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Heinl Radio Business Letter

2400 CALIFORNIA STREET

WASHINGTIJN, D. C.

INDEX TO ISSUE OF JULY 5, 1944.

Wheeler Bobs Up Again As Vice-Presidential Candidate, . . . . . 1

NAB Predicts More Radio Tubes Next Six Months,.,., . ..,..•,..2

Cowles Bros, To Back Dewey; Seek Washington Station, . . . 3

Dunville, New Crosley V,P. ; Shouse Studies Postwar Needs,,,

Believed Democrats Will Try To Outdo OOP Radio Plank.,,....

Mark Woods Tells FCC Will Give Complete FTl4 Service .

Rep, Cox Evidently Renominated; Sen, Clark Loses .

Young And Rubicara Take On Gottlieb Of MBS . .

Mrs. Roosevelt Admits She Took Time To Hear Republicans,,,.

Radio To Aid Postwar Interchange Of Ideas, Says NBC Counsel
Uncle Dave Comes Through With Churchill* s Autograph .

FCC Action .

Radio Praised For Boosting Itself .

Trade Notes . 11

No. 1637

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July 5, 1944

WHEELER BOBS UP AGAIN AS VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

Just when It looked as if Senator Burton K, Wheeler, co¬
author of the Wheeler- White Radio Bill and head Administration man
in radio in the Senate, had packed up his doll rags and gone home to
Montana to play in his own backyard, the report was again revived
that he might be chosen for second place on the Roosevelt ticket.

It was said that the apparent rising storm against Vice-
President Wallace had once more brought the name of Senator Wheeler
to the forefront, notwithstanding the fact that the latter had
evidently reverted to criticism of President Roosevelt and the New
Deal when friends believed their differences had been patched up.

As a matter of fact, though the President and he were once
bosom friends. Senator Wheeler remained away from the White House for
six years during which time Mr. Wheeler bitterly fought F, D. R.
notably on the Supreme Court, in which Senator Wheeler won.

Then out of a clear sky on May 10th of this year, ta±lo
should turn up at the White House for an hour’s chat with the Chief
Executive, but Burton K, Wheeler, This gave the impression that
everything was again all right with them and quickly revived the
rumor that Senator Wheeler, who ran as the Progressive Party candi¬
date for Vice-President with Senator Robert LaFollette, the Elder, in
1924, and had been mentioned in 1936, was again being considered as
President Roosevelt’s running mate in the forthcoming election.

Nobody believed, as given out by the White House, that the
real reason of Senator Wheeler's visit after an absence of six years,
had been to invite the President to the Joint celebration by Congress
of the 100th Anniversary of telegraphy of which Senator Wheeler was
in charge. Furthermore, Mr. Roosevelt didn’t attend the celebration.

It had been noticed just previous to the White House visit
that Senator Wheeler had been less critical of the New Deal and
apparently was becoming a better behaved boy. It also seemed more
than a coincidence that Mr, Roosevelt and Senator Wheeler should
confer the day after the President had given the radio commentators
and the press representatives such a blistering for not covering the
Montgomery Ward case the way the President thought it should have
been covered. This was just at the time Senator Wheeler had himself
expressed his displeasure with the radio commentators "for their
lies” and at that very moment he was drawing up the provision which
would prohibit sponsored news broadcasts and also permit anyone who
thought he had been attacked to have the right to defend himself on
the air. It looked as if the President and Senator Wheeler were get¬
ting together on the mutually agreeable proposition of giving
obnoxious commentators a kick in the pants, and maybe getting

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together so well that possibly the President might invite him to be
his running mate if the opposition made it too hat for Wallace,

There followed a few days later a visit to Senator Wheeler at the
Capitol by Judge Rosenman, presidential advisor. In fact, they had
luncheon together.

The picture, however, was rudely shattered when shortly
after the White House ’’kiss and make up” session and the luncheon
with Judge Rosenman, Senator ITheeler again broke loose with his old
battle-cry ’’that there should not be a Fourth Term for any man”.
Following this, when a storm of criticism was aroused by his inclu¬
sion of the non- sponsorship of news in the White- Wheeler Radio Bill,
Instead of putting up a fight for that particular point, he tossed
the whole bill into the ash-can.

That was about the last heard from him until, on his way
home while stopping for a day in Chicago Just before the Republican
Convention, he once more sounded off on the ”no Fourth Terra for FDR
or anybody else” theme and announced that he was not even going to
attend the Democratic Convention,

Nevertheless, now in the face of the growing opposition
to Vice President Wallace, the name of Senator Wheeler is once more
heard. The argument is (a) labor would be friendly to him, (b) he
could soothe the Southern Senators (being popular in the Senate on
both sides of the aisle) and his nomination would not further inflame
the negros, and (c) being a Westerner would be a good man to help
carry California and maybe some of the other doubtful Western States.

Senator ^itieeler said in Chicago, as he has many times
before, that President Roosevelt would be re-elected. He has repeat¬
edly denied the rumor that his hat was in the ring for Vice-President
but in view of latest reports, wise ones on the Hill say: "Where
there is smoke there must be some fire. " If President Roosevelt in
the last minute should decide not to mn. Senator Wheeler would very
likely be a strong contender for first place.

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NAB PREDICTS MORE RADIO TUBES NEXT SIX MONTHS

Information coming to the National Association of Broad¬
casters indicates that the supply of radio tubes available to the
public during the 3rd and 4th quarter of the present year will show
a considerable increase over tube shipments of the first six months.

NAB’s conclusion is not concerned with either cutbacks or
contemplated cutbacks in the backlog of military tubes. It was arriv¬
ed at after a consideration of manufacturing facilities, the needs of
civilians and the vast stocks of military tubes already produced,

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COWLES BROS. TO BACK DEWEY; SEEK WASHINGTON STATION

Gardner Cowles, Jr., who was In the forefront of the
Willkie supporters and who made the trip around the world with Mr.
Willkle, was quoted as saying in Chicago last week that he and his
brother John were 100^ for the election of Governor Dewey, Thus
they have the distinction of being the first publishers and broad¬
casters in the country to publicly declare for the Republican candi¬
date.

This declaration was also significant in view of another
move of national importance just made by the Cowles Brothers. As
intimated in our last issue, an additional reason would be seen for
them securing the services of former Federal Communications Commis¬
sioner T.A.M. Craven at this particular time when the location of
the newest Cowles station they were seeking to acquire in the East
was made known. It is WOL in Washington, Gardner Cowles was quoted
as saying that the Cowles Brothers had been negotiating on this for
eleven months ”but there are no new developments".

The proposal has been made to trade WOL for the Cowles
station WMT, 5000 watts, 600 kc. , fulltime CBS affiliated station
at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, WOL operating on 1260 kc. with 1000 watts
power is affiliated with the Mutual Broadcasting System, William
Dolph, Executive Vice-President of the American Broadcasting Company,
which operates WOL, would take over the direction of WMT, The prin¬
cipal owner of WOL is Mrs. Helen Mark, widow of LeRoy Mark, who was
in charge of the station for so many years.

The WOL studios are located at 1627 K Street, N.W, ,
several blocks north of the White House, a half a block west of
the Statler Hotel, and a block south of the Mayflower. Here Vice-
President Craven vrill have his offices if the deal goes through. In
the meantime he is temporarily installed in a suite at the Raleigh
Hotel,

The Cowles Brothers would be the first magazine publishers
(their national publication is Look) to have a station in Washington
and the first outside newspaper publishers (Des Moines Register and
Tribune and the Minneapolis Star- Journal and Tribune ) to have a sta¬
tion in the Capita 1. The Washington Star has long had Station WMAL,
the Washington Post recently a c quire d WiNX, and the Washington Times-
Herald has just applied for an fu license,

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Danton Walker in his column "Broadway" said today (July 5):

"Lee de Fore St, inventor of the radio tube, is setting up
plants in Mexico, backed by Mexican capital, to build television sets
that will retail for $125, (Experiments in three dimensional color
television have been completed and already are on view in England).

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DUNVILLE, NEW CROSLEY V.P. ; SHOUSE STUDIES POSTWAR NEEDS

Elevation of Robert E, Dunville to the post of Vice-
President of The Crosley Corporation and Ceneral Manager of Station
WLW, was announced by James D, Shouse, Crosley Vice-President in
Charge of Broadcasting. Mr. Dunville ' s promotion is expected to
give Mr, Shouse an opportunity to devote more time to new develop¬
ments by WLW for the post-war period and for other expansion activ¬
ities.

Also announced is the appointment of Eldon Park as Assist¬
ant General Manager and Marshall Terry, Director of a newly-created
Promotion Activities Department. Mr. Park, formerly of Cincinnati,
has been connected with WLW* s New York office during the last three
years as Assistant General Manager,

In his new position as Director of Promotion Activities,
Mr. Terry will have general supervision over the Sales Promotion
Department, the Public Relations Department, the Merchandising
Department, and the Specialty Sales unit, Mr. Terry resigned as
Vice-President in Charge of Sales and Public Relations Director of
the Trailer Company of America to accept his new post.

The Crosley Corporation has just formally applied for a
transfer of Station WSAI*s license in the sale of that station for
$550,000 to Marshall Field of Chicago, to comply with the Federal
Communications Commission’s multiple ownership rule. The Crpsley
Corporation has also applied for a construction permit for a new
high frequency (FM) station to be operated on 46,100 kilocycles,

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BELIEVED DEMOCRATS WILL TRY TO OUTDO GOP PJ^DIO PLANK

There isn't any question but that the G, O.P. "free radio
and free press” has put the Democrats on the spot and that they will
try to go the rival party one better at their forthcoming convention.

This was Indicated when Harrington Wimberly, State Democrat¬
ic Chairman in Oklahoma, called the Republican platform free press
plank "inadequate”, and said he would carry to his party’s convention
and urge its adoption a resolution voted by Oklahoma Democrats.

Democratic endorsement of his free press plank is "one of
the most important steps the party could take toward insuring future
world peace", he said,*

Mr. Wimberly said the Republican plank is "inadequate,
narrow in scope and not inspired by an honest desire to write a
declaration of Independence for the truth throughout the world which I
hope to see achieved in the peace agreements. It makes no pledge of
unequivocal support for this principle that I should like to see the
Democratic party make

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Mr, Wimberly said press liberty was not a political issue,
but was "fully as important to people of the world as freedoms guar*-
anteed by the United States Constitution are to this country,

"Oklahoma Democrats took the first action of any major
political organization in recognition of the vital need of unhampered
flow of untainted news, "

The Editor and Publisher had this to say:

"The free press and radio plank of the 1944 Republican
platform, although not a ringing demand for international freedom of
the press and communications, is an endorsement of those principles
and may develop as the opening wedge toward wider recognition of
their necessity for permanent peace and their ultimate Inclusion in
post-war agreements between nations,

"It is feasible that the Democratic platform committee
later in July will consider a similar measure, possibly developing a
stronger tone,

"The Ptepublican plank states *it is imperative to the
maintenance of a free America that the press and radio be free and
that full and complete information be available to Americans* and
then acknowledges that war necessitates some slight censorship. It
rightly condemns use of the press or radio 'as instruments of the
administration and the use of government publicity agencies for
partisan ends' and then calls for a new radio law to define the role
of the FCC,

"However, after sagely stating that 'all channels of news
must be kept open with equality of access to information at the
source*, the plank disappointingly adds:

"*If agreement can be achieved with foreign nations to
establish the same principles, it will be a valuable contribution to
future peace. *

"And so it will be, but there is apparently no commitment
here by the Republican party to seek such agreements should it come
into power. It is left to be assumed that the GOP thinks highly of
the idea set forth by the American Society of Newspaper Editors and
will do something about it if it can,

"Although the language is not definite, much in the manner
of political platforms, it is a great advance toward an international
ideal on which the light was first focused by Kent Cooper of the
Associated Press in his book 'Barriers Down*."

The Albany . (N.Y. ) Knickerbocker Press commented:

"The New Deal holds lif e-or-death power over the radio sta¬
tions and does not scruple to exert pressure upon them to act as its
mouthpiece. This is the first national convention at which results
were palpably manifest, even in the routine news broadcasts, which

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are slanted to favor the New Deal and to hurt the Republicans, while
the outgivings of the expert smoothies were filled with weasel words.
It is not surprising at all that the Republicans adopted a special
plank seeking to free the radio from the shackles of political con¬
trol by rewriting the laws concerning it. ”

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MARK WOODS TELLS FCC WILL GIVE COMPLETE M SERVICE

Replying to a request from the Federal Communications Com¬
mission for a statement of the present policies and methods of oper¬
ation of the Blue Network relative to frequency modulation broadcast¬
ing, Mark Woods, President, wrote as follows:

“The Blue Network intends to do everything possible to
advance the progress of FM broadcasting since we believe it is an
improved technical method of providing program service,

“The Blue Network Company has filed applications with the
FCC for FM broadcasting stations in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles

“We have Infomied our affiliated stations that we propose
to make our program service, both commercial and sustaining, avail¬
able for broadcasting over FM stations operated by them. We have
not, however, incorporated in our affiliation contracts any provi¬
sion respecting FM, “

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REP, COX EVIDENTLY RENOMINATED; SEN. CLARK LOSES

Early returns from Georgia today (Wednesday) Indicated that
Representative Eugene Cox, foe of the Federal Communications Commis¬
sion, had been renominated. Nomination in Georgia is equivalent to
election. Incomplete tabulations from 10 of 15 counties gave Mr.

Cox 6,018 to 3,584 for former Florida Congressman John Smlthwick.
Senator George, also a critic of the Administration, piled up a
popular vote of 5 6,000 to 8,652 for Fb,rmer John W, Goolsby on incom¬
plete returns.

In the meantime, an official count Just completed in Idaho
shows that Senator D* Worth Clark, finally lost the Democratic nomi¬
nation by 203 votes to Glen H, Taylor of Station KSEI, Pocatello,
cowboy radio singer. Senator Clark is a member of the Interstate
Commerce Committee which handles radio matters in the Senate and
crossed swords with Petrillo recently in the recording fight, and it
has been charged that Mr, Petrillo had a hand in his defeat,

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YOUNG AND PUBICAM TAKE ON GOTTLIEB OF MBS

Mutual loses Lester Gottlieb, its No. 1 Publicity Director,
to the Young and Rublcara advertising agency in New York, Mr, Gott¬
lieb, who for the past eight years has been making the fur fly at
the Mutual Broadcasting System, leaves that organization July 15th
and will take over his new duties about July 25th as Director of
Radio Publicity of Young and Rublcam, which has one of the largest
radio clienteles in the country, Mr. Gottlieb will report to
Hubbel Robinson, Vice-President in Cha.rge of Radio at Young and
Rublcam and William Jenkins, Director of Public Relations,

Although it doesn’t seem that long ago, it has been nine
years since Les Gottlieb, now a veteran in the radio business though
only 31 years old, broke in at WOR. A year later he Joined Mutual
and has been there ever since. During that time his publicity has
been a model which many others have followed and on numerous occa¬
sions his work has been praised by the editors he served,

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MRS. ROOSEVELT ADMITS SHE TOOK TIME TO HEAR REPUBLICANS

Frequently at his White House press and radio conferences
when asked a question he doesn’t want to answer, the President
counters with ”I didn’t read that speech”, or ”I didn’t hear it”,

Mrs. Roosevelt, however, voluntarily told about tuning in on the
Republicans at Chicago, She wrote in her column ”I^y Day”;

”I have spent a considerable amount of time listening to
the radio during the Republican Convention, I heard Governor Warren,
Representative Martin, ex-President Hoover and Mrs. Luce, A little
later on, those of us who listen to both sides will hear different
interpretations of certain occurrences and a recital of some of the
facts which are always omitted according to the interests of the
speakers.

"Mrs, Ray Clapper, in her radio comments on Mrs, Luce’s
speech, said she spoke with evident emotion, and there was no ques¬
tion but that Mrs. Clapper was moved when she made her comments,

Mrs, Luce used very cleverly the appeal to all of us of ’ GI Joe’ and
• GI Jim’, But I wondered, if we stood with these men before St,
Peter, what any of us. Republicans or Democrats, could say with com¬
plete certainty of the future. ”

When asked at her first press conference in Chicago whether
it was her idea of the role of a First Lady to participate in pol¬
itics or be a home body, Mrs, Dewey said;

”I can't answer that. I can't tell you what anyone’s role
should be except my own, I don’t think we can lay down hard and fast
rules for anyone's conduct, ”

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”Will you go on the hadlo or make speeches If you are First

Lady?’»

'•l have no intention of doing radio work or of making any

speeches, '*

•'And write for a newspaper?"

"And write for a newspaper. "

"Why won't you make radio speeches?" she was asked,

"Because I intend to leave that to my husband", Mrs, Dewey

replied.

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RADIO TO AID POSTWAR INTERCHANGE OF IDEAS, SAYS NBC COUNSEL

"Radio will assume its rightful role in the pattern for
peace by encouraging the interchange of ideas", Joseph A, McDonald,
Assistant General Counsel of the National Broadcasting Company, told
the opening session of the third annual NBC-Northwestern Summer Radio
Institute in Chicago.

Radio will serve as an Instrument for peace in the post-war
world, Mr. McDonald said, pointing out that in Nazi and occupied
countries in Europe listeners are permitted to hear only one or two
of the Nazi propaganda stations.

Mr. McDonald painted a bright picture of the future for
young people seeking a career in radio. He declared that the
Industry is about to move into broader and greener fields, and made
particular mention of television,

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UNCLE DAVE COIiffiS THROUGH WITH CHURCHILL'S AUTOGRAPH

When Arthur Samoff, 13 years old, son of Irving Sarnoff,
Vice-President of Bruno-New York, Inc., radio distributors, wrote to
his uncle Col, David Samoff, of the Radio Corporation of America,
now serving with the Signal Corps overseas, he said at the end of the
letter, "Give my regards to Churchill",

It so happened that Mr, Sarnoff was having luncheon a little
later with the Prime Minister and Mrs. Churchill and while there,
snowed the letter to Mr. Churchill,

"Wliile he was reading it, I was trying to get up enough
courage to ask him to autograph it for you". Colonel Sarnoff replied
on June 12th to the boy, "But when he had finished, he asked me,

'May I write on the young man's letter and thank him?*, I replied
that I felt sure you would be delighted to have his signature, "

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FCC ACTION

The Federal Communications Commission has taken the follow¬
ing action:

WCAR. WCAR Broadcasting Co. , Cleveland, Ohio, granted
license to cover construction permit #iich authorized change in fre¬
quency from 1480 to 1220 kc., Increase in power from 5 KW day, 1 KW
night, to 5 KW day and night; changes in directional antenna for
night use and move of transmitter to Broadview Heights Village, Ohio;
WDUL. Head of the Lakes Broadcasting Co., Superior, Wis, , granted
license to cover construction permit for new high frequency (FM)
broadcast station, 44,500 kc.

Applications Received

Hearst Radio, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, Construction per¬
mit for a new High Frequency (FM) broadcast station to be operated on
43,700 kc, ; The WQ-AR Broadcasting Co. . Cleveland, Ohio, construction
permit for a new commercial television broadcast station to be oper¬
ated on Channel #3, 66000-78000 kc, ; Texas Broadcasters, Houston,
Texas, construction permit for a new standard broadcast station to
be operated on 1560 kc., power of 1 KW and unlimited hours of opera¬
tion; J, W, Birdwell, Nashville, Tenn. , construction permit for a new
standard broadcast station to be operated on 1240 kc., power of 250
watts and unlimited hours of operation; KECA, Earle C. Anthony, Inc, ,
Los Angeles, Calif. , voluntary assignment of license to Blue Network
Company, Inc, (790 kc,).

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RADIO PRAISED FOR BOOSTINC ITSELF

item:

Captioned "Under That Bushel", Editor & Publisher had this

"Imagine a conference of television, radio broadcasting,
or motion picture experts in Cleveland recently. The experts would
have been accompanied by public relations counsel adept in populariz¬
ing the technicalities under discussion. Wire services would have
carried the story to clients. It would have been well covered in
Cleveland,

"When newspaper experts meet, however, they meet in a
vacuum. They keep their own light snugly hid beneath the bushel,

"The mechanical conference of the American Newspaper Pub¬
lishers* Association at Cleveland was undoubtedly 99^ technical. Yet
what newspaper men are doing to improve the product that so many peo¬
ple read each day could be told in popular style as news that could
properly find space even these invasion days. Only a stick or two
was printed in Cleveland, Wires were uniformly silent when they might
have sung a psalm in praise of the press. If press agents can dream
and newspapers accept stories about the amazing future of television,
there should be writers in newspaper shops who can produce behind the
scenes stories of what newspapers are doing and plan to do, "

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TRADE NOTES

Robert W, Dowling, President of the City Investing Company,
was elected to the Board of Directors of the Bamberger Broadcasting
Service, Inc,, at its regular meeting last week, it was announced by
Alfred J, McCosker, President, Mr. Dowling is the son of the late
Robert E, Dowling, whom he succeeded as President of the City Invest¬
ing Co. He is also a Director of R, H. Macy & Co. , Vice President
of Starrett Brothers and Eken, Inc. , and a Director of the City Bank
Farmers Trust Co,, as well as other concerns.

A drive by the Federal Communications Commission against
stations giving away money over the air is predicted.

The inspiring valor of the American Merchant Marine in
fighting through with materials of war for the battlefronts is the
theme of a seven-week series of dramatizations titled ”Men at Sea”
beginning Sunday, July 16th (NBC, 6:30-7:00 P.M. , EWT) . The series,
which will be the official program of the Maritime Commission and
the War Shipping Administration to recruit experienced seamen for the
merchant fleet, will replace "The Great Glldersleeve " for the Summer.

First award for outstanding local station public relations
has been made by Billboard magazine to Station WTOP, in Washington,
of which Howard Stanley is Promotion Manager,

New facilities for the manufacture of battery electrodes
have been approved by the War Production Board, members of the Carbon
Brush Industry Advisory Committee have been advised, WPB reported.

The new plant and equipment that will be set up by the
Defense Plant Corporation, will be located in Punxsutawney , Pa, They
will provide additional capacity capable of producing 60,000,000
electrodes each month. The new plant will be operated by the Speer
Carbon Co, of St. Marys, Pa,

The National Association of Broadcasters’ Bulletin to its
membership this week reprinted a story from the New York Times of
June 25th entitled "Republican Convention Radio Coverage Great
Engineering Peat", written by T. R. Kennedy, Jr,

Six of the nation’s nine operating television stations
launched a contest beginning July 1st to find a symbol that best
exemplifies the spirit and purpose of television. The event is being
sponsored by the Television Broadcasters* Association, Inc,, with
United States War Bonds being offered as prizes by T, B, A, and by the
participating television stations.- The symbol selected as the best
in the national contest will be adopted by T.B.A, as its official
trademark.

Philadelphia firemen on July 1st fighting a large fire in
a chemical warehouse for the first time used walkie-talkie radios to
keep in touch with each other.

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William E. Kress, with the Philco Corporation, Philadelphia,
since 1934, has been named Sales Manager of the Middle West, with
headquarters in Chicago, He succeeds John M, Otter, who has been
named Sales Manager for the Home Radio Division.

A recording will be made of the official ceremony at which
the Certificate of Appreciation of the Chief Signal Officer of the
Army will be presented to the National Association of Broadcasters,
This ceremony will be recorded so that it may be broadcast by the
stations whose efforts in the recmiitment of personnel for the Signal
Corps earned the reward. The date for the ceremony will be set soon
and stations are urged to send in their requests for records - which
are to be provided free - before July 8th.

The first live- talent television drama ever produced at
Columbia Broadcasting System's video station WCBW-N,Y. , a specially
adapted War Bond play entitled "The Favor", was broadcast last Friday.

Major questions confronting war contractors are answered in
a new War Department booklet for both prime and subcontractors, "The
Contractors Guide", Written in nontechnical language and graphically
illustrated to emphasize salient points, the booklet is another step
in the program of the Readjustment Division, Army Service Forces, to
simplify action and promote speedier settlements of terminated con¬
tracts. Copies may be secured from War Department prx)curement offices
throughout the country.

Due to recent governmental restriction on the use of tin.
Van Camp Stokeley Bros, & Co,, sponsors of "Luncheon With Lopez" over
123 stations of the Mutual network, has been compelled to reduce its
use of the network's facilities.

Affiliate memberships in the Television Broadcasters*
Association, Inc. have been granted to the Theatre Guild, producers
of the current Broadway success, "Oklahoma", and to the RKO Televi¬
sion Corporation, a subsidiary of RKO Pictures, Inc.

The Built-Up Mica Industry Advisory Committee held a con¬
ference in Washington recently to discuss the effects of Conservation
Order M-lOl-a, curbing of Mexican amber mica splittings, imports, and
increased stockpiling of Madagascar amber splittings, the War Produc¬
tion Board reported Monday,

R, P. Stovall of the Mica-Graphite Division, government
presiding officer, pointed out that actual consumption requirements
of Number 5 bookpacked mica splittings have gone down as a result of
the WPB order and its efforts to distribute the supply on an equit¬
able basis. However, use of grade Number 4-| should be continued
wherever possible to relieve pressure on Number 5, Indian production
of No, 5, he said, is about 16,000 to 17,000 pounds per month, and
savings effected by the order have Improved overall stock conditions.

Elder Solomon Llghtfoot Michaux, Negro radio preacher of
Washington, who was unable to complete a de luxe negro apartment house
project in the National Capital with ^3,000,000 advanced to him by the
Federal Housing Administration, has Just received an additional
^2,815,000 from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to try to
finish the project.

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Cowles Brothers Now All Set To Enter Washington, D. d . . . . . . 1

Mr. Winterbottom' s Last Message . . 2

Marshall Field Gets WJJD; Will He Also Get Petrlllo?, . . . . .

FCC To Train Latin- American Radio Engineers,, . 5

To Fly Or Not To Ply ? . 6

Early Predictions Indicate Hot Presidential Campaign . 7

Dewey Television Technique Reported Good . . . ,.8

First Radio Contract Tennination Confab; Others This Week, 9

Post-War Plans Offered; Carleton Smith Explains Needs . 10

Cites Record To Show Increasing FDR Hostility To Press . 10

With Scissors And Paste, . . . . . 12

Commander Storer Is Ordered To Duty In Washington . . . 13

Sees Television As Stimulant To Newspapers,,,,, . ,,,,,, ,.,14

Will Ask Democrats To Nominate Wheeler For President . ,,14

Television Speakers Bureau Established,,,, . . . ..lb

TilIMCA Deletes Ra.p At Communists And Administration . ,,.,15

Trade Notes, . . . . . . . . ,.....,,,,15

No, 1638

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COWLES BROTHERS NOW ALL SET TO ENTER WASHINGTON, D* C,

Having cleared the formalities of the Internal Revenue
Bureau, joint applications were filed with the Federal Communications
Commission last Monday for the exchange of ownership of WOL, In
Washington, D. C. , and WMT In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Thus It seems to
he only a question of time until the Cowles Brothers through WOL
will become a major factor in broadcasting in the National Capital,

Being now In the process of also acquiring WHOM, Jersey
City (New York City) and WCOP, Boston, this In a remarkably short
space of time really puts them on the front seat of the broadcasting
business in the East, It was learned that their present Intention
was to acquire no more stations except possibly In Minneapolis, where
they are the publishers of the Minneapolis Star Journal and Tribune.

In the Washington, D. C, trade, the American Broadcasting
Company would give up ownership and operation of Station WOL, Wash¬
ington, and the station’s ownership and direction would pass to the
Iowa Broadcasting Company, Likewise, the Iowa company would give up
ownership and operation of Station WMT, Cedar Rapids, and that sta¬
tion would thereafter be owned and directed by the American Broad¬
casting Company,

The contract calling for the exchange is subject to the
approval of the Federal Communications Commission, Approval normally
is granted about 60 days after applications are filed,

William B. Dolph, Executive Vice President of the American
Broadcasting Company, says that when his company takes over WMT, Cedar
Rapids, he contemplates no personnel changes. He said William B,
Quarton, General Manager of WMT and President of the Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce, would continue in his present executive capacity..
The station will continue to maintain supplemental studios inWaterloa

Gardner Cowles, Jr. , President of the Iowa Broadcasting
Company, announced that Commander T, A, M, Craven, who recently com¬
pleted a seven-year terra on the Federal Communications Commission and
was named a Vice-President of the Iowa company, would become the
General Manager of Station WOL, Washington,

“All of us in the American Broadcasting Company are Impress¬
ed with the possibilities for further growth and improvement of WMT",
Mr. Dolph said, "Cedar Rapids and Waterloo are Just about the best
medium-sized communities in the country with the most consistently-
prosperous trade areas. We expect to give eastern Iowa the finest
possible broadcasting service. "

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•'We will regret giving up the operation of WMT**, Mr, Cowles
said. ”We have tried to give that area excellent radio service and
we have had wonderful cooperation from all the community leaders in
Cedar Rapids and HUhterloo, On the other hand, WOL, Washington, seems
to us to offer a challenge and an opportunity. There are many fine
stations in the capital and WOL is among the best. Mr, Craven is
unusually well fitted by his extraordinary knowledge of all phases
of broadcasting to build WOL into even a more outstanding station. ”

The value of the equipment of WOL is said to be about
$38,000 and that of WMT approximately $35,000,

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MR, WINTERB0TT0M*S LAST MESSA&E

In the July issue of Relay, the family magazine of R.C. A,
Communications Just received, is a message to those who have been
with the company for twenty-five years from William A. Winterbottora,
Vice President and General Manager, inviting them to the ’’first
25^year Club” dinner to be held in New York, Friday, September 15th.
Little did Mr. Winterbottom, who only last month was presented with a
30-year diamond service medal, think when he wrote the invitation
that he would not be present.

To the great sorrow of his associates, Mr, Winterbottora
died suddenly at his home in Bay side, Queens, New York, early Satur¬
day morning, July 8th. He was 60 years old and had been Vice-Presi¬
dent of R, C,A, Communications since 1929 when it was incorporated,
and a Director since 1932, Mr. Winterbottora' s death follows only
about a month that of John B, Rostron, Vice President and Traffic
Manager of R,C, A, Communications, who had been with the company
twenty- four years.

Hr, Winterbottora, who was born in Liverpool, began in this
country with the Marconi Wireless and Telegraph Company as Commercial
Manager when David Sarnoff, now President of the Radio Corporation of
America was Contract Manager, In our issue of June 21st, there was
a biographical sketch of Mr, Winterbottom written at the time he was
presented with his 30-year service medal.

When the Radio Corporation of America was formed in 1919,
and took over the Marconi company, Mr, Winterbottom was made Traffic
Manager in charge of transoceanic and marine radio services.

Although not an engineer, Mr. Winterbottora was responsible
to a great extent for many technical advances in radio communications.
Under his management, radio-telegraph and radiophoto circuits were
opened between the United States and many parts of the world, and a
system of recording dots and dashes on high-speed, automatic tape
recorders was developed. His insistence on a service that would in¬
sure a permanent record of radiograms led to the radio recorder now
in universal use.

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When Mr. Winterbottom went to the Marconi Company in
New York, his first task was to open radio communications between
this country and Great Britain, but the first World War interfered.

He met with success in the Pacific, however, organizing services to
Hawaii, Alaska and Japan. He was on hand in Hawaii to open the first
radio-telegraph service with Japan, An associate said that he was
eager to reopen service with the Philippines,

In 1926 he supervised the reception here of the first pic¬
ture transmitted by commercial radio service. It was a picture of
the speakers* table at the dinner of the Pilgrims' Society in London,
and it was sent to the New York Times, which reproduced it the next
day.

He leaves a widow, the former Christina Anderson, whom he
married in 1909; two sons, Arthur W, of Bay side. Manager of Plant
Valuation of R. C.A, Communications, and Roy W, , Aviation engineer
with the United States Navy in New Caledonia, and two sisters, Mrs.
Ernest King and Mrs. James Frearson, both of New York,

Mr, Winterbottom* s last message to his veteran associates
in New York and throughout the world read:

"It is unique that in a business so modern as radio com¬
munication there should be so many men and women who have given
twenty-five years or more to one company. Up to the beginning of
this year, thirty-one employees had completed service of from twenty-
five to forty-one years with RCAC and its predecessor communication
companies; by the end of the year thirteen more will have reached
the twenty-five year mark. It seems appropriate to recognize such
devoted service by a special distinction in addition to the customary
gold service emblem, and it has been proposed that a *25- Year Club*
be fonned whose charter members be the employees who have attained
that length of service before 1944, and that annually the Club wel¬
come into its membership those who cross the twenty-five year line.

"RCAC is privileged to invite these thirty-one charter
members and thirteen initiates, staunch supporters of long standing,
to the first 25-Year Club dinner on Friday, September 15, to be held
at New York and at other points in our organization where old-timers
are eligible, "

Funeral services for Mr. Winterbottom were held yesterday
(Tuesday) at All Saints Episcopal Church in Bay side.

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M, J. Coldwell of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation,
a Canadian socialist group, told a parliamentary committee that the
body should consider recommending in its report the divorce of radio
and press ownership in Canada. He said it was "not a healthy situa¬
tion" to allow press and radio news channels to fall into the hands
of a relatively small group of persons. Dr, Augustin Frigon, Acting
General Manager of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, said the
CBC did not encourage control of press and radio by small groups,

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MARSHALL FIELD GETS WJJD; WILL HE ALSO GET PETRILLO?

There was an amusing movie some years ago ’’The Ghost Goes
West”, the story of an American buying a castle in Scotland and mov¬
ing it to Miami, A ghost which had haunted the castle went right
along to Florida,

The Federal Communications Commission last week finally
approved the transfer of Station WJJD in Chicago from the Atlass
Brothers to Marshall Field, As is well known, WJJD is at the moment
involved in a bitter fight with James C, Petrillo, President of the
American Federation of Musicians, Ralph Atlass, one of the few men
in the industry having the courage to do it, aided and abetted by
his brother Les, CBS Vice-President in Chicago, has fought Mr,
Petrillo to a finish and up to now has won every round. The case
at present is in the hands of the Regional War Labor Board, When
the decision is handed down, however, the station will have changed
hands. The question then arises if the WLB rules against the music
czar: "Will Mr. Field inherit the enmity of Mr, Petrillo - or will

the latter somewhat groggy at having been socked on the chin by Mr,
Atlass, finding himself up against one of the most powerful and
wealthy men in the United States, a publisher friendly to labor,
and a close personal friend of President Roosevelt - will Petrillo
continue his fight on WJJD or will he pull off and tackle someone
more nearly his size?”

TWien this question was asked of an official at the WLB in
Washington, he said it wouldn*t surprise him if Petrillo wouldn’t
go after Marshall Field Just as he attacked his own boss, William
Green, President of the AFL, It will be recalled that when the
music union chief ordered WJJD to double the number of men to be
used to turn records and transcriptions at the station, Ralph Atlass
went over his head to William Green, the high boss, who sided with
Mr. Atlass and ordered the striking musicians back to work. Subse¬
quently in a rage, Petrillo denounced Mr. Green because he didn’t
back him up saying: ”I wouldn*t be as spineless as Bill Green is!”
Now the Industry awaits with considerable interest what, if anything,
Mr. Petrillo will have to say to Marshall Field,

The formal action of the Federal Communications Commission
last week stated that it had granted "consent to transfer control
of WJJD, Inc,, licensee of Station WJJD, from H, Leslie Atlass,

Ralph L, Atlass, the latter 's son, and Ralph Louis Atlass (trans¬
ferors) to Marshall Field, representing 7,875 shares, or 59,5 percent
of the issued and outstanding common stock, and 259^ shares, or 28.8
percent of the issued and outstanding preferred stock of the licensee
for a consideration of $696,000 for the shares, plus or minus an
adjustment in price for any increase or decrease in net worth of the
licensee between January 31, 1944, and the ’accounting date’,”

Mr, Field also has pending before the FCC an application
for purchase of WSAI, Cincinnati, from the Crosley Corporation for
$550,000. This transaction, like the WJJD deal, is a result of the
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or overlapping areas, since Crosley also operates WLW in Cincinnati.

He also is understood to be considering other station acquisitions.

Clem Randau, Business Manager of the Chicago Sun, and
former United Press executive, will be in supervisory charge of WJJD
operations. The station will continue to maintain headquarters at
230 North Michigan Avenue, Station WIND, under arrangement with the
field organization, temporarily will use studios at that location
until such time as a move can be made with the lifting of restrictions
on materials.

”We are going to continue as is", Mr. Randau declared fol¬
lowing the FCC action. He formally announced that Arthur Harre,
Commercial Manager of WJJD, has been named Manager, Officers are
Mr, Field, President; Mr, Randau, Vice-President; and Carl Weitzel,
Manager of the Field Chicago properties, as secretary- treasurer.

These officials also will serve as the Board of Directors,

Ralph Atlass and his associates will continue operation of
WIND, which at the same time tos granted a modification of its
license to change its main studio location to Chicago so that the
station hereafter will be Identified as Chicago instead of Gary,
Commissioner Walker voted ’’no” on the Chicago move.

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FCC TO TRAIN LA TIN- AMERICAN RADIO ENGINEERS

Putting its shoulder to the good neighbor policy in the
project of the Interdepartmental Committee on Cooperation with the
American Republics, the Federal Communications Commission en banc
adopted rules and regulations governing award of fellowships to
applicants from other American Republics, The State Department has
allocated ^10, OCX) out of the funds appropriated by Congress to the
Committee to the Federal Communications Commission to train Latin
American engineers in the regulatory and operating practices of com¬
munications in the United States, Brazil, Mexico and Chile have
indicated their desire to participate in this project.

The training will be in the Engineering Department of the
FCC in procedures for licensing stations, engineering deteiroination
of service areas of broadcasting stations, development of standards
of good engineering practices for each class of station, radio
requirements for safety of life at sea and in the air, and all other
functions of the Engineering Department; visits to other government¬
al agencies whose work touches on the activities of the Commission;
and to private communications companies, central studios of the
principal broadcasting systems, a high-power standard broadcasting
station, an international broadcasting station, radiotelephone and
radiotelegraph point-to-point transmitting and receiving stations and
associated operating stations, laboratories developing radio operat¬
ing equipment, police communications system, and aeronautical and air¬
craft radio installations, and certain plants which manufacture com¬
munication equipment,

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Also training in monitoring stations of the Commission,
in frequency measurements, station identification, spectrum occup¬
ancy, and related topics; and in the field offices of the Commis¬
sion in the examination of the applicants for operators’ licenses
and the inspection of various types of stations licensed by the
Commission,

Fellowships will be awarded by the Chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission with the approval of the Secretary of State,
or the duly authorized representative of the Secretary of State,
Applications shall be transmitted to the Secretary of State by the
government of the American republic of which the applicant is a citi¬
zen through the American diplomatic mission accredited to that govern¬
ment.

Expense allowances not exceeding |180 per month will be
granted. Also the usual government travel expenses Including first
class railroad fare and because it is now difficult to come from
Latin-Amerlca by boat, transportation by air will be allowed regard¬
less of the cost when authorized by the Chairman of the Federal Com¬
munications Commission, When air travel has not been specifically
authorized, the traveler may proceed by air with the understanding
that he may claim reimbursement therefor only in an amount not exceed¬
ing what it would have cost had the travel been performed by public
conveyance over land or water. No receipts are necessary.

Fellowships will be awarded for periods not exceeding one
year and may be extended for periods not exceeding that length of
time.

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TO FLY OR NOT TO FLY?

Despite the Washington heat, the approaching Democratic
Convention and other distractions, the rumor again comes from New
York that Chairman James L, Fly of the Federal Communications Commis¬
sion is to resign,

”It is an odd thing the way those reports keep coming”, an
FCC official commented, ”I really don't place much stock in them,
yet I am unable to account for their persistent repetition, I happen
to know that the last one came direct from a very substantial and
usually reliable source in the New York financial center where, as a
rule, they know what is going on and frequently in their mysterious
way get advance tips, ”

When another FCC official was asked about the latest rumor
that Mr, FLy would resign, the reply was:

"That's Just wishful thinking."

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EAPLY PREDICTIONS INDICATE HOT PRESIDENTIAL CAI^PAIGN

Even before the Democrats have gathered at Chicago, both
sides are claiming victory in the presidential race. Here are how
some of the radio and newspaper correspondents feel about it as of
today.

Drew Pearson (Blue Network): "Wall Street betting is 2 to
1 that Roosevelt will win, I should think that odds of 11 to 10 in
favor of the President would be nearer to it,

Lowell Mellett (former White House Secretary, now writing
for a syndicate including the Washington Star) : ^Roosevelt will
win, ”

Charles Michelson (Democratic National Committees •‘Roose¬
velt. «

Mark Thistlethwaite, Indianapolis News, Station WFBM:
"Roosevelt. Schricker seems to~have the edge on Capehart for
Senator in Indiana. "

Mark Sullivan, New York He raid- Tribune ; "I am having a
hard time getting people ^"0 agree with me but I believe it will be
a tidal wave Republican victory. "

Arthur Sears Henning (over Station WGN, Chicago); '‘Elect¬
oral votes which Republicans now seem assured of total 248,

Democrats 243. Doubtful 70, Doubtful States (of which Dewey will
have to carry New York to win), Connecticut, Missouri and New York. "

John O'Donnell, New York News: "Roosevelt 152 electoral
votes, Dewey 216. Doubtful 163. Doubtful States: Arizona, Conn¬
ecticut, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana,

Nevada, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, Oregon,
West Virginia, Wyoming. "

Senator Vandenberg (r), of Michigan: "Dewey will receive
more than 300 of the 631 electoral votes. "

As the campaign progresses a summary of predictions such
as these will be reprinted and it will be a pleasure to hear from
any of our readers either about the predictions of radio or news¬
paper correspondents in their part of the country or the opinion of
the reader himself - to be quoted by name or not, Unless permission
to quote by name is given, all sources of information will be regard¬
ed as confidential.

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DEWEY TELEVISION TECHNIQUE REPORTED GOOD

Despite transportation difficulties in rushing the nega¬
tives from the Republican Convention to New York, the television
pictures evidently proved an eye-opener to Eastern audiences,

A veteran in radio in New York reports:

"The television films were fine, and although 24 hours
late, we found them most interesting. We saw Hoover, Luce and
Dewey, Dewey has a good television technique. He lays the paper
flat on the table in front of him and as you watch him he gives the
impression of speaking directly rather than reading which is as it
should be on the television. Only once in a while did he seem to
glance down at the speech and only when he turned the page was it
apparent that he had a prepared speech; he looked the audience
straight in the face. It was interesting to see, as soon as Joe
Martin slammed the gavel announcing Dewey the candidate and then put
the gavel down, some fellow rushed in quickly, grabbed the gavel and
put a duplicate in its place, apparently to save the one as an
historic memento of the occasion. Joe Martin turned in a flash, as
if he had sensed someone had stolen the gavel, but the substitute
was right there in its place in the twinkle of an eye. So you see
you don’t miss much when it comes to television. Hoover had a good
speech but the delivery was the same as of old; Clare Luce went over
well both in sound and sight, "

Referring to the Hoover broadcast and "Roosevelt luck",

Hope Ridings Miller wrote in the Washington Post:

"A Washington newspaperman will bet anybody almost any
amount that when the Democrats converge on Chicago the temperature
will never go above 80 degrees , , . *It*s Roosevelt's luck*, he
said, * * *

"When Herbert Hoover arose to address the Republican
National Convention, the same newspaperman turned to a colleague,
'Something will happen to the microphone*, he said. 'Roosevelt luck,
again.* Something did. Hoover's difficulty in getting the micro¬
phone to work came dangerously near spoiling his speech, "

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First pictures of the Allied invasion on the coast of
Normandy were rushed air-mail to the Thomas S. Lee television sta¬
tion W6XA0 in Los Angeles in time for the Monday, June 26th televi¬
sion broadcast. The films showed the troops landing on the beach¬
head and scenes of actual fighting,

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FIRST RADIO CONTRACT TERMINATION CONFAB; OTHERS THIS WEEK

The first of a nation-wide series of contract termination
3 conferences presented by the Ar^ny Signal Corps and sponsored by the
■1 Radio Manufacturers' Association was held in Baltimore last week,

5 Similar conferences are being held in ten other cities this week,

: one at Philadelphia last Monday with four identical sessions at New
i York starting today (Wednesday) to 15, inclusive. The last of the
' present series will be at Los Angeles on August 2 and a second series
j then is planned for additional radio-electronic manufacturers.

The Baltimore meeting was opened by Walter Evans, Vice-
^ President of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, vho
^ was the official RMA representative. He asserted that the radio-
i electronic companies had "met their responsibility in the production
: of equipment for the war effort” and also would meet their respons-
f ibility in connection with the terminations of war contracts. He
E, also stressed the importance of protecting subcontractors.

Responding to Mr, Evans, Col, E, V, Elder, Commanding
■ Officer of the Philadelphia Signal Corps Procurement District, said
} the Army wanted to "make the change-over to peacetime production as
i fairly as possible to the contractors and to the American people”.

I Referring to war production, he said that ”a Job has been done that
t only American industry could have done. ”

Pour Signal Corps experts then discussed at length the
technical problems involved in contract terminations and told the
manufacturers present what was regarded as the proper procedure to
I follow. This was followed by a question and answer period during
i which the manufacturers sought enlightenment on particular problems
I in which they were Interested,
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The four experts, who also will speak at each of the sub-
\ sequent conferences, are; MaJ, John S, Rottner, Monmouth Signal
i Corps Procurement District; Lieut, Col. George J. Stadtler, Jr,,
i Philadelphia Signal Corps, Procurement District; J. Gerald Mayer,
i Office of the Chief Signal Officer at Washington; and Maj. LeRoy
! Cohen, Dayton Signal Corps Procurement District,

' Among the subjects they discussed at Baltimore were the

i Baruch report, the Murray-George Contract Terminations Act, Procure-
t raent Regulation No, 15 governing terminations, the Tennlnation
1 Accounting Manual, the Surplus War Property Administration Sales
\ Policy, the Signal Corps organization for terminations, contractor
I preparation for termination, and a typical termination case.

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POST-WAR PLANS OFFERED; CARLETON SMITH EXPLAINS NEEDS

Final plans for a series of public service radio programs
designed to stimulate post-war planning in the nation’s capital,
have been outlined by Carleton D, Smith, General Manager of WRC,
Washington,

The educational shows, under the general title of "Tomor¬
row’s Washington", will be presented over WRC in cooperation with
the Washington Daily News ( Scripps-Howard) and will cover the major
fields of city life and work which research organizations report
will be affected most by the anticipated peacetime expansion of the
District of Columbia,

Mr, Snith said that in presenting the discussions, the
sponsors will work closely with established agencies which have
already begun to do valuable research in the local after-war field,
particularly the National Committee for Economic Development and the
Washington Board of Trade,

There is a real need for knowledge by our metropolitan
residents of the plans for their post-war home, said Mr. Snith.

Declaring that even thou^ Washingtonians have no vote,

Mr. Smith pointed out that they still are able to express their
views and opinions through a free press and radio and encouraged
listeners to submit ideas and comments on any phase of post-war
planning in which they are actually engaged or by which they could
be affected.

Participating also in the initial program was Fred G-,
Macarow, Vice-Chairman of post-war planning groups of both the CED
and the Board of Trade, who praised the cooperative effort of WRC
and the Daily News. He said that his organizations have compiled a
report which definitely indicates the Washington area will have a
population of 1,500,CX)0 persons within ten years after the war.

The symposiums will be heard weekly at 8:30 P.M, EWT
Thursdays beginning July 20th. Among subjects to be discussed are
Public Transit, Housing and Building, Sports, Entertainment, Public
Health, Industry, Employment and Communications,

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CITES RECORD TO SHOW INCREASING FDR HOSTILITY TO PRESS

Editor and Publisher for July 8th, conservative and non¬
partisan trade Journal of the newspapers of the country, takes a
terrific fall out of President Roosevelt on the eve of the Democratic
National Convention, Its leading article by Malcdto Johnson, reads
in part as follows:

"At this late date, as another election approaches, it is
certainly no secret that President Roosevelt’s three terms in the
White House have been marked by a growing hostility to the press,

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A factual, comprehensive record of this hostility, vjhlch on occasion
has flared into open warfare, is provided by the President's own
statements as made for the most part during official White House
press conferences covering the entire period since his first elec¬
tion, It is a very revealing record. It reveals an attitude on the
President’s part ranging from slight irritation to cold fury,

"Mr, Roosevelt's charges against the press have been many
and varied. He seems to be particularly distrustful of the motives
of newspaper owners, especially of those whose papers have opposed
New Deal policies. He has accused them of 'editing from the counting
house*, of being dominated by business and financial forces. He has
denounced them as 'bogus patriots who use the sacred freedom of the
press to e cho the sentiments of the propagandists in Tokyo and
Berlin,* He has charged writers and editors with mishandling, dis¬
torting and misrepresenting the news. He has accused them of delib¬
erate misstatements of fact and of deliberate falsification,

"The record shows that he has branded at least one news¬
paper man as a liar. To another, who wrote a coliamn which displeased
him, the President 'awarded* the German Iron Cross.

"The President has complained over and over again that
newsmen are compelled to 'slant* their stories according to the pol¬
icies of the papers which employ them, thus 'misinterpreting* the
news. That complaint has become almost a theme song at FDR's press
conferences, Washington correspondents say, and has been for some
time, "

The article, citing specific instances where the President
has dealt sharply with the press, covers his entire administration.
There are few references to radio. One of them refers to an article
by David Lawrence ;

"Commenting on the controversy over the Government seizure
of the Montgomery Ward plant in Chicago, Mr, Lawrence wrote on May
10, 1944; * The President, of course, in reciting some of the facts

of the case stressed that neither the press nor the radio had let
the country know the facts that led up to the seizure. After he had
finished reciting them, a woman reporter said to the President that
she had either read in the press or heard over the radio everything
that Mr. Roosevelt had just narrated, . . , Mr, Roosevelt's idea of
a fair article or radio comment, is one presenting the Administra¬
tion's side comprehensively and then saying the other side isn't
worth mentioning, that it is either plcayunish or inconsequential.
This appears to Mr. Roosevelt to be the kind of reporting he*d like
to read in the press or hear on the radio,' "

Another was;

"The New York Times, June 30, 1943; 'Asked for an example
of government arguments started by the press, Mr, Roosevelt contend¬
ed that there were flocks of them and suggested that almost any
columnist be read. Go back in the files, he said. Asked about the
radio, the President said he Included it in his criticism but not to
such an extent as newspapers, ' "

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WITH SCISSORS AND PASTE

The Federal Communications Commission recently licensed
; a new radio station in Houston, Tex., to Judge Roy Hofheinz# after
I he had shown that Jesse Jones dominated all the radio stations in
[ Houston and that they carried an amazing minimum of patriotic war
! appeals. But now Judge Hofheinz is encountering obstacles all along
t the line, , . Latest is a demand for the Greater Houston Broadcasting
1 Corporation for a rehearing of his license. Interesting fact is
that the secretary and treasurer of this firm are Forrest L* Andrews
and Thomas D, Anderson, the lawyers who handle most of the Texas
business for Jesse Jones* RFC. -(Drew Pearson in the Washington Post)

Mrs, Luce's diction is excellent, and her speech came over
I the radio more clearly than some of the orations of the male orators.
I As she is a writer of wide experience and has made several hard-hit-
I ting speeches in the House, it is fair to surmise that Mrs, Luce
I wrote this speech herself,

beeches delivered by Mrs, Helen Gahagan Douglas for the
: New Deal cause will most likely be written by Charlie Michelson,

A series of Luce- Douglas debates, spotted around in key
! cities the country over and broadcast by the major networks, ought
I to be of similar value. The two ladies would naturally be fed ideas
by the best brains of their respective parties - and, while their
opening speeches would no doubt be prepared, their r ebuttals would
not, and these rebuttal speeches ought to unveil some choice verbal
hair-pulling indeed, - (Washington Times-Herald) .

Boston's No, 1 department store, Filene * s Sons Company,
last week made sure of being in on the ground floor of television
' by forming a subsidiary, Filene' s Television, Inc, The new corpora¬
tion plans to file applications for post-war operation of both
frequency modulation and television stations with the FCC, -

(Business Week magazine)

A third party slate, dedicated to cutting into the Roose¬
velt vote, will be named at Chicago right after the Democratic
Convention if President Roosevelt is nominated for a fourth term,
the Washington Post was informed.

Senator W, Lee (Biscuit Passin* Pappy) O'Deniel (D), Texas,
former flour salesman whom the radio turned into a vot getting
phenomenon that amazed Texas in three elections, is expected to be
the presidential nominee. The Texan, who returned to his State to
tell his constituents about Washington "skullduggery" this ^ring,
has "the money in the bank" for the campaign, his friends say. They
point out that he has a newspaper, has purchased time on 40 small
radio stations, and will, as Senator, have privileges of the floor,
and franking rights for his speeches, - (Washington Post)

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During the weeks of painstaking preparations for the big
I event, BBC correspondents have undertaken routine training with the
particular units whose activities they are now reporting. Their
I equipment includes portable recording sets which enable them to
i: record their impressions in the thick of the fight. These were
specially designed by BBC engineers for the purpose. It is the
I task of the correspondents to get their dispatches back to base by
I any means available. Mobile recording trucks are extensively used
and mobile transmitters are being set up on the French shore, -

( "London Calling" ( BBC) )

With but little hope for a solution of the dispute between
Mr. Petrillo*s MuslclansUnion and the major recording companies, the
future for new records - and especially for serious music albums -
appears none too bright at the moment. An informal survey of pros¬
pects indicates that the output of new recordings of classics is
going to taper off in months to come, and that even the popular music
output is in a far from prosperous condition.

Decca, the one large company that has come to tenns with
Mr. Petrillo, is putting out a fair quantity of new albums and
singles. But Decca policy calls for nothing more weighty than albums
of hits from current Broadway shows and movies. * * *

The two major companies - RCA Victor and Columbia - are in
difficult spots, though Columbia maintains an optimistic front. For
! the next three months Columbia plans to release two hitherto unpub¬
lished recordings each month and to reissue in redecorated albums
two previously published ones. There will also, says Columbia, be
one new popular album on each list and one new popular single record.
One Columbia spokesman said that his company had plenty of unpublish¬
ed recordings on the shelves - enough to keep going for several years.

RCA admits that its situation is not very good. Between
now and September it will release only one new serious album - Artur
j Rubinstein playing works of Villa-Lobos - and the slender supply it
1 has on hand is being carefully conserved for the Fhll lists, RCA
I claims to have a goodly supply of pop recordings on hand, however,

I and is making elaborate plans for new recording sessions as soon as
I the present dispute is settled, - (New York Times)

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COMMANDER STORER IS ORDERED TO DUTY IN WASHINGTON

In recognition of good work done in Chicago, Lieut. Com¬
mander George B. Storer, President-on-leave of the Fort Industry
Company, operators of seven broadcasting stations in the Midwest and
South, has been ordered to duty at the Navy Department in Washington,
D. C, in the Office of Procurement and Materiel,

Commander Storer has been in the service more than a year
and was Inspection Director of the Chicago Naval District,

In Washington, Commander Storer will Join his brother-in-
law, J, Harold Ryan, former Assistant Director of Censorship in
Charge of Broadcasting, and now President of the National Association
of Broadcasters. Mr, Ryan, also on leave, is Vice-President of the
Fort Industry Company which has Stations WSPD, Toledo; WWVA, Wheel¬
ing; WMMN, Fainnont, West Va, ; WLOK, Lima, 0, ,WHIZ, Zanesville, 0.,
Vi/AGA, Atlanta, and WFTL, Fort Lauderdale, Fla,

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SEES TELEVISION AS STIMULANT TO NEWSPAPERS

Wide use of television in the competitive post-war world
will stimulate the publishing business in the same manner as the
movies provied to be a boon to newspapers and magazines, according
to William Kostka, formerly of the National Broadcasting Company,
now Managing Editor of Look magazine.

Addressing the Radio Executives Club in New York on the
effects of television on the publishing industry, Mr. Kostka said:

"Anything that will tend to raise the cultural or liter¬
ary level of the nation will benefit the publishing Industry, , ,

New interest and curiosity will eventually lead televiewers to seek
further information in printed material . , , in books, magazines
and newspapers, . , .

"What happened to newspapers at the start of the war when
radio went on a 24- hour schedule to give the American public com¬
plete up-to-the-minute service? Why newspapers reached the greatest
circulation peak in history and what is equally significant, far
greater than at any time during World War I ^en there was no radio,

Mr, Kostka declared that Look magazine and other Cowles
publications had used radio successfully as an advertising medium
and undoubtedly would gry television for the same purpose. He said
that several newspapers and magazines have already set up special
staffs to study and report on television and to suggest ways and
means of utilizing the new medium,

"Many newspapermen feel that in the long run television is
likely to be a greater competitor of radio than of the publishing
industry", said Mr. Kostka.

He declared that as a competitor for advertising, tele¬
vision may take some of the revenue from radio and possibly publish¬
ing, But he®lt that the effect would probably be temporary,

"If advertising by television results in greater sales",
he said, "the firms sponsoring that advertising will eventually have
more revenue to spend and will Increase their total appropriations.
If television fails to sell more merchandise, if it proves to be
more expensive per item sold, it cannot be an important competitor
of either radio or publishing, "

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WILL ASK IXIMOCRATS TO NOMINATE WHEELER FOR PRESIDENT

Gerald L. K, Smith, leader of the America First Party,
said in Chicago last Monday that his group would meet there July
17th to call on the Democrats to nominate Senator Burton K, Wheeler
of Montana for President,

Discussing vice-presidential candidates, John 0* Donnell
wrote in the Washington Time s-He raid:

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"Don*! take seriously the rumors that Montanans Senator
Burt Wheeler would consider the post of v-p for a minute* The White
House has been trying to win his support, this time through the
pleas of White House legal counsel Sam Rosenman and the oldllne *the
President really likes you and always calls you by your first name, ’
Wheeler has flatly rebuffed any Vice President suggestion, frankly
stating that any about face now on his views of the Roosevelt foreign
policy would justly brand him as a turn-coat, ”

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TELEVISION SPEAKERS BUREAU ESTABLISHED

Because of an increasing demand for speakers versed in the
technical and non- technical aspects of television, a Television
Speakers Bureau has been established by the Television Broadcasters’
Association, Inc.

Member organizations of TBA are now in a position to supply
speakers for luncheon meetings, conventions, sales conferences,
theatrical meetings and other public functions. Lists of available
speakers are being distributed by TBA and copies may be obtained by
writing to Will Baltin, Secretary- Treasurer, Suite 1038, 500 Fifth
Avenue, New York 18, New York,

In addition to the speakers available for public engage¬
ments, the TBA list includes motion pictures on television that may
be obtained without cost for exhibition at meetings,

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WMCA DELETES RAP AT COMMUNISTS AND ADMINISTRATION

Repercussions to the gag imposed on his radio speech
criticizing communism and the New Deal were viewed by supporters in
New York yesterday as advancing the cause of State Senator Frederic
R. Coudert for the Republican nomination for United States Senator.

At the same time officials of the American Legion, before
whom Coudert* 8 emasculated talk was aired last Friday over Station
WMCA in New York, denounced the censorship ordered by Nathan Straus,
the station* s president, who said he considered the deletions which
cut Coudert* s speech almost in two were justified,

Mr, Straus is a former Administrator of Housing Authority
under President Roosevelt,

William E, Lewis, State Commander of the Legion, termed
the incident ”an outrage” and a ’’violation of our free press”, which
James E. McCabe, Chairman of the organization’s Department of Ameri¬
canism, asserted it was ”unwarrante d, ”

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TRADE NOTES : : ; :

Advance notices have been distributed of the annual
Rochester Pall meeting of the TUk Engineering Department and the
Institute of Radio Engineers, November 13 and 14 at the Sagamore
Hotel, Rochester, This is the annuao meeting for receiver and tube
design engineers, with many technical sessions.

Marking the first anniversary of Its participation in
television broadcasting, WOR last night presented a popular request
program of the "WOR Video Varieties” over Dumont television station
WARD, J, R, Poppele, WOR* s Chief Engineer, appeared on the tele¬
cast and reviewed the progress of WOR television during Its first
year.

A further step in the program to channel idle and excess
electronic components back into the production stream in order to
meet the 1944 radio requirements was made by the Radio and Radar Div¬
ision of the War Production,

Copies of the new Form WPB-3644, authorized as an aid in
solving the electronic component shortage problem, were sent to all
radio prime contractors and component manufacturers.

Current radio component shortages present a production
problem which requires that specific conservation measures be adopt¬
ed, Ffey Ellis, Director of the Radio and Radar Division, said in a
letter accompanying the new forms sent to prime contractors.

The Component Recovery Section of the Radio and Radar Div¬
ision stressed that it is not concerned with property disposal, but
with conserving and utilizing critical stocks of electronic compon¬
ents such as resistors, transformers, capacitors, test equipment
meters, and scarce types of receiving and transmitting tubes.

The Mutual network announces its fulltime affiliation ef¬
fective July 16th with IBTA, Batavia, New York, WBTA operates on 250
watts, 1490 kilocycles.

The Federal Communications Commission has announced adop¬
tion of Proposed Findings of Pact and Conclusions proposing to deny
application of Joe L, Smith, Jr. , licensee of Station WJLS, Beckley,
West Virginia, for construction permit to make changes in equipment
for operation of a local station on the regional frequency of 560 kc
with]D0 watts power at nighty 250 watts day, unlimited time, (Station
now operates on 1240 kc with 250 watts, unlimited time)

An article ”Planning Tomorrow* s Electronic Highways” by
Dr. W, R. Cx, Baker, Chairman, Radio Technical Planning Board, has
been reprinted in pamphlet form,

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2400 CALIFORNIA STREET WASHINGTON, D. C.

1944

Frank Mullen Lands One On The FCC Chin . . . 1

Radio Makers Assured Fair Contract Terminations . . . 2

Hope Held Of Finding Capt, Guthrie, Son Of RCAC Official . 3

Cowles Getting All Set While Awaiting FCC Green Light . 4

Capital Announcer Plunges To Death From Press Club . 4

Sees Trouble For Burton K. Wheeler In Montana . 5

Blue Executives Must Have Blade Names In Show~World . 6

They Slammed The Door In Gen, Eisenhower's Face . 6

Sale Of KECA Approved; Other FCC Actions . 7

Large Potential BJIarket Seen For Television Receivers . . . 9

Radio Publicity Directors Swap Jobs . 10

Increased Production Excludes Broadcasting Equipment . 11

FCC State-Wide M Educational Policy Plans . 11

Way Opened For Some Aluminum Use In Communications . 11

Scissors And Paste,,.,, . .12

Philco V-P Predicts Tremendous Post-War Business . 14

The Controversial Mr, Fly . IS

Battery Manufacture Relaxed By WPB . 15

Trade Notes . 16

No, 1639

July 19, 1944

FRANK MULLEN LANDS ONE ON THE FCC CHIN

In a scholarly and carefully prepared address on the
"American System of Broadcasting", Frank E, Mullen, Vice-President
and General Manager of the National Broadcasting Company at New York
University Summer Radio Workshop, landed a stingaree on the chin of
the Federal Communications Commission. Using his talk to the stud¬
ents as a sounding board, Mr, Mullen warned the American listening
public to be quick on the trigger in protesting against anything
that smacked of censorship of radio by the Government, The FCC
continuously cries to high heaven that it has no power of censorship
but Mr, Mullen let the public in on the little secret of the indir¬
ect pressure which the Commission can exert on radio programs through
its power to license broadcasting stations,

Mr, Mullen said a logical approach to a study of the
American System of Broadcasting would be to answer two questions:
First, "What makes it a system?" and second, "What makes it American?"
Mr. Mullen also raised and answered questions with regard to the
limitation of frequencies, national networks, FM, television, sup¬
port of advertisers, and non- commercial public service.

Most significant, however, was the speaker's warning to
the public not to let the wool be pulled over its eyes on censorship.

"The public should give broadcasters every encouragement to
exercise complete freedom in their choice of program material, and
should be quick to protest against any evidence of government pres¬
sure on radio program policies", Mr. Mullen declared. "We should be
constantly mindful that freedom of radio is inseparable from all our
other traditional freedoms - of speech, of worship, of press and of
peaceable assembly. In every city and country seized by the dicta¬
tors of Europe, the capture and control of radio facilities has been
practically the first act of aggression. Suppression of the other
freedoms has immediately followed. Nowhere in the world where radio
is enslaved will yoq find speech or a press that is free,

"Most of us never stop to think that ours is the only
country in the world in which radio programs are not under govern¬
ment control. Yet, our lack of concern on this score is in itself a
source of potential danger. It is apt to make us blind to encroach¬
ments on the freedom of radio which should serve as warning signals.
For while we in the United States do not have direct censorship of
programs, the very fact that station licenses are issued, and can be
revoked, by a government bureau makes possible a form of censorship
that is no less effective for being indirect.

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“Obviously the danger of government domination and censor-
! ship would be multiplied a hundredfold if broadcasters had to depend
: on a government handout to support their stations and pay for their
; programs. And, censorship, or no censorship, the quality and variet'v
j of program service would suffer tremendously, ”

The Federal Communications Commission, Mr. Mullen continu-^

5 ed, has in recent years tended to place a broader interpretation upon
1 the “public interest, convenience or necessity “ clause in the law and
has evidenced a desire to regulate “some of the social and economic
aspects of broadcasting. ”

“The language of the present law relating to radio - the
Federal Communications Act of 1934 - is far from explicit in defining
the criterion by which the Commission may grant or refuse licenses
for the operation of broadcasting stations”, Mr, Mullen pointed out.
"Most of the difficulties - most of the arguments between broadcast¬
ers and the Commission - arise over the interpretation of the provi-
i Sion in the law which states that the Commission shall grant

licenses in accordance v/ith ’public interest, convenience or neces-
I sity. *

“This phrase - ’public interest, convenience or necessity
was carried over into the present radio law from the original
Federal Radio Act of 1927, so it has now served as the corner-stone
for governmental regulation of broadcasting for 17 years. The earl¬
ier Commissions for the most part interpreted the phrase as relating
to the prevention of interference between stations, and to the geo¬
graphical assignment of frequencies in such a pattern as to provide
technically satisfactory broadcasting service to the maximum number
of people.

“In recent years, however, the majority of the Commission
has tended to place a broader interpretation upon ’public interest,
convenience or necessity* and has evidenced an increasing desire to
regulate some of the social and economic aspects of broadcasting.

In particular, many of the Commission’s recent regulations have
been directed toward the prevention of business practices which,
in the eyes of the Commission, might tend to place undue control
over broadcasting in the hands of the national networks, “

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RADIO MAKERS ASSURED FAIR CONTRACT TERLONATIONS

Opening the Contract Termination Conference at New York
last week, R, C, Cosgrove, President of the Radio Manufacturers’
Association and Vice-President of The Crosley Corporation, said the
conferences offered a “rare opportunity" for manufacturers to ob¬
tain vital information concerning the complex problems involved in
contract terminations and praised the Array Signal Corps for being
“willing to take such a great interest in our problems and aiding
us in solving them. “

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”A11 of us face terminations and cutbacks”, Mr. Cosgrove
said, "The Signal Corps is taking the lead in helping us. The
radio industry has no reason to be worried about what it has accom¬
plished in aiding the war effort because it has done an outstanding
Job, ” He added that the series of Contract Termination Conferences
would aid the industry, in like manner, in meeting the problems of
contract cancellations.

Responding to Mr. Cosgrove, Brig, Gen, A, A, Farmer,
Commanding Officer of the Philadelphia Signal Depot, said the con¬
ference showed that ’’contractors and the U, S, Government are working
together as a team and will continue to do so until final and lasting
victory is ours, ”

’’Reports from the battle f2?onts are favorable, but we must
not think that the war is over”, he continued, ’’Production of equip¬
ment must go forward, but it is essential that we give thought to the
problems of contract terminations, ”

”The Signal Corps”, he added, ’’wants contract termination
settlements to be accomplished with fairness, fidelity, and speed”
so that the ’’superb Job of production” will not be followed by "gig¬
antic problems of an economic eruption. ”

”We*ll defeat the problems of termination”, he concluded,
”as our forces in the field continue to annihilate the enemy, ”

The New York conference was the third of the series relat¬
ing to contract termination, the first of which was held in Baltimore
on July 5th, and the last of which will be in Los Angeles August 2nd.

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HOPE HELD OF FINDING CAPT. GUTHRIE, SON OF RCAC OFFICIAL

Navy Department officials expressed the belief that
Capt. Walter R. Guthrie, U, S, A, , son of F, P. Guthrie, District
rfenager of R, C. A. Communications, Inc,, in Washington, D, C, , report¬
ed missing, might still be found. Captain Guthrie was on a ship
surKi^ July 2nd in the Indian Ocean near Ceylon, Twenty-three persons
have been reported rescued but it was believed that many others may
have been picked up as it was said that it is sometimes several
months before all the rescue boats are heard from.

Captain Guthrie, who is in the Quartermaster Corps, was
on his way from Washington to report to the Southeastern Asia (Lord
Mountbatten’ s command), the headquarters of which are at Kandy in
Ceylon, Captain Guthrie, who is 25 years old, v/as graduated with
high honors at Washington and Lee University and later from the
Harvard Business School,

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COWLES GETTING ALL SET WHILE AWAITING FCC GREEN LIGHT

Extensive personnel changes in the Iowa Broadcasting
Company and subsidiary companies, effective on the approval of
applications now pending before the Federal Communications Commission
were announced last week by Gardner Cowles, Jr,, President of the
companies involved.

When pending applications are approved, the Iowa company
will no longer own or operate KSO, Des Moines, or WMT, Cedar Rapids-
Waterloo, Its two Midwest stations will be KRNT, Des Moines, and
WNAX, Yankton-Sioux City, Its three eastern stations will be TOOM,
New York-Jersey City, WCOP, Boston, and WOL, Washington, D, C,

T. A, M. Craven, a Vice-President of the Iowa Broadcasting
Company, will be the executive head of WOL, Washington, in addition
to his duties as technical advisor on all engineering matters to all
five of the company's stations,

Craig Lawrence, Vice-President and lAanager of KRNT and KSO,
Des Moines, will move to New York to become head of WHOM, New York-
Jersey City, and WCOP, Boston. A. N, Armstrong, Assistant Manager
of WCOP and WORL, Boston, will become Manager of WCOP, Phil Hoffman,
Manager of WNAX, Yankton-Sioux City, will move to Des Moines, suc¬
ceeding Mr, Lawrence as Manager of KRI\IT.

Don Inman, formerly Manager of the Waterloo offices of
WMT, Cedar Rapids- Waterloo, has moved to Yankton as Manager of WNAX,
Art Smith, formerly Program Manager of WNAX, has moved to Sioux City
as Manager of the WNAX studios in that city. Gene Loffler, formerly
announcer at KRNT, has moved to Yankton as Program Manager,

Ted Enns, National Sales filanager of the Iowa company,
will move to New York in his same capacity representing all five
stations. Karl Haase, Assistant Treasurer of the Iowa Company, will
move to New York in his same capacity on the three eastern stations.

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CAPITAL ANNOUNCER PLUNGES TO DEATH FROM PRESS CLUB

The body of J. Robert Ball, 2d years old, an announcer for
Station WWDC in Washington, was found at 5:30 A. M, Monday following
a 13 story plunge from the Press Club, shortly before he was to go
on the air in a news broadcast. Officials at the studio said Mr,

Ball suffered a nervous breakdown two years ago, forcing him to
leave Harvard University Law School.

He was likewise said to have been in good spirits recent¬
ly. Mr. Ball's sister, Mrs. Dorothy Campbell, wife of J, Forbes
Campbell, Federal Deposit Insurance Coro, public relations officer,
said her brother's health had improved during the past year,

Mr. Ball was graduated from the University of Utah before
going to Harvard. His father, James H, Ball, is a, prominent Salt
Lake City attorney. His mother also survives.

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7/19/44

SEES TROUBLE FOR BURTON K. WHEELER IN MONTANA

A political rebellion is brewing in Montana against
Senator Wiieeler, Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee (who
at the moment holds the whip hand in radio legislation in the Senate),
according to Drew Pearson, who writes in his syndicated column:

”The other day, a significant meeting was held in Montana.

It may mean the political end of that venerable senatorial figure,
Burton K, Wheeler - or at least, his future candidacy for reelection
on the Republic Instead of the Democratic ticket.

"The meeting - of Montana Democrats - was sparked by ex-
Congressman Jerry O'Connell. He was purged from the House of Repre¬
sentatives by Wheeler in 1938 because he dared buck Wheeler's leader¬
ship in Montana but at the recent Democratic meeting, Mr. O'Connell,
now head of the Montana CIO Political Action Committee, sat high in
party councils.

"Wiieeler' s name was scarcely mentioned. It arose only once
when a resolution condemning his isolationist stand was proposed. In
the end, it was decided simply to expung Wheeler’s name from the en~
tire proceedings of the State Democratic convention. As far as the
leading Democrats were concerned, the senior Senator from Montana did
not exist.

"Furthermore, for the first time in 84 years, Wheeler will
not be a delegate to the Democratic National Convention,

"Already Montana Democrats have laid their plans to run
popular Justice Hugh Adair of the Montana Supreme Court for the
Senate against Wheeler in 1 946.

"Thus, the man who helped elect Roosevelt in 1932, but who
is his bitter enemy today may be forced to run as a Republican,

"Most people have forgotten it, but Wheeler was a Republics n
until 1910, when he ran for the State Legislature as a Democrat, Lat¬
er, he ran for Governor in 1920 on the nonpartisan ticket and for
Vice President of the USA in 1924 (with La Follette) on the Progres¬
sive ticket,

"When Wheeler defeated Congressman O'Connell, he threw his
weight behind Dr. Jacob Thorkelson, who was considered one of the most
fascist-minded members of Congress during his term of office. Now
Thorkelson is running for Governor and has the support of Wheeler's
closest friend, radio Mongul Ed Craney. It was Craney who secretly
authored the recent radio bill which Wheeler was forced to Junk in
the face of protests from the networks. "

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BLUE EXECUTIVES MUST HAVE MADE NAMES IN SHOW- WORLD

Taking the initiative in recognizing a new trend in broad¬
casting operations and policies, the Blue Network is going into the
field of theatrical, motion picture and advertising agency personnel
for staff executives instead of performing as a training ground for
executives for these allied fields.

