September, 1930
P R E S T O-T I M E S
R A D I O
HARRISON CO., EDISON DISTRIBUTORS
The H. O. Harrison Co. of San Francisco have been
appointed Edison radio distributors for that territory,
Horace H. Silliman, territorial supervisor of Thomas
A. Edison, Inc., announces. H. J. Zeusler is in charge.
"We are putting the same thought and effort behind
Edison radio as we are our automotive lines," declared
J. W. McAlister, vice-president and general manager
of the H. O. Harrison Co. H. O. Harrison, president
of the H. O. Harrison Co., is the well-known Pacific
coast capitalist and is also famous as a big game
hunter. Mr. Zeusler has engaged an experienced staff
to represent Edison radio in the field. It includes
E. J. Thompson, formerly retail manager of Capwell's
radio department, Oakland; H. J. Ralph and George
Von Blum, formerly with the San Francisco Edison
Distributing Corp., and A. E. Spencer, formerly with
the radio distributing firm of Waterhouse-Weinstock.
MAJESTIC PRODUCTION SPEEDED UP
President Grunow of the Grigsby-Grunow Co.,
manufacturers of the Majestic radio, known as "the
mighty monarch of the air." is speeding up production
to take care of extensive orders. The offices at 5801
Dickens avenue, Chicago, and the great factories
nearby are busy places these days in producing and
marketing the "quiet yet powerful Majestic radio."
CURRAN CHICAGO EDISON MANAGER
After completing negotiations with the Townley
Metal & Hardware Co. of Kansas City whereby this
concern assumes the distribution of Edison radios in
the Kansas City trading area, Howard H. Curran,
formerly manager at Kansas City for the Edison Dis-
tributing Corp., has moved to Chicago and has taken
up the managerial post in the Edison Distributing
Corp. offices there.
HOME RECORDING WITH VICTOR.
A new form of home entertainment that bids fair
to be "the life of the party" will soon be placed on
the market by the Victor division. Home recording
apparatus which will permit anyone to make his own
records is incorporated in the new Victor radio-elec-
trola instrument that will soon make its bow to the
public. Describing the new invention, a Victor execu-
tive said that home recording "w r ill immortalize the
life of the American family." With the records repro-
duced electrically "as easily as dictating a letter in
your own living room," he pointed out that through
home recording "the voices of the children, the family
reunions, the memories of aged parents and every
memorable event of the home can be retained and
cherished as a living album of memory. These
records can be mailed as verbal messages to relatives
and friends," he declared, "and supplement the so-
often unsatisfactory letter. It is the newest of the
many contributions which Victor has made to more
pleasure and entertainment in the home."
DEVELOPING RADIO EXPORT TRADE.
Exports of American radio products are constantly
expanding, particularly to Canada and the Latin-Ameri-
can countries; the exports to Canada having doubled
during the last fiscal year. Arthur Moss of Electrad,
Inc., New York city, has been appointed by President
Metcalf of the Radio Manufacturers' Association as
chairman of the association's foreign trade committee.
Other members are: J. M. Regottaz, RCA-Victor
Co.; Charles T. Lawson, General Motors Radio Corp.;
S. J. Spector, Insuline Corp. of America; K. Nielsen,
Belden Mfg. Co.; W. J. Barkley, De Forest Radio
Co.; J. Howard Haley, Colin B. Kennedy Corp.; and
C. J. Hopkins, Crosley Radio Corp.
CLARION MAN'S WORLD TOUR PLANS.
ZENITH NOW MAKING PROFITS
The daily papers report an interview with Paul B.
Klugh, vice-president and general manager of the
Zenith Radio Corp., Chicago, in which that gentleman
says that the corporation is now on a profitable basis
and that the current quarter, which began August 1st.
will probably show earnings considerably better than
in the preceding three months, when a net loss of
$6,092 was reported, against a loss of $281,931 in the
corresponding period last year. He added that the
profits in the next quarter, which includes the peak
months of the radio season, should be considerably
larger than in the current quarter.
