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It Cost NBC About A Million Dollars,
But They Learned To Cover A War
Fearless Corresponde
nis Have Given Home Folks
The Running Story In Nearly 2,000 Broadcasts
/ A year ago last Sunday Europe went to war.
A year ago radio got an
lenge to test its mettle.
Lacking any precedent to
assignment in Europe—a chal-
guide it, the broadcasting com-
panies, without hesitation engaged in an undertaking wherein
cost and actual operations, even human lives, were so many
question marks.
True, radio had taken
soundings in China, Ethiopa
and Spain but, unlike the great
newspaper and press services,
it never had tackled anything
so immense in scope as a
World War.
But less than two hours after re-
ports of the German-Soviet pact
trickled in by cable on the night of
August 21, 1939, NBC was on the
air with a two-way discussion of
the agreement between William
Hillman, INS correspondent in Lon-
don, and Baukhage, NBC's Wash-
ington observer.
The crisis was on and NBC
quickly mobilized manpower and
facilities. In New York's towering |’
RCA building they burned the mid-
night oil. Portentous dispatches
were scanned, the short-wave sys-
tem geared toc newer and greater
burdens.
Then came those momentous
words from the lips of Prime Minis-
ter Chamberlain that NBC brought
to its listeners throughout the
United States—‘‘this country is at
war with Germany.”
Nearly 2,000 Broadcasts
Since that fateful day a year ago,
NBC has brought the American au-
dience close to 2,000 broadcasts
from 45 different pickup points in
the theatre of war. The cost has
been computed at nearly a million
dollars.
Aside from ité" routine news
broadcasts and European roundups,
NBC brought its listeners, the
words of Adolf Hitler, Winston
Churchill, Marshal Petain, and a
series of dramatic events such as
the scuttling of the Graf Spee and
broadcasts from the Maginot and
Siegfried lines last Christmas.
To accomplish all this,
Schechter’s NBC's director of news
and special events, bolstered his
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CALLING NEW YORK...
Max Jordan, ace war corres-
pondent, giving the world an eye-
witness account of the war as it
looked and felt along the West-
ern front.
parative safety of behind-the-lines
war offices and around countries to
which war is a next door neighbor.
Fred Bate, head of NBC's London
office is intimate with the Euro-
pean scene through 18 years of res-
idence abroad. A native of Chicago,
he was connected with the Repara- |
World War, serving in Vienna and |
Paris. Recently he moved from a
fashionable London suburb to an
apartment across the street from]
| the offices of the British Broadcast- |
ing Corporation.
{ Paul Archinard, NBC’s Paris rep-
| resentative, is a native of that city!
land a veteran traveler. Born a year |
before the turn of the century, he
came to the United States before
lhe was five, was educated in Ohio
rand returned to France in 1918.
There followed several years trav-
eling in Europe for American firms.
{In 1934, he joined NBC’s London
tions Commission after the first |
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NBC Mikes Across the Map
In front line trenches, atop hills looking down on shell-
pocked battlefields, in the heart of Europe's largest cities
with air raid sirens screeching and bombers roaring over-
head, from ships at sea crowded with survivors, and at the
side of rulers of state, cabinet members and generals in the
field—from these and many more points at home and abroad,
NBC's radio reporters, commentators and military experts
bring to radio audiences the play-by-play account of World
War No. 2.
Hutchison Talks
Says Apples "Stick’ If
Hormone Mix Is Used
By JIM HUTCHISON
Agricultural Extension Association
Apple growers in Luzerne County
who have lost fruit by premature
dropping can now make their fruit
“stick to the trees” by using the
new hormone sprays available for
the first time this year.
The new sprays were developed
by workers in the Federal Bureau
of Plant Industry and are applied
the same as other sprays.
Correct timing is very important,
since the effectiveness usually is not
more than from two to three weeks.
Tests on McIntosh show that the
spray loses its effectiveness after
i eight to 10 days. With long-stem-
(med varieties such as Williams,
Rome Beauty, or Delicious, good
| control of dropping is obtained for |
| three to four weeks following the
| spray.
Because of the relatively brief pe-
| riod of effectiveness, it is impor-
| tant that application be delayed as
long as possible, preferably being
| made just prior to dropping or soon
| after its beginning in order to have
D.T.H.S. Gridders
About New Spray Point To Opener
Lewis's Team To Meet
Jenkins September 20
Coach Thorwald Lewis's Dallas
Township high school football team
will open its 1940 grid season on
Friday, September 20, when it will
i play Jenkins Township here.
| Dallas Township and Kingston
Township will be in the Luzerne
County Conference again this year.
[Kingston Township will open its
| conference season when it plays
Clarks Summit on Saturday, Sep-
tember 28.
Other games scheduled for Dallas
Township: September 28, Edwards-
ville, away; October 5, Taylor, away;
October 12, West Pittston, home;
October 19, West Wyoming, home;
October 26, Kingston Township,
home; November 2, Tunkhannock,
away; November 8, Lehman, away;
| November 16, Factoryville, away.
color development and some im-
provement in size.
It is emphasized that though this
spray greatly reduces fruit-drop, it
{does not stop the normal ripening
! of fruit on the trees. Thus caution
must be used not to delay picking
| beyond proper maturity, or the fruit
David Jenkins Funeral
Was Held On Monday |
The funeral of David Jenkins, |
who died last Friday afternoon at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ern- |
est Wood, Rice Street, Dallas, was
held on Monday, with interment at
Woodlawn Cemetery.