Initial appointment is that of Adrian Saraish, with two
decades of show experience, who will fill the newly created post of
National Production Manager, with complete authority over all Blue
Network produced programs, and act in the capacity of network advis¬
er for outside productions broadcast over the network and its affil¬
iates.

"The trend, heretofore”, Phillips Carlin, Vice-President
in Charge of Programs, said, ”has been for young producers to gain
invaluable experience in network operations, and then resign to pro¬
duce for advertising agencies, outside production units, and the
theater. Radio broadcasting has grown up; it is now *big league*
and the competition is *big league’. The Blue Network does not
consider itself a minor league training ground. The appointment of
Mr. Samish is a first step in our new operations policy. ”

Mr. Smish will coordinate the production facilities of the
Eastern, Central and Western Divisions of the Blue, and under his
leadership, the Commercial Program Supervision Department will be
strengthened and expanded. Emphasis will be laid on achieving the
best in writing and production, and on the creation of package pro¬
grams, Mr, Samish will also concentrate on the training of young
producers, and the strengthening of the present Blue staff through
close supervision and constructive criticism,

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THEY SLAMPjED THE DOOR IN GEN. EISENHOWER’S FACE

General Eisenhower was caught in the street during a robot
bomb alarm a few nights ago... It happened his naval aide, Harry
Butcher, former Vice President of C, B. S. , and George Allen, Red
Cross head, were in the same dark street. They didn’t know the gen¬
eral was directly behind them when they ducked into the first doorway.

Allen slammed the door - then he did a double take* ”My
God’ I shut the door in Eisenhower’s face”, he gasped. He tried to
open it but the door had jammed. Frantically the two men on the in¬
side pulle'd the knob. The few moments seemed centuries before they
finally unstuck it and Eisenhower stepped in from the de serried street,

Allen and Butcher were apprehensive, .. Ike smiled reassur¬
ingly and took off his overseas cap as calmly as if he'd just dropped
in for a cup of tea, "Take it easy, boys”, he told them, -

(Austine Cassini in the Washington Tlmes-

Herald)

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SALE OF KECA APPROVED; OTHER FCC ACTIONS

The Federal Communications Commission yesterday (Tuesday)
approved the transfer license of Station KECA, Los Angeles, by Earle
C, Anthony to The Blue Network for $800,000, Also WQXR, New York,
John V, L. Hogan to the New York Times for $1,000,000, Commissioner
Durr dissenting.

The following statement was issued by Arthur Hays Sulz¬
berger, publisher of the Times:

”We are glad to announce that the Federal Communications
has approved the purchase by The New York Times of the Interstate
Broadcasting Company, which operates Station WQXR in New York City,
broadcasting on 1560 kilocycles, and Frequency Modulation Station
WQXR, which broadcasts on 45.9 megacycles,

"As pointed out when the announcement was made that The
Times had entered into an agreement to purchase these stations,
we are proud to acquire a broadcasting medium which throughout its
history has consistently maintained high standards of quality,

"This policy we plan to continue and improve, under the
same management which successfully built up Statioritt^QXR and its FM
outlet. The best musical features will as heretofore fonn the bulk
of the programs,

"As broadcasting is a new business for us, we expect to
move slowly while learning about it. We look forward, however, to
the time when WQXR, as The Times* own radio station, will expand its
news presentation so as to be of still greater service to its listen¬
ers and our readers.

"Jileanwhile, The Time s * hourly news bulletins will continue
to be broadcast over Station MCA, "

The sale of Station WINX, 250 watts, to Eugene Meyer,
Publisher of the Washington Post for $500,000 was likewise approved
with Commissioner Durr dissenting.

Other license transfers approved were WJLD, Bessemer, Ala. ,
to George Johnston for $106,000, Commissioner Durr dissenting; KYUM,
Yuma, Ariz, , to John J. Lewis for $15,458, and KTAR, Phoenix, for
$375,000.

FCC action Tuesday also included:

Durham Broadcasting Co,, Inc., Durham, N. C. , and Harold H.
Thoms, Durham, N. C. , designated for consolidated hearing for con¬
struction permit for new station to operate on 1580 kc. , with 250
watts, unlimited time, and of Harold H. Thoms for constmaction per¬
mit for new station to operate on 1580 kc. , 1 KW power, unlimited
time; KRRV, Red River Valley Broadcasting Corp, , Sherman, Texas,
granted request to waive Commission rules as may be necessary in

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order to permit Station KRRV to announce its station identification
as ♦’KRRV, Sherroan and Denison, Texas" when programs originate in
the Sherman studios or come through it, and as "KRRV, Denison and
Sherman, Texas" when programs originate or come through the Denison
studios; WQBC, Delta Broadcasting Co., Inc,, Vicksburg, Miss.,
granted construction permit to change frequency from 1390 kc. to
1420 kc. , and to change power from 1 KW day to 1 KW day, 500 watts
night, unlimited time; WDSU, Stephens Broadcasting Co,, New Orleans,
La, , adopted order granting petition for leave to amend application
for license for auxiliary transmitter so as to permit the use of its
previously licensed 1 KW transmitter, with power of 1 KW day, 500
watts night, instead of 1 KW day and night as originally requested,
employing a non- directional antenna; granted the application as
amended. KABC, The Alamo Broadcasting Co., Inc., San Antonio,

Texas, granted application for construction permit to change frequen¬
cy from 1450 to 680 KC, increase povrer from 250 watts unlimited time
to 50 KW day, 10 KW night; install a new transmitter and directional
antenna for night use, and change transmitter location; granted sub¬
ject to approval of antenna by the Commission's Chief Engineer, and
subject to compliance with the Commission's supplemental statement of
policy of January 26, 1944,

Broadcast Applications Received

Jos, M. Zamoiski Co,, Baltimore, Maryland, construction
permit for a new commercial television broadcast station to be oper¬
ated on Channel #6 (96000-102000 kc); Fetzer Broadcasting Company,
Grand Rapids, Mich. , construction permit for a new high frequency
( F¥) broadcast station to be operated on 43,900 kc. with coverage
of 18,250 square miles; West Virginia F^dio Corp. , Morgantown, W, Va.
construction permit for a new high frequency (M) broadcast station
to be operated on 43,500 kc. with coverage of 33,244 square miles
and two satellite stations on 49,900 kc. , one at Pittsburgh, Penna,
with a coverage of 1,620 square miles and the second at Wheeling,

W. Va, , with coverage of 344 square miles.

Also, The Pulitzer Publishing Co. , St. Louis, Mo,, construc¬
tion permit for a new Commercial Television Broadcast Station to be
operated on Channel #1 (50000-56000 kc.); News-Press Publishing Co. ,
(KTMS), Santa Barbara, Calif., extension of special service author¬
ization to permit broadcasting under the control and direction of
the Pacific Coast Maritime Industry Board, as a public service and
without charge of information to longshoremen for the period begin¬
ning 8/1/44.

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Civic leaders gathered in radio station studios in 122
cities over the country heard an appeal Monday for cooperation in
the Government's "Don't Travel" campaign and listened to suggestions
for local action to reduce drastically unessential train and bus
travel so that the war job of the transportation systems can be
done effectively. These studio audiences included representatives of
civic organizations, service clubs, city government, newspapers,
radio, transportation service s, merchants and industrialists.

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LARGE POTENTIAL MARKET SEEN FOR TELEVISION RECEIVERS

That a tremendous demand exists for television receiving
sets - greater than for any other type of radio - was clearly
indicated, according to the News Letter of July 14, Issued to
Television Broadcasters’ Association members, recently when McCall's
magazine released figures compiled in a survey conducted among thous¬
ands of women throughout the nation. A highly interesting article
analyzing the survey appears in the current issue of the Radio-
Television Journal, and permission has been granted to reprint facts
and figures in the Newsletter on Television,

"Television, phono graph- radio combinations, console and
table type radios were all placed before the readers for their con¬
sideration, and they were asked to Indicate their preference", states
Radio- Tele vision Journal. "Perhaps the findings of the survey will

upset some preconceived notions as to how the postwar market will
run, but it will give practical, useful foresight to the dealers
who are anxious to gear their merchandise to their customers* wants. ’’

Some of the results of the survey follow;

POST-WAR TELEVISION SALES PROSPECTS BY OCCUPATIONAL ANALYSIS

In homes where women indicated their desires for a television
set, the occupation of head of family is as follows;

Total

I Must

I Like and

I Have

I Don't

Answe ring

Have

fey Get

Now

Like

Major Prof, and Exec,

998

21.8^

68.7^

1.5^

8.0^

Minor Prof, and Exec,

1,108

21.2^

66.3^

2.3^

10. 2%

Salesman

280

16.4^

73.2^

2. 2%

8,2fo

Public Service

157

21.7^

61.1^

3.8^

13.4^

Clerical

541

19.2^

69.7^

1.7^

9.4^

Skilled Labor

2,015

19.9^

67.1^

2.\%

10.9^

Unskilled Labor

72

13.9^

66.7^

2.8^

16, 6%

Farmers, Ranchers

586

13.1^

68.3^

3.8^

14.6fo

Armed Forces

459

24.0^

64.9^

2. 6^

8,dfo

Others, Retired

93

17, 2%

69.9^

3, 2$

9.7f,

TELEVISION SETS

(11,150 Women Participated in Survey)

I like and may get - 7,474 - 67^ - potential market

I must have - 1,841 - 16.5^ - assured market

I don’t like - 1,549 - 13,9^ - poor prospects

I have now - 286 - 2, 6^ - replacement market

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CONSOLE RADIOS

(10,880 Women Participated in Survey)

I don* t like
I have now
I like and may get
I must have

- 4,293 - 39.4^ -

- 3,773 - 34. 6% -

- 1,824 - 16.8^ -

998 - 9. 2^ -

poor prospects
replacement market
potential market
assured market

TABLE RADIOS

(10,976 Women Participated in Survey)

I have now - 5,920 - 53.9^ - replacement market

I don*t like - 3,414 - 31,1^ - poor prospects

I like and may get - 1,004 - 92. % - potential market

I must have - 630 - 5,8^ - assured market

RADIO-PHONOGRAPH COMBINATIONS
(11,660 Women Participated in Survey)

I like and may get - 4,168 - 35,7^ - potential market

I must have - 3,501 - 30,0^ - assured market

I have now - 2,084 - 17.9^ - replacement market

I don't like - 1,907 - 16,4^ - poor prospects.

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RADIO PUBLICITY DIRECTORS SWAP JOBS

Jim O’Bryon, newspaperman and public relations executive,
has been appointed the new Director of Public Relations and Publicity
for the Mutual Broadcasting System. Mr. O’Bryon leaves his post as
Acting Director of Radio Publicity for Young and Rubicam agency to
change places with Lester Gottlieb, for many years MBS Publicity
Director, Mr. Gottlieb goes to Young and Rubicam as Director of
Radio Publicity. Mr. O’Bryon went with Young and Rubicam in 1937 as
Assistant to the Radio Publicity Director and has been acting Direc¬
tor of the department for several months.

Prior to his Young and Rubicam affiliation, Mr. O’Bryon was
Photo Editor for three years in the Press Department of the Columbia
Broadcasting System. He has had a wide and varied experience as a
publicity manager in Chicago, where he was Director of Publicity for
the Brunswick Phonograph Records, and was later associated with
Brunswick Radio Corporation in New York.

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INCREASED PRODUCTION EXCLUDES BROADCASTING EQUIPMENT

The National Association of Broadcasters which has investi¬
gated the situation following radio and press reports of early
resumption of civilian goods production, disclose the following find¬
ings, Inquiry was limited to facts concerning turntables, trans¬
mitters and microphones.

1, New transmitters will he unavailable for domestic use at
least until 1945.

2, New turntables, same,

3, New microphones are believed to be in sufficient supply

so as to eliminate any ’’hardship”. Supply will be used for replace¬
ment, not to increase the number of ’’mikes" in use,

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FCC STATE-WIDE m EDUCATIONAL POLICY PLANS

The Federal Communications Commission has received inform¬
ation from the U. S, Office of Education concerning proposed state¬
wide plans for the allocation of the five frequencies reserved for
non- commercial educational FM broadcasting stations. It appears that
such plans, if carefully prepared with a view to fair treatment of
public and private educational institutions, both urban and rural,
at the primary, secondary, higher, and adult education levels alike,
may provide a sound means for securing the maximum possible utiliza¬
tion of educational frequencies. Accordingly, while the Commission
must dispose of each application on its merits, it will give careful
consideration in connection with educational applications to any
state-wide plan filed with it.

The Commission's rules define a "non- commercial educational
broadcasting station" to mean "a station licensed to an organized
non-profit educational agency for the advancement of its educational
work and for the transmission of educational and entertainment pro¬
grams to the general public. "

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WAY OPENED FOR SOm ALUMINUM USE IN COMMUNICATIONS

In granting limited use of aluminum to certain essential
products, commercial radio equipment and wire communications equip¬
ment were included by the War Production Board but only where
aluminum, copper or copper base alloy was used in commercial produc¬
tion in the U, S. during 1939, 1940 or 1941. This does not apply to
electronic equipment as defined in WPB Order L-265,

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; SCISSORS AND PASTE :

His Honor: Radio Showman

To nine out of ten performers who regularly confront a
microphone, what happens there comes under the heading of art or bus¬
iness, but to the IJIayor of New York City it is obviously a lot of fun.
From the walls of his executive chamber in City Hall, as he broad¬
casts his "Talk to the People" each Sunday at 1 P.M. over the munici¬
pal station, WNYC, Fiorello H. LaGuardia's predecessors in office
gaze down upon him. Seated in a low leather swivel chair at a desk
with two microphones on it (one for spare, in case of emergency). His
Honor gazes back at those predecessors and goes on talking to an
audience estimated at 1,500,000 to 1,800,000 persons.

Addressing more people than comprised the city*s entire
population during the regimes of some of New York's 102 other Mayors,
he chuckles at his own Jokes, is serious as he warns transgressors
against the public weal, glows with emotional pride when he discourses
on the virtues of the five borou^s, and, all in all, has a wonderful
time.

Practically everything that can be wrong with a radio
style, as radio style is taught in courses on how to become an effect¬
ive broadcaster, emerges from receiving sets tuned to WNYC for those
thirty-odd minutes on Sunday afternoon. The voice is high-pitched,
the sentences ramble and hang in mid-air, a half dozen words on each
broadcast are pronounced as they are not pronounced in Webster, and
sometimes words are skipped entirely in the rush from one topic to
anothe r.

To what must be the chagrin of academies of radio technique,
the listeners seem to like it. According to survey ratings, the
Mayor's talk is easily the most popular program heard in New York at
its time on the schedule, and its audience the most loyal. He seldom
tests what the trade calls "listener response", but when he does, it
is marked. There was the time he hinted at shoe rationing by telling
his audience that they "shouldn't do too much walking". An hour lat¬
er shoe stores on the lower East Side were the scene of near- riots.
When he asked for foster homes for children last June, twenty-*one
phone calls came in within less than half an hour.

In part, of course, the Mayor holds his audience because he
necessarily has something of interest to say. But it must be also
that the customers like his show - and the word is used advisedly.

For the Little Flower, as even his less-than-ardent admirers admit,
is a showman, and the essence of showmanship is that indefinable
quality called "color". He has it.

Indeed, Radio Row's students of what makes programs click
or fail have a theory that the Mayor's limitations as a broadcaster
(l.e,, by purists' standards) are precisely the reason for his suc¬
cess on the air. They suspect that many a listener, bored by the
slick delivery of commercial radio, finds relief in Mr. LaG-uardia's
chatty, idiomatic technique. .

- (John K. Hutchens in New York Times)

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Would Give Mrs, Dewey A Chance At Fte-dlo

Now that the Republicans have written a plank in their
platform calling for a constitutional amendment to assure Identical
conditions for men and women, can’t we give First Ladies a break?
Mrs, Dewey, I understand, once wished to be a professional singer.
If she should again wish to pursue this ambition and sing on the
radio, wouldn’t that be her own business?

(Dorothy Thompson in Washington Star)

Nazis Outsmarted By British On Radio Jamming Efforts

Although German engineers have for years concentrated their
varied ’’Jamming" techniques upon the B.B.C, ’s European broadcasts,
there is ample evidence that they have failed to prevent listeners
who defy the Gestapo from listening to broadcasts from Britain, The
B, 3. C, includes, in its broadcasts to the underground resistance
movements, instructions to listeners in key positions on how to
neutralize German "Jamming" devices. Messages to key members of the
underground are regularly transmitted by Morse code, which has been
found to reliably resist ordinary '’Jamming" methods. Slow speed
dictation from London permits pre-invasion instructions to be written
down and afterwards circulated in the clandestine press of the oc¬
cupied countries. - (B.B.C. Bulletin)

Licenses For Congress Orators As Well As Commentators

Senator Edwin C, Johnson of Colorado has signed his name
to a letter saying that free speech over the radio is impossible.
Therefore he stands by his bill to license commercially sponsored
newscasters and require them to conform to a code of ethics.

To Senator Joimson we suggest that there are not hours
enough in the day (his own phrase) for members of Congress to say all
that they would like to say. Therefore the public business is always
behind. Why not, then, license congressional orators and impose uoon
them a code of ethics? - (Terre Haute Star)

Blackout Predicted For Prencinradio

prencinradio, Inc., the ultra mysterious propaganda venture
organized and disguised as a Delaware corporation by Nelson Rockefel¬
ler, Co-ordinator of Inter-American Affairs, for strategic radio op¬
erations in South America has been smoked out, aired out and is now
likely to be blacked out in the near future for a combination of
reasons.

Uncovered by Senator Hugh A, Butler during his trip to South
America where the corporation maintains two stations in Uruguay near
the Argentine border, Prencinradio was attacked as one of those
Government corporations secretly created with potentially vast powers
and beyond congressional control. But a full light has never been
turned on the whole scope of its operations, largely because of State
Department protection and pressure. Now, however, the curbs of

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Congress imposing appropriation limitations plus the deterioration
of U, S,- Argentine relations and public criticism have made Prencin-
radio*s passing a certainty.

Such CIAA enterprises as Prencinradio, Inc., had a lot to
do with the Republican Convention pledge that co-operation with other
countries in the Western Hemisphere "shall be achieved.,., without
interference with. .. the internal affairs of any nation".. .a good
neighbor policy not based on the reckless spending of American funds
by overlapping agencies, - (Washington Time s-He raid)

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PHILCO V-P PREDICTS TREIffiNDOUS POST-WAR BUSINESS

A 40^ increase in sales of radios, refrigerators, air con¬
ditioners, automobiles, and all other consumers durable goods over
the best pre-war year can be expected in the first twelve months of
full production after victory, it was predicted by James H. Carmine,
Vice-President in Charge of Merchandising for Philco Corporation, in
an address before an appliance industry dinner in the Furniture Club
of America at the American Furniture Mart in Chicago,

"In the case of radio, Philco estimates that there will be
a pent-up demand for between 20,000,000 and 25,000,000 sets at the
end of 1944, as compared with the industry's alltime high production
of 13,000,000 units in 1941", Mr, Carmine said. "In refrigeration,
it is estimated that the pent-up demand will be upwards of 6,000,000
boxes, as compared with 3941 output of 3,600,000 units. Over and
above this, there will be a tremendous demand for frozen food stor¬
age chests. Sales of single-room air conditioners should rise 400
to 600^ over the pre-war level within a very few years,

"One of the fastest-growing of all post-war industries will
be television", Mr. Carmine predicted, "After television standards
have been set by the Federal Communications Commission, every major
city in the United States will have a television station Just as
quickly as transmitter deliveries can be made at the end of the war.
It may be possible to produce and sell table model television re¬
ceivers for as little as $125 after the war, and larger 'projection-
type* sets may cost up to $400, Television broadcasting facilities
today are within reach of approximately 25,000,000 people, provided
receivers were available. If as we expect, at least 42 more tele¬
vision stations are added in key cities in the immediate post-war
period to the nine now in operation, the coverage would expand to
about 70,000,000 ~ or more than half the population of the United
States, "

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Hunter College Summer session in New York is offering a
course in radio for children. It is to be attended by teachers,
camp counselors, community center leaders and librarians. Children
are to be taught to write scripts, and then cast, direct and produce
programs,

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THE CONTROVERSIAL MR. FLY

That Is the caption of the leading article in the Saturday
[fvening Poet this week (July S2nd) . The article is written by Henry
F, Pringle and states:

”The radio czar insists he is a very mild fellow, but he
manages to keep the whole broadcasting industry in a constant state
of Jitters, ”

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BATTERY MANUFACTURE RELAXED BY WPB

Restrictions on the use of iron, steel, copper and copper
base alloy in the manufacture of dry cell batteries have been removed
to facilitate increased production of such batteries, which are ur¬
gently needed for war purposes, the War Production Board said yester¬
day.

Restrictions on the use of aluminum, copper, copper base
alloy, iron, steel zinc in the production of flashlights and other
portable electric lights operated by dry cell batteries have been
relaxed slightly, WPB said.

Dry cell battery production will be authorized to the full¬
est possible capacity of the industry, WPB officials said. Controls
will be exerted, however, to maintain production of specific types of
batteries to meet military, industrial and essential civilian require
ments. Production of portable electric lights will be authorized to
qualified manufacturers so that total production will not exceed
pre-established programs and will not interfere in any way with war
production,

WPB may direct any manufacturer of batteries or lamps to
distribute specified amounts of his production for certain purposes.
Also, if the supply of zinc shells is insufficient for the number of
dry cell batteries authorized for production, WPB may direct any
battery manufacturer to reduce or cancel his orders for zinc shells
or may limit the number and type of zinc shells that he may receive
and use.

High priority ratings are still needed for buying flash¬
lights and portable electric lights from manufacturers, WPB said,

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TRADE NOTES

Sun Radio and Service Supply Corp, , 938 F St., N.W, ,
Washington, D, C. , selling, repairing and servicing radios, has
stipulated with the Federal Trade Commission to cease representing
among other things that it has radio batteries for sale, or any other
kind of merchandise which it does not actually have in stock and
available for delivery to purchasers.

Shipments of the Storage Battery Division of Philco Corp
oration in the first six months of 1944 were 34^ greater than in
the corresponding period last year. In the month of June, 1944,
Philco shipments were 83^ ahead of June a year ago.

'According to a Blue Network bulletin. Drew Pearson’s
predictions of things to come have been approximately 68 percent
right.

Mrs, Irene Corbally Kuhn has been retained as an Associate
Director of Publicity for the Republican presidential campaign, Mrs.
Kuth, a former newspaper woman. Is on leave of absence as Assistant
Director of information for the National Broadcasting Company, where
she has worked for four years. She is the author of the book, ---

"Assigned to Adventure",

Darrell Martin, one of the country's earliest radio editors
Is now writing the radio column for the Buffalo Evening News, Mr.
Martin wrote a radio column for the Pittsburgh Gazette Times in 1923.
Later he was Radio Editor of the Pittsburgh Sun-*. Telegraph and Pitts--
burgh Post Gazette. "

Marquise Louise de Pallaviclnl of New York and William
F, Brooks, NBC Director of News and Special Events, were married
last week in Washington, D. C, The ceremony took place in the chamb¬
ers of Chief Justice Edward C, Eicher of the Federal Court of the
District of Columbia. The bride is the widow of the Marquis Alphonse
de Pallavlcini of the Hungarian Diplomatic Corps. She is the daughter
of Mrs. Louise Bleller Daly of Boston and was graduated from Rad-
cllffe, Mr. Brooks is the son of Mrs. James L, Brooks of Los Angeles.

Before Joining the National Broadcasting Company, Mr, Brooks
was Managing Director of The Associated Press in Europe, He attended
the University of Missouri. '

Freedom of all men to gather news without Interference from
governments and to transmit it quickly at uniform communications rates
will increase understanding among countries and promote peace, Kent
Cooper, Executive Director and General Manager of The Associated
Press, told the Resolutions Committee of the Democratic National Com¬
mittee Monday in urging a free press plank in the Democratic Platform,

It is reported that Louis Fuppel, former Publicity Director
of the Columbia Broadcasting System and later Assistant to the Presi¬
dent of Collier* s. is due for a medical discharge from the Marines,

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An electrical equipment manufacturer In Switzerland Is
reported to be using potassium- hydrophosphate as a substitute for
natural quartz crystals In radio transmission sets, according to
the Department of Commerce, The process for making the artificial
crystals is said to be relatively simple as they can be cut into
any required sizes.

William E, Kress has been appointed Sales Manager of the
Middle West for Philco Corporation, v/ith headquarters in Ciiicago.
Mr. Kress succeds John M, Otter, who was named Sales Manager for
the Home Radio Division,

A graduate of the University of Illinois in the Class of
1924, Mr, Kress joined Philco in 1934 after eight years of experi¬
ence in the radio industry.

The S.S. ETHELBERT NEVIN, a new liberty ship purchased by
a bond sale of Local 802 of the Musicians* Union, was launched
last Thursday at Jacksonville, Florida, The Union sold ^300,000
worth of bonds to its membership and sponsored a concert at Carnegie
Hall for which Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra vol¬
unteered their services. More than $6,000,000 worth of bonds was
realized from this concert. Miss Doris Nevln, daughter of the late
composer will sponsor the launching.

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers,
in which Nevin* s estate is a member, has contributed $785 to the
American Library Service for a 200 book library for the S.S. ETHELBERT
NEVIN.

Although long-distance television reception is a rarity,

CBS* video station WCBW-N.Y, , got a telephone report that on Friday,
July 7th, its "Opinions On Trial" program was being received clearly
by the Indiana Television Laboratories at Indianapolis,

Gilbert Seldes, Director of CBS Television Programs, speak¬
ing before the Television Seminar of the Radio Executives Club at
Radio City July 33th, declared that, in view of mechanical limitations,
it is up to the makers of television programs to be flexible, bold
and experimental, in order to have video ready for postwar develop¬
ment.

According to Danton Walker* s New York column: "Philadelphia
hears that the absence of Lieut. Col, Anthony Drexel Biddle from that
city is holding up sale of a radio station there^ of which he is part
owner (Biddle is liaison officer for General Eisenhower with the
governments-in-exile in England^

provide spiritual solace to a nation at war, the Nation¬
al Broadcasting Company has inaugurated a new religious feature -
presenting daily prayers mornings and evenings throughout the year.
Distinguished clergymen representing the major denominations, Pro¬
testant, Catholic and Jewish, have been invited to deliver in person
one-minute prayers which follow the playing of the national anthem
in the morning, and precede it at night in order to open and close
the broadcast day in a mood of worship and meditation,

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INDEX TO ISSUE OF JULY 26, 1944

WJJD Reveals Prohibitive Petrillo Platter Demands Cost . ....1

Col, McCormick Is For Free Radio Same As Free Press.... . 3

Balderston New Philco V-P Of Operations . 4

Wm, S, Paley Back In U. S, To Confer With War Officials . 5

Col, T, H, Mitchell Succeeds Mr. Winterbottora At RCAC . . . 6

U. S, Survey Shows 28^ Of Radio Sets Need Repairs.... . 7

Broadcasters Foresee More Home Set Radio Tubes . .7

Fly Resignation Reported To Stop Radio Probe; FCC Denial
Pearson Gets Rep, Kleberg’s Scalp; Adds 57 Stations*,,..

Story Behind FDR's Radio Address To Delegates Revealed . . . 9

OWI Adds To Powerful Pacific Coast Short-Wave Stations . 9

Congress Advice Asked Re High Priced Radio Station Sales . 10

"This Is My Strike”; Petrillo Defies WLB And Courts . . . .11

Japs Employed By U, S, Caught Taking FCC Files Home...,,.,, . 12

South American Telephone Rates Reduced . .13

Scissors And Paste . l'^

Trade Notes . 1®

No, 1640

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July 26,

1944

WJJD REVEALS PROHIBITIVE PETRILLO PLATTER DEMANDS COST

A brief submitted to the Chicago Regional War Labor Board
by Station WJJD reveals that the demands by James C, Petrillo, Presi
dent of the American Federation of Musicians that this station emplc
from 7 to 10 additional musicians who are not needed, would increase
the station* s payroll in the sum of $840 a week or $43,680 a year.
Furthennore, it contended that the studios of this secondary Class E
station would not have enough facilities to accommodate that many
extra men, in fact could not accommodate them at all.

The WJJD brief states that to put into effect the Petrillo
demands that musicians be put on as record turners would require the
radio stations of the country to hire at least 2,000 additional
employees and these, even if they were needed, it is contended, could
not be spared from war work.

It was said that during the strike of the musicians at
WJJD, five .stenographers learned to turn the records within a short
period of time and by way of proving that record turning was not a
full-time occupation requiring no knowledge of music, these five
stenographers turned the records and did their other duties too.

Ralph Atlass, President of Station WJJD, recently purchased
by Marshall Field, testified that his Inexperienced stenographer-
record turners were able to do everything that was required. Says
the WJJD brief:

'*Miss Whittal, Mr, Atlass* secretary, gave a demonstration
to the panel, bringing in a turntable and showing how records were
turned. The record shows that this very turntable was used in the
station and that Miss Whittal, without any experience, in five min¬
utes was able to turn records. The evidence is so clear that record
turning is an unskilled occupation incidental to the work of a person
in a radio station, calling for only a few minutes of actual work
during the day, that it does not require further comment except to
quote from the testimony of Mr. Atlass, who has been in the business
since its infancy:

*'*Aman might work conceivably, at the most, one-quarter
of that time (referring to the regular hours of work of musi¬
cians as established by the Union contract), or six hours
during the course of the week, which would be putting the
needle of the record down, taking it off, I mean. However,
that would be the maximum. If a station was carrying a lot
of live programs, it would still be necessary to have the same
number of record turners. If a station is carrying all live
programs, it would still be necessary to have the same number

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Of record turners, because transcriptions are recorded, A
substantial part, or the biggest revenue comes from announce¬
ments, and if a station was all live, it would still need a
record turner to put on these announcements between prograjns.

"•Now, most programs run fifteen minutes, a lot a half
hour, and some as much as an hour or two hours, but generally
speaking, the smallest unit if a live program is fifteen min¬
utes,

"•if an announcement was inserted at every possible op¬
portunity, between all programs, the record turner would
actually work one-half minute, because that is all the time
there is between programs, to put this announcement on every
fifteen minutes, so, in the course of an hour, he would
actually work two minutes. In the course of a five hour day,
he would work ten. In the course of a five day week he would
work fifty minutes, and we cannot conceivably, at least with¬
out the persuasion of this Board, tJirough an order, enter into
a setup where we are putting on men who may work as little as
fifty minutes a week, and have nothing else to do, ’ ”

"At the present time the cost of musicians to a small
station like WJJD represents 8^ of its gross receipts. The e^endi-
tures of other secondary stations for musicians as compared with
their gross receipts range from 2,7^ to 7,8^. On the other hand,
the major network systems^ cost of musicians is only 2,3^ of the
receipts derived from their sales of time alone, exclusive of
charges made for talent, * * *

"If some of the larger motion picture studios, MGM,

Warner Bros and Fox, for instance, are only required to employ 35
men based upon their gross income, it would appear that a station
like WJJD should at the most be required to employ one musician.
Certainly MCM*8 gross income is, unfortunately, more than 35 times
that of WJJD, "

"Evidence Introduced by Station WJJD shows that their pre¬
sent employees are receiving abnormally high wages for the amount of
time they are actually working. The average compensation is in ex~
cess of $3,00 per hour. We therefore do not have a case of a labor¬
er who is being ground under the heel of a hard, cruel employer. The
evidence shows that of the eleven employees, only two of them worked
the full 25 hours per week established under the contract as the
regular work week. Of the others, they did not work more than 6 to
15 hours of the 25, The work consisted of live programs, record
turning and rehearsals. The average compensation per hour of work
ranged from $3 to $7,50 an hour. The Union, however, was not satis¬
fied with this. The station was obligated, under its contract with
the Union, to employ at least ten musicians. They, however, could
play live programs, turn records, rehearse, and do program work,
provided they did not work in excess of 25 hours of any week and if
they did, they would be entitled to overtime,

"The establishment of a quota system is unique and unusual
in the record of Americjan industry. It means that the employer must
employ a given number of people as demanded by the Union whether he

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he has any need for them or not. The fundamental basis of Union
recognition and security has always been that the employer will
employ Union members and will recognize the Union as the bargaining
agent of the employee. To establish a quota system is to establish
the principle that a man is entitled to be paid whether he works or
not. It is the recognition of a make-work or feather-bedding pro¬
gram, a practice particularly abhorrent and un-American during this
period of critical labor shortages, '•

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COL. McCOmiCK IS FOR FREE RADIO SAME AS FREE PRESS

Col, Robert R, McCormick, Editor and Publisher of the
Chicago Tribune , and owner of Station WG-N went to the bat for the
freedom of radio as well as the freedom of the press in a speech
broadcast by the Mutual Broadcasting System in which he said, in part:

"The subject of political control of the radio is so much
in discussion that I need not refer to it, I will point out that the
tenure of wave lengths is analagous to land tenure in feudal times,
when men held of their overlord and were dispossessed at his will.

"Just as feudal ownership of land turned into private owner¬
ship, so I believe will the ownership of wave lengths. And this in
the not far future, because radio is a difficult art which not many
can master. Just as there are more newspapers and magazines than
there are men qualified to edit them, there are now more wave lengths
than there are owners who know how to use them,

"As we have known for long, publications are being started
all the time and most of them fall. Of the successful ones, few last
more than one generation. So already we find station owners dispos¬
ing of their burden and buyers are not so many that a commission is
necessary to allocate wave lengths. Wave lengths will become pro¬
perty and will be protected in the courts like other property,

"When this state has been reached, slander by radio should
be treated as libel, with the same penalties, and radio should be
given the same freedom as the press enjoys, "

Station WCN celebrated its 20th anniversary last week with
a public display of old and new radio and television equipment and
a full-page color spread of pictures in the Tribune’s Sunday Graphic
Section portraying notable occasions in the station"^ history,

WGN, which is IJIutual ' s station in Chicago, has also announc¬
ed the rules for its $10,000 cash prize competition for the design of
a studio theatre which will be erected as soon as materials are
available after the war. The contest, which will be for the design
of the studio theatre only and not for the design of the proposed
building of twelve or more stories that will house it, will be open
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where except employees of WG-N and the Chicago Tribune and members of
their families.

First prize in the contest will be $5,000; second, $2500,
and third, $1000. There will be fifteen honorable mention awards
of $100 each. A booklet of rules and explanations of the contest
has been prepared by WGN and will be sent without charge to persons
making written application to the station. Prospective entrants
are reminded that all types of radio broadcasting presentations,
including present amplitude and frequency modulation programs, as
well as television broadcasting, will be produced on the stage of
the new studio theatre.

All entrants in the competition are required to register
their intention to compete and applications for the competition must
be in no later than twelve o’clock noon of Wednesday, November 1,
1944, Registration does not obligate a person to submit an entry,
but it is for the purpose of enabling the sponsor to make communica¬
tions with the registrations covered by the rules.

Judges who will select the winners include Col, Robert R.
McCormick, Frank P, Schreiber, Manager of WGN, and Henry Weber,
Director of Music for WGN, John W, Park, Production Manager of the
Chic ago Tri bune . and a licensed architect, has been selected to act
as professional adviser,

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BALDERSTON NEW PKILCO V-P OF OPERATIONS

William Balderston, formerly Vice President in Charge of
the Commercial Division, has been elected to the position of Vice-
President in Charge of Operations, and a member of the Executive
Committee of Philco Corporation,

Mr. Balderston attended the University of Wisconsin and
saw service in the last war as an officer with the Lafayette Divi¬
sion, From 1919 to 1930 he was Vice President and Factory Manager
of the Ray-O-Vac Company of Madison, Wisconsin,

In 1930 Mr. Balderston Joined Philco to organize the Car
Manufacturers Division to handle sales of automobile radios to the
motor industry. The pioneering engineering and promotional work of
this Division under his direction was largely responsible for the
great popularity of automobile radios today and Philco leadership
in this field.

In 1941, Mr, Balderston was elected a Director and Vice
President of Philco with offices in Washington to be in charge of
the Company’s war work, including the production of radar and radio
war equipment, for the Army and Navy,

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WM. S. PALEY BACK IN U. S. TO CONFER WITH WAR OFFICIALS

Returning to the United States for what he described as
a "very short stay”, William S. Paley, Chief of Radio, Psychological
Warfare Division, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces,
arrived by plane from England last Saturday, directly following a •
trip of inspection throughout the areas of the Normandy peninsula
occupied by Allied troops, Mr. Paley, who Is on leave of absence to
the Office of War Information from his position as President of the
Columbia Broadcasting System, said that while here he will confer In
Washington with officials of OWI and the War Department about fur¬
ther plans for the functioning of his section of the Psychological
Warfare organization.

As Chief of Radio in this work, attached to General Eisen¬
hower* s headquarters under General McClure, and as a member of OWI*s
overseas staff, Mr. Paley said he could not comment in detail on the
nature of the work, but indicated that it involved the following
activity: broadcasting from the United Kingdom having to do with
military operations to enemy and occupied countries, such as "The
Voice of SHAEF"; the SHAEF control of radio units and public address
systems in the combat and consolidation zones; the planning for and
eventual control and operation of the broadcasting facilities in
enemy occupied territories until those territories are declared lib¬
erated; and the coordination with OWI in the operation of radio
stations ABSIE (American Broadcasting Stations In Europe),

Mr. Paley likewise declined to make any comment on postwar
broadcasting in the United States or the plans of his company in this
field. On the ground that he doubted if it was proper for him to
comment, in his present status, on his company* s future activities,

Mr. Paley suggested that such inquiries be directed to Paul W, Kesten,
CBS Executive Vice President, who is in charge of the company during
his leave of absence.

This is Mr. Paley *e first return to the United States since
he left in November, 1943, on his original radio assignment from OWI
for the Army *8 Psychological Warfare Division in the Mediterranean
theater. He spent several months in North Africa and in Italy and
organized the radio network in Italy which has since been operated
under the Psychological Warfare Division of the Allied Command,

Shortly after General Eisenhower was given the Supreme Command of
Allied Forces in Europe, Mr, Paley was transferred to London and giv¬
en his present responsibilities at Supreme Headquarters Allied Exped¬
itionary Forces.

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The broadcast of the "Poem and Prayer for an Invading
Array" written especially for the National Broadcasting Company by
Edna St, Vincent Millay and read by Ronald Coleman, has been per¬
petuated in the form of a record. Also Niles Trammell, President of
NBC, has had a special printing of the broadcast made.

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COL, T.H. MITCHELL SUCCEEDS MR. WINTERBOTTOM AT RCAC

Lieut. Col, Thompson H. Mitchell has been appointed General
I'Aanager of R. C, A. Communications, Inc., Lieut. General J, G. Harbord,
Chairman of the Board of Radio Corporation of America announced on
Monday, Colonel Mitchell succeeds the late William A. Winterbottom
who had served as Vice President and General fenager of RCAC since
formation of the Company until his death on July 8. Confirmation of
Colonel Mitchell as Vice-President is anticipated when the Board of
Directors of RCAC meets next month.

Colonel Mitchell, who first joined RCA seventeen years ago,
recently has served as Chief of the Traffic Operational Engineering
Section of the Engineering Branch of the U. S. Army Communications
Service, Washington, D. C. He has been assigned to inactive duty
after nearly two and a half years with the Signal Corps, He was in
the European theater of operations for two months last Winter,

A graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis
(Class of *25), Colonel Mitchell resigned from the Navy in 1927 to
enter the communications field. He was Ifenager of the Southern
California District of RCAC, with offices in Los Angeles, when he
accepted a commission as Major in the Office of the Chief Signal
Officer early in 1942, In March, 1943, he was promoted to Lieutenant
Colonel,

Daring his mor^ than fourteen years with RCA, Colonel
Mitchell worked with the Pacific Sales Division and the Engineering
Department. In 1929 he was District Manager for the Radiomarine
Corporation of America, an RCA subsidiary, with offices in Los
Angeles, The following year, he was transferred to Honolulu to be¬
come Hawaiian General Superintendent of RCAC, a position he held for
five years.

When RCAC opened its new Southern California District of¬
fices in 1935, Colonel Mitchell was called back to the mainland and
appointed Manager, He continued in that position until his entry in
the U. S, Army,

Colonel Mitchell was born in New Boston, Texas, on May 7,
1901, the son of Dr. and Mrs, R. M. Mitchell.

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The National Association of Broadcasters has received word
from Greensboro, S. C, , that radio is helping to cope with absenteeism.

Three announcements are broadcast daily over WBIG urging
workers to report to their regular shifts. This is followed with a
weekly dramatic skit entitled ”To Whom It May Concern”, which depicts
the efforts of our fighting men,

July absenteeism, over June, in all types of local indus¬
try, was 11,5 percent less, according to MaJ. Edney Ridge, WBIG*s
General Manager,

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U.S. SURVEY SHOWS 28^ OF RADIO SETS NEED REPAIRS

In a review presented by the Office of Civilian Require¬
ments, WPB, of repair status, age and quantity in domestic uses of
23 household appliances, radios stand out as the Item most in need
of repair, followed by oil cooking stoves, vacuum cleaners and wash¬
ing machines.

Although more than half of the appliances are five or more
years old, the percentage found to be in working order ranges from
85 percent in the case of radios to 99 percent In the case of several
Items of heating equipment.

Among radio-owning households, eight per cent have none in
working order. Among households with gas or electric water heaters
or hot air furnaces, only one per cent or fewer have none in order.

The extent of need for service and repairs found in the
survey ranged from one per cent for electric water heaters to 28
percent for radios. Seventy-nine per cent is the highest proportion
of success in obtaining repairs (for vacuum cleaners); 30 percent
(for gas water heaters) is the lowest. For most items surveyed, the
proportion recently in need of repair is less than 10 percent. The
average of the percentage of success in obtaining repairs, for all
items, is 61 percent.

In estimated number in households, radios lead the list of
items, with more than 46,000,000 in homes of the country. Owners
report that 85 percent of these radios are in working order, but 28
percent of the households with radios state they have needed some sort
of repair since January 1, More than half reported they had no dif¬
ficulty in obtaining repairs. Only eight percent of households own¬
ing one or more radios say they have none in working order. Over
50 percent of the domestic radios in current use are five or more
years old.

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BROADCASTERS FORESEE MORE HOME SET RADIO TUBES

Actual production of radio tubes for civilian home radio
sets at a sharply increased rate is under way in the nation’s tube
plants.

Arthur Stringer, National Association of Broadcasters*
Director of Circulation, estimates that at least 100 percent and pos¬
sibly 200 percent more civilian radio tubes will be delivered in the
last half of 1944 than in the first half.

Between 35 and 40 percent of thqdncreased production is
expected to be shipped in July, August and September,

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FLY EESIGNATION REPORTED TO STOP RADIO PROBE; FCC DENIAL

The Administration has begun a drive to suopress until
after the November election all Congressional investigations which
may bring forth evidence damaging to President Roosevelt’s fourth
term campaign, according to Willard Edwards in the Washington Times-
Heral d. Also Mr, Edwards says the head of the Federal Communica¬
tions Commission, Chairman James L, Fly, will be the first to be
laid on the chopping block. He reports a deal on Capitol Hill where¬
by Mr. Fly will resign before the middle of August in return for a
cessation of the investigation the House has been making into the
FCC.

Inquiry at the Commission brought forth the usual denial
that Mr, Fly had any intention of resigning,

“Like Henry A, Wallace, Fly is to be dumped overboard for
the good of the party and the Commander-In-Chief, He is slated
either for another Government poet or for temporary retirement to
the private practice of laW, destined to be given his reward if the
Democrats triumph in November", Mr, Edwards writes,

"Representative Lea (D), of California, Chairman of the
Committee, declined to comment on this report that the group may
consider its work done should Fly resign. But he remarked signif¬
icantly that no Interim report would be filed on the testimony
garnered to date,

"Members had announced such a report would be made when the
FCC last month finished its defense to charges that it has reduced
the radio world to a complete subjection by terroristic methods,

"If the deal involving Fly’s resignation goes through, the
minority members admitted, they will be powerless to stop a white¬
wash, In addition to Lea, the Committee is ruled by Representative
Hart (d), of New Jersey, from Boss Frank Hague's district, and Rep¬
resentative Magnuson (D), of Washington, Democratiphominee for the
seat of Senator Bone (D), of Washington, vho retires with this
Congress to accept a Federal Judgeship, "

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PEARSON SETS REP. KLEBERG'S SCALP; ADDS 57 STATIONS

Drew Pearson is credited with the defeat of Representative
Richard Kleberg in the Texas primaries, Mr. Pearson charged that
Representative Kleberg, member of the wealthy King Ranch family had
required two page boys and an usher, whose positions he had secured
in the House of Representatives, to pay him a part of their salaries
for getting them the Jobs, Rep, Kleberg, who has been in the House
continuously since 1931, lost to Capt, John Lyle of Corpus Christ!,
now with the Arroy in Italy,

It was announced last Sunday night that Serutan, Drew
Pearson’s sponsors, had added 57 new stations, making a total of 169
stations on the Blue Net now carrying the Washington commentator’s
broadcasts.

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STORY BEHIND FDR* S RADIO ADDRESS TO DELEGATES REVEALED

The story behind the broadcast of President Roosevelt* a
acceptance speech to the Democratic National Convention In Chicago
may now be told:

Carlton Smith, NBC executive In Washington, and Clyde
Hunt, Chief Engineer of Columbia* s Washington staff, were summoned
to the White House, They were told there of the President* s pro¬
posed trip, while the delegates would be convening In Chicago, and
they were requested to communicate the details to their news chiefs *
Paul W, White of CBS, and William Brooks of NBC.

These four Joined with Leonard Relnsch, I^dlo Director of
the Democratic National Committee, In working out the final arrange¬
ments for Mr. Roosevelt* s acceptance broadcast.

Special wire facilities were provided from the pick-up
point to CBS Master Control at Station WBBM In Chicago, and In turn
to submaster control In Columbia* s booth at the Chicago Stadium,

From the booth, the broadcast was distributed to all the networks,
and to the public address system In the Stadium.

Emergency lines were provided In case of any technical
failure In the radio circuit. Besides these, emergency facilities
were provided at WBBM and at the booth In the Stadium, should there
be any equipment failure.

Another circuit was provided from the CBS network to the
origination point on the West Coast, to receive the cue words Indi¬
cating when President Roosevelt would start his address. The actual
switch from the Stadium to the President was made from the CBS con¬
trol room In the Stadium,

Field equipment always used by CBS for presidential pick¬
ups was transported from WTOP, CBS Washington station, to the coast.

In order to conform with the mandatory secrecy surrounding
the President* e whereabouts during all these arrangements, the pick¬
up point was always referred to in communication between technicians
and executives - as Shangri-La,

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OWI ADDS TO POWERFUL PACIFIC COAST SHORT-WAVE STATIONS

Doth the OWI and the armed forces are augmenting their
radio facilities in the Pacific area. OWI has purchased equipment
for the construction on the West Coast of two short wave stations,
twice as powerful as any existing Anerican facilities, which when
complel,ed will assure reception of American broadcasts to India,
Siberia, China and Japan,

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Each of the two plants* for which the Federal Telephone &
Radio Corp, , Newark, N. J, , has supplied the materials, will have
three separate transmitters, one of 200 kilowatts and two of 50,

Already operating is the new Pacific Ocean network of
the Armed Forces Radio Service. Recently it broadcast for the first
time to American soldiers on formerly Japanese-controlled land.
Regular broadcasts are transcribed and flown to Honolulu from the
United States,

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CONGRESS ADVICE ASKED RE HIGH PRICED RADIO STATION SALES

The Federal Communications Commission on Monday asked
Congressional direction as to the policy it should follow in passing
on the sale of radio stations where the sales prices are far in
excess of the golng-concem and physical property values of the sta¬
tions and appear to Involve considerable compensation for the radio
frequencies themselves.

In identical letters to Senate Interstate Commerce Commit¬
tee Chairman Burton K. Wheeler and to Representative Clarence Lea,
Chairman of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee,

FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly suggested the ’’tremendously high
prices” which radio stations command in the present market indicates
the sellers may be profiting from their lien on a radio frequency
which they have been authorized to use under the Communications Act
of 1934, but whose ownership under the Act is reserved to the public.

Chairman Fly*s letter follows, in part:

’’The Congress has had before it proposals to limit the
amount of consideration to the value of the physical properties (of
radio stations) transferred but no provision of this character has
been adopted. The statute does make clear that the frequencies are
not in any way the property of the licensees. The Commission has
rejected and is prepared to reject any transfer which on its face
involves a consideration for the frequency. The Commission, appar¬
ently consistent with Congressional policy, has approved transfers
that Involve going-concern values, good will, etc. There remains,
however, a serious question of policy and one on which the law is
not clear, as to whether the Commission should approve a transfer
wherein the amount of the consideration is over and beyond any amount
which can be reasonably allocated to physical values plus going-con¬
cern and good will, even though the written record does not itself
show an allocation of a sum for the frequency. Our concern in this
regard is heightened by the tremendously high prices which radio
stations are commanding in the present state of the market. This
is illustrated by the fact that one local station was sold for a
half— million dollars and some regional stations are selling for a
million or more.

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”It is the Commission's policy to disapprove of trans¬
fers which obviously represent the activities of a promotor or
broker, who is simply acquiring licenses and trafficking in them.
Under the present state of the law, however, it is not clear that
the Commission has either the duty or the power to disapprove of a
transfer merely because the price is Inordinately high - even
though it may well be deduced that a substantial value is placed
on the frequency. In the absence of a clear Congressional policy
on this subject, we thought best to draw the matter to the atten¬
tion of your own Committee and the House Committee on Interstate
and Foreign Commerce, "

Mr, Fly then gave a list of 23 such transfers and sales
as he refers to which have taken place since January 1st and which
total to about ^6,536,000,

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"THIS IS MY STRIKE"; PETRILLO DEFIES WLB AND COURTS

War or no war, election year or no election year. War
Labor Board or no War Labor Board, Courts or no Courts, James C,
Petrillo broke loose again, and was on the front

page of most every newspaper in the country today (Wednesday) with
the most arrogant demands he has yet made. The pint-sized music
czar declared in Chicago, according to the Associated Press, that
he had ordered sixteen musicians at radio station KSTP, Minneapolis,
to quit work immediately "until that management decides whether it
wants the War Labor Board or the courts to handle this dispute. "

"Mr, Petrillo said that three months ago after a contract
dispute the WLB ordered the men bade to work and they went back,

"*We abided by the WLB decision, we went along with them',
Mr. Petrillo said, *Now this fellow (Stanley Hubbard, President of
KSTP) goes into the courts and gets an injunction against us. Well,
we're going along with the WLB, If he doesn't want to, let him say
so and have the WLB withdraw. Then we'll get into the courts. It's
going to be one or the obher, *

"A Minneapolis District Court has temporarily restrained
the musicians from striking pending a hearing Friday.

"Mr, Petrillo said the Federation's Minneapolis local was
not concerned with the present order, adding that 'this is my
strike now* , "

To this the New York Times added:

"At St. Paul, Stanley Hubbard, President of KSTP, said
he had sent a telegram to Mr. Petrillo at New York, stating that the
station would 'withdraw all court proceedings so we can both await
the War Labor Board's decision* if the musicians union's president
would 'withdraw this strike'.

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'•In a statement earlier, Mr. Hubbard said that the sta¬
tion ‘would be very happy to withdraw all court actions and abide
entirely by the decisions of the War Labor Board*.

"Mr. Hubbard declared that Mr, Petrlllo's statement was
•one of a series of statements by him to confuse the public,
Petrillo never has been given credit for his origination of double
talk of which today's statement Is a good example*, Mr. Hubbard
adde d.

"Mr, Hubbard said that *the real reason for the trouble In
Minneapolis is the fact that Mr, (George) Murk, President of the
Minneapolis local is opposed to old-fashioned music, *

"•^He has made the statement to me*, Mr, Hubbard added, ‘that
as long as he is running the local, the hill billies, as he calls
them, are not going to appear in Minneapolis, *

"The dispute could be settled by Mr, Petrillo, Mr, Hubbard
added, ‘if Petrillo had but one ounce of sincerity in his state¬
ment, * "

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JAPS EI^LOYED BY U.S. CAUGHT TAKING FCC FILES HOME

A special session of the House Committee Investigating the
Federal Communications Commission was called yesterday to hear Fred
Nitti, a native born Japanese, employed by the Office of Strategic
Services, and John Kltasaka, American- born Japanese, who edits
scripts or Radio Tokyo broadcasts In the Foreign Broadcast Intelli¬
gence Division of the FCC, as to the possession of foreign broad¬
cast files found In their rooms. Though now employed In confidential
capacities by the U, S, Government, both were in a relocation camp
after Pearl Harbor,

Both Japanese called to the witness stand Tuesday denied
under oath that they had transmitted Information to representatives
of the Japanese government. The Government documents, marked
"restricted - for Government use only - not for publication" had
been taken by Kltasaoko, he admitted, from his FCC office to his home.
When his room mate, Nitti, saw them, he asked for permission to study
them, Kltasaoko testified, saying they would aid him In his confiden¬
tial work for the OSS,

The documents consisted of digests of Japanese radio broad¬
casts, A mass of additional papers remained for scrutiny by the
Committee staff,

FCC Counsel Charles R, Denny, Jr, came to the defense of
the Japs. He told the Chairman that the "restricted" label did not
mean that the papers carried information vital to the security of
the country and that there was no regulation against removing them
from Government offices.

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He expressed confidence in the loyalty of both Japanese,
although he admitted he knew little about Nitti , He conceded that
it had been "improper" of Kitasaoko to show the documents to Nitti.

An article by Nitti for the Japanese camp paper at Heart
Mountain, Wyo,, denouncing Washington, D. C. , as "an American scene
of prejudice” because of the "appalling and savage treatment of
Negroes” was read Into the record. Nitti said It was Intended merely
to show Jap- Americans that they were being well treated by compari¬
son, Denny declared Nitti had a constitutional right to freedom of
speech,

"That kind of writing stamps him as an agitator, striving
to promote disunity", asserted John Sirica, counsel for the Com¬
mittee,

When Nitti complained that he had always been regarded in
the United States as "an enemy alien” because he had been born in
Japan, Congressman Lea remarked; "Your employment by this Govern¬
ment in a highly confidential position would seem to be fair
recognition, "

Incidentally it may surprise readers to learn that Japs,
alien- and American-born, are not only running loose in the Capital
but are employed by the Government. The office building from which
this letter issues, about three blocks from the White House, fairly
swarms with these Japs - men and women - supposedly all loyal and
American-bom, and on the U. S. payroll. Someone going down in an
elevator filled with them remarked;

"Can you imagine a bunch of Americans, U. S, or Japanese
born, even being allowed their freedom in Tokyo at this time, much
less hired and paid by the Japanese government? Who really knows
whether the Japs in Washington are loyal or what they are really up
to? We are surely the world* s prize saps,"

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SOUTH AMERICAN TELEPHONE RATES REDUCED

General reductions in rates for 3-minute week-day tele¬
phone calls from points throughout the United States to Argentina,
Brazil, Chile, Peru, Colombia and Haiti and reductions on overseas
calls to Puerto Rico from 16 States will become effective August 1,
1944, as the result of amended tariffs filed with the Federal Com¬
munications Commission by The American Telephone and Telegraph Co.
Proportionate reductions will be made in Sunday rates.

At the same time, ocean link charges for week-day program
transmission channels to all these countries, except Puerto Rico,
will be reduced from 17 to 33 percent,

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On August 5 and 6, 1942, our observation posts in the New
Hebrides made out large U, S, convoys steaming North, well to sea¬
ward, and our speculations were answered with the dawn of August 7,
as we learned that our comrades were at last landing in the
Solomons,

Alerted against enemy counterattack, we manned not only
our weapons but our radios, and were rewarded by one of the unique
play-by-play broadcasts of history. By pure accident one of our
radiomen chanced upon the frequency used for air-ground communica¬
tion in the Oua dal canal- Tulagi area.

As the day wore on, we heard continuous reports and mes¬
sages detailing the progress of our forces. Once came the thrilling
order from a bombing squadron commander who launched a devastating
attack simply by the radioed command, "All right boys, excavate
that hill* " -

When 40 enemy bombers swept over Guadalcanal next day, a
staff officer, apparently carried away by excitement, continued a
running description of the raid, a la Ted Musing, into a live micro¬
phone: "One ... two ,,, five ... we* re shooting them down like

fliesj I personally counted 12 down from that last wave ,,, Oh* Oh*
Here they come again* I*m signing off and going under the table] " -
-(Major Robert D, Helnl, Jr,, in August issue of
National Geographic Magazine)

M- Radio Kept Turned On For 9 Years: Never Repaired

Warrant Officer Lloyd M. Hill of the Marines has kept a
$24 _ radio going continuously for nine years without repairs of any
kind or replacement of tubes.

When Warrant Officer Hill was a pilot-radioman aboard an
airplane carrier in 1934, the custom was to turn off radios before
landing on the theory that "dead" sets would better sustain the im¬
pact of landing. He experimented by keeping his radio on during
landings. At the end of a month a check up showed that although
many tubes had broken in other planes, none had suffered in the ship
flown by W,0, Hill.

The following year he bought a $S4 radio. Since radios
have no moving parts, he theorized that breakdowns must be caused
by temperature changes which cause expansion and contraction of metal
and condensation of moisture on parts, -(New York Times)

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Radio Called No. 1 Medium For Reaching Public

With the all Important speeches at the National Conven¬
tions, It became apparent that political bigwigs have finally taJsen
on radio as their No, 1 medliim In reaching the American public. For
the most part, big shots, while admitting that newspapers are a
potent factor, contended when Interviewed that the 1944 election
will be won or lost via the radio. Contributing factors, according
to the delegates and officers of the convention, are showmanship,
on the spot commentaries by nationally known radio personalities,
and actual Interviews with those men who are the motivating power
behind the parties.

- (Variety)

Savs Petrlllo Takes His Middle Name Too Seriously

Senator Vandenberg wants Congress to release the music of
school children from the prohibitions imposed on it by James Caesar
Petrlllo, To that end, the Senator has introduced a bill to prevent
Mr, Petrlllo and his AFL Musicians Union from Interfering with non¬
commercial cultural or educational broadcasts by schools.

By demanding the use of union musicians, Mr, Petrlllo took
the music of school orchestras off the radio two years ago and has
kept it off. Senator Vandenberg says.

We venture that in the whole country Mr. Petrlllo is a
minority of one on the merits of the Vandenberg bill. We choose to
believe that not even the members of Mr. Petrlllo *8 union are oppos¬
ed to it.

But obviously the bill does not go to the root of the
trouble. Nothing less than a law making unions liable under the
anti-trust statutes will limit the scope of Mr, Petrlllo *s dlctatO]>-
shlp. He takes his middle name too seriously,

- (Washington Dally News)

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Petrlllo Compared to Goebbels

Recently an announcer closed a program of symphonic music
broadcast from Mexico City with the words, ”Thls program was heard
In the United States and Canada by the permission of James C.
Petrlllo, ”

It would seem that we now have in America a self-appointed
Goebbels who can tell us what we may hear on the radio]

Perhaps we need to add a “fifth freedom”: Freedom from
domestic dictators,

- (a letter to the Washington Star from Carmel,
Calif,, signed “A Chaplain")

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J* Harold Ryan, In one of the first formal and lengthy
speeches he has made since assuming the presidency of the National
Association of Broadcasters, will address the State of New York
Department of Health State Conference on the Use of Radio in Farm
and Home Safety in New York City, tomorrow nl^t (Thursday), The
topic of Mr, Ryan's talk will be "'Radio’s Public Service in Time
of War",

Robert Kaufman, trading as National Birth Certificate
Advisory Service, 5371 Wilshlre Blvd. , Los Angeles, who through radio
broadcasts and by other media has represented to war workers and
others that birth certificates are necessary to prove United States
citizenship in obtaining employment in war factories, shipyards and
Civil Service positions, has stipulated with the Federal Trade Com¬
mission to cease and desist from (among other things) "failing in
radio broadcasts to specify, clearly and unambiguously, in each com¬
mercial reference thereto, the exact nature of the commodity or ser¬
vice offered for sale by him".

For the fourth time in less than two years Zenith Radio
Corporation has received the Array-Navy Production Award for outstand¬
ing achievement in producing materials essential to the war effort.

The Mutual Broadcasting System announced Tuesday, as a
result of action of its Board, that the network Intends to eliminate
so-called hitch-hiker and cow-catcher commercials at a date not
later than January 1, 1945,

Bob Peare, Vice-President of the General Electric Company,
in Charge of Broadcasting, accepted the plaque presented to WRCJB,
G.E.’s television station at Schenectady, by the American Television
Society, for the station’s outstanding contribution to television
programming.

To accommoda.te the increasingly large number of studio
audiences, the Blue Network has leased for two years the Vanderbilt
Theatre at 148 W, 48th St,, New York City, The Vanderbilt, the
second theatre to be leased by the Blue has a seating capacity of
approximately 700. It will be available for sustaining and commer¬
cial programs sometime after Labor Day.

First theatre to be leased by the Blue was the Ritz, with
a seating capacity of 900, The Blue also leases 40 percent of the
studios in the RCA Building from the National Broadcasting Company.

The Crosley Radio Corporation has applied for a new high
frequency station in Columbus, Ohio, to be operated on 46,500 kc.

All component parts going into completed wire and cable
will now be handled by the Copper Division, which has been made a
claimant''^ agency , War Production Board officials informed the Copper
Wire and Cable Industry Advisory Committee at a recent meeting.

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Dr, A, N, Goldsmith, former Chief Engineer of the Radio
Corporation of America, has been granted a patent (No, 2,354,176) for
a device to improve acoustics which acts automatically. According
to Dr, Goldsmith it has been found possible to change the apparent
room acoustics from “dead” to ''very alive” by using this device.

Thus, when a symphony orchestra or a church organ makes a recording
in a relatively small room, reverberations can be controlled through
this mechanism to give the music depth and sonority. The high¬
speed reverberations made by a dance orchestra in a large auditorium
also can be brought under control.

WFBM in Indianapolis seeks to operate a new commercial
television station on Channel #2 (60,000-66,000 kc. )

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Edgar Kobak, Executive Vice-President of the Blue Network,
will speak at the 13th annual sales convention of RKO Pictures, Inc.
at the Waldorf-Astoria tonight (Wednesday),

J, R, Poppele, Secretary and Chief Engineer of the Bajiibei>-
ger Broadcasting Service, in a talk delivered over WABD last week
on the occasion of the first anniversary of WOR* s television bow,
predicted that within the next decade television would become as
popular as radio is today and expressed confidence that interna-*
tlonal television would be achieved.

Lincoln Dellar, of Sacramento, California, has applied to
the FCC for a construction permit for a new standard broadcast sta¬
tion to be operated on 1340 kc. , power of 250 watts and unlimited
hours of operation.

Edward C, Cole, Assistant Professor and Technical Director
in the Drama Department at Yale University, is spending the Summer
months at the GE station, WRGB in Schenectady, working with the pro¬
gram staff and investigating the relationship between stage and
television production.

James D, MacLean in Charge of General Electric Television
Equipment, has Just sent out a booklet showing the large amount of
space given by the newspapers in their news columns to television
stories recently sent out by G, E,

N3C*s coverage of the invasion will be kept for posterity
in the National Archives in Washington, D, C, Frank E, Mullen, NBC
Vice-?r*esldent and General Manager, has had recordings made at the
request of John G, Bradley, Chief of the Division of Motion Pictures
and Sound Recordings of the National Archives,

The 72 records, of one-half hour each, have been cut and
sent to Mr, Bradley. They are a 36-hour word picture of NBC D-l^y
coverage from the time the first bulletin was broadcast from the NBC
news room Tuesday, June 6, at 12:41 A.M, (EWT),

Ben Murphy, radio singer, recently received a check from
the National Broadcasting Company, which was returned to him marked
"insufficient funds". In short, it bounced. Mr, Murphy was slightly
astounded. Investigation disclosed that a he at- whacky bank clerk had
stamped the check with the wrong rubber stamp. (N.Y. News)

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Mr. Fly Denies That He Is Leaving The FCC - Or Does He? . 1

E. Anthony & Sons Seek Boston Outlet . 2

"We Came, We Saw, We Communicated"; Byan Lauds War Radio,, . 3

Washington Post Takes Over Station In National Capital . 5

KSTP i^peals To Pres. Roosevelt To End Petrillo Strike . . . 6

CIO Urges Its Members To Apply For FM Licenses, . 7

WTOP Gets Claude Mahoney Right Off The Old Milk Wagon...., . 8

NAB Sends Advance Signal Corps Presentation Transcript,,.,,,., . 8

Scissors And Paste . . . . 9

First Annual Television Broadcasters Conference Dec, 7 . 10

Gene Thomas Celebrates Tenth Year As WOR Sales Manager,,,. . 10

Press And Radio Urged To Tighten News Control . . . 10

Action And Applications Received By The FCC . . . ,11

Wallace Goes Berserk On "Evil Controlled Press And Pfedio",, . ,12

Standardizing Array-Navy Communications Specifications,, . ,13

Trade Notes . 14

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MR. FLY DENIES THAT HE IS LEAVING THE FCC ~ OR DOES HE?

If you know how long ”sorae substantial period of time is”
then you know how long Chairman James Lawrence Fly is going to stay
at the Federal Communications Commission, Although it has been
repeatedly denied at the Commission that Mr. Fly would resign, a
statement he issued last Monday is the first formal word from him on
the subject. It read:

”In view of the unreliable rumors as to my resignation from
the Federal Communications Commission, I should like to set this
matter at rest. I have been in the Government service for a contin¬
uous period of fifteen years. For some time I have been conscious of
personal considerations which indicate the wisdom of ray returning to
the private practice of the law. However, there are a few jobs to
finish around here and I promise to see them finished. At the moment
I have no definite plan except to remain here for some substantial
period of time, ”

One of the "unreliable rumors” referred to was the asser¬
tion by Drew Pearson Sunday night over the Blue Network that Chairman
Fly would leave the Commission after election to go with William
Benton of the Benton and Bowles Advertising Agency in New York, Mr.
Pearson told this writer later that he had the report on excellent
authority. It is well known that up to now, Mr. Pearson has been on
the inside track as to what is going on at the FCC, In fact, he has
been friendly to Mr, Fly and has stood by him when others were crit¬
icizing, Nevertheless the Pearson statement angered the Chairman and
was evidently "the straw that broke the camel’s back”.

Another story which was said to have aroused the ire of the
radio czar was one in the Washington Times-Herald last week (an
extract of which appeared in our issue of July 26th), by Willard
Edwards who wrote:

"Like Henry A. Wallace, Fly is to be dumped overboard for
the good of the party and the Commander- in- Chief, He is slated for
either another Government post or for temporary retirement to the
private practice of law, destined to be given his reward if the
Democrats triumph in November, "

Mr, Edwards declared there was a deal on Capitol Hill where¬
by Mr, Fly would resign in return for the quashing of the Federal
Communications Commission investigation, which is loaded with
dynamite politically and considereda menace to the Democrats'
presidential campaign.

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Instead of putting these stories at rest, the denial issued
by Mr. Fly seemed to stir things up anew. In one quarter it was
taken as definitely confirming the fact that he was on his way out
and that it would be only a question of time until he went.

Another interpretation placed upon the denial that Mr, Fly
Issued was that he was protecting himself against the possibility of
Republican victories in November when, if Mr, Dewey were elected,
he would still hold his place on the Commission but would lose the
chairmanship, or if Mr, Roosevelt were re-elected and there would be
a Republican House which could curtail FCC activities by cutting off
its appropriations. In this case Mr, Ply could get out gracefully
and point to his statement as indication that he intended to retire
anyway.

Many of the people talked with took the statement as defin¬
ite confirmation that Mr, Ply was on his way out and that it was just
a matter of time until he would leave. Ore high FCC official said it
wasn't known at the Commission whether Mr, Fly would resign or not.
"There is a definite Impression however", he said, "that Ply doesn't
propose to be pushed out or high-pressured and that when he does go
he will go in his own good time and in his own way. "

Numerous guesses have been made as to where Mr. Fly might
go from here but though he is an able lawyer, no one has guessed
that he would be employed by an advertising agency. Benton & Bowles
handle radio program accounts and how the FCC Chairman could fit in
there seemed to be considerable of a mystery especially in view of
the fact that he has gone out of his way to criticize the quality of
certain programs, "Soap operas" seemed to be his general character¬
ization of these offerings and what he had to say about tnera was far
from friendly.

The assertion was made at the FCC that it was "the press"
that was trying to put the rollers under Mr, Fly in retaliation for
his attitude towards newspaper omed stations. Another was that the
networks were in on it. Also it was pointed out that quite a few
individual broadcasters would breathe a lot freer if Chairman Fly
were eased out. And finally the politicians on Capitol Hill. There
seems to be complete agreement that Chairman Fly and the FCC will
make excellent Republican campaign targets,

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E. ANTHONY & SONS SEEK BOSTON FM OUTLET

An application has been filed by E, Anthony Sc Sons, licen¬
sees of WNBH at New Bedford, Mass. , and WOCB, West Yarmouth for a new
FM station to be located at Mt. Asnebumskit, Paxton, Mass. Facil¬
ities asked are 43,400 kc, with 19,650 sq. ml. coverage. Estimated
cost is set at $141,000, Studios for the outlet would be located in
Boston, according to the application, FIJI application for the New
Bedford area was reinstated last April.

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"WE CAME, WE SAW, WE COMMUNICATED"; RYAN LAUDS WAR RADIO

The type Is small and the length as reprinted in the
National Association of Broadcasters’ membership report of July 28
is about 3|- pages, but everyone connected with the broadcasting
industry should take the time to read the address made by President
J. Harold Ryan on "Radio’s Public Service in Time of War". Deliver¬
ed before the State Conference on the Use of Radio in Earra and Home
Safety under the New York Department of Health, it was one of the
finest tributes ever paid to radio broadcasting.

As far as the writer knows, this is the first time Mr,

Ryan, a practical broadcaster who has been in the business from the
start, has spoken at any length since he became head of the NAB, In
slang parlance, he "surely said a mouthful". We regret not having
the space to print the full text. Some of the highlights of Mr,

Ryan’s address follow:

"Radio, to a great many people in this country, was born on
the sixth day of June in the year nineteen hundred and forty- four -
less than two months ago. They had used it, enjoyed it, grown accust¬
omed to it, turned to it instinctively on D-Day - but never really
knew what it was until its microphones went into action alongside
fighting sons, husbands and brothers invading the shores of Normandy
from the sea and from the air. The minute by minute account of this
mighty combat, the voices of brave men from abroad, the roar of guns
and planes and hoise of battle sent thousands impulsively to their
knees in prayer for those who were known to be in the invasion forces.

"To the industry itself , however, D-Day marked radio’s
arrival at maturity. A great crisis, more than the passage of years,
often brings a person or an Industry to its full development, to the
firm realization of its faculties and abilities. Radio, slowly and
painstakingly groomed for its major role in world affairs, which its
founders visioned twenty years ago, on D-Day came to grips first hand
with a major phase of this world shattering war. To paraphrase a
well-known quotation: ’We came, we saw, we communicated, ’ In doing
so, we attained our uncontested majority. "

"The Magnetic Wire Recorder, one of radio’s most valuable
I front line repor’tlng mechanisms, is a wartime development. Light - an
I easy load for one man - this equipment permits recording on a spool of
1 wire. No needles, no fragile records - this rugged recorder absorbs
an accurate sound picture of the heaviest combat, explosions and all,
as the reporter tells his running story of action at the front,

. Rushed back to 'ii.ransraisslon headquarters, the battle description is
: ready for broadcast immediately,

"The forerunner of the Magnetic Wire Recorder, however, w^as
'ihe recording truck used by the radio station in your town to obtain
jnterviews and descriptions of public events in that area, which were
later broadcast, * * * Some of the most vivid radio reports of this
war owe their existence to the Magnetic Wire Recorder. "

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"Inevitably we get down to the question, Who paid for
this slow and methodical radio experimentation down throu^ the years?
Who bought equipment, used it, discarded it, then bought new and bet¬
ter equipment to do the same Job all over again, only a little
better? Who paid the salaries of station managers, program directors,
continuity writers, announcers, salesmen, engineers, musicians, traf--
fic managers, news men and hundreds of secretarial and clerical
employees? Every one of them had to learn or be trained in the idiom
of radio. All had to develop subconscious natures adapting them to
their work, A radio employee was, and always has been, a considerable
investment, * * *

"And here we should say a word for the companies who in¬
vested their advertising dollars and their faith in an untried medium,
testing this method and that method, receiving inevitable disappoint¬
ments and yet coming back, again and again, until broadcasting as a
medium for the sale and distribution of products was proved to their
satisfaction. The record is full of instances in which advertisers
started out with announcements or programs, guessed at the ri^t kind
of continuity, the right kind of program content, the right time of
day or night, and were Joined in this guessing game by radio people
who were Just as new to the business as the advertisers. Some adver¬
tisers guessed right, many guessed wrong, but they came back with
determination. They continued to back up their Judgment with their
hard-earned American dollars and ultimately earned dividends on all
that they had spent in proving the medium of radio. Radio’s adver¬
tisers are part and parcel of the American system of broadcasting
which they helped build, "

"A technical method was reached for solving this problem in
the radio field and the results surprised even the broadcasters them¬
selves. During 1943 the total contribution of advertisers, broad¬
casting stations and networks, to the campaigns carried on by the
Government in furtherance of the war amounted to the very consider¬
able sum of slightly in excess of $202,000,000,"

"The OWI figure, 54,560,257,000 listener impressions since
1942, means that America’s population, which listens to the radio
practically 100^, has been covered completely more than 400 times,
Ra.dio has sold this war and its responsibilities to one hundred and
thirty million people more than four hundred times since April of
1942,

"Rather than slacking up in 1944, the first twenty-nine
weeks show a figure of 18,662,713,000 listener Impressions, which
accounts for a third of the totsl of the entire period since 1942, "

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WASHINGTON POST TAKES OVER STATION IN NATIONAL CAPITAL

The Washington Poet, assuming control of Station WINX in
Washington Tuesday afternoon through the purchase of all of the stock
of that station and with the approval of the Federal Communications
Commission, adds another newspaper- owned station in the Capital,

Soon to follow will be WOL, recently purchased by the Cowles Brothers.
The Washington Star already has WMAL, Thus three of the six stations
in Washington will be newspapejvowned.

