The Press: By Leased Air

To all save the smallest newspapers, press association news is now sent by automatic telegraph-typewriters called teletype printers. At the central transmitting office an operator types the copy on a machine similar in appearance to a typewriter. Each letter sets up a characteristic electric impulse which is carried thousands of miles, over costly leased wires, to receiving machines in scores of newspaper offices. There, instantaneously and simultaneously, the impulses are re-converted into typewritten copy.

Last week the Hearst organization saw early release from heavy telegraph tolls when the Federal Radio Commission granted wavelengths to American Radio News Corp., a Hearst company newly founded for operation of automatic printers by radio. At a cost of about $50,000 each, four transmitting stations are to be built at New Rochelle, N. Y. (Manhattan suburb), San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta. Hearst-papers and other subscribers will lease their receiving machines from the Hearst radio company, will receive their news in the same form as the teletype, simply by tuning in on the regional broadcasting station.