Presto

December, 1930
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P R E S T O-T I M E S
R A D I O
RADIO STUDENTS HONOR EDISON.
Thomas A. Edison was signally honored during the
recent Chicago Radio Show in a demonstration ten-
dered by the Coyne Radio and Electric School of that
city. In parade formation, headed by C. L. Farrell,
welfare director, the six hundred radio students of this
school marched to the Edison Radio Exhibit and held
brief ceremonies in commemoration of the famous
inventor's contributions to radio science. The Coyne
School is one of the foremost schools of practical
electricity in the Midwest. Its radio students come
from every state in the Union and at the present time
also number representatives from eight foreign coun-
tries. The institution has been actively engaged in
electrical instruction since 1899.
CLARION RADIO'S SOUTHERN TRADE.
The appointment of Victor Campa y Cia S en C,
Habana, Cuba, as distributors of Clarion receivers
in Cuba has been announced by Transformer Corpo-
ration of America, 2309 South Keeler avenue, Chi-
cago. Several carloads of Clarion radios have recent-
ly been shipped, and A. J. Hutter, export director
of the corporation, says that the Cuban representa-
tive is about to release an elaborate and extensive
advertising campaign using newspapers, magazines,
radio broadcast and billboards. Demonstrating the
remarkable sensitivity of Clarion Jr., mantle type
radio, N. S. Bryant of the Itasca Music Co., Itasca,
111., informed the corporation that he had reasonably
good volume reception from Cuba, Mexico City, Los
Angeles and Denver. Information received from
T. C. A.'s four plants is to the effect that in spite of
a 1,200 set production daily the factory remains
30,000 sets behind on shipments.
ILLINOIS HAS 37 RADIO STATIONS.
Of the 608 radio stations in the United States,
thirty-seven stations—one for every 207,000 listeners
—are in Illinois, according to a radio survey com-
pleted by the research department of the Illinois
Chamber of Commerce, which lists Illinois as the
fourth state in number of broadcasting stations. New
York, with fifty-four stations, is first among all states.
California is second, with forty-six, and Pennsylvania,
third, with thirty-nine.
RADIO STORE FIRE IN MILWAUKEE.
Damage estimated at $200,000 was caused on the
last night of November to the plant and stock of the
Economy Boys' radio store and the Fairbanks-Fre\
Engraving Co., Milwaukee, Wis., when fire attacked
a two-story brick structure in the downtown section.
Damage to the radio stock was estimated at $100,000.
One fireman was slightly hurt.
MAJESTIC MODEL IN MIDGET CLASS.
Announcement is made by Grigsby-Grunow Co.,
makers of Majestic radio in Chicago, that their deal-
ers in all parts of the country now have a small,
mantel-type receiver that is as great a value as the
company's console models, priced at $79.50, com-
pletely equipped with Majestic tubes. "While receiv-
ers of the so-called 'midget' type have been out for
some time,' says W. C. Grunow, president of the com-
pany, "we have held off until our engineers could
satisfy Mr. Grigsby and myself that a 'real' radio—
one with selectivity, good reproduction and substantial
construction—was possible at anything like prevailing
prices in the midget field. Our Model 31 is a 'real'
set and our mass production on this set of 2,000 per
day has enabled us to include all the quality features
I insisted must be there. We are absolutely satisfied
that Model 31 is truly representative of Majestic in
its price field."
VICTOR RADIO STAGE PERFORMANCE.
One of the most interesting and successful methods
that has been employed to present the new Victor line
of radios to the public was that conceived by. the
Williams Piano & Furniture Co. of Cumberland, Md..
according to A. A. Brandt, manager of sales promo-
tion of the Victor division of the RCA Victor Co.
Mr. Brandt said that the Williams company had
effected a tie-up with the Liberty Theater in Cumber-
land whereby the new Victor RE-57 Radio-Electrola
"performed" between shows, playing several records
from the stage.
The board of education of McPherson, Kan., has
appropriated money for the purchase of phonograph
records in the common schools and high school band
instruments.
RADIO NOTES
National Sound Systems, Inc., 333 North Michigan
avenue, Chicago. Capital, $20,000. General radio
business. Incorporators: Clark B. Reynolds, George
W. Ford, William E. Albright and Mae Cavanaugh.
Correspondent: Petit, Olin & Overmyer, 33 South
Clark street.