Also WINX brings new figures into radio who should be very
helpful to the broadcasting industry in upper strata official circles.
Eugene Meyer, publisher of the Post and President of WINX, is one of
the best- known men in the country, and Wayne Coy, Vice-President and
Secretary, was formerly l^eclal Assistant to the President in OEM and
later Assistant Director of the Budget in the Executive Office of the
President, Mr. Coy recently left the White House to become associated
with Mr, Meyer on the Post, C, C. Boysen will serve as Vice President
and Treasurer of the station, and Lawrence J, Heller, founder of WINX
remains as Manager of the station,

Mr, Meyer made the following statement in taking over WINX:

'•When I took possession of The Washington Post in June, 1933
I stated in the first edition that:

"*It will be my aim and purpose steadily to improve The
Post and make it an even better paper than it has been in the past.

It will be conducted as an independent paper devoted to the best inter¬
ests of the people of Washington and vicinity, and hopes to have their
interest and support. *

"Every effort has been made by the management and staff to
adhere throughout the years to the ideals announced on the first day
of the present ownership and management. Ihe progress of The Post re¬
flects a sympathetic understanding by the public of the purposes and
policies which have been pursued,

"In the same way, it will be the aim and purpose steadily to
improve ViTlNX and make it an e^'en better radio service than it has
been in the past. It will be conducted as ' Vfeshington’ s Horae Station',
devoted to the best interests of the people of Washington and vicinity,
and hopes to have their sympathetic interest and support. I indulge
the hope that WINX, guided by the same sense of responsibility to the
public, will gradually win its way in a program of service to the com¬
munity, A radio station, like a newspaper, must be a cooperative in¬
stitution and its value will be established 05^ its success in under¬
standing and meeting the interests and the needs of its constituency. "

Obvious suggestions have been made that the call letters of
the nev/ station be changed to WPOS and that a made to order musical
signature is Sousa's famous "Washington Post March".

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KSTP APPEALS TO PRES, ROOSEVELT TO END PETRILLO STRIKE

The KSTP musicians strike again made the front page of the
New York Times and other newspapers in the East when Stanley Hubhard,
President ofTSTP, last Monday sent the following telegram to William
H, Davis, Chairman of the War Labor Board, urging President Roose¬
velt* s intervention in the Minneapolis strike because of James C,
Petrillo*s "defiance of the Government",

"Petri llo continues to defy the War Labor Board, George
Murk, president of Minneapolis Musicians Local 73, announced in
morning papers the union has no intention of complying with the War
Labor Board directives that KSTP musicians be sent back to work, un¬
less ordered to do so by President Roosevelt.

"Minneapolis local operates like any other business with
president, vice president, secretary and Board of Directors. Local
also operates a bar, poolroom and restaurant and is licensed by the
Minneapolis City Council for such operations,

"Under the circumstances feel you should request the
President to order these men back to work immediately and further
suggest the President should also be requested to take over this
union, which is continuing to defy your order, "

Mr, Hubbard, in commenting on his telegram, declared that
Mr, Petrlllo has "not only defied the War Labor Board in this case
but when the War Labor Board called Petrillo down on May 1 (during
a previous contract dispute) to show cause why sanctions and penalties
should not be assessed against the union, Petrillo defied them again
by not showing up,

"His attorney. Padway, vjho is also counsel for the AFL, did
appear and stated to the Board that they would comply with the War
Labor Board orders. In our case, and also in the case of the trans¬
cription record people, Petrillo defied the board. As long as
Petrillo thinks he is bigger than the War Labor Board and defies the
Government we think it is about time the President used his wartime
powers and took over the union, "

It was reported that the War Labor Board would take some
action with regard to Mr, Hubbard's telegram, but it was said today
(Wednesday) that as yet the Board had not considered the matter,

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The British Broadcasting Corporation advises that the
Leopoldville transmitter (located in the Belgian Congo) on a frequency
of 9,783 mc/s is now relaying BBC programs from 9; 30 P,M, to 12:45 AM
EWT daily. Previous experience ha*s shown that the Leopoldville trans¬
mitter gives a consistently good quality signal in all parts of the
United States,

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CIO URGES ITS MEMBERS TO APPLY FOR FM LICENSES

The CIO News, a weekly publication, urges unions to make
application to the Federal Coramunl cat ions Commission now for frequency
modulation licenses which, it said, in time of labor-employer dis¬
putes will "insure labor a chance to get its story to the public".

The paper charged that commercial radio is monopolized by
employer interests and inevitably favors their side.

It asserted that on a "sharply political basis" the commer¬
cial stations have thrown the CIO-AFL labor for victory program off
the air, denied labor time to solicit membership, censored broadcasts
and effectively prevented labor from stating its case,

"On all major Issues - cost of living, full employment,
reconversion, international affairs - labor can use FM to make its
views known and its position appreciated", the paper said, "The NAB
code today forbids the sale of time for such union programs, but no
governmental regulations restrict it, "

Asserting that FM is the "answer to half a dozen prayers”,
the paper describes F15 as "small stuff now” but the medium that "may
give labor a chance to compete successfully with the soap operas, ”

"Hence it is absolutely imperative for labor and other
peoples* organizations to get In their applications now to FCC if
they are not to be left out in the cold in FM broadcasting", the CIO
urges,

"Delay will mean that commercial interests will sew up the
field and labor - if it wants to buy time or stations - will find
itself confronted with all the old censorship restrictions and with
prices prohibitive for all except the wealthy,

"The possibilities of FM as a people* s voice for progress
and democracy are enormous, A group of FM stations, dedicated to free
speech and public service, could make available to the public true
consumer information rather than the hokum of commercial copywriters,
could develop children* s programs designed to inspire and to educate
rather than to rasp the nerves of youngsters, could provide the people
with public health Information, Instead of phony patent medicine
blurbs, ”

The CIO News said there are approximately 900 radio stations
now serving the nation and asserted that" ”90 per cent of them take in
the welcome mat when they see labor coming up the steps, "

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"How to Speak and Write for Radio” is the title of a new
book by Alice Keith, Director of the National Academy of Broadcasting
in Washington, D, C, There is a foreword by Earl Godwin. The pub¬
lishers are Harper & Brother and the price is $3,00

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WTOP GETS CLAUDE MAHONEY RIGHT OFF THE OLD MILK WAGON

The appointment of Claude Mahoney to the WTOP news staff,
has been announced by Carl J. Burkland, General Manager of Columbia's
Washington station.

For the past two years, Claude Mahoney has been heard in
Washington over WJ/IAL, where he succeeded Earl Godwin as a morning
news commentator for Thompson's Dairy, Godwin and Mahoney made their
slogan "Right Off the Old Milk Wagon" famous,

Mr, Mahoney has been succeeded by David Wills at WMAL,

A newspaperman of 16 years' experience, Mr. Mahoney, hail¬
ing from Elwood, Indiana, Wendell Willkie's home town, has covered
Washington for various papers since 1936, He has been associated
with the Indianapolis Star, Wall Street Journal (as White House
reporter T, and the Washington Evening Star.

Mr, Mahoney has built up a large audience numbering among
its listeners many high Government officials and other Capital not¬
ables, One of these is J, Harold Ryan, President of the National
Association of Broadcasters, Another is William D. Hassett, Secretary
to President Roosevelt, who hailing from Vermont, is sometimes criti¬
cal of lEr, Mahoney's Hoosier vernacular. Mahoney once laughingly
retorted by calling the erudite Mr. Hassett "a walking Thesaurus",

Nor does Hassett 'a watchful ear prevent Claude from taking a good-
natured gibe at the White House Itself,

For Instance, in one of his broadcasts last week, he read
a news bulletin that the regulation preventing pedestrians from walk¬
ing on the White House side of Pennsylvania Avenue during wartime
would again be strictly enforced. Next day came in a correction
that the regulation would not be enforced, Mahoney commented: "Of
course, don't you know this is election year? Not only will we be
able to walk on the White House side but see if we don't get batter¬
ies, radio tubes and even steaks.' "

Mr, Mahoney is now heard over CBS-WTOP at 7:40 to 7:50 A.M.
EWT and 6:00 to 6:10 P.M. Monday through Saturday,

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NAB SENDS ADVANCE SIGNAL CORPS PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT

The National Association of Broadcasters has sent to its
members for release next Monday, August 7th, at the time of the event
a complete transcript of the recorded "Presentation Ceremony" in
Washington in which the Army Signal Corps will award a Certificate of
Appreciation to the National Association of Broadcasters, Recordings
of the ceremony will also be released to NAB member stations on
August 7 for broadcast over local facilities. Quotations from this
transcript may be attributed to the recording as of that release date.

The Association will likewise telegraph a story of the
ceremony to its members on August 7th.

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SCISSORS AND PASTE

To Bar Religious Quackery On The Air

Fred Eastman, Professor of Biography and Drama In the
University of Chicago’s Federated Theological Faculty, said in
Chicago that representatives of Protestant, Catholic and Jewish
groups were organizing with the major air networks to prevent ’’quack¬
ery” in religious radio programs.

He told the Pastor’s Institute and Educational Conference
that the organization would call for financial responsibility and
public accounting of funds,

’’Ministers must take Interest in the excessive commercial¬
ism of radio”, he said, ’’for too many of the religious programs are
conducted on a commercial basis, ”

He estimated that $200,000,000 had been contributed in
1943 by listeners to religious programs which asked for donations.

One such program, he declared, paid more than $1,500,000 for its radio
time in 1943 and several others paid suras ranging from $200,000 to
$500,000,

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Urges Expanded Police Radio For Postwar Crime

Police departments should build their personnel carefully,
expand their radio communications and prepare for such innovations as
the use of television for the identification of prisoners and detec¬
tion of crime, he declared, - (Edward J. Hickey, Connecticut State
Police Commissioner addressing the New York State Association of
Chiefs of Police)

Claims Dewey Will Favor Press

Giovemor Dewey appreciates the power of the printed word.
Although he will use radio at considerable cost, and it is anticipated
that his pleasant baritone voice will win him votes, a decision has
already been reached to rely more on printed matter than upon recorded
radio transcriptions during the course of the campaign. Whether news¬
paper advertising will be employed depends upon the size of the fund
raised by the Republican National Committee, Mr. Dewey believes in
the value of newspaper advertising. - (Editor & Publisher)

’’There is no date set when the war contracts as such will
end. We know that time is coming, and we urge manufacturers to
I appoint an officer or committee to make plans for plant changes in
':hat event. But right now your Job is to continue full production on
che war contracts. ” - ( Col, William M. Mack, Chief of the Procurement
i! Division in the Office of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army.)

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FIRST ANNUAL TELEVISION BROADCASTERS CONFERENCE DEC, 7

Tlie first annual conference of the Television Broadcasters'
Association, Inc, , will take place in New York City on Thursday and
Friday, December 7 and 8, 1944,

0, B, Hanson, Vice President and Chief Engineer of the
National Broadcasting Company and a Director of TBA, has been named
Chairman of the Conference Committee. Jack R, Poppele, Secretary and
Chief Engineer of WOR will be conference coordinator, and Will Baltin,
Secretary-Treasurer of TBA is in charge of press and public relations
for the event.

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GENE THOr^UVS CELEBRATES TENTH YEAR AS WOR SALES MANAGER

Ordinarily July 31st is Just the end of a quarter to
Eugene S, Thomas, WOR Sales Manager, but July Slst this year marked
Gene's tenth year with the station.

Back in 1934 he Joined WOR as a member of the sales promo¬
tion staff, and a year later he was named Manager of that Department.
In 1937 he m.B appointed to the position of Sales Manager, and two
years ago added the duties of Secretary of the Executive Committee
to his schedule,

Mr, Thomas is particularly pleased that on the day of his
tenth anniversary WOR sales for the three months Just ended doubled
sales of any quarter-year period during his first years as Sales
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PRESS AND RADIO URGED TO TIGHTEN NEWS CONTROL

Byron Price, Director of Censorship, calls for continuing
and increasing help of the radio and the press in protecting vital
information, Mr, Price reminded that "hard fighting lies ahead" and
that security is essential "so long as the lives of our fighting men
are in danger, " The highest military authorities, he said, have rec¬
ognized and stated that the alertness and cooperation of news agencies,
newspapers and radio "contributed greatly to the security which was so
vital to the success of landing in France, "

"What we must protect at all hazards", Mr. Price said, "is
information of the time, place and method of attack, sequence of oper¬
ations the strength of attacking forces and their technical make-up
and equipment. "

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ACTION AND APPLICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE FCC

The CommisBlon en banc took the following action;

WHOM, WBAC, Joseph Lang, Margaret Harron and Helen R, Lang
s transferorsT7 Iowa Broadcasting Co. (transferee), New Jersey Broad¬
casting Corp, (Licensee) Jersey City, N.J. , granted voluntary transfer^
of control of New Jersey Broadcasting Corp, , licensee of Station WHOM
and relay station WBAC, by transfer of 2,500 shares or 100 percent, ol
issued and outstanding capital stock from Paul F, Harron, Joseph Lang;
Margaret Harron and Helen R, Lang to Iowa Broadcasting Company for a
consideration of approximately |403,528. 63 (Commissioner Durr dissent
ed); KSO. lowaBroadcasting Co, (assignor) Kingsley H. Murphy (assignee
Des Moines, Iowa, granted consent to voluntary assignment of license
of Station KSO from Iowa Broadcasting Co, to Kingsley H, Murphy, for
total consideration of $275, 000.

Also, WQWO , Westinghouse Radio Stations, Inc., Fort Wayne,
Indiana, granted extension of license of Station WOWO to Sept, 30,

1944, pending examination and determination of the application for
assignment of the license of Station WGL from Westinghouse Radio Sta¬
tions, Inc,, to Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation; WMT,

Iowa Broadcasting Co, , Cedar Rapids, Iowa, adopted Order denying peti¬
tion for rehearing filed by Iowa Broadcasting Co, (WflT), directed
against the action of the Commission June 14, 1944, granting the
application of Jamestown Broadcasting Co, Inc, (KSJB), Jamestown,

N. Dak, for modification of license.

Applications Received

WLIB, Brooklyn, N, Y. , applied for voluntary assignment of
license to Dorothy Schlff Thackery, owner and publisher of New York
Evening Post for $250,000 cash; WTAD, Illinois Broadcasting Corp.,
Quincy, Ill., transfer of control of licensee corporation from W.Eraery
Lancaster to Lee Broadcasting, Inc, (930 kc) and also voluntary asslgiv
ment of license to Lee Broadcasting, Inc. ( 930 kc) ; Altoona Broadcast¬
ing Co. . Altoona, Penna. , construction permit for a new Standard
Broadcast Station to be operated on 1240 kc, , power of 250 watts and
unlimited hours of operation; Potomac Broadcasting Corp., Alexandria,
Va, , construction permit for a new Standard Broadcast Station to be
operated on 730 kc. , power of 250 watts and daytime hours of operation,
amended re change type of transmitter, changes in corporate structure
and specify a studio site,; Scranton Broadcasters, Inc., Scranton, Pa. ,

I construction permit for a new high frequency (FM) broadcast station to
■ be operated on 48,100 kc. , with coverage of 19,557 square miles.

Also, Missouri Broadcasting Co^, . St. Louis, Mo,, construc¬
tion permit for a new high f re que ncy ( FM ) broadcast station to be
j operated on 45,100 kc. , with coverage of 13,200 sq, miles; Capital City
! Broadcasting Co. , Des Moines, Iowa. , construction permit, for a new
i Standard Broadcast Station to be operated on 1 600 kc, , power of 250
I watts and unlimited hours of operation; Shelbyville Radio, Inc,,

I Shelbyville, Indiana, construction permit for a new High Frequency(FM)

? Broadcast Station to be operated on 46,100 kc. , with coverage of 3,730
square miles; KEX, Oregonian Publishing Co,, Portland, Oregon, volun-
i; tary assignment of license to Westinghouse Radio Stations, Inc, (1190kc/

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Also, Joe L. Sulth, Jr, , Charleston, W* Va, , construction
permit for a new Standard Broadcast Station to be operated on 1400
kc. , power of 250 watts and unlimited hours of operation; WTEL,
Fouikrod Radio Engineering Co, , Philadelphia, Pa, , construction per¬
mit for reinstatement of application which expired for increase in
power from 100 watts to 250 watts and changes in transmitting equip¬
ment (1340 kc. ) ; The Reporter Broadcasting Co, . Abilene, Texas, con¬
struction permit for a new High Fre quency (FM) Broadcast station to
be operated on 45,700 kc, , with coverage of 6,936 sq, miles; National
Broadcasting Co,, Inc,, Los Angeles, Calif,, application for construc¬
tion permit for a new commercial television broadcast station to be
operated on Channel #3 (6600-72000 kc) amended to specify a transmit¬
ter site on Mt. Wilson, Calif, and to specify an ESR of 1400; Nevada
Broadcasting Co,, Las Vegas, Nevada, construction permit for a new
High Frequency (FI.!) Broadcast station to be operated on 49,500 kc,
with coverage of 560 sq, miles.

Also, James Broadcasting Co, , Inc, , Jamestown, New York,
construction permit for a new high frequency (FTvl) broadcast station
to be operated on 46,100 kc, with coverage of 10,352 sq, miles;
National Broadcasting Co, , Inc. , Chicago, Ill,, construction permit
for a new Commercial Television broadcast station to be operated on
Channel #1 (50000-56000 kc, ) amended to specify ESR as 2380; Consol¬
idated Broadcasting Corp, . Ltd, , Los Angeles, Calif. , construction
permit for a new commercial television broadcast station to be oper¬
ated on Channel #7 (102000-108000 kc. )

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WALLACE GOES BERSERK ON "EVIL CONTROLLED PRESS AND RADIO”

Speaking at the Iowa Democratic State Platform Convention
in Des Moines, following his defeat at Chicago, Vice-President
Wallace declared that a segment of the press and radio "contrxDlled by
evil monetary Interests continually fans every flame of prejudice
wnich will maintain hatred between the farmer and worker" and added
that "the problem is to do something effective about it, ”

To this the New York Times, leading Democratic newspaper,

retorted:

"Vice President Wallace’s speech at Des Moines merely con¬
firms the conclusion of the I^mocrats at Chicago that his renomina-
tlon would have been too great a liability for the national ticket to
carry. He properly advised the Democrats of Iowa to * conduct the
campaign on a high plane*. But such statements as ’The money behind
the Republican press and radio subtly spreads its poison every day’,
which immediately followed, hardly seemed the best Illustrative exam¬
ple of this advice. Least excusable of all was Mr. Wallace’s state¬
ment that *a Dewey victory, no matter how estimable Mr, Dewey himself
may be personally, will inevitably give hope to the wrong elements
in Gemany and Japan. *

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“Four years ago, when Mr. Wlllkle was the Republican candi¬
date for the presidency, Mr, Wallace as the Democratic candidate for
the Vice Presidency put forward precisely the same argument, and in
a much more outspoken fora. *I want to emphasize*, he then said,
’that replacement of Mr. Rcosevelt, even if it were by the most
patriotic leadership that could be found, would cause Hitler to re¬
joice, * * * I do not believe the ^erican people will turn their
backs to the man that Hitler wants to see defeated, *

If this said anything, it said that a vote for the Republi¬
can candidate was a vot for Hitler. This type of argument can en¬
danger our national unity and do great harm abroad. Few things could
do more to lower the level of the campaign, certainly, than its
revival at this time, ”

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STANDARDIZING ARMY-NAVY COMMUNICATIONS SPECIFICATIONS

Within recent weeks impressive progress has been made in
standardizing Army and Navy specifications for many items of communi¬
cation equipment. Reports to Major Gen. H. C. Ingles, Chief Signal
Officer, indicate that over fifteen hundred qualification approvals
have been coordinated between the Signal Corps and the Bureau of Ships

Two new agencies have been handling this standardization.

The first is the Signal Corps Standards Agency which was organized
pursuant to a Joint agreement between Lt, Gen. Brehon Somervell, Com¬
manding General, ASF, U.S, Aray, and Vice Admiral Robinson OP & M. ,

U. S. Navy. The Bureau of Ships Installed permanent representatives to
cooperate with this new agency, but this form of cooperation has been
supplemented by a second organization called Army-Navy Electronics
Standard Agency, Both are at Red Bank, New Jersey,

Standard specifications covering the major components and
materials of communication equipment have been prepared and approved
for Joint procurement and already very substantial savings, both of
time and money, have been effected. In each instance only one agency
makes the qualification tests and forwards data to other interested
agencies as a basis 'for approvals. In the case of plastics, for
Instance, this is done by the Bureau of Ships, and in the case of dry
batteries it is done by the Signal Corps, Specifications on these and
other materials are being processed as Joint Aray-Navy Standards and
will be used by all of the Services of the Aray and all of the Bureaus
of the Navy. Joint Inspection of equipment and coordination of waivers
are similarly replacing the duplication of foraer days.

In certain Instances, as in the case of vacuum tubes and of
F^F cables, the routine procedures of the Signal Corps Standards Agen¬
cy and ANESA have been found insufficient, and special groups or sub¬
committees have been set up with responsibility for handling the
special problems involved, but so far as is possible the aim is to
simplify rather than to elaborate administrations.

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TRADE NOTES : :

The Globe- Democrat Publishing Co,, St, Louis, Mo,, has
applied for a construction permit for a new Commercial Television
Broadcast Station to be operated on Channel #1 (50000-56000 kilocycle r)

Crosley Radio Corp. , of Cincinnati, net for the first half
of 1944 was ^2, 556, 288 or |4, 68 a share, compared with $2,654,135 or
$4.86 a year ago.

The Harvey Radio Company has purchased the three- story
building at 106 West 45th St, , just off Sixth Avenue in New York City.

The War Production Board, moving gradually toward the re¬
conversion of war industry to the production of essential civilian
goods, has drawn up a list of seventy-one wartime restriction orders
which may be relaxed on Aug, 15, when regional WPB offices are em¬
powered to authorize civilian production on the basis of local sup¬
plies of manpower and materials.

Among the seventy-one orders listed for possible relaxation
are: Radio and Radar L-151, domestic watt-hour meters; L-21-a, auto¬
matic phonographs, and aluminum M-l-i and Magnesium, M-2-b,

The NBC has issued a handsome book printed in gold and white
titled ”G, I, ” as a record and historical memento of the Army Hour,
There is a foreword by Maj, Gen. Alexander D. Surles, Director of the
Bureau of Public Relations of the War Department and an introductory
letter by Niles Trammell, President of NBC,

On the cover is an embossed gold seal of the United States.
The book is dedicated to the American Soldier,

A new telephone switching unit of amazing lightness and
compactness makes it possible for Array communications men to set up
emergency field switchboards in place of the bulky switchboards hith¬
erto required. The Adapter Plug U-4/GT, as the unit is called, may be
used together, along with a field telephone for the operator’s set,
provide a workable switchboard substitute which may be set up rapidly
on a branch of a tree or any support that presents Itself,

Religious programs will be unacceptable for sponsorship on
WMAZ, Macon, Ga. , beginning September 1, 1944, according to announce¬
ment by Manager Wilton E, Cobb, The move will Involve cancellation
of $8,160 in business. Since the first of the year the station has
refused an additional $30,836 in religious broadcasting.

In lieu of the present religious programs WI^AZ will sched¬
ule The Church of the Air at 9 A, M. and 12 Noon on Sundays,

Because sharply increased military requirements for dry ©.11
batteries are expected to make their greatest inroads upon the supply
available for civilians during the next three months, the Office of
Civilian Requirements of the War Production Board urged users of
vacuum tube hearing aids to conserve their ”B” batteries in every ^y
possible. Dry cell betteries are used in radio communication and
many other ways,

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2400 CALIFORNIA STREET WA^INGTON, D. C.

INDEX TO ISSUE OF AUGUST 9, 1944

Chicago Announcer Demands Exceed Little Steel Formula . 1

U. S, Parley Foreshadows Changes In World Radio Set-Up.,.. . 3

E. Anthony & Sons Apply For Providence Tele Station . 4

Bob Kintner Net Blue V-P; Blue Officials GE Tele Guests . 5

Durr, FCC Chairman, Maybe, But Not A. D. (After Dewey) . 6

Winterbottom Posthumously Awarded Army Certificate . 7

Radio Manufacturers' Committees For War And Post-War . .........8

Abrams Expects Postwar Radio To Jump To ^,000, 000,000, . . ...9

FCC Lists 158 Radiotelephone Operators Now Available . 9

"Free Speech Same Whether By Radio Or Press" - Ryan . 9

CBS Presents I>-Day Broadcasts To National Archives . 10

Sylvania Industrialists Host; Discuss Post-War Plans . 10

William H. Barsby New R. C,A, Communications Traffic Manager . 11

Petrillo Summoned To Washington . 11

Scissors And Paste . ..12

Broadcast Applications Received By FCC . 13

Trade Notes . 14

No. 1642

August 9, 1944,

CHICAGO ANNOUNCER DEMANDS EXCEED LITTLE STEEL FORMULA

Class B stations in Chicago called upon to meet an in¬
crease in staff announcers' salaries, claim that the demands of the
American Federation of Radio Artists go far beyond the Little Steel
formula. Since last January it is claimed the announcers employed
by the stations involved have had enormous increases since January
in straight time hourly earnings as follows:

Station Increase

WJJD 31,5^

WIND 31. %

WSBC, WGES, WAIT 147, %

WAAF 42. Q%

The case is now awaiting a decision from the War Labor
Board in Region VI in Chicago, There follows the general arguments
presented to the WLB in a brief by the Class B stations urging that
the AFRA demands be rejected;

I, The Issue and the Parties

II, The Inflationary Character of the Union's Demands. The

Demands Go Far Beyond the Little Steel Formula. Apart from
the Magnitude of the Demands Themselves, the Principle of
"Pay Within Pay” Has Very Serious Inflationary Implications,

III, The Union's Claim that the Principle of "Pay Within Pay"

Must be Recognized in Order to Eliminate an Inequality is
Unsound,

A, The Inequality Concept Applies to Rates or to Earnings
in Dollars Not t o the Method of Payment. The Inequality
Concept Has Never Been Used to Change a Method of Payment.

B, A Claim of Inequality Cannot be Based Upon a Comparison
of Secondary and Major Stations, They Are Not Comparable
Units.

C, The Services Performed by the Announcers on the Secondary
Stations are Vastly Different From Those Performed by the
Announcers on the Network Stations.

IV. Serious Inter-Plant Inequalities Would Result from Recogni¬
tion of the Principle, The Earnings of Secondary Announcers '
Would Approach or Exceed the Compensation of Major Station^.
Announcers,

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V. The Recognition of the Principle Would Create Serious Intra-
Plant Inequalities and Maladjustments

VI, The "Pay Within Pay" Principle is An Unacceptable Principle
to the Employers and, as Applied to Secondary Stations, Will
Result in Interminable Controversy and Problems of Administra¬
tion,

VII. The Board Lacks Jurisdiction to Compel an Employer to Adopt
a Particular Method of Compensating His Employees,

Some of the specific arguments presented are:

"We wish to emphasize the inflationary significance of the
principle which the Union here is seeking to apply. The Union has
recognized that it could not, in view of the wage stabilization pro¬
grams, obtain the wage raises they desire in the form of a direct
increase in staff salaries. They are, therefore, seeking indirect
increases far beyond any that the Little Steel Formula would dir¬
ectly permit. The technique is in a sense a subtle one. They seek
to divide the nature of the services performed by the employees into
two parts (although the distinction has never existed insofar as
these employees are concerned) - (a) staff sustaining duties for
which the announcers should receive their regular salaries, augment¬
ed by a direct 10^ Increase (such regular salaries being given the
novel title by the union of * staff sustaining salaries* - a phrase
never used or recognized before); and (b) commercial duties which
they perform for advertisers, for #ilch the Union demands a scale
of commercial fees. Through this division of their functions, they
seek to obtain aggregate increases far beyond anything they could
directly get under the Little Steel Formula, The same sort of a
division, it should be noted, could be created for any employee in
any industry. It would be possible to divide the function of any
employee, not only of radio stations but of any other Industry as
well, into similar component parts and to compensate him at his
regular salary for one-half of his functions and give him compensa¬
tion in another form for the other half of his functions. The Union
bases the distinction on the theory that the announcer* s services on
commercial programs are of benefit to the advertiser. The distinc¬
tion in the functions of an employee is, of course, economic nonsense."

"The nature of the work performed by the announcers in
broadcasting local commercial programs on the major network sta¬
tions in Chicago is entirely different from that of the staff announ¬
cers of the secondary or non-network stations,"

"A witness Bobbie Bro^^n of CBS explained that the whole
routine of network shows goes on with respect to local shows on the
network stations. The announcers are competitively auditioned; they
very carefully rehearse.

"On the secondary stations, however, no rehearsal time is
used. The announcer is simply furnished a book of commercial copy
and reads it in sequence during his staff stretch. He does not
rehearse or participate in rehearsals. He is not as skilled as the
announcer who appears on the network station. "

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’’The application of the 'pay within pay’ principle to
! announcers would lead ultimately to demands for the extension of it
j to technicians, musicians, sound-effects men, production men and
» other classes of radio employees. The cumulative effect will be
: that the small broadcasting company would be reduced from an inte-

; grated, Independent communications medium to a mere concessionaire,

! with many little businesses and private contractors using its
" facilities for their own personal business ventures. The principle
I will lead to interminable conflict over questions of administration,
i depending upon arbitration to settle differences as to a matter so
basic as the compensation of employees. If the Board would compel
the employers to adopt a principle which is so unacceptable to them,
it would in effect, be acting as a compulsory arbitration tribunal.
On the merits of this case, we do not think that the War Labor
Board should or would compel recognition of the principle, "

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U. S. PARLEY FORESHADOWS CHANGES IN WORLD RADIO SET-UP

The general telecommunications conference called by the
State Department Friday and Saturday of this week, August 11th and
12th, to discuss international frequency allocations, is expected
to be the forerunner of a new world-wide postwar radio setup.

The discussions will revolve primarily around possible
revision of the International Tele- Communications Convention of 1932
and the International Radio Regulations of 1938, as well as a pro¬
posed revision of the frequency spectrum,

”It is the hope of the department”, the State Department
announcement said, ’’that proposals will also be submitted by mem¬
bers of industry and by other United States Government agencies
looking toward the most complete collaboration between Government
and industry and toward appropriate International conferences, so
that the plans ultimately worked out will be in the best interest
of all the public and private American agencies involved, ”

Measures to make specified wave-length bands available
for aviation-ground communications, navigation aids and other techni¬
cal uses are under study by American officials. One measure recom¬
mended by the Inter-Departmental Radio Advisory Committee is elim¬
ination of all direct international short-wave broadcasting of
entertaining or informational nature.

As a substitute, the Committee suggested that the type of
programs now put on international short-wave broadcasts be sent
either by short-wave relay or by cable or other means of relay to
domestic stations broadcasting over the world.

Elements in radio which make the old assignment of wave
lengths out of date, it was said, were the rise of television and
the development of the ”frequency modulation” broadcasting. Both

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of these require special wave-length assignments in competition
with such customary uses of radio as airplane-to-ground communica¬
tions, which are expected to be greatly expanded by the development
of aviation.

Of the forthcoming conference, the Washington Post says:

"Apparently the first problem that will have to be faced
is whether the American companies now competing in the field of
international communications should be merged into one big regulat¬
ed monopoly. The arguments made by Mr. Fly and others for that
course are persuasive. While competition has some advantages even
in fields of natural monopoly, these seem to be offset by the in¬
creased efficiency, economy and bargaining power that a merger
would probably give. * * *

"Merger of all the companies operating in this field would
assure maintenance of cables and their alternative use with an
even distribution of the costs. Shifting of part of the load to
cables would also relieve that over-crowded portion of the radio
spectrum used for long-distance communications. Finally, it has
been pointed out that a unified system could much more easily absorb
that part of our vast military communications system that may be
commercially useful. The Array now has the largest wire and radio
system ever developed,

"Probably the strongest argument for combining all our
international communications facilities under one management is
that it would tend to put the United States on an equal footing with
other nations, notably Great Britain, in this field. Comparatively
weak American companies are no match for powerful monopolies oper¬
ating abroad. Consequently Americans often pay discriminatory rates."

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E. ANTHONY & SONS APPLY FOR PROVIDENCE TELE STATION

E, Ajnthony & Sons, licensees of Station WNBH at New Bed¬
ford, Mass, , and WOCB at West Yarmouth, have applied for a construe
tlon permit for a new commercial television station at Providence,
R. I, to be operated on Channel #10 (186,000-192,000 kilocycles).

Also indicating their interest in FM, the Anthony Company
last week applied for a new FM station to be located at Mt, Asne-
bumskit, Paxton, Mass,, on a frequency of 43,400 kc. An FM appli¬
cation they made for the New Bedford area has likewise been re¬
instated.

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BOB KINTNER NEW BLUE V-P ; BLUE OFFICIALS GE TELE GUESTS

Robert E. Kintner, former Washington correspondent, is the
latest to join the broadcasting ranks. As Vice-President of the
Blue Network, Mr, Kintner will act in a supervisory capacity over
the general public service and public relations activities of the
network.

Eighteen of the leading executives of the Blue Network,
including E, J. Noble, Chairman of the Board and Mark Woods, the
President, and five officials of Time magazine, headed by President
Roy Larsen, were guests of General Electric on a two days* visit in
Schenectady to see and hear television and FM last week.

Now a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army of the United States,
Mr, Kintner was with the War Department Bureau of Public Relations.

He was recently given a medical discharge and will revert to in¬
active status before joining the Blue Network.

”We feel that the Blue Network Is fortunate to obtain the
services and counsel of a newspaperman and writer of such wide and
varied experience Mr. Noble said, ’We believe that broadcasting
carries with it certain obligations to the public and to the govern¬
ment under which it operates,

”As Vice-President, Mr. Kintner will work in close cooper¬
ation with all departments of the Company, and in particular will
be associated with the departments charged with publicity, promotion
and programming. While his duties of necessity will call for studies
and visits to all sections of the country, his office and headquart¬
ers will be in New York, ”

On active duty with the Army of the United States since
July 28, 1941, Mr, Kintner, before being commissioned was co-author
with Joseph Alsop of a national syndicated Washington newspaper
column. He was graduated from Swarthmore College in 1931, and,
before forming his association with Mr. Aslop, was a financial re¬
porter and H^shington correspondent for the New York Herald- Tribune.

In addition to writing their dally column, Messrs. Alsop and Kintner
were authors of numerous articles in national magazines, and of
several books, among which was '•American White Paper", considered an
authority in its field and long a best seller.

The studios of WRGB, the General Electric television studio,
was turned over to the Blue Net visitors exclusively while the regu¬
lar program was given last Friday night. Following the studio pre¬
sentation, short talks on the programming of television were given
by Vice President Robert S, Peare and on television equipment by
Vice President W. R. G. Baker,

Acting as host to the party was Owen D. Young, Chairman
of the General Electric Board of Directors, along with Mr. Peare
and Dr, Baker,

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The Blue Network delegation consisted, in addition to
Mr. Noble and Mr. Woods, of Edgar Kobak, Executive Vice-president;
Chester La Roche, Chairman of the Executive Committee; Phillips
Carlin, Vice-President in Charge of Programs; E. R. Borroff, Vice-
President in Charge of the Chicago Division; Keith Klgglns, Vice-
President in Charge of Stations; Robert Swezey, Legal Counsel and
Secretary; Charles E, Rynd, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary, and
others.

From General Electric, in addition to Mr. Young, Mr, Peare
and Dr, Baker, were Paul L. Chamberlain, Manager of Sales, Trans¬
mitter Division of the Electronics Department; W. R. David, Sales
Manager of Broadcast Equipment; J, D, McLean, Television Equipment
Sales in the Transmitter Division; W, J. Purcell, Engineer in
Charge of Broadcast Operations; R. L. Gibson, Assistant to Mr,
Peare, and C. D. Wagoner of the News Bureau,

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DURR, FCC CHAIRMAN, MAYBE, BUT NOT A. D. (AFTER DEWEY)

The mention of Commissioner C, J. Durr, of Alabama, a
left-wing New Dealer, as successor to Chairman James L, Fly if the
latter resigns from the Federal Communications Commission, appa]>-
ently hasn't made much of a hit with the broadcasting and communica¬
tions industries.

The general opinion seemed to be that Mr. Durr, who is a
brother-in-law of Justice Hugo Black of the Supreme Court, was too
much like Mr, Fly in his views.

Also, if Commissioner Durr should be elevated to the
Chairmanship, someone commented, "he wouldn't remain there long
A. D, (After Dwewy) if Dewey were elected. If, as seems apparent,
the .Administration is trying to get rid of Fly, there doesn't seem
to be much of a point in replacing him by Durr. ”

Mrs, Clifford Durr, the wife of the Commissioner, is Vice
Chairman of the National Committee to .Abolish the Poll Tax in
Virginia, and her name has been listed as a member of the National
Citizens Political Action Committee (CIO).

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Lieut. Col. T. G, B, Morriss, 58 years old, U. S. Army Air
Corps, retired, said to be the first man to transmit a radio message
from an airplane, died in his hotel suite last Friday in Hollywood
of a heart attack,

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WINTERBOTTOM POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED ARMY CERTIFICATE

Cited for "services of immense value" to the United States
Army Signal Corps, in his position as Vice President and General
Manager of R,C. A, Communications, Inc,, William A. Winterbottom, who
died on July 8th, was last week posthumously awarded the Signal
Corps* Certificate of Appreciation.

The presentation was made at the RCAC offices in New York
City, by Col. Jay D. B, Lattin, Signal Officer of the Second Service
Command, to Mr, Winterbottom* s son, Arthur W. Winterbottom, Manager
of the Plant Valuation Division of R,C.A, Communications.

Gen, J. G. Harbord, Chairman of the Board of the Radio
Corporation of America, paid tribute to Mr, Winterbottom in the
August issue of Relay, P^C.A. Communications magazine of which Ray
Hutchens is editor. In fact, almost the entire issue was dedicated
to Mr, Winterbottom. On the cover was a photograph of the flag at
RCAC*s main office in New York at half mast. Among the other pic~
tures was one taken back in 1933 when Marconi made his last trip
to the United States with Senators Marconi, Mr. Winterbottom and
Mr, Sarnoff in the center of a group of RCA officials.

There was also a greeting which Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr,, RCA
Director of Advertising and Publicity sent to Mr, Winterbottom upon
completion of thirty years* service which read in part:

"If anyone wins an orchid on this June Ist, in the year
of 1944, he is William Arthur Winterbottom. To you thirty years in
wireless must seem but a flash - high speed, of course*

"As we look back, we see how the "W" in Winterbottom and
the "W" in Wireless stand for the same things, *world-wide waves',
'wisdom', 'winsome', and 'words', of course, for you have keyed
millions of them into the air and copied millions of them from space.

"Certainly that magnetic compass that adorns your watch
chain is but a decoration for you need no direction-finder or radar
to find your way around the realm of wireless. You know it from A to
Z. Tha.t is your reputation in communication circles and in the news¬
paper field, where sincere respect for your Judgment and good common
sense has always been on high. To return to the "W", you have worn
well with the years; you have won the esteem of radiomen, and as one
who has had the pleasure of knowing you since around 1922, it is a
Joy to salute you on this 30th Anniversary and to wish you many, many
more happy years in wireless,

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RADIO MANUFACTURERS COMITTEES FOR WAR AND POST-WAR

R, C, Cosgrove, of the Crosley Radio Corporation of Cin¬
cinnati, President of the Radio Manufacturers* Association, has
appointed committees for the forthcoming year to deal with postwar
as we 11 as war conditions.

Among the major committees are the Industry Reconversion
Committee headed by A, S, Wells of Chicago, and the Contract Termi¬
nations Committee, headed by E. E. Lewis, of Camden, New Jersey,

The Industry Reconversion Committee has overall jurisdiction of
industry reconversion problems, including development of government
agencies* civilian reconversion plans; disposal of surplus materials;
and product planning. The Contract Terminations Committee is now
engaged with the Signal Corps, Navy and other government agencies.

New committees for new projects include the School Sound
Systems Committee, to develop specifications and promote public
address equipment in schools and similar institutions, and the Radio
Technical Planning Board Television Reporting Committee. The latter
will review the forthcoming report of RTPB Television Panel No, 6.

The Advertising Committee in charge of RMA publicity which
is continued under the Chairmanship of John Garceau of Fort Wayne,
is holding a meeting in Philadelphia today (Wednesday),

The Committee will be the i=;uests of the Phllco Corporation,
under its plan of visiting various plants of MA companies when pos¬
sible, and following a Spring meeting at the Crosley Corporation
plant in Cincinnati. At today's meeting the Committee will view
Philco television.

Arrangements to appoint OPA Industry Advisory Committees,
composed of manufacturers of radio sets and radio parts, are nearing
completion. There already is an OPA Industry Advisory Committee of
tube manufacturers.

The two new RMA Set and Parts Committees will assist OPA
in formulating new price schedules for radios and parts for use when
civilian oroductlon is resumed. Involving revision of OPA schedules
#83 and #84.

Conferences by officials of the Defense Supplies Corpora¬
tion with industry groups and RI«!A committees are continuing on plans
for disposal of surplus radio and other communication equipment.

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Among factories slowed down on war production during the
Philadelphia transportation strike were Philco and RCA Manufacturing
Company at Camden,

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ABRAMS EXPECTS POSTWAR RADIO TO JUMP TO $5,000,000,000

Predicting that the post-war demand for radios and allied
products would result in the expansion of the industry* s volume from
$550,000,000 a year before the war to $5,000,000,000 annually,
Benjamin Abrams, President of the Emerson Radio and Phonograph Cor¬
poration in New York, declared that the Industry would be in an
excellent position to employ a '•substantial share of the service men
who will be returning home soon. "

Mr. Abrams declared that the radio Industry should employ
as many men from the Army Signal Corps as possible because of the
valuable experience these men had during the war,

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FCC LISTS 158 RADIOTELEPHONE OPERATORS NOW AVAILABLE

The Federal Communications Commission Saturday released
List No, 4 containing the names, addresses and other information
concerning 158 holders of first- and second-class radiotelephone
licenses who have indicated availability for employment since the
release of List No, 5 last month. Both lists, which total 758 names,
are being made available wherever needed to alleviate the current
shortage of radio operators and technicians in the communications
Industry,

All persons using List No, 5 or List No, 4 are cautioned
that the Commission does not certify as to the experience or avail¬
ability of any person listed, but merely sets forth the information
as received. Users of the list are also advised to consider the
applicable orders and regulations of the War Manpower Commission and
the National War Labor Board,

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"FREE SPEECH SAME WHETHER BY RADIO OR PRESS" - RYAN

Noting the anniversary of freedom of the press last Friday,
Harold Ryan, President of the National Association of Broadcasters,
issued the following statement:

"On this day, August 4, in the year 1755, freedom of the
press was established when John Peter Zenger, publisher, was tried
and acquitted of libel on a charge of criticizing the government.
Antedating by many years the Constitution of the United States, free
speech was recognized as a principle of liberty. That same prin¬
ciple persists today, whether it be in the conduct of the press or
the radio or of any other medium of public contact. If definitive
terns are needed, to specify each and every medium of public informa¬
tion, then let us write them into the law of the land and keep on
writing them as new forms of mass communication are created, so that
the principle of free speech may never be attacked or even question¬
ed. '*

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CBS PRESENTS D-DAY BROADCASTS TO NATIONAL ARCHIVES

Transcriptions of nearly 16 hours of news programs broad¬
cast by CBS on D-Day, contained in 67 - 16-inch recordings, have
been placed in the National Archives of the United States in
Washington, D, C. Presented for Paul W. Kesten, CBS Executive
Vice President, on behalf of Columbia, by Earl H. Gammons, Director
of CBS* Washington office, the recordings were accepted by IXr, Solon
J. Buck, Archivist, and Capt. John G. Bradley, Chief of the Division
of Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings,

Included in the I>-Day transcriptions are eye-witness re¬
ports from landing craft, from bombers, and from beaches; and the
voices of General Eisenhower, King Haakon of Norway, and the Prime
Ministers of Belgium and The Netherlands,

Accompanying the recordings was a letter from Mr, Kesten,
saying in part, "This, of course, is a different kind of recorded
history than students of prior generations have had passed on to
them, since it is preserved in the medium of the spoken rather than
the printed word .,,, In finding room for this second presentation,
we hope you will be able to reserve space for a third so that hap¬
pier Americans may in better days hear how peace returned to the
world, '*

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SYL VANIA INDUSTRIALISTS HOST; DISCUSS POST-WAR PLANS

Sylvanla Electric Products, Inc,, played host to twenty
industrialists at Emporium, Pennsylvania, home of the original radio
tube plant. The group, known as the Extrapolators, was organized
by Mr. J, M, Bickel of the Carrier Corporation in 1942 for the pur¬
pose of discussing mutual post-war problems and their companies*
post-war plans. Having benefit of each other's ideas has made it
possible for this group to plan far more intelligently for the post¬
war period.

Subsequent meetings have been held at the Studebaker Cor¬
poration in South Bend, Indiana; the National Cash Register Company
in Dayton, Ohio; and the American Rolling Mills in Middletown, Ohio.

Those who were present were: J, M, Bickel of the Carrier
Corporation, J, K. Owen and George Rauch of National Cash Register
Co,, Harry B. Marsh of Perfect Circle Company, David R, Osborne of
Studebaker Corp, , Colman 0* Shaughnessy of The Stanley Works, C, F,
Graesser of Monsanto Chemical Company, Dr. S, Morris Livingston of
the U, S. Department of Commerce, R. A. Dadisman of American Roll¬
ing Mills, F, H. Gilliland of the Hoover Company, Lyman H, Hill of
Servel, Inc,, Prof. Albert Haring of Indiana University, Herbert
Metz of Graybar Electric Company, William C. Gordon of Curtis Pub¬
lishing Company, Odin Thomas, Council for Market Development, Ray P.

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While in Emporium, the group made their headquarters at
the Sylvania Club. Those representing Sylvania at the gathering
were Don G, Mitchell, Paul S. Ellison and G, R, Holden,

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WM, H, BARSBY NEW R,C.A. COMMUNICATIONS TRAFFIC MANAG-ER

William H. Barsby, associated for more than thirty years
with the radio and international communications Industry, has been
appointed Traffic Manager of R. C.A. Communications, Inc,, succeeding
John B, Rostron, who died on June 12, Mr, Barsby served as Assist¬
ant Traffic Manager since 1929.

Before Joining the Marconi Wireless and Telegraph Company
of America in 1914, Mr, Barsby was employed by the British Post
Office and the Commercial Cable Company, He was assigned to the
Pacific Coast office of Marconi, and had the distinction of dispatch¬
ing and receiving the first commercial radiograms between the United
States and Japan,

Mr, Barsby served in the United States Navy during World
War I, assisting in the organization of the Navy*8 first centralized
communications office in Washington, D. C, In the Fall of 1918, he
picked up from the big enemy station at Nauen, Germany, the first
request for an armistice. He was delegated by his commanding officer
to deliver the message personally to the White House,

Mr, Barsby was Superintendent of the Belraar station of the
Radio Corporation of America from 1919 to 1921, With the formation
of R,C,A, Communications in 1929, he became Assistant Traffic Manager,.

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BULLETIN

THE WAR LABOR BOARD ANNOUNCED LATE THIS AFTERNOON THAT IT
HAD SUMMONED JAMES C, PETRILLO, PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION
OF MUSI CIONS, TO A HEARING IN WASHINGTON NEXT THURSDAY, AUGUST 17,
FOR A SHOW-DOWN IN IGNORING THE WPB STRIKE ORDER IN THE CASE OF
STATION KSTP IN ST. PAUL.

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The Federal Communications Commission is usually in hot
water with the big broadcasters but the latest sizzler was touched
off by the CIO*s United Automobile Workers. They want the FCC to
take away the license of Station WHKC, Columbus, Ohio.

The Commission has never taken away a radio license in its
10 years of existence. Its predecessor, the Federal Radio Commis¬
sion, took away only three - and those because the stations were
owned by quacks.

The auto workers, however, claim that WHKC has suppressed
freedom of speech by censoring a script by UAW official Richard T.
Frankensteen, As part of its brief to the FCC, UAW Inclosed por¬
tions of broadcasts by Fulton Lewds, Jr., and Boake Carter, heard
over WHKC, which dealt with the same subjects that were cut from
Frankensteen* s script. Lewis and Carter took an anti-labor view¬
point and were not censored.

Labor is also plenty het up over NBC’s recent cancella¬
tion of the Labor for Victory program because the network considers
anything CIO does to be “political” in an election year.

Even more disturbing to the networks is the pressure drive
by the National Association of Manufacturers to force a series of
13 quarter-hour transcriptions in the Nation's 900 radio stations.

The series is called “Business Men,. Look to the Future”, and NAM
is asking free time for these programs.

The letter sent to all broadcasters asking for free time
states that local businessmen will be informed of the degree of
cooperation received from each station.

On the letterheads are featured the names ofAlfred P,

Sloan, Jr., and James S, Adams, Sloan is Chairman of General Motors,
which bought $035,884 worth of radio time last year; also a Director
of E. I. du Pont de Nemours, which spent $608,400 for radio time,
Adams is President of Standard Brands, Inc. , which spent $2,168,422
for radio time last year. No wonder the networks are Jittery,

- (Drew Pearson)

Marshall Field Reported In Buying good

Sources close to Marshall Field revealed last week that
Field plans the purchase of four or five more stations in the immed¬
iate future in addition to WSAI, Cincinnati, and WJJD, Chicago,
Field, who officially took over WJJD recently is currently dickering
with KSL, Salt Lake City, only other station on the 1160 frequency,

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WJJD to be on the air full time.

(Variety)

(j.O.P« To Go In Strong For Radio

The campaign budget is to be heavily weighted on the side
of radio, Herbert Brownell, Jr,, Dewey*s campaign manager, has
assembled for his radio division a group of men and women who are
the best in the business.

- (Marquis Childeln the Washington Post.)
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BROADCAST APPLICATIONS RECEIVED BY FCC

Don Lee Broadcasting System. Hollywood, Calif., authority
to transmit programs originating in the studios of stations affili¬
ated with Mutual Broadcasting System and/or Don Lee Broadcasting
System to Station CKWX, Vancouver, B, C. , Canada; WHBC, The Ohio
Broadcasting Co. , Canton, Ohio, modification of construction permit
(for change in frequency, increase in power changes in equipment and
directional antenna for night use) for extension of completion date
from 8/15/44 to 9/15/44.

Also, WTIC-FM. The Travelers Broadcasting Service Corp,,
Hartford, Conn,, construction permit to change frequency from
45,300 kilocycles to 43,300 kilocycles, change service area from
6,100 square miles to 15,563 square miles, install a new transmitter
and antenna; The Trustees of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind,
construction permit for a new non- commercial educational broadcast
station to be operated on 48,700 kilocycles, power of 10 kilowatts;
Racine Broadcasting Con^, . Racine, Wls, , construction permit for a
new High Frequency ( FM) Broadcast Station to be operated on 49,100
kilocycles with coverage of 2,540 square miles,

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Rep. Luther A, Johnson ( D) , of Texas, pressing for enact¬
ment of his resolution abolishing daylight saving said:

“Long before Congress enacted this law, certain cities
throughout the country had daylight saving time by agreement, but
it was only for a limited time, usually from May 1 to September 30,
when the days were longest and as the days grew shorter the law was
repealed, I believe the time has come now when this law should be
repealed, and I will not favor its reenactment. I believe if the
matter were left to the vote of the American people they would over¬
whelmingly approve of such action, “

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TRADE NOTES :

The Federal Communications Commission has authorized
Press Wireless, Inc., to file tariffs, effective on one day's notice,
establishing rates for deferred press service between France and
three cities in this country - New York, Washington and Los Angeles.
To New York, messages will go at 3 cents a word; to Washington, at
5^ cents, and to Los Angeles, at 4 cents.

A meeting of the WPB Radio Industry Advisory Committee has
been called for August 15, by Ray C. Ellis, Director of the Radio and
Radar Division. Discussion will center around war production prob¬
lems plus consideration of an initial ’’blueprint” for future civilian
reconversion. Officials emphasized, however, according to the Radio
Manufacturers’ Association, that there was no prospect of any civil¬
ian production of radio-electronic equipment being authorized until
1945 at the earliest, the time depending upon the progress of the war

The Pennsylvania Railroad will Install its new radio train
telephones on two main line four-track divisions covering S45 miles
of line between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, Installation will cost
more than one million dollars, the company said, and will enable
towemen in wayside towers to talk with train crews moving in their
areas for the transmission of instructions, reports and information
pertaining to train operations.

Majestic Radio and Television Corporation - Year to May 31;
Net earnings $201,110, against $236,678 in previous fiscal year.

Charging that 30 men control the news and thought of the
nation, Morris L. Ernst, New York lawyer said at the American News¬
paper Guild convention in Milwaukee:

’’Names are unimportant”, Mr. Ernst said, ’’but remember
that there are five big movie companies, four radio networks, the
syndicate and press association group and the fact that 360 out of
900 radio stations are owned by newspapers, ”

Writes Edgar Kobak, Executive V-P of the Blue;

”You would think that doing so many things in ways bigger
than we have ever done them before would require more people. You
would be right: we have more people. Here are the figures; when we
started out, February 1, 1942, we had 407 people: as of July 1, 1944,
our payroll totals 769 people. Meantime, we have 138 of our men and
women in the Armed Forces of our country.

Army officers of the Sixth Service Command, Security and
Intelligence Division, last vreek presented the green and gold guidon
for ’’Superior War plant” protection to Zenith Radio Corporation at
its plant in Chicago. Zenith is one of forty war plants in the
entire country to receive this honor, which is awarded by the Provost
Marshal General's office in Washington for the maintenance of exact¬
ing requirements in war plant police and fire protection, marksman¬
ship, anti-sabotage activity and visitor identification,

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Congress Opens Fight On Bureaucrats; Fly May Be Target,,.

$5,300,000 Naval Research And Radio Laboratory Planned,

RCA Victor To Reemploy 6,000 War Veterans,,. .

Broadcasting Of Congress Would Not Be Done By U, S .

Direct Radio Message Service Established To India .

Maybe Petrillo Will Show Up In Washington; Maybe He Won't
Ashby Again Head Of N.Y, Lawyers Communications Group,,,.

FDR Lauds Press-Radio Silence; Smith Of NBC Trip Aide,,,,

Bob Klntner Receives Legion Of Merit Decoration .

Telecommunications Conference Sidesteps Foreign Merger, , .

Blue Net Answers $1,000,000 Winchell Libel Suit .

Foresees First U, S, Coast- To- Coast Television Network...,,

WGN Scripts Ordered In CIO Radio Suit . .

Davis Appointed General Counsel Of NAB .

Scissors And Paste .

Potential Radio Advertising Is $2,403,000 A Day . .

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CONGRESS OPENS FIGHT ON BUREAUCRATS; FLY MAY BE TARGET

Great pressure Is being exerted by Representative Louis
Ludlow (D), of Indiana, for immediate action on his bill which pro¬
vides for a non-political Congressional Investigation of bureaucracy
and unconstitutional trends of government. Already forty members of
Congress - 9 Senators and 31 Representatives - have expressed
approval of the resolution. Representative Ludlow lost no time
after Congress returned from its recent recess addressing a letter
to Representative Sabath, Chalnnan of the all powerful Rules Commit'
tee, requesting a hearing on the bill.

Although there has been a tremendous agitation against the
bureaucrats - none of whom has been more bitterly assailed than
Chairman James L. Fly of the Federal Communications Commission - the
Ludlow Resolution (H, Res, 547) is the first definite move that has
been made against them and it is believed that the Democrats them¬
selves may try to rush the measure through before election in order
to take the teeth out of what will surely be a big campaign issue
charging them with allowing Chalnnan Fly and other heads of the
Bureaus to assume so much power. Whether the prospect of such a
Congressional investigation as this will speed up the departure of
Mr. Fly from the FCC remains to be seen,

A significant thing is that the 40 Senators and Repre¬
sentatives who have indicated their approval of going after the
bureaucrats (one-f Ifteenth of the entire membership of Congress)
are about evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans. Unless
the Democrats take the bull by the horns and try to get the credit
for themselves, the consideration will be more or less non-partisan.
The States represented by the forty are Kentucky, Iowa, Missouri,
South Dakota, Michigan, Colorado, Arkansas, New Jersey, Kansas,
Georgia, Mississippi, Virginia, Idaho, Tennessee, Washington, Florida
Massachusetts, Texas, New York, California, Connecticut, West Vir¬
ginia, Minnesota and Alabama, These twenty-five States represent a
pretty fair cross-section of the country. Also, mind you, the forty
members mentioned are Just those who have committed themselves in
writing. Numerous other members have given the Resolution their
oral benediction. Further remember the fact that Representative
Ludlow, himself a Jeffersonian Democrat, one of the most popular
and hardest working members of the House, will leave no stone un¬
turned to press the Resolution,

Although Mr, Ludlow declares there is not the remotest pol¬
itical purpose back of this Resolution, nevertheless it is agreed
that it would be smart politics for the Democrats to beat the
Republicans to it by taking the first whack at the bureaucrats^
before the campaign gets under way.

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"It was Mark Twain, I believe, who said that everybody
complains about the weather but nobody ever does anything about It",
Mr. Ludlow declared recently over the MBS network, "Everybody is
complaining these days about bureaucracy but so far nobody has done
anything about it. The purpose of the resolution I have introduced
is to do something about it, "

"Thomas Jefferson, the highest authority on the spirit
and purpose of American fundamental institutions, said:

"♦The government is best that governs the least.*

"No one, I believe, who is familiar with governmental
trends in America will deny for one moment that domestically ours
is now an overly governed country. That condition is likely to con¬
tinue and grow worse unless effective measures are taken to check
the trend. During the 10 years from 1933 to 1942, Inclusive, 3,565
Executive Orders having the effect of law were Issued and only 4,301
public laws were passed by Congress the branch of our government
created by the Constitution to enact the laws of our country. Ex¬
ecutive Orders mainly originate in the bureaus and are expressions
of bureaucratic minds. They often embody the whims of bureau chiefs.
Surely there is something wrong with this picture. The record of
Executive Orders shows how strong a hold bureaucracy has on our
government.

"I say this without any disposition to criticize. I am
not trying to place any blame on anybody. Some of these Executive
Orders undoubtedly were necessary in the national interest but the
multiplicity of Executive Orders issued in modern times nevertheless
suggests a real danger that sometime we may have a government by
Executive Order instead of a government by laws. "

"If this resolution is adopted, what will happen? The
great Committee on the Judiclaryi composed on both sides of able and
outstanding Americans, will proceed at once in its own way to make a
study of bureaucracy and trends of Government which are believed to
be inharmonious with our Constitution and our American way of life. '

"At the head of that committee is the wise man from Texas,
Judge Hatton W, Sumners, who probably knows as much about the genius
and spirit of American institutions as any man alive. Judge Sumners
is not a stranger to the particular subject covered by this resolu¬
tion, There is no man in Congress nor in the entire Nation who is
more highly qualified to make this investigation than Judge Sumners.
Let us call him to take the helm and direct the investigation, in
full confidence that he and his committee will bring forth a report
of history-making significance. In committing this important task
to the Judiciary Committee we may have Implicit faith that Judge
Sumners and his able associates on both sides of the Committee will
conduct an honest to goodness investigation and will not allow the
Committee to be used as a political sounding board, "

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"Tiiere is much evidence to show that the seeds of disin¬
tegration of our traditional form of government - the precious in¬
heritance of our fathers - are germinating in the bureaus at Wash¬
ington, The representative of an Indiapolls company was recently
told by a bureaucrat in one of the Washington agencies:

"•You represent a rich company, but it won*t be rich very
long, capitalism is doomed in America. *

“That is not hearsay. That happened to one of my con¬
stituents, We do not know all that is going on in the Washington
bureaus toward changing the form and mold of our government. The
purpose of this resolution is to find out. “

“The parentage of our bureaucracy is not exclusively
Democratic or exclusively Republican, Though it has reached the
apex of its power in recent times, it has been growing and develop¬
ing for a quarter of a century. Eighteen years ago Hatton W, Sumners
Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Introduced a resolution for an
investigation of unconstitutional trends of government very similar
to this one and supported it with a powerful appeal in the Well of
the House but he could not get anybody interested.

“Twelve years ago when Herbert Hoover was President I
wrote a book on the subject entitled < America Go Bust*, in which I
described the vast and increasing bureaucratic growth of that era.

In that book I said:

“•Generally speaking, the Government of today (1932) is
composed of a thousand forms of bureaucratic activities that have
their roots in common soil. That common soil is the pocketbook of
the American taxpayer. • “

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$5,300,000 NAVAL RESEARCH AND RADIO LABORATORY PLANNED

Construction of a $5,300,000 Naval Research Laboratory
will start near Washington within the next two weeks, the Navy
Department has announced. The laboratory will contain special fac¬
ilities for radio research and will be built to relieve congestion
at the old Naval Research Laboratory at Bellevue, several miles
south of the Capital, It was there that Dr. A, Hoyt Taylor and
others developed radar.

The Navy’s new research laboratory will be erected on a
938-acre site in Montgomery and Prince Georges counties adjacent to
Washington and will employ 700 persona,

J. P. Courtney, head of the Real Estate Division, Bureau
of Yards and Docks, said negotiations are under way with the 32
property owners involved. He added that a majority of the owners
already have agreed to terms proposed by the Division,

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Mr. Courtney explained that a condemnation suit was filed
August 4 in Federal District Court in Baltimore and that the Navy
was given possession of all unoccupied land at that time. An
order also was issued giving the Navy possession of occi^ied pro¬
perty by Tuesday, he said. The site lies along both sides of Paint
Branch, east of Hillandale and west of Beltsville. Approximately
two-thirds of the land is in Montgomery County and the remainder in
Prince Georges County,

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RCA VICTOR TO REEMPLOY 6,000 WAR VETERANS

A comprehensive policy for the re-employment of war
veterans - women as well as men - was announced by the RCA Victor
Division, Radio Corporation of America, which has approximately
6,000 former employees serving in the armed forces,

A statement of policy was announced by Forrest H. Kirk¬
patrick, the company* s Personnel Administration Director. It in¬
cludes beneficial arrangements that go well beyond the broad federal
laws enacted to protect servicemen's re-employment status. It out¬
lines specific provisions for extensive re-training and upgrading
programs, recognition of seniority rights, insurance privileges,
rehabilitation programs, and vacation allowances.

Unique in the training program provisions is a "protection
of rl^ts" clause for returning veterans who desire and obtain com¬
pany approval to take special training offered by the government
before returning to the company. The policy provides that any
veteran who indicates, within forty days of his discharge from
military service, his intention to return to RCA after a period of
such training may be granted a "leave of absence" up to one year.

In some instances this period may be extended beyond the year by
mutual agreement of the company and the veteran.

Special consideration will be given handicapped servicemen,
according to RCA* s policy, "Former employees who have disabilities
resulting from service in the armed forces", it declares, "should
have opportunities for work and proper Job placement. When a dis¬
ability makes it Inappropriate for a former employee to resume his
old Job or a comparable one, efforts will be made to place him in
the highest paying available Job for which he is qualified, "

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Because of the Army's immediate need for large additional
numbers of Amy Nurses, all stations are being urged by the National
Association of Broadcasters to step up Army Nurse Corps recruiting
efforts. Backbone of the campaign is to be the "Voice of the Army",
15-mlnute transcribed program, now broadcast by approximately 800
stations every week,

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BROADCASTING OF CONGRESS WOULD NOT BE DONE BY U« S,

In Introducing a resolution Tuesday (S, J, Res. 145)
authorizing the broadcasting of the proceedings of the Senate and
the House, Senator Pepper (D), of Florida, made it clear that he
had in mind that it should be done by the broadcasting companies
and not the Government, Senator Pepper addressed the Senate, saying;

”I think the whole country was very much influenced and
delighted by being able to hear over the radio the proceedings of
the two great national conventions, I have been Immensely impressed
by the number of people who after our convention was held have made
reference in talking to me to some detail of the convention which
they had heard over the radio, I think the millions of people of
the country remained close to their radios to hear the proceedings
of both conventions because they knew that there the policies of
their Government were being determined. Because the people are
interested in the democratic processes, and because the radio brought
the conventions almost into the homes and public places of the
country the proceedings of the conventions had a profound influence
upon the thinking of our people.

"It has seemed to me for some time a project worthy of
consideration as to whether the proceedings of the Congress might be
broadcast to the people of the country. Surely the people of this
country are sovereign. Surely all of us regard ourselves as their
spokesmen. We are all trying to serve their objectives and their
great purposes. If they could by the marvel of the radio be brou^t,
as it were, as the visitors in the galleries are privileged to be,
to be witnesses of the deliberations of their Representatives and
Senators in Congress, I believe it would be in furtherance of the
democratic process,

"So, I introduce and ask to have appropriately referred a
Joint resolution authorizing the broadcasting of the proceedings of
the Senate and the House of Representatives, I bespeak for the Joint
resolution the consideration of my colleagues in the Senate, It is
not contended that the Joint resolution is perfect in form. It does
not contemplate the setting up of any Government-owned facilities.

It does direct the Architect of the Capitol to aid the broadcasting
companies in the broadcasting of the proceedings of the Senate and
the House of Representatives. "

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DIRECT RADIO MESSAGE SERVICE ESTABLISHED TO INDIA

Direct high speed radiotelegraph service has been inaugur¬
ated between New York and Bombay by Mackay Radio and R,C.A, Commun¬
ications, Inc, The new circuits cover a distance of 8,000 miles.

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MAYBE PETRILLO WILL SHOW UP IN WASHINGTON; MAYBE HE WON*T

Although His Nibs James C. Petrillo has been summoned by
the National War Labor Board to appear in Washington at 10 o’clock
tomorrow (Thursday) morning, the NWLB today hadn’t heard whether he
would be there or not. Up to now, as far as could be learned, he
had ignored the summons entirely.

Usually when an ordinary mortal gets sent for by the
Government, he Jumps through the hoop, but not James Caesar, When
called to Washington, he usually delegates Joseph Padway, American
Federation (yf Labor General Counsel, to appear for him but in the
case of tomorrow's summons, the NWLB doesn’t know that he will even
do this. It was the best guess down there that as usual James C,
wouldn’t show up. Anyway, they wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t.

Presumably Mr, Petrillo 's appearance is sought in the
Capital in connection with the ban on the manufacturing of trans¬
cription records. However, if the NWLB gets him there, they will
also talk with him about the platter turning dispute and the KSTP
strike.

When Mr, Petrillo last week refused to call off this
strike of 16 studio musicians in Minneapolis, as ordered to do by
the NWLB, the Board indicated that the case would be sent to higher
authorities in the Government,

The controversy Involves a dispute over payment of Minne¬
apolis wage scales to musicians technically hired to work for KSTP
in its nearby St. Paul studio. The union is demanding that eight
musicians be guaranteed a twenty- two hour week at a wage of |52, 50.
The company has said it would pay a pro rata equivalent, but could
not guarantee that much work for that many musicians.

The WLB decided that solution to the argument in view of
Petrillo* s stand lies now with either Economic Stabilizer Fred M.
Vinson or President Roosevelt.

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ASHBY AGAIN HEAD OF N. Y. LAWYERS COMUNICATIONS GROUP

Judge A. L, Ashby, Vice-President and General Counsel of
the National Broadcasting Company has again been appointed Chairman
of the Communications Committee of the New York County Lawyers’
Association. Besides Judge Ashby, the Committee is composed of:
Wilson E, Tipple, Secretarw^; M. Marvin Berger, Lawrence R, Condon,
William DeForest Manice, Joseph H. Ream, Richard B, Scandrett, Jr.,
Samuel Shapiro, Robert D, Swezey, Harry J, Ohlheim, Ralph F, Colin,
Emanuel Dannett, Jack Lewis Kraus, 8d, Wolcott H. Pitkin, Edward R,
Schoen, Leslie J, Tcmpkins, John F, Gibbons, Henry Ladner, Frank
Razhap, J. Robert Rubin, Bethuel M, Webster,

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FDR LAUDS PRESS- RADIO SILENCE; SMITH OF NBC TRIP AIDE

Digressing from his prepared broadcast from Seattle upon
his return from Hawaii and Alaska, President Roosevelt praised the
press and radio saying:

'•May I Just add a word of appreciation to the press and
the radio of our country. You know we have a voluntary censorship,
purely voluntary. I v©.nt to thank them for the protection and the
security which they gave to me and to my party at a time on this
trip when nearly all the time I was within easy reach of enemy
action,

••The press associations and some of the newspapers natur¬
ally refused to publish the facts which they got from local friends
who had heard of my arrival, my trip around the Hawaiian Islands -
from local friends whose sons out there had written home about it, -
and the newspapers didn’t print it. That is a modern marvel,”

A radio writer remarked:

”Thls 'purely voluntary censorship* the President refers
to is really *a purely voluntary censorship' with a club over your
head, ”

Carleton Smith, of the National Broadcasting Company, well-
known as a White House announcer and who in addition holds the res¬
ponsible position of Manager of WRC in Washington, had the distinc¬
tion of accompanying the President to Hawaii as the representative
of the four networks. It is said to be the first time a radio man
has accompanied President Roosevelt on any of his recent Journeys
outside of the United States,

In addition to introducing the President at Seattle, Mr.
Smith was at the President's side when he addressed the Democratic
National Convention from the naval base at San Diego.

That the President's broadcast from Seattle lacked the
old-time pep and didn't add to his radio laurels was evident from
what some of the critics in the Capital had to say about it,

"JJost remarkable fact about the President's Saturday night
speech from Seattle, insofar as Washington listeners were concerned,
was not what he said, but how he said it", Frank C. Waldrop observed
in the Washington Times-Herald.

•'The voice was still the voice of F. U, R, - but how changed.
Gone was the old style silvery smoothness and easy flowing delivery.
Instead, there was noted a slow, careful, and several times actually
stumbling delivery that lacked punch and precision.

"Sunday morning found this city a- buzz with curiosity as
to what has nappened to the gifted orator who once made his promises
sound so good, so true and so beautiful on the nationwide hookup, "

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”His Saturday night speech will never go into the
archives as an important state document”, said the Washington News
( Scripps-Howard) . ”In content, context and delivery it was the
effort of a very tired and travel- worn man,

”Artemus Ward said of Napoleon: *He tried to do too much
and did it, •

"We* re not talking 1944 politics when we say we hope our
President and Commander in Chief in this time of super- tension will
heed the wisdom of that epigram. ”

"The press associations reported that he deviated from his
text to praise the newspapers and radio for keeping the secret of
his trip, so he must have been reading from a prepared manuscript”,
Marquis Childs wrote in the Washington Post. "But it had an extempo¬
raneous sound quite unlike the Roosevelt of 1936 and 1940,

"Perhaps it was the fatigue of a long voyage, although In
the past the President has been restored by a few days on a ship.
Perhaps it*s his intense preoccupation with the conduct of the war."

Nor did the President's added praise for the press and
radio silence his critics. Of course, they said, the press and radio
would protect when there was real military necessity but it was
argued that when he had accompar^ylng him on a supposedly wartime in¬
spection trip, Sara Rosenraan, his head political speech writer, Elmer
Davis, his No, 1 press agent, and Carleton Smith, White House radio
announcer, the thing was phoney and that in silencing the press and
radio at such a time, he was abusing his power of censorship. Especi¬
ally so, when stopped off in Chicago and had a secret political con¬

fab with National Chairman Hannegan and reportedly Boss Kelly,

Enroute to the West Coast, radio stations and newspapers
were flooded with calls from listeners and readers either tipping
them off that the President was there or accusing them of not knowing

what was going on or of not printing the news - the Inference being

if the stations and papers were holding out on that they were not
telling the truth on other things. It is believed that the President
was advised to add the praise to the press and radio as a result of
this criticism. However, it evidently has not done much to soothe
the broadcasters and publishers directly concerned,

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BOB KINTNER RECEIVES LEGION OF IrlERIT DECORATION

Upon his retirement from the Army to become a Vice-Presi¬
dent of the Blue Network, Lieut, Col. Robert E, Kintner was awarded
the Legion of Merit decoration. Colonel Kintner was recently given
a medical discharge. He has been with the War Department Bureau of
Public Relations, He was a former Washington correspondent for the
New York Herald Tribune, and a member of the famous writing team of
Alsop and Kintner,

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE SIDESTEPS FOREIG-N MERGER

In addition to making no provision whatever for increased
space for international short-wave broadcasting, although television,
and FM were takeicare of, the Joint government and Industry confer¬
ence on post-war world communications which was held in Washington
last week took no action on the proposed merger in foreign countries
of U, S. radio and cable companies. It had been reported that the
conference would consider this subject but the merger was not even
discussed, the idea evidently being that it was less pressing than
some of the other matters.

Every move made at the Washington gathering was toward the
speedy preparation of agenda for another International Telecommuni¬
cations Convention, such as the ones held at Madrid and Cairo,

Francis Colt de Wolf, new Chief of the Telecommunications Division
of the State Department, expressed the opinion, depending on war
conditions, that this Convention might be called early next year,
and urged that no time be lost. Accordingly, December 1st was the
date set for the Committees to complete proposals for our State
Department to submit to the forthcoming convention.

Three Committees were appointed to work out the details
between now and December, The Committee on Amendment of the 1932
International Telephone Communications Convention of Madrid Is head¬
ed by Harvey B, Otterman, Assistant Chief of the State Department’s
Telecommunications Division, and the Committee on the 1938 Calx*o
revision of general radio regulations, other than those pertaining
to allocations, by Capt, E, M. Webster, Chief of the Communications
Division of the United States Coast Guard,

The more technical phases of the changes involved, includ¬
ing frequency allocations, registration and other problems, have
been assigned to a committee of communications executives and engi¬
neers headed by Dr. J, H, Dellinger, Chief of the Radio Division of
the Bureau of Standards and Chairman of the State Department • s Techni¬
cal subcommittee in charge of the conference.