A native of Wales, Mr. Jenkins
was a young man when he came to
this country. He lived at Plymouth !
and at Pittston before he came to!
Dallas. For 19 years he was fore-,
man for the Lehigh Valley Coal Co.
at its Heidelberg Colliery in Avoca.
Before he became ill he was an
active member of St. Stephen's
Church and served as sexton there
for several years. He was affiliated !
| with Pittston Lodge, I. O. O. F., for
more than 40 years.
Survivors include his widow and
Blired A. Tucker, 62,
Was Stricken Suddenly
Alfred A. Tucker, 62, Main Road,
Trucksville, died Tuesday morning
of a heart attack which struck while
he was apparently in good health.
Mr. Tucker was born in Wilkes-
Barre and moved to Trucksville 14 |
years ago. Until 10 years ago he
was employed at the Hazard Wire
Rope Company in Wilkes-Barre.
the
former Jeanette Housley; a brother,
Surviving are his widow,
the effect when most needed. The |may become too ripe on the tree
| material takes effect within one to for good handling and storage qual-
| two days after application. lity. Such troubles as water core
In the experimental work at the | and physiological breakdown in
{ United States Horticultural Station, [storage are likely to be serious in
sioners to fix a date on which voters
here can go to designated registra-
tion headquarters to change their
party affiliations or register.
Arthur, Mrs. |
Amelia Farmer, Mt. Top. |
Allentown; a sister,
afternoon, with services at the
Snowden Funeral Home. Rev. Ralph |
of companies showed that yearly |
taxes equalled $283 for each com- |
| mon stockholder and $576 for each |
The funeral was held yesterday | jobholder. |
| Beltsville, Md., pure hormones were |
Petitioners Request used. The amount needed is almost |
Extra Registration Day | unbelievably small. A concentra- |
tion of 10 parts per million, or one:
Petitions seeking an additional | ounce to 700 gallons, in water has |
registration day for voters in Dal- | given effective control. A stronger |
| las Borough and Kingston Township spray is likely to make the fruit |
have been addressed to Luzerne stick to the tree so tightly that it |
County Commissioners. cannot be pulled off without damage
[to the fruit. Commercial prepara- |
tions carry complete directions for |
use, and these should be followed |
| closely. |
So far no injury to tree, fruit or|
foliage has been observed when hor- |
‘mone sprays have been used. The
| only effect on the fruit is to delay
A recent survey of a large group | qropping, thus giving time for better !
The petitioners ask the Commis-
——
overmature fruit.
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', NBC's
staff of rewrite men in New York, | staff and a year later was in Paris.
built up a competent, flexible staff! Berlin, nerve center of the Ger-
of war correspondents, developed | man’ campaign, is covered for NBC
the shortwave listening post into a by William C. Kerker, 25-year-old
model of efficiency, designed stu-!New York engineer, whose back-
dios for newscasters and engaged ground enables him to give lucid
topnotch news commentators. | explanations of technical develop-
Radio’s Listening Posts SE in the Hitler military ma-
Radio’s coverage of the war has) NBC's news analyst in the
placed great responsibility upon troubled Balkans is Martin Agron-
the sentinels of the shortwave mon- sky, a native of Philadelphia and a
itor service. To qualify you must veteran in the field of foreign re-
be a skilled linguist able to trans- porting. Born in the Quaker City
late broadcasts in French, German in 1915 he went to Europe after
Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Afri-| his schooling and made a reportorial
kaans. Moreover, it requires good | tour of foreign capitals now figur-
news judgment, a thorough graspling in the war news. His present
of international affairs and geog- post is Belgrade.
raphy, shorthand and fast typing | Proving they can “take it” like
experience. | men, two women are on NBC's war
The staff of monitors, under the! reporting staff, Helen Hiett in Ma-
direction of Jules Van Item, face a|drid and Joan Livingston in Shang-
variety of problems. They must cut hai. Graduate of the University of
through a barrage of static and oth- | Chicago, Miss Hiett has long been
er interference to obtain authen- a student of European politics.
tic information, much of it verba-! Miss Livingston, a native of Lon-
tim. i don, comes from a family of distin-
After a lengthy speech by a for-|guished European journalists.
eign official, the monitor must be| With Max Jordan, NBC's repre-
prepared to write a digest of the | sentative in continental Europe,
talk with all the salient points in|these men and women and others
detail. |who have filled in at the micro-
The shortwave monitor works phones, are telling by radio the his-
with an engineer who lines up all tory of World War IL
international broadcasting stations |
on the receiving sets. Every minute
of the monitor's eight hour shift is| Uphelstering
devoted to some foreign station. |
PAUL B. SMITH
Whether the ether is filled with |
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Brahms, ballyhoo, or the blasts of |
a bomber, the results are duly re-|
corded in a daily report which is
an accurate recording of every na- |
tion’s radio activities.
They Live With War
Wilkes-Barre
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radio reporters tramp |
across Europe's war fronts, into com-
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these children: Frank Jenkins,
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|J. There are also eight grandchil- |
dren.
Interment was in Woodlawn cem-
{etery, Dallas. Pallbearers were Jos- |
!eph Walsh, Warren Williams, John |
Williams, John Sullivan and two |
members from Pittston Lodge of!
Odd Fellows. |
Episcopal Church officiated. Inter-
| ment was in Oaklawn Cemetery.
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