CONSOLIDATION IN CAMDEN
The entire activities of the RCA-Victor Co. have
been consolidated in Camden, N. J., with the removal
from the Woolworth building, New York, of all the
sales activities of the Radiola division, the engineer-
ing products division and the RCA export department.
The offices of the Radio Corp. of America, the parent
holding corporation, will remain in the Woolworth
building.
SUIT VS. WARNER BROS. DISMISSED.
Justice James Penewill, of the Delaware Supreme
Court, sitting as chancellor at Dover last month, dis-
missed the receivership bill filed by Ira I. Nelson of
Boston against Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., and Ren-
war, Inc. H. M. Warner, president of Warner
Brothers Pictures, Inc., in a statement issued the day
Nelson's petition was filed, characterized the allega-
tions as "false and apparently maliciously made," and
said the "presumption is the petition was filed for the
purpose of injuriously affecting the price of the stock."
Arthur E. Maybrun, export manager of the Trans-
former Corp. of America, leaves Chicago headquarters
this month for South America, returning by way of
Europe a year later after accomplishing a survey of
foreign markets and appointing new distributors of
Clarion radios in foreign ports.
SALES LESS IN RADIO EQUIPMENT.
Radio equipment sales by retail dealers for the sec-
ond quarter of 1930, according to an estimate at Wash-
ington, totaled $87,000,000 as compared with $92,000,-
000 in the corresponding period in 1929.
MONTREAL HAS MORE SETS.
During the last year radio users in Montreal in-
creased 30,402 to 42,116, but in spite of Montreal's
larger population, it falls behind Toronto, which in-
creased its radio users from 44,172 to 58,324.
GENERAL ELECTRIC IN OHIO TOWNS.
The voice of the General Electric radio has been
heard throughout Ohio lately by means of the porta-
ble amplifying system, driven about the country by
the E. H. Gray Electric Co., distributors of the new
radio. The system is mounted on a lJ/2-ton Chevrolet
truck. It was at Ravenna, Ohio, at the middle of
last month.
NEW YORK RADIO WORLD'S FAIR.
The week of the annual Radio World's Fair at New
York city, beginning September 22, has been desig-
nated as "National Radio Week" by a joint commit-
tee of the Radio Manufacturers' Association and the
National Federation of Radio Associations.
ZENITH RADIO CORP.'S REPORT.
The Zenith Radio Corp., Chicago, made this report
for the quarter ended July 31: Net loss of $6,902,
after expenses, royalties, depreciation and other
charges, comparing with net loss of $281,931 in the
corresponding quarter of 1929.
DAILY OUTPUT OF 2,200 RADIOS.
Of the 16,000 employes of the RCA-Victor Co.,
about 13,000 are engaged in the manufacturing end of
the business. . The company is now turning out over
2,200 radio machines a day.
A FINE SETTING FOR THE SCHILLER.
RADIO NOTES
The Schiller piano agency in Los Angeles, Calif, is
held by the Eastern Outfitting Co., which has just
erected a beautiful and costly skyscraper building at
the corner of Broadway and 9th street, that metrop-
olis. Here the Schiller Super Grand pianos will have
the finest setting possible on the Pacific Coast, which
is their just due. The store is noted for furnishing
the best homes in Los Angeles and suburbs with su-
perior goods.
The "Routh Music & Radio Shop, Salem, Ind., has
moved back to its old locatfon on South Main street,
that town. It handles the Atwater Kent radio.
The annual meeting of the Wextark Radio Stores,
Inc;, will be held early in October at the general
offices of the Corporation, 1903 W r est Pershing road,
Chicago.
Walter G. Pierce of Evanston, 111., was elected as
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RADIO PARTS
RADIO—PHONOGRAPHS
president of the Midwest Radio Trades Association in
Chicago last month.
Alexander J. Olson, 450 West Alain street, New
Britain, Conn., has been appointed representative in
that section for the General Motors radio.