Referred to this Committee for consideration in connection
with the proposed amplification of the po^rs of the International
Telephone Communications Union with headquarters at Berne, Switzer¬
land, was a recommendation for an International Central Frequency
Board authorized not only to register but on occasion to reallocate
frequencies in the Interest of clarity of transmission and thus
avert “interference” which would otherwise result.

The Washington Star had this to say of the conference;

“The significance of the current meetings between a State
Department Committee and representatives of our radio and cable com¬
panies is that they are designed to work out an agreement on the
policy and program to be advocated by our Government at forthcoming
international conferences on world communications. Nothing could be
more important, for this is a subject that bears directly not merely

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upon American pocketbooks but upon the character of the next peace
as well,

"Shorn of its numerous technical aspects, at the risk of
some oversimplification, the picture of global communications can
be reduced to two basic facts. The first of these is that a British
monopoly, with 10 per cent participation by the British government,
controls 170,000 miles of cable networks and thus is dominant in
this field of communication. The second is that the United States
holds the commanding position on the international air waves, with
American companies leading all others in the number of radio cir¬
cuits operating to areas overseas, wholly apart from the remarkable
and unrivalled world-wide transmission system developed by the United
States Signal Corps since the start of the war,

"Though our pre-eminence in the radio field presents some¬
thing of a challenge to the British cable monopoly, however, it is
limited in many respects, not the least of which is the fact that it
is in part dependent on the use of terminals in British territory
under agreements scheduled to expire at the close of the war. Accord¬
ing to communications experts, the postwar competitive situation
will not be greatly changed unless a new international understanding
is reached, short of which nationals of the United States and other
countries, when they use the British cable, will continue to have to
pay from double to five times the rates charged British users. As
in the past, moreover, some American businessmen may again find
reason to complain that their commercial messages abroad, necessar¬
ily going through British control points, suffer delays helpful to
their competitors in Britain,

"Beyond this important pocketbook consideration, there is
the larger and much more significant issue of the free flow of news
between country and country, an issue whose world implications are
recognized in both the Democratic and Republican platforms for this
year* s presidential campaign. In an atmosphere of monopolistic
communications control and prohibitive and discriminatory rates,
suppression and distortion of information can readily flourish, which
is another way of saying that international misunderstandings and
frictions - prime breeders of war - can be set in motion. Surely,
in this field, as much as in any other, the family of nations should
feel impelled - for the sake of an enduring peace - to arrive at some
clear-cut agreement, "

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BLUE NET ANSWERS $1,000,000 WINCHELL LIBEL SUIT

The Blue Network Co,, Inc., in an answer filed in United
States District Court last week in Chicago, denied it had committed
any libel or slander against George Washington Robnett, Executive
Secretary of the Church League of America, Mr, Robnett had filed a
$1,000,000 libel suit against the network, also naming the Andrew
Jergens Co, and Walter Wlnchell,

The suit was based on Mr, Winchell*s broadcast of portions
of the book, "Under Cover", The network’s answer declared the broad¬
casts were transmitting a "fair and accurate report of facts and
conditions that had already taken place and with no intent of libel¬
ing or slandering Robnett, "

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FORESEES FIRST U. S, COAST- TO-COAST TELEVISION NETWORK

How the East and West may be linked In the first American
television network is shown on a double-page map in a profusely
illustrated new brochure on "Television" Just published by the
Department of Information of the Radio Corporation of America, of
which Orrin E, Dunlap, Jr, , is the Manager,

Ralph R, Beal, Assistant to the Vice-President in Charge
of RCA Laboratories, has predicted the day when Californians and
New Yorkers are going to see the seemingly fantastic spectacle
of two sunsets in a single day, 1 1 will be accomplished simply by
television transmitters in New York and California that scan sun¬
down horizons during the three-hour time differential. Not long
ago, it was news when radio listeners on the East Coast heard the
buzz of a bumble bee in Los Angeles, Now it is predicted that
Easterners will be able to see and hear the Western bumble bee, or
anything else that comes within the range of television* s electronic
eye.

The purpose of the brochure is to tell of the advances of
television.

"Out of the ingenuity of American Invention, research
and engineering, television is emerging as a potential billion-
dollar industry and service to the public. It moves in the fore¬
front of all the promises in the art and science of radio", an open¬
ing chapter on the "Progress and Promise of Television" sets forth,

"Plans for sigh t-and- sound broadcasting are taking defin¬
ite form. The radio-electronic field of production is alert to
revolutionary changes ahead. For, in providing the public the ulti¬
mate in service, manufacturers are fully aware that they must produce
good, economical home-television sets; networks must be linked; sta¬
tions built and equipped. That is in prospect as soon as industry
reconverts to peacetime enterprise, "

"Television’s movement has been speeded and its practical
service guaranteed by the magic of electronics. At the forefront
of this new art is Dr, V, K, Zworykin of RCA Laboratories, noted for
his invention of the Iconoscope - television’s electronic ’eye* -
and his development of the Kinescope, or electronic ’eye’ of the
receiver. Perfection of these cathode-ray tubes revolutionized
television and caused abandonment of mechanical scanning which ex¬
perimenters had used for years to prove that radio could see at a
distance.

"The progress of television to this point gives more than
an inkling of what is in store, "

Other chapters are captioned "David Samoff Introduces
Television", "RCA Establishes Pattern of Future", "Horae Owners
Assured High Quality Television", "Seemingly Fantastic Spectacles
To Be Seen", "Theater Television Has Great Promise", "Millions

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Might Pay To See Televised Events”, "Radio Relays For Television",
"Network Schedule For Nation", "Another Prospect : 'Eyes* Of Industry",
"Television’s Coming Market", "Television Means New Jobs and Joys",
and "Milestones in Television",

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WON SCRIPTS ORDERED IN CIO RADIO SUIT

The Mutual Broadcasting System and Station WON, Chicago,
Monday were directed to provide the Federal Communications Commis¬
sion with radio scripts of five speakers for use in connection with
a suit brought by a CIO union to prevent WHKC, Columbus, Ohio,
from renewing its license.

Speakers named in subpoenas for their scripts are Col,
Robert R, McCormick, Fulton Lewis, Jr.; Upton Close, Boake Carter
and Dewitt Emery.

The summonses were filed with the United States Marshal
in Chicago by Ben Meyers, attorney for the United Automobile, Air¬
craft and Agricultural Implement Workers, The union, in asking the
FCC to deny the Columbus station renewal of its license, alleged
the station discriminated against labor organizations by not allow¬
ing the UAW on the air for organization purposes and by censoring
its scripts.

The union contended the station allowed other organiza¬
tions to use its facilities without censorship to criticize the
New Deal, the CIO, Vice President Wallace, the Democratic party
and the CIO Political Action Committee,

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DAVIS APPOINTED GENERAL COUNSEL OF NAB

John Morgan Davis, Philadelphia attorney, has been appoint¬
ed General Counsel of the National Association of Broadcasters and
placed in charge of labor relations, Harold Ryan, NAB President has
announced, Mr, Davis, engaged in the practice of law in Philadel¬
phia, will retain his legal connections there and give general dir¬
ection and supervision to the NAB labor relations activity,

A. graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton
School of Finance and Commerce and of the law school, he alternated
his studies with broadcasting in 1989 when he became an announcer
at WLIT, Philadelphia. He later was employed at WCAU and returned
to WLIT as Assistant to the General Manager - and in 1935 when WFIL
was created through the merger of WLIT and WFI - he remained with
the combined operation.

Latin in 1935, Mr, Davis acquired an interest in Station
WBIG serving as Vice President and General Counsel, He has retained
that post continuously since,

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U, S, Sponsor Reported For ”Tolcyo Rose”

'•Tokyo Rose" and other Japanese propagandists will be
featured In a new program Idea over KYA, San Francisco, and sponsor¬
ed by Roos Bros., clothiers of San Francisco, If plans materialize.
Fomat of the new program, the first of its kind in the American
radio field, calls for the rebroadcast of Tokyo programs, recorded
by R, C, A, Communications,

The proposed program, which Don Federson, Manager of KYA,
and Eleanor Lyons, Advertising Manager of Roos Bros,, say has been
cleared through the FCC, the OWI and the Board of War Communications
will be launched within the next few days. It calls for the re¬
broadcasts of Tokyo excerpts, then an analysis by KYA news commenta¬
tors and editors, with the accompanying Navy or War Department cover
ing the same subjects whenever possible or feasible,

- ( Variety)

Want President To Make More Radio Talks

Many within the Administration have become acutely aware
that to most people, including those who once regarded him almost
as a personal friend, the President has become a strange and dis¬
tant figure. So, if they can get to him, they will urge him to make

a number of radio talks, * * ■«'

Whether the President will respond to pleas for a series
of radio talks is a question. He has been stubborn on this score
during the past two years even when the urging came from non-polit¬
ical sources. Many people leaving politics to one side, feel he

owes it to Americans everywhere to secret under wartime security,

On June 5 he made a short radio talk on the fall of Rome
and a few days later he appealed to war bond buyers but these were
not in the class of the fireside chats of an earlier day. * * *

The demands on the President to speak will become more
urgent, the nearer election day comes, particularly if it seems
likely to be close. He will be Implored to go on the air to save
Missouri, to save Kentucky, to save the labor vote, to save the
independent vote. It was that way in 1940,

- (Marquis Childs, in syndicated column

"Washington Calling")

Quentin Reynolds Convention Speech May Prove Boomerang

Ae expected, the speech by Quentin Reynolds before the
Democratic National Convention in Chicago has complicated his posi¬
tion as a news commentator available for sponsored network shows. At
least one client, who had an option on Reynolds for radio before the
convention^ now is a little bit leery about using him to plug his
product^.

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Feeling naturally Is that anyone giving news broadcasts
during the next three months Is bound to handle and Interpret
hundreds of items about the campaign and election. And it*8 no
secret, of course, that most of the business outfits possessed of
enough coin to bankroll a network show are lined up behind ”the
mustache ” in the current campaign,

- (Variety)

Hired ^200,000 Worth Of Radio Talent For His Campaign

Colonel T. H. Barton, wealthy oil man, one of the contend¬
ers for the Democratic Senatorial nomination in Arkansas, recently
toured the State with a 40-person opera company from Station WSM,
Nashville, reported to have cost him a thousand dollars a night. In
addition, rootin' tootin' "Uncle Mack" James McKrell toured the
State with the "Bible Lovers* Revival", most popular radio feature
in Little Rock, All of these people were on the colonel's payroll.
Some estimates have it that he spent a quarter of a million. Invest
igator Shillito told the Senate Committee that he probably spent
around |200,000,

- (Drew Pearson)

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POTENTIAL RADIO ADVERTISING IS ^2,403,000 A DAY

Editor & Publisher has received the following from Frank
Tripp, Chairman of the Allied Newspaper Council and the Bureau of
Advertising, American Newspaper Publishers* Association:

"In an off the record speech which I made at the April
meeting of the ANPA and which a month later was exclusively publish¬
ed in Editor & Publisher. I made the statement that a whole day from
7 A,M, to midnight, 17 hours daily, on all of the radio stations of
the land could be purchased for $1,382,109, I made the statement
that this was based upon the hourly rate of every station as of
April and allowed for" no discounts,

"I made the further statement, based upon the above con¬
clusions, that a whole year of time on all stations could be bought
for $504,469,785 and I stated that that figure constituted radio's
potential as of today,

"This statement was approximately true when using the hour
ly rates as a basis, but I have since obtained information which I
believe should be published. It is that based upon quarter hour
rates which are higher than hourly rates and allowing for income
available from station breaks and spot announcement advertising the
daily potential of all radio stations in the land is conservatively
$2,403,000 per day, or $877,095,000 for 365 days. Therefore this
last figure comes nearer radio's current potential than my figure
based upon hourly rates and in the spirit of fairness and accuracy
I hope you will publish these figures,

"Thus radio's potential compared with all daily and weekly
newspapers* potential becomes $877,095,000 for radio and $1,540,000-
000 for newspapers. "

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TRADE NOTES :

The price schedule that previously governed manufacturers’
maximum prices for consumer type radio receivers and phonographs has
been revoked, and the articles transferred to coverage by the regu¬
lation affecting most other consumers* durable goods, the Office
of Price Administration announced last week.

This transfer to coverage (effective today) was made
because the previous regulation covering the articles (Revised Price
Schedule 83) dealt only with price control problems that were acute
in 1948, before civilian production was completely shut off, and is
not suited to present conditions. In particular, it does not pro¬
vide a method for pricing new models of radio receivers and phono¬
graphs.

Pending the formation of an Industry Advisory Committee to
assist OPA in formulating a new specific regulation covering consum¬
er type radio receivers and phonographs, the pricing formulas of
Maximum Price Regulation 188 will be in effect.

American Amy and Navy guns of all sizes are blasting the
enemy on every war front with more deadly effectiveness than ever
before because of amazingly accurate muzzle velocity measurements,
as precise as 1/100,000 of a second, made possible by a new electron¬
ic time-interval counter developed in RCA Laboratories at Princeton,
N. J.

Station WELD, at Columbus, Ohio, which has for its slogan
"Ohio’s Foremost FM Station" has Just Issued a 16-page illustrated
booklet in which the station "presents its story of Facsimile",

"Get Ready Now to Sell Television" is the title of a new
guidebook for merchants and distributors. Just Issued by Caldwell-
Clements, Inc, , 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, The book describes
types of television sets to be brought out postwar by all principal
manufacturers, retail prices, communities planning stations, complete
video vocabulary, and answers to frequent questions asked about tele¬
vision, FCC Chairman James L, Fly contributes a foreword to the
volume, compiled under the editorial direction of Dr, Orestes H,
Caldwell, fomer Federal Radio Commissioner, and M. Clements,

For the sixth consecutive yea,r the World Series will be
broadcast exclusively over the facilities of the Mutual Broadcasting
System under the sponsorship of the Gillette Safety Razor Co, of
Boston, Mass, More than 250 stations will be linked coast to coast
and in Canada,

Development of an explosion-proof storage battery which
the Navy Department designed and worked with the philco Storage Bat¬
tery Division to put into mass production for urgent war uses, was
revealed by M, W, Heinritz, Vice-President in Charge of the Storage
Battery Division of Philco Corporation, recently.

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Heinl Radio Business Letter

No New Radios Until Germany Surrenders Industry Told ••••••••• 1

Radio Set Makers Lose No Time Making Reconversion Plans •••••• 2

Despite Control Pear Stations Doing 0»K« New Dealer Says . 5

Gould New "Times" Radio Editor; Hutchens Goes Literary . 5

Great Majority Living Up To NAB Code Says Edgar Bill . 6

Charges Concealment of Jap Indian Ocean Sub Activities . 7

WPB Eases Wholesale Radio Distributors Restrictions . . . 8

Busy Schedule For NAB Chicago Vifar Conference Next Week . . . 9

PM For 100,000,000 After Vsfar Says PM Broadcasters . . 9

Says Tele Entered Vifar Adolescent— ViJiii Emerge Adult 10

Something New in Sound Effects— Announcer Biopped On Air ••••• 11

E* Anthony ^ Sons Seek Boston Television Station . . 11

Salvage of Old Model "Walkie-Talkies" . 12

Hules Amended For Different Day and Night Transmitters •••••.. 12

Scissors and Paste . . . . . l4

Trade Notes . . . 1$

No* l6ijl}.

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August 23, 1944.

NO NEW RADIOS UNTIL GERMANY SURRENDERS INDUSTRY TOLD

If you know how long It will be before Germany collapses you
can tell when the manufacturing of civilian radio sets will be resumed.
Not until then the War Production Board Radio Industry Advisory Com¬
mittee was told when it met in Washington last week will there be any
new radios. Since no one knows when Germany will throw up the sponge
that makes the date any one’s guess but WPB officials held out very
little hope that there would be anything doing this year.

These officials told the advisory committee that the radio¬
radar production program for 1944 must continue upward through next
December and about 16.4 per cent above the July output rate. Army and
Navy officials concurred in this estimate of over-all Increase during
the remainder of the year.

WPB Vice Chairman Wilson said:

"Many government controls may be removed after Germany sur¬
renders and the over-all war production program will be reduced by
about 40 per cent."

Mr. Wilson said that controls would be removed as soon as
possible, but urged the radio and radar industry to maintain its
present high levels of war production until after Germany surrenders.

Both Vice Chairman Wilson and Ray C. Ellis, director of V/PB’s
Radio and Radar Division, who presided at the meeting, told the com¬
mittee that cutbacks, after the collapse of Germany, might yield a
sufficient supply of raw materials to enable civilian production with¬
out quota restrictions since the amounts of steel, copper, and other
raw materials needed by the radio industry are ccrnparatively small.

In any event, there will be no authorizations for civilian production,
beyond that currently permitted, until after the German collapse, of¬
ficials advised the committee.

In discussing the "spot" authorization order of August 15,

WPB officials pointed out that radio, as well as automobile, electric
refrigerator and washing machine production, was excluded from the
civilian output program. They said that though some WPB limitation
orders have been rescinded or modified in the present civilian program,
the L-265 order restricting civilian radio production was left un¬
touched. Forthcoming OPA price ceilings also discussed by the com¬
mittee. Mr. Jacobs, of the OPA Radio Section, said that OPA advisory
committees of sets and parts manufacturers would soon be announced and
meetings arranged in mid-September to work out specific civilian price
ranges .

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Also discussed was the manpower situation, which was reported
as "spotty,'' especially in Chicago, New York and Philadelphia. Sug¬
gestions also were made for more adequate information to manufacturers
regarding program reductions in cutback procedures on "V" Day. The
methods providing for such information are being arranged by the V/PB
radio and rqdar staff together with the Array and Navy. The spreading
of contracts and equalization of the war production program was urged
upon the committee by government officials. The V/PB components re¬
covery plan was discussed. Radio manufacturers suggested better des¬
criptions of items and more speedy distribution of information regard¬
ing available components for war production. Committee members ad¬
vised WPB that components were in adequate supply.

The WPB Radio Industry Advisory committee follows; M. P.
Balcom, Sylvania Electric Products, Emporium, Pa.; M. Cohen, F. W.
Sickles Co., Springfield, Mass.; R. C. Cosgrove, Crosley Radio Gorp.,
Cincinnati; W. P. Milliard, Bendix Radio, Baltimore; V'/. S. Hosford,
Western Electric Company, New York City; E. E. Lewis, RCA Corp.,
Camden, N. J.; G. W. Kenyan, General Electric Company, Schenectady;

E. A. Nicholas, Farnsworth Television & Radio Corp., Fort Wayne, Ind.;
P. L. Schoenen, Hamilton Radio Corp., New York City; Joseph M. Spain,
Packard Bell Company, Los Angeles; A. S. Wells, Wells-Gardner Company,
Chicago; and F. D. Williams, Philco Corp., Philadelphia.

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RADIO SET MAKERS LOSS NO TIME MAiCING RECONVERSION PLANS

Notwithstanding the fact that WFB has given notice that the
production of civilian radio sets will not be resumed until after
Germany surrenders, the radio manufacturing industry is going ahead
with its reconversion plans as well as its war program, both of v/hich
will be considered at a meeting of entire Board of Directors of the
Radio Manufacturers Association called by its President, R. C. Cosgrove,
of the Crosley Radio Corporation, Thursday, September 21, in New York
City.

Preceding the RMA Board session in New York next month, there
will be meetings of several committees. Chairman R. C. Sprague of
the Parts Division has called a meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 19. Postwar
employment of returning servicemen and also other personnel problems
will be considered on Wednesday, Sept. 20, of the Employment and Per¬
sonnel Committee, of which G. W. Thompson is Chairman. Tiie executive
committee of the RMA Engineering Department, Dr. W.R.G. Baker, of
General Electric, chairman, will be held in New York September 6.

The RMA Advertising Committee at its recent meeting in Phila¬
delphia began a program to explain the gigantic contributions of the
radio-electronic companies to the war effort and inform the public that
no "miracle" radios may be expected as soon as civilian production is
resumed, but that there will be substantial improvements from war ex¬
periences. The committee members were guests of Philco and witnessed
a television demonstration. The next meeting of the committee will be
in Chicago in October with the Zenith Radio Corporation as the hosts.

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Industry cooperation with the Defense Supplies Corooration on
disposal of war surpluses was considered at a conference in Washington
last week of an RMA Industry Reconversion Subcommittee. Plans by set
as well as parts manufacturers to assist in classification of econom.-
ically usable surpluses or those to be scrapped were considered in de¬
tail .

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DESPITE CONTROL PEAR STATIONS DOING O.K. NEW DEALER SAYS

Lowell Mellett, hailed by President Roosevelt as a columnist
who at last would tell the people the truth, is a trifle caustic about
the broadcasting situation. Mr. Mellett, of the well Imown Mellett
newspaper family, and former (/Vhite House secretary, last week wrote in
the WASHINGTON STAR and other newspapers that print his syndicated
column:

"From time to time our free air is filled with magnificent
nonsense. Referring, not to what we hear on the radio, but to what we
hear about radio.

"An effort has been made to convince the American people
that freedom of the airwaves is in dire danger because of Government
control. Passionate speeches have been made in Congress. Editorial
writers have viewed with alarm. The basis for all this is the law
under which a radio station must have a Government license, renewable
every three years, in order to operate. The result, we have been told,
is that radio folks cannot call their souls their own.

"As expressed by Neville Miller, president of the National
Association of Broadcasters, before a Senate committee: "Today uncer¬
tainty underlies the whole basis of the relationship between the
Federal Communications Commission and the licensee. Eligible and
reputable persons are dissuaded from making investments in the broad¬
cast field because of this fact.

"And by Niles Trammell, president of the National Broadcast¬
ing Co.: 'If American radio is to remain the greatest radio service
in the world, it must be given new freedom from fear, the feat of the
blight of Government control.'

"And by William S. Paley, president of Columbia Broadcasting
System: *I have become convinced that radio, in Lincoln's phrase, can¬
not exist half slave and half free.'

"Of the newspaper editorials, this one from the Memphis Com¬
mercial Appeal sums up what a lot of others have said: 'As things go,
the FCC has a noose around the neck of radio and is anxious to find
any excuse to jerk the rope tight.'

"How true is this and how real these fears? There is a
record on the subject that provides the answers.

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"It is said that the most timid thing in the world is money.

It doesn*t have to be said that hard-headed American businessmen don* t
buy nooses for their own necks. They don’t buy radio stations for the
fun of being half slave and half free. Are they ’being dissuaded
from making investments in the broadcast field?’

"Forget the four networks. (They are doing right well, by the
way. NBC, which in 1942 earned a return before income tax, of 137
per cent on the value of its property, in 1943 earned 190 per cent.

The Blue Network, with a return of only 8 per cent in 1942, earned
149 per cent in 1943. CBS Increased its return from 97 per cent to
158 per cent. The Mutual Netv/ork went up from 59 per cent to 84 per
cent . )

"Consider the individual 3tations--whose net Income, between
1942 and 1943, increased 50 per cent. Much new money is being invested
in stations. Since the first of January many transfers involving the
payment of big money have occurred. Prices have ranged from $100,000
to a million dollars.

"The FCC found that Station WINX, 250-watt, operating in
Washington on a local channel, had total assets, tangible and intan¬
gible, according to its own books, of only $48,254. For the year
1943, its net income before Federal taxes, was only $20,186. Yet WINX
was sold this summer for $500,000--to Eugene Meyer, publisher of the
WASHINGTON POST, who wears no man’s noose.

"But, you may say, Mr. Meyer had other than business reasons
for buying, a desire, perhaps, to make his voice heard in the National
Capital. Take then the case of Station WJLD, Bessemer, Ala. A nice
little property worth, according to its own books, only $14,236. Last
year its net income before Federal taxes and before paying the pro¬
prietor’s salary, was only $4,966. Somebody bought that station last
month for $106,000.

"There are dozens of such examples, but take as a final one
WQXR. The New York Times, following the trend of newspapers into the
broadcasting business, has purchased Station WQXR, whose net worth is
given as $227,037. For this property the Times has pungled up one
million cold hard dollars.

"Observing this hot desire to buy into the radio business,
the American people probably will get over their fear, if they have
any, that there may be something sinister in the law establishing
Government control or in the Government agency exercising that control.

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A talk "The American System of Broadcasting" given by Frank
E. Mullen, vice-president and general manager of the National Broad¬
casting Company to the New York University Summer Radio Workshop last
month has been reprinted in pamphlet form. In this address Mr. Mullen
raised two questions in connection with our broadcasting system (a)
What makes it a system; (b) What makes it American?

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GOULD NEW "TIMES” RADIO EDITOR; HUTCHENS GOES LITERARY

Jack Gould, well known to the broadcasting industry for his
coverage of the ASCAP fight, the Petrillo strike, the Columbia tele¬
vision row and other big stories has succeeded John K. Hutchens as
Radio Editor of the NEvV YORK TIMES. Mr. Hutchens yielding to an en¬
ticing offer, and one very much to his taste, has joined the staff of
Robert Van Gelder TIMES Book Reviev/ Editor.

Mr. Gould is one of those rare individuals y/ho was bom in
New York City and didn’t go to the great city from somewhere else.

He went to the TIMES in 1937 ( as a member of the drama department)
from the NEW YORK HERALD-TRIBUME where for 5 years he had been a crack
general reporter specializing in show business trade stories (union
matters mostly). Gould stayed in the drama department until the summer
of 1941, during which time he was Night Club Editor. He was described
by a close associate as "one of the best general news hav/ks in the
business." Mr. Gould was away from the paper on leave for six months
or so in 1941-42 joining the radio department in the summer of ’42.

Jolin Hutchens, born in Chicago, went to New York via Montana
and the West in the fall of 1927 to the NEW YORK POST where he was
Film Critic and Assistant Dparas Editor. He was a member of the TIMES
drama department from 1929-32 and 1934-38; Drama Editor of the BOSTON
TRANSCRIPT from 1938 to 1941 and Radio Editor of the NKW YORK TIMES
from the summer of 1941 until now. (During that 1932-34 gap Mr.
Hutchens was travelling in Europe).

Sidney Lohman, who has also been with the TIMES for many
years and an important man in the radio department, now moves up a
notch and takes over the radio program gossip column "One Thing and
Another" and other features whi^ Mr. Gould has been doing.

Tom Kennedy who was one of the country’s first radio editors,
carries on as the Associate Radio Editor of the TIMES. Out of Carnegie
Institute of Technology in 1915 Mr. Kennedy served in the Navy in a
radio engineering capacity in World War I, then became Radio Editor of
the PITTSBURGH POST and SUN in 1925, Technical Radio Editor, PHILADEL¬
PHIA EVENING LEDGER 1926 and a specialist in engineering and radio
industry matters with the TIMES since 1927.

The first radio executive of the TIMES was Orrin E. Dunlap',
Jr., who was a wireless operator in the first World War. A graduate
of Colgate and the Harvard Business School, he was on the TIMES for
18 years. He is the author of the only authorized biography of
Marconi, and of numerous books on radio and television. Mr. Dunlap
is now Director of Advertising and Publicity of the Radio Corporation
of America.

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Tom Treanor, 35 years old, correspondent for the National
Broadcasting Company and the Los Angeles Times, was killed on the
road to Paris last Saturday. A Third Array jeep in which Mr. Treanor
was riding was run over by a tank.

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GREAT MAJORITY LIVING UP TO NAB CODE SAYS EDGAR BILL

A reassuring report on the way the National Association of
Broadcasters Code of Ethics is working is given by Edgar L. Bill,
President of WMBD, Peoria, chairman of the NAB Public Relations Com¬
mittee. In a special program managers bulletin issued by the NAB
August 18 Mr. Bill writes:

"The NAB Code is the result of the experiences of hundreds of
broadcasters in all parts of the country. The Code outlines basic
standards of good programming and it was made for the purpose of be¬
ing a guide to individual stations. It was adopted by the NAB con¬
vention in 1939 in a much milder form than originated by the Committee.
It is always subject to additions and change as we see the need for it.

"No one will make you as a program manager carry out the Code.
Its enforcement is voluntary. However, the broadcasting industry as
a whole has said it is sound, it is good business, and it is common
sense .

"The great majority of radio stations do live up to the Code.
The few that fail to live up to it usually do so because they are hav¬
ing financial troubles and they let down the bars to get the business
or becaise they are short sighted and selfish. The radio facilities
we work with are very limited. There are many who would like to get
into the business but it is Impossible. It is a special privilege to
own and operate a radio station, isn't it? And radio is a powerful
influence in educating, informing, entertaining, and molding public
opinion. Then that makes our job as operators of radio stations a
public trust. We are regulated by law and by government commission.

In reality we are regulated to a greater extent by public opinion.

Every minute we are on the air we are bidding for the good will of the
listener. When the public or any part of it thinks we are not making
the best use of radio, the public will then ask for more regulations.

"At regular intervals public opinion sticks its head up
against radio. A few years ago it was the problem of children's pro¬
grams, too much commercial copy and plug uglies. Later it was a ques¬
tion of fair distribution of time for controversial Issues. More re¬
cently it has been on the question of our news policy and radio can-
mentat ors .

"The big question in the minds of all radio operators is what
the future will bring. Will radio be a medium of free speech or will
it be operated or further regulated by the government? That is an¬
other way of asking if radio can operate itself, take responsibility
in good program building and be fair to all sides in its discussions.

"After four and a half years of having a Code for our industry.,
there are still some stations that hide behind the Code rather than
make full use of it. They use it as armor against the things they do
not want to do rather than taking advantage of it. One station that
disregards the Code brings on public criticism that hurts the whole
industry.

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"The future of radio depends upon how well we are operators ,
live up to our oublic responsibility and our tremendous opportunity in
programming. That is the reason why we should follow our Code and make
use of it in all of our programming.'*

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CHARGES CONCEALMENT OF JAP INDIAN OCEAN SUB ACTIVITIES

In a letter to Editor of the WASHINGTON STAR last week F. P.
Guthrie, District Manager of RCA Communications, Inc., wrote:

"I cannot refrain from protesting against the editorial,

’’The U-Boat Defeat," which appeared in The Star of August 11, the same
issue which listed my dear son as "missing in action" in the Asiatic
area. The account of the dastardly attack on his ship, the sinking of
the lifeboats and the murdering of the victims was carried only in
your final edition of July 31.

Your editorial gives the impression that the U-boat menace
is a thing of the past. There seems to be a campaign of concealment
of the field-day the Japanese U-boats are having in the Indian Ocean,
where our boys are sent on slow cargo boats, not in convoy nor escorted
in any manner. Why is not something done about that? They say the
British are in charge in the Indian Ocean, but that circumstance does
not absolve the United States authorities of responsibility for sending
our boys to be murdered by the Jap U-boats without any protection what¬
ever."

The account which appeared in the STAR July 31 which Mr.
Guthrie referred to read:

"Roy Porter of NBC broadcast today from Chengtu, China, a
story of the slaying of about three-quarters of the crew of a United
States Liberty ship in the Indian Ocean in mid-June by seamen of a
Japanese submarine.

"Mr. Porter said the story was substantiated by an American
who recently arrived in China. Of about 100 crew members of the ship
only 23 were saved and hospitalized following their rescue by a United
States scouting plane. Among the survivors, Mr. Porter said, are
Capt. John Gussack, Brooklyn, and the shlp*s first engineer, Charles
Pyle, Lodi, Calif.

"According to the story, Mr. Porter said, the American ship
was first torpedoed, the crew members taking to lifeboats. Then the
enemy sub surfaced and ordered all the Americans to the foredeck, where
they were beaten and tortured, their hands tied behind their backs.

Many were killed and their bodies kicked overboard, Mr. Porter added.

"The orgy ended only when a scout plane approached and the
Japanese vessel submerged, leaving the surviving seamen threshing in
the water, their hands still tied. They were finally rescued after 15
hours in the water."

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The connecting link was the name Gussack as Capt. Walter
Guthrie, Mr. Guthrie’s son had written him from Australia that one of
his room mates was a Capt. Gussack.

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WPB JSASES WHOLESALE RADIO DISTRIBUTORS RESTRICTIONS

Lifting of important restrictions governing wholesale radio
distributors was announced Monday by Ray C. Ellis, director of the
Radio and Radar Division of the War Production Board.

As a result of a revision of the radio and radar section of
Priorities Regulation 13, WPB said, wholesale radio distributors will
be in a position to offer substantial aid to the war effort.

The relaxed order establishes a rating floor of AA-5 or
better for all wholesale distributors, who may now obtain stocks to
meet the emergency requirements of prime contractors from idle and ex¬
cess component stocks that are on hand in other contractor plants.

Prior to the revision of PR-13, wholesale radio distributors
were not permitted to purchase electronic parts of equipment without
special sales authorization from WPB.

WPB officials explained that the revision is not intended
to permit stockpiling by wholesale distributors, but is primarily in¬
tended to implement the movement of idle and excess stocks, and also
to allow wholesale radio jobbers to fill rated orders for electronic
parts .

WPB officials believe that this forv/ard movement in establish*
ing an AA-5 rating floor will result in stimulating and expediting ful¬
filment of prime contractor short range requirements with hitherto un¬
precedented speed and precision. The freeing of certified rejected
components without priorities, from idle and excess stocks, minimizes
paper work and also marks material that has no military significance
immediately available for other uses, it was explained.

Another Important revision in the order includes the free
sale of rejected components to wholesale radio distributors without
priorities. Under the order, distributors may purchase rejected com¬
ponents direct from the prime contractor’s idle and excess stock with¬
out coming to headquarters for approval.

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The Board of Directors of Philco Corporation last week de¬
clared a dividend of twenty cents ( 20/) per share of common stock.
Previous dividend was 20/ per share paid last June.

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BUSY SCHEDULE FOR NAB CHICAGO WAR CONFERENCE NEXT WEEK

Every minute will be made to count at the National Association
of Broadcasters Executives War Conference in Chicago next week. Com¬
mittee meetings will start the ball rolling Monday, August 28, with a
dinner meeting of the NAB Board. J. Harold Ryan will keynote the
opening session Tuesday morning, August 29, "Radio Broadcasting and
the War Effort." There will be a Broadcast Advertising Clinic par¬
ticipated in by Paul W. Morency of ’VTIC, Hartford, Conn., John M. Cutler,
Jr., WSB, Atlanta, T.A.M. Craven of the Iowa Broadcasting Co., and
others.

Assistant Secretary of War for Air Robert A. Lovett will
address the general luncheon Tuesday. Edgar Bill, of WMBD Peoria,
Chairman of the NAB Public Relations Executive Committee, will preside
over the Public Relations Clinic at 2:15 p.ra. Wednesday morning at
9:30 o’clock, a session will be devoted to station coverage and at 11
o’clock a business session of NAB.

Chairman J. L. Fly of the FCC will address the Wednesday
luncheon and at 2:15 the Small Market Station Panel will convene, at
3:15 the 6th War Loan will be discussed, and at 3:35 p.m. the Music
Clinic will meet. Thursday morning at 9:30 the Labor Clinic will have
the floor, and at 11 o’clock the Legislative Committee will take over.
Thursday afternoon the post-war future of broadcasting, television,

FM, and facsimile will be the topic for discussion with T.A.M. Craven
presiding and Paul Chamberlain, GEj Thomas F. Joyce, RCA; W. B. Lodge,
CBS; Niles Trammell, NBC; Major Armstrong and others taking part. The
conference will wind up with ai\ NAB Board of Directors meeting Friday.

Unofficial gatherings in connection with the Broadcasters
War Conference are on Monday Blue Networks Affiliates Business Meeting,
CBS Districts Nos. 2 and 6 Businessiueeting, NBC Parade of Stars and
MBS Affiliates Business meeting, NBG, Blue, MBS, Affiliates Cocktail
parties and Blue Net Affiliates Dinner# Tuesday, Keystone Broadcasting
System Affiliates Business Meeting and CBS Advisory Board and Keystone
Affiliates Dinner.

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FM FOR 100,000,000 AFTER WAR SAY PM BROADCASTERS

Static-free, high fidelity radio will be ready for
100,000,000 Americans after the war through use of Frequency Modulation,
an improved system of broadcasting better known as FM, according to FM
Broadcasters, Inc., who continue: "These millions reside within areas
totalling 2,000,000 a(^uare miles which will be served by stations now
on the air and those planned to date.

"FM was ready before the war. An estimated 500,000 FM re¬
ceivers are now in use. But only 46 PI^I stations have been able to
complete construction because the armed forces have taken over all
production for use in battle communications.

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’’Last winter when there were 42 FM stations and 62 applica¬
tions filed with the Federal Communications Commission for permission
to build, industry leaders predicted the manufacture of 5,000,000 FM
sets within a year after the war and 20,000,000 in public hands with¬
in four years.

"But recent events have scuttled their predictions. There
are now 210 requests at the FCC for PM stations. These are represen¬
tative of 150 metropolitan communities located in all but nine of the
less-densely populated western states. They constitute a heavy
majority of the nation’s buying power and advertising, the industry’s
life blood, has been taking notice."

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SAYS TELE ENTERED WAR ADOLESCENT -- WILL EMERGE ADULT

"Television entered the war an adolescent. It will emerge
an adult. Like our young men who have been similarly catapulted into
maturity, it may come home to a family anxious to Impose upon it old
habits and a planned career, which it has outgrown."

Thus wrote Alan Barth in an article "Television Comes of
Age" in the July 29 issue of the NATION. Mr. Barth declared that the
"war blasted the lid off" television and told about the "hot contro¬
versy" the Columbia Broadcasting System recently stirred up over tele¬
vision. Columbia liked the article so well that it reprinted it and
is now giving it the widest distribution saying:

"The words which Mr. Barth wrote for the NATION are so clear
and informative that we think you will find thorn worth reading. * *

It is in our opinion one of the most thoughtful and lucid appraisals
which has been written concerning the post war prospects for better
television pictures."

Referring to the Columbia controversy Mr. Barth, who is an
editorial writer on the WASHINGTON POST wrote:

"The CBS proposal has stirred up a hot controversy in the
radio tr^de. Two objections to it have been raised, apart from the
fact that it has not yet been incontrovertibly proved feasible. One
is that the entire prewar investment in television -- the transmitters
of pioneer broadcasters as well as the seven thousand receiving sets
in the hands of the public — would have to be scrapped. The other is
that the change-over would retard production and employment in the in¬
dustry in the immediate postwar period.

"These objections have been voiced most volubly by Niles
Trammell, president of the National Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary
of the Radio Corporation of America. While CBS is interested exclusive¬
ly in broadcasting, not in manufacturing, postponement of production
would work a real hardship upon RCA, which possesses the facilities,
the dies, and the know-how to turn out prewar television transmitters

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and receivers as soon as the materials become available. Philco,
Dumont, *and Emerson, all makers of equipment, feel much the same way.
Zenith and Westinghouse, though manufacturers, are squarely on the side
of CBS. General Electric and Farnsworth have taken no part in the
controversy. General Electric, indeed, has accepted an order to turn
out the first postwar ultra-high-frequency transmitter for Columbia.”

XXXXXXXX

SOMETHING NEW IN SOUND EFFECTS -- ANNOUNCER BLOPPED ON AIR

There was something entirely new in sound effects last
Monday night at Station WINX in Washington when two announcers Sam
Brown and Tony Wakeman engaged in a free for all fight while they
were on the air. Brown allegedly interrupted a sports broadcast by
Wakeman by allegedly blopping him over the head with the leg of a
piano. Station officials said the trouble was caused by the two
announcers disagreeing as to who would broadcast results of the third
race at Washington Park, a feature with a wide following in Washington
since the total is part of a "numbers” figure.

Whatever the cause the radio audience heard what a real
fight sounds like over the air. As a result of the fracas Brown
charged with assault was arrested but later released on ^1,000 bail
for arraignment in Municipal Court today (Wednesday). The incident
attracted considerable attention because WINX was recently purchased
by Eugene Meyer, Publisher of the WASHINGTON POST and the station is
now going through the process of reorganization.

XXXXXXXX

E. ANTHONY & SONS SEEK BOSTON TELEVISICN STATION

E. Anthony & Sons, licensees of Station "vVNBH at New Bedford,
Mass., and WOCB at West Yarmouth, have applied for a license for a
commercial television station in Boston to be operated on channel #2
(60,000-66,000 kc). The Anthony Company likewise recently applied for
a television at Providence, R. I.

XXXXXXXX

The RMA Parts Division, of which Robert C. Sprague is
chairman, will join in sponsorship of the "Electronic Parts and Equlp'
ment Industry Conference,” in October in Chicago. This will give the
October meeting sponsorship of four organizations, including the
National Electronic Distributors Association, the newly organized
Association of Electronic Parts and Equipment Manufacturers, and the
Sales Managers Group, Eastern Division.

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SALVAGE OF OLD MODEL "WALKIE-TALKIES"

As new model "walkie-talkie" radio sets become available
for Army troops overseas and in the United States, soldiers at signal
depots are salvaging virtually "everything but the squeal" from the
older models, following instructions distributed by the Signal Corps
of the Array Service Forces.

The exception of the squeal is made advisedly, since one
of the reasons for replacement of the early sets, now rated as obso¬
lete, is that sane receivers had a tendency to re-radiate energy in
the form of high-pitched signals. In combat areas these unintended
broadcasts could be picked up by the enemy, sometimes with disastrous
resultd to the radiomen.

Signal depot men are instructed to disassemble the old
models, known as the SCH-194 and 195, and recover eighty-five parts,
including twenty-seven items which, after inspection and recondition¬
ing, can be used in or with other Signal Corps equipment.

Most of the capacitors, resistors, switches and sockets,
and such individual articles as transformers, handsets, volt-meters,
and antennas are either direct replacements or substitutes for similar
components on other transmitting-receiving sets used by the Array. Even
the two quartz crystals used in the old "walkie-talkie" can be turned
over to a Signal Corps field grinding team for regrinding and further
use. Nuts, screws and washers are neatly sorted and kept for general
hardware stock. An example of the meticulous care of the conservation
program is the War Department's recommendation that "in removing items
such as resistors and capacitors, care should be taken to keep any
attacked pigtail leads as long as possible. In the event that the
pigtail leads are less than one inch in length, the item should be
salvaged."

The new "walkie-talkie," known as the SCR-300, has a super¬
heterodyne receiver, as did its predecessor, but the offending squeal
is mercifully missing. Other improvements include tripled transmitting
range, using the FM (frequency modulation) principle, an extra goose¬
neck antenna which enables the user to remain Inconspicuous while
lying on the ground or in a foxhole, and a thorough water-resisting and
fungus-resisting treatment.

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RULES AMENDED FOR DIFFERENT DAY AND NIGHT TRANSMITTERS

The Commission en banc last Tuesday amended Section 3.64
of its Rules Governing Standard Broadcast Stations in order to permit
a station operating with different power day and night to obtain a
license authorizing the use of alternate transmitters of different
power for day and night use.

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In order to accommodate those whose requests had to be
turned down because of the more limited capacity of Carnegie Hall
the N. Y* Philharmonic- Symphony Concert Sunday, October 1, will be
broadcast by CBS from Madison Square Garden. Admission will be by
tickets given out by the U. S. Rubber Canpany.

With the broadcast of October 8 the broadcasts again will
come from Carnegie Hall as the orchestra begins its regular season.

A new Pyrannol radlo-noise-suppresslon capacitor, specially
designed to reduce radio-noise voltage from generators, inverters,
motors, and other equipment, has recently been announced by the
General Electric Company. The capacitors are of the thini-stud type
with a terminal at each end. One line of a d-o or a-c power circuit
can be "fed” through the unit, thereby reducing internal Inductance
and resistance, and increasing filter efficiency for a given capaci -
tance. The oapieltors are especially effective in reducing radio
noice at higher frequencies.

Television in post-war years, functioning in combination
with fleets of airplanes and other electronic devices, will be one
of the nation’s most potent aids in crime prevention and law enforce¬
ment, Prank J. Wilson, chief of the Secret Service, said in Cleveland
in a talk broadcast by NBC from the Slat Annual Conference ofl the
International Association of Chiefs of Police.

Allen B. Dumont addressed the graduating class of the
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, N. Y. and received the
honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering*

Mr. DuMont, who is president of the Allen B. DuMont Labora¬
tories, Inc. and a graduate of RPI in 1924, was cited particularly
as "a pioneer in the development and use of the Cathode-ray tube,
which today, is the heart of the weapon radar." He also improved the
science and art of television, the citation added.

Station KALE of Portland, Ore. has been granted consent to
transfer of control of station KALE, from C. W. Myers and Mrs. Jose¬
phine Hunt, to the Portland Journal Publishing Co., Involving transfer
of 800 share, or 66-2/3?^ of Issued and outstanding capital stock of
KALE, Inc., to the Journal Pub. Co., in consideration of the transfer
to Mr. Myers and Mrs. Hunt, share and share alike, of 250 shares, or
25^ of Class A voting Common stock, and 250 shares or 25/^, of Class B
non-voting Common stock of KOIN, Inc., owned by the Journal Pub. Co.

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SCISSORS AND PASTE

Arthur Krock on FDR^s Bremerton Broadcast

One thing on which both Republicans and Roosevelt friends
agree is that his Bremerton Navy Yard radio address fell flat, lacked
the old F.D.R* zingo. Inside fact is that the President prepared the
speech cold, without any outside help. No "ghosts’* were along.

It was reported that Judge Samuel I. Rosenman was along on
the entire trip and helped draft the Bremerton talk. Real fact, how¬
ever, is that Rosenman and Elmer DaVis, OWI chief, left the President
at Pearl Harbor. Davis flew on to Saipan and Guam, Rosenman back to
the White House.

NOTE — One friend, listening to the President’s broadcast,
remarked: "It’s so bad that ’Pa’ Watson must have written it."

- (Drew Pearson in "Washington Post")

Cowles Talk Reverberating

AN ALL-TIME RECORD for pro and con discussion, of interest
to promotion men particularly. In the trade press is being established
by the talk of John Cowles, publisher of the Minneapolis Star-Journal
and Tribune, which was delivered before the NNPA convention in New York
in April. Mr. Cowles advocated the formation of newspaper networks
similar to radio networks as a way of making it easier for the adver¬
tiser and obtaining more national linage. The arguments between those
approving and disapproving are still going on four months later.

- (Editor & Publisher

Soundproof Home Answer to Nel^bor’s Loud Radio

I was Interested in E. W. A. ’s letter complaining of radio
noises, but he should cheer up. It isn’t necessary that he hear his
neighbor’s radio, nor even his neighbor; it only happens because the
building code doesn’t yet require soundproofing in residential build¬
ings, although for health reasons it should.

His "dream home" can be so soundproofed that he still can
have a radio*

In this field, in my experience. New York and Washington
are far behind London, where apartment buildings with any pretension to
being modern are planned and detailed to reduce airborne and impact
noises to a minimum.

I know of one farily new apartment building here in Washing¬
ton in which every step taken by the tenant above is distinctly heard,
the lower tenant often being awakened by them during the night.

The home I dream of in the future also will be soundproofed.

- (Harry Barrett in a letter to the Editor of the TfWashington Star")

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INDEX TO ISSUE OF AUGUST 30, 1944

"War Proves Soundness U. S. Broadcasting Sj^^stera" -- Ryan ...... 1

Po You Know About The 4th Chime? Book Dedicated To It . 2

Industry Must Grab FM, Tele, or Others Will, Craven Warns . 3

Corre ction . . . . 5

Alice Keith Tells How To Speak and Write For Radio . . . 6

Democrats Appoint Radio Division Farm Director . 6

FDR Broadcast Status Still Mixed Despite War Dept. Grant . 7

Not Political, Eh? Asked Re War Dept* FDR Ruling . 9

Calls War Dept. FDR Broadcast Decision Dismal Failure . 10

War Forces Competitors to Use Same Outlet For Duration ........10

CBS Puts In Washington Station Relations Executive . 11

Trade Notes . . . 12

Scissors and Paste . . . . 13

No. 1645

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"WAR PROVES SOUNDNESS U. S. BROADCASTING SYSTEM" — RYAl-I

Opening the National Association of Broadcasters Executives
War Conference at Cnicago last Tuesday J. Harold Ryan, president, de¬
clared that the service radio had been able to render the United
States in time of war had been further proof of the soundness of the
American system of broadcasting. Mr, Ryan told those assembled that
it was the third conference the broadcasters had held under the im¬
pact of a complete global war and that he believed "we were warranted
in feeling tiiat from this point we can discern the beginning of the
end of the war against Nazi Europe."

"The twenty-second annual meeting of the Broadcasters has a
significant meaning," Mr, Ryan continued. "It speaks of a comfortable
age in an industry as young as radio broadcasting. It means that this
organization antedates many of the most important landmarks in radio’s
history and many of the important institutions with which broadcast¬
ing has to deal, including the Federal Communications Commission and
its predecessor, the Federal Radio Commission. It spells a certain
amount of permanency in a world that from day to day shows less and
less signs of permanency. Since our last meeting sixteen months ago
the interests and hearts of all of us have been with the fighting
forces of our country and our energies and abilities have been placed
at the service of our national government. We have been not only an
observer but an active participant in an outstanding modern marvel --
the rearming of. America and'the furnishing by this country of the
engines and materials of war to all of the Allied Nations.

"Typical of the expressions of commendation that have come to
the Association from the Government was the statement of Brigadier
General Jerry V. Matejka, Chief, Personnel and Training Service, Office
of the Chief Signal Officer, in presenting to the Association the
Chief Signal Officer’s Certificate of Appreciation: ’When the going
was the toughest, the National Association of Broadcasters took the
lead in helping us in the Signal Corps to get the personnel we needed.’

"a few days ago Jesse Butcher, Radio Director of ttie National
War Fund, known personally to many of you in this room, called on the
telephone from New York to express his conviction that without the
100^ cooperation given to the efforts he is directing by the broad¬
casting stations of this country it would never have been possible to
have raised over $175,000,000 for the use of this country and its
al lied nations .

"■Why do we mention these things? It i s certainly not to
flatter our ego or to pat ourselves on the back in any way for the re¬
sults that we have been able to obtain for ourselves, our servicemen,
our people and our Government. We have but done our duty. For that

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we can take no more than an honest sense of pride. As we look on the
results achieved we are overcome with a sense of humility that this
modern method of mass communication, whose steps we guide, has been
chosen for this historic place in this great struggle and has acquit¬
ted itself so well. This whole experience has given us a new insi^it
into the meaning of those three mystic s3niibols, ’oublic interest,
convenience and necessity.' As we face after the war our obligations
to tlie public the valuable experience of these war days cannot but
condition us to further service to the ideals to which broadcasting
has devoted its energies, its capabilities and its opportunities.

’’We hold that it is the duty of everyone attending this meet¬
ing to give to the discussions the benefit of his experience and ad¬
vice to the end that we may go from this gathering with the fullest
possible benefits arising frcm the meeting of many minds. This or¬
ganization is of the very essence of democracy, whether that demo¬
cracy be expressed throu^ the medium of such meetings as this or
throu^ the deliberations of the Board of Directors \tiich is consti¬
tuted on the most representative principle.”

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DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE 4TH CHIMB? BOOK DEDICATED TO IT.

Radio's impressive role in collecting and distributing news
reports frcm world capitals and war tlieatres as the stream of bulle¬
tins passed througli NBC’s News Room frcm 1931 to the invasion of the
Normandy coast on June 6, 1944, is the theme of "The Fourth Chime,”
a bound volume of 176 pages published this week in a limited edition
by t he NBC Promotion Department under the suoervision of Charles P.
Hammond, director of Advertising and Promotion.

The book takes its title from the confidential ”alert,” a
fourth note added to the familiar three-chime NBC signature, which
NBC sounds on the air to summon to their posts all news, operating
and executive personnel responsible for broadcasting news. Sounded
only in time of great emergency, or vvhen news is of such import as
to demand extra-intensive coverage, the Fourth Chime was first heard
in 1937, the afternoon the giant dirigible Hindenburg came to disas¬
ter at Lake hurst. Most recently it sounded during the early morning
hours of D-Day. In all orobability it v/ill be heard next when it
heralds the report of German capitulation.

”vVhen you read 'The Fourtn Chime'”, Niles Trammell, president
of NBC says, ”I hope you will remember that only under the American
system of broadcasting could this record of public service have been

achieved - that throu^ free radio and a free press the American

people have become the best informed people on earth.”

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The Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corporation, New York City,
has appointed Neidhoefer & Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Auto
Equipment Company of Denver, Colorado, as distributors of Emerson
Radio products in those territories.

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INDUSTRY MUST GRAB PM, TELE, OR OTHERS TOLL, CRAVEN WARNS

Making his first public appearance in his new role of vice-
president of the Iowa Broadcasting Company at the Chicago NAB War .
Conference last Tuesday, former FCC Commissioner T.A.M. Craven talked
cold turkey to the broadcasters about their postwar opportunities and
problems. What he had to say regarding television, for instance, was
typical of the general tenor of nls address -- that the broadcaster
had better keep streamlined.

"The broadcaster should be ready to undertake television ser¬
vice", Commander Cravin warned. "If he is not, someone else will."

Mr. Craven also spoke in somewhat the same vein of television
theatre broadcasting, facsimile, radio newsprint services and network
linking by radio instead of land line.

"In attempting to estimate the situation, one must consider
the fact that at least five distinct groups are involved in the de¬
cisions v\hich must be made. The first of these is the public," Com¬
mander Craven declared. "Will the public purchase receivers in suf¬
ficient quantities to justify the advertiser and others to support
the new radio broadcasting structure? Will the radio set manufactur¬
ers place upon the market have receivers of standard design in suf¬
ficient quantities at prices which are attractive to the public? The
third group is the broadcaster. Will he employ the personnel and will
he purchase, install and operate the necessary equipment to provide
the new service to the public? Will the advertiser pay sufficient
money to enable the broadcaster to render new services which are ac¬
ceptable to the public? Will the Government recognize the economics
of the situation in such a manner as to encourage private industry
to apply these new technical developments in a practical manner?

"Let us analyze the questions. Will the public purchase re¬
ceivers? That depends upon the post-war purchasing power of the
public. If the purchasing pov/er is poor, the public will not purchase
receivers in large enough numbers to count. If the purchasing power
is good, the public will purchase receivers, provided there is a ser¬
vice to be received. If the new service is good from every standpoint,
the public will be oompletely justified in investing its money in new
radio receivers. Next, will the Government, particularly the Federal
Communications Commission, encourage the application of new develop¬
ments in a manner .tiich recognizes sound business economics? I answer
this with a categorical ’yes’.

"Will the radio manufacturers place upon the market receivers
of standard design in sufficient quantities and at prices to attract
the public? The answer to this must be ’yes’. The radio manufacturer
will possess the ’know-how’ to convert the new war inventions into
practical broadcast transmitting ani receiving apparatus. The radio
manufacturer will possess more than adequate facilities to produce
tills equipment in large volumes. Moreover, competition among manu¬
facturers will be intense. Hence, we need not fear exorbitant prices
for equipment. However, before the manufacturer can proceed logically,
he must know what portions of the radio spectrum will be allocated to

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the various types of radio service. This decision involves contro¬
versies and differences of engineering opinion. At present, the
situation apoears most confusing.

"Heretofore the manufacturer appears to have disregarded the
broadcaster. To me this does not appear strange because, generally
speaking, the radio manufacturer was the first to broadcast and he
has continued to influence the situation most profoundly. Today,
however, I would suggest that before the radio manufacturer should
feel secure in his decision to manufacture new kinds of receivers in
large quantities for the public, he must consult the broadcaster more
than he has in the part.

"Will the advertiser support the new radio industry? The
ans7/er is an obvious ‘yes.’ He has supported the old radio industry
excellently. He will supoort the new as soon as it has proved itself
worthy. Everyone familiar with radio today realizes that when the new
radio has earned general public acceptance in the form of ’listening--
reading — or looking’ in sufficient numbers of population to insure a
return on the advertising dollar, that dollar will be forthcoming
into the treasury of the radio industry. Vdhat should the broadcaster
do? The broadcaster of today will either modernize his facilities or
he will cease to broadcast to the public in the future. Newcomers
will take the place of a non-progressive broadcaster.

"The *how and when’ is not easy to specify. Therefore, before
attempting to answer both parts of this question, let us estimate the
situation still more closely. Everyone Imowa we must provide the
necessary capital to proceed. This problem need not be discussed.
Ha/ever, it may relieve us to Icnow that, except in so far as taxation
affects the raising of capital to establish any new business enter¬
prise, capital for the new developments of radio will be made avail¬
able by many persons extremely anxious to invest in one of the most
publicized modern industries of the post-war era. The securing of
capital will not be the worst problem. Actually, from the standpoint
of ultimate public confidence, the ease of securing capital maybe
the problem which the radio industry and the G<vernment will have to
consider.

"Frequency modulation will also make possible the establish¬
ment of sbations in communities not now adequately served. Every
existing amplitude modulation broadcaster, particularly those in
large cities, may have to provide an FIvI service in the future. Ulti¬
mately, PM may become the principal method of broadcasting by the
present regional and local stations in the thickly populated areas
of tlie country. This does not mean that AIvI broadcasting will disap¬
pear. We must remember that the farmer will always desire a clioice of
programs. Television broadcasting is certain to expand. The cost of
construction and programming will be relat ive ly high. Therefore, tele¬
vision broadcasting will bo slow in acliieving profitable operation.

It ;vill appear in the larger cities before it becomes a reality in
smaller com.-nunities . *Ve should not underestimate the potential power
of television oroadcasting as a valuable medium for the advertiser.
Profitable operation is inevitable vhen facilities are provided on a
national scale.

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Television theater service may become a necessary corollary to tele¬
vision broadcasting t« the homo. Experience in foreign countries r indi¬
cates the public may become interested in viewing television in a
theater. If television receivers are costly as compared to the
pocketbook of the average person, it soems almost Inevitable that
television theaters will become a reality. Ways and means to co¬
ordinate broadcasting to the home as well as to the theater must be
planned. Facsimile broadcast service as well as multiple address
facsimile service to the home and office, cannot be overlooked.

Many persons already subscribe to news printer services. This is
considered costly today. Tomorrow, the cost may be reduced if radio
methods are employed. No one has yet produced a sufficiently prac¬
tical plan of organization and operation as a profitable service.

This may be done some day.

”A new broadcast service of the future cannot achieve full
economic success until it is operated on a national scale. There¬
fore, costs for interconne cting stations in a network, so as to make
available all sources of nevvs and talent to the nation as a whole,
must be reasonable. If the telegraph and the telephone carriers of
the nation will not provide this service at reasonable costs, the
broadcaster must be prepared to organize radio systems wiiich will be
adequate for the rum os e. This can be done if necessar^T-. Hov/ever,
it is my belief that the telephone and telegraph carriers will pro¬
vide this linking service by both radio and land lines at costs
which are reasonable.

''If war developments make high definition color television
very imminent, to ^lould forget the pre-war television and start the
real television on a iiigLi definition color basis. Likewise, if the
PM frequency bands are in the wrong oortion of the radio spectrum,
we should resolve that question by either moving the present band in
its entirety to another portion of tne spectrum or we should expand
the present FM band considerably to overccme potential poor results
from the standpoint of interference. It would seem wise to think of
the establishment of the new broadcast services of the future as re¬
quiring a period of at least ten years of construction and organi¬
zation before the new broadcasting service achieves a sound economic
operation on a national scale. Likewise, it would seem wise not to
be too impetuous, lest capital be wasted. On the other hand, it seems
opoortune to foimulate plans for future action and to make decisions
as to how and when to execute these plans.”

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C-O-R-R-S-C-T-I-O-N

Proof positive th£it Horace Greeley, whose handwriting was
said to have been the world* s worst, had nothing on the writer was
in the last issue. In the Scissors and Paste column we wrote a head¬
line "Another Knock on F.D. R’s Bremerton Broadcast'' but so bad was
our hand v/ri ting that in stencilling, this deciphered as "Arthur Krock
on F.D. R.*3 Bremerton Broadcast." It heaped coals of fire on the head
of the writer because the comment about the President' 6 broadcast
was really by Drew Pearson and reprinted from the Washington Post.

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August 30, 1944

ALICE KEITH TELLS HOW TO SPEAK AND WRITE FOR RADIO

Harper and Bros, brings out this month a practical and com¬
prehensive book on the subject of broadcasting. "How To Speak and
Write for Radio" by Alice Keith, Director of the National Academy of
Broadcasting in Weshington, D. C., is a compilation of many outstand¬
ing radio scripts, talks, interviews, news and sports broadcasts,
quizzes, advertising commercials, round-table discussions, music con¬
tinuity, variety programs and radio dramas.

But it is more than a conpilation of professional scripts in
replica. The author, who, as a pioneer in radio education, was
Director of Educational Activities for RCA and first Broadcasting
Director of the CBS American School of the Air, has given some sage
advice to novices in the field of radio and helpful hints to all
speakers who use the microphone.

One chapter of the book, vihich, incidentally, could well serve
as a reference manual, is devoted to methods of Improving the sneak¬
ing voi(^. Lyman Bryson, Adelaide Hawley, Bill Stem, Jean Hersholt,
Eddie Cantor, Burns and Allen, Duke Ellington, and v7illiam Ford
Manley are a few of the per s oialities whose scripts have been select¬
ed for their excellence. The book also contains actual news and
sports releases furnished stations by news associations and public
service programs broadcast by such agencies as the National YMCA and
the American Red Cross.

In this foreword, Earl God^vin, famous news writer and com¬
mentator, says that radio l:ias brought back the art of good speedi,
"the strong simple language people used in the days before tyiae-
writers and printing presses," and Miss Keith emphasizes repeatedly
in her book the necessity for a dioice of short colorful words and
brief conversational sentences. In dis cussing microphone technique,
the author allays the fears of the timid by suggesting that a broad¬
caster will succeed when he can speak clearly, with a anooth even
flow of breath, when he can interpret with intelligence and emotional
power--and then, talk to the mike as if it v;ere a friend across the
table .

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DEMOCRATS APPOINT RADIO nVISION FARIvI DIRECTOR

John Merrifield has been appointed Farm Director of the Radio
Division of the Democratic National Comi'nittee, according to an an¬
nouncement by J. Leonard Reins ch. Radio Chairman. Merrifield is on
leave of absence from 'AHAS, Louisville, Y>here he has been Farm
Director since April 1940. Prior to his WHAS post Merrifield was
Farm Director of WLW.

A graduate in Agricultural Ecaiomics of Iowa State College
in 1932, Merrifield first started in radio with the WLS farm uro¬
gram department in 1924. Merrifield will develop special farm
programs for the Democratic National Committee to be broadcast in
the Middle West.

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August 30, 19 44

FDR BROADCAST STATUS STILL MIX3D DESPITE WaR DEPT. GRANT

Although it seems to be the general impression that the War
department granting equal time to all politicai parties over the
Army’s short-wave overseas facilities is an equalizing of President
Roosevelt’s political broadcasts, the order really has nothing to
do with Presidential broadcasts except when the President, the sai^
as any other candidate, avails himself of Army short-wave overseas
time. Neither does Mr. Roosevelt’s announcement that on September
23 he ^ going to make a political broadcast, which the Democratic
National Committee will pay for, clear up the question of what is a
political broadcast on his part. Unless each time Mr. Roosevelt
himself designates vhiether it is political or non-nolitical , and
even then it might be vigorously questioned by his opponents.

In the opinion of this writer, smything the President may
broadcast from now on might be construed as political even if he
only got on the air and said “Hello, Everybody", because everyone
would know that he was a candidate seeking re-election. From an
advertising standpoint it wouldn't be any different than Henry Ford
getting on the air at a time he was desirous of selling a lot of
automobiles. Everybody would know who Henry Ford was and why he
wanted to get himself before the oeople at that time. Even if the
President, himself, in the business of raising Christmas trees, went
on the air to discuss tnis subject, as he laugningly suggested at
the White House last Tuesday, this might likewise be construed as
political.

Although previously discussed, the question as to whether
or not the President’s Bremerton speech was political, was raised
by the Socialists. To the amazement of Washingtonians, the War
Deoartment ruled that the speech was oolitical. Immediately there
was a scramble to find out who had the courage to make such a ruling.
It was not made known until a week or so later that the responsibil¬
ity of this decision was assumed by Maj. Gen. F. H. Osborn, director
of morale services and Col. Robert Cutler, co-ordinator of soldier
voting. Considerable sympathy was exoressed for these officers, es¬
pecially when John J. McCloy, Acting Secretary of War, jumped in
and overruled them. He said he had done this on his own initiative,
though he admitted the ■■Mh.lte House had called asking for the facts.
The charge was made on Capitol Hill that President Roosevelt per¬
sonally had brought about the reversal.

7ftiether this was true or not, immediately following the
reversal by Ass’t. Secretary McCloy, the Y/ar Deoartment issued the
following ruling regarding political radio broadcast time:

"Under the Federal Soldier Voting Law, the Army may re¬
broadcast 'political addresses’ over Government- controlled radio
stations, provided that equal time, if requested, is given to each
political party having a candidate for President in at least six
States .

"The Democratic, Prohibition, Republican, Socialist and
Socialist-Labor parties now have Presidential candidates in at least
six States.

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•'The Army rebroadcasts to the armed forces overseas over
approximately seventeen different short-wave beams. The Army does
not rebroadcast via short wave within the United States.

"In order to orovide orderly opportunities for members of
the armed forces overseas to receive information by radio rebroad¬
cast with reference to the coming election, the Armed Forces Radio
Service will make available from its allotted overseas rebroadcast-
ing time a period each week for each political party, qualified
under the statute, between early September and Nov. 1. Overseas
voting should be completed by this date*

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"The Armed Forces Radio Service will establish a schedule of
rebroadcasting times, in conformity with the law and within the prac¬
tical limitations of its facilities, and will notify each qualified
party of the arrangements made.

"a party failing to use its scheduled time in any week will
be deemed not to have requested time for such v/eek, but such failure
will not affect the right of the other parties to use their sched¬
uled times for that week."

Following the War Department statement. Republicans immedi¬
ately raised the contention that any speech by President Roosevelt
should come out of the Democratic time quota.

Senator Revercomb of West Virginia siimmed up the party view¬
point .

"Any troop broadcast time given to a speech by the President
certainly should be a part of the time allotted to the Democrats.

He is a candidate, and whatever he says amounts to an appeal for
support . "

The War Department, however, sidestepped that.

Commenting upon the situation in an editorial, "Shortwave
Politics", the Washington ? ost saidj

"The War Department appears to have emerged at last with
a sensible resolution of the furor raised over the President’s
Bremerton address. Each of the five political parties having a
candidate for President in at least six States will be granted equal
use of the Array* s facilities for shortwave rebroadcasting of polit¬
ical addresses to the men in service overseas. This may be a little
hard on I. Joe. It may give him a more intensive political diet
than he will care to digest during the next ten weeks. But then
presumably he retains the inalienable American prerogative of tuning
to another station or turning off the radio completely. And it
seems to be the only system under which all political candidates in
this highly political season of the year can be treated with genuine
impartiality.

"The War Department’s ruling neatly evades the onerous
assignment of determining when Mr. Roosevelt is serving in his

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capacity as Chief Executive and when he is serving as the leader of
the Democratic Party. We envy neither the lesser official who look¬
ed upon FDR at Bremerton as a politician nor Assistant Secretary of
War McCloy who chose to regard him on that occasion as the Nation’s
President. The distinction can never easily be made and had better
not be attempted. Now none of Mr. Roosevelt's rivals has a reason¬
able complaint--at least in respect to reaching the men in uniform
abroad. Perhaps the soldiers will come out of this political cam¬
paign with a better knowledge of what it’s all about than the
civilians at home."

President Roosevelt at his press conference Tuesday led up
to the fact that he would make his first political speech to the
International Teamsters Sept. 23 at a dinner arranged by Daniel J.
Tobin, union president, with a long dissertation, described by
those who heard it as very ironical, about plans to make a non¬
political speech on Christmas tree raising, but he was afraid this
might be interpreted as a political speech.

Mr. Roosevelt said with heavy sarcasm that the tonic of
raising, planting and selling Christmas trees was a very good topic
for a non-political talk; one that should bring joy to the hearts
of all.

He added with sustained irony that he was willing to produce
his books showing that he had made money as a Christmas tree raiser
for the inevitable investigation which would follow charges the
address was political.

X X X X X X X

NOT POLITICAL, EH? ASKED RE WAR DEPT. FDR RULING

Regarding Ruling No. 2 of the War Department that the Presi¬
dent’s broadcast from Bremerton was not political. Ruling No. 1
having said it was political, the Washington Daily Nows iScripps-
Howard) ejaculated:

"Now isn't this somethin’ ? Acting Secretary of War McCloy
rules that President--beg pardon, Coramander-in- Chief Roosevelt ’ s--
address from Bremerton, Wash., after his trip to Honolulu and the
Aleutians, was ’not political*. It was instead a ’report’. And so
deciding, Mr. McCloy reverses a six-hour-old Array ruling that the
law permitted the Socialist Party equal radio time for broadcast to
soldiers overseas.

"0. K., let's take Mr. McCloy’ s word for it. Now the thing
to do to make everything fair and square is for the Navy to provide
a warship and escort for Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate, to
take a junket to our outposts and come back and make his 'non-
political* report. Then provide the same conveniences and setting
for Thomas Dewey, the Republican candidate. Comrade Browder, having
dissolved his Communist Party and joined the New Deal, will need no
special reservation this year."

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CALLS WAR DEPT. FDR BROADCAST DECISION DISMAL FAILURE

The Washington Star also took a shot at the War Department's
reversal on President Roosevelt's Bremerton broadcast decision
saying:

‘'The War Deoartraent has made a rather dismal failure of its
first attempt to differentiate between a 'political broadcast' by
the President and a *nonpolitical report* from the Commander in
Chief.

"This is not surprising, for actually there is no real dif¬
ference. When the President is running for reelection anything that
he does or says, either in his role as Chief Executive or as Command¬
er in Chief, has political significance and political implications.
That is a simple fact which cannot be altered by calling one of his
addresses a 'report' instead of a 'speech'.

"Mr. McCloy, Assistant Secretary of War, has stated that the
President had nothing to do with this reversal. But it is clear
enough that the men who have to make these decisions are subordinates
of the President and Commander in Chief. And when the President
undertakes to declare in advance, as he did in this instance, that
one of his trips or speeches is not political, then those subordi¬
nates are placed in a very difficult position, to say the least.

"If the President continues to campaign as Commander in Chief,
which gives him a great advantage over his political opponents, he
will have to expect continued criticism. He should accept that
criticism gracefully, however, for it is the direct result and the
unavoidable consequence of his decision to seek reelection and to
campaign, not in the ’usual partisan political sense, ' but on his
record as the Nation's wartime Commander in Chief. This is an unde¬
sirable state of affairs, but it should not be aggravated by such
things as the President's press conference attitude in this instance
or misrepresentation and distortion on the part of his opponents."

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WAR FORCES COMPETITORS TO USE SAME OUTLET FOR DURATION

With the sale of KSO, Des Moines, to the Kingsley Murphy
Interests of Minneapolis, a situation unique in radio has evolved.

Now KSO, an avowed oarapetitor of KRNT, a Cowles owned station, is
forced to broadcast from the same studios as KRNT and to use the same
transmitter. KSO has leased its new location for studios, but in¬
stallations are held up because of critical materials. The KSO
towers and transmitter house building will probably come after the
war.

For a number of years KSO and KRNT were owned by the Cowles
Interests. When F. C. C. ruled that only one radio station could be
owned and operated by one person or corporation, KSO was sold. The
sale and change of management of KSo was attended by a number of
personnel changes both for KSO and KRNT. Craig Lawrence, who has
been general manager for two and one-half years, is now in New York,

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where he has taken over the general managership of WHOM with studios
in New York City Jersey City, New Jersey* He is soon to become
vice president of iVUCf of Boston (these eastern stations will be af¬
filiated in ownersnip vvith KHNT.) Mr. Lawrence's position has been
taken by Phil Hoffman, vice president of the Iowa Broadcasting com¬
pany and former station manager of WNAX with studios in Yankton,

South Dakota, and Sioux City, Iowa. (MAX is also a Cowles station)
The top position for KSO is held by George Higgins, formerly of
Minneapolis and St. Paul. He is known throughout the midwest as a
sports announcer. Prom announcing, Higgins went to the executive
branch of radio at St. Paul for Station Vi/TCN.

Herbert P. Holm, formerly of the Minneapolis Tribune news¬
papers, will take over the duties of controller. Edmund Linehan, who
has been with KSO since coming from the University of Iowa, will con¬
tinue as program director. Linehan joined the KSO continuity depart¬
ment in 1934. Six years ago he was named program director for KRNT
and KSO. Charles Miller is the new KRNT program executive. Por four
years he worked at KPAB and KFOR in Lincoln, Nebraska and for two
years served in a like capacity for Vi/ING in Dayton, Ohio. Robert
Billon, who was recently given a medical discharge from the Army Air
Porces, has resumed his position as corn'mercial manager for KRNT, a
position he held before joining the armed services two years ago.

H. T. Enns, Jr., National Sales Manager for the Iowa Braod-
casting company, too is leaving soon for New York City to become
National Sales representative for the Iowa Broadcasting company and
affiliated stations. He will continue to represent KRNT in the
National Sales Pield. L. Densmore Peterson has been named chief
accountant and will take over the duties for Karl Haase, assistant
treasurer and chief accountant, who will serve in a like capacity
for the Ccwles affiliated stations in the East.

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CBS PUTS IN WASHINGTON STaTION RELATIONS EXECUTIVE

Edward Yocum has been appointed the Director of the Washing¬
ton Office of the Columbia Broadcasting System's station relations
department, it was announced by CBS Vice President, Joseph H. Ream.
In making apoointment, Mr. Ream said, ’'The new post is being created
at this time because of the anticipated increase in post-war prob¬
lems arising from changes in frequency allocation." Since 1935, Mr.
Yocum has been general manager of station KGHL in Billings, Montana.
In Washington he will devote his time to working with Columbia af¬
filiates in relation to general problems of allocation and station
operation.