Ross Corporation, 3557 South Halsted street, Chi-
cago. Capital, $15,000 preferred and 100 shares non
par value common. General radio business. Incor-
porators: B. A. Ross, Harry C. Straus and Edward I.
Rothbart. Correspondent: Short, Rothbart, Willner
& Lewis, One La Salle Street building.
Jones Music House at Spencer, Iowa, announces
Victor's new musical instrument—the micro-synchron-
ous screen-grid, five-circuit Victor radio.
A full day and night shift is now working in the
Montreal plant of the Victor Talking Machine Co.
of Canada, a subsidiary of the RCA-Victor Co., of
Camden, N. J.
Olaf Elton is secretary and treasurer of the recent-
ly reorganized Plymouth Radio & Phonograph Co.,
Plymouth, Wis.
Franchise for the sale of Brunswick radios in the
Tulsa, Okla., territory has been acquired by the Edgar
Music Co., Tulsa, according to a recent announcement
by Tom Edgar, head of the company. Claude Miller,
sales manager, says the Edgar Music Co. has han-
dled Brunswick radio for the last nine years.
Smith Radio Corporation, Kentucky corporation;
objects, conduct a general radio distributing business;
Indiana agent, Sidney Steinau, 10 Southeast Seventh
street, Evansville; capital stock represented in Indi-
ana, 416 shares.
The room formerly occupied by the Farmington
Press, Farmington, Mo., is now being occupied by
the Davis Music Stores as a used-radio department.
Henry A. Bawell has been engaged as radio depart-
ment manager at the new Shuttler Music Shop, 18
Northwest Sixth street, Evansville, Ind.
The use of radio in the United States army is grow-
ing. During the last fiscal year 5,075 more business
messages were handled in the army than in the pre-
ceding fiscal year.
The latest models of R. C. A. Radiolas, Majesties,
Brunswicks, Radio-Victors and Crosleys were shown
in an all-week radio show one week of November by
Pearson Piano Co., Indianapolis. It was explained
by William J. Greener of Pearson's staff that the dis-
play was primarily a show for the public without a
great stress placed on sales.
Christianson Brothers, one of the first music stores
in Racine, Wis., was established 33 years ago by
Hans Christianson. It is now located at 316-318 Main
street, that city. Today it is specializing in the Victor
Electrola.
The Lauter Piano Co.'s Newark, N. J., store, 591-
593 Broad street, Newark, N. J., is conducting a sale
of the Clarion radio, the 1931 screen grid type. The
ad says in part that "the manufacturer of the Clarion
radio is the third largest producers of radios in the
country, and they wish to keep their plants going at
full production without adding to the unemployment
situation."
The Brunswick automatic Panatrope is now han-
dled at the Alice Music Shop, 2407 South 52nd ave-
nue, Cicero, 111.
Petitions for a receiver for the Thomas B. Sharer
Co., Inc., Rochester, N. Y., were put in the hands of
Federal Judge Simon L. Adler. Assets of the com-
pany are about $12,000, according to David Schoen-
berg, attorney for creditors, and liabilities approxi-
mate $32,000."
Radio telegraphic communication between China
and the United States was established at 1 a. m.,
eastern standard time, December 6, when felicitations
were exchanged by President Hoover and President
Chiang Kaishek of China. The service is by RCA
Communications, Inc., through stations at Shanghai
and near San Francisco.
Eugene R. Farny, president of the All-American
Mohawk Corporation, manufacturers of Lyric radio
receivers, and A. S. Wells of the Gulbransen Co. are
now members of the R'MA board of directors.
The Radiochrome Co., 1445 Jackson boulevard,
Chicago. Capital, $10,000. General radio business.
Incorporates: E. E., J. J. and C. L. Marshall. Cor-
respondent: E. Marshall, 1130 Jackson avenue, River
Forest.
Majestic and Victor radios are freely advertised at
Mellor's, 1420 Market street, Wheeling, W. V., as
"radios that are acknowledged to be the best."
Majestic radio tubes are guaranteed against man-
ufacturing defects.
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RADIO DIVISION,
Jesse French & Sons Co,
NEW CASTLE, INDIANA
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