The Transformer Corp. of America, Chicago, man-
ufacturer of the Clarion radio, has appointed the
Blackmail Distributing Co. of New York as metro-
politan distributor of Clarion receivers.
Ross D. Siragusa, president of the Transformer
Corp. of America, Chicago, manufacturers of the
Clarion Radio, in the last four months has closed fif-
teen export contracts by using the modern telephone
systems.
The Hub Radio and Music Shop, 2937 Hennepin
avenue, Minneapolis, is handling the Apex screen
grid radios. Mortimer N. Joseph is the owner of the
radio department.
The consolidated balance sheet of the Stewart-War-
ner Corp. as of June 30 shows current assets of $13,-
979,512 and current liabilities of $1,803,962.
Bensberg's Music Shop, Magnolia, Ark., furnished
the radio for the recent party given by the Banner-
News of that town.
H. E. Ashcraft, proprietor of the H. E. Ashcraft
Radio Shop, 117 East Second street, Seymour, Ind.,
has been given the agency for the Atwater Kent
radios in that territory. He also handles the Steinite
radio.
Samuel Howard of Chicago is ancillary receiver for
the Lmiversal Wireless Communications Co., which
controls 40 wave lengths allotted by the Federal
Radio Commission. The M. & T. Trust Co. is pri-
mary receiver, having received the appointment from
United States District Court Judge )ohn R. Hazel of
Buffalo.
The Brunswick Radio Corp. is using the Commer-
cial Investment Trust as the official financing organi-
zation for Brunswick dealers and distributors covering
radio sales made on the installment plan.
The Columbia Graphophone Co., Ltd., reports for
the year ended June 30, 1930, profits of £580,158 after
expenses, depreciation, etc., but subject to taxation,
against £505,121 in the preceding year.
Thieves broke into the store of Miller Bros. Radio
Co., 26 East 9th street, Erie, Pa., one night last
month and stole $30 which had been hidden in a radio.
The Silver-Marshall Radio Co., Inc., 6401 West
65th street, Chicago, announces the appointments of
Burton Brown as advertising manager and Howard
W. Sams as general sales manager.
More than 1,800 arrests have been made with radio-
equipped scout cars in Detroit since Detroit installed
its police radio station a little more than two years
ago.
Strings and pipes of musical instruments develop
"standing waves," due to sound vibration, according
to The Associated Press.
The Griffin-Smith Co., 1224 Wall street, Los Ange-
les, Calif., is handling the Royale Magnavox Dynamic
Mantel Model Portable radio.
The Auto-Craft Radio Co. has leased the one-story
building at the northwest corner of 28th street and
South Michigan avenue, Chicago, in which it has
started to manufacture radio sets for automobiles,
airplanes and boats.
Among the cities that are competing to get the
annual convention of the Radio Manufacturers' Asso-
ciation for next year are St. Louis, Chicago, Cleve-
land, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Atlantic City.
In radio the new Victor Chassis is a five-circuit
affair, making claims for unusual selectivity and sensi-
tivity. Each combination has a home recording at-
tachment and a proper microphone is distributed
with each instrument.
The new Victor Theremin was played before the
members of the Lowell Rotary Club, Lowell, Mass.,
last month by Micha Tulin, accompanied by William
Marr, a local pianist.
Charles Switzer, for some time in charge of the
radio service of the J. C. Ballard & Co. stores, New-
aygo, Mich., has purchased that department and is
conducting it under the name of the Switzer Radio
Laboratories, with headquarters in the Ballard store
at Sparta, Mich. He is devoting his time to serving
customers in Sparta, Newaygo, Casnovia, Kent City
and other points.
Fire destroyed tik establishment of the Reliable
Radio Co. at 2445 Eighteenth street, Washington, D.
C, last month, with a loss of thousands of dollars.
The Larson Radio & Music Shop. Clintonville,
Wis., Melvin Larson, proprietor, has the agency for
the Atwater Kent and Victor radios. Mr. Larson also
has a large stock of quality musical accessories.
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