XXXXXXXX

Chief John C. King, of the Hartford Pire Department, riding
in his car about three miles away, received the first word of the
Ringling Circus fire over the car's two-way radio system.

"l reached the catastrophe on the fastest ride I ever had
through the streets of Hartford," Chief King said.

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TRADE NOTEiS

A hearing of the House Committee to Investigate the Federal
Communications Committee has been called for next vlfednesday, Sep¬
tember 6, Sumraoned to appear at the time is Lieut. Commander
George B. Storer, President of the Fort Industry Company, in con¬
nection with his purchase of Station Vk'FTL at Fort Lauderdale,
Florida, and subsequently removed to Miami. The Commission had
previously approved the WFTL license transfer, and there vjas con¬
siderable speculation as to why the transaction should again be
considered at this late date.

Beginning in newspapers now, and continuing through the
fall, Zenith is launching a draraatic advertising campaign telling
America of its positive plans for concentration and expansion in
the radionics field. Advertisements ranging from 750 to 1,000
lines will appear in newspapers in 75 cities. Full-page magazine
advertisements will appear in 21 general, news, women’s, farm and
scientific magazines. Total circulation will exceed 4^# 500, 000.
The campaign is being handled by MacFarland, Aveyard & Company.

The executive offices of Press vYireless, Inc., carrier of
radio press dispatches, radio photograplis and radio program ma¬
terial will be moved from Chicago to Nevir York about Sept. 1.

The new headquarters will be at 1475 Broadway, Times Square,
where the company now occupies several floors.

Tony Vi/akeman and Sam Brown, WIIIX announcers in Washington,
whose fight last vireek broke into an afternoon sports broadcast,
have been notified that their services are no longer needed by the
broadcasting station. Wakeman had previously signed up to go with
V1A¥DC, Washington, in September. Brown, charged with assault, will
have a hearing Sept. 15*

Appointment of a special news staff, said to be the first
of its kind in radio, to cover, correlate and broadcast all major
news of this country’s reconversion from wartime to peacetime
economy was announced by William F. Brooks, director of News and
Special Events for the National Broadcasting Company.

Philco, S. A., Philco distributors in Mexico City, v;ill
open new radio service facilities there and will distribute Philco
radios, refrigerators, air conditioners, dry batteries, parts and
tubes throughout the Federal District of Mexico and in several ad¬
joining states.

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SCISSORS AilD PASTS

BBC Develops Midget Recorder for Battle Front

On the technical side, war reporting as it has developed
during the course of the war presents two problems. The first of
these is to provide a medium b,/ v/hich v/ar correspondents can record
their impressions whilst actually at the scene of military opera¬
tions, Frank Gillard, BBC war correspondent v/rites. The second prob¬
lem is to transmit that impression or recording back to Broadcasting
House in London for inclusion in the various programme services.

It was realised in 1940 that lighter equipment should be
designed v^rhich could not only be carried by the v/ar correspondent
but be sufficiently simple in design for him to operate himself. A
search produced two kinds of portable recorders, neither of v/hich was
found entirely suitable or available in sufficiently large quantities.

In a few weeks the BBC research engineers produced what is
now knov/n as the iiidget Recorder, and it is this recorder which did
such excellent service in reporting the first fourteen days of the
campaign in Normandy. Its weight is 55 It)., its size little larger
than a portable gramophone, and its operation is confined to one knob.

To save battery v/eight, the motor is clockwork driven and
the microphone-cum-recording amplifier, with its dry batteries, are
all inside the box. The battery unit has been built on the casette-
loading principle and is capable of running the amplifier for a per¬
iod of about an hour. The recorder v/ill run for 5i’ minutes without
changing the disc, and a warning light shines 15 seconds before the
end of each disc. Should the correspondent disregard this, the re¬
corder automatically stops.

These Midget Recorders v/ere used by BBC correspondents in
the first assault on Normandy, one accompanying the airborne troops.
During the first phase the discs were transported back to Lngland,
v/here they were censored, re-recorded, and copies distributed by the
'v'ar Reporting Unit operations room to the various BBC programme ser¬
vices. u'ithout these recorders many of the despatches which have been
heard in the nar Reports would not have been possible.

It v/as realised at the outset that the delays and. difficul¬
ties of conveyin^;. disc recordings back to Broadcasting R.ouse w^ould. be
considerable unless access could be obtained to a radio telephone
transmitter within easy reach of the front line. In the hediterran-
ean campaign existing transmitters xn the area \73re used for this
purpose.

During the last two or three years the EEC has been prepar¬
ing v/ar reporting transmitters, and these are being installed behind
the battle fronts for the transmission back to this country of war
correspondents* material. One of these is a lovz-power transmitter

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capaiDle of working on medium or short \;aves, complete v/ith its ov/n
engine, generator set, aerial, masts, communication receiver and.
microphone equipment, all installed in a Ji-ton I|.-wheel-drive Army
lorry. This transmitter is nov; transmitting the hulk of the de¬
spatches back to this country for recording or inclusion ’ live’ in
the nightly ..ar Reports*

Finally, a studio lorry is being provided which can work
either in conjunction with a mobile transmitter or feed programmes
by line to the transmitter should the most accessible point for v/ar
correspondents not be the site of the transmitter. In t’.iis studio
lorry will be fitted microphones, and reproducing equipment capable of
editing the recordings made by correspondents on their hidget or
Humber vehicle recorders*

(London Calling)

FDR and. Pewoy Names Deleted From Radio Quiz Programs

The sponsor of one of the top quiz radio programs called
together all the people associated with the show and warned them that
the program must be non-partisan. “Until the election is over,” he
ruled, “you must remove from the lists of questions all those about
President Roosevelt. Our show must not take sides during this cam¬
paign. There must be nothing about Roosevelt on the programs" ...
“How about mentioning Deviej' s name?" the director suggested ...
“Dewey’s name must not be mentioned," the sponsor ruled, "because
that would remind the listeners about Roosevelt."

(Leonard Lyons, Syndicated U. Y* Column)

i.lr * Fly’s Swan Song?

The question has been raised if the address Chairman James L.
Fly, of the Federal Communications Commission is making today
(Wednesday) to the NAB War Convention in Chicago may not be his swan
song to the broadcasting industry. Judging from .Ir. Fly's recent
statement, it seems only a question of time until he leaves the Com¬
mission* One person usually well informed ventures the guess that
it will be around January 1*

Jeffers of the U. P* Doesn’t Thi nk liucii of Tra in _ Radio

No railroad in America has a finer record of wartime achieve¬
ment in the face of supreme obstacles than that of the Union Pacific.

In accomplishing all this we have drawn upon the practical ex¬
perience and knowledge of men v;ho have grown up on the property and
we have not allov/ed ourselves to be stampeded into the use of devices -
like radio for operating trains, for example - v/here theory is sub¬
stituted for that safety which depends upon constant, intelligent ap¬
plication of safe practice developed over 75 years of operation (v’.I:*
Jeffers, president of the Union Pacific Railroad in associated Press
dispatch from Omaha Au^. 2lj.)*

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INDEX TO ISSUE OF SE^EMBER 6, 1944

Senator Hears Radio Stations Political Control Threat . 1

WMAL Explains Far Reaching NWLB Announcers* Pay Verdict . 2

BBC Reports Wide Rebroadcasting Of U, S. Programs . 4

Shows How Television Tears Pictures Into 350,000 Parts, . 5

Petrillo Rebuffed By Chicago WLB Panel In WJJD Case . 6

Don Lee Net Now Numbers 38 Stations . 6

Political Overseas Radio Accord; Reported Same As U. S . . . . T

Tele Meet Changed To Dec, 11; Allocations Specified . 8

Fly Denies Favoring Transfer Of WTFL, Miami, To Storer, . . 9

Emerson Begins Job Possibilities Survey In Radio Field,, . 10

Scissors And Paste . . . . . 11

WPB Revokes Tubes Limitation And Home Radio Orders . 12

Gen, Harbord Presents Array Hospital With Radio System . 13

To Watch Political Nem^s In State Dept. *s Radio Bulletin., . 13

Trade Notes . . . 14

No, 1646

I

September 6, 1944

SENATOR HEARS RADIO STATIONS POLITICAL OCNTROL THREAT

Expressing apprehension that one political party or
another misuses the news dispatches, or as someone told him, even
gets control of a number of broadcasting stations, Senator Wiley ( R) ,
of Wisconsin warned the Senate that the country should watch its
step in the coming campaign,

”I do not think that there will be any danger in America
of the Congress being abolished or freedom of speech, freedom of
the press, and freedom of the radio done away with as they were in
Germany and in Argentina”, Senator Wiley declared. "But no thinking
person can be oblivious to the situation which now obtains in this
country. No one can listen to the radio or read the reports of cer¬
tain columnists without sensing that the news and the facts are col¬
ored, partially stated, and that biased and prejudiced reports are
given forth,

"I recall what was told me 2 weeks ago on the train. It
Illustrates the danger of which I am thinking. I was speaking with
a citizen from another State than mine, and he told me that a prom¬
inent citizen of his State hsd said that 'within 6 years we can
elect any man we want for Governor, We are going to get control of
the radio stations. We are working on that now, ' Then this citizen
told me of another way the news is colored. He said that he hired a
certain individual to get the news which went over a chain of radio
stations four or five times a day. The individual got his news items
from A,P., U,P,, and I,N, S. , over the news ticker, but as he was of
a certain political persuasion the news he picked out - and of course
it becomes necessary to discriminate with respect to news casts be¬
cause there is so much news - related simply to his 'side of the
fence, * In other words, the whole chain of radio stations four or
five times a day receives the news that this man simply picks out
from the mass of news, and ?7hich reflects his political ideas.

"I give these facts because when the people are alert no
Pearl Harbors can happen. The saying ofttimes heard that 'eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty' has special application in the
campaign ahead. While we do not have any 'kept' press, we do have
bias and prejudice, and we do have some newspapermen and radio com¬
mentators who are paid to represent certain lines of thinking, and
many such persons become mired in the pursuit of a ccomplishing the
result and forget their responsibility to the public welfare,

"Each nation is v/eaving a tapestry of its own. Hitler
made puppet thinkers of his own people, regimenting their thinking
en masse. The tapestry woven by that people resulted in a pattern

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that was red and discolored, and showed the world torn into shreds.
We want none such here. We know that if In this country mass think¬
ing could easily be directed by those who pull the strings through
the press and the radio, our system of checks and balances in
government would disappear. ”

Asserting that a free and untramraeled press and radio are
going to have much to do with making known the facts of the forth¬
coming presidential campaign, Senator Wiley concluded:

”The glory of America has been and is her free press and
free radio, and her clear thinkers, who are men and women* of vision.
Those who operate the press and the radio are indeed trustees of
great value. We must see to it that this idea of trust relationship
does not ’slip its mooring'.”

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WMAL EXPLAINS FAR REACHING NWLB ANNOUNCERS' PAY VERDICT

The following, as set forth by its manager, K. H. Berkeley,
was the position taken by Station WMAL, in Washington, D, C* , in the
recent Evening Star Broadcasting Company (owners of WMAL)- American
Federation of Radio Artists' case before the War Labor Board in its
recent decision favorable to the station - a de dslon which it is
believed sets a precedent for the entire industry:

”When AFRA demanded that WMAL adopt the 'assigned fee*
principle of compensating its announcers, the company refused to
acquiesce, but at the same time expressed its entire willingness to
increase the compensation of its staff announcers to an amount com¬
parable to the average sum which would have been earned under the
Union* s plan and in line with the level of pay in the area,

"Under the assigned fee principle the employer would have
to pay its staff announcers, in addition to a base salary, a set fee
for each announcement made by the individual announcer on a local
commercial program as distinguished from a local sustaining program.
liThere a sponsor singles out an announcer and especially request his
services, the station has always recognized that announcer as 'select
ed* and has never challenged his right to receive a 'selected fee'
for his services since, in effect, he is 'talent' hired by the
sponsor. The demand here, however, was that the announcer be paid
separately for every word of commercial copy handed him by his
employer to read into the microphone without regard to any question
of selection or direction by the sponsor. He was to be paid an
additional fee, in other words, for doing the very thing for which
he was hir^d in the first place. Presumably, if an individual staff
announcer has a tour of duty which Includes nothing but commercial
announcements, his base pay is a mere gratuity for which he renders
no services to the station as he would be separately compensated for
every appearance before the microphone.

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WIML challenged AFRA' s demand for assigned commercial fees
because of Its firm belief that so long as it agrees to compensate
Its staff fairly and adequately and to provide suitable working con¬
ditions, it should not be subjected to dictation as to the manner in
which it shall operate its business. In requesting this Board to
ignore and reverse the recommendation of its Hearing Officer, WlAL
did so in the conviction that neither this Board nor any other govern¬
mental agency should, by its order, coerce an employer to adopt a
method of compensation bearing no rational relationship to the amount,
quality, or character of work done but which, on the other hand, is
based on the lone and unwarranted assumption that an employee's com¬
pensation must be made relative to the amount of gross profits earned
by the employer even though his work has nothing to do with the sec¬
uring of commercial accounts, ^JThile it was recognized that an
employer might see fit voluntarily to offer certain or all of its
employees a bonus or extra compensation based upon earnings or in¬
creases in earnings, it was inconceivable that an employer could be
forced into the adoption of such a plan merely because the National
representatives of its employees desired its adoption.

’’Ihe implications of AFPlA's demands were far reaching. In
effect, it was that if one station in a community agrees to a prin¬
ciple proposed by AFRA, the remaining competitive stations ultimately
will have to fall in line, and thus, one’s competitors could exer¬
cise control over the business practices of each other,

”The Union proposal would have imposed upon WMAL a system
of compensating its staff announcers which is in no way reflective of
value received. The company no longer would be permitted to use
value of services as the gauge for determining compensation. The
only circumstance which would bring about changes in the pay of each
individual would be an uncontrollable one. The announcer who had the
good fortune of being assigned to a tour of duty during which the
greatest number of local commercial programs were broadcast would
receive the largest compensation. He had no part in the securing of
these commercial accounts, and his particular talents played no part
whatever in the determination by the sponsor to buy the program,
since the, sponsor, under the assigned fee method, does not select the
announcer.

”WMAL strenuously urged the War Labor Board to give con¬
sideration to the fact that if it were required to adopt the assigned
fee principle in connection with its announcers, it inevitably would
be faced with demands by its other employees for comparable provi¬
sions in their employment agreements. In order to put a program on
the air, commercial or sustaining, it is necessary to have transmitter
engineers, control engineers, production men, sound effects men, news
editors, script writers, and administrative help. If an announcer is
entitled to extra compensation every time a commercial program is put
on the air, there is no sound reason why the studio engineer, sound
effects man, or any other employee of the station cannot assert a
similar right. It is all too clear that if the National War Labor
Board, by its decision in this case, had required the station to
negotiate with AFRA on this basis of fees for all assigned commercials,
Station WMAL would soon lose its character as a unified broadcasting

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station and would be relegated to the position of a mere conces¬
sionaire with many little businesses and private contractors using
its facilities for their own personal business ventures,

”WMAL wishes to state that its dealings with AFRA has
always been on an entirely friendly and cooperative basis. It also
wishes to state that in its opinion the War Labor Board considered
this case expeditiously and thoroughly under difficult wartime con¬
ditions when so many other cases were pressing for attention involv¬
ing so many more persons. It also wishes to thank Lester Cohen and
Edmund Jones of the law firm of Hogan & Hartson, for their able
assistance in the above proceeding.

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BBC REPORTS WIDE REBROADCASTING OF U. S, PROGRAMS

Although there was apparently no connection between the
two, a statement Issued by the British Broadcasting Corporation tell
ing how widely the D-Day and other American broadcasts have been
rebroadcast by the BBC might be construed as a reply to Variety,
which charged that this was not the case.

Said Variety ;

"Recent declaration on American usage of British radio
facilities, made before the House of Commons by Brendan Bracken,
British Minister of Information, has caused considerable eyebrow
lifting in the U, S, The controversial statement is that of 925
U. S. broadcasting stations, transmitting to 90,000,000 persons, 700
regularly use material supplied by the British Information Service.

"Question Immediately to arise, of course, is how much of
an exchange of info is being carried on and whether news and other
material supplied from U, S, sources are received and used in a
like proportion on the BBC home service. With the exception of thre
exchange variety type shows, one each on NBC, CBS and the Blue net-’
work, web officials in N,Y, are of the opinion that very little U. S.
material is given airtime by BBC for listeners in the British Isles.

"In this connection, it was reported by a BBC attache
recently returned from London that the George Hicks on-the-scene
D-Day transcribed interviews, hungrily grabbed and rebroadcast here
by all the networks (despite the fact that Kicks was a Blue corres¬
pondent) were not broadcast by BBC for its home audience. Explana¬
tion, while not official, was that BBC had so much of its own
material that it probably wasn*t able to find the time to use the
Hicks records even though it arranged for short waving them to this
country, "

The statement Issued by the BBC in New York, read:

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'•Jack Hooley of the New York office of the British Broad¬
casting Corporation on his recent return from a four and a half
months' visit to the home office in London, reports that while
Americans hung by their radios on IV-Day listening to outstanding
descriptions of the Invasion such as that of George Hicks of the
Blue Network, Britain too was listening to Hick's message. That
dramatic and vivid actuality broadcast was carried seven times by
the BBC: once by the Home, General Overseas, and North American
Services, and twice by the African and Pacific Services, According
to the BBC Listening Barometer, newscast periods on D-Day over the
Home Service were heard by 74.5 per cent of the adult population of
Great Britain {1% equals approximately 300,000 listeners),

"Mr, Hooley, an American, reports that war is not the only
thing Britons see through American eyes and American broadcasts. BBC
brings American programs of virtually every category to its audience.
In May of this year 110 American programs were rebroadcast in Brit¬
ain, This number is tremendous in proportion to the total number,
since BBC has only one wavelength with which to service its home
audience, "

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SHOWS HOW TELEVISION TEARS PICTURES INTO 350,000 PARTS

Explaining that the television camera dissects each picture
it takes into as many as 350,000 separate pieces and much additional ‘
information about the newest of the broadcasting arts, the Farnsworth
Television and Radio Corporation of Fort Wayne, Indiana, has issued
a new 86-page booklet "The Story of Electronic Television", It is
printed in colors and photographically and by other forms of illus¬
tration every step in televising is shown,

"Since the days when television first began to assume the
semblance of a science capable of practical realization, thousands
of books and Journals, technical articles and learned treatises have
appeared to give it substance in the public mind", John S, Garceau,
Manager of Advertising and Sales Promotion, says Introducing the
booklet, "But too often we in the industry have made the mistaken
assumption that the average reader was conversant with the highly
technical terminology surrounding television.

"In Farnsworth's graphic new booklet - 'The Story of
Electronic Television' - we have weeded out obscure definitive teras
and supplanted them with a lucid and interesting story that unfolds
itself naturally to the layman.

"'The Story of Electronic Television* will exist as an im¬
portant source book to millions who are interested in grasping the
fundamentals of television. Enhanced by beautiful color reprints of
Illustrations from Farnsworth's national advertisements, it has been
termed an outstanding contribution to the furtherance of popular
knowledge on the great new science of television. "

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PETRILLO REBUFFED BY CHICAGO WLB PANEL IN WJJD CASE

Closely following the National War Labor Board citing
James C, Petrillo to Economic Stabilization Director Fred M, Vinson
for refusing to lift the record making ban and rejecting the order
to call off the KSTP, Minneapolis, musicians' strike, Mr. Petrillo
met with another rebuff which may eventually have Washington reper¬
cussions. The Chicago WLB Regional Panel last week recommended that
the demand of Petrillo to force WJJD, recently sold to Marshall Field
by the Atlass Brothers, to employ additional musicians for platter
turning be denied. The case is now up to the Regional Board in
Chicago, If the Board backs up the Panel, and the musicians*
appeal, the War Labor Board in Washington will be further embarrass¬
ed by finding another troublesome Petrillo baby on its doorstep.

The Panel found that the present staff of musicians at the
station does not have sufficient work to fill in the minimum of 25
hours per week called for in the contract with the Union, It declar¬
ed that it could see no justification in view of the manpower short¬
age in the Chicago area for giving the musicians exclusive jurisdic¬
tion over re cord- turning operations.

The majority decision cited the testimony of Petrillo
before a Senate Committee admitting that the principle of employing
musicians as record-turners exclusively was not sound.

The panel refused to pass on the merits of the quota
system under which WJJD is required to employ 10 staff musicians
and which the station requested be abolished. On this question the
panel unanimously agreed that the contractual arrangements between
the station and the union setting a minimum of 10 musicians "should
not be disturbed by governmental directive order in the absence of
a strong showing of the need for such change". It recommended that
the quota clause in the present contract be continued for the current
year.

Regarding union demands for a three-year contract, modified
later following the transfer of the station, the panel ruled that
since the same corporation is the owner of the station and there has
merely been a change in the ownership of the corporate stock the
original agreement be continued except those questions in dispute and
that the contract be for one year from the date of expiration of the
last contract.

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DON LEE NET NOW NUI-ilBERS 58 STATIONS

With the addition of an outlet in Idaho and another in
Washington State, Don Lee in the far West now has 38 stations. The
newcomers are KRLC, Lewiston, Idaho, and KUJ, Walla Walla, Wash,

Owned by KUJ, Inc, , KUJ operates on 1420 kc with 1000^
watts, Ov'.fned by H, E, Stude baker, KRLC operates on 1400 kc with 250
watts,

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POLITICAL OVERSEAS RADIO ACCORD; REPORTED SAME AS U.S.

In accordance with the soldier voting law that political
parties shall all be heard in overseas broadcasts, the War Depart¬
ment is expected soon to announce the result of an agreement reached
at a meeting in New York attended by the following;

Republican party - Henry Turnbull, Godfrey Hammond, Wells

Church,

Democratic Paul Porter

Socialist - Harry Fleischman, George Novick.

Socialist-Labor - Eric Hass

Prohibitionist - D, L, Colvin,

MaJ, Gen. F, H. Osborn, Chief of the Information and
Education Division of the Army Service Forces; Col, Robert Cutler,
Co-Ordinator of Soldier Voting; MaJ. Paul G, Horgan, MaJ. Carter
Herman and Capt, Ray King, the last three concerned with the soldier
voting machinery of the War Department, represented the Army,

According to an International News Service dispatch, radio
time for short-wave re broadcasts of political talks to troops over¬
seas will be allocated on the basis of network time purchased by
national political parties for broadcasts within the United States.

This agreement was reached by representatives of the five
major parties and the War Department who met in New York over the
week-end to iron out the controversial problem on an amicable basis
and is now being ratified by the parties”, the story goes on to say.

The understanding is designed to avert a recurrence of the
confusion resulting from political charges and countercharges on the
question of when President Roosevelt speaks as a candidate and when
he speaks as Commander- in- Chief of the armed forces.

As an example of how the arrangement will work; If one
candidate buys three hours of network time in one week, another party
two and one-half, and a third one-half hour, this will determine the
amounts of time they will be allotted for rebroadcasts of the talks
over Army short-wave radio channels.

The new schedule means that it will no longer be possible
for parties of diverse strengths and influence to claim absolute
equality of treatment in the distribution of rebroadcast time. No
speech will be rebroadcast unless it has first been heard over a
radio network in the United States.

The agreement also serves to define the knotty problem of
when is a speech a political speech, which last week threw the War
Department into contortions to avoid a show of favoritism toward the
President.

A political speech, according to the compromise, is one
broadcast over a radio network on time bought and paid for by a pol¬
itical party.

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Under the soldier vote law as amended, War Department
directives provide that if the Array rebroadcasts a '’political
address”, equal time must be given, if requested, to representatives
of each political party having a presidential candidate in at least
six States,

On the basis of this provision the Socialist party charged
last week that President Roosevelt’s address of August 12 from
Bremerton, Wash,, was a "political address” and requested the War
Department to furnish equal time for a Socialist talk. The request
was refused.

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TELE tffiET CHANGED TO DEC. 11; ALLOCATIONS SPECIFIED

The date for the first annual conference of the Television
Broadcasters’ Association in New York City has been changed to Monday
and Tuesday, December 11 and 12. The annual meeting of the Associ¬
ation will be held on the 12th.

Its Directors foregathering as guests of General Electric
at Schenectady last week, adopted the following with regard to tele¬
vision allocations;

"Resolved; That as a principle endorsed by the Board of
Directors of the Television Broadcasters Association, Inc,, to guide
its representative on the Radio "’echnlcal Planning Board, the follo^^-
ing points are considered the major premises involved in the matter
of allocations;

”1, The Board of Directors of the Television Broadcasters
Association, Inc. , is convinced that the public Interest requires
that television be allocated 30 six-megacycle channels as nearly
contiguous as possible starting at approximately 40 megacycles and
extending the frequencies not in excess of 250 megacycles,

”2, It further is convinced that the public interest re¬
quires that television be allocated 30 sixteen to twenty megacycle
channels as nearly contiguous as possible starting at approximately
400 megacycles and extending the frequencies not in excess of 2,000
megacycles.

”3, It further is convinced that adequate relay channels
such as suggested in the Radio Technical Planning Board’s report of
Panel 6, Page 17 of P6-399-A, dated April 14, 1944, should be
allocated to television service, ”

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On the same principle that we dial for time and weather on
the telephone in this country, Paris has a system whereby you can
dial for the news fresh every hour,

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FLY DENIES FAVORING TRANSFER OF WTFL, MIAMI, TO STORER

There was a general denial by James L. Fly, Chairman of
the Federal Communications Commission at a hearing of the House Com¬
mittee investigating the FCC, that he had in any way been a party in
the transfer of the license of Station WFTL at Fort Lauderdale,
Florida, purchased by the Fort Industry Company, of which Lieut,
Commander George B. Storer, of Detroit, is President, and moved to
Miami, Chairman Fly said he had no knowledge whatever of the deal
and declared emphatically that he had shown no favoritism.

As evidence of the friendship of Commander Storer and Mr,
FLy, John J, Sirica, counsel for the House Committee, of which
Representative Lea ( D) , of California, is Chairman, Introduced a
bill for ^17,30 at the Atlanta Blltmore Hotel in Atlanta for a visit
there by Mr. Fly, which Mr, Storer had paid,

"I can't remember paying that bill", Chairman Fly retorted
agrily, "but I am sure I reimbursed Storer for it. If I ever were
to accept a gratuity, it would be for more than ^17,30]”

It was charged by Attorney Sirica that Ralph A, Horton
sold WFTL at Port Lauderdale for ^275,000 to Mr, Storer under the
Impression that the financial set-up of the Horton station was in
conflict with the Communications Act and might be put "off the air",

Andrew A, Bennett, general counsel for the Fort Industry
Company was also said to have been counsel for Mr. Horton and it was
alleged that following a conference with Mr, Fly, arranged by Mr.
Bennett, in Atlanta, Mr, Horton agreed to the sale of his station,
which Stephen H, Vetter, its manager, told the Committee could
"easily" have been sold at that time for ^350,000, and for which he
said the present owner "would not take half a million dollars",

Mr, Vetter testified that Horton told him that the FCC
Chairman there termed a contract with Carl T. Hoffman, of Miami,
illegal.

"If this contract were presented to the Commission, there
would be only one thing to do - delete the station from the air”,

Mr. Fly was quoted as telling Horton. Mr, Horton had entered into
a contract to share ownership with Mr, Hoffman in WFTL in 1942,

Commenting upon the fact that the same lawyer represented
both Commander Storer and Mr, Horton caused Representative Magnuson
of Washington State to suggest that the case was apparently one for
report to the Florida Bar Associa.tion,

Mr, Fly told the Committee that he had never seen the con¬
tract in question, nor discussed the proposed sale to Mr, Storer, in
spite of a letter from Mr, Bennett to Mr, Storer indicating that both
the contract and the sale had been discussed "in detail at the
Atlanta converence", Mr, Bennett’s letter also indicated that Mr.
Storer had been present, but this was denied by Mr. Fly,

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EMERSON BEGINS JOB POSSIBILITIES SURVEY IN RADIO FIELD

With a view to expediting civilian employment of thousands
of demobilized technicians of the Army Signal Corps and Naval Com¬
munications, and other radio-electronics specialists in the armed
services, Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corporation has begun a
nationwide survey of twenty thousand dealers, to determine, as near¬
ly as possible, the future personnel needs of retailers and dis¬
tributors in the radio and allied industries.

Results of the survey, showing the types and number of
Jobs to be filled, will be made available to governmental agencies
and veterans* organizations concerned with reemployment. Letters
outlining the plan and asking for cooperation have been sent to the
Governors of all States,

The decision to go ahead with the survey was made follow¬
ing favorable reaction to a recent statement by Benjamin Abrams,
President of Emerson I^dio, in which he urged the radio trade "to
make every effort to engage men of the Signal Corps as they are
mustered out of service, "

Commenting on the survey, Mr, Abrsjus explained that his
company was taking the initiative "because the requirements of the
radio-electronics field will be much more complex than those of most
occupations with which general re-employment agencies must cope,

"It seems to me", Mr, Abrams said, "that if each of
America's many industries will cooperate in some such manner with
governmental agencies, the overall Job problem of millions of
demobilized men will be greatly simplified. This is a distinct res¬
ponsibility of private enterprise; it should not be shifted entirely
on the shoulders of government, "

Mr, Abrams pointed out that the technological training of
Array and Navy personnel during the war has been far more intensive
than that provided by any institution of learning, and more extensive
than has ever been the case in actual engineering or production ex¬
perience in private enterprise. These highly developed talents, he
said, will be the backbone of our industrial progress for years to
come.

Mr, Abrams estimated that there are about half a million
men in the armed services who are directly or indirectly using or
servicing electronic equipment and whose training qualifies them
for civilian positions in raary new phases of electronic research,
production and service.

Steps have already been taken at Emerson Radio *s New York
plant to arrange for the re-eraployraent of returning service men,

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The decision of the War Department recently to assign cer¬
tain space on the short-wave broadcasts to the leading candidates is
a wise one. Each candidate is to be given a quota and the time is
to be divided equally. This is a fair way to handle it, but the
Republicans already are pointing out that the President’s speeches
as Commander in Chief should properly be charged to the quota, Mr,
Roosevelt should be the first to insist that this must be done,

- { David Lawrence , Syndicated Column)

Predicts New Home Receivers Early in 1945

If anything can be nailed down as sure, at the present
stage of the unpleasantness in Europe and in the Pacific theater -
it is that there will be new home receivers ready for the public
some time during the fore part of 1945,’

The radio and electronic industries still have a tiruly
tremendous job of work to do in supplying the armed forces with
needed equipment. But the back of the military-production job cer¬
tainly has been broken, output is proceeding smoothly, and if the
present rate is maintained (as appears likely), there must soon
come a gradual tapering off, presaging quite general cut-backs.

At any rate, the public is a lot nearer now to satisfying
its desire or need of a new receiver than it was a few short months
ago. It is the estimate of the more optimistically Inclined that at
least some new receivers may be coming off the lines by February next
year; even the pessimists are favoring June,

- (O. H, Caldwell, Editor, Electronic Industries)

Has Some Suggestions On Radios For Railroads

Re your editorial in today’s issue, ’’Radio on Railroads”,
Suggest you investigate the following and then write anoth¬
er:

1. Did not Chairman Ply refuse to assign a frequency to the
signal equipment corporations, even for experimental purposes?

2. Did he not get very busy after Drew Pearson and some of the
other agitators began to stir up things following the 4CL disaster
last December?

3. Question disinterested railroad experts, including the ICC,
as to whether radio would or could have prevented the accident men¬
tioned above. Their accident report. No, 2751, of this case is very
illuminating, particularly in regard to this agitation,

- (J, J, Simpson in a letter to the Editor
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HlRh Cost Of FDR* 3 Bremerton Broadcast And Hawaiian Trip

The webs and their affiliates were nicked to the tune of,
roughly, ^40,000 by the recent Roosevelt- Bremerton speech which the
Array has had so much trouble in making up its mind about, and which
was either ’'political” or "non-political”, depending on whether you
are a Republican or a Democrat.

- ( Variety)

The fact remains that the statement broadcast by Drew
Pearson over the Blue Network in which he said that the President's
trip to Hawaii cost the American taxpayers ^20,000,000 has not yet
been challenged or denied.

- (Representative Knutson (r), of Minnesota)
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WPB REVOKES TUBES LIMITATION ^ND HOIffi RADIO ORDERS

The Radio and Radar Division of the War Production Board
has revoked two orders because changing conditions have rendered them
unnecessary. They are Limitation Order L-76 (Tubes) and Limitation
Order L-293 (Horae Radio Replacement Parts),

WPB said that Order L-76 was Issued in the Spring of 1942
to stop the production of several hundred types of tubes. There is
no longer any need for this order, WPB officials said, because dis¬
tribution and production are now being scheduled under General
Scheduling Order M-293.

Order L-293 was issued to obtain maximum usage of critical
materials that were available for home radio replacement parts, VJPB
said. When it was Issued, the order was intended to standardize the
use of the small quantities of materials allotted for home replace¬
ment parts and to add other component parts to the schedule from
time to time. The order was designed for maximum conservation of
materials without regard to the most efficient use of production
facilities, officials said.

Removal of the order will allow production of home replace¬
ment parts on the same production lines as are running for other
purposes instead of on a separate line, WPB said.

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GEN, HARBORD PRESENTS ARMY HOSPITAL WITH RADIO SYSTEM

A $16,600 centralized radio system was presented to
Halloran General Hospital, at Willowbrook, S. I., New York, by
Lieut, Gen, James G. Harbord, retired, Chairman of the Radio Cor¬
poration of America and Chairman of the New York Chapter, American
Red Cross, on behalf of the chapter. The ceremonies were held in
the American Red Cross building on the post and were attended by
high-ranking Army officers, officials of the Red Cross and repre¬
sentatives of many organizations.

Preceding the first broadcast on the new system. Gray
Ladies of the chapter distributed headsets to bed patients in all
wards of the buildings 2, 25, 27 and 29, The installation permits
every patient to tune in a program of his choice from a radio sta¬
tion or from the hospital recreational auditorium or the chapel.
Headsets on extension cords can be plugged into outlets in the wards.
Of the twenty-one wards so eqaipped, sixteen were supplied by the
New York Chapter, three by the Herman Goldman Foundation and two by
the High School of Music and Art, Tte installation in the chapel,
whereby its services can be broadcast was donated by the Women's
Club of the Deaf,

In accepting the gift as head of the hospital. Brig, Gen.
Ralph G, Devoe said:

"The benefit will be more than one of enjoyment. It will
be in part therapeutic in that the soldier-patients will no longer
feel they are apart from world happenings, ”

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TO WATCH POLITICAL NEWS IN STATE DEBT'S RADIO BULLETIN

Representative Harness (r), of Indiana, called the atten¬
tion of Congress to the fact that President Roosevelt's speeches are
being sent by radio to our soldiers throughout the world and mimeo¬
graphed copies furnished them by the State Department,

"I shall watch with Interest to see if the speeches of
Gov, Thomas E, Dewey, the Republican presidential candidate, are
also mimeographed and distributed to the soldiers”, Harness said,

”In all fairness and Justice, they are entitled to get Jlr, Dewey's
speeches, too, ”

Representative Harness told reporters that the material
distributed in India was "State Department Radio Bulletin No, 195"
and described itself as a digest of nev/s events. It quoted Presi¬
dent Roosevelf's speech of August 12 in Bremerton, Wash., in full,
he said, and also contained several lines referring to American-
Soviet conversations and the standings of the major league basebal]
clubs.

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TRADE NOTES: :

Capt. Julius Frederick Hellveg, U, S. N, , retired, Washington,
D. C, , who has been Superintendent of the Naval Observatory here
since June, 1930, has been nominated by President Roosevelt to be
a Commodore, the recently created rank above Captain.

Captain Hellveg, a native of Baltimore, was awarded the
Longstreth Medal by the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, in 1937,
for inventing the automatic time broadcasting apparatus now in use
in the naval service.

The Federal Trade Commission has accepted from Colgate-
Palraolive-Peet Co,, Jersey City, N.J, , a stipulation to cease and
desist from disseminating radio, periodical and other advertisements
which misrepresent the composition, properties and effectiveness of
certain soaps, dent rlf ices and shaving creams it manufactures and
sells in interstate commerce.

William B. Yoder has been appointed Controller of the Philco
Corporation, according to John Ballantyne, President, He Joined the
company in May, 1948, as Assistant to the Treasurer.

A construction permit for new FM station has been granted
to the University of Southern Calif. , Los Angeles, CaL, to operate on
frequency 42,900 kc. , 1 KW power, subject to approval of proposed
site by the CAA.

"The Newspapers and FM Radio”, by Ernest L. Owen, publisher
of the Syracuse (N. Y.) Post- Standard, is the newest School of Journ¬
alism publication at Syracuse University, The pamphlet treats the
relationship between radio and the newspaper, which is increasing
with the introduction of Fl'I radio, according to M. Lyle Spencer,
editor,

"Publishers who are debating FM in connection with their
papers will find in Mr. Owen*s statement a quick summary of the most
essential information they will need when considering the installa¬
tion and costs of FIvI radio". Dr. Spencer explains in his foreword.

The opening of a direct radio-telegraph circuit between
New York City and "Blackacre", France, the first Mackay Radio and
Telegraph Company unit in that country has been announced by Rear
Admiral Luke McNaraee, USN (retired). President of the Company.

Admiral McNaraee explained that the designation of the new unit*s
location had no value to the enemy since "Blackacre " means "in any
secret place", but that it was within the sound of battle.

The unit is highly portable and is expected to move forward
with the armed forces until a definite and permanent site is select¬
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“America’s Tomi Meeting of the Air", sponsored by The
Reader* B Digest beginning September 7th, will be backed by one of
the most extensive promotional campaigns ever given a radio program.
The Blue Network show will be presented on Thursday from 8:30 to
9:30 P.M., EWT.

The opening salvo was fired in the Digest Itself, In the
September issue, three of the four covers were devoted to the pro¬
gram, Reaching out for the largest reading audience in the country -
the Digest will place comic strip advertisements in 150 papers, with
a combined newspaper circulation of 20,000,000, throughout the
country. The comic strips "will emphasize the wealth of knowledge
of both domestic and international affairs which can be acquired b/
listening to "Town Meeting".

Life this issue - September 4, Page 85, has a nine-page
photographic essay on television.

"Within the first postwar decade television will be firmly
planted as a blllion-dollar U, S, industry", says Life. "Its impact
on U, S, civilization is beyond present prediction. Television is
more than the addition of sight to the sound of radio. It has a
power to annihilate time and space that will unite everyone every¬
where in the immediate experience of events in contemporary life
and history, "

One of his closest friends and an associate in Red Cross
work, Lieut, Gen. James G, Harbord, retired. Chairman of the Board
of the Radio Corporation of America, was a pall-bearer at the funer¬
al of MaJ, Gen, Robert C. Davis in Arlington early this week.

General Harbord is Chairman of the New York Chapter of the Red
Cross and General Davis was former Executive Director of the Chapter,

Three of fourteen Cuban and American newsmen honored by
President Fulgencio Batista with the Order of the Sept, 4 Revolution
are now associated with the Columbia Broadcasting System, -Edmund A,
Chester, Director of Latin American Relations; Lawrence S, Haas,
Director of Shortwave News and Alex Garcia, network correspondent in
Havana.

The decoration was for fair and impartial coverage of the
revolt of Cuban Array sergeants and privates led by Batista on Sept¬
ember 4, 1933, and subsequent events.

The March of Time radio program, on Thursday, Sept, 7, will
introduce two new^ songs of the Music War Committee of the American
Theatre Wing, The songs, "A Three Day Pass" by Oscar Haramersteln II,
and George W. Meyer, "Around This Neck of the Woods" by Fred E, Ahlert
and Al Stillman were written for the Special Services Division, Amy
Service Forces’ new Blue Print Package show called, "Three Day Pass".
This marks the first time that the Music War Committee, a group of
professional song writers under the chairmanship of Oscar Hammer-
stein II, have been asked to supply the music for one of these shows.

In a cartoon in the Washington Star (Sept. 1) by Berryman Ji
captioned "The Horrors of Modern War", General Bradley is shown at th<
head of his army asking General Elsenhower: "May I advance now?"

Gen, Eisenhower pointing to a radio broadcasting a political speech
from the U, S, is replying; "Not yet. General, we’ve only heard 10
minutes each from the Democrats and the Republicans. . We must wait
until the Farmer, Labo rites, Progressives, Socialists and America-

Firsters have spoken) "

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INDEX TO ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 13, 1944

V-Ps Also Get By On Air; Radio Dominates Campaign . 1

Sol Brings Home The Bacon With The Dewey Interview . 5

Reinsch Pulls Fast One Buying Democrats 5 Minute Spots, . .....4

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Gets After President About Lend-Lease Radio Sets . 5

WPB Appoints Radio Parts Advisory Committee . 6

First fM Experimental Station Planned By FCC, . 6

No New Radio Law This Session; WFTL Charge Again Denied,,,,, . 7

Taft Sponsors Press And Radio News Freedom Resolution
Barsby Succeeds John Rostron At R, C,A, Communications

Radio Best Before Full Moon, . 9

Scissors And Paste . 10

Carlin Believes ’’On Stage Everybody” Contest New Talent Magnet,,. 11

A, T, & T. Reveals Television Carrying Program . .,12

Trade Notes . 1^

FCC Broadcast Actions . 14

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V-Ps ALSO GET BY ON AIR; RADIO DOMINATES CAMPAIGN

Even the vice-presidential candidates are clicking over
the air which clinches the fact that radio, more than ever before,
dominates the presidential campaign. One by one the leading candi¬
dates have been making their bows to the listening audiences. First
there was President Roosevelt accepting his re-nomination, then
Governor Dewey's acceptance at Chicago, Senator Truman from Lamar,
Missouri, and finally Governor Bricker last Saturday night from
French Lick, Indiana, This affords an opportunity to appraise them
all.

President Roosevelt, long in a class by himself on the
radio, appears to have picked up a foeraan worthy of his steel in
Governor Dewey, They seem to be equally at home before the micro¬
phone. Mr, Dewey has one of the most resonant voices ever heard
over the air. At times it seems to ring like a bell.

There are those who think Governor Dewey is as good, if
not better than Mr. Roosevelt. Then again there are those who do
not.

“Dewey sounds as if he came from another and higher world",
said one of these, "He doesn't have President Roosevelt's faculty
for getting close to his listeners. He uses too many 'I' s', ' I am
sure of this' and 'I do not share that fear', etc. The President,
on the other hand, says, 'You and I know', 'we believe'. Also
Dewey's voice reveals his youth."

The quickest comeback on this was from a Republican who
agreed that the broadcasts reflected Dewey's youth but added:

"The radio, which is a merciless reflector, also revealed
the tired and track-sick voice of President Roosevelt. As for there
being too many 'I' s', I took the trouble to count those in Dewey's
half-hour Philadelphia speech and there were only 10 in that entire
time with far more 'we' s' than 'I' s',"

There was likewise a difference of opinion as to how good
Senator Truman was on the air. Certainly he was clear and made him¬
self understood and if there were flaws, they were due to the fact
that he was not such a ready speaker rather than to the radio, A
Democrat, a former woman member of Congress, criticized one of the
broadcasts of the Republican Governor;

"Did you ever hear anything worse?" she exclaimed, "Did
you hear Truman?" a Republican retorted. Whereupon the former lady
Member broke out laughing and said; "Now don't get funny!"

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Governor Bricker from French Lick sounded as if he were
an old hand at the mike and apparently got by easily. At least no
criticism has been heard of him as yet. On the other hand, enthus¬
iastic praise has been voiced by one listener (a Republican, of
course) exclaiming;

"Wlriy he sounds like Patrick Henry, ”

There was a laugh among a group of listening Hoosiers in
the East when Ford Bond, the Republican announcer, described French
Lick as being "in the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains".

One of the things noticeable in the present campaign, and
a thing that radio has been responsible for, is the short intro¬
ductions of the speakers. An exception to this was Senator Tom
Connally, of Texas, introducing Senator Truman. For a while it
appeared that Senator Connally was going to use up most of Truman's
time introducing him.

President Roosevelt's first paid-time and acknowledged
political speech will be when he addresses the International Brother¬
hood of Teamsters in Washington, Saturday, September 23rd, Nothing
is kno^n of the further broadcasting plans of President Roosevelt
but Governor Dewey will be heard Friday, September 15th, with the
point of origin and names of speakers to be announced later,

Thursda.y, September 21st, he will speak from the Seals Baseball Park
in San Francisco; Friday, September 22nd, from the Los Angeles Colis¬
eum, with Governor Warren of California introducing him, and Monday,
September 25th, from Oklahoma City.

Mr, Dewey is travelling at night as much as possible to
discourage back-platform speeches and to avoid the appearance of
"barn-rstorraing" in wartime. To this end the railroads do not dis¬
close the time of arrival or departure of his train which accounts
for the small crowds that have been greeting him enroute. However,
as he travels from State to State, Governor Dewey will participate,
with other Governors, in a series of joint radio broadcasts during
the presidential campaign but each broadcast will be heard only in
the State of the Governor broadcasting with Mr, Dewey at that time.

On his 6,700 mile cross-country tour embracing 21 States,
Governor Dewey is accompanied by more than 100 newspapermen and
radio commentators,

Carlton Smith, presidential announcer, who went with
President Roosevelt to Hawaii representing all networks, is covering
the Dewey trip for NBC, with Ken Banghart, Don Pryor is broadcasting
for CBS and Earl Godwin for the Blue Network,

Two Negro newspapers have correspondents on the Dewey
train - the Af ro- Ame ri can of Chicago and the Amsterdam News of New
York, China has its representative, David Lu, who writes for the
Central News Agency,

The Democrats have cornered the time on all four networks
Election Eve, Monday, November 6th from 10 to 11 P.M, , EST,

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SOL BRINGS HOME THE BACON WITH THE DEWEY INTERVIEW

The fact that Sol Talshoff is now an opulent publisher,
with a finer private office than his old boss, Frank B, Noyes, head
of the Associated Press, (where Sol got his start as a copy boy) had
doesn’t mean that Sol still can’t go out and get a story. His
interview with Governor Dewey in the current issue of Broadcasting
(September 11) was a journalistic accomplishment of the first
magnitude, proof of which was that it was widely carried not only
by his Alma Mater, the A.P, (which must have given Sol particular
satisfaction) but by the other press associations and reprinted in
leading newspapers. The New York Times gave it about a column.

Furthermore, putting dovn in black and white what Mr,

Dewey had to say of his intentions regarding radio, if elected, was
a real service to the broadcasting industry. The other way around,
the interview may serve to rally the industry behind Mr, Dewey,

Governor Dewey was quoted by Mr. Taishoff as saying;

”I believe that the FCC should have no right of censor¬
ship, that it should not control the content of radio programs. It
should stay in the field of regulating technical facilities. And
when the FCC starts to control program content, free radio goes
out the window, ”

’’Radio in this country has made its great development as
part of our American enterprises. The Government no more belongs in
this field than in the field of the newspaper and the magazine, ”

Asked about the proposal of Senator Wheeler that sponsor¬
ship of news commentators be banned. Governor Dewey replied;

”It is as bad for Congress to legislate in this field as
it is for the FCC to regulate program content. ”

Taking cognizance of the CIO Political Action Committee’s
attempt to get free radio time, Mr. Dewey said he felt that radio
should present all points of view and should guard free speech
’’zealously”, but he declared thp,t ”no orgpnizption which is a rump
part of one wing of a political party has a right to demand radio
time on behalf of its activities for that party. ”

’’Radio provides the only means by which a candidate for
office can speak directly to the whole people”, Mr. Dewey said, ”It
provides the only way to get personally acquainted with the people.

I have always believed in going on the radio on matters affecting
the people's Interests.”

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REINSCH PULLS FAST ONE BUYING DEMOCRATS 5 MINUTE SPOTS

His long experience in broadcasting enabled J. Leonard
Reinsch, Managing- Dire ctor-on-le a ve , of Governor Cox’s three radio
stations - WSB, Atlanta, Ga, , WHIV, Dayton, 0. , and WIUD, Miami,

Fla.- but now Director of Radio for the Democratic National Com¬
mittee, to make a flying start.

"Mr. Reinsch, in charge of the Democrats' radio program,
caused a furore in the Republican camp when he sprang his plan for
buying five-minute spots in order not to upset the regular programs
on the air”, says Editor & Publisher discussing the publicity and
advertising set-up~of the two major parties.

Also this publication made some other observations with
regard to these organizations claiming that the Republicans have a
methodical plan but that the Democrats depend on opportunities. It
quotes Ed Brown, Assistant Director of Publicity, as saying:

“Careful planning leads to mistakes. We let the opposi¬
tion shoot off and then, whatever they say, we punch full of holes. ”

Furthermore, Mr, Brown was credited with asserting that In
this campaign 95^ of the newspapers would be against Roosevelt but
Charley Michelson, not worrying because the "political Influence of
newspapers has passed", declared that radio would do the trick.

The article continues:

"Mr, Reinsch explained: 'Our five-minute radio plan was
designed to adapt political strategy to present-day radio listening
habits. Big programs are scheduled for every evening in 1944, and
political broadcasts interrupting continuity would build resentment,
we figured, '

"Following the Republicans' announced plan of 50-minute
political broadcasts, Reinsch placed his orders with NBC and CBS for
five-minute spots. He also has a farm program running five days a
week over 55 stations. This runs for 15 minutes early in the morning.
In charge is John Merrifield, on leave from WHAS, the Louisville
Courier Journal's station. The series starts Sept, 18,

"The time for Senator Truman' s acceptance speech from
Lamar, Mo,, Aug, 31, was furnished free by the four networks, as wps
that of Governor Brlcker from French Lick, Ind,

"Radio will represent the major expenditure of the Demo¬
cratic campaign", Mr, Reinsch said,

"We estimate that this time 95^ of the leading and medium
sized daily newspapers will be again'st us", Mr, Brown said, "But we
don't care, we always come out on top anyway."

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"Supplementing this comment •Skipper' Michelson, as he is
called, declared:

"•Evidence of the last Roosevelt campaigns would indicate
that the political Influence of the press has passed. We credit
the radio very largely for this change, hut not entirely. The major¬
ity of the papers in this country print the news without coloring it,
and that is all Roosevelt needs. The papers that do color their
political stories do it so obviously that their readers strain out
the partisan bias. •

"Confident that Roosevelt will be re-elected, Mr. Michel¬
son does not believe as do some political experts that an early end¬
ing of the war may give Dewey a chance.

"The New York publicity staff numbers 25, not including
six assigned to radio. Added to this nucleus of 31 are the men under
James Hagerty in Albany and a sizable staff in Washington, bringing
the total close to 50,

"This would Include William Tyler, formerly AP correspond¬
ent in Albany, who is Chairman Herbert Brownell^s personal publicity
representative; Irene Corbally Kuhn, former newspaper woman on leave
of absence now as Assistant Director of Information for the National
Broadcasting Co. , to serve as an Associate Publicity Director for
the Republicans; Herbert Turnbull, head of the Radio Division, with
Wells "Ted" Church, his assistant, and Fbrd Bond in cha.rge of trans¬
criptions, "

Of the total $3,000,000 Republican National Campaign Fund,
it is expected that about $1,000,000 will be spent for radio, 90^ of
which will go to the networks. The State Republican Committees will
spend about $500,000 for spot time, using transcriptions supplied
by the National Committee,

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GETS AFTER PRESIDENT ABOUT LEND-LEASE RADIO SETS

Blasting President Roosevelt^s fourth term effort. Repre¬
sentative Noble J. Johnson (r), of Terre Haute, Ind. , declared the
"President wants us to forget that waste, extravagance and mismanage
raent have been the order of the day since March 1933. " Naming a
long list of the things the President "wants you to forget" (Con¬
gressional Record, Sept, 7, Page A4238) , Mr, Johnson included:

"The President wants you to forget such things as the sale
of 40,000 batteries at Salt Lake City for $80, which were immedi¬
ately resold for $20,000 by the purchaser; the sale of another
40,000 batteries for $50, which were resold by the purchaser for
$7,200, and that while no radio sets have been made for civilian use
in the United States since April, 1942, 14,000 sets were built last
November and sent for civilian use to Europe under lend-lease. "

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WB APPOINTS RADIO PARTS ADVISORY COMITTEE

Tiie appointment of a Radio Parts Pfenufacturers’ Industry
Advisory Committee and its first organizational meeting to be held
late in September, were announced last week by the Office of Price
Administration,

At the meeting, Committee members and officials of the
agency will discuss methods by which the maximum price regulation
governing the sale of civilian radio parts by manufacturers may be
adapted to facilitate pricing new radio parts.

Members of the Committee, whose appointments were announc

ed are:

Octave Blake, Cornell-Dubilier Electric Co,, S, Plainfield,
N.J,; Samuel I, Cole, Aerovox Corporation, New Bedford, Mass,; Monte
Cohen, The F. W, Stickles Company, Springfield, Mass. ; Russell E.
Cramer, Radio Condenser Company, Camden, N. J, ; Allen W, Fritzche,

Tne General Industries Company, Elyria, Ohio; Robert C. Sprague,
Sprague Electric Qorapany, North Adams, Mass,; Leslie F, Muter, The
Muter Company, Chicago, Ill,; W, G. Roby, Cinch Mfg. Corp, , Chicago,
Ill,; J, H. Stackpole, Stackpole Carbon Company, St. Marys, Pa,

Also, Thomas A, White, Jensen Radio Manufacturing Co,,
Chicago, Ill, ; A, Blumenkranz, General Instrument Corporation,
Elizabeth, N. J. ; George Fraser, Astatic Microphone Company, Youngs¬
town, Ohio; Hugh H, Eby, Hugh H, Eby, Inc,, Philadelphia, Pa,; L, W,
Howard, Peerless Electrical Products Co,, Los Angeles, Calif,; Jerome
J. Kahn, Standard Transformer Corp, , Chicago, Ill. ; Harry E. Osraun,
Centralab, Milwaukee, Wis, ; Harry Ehle, International Resistance
Company, Philadelphia, Pa. and C, L, Walker, Utah Radio Products
Co, , Chicago, Ill.

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FIRST FM EXPERIIJIENTAL STATION PLANNED BY FCC

The Federal Communications Commission has announced it will
construct and operate an experimental frequency modulation (FM) sta¬
tion, with the call letters W3XFC for the purpose of securing techni¬
cal data on the operational characteristics of Frequency Modulation,

Operated by engineers in the Field Division in cooperation
with the Technical Information and other Divisions of the Engineering
Department of the FCC, Station W3XFC will transmit only records,
transcriptions and tone modulations. It will have a power output of
approximately 50 watts and is authorized to operate on any frequency
between 42,000 and 50,000 kilocycles with both wide and narrow band
tran smissions.

The station will be operated at several locations in the
Washington area on the same and channels adjacent to the local exper¬
imental FM station, W3X0, and other FM stations.

The project will not be completed for some time due to the
shortage of personnel although it is expected that some data will
be obtained in time for use at the general Allocation Hearing begin¬
ning Sept. 28, 1944.

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NO NEW RADIO LAW THIS SESSION; WFTL CHARGE AGAIN DENIED

Representative Lea (D), of California, Chairman of the
Interstate Commerce Committee of the House, which passes on all
radio legislation, and also Chairman of the House Committee investi¬
gating the Federal Communications Commission, declared Tuesday that
there would be no new radio law this session.

"The time is too short”, Representative Lea said, ”but
no matter which party is in control, the limitation of the broad
powers now being exercised by the FCC will be the first order of
business when the next Congress convenes, ”

Also the termination of the present phase of the House
investigation of the FCC was indicated. At the session of the Com¬
mittee Tuesday, Attorney Andrew W. Bennett was raised up from a
stretcher to deny as "absolutely false”, charges that he had com¬
mitted "improper acts”, in representing both parties to the sale of
Miami Station WFTL,

Fneeled into the hearing room from a hospital, where he is
recovering from a leg injury, he testified that he had represented
Fort Industry Company, purchasers of WFTL, in the transaction, with
"complete permission” of former Station Owner Ralph A, Horton,

Committee Counsel John Sirica charged Mr. Bennett with
"unethical conduct” in visiting Lieut. Oomdr. George B, Storer,
Detrcit, Fort President, and discussing terms of sale with him with¬
out notifying Mr. Horton, who had retained him as counsel, Mr,
Bennett said he simply talked to Commander Storer and that the ^500
he had received was not a retainer but transportation expenses,

Mr. Sirica charged that Mr. Bennett had accepted Fort as a
client and completed an agreement by which he would receive an addi¬
tional $5,000 in fees if Commander Storer succeeded in purchasing the
station for less than $300,000.

Mr, Bennett agreed that his arrangement with Commander
Storer had worked out in this manner but said he had never attempted
to talk price to the former owner.

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On the night of July 12, six members of the Dutch Nazi
"Landwacht” (Territorial Guard) raided a house in a small town near
Wildervank, in Groningen province of the Netherlands to search for
a radio receiving set which had been reported hidden in the house,
the Netherlands Information Bureau reports. According to the offic¬
ial Police Gazette, the occupant, Dirk de Ruiter, hid himself in a.
closet and when the raiders entered the room, opened fire from be¬
hind Lhe closet door. One of the guards was killed. The others
rushed the closet but when they opened it, the man was gone through
another door. He escaped through a window and, according to the
police report, disappeared. The Nazi Scheveningen radio broadcast a
demand for his arrest,

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TAFT SPONSORS PRESS AND RADIO NEWS FREEDOM RESOLUTION

Senator Taft (r), Tuesday in the Senate said:

”A resolution upon the subject of the desirability of
obtaining by international agreement complete freedom of the press
and radio throughout the world was submitted in the House of Repre¬
sentatives last week by Representative Fulbright, and I ask consent
to submit a similar resolution in the Senate. It is short, and I
wish to read it. It reads as follows:

"Whereas the opening of all channels of news throu^out
the world, the complete absence of censorship and the removal of
discrimination in the use of facilities of communication will con¬
tribute to the knowledge of all peoples, nullify the effect of false
propaganda, and remove causes of misunderstanding among nations,
thereby contributing to the prevention of war in the future: There¬
fore be it

"Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives con¬
curring), That the President of the United States be requested to
propose to all other nations that there be included in the treaties
of peace, or in the treaty providing for an international organiza¬
tion of sovereign nations as proposed in the Connally resolution
adopted by the Senate of the United States on November 5, 1943, or
in separate treaties, specific covenants between the United States
and all nations willing to agree thereto providing that each nation
shall give to all responsible press and radio representatives of the
other nation the same access to Information at the source, the same
right to transmit without censorship such news out of the country
for publication, the same access to all facilities for communication,
and the same rates of charge for communication over national and
international facilities as is given to any press or radio repre¬
sentative of the nation making the agreement or of any other nation. "

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BARSBY SUCCEEDS JOHN ROSTRON AT R. C.A. COMMUNICATIONS

William H. Barsby, Assistant Traffic Manager for 15 years,
was promoted to Traffic Manager, taking the place of the late John E.
Rostron, Mr, Barsby, who completed 30 years* service with R, C, A,
Communications, Inc. and its predecessor companies on July 16, served
as Superintendent at Belmar, N. J. from 1919 to 1921, and was Assist¬
ant Superintendent of the New York office the following year. He
went to Cuba in 1928 to negotiate the acquisition of the Cuba Trans¬
atlantic Radio Corporation, and to Mexico City to negotiate a traffic
agreement with the Mexican Government, He was appointed Assistant
Traffic Ifenager in 1929,

Mr. Robert N. Kay succeeds Mr, Barsby as Assistant Traffic
Manager, Mr, Kay started with RCA in 1920, working at Chatham, Bel¬
mar, and New York until 1923, when he was made Manager of the Investi¬
gation Bureau. He acted as a Traffic Assistant until 1939, when he
WPS appointed Supervisor of Traffic Operations.

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Radio reception hes now been found to very with the phases
of the moon, it was disclosed at Schenectady in a General Electric
Science Forum address by Dr, Harlan True Stetson, of Cambridge, Mass. ,
Director of the Laboratory for Cosmic Terrestrial Research, Massa¬
chusetts Institute of Technology,

Citing the results obtained from data after more than
20,000 hours of observation over two periods of four years each.

Dr. Stetson said:

"From the study of our data, made on those nights when the
moon was overhead, we found radio reception definitely improved from
the time of the moon’s first quarter to shortly before full moon.

After full moon, radio reception deteriorated, but began to improve
again from about the last quarter until a few days before new moon.
This, of course, is true for a certain particular frequency over a
certain path we were measuring, ”

However, in observations made when "the moon was below the
horizon” - observations made in the dark of the moon, "we found no
such effect, where no radiation from the moon's surface could reach
the radio waves over the path we were studying". Dr. Stetson pointed
out.

"The same thing happened in both series of data, except
that the lunar effect was more pronounced during the second four
years of our data than during the first four years", he declared.

"We know there is increasing evidence to believe that out in space
the sun must be emitting very penetrating rays of high energy, prob¬
ably similar to X-Rays. It is these rays which bombard the upper
atmosphere of the earth, creating the ions and electrons in our so-
called ionosphere.

"Unlike the earth, the moon has no atmosphere to stop or
absorb these rays. Every physical laboratory worker knows that when
X-rays, or very short ultraviolet rays, shine on a metal plate - or
almost any substance, for that matter - the object so illuminated
sends off electrons. This is what we call the photoelectric effect.

"It is what happens in every photocell that counts the
automobiles that pass along the highway, or operates the self-opening
doors found in so many public buildings. In our hypothesis, we be¬
lieve that photo-ele ctrons are emitted from the moon, as the very
intensive sunlight in space bombards the unprotected surface of the
moon. We believe that it is these photo-electrons coming from the
moon and entering the earth's atmosphere that have the necessary
energy to increase the ionization of our radio celling,

"In fact, radio observations snow that the Intensity of
ultra vio-let light hitting the top of our atmosphere is more than
twice as great during sunspot maximum than during sunspot minirau. We
should, therefore, have a right to expect that the photo-electrons
emitted from the moon would be appreciably increased with the in¬
crease in the intensity of the solar rays accompanying large numbers
of sunspots. "

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SCISSORS AND PASTE

Peftler Erks Petrillo On

Rather oddly, I enjoy the personal friendship of Jimmy
Petrillo of the musicians' union, with whom one night, like Mencken
and the bishop,! was found in flagrant association at a night club.
When I see Mr. Petrillo I urge him on to further outrages,
to silence high school bands and to demand prohibitive fees for his
gracious permission for amateurs to play at Array entertainments,
feeling that the way to cure the evil is to make it unbearable,

I tell him the law is with him and beg him to take entire
advantage of it.

- Westbrook Pegler in ^shlngton Time s~He raid

Warns Nazis Against Butcher

General Eisenhower has an aide named Butcher, We hope
the Nazi press agents don't hear about that,

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British Array Has Network Of Mobile Stations

The Ajcmy overseas now has its own radio-network of low-
powered mobile stations which pick up the BBC's short-wave programmes
and retransmit them on medium wave for the local forces' audience.

On New Year's Day, 1944, the first of the British Forces
Stations was opened in Algiers, Then in mid-April a station was open¬
ed at Campobasso, chiefly to serve Eighth Army listeners, and by
May 1 a third station was operating in Bari. The branch of Army
Welfare which is responsible for broadcasting follows close on the
heels of the fighting men; within a fortnight of the occupation of
Rome a British Forces Station was Installed there.

All these British Forces Stations carry a mixed bill of
original shows, transcriptions (special recordings) and rebroadcasts
from BBC programmes.

- (London Calling, magazine of E, B, C. )

Callup To Buck Hooper and Crosley

Dr, Gallup, the Poll man, is expected to enter the radio
field in competition with the Hooper and Crosley people, employing
a newly perfected polling technique.

- (Danton Walker, Washington Time s-He raid)

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Finda 78^ Of Broadcasters Plan To Enter Television

"Returns from 37 States and the District of Columbia have
been tabulated in an answer to a detailed questionnaire sent to a
cross-section of more than 900 radio stations across the country.

The survey did not query outlets under S50 watts, television licens¬
ees and applicants. Some questions were not answered,

"Probable entry of radio broadcasters into television is

distributed as follows:

‘•plan to Go Into Television . 78^

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At present the A, T. & T. Long Lines are furnishing the
sound broadcasting industry with some 64,000 wire miles of program
circuits. These circuits are used in interconnecting hundreds of
broadcasting stations so that programs may be broadcast simultaneous¬
ly to listeners in all parts of the coxmtry,

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CARLIN BELIEVES "ON STAGE EVERYBODY" CONTEST NEW TALENT MGNET

Phillips Carlin, Vice-President in Charge of Programs, and
an old-timer in the game, believes the Blue Network has a real
talent discoverer in its "On Stage Everybody" contest, which begins
October 7th, Here is how it will operate:

1, Each week for 26 weeks, "On Stage Everybody* ” will present
a group of "acts” . . . carefully and impartially auditioned from
professional talent.

2, The ten most talented acts will be given contracts to appear
in the full-length picture, "On Stage Everybody.*”, to be produced by
Universal Pictures, one of Hollywood’s top five studios,

3, All prx)f essional talent is eligible. Anyone desiring to
enter this contest should contact the Blue Network’s Program Depart¬
ment for complete details.

Says Mr. Carlin:

"We are confident that we v^ill uncover some worthwhile
talent, not only among the winners but among other entrants as well.

"To a sponsor, all this has many good points: new and
fresh talent, promotion angles, professional Interest, But "On
Stage Everybody" has more to offer: it is a good "listening" show
and the combination gives the package unusual commercial possibil¬
ities. l3 have already found considerable Interest in the program:
but until it is sold we will welcome and will be glad to answer all
queries for the full story.

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A.T. & T. REVEALS TELEVISION CARRYING PROGRAlt

Vice-President Keith S. McHugh and Assistant- Vice Presi¬
dent George L. Best of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company,
in an article in the Bell Telephone Magazine have this to say about
television:

‘•While its (television’s) development is temporarily re¬
tarded by the war, there is every indication that a new industry,
perhaps rivaling in scope the present sound broadcasting industry,
is in the making, ”

"Television transmission", the Messrs, McHugh and Best
point out, "consists of sending from the point of origin of the pro¬
gram to the receiving apparatus at the distant point a complete des¬
cription of about 30 different visual images per second. This is
done in effect by dividing each image into 800,000 or more different
parts and sending a signal to the distant point indicating the
density or degree of brightness of each part, together with its posi¬
tion in relation to other parts of the image. The receiving appar¬
atus then translates these signals into a motion picture. The trans¬
mission of television, therefore, requires facilities capable of
transmitting six million or more different signals per second,

"The equipment now developed for use with coaxial cable
will give a one-way television channel transmitting an effective
band 2,7 megacycles (2,700,000 cycles) in width by the exclusive use
of a single coaxial unit or pipe, A rough idea of the capacity of
such a frequency band width to carry television signals can be had
from the fact that 480 telephone circuits can be provided over a
single pair of coaxials with present amplifying equipment. The
trials which have been made over existing coaxial cable routes have
indicated that such a channel will permit the transmission of very
satisfactory television pictures,

"Future technical developments will Increase the band
width to 4,0 megacycles, which will, of course, permit a still better
picture. Facilities for still wider band widths, should they be
required by the industry, would require further development work, "

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Berryman, the elder, had a cartoon in the Washington Star
showing Governor Dewey at the microphone saying:

"We shall need 6,000,000 autos, 3,500,000 vacuum cleaners,
7,000,000 clocks, 83,000,000 radio sets, etc,"

Behind Dewey sat former President Hoover applauding and
saying: "Sounds better than 8 chickens in every pot, "

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Philco Corporation’s war output for the Army and Navy,
Including principally radar and radio equipment, increased 50^ in
the first six months of 1944 as compared with the corresponding
period last year, according to John Ballantyne, president.

”Highball by Radio” in the Saturday Evening Post, September
9, Page 6, relates some practical experiences in running trains by
radio.

The RCA last week carried a quarter page advertisement in
the New York newspapers illustrated by pictures of the Jubilant
crowd in front of the Arc de Trlomphe captioned: "Television Tonight
Shows Liberation of Paris", Three stations were named - WNBT (NEC),
New York; WPTZ (Philco), Philadelphia, and WRG-B, Schenectady (G,E. ).
It was explained that the firlras rebroadcast by the television sta¬
tions had been rushed to this country by Army planes.

Manufacturers of portable receivers will get a good laugh
at the way the little sister clings to her portable radio in the
highly amusing current movie "Janie ",

The CBS "School of the Air" launches its 15th anniversary
season October 9th by scheduling 145 programs which it reports are
now taken by 177,000 classrooms.

A Trans-Lux feature film of unusual interest and very well
done in the "This is America" series is devoted to Radio City in New
York.

The Capital Transit Co., of Washington, D. C. , has received
permission from the Federal Communications Commission to construct a
new special radio station and 30 portable mobile units to be used in
communication between the central dispatcher’s office and emergency
trucks, E, D. Merrill, Capital Transit President has disclosed. He
explained that the new communications system will make it possible to
shorten traffic delays on trolley and bus lines because supervisors
will be able to reach the scene of trouble sooner than under the
present setup. It is expected that the radio station and receiving
units will be installed by the end of this year.

For "continued outstanding production", employees of
Radiomarine Corporation of America have earned a third star for the
Company’s Arroy-Navy "E" Flag,

Says Drew Pearson:

"Harry Barger, the Congressional prober of the Federal Com¬
munications Commission, is now doing a hush-hush Job for the Republi¬
can National Committee. Maybe it's a continuation of the smear job
he tried to do for Congress but failed to do. "

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A commercial radio station will be established at Coeur
d’Alene, Idaho, by persons associated with the Scrlpps League of
Newspapers, which has offices in Seattle and which owns the Coeur
d’Alene Press.

The WOR Recording Studios have Just completed arrangements
on the West Coast to service clients, particularly motion picture
accounts, with complete recording facilities in the movie capitol.

The Simplex Radio and the Chicago Divisions of Phllco
have Just won the 14th and 15th Army-Navy ”E” awards made to Philco
Corporation,

A teletypewriter system will connect all of Maryland State
Police Departments to Pikesville headquarters and to the Baltimore
City, Washington, Virginia State and Pennsylvania State Police, The
new system’s connections will cover all of Delaware, New York, Ohio,
New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire
and Maine, making a total of 850 police stations available to Free
State officers.

Radio Commentator Robert Arden has filed suit against
Charlie Chaplin in Los Angeles for $5,300. Arden contends Chaplin
owes him $1,050 for helping to write a film version of “Bluebeard”
and $2,250 as commission for obtaining screen riglits to the play
’’Shadow and Substance ”,

Arden was a defense witness at the actor’s trial last
Spring on Mann Act charges. Chaplin was acquitted of allegations
that he caused his foraer drama pupil, Joan Berry, to be transported
to New York and back for immoral purposes.

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FCC BROADCAST ACTIONS

The Commission en banc took the following actions Sept. 12:

Washtenaw Broadcasting Co. , Ann Arbor, Michigan, granted
petition for reconsideration and grant application of construction
permit for new broadcast station at Ann Arbor, to operate on 1050 kc,
250 watts, daytime only, and granted said application in accordance
with procedure outlined in Commission’s January 26, 1944, policy;
Granite District Radio Broadcasting Co., Salt Lake City, Utah, grant¬
ed reinstatement and grand of construction permit for anew broadcast
station at Salt Lake City, Utah, to operate on 1400 kc, , 250 watts,
unlimited time; granted subject to procedural requirements of January
26, 1944 policy; Fred Jones Broadcasting Co,, Tulsa, Okla, , denied
without prejudice application for reinstatement of application for
construction permit for new station at Tulsa, Okla. , to operate on
1030 kc, , 50 KW, unlimited time; WING. Great Trails Broadcasting
Corp, , Dayton, Ohio, granted construction permit to make changes in
directional antenna and move transmitter to a point 4,3 miles from
present location; WERC. Presque Isle Broadcasting Co,, Erie, Pa.,
granted construction permit to change frequency from 1490 to 1230 kc.
Columbia Broadcasting" System. New York, N.Y. , granted construction
for new experimental television station to operate in a channel of
16 megacycles wide between the frequencies 460 and 476 megacycles.

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INDEX TO ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 20, 1944.

Congress Gets Busy On Free Press And Radio; Hull Also . 1

Once Powerful Nazi Radio Discredited, Impotent - Paley . 3

Fly And Rockefeller To Salute S. W, Psydiology Fighters . 4

Organization Meeting OPA-Radio Manufacturers’ Advisory Group . 5

Hoffman, New Iowa Broadcasting Co. V-P . 5

WFTL Deal Closed Before Fly Met Bennett, Storer States . 6

Limited Production Of Radio Tubes And Farm Batteries, . 7

WPB Radio Division Asks Orders Be Refused If Can't Be Filled. ...... 8

Blue Net Reorganizes; LaRoche Vice-Chalman Of Board . 9

NAB To Explain Audience Measurement To Advertisers, . 10

Scissors And Paste . 11

RCA Re~Establishe 8 Radio Service Between N.Y. And Paris . 12

Official Program Fbr General FCC Reallocation Hearings . 13

5 Political Parties To Go On Air For Troops Overseas . 15

Train Radio Increases Locomotive Use 20 To 25^ . 15

Trade Notes . 16

No. 1648

September 20, 1944.

