Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 29, 27 January 1933, Page 19

Radio Round the World

PLAY based on the Fort Dearborn massacre, which occurred nearly 120 years ago, was recently broadcast over the Columbia network in America. The scene was laid at a replica of Fort Dearborn, which had been designed for the Century of Progress Exposition. It was staged exactly as the tragedy. occurred, with fifty actors and actresses within the stockade. The war whoops were’ given by real Indians, Illinois National Guardsmeen furnished the gunfire, and all performers were in authentic costumes. s x * "THE Slangkop short-wayre station in South Africa has recently been modernised and increased in power to provide a very useful link for the large whaling fleets which spend many weeks each year off the South, African coast. Cape Town is the port of departure of the sturdy little vessels, and for most of the expeditions to the Antarctic, but hitherto these vessels have been entirely isolated from South Africa ‘when once Table Mountain has faded over the horizon. .

HE propriety of broadcasting sensational trials has been questioned by the American Bar Association, A resolution condemning the practice was adopted at its recent annual convention, at which such broadcasts were declared to be a "breach of decorum of judicial proceedings, and an. interference with the administration of justice." The question first arose last year, at a re-trial for murder of a Los Angeles attorney. Permission to install microphones had been refused in the first trial. of the case, but was granted by the judge in the second, as he considered. trials should be broadcast when justified by public interest. The judge said that opposition was based on "an ancient prejudice rather than on sound reasoning." The local Bar Association criticised the decision and passed a resolution which was subnitted to the National Association, deprecating this branch of broadcasting activity.

PHOTO electric cells are now used on railways for the control of ventilation on passenger trains when passing through tunnels. When steam and smoke obscure the light a rélay of fans are set in motion, supplying condition, @i. Bir to the cerriages, |