast Keefer Co., States reported a substantial margin of gain for last
San Francisco, is back in his former quarters at week in production, shipments and orders, compared
277 Eddy street, after having been located for a few with the week before, says the National Lumber
weeks at 140 O'Farrell street. He has increased his Manufacturers Association.
stocks since getting back to the old home and is pre-
paring to add several new lines.
In a "remodeling sale" the Winter Piano Co., 1015
The Heine Piano Co., which conducts an upstairs State street, Erie, Pa., is closing out its entire stock
store on upper Market street, San Francisco, has an of musical merchandise and accessories. In the
attendant at all times in the street lobby to direct future the company will specialize in pianos, phono-
prospects to the salesrooms above.
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