CONGRESS GETS BUSY ON FREE PRESS AND RADIO; HULL ALSO

Maybe election has something to do with it but Congress
and the Administration have been falling all over themselves speed¬
ing up the move to include freedom of the press and radio in the
World War peace pact. Climaxing the effort, the Senate Fbreign
Relations Committee has named a subcommittee of which Majority
Leader Barkley ( D) , of Kentucky, is the Chairman, to study the
three resolutions recently introduced, one by Representative Ful-
bright (D), of Arkansas, another by Senator Taft (r), of Ohio, and
the third by Senator Connally (D), of Texas. The other members of
the subcommittee are Senators Gillette (D), of lOT-ira; Thomas (D),
of Utah; White (r), of Maine, and Vandenberg (r), of Michigan,

Secretary Hull got aboard the band-wagon through a ques¬
tion submitted to him by the Associated Press to which he replied;

"The whole qi:e stion of freedom of information has been
under study in the Department of State for some time, I have con¬
sistently supported the cause of freedom of news and I would support
any practical measure to give international recognition to this
principle. "

Senator Connally *s resolution follows:

"Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives con¬
curring ), That the Congress of the United States believes in the
world right of all men to write, send, and publish news at uniform
communication rates and without interference by governmental or
private monopoly and that right should be protected by treaty;

"That the representatives of the United States at the
peace conference and at the conference called to create an inter¬
national organization for the maintenance of peace be requested to
urge that there be incorporated in the peace treaty or in the treaty
creating the international organization for peace provisions to
guarantee that each nation signatory to the treaty shall give to all
responsible press and radio representatives the same access to
information at the source and the same freedom from censorship as
may be accorded to press services and radio representatives of such
country;

"That such agreements provide for the freedom for accred¬
ited press and radio repi^sentatives to write, transmit, and publish
the news without private or governmental interference and at the
same rates of charge for communications, national and international,
as are given to the press or radio representatives of such nation, ”

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The objectives of the Taft and Fulbright resolutions are
pretty much the same. Senator Taft declared his resolution had the
same purpose as Representative Fulbright* s but that he had sought to
spell out objectives in more detail.

Kent Cooper, Executive Director of the Associated Press,
believed the Fulbright resolution would receive “the closest atten¬
tion of governments everywhere,

"The world is looking for American leadership in advancing
the principles of accurate and unbiased news dissemination", he said,
"in order that better understanding between the nations of the world
may be engendered. "

The Congressional resolutions likewise affirmed belief in
the right of press and radio to send news at uniform rates and pub¬
lish it without Government interference. Incorporation of the prin¬
ciple in the peace treaty was also suggested.

Furthermore, the New York State Publishers* Association
at Syracuse last week also went to bat on the matter. Following an
address by John S. Knight, President of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors, the Association passed this resolution:

"Whereas: It is universally recognized that the most power¬
ful thing in all the world is truth, and

"Whereas: A guarantee against future wars is a better
understanding among nations:

"Be it resolved: That the New York State Publishers'
Association declare for peace treaty provisions proclaiming the
worldwide right of all men to get, send, and publish the news for
the Information of the public - without interference by governments
and at unifora communication rates.

"Specifically, we urge these three points:

"1. No peacetime censorship. No distortion or tainting
of the flow of news or information,

"Equality of access in all countries by properly accredited
press and radio representatives to news at its source.

"3, Equality of access for properly accredited press and
radio representatives to transmission facilities, which shall be
adequate and which shall transmit news promptly at reasonable rates, "

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ONCE POWERFUL NAZI RADIO DISCREDITED, IMPOTENT - PALEY

How the battle of the airwaves in Europe has been won is
told in the following North American Newspaper Alliance dispatch
from London by William S. Paley, Chief of Radio, Psychological War¬
fare Division, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces,
now on leave as President of the Columbia Broadcasting System:

”The battle of the airwaves in Europe has been won by the

Allies, hands down . The German radio machine which was once a

powerful and aggressive instrument for the advancement of the Nazi
game of conquest is now discredited and impotent throughout Europe,

”As in many other fields, Gennany started out with a great
superiority in radio facilities. The Nazis used their radio as
ruthlessly as they used their tanks, planes and guns. Facts were
distorted and manufactured; fanciful and fantastic arguments were
the order of the day. Never was there a better example of how radio
can be used for evil ends. The German radio offensive played a key
role in the bloodless conquests of Austria and Czechoslovakia and
the armed blitz that over- ran Poland, Norway, Denmark, Holland,
Belgium, France and the Balkans. Her lies were believed. Her
boasts and threats intimidated and demoralized large sections of
populations.

"Coincident with her radio blitz, Germany went to the
greatest pains to keep true news and the ideas of her enemies from
getting into the territories she controlled. Severe penalties for
listening to outside stations, including the death penalty, were
introduced by the Nazis in Germany and the countries enslaved by the
Reich. At one time, more than 10,000 Germans were employed in Jam¬
ming the Allied radio signal beamed toward enemy and enemy-occupied
countries. I have seen Jamming equipment in Italy and Sicily which
was the equivalent of some of our 50,000-watt transmitters.

"However, even at the height of the jamming. Allied signals
got through. The increased number of transmitters and the high power
put into operation by the Allies made it impossible for the Germans
to shut us out,

"The opening of 0WI*8 American broadcasting station in
Europe, using multiple medium and shortwave transmitters of high
power, acted as an Important and effective reinforcement of 0WI*8
transmissions from America, I was surprised to learn during my
recent trip to Normandy of the popularity of this service and of the
manner in which the French were relying on it despite the fact that
it has been on the air for only three months,

"I would like to pay special tribute to the British Broad¬
casting Company's European Service, Its policy of telling the truth
even during England's darkest hours has earned for it the high con¬
fidence and respect of listeners throughout Europe. Her engineers
performed miracles in designing and erecting new facilities in order
to overcome the powerful radio forces which Germany had turned loose,

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9/20/44

"Today the German radio outpouring is entirely discredited.
Information obtained from liberated areas and from prisoners of war
of all nationalities give convincing proof of this fact. Never again
will the people of Europe have confidence in Nazi-controlled inform¬
ation, The Allied radio, on the other hand, is now looked upon as a
service which will tell the truth' under all circumstances and it is
to that service that the people of Europe are turning for reliable
Information,

"Now that the tide of battle has definitely turned in our
favor the true reports of our superior position and the hopelessness
of the Gernan position are acting as great demoralizing influences on
the people of Germany and her satellite countries,

"It is true that many Germans, especially those in the
armed forces, continue to live in a complete vacuum. These people
are afraid to risk the penalty of listening to our transmissions and
can only think in terms of what they get from their German propaganda
masters. This is particularly true in the German Army, Radio lis¬
tening in the Army is supervised very carefully.

"Truth will continue to be the basis for the broadcasts of
the Allied radio into Europe, Here is a clear case where truth has
been paying increased dividends at the expense of an enemy who be¬
lieved that people could be shut off from the world and made to
swallow information which he manufactured and fed to them. As long
as radio waves travel around the world carrying the truth no people
wno want the truth will be kept in darkness, "

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FLY AND ROCKEFELLER TO SALUTE S,W, PSYCHOLOGY FIGHTERS

Most important weapon on the psychological warfare front is
shortwave propaganda broadcasting. Four outstanding speakers will
take part in a special program titled "The Voice of America" Saturday
Sept. 23, paying tribute to the American broadcasters who have been
battering the Nazi fortress from within (NBC, 7:00 P.M. , EWT),

James L. Fly, Chairman of the Federal Communications Com¬
mission; Elmer Davis, Director of the Office of War Information;

Robert Sherwood, Director of Overseas Operations of the OWI, and
Nelson Rockefeller, Coordinator of Inter- American Affairs, will speak
on NBC from various points. Their addresses will be augmented by
dramatizations and music originating in Station WLW^ Cincinnati, Ohio.

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A man, supposedly well acquainted with the radio industry,
asked Gene McDonald if it required a special kind of a set to receive
FM programs, "Yes, thank God,’ " Gene replied. "I am surprised you
are that naive, "

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9/20/44

OROANIZATION I^EETING OPA-RADIO MANUFACTURERS* ADVISORY GROUP

An organizational meeting of an industry advisory com¬
mittee representing manufacturers of radio sets will be held in
Washington with the Office of Price Administration on September 22,
1944, that agency has announced.

The members of the Committee have been requested to come
prepared to offer advice and information to OPA as to the various
factors affecting the pricing of new radios. The Industry Committee
will also assist OPA in preparing a specific regulation covering the
pricing of r^dlo sets.

One question by the OPA that will be discussed at length
is: ’’What changes should be made in reporting forms used under

Revised Price Schedule No, 83, which will simplify it?”

Members of the Industry Advisory Committee, all members
of the Radio BJianufacturers ' Association, are:

Benjamin Abrams, Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corp, ,

New York, N, Y, ; R. C. Cosgrove, Manufacturing Division, The Crosley
Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio; J. J. Nance, Zenith Radio Corporation,
Chicago, Ill, ; J, M. Spain, Packard-Boll Company, Washington, D, C, ;
A. B, Wells, Wells-Gardner and Company, Chicago, Ill,; P, S, Bill¬
ings, Belmont Radio Corporation, Chicago, Ill, ; P, V, Galvin, Galvin
Manufacturing Company, Chicago, Ill,; E. E, Lewis, Radio Corporation
of America, New York, New York; H, A, Nicholas, Fb.rnsworth Radio and
Television Corp,, Fort Wayne, Ind, , and Fred D, Williams, Philco
Corporation, Philadelphia, Pa,

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HOFFMAN, NEW IOWA BROADCASTING CO, V-P

At a recent meeting of the Board of Directors of the Iowa
Broadcasting Company, Philip R, Hoffman, Station Bfenager of KENT was
named Vice President of the Iowa Broadcasting Co,, and Don E, Inman
was named Vice President and Treasurer of Station WNAX with studios
in Yankton, South Dakota, and Sioux City, Iowa.

Mr, Inman, who was formerly with WBfT in Waterloo, Iowa,
recently joined WNAX as Station BAanager, He succeeded Mr, Hoffman
when the latter took over KRNT,

Mr, Hoffman is taking the position recently held by Craig
Lawrence who is now General Manager of WHOM in New York City, Mr,
Lawrence is also a Vice President and Director of the Iowa Broad¬
casting Company and the South Dakota Broadcasting Corporation, and
a Vice President of WNAX,

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9/20/44

WFTL DEAL CLOSED BEFORE FLY MET BENNETT, STORER STATES

Denying the charge made by John J. Sirica, counsel of the
House Committee investigating the Federal Communications Commission,
that Ralph A, Horton only agreed to sell WTFL at Fort Lauderdale,

Fla. to Commander George B, Storer after a conference with Chairman
James L, Fly of the Federal Communications Commission, in Atlanta,
Commander Storer stated last week that the transaction was closed
before Mr. Horton ever conferred with Mr. Fly.

”Mr. Horton accepted our offer of 1275,000 six or seven
days before he talked to Mr. Fly in Atlanta”, Commander Storer set
forth in a letter to Representative Lea ( D) , of California, Chairman
of the House Committee,

”0ne year and five months have passed, and Mr. Horton is
still apparently satisfied with the deal. If he feels that he has
been unfairly treated in any way,’ he should so advise us and we shall
be glad to consider any reasonable request. Up to the time of this
hearing, we had not been advised of any dissatisfaction with the
deal by Mr. Horton but, quite to the contrary, we had been informed
that Mr. Horton was most happy to have been relieved of the respons¬
ibility in the operation of WFTL, which was verified by his testi¬
mony in the present hearing,

”The price we offered Mr. Horton, according to his own
statement, represented a profit of $25,000, or better than 10^ of
his investment. At the time we made this offer, WFTL had been oper¬
ating on 10,000 watts only two weeks. I think $25,000 profit on
such a new enterprise is pretty fair.

”If the Committee wishes to compare the fairness of our
offer with others, suppose they take the case of the deal with Mr,
Carl T, Hoffman and Mr. Stephen A, Vetter. Mr. Hoffman was to
advance Mr, Horton $50,000 for which he was to obtain an ownership
of 34^. This was on Dec, 30, 1942, after 10,000 watts had been
authorized for WFTL. According to this, the station on that date
was worth $150,000. Three and one-half months later, we offered
$275,000, or $125,000 more than Hoffman did. Does this look like
we were trying to cheat Mr, Horton?

”The price we paid was actually above the market value
of similar stations which changed hands at or near the same time.

Only a few weeks after our purchase of WFTL, or on June 1, 1943,

WDSU New Orleans was sold for $200,000. This is $75,000 less than
we paid for WFTL in spite of the fact that New Orleans is a city of
500,000 population as contrasted with Miami with a population of
230,000, and WDSU has a substantially more lucrative network con¬
tract, being on the Blue Network,

"T^r. Horton testified that both Mr, Bennett, our counsel,
and myself infonned him that in our opinion the contract between
Mr. Horton, Carl T. Hoffman, Miami attorney, and Stephen Vetter,

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former Manager of WFTL, dated Dec. 30, 1942, violated the Communi¬
cations Act of 1934, as well as the Rules and Regulations of the FCC.
( Editor* s Note: Messrs, Hofftaan and Vetter had options to acquire
minority interests in WFTL),

'•What Mr. Sirica has failed to bring out is that my opin¬
ion was formed and held in good faith at that time. So far as I am
personally concerned, I still believe that the contract in question
violated the Act and the Regulations, I, therefore, did not deceive
Mr, Horton when I told him that was ray opinion.

”Mr, Sirica has repeatedly referred to our * breaking* the
Hof fman- Vetter contract. Actually no such thing occurred. Carl
Hoffman loaned Mr. Horton $30,000 and sold him equipment he valued
at $15,000, or a total of $45,000, Less than six months later, Mr.
Hoffman voluntarily surrendered his rights under the contract for
$55,000, He made a profit of $10,000, I wouldn*t call that •break¬
ing* Mr, Hoffman's contract,

"With respect to Mr, Vetter, the contract of December 1942
was an employment contract, and a bonus contract to reward him with
a 10& interest in the station if he did a certain gross business,

“In fact, we tried at intervals, from April 1943 to January
1944, to * take care of Mr. Vetter*, as tAr, Horton says I agreed to
do. But Mr, Vetter's demands were so exorbitant that we were unable
to agree. However, on Jan, 12, 1944, we did come to an agreement
with Mr, Vetter - to employ him for five years on exactly the same
terns as had Mr, Horton, and to give him the exact money equivalent
of a 10% ownership in the station. I wouldn't call that 'breaking '
Mr. Vetter's contract,

“As a matter of fact, we agreed to pay Mr. Vetter $16,700
over and above what Mr. Horton agreed to pay.

“My conscience is entirely clear of any misdeeds in this
matter, and I" would welcome a full and impartial investigation by
Mr. Sirica or anyone else,

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LIMITED PRODUCTION OF RADIO TUBES AND FARM BATTERIES

The WPB has set aside a. reserve of metal and other mater¬
ials which will be drawn upon during the fourth quarter of this year
for the manufacture of 17 groups of critically needed civilian art¬
icles among which, tentatively programmed, are batteries for farm
radios.

In addition to the metal reserves for the seventeen pro¬
grams furthei material was earmarked for the production of carpet
sweepers, and radio vacuum tubes. All are already in production on
a small scale, but not at a level which makes them generally avail¬
able,

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WPB RADIO DIVISION ASKS ORDERS BE REFUSED IF CAN*T BE FILLED

Members of the General Purpose and Specialty Transformer
Industry Advisory Committee were told by the War Production Board
officials at a recent meeting that some prime contractors fabricat¬
ing electronic equipment for the armed services are believed to have
ordered component parts far above their requirements during the last
six months, with the result that some transformer manufacturers are
overloaded while others have available capacity, WPB said.

The Radio and Radar Division is eager to spread the orders
evenly throughout the industry, so that schedules may be met and
backlogs reduced as soon as possible, it was pointed out. To that
end, division officials asked manufacturers of transformers to re¬
fuse orders when they cannot deliver and advise WPB of such action.
Such orders should be passed on to manufacturers having available
capacity and WPB will aid in placing them, the officials said. It
was asserted that adequate components will be available if manufact¬
uring facilities are used properly.

Backlogs were said to be decreasing slowly in most plants,
and a reduction in delivery time was anticipated. The Radio and
Radar Division is confident that orders for transformers in the
plants will be balanced and scheduled to meet the capacity of the
prime equipment manufacturers, and thus meet the requirements of the
armed services.

Even though military requirements as of "X” and ''V' day
may be cut 30 percent, it was pointed out that considerable equip¬
ment will be needed in the Pacific theater of war and that much of
it would have to be tropicalized, adding materially to production
problems.

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C-O-R-R-E-C-T-I-O-N

Referring to our story about Vice President Bricker*s
broadcast from French Lick in last week's issue, Ted Church of the
Republican Committee writes:

"I think someone did Ford Bond a dis-servlce when he said
Mr. Bond identified French Lick as being * in the foothills of the
Cumberland Mountains', Ford wasn't on the Brisker French Lick show,
since it was a sustaining program, and he is on our commercial pro¬
grams, It must have been a network special events announcer doing
the Job from the scene, "

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BLUE NET REORGANIZES; LA ROCHE VICE-CHAIRMAN OF BOARD

A reorganization of executive responsibilities of officials
of the Blue Network Company, Inc,, occasioned by the greatly in¬
creased growth of the Network and by plans for future expansion, was
announced Monday by Edward J. Noble, Chairman of the Board,

Chester J, LaRoche has been elected Vice Chairman of the
Board and becomes the chief executive officer of the company, Mr,

Noble said. Mr. LaRoche joined the Blue Network in June, 1944, as
Chairman of the Executive Committee, a position which has been
abolished. As a part of his duties, Mr. LaRoche will supervise the
program activities of the Blue Network,

"A reorganization and expansion of the Executive Division
of the Blue Network Company", Mr. Noble said, "has been necessitated
by a sixty per cent increase in business in the last year and by a
determination to intensify our efforts in the fields of television,
frequency modulation and facsimile. As soon as the war is success¬
fully completed, these developments will require the building of
the most modern studios in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and
Hollywood. "

Mark Woods, President of the Blue Network Company, will
work directly with Mr, LaRoche in executive responsibility for the
network* s operation. Mr, Woods will assume added duties formerly
carried out by Edgar Kobak. As Executive Vice President, Mr, Kobak
will now direct the network* s plans for television, frequency modu¬
lation, facsimile and international broadcasting. He will also
supervise studio expansion throughout the country.

Before becoming associated with the Blue Network, Mr.

LaRoche was Chairman of the War Advertising Council, which is a co¬
operative effort by the advertising business to make available its
informational facilities to the government in wartime, Mr, LaRoche
was formerly Chairman of Young & Rublcam, Inc., an a dvertislng agency.

In assuming his new position, Mr, LaRoche said:

"Radio, through the efforts of advertisers and the networks,
nas had its biggest development and maturity in the entertainment
field. Major growth and recognition as a respected and mature in¬
formational force lie ahead. These opportunities will be immeasur¬
ably increased with television,

"Radio can help millions of people see clearly how national
and world events affect their lives. This will be done on the Blue
Network by devoting important evening hours to featured service and
infonnational shows and by putting behind these shows the experienced
production that has gone into the entertainment field,

"Along with the press, radio is and should be a potent
informational force for preparing this country to recognize its
obligation to world peace and economic leadership.

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”The Blue will venture boldly in this field. Its policy
is summed up in the words (in the service of the people*,”

The Blue Network Company owns radio stations in New York,
Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and has affiliations with
196 radio stations, located from coast to coast. The Blue Network,
foraerly a part of the National Broadcasting Company was purchased •
from the Radio Corporation of America by Mr, Noble in October 14,
1943.

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NAB TO EXPLAIN AUDIENCE MEASUREIffiNT TO ADVERTISERS

The National Association of Broadcasters will make a formal
presentation of the Standard Circulation Measurement method, develop¬
ed by its Research Committee, to representatives of the Association
of National Advertisers and the American Association of Advertising
Agencies at the Waldorf-Astoria, Friday, September 22.

Paul 3, West, President of the ANA^ and Frederick R. Gamble,
President of the AAAA, will attend with representatives of their
associations,

Harold Ryan, NAB President, will head the NAB representa¬
tion and introduce Hugh M, Feltis, KFAB, Lincoln, Nebraska, who will
make the presentation. Mr, Feltis was chairman of the Research Com¬
mittee last year and is now Chairman of a Board of Director* s sub¬
committee assigned to supervise the circulation measurement project,

Roger W. Clipp, WFIL, Philadelphia, newly elected Chairman
of the NAB Research Committee will attend with the Technical Sub¬
committee of which he served as Chairman last year. The members are
Edward F, Evans, Blue Network; Richard Puff, MBS; Barry T, Rumple,
NBC; and Frank N, Stanton, CBS. Paul F, Peter, NAB Director of
Research, who serves as Secretary for the Research Committee and
Lewis H. Avery, NAB Director of Broadcast Advertising, will also
attend.

It is planned that out of this meeting of representatives
of the three associations will develop some definite plans for
organizing a bureau to operate the circulation measurement,

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I.T.&T. PLANTS SAFE IN PARIS AND BUCHAREST

The International Telephone & Telegraph Corp, announced
receipt of information from Europe that its factories and plants in
Paris and Bucharest escaped unharmed from the war and were prepared
to help restore communications and supply radio equipment for Allied
needs. The company* s subsidiary. International Standard Electric
Corp. , operated two plants in Paris and one in Bucharest,

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WPB Cracks Down On Eastern Radio Distributor

Suspension order has been Issued against prominent Eastern
distributor, prohibiting him until October 30, from accepting any
radio tubes or other electronic equipment except on A-l-a orders.

WpB claims distributor ordered 30,978 tubes in June, 1943, and 625
more in July, on certifications later found false. Also charges
distributor accepted 1830 tubes, though entitled to only 1298,

-> (Radio Retailing)

Wheeler On Digest* s **Town Meeting'* Debut Causes Comment

Possible reawakening of the controversy regarding sponsor¬
ship of '’America's Town Meeting of the Air" by Reader’s Digest is
seen in some quarters stemming from one eyebrow- raising aspect of
last Thursday’s forum teeoff under commercial auspices.

The appearnace on the program of Joseph Scott, Los Angeles
politician and Catholic layman, in conjunction with Sen, Burton K.
Wheeler, recalled the "church and politics" issue that stirred up a
heated controversy back in October, 1941, At that time Sen. Wheeler
was regarded as the primary force in convincing NBC to break down its
principle of not permitting church and politics to mix, a policy
switch that resulted in Archbishop Francis J, Beckman of Dubuque,
famous chiefly as an admirer of Father Coughlin, in getting network
time to hurl Invectives at President Roosevelt’s foreign policy.
Archbishop Beckman in turn chose habilitation, reorientation and
other politico-sociological themes,

- ( Variety)

If He Doesn’t Beat Them To It’

James L, Fly of the Federal Communications Commission is
first of the New Deal’s unofficial Cabinet members slated for a pre
election purge,

( Dan ton Walker - Washington Time s-He raid)

U.S, Telle How To Sell Radios

Handbook on Radio-Appliance selling is being completed by
Department of Commerce, for study by soldiers who desire to enter
radio retailing postwar, Tiiis office gladly helped supply material,

~ (Radio Retailing) ,

Short-Wave Overseas Interviews Appreciated

One of theraost-appreciated services performed by Station
WLW for its listeners is the broadcasting by shortwave from overseas
of interviews with service men and women from this area.

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During the first five months of this year, a total of 52
of these interviews were aired over the Nation's Station. Those who
related their war experiences were from 33 communities in six States,
including 37 from 17 Ohio towns, and one each from seven Indiana and
six Kentucky towns. Other States represented were Illinois, Oklah¬
oma and Massachusetts,

Most of the interviews were broadcast from London through
the cooperation of the British Broadcasting Corporation; while others
were from Australia through the cooperation of the Australian News
and Information Bureau and the Australian Broadcasting Commission,
and from Chungking in cooperation with the Chinese News Service,

- (Crosley Corporation Press Release)

Should Find It Easy

Radioman Tweed, who for 2^ years on Guam eluded the Japs,
will have RMA's help in entering retail radio business there, an¬
nounces Prexy R. C. Cosgrove, Certainly Tweed may be expected to
have developed necessary stamina to withstand sniping of normal
radio business activity,

- ( Radio Retailing)

X X X X X X X

RCA RE-ESTABLISKES RADIO SERVICE BETWEEN N.Y. AND PARIS

Direct radiotelegraph communication between New York and
Paris, suspended since June, i940, by German occupation of the
French capital, w^as re-established last week by R, C.A, Communica¬
tions, Inc,

For the present, according to RCAC, the New York-Paris
circuit will carry only Government and press messages. No commer¬
cial traffic can be accepted. Movement of press dispatches from the
war fronts in France and Germany is expected to be greatly facilitat-
e d.

The Paris circuit is one of the United States' oldest radio
communication links with the European continent, having been opened
by RCA in December, 1920, After the Germans took over Paris, direct
radiotelegraph service with France was maintained through Bordeaux
and Roanne, near Vichy. This service was discontinued, however, in
December, 1942, when the United States broke off relations with the
Vichy government.

Paris is the second great European capital with which RCA
has re-established direct radio communication this Summer as the
Germans have been driven back toward their homeland by Allied
forces. The circuit between New York and Rome was re-opened on
June 13,

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OFFICIAL PROGRAM FOR GENERAL FCC REALLOCATION HEARINGS

Because of the difficulty of securing hotel and railroad
reservations, the Federal Communications Commission is endeavoring
to estimate when each of the particular services will be reached
in the matter of the allocation of frequencies to the Various Classes
of Non-go vemraental Services in the Radio Spectrum from 10 kilo¬
cycles to 30,000,000 kilocycles. It should be emphasized, however,
that it is impossible to foretell accurately in advance Just when
one phase of the hearing will end and another begin and all dates
used are at best only approximate. However, every effort will be
made to adhere to the schedule as closely as possible.

The hearings will open on September 26 at 10:30 A,M, at
the Interdepartmental Auditorium, between 12and 13th Streets, on
Constitution Avenue in Washington. For the first three days of the
hearing, September 28, 29 and 30, general information and data will
be presented. The hearing will open with testimony by members of the
Commission’s staff concerning material which has been assembled con¬
cerning the effects of bursts, sporadic E transmission, and other
propagation data about the very high frequency band. This will be
followed by a statement of Dr, W. R. G. Baker, Chairman of the Radio
Technical Planning Board, When Dr. Baker has comnleted his state¬
ment, Chairmen of Panels 4 through 9 and 11 through 13 of the Radio
Technical Planning Board will present brief statements concerning
the recommendations of their panels. Then the Chairman of Panel 1
and Panel 2 will subnit their panels* reports.

The Commission will then proceed to consider the various
services in the order listed below. In considering each service,
the Commission will first hear testimony from the RTPB witnesses for
the service in question and will then receive evidence from all other
interested persons. For convenience in estimating the time to be
consumed by the various services they have been divided into four
groups and the time expected to be consumed by each group is set
forth in the table below, (The topic number in the following table
refers to the numerical designation of the services as set forth in
Public Notice of August 17, 1944).

Topic No,

Order of Services

Services

Estimated

Date

Group I

8 Fixed Public Service (other than Alaska) October 2, 4

9 Coastal, ^'^arlne Relay, Ship, Mobile Press, 5, 6, 7,

and Fixed Public Service in Alaska
10 Aviation

14 Amateur

6 International Broadcast

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Topic No.

1

2

3

4

5
7

11

12

13

15

16
17

Services

Group II

Standard Broadcast
High Frequency (FM) Broadcast
Non- commercial Educational
Television
Facsimile Broadcast
Other broadcast services

Group III

Police, Fire and Forestry Services October 18, 19

Special Emergency , Provisional and 20 , 21, 23,

Motion Picture Services
Special Services ( Geophysical, Relay Press)

Group IV

Industrial, Scientific and Medical October 25, 26,

Services 27, 28, 30,

Relay Systems (program and Public and
Private Communications)

New Radio Services

Estimated

Date

October 9, 11
12, 13, 14, 16.

Upon the completion of all this testimony, the Commission
will again receive evidence from the Chairmen of Panels 1 and 2 of
the R.T.P.B, concerning the recommendation they have to make for
overall allocation in light of the evidence adduced at the hearing.

The Commission at that time will also receive evidence from any
other person or group that has recommendations to make concerning
overall allocation. It is estimated that this phase of the hearing
will commence November 1,

tilany questions have been raised concerning the September 20
date specified in the Commission* s order for the filing of exhibits.
These letters indicate that in many instances it is impossible to
comply with the September 20 deadline. Because of these difficulties,
the Commission will receive exhibits which have not been filed by
September 20, However, it is requested that five copies of these
exhibits be submitted to the Commission as soon as possible. This
request applies to all exhibits which it is contemplated will be
used at the hearing.

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Following the hurricane. Mayor L aGuardia wired the Office
of Civilian Defense:

"The members of the War Emergency Radio Service in New
York City were active in transmitting emergency messages wherever
regular communication lines had been knocked out, WNYC, the city's
own radio station, was of great assistance in issuing regular bulle¬
tins to the public before, during, and after the storm, "

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5 POLITICAL PARTIES TO CO ON AIR FOR TROOPS OVERSEAS

A schedule of five series of shortwave broadcasts of pol¬
itical speeches for troops overseas, with each of five parties using
equal time, has been agreed on, the War Department announced last
week.

The arrangement Is subject to amendment if any other pol¬
itical party qualifies under the Federal election law.

In addition to the shortwave schedule, the political par¬
ties and the Army -agreed on handling of recorded speeches in the
first two of the series for rebroadcasting from the 116 Array exped¬
itionary stations in the various theaters.

Following is the schedule for the broadcasts:

Time Demo- Repub- Social- Prohi- SoclaL

Allowed cratic llcan ist bition ist-Lab.

First (Sept. 18-22)
Second (Sept, 25-29)
Third (Oct, 16-20)
Fourth (Oct, 23-27)
Fifth - (Oct, 30-NOV.3)

30 Min, Sent, 18 Sept. 19
30 Min, Sept, 26 Sept, 27
15 Min. Oct. 18 Oct, 19
15 Min. Oct. 26 Oct. 27
15 Min. Nov, 3 Oct, 30

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Sept. 20 Sept, 21 S6Dt22
Sept. 28 Sept. 29 Sept25
Oct. 20 Oct. 16 Oct. 17
Oct. 23 Oct. 24 Oct. 25
Oct. 31 Nov, 1 Nov. 2

TRAIN RADIO INCREASES LOCOMOTIVE USE 20 TO 25^

Use of radio communications to direct the operations of
freight trains in large Government steel-loading plants and arsenals
has increased the use of locomotives in such operations from 20 to
25 percent, the Federal Communications Commission has been informed.

A sub-committee of three FCC Commissioners heard the testi
mony at the opening of hearings on the practicability of providing
wave-bands for a general extension of this means of train movement
control.

The hearing was largely the result of assertions by Sen¬
ator Burton K, Wheeler, (D), of Montana, and Chairaan of the Inter¬
state Commerce Committee of the Senate, that the use of radio in
train movement communications might have prevented a number of dis¬
astrous railroad wre cks in the last few years.

Full meetings by the FCC will begin Sept. 28 to take up
the question of general allocation of such frequencies,

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Many department stores will be represented at a special
television demonstration to be given by the General Electric Co,
for s tore executives on Friday, Sept. 29, Promotion of five differ¬
ent products will be telecast during the demonstration to show how
department stores can utilize television.

The New York Curb Exchange has been advised that registra¬
tion of new 4-g- percent convertible debentures of the Utah Radio Pro¬
ducts Co, has become effective and that stockholders of record of
Aug, 24 may subscribe to the issue until midnight, Sept. 24, on the
basis of $100 of debentures for each twenty- five shares of capital
stock held. Holders of fevrer than twenty-five shares, however, may
purchase a $100 debenture. Rights will not be dealt in on the
Exchange,

Leslie J. Woods, who joined Philco in 1925, has been named
Manager of the Industrial Radio Division of Philco Corporation with
headquarters in Detroit where Philco will continue to maintain spec¬
ial facilities to serve the automobile and aircraft industries.

Martin F, Shea, #io has been connected with Philco since
1930, has been appointed Assistant Manager of the Industrial Radio
Division,

Production of copper wire and cable, with the exception
of certain communication wires, is at a level high enough to insure
the completion of all military programs, and the progress made by
the industry was most gratifying, the WPB Copper Wire and Cable
Industry Advisory Committee reports.

Estimating that only 15 percent of the potential market for
records is equipped with phonograph turntables, RCA Victor Division
of the Radio Corporation of America predicted, in a news letter to
its dealers and distributors, an enormous increase in record sales
when production of phonograph Instruments for civilians is resumed.

Discussing so-called "revolutionary” new methods of record¬
ing such as strips of film, or tape, or a wire, RCA Victor reported
that its research laboratories are investigating the possibilities of
these recording techniques for the benefit of the various fields in
which RCA operates, but concludes that the present type of recording
for home records is regarded as the most practical.

Mica fabricating industries no longer require specific
authorization for securing and using certain types, qualities and
grades of mica not in critical supply, the War Production Board re¬
ported last Saturday,

According to Conservation Order M-101, amended Saturday,
the definition of strategic mica remains unchanged. However, relief
is given the industry from wartime restrictions. Detailed applica¬
tions are no longer required for authorizations to fabricate mica
that is in plentiful supply. Applications on WPB Form-1085 should
decrease 75 percent as a result of this amendment, Government offic¬
ials Indicated, For grades and qualities of mica still in short sup¬
ply, filing of the form remains necessary.

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Heinl Radio Business Letter

INDEX TO ISSUE OF SEPTEMBER 27, 1944

Radio Almost Corners Campaign; Called Election Bonanza . 1

Sawyer, Crosley Radio Counsel, Ambassador To Belgium . . . 2

Radio Manufacturers Work On Reconversion Problems . 3

U. S, G-rants ASCAP French Music Rights . 4

CBS Tells Why It Is Qiitting Tele Ass*n; Du Mont Replies...,. . 5

U. S. Dedicates Most Powerful Stations; Crosley Praised . 7

Believed FDR And Dewey Slugging Over Radio Only Begun . . . 9

57^ Of Dailies Back Dewey; 20^ For FDR Election . 10

WPB Radio Communications Priorities Rules Revised . 11

Omits Pearson Letter Despite Winchell Radio Needling . 12

Sherwood Resigning Points To OWI Short-* Wave Feats. . . .13

Cross Of Mutual, New BBC Press Chief * . . . 13

Hogan, WQXR, Urges Newspapers To Develop Facsimile . 14

Scissors And Paste . . . * . 15

Cleveland Allowed To Try Out 2- Way Radio TUxi Direct ion. 16
Broadcast Actions By The FCC . . . 16

Trade Notes . * . 17

No. 1649

September 27, 1944

RADIO ALMOST CORNERS CAMPAIGN; CALLED ELECTION BONANZA

Never before have the people of the coiintry turned to
radio to size up the major candidates as in this presidential year.
Radio came into its own beyond all expectation when President
Roosevelt and Governor Dewey clashed over the air in such sensa¬
tional fashion. Many more of these ethereal battles are likely to
follow and if so, they will amlost give radio a corner on the
campaign.

Even with things just warming up, radio is doing a job
of salesmanship that makes the last presidential election seem
creaky and out-of-date. In the 1940 campaign, radio showmanship
was conspicuous by its absence.

This year every trick of the trade is used and hardly a
night passes but some innovation has not been included. For
instance, the ingenious manner in which Governor Dewey ballyhoos
his next broadcast by saying, "Tomorrow night in San Francisco,

I shall discuss so and so. " Also, there was showmanship with a
capital "S” in the way the Republicans used transcriptions to put
Dewey's homefolks on the air. For the benefit of those who may not
have heard this, there were first recorded interviews with friends
and neighbors of Dewey at Pawling, N. Y. , and later expressions
from those who remembered him as a boy in Owosso, Mich, The latter
recordings w^ere made in the home of Governor Dewey's mother with a
tribute from her along with the rest of the old neighbors.

Hearing from these folks in this way proved so effective
that it wouldn't be surprising if the same idea would not be tried
out on regular commercial programs. Personal endorsement of
articles by prominent people may be the next step in radio selling.
This far surpasses the old printed testimonial.

Discussing the way both parties have improved their radio
showmaaship and advertising methods in the current campaign. Variety,
magazine of the entertainment world, says:

"A page out of show business is this year being adopted -
as never before - by major political parties in their campaigns to
woo votes in the November election, Il3s showmanship by way of
radio, with radio serving as the backbone of the appeal on which
Democrats and Republicans alike are depending for their vote-getting.

"So complete have radio-advertising techniques and termin¬
ology taken over the political strategy that oarty reps refer to the
presidential election as a test of opposing radio sales methods.
Campaign managers refer to their own work as 'a straight selling
job' and their candidates as ’the product'.

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"Translated Into money, the Roosevelt-Dewey campaign cues
a possible $2,500,000 *tahe* for radio betv'een now and Nov. 7, The
two national committees are expected to account for a possible
$1,500,000 alone, with state and independent organizations kicking
in with the rest. That*s potent spending packed into a five or six
week period,

"Republicans, according to "^ed Church, Assistant Radio
Director of the GOP national Committee, slant their election pitch
as *the commercial special event technique* applied to politics,
with Gov, Dewey as the central figure. Repubs say that past cam¬
paigns have seen sloppy, unshowmanly use of radio by all parties and
it’s their intent this time to stick to radio's brisk, split-second
timing.

"Roosevelt as a radio attraction is w. k. enough, but in
their five minute spot twist, Democrats figure they really have
something, according to Leonard Relnsch, Democratic Nations,! Commit¬
tee radio head. Five minute pitches will be sandwiched in between
radio's top shows and will consist of talks by men of the Truman-
Wallace calibre. As Reinsch sees it, this will give the party the
benefits of peak audience, minimum disruption to regular commercial
schedules and what is most important politically, will catch the
ears of Democrats, Republicans and undecided voters as well,

"Five-minute approach also has economical advantages.

Since talent bumped off the air by politics must be paid by the
latter, these acts will only have to be reimbursed one-sixth of
their dough by the Democrats and the time bill will be reduced from
the half-hour rate to one-half the 15 minute rate. It'll mean a
considerable saving. Policy also allow advertisers to get their
sales spiels over intact, in 25 rather than 30 minutes, and does
away with audience resentment over being deprived of a favorite radio
show, "

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SAWYER, CROSLEY RADIO COUNSEL, AMBASSADOR TO BELGIUM

About as near as anyone connected with radio has come to
being appointed to a high diplomatic post was President Roosevelt
naming Charles Sawyer, of Cincinnati, Vice-President and Counsel of
the Crosley Radio Corporation, to be Ambassador to Belgium and
Minister to Luxemburg. Mr. Sawyer is also owner of Stations WING,
Dayton, and WIZE, of Springfield, At the same time, the President
also nominated Robert C, Patterson, former NBC Vice-President, to
be Ambassador to Yugoslavia*

It has been the custom for years to reward newspaper pub¬
lishers with diplomatic appointments but such honors to those con¬
nected with the broadcasting industry have been few and far between
though some will argue that radio is now as great a oower in an
election as the cress.

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because of his prominence in Ohio politics. He is a former
Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and was a candidate for
Governor in 1938. It wasn’t until two years later that he acquired
his broadcasting stations. He has been the Democratic National
Committeeman from Ohio since 1936.

Mr, Patterson, former Commissioner of Correction of New^
York; and foraer Assistant Secretary of Commerce, likewise could
hardly be considered strictly a radio man having only been with
the NBC from 1932-36. Later he served for a time as President of
RKO.

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RADIO MANUFACTURERS WORK ON RECONVERSION PROBLEMS

The Radio Manufacturers' Association at numerous executive
and committee meetings in New York City last week reported progress
on postwar reconversion plans. R. C. Cosgrove of the Crosley Radio
Corporation, President of the BM.A, presided at a meeting of the
Board of Directors, Thursda.y, September 21st. There were prior meet¬
ings of six major groups.

Twenty-five members of the Parts Division Executive Com¬
mittee and Section Chairmen'^^'septeraber 19th discussing surplus mater¬
ial problems, future development of RI4A parts standards and a special
sales warranty for parts manufacturers. Also on September 19th,
there was a meeting of the Transmitter Division’s Executive Committee,
which considered projects developed for securing statistics on pro¬
duction and sales of transmitting equipment.

On September 20th, there was a conference of the KAA
Industry Reconversion Committee with Government officials.

The RMA Employment and Personnel Committee also held a
meeting on September 20th and made arrangements to release the recent
survey on postwar emoloyment, together with special date to members
on reemployment of veterans and oostwar seniority problems.

The W.A Tube Division likewise met on September 20th, as
well as another meeting of the new Merchandising Committee of the
Parts Division, which discussed plans for further cooperation with
radio distributors and dealers.

Postwar Industry employment, in the first year after the
war ends, was estimated at almost double that of the last full year
of normal peacetime employment, in 1941, according to the RJilA sur¬
vey conducted by the Employment and Personnel Committee,

Completion of another survey, on distribution costs of
radio dealers, by the RMA Distribution Costs Committee was announced.

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This was a sample survey, in six cities of about 250 retail outlets
of eight different classes, made by the Elmo Roper organization and
developed partial but valuable information on many sales problems.

Revival in 1945 of the RMA Parts Trade Show was recommend¬
ed both by the Parts Division Executive Committee and that of the
Transmitter Division, both unanimously, contingent upon the early
defeat of G-erraany, by next April or before; the RlilA Board of Direc¬
tors authorized the Parts Trade Show with details to be arranged
later. The last trade show was held in 1932.

Postwar development of M and television were discussed
by Dr. W. R. G. Baher, Chairman of the Radio Technical Planning
Board, who is also Director of the RMA Engineering Department. In
a report to the RMA Board of Directors, he detailed RTPB plans for
FM, television, facsimile, andother new service presentations at
the Federal Communications Commission hearings in Washington to begin
September 28th.

Plans of the Engineering Department for postwar standardi¬
zation of radio components were detailed by Dr. Baker, who also
reported conclusion of tests arranged by cooperation of the RMA and
the Society of Automotive Engineers on prevention of automotive
interference with television. The RI:.1A-NEM Joint Committee on
Industrial Tube Allocations also met in New York on September 21st
for settlement of standardization problems.

In the discussion on disposal of war sumluses by the
Industry Reconversion Subcommittees with Government officials,
arrangements were made and approved by the Board of Directors for
transmission soon to RMA members, also to non-member companies, of
a bulleting giving detailed information regarding problems in con¬
nection with the DSC plan for handling war surpluses.

Special Information for members on war contract tenninatioii
problems also was arranged by the Contract Terminations Committee.

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U.S. GRANTS ASCAP FRENCH I^SIC RIGHTS

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
(ASCAP) has acquired from the Alien Property Custodian the performing
rights to the symphonic and concert works of Sacem, the French per¬
forming right society, as of Friday, September 15th. These copy¬
rights have been controlled in the IJnited States by the Elkan-Vogel
Company of Philadelphia since 1931. Upon German occupation of France
these rights were seized by James E. Markham, Alien Property Custod¬
ian.

The acquisition of these works adds substantially to the
ASCAP symphonic and concert catalog. Some of the well-known French
composers whose works are now controlled by the Society are Ravel,
DeBussy, Milhaud, Saint-Saens, Poulenc, d' Indy and many others,

Herman Finkelstein, ASCAP resident counsel, represented the
Society in this transaction; Messrs. Werner and Johnson were the
lawyers for the Alien Property Custodian.

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CBS TELLS WHY IT IS QUITTING TELE ASS'N; DU MONT REPLIES

The exchange of correspondence between Worthington Miner,
Director of television for the Columbia Broadcasting System, and
Allen Du Mont, President of the Television Broadcasters’ Association,
in connection with the resignation of CBS from the Association, has
Just been made public.

On September 19th, Mr. Miner wrote to Mr. DuMont as follows

”l have been concerned ever since the organization of the T. B.A.
because of the fact that its membership was at no time fully repre¬
sentative of the broadcaster’s point of view,' uncolored by any inti¬
mate affiliation with the manufacturing end of the industry. It is
true that the active members now enrolled represent the only televi¬
sion broadcasters in this country; and yet there is a wide difference
of perspective between broadcasting units organized as promotional
show-windows for the manufacturer, and broadcasting units set up for
the simple and sole purpose of broadcasting to the public,

"For many months now, all major problems of policy have been
viewed by me and by the rest of T.B.A. from points of view which are
totally at variance. As a result, any resolutions designed to create
an effective activity on the part of this trade organization have
resulted in some form of compromise, which has not been altogether
satisfactory to anyone concerned.

"The point has now been reached, where it is impossible for me
with complete integrity to compromise further with the majority point
of view of the organization, I cannot feel that there is any advant¬
age to us, or to you, in Columbia’s remaining a member of an organ¬
ization merely to exercise the privilege of voting "No” to each reso¬
lution as it is proposed. There is so strong a matter of principle
Involved in our difference of opinion, that a compromise is no longer
a desirable objective,

"Were T.B.A. to be in fact, as well as in name, a genuine repre¬
sentative of the broadcaster’s point of view, continuation of this
association ml ^t be fruitful. Under present conditions, this does
not appear to be the case and consequently I feel that the only pos¬
sible course for Columbia to take is to withdraw from the organiza¬
tion, I should appreciate it, therefore, if you will accept this
letter as our resignation from the Television Broadcasters* Associa¬
tion, "

On September 21st, Mr, Du Mont replied:

”I re reived your letter of September 19, 1944, and noted with
surpriTe che decision of the Columbia Broadcasting System to with¬
draw from membership in the Television Broadcasters’ Association, Inc.
I also note that the announcement reached ’Variety’ as soon as it did
the Association,

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"I have r^vlein'ed the minutes of the meetings of the Television
Broadcasters Association, Inc. , and nowhere can I find anything to
substantiate your assertion that *any resolutions designed to create
an effective activity on the part of this trade organization have
resulted in some form of compromise,’

"The Directors of TBA have always been unanimous in their reso¬
lutions on all matters including those dealing with postwar alloca¬
tions, At no time have the Directors sought to compromise their pos¬
ition that allocations for television should be other than those
favored by the best engineering minds in the country, as represented
on the Rf.dio Technical Planning Board.

"The only existing resolution on allocations, expressing the
policy of the Association on allocations, unanimously adopted, which
set forth the points ’considered the major premises Involved in the
matter of allocations', was not only Introduced by you, but you
actually dictated every word of it. In your resolution you had
every right to speak your own mind and I*m quite sure you did,

"I resent, and I'm sure the other Directors of the Association
must feel likewise, your attack upon the integrity of the Television
Broadcasters Association, Inc. I refer specifically to your asser¬
tion that the point of view taken by the Association is colored by
'intimate affiliation with the manufacturing end of the industry*
and that television broadcasters, with the exception of CBS, are
merely 'promotional show-windows for the manufacturer. '

"The facts belie such an assertion. On our Board of Directors
there are nine members, five of whom are connected with organizations
not engaged in the manufacture of television equipment. These in¬
clude: Lewis Allen Weiss of Don Lee, Paul Raibourn of Television
Productions, Inc, , Curtis W. Mason of Earle C, Anthony, E, A. Hayes
of Hughes Productions, and yourself. And, looking at the roster of
active members, one finds that of the fourteen organizations listed,
nine are not engaged in television equipment manufacture. They in¬
clude: Don Lee, Television Productions, Inc., Earle C. Anthony, The
Journal Company, CBS, Hughes Productions, Bamberger Broadcasting Ser¬
vice, Balaban & Katz, and WON, Inc. Mr. Weiss is Vice-President of
the organization.

"From this group of names, you reach the conclusion that CBS is
the only member with a genuine representation of the broadcasters'
point of view. Isn't that an unwarranted supposition, after you
dictated the statement of the Association allocation policy and the
CBS engineers affirmed that view on the R.T.P.B.?

"Your letter carries one thought to which I can accede and sub¬
scribe, i.e,, that 'it is true the active members now enrolled (in
TBA) represent the only television broadcasters in this country. ' In
view of this situation, one wonders if this resignation and the
accompanying publicity could be an adroit publicity move to dramatize
the hopes of the management of CBS regarding allocations?

"Your resignation as a member of TBA has been directed to the
attention of the Directors. "

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U. S. DEDICATES MOST POWERFUL STATIONS; CROSLEY PRAISED

Uncle Sam now has the three most powerful short-wave sta¬
tions in the world - WLWL, WLWR and WLWS. Located in Bethany, near
Cincinnati, they are the newest outlets of the Voice of America,
each having 200,000 watts power, built for the Office of War Inform¬
ation and operated for the Office of War Information, and the
Coordinator of Inter- American Affairs by the Broadcasting Division
of the Cirosley Radio Corporation of Cincinnati. The dedication of
these great transmitters was broadcast last Saturday simultaneously
from Cincinnati and Washington.

Among the important persons heard on the broadcast were
Elmer Davis, Director of the Office of War Information; Nelson
Rockefeller, Coordinator of Inter- American Affairs, and Clifford J,
Durr, a member of the Federal Communications Commission.

Host at the Washington proceedings was James D, Shouse,

Vice President of The Crosley Corporation in charge of broadcasting;
while the Cincinnati assemblage was presided over by Robert E.
Dunville, Vice-President of The Crosley Corporation and General
Manager of Station WLW.

”I cannot claim to have had too much to do with making
this achievement possible, since the great construction program for
American shortwave facilities had been drawn up before I entered the
Government service. But for almost two and a half years past, I have
been watching the execution of this program, one transmitter after
another coming into service, and the Voice of America steadily grow¬
ing in pov;er until now it is capable of carrying American ideas into
almost every corner of the world”, said Elmer Davis.

”And, as was pointed out earlier in this program, the. Voice
of America - weak or strong - has had, from the very beginning, the
same content - the truth. Strong in the faith that the truth was
on our side, it has told the truth from those dark early da.ys of
defeat right doTO to these times when every day brings news of fresh
victories; it will go on telling the truth until all our enemies,
east and west, have been utterly beaten down.

"When that has been accomplished the Office of Information
will have finished its work and will pass out of existence. But the
great technical plant that has been created to carry the Voice of
America in war time will still be here, ready to serve America in
time of peace. Precisely what the future of international Broad¬
casting, as conducted from the United States, may be, it is too
early to say; many men, in the government and in private industry,
are giving thought to it, but no final determination has yet been
made. In war time the Voice of America had to be single, united;
in peace there may perhaps be many voices of America, expressing
different aspects of the truth as seen by men."

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"In Bethany, Ohio, on last year's corn field there stands
tonight a forest of wires and towering poles. These towers, althougii
far from the scene of military conflict, are powerful and effective
weapons of war. They are short-wave radio towers - arranged in
rhombic patterns so that at a moment's notice they can be beamed on
twenty- four different lands in five of the world's six warring con¬
tinents", Commissioner Durr said.

"These short waves are not like those of our standard
broadcasting band - they do not die out in a few hundred miles. They
are the siege guns of radio - the heavy artillery ~ guns of war
that can hurl explosive facts against the enemy's weapons of lies and
confusion anywhere in the world. They are also potential guns of
peace that can be turned against misinformation and ideas that lead
to war.

"Tonight we are dedicating the nex^'est and most powerful
group of short wave broadcasting stations in the world, built for
our government by The Crosley Corporation - three brand-new trans¬
mitters of 200,000 watts power each. Por those who have built them,
this is a proud achievement. And yet, it is only one small chapter
in the story of 'The Voice of America',"

"The Broadcasting Division of The Crosley Corporation is
proud to participate in the shortwave broadcasting program of the
Office of War Information and Office of the Coordinator of Inter-
American Affairs through operation of the world's most powerful
shortwave stations - WLWL, WLWR and WLWS", Mr, Shouse declared,

"The Importance of shortwave radio broadcasting as a medium
of psychological warfare and the dissemination of truthful American
news reports and top radio entertainment to millions of listeners in
far countries cannot be underestimated.

"Having made the splendid start in worldwide broadcasting,
as exemplified in the Bethany stations and others now in operation
or nearing completion across the country, it hardly is conceivable
that America ever again will permit its shortwave radio facilities
to lapse into a seconda.ry position in a world that is bound to be
increasingly a world of radio,

"The Broadcasting Division of The Crosley Corporation ded¬
icates its best efforts now and during the years ahead to a continu¬
ed maintenance of America's position in the forefront of interna¬
tional shortwave broadcasting, "

The start of the Bethany Transmitters resulted from a tele¬
phone call*

Mr, Shouse was attending a meeting of the Coordinating
Committee of the Federal Communications Commission, the Office of
War Information, The International Broadcasting Committee of the
Board of War Communications, and high ranking officials of the Army
and Navy,

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Something had to be done to strengthen the shortwave
broadcasting facilities of the United States. America was lagging
in shortwave propaganda and psychological warfare activities. The
men present at the meeting were discussing answers to the problem.

In the midst of the meeting, Mr. Shouse asked, "Why not
build some 200,000 watt shortwave transmitters?" All eyes turned
toward him. This had never been done. But they knew about Crosley's
ability to do things.

”Can you build them?" Mr. Shouse was asked.

He replied that he would give the answer in a few minutes
and stepped from the room. He called Jim Rockwel]., Chief Engineer
of the Broadcasting Division of The Crosley Corporation in Cincinnati
and asked him the big question.

Without hesitating, the engineer replied - "Sure*"

And now, a few months later, those transmitters are in
operation, fighting the Axis with bullets of trnath.

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BELIEVED FDR AND DEWEY SLUGGING OVER RADIO ONLY BEGUN

About the only thing Washington can recall similar to the
sensational exchange between the big and the little presidential
cnamps, was many years ago v/hen President Theodore Roosevelt attack¬
ed Senator Joseph B. Foraker, of Ohio, at a Gridiron Dinner, so
viciously that it broke up the dinner. The difference between that
affair and the FDR- Dewey clash was that it took place before a small
off-the-record gathering and was not heard over the radio by pract¬
ically the entire nation. It now develops, due to quick thinking on
the part of Governor Dewey in calling for additional coverage, that
his reply was heard over the entire NBC and Blue Networks - some
300 stations - about twice the number which had originally intended
to carry it, Furtherraoire, for the benefit of any who may have miss¬
ed speech Monday night, a transcription will be broadcast over MBS
this evening (Wednesday).

President Roosevelt, arousing the anger of Governor Dewey,
has changed the pace of the entire campaign and it is believed that
their slug-fest earlier in the week is only a forerunner of others
as the campaign warms up, Mr, Roosevelt will make at least two more
major broadcasts from New York State and is being urged to make
several others to the nation. All, of course, will be promptly
countered by Governor Dewey,

The Saturday-Monday knockdown, drag-out debate is still the
main topic of' conversation in Washington with surprisingly few de¬
fenders of the President, "His speech would liave been O.K, for a
teamsters’ dinner behind closed doors but lacked dignity and was not
appropriate for a broadcast to the Nation,

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Nevertheless, those who have been around the White House
ever since Mr. Roosevelt took over, acclaimed it probably the best
speech of that political type he ever made. On the other hand, a
Dewey enthusiast declared that Governor Dewey’s broadcast so widely
heard was for the presidential re-election hopes: "A funeral, a
burial, and I see no signs of a resurrection,'”

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57^ OF DAILIES BACK DEWEY; 20^ FOR FDR ELECTION

Governor Thomas E. Dewey is being supported by 57.9^ of
the daily newspapers representing 63.7^ of the total daily circula¬
tion, according to a nationwide survey of every daily newspaper just
completed by EDITOR & PUBLISHER. Six hundred and seventeen news¬
papers out of a total 1,067 replying to the questionnaire indicated
their editorial preference for Dewey giving him a total of 21,439, 7 6F'
circulation.

Compared to a similar survey made by Editor & Publisher in
August, 1940, there has been little change in the political attitudes
of the daily newspapers. At that time it was discovered that of
1,058 newspapers responding, Willkie was supported by 59,47^ of the
circulation, Roosevelt by 19,1^, and 21.43^ was neutral, Roosevelt
had 20,1^ of the newspapers, Willkie had 66,3^ and 13,5^ were neutral.

Says the Editor & Publisher, which gives a complete list of
the newspapers for or against Roosevelt or Dewey in its issue of
September 23:

"Contrary to the wold mouthings in the labor press and by
the critics of newspapers, Roosevelt is not being opposed by 95^ of
the nation's newspapers in his campaign for reelection, nor is Dewey
being supported by any such majority, * * *

"Those who have attacked the press in the last decade
charge a conspiracy against Roosevelt and say more and more news¬
papers have gone progressively against him editorially,

"A comparison of Editor ^ Publisher surveys of newspaper
attitudes in the last four presidential campaigns exhibit a remark¬
able consistency in the number supporting Democratic or Republican
candidates,’'*’ ^ •**•

"The survey indicates that far more newspapers are undecid¬
ed, or wish to remain neutral, than in previous campaigns. Perhaps
because of the Important issues involved in the contest these news¬
papers are taking time for serious study* for a decision to be
announced later.

"We do not believe these later announcements will seriously
affect the percentages in favor of either candidate. Most of the
metropolitan newspapers with the largest circulations are already
included iii the survey. Fbr that reason the figures might be weight¬
ed slightly in the Dewey column. The newspapers that did not res¬
pond to our questionnaire are mostly in the small daily classifica¬
tion and it is unlikely that they seriously would alter the final
figures.

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WPB RADIO COMUNICATIONS PRIORITIES RULES REVISED

Provisions for securing priorities assistance in radio
communication, broadcasting, commercial recording and public address
systems for maintenance, repair and operating have been transferred
from War Production Board Preference Rating Order P-133 to Controlled
Materials Plan Regulation 5, and Direction 23 to CMP Regulation 5,

WPB announced Tuesday, Simultaneously Order P-133 was revoked.

In order to insure the adequacy of our forcing communica¬
tions, United States international point-to-point radio communica¬
tion companies may now secure special maintenance, repair and oper¬
ating assistance under CMP Regulation 5, Direction 23, International
point-to-point communication companies are defined by WPB as those
owning stations licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to
handle international communications, including code, voice and
pictorial matter, WPB Radio and Re.da.r Division officials explained.

The special rule allowing international point-to-point
radio communication carriers to use MRO preference rating AA-1 for
rearranging and modifying their facilities formerly in P-133, will
be continued under CMP-5 in order to enable the three or four Ameri¬
can companies engaged in this business to move speedily to meet the
overseas communication demands, especially of the Army and the Office
of War Information, in providing services as new territories are
occupied or liberated, WPB officials pointed out.

Specifically, Direction 23 authorizes any person engaged in
commercial International point-to-point radio communication to use
preference rating AA-1 and the CMP allotment symbol MRO to rearrange,
modify or expand existing facilities and equipment, except buildings,
either to maintain his regularly established services, or to provide
whatever new or modified services may be necessary to render services
by or for the United States Amy, Navy or CTOvemraental Agency, or any
foreign agency. Limitations as to the cost of materials used in any
one such project have been increased from ^1,500 to ^2,500, Prohi¬
bitions of CMP-b against securing maintenance, repair and operating
supplies for export, and the rules of Conservation Order L-41 requir¬
ing construction authorization, do not apply to activities permitted
by Direction 23, it was explained.

The general requirements covering MRO assistance to all
other types of radio stations, previously covered by P-133, were
revised, officials said.

Under P-133, radio station was not permitted to use the MRO
rating for securing new capital equipment. Interpretation No, 1 to
P-133 specifically pointed out that the rating could not be used for
capital replacements or additions, such as amplifiers, turntables,
microphones, etc. Under CMP Regulation 5, however, stations will be
able to use their MRO rating for thepurchase of new equipment of this
kind, whether for replacement or as additional equipment, so long as
the total value of the new equipment for any one complete capital
addition does not exceed $500, Radio and Radar Division officials
said.

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Another provision of P-133 limited stations to one new and
one rebuilt spare tube per socket, whereas the new regulation does
not place any specific limit on the number of such spare tubes that
may be kept on hand.

Heretofore under P-133 no limit was placed on the amount
of money that was expended for MRO purposes provided purchases were
in strict accordan ae with the limits of the order. Hereafter the
total amount that may be spent for MRO under CIJIP-5 in any calendar
quarter may not exceed one-fourth of the expenditures in the whole
year 1942; except that if present expenditures do not exceed $5,000
a year, the purchases do not have to be based on 1942 purchases. It
was pointed out, however, that if this limitation works any hardship
on a station, an appeal for increased MRO quota may be filed under
aA?-5.

It was made clear that this ruling does not legalize MRO
ratings that have been illegally extended in the past, but does allow
the station owner considerably more freedom to acquire additional
material and equipment.

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OMITS PEARSON LETTER DESPITE WINCHELL RADIO NEEDLING

Drew Pearson, columnist and radio commentator, and the
Washington Post clashed this week resulting in the paper omitting
to print a column about John Foster Dulles in spite of the fact that
Walter Winchell over the Blue Network urged readers to demand that
it be printed.

The Post said:

’•Drew Pearson wrote a column for publication on Tuesday,
September 26, about John Foster Dulles, which The Post, in the best
Judgment of its editors, deemed a personal attack, unfair on the face
of it,

’’The Post did not print this column,

’’For the same reason Tne Post has occasionally omitted parte
or all of Mr. Pearson's column, in the past. Leaders in both polit¬
ical parties have been involved,

"On Sunday night, September 24, Walter Winchell, a radio
commentator, told his audience that Drew Pearson would have a sensa¬
tional column on Tuesday which, he said, some newspapers would be too
timid to print. Substantially he urged that readers protect to news¬
papers that did not publish this particular Pearson column,

"Responding to this unprecedented form of Journalistic pres¬
sure, a number of Post readers did call and protest. Whether Mr,
Pearson a.nd Mr, Winchell acted in cooperation in this matter is unim¬
portant. It was an effort to dragoon this newspaper, among others.

"As our readers know, of course, Mr. Pearson is not an edi¬
tor of The Post, nor is he a member of the staff. He therefore has
no authority or responsibility on The Post. Needless to say Mr,
Winchell has not the sli^test influence with the Post,

"The editors of The Post are solely responsible for this
newspaper and no outsider is going to dictate its policy, "

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SHERWOOD RESIGNING POINTS TO OWI SHORT-WAVE FEATS

In his letter of resignation as Director of the Overseas
Branch of the Office of War Information to give full time to
President Roosevelt's campaign, Robert E. Sherwood made the follow¬
ing references to radio:

"It was in July, 1941, that I started the organization of
the Foreign Information Service under the Coordinator of Information
Col, (now Brig. Gen. ) William J. Donovan. Although this nation was
then building up its defenses, training an enormous array, there were
no preparations being made for psychological warfare. Although the
United States had led the world in radio broadcasting, we had done
little to develop international broadcasting from this continent.

We had only fourteen short-wave transmitters of relatively weak
strength for this purpose as compared with the gigantic batteries
developed by the Axis powers to fill the world's air waves with their
propaganda,

"We established offices in Washington, New York, San Fran¬
cisco and London. We established means of telling the story of
America's war effort to people all over the world, using all the
media that existed - press, radio, radio-photo, publications, motion
pictures - and devising some new media of our own, * * *

"We control and operate, either exclusively or in coopera¬
tion with other agencies of this and Allied nations, more than thirty
radio transmitters in the United States and many more in Great Brit¬
ain and other points throughout the world. We broadcast more than
3400 radio programs a week in more than 50 different languages and
dialects.

"Our radio photo netw^ork is the first ever established on
a global basis. Within a few hours after the first Allied landings
in Normandy, our London office was transmitting photographs of that
great operation to Moscow^, Chungking, Johannesburg, Sydney and numer¬
ous other distant points,* * *

"We have well-trained, well-equipped men and women ready
for work in all liberated areas. It is their Job to help the peoples
of these areas to reestablish their own free press and free radio, "

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CROSS OF MUTUAL, NEW BBC PRESS CHIEF

Christopher Cross resigns his post as Assistant Director
of Publicity for the Mutual Network on October 15th to accept the
position of Public Relations Manager for the British Broadcasting
Corporation in North America.

Mr. Cross, who has been at Mutual for 2-| years, is the
author in collaboration Y/ith Chaplain William Taggart of "My Fight¬
ing Congregation", published last year by Doubleday Doran, He will
assume his new duties at BBC on October 16th,

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HOGAN, WQXR, URGES NEWSPAPERS TO DEVELOP FACSIMILE

"Facsimile, which meansamong other things a printed news¬
paper or magazine broadcast into your homes by radio complete with
news, exclusive articles, fiction, comics and advertising, is reac3y
today for new experimental tests conducted by newspaper publishers,
according to John V, L. Hogan, President of WQXR, the New York Times
radio station, "Editor and Publisher reports.

"He declared that he was ’anxious to see facsimile devel¬
oped cooperatively by newspapers, rather than in competition with
them, *

"Revolutionary changes have occurred in facsimile techni¬
ques during the war, including recent new improvement patents, Mr.
Hogan said. He forecast that within three years after peace is de¬
clared, home facsimile receiving sets will achieve a circulation in
New York of at least 750,000, That amounts to 25^ of the radio sets
now installed in that city.

"Mr, Hogan said, *I am convinced tha.t newspapers and maga¬
zines are best able to plan the home facsimile program. Their long
experience in selection of the printed word, their expert knowledge
of all the editorial functions including the high value of exclusiv¬
ity makes it imperative that the development of this new medium
should flow from them. Facsimile should not and need not be intro¬
duced as a competitor to the press. ^ ^ ^ ^

"*Within five years facsimile will be using more hours over
transmission facilities than television', Mr. Hogan predicted, quick¬
ly adding? ’That doesn’t mean that facsimile is in competition with
television, ’

"Besides home use there are many other demands on facsimile
Mr. Hogan pointed out, such as in railroading, in police work, for¬
estry, the transmission of weather reports, and the relaying of
engineering drawings not only between distant points, but also from
drafting rooms to oroduction floors of a single plant,

"'But home facsimile is much nearer than publishers seem
to realize', he continued. 'After their experience with the inaugur¬
ation of radio broadcasting, which was first attacked as dangerously
competitive but is today accepted as a supplementary advertising
medium, newspaper publishers should not regard facsimile as competi¬
tion, *

"As to the costs of installing facsimile, transmitters,
that w^ould be dependent upon wrhether or not a newspaper publisher is
already operating a sound broadcasting station. A facsimile unit,
for instance, Mr. Hogan said, could be added to an M station oper¬
ated by a newspaper at a cost between $5,000 and $10,000, or he could
spend as high as $25,000, From the ground up, both sound and fac¬
simile would cost approximately $100,000, "

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Pointing to the fact that in 1940 the Crossley poll, as
published in the Washington Star, using the same method as in polling
radio audiences, had forecast the presidential election within 2fo
correct, the Star states thabit will again use the Crossley poll
this election,

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”FM'' Has Three Meanlnfrs

The letters ”M” have come to have three distinct and dif¬
ferent meanings. Confusion between these definitions sometimes leads
to sharp arguments among engineers. There are: 1, the bare phenom¬
enon of modulation by frequency changes in a carrier. 2. An improv¬
ed technical system, like Armstrong FM, with its limiters, etc,

3. The present complete broadcast service at 42 to 50 me with its
advantages of spectrum position, freedom from interference, high
fidelity, choice musical programs, etc. When the engineer talks
about FM, he usually means Nos. 1 or 2, When a listener uses the
letters, he is usually referring to the complete present-day service
wnose manifest merits may be only part attributable to the other
technical qualities of FM,

- (O. H, Caldwell, Editor, Electronic

Industries]

Kids The Commercials

"And for giving up their regular time, Senator Smudge and
this broadcasting company wish to thank Joe's wife, the Swing Quar¬
tet, Kiddies' Corner, the Ziftles Hour, the Central Philharmonic,
Qjuizz or Bizz, the Tune Parade, and Music for Sleeping. "

- (Saturday Evening Post)

Dewey Began To Master Radio Back In 1957

In his campaign for District Attorney, Dewey was to demon¬
strate his strong and persuasive abilities as a speaker over the
radio. He took much pains with the radio, rehearsing, listening to
advice, and playing recordings back to himself. It was over the
radio, on the evening of October 24, 1937, that Dewey unlirabered his
big guns.

- (From the new book "Dewey" by Stanley Walker, McG-raw-
Hill Book Co, , Inc. , New York. )

Second Reprint Of Sylvania Hints

Requests actually figured in the thousands for Sylvania
Hints and we are now in our second printing of the booklets.

If you didn*t receive your copies of P^dio Circuit Hints,
Radio Tube Hints and Radio Equipment Hints, mail your request now
for these three helpful little booklets,

A breakdown of the figures for the first three months of
this year shows 79, 9 percent of the booklets went to dealers and
servicemen, and tne second largest figure of 10,8 percent went to
the aimed forces. The rest of the booklets went to the following
groups: foreign, 2.9 per cent; government .4 percent; schools and
colleges 1,7 percent and employees of radio manufacturing concerns
2. 6 percent,

- (Sylvania News. Emporium, Penna. )

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CLEVELAND ALLOWED TO TRY OUT 2-WAY RADIO TAXI DIRECTION

The Federal Cornrauni cat ions Commission Tuesday, September
26th, granted the application of Yellow Cab Company of Cleveland,

Inc. , for special temporary authority for a period not to exceed
three months, to operate one portable station at a fixed location
in the vicinity of Cleveland, Ohio, and two portable-mobile stations
on taxicabs. Two-way radio communication system will be utilized
for the purpose of collecting information regarding the application
and usefulness of such a system in the practical operation of a taxi¬
cab business.

The stations will operate on the experimental frequency
118650 kilocycles with power of 15 watts and special emission for
frequency modulation (telephony). The portable station will employ
a Motorola Type FSRT-15-B transmitter, and the portable-mobile sta¬
tions will consist of two Motorola Type FMRT-15-B transmitters to
be installed on taxicabs.

The operational data collected by the applicant will be
presented to the Commission at the frequency allocation hearings,

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BROADCAST ACTIONS BY THE FCC

WSBC, Cranted consent to voluntary assignment of license
of Station“lSBC, Chicago, Illinois, from Gene T. Iyer, Evelyn M,

Dyer, John A, Dyer and Elizabeth M. Hinzraan, to Julius Miller, Oscar
Miller, Bertha L. Miller, Gertrude Miller and Arnold B. Miller, co¬
partners for a consideration of $100,000; Herman Anderson and
Robert Franklin. Tulare, Calif., designated for hearing application
for construction permit for a new standard broadcast station to
operate on 1240 kilocycles, 250 watts, unlimited time; Rev, Sam
Morris, San Antonio, Texas, adopted Order denying petition filed by
Rev, Sam Morris, for reconsideration and rehearing of the order of
the Commission dated Sept, 19, 1944, denying his motions to amend
and enlarge the issues in the hearings on KGKO, WBAP, and V/FAA
renev/al of licenses, and to require the above licensees to file
statements concerning the operation of their stations,

Philco Radio and Television Com. . Portable - Metropolitan
area of New York City, granted construction permit for new experi¬
mental television relay broadcast station to operate on Channels 11
and 12 (204,000 to 216,000 kc. , esp. clause), power 15 watts; to be
used in connection with research and programming of commercial tele¬
vision station WpTZ and in transmission of programs via radio link
circuits from Philadelphia to New York, New York to Philadelphia and/
or other cities.

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: TRADE NOTES

Among the choicest pre-election offerings is President
Roosevelt's urging that electricity be carried to about 7,000,000
farms and rural homes which have not yet received these facilities
under the REA program and which would bring radio where they are not
already receiving it via storage battery.

Manpower difficulties in communication wire production
show signs of easing, Paul V. McNutt, Chairman of the War Rfenpower
Commission, said last week. Developments over the last six weeks
have been encouraging, according to Mr. McNutt. Production, measur¬
ed by miles of wire, has gone up five per cent, in sharp contrast to
the six percent deficit for July.

Increasing tightness in the supply of tungsten and nickel
for incandescent and fluorescent lamp manufacture was reported by
War Production Board officials at a recent meeting of the Incandes¬
cent and Fluorescent Lamp Manufacturers Industry Advisory Committee,
WP3 said today (Wednesday),

Total communication and electronic equipment output, report¬
ed by the War Production Board, for July declined eight per cent and
was six per cent short of the f irst-of-raonth schedule. In August the
situation was better: seven per cent above July, three per cent short
of schedule. Field wire, a critical item, showed a large deficit in
July, because the Independence Day holiday cut into production, and
also because facilities were currently undergoing expansion to pro¬
vide a new type of insulation. The lag was reversed in August, with
ASF miscellaneous communication equipment jumping five per cent ahead
of schedule and seven per cent above the July level.

Use of Form T^PB-547 (formerly PD-l-X) for the assignment
of preference ratings on dry cell batteries will be discontinued
October 1, 1944, thereby eliminating a large amount of paper work,
the Wgr Production Board said today (Wednesday),

This applies to all types of dry cell batteries used by
civilians: No. 6, flashlight, railroad lantern, and radio batteries.

Production of "B" hearing aid batteries will again be
autnorized on an industry-wide basis, the War Production Board said
today (Wednesday),

Distribution controls, which were established by Direction
2 to Limitation Order L-71 on August 10, 1944, will expire October 1,
1944, and will not be renewed.

Gordon G, Vanderwarker, Manager of the Blue Network Polit¬
ical Sales Department, has been appointed assistant to C. P, Jaeger,
National Sales Manager of the Network,

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INDEX TO jJ^SUE OF OCTOBER 4, 1944

Brewer*8 Pearl Harbor Blast Cites FDR Muzzling Hooper . 1

Meeting Radio Tube Requirements Depends On Manpower . 3

Congress Committee To Sift Political Radio Boosts . 4

Don Lee Mt, Wilson Site Means Big FM-Tele Expansion . 5

FGC Allocation Hearings Continue Into Second Week . 6

Westinghouse Goes In For Train Radio. . 7

Navy Suppresses Statler Teamsters' Brawl Broadcast . 8

Radio Campaign Guide "Is Your Hat In Ring?” Going Big... . 8

WPB Clarifies Radio Servicemen Copper Wire Rulings . 9

Paul Porter Mentioned For FCC Chairman . 9

Another FDR- Dewey Radio Slugfest Expected This Week . 10

Research Improves Diamond Dies For Electronic Equipment . 11

Broadcast Actions By The FCC . 11

Lt, J, W, Case, Son Of FCC Commissioner, Wounded In Action . 12

Outlook For Post-War Television . 12

Scissors And Paste . 13

Trade Notes . 15

President Asks Lifting Of Ban By Petrillo . 16

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BREV'fER* S PEARL HARBOR BLAST CITES FDR MUZZLINO HOOPER

The widely syndicated full-page newspaper editorial ''The
Truth About Pearl Harbor" by Basil Brewer, New England newspaper
publisher and radio broadcaster, which caused so much comment in the
Capital and elsewhere last week, brought the muzzling of Rear Admiral
Stanford C. Hooper, formerly the Navy*s No. 1 radio expert, into the
picture more prominently than ever.

