April, 1930
PRESTO-TIMES
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R A D I O
STORY & CLARK RADIO ACTIVITY.
Great activity prevails these days at the Story &
Clark piano plant at Grand Haven, Michigan, where
great preparations are proceeding for the early manu-
facture and placing on the market of the new Story &
Clark radio. New machinery has been placed and a
considerable force of expert workmen have been em-
ployed, including- expert die makers and makers of
certain kinds of tools used in radio making. Floor
space has been so much occupied that it is probable
the radio cabinets for some months at least will have
to be made in factories outside of Grand Haven. The
Story & Clark Company has recently put on a special
sale of pianos in order to reduce their storage of
pianos and thus attain the much needed accommoda-
tions for radio work.
ZENITH'S MILWAUKEE DISTRIBUTOR.
The appointment of the Morley Murphy Co. of
Milwaukee, Wis., as exclusive distributors of Zenith
radio is announced by W. C. Heaton, sales promotion
manager for the Zenith Radio Corp. of Chicago. The
Milwaukee office of the Morley Murphy Co. is one of
two branches of the organization, the home office
being located in Green Bay, Wis. The company,
established in 1904, is one of the oldest and largest
of its kind in that part of the country. The Milwau-
kee branch, located at 454 Milwaukee street, is under
the management of C. E. Willert, who has been in
the company's employ for the past twenty-five years.
photographs and cuts showing various successful
methods of packing various articles. The traffic hand-
book is being prepared by the RMA Traffic Commit-
tee, of which B. J. Grigsby, of Chicago, is chairman,
and the RMA Traffic Department, of which W. M. J.
Lahl is manager.
SPRECKELS PROFITS IN RADIO.
Rudolph Spreckels of San Francisco, chairman of
the board of directors of the Kolster Radio Corpora-
tion, made a net profit of $12,908,612 in the sale of
Federal Brandes and Kolster stock in 1927, 1928 and
1929, according to a statement filed in Newark, N. J.,
last month by his attorney, Walbridge Taft. The total
purchases of Kolster stock by Mr. Spreckels amount-
ed to 388,004 shares, which he bought at prices
ranging from $10 to $84.25. He sold various amounts
of shares in the period between November, 1927, and
December, 1929, the statement said, at prices ranging
from $84 down to $6.38 a share.
GOING AFTER MUSIC RACKETEERS.
RADIO RECEIVING SETS
RADIO PARTS
RADIO—PHONOGRAPHS
age was $10,800 and in 1927 the average was $11,750.
Total sales of the 10,455 dealers amounted to $135.-
845,635, of which $59,248,585 was in the last quarter.
"D. H. M."—DIRECTOR OF HOSPITAL MUSIC.
Miss Usen, writing in the Modern Hospital, pro-
poses a new college degree. It is D. H. M., director
of hospital music. It would be the duty of a
person with this degree to make hospital rounds and
prescribe the music to which each patient should listen,
either over the radio or rendered on some musical
instrument in the patient's room. Scientific work
along this line has been done by Prof. C. E. Seashore
of the University of Iowa.
VICTOR DEALERS ON STATEN ISLAND.
Authorized Victor dealers on Staten Island are
Ellis Music Shop, 107 Water street, Stapleton; Radio
Sales Co., Inc., 297 Richmond avenue, Port Rich-
mond; Manhattan Furniture Co., 128 Richmond ave-
nue, Port Richmond; Mahr and Van Name, Inc., 29
Beach street, Stapleton; and Traeger's Music House,
115 Wright street, Stapleton.
A committee of music publishers representing the
music publishing industry asked Police Commissioner
Whalen of New York, on March 17 to wage a war
LIGHTS BUILDING 10,000 MILES OFF.
on the song-sheet racket and its sponsors. John G.
