Network Hears Urgent Paris Appeal for Aid

A routine monitoring job turned into an important message last night for James Parker '50 of the WHRV news staff.

An urgent appeal to the U.S. for special medicine--needed in Paris to cure critically ill Frenchmen--was picked up over shortwave as Parker was transcribing a broadcast for the Network's nightly foreign newscast in mid-evening.

The request was apparently sent out by Paris stations to northeast United States receivers, but WHRV was the first to pick it up. They passed the word to the Associated Press, which in turn spread it over its wire services.

The Network's overseas newscasts started early this month.