Admiral Hooper was silenced by the President, His Pearl
Harbor report reflecting on Chairman Fly of the Federal Communicatiore
Commission is alleged to have been the cause of the Admiral’s sudden
re tireraent.

Mr, Brewer’s latest article, which Capital observers be¬
lieve must surely have come to the personal attention of President
Roosevelt through the Washington and other papers which he regularly
reads, will unquestionably afford additional ammunition for those
seeking a real investigation of the Japanese attack which brou^t on
the war.

In his editorial "The Truth About Pearl Harbor", the pub¬
lication of which was perfectly timed, Mr. Brewer, after citing
numerous instances to prove his conclusions, said, in part: "Obvious¬
ly the President was expecting a Japanese attack. But the nearer it
was expected, the more careful he became that when the attack should
come, it should be such as the isolationists could not tie onto him¬
self, The attack which came at Pearl Harbor was one which the
'isolationists' could not tie onto the President.

"But the success of the attack can in part, in all fair¬
ness, and in such measure as each citizen shall Judge, be placed at
the door of the Coramande2>-in-Chief as commander and personally,

"The President, and others, in Washington, first had lull¬
ed the commanders at Pearl Harbor into expecting only - sabotage.

"The President then had given them such restraining pre¬
cautions and orders they did not know what they could or dare do -
in measures of protection and defense.

"But, in trying to keep ’the record clear’, the President
unknowingly and unintentionally had contributed to the destruction of
the Pacific battle fleet, had helped to bring about Bataan and Co]>-
regidor, had lengthened immeasurably the Japanese war, "

Mr, Brewer said that "this explained many things" includ¬
ing the long delay in the court-martial of General Short and Admiral
Kimmel, why the President stopped Congress from passing resolutions

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calling for trials, the present investigation now being held behind
closed doors and "it explains the presidential order which forbade
Admiral Hooper a year ago to testify about Pearl Harbor to a com¬
mittee of Congress. ”

Thus Mr. Brewer gives considerable support to the minority
members of the House Committee headed by Representative Lea ( D) , of
California investigating the Federal Communications Commission, who
are still trying to force the President to remove the gag from
Admiral Hooper. The alleged opposition of Mr. Fly to security meas¬
ures advocated by Admiral Hooper and other naval officers, his non-
cooperative attitude on matters Involving examination and control of
radio operators on merchant ships, and his long delay in turning over
finger-prints of radio personnel in response to repeated requests
from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, were attributed directly
by Admiral Hooper to the desire of the FCC Chairman and the President
to enlist the political support of the American Communications Assoc¬
iation, a CIO affiliate whose 1948 convention was addressed by Mr.

Fly.

Admiral Hooper was quoted as saying; ”We got rid of the
Japs and the Fascists and the Germans and had started on the Commun¬
ists when the pressure came to stop the elimination of the Commun¬
ists, The pressure was said to have come from the ^'ThiteHouse, ”

Forced retirement evidently has worked no hardship on
Admiral Hooper, who is now serving as the Washington representative
of the Sperry Gyroscope Company, the Automatic Electric Company, the
Submarine Signal Company, and probably is making considerably more
money than when in active service.

Each of Mr. Brewer’s broadsides such as "The Truth About
Pearl Harbor" carries the following editor’s note:

"This editorial is published and paid for by The New Bed¬
ford, Mass. Standard-Time s , as a patriotic public service. No out¬
side parties have contributed in any way toward the cost of publica¬
tion. Republication permitted, "

Mr, Brewer is publisher and controlling owner of the New
Bedford Standard- Times and controlling owner of the Cape Cod Standa.rd
Times at Kyannis and Stations WNBY at New Bedford and WOCB, at Vfest
Yarmouth. He is also going in for and television in a big way,
having applied for a new FM station atop Mt. Asnebumskit, Paxton,
Mass., with studios in Boston. Likewise his FM application for the
New Bedford area, pigeon-holed on account of the FCC investigation of
newspaper-owned stations, has been reinstated.

Mr. Brewer’s company, E. Arithony & Sons, have applied for
a construction permit for a new commercial television station at
Providence, R. I. , to be operated on Channel #10, Also they are
seeking a television station in Boston on Channel #2.

The general impression that Mr, Brewer, who is attracting
so much attention in the newspaper and radio world and elsewhere is

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a New Englander Is incorrect. As amatter of fact, he is a Middle
Westerner, born at Rush Hill, Missouri, in 1884, He was graduated
from the Missouri State Teachers College, He was with the Scripps-
Howard newspapers from 1908-81, was Business Manager of the Cincin¬
nati Post, 1916-19, served in the same capacity for the Cleveland
Press, 1919-21.

Mr. Brewer was Editor and Publisher of the Omaha Bee from
1921-84, Editor and Publisher and orincipal owner of the Lansing
(raich, ) Capital News. 1924-89,

Mr, Brewer’s editorial "The Truth About Pearl Harbor”,
appeared in the Washington Evening Star and the Washington Times-
Herald on September 28th and no doubt in the other newspapers at
about the same time,

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MEETING RADIO TUBE REQUIREI4ENTS DEPENDS ON MANPOWER

Combined military and civilian requirements for radio re¬
ceiving tubes after Germany’s defeat will be about 60 to 70 percent
above present maximum production rates. Government officials told the
Radio Receiver Vacuum Tube Industry Advisory Committee recently, the
War Production Board reported on Monday. The total production in
August was about 10,000,000 tubes.

Committee members said their ability to meet these require¬
ments will be almost wholly dependent upon an increase of manpower in
the industry. Cutbacks occurring in other industries should sub¬
stantially increase the supply of labor available for radio tube
production, they said.

Military requirements for receiving tubes now average
approximately 10,000,000 tubes a month. The end of the European war
will reduce military requirements slightly, but not until one year
after Germany’s defeat is a 45 per cent cut in such requirements ex¬
pected, WPB officials said.

Because of the nature of the work and the assurance of con¬
tinuous employment after the war, large numbers of women are expected
to be attracted to this field when cutbacks in other industries occur,
WPB officials said.

At present, approximately 15 percent of total radio receiv¬
er tube production is available to civilians for replacement purposes
only. Tube production came under WPB control in May, 1942,

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In Motion Picture Daily, Dr. A. N, Goldsmith, consulting
engineer, was quoted as saying that the film industry has a definite
stake in the future of television and it must maintain a position in
its development.

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CONORESS COMMITTEE TO SIFT POLITICAL RADIO BOOSTS

If, as expected, all political scripts for which subpoenas
have been issued are in by next Monday, October 9th, a careful study
will be begun at that time by the House Committee investigating the
Federal Communications Commission, However, no meeting of the Com¬
mittee has been called for that time. John J, Sirica, Committee
counsel, when asked if the full Committee would be summoned in con¬
nection with the scripts, replied that it would all depend upon what
the scripts revealed. Asked if it had definitely been decided for
the whole investigation to go over until after the election, Mr.
Sirica said that he couldn’t say as to that.

Representative Wigglesworth ( R) , of Massachusetts, a mem¬
ber of the Investigating Committee, said the practice is growing in
the radio industry of permitting guest speakers to make political
appeals for the election or re-election of candidates on radio time
paid for by commercial sponsors.

’’Recent broadcasting over the Atlantic Coast chain, of
which a former member of the Federal Communications Commission is
President, and originating in Station WWDC, her^, are referred to
specifically in this connection”, he said.

”0n September 5 and Septem.ber 12, respectively, the major¬
ity leader of the House, Representative McCormack (D), of Massachu¬
setts, and a Congressman from Washington, a candidate for the United
States Senate, were privileged as guest speakers to make an appeal
for the re-election of the President. ”

’’The time over which the political appeals were broadcast
was time which was bought and paid for by a commercial sponsor, an
industrial company having offices in Washington and Baltimore,

"The sponsor is said to be a corporation and a Government
contractor. If this is true, the use of the time by the guest speak¬
ers for political appeals and for reelection of the President would
seem to be a clear violation of both the Corrupt Practices Act and
the Hatch Act, ”

The Congressman from the State of Washington referred to
was Representative Magnuson, a Democrat. Representative Wigglesworth
did not name the sponsor of the broadcasts but it was said that the
two Democratic leaders were guests of Fli chard Eaton on a program
sponsored by Albert Hovey King, President of a paving equipment com¬
pany of Baltimore.

Those ordered by subpena to provide the Committee with
scripts returnable next Monday, include: Niles Trammel, President
of the National Broadcasting Company; Mark Woods, President of the
Blue Network Company; Paul W, Kesten, Executive Vice President of the
Columbia Broadcasting System; Miller McClintock, President of Mutual
Broadcasting System; John Shepard III, Chairman of the Board of the
Yankee Network; Herbert L. Petty, General Manager of Station WHN, New
York City, and Nathan Strauss, President of WMCA, New York City,

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DON LEE MT. WILSON SITE f.ffiANS BIG FM-TELE EXPANSION

The purchase of a 160-acre transmitter site on Mt, Wilson,
22 miles northeast of Los Angeles in the Sierra Madre range, was com¬
pleted last week by Thomas S. Lee, President of the Don Lee Broad¬
casting System, The site will be the post-war location of the 50,000
watt Frequency Modulation transmitter for KHJFIif and will likewise be
utilized for Don Lee * s television tower sometime in the postwar
future, Frank M. Kennedy, Chief Engineer of Don Lee and Director of
KHJFM, conducted the survey of the south Sierre Madre range and after
a series of tests, recommended the area known as Deer Park for the
purchase.

The site, purchased from the Mt, Wilson Hotel Company, is
located on a 5600 foot ridge Just west of the Mt. Wilson peak, and
will enable KHJFM and W6XA0 to attain a transmission hei^t of 5900
feet. The purchase was the first by any radio station in Southern
California of any mountain top site of the height considered most
advantageous for Frequency Modulation and Television broadcasting.
Several radio stations and one motion picture studio have smaller
sites in the same area under short term lease. None of the lessors
has built transmitters on the sites.

Plans for construction on the ^50,000 property are not yet
complete, according to Lewis Allen Weiss, Vice-President and General
Manager, but work will begin as soon as permits for the transmitters
are obtained and building materials are available. Mr. Kennedy has
already blueprinted the designs for the buildings that will house the
transmitter rooras^ and the apartments for the seven men who will live
at the site while on duty at the transmitters.

A road is to be built Joining the site to the Mt, Wilson
highway and, according to Kennedy, every effort will be made to re¬
tain as much of the natural beauty of the site as possible.

The Don Lee Broadcasting System’s present operating point
for its Frequency Modulation transmitter, which has been on a daily
broadcast schedule since 1940, os on Mt, Lee, in the heart of Holly¬
wood, a few hundred feet from the Don Lee Television studios and the
famous 300-foot television tower that has become a Hollywood beacon
as well as an identification of the W6XA0 studios.

Mr, Kennedy first began surveying for the new higher alti¬
tude KHJFTJI transmitter in mid-winter, 1943-44. After photographing
the area completely, checking building possibilities and general
accessibility as well as air paths, his recommendation of the Deer
Park site was made to the network as the most useable high altitude
site in the Sierre Madre range. Much of the surveying was done while
snow was falling, sometimes at the rate of 72 inches in 48 hours,
and the crew often had to wait for roads to be cleared before tests
in some areas could be completed. Snow and wind influences on build¬
ing specifications were noted by the engineer while he conducted his
surveys, with the U. S, Forest and Meteorological stations in that
area supplying data on weather conditions there,

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FCC ALLOCATION HEARINGS CONTINUE INTO SECOND WEEK

Ahead of schedule and promising now to be finished by
election, the Federal Communications Commission allocation hearings
began their second week last Tuesday, Haraden Pratt, Vice-President
and Chief Engineer of Mackay, the first witness, stated that the
demands of the Ra,dio Communications panel of the Radio Technical
Planning Board would cut into the frequencies now assigned to the
Government services,

John H. Muller, Chief Engineer of R, C. A. Communications,
Inc., said that his company with other members of the industry for-
sees an Increase following the war in the number of countries that
will be served by dii'^ct radiotelegraph from the U, S, The recom¬
mended 5 kilocycle band for telegraph service will be unworkable in
many cases unless, first, assignments are made on an orderly geo-
graphic^^l basis to minimize Interference possibilities resulting from
too close proximity of transmitting frequencies in a given geographic¬
al area to those wnich must be received in the same area, and,
secondly, that all administrations and private operating companies
engaged in this field agree to modernize their equipment within a
reasonably short period after the war,

Charles C, Harris, Chief Engineer of Tropical Ra.dio Tele¬
graph Co,, testified that in order that all services having to use
this portion of the spectrum (4 to 25 me) may prosper and expand,
there must be worldwide compliance in technical standards for equip¬
ment and station performance. There has been a disturbing disregard
for these two provisions of existing International regulations for
some time which is responsible for much of the present difficulty in
long-distance communications, giving due consideration, of course, to
wartime conditions. The U, S, has led the world in the development of
long distance radio communication but the American carriers have been
handicapped for some time by the failure of other nations to adhere
to accepted performance standards. If the establishment of cir¬
cuits and assignments of frequencies in the fixed services are in¬
fluenced unduly by the traffic-volume factor, then grave injustice
results to small nations whose message traffic is likewise small but
whose economic and social development depend greatly upon foreign
trade, and particularly trade with the United States. It would not
be reasonable, for example, to treat the messages of coffee growers
of Central America with respect to fluctuating market prices and
cargo space for their shipments, as being less important than the
messages of merchants, and shippers in Continental Europe or any
other part of the world, dealing in other commodities. A more pro¬
nounced comparison can be made, for instance, as between a hundred
messages regarding raining and timber operations in Honduras or
Nicaragua and a thousand social and greeting messages passing over
circuits to Europe.

A Warren Norton, President of Press Wireless, Inc,, urged
the FCC to ignore recommendations of IRAC on grounds they undervalue
needs of press. ’’Its reasoning (IRAC) as set forth in its report,
displays to my lay mind, an extremely incomplete appraisal of the

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vitally important and indispensable character of those services,
and particularly the press classifications, in the national inter¬
est. The implications we find may be due merely to oversight or to
hasty preparation of the report but they nontheless require correc¬
tion. ”

Mr. Norton claimed (l) Cables do not and cannot connect
U. S. with any but a very few points in the world, (8) Cables cannot
perform multiple destination, multi-address, also known as Scheduled
Transmission Service, (3) Cables cannot handle sound, voice or
music, "Certainly, no one will gainsay the assertion that radio
facsimile and radio-photo, in both of which Press Wireless has pion¬
eered, are destined to expand tremendously and to revolutionize the
science of communications. "

Chairman Fly said that the assumption that cable rates would
be high and traffic low in a merger made the whole argument against a
merger fallacious. He said this was not time or place for an argu¬
ment on the merger,

Mr, Fly ordered the following sentences excluded from re¬
cord on ground they were irrelevant and immaterial: "From time to
time we see indications here and thei-^ that perhaps one or more of
these departments (government) plan to engage in the communications
business after the war and to deprive the companies of a correspond¬
ing amount of traffic. We have not the slightest knowledge whether
there is anything to these rumors or not. We have no means of know¬
ing whether, when a government department asks for a post war assign¬
ment on one of these frequencies, it has in mind a constant use or
simply a use for a few minutes a day or a month or no use except in
emergency, "

Anthony J. Diamond, Delegate in Congress from Alaska stated
that radio was badly needed in Alaska where 90,000 persons live over
a vast area. An additional reason now is that Alaska seems to be on
the threshold of a big development. Delegate Diamond suggested an
inquiry on the ground to develop all facts, if necessary. Chairman
Fly assured him that Alaska's needs would be given "very serious
consideration ”,

Others who testified Tuesday were Donald K. de Neuf,

Director of Communications, Press Wireless; H. C. Looney of the FCC
Engineering Department, and Charles C. Harris, Chief Engineer, Trop¬
ical Radio Telegraph Company.

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WESTINGHOUSE GOES IN FOR TRAIN RADIO

Westinghouse Radio Stations, Inc, , have been granted appli¬
cations for construction permits for three experimental Class 2 port¬
able and portable-mobile radio stations to be used in testing and
developing radio eqaipment in connection with railroad communication
systems.

Experiments will be made in connection with different rail¬
roads and all developments of two-way radio, such as "walkie-talkie"
will be tried out.

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NAVY SUPPRESSES STATLER TEAI^^STERS' BRAWL BROADCAST

Neither the Navy or the Office of War Information could
see anything in the fist fight between two Naval officers and a
group of teamsters in Washington's No. 1 Statler Hotel following
President Roosevelt* s address of sufficient interest to broadcast
to our armed forces overseas. When called upon for an explanation,
the Navy Department issued the following statement ;

'•The heavy load on naval communications necessitates lim¬
itation on the amount of material which may be included in the dally
radio news digest. These limitations do not permit the inclusion of
items of a controversial or political nature. "

The Army Ne^’?s Service, however, included a 800~word report
in its overseas broadcast last Monday night, sent out 450 more words
Tuesday morning, and announced that a story was being sent to its
overseas publications.

The Overseas Branch of the OWI, which does not prepare
broadcasts for service personnel but does beam broadcasts to civil¬
ian populations, did not report the incident,

"It certainly couldn't do any good", said William C, Bourne,
Information Liaison officer for the Overseas Branch. "I don't see
now it would help the United States to put it out. The thing is not
of sufficient importance in the overall, and it's factional - or
rather it looks more like a personal fight than anything else, "

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RADIO CAMPAION GUIDE "IS YOUR HAT IN RING?" GOING BIG

A revised edition of "Is Your Hat In the Ring?", the
National Association of Broadcasters' pamphlet which tells candi¬
dates for office how best to prepare and deliver a political speech
over the radio, is being placed in the hands of office seekers in
all the forty-eight States.

"Is Your Hat In the Ring?" also carries the FCC political
candidates* broadcasts rules and regulations. Giving radio the
credit for bringing out the vote, the pamphlet prints the following
comparative table :

No

Coolidge-Davis 19 S4
Hoover-Smith 19S8
Roosevelt- Hoover 1943
Roosevelt-Landon 1936
Roosevelt-Willkie 1940

jDf Radio Sets In Use

3,000,000
8,500,000
18,000,000
33,000,000
50,100,000

Total Ballots Cast

29,022,261
36,879,440
39,816,522
45, 646,817
. 59,808,211

Indicating that the number of radio sets in use brought increase in
total ballots cast.

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WPB CLARIFIES RADIO SERVICEMEN COPPER WIPE RULINGS

The War Production Board last week clarified the provision
covering the amount of copper wire end cable that electricians,
ele ctrical contractors and repairmen of domestic appliances, radios,
and refirgerators are permitted to purchase under provisions of Con¬
trolled Materiels Regulation 9-A.

Considerable misunderstanding hes exsite d among repairmen
and wholesalers about these provisions and has resulted in the sale
of a great deal more copper wire and cable for repair purposes than
was intended, WPB officials said.

Under no condition, officials emphasized, should any repair¬
man buy or any wholesaler sell any copper wire or cable for electri¬
cal conduction under the provision of CMP Regulation 9-A, which per¬
mits repairmen covered by the regulation to purchase each quarter a
total of 500 pounds of copper and copper base alloy brass mill and
foundry products. It is not intended that wire mill copper products,
Including wire and cable (bare. Insulated, armored, and copper-class
steel) for electrical conduction be purchased under the 500 pound
classifi cation.

Only brass mill products and foundry copper and copper-
base alloy products castings (before machining) may be purchased
under that provision,

CMP Regulation 9-A does, however, permit certain repairmen
to purchase $150 worth of copper wire and cable each quarter or one-
eighth of what the purchaser used in making repairs in 1941 (figured
as accurately as possible in dollar value), whichever is more. Only
refrigeration, radio, and domestic appliance repairmen and electri¬
cians and electrical contractors are eligible, however, officials
explained.

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PAUL PORTER MENTIONED FOR FCC CHAIRIJIAN

There was a report from New York that Paul Porter, Chairmen
of Publicity of the Democratic National Committee, was slated to suc¬
ceed James L, Fly as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commis¬
sion, Furthermore, it was stated that Chairman Fly’s resignation was
now on President Roosevelt’s desk awaiting action,

Mr, Porter was formerly Washington counsel for the Columbia
Broadcasting System.

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ANOTHER FDR-DEWEY RADIO SLUG-FEST EXPECTED THIS WEEK

Round 2 of the radio battle between President Roosevelt
and Governor Dewey is scheduled for the latter part of the week.

The President will broadcast a message to party workers next Thurs¬
day night, October 5th, and Dewey will answer him from Charleston,
West Virginia, Friday night. Secretary Ickes, in the meantime, is
being fed on raw meat for another broadcast Sunday night.

The accomplishments of the Republican National Committee's
publicity organization were described as "a small miracle” by Lee
Chesley, Director of Press and Radio for the GOP*s Washington office,
at an American Public Relations Association luncheon at the Washing¬
ton Hotel,

Mr, Chesley, who described the Republicans' publicity
organization, said it had not been able to organize effectively until
July, after the presidential candidate and his advisers were chosen,
and faced a tremendous task.

"It's a small miracle that we've been able to accomplish
as much as we have in that time”, he said, "but we won’t know how
well we've done until the election is over,"

Mr, Chesley said the Republicans planned to concentrate on
campaigning by radio and one-third of the budget had been earmarked
for this purpose. He said he thought the women's vote would decide
the election, and expressed uncertainty regarding the part service¬
men's votes would play.

Senator Truman, of I^Tissouri, Vlce-Pre sldenti-1 c'ndid'^te,
is a-mong the top flight Democrats now using the five-minute evenin '
network smcts. Developed by J. Leonard Reinsch, Radio Director of
the Democratic National Committee, and the Blow Co., agency for the
party, the plan is based on the premise that listeners, broadcasters
and advertisers would rather take five minutes of campaigning at the
end of a program than to have the whole half-hour period usurped by
politics.

Two special writers and a production man have been assigned
to the five-minute series, Mr. Reinsch said, and additional top
spokesmen will be heard, including Quentin Reynolds who spoke last
night, Robert E. Hannegan, Chairman, Democratic Committee, and others
of that calibre.

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This year's World Series, broadcasts starting today in
the U, S, by WOR-Mutual, will reach the largest audience ever to hear
an athletic event. Through the facilities of the Araed Forces Radio
Service, the series will be short-waved overseas via WCBN, New York
City and WLWL-1 and WLWL-2, Cincinnati for the Europe-Mediterranean
area; KRCJ for the South Pacific; and KGEX and KWIX for the South
and Central America and Alaska, all last three located in San Fran¬
cisco. To meet Army regulations, Gillette has agreed to confine all
commercial topy to b e tween-the-inning periods, which will permit the
AFRS to make clean-cut deletions,

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RESEARCH IMPROVES DIAMOND DIES FOR ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT

Results of a research that is leading to improved produc¬
tion of diamond dies for electronic equipment manufacture were
revealed this week to members of the Small Diamond Die Industry
Advisory Committee, the War Production Hoard reported Monday.

Diamond dies for producing wires of spiderweb fineness will
be manufactured more quickly and economically by new electrical me¬
thods, when finally reduced to commercial practices, according to
Bureau of Standards scientists who performed the research under WPB
auspices.

Electronics, vital both to wartime and peacetime communica¬
tion, depends on superfine wires, which can be drawn only through
microscopic apertures drilled in diamond dies, a WPB official explain¬
ed.

Greater need for electronic equipment was forecast by an
official of WPB’ s Radio and Radar Division, War needs and rapidly
changing designs cause difficulties in equipment supply, he pointed
out. Frequent modifications are necessary in certain instruments
useful in European war areas, but which are useless in Pacific
theaters, he indicated. More than one year's work in expediting
present orders already confronts the radio industry, he said.

Several wire manufacturers expressed a willingness to make
tests to ascertain whether Brazilian diamonds produce superior,
though more expensive, dies than those made from South Africa,

Since 18 months or more are required to train polishers
andci’illers of small diamond dies of the best qualities, for which
the demand is much greater than the supply, the necessity for keeping
critical labor in plants was stressed by industry members. Coopera¬
tion between WPB, the Array Signal Corps, and Selective Service offic¬
ials was urged to help keep important workers on the Job,

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BROADCAST ACTIONS BY THE FCC

WLIB, Brooklyn, N. Y. , granted consent to voluntary trans¬
fer of control of WLIB, Inc., licensee of station WLIB (Commissioner
Durr dissenting), from Irwin Ste ingut, Elias I, Godofsky, Aaron L.
Jacoby, Arthur Fbske, William Welsraan and Louis W, Berne, to Dorothy
S. Thackrey (owner of the New York Post), for the sum of $250,000
representing 100^ of outstanding capital stock of licensee; KNOE,
KNOE, Inc,, Monroe, La,, granted authority to use call letters IR^NOE
for new standard station at Monroe, La., instead of KJAN.

Also, Philco Radio & Television Corp. , Portable-Mobile,
granted construction permits for 7 experimental portable-mobile
television relay stations, t?/o to be located at Havre de Grace, Md. ,
one at Honey Brook, Pa. , one at Southeast, Pa. , one in the District

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of Columbia end two at Sappington, Md. to constitute a reversible
relay system for television program transmission between Washington
D. C, and Philadelphia, Pa,, in connection with applicant's commer¬
cial television broadcast station WPTZ at Philadelphia. Channels 11
and 12 (204,000-216,000 kc) will be used for 4 of the stations and
Channels 13 and 14 (230,000-242,000 kc) for the other 3 stations, all
employing A5 emission and 15 watts visual power; A3 emission, 10
watts aural power.

Also, Badio Corporation of America, Portable or portable-
mobile, Area of Camden, N. J, , granted construction permit for new
experimental television relay broadcast station to utilize frequency
321,000 to 327,000 kc. , with 500 watts aural and visual power; also
granted license to cover same; also, Camden, N. J. , granted construc¬
tion permit for a new experimental television broadcast station to
operate on frequencies 84,000-90,000 Channel #5, with a maximum
power of 30 KW visual and aural. Also granted license to cover same,

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LT. J. W. CASE, SON OF FCC COMaSSIONER, WOUNDED IN ACTION

Commissioner Norman S. Case, of the Federal Communications
last week was notified that his son, 1st Lieut. John W, Case,

Field Artillery, U.S.A. had been seriously wounded in action in
France.

Lieutenant Case, 23 years old, was graduated from the
Henry Barnard School, Providence, R, I,, in 1934, Loomis School,
Windsor, Connecticut, in 1938, and received A, 3., in absentia, from
Brown University in 1942. He had been in France since D-Day,

Lieutenant Case was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in March,
1942, after attending C.M.T.C. in 1935, 1936 and 1937, and sailed
overseas with the 29th Division in 1942,

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OUTLOOK FOR POST-WAR TELEVISION

Television sets priced at Sl25 and up will be moving off
production lines within six to nine months after manufacturers
receive Government permission to convert to civilian products,
according to a survey made recently by the Wall Street Journal.
Models will range from simple table television and sound receivers,
to console combinations of video, standard radio, FM, short-wave and
record player.

The Journal said that some companies have scheduled pro¬
jection models wnich will screen a picture 18 by 24 inches.

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SCISSORS AND PASTE

”Lie8 From Tokyo” the Real Thlnft

! With the European war nearing its final phase, it is no

particular secret that many in Washington believe "that people on the
home front are not as aware as they should be of the nature of the
enemy across the Pacific. If that is so, there is available a new
program which should go a long way toward promoting an understanding
of our diabolical foe. It is ”Lles From Tokyo” carried locally by
WNEW (New York City) at 7:45 P.M. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

On the West Coast the program is said to have met with almost instant
popularity,

••Lies From Tokyo” consists of recordings made of Radio
Tokyo *s propaganda transmissions to the United States and to areas
where American soldiers are known to be based. After ’’Tokyo Rose”,
a favorite of the G-I*s in the Pacific, Bruno Shaw, veteran Far East¬
ern correspondent, Interrupts to point out where the Japanese have
parted from the truth,

"Lies From Tokyo” offers the real goods and avoids the pit-
fall of suggesting that the Japanese can be laughed at. The Tokyo
spokesmen speak quite understandable Araericanese, aside from a few
mispronunciations, and attack us from all conceivable aspects,

- (Jack Could in the New York Times)

Ambassador Paley?

William Paley, now in London, tells friends he wants to
remain a career man with the Government instead of returning to his
post as head of Columbia Broadcasting System,

-(Danton Walker in the Washington Time s-Herald)

O.KJ

How about appointing Bill Ambassador to Great Britain or
Russia? He*d make a good one and it would be in line with our
argument of many years that some of the choice diplomatic plums be
given to the radio Industry,

President Roosevelt made a good beginning last week appoint¬
ing Charles Sawyer, of Cincinnati, Vice-President and Counsel of The
Crosley Radio Corporation, Ambassador to Belgium,

R.D,H,

Being "Hissed Around”

Commissioner James Lawrence Fly, Chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission, it is hissed around, will be offered a
Juicy post in a major radio concern, and may accept.

- (Au Stine Cassini in Washington Times Herald)

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Bums At Walter’s Radio Effort To Hlp;h Pressure Editors

When a radio commentator has the affrontery to mention
that a newspaper columnist friend is going to have a sensational
column on a certain date and that readers should protest to the news¬
papers that decide not to print it, then we have a new high in high
pressure,

Walter Winchell did just that Sunday night regarding Drew
Pearson* s Tuesday (a week ago) column.

The Washington Post. New York Mirror and probably many
other newspapers, decided to omit the column which was an expose of
John Fbster Dulles, Dewey* s advisor on foreign affairs. The Post
described it as a ’’personal attack, unfair on the face of it”.

The Post explained: "the editors of the Post are solely
responsible for this newspaper and no outsider is going to dictate
its policy".

The Bill rr or and other newspapers undoubtedly feel the same
way and all are to be commended for resisting this high-pressure
technique of forcing them to print something against their editorial
judgment. "

- (Editor & Publlshe r)

Really*

If I were going in for exposing things, I would pick out
another feature of political campaigning, something new that has
been added in these days of radio.

One of the things for which the vast unseen audience lis¬
tens, when a speech is put on the air, is the response of the crowd.
If the crowd in the hall or ball park is enthusiastic, some of that
enthusiasm is communicated to the radio audience. Therefore the
campaign managers make it a point to have a first-class cheering
section close to the microphones, fellows prepared to start pounding
their palms every time the candidate pauses for breath or whenever
they get the signal, fellows prepared to shout "Atta boy*" "That*s
telling *era* " "Hit ’em again*" always shooting their voices in the
direction of the mikes.

And we, sitting at home, get a great thrill out of it. Vfe
say the speaker has certainly got the crowd going,

I am only giving this little secret away as a sop to that
friend in Los Angeles who thinks I should be exposing something. I
regret the necessity since during the rest of the campaign, it may
take some of the fun out of listening to the radio.

-(Lowell Mellett in Washington Star)

Fala Came Out O.K. . Says Clare
"The President's millions of radio listeners brought hearts
heavy with bereavement, hearts that still know long agonized vigils,
waiting and worrying for their men on the battle fronts, hearts that
yearned for comfort, for courage, for inspiration", she said. "And
what did these Americans hear?

"Against a sound drop of raucous laughter, or goose-gag¬
gling and wolfish yowls, their President jeered and quipped and wise¬
cracked, Fala, the President’s dog emerged with his prestige en¬
hanced, But did the President?'*

- (New York Times)

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TRADE NOTES

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• • •

Supplementary to NAB Reports last week ( Vol. 18, No. 39,
Sept,. 29, 1944) verbatim reports were issued (a) of the NA3 Execu¬
tives War Conference at Chicago, including the address of Commander
Tara Craven and (b) the Legislative Bulletin with the first install¬
ment of the testimony before the House Committee Investigating the
FCC regarding the sale of Station WFTL at Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
to the Fort Industry, The balance of the testimony will appear in
the next issue of the Legislative Bulletin,

More than 181,000 teachers in every section of the U.S, and
Canada are now receiving by mail the Columbia Broadcasting System’s
1] 0-page manual detailing the 145 American School of the Air Programs
linked to the war and its aftermath.

Additional copies for educational organizations, libraries,
parent-teacher groups, USO centers and others, will bring total dis¬
tribution of the manual this year - the 15th anniversary of American
Scnool of the Air - in excess of 200,000 copies, according to Paul Yn
Kesten, CBS Executive Vice President,

Joseph Triner Corp. , 1333 South Ashland Ave,, Chicago,
manufacturing and distributing a medicinal preparation variously
designated as "Triner’ s Bitter Wine", "Triner’ s Bitter Wine with
Vitamin Bl" and "Triner’ s American Elixir of Bitter Wine", is charg¬
ed in a complaint Issued by the Federal Trade Commission with mis-
representating and false advertising in radio continuities and in
advertisements in magazines and newspapers.

Sparks- Wlthington Co, - Year to June 30: Net profit, ^802,-
386, equal to 87 cents a common share, compared with adjusted net
profit of $520,816, or 55 cents a share, in preceding year.

The minority report of the House Committee which investi¬
gated President Roosevelt’s seizure of the Montgomery Ward plant
made public last week stated:

"At the time of the seizure of the Chicago properties, the
courts were open and Congress was in session, Chicago was not
threatened with Invasion,

"If the Attorney General’s viewpoint is correct, the Presi¬
dent has the power to t ake over every corner grocery, every gasoline
filling station, every restaurant, every farm, every newspaper or
radio station. Resort to the courts would be denied under Mr,
Biddle’s strange theory. We can conceive of no more effective pat¬
tern for complete dictatorship. "

OPA, it is reported, will shortly fix price schedules for
new radios, production of which is scheduled to resume after V-E Day.
Manufacturers’ Advisory Committee in YJashington for conference with
OPA price executives agreed that first sets will be in low^.price
field, little different from those being made when civilian produc¬
tion was halted.

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Television is a medium which bridges the barriers of lang*.
uage and thus should be an important contribution to the growing
friendship between the countries of North and South America, Dr,

E, F. W, Alexanderson, radio pioneer and consulting engineer of
General Electric, told a delegation of Mexican government officials
in Schenectady to witness a special perfomance of television at WRGr.

Dutch workers in the Phillips electrical plant in the lib¬
erated Netherlands town of Eindhoven "practically mass-produced"
clandestine radio sets for themselves during the German occupation,
according to the British radio. The workers, it was reported, made
tne sets in small cracker boxes, using parts they took from the plant
when the Germans weren't looking,

"The Germans long ago confiscated all wireless sets belong¬
ing to the people of Eindhoven", the broadcast said, "but it was a
futile thing to do in a city where almost every other man is a radio
engineer, "

Utah Radio Products Company - Six months to June 30: Net
income, after $769,500 taxes and $100,000 contingency reserve,
$207,299, or 70 cents a share, against $153,272 or 52 cents a share
last year.

Canada now imposes an &% sales tax on radio transcriptions.

The 110 piece Detroit Symphony Orchestra, under the dir¬
ectorship of Karl Krueger, will be heard as a weekly feature over
the Mutual network, starting Saturday, October 21, from 8:30 to 9
P.M, , EWT, sponsored by Henry H, Reichhold, Chairman of the Board of
Reichhold Chemicals, Inc,, and President of the Detroit Symphony'
Orchestra,

Station KJAN (Station KNOE as of October 2nd) Monroe, La, ,
250 watts, has Joined the NBC net^vork as a supplementary station to
the Southwestern Group,

The entire property and equipment formerly operated by
the Hercules Powder Cc,, at Belvidere, has been leased by the Philco
Corporation from the Defense Plant Corporation for the additional
production of point-detonating heavy artillery fuses to be used by
the U, S. Army,

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BULLETIN

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT LATE THIS AFTERNOON APPEALED TO JAIIES
PETRILLO, PRESIDENT OF THE A114E RICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS, TO CALL
OFF THE STRIKE IN THE MAKING OF RADIO TRANSCRIPTIONS AND RECORDINGS.
IN HIS TELEGRAM THE PRESIDENT EXPRESSED FEAR THAT MR. PETRILLO* S
REFUSAL TO CO^'IPLY MIGHT ENCOURAGE OTHER INSTANCES OF NON-COMPLIANCE
WHICH WOULD BLOCK THE WAR EFFORT,

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INDEX TO ISSUE OF OCTOBER 11, 1944

’’Who Paid For All This?”; Ryan Praises Radio's Backers . 1

Kesten Would Move Television From Basement To Top Floor, . 2

Heslep, New Mutual Washington Operating Head . 4

Shouse Fights For Direct S, W, Without Foreign Meddling . 5

Cowles To Spend $1,500,000 In D. C. ; Minn.-St. Paul Next . 7

Dutch Patriots Surprise British With Pocket Watch Set. . 7

Petrillo's Rebuff Embarrasses FDR With Election So Near,,, . 8

Scissors And Paste . 10

W. E, Macfarlane Eulogized By McCosker And McClintock . •.12

Sees FDR On Knees To Petrillo - No Rough Stuff Like Ward's . 13

Trade Notes . 14

FTC Cracks Down On The Book "Rape Of Radio" . 15

No. 1651

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OclKvber 11, 1944

"WHO PAID FOR ALL THIS?”; RYAN PRAISES RADIO'S BACKERS

Before the Federal Communications Commission, which hasn't
fallen over itself being advertising conscious in connection with
broadcasting, Harold Ryan, President of the National Association of
Broadcasters, at the allocations hearing last Tuesday went to the bat
for the "forgotten man” who footed the bills. Declaring that the
"effectiveness of broadcasting didn't Just happen, Mr. Ryan told the
Commission:

"From a beginning marked by difficulties, restricted
sources and even distrust of radio news, theindustry has schooled an
army of news reporters, achieved numerous world wide news sources and
won for itself accredited correspondents wherever things are happen¬
ing. It was this smooth working machine that maintained an unbroken
flow of information on D-Day and continued to supply its listeners
with stories and bulletins from every part of the globe.

"Inevitably we get down to the question 'Who paid for all
this?* Who paid for this slow and methodical experimentation down
through the years? Who bought equipment, used it, discarded it, then
bought new and better equipment to do the same Job all over again,
only a little better? Who paid the salaries of station managers,
program directors, continuity writers, announcers, salesmen, engi¬
neers, musicians, traffic managers, newsmen and hundreds of secre¬
tarial and clerical employees? Every one of them had to learn or be
trained in the idiom of radio. All had to develop subconscious
natures adapting them to their work. A radio employee was, and
always had been, a considerable Investment.

"The mere granting of licenses by the government to operate
radio stations is not like granting rights to mine government land,
for example, where gold lies in abundant quantities. Radio held for
its licensees only so much as they, by their ingenuity, money and
devotion to public service, could make of it. That wasn*t much in
the early days of radio, and before it could really get started it
was plunged into the depression which began in 1929, But its owners
put up money and more money and sustained the industry until finally
it became self-supporting.

"And here we should say a word for the companies that in¬
vested their advertising dollars and their faith in an untried medium,
testing this method and that raetnod, receiving inevitable disappoint¬
ments and yet coming back, again and again, until broadcasting as a
medium for the sale and distribution of products was proved to their
satisfaction. The record is full of instances in which advertisers
started out with announcements or programs, guessed at the right kind
of continuity, the right kind of program content, the right time of
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who were Just as new to the business as the advertisers. Many
advertisers guessed right, some guessed wrong, but they came back
with determination. They continued to badt up their Judgment with
their hard earned American dollars and ultimately earned dividends
on all that they had spent in proving the medium of radio. Radio’s
advertisers are part and parcel of the American system of broadcast¬
ing which they helped to build,

’’The proper assignment of the public's frequencies into the
channels of commerce so that they may be of the greatest value to
the people is a most important and grave responsibility of this Com¬
mission,

’’Entering into your consideration of the evidence must
therefore be the broader effects your decision will have on the post¬
war era. Solution of the problem of unemployment is our number 1
Job, Let us bear in mind then that the bases of full employment are
production, distribution and consumption,

’’With the tremendous needs of the peoples all over the
world, we should have no worry about the consumption of all the pro¬
ducts we can create,

”If, therefore, we can solve the problem of distribution, a
long, lasting and healthy prosperity will be ours,

”As one of its most valuable tools, distribution uses the
key of advertising and to a greater and greater extent the medium of
mass c.oramunication by radio,

”We are here asking that the Government allocate sufficient
space in the ether for the development of broadcasting - aural and
visual - on a competitive nationwide scale. Adequate facilities for
a nationwide competitive system of mass communication is indispens¬
able to distribution in the post war era and our greatest guarantee
for the maintenance of democracy,

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KESTEN WOULD MOVE TELEVISION FROM BASEIffiNT TO TOP FLOOR

Although he testified on shortwave and was cross-examined
on that subject only, Paul W, Kesten, Executive Vice-President of
the Columbia Broadcasting System, because he might be away from the
United States later was also allowed to express himself on FM and
television at the FCC allocations hearings last week. His prepared
statement covered 31 typewritten pages. Mr, Kesten' s recommenda¬
tions for the post-war broadcasting spectrum were, briefly:

”1, I want to plead, as strongly as I can, for maintaining
the status quo, or substantially the status quo, in the
total amount of spectrum space devoted to international
short-wave broadcasting.

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”2, By contrast, I wish to urge a vast increase over the

status quo - an increase of the order of more than 2 to 1 -
in the number of frequencies assigned to FM broadcasting.

I want 'to urge, in tnis field, not only more frequencies
but more stations on e ach frequency, as I will point out
later.

”3. On the subject of television, I shall go even farther, I
shall, for your consideration, urge what many will call a
complete annihilation of the status quo - moving televi¬
sion bodily from what might be called the basement of the
very high frequencies to an upper floor in the ultra-high
frequencies - moving each licensee, moreover, from a
narrow cell down there in the basement to a broad and
spacious room in the upper megacycles, and finally ~
scrubbing off the dingy gray soot of the cellar so that
television can emerge, upstairs, in the full and natural
colors of the life it is to view and reflect to the Ameri¬
can audience,”

A tremendous increase in the number of radio stations was
proposed by Mr, Kesten, enough to make possible up to 10 major net¬
works, He made this recommendation in discussing his company* s
suggestions for M broadcasting. Frequency modulation was one of
the three sections of his testimony, the others dealing with inter¬
national short-wave and television.

Mr. Kesten pointed out that his proposal would provide for
between 4,000 and 5,000 stations within the United States - all of
them of equal power and comparable wave lengths. Such an arrange¬
ment, he declared, would result in the most democratic licensing of
broadcasting facilities ever enjoyed by any country in the world.

He underscored this plan as themost equitable one in opportunities
for both broadcasters and listeners,

"Our objective”, Mr, Kesten said, "can be stated in eight
words: *We want FM broadcasting to be wholly democratic, * ”

Instead of the 40 frequencies now available for FM, Colum¬
bia* s recommendation calls for 100 frequencies. In line with his
objective, Mr. Kesten asked that FM licensees be limited to coverage
on a single market area,

Mr, Kesten also placed his company on record as favoring
continuance of international short-wave broadcasting in at least as
many frequencies as are now utilized; convinced that television must
be moved into much wider bands and higher frequencies, eventually
relinquishing entirely its present allocations in the radio spectrum.

Columbia’s stand on international short-wave broadcasting,
as stated by Mr, Kesten, was taken in full recognition of the fact
that the I.R.A.C. (Interdepartmental Radio Advisory Committee) propos¬
al submitted to the State Department in August "implied that inter¬
national broadcasting might be eliminated entirely. " Columbia, how¬
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nations is an essential instrument for the maintenance of world
peace and understanding. Point-to-point transmission, on the other
hand, cannot guarantee this free exchange of ideas and information,
since unfriendly countries could bar American programs from rebroad¬
casting over their own domestic radio stations.

In recommending wider bands and higher frequencies for
postwar television, Mr. Kesten restated his company’s proposal of
six months ago; outlined the increasing support that the proposal has
had in recent weeks. The CBS recommendations include four basic
points:

1. That television be moved up in the spectrum above 300

megacycles.

2, That no fewer than 30 channels be assigned to it.

3. That each channel be at least 16 megacycles wide.

4, That, as quickly as possible, the lower frequencies be

withdrawn from television service.

At the conclusion of his testimony, Mr. Kesten pointed out
his company's recommendations, for all three broadcasting services,
would entail greater expense and increased competition for the
Columbia Broadcasting System, He said: "We are asking for the
opportunity to carry on international broadcasting, at our own
expense, and without the slightest nope of profit, to keep a vital
democratic process alive after the war. . . In FM broadcasting, we
are asking not for less competition, but more competition - roughly
five times as much competition as there is in AM broadcasting. , .

We ask for more and more frequencies in television for the same
reason ... I hope the spirit and purpose of our recommendations
in these important post-war fields will serve as ample and confirm¬
ing evidence to the Commission that the public interest and the
broadcasters' interest can be identical. ”

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HESLEP, NEW MUTUAL WASHINGTON OPERATING HEAD

Genial Charter (that's his correct name) Heslep, who for
the past two years has been making things a little easier for Byron
Price at the Bureau of Censorship, has been appointed Washington
representative in charge of operations for the Mutual Broadcasting
System, Heretofore, I®S cleared through WOL in the Capital, but
with the Cowles Brothers taking over Mutual, they decided to put on
a full-time man.

Mr, Heslep, however, will concern himself with news and
program activities and Louis Caldwell will continue to do the legal
honors. Prior to his employment as Censorship, Mr, Heslep was news
and special events representative of the National Broadcasting Com¬
pany in New York City, For the twelve years prior to his broadcast¬
ing connections, he had varied and intensive newspaper experience,
having risen from a reporter to Managing Editor of the Washington
Dally News.

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SHOUSE FIGHTS FOR DIRECT S.W. WITHOUT FOREIGN MEDDLING

James D. Shouse, Vice-President in Charge of Broadcasting
of the Crosley Radio Corporation, Cincinnati, came down like a ton
of brick on the Interdepartmental Radio Advisory Committee recom¬
mendation that no frequencies be allocated for direct international
broadcasting. At the FCC allocation hearings, Mr, Shouse said:

”I do not believe that this recommendation should be
adopted. There are several reasons why I believe that the proposal
is unsound. In the first place, the suggestion that international
broadcast service should be dependent upon the cooperation of foreign
governments and the operators of foreign domestic radio broadcast
stations is lacking in realism. It is my firm conviction that any
plan which places the dissemination of programs originating in the
United States under the control of foreign governments would inev¬
itably lead to a deterioration, and possible ultimate termination,
of any substantial amount of international broadcasting by the
United States. Prior to the war, and more effectively since the
commencement of the war, international stations have proven to be
the only means by which this country can make sure that peoples of
other nations learn directly from us what the United States stands
for, what our people believe in, and why our position on any matter
of international interest or controversy has been taken. Any other
means of mass communication is either susceptible to censorship or
can be refused entry at the border of any country in which we desire
to have it disseminated. This is true of cable communication. It
would be true of point-to-point communication such as that proposed
by the Interdepartmental Fadio Advisory Committee, It is obviously
true in the case ofnewspapers, magazines, pamphlets, books, and
periodicals. Shortwave international radio stations operated with
sufficient power and properly beamed to reach the audience to which
a particular message is desired to be given constitutes the only
sure way we have of making the voice of this nation heard in foreign
countries. It is obvious, of course, that the importance of having
our country* s message reach the people in some other country might
well be greatest at a time when that country* s government would pro¬
hibit broadcasting of our programs sent through point-to-point
channels. Under the I.R.A. C. proposal, we might well find ourselves
in the position of being cut off from any communications with the
people of a foreign nation at the very time when such communication
would mean most to this country.

The United States, from a standpoint of radio broadcasting
in the international field, is already at a tremendous disadvantage
geographically. Because of our geographical position with reference
to both the Asiatic and European population masses, we suffer a
tremendous handicap in competition with other countries. England,
for example, located Just off the continental shore, need not rely
solely on international shortwave broadcasting stations to propa¬
gandize - and I use this word in its broader and not in its invidious
sense - the many nationalistic population masses in Europe, Because
of her location, England can do a much better job in the medium and
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England from using medium and longwave transmitters located in
England, in furtherance of English interests, both politically, com¬
mercially, and ideologically on the continent. It may be that the
United States will never be in a position to reach the listeners in
Europe with the same effectiveness that can be accomplished by
England, but if we take away the only sure means we have of speaking
directly to the peoples of other nations in the same manner that
England can speak directly to them, we will be throttling the only
means we have of speaking for ourselves if and when that becomes
Important as a matter of national policy.

”The same thing, of course, would apply to any other con¬
tinental power as well as to countries of the Ear East, Our ability
to reach the big Asiatic population masses by longm^ave and medium
wave transmitters is far from being certain. Geographical factors
reduce the United States to the sole and peculiar position of being
forced to rely upon direct international shortwave broadcasting -
a poor substitute admittedly, but nevertheless the only broadcasting
facilities completely in our hands, and under our control,

”Erom the standpoint of national security, and preparedness
in the case of any future period of international stress, a system
which depends entirely upon the cooperation of some slsterenation to
provide international radio service seems to be extremely ill-advised
In times of stress, agreements which might now be negotiated to pro¬
vide for re broadcasting in any particular country of programs beamed
point-to-point from the United States might be arbitrarily withdrawn,
in which event we would, from a broadcasting standpoint, be left com¬
pletely defenseless. It does not seem to me that it is practical
for the United States to agree to scrap its present International
broadcasting system, even though other leading countries may advocate
a discontinuance of this method of mass communication.

"Why should the United States, which has also made remark¬
able progress in this field since the outbreak of the war, give up
entirely the idea of direct mass communication to other nations? It
seems to me that we would be admitting defeat in a field where we
have not yet exhausted our efforts to overcome initial disadvantages
because of our unfavorable geographical location, "

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Signalmen of the 82nd Airborne Division are reported to
have gone to work in the early hours of D-Day from the very moment
they "dropped in" on France, Veterans of theSicilian and Italian
campaigns, they knew from grim experience how to lay wire, repair
radios, deliver messages and supply necessary signal equipment in
the face of almost continuous enemy fire. As merely one of their
activities they laid 3000 miles of wire; and as another they repair¬
ed 85 radios and returned them in fit condition to operating units,

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COWLES TO SPEND |l, 500, 000 IN D.C. ; MINN. -ST. PAUL NEXT

The Cowles Broadcasting Company (which will be the new
title v±Len the Federal Communications Commission approves the change
from the old name of Iowa Broadcasting Company) propose to spend
$1,500,000 on their recently acquired Station WOL in Washington, D.C.
Commander T, A, M. Craven, Vice-President residing in Washington, made
it known that over a period of 10 years the Cowles organization plans
to spend $9,000,000 on its six stations in various parts of the
country. Much of this appropriation is ear-marked for FM and tele¬
vision expansion after the war.

A further expansion was revealed in the application by
the Northwest Broadcasting Company, o'^med by the Cowles Brothers,
John, owner of the Minneapolis Star-Journal, and his brother,

Gardner, Jr., President of the Des Moines Register-Tribune, and Look
Magazine .

First of all in Washington, WOL will get a badly needed
new transmitter which will be moved outside the city where the power
can be stepped up, WOL reception conditions at this time are the
poorest of any of the major stations in the National Capital, So
this improvement will be enthusiastically welcomed by WOL and MBS
listeners. In addition to modern studios, WOL may have its own
building in Washington,

The St, Paul-Minneapolls application calls for a station
to operate on 580 kc. with 1000 watts power day and night.

The FCC last Monday formally granted consent to transfer
of control of Massachusetts Broadcasting Corp, , licensee of Station
WCOP, from Arde Bulova and Harold A, Lafount to Iowa Broadcasting
Co., by the transfer of 5,000 shares of common stock and 500 shares
of preferred stock, or 100 percent of Issued and outstanding capital
stock, for a consideration ^ $225,000.

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DUTCH PATRIOTS SURPRISE BRITISH WITH POCKET WATCH SET

Dutch patrior workers developed a pocket-size radio receiv¬
ing set made to Gennan specifications during the occupation of
Holland - and used them to listen to allied broadcasts, the Nether¬
lands Information Bureau reports. The existence of the tiny set was
disclosed by a Dutchman who approached British tank troops about to
go into action somewhere in Holland, The Dutchman, who had been a
laboratory worker in a radio factory, asked a London Evening News
correspondent, Austin Hatton, if he would ’’like to listen to the new^l

He then held out a pocket watch that immediately began to
vibrate with the confident tones of a 3,3, C, announcer.

It was attached to a three- tube radio set packed into a
small German-issued field dressing box with a Red Cross on the lid.

The power came either from a battery or a hand- worked dynamo - also
pocket-sized. The set was one of many that had been built as exper¬
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PETRILLO’S REBUFF EMBARRASSES FDR WITH ELECTION SO NEAR

President Roosevelt^ s plea to James C, Petrlllo to call
off the dogs and permit union musicians to again make recordings for
all companies, was regarded in some quarters as pre-campaign politi¬
cal hokum. However, there didn't appear to be much political hokum
in Mr. Petrillo's reply. The next move appears to be up to the
White House,

Mr. Petrillo’s reply, a telegram which, reprinted in the
New York Times today (Wednesday, October 11) covers 8-3/4 columns,
admits giving his word to President Roosevelt that he would call
off the strike if requested to do (which Petrillo promised to do
on two different occasions) nevertheless now refuses the President’s
re que st.

Mr, Petrillo said, in part:

”We are making records to the extent of nearly four mil¬
lion per month for 105 companies and have been doing so for many
months under a form of agreement which neither Columbia nor RCA are
willing to accept.

"Mr, President, our membership has had and now has great
confidence in you. We are all aware that, while others objected to
your handling of their problems, our organization through me was
willing to have you do so. We waited for the employers to Join with
us in this request to have you consider the matter. The employers,
however, did not do so. On the contrary? after many tricky attempts
to defeat the federation by instigating a Senate investigation of,
and an anti-trust suit against, the federation, some of the companies
filed a petition with the War Labor Board. The two companies now
objecting did not petition at the time other companies first filed
the petition,

"There has been some talk by others that we have struck
against these two companies,

"We have never struck against any of these companies and
certainly we have never struck against the Government, During this
entire controversy, we have made records and transcriptions for
praotica3.1y every governmental agency, for the armed forces of the
United States and our Allies, in the overwhelming number of cases
without any compensation, and we are continuing to do so. With res¬
pect to our patriotism, it is second to none as the following recit¬
al of facts will clearly demonstrate,

"The Special Service Division of the Army is now purchasing
over 225,000 musics! records monthly and distributing them to the men
in the Army as well as the personnel of the Navy,

"Our donation in service to the Coordinator of Inter-
American Affairs’ office has beei evaluated by Mr. Rockefeller in
excess of one million dollars, "

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Mr, Petrillo*s turning President Roosevelt down is in
contrast of his attitude a year or so ago when he had the irun of
the White House, conferred with the President at length, and in
apparent gratitude began to organize the free symphony concerts
in honor of Mr, Roosevelt, The first of these was given by the N,Y.
Philharmonic at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. , and though FDR was there that
day, he did not attend. The rest of the series apparently was just
about as big a flop.

Discussing Mr, Petrillo's rebuff to President Roosevelt’s
plea to call off the record making ban, an important man in the
industry declared:

’’This is democracy at its worst. The pool is now so mud¬
died up that nobody knows where he is. It is one of the worst in¬
dustrial breakdowns in the history of our country. Here we have one
side which has to abide by the rules of the game and the other side
having full and complete access to the WhiteHouse does as it pleases.

’’Although the President has said that the strike was not
slowing down the war effort, nevertheless it would seem to me that
the President could again appeal to Petrillo stating that his case
could once more be carefully considered but that in the meantime, he
could allow the resumption of record manufacturing. If, as alleged,
the President’s appeal to Mr. Petrillo was political, his further
urging the music head to comply would get him more votes than allow¬
ing Petrillo to give the impression that he is a bigger man than the
President of the United States and that he can successfully defy the
U. S. Government in time of war. "

War Labor Board Chairman William H, Davis stated that the
case was closed as far as WLB was concerned.

Mr. Davis said that the only power available to the Board
in the Petrillo case was the ’’power of public opinion”,

”Mr. Petrillo may find himself kind of lonely”, Mr, Davis

added, '

No comment was available from the White House, but the Chief
Executive had virtually precluded further action against the head of
the musicians union for his defiance of War Labor Board orders by his
finding that the ban was not interfering with the war effort,

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The first pro-allied radio station set up in liberated
Holland announced last week that henceforth it would retransmit pro¬
grams broadcast by Radio Orange, the free Netherlands radio in London,
according to the Netherlands Information Bureau, The new Dutch
station operates on a wave length of 420 meters. Tlie first indica¬

tion of the station’s existence came Monday, October 2nd, when Nether¬
lands government monitors in London picked up a program of news and
patriotic Dutch music,

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Whooped Up Radio Applause

The gong sounded 6:30. Then there came a din of shouting
and tumult from the Statler dining room in Washington. It went on
and on, interminably. Those in the car, wise in the ways of pumped-
up radio demonstrations, grinned knowingly at one another. They
whispered that the Teamsters were trying to outdo that cascade of
sound that had greeted Gov. Dewey in Los Angeles’ Coliseum the night
before. That had come, too, at the signal of a man at the micro-
pnone with his watch in his hand,

- (Thomas L. Stokes of Scripps-Howard news¬
papers on the Dewey Train),

Appealing to Mr, Petrillo

It certainly is a sad commentary on the state of the laws
of this country when Mr. Petrillo has to be asked "on a personal”
basis by the President to conform with an order issued by one of the
President’s own agencies,

- (L. Patricia Willetts in a letter to the
New York Times)

Radio Voices Of Roosevelt Vs, Dewey

Dewey hasn’t, to be sure, the aerial wizardry of the Pres¬
ident, but his points come over tellingly, and at Oklahoma City his
points v^ere worth making, for the President's air of innocence on
the indispensability issue and his assertions as to his country’s
preparedness before Pearl ^arbor called for the broadside that they
got,

- ( Washington Post )

Dewey holds the interest of his visible audience, as evi¬
denced by the applause at regular Intervals, but you get the defin¬
ite impression as you watch him that he also has constantly in mind
the great unseen audience out beyond the microphones. After listen¬
ing to him, first in a hall and then frx)m a loud-speaker outside,
you realize that he has mastered the art of broadcasting,

- { Washington Star)

Sees Paley Going Back To CBS

Bill Paley cables from London that he won't quit Columbia
Broadcasting System, He'll be back when the war isover, over there,

-{Danton Walker in Washington Times-

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Editor Hits New Deal Press Grltlclam By Fly

Harry G-. Stutz, Editor of the Ithaca Journal in a criti¬
cal review of a speech made by James L. Fly, Chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission, at Cornell University, told readers of
the J ournal that "Mr. Fly talks about diversity of pipelines of
tnouglit but what he and theNew Deal mean is not diversity but sub¬
serviency.

"If a majority of the American newspapers were slanted,
class-conscious and biased on the same pattern, say, of PM and the
Daily Worker, there would be no complaint from Mr. Fly and his
associates", he wrote.

He added that "if the Associated Press had allowed itself
to be blackmailed by the Department of Justice into giving Mr,

Field a Chicago franchise, there would be no complaint about press
associations. "

To increase the diversity of "pipelines", Mr, Stutz wrote,
Mr. Fly might argue for more newspapers, but "after the publishing
experience of the past quarter of a century does Mr. Fly expect pri¬
vate capital tQ^ly in the fact of experience and enter the highly
risky business of starting second, third and fourth newspapers? He
knows better than that. So what then? Ah, the dear old government
of course, public newspaper, paid out of tax money and published
and edited by whom? The politicians of course. What a free press
we would have then* "

- ( Editor & Publisher)

Philco Made 4,000,000 Auto Radios

Philco pioneered in developing the first practical auto¬
mobile radio sets in 1 930 and has been the leader in automobile radio
engineering and sales from 1930 to 1942 inclusive. During that
period, over 4,000,000 Philco auto radios were made and sold,

- (philco News Bulletin)

Encourage Fire Department Stations

Chief Roi Woolley, Assistant Editor, Fire Engineering,
Chairman of the Committee on Communications, reported at the Inter¬
national Fire Chiefs* Association meeting, the progress made in
securing independent radio frequencies for the fire service. Already
the FCC regulations have been revised to permit cities of 150,000
and over to have their own short-w^ave radio stations; smaller places
may avail themselves of it jointly with the police through mutual
aid arrangements, Chief Woolley reminded the members of the import¬
ance of filing their applications for station licenses without delay,

- ( Fire Engineering)

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W. E. MACFARLANE EULOGIZED BY MC COSKER AND MC CLINTOCK

Last tributes were paid to W. E. Macfarlane, Chairman of
the Executive Committee of the Mutual Broadcasting System, Vice-
President of WGN, Chicago, and Business Manager of the Chicago
Tribune, who died of a heairt attack last Monday.

In speaking of Mr, Macfarlane, Mr, Alfred McCosker, Chair¬
man of th£ Board of Mutual, said:

”Mr, W. E. Macfarlane 's leadership and inspiration will be
deeply missed by the Mutual Broadcasting System, of which he was a
co-founder ten years ago this month. Mr. Macfarlane brought to the
radio network industry and to the Mutual Broadcasting System a rich
background of newspaper and radio experience. For eight years he
served as President of the Mutual network, and subsequently, to the
time ofiiis passing, as Chairman of the Executive Committee, "

Miller McClintock, President of MBS, spoke as follows of
Mr. Macfarlane.

"The entire Mutual Broadcasting System has been deeply
shocked and grieved by the passing of Mr, W. E, Macfarlane, who
afforded great leadership as Chairman of its Executive Committee
and formerly as President. Mr. Macfarlane had one of those rate
combinations of idealism and practical approach to the problem of
network radio. Much of the progress which the Mutual Broadcasting
System has made since its birth ten years ago was due to his stead¬
fast dedication of the network to the principles of the cooperative
welfare of its affiliated stations. The Mutual organization will
surely miss his inspiration, guidance and friendship, "

As one of the founders of the Mutual Broadcasting System
ten years ago this month and first President of the Network which
served in that capacity for eight years, Mr, Macfarlane pioneered
many developments in the radio field.

Mr, Macfarlane was 60 years old and had been employed by
the Chicago Tribune 36 years. He appeared to have been in good
health, becajne ill in his sleep at his home in Lake Forest, Ill.,
and died without regaining consciousness shortly after his physician
nad reached the bedside,

Mr, Macfarlane is survived by his widow, Alice, and two
sons, Bruce, who is in a Navy School in Rhode Island, and Frederick,
who is serving in the Pacific War Theater.

The funeral services will be held this (Wednesday) after¬
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SEES FDR ON KNEES TO PETRILLO - NO ROUGH STUFF LIKE WARD'S

An acrid editorial '•Pretty Please, Mr, PetrilloJ " in the
New York Times last Saturday, read:

"The letter of the President to James G. Petrillo, head of
the American Federation of Musicians, illustrates once more the
double standard of the Administration in dealing with disputes be¬
tween unions and employers, Mr. Petrillo has defied an order of the
War Labor Board. One cannot imagine the President's writing so
gentle and firendly a note to an employer who had defied an order of
the Board, The President and his advisers find that the law can do
nothing to Mr, Petrillo because his defiance does not 'unduly impede
the war effort'. One has only to contrast this with the action of
the Administration in the Montgomery Ward case, where noncompliance
with a War Labor Board order was deemed so perilous to the war ef¬
fort that Federal troops were instantly ordered in to seize the
plant and remove the head of it bodily.

"What began as an 'order' to Mr, Petrillo to desist has
ended as merely a personal 'request', to which Mr, Petrillo is asked
to yield as a special favor to the President and to the American
public.

"Nothing is said in the President's letterof how it became
perfectly legal for Mr, Petrillo to exercise the irresponsible pri¬
vate dictatorial powers that he does. Nothing is said of how it
became perfectly legal for this private citizen to tell the Araerican
people what music it can and cannot hear. To find out how this sit¬
uation came about, one has merely to review the labor laws which the
Congress has put u pon the books and thelaws and amendments that the
Administration has opposed, together with the interpretation of the
existing laws by the Supreme Court, The plain truth is that the
powers exercised by Mr, Petrillo are powers conferred upon him by
acts of Congress as interpreted by the Supreme Court. Congress has
made it illegal for employers to discourage membership in a labor
union, but has refused to make it illegal for unions to coerce work¬
ers into membership. Congress, according to the Supreme Court, has
granted sweeping immunities to labor unions under the anti-trust
acts, the anti-conspiracy acts and even the anti-racketeering acts.
These immunities are simply go-ahead signals to unions to commit
acts that would be illegal if committed by anyone else,

"Under the powers conferred upon him by Congress, Mr,
Petrillo can force practically every musician in the country into
his union. He has the power to boycott any musician or the employer
of any musician who refuses to Join. Under these powers he can levy
a private tax on the records of recording companies (a tax which
must ultimately be paid by the consuming public) so that he can
force the employment of unneeded men during a wartime manpower short¬
age and set up his own private system of unemployment relief. If the
Administration is now, as it professes, powerless to take any legal
action against Mr, Petrillo, and is reduced to asking him to desist
as a special favor, it is because, through its own labor legislation,
it' planned it that way, "

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Production and ordering of small distribution transformers
of 1^ to 5 KVA (kilovolt-amperes) will remain unchanged until ”V-E"
Day in order not to interfere in the radio and radar transformer
production, the Government presiding officer indicated.

Gordon Graham, Assistant Director of Special Broadcast
Services for WLW, Cincinnati, will be transferred to Washington
October 16th to head a new WLW News Bureau in Washington, Mr, Graham
will begin broadcasting Washington news of special interest to Mid¬
west listeners each week-day at 6:25 P.M. , starting October 23rd.

Public offering was made Tuesday of 225,000 shares of
Class ”A” stock of the Allen B, Dumont Laboratories, Inc,, at 7-3/8
a share. Van Alstyne, Noel & Co. handled the offering for the
electronic firm, which planned to use theproceeds for production and
sale of television transmitting and receiving apparatus when restric¬
tions on such products are lifted.

Members of the Campaign Committee of Business Men for
Roosevelt, Inc. , of which Andrew J, Higgins is Honorary Chairman,
Include: A, D. Davis, Allied Radio Corp, , Chicago, Ill.; Mark F.

Ethridge, Publisher, Louisville Courier Journal & Times, Louisville,
Ky, ; William L. Maas, Secy- Trees., Pacific Sound Equipment Co,,
Hollywood, 26, Calif. ; Sara J, Novick, President, Electronic Corp,
of America, New York City; Nathan Straus, WMCA, New York City; and
Fred R, Tuerk, Pres., Utah Radio Products Co., Chicago, Ill,

The Federal Communications Commission consented to the ac¬
quisition of control of East Texas Broadcasting Co. , licensee of
Station KGK3, by James G, Ulmer and Mrs. Minnie B. Ulmer, through
transfer of 12 shares of common stock from J. G. Kret singer to James
G. Ulmer, for a consideration of ^10 cash and cancellation and
satisfaction of promissory note of ^300,

Tom Downing, Commercial Manager of WSB, Atlanta, is on
leave from the station until after election and has Joined the staff
of the Democratic National Committee, New York, as Assistant to
Leonard Reinsch, radio director of the Committee, who is also on
leave from his position as Managing Director of the Cox stations,

Cox stations, WS3, WIOD, Miami and WHIG, Dayton.

The Federal Communications Commission granted consent to
transfer of control of State Broadcasting Corporation, licensee of
Station WNBC, from Arde Bulove and Harold A, Lafount to the Yankee
Network by transfer of 100 percent of the capital stock for a con¬
sideration of $220,000 plus, but not to exceed, a total purchase
price of $250,000. Also request granted to change call letters to
WHTD.

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As an experiment in the televising of a program primarily
designed for radio broadcasting, the Blue Network and General Elect¬
ric Company last week cooperated to present a television broadcast
of "Americans Town Meeting of the Air'* from the studio of Station
WRGB, Schenectady, N.Y, , GE television station. The telecast is
believed to be the first of a network program.

Because of the war, batteries have been put to new uses
under extreme conditions. This has encouraged research on dry cells
and their raw materials. Howard F. McMurdie of the National Bureau
of Standards has prepared a report for the Transactions of the
American Electrochemical Society concerning the crystalline products
formed during discharge of the cells and identification of the variou'-.
MnOg minerals in the ores used as raw materials,

David J. Finn has been named RCA Products, Sales and Dis¬
tribution Manager of the Chicago Region for the RCA Victor Division,
and James W, Cocke has been appointed Manager of the Dallas, Atlanta
Region, with headquarters in Dallas.

Prior to his appointment, Mr. Finn was Sales Manager for
the RCA Industrial and Sound Department. From 1934 until 1941 he
held the positions of Assistant Manager, and then Manager of all
RCA Victor's advertising and sales promotion activities,

Mr, Cocke directed sales activities for RCA in Dallas and
Atlanta for many years.

Unique characteristics of British Journalism and radio are
set forth in a program titled "How Britain Gets Informed" on the
CBS-BBC exchange series "Transatlantic Call: people to People",
Sunday, Oct, 15 (WABC-CBS, 12:30-1:00 p. M. , EWT), The part played by
the British Broadcasting Corporation, a Government monopoly, and its
world-wide news services and war reports, are discussed on the pro¬
gram, The tone of British newspapers is compared with that ofU.S.
papers. Also analyzed are the roles of the British Ministry of In¬
formation and the official British Array film units in bringing news
to the British, The program is written and produced by Geoffrey
Bridson,

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FTC CRACKS DOWN ON THE BOOK "RAPE OF RADIO"

Robert West, trading as Rodin Publishing Co., and Rodin
Publishing Co,, Inc., 205 West 57th St., New York, selling and dis¬
tributing books and publications, including a book entitled "The Rape
of Radio", has stipulated with the Federal Trade Commission to cease
and desist representing that "Neville Miller (former President, Na¬
tional Association of Broadcasters", "Saturday Review of Literature",
and "Clifton Fa diman. New Yorker", or any of them, have stated that
the publication entitled "The Rape of Radio" is the most revealing
book on radio since the advent of broadcasting, is "An inspiring
work, - constructive, helpful, worth its weight in gold", or that "No
broadcaster or radio perforaer can afford to be without it"; repre¬
senting that the book or any other publication sold by him has re¬
ceived the approval, endorsement or opinion of any Individual, assoc¬
iation, organization or other entity, until such approval actually
has been given,

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INDEX TO ISSUE OF OCTOBER 18, 1944

Radio- Radar Labor Group Seeks To Cushion Reconversion, . ...,1

CBS Orders New Hi gli- Frequency Television Transmitter. . . . 3

Tom Joyce, RCA, Paints Rosy Post-War Television Picture,. . 4

FDR Hooted On Belatedly Trying To Dig Up Petrlllo Law . 5

9 Out Of 10 G. E. Stockholders- Dealers Would Buy FM Sets . 7

Gen, Harbord Points To RCA* s Quarter Century Success . 7

Inland Daily Press Association Rouses Members About FM . 9

Majestic Radio Registers 297,500 Stock Shares With SEC . ,9

Fly Now Scheduled To Leave After Election; Muzak Post . 10

Willoughby Made FCC Assistant Chief Engineer . 10

Give Tele Green Light While Public Interested - Weiss,,., . 11

Scissors And Paste . 13

Trade Notes . 15

No. 1652

October 18, 1944

RADIO-RADAR LABOR GROUP SEEKS TO CUSHION RECONVERSION

Doing everything possible to absorb the shock of postwar
reconversion, the Radio and Radar Advisory Committee has made the
following recommendations to the War Production Board:

That a special task committee of the Advisory Committee
be appointed by Harold Sharpe, of Radio and Radar Division, the
Government presiding officer, to investigate labor shortages in
plants producing tubes, transformers and other critical radio and
radar components.

That prior to "V-E” Day, the WPB Industry Division, in
cooperation with the military, consider equalizing loads and attempt
to solve any spot unemployment situations that may develop.

That the Aray and Navy cutback procedure provide for a
30-day advance notice of labor layoffs.

That plans of the Array and Navy with respect to requirements
after the defeat of Germany be made available to the national labor
organizations as soon as possible.

That the Industry Advisory Committee and the Labor Advisory
Committee exchange summaries of their meetings.

The Committee endorsed the principle of protection for
small and medium-sized plants during the reconversion period by re¬
taining certain WPB controls to the extent necessary to assure equit¬
able distribution of components and raw materials in short supply.

The Committee also endorsed the proposal of the Radio and
Radar Industry Advisory Committee that a central clearing house for
surpluses be created.

Hiland G, Batcheller, WPB Operations Vice Chairman, told
the Committee he was confident that the radio and radar industry and
labor groups would cooperate in meeting military requirements. He
said he believed this could be accomplished despite the low labor
supply and without interfering with other programs. Completion of
war schedules, he indicated, will make possible earlier and quicker
reconversion with minimum impact on industry when the war slows up
or contracts are terminated.

Recalling that electronics production is not yet up to
requirements, Mr. Batcheller said that there could be no relaxation
of WPB controls until Anny and Navy orders were filled or guaranteed.
He asked that industry and labor continue to offer suggestions to
^T’B for completing the war program and planning for peacetime pro¬
duction,

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Mr, Sharpe said the large backlog of orders amounts to
about 13 months, partly because some equipment will not be suitable
for use in the Pacific theatre, and new types will have to be pro¬
duced.

The radio and radar production program, despite exertions
of industry, is still lagging, Louis J. Chat ten. Director of WPB*b
Radio and Radar Division, said. Although production is four per
cent above the August figure, it is still 13 per cent behind military
requirements.

Fabricators of components will be heavily pressed to ful¬
fill the requirements of the few large electronics prime contractors,
Mr, Chatten pointed out,

WB wants to direct some of this work to plants able to
take it up, and will make every effort to redistribute the load in
cooperation ’j>rith the military in order to meet military requirements,
he said. The military Job must be done before any serious consider¬
ation can be given to reconversion for civilian production, Mr,
Chatten said. Limitation orders are being studied, he added, and
manufacturer will be relieved of unnecessary controls as soon as pos¬
sible.

Pointing out that certain essential components, such as
tubes and condensers, will be very scarce, Mr, Chatten doubted that
industry could start civilian production very soon, especially be¬
cause component manufacturers may be required to meet many emergency
demands for both military and civilian electronic products.