A dispatch from Genoa, Italy, to the Chicago
Paine, 1501 Broadway, said that racketeers were mak- Tribune by David Darrah on March 26 told how
ing from $5,000 to $15,000 a week by their disregard
Marconi standing in the radio room of his yacht by
of the copyright laws of bona tide publishers.
tapping the key of his small transmitting instrument
sent out a radio current which, 10,000 miles away,
THE MAJESTIC AT NASHVILLE.
illuminated all the bulbs in the Klectric Building in
NITE AND DAY RADIO SERVICE.
A. G. Weber and R. W. Strobel, managers of the Sydney, Australia.
The Xite and Day Radio Service at 605 North
Illinois street, Indianapolis, is to be conducted on a M. F. Shea Music Store, Nashville, Tenn., have the
MILLS JOINS RADIO-KEITH.
strictly service basis; servicing and repairing all best of success selling the Majestic radio. "It is one
makes of radio equipment. It owns and operates a of our biggest sellers, and gives excellent service to
E. C. Mills, first vice-president of the recently
the purchaser," they said.
Practical School of Radio at the same address.
formed Radio Co., has been elected to the board of
directors of the Radio-Keith Orpheum Corp. He re-
RADIO INDUSTRY SHOWS IMPROVEMENT. signed last October as chairman of the administrative
TELEVISION ON THE WAY.
While the radio industry is still in a somewhat committee of the American Society of Composers,
Dr. Lee De Forest, radio pioneer, whose invention,
Authors and Publishers.
the electron tube, has been adapted to thirty different demoralized condition it is showing definite signs of
uses, said in a recent address in Chicago that he be- improvement, in the opinion of Powel Crosley, Jr.,
MILLIONS OF MAJESTICS USED.
lieves television will come into universal use during president of the Crosley Radio Corp., Cincinnati.
The Voice of the Air says: "More than 2,000,000
1930. He spoke at Mandel Bros, store, at Lewis In- "Normal conditions will have returned by summer or
early fall," he said. "Fewer companies will be in Majestic radio receivers have been bought by homes in
stitute and at the University of Chicago.
business, how r ever, and these will have the advantage the United States in 21 months—and so far as we
of low cost of manufacturing and valuable patents." know, every one is in the home of a satisfied owner.
GRIGSBY HEADS TRAFFIC COMMITTEE.
Following the success in securing railroad rate
R. C. A.'S NET INCOME.
The Bruner Music House, 1806 Third avenue, Rock
reductions aggregating over $1,500,000 this year, the
The Radio Corporation of America reports for 1929 Island, 111., put on a special display of radios, exhib-
Radio Manufacturers Association as a further service
to RMA members in traffic matters is preparing pub- a net income of $15,982,562 after reserves and federal iting Victor and Steinite models, in connection with
lication of an RMA traffic handbook. This will con- taxes, equal after preferred dividends paid during the the recent automobile show there.
tain tables of railroad shipping rates, bill of lading year to nearly $1.58 a share earned on 6,580,375 com-
Clifford Porth, of Porth Jewelry Store, Jefferson
conditions, information regarding claims for loss and mon shares outstanding on Dec. 31, 1929.
City, Mo., dealer in Victor radios, says Victor radio
damage, breakage and overcharges. There will also
engineers have made purity of tone possible and
be information regarding procedure before the Inter-
INCREASE IN RADIO SALES.
practical.
state Commerce Commission and other regulatory
Schuffman's store at New Castle, Ind., is exhibiting
In the past year, 10,455 radio dealers or one-fourth
bodies. Another chapter will deal with packing and of those in the country, reported average sales of
three models of the Edison Light-O-Matic line of
containers for radio products, to be illustrated with $13,000. In the preceding twelve months the aver- radios.
Grand and Upright Actions
Reconditioned
Water Damaged and Moth Eaten Player Actions Rebuilt
Expression Devices <—> Governors ^ Air Motors, Etc.
Striking Pneumatics
E. A. BOUSLOG, Inc.
2106 Boulevard Place
Harrison 2268
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
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