As a result of the lack of labor, manufacturers anticipate
difficulties in supplying an adequate number of receiving tubes dur¬
ing the remainder of the year. Production of receiving tubes must be
increased by improved efficiency and more labor, Mr. Chatten declared.
On ’’V-E” Day electronic requirements will be far higher than the
requirements of most industries, it was indicated. They may approx¬
imate 73-g- percent of peak production and will probably remain at
70 percent for sometime. However, 30 percent of facilities will not
be available because many plants now manufacturing electronic equip¬
ment will not continue to do so but will return to their own peace¬
time products, officials said.

Current requirements for the next nine months will neces¬
sitate the operation of electronic plants at 94 percent of their
estimated capacity, WPB officials said.

Following "V-E” Day, there will be shortages in tubes,
electronic condensers, loudspeakers and wire-wound resistors, it was
stated. On the more optimistic side, however, it was reported that
in all probability there would be adequate raw materials and tools,
and a gradual return of labor to the industry, depending on the
termination of hostilities in Europe and Japan.

The tube shortage was brought about partly by the demand
for new and special types, changes in types in production and

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unexpected essential demands, officials explained. Changes in tube
types are increasing in both heavier types and in the new miniature
tube fields. Seven radio tube manufacturers are now producing all
receiving tubes, according to WPB officials, and most of these are
located in tight labor areas.

Despite many wartime Improvements in radio equipment no
new models of radio broadcast receivers are expected to be produced
in the first few months following the war in Europe, it was predict¬
ed, but some pre-war or similar types will probably be offered to
the public. Eventually, frequency modulation and television features
will be incorporated in standard receivers, officials said.

Committee members were told that WPB would summon both
industry and labor to Washington for a conference after ”V-E” Day to
formulate plans for an orderly reduction of controls and resumption
of peacetime production.

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CBS ORDERS NEW HIGH-FREQUENCY TELEVISION TRANSMITTER

Joseph H. Ream, Vice President of the Columbia Broadcasting
System, told the FCC Allocations Hearings in Washington that the
Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation had accepted a CBS order for
a wholly nev; type of television transmitter to be delivered within
eight months. In accepting the order, the Federal company - a sub¬
sidiary of the International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation of
New York - stated that the equipment would be manufactured in its
Nem^ark, N. J, factories.

When completed, the new transmitter will be installed atop
the Chrysler Building in New York, nearly 1,000 feet above the street.
Its programs will originate in the studios of WCBW, Columbia’s New
York television station, in the Grand Central Terroinal Building,
below the Chrysler Tower, Within the circle of service from WC3W
live an estimated 11,000,000 people, approximately one-twelfth the
nation* s population.

”We know now”, said Mr. Ream, ”not only that the fine pic¬
ture quality that secret war research has made possible is feasible
to broadcast, but that Just as soon as the new CBS transmitter is
installed, it actually will be broadcast. And while CBS manufactures
no receiving apparatus, we have complete confidence in the energy,
ingenuity and know-how of the receiver manufacturers to prepare suit¬
able home sets in time to receive the new fine-screen pictures first
broadcast from WCBW. To this end, also, CBS is actively cooperating
with Zenith Radio. ”

The fine-screen high-frequency picture has two marked im¬
provements over the coarse-screen picture currently broadcast under
prewar standards, according to CBS: the new picture will have more
than twice the detail of the pictures hitherto possible, and the
resulting effect in full natural color will mark a complete innova¬
tion from anything yet seen by the oublic.

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TOM JOYCE, RCA, PAINTS ROSY POST-WAR TELEVISION PICTURE

Thomas F, Joyce, of the Radio Corporation of America,
painted a great picture to the Boston Conference on Distribution
yesterday (Tuesday) on what a nation-wide television service could
do to stimulate af ter-the-war employment. In discussing the sales
possibilities of television, Mr. Joyce became so enthusiastic that
he said that perhaps the only thing, at present, that television
could not do was to put an order form in the customers* hands,

”But”, he added, "with the addition of facsimile to tele¬
vision, electronics, some day, promises to overcome even this handi¬
cap, ”

"Television”, he declared, "has the power to create consum¬
er buying of goods and services beyond anything that we have hereto¬
fore known. This means Jobs, "

The immediate postwar development of sight- and- sound broad¬
casting can, and will, contribute forcefully to a sound economic
structure in two ways, said Mr. Joyce, who is General Manager of
the Radio, Phonograph and Television Department of the RCA Victor
Division,

Most important, he declared, is television's potential
power to stimulate the demand of all consumer goods, and thereby to
create more Jobs,

It will contribute directly to additional employment and
Increased purchasing power in the radio industry itself, he contend¬
ed. In this connection, he expressed a conviction that if television
is permitted to go ahead immediately after the war ends, employment
in the radio industry at the end of the third full production year
will be approximately 600,000 as compared with the 300,000 prewar
peak, an estimated increase in this industry a lone of 300,000,

filr. Joyce pointed out that if television is given the "to-
ahead" now and, assuming that its production gets underway in 1945,
it can be confidently predicted that three-fourths of America's
families - 30,000,000 - will own sight- and- sound home receivers by
the end of 1955. Estimating the average cost of the receiver to be
$200, he declared this would represent a ten-year market for over
six billion dollars worth of television receivers.

"In order to provide full employment during the postwar
period without the use of extensive 'made' w^ork projects", the RCA
executive told the assembled business leaders, "the production and
consumption of consumer goods must be increased a minimum of 60 per¬
cent over the prewar peak.

As a measure of what television can do to bring about a
50 percent increase in production and consumption of consumer goods,
the RCA executive pointed to the fact that /mierican business had in¬
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facilities for the 1,770,000 retail establishments needed to market
the nation* s food and goods in prewar times.

"If, as I estimate, we have thirty million television-
equipped homes by the end of 1944”, he continued, "American fanners,
manufacturers and service industries will have thirty million show¬
rooms where personal, dramatized demonstrations can be made, simul¬
taneously, under the most favorable and convenient conditions,”

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^DR HOOTED ON BELATEDLY TRYING TO DIG UP PETRILLO LAW

About as many newspaper brickbats were hurled at President
Roosevelt for starting at this late date to find a law to deal with
Petrlllo as were heaved at the President for getting down on his
knees to Petrlllo (in contrast to Montgomery Ward). It is proving
to be one of the most embarrassing incidents in Mr. Roosevelt* s cam¬
paign for re-election.

Says the New York Times, which only the day before had come
out for Roosevelt:

"President Roosevelt announces that he will begin a study
of whether there is any legal action that can be taken to compel
James C. Petrlllo, head of the American Federation of Musicians, to
comply with his request to lift the ban on recordings for the major
recording companies. The President* s curiosity on this point surely
seems belated. It is now more than four months since the War Labor
Board * ordered* Mr. Petrlllo to lift his ban on the making of phono¬
graph records and transcriptions. The study of the legal status of
the Board* s order should have been begun at the latest immediately
after Mr, Petrlllo refused to comply. The legal study, in fact,
should have been made before the order was ever handed down. For
that matter, Mr. Petrlllo began his boycott of the record companies
in August, 1942. The study that the President is Just beginning of
what can be done about it legally, therefore, should have been start¬
ed no less than twenty-six months ago.

"If Mr. Roosevelt can find no law to do anything about Mr.
Petrlllo now, if it is perfectly legal for a union to put firms out
of business by a boycott, to restrict production, to force the cre¬
ation of needless Jobs and to hold up the public by forcing excessive
prices, it is because that is the state of the law that the Admin¬
istration has sanctioned, "

Frowning upon President Roosevelt’s coddling of Petrlllo,
thw Washington Star declares;

"Since he has already told James C. Petrlllo that his mus¬
icians* strike was not unduly interfering with the conduct of the
war, it is not quite clear what the President hopes to accomplish by
looking up the law on the subject at this late stage of the game.

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•'Certainly, he is not going to frigiiten Mr. Petrillo, who
has turned down the President's request that he call off the strike,
and who took that occasion to express his gratification at the Presi¬
dent's statement that the strike was not obstructing the prosecution
of the war. Nor does it seem likely, if the strike is not interfer¬
ing with the war, that any wartime legislation with reference to
strikes can be brought to bear against Mr. Petrillo. This leaves
the possibility that Mr, Roosevelt was thinking of the anti-trust
laws, but in view of the lengths to which the Supreme Court has
gone in granting labor unions immunity under this legislation, it
is difficult to see how any antitrust proceeding against Mr. Petrillo
could be effective,

"Once upon a time, when the shoe was on the other foot,
the advocate of such a project would have been roundly denounced as
a 'prince of privilege', or perhaps as a 'robber baron'. But in
these days there is no one to call a spade a spade. Instead, there
is only a wringing of hands and a thumbing throu^ of the law books, "

"Why Not a New Law?" asks the Washington Post;

"We cannot help thinking that it is late in the day for
the President to be looking up the law in the Petrillo case. As long
ago as last June Mr. Petrillo was ordered by the War Labor Board to
end the strike of musicians under his dictatorship against the making
of recordings and transcriptions. He has repeatedly defied the WLB
and last week he turned down a sugared request from the President to
comply with the WLB' s order. If the Deoartment of Justice is only
now looking up the law on the subject (of course the President has no
time to do it himself), the case has been rather grossly mishandled.

"It seems more probably, however, that the President was
merely turning away an embarrassing question by a noncommltal reply.

"The real mistake of the Administration has been in trying
to deal with the Petrillo affair as a wartime emergency. Since the
production, raining or manufacture of goods for war is not directly
involved, it does not appear that the War Labor Disputes Act can be
invoked. But that is beside the point, for no monopoly should be
permitted to tax consumers by coercive means for its own benefit in
time of either war or peace,. The weakness of the President's posltic
is that the Supreme Court he appointed has emasculated the antitrust
laws that might otherwise have been employed against monopolies of
this sort and his Administration has consistently frowned upon any
corrective legislation in this field. Certainly this is no time to
begin rummaging around in the statute books for law that does not
appear to be there. The only forthright and courageous thing the
President can do, in our opinion, is to send a stiff message to
Congress, on its return, asking that monopoly and rackets be curbed
in the ranks of labor, as well as those of industry and business. "

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9 OUT OF 10 G.E. STOCKHOLDERS- DEALERS WOULD BUY FM SETS

Nine out of every ten General Electric 16,635 stockholders
and l,-538 radio dealers who replied to a recent post-war radio sur¬
vey conducted by the company would like to buy an F¥ (frequency
modulation) radio receiver. This interest in M radio reception was
Indicated in replies to a questionnaire.

Almost half of those who replied were undecided as to when
they would buy their new radios, which was interpreted by H, A,
Crossland, Manager of Sales, Receiver Division, as an indication
that many post-war receiver customers are awaiting the appearance of
FM stations in their localities before they make a selection. As
soon as receivers become available, 26.9 percent of those answering
stated that they will buy a new set.

The replies to the questionnaire also showed that 80 per¬
cent knewr about FIA and that one out of every 10 had already bou^t
an M receiver.

The survey also disclosed that about 15 percent of all the
radios owned by those making replies were out of order because of war
shortages on parts and tubes. Twenty percent stated that they have
one set currently out of order, while io percent showed that they had
two or more sets idle for lack of service.

The replies also revealed a distinct change in trend in
the selection of models. They pointed out that 38.9 percent now
owned table sets while 13,5 percent said they had floor radio-phono-
grapn combinations. However, in giving their preferences as to post¬
war sets, the table sets were listed first by only 82,2 percent,
while the floor radio-phonograph combination claimed the choice of
33.8 of the respondents.

Almost 85 percent of those replying stated that they plan
to buy a portable radio after the war. The popularity of this type
of receiver was seen in the responses of 2,268 stockholders who stat¬
ed that they use a portable 75 percent of the time indoors,

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GEN HARBORD POINTS TO RCA’ S QUARTER CENTURY SUCCESS

Lieut. Gen. James G. Harbord, Chainnan of the Board, Radio
Corporation of America, said, in part, commemorating the observance
this month of RCA' s twenty-fifth anniversary:

"For the use of our armed services, RCA has developed more
than 150 new electron tubes and approximately 300 types of apparatus
not manufactured by anyone before the war, A vast amount of new
knowledge about short waves is being gained. Research and an oppor¬
tunity for field testing, which would ordinarily require years, have
been compressed into months. The demand on the radio industry for
millions of electron tubes of all sizes, great numbers of trans-

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mitters, receivers, antennas and other essential equipment can be
realized only when we think of the size of our 7,000,000-man Army
and two-ocean Navy. They are fighting what almost might be called
a ’radio war*, because the science of radio-electronics is playing
such a conspicuous part for victory. ”

According to General Harbord, RCA’ s production of radio,
electronic, and sound equipment for the armed forces of the United
States and of the United Nations increased nearly 100 percent in
1943 over 1942, In 1943, production amounted to ^282,000,000, On
July 1, 1944, unfilled orders totalled $300,000,000. RCA personnel
now numbers more than 42,000, of which 48 percent are men and 52 per
cent are women.

General Harbord listed these achievements of RCA:

In the first year of its existence, RCA, operating only
as a radiotelegraoh service, handled 7,000,000 paid words of tele¬
graph traffic; in 1943, R, C. A. Communications, which now operates
more than 50 circuits between the U, S. and foreign nations of the
world, handled 130,000,000 paid words, and the estimate for this
year is 145,000,000 words. Since May, 1940, more than 2,300,000
EFM, or Expeditionary Force Messages, have been sent and received
by RCA, It is conservatively estimated that rate reductions initi¬
ated by the company have saved Americans and other users of inte2>-
national telegraph $100,000,000 since 1920,

Approximately 21,777,000 RCA radio and phonograph instru¬
ments have been put into use throughout the world; 458,000,000 RCA
electron tubes have been sold since 1930. In the same period of
the last fourteen years, the RCA Victor Division produced 294,000,000
phonograph discs of recordings by the world’s great artists. Today,
325 broadcasting stations in the United States have RCA transmitters,
and hundreds of others use RCA studio equipment, electron tubes and
microphones. More than 2,000 industrial plants are equipped with RCA
sound systems; 6,000 theaters use RCA theater sound reproduction
equipment.

In the marine field, the Radioraarine Corporation of America,
through its system^ of coastal radiotelegraph stations, operates a mes¬
sage service to and from ships at sea which is world-wide in scope.

It also specializes in manufacturing marine radio transmitters, re¬
ceivers, direction finders, automatic alarms, and lifeboat
equipment.

The National Broadcasting Company, organized by RCA in 1926,
operates America's No, 1 nation-wide broadcasting network, comprised
of 145 stations from coast to coast. It operates New York’s pioneer
television station WNBT, It also operates the first FM station to be
established in New York City by any net^srork broadcaster.

During the 25 years it has been a part of the company, RCA
Institutes has trained more than 20,000 radio operators and technicLariS
The RCA Laboratories, located at Princeton, N.J, , are a
gateway into the future for ell RCA divisions as well as for the Com¬
pany’s 215 licensees,

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INLAND DAILY PRESS ASSOCIATION ROUSES MEMBERS ABOUT M

Proof that the interest of the newspapers is growing in
FM is a special bulletin Issued by the Inland Dally Press Associa¬
tion to its members on that subject with some current information on
facsimile and television thrown in for good measure.

The leading article ’’The Newsoapers and FM Radio" is by
Ernest L. Owen, publisher of the Syracuse, (N.Y. )Po3t Standard.

There is a list of the 50 FT/i stations licensed in the Inland States
of which 6 are newspaper-owned, and a list showing that of the 218
FCC FM applicants, 94 are by newspapers. The bulletin states that
I of the 9 television applicants approved, one is for a member of

the Inland Press Association, Facsimile post-war prospects are dis¬
cussed and also FM construction and operating expenses. Of the
latter the bulletin says;

"The Greneral Electric Company estimates the cost of oper¬
ating a 850-watt FM station at as little as $5,500 a year; a 1,000-
wat station at $9,500 a year. We are informed that a 50,000-watt
station operated by the Zenith Radio Corporation in Chicago costs
approximately $45,000 a year to operate. This is an exceptionally
nigh grade station and has a reputation for fine programs, "

The Inland Daily Press Association is composed of smaller
newspapers and is one of the oldest organizations of its kind in the
country, having been founded in 1885. Its President is L, Mitchell
White of the Mexico (Mo.) Ledger, and the Association* s offices are
located at 7 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, 3, Illinois,

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MAJESTIC RADIO REG-ISTERS 297,500 STOCK SHARES WITH SEC

The Majestic Radio and Television Corporation, Chicago,
registered last Frida,y with the Securities and Exchange Commission

297.500 shares of one cent par value common stock. Of the total,

200,000 shares are authorized but unissued; 95,000 will be issued to

three officials uoon exercise of ootions and resold oublicly, and

2.500 will be sold by William R. Harrison of Canton, Ohio, a Director
of the company.

Upon receipt of the shares through options, Eugene A. Tracey,
President of Majestic, will resell 82,500; Dudley E. Foster, Vice-
President, will resell 8,000, and Parker H, Ericksen, Director of
Sales, will resell 4,500,

From the sale of the 200,000 new shares, not more than
$170,000 will be used to call the 86,016 outstanding shares of no par
value preferred stock at $10 a share. Holders of more than 9,000 pre¬
ferred shares, including British Type Investors, Inc. , and Empire

American Securities Corporation, "have stated that such stock will be
converted into common stock”, the prospectus said.

Not more than $200,000 is to be applied to the recording,
manufacture and sale of phonographic records, either directly or
through a wholly owned subsidiary to be formed. The balance will be
added to working capital, as will the $118,499 proceeds from the sal-
of 95,000 shares to selling stockholders.

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FLY NOW SCHEDULED TO LEAVE AFTER ELECTION; MUZAK POST

The dope now is that James L. Fly, FCC Chairaan, will
resign from the Commission about a week after election. It is
further reported that he has engaged offices in the RCA Building in
New York City,

There was confirmation by William Benton, President, that
Mr. Fly had been offered a position as General Counsel to the Muzak
and Associated Music Publishers Corporation, a transcription concern,
Mr, Benton made a fortune in the advertising business, and told of
a proposed M radio net to offer listeners programs wnich did not
carry advertising and which would be paid for at the rate of 5/ a
day by subscribers. It would be on the same principle that Muzak
now supplies non-advertising musical programs to restaurants and
hotels.

The continuous radio service would be transmitted over
three frequency modulation channels, application for which was filed
last week with the Federal Communications Commission, Persons would
be unable to hear the broadcasts unless they had a special attachment
that the new concern would rent to subscribers, according to Mr,
Benton, Classical and dance music and news programs of all types
would constitute the service, he added.

Mr. Benton stated that Beardsley Ruml, Chairman of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, author of the famous "Ruml tax
plan" would serve as a member of the new company *8 Board, Also
Chester Bowles, of OPA, advertising partner in Mr. Benton's former
agency - Benton and Bowles,

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WILLOUGHBY MADE FCC ASSISTANT CHIEF ENGINEER

. John A. Willoughby has been appointed Assistant Chief

Engineer and Chief of the Broadcast Division of the Engineering
Department of the Federal Communications Commission,

In August 1930, Mr. Willoughby entered the services of the
Federal Radio Commission, predecessor to the FCC, as Senior Radio
Engineer in the Broadcast Division. He was Assistant Chief of the
Broadcast Division of the FCC’s Engineering Department from December
1941 to August 1944, when he was made Acting Chief of that Division.

He was born in Florence, S, C, , July 26, 1893, He attended
Clemson College, Clemson, S, C. , and George Washington University,
specializing in electrical engineering. He also took a special
course in communications engineering at Harvard University,

Mr, Willoughby spent his early days in radio work with the
Bureau of Standards from 1916 to 1922. During this oeriod he made

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several inventions, the most important being the submarine loop
antenna for transmission and reception of radio signals on the sur¬
face and submerged, which invention was installed on all of our sub¬
marines during the latter part of World War I, In 1919 he was de¬
tailed by the Bureau of Standards to the Post Office Department to
take charge of all experimental work, which included the development
of an airplane signalling system to enable pilots to land in weather
of poor visibility.

From 1923 to 1924, he was employed with the Army Air Corps
at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio. From 1924 to 1928 he was with the
Naval Research Laboratory at Bellevue, D, C, , and did considerable
work with high frequency and high power transmitters and had several
patents issued on anti-fading systems.

At the same time, the Commission named Clure H, Owen as
Assistant Chief of the Broadcast Division, Engineering Department,

Mr. Owen was born in Aldrich, Mo, in 1904 and was gradu¬
ated from Georgia School of Technology with the degrees of B. S, and
M. S. in Electrical Engineering in 1930 and 1936 respectively. Dur¬
ing the years which he attended Georgia Tech, he served as an oper¬
ator at Station WSB, Atlanta, Ga.

From 1931 to 1932, he served in the Radio Division, Com¬
merce Department, when that Division was transferred to the Federal
Radio Commission. He continued with the FRC and the FCC, and from
1941 to date has been Chief of the Hearing Section, Broadcast Divi¬
sion of the Engineering Department,

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GIVE TELE GREEN LIGHT WHILE PUBLIC INTERESTED - WEISS

Unless television proceeds promptly, it will fail to meet
the peak of public Interest and lose its opportunity for giving
employment, Lewis Allen Weiss, Vice-President and General Manager of
Don Lee of Hollywood, which has been operating a television station
on the West Coast for the past 15 years, told the Federal Communi¬
cations Commission at the Allocation Hearings on Monday,

Mr, Weiss said there were between 250 and 300 receivers.
There were no "ghosts” and no complaint of eyestrain at their picture
size of 10 X 12 Inches since the refle cbor type of receiver came in.
The witness regarded color as remote. He could operate station on
dual system (of high and low television). Mr, Weiss said it takes a
city of half a million population to support one television station
and costs Sl50 per hour running costs aside from programming.

Viewers like actual events rather than staged productions -
particularly sport events, he pointed out. Televising such events
is "amazingly simple".

In reply to a query from Commissioner Case, Mr. Weiss said
he thought television would be a luxury service for a few years.

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"Go up, young man, go up". This, in substance, was the
recommendation of Peter C, Goldmark, Chief Television Engineer of
the Columbia Broadcasting System on television’s place in the spect-r
rum. Mr. Goldmark said:

"We believe we can prove that the new system will be sup¬
erior to any yet utilized". He proposed to widen present four me
video band to 10 me, which would require a maximum channel of 16 me,
f to be utilized for transmission in black and white at 735 lines per
picture or in color with 525 lines. This picture would have defini
1 tion of average professional 16 mm film. The witness proposed a 13
X 18 inch picture which can be viewed from five and thr^e quarter
feet. (RTPB has recommended 9 channels 6 me wide between 60 and 114
me, , 17 channels 6 me wide below 250 me, with channels 20 me wide
betv\/een 460 and 1060 me. )

The CBS color system, he said, is 95^ electronic only
about b% mechanical.

There are several types of transmitting tubes operating at
the Ultra Highs which have been developed and used in military equip¬
ment during the past few years. One of these in particular shows
real promise for television. There is indication that vacuum tubes
of even higher power, ensuring a satisfactory high definition tele¬
vision will be available commercially immediately after the war,

CBS expects to have a transmitter for this new system on
the air a year from now, Mr. Goldmark stated, speaking in reference
to the UHF television service.

G. R, Town, of Stromberg- Carlson, testified that a receiv¬
ing set for Ultra High Frequency television would cost about twice as
much as for the lower television, or $300, Such a set would include
standard broadcasting. Frequency Modulation and Television,

James D. McLean, Sales Manager of Television Transmitting
Equipment for General Electric affirmed that GE endorsed RTPB, He
cited estimated costs of transmitters, exclusive of buildings, land
and antenna towers;

Master television station $250,000 to $300,000

(Buildings, land, towers would cost from $200,000 to
$300,000 more).

Operating Expense for Master Station per year - $350,000
Intermediate Station $140,000 to $165,000

Operating expense of Intermediate Station - $231,000
Satellite Station

Unattended $ 48,000 to $ 51,000

Attended $ 55,000 to $ 58,000

Attended with film origination facilities $66,000 to $ 69,000
Operating costs for Satellite Stations

Unattended $15,000

Attended $45,000

Attended with film facilities $65,000

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Plea For Money For More FDR Radio Broadcasts Foreseen

Democratic campaign managers are cheered by heavy registr¬
ations reported in most industrial States, think it favors them. If
final total reaches 42,000,000, they think they’ve won.

Money’s started to come in to Democratic headquarters too,
though not in big amounts. Look for more FDR newspapers to ask read¬
ers for funds if they want to hear more speeches by President,

- ( Washington News )

Sinatra Seen As Master Mind Behind F. D. R. -Petrlllo Plea

There are people in the trade who believe Frank Sinatra’s
tea with President Roosevelt a fortnight ago influenced latter’s
wire to James C. Petrillo, head of American Federation of Musicians,
requesting settlement of the recording controversy. They feel The
Voice copped the plea that did the trick.

Sinatra is under contract to Columbia Records, which is
still arguing with Petrillo. - (Variety)

Commentator Congress Candidate Political Expose Victim

In a signed story by Reporter Carl Greenburg, the Los
Angeles Examiner charged that Hal Styles, Democratic nominee for
Congress, who conducts a radio program ’’Help Thy Neighbor”, had the
militant support of the CIO Political Action Committee in defeating
Dies Committee Member John M, Costello for the nomination, is a
former Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan and that he was once under sen¬
tence to Sing Sing Prison for perjury,

A photograph of Styles at time of his alleged indictment
and conviction on the perjury charge was secured. (A new trial was
subsequently ordered and the indictment eventually dismissed, it was
said, )

The Examiner story stated that Styles headed the K.K.K. In
1927 and 1928 and there led a demonstration which flared into a riot
and fight with the police. His alleged indictment and conviction
In a lower court of perjury were the outgrowth of his testimony at
the bribery trial of two political figures there.

The Examiner expose was quickly taken up by the Times and
He raid- Express and caused consternation among the ranks of his sup¬
porters. Styles has not specifically denied the charges, refuses to
be Interviewed by reporters. On his radio program he has complained
he is being "smeared”.

~ ( Editor & Publisher )

A Sitting Campaign

War and radio have made this a "sitting” campaign,

- (New York Times)

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Engineer Offered Jap Radar To U. S.

Evidence that Harold N. Landon, an Merlcan engineer, in
1938 offered President Roosevelt a radar-like device which he said
he had been hired to build for a foreign power, later identified as
the Japanese government, was introduced in court in Los Angeles,

Mrs, Elraa Phillips, Mr. Landon* s former wife, offered a
copy of a letter she testified Mr. Landon wrote the President. It
f urged that he ''cut the usual red tape and delay" if theUnited States
I Government was interested in forestalling the efforts of the foreign
I government to buy the device.

j Mr, Landon denied he had ever worked for the Japanese

government, but his former wife testified he was under the direct
supervision of the Japanese Army.

I -(Associated Press)

Politics By Platter

Last Monday night. Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Oscar L, Chapman got a phone call from Salt Lake City. Heinrich
Suss, high-up Utah Democrat, was on the phone,

"We*ve Just been listening to Secretary Ickes speak in
Los Angeles", Guss told Chapman,

"But you promised that Ickes would be in Salt Lake City
at 9:30 tomorrow, and he can*t possibly make it. It's nearly mid¬
night now, and there's no possible way he could get here unless by
special plane. "

"No, the Secretary doesn’t use special planes", replied
Chapman, puzzled, "You say you have been listening to his speech
tonight ? "

"Yes. He just finished", came the reply,

"What night is it out there in Utah?" asked Chapman,
"Monday night. "

"All right", reassured the Assistant Secretary, "Secret¬
ary Ickes spoke in Los Angeles Sunday night, and you're listening to
a rebroadcast of his speech Monday night. He'll be in Salt Lake on
time tomorrow. "

- ( Drew Pearson)

FDR-Dewey Held First Rate Radio Battlers

President Roosevelt and Governor Dewey are "first rate
radio combatants". Prof, Joseph F, O'Brien of Pennsylvania State
College stated while comparing the speaking style of the presidential
candidates.

Characterizing Mr, Roosevelt a master of the conversational
style, O'Brien described his manner as "warm, earthy and informal",
while Dewey is the typical court-room prosecutor - "striking hard,
making heavy use of his facts, and pressing for an indictment,”

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The fact that Phil Spltalny "Hour of Charm" all-girl
orchestra concert tour grossed Sl01,000, with a net of ^52,500 in
ten personal appearance performan ass, is a tremendous ballyhoo for
radio advertising because it m.3 the General Electric Sunday night
broadcasts that put Phil and his girls on the map.

On a product that experiments have shown can be used to
replace at least 50 percent of the natural shellac required in manu¬
facturing sound- reproduction records, John M. DeBell, of Long Meadow,
Mass,, has been granted Patent #2,359,972. This patent designed
particularly for use in making phonograph records has been assigned
to Hercules Powder Company, Wilmington, Delaware.

Ralph D. Palmer, 43 years old, feature editor of the United
Press Radio News Division, died suddenly in New York of a heart
attack.

C. M. Campbell, Advertising Manager of the Chicago Tribune
will succeed the late W, E, Macfarlane as head of WGN Tribune radio
station and as Tribune representative in the Mutual Broadcasting
System,

Volume 3 of the printed hearings of the House of Represen¬
tatives Committee, headed by Representative Lea of California, to
investigate the Federal Communications Commission, has just been pub¬
lished, This covers the period from March 7 to June 21, 1944,

Having concluded the verbatim report of the WFTL hearings
before the FCC last week, the National Association of Broadcasters
P'egislative Bulletin this week carries the stenographic account to
date of the FCC Allocations Hearings. In addition members are fur¬
nished with reprints of the following addresses delivered at the
recent NAB Chicago Convention; Opening address by President J, Harol
Ryan, "Women* s Role in Radio" by Miss Ruth Chilton, Pres., Associa¬
tion of Women Directors, the Radio Council Plan Symposium, and "Radio-
Our Newest Freedom" by Gov, Bourke B, Hickenlooper, of Iowa,

Four out of ten persons plan to purchase television sets
as soon as they are available after the war, according to a survey
made by Buchanan & Company, advertising agency for the Allan B,
CuMont Laboratories,

Zenith Radio Corp, , Chicago, has applied for a construction
permit for a new experimental television broadcast station to be
operated on 488,000 to 504,000 kilocycles, power of 250 watts (1
kilowatt peak) for visual and 1 kilov^att for aural.

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A high degree of freedom from noise and from interference
from undesired stations in the reception of FM (frequency modulation
radio programs is made possible by a new advance in the design of FM
receivers, described by its inventor, George L. Beers, of the Radio
Corporation of America at the First National Electronics Conference
in Chicago recently.

The principles and methods involved in changing television
image dimensions were likewise described at the Conference in a
paper by I, G. Moloff and David W. Epstein of RCA.

Bakers of the tastiest cakes, to be presented to service¬
men and women and the military hospitals, will be awarded a total of
$100 in cash prizes by WTOP as part of the 12th Anniversary Celebra-^
tion of Washington’s Columbia outlet. All entries must be delivered
to the WTOP studios by 5:00 P.M. Friday, October 20, Mrs, Dwight D.
Eisenhower is to be one of the Judges,

Production of parts for the repair or renovation of used
automatic phonographs and used amusement or gaming machines is again
permitted, but only to the extent that the use of materials for the
purpose is permitted by materials conservation orders, the War Pro¬
duction Board reports.

Automatic phonographs, commonly called ’’Juke boxes”, in¬
clude any coin or token-operated phonograph.

Restrictions on the use of copper, nickel, stainless
steel, and other critical materials will be maintained through the
materials conservation orders, which still apply to the production
of automatic phonographs and amusement and gaming devices, Ij-»265,
administered by the Radio and Radar Division of WPB, restricts the
production of electronic components.

The Commanding General, Amy Service Forces, has accepted
an offer of national network time for a series of radio broadcasts,
"Assignment Home”, involving the preparation of soldiers for return
to civilian status, the War Department has announced. The program
will cover every asoect of Army Service Forces activities in this
field.

The offer of radio time was made by Douglas Coulter, Vice
President of the Columbia Broadcasting System, following conferences
with Lieut, Gen, Brehon Somervell, Commanding General, ASF, and
members of his staff. It will be heard over CBS stations from 4:30
to 5:00 P.M., EWT, each Saturday beginning December 9th,

G-ilbert Seldes, CBS Director of Television Programs, will
address a meeting of the Women’s Advertising Club of Washington
Monday, October 23rd at 12:30 P.M,

So large has been the registration and attendance at the
new radio and television courses given Jointly by University Exten¬
sion of Columbia University and the NBC University of the Air that
two new instructors have been added to the teaching staff,

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Radioes 100 Men Of Science; New Book By Dunlap . 1

Asks Sen. Wagner Not To Send Tele To Rad.io Siberia . 3

Brewer Bucks Senator G-reen On Pearl Harbor Editorial . 4

Fly Flies Nov, 15 If President Accepts Resignation . 5

McClintock Resigns As Mutual Head; Kobak From Blue . 6

Crosley Gets Ready To Go Into Television In A Big Way . 7

Zenith To Re-Employ All Employees Returning From War . 8

RCA Opposes Moving Television Upstairs,. . 9

Civilian Tube Output May Loosen A Little, . 10

"Give Radio Advertiser A Chance” - McKay Tells Club Women, 11

Sees Sign Of FDR* s Fatigue In Dealing With Petrillo . 12

Broadcasters* President Raps WHKC In CIO Case . 12

Hope And Clapper Represent Radio In Kip's ”Little Men” . ,13

Applications Received By FCC . ,13

Scissors And Paste . 14

Trade Notes . 16

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RADIO’S 100 MEN OF SCIENCE; NEW BOOK BY DUNLAP

The future of radio and Its unlimited opportunities for
discovery and invention, mirrored against the background of the past,
are graphically revealed in the new book "Radio’s 100 Men of Science"
by Orrin S, Dunlap, Jr,, just published. In 100 biographical nar¬
ratives, each in itself an Individual story of achievement, Mr,

Dunlap interweaves the lives of the scientists with their discover¬
ies and interprets the significance of their contributions to the
advance of radio.

The history of radio, electronics and television unfolds
as a progressive story extending from Thales of Miletus, who first
observed "elektron sparks" on through Faraday, Maxwell, Hertz, and
Marconi, from Fessenden and De Forest to Zworykin and other contem¬
poraries of television fame.

Although many pre-Marconi men experimenting in the realm
of electricity believed that they had found clues to wireless, history
discloses that they failed to recognize radiation as the key to suc¬
cess in signaling through space. Marconi grasped the idea and made
electromagnetic radiation a practicel means of electrical communica¬
tion thereby gaining the title "Inventor of Wireless”,

Selecting from radio’s 100 pioneers in science, the most
outstanding according to the importance of their contribution to the
advance of radio, Mr, Dunlap names the "Big Ten" as follows: Faraday,
Henry, Maxwell, Hertz, Marconi, Fessenden, Fleming, De Forest, Arm¬
strong and Zworykin.

Having met and talked with many of the radio pioneers and
having corresponded with others, Mr. Dunlap recalls numerous anec¬
dotes and gives his impressions of their personalities. To mention
briefly several as he saw them:

Marconi - reserved, modest, punctual and neat; always
the diplomat moving within a small circle of his own choice,
keeping his thoughts and observations much to himself, won-
ering when he might find a few leisure hours.

De Forest - restless, enthusiastic; in his shirt sleeves
testing some new idea in a maze of wires, oblivious to those
waiting for him at the doorway; a good letter writer - a man
who enjoyed the strife of life.

Zworykin - quiet, daring, an outstanding scientist in
electronics, telling of new wonders in television and no more
excited about it than ^len relating his experience of being
lost in the fog, skimming New York Harbor while flying his
own plane; a genius with a good sense of humor. Ask him if
he ever dreamed about electrons and he would answer; "I
sleep soundly.’ "

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Tesla - tall, mysterious octogenarian, seemingly dis¬
appointed with much of the past, looking with a cynical eye
on the future, in his frock coat delivering a sermon-like
talk on the ether, on light, on transmission of power by
wireless, and on immortality.

Edison - tireless, endowed with fine simplicities,
broadcasting in an improvised glass studio in Madison Square
darden, throwing up his hands over his head as if surrender¬
ing to the mystery of it all, then smiling bashfully like a
boy caught talking to himself as he hurried away from the
microphone to sit alongside Mrs, Edison and his cronies, Henry
Ford and Harvey Firestone.

Sir Robert Watson-Watt - England’s radar expert, visiting
Radio City as the head of a distinguished British Scientific
Commission; extremely friendly, radiating a quick sense of
humor, most gracious in manner, the short, spectacled Sir Robert
appearing more as the typical professor than a warrior of
science who had done so much to save Britain from being blitzed
to defeat.

Inventors are recognized as having their own individual
styles as do artists , authors, composers and songwriters. Mr, Dun¬
lap places inventors in two classes - those who create systems and
those who invent devices. Maxwell and Marconi are classified as
systemic. They dealt with a broad general field, or association of
things into vast functional aggregations, Edison and De Forest were
device inventors, whose achievements greatly stimulated systemic
developments - Edison, electric lighting, the phonograph and the
motion picture; De Forest, broadcasting.

In the Foreword it is pointed out that the men on the roster
of "Radio’s 100 Men of Science" have played important parts to effect
in radio a radical change or entire change. The story records how
they drove stakes along the pathways of progress; they erected mile¬
posts, They built stairways, not merely steps, from floor to floor
in the mighty and towering structure of radio, ‘ Their charm was and
is in their simplicity; their fame in electricity, radio and electron¬
ics.

'*0f "Radio’s 100 B^en of Science” forty- six were born in the
United States, Eighteen others came from foreign lands to seek free¬
dom and opportunity under the Stars and Stripes; the majority, includ¬
ing Tesla, Pupin, Steinmetz, Alexanderson and Zworykin, became natur¬
alized American citizens.

Out of the Second World War, Mr. Dunlap sees scientists
marching into the boundless realm of microwaves in which radio is
used not only for signaling but for new applications of communication,
Including television, collision prevention, navigation, radiothermics
and industrial services.

In his study of the lives and accomplishments of the
scientists who have made radio, Mr. Dunlap offers a great encourage¬
ment to youth when he points out that nothing is new in radio for

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long; what is new today is old tomorrow. The ethereal spectrum is
described as still unexplored.

’’The realm of themicrowa.ve is a wide open and mysterious
erapery across which will be blazed the trails of the future of
radio”, Mr, Dunlap predicts, ”No barrier is there to block the
alert young man enthusiastically interested, with an aptitude for
science and an ardor for work. Fbr him radio-electronics is a field
that will be forever new and unlimited as the lives and achievements
of radio*s men of science attest,

’’Limitless in its scope, infinite in its opportunities,
the future of radio is an unfathomed and uncharted as the boundless
space in which it performs. Its past is as if measured by seconds,
and its wonders are as if worked within a passing moment compared to
the vastness of its future and the miracles to be expected in the
years to come. In the infinitesimal electron is found the great
promise of radio’s future; the electron is to radio what a second is
to time and what time is to the future. It has been called the
cornerstone of a billion-dollar wartime industry traveling on a
meteoric path brilliant with prospects. ”

Harper and Brothers in New York are the publishers and
the price is ^3.50.

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ASKS SEN. WASNER NOT TO SEND TELE TO RADIO SIBERIA

Appealing to Senator Robert Wagner (D), of New York, a
member of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, which handles
radio and television legislation, 0. K. Caldwell, editor of Radio
and Television Retailing wrote ;

’’The present threat to delay television by banishing it to
a sort of radio-Siberia, is actually a threat to delay employment -
to hold up jobs for half a million people, postwar, at a time when
jobs will be so vitally needed.

’’Let us look at radio’s past record as a producer of employ¬
ment. The radio broadcasting industry since 1920 has produced at
least 18 million dollars worth of employment - or 30 billion man¬
hours of jobs - all created out ’of the blue*.’

’’And now television right on its present channels has a
potential employment-creating value at least equal, if not double,
that of present radio broadcasting. This means that television can
shortly be creating 30 to 60 billion man-hours of new employment -
spread among half a million men and women, beginning immediately
after the European hostilities cease, when four million workers will
be in search of jobs,

’’Television is ready now, and I hope your own influential
aid may be exercised on the side of making available the jobs that
television is all ready to provide. ”

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BREWER BUCKS SENATOR GREEN ON PEARL HARBOR EDITORIAL

Apparently Senator Green ( D) , of Rhode Island, Chairman of
the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee, will not get to first
base in his effort to make a political issue out of the full-page
paid editorial "The Truth About Pearl Harbor", widely circulated
I recently by Basil Brewer, New England publisher and broadcaster.

Replying to an inquiry by the 77-year old Senate Chairman,
who called attention to the fact that expenditures of $50 or more
made to influence the outcome of an election and reaching voters in
‘ more than two States, was reportable to Congress under the law, Mr.
Brewer said there was no violation because the editorial did not
mention any candidates for Congress and because its purpose was not
! to influence the election of any candidate.

The editorial was placed in other newspapers, Mr. Brewer
said, because his New Bedford oaper has a limited circulation and
he thought it was "of such significance as to deserve wider dissem¬
ination". Any law which could be construed as preventing this pro¬
cedure, he wrote, "would be in violation of the First Amendment,
and would seem to me to raise grave implications affecting the free¬
dom of speech and of the press. "

Declining to answer questions asked by Senator Green about
financing of the republication of the Pearl Harbor editorial, whether
it was paid for personally by Mr. Brewer, the latter wrote that he
found nothing in the resolution creating the Senate Committee which
gave it "authority to Investigate or request Information regarding
this matter. "

The editorial was publ Ished in the Washington Star,
Washington Time s-He raid. New York Wo rid- Tele gram. New York News, San
Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco Call- Bullet in. San Francisco
Examiner, Columbus (oTT Citizen, Boston Herald-Traveler, Chicago
Tribune . St. Louis Star- Times, in addition to the New Bedford Stand¬
ard Times.

Mr, Brewer in a front page editorial in the Standard-Time s,
stated that the New York Times "long a willing publisher, in its
advertising columns, of this newspaper's editorials - refused to
publish * The Truth About Pearl Harbor' , a non-political demand that
the people be told the truth of this historic debacle. " Mr, Brewer
charged political reasons were controlling in the Times' decision.

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Every NBC man and woman in the armed forces will receive a
check and a personal letter from Niles Trammell, President of the
National Broadcasting Company, as the network's 1944 Christmas gift.

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FLY FLIES NOV. 15 IF PRESIDENT ACCEPTS RESIGNATION

An excellent source of information states definitely that
the resignation of Chairroan James L. Fly, now on President Roose¬
velt* s desk, is da.ted November 15. As previously reported, Mr, Fly
expects to engage in the practice of law with offices in Radio City,
New York City, and an offer from William Benton, President of Muzak
as his No, 1 client.

Several reasons have been attributed to Mr, Fly*s timing
his departure immediately after election, in addition to his wanting
to get out and make some real money. They are (a) the cooling of
relations between the President and Mr, Fly; (b) the possibility of
Mr. Roosevelt’s defeat; (c) even if FDR were re-elected, the fear of
a Republican House of Representatives. The present House, in what
was believed to have been a rebuke to Mr, Fly, almost eliminated the
FCC and on another occasion 1 opped off more than ^2,000,000 of its
appropriations; (d) to go while the going is good in an effort to
take the sting out of an adverse report by the House Committee in¬
vestigating the FCC,

With regard to the Benton proposition. Drew Pearson had
this to say;

”Forthright Chairman Larry Fly of the Federal Communica¬
tions Commission was listening to testimony by New York lawyer Joe
Weiner, former OPA official, regarding a new subscription radio
service.

"Weiner proposed an M radio service with no support from
advertisers. Instead of commercial plugs, listeners would pay a
small charge - estimated at 5 cents a day - to subscribe to this
special service. A patented device to eliminate noise would be given
each subscriber. Without this device a nonsubscriber attempting to
tune in the service would get noise, not news,

"Behind the idea is William Benton, former President of
ad-agency Benton ’ Bowles, now Chairman of Encyclopedia Brittanica.
V/lth him will be Weiner, Taxman Beardsley Ruml and OPA Head Chet
Bowie s.

"Suddenly as Weiner began to testify. Chairman Fly got up
and left the room. This is the tip-off on Fly*s new Job. He is
planning to Join the Benton firm, and doesn't want it charged that he
used his Government position to enable the new subscription service
to get approval for frequencies.

"Big question is: Who will succeed Fly in about the most
thankless Job in Washington? Logical successor is straight- thinking
FCC Commissioner Cliff Durr, who has vron universal respect, Paul
Porter, now public r elations chief of the Democratic National Com¬
mittee, could probably get Fly's Job but doesn't want it. Likewise
Captain Krug of the War Production Board. Durr has made no over¬
tures, but the betting is strong he will be next Chairman of the FCC.'

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McCLINTOCK RESIGNS AS MUTUAL HEAD; KOBAK FROM BLUE

The big news of the week was the resignation of Miller
McClintock, President of the Mutual Broadcasting System, and closely
following, that of Edgar Kobak, Executive Vice-President of the Blue
Network,

Mr. McClintock will retire January 1st at the termination
of his present two year contract, Alfred J. McCosker, Chairman of
the Board of Directors of the Mutual Broadcasting System said, "Mr.
McClintock* s retirement is in accordance with terms of the original
agreement and the Board of Directors will announce a successor in
the near future. "

Mr. Kobak' s resignation becomes effective October 28th,

Mr, Kobak has been in charge of future developments for the Blue
Network, including Television, Facsimile and Frequency Modulation.
Mr. Noble stated that no successor had been selected to Mr, Kobak.

The following was Mr, Noble's letter to Mr. Kobak:

"It was with the greatest regret that I received your
letter of resignation, I am extremely sorry that you are leaving
the Blue Network.

"Ever since the Blue Network was separated from the Nation
al Broadcasting Company in January, 1942, its progress has been
guided, in great part, by the talents and abilities of you and Mark
Woods. I know something of the difficulties you faced in that task.
You did the job with your usual capacity and hard work,

"We, who are newer at the Blue Network, have a deep apprec
iation of the organization that you built. As you point out, the
foundation of the Blue has now been laid and we are moving rapidly
to build the type of network that you envisioned,

"I have the greatest faith in your ability and I am hope¬
ful that, in your future activity, you may have even greater success
than has been yours at the Blue Network, I know that our friendship
will continue, for like you, I value it highly.

"I appreciate more than I can say your expression of con¬
fidence in the future of the Blue. We all here will miss you, and
Mark, Chet and I sincerely hope that you will find happiness in your
future work. "

A regrouping a.nd consolidation of the sales activities of
the Blue Network Company, with the designation of C, P, Jaeger as
General Sales Manager, was announced today (Wednesday) by Chester J.
LaRoche, Vice Chairman of the Blue Netw^ork Company,

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CROSLEY GETS READY TO GO INTO TELEVISION IN A BIG WAY

The appointment of Richard W. Hubbell as Broadcasting
Production Manager for The Crosley Radio Corporation in Cincinnati
is a step in Crosley plans to resume experimental television broad¬
casts which were interrupted by the war.

Crosley, which may erect a huge television tower In
Kentucky that would provide television coverage for metropolitan
Cincinnati, is revamping television apparatus in the Carew Tower for
possible resumption of broadcasts about January 1st, James D. Shouse,
Vice-President and General ffenager in Charge of Broadcasting, said.

Mr. Hubbell, a 29-year old native of Mount Vernon, N, Y. ,
is the author of several tooks on television. Best known of these
is ”4,000 Years of Television”.

His activities have been varied since he worked as an
actor in 1936 at the Westchester Playhouse, Mt, Kisco, N. Y. , follow¬
ing his graduation from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn, , with
a B.A. degree.

Mr, Hubbell’ s next Job was with WQXR, New York, as announc¬
er and producer for two and a half years. His knowledge of televi¬
sion was enriched during the next three and a half years by his work
with the Columbia Broadcasting System, New York, as a director,
producer, writer and news editor.

He was with two advertising agencies, N. W. Ayer and Son,
Inc., and Buchanan and Company, Inc., as radio writer- director and
television consultant,

Mr. Shouse, who believes television has a brighter post¬
war future than the mudi publicized Frequency Modulation, declares
that "It is my personal opinion, and not necessarily an opinion shar¬
ed by our manufacturing division, that television may be expected to
develop much more rapidly than was generally thought until a few
months ago. For the past two or three years Frequency Modulation
seemed to be attracting much more attention than television. This
I could never fully understand, ”

Another sign of the return to television experimentation
by Crosley is the shift of J. R, Duncan, Crosley engineer in charge
of television, and his staff back to television from the manufactur¬
ing division, where they had been moved for war work.

Ultimate cost to Crosley of giving Cincinnati television
broadcasts is expected by Mr, Shouse to be $350,000 to $400,000,

When the metropolitan coverage has been established, he believes
receiving sets will be available for from $150 to $250.

The high tower on a Kentucky hill is under consideration
because television waves, unlike regular radio waves, do not go
around hills and buildings but bounce off and are lost, Carew Tower

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is about 200 feet higher than Cincinnati's highest hill, but a tower
in Kentucky would double that leeway.

Before the war 10 to 15 sets received Crosley telecasts.
Most of these were in the homes of Crosley executives.

Standards have gone up since the war began so that clearer
pictures can be provided in the postwar era.

Besides Television Station W8XCT, the Crosley Corporation
operates Station WLW and five shortwave stations, three of which are
the powerful 200,000-watt stations at Bethany over which the Office
of War Information and Coordinator of Inter- American Affairs carry
on psychological warfare to 24 countries,

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ZENITH TO RE-EIvIPLOY ALL EMPLOYEES RETURNING FROM WAR

In view of the nature of Zenith's orders for war equipment,
and its readiness to resume civilian production ^en authorized, no
large scale lay-off of its employees is expected when the European
phase of the war is finished, Commander E. F. McDonald, Jr,, said in
making the company's quarterly report. All members of the organiza¬
tion now in the Armed Services are expected to return to Zenith as
they are released from military duty.

Zenith reports an estimated consolidated operating profit
for the first quarter ended July 31, 1944, of its current fiscal year,
amounting to ^2,533,263, after depreciation, excise taxes and reserves
including reserves for voluntary price reductions on war contracts,
but before provision for Federal income and excess profits taxes.
Federal income and excess profits taxes on this profit are estimated
at $1,466,985 net.

Production and shipments during the quarter were the larg¬
est of any three-month period in the Company's history. They may be
exceeded, however, by that of the present quarter which ends October

31, 1944,

The Company holds large contracts for highly secret and
vital war equipment which will be needed by the Services until the
final end of the war on all fronts. Therefore, we do not anticipate
any severe cancellations or cutbacks while the war with Japan con¬
tinues, We will be in a position, however, to take full advantage
of any authorization for the resumption of civilian production, which
will go forwrard as quickly as materials are obtainable,

"Sales of the Company's new Hearing Aid continue to increaar
at a steady rate, however, production has not been able to keep
abreast of the demand due to our inability to obtain materials in
sufficient quantity", Commander McDonald said, "This condition is
improving, however. "

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RCA OPPOSES MOVING TELEVISION UPSTAIRS

Shifting television from its present channels to a higher
range in the frequency spectrum would necessitate the development
of a new television system that would take five years or more to
engineer. Dr, C. B. Jolliffe, of the Radio Corporation of America,
told the Federal Communications Commission at the Allocations hear¬
ing Tuesday, He laid the groundwork for further testimony along
that line by E, W, Engstrom, Research Director of RCA Laboratories
and H, H, Beverage of RCA,

Harold R, Flory of the United Press and Paul Miller of the
Associated Press asked the FCC to continue to set aside radio chan¬
nels for the press so that it could develop use of ’’walkie-talkies"
in gathering news after the war.

Supporting the Radio Technical Planning Board’s recommends
tions to the FCC that television be conducted at a position below
300 megacycles in the wavelength band, which would make sight-and-
sound broadcasting a reality for the puH ic rs soon after the war as
possible, Dr. Jolliffe said:

"RCA now has in the design stage all the equipment that is
necessary to provide good television broadcasting service and good
television reception in the home. RCA desires to give the public
this type of service and is ready to start as soon as war conditions
permit. "

Describing the vastly improved instruments which his com¬
pany will have available for the public when television service is
allowed to proceed, Dr. Jolliffe, who is Chief Engineer of the RCA
Victor Division, said:

"We have now experimental models of projection receivers
that reproduce a picture approximately 18" x 24" in size on a trans¬
lucent screen with adequate brightness to be viewed in a fairly well
lighted room,

"Our experience indicates that this projected picture
approaches the maximum size that will be useable in an ordinary liv¬
ing room. It has adequate detail to provide effective entertainment
service and can be watched for long periods without eye strain,”

For broadcasting, Dr, Jolliffe said RCA is able to manu¬
facture transmitters which will operate on any frequency assigned to
television from 40 to 300 megacycles, using present standards speci¬
fied by the FCC.

In his recommendation. Dr. Jolliffe urged that commercial
television on RTPB standards be permitted on adequate frequencies
below 300 megacycles and that its authorization should be devoid of
physical and psychological limitations which would prevent it from
being universal and national in scope.

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I In addition, the RCA offictel su^sgested to the Commission

that the frequency erea above approximately 450 megacycles be auth-
i- orized for experimental development of a new television system which
^ would include color broadcasting.

i While this experimental work is being conducted in the

I hl(5her frequencies, Dr. Jolliffe said the present limited system,

I now operating in New York, Philadelphia, Schenectady, Chicago, and
Hollywood, can be expanded and improved greatly if the Commission
wl 11 reaffirm standa.rds and allocate adequate channels,

’’This development will not slow up or hinder development of
a new and improved television service for higher frequencies; in my
opinion, it will stimulate it”, he maintained,

I ”The primary pui'pose ot going to higher frequencies and

wider bands should be to obtain adequate color television. The pro¬
duction of this type of new service is adequate incentive for engl-
I neering organizations to do rapid development work. RCA will con-
I tlnue actively its research and engineering to obtain satisfactory
I service of this kind. ”

“When color and higher quality monochrome television on
higher frequencies is developed”, he continued, ”lt need not obsol¬
ete the service on lov/er frequencies any more than FTv! broadcasting
obsolete s radio broadcasting on the standard band. ”

"If, in the future, television service is located in the
frequency bands below 300 me and also above 450 me, it may be pos¬
sible to build into a single cabinet a receiver which will accept all
services - whether they be black and white or color - regardless of
the standards which may be used in the different frequency bands,

•This is no more complicated than many things radio engineers have
done in the past. ”

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CIVILIAN TUBE OUTPUT I/iAY LOOSEN A LITTLE

A slight increase in shipments of civilian tubes for the
fourth quarter of this year, as coraoared with the third quarter, is
predicted by officials of the WPB P^dio and Radar Division, followin
a temporary "freeze” in shipments. Third quarter shipm.ents were said
to be approximately 4-1/2 or 5 million.

The freeze of "MR" tubes, used as replacements for civilian
radio sets, was ordered in the face ofincreasing military require¬
ments to permit readjustment of inventories and production schedules.
John Creutz, Chief of the Domestic and Foreign Branch of the Radio
and Radar Division, explained that this action delayed for a short
time October shipments to distributors. A new directive already has
been prepared and shipments are being resumed.

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'•(JIVE RADIO ADVERTISER A CHANCE" - McKAY TELLS CLUB WOMEN

"If you want a free radio, and not a Government-owned
system; if you want fine programs, such as we now have in the United
States, then you have to give the advertiser a fair and reasonalcle
chance to sell his wares. "

Such was the advice given to the Federation of Women’s
Clubs of Greater Cleveland by John McKay, Manager of the Press
Department of the National Broadcasting Company.

"I see no reason why we shouldn't look the truth in the
face", Mr. McKay declared, "Radio is an advertising medium. The
advertiser will use radio only so long as it is profitable for him
to do so. If he can sell his merchandise through the use of radio,
he will use radio. When the time comes when radio can no longer do
an effectual selling Job for him, he will turn to other media. If
that should come to pass, then you no longer have the fine programs
we have today,

"I am willing to admit that there is room for improvement
in commercials. So will every advertiser and advertising agency.
Here and there commercials are irritating and offensive. But in
this category, you find a comparatively negligible number. Adver¬
tisers are keenly aware of the necessity of making friends for their
products, and their advertising agencies, public relations advisers
and research departments give the problem their best thinking.

Citing the long list of public service programs the net¬
work carries, Mr, McKay continued;

"And who pays the cost of these sustaining and public ser¬
vice programs? The advertiser. It is the advertiser who gives the
United States the finest radio in the world. How do these critics
want to repay him? They want either a complete elimination of com¬
mercials or, if they happen to be in a generous mood, they want him
to cut his commercials to a bare mention at the end of the program. "

ing:

The speaker took up the cudget for the radio serials, say-

"The serials vary in quality and in story to the same ex¬
tent as motion pictures, magazine stories and best sellers. They are
entertainment, no more, no less. In big cities, in remote hamlets,
fifteen million women listen to them each day. If these programs were
dull; if they were unbelievable, this large audience would have
dwindled years ago. On the contrary, the listening audience has
increased, "

Mentioning the Cleveland ra.dio editors, Mr. McKay praised
the work of Norman Siegel of the Cleveland Press.

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SEES SIGN OF FDR* S FATIGUE IN DEALING WITH PETRILLO

Charbing that the lenient ^a.j President Roosevelt dealt
with Petrillo is an Indication of the President’s fatigue, the New
York Herald-Tribune said:

’’The President is tired, as who wouldn’t be in his place?
But since he and his supporters bitterly resent the charge, let us
cite an indication which more nearly approaches proof than any other
recently brought to public attention. At his press conference
recently, he said that he would make a study of the law to find out
whether he could compel James Caesar Petrillo and his union of mus¬
icians to comply with his, the President’s, request that they obey
the War Labor Board, This admission - namely, that the President,
before he made his humiliating appeal to Petrillo, had not familiar¬
ized himself with the powers he possessed in the premises - seems to
us astounding. Fatigue alone - and not only his but that of his
secretariat - offers a reasonable explanation,

"Or perhaps he had a vague presentment of disappointment,
that looking up the law wouldn’t help him. In view of various deci¬
sions of his appointees to the Supreme Court, it probably won’t.

These Jurists, beginning with their ruling in the Hutcheson case and
including their discouragement of any anti-trust action against
Petrillo, have consistently held that for a boycott by a labor union
there is no legal redress. They have carried the New Deal notion
that a labor union can do no wrong to its logical conclusion,

"One can be sorry the President is tired and still recog¬
nize the poetic justice of his dilemma. Petrillo, this labor dictat¬
or who has bluntly told the President to go roll a hoop, is a crea¬
ture of Mr, Roosevelt’s breeding. This chicken of his has come home
to roost - and crow, "

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BROADCASTERS’ PRESIDENT RAPS WHKC IN CIO CASE

Harold Ryan, President of the National Association of
Broadcasters, took Station WHKC at Columbus, Ohio, to task for the
manner in which it interpreted the Broadcasters' Code in the now
famous CIO dispute saying:

"The NAB has followed with great interest the hearings in
the UAW-CIO - WHKC case.

"Certain statements have been made regarding the NAB Code
in connection with the testimony offered in this case which the
Association feels snould be clarified,

"Station WHKC has sold commercial time to the CIO local of
Columbus, Ohio, and when the sponsor presented his script for a cer¬
tain program the station refused to accept it for broadcast on a
sponsored basis on the ground that it was controversial, without off¬
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”Tlie Code, however, neither suggests nor Implies any re¬
lease from the responsibility of the station licensee in the case of
controversial material to give free time for the purpose of discuss¬
ing the controversial subject. There is no language nor implication
in the Code which Justifies or encourages a radio station to refuse
either to sell a forum type program or give time for the discussion
of controversial questions in the public interest. On the contrary,
the Code highlights very pointedly the responsibility of the station
to encourage sponsored forums and to give time for the discussion of
these controversial issues.

'*In the opinion of the NAB, Station WHKC should have con¬
sidered the propriety of broadcasting this program on sustaining
time,

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HOPE AND CLAPPER REPRESENT RADIO IN KIP’S "LITTLE MEN”

One doesn’t expect seasonal novelties at the staid Smith¬
sonian, but the display of 50 miniature bronze statues of the leading
war personalities is an exciting event for the famous old institu¬
tion, The collection was presented by a group headed by W, M,
Kiplinger, business letter wizard and author of a recent best seller,
"Washington is Like That", Max Kalish, the sculptor, made the models
each about 2 feet high in the remarkably short space of six months.

The only celebrities having anything to do with radio in
"The Living Hall of Fame" are Bob Hope; the late commentator and
newspaperman Ray Clapper, and C. E, Wilson, President of General
Electric, The only woman in the group is Madam Perkins. Among the
top-liners are President Roosevelt, Vice President Wallace, Chief
Justice Stone, Sneaker Rayburn, Admiral Leahy, General ^'^arshall,
Admiral King, General Arnold, General MacArthur, General Eisenhower,
Admiral Nimitz and Admiral Halsey, Jr,

Also Harry Hopkins, James F. Byrnes, Donald M. Nelson,
Adviral Land, Chester Bowles, Paul V. McNutt, Marvin Jones, Bernard
M. Baruch, William M. Jeffers, J. Edgar Hoover, Elmer Davis, Byron
Price, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Thomas E, Dewey, Philip Murray, John L.
Lewis, Henry J, Kaiser, Eric A. Johnston, Ernie Pyle and Walter
Lippraan,

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APPLICATIONS RECEIVED BY FCC

Filene * s Television. _ Inc. , Boston, Mass. , Construction per¬

mit for a new commercial television broadcast station to be operated
on Channel #7 (102000-108000 kc) , ESR, 3,160; Central Broadcasting
Co. , Inc, . Johnstown, Penna, , construction permit for a new Standard
broadcast station to be operated on 1490 kc. , power of 250 watts and
unlimited hours of operation; State University of Oklahoma, Noman,
Okla, , construction permit for a new non-commercial educational broad¬
cast station to be operated on 42,300 kc, , power of 3 KW and Special
Emission for FM, ; Evansville on the Air, Inc., Glenwood, Ind, , con¬
struction permit for a new developmental broadcast station to be
operated on 44,300 kc, , power of 50 KW and Special Emission,

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RCA Set On Dewey’s Railroad Car

Inside the Dewey car, RCA has loaded a magnificent amplify¬
ing set, radio and listening equipment. Through these, Dewey tunes
in on newscasts, likes to listen to good music en route. He also has
a telephone in his car, which is connected at lengthy stops, in order
to contact GOP headquarters in Albany or New York City,

Dewey still makes few back-plat formi soeeches,. even if
crowds congregate in the rear of his car. When he does speak, two
huge amplifiers mounted over the back end of the platform carry his
words to the crowd.

Dewey has studiously avoided giving away the theme of his
forthcoming speeches in day-time talks to small audiences. Willkie
frequently did this, sometimes expressed himself better in the early
part of the day when his voice was good, than he did at night before
impressive radio networks,

- ( Drew Pearson)

Cites Gr^at Expansion Of Press Wireless

A portable radio station had been shiooed across the
Channel by Press Wireless, Inc., of Chicago, set up in a Normandy
field immediately back of the lines, and was sending copy direct to
New York, Before long, it was handling up to 40,000 words a day at
the astonishing speed of 350 words a minute. The correspondents who
had encountered irritating delays in North Africa, Sicily and Italy
hailed the little 400-watt transmitter as another milestone in the
history of communications.

During the first six months of this year Press Wireless
carried we 11 over half the press business both into and out of the
United States,

Organized hardly more tnan a decade ago. Press Wireless
was capitalized at only ^1,000,000 and is a co-operative enterprise
rare, to say the least, in so competitive a group of individuals as
American editors and publishers.

Press Wireless is owned by the four big press associations -
the Associated Press, the United Press, International News Service and
the North American Newspaper Alliance, and by seven of the country’s
largest newspapers. These are The New York Times, the New York
Herald Tribune, The Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, the
Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco
Chronicle,

-(Extract from an article in the Saturday Evening Post of
Oct. 21 on Press Wireless by Henry F. Pringle in which
he calls it ”a lusty young David which challenges the
world' s communications Goliaths - and wins the first
round,. " )

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Hell der FCCl

That tFlce-a-day stand-at-attention routine when the FCC
members enter the hearing room to sit in judgment on the question of
allocations has been the cause of some criticism among broadcasters
and others in attendance. Latter contend that it runs counter to
democratic procedure; that the only thing missing is a salute and a
"Heil” as the Commissioners step forth.

Critics of the practice say it' s one thing to rise in res¬
pect to the dignity of a post or in tribute for someone's notable
achievement, but the fact that the FCC boys invariably segue into a
relaxed position and are not adverse to dozing off the "Spectrum
Doldrums" only points up the absurdity of the situation.

- (Variety)

Says Government Station Would End Congress Twaddle

Franklin P, Adams, scrivener and Information Please lumin¬
ary, Democratic candidate for State Senator from Connecticut's
Twenty-fifth District, has not, for example, advocated wet-sweeping,
or campaigned for clearer house numbers, as he did when he ran his
newspaper column, "The Conning Tower". But he believes that if a
Government radio station were set up in Congress, it might discour¬
age futile Congressional twaddle.

- (New York Times)

Chicago Paper Tries Out Walkie-Talkie Gathering News

(As an experiment in speedier spot news coverage, the Chicago
Daily News put to use the nev.? Army Signal Corps two-way radio, known
popularly as the "Walkie Talkie", on a regular news assignment.

(Arriving at the North Western Station was a contingent of
Hollyv/ood stars - including Carole Landis, John Payne, George Jessel
and Roddy MacDowall - to attend the premier of "Wilson".

(What follows is the interview, in part as heard by the re¬
write man in the newsroom).

REPORTER (with a "walkie-talkie" strapped on his back) - The train
is pulling in now. Here they come off the train. Are you ready
to take it?

REWRITE MAN - You're coming in fine.

REPORTER - Carole Landis has just stepped off the train.

REWPEETE MAN - Will you bring Miss Landis in, please. I want to talk
to her,

LANDIS - (Singing into Walkie-Talkie); "Good morning to you". How are
you up there, Mr. Editor?

REWRITE MAN - Fine. Tell me. Miss Landis, is this a new experience
for you. You sound like a veteran at it.

LANDIS, Not exactly. It's like the intercom radio on a transport
plane. We used it going overseas.

REWRITE MAN - How is the crowd taking all tnis? Are they interested?
reporter - Yes, they don’t quite know what to make of it. We have a
crowd of about 50 people standing around watching us.

The two units were furnished by the Galvin Manufacturing Co.,
makers of Motorola radios, now engaged in war work,

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TRADE NOTES : : :

Eleanor ^atterson, publisher of the Wpshlnp;ton Times-
Herald has applied for a television station in the capital on
Channel #8 (162000-168000 kilocycles), Mrs. Patterson is a sister
of Joseph Patterson, publisher of the New York News, and Col, Robert
McCormick of the Chicat^o Tribune.

Others who have applied for television licenses in Wash¬
ington are the National Broadcasting Company, Bamberger Broadcasting
Co., Capital Broadcasting Company (WWDC), Dumont, end Phllco,

A 13^ Increase In production of radio-electronic products
is necessary for the remainder of this year to meet war schedules.
Director L, J. Chatten of the WPB Radio and Radar Division has advls
ed RMA.

The Federal Trade Commission has issued a complaint charg
ing Stevens Clothing Manufacturing Co., Inc., Menands, N. Y, , with
misrepresentation in connection with the sale of men's clothing in
its radio broadcasts, labels, signs and pictures in Its purported
factory showroom.

If the radio industry had gone on manufacturing radio sets
instead of turning to war work, radio companies since the war began
would have produced 41,100,000 radio sets.

Dr, I, Keith Tyler, Director of Radio Education at Ohio
State University, in Chicago Monday received the award of merit pre¬
sented for outstanding service In educational radio by the School
Broadcast Conference, Dr, Tyler is Director of the Institute for
Educational F^dio and President of the Association for Education by
Radio,

Sylvanla Electric Products, Inc, - Nine months : Consoli¬
dated net income ^1,379,431, or 1^1,37 each on 1,005,000 common share
against ^1,005,697, or ^1,13 each on 854,474 shares, after preferred
dividends last year. Sales of $68,569,095 for 1944 period increased
64 percent over volume for corresponding period a year ago. This
year's figures Include operations of Colonial Radio Corporation for
four months, the company having been acquired by Sylvanla at end of
May, 1944.

Rube Goldberg In a cartoon in the New York Sun, showed two
towering microphones, personified as Roosevelt and Dewey, They are
surrounded by a cloud labelled ’’Microphone Chanii” and the cartoon is
captioned "FDR’s Own Height,"

The Illinois Valley Broadcasting Co., Peoria, Ill,, has
asked the FCC that its construction permit for a new Standard Broad¬
cast station be amended to 1290 kc, , 1 KW power and unlimited hours
of operation, install directional antenna for day and night use and
specify a transmitter site,

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Election Means Big Radio Congressional Committees Upset . 1

Brlcker Serves Notice On Alleged Reds In FCC . 2

What Would Dewey Do To Rep, Cox In Georgia Radio Case? . 3

No Easing Up On 2- Way Radio Equipment Orders, . 4

Col. Mitchell, R. C. A, Communications, Gets Legion Of Merit
Shouse, Of Crosley, Is New NAB Director .

Mutual Elects Edgar Kobak President . 6

M Not Yet Cleared With Sidney . 6

FCC Allocations Hearings Near Close; Early Decision . ...7

Shortage Of Women In Radar Plants . . . 8

Radio Candidates Coming Down Elections Horae Stretch . .,......,9

Roosevelt And Dewey Trains Equipped With Radio . 10

Radio Editor Norman Siegal Vs, Ellery . 11

Scissors And Paste . 12

Trade Notes, . 14

No. 1654

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ELECTION MEANS BIG RADIO CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES UPSET

No matter which way the election goes, the reorganization
of the new Congress will play havoc with the Committees in the House
and the Senate which handle legislation having to do with radio and
communications. If the Republicans win control of the House, as
they are so confidently predicting, it will mean a change of the
Committee chairman. If the Republican lightning snould strike the
Senate, it will, of course, mean a similar upheaval there.

All members of the House Committees are up for re-election.
Members of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, whose fate will
be settled one way or another next Tuesday, are Senators Bob
Wagner (D), of New York; Alben W. Barkley (d), Kentucky; Lister
Hill ( D) , Alabama; Charles W, Tobey (r). New Hampshire; Clyde M,

Reed (r), Kansas; and Chan Gurney ( R) , of South Dakota. There have
already been two casualties on this Committee, both Democrats -
'’Cotton” Ed Smith, of South Carolina, and Senator D, Worth Clark of
Idaho, who were defeated for re-nomination. Senator Clark* s success¬
ful opponent was Glenn H, Taylor, a cowboy, radio entertainer of
Station KSEI at Pocatello, Another vacancy has been created on the
Committee by the appointment of Senator Homer T, Bone (D), of
Washington State to a Federal Judgeship, If Senator Trumen, who is
also a member of the Committee, is elected Vice-President, that nat¬
urally would also leave a vacancy.

If the Republicans should win the House, the veteran
Representative Schuyler Otis Bland ( D) , of Virginia, who has been in
Congress for almost 30 years, would lose the chairmanship of the
Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, First in line as his suc¬
cessor would be Representative Richard J, Welch (r), of California,
Representative Welch, however, is also ranking minority member of the
House Labor Committee. If he should take that Committee in prefer¬
ence to the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, then the next Republicans
in line would be Representative Joseph J, O’Brien, of New York,

Fred Bradley, of Michigan, and Gordon Canfield, of New Jersey, res¬
pectively. Two certain vacancies on this Committee are Representa¬
tive Louis J, Capozzoli, of New York, and Delegate Anthony J,

Diraond, of Alaska, both Democrats, who are not seeking reelection.

If the Democrats retain control of the Senate, Burton K,
Wheeler, of Montana, who has been conspicuous by his failure to be
heard in behalf of President Roosevelt and tne New Deal in the pre¬
sent campaign, will most likely continue as Chairman of the Senate
Interstate Commerce Committee, With the defeat of Senator "Cotton”
Ed Smith, however, Senator Wheeler would also be eligible for the
chairmanship of the Senate Agriculture Committee, The belief is that
he would stick to the Interstate Commerce Committee,

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If the miracle should happen and the Republicans captured
the Senate, Senator Wallace White ( R) , of ffeine, would be at the
nead of the line to succeed Senator Wheeler as Chairman, Senator
White, co-author of the Communications Act and #1 radio man in
Congress, who has added importance as Senate minority leader, might
also be in line for the all Important Foreign Relations Committee
chairmanship as successor to Senator Tom Connally of Texas. His
chance for this would be whether Senator Vandenberg, of Michigan,
would prefer the chairmanship of the Rules Committee and if the
health of Senators Hiram Johnson, of California, and Capper would
prevent their undertaking the heavy responsibility of the Foreign
Relations Committee direction.

If Senator White didn't take the Senate Interstate Commerce
Committee chairmanship, in case of a Republican victory, the next man
on the eligibility list would be Senator Warren Austin, of Vermont.
However, Senator Austin is ranking member of the Military Affairs
Committee and might prefer that to the Interstate Commerce Committee.
Next high men on the Interstate Commerce Totem Pole would then be
Senators Shipstead, of Minnesota; Tobey, of New Hampshire; Reed, of
Kansas; Gurney, of South Dakota; Brooks, of Illinois; Hawkes, of
New Jersey; and Moore, of Oklahoma.

Senator White would also be in line to head the Patents
Committee in which the radio and communications industries also have
an interest. Of its present eight members, none has positive chance
of serving in the new Congress, All the rest besides Senator White
are up for reelection or for some reason are not continuing in
Congress,

If the Republicans are successful in the House, Representa¬
tive Fred A. Hartley, Jr., of New Jersey, would be eligible for
chairmanship of the Patents Committee and if he didn’t take it,
Representative Arends, of Illinois, would be next.

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BRICKER SERVES NOTICE ON ALLEGED REDS IN FCC

If the Republicans get in, Governor Bricker, Vice-presi¬
dential candidate, declared that they would make it hot for the
alleged Communists in the Federal Communications Commission and else¬
where in the Government service. It was his prediction that fellow-
travellers would likewise be routed out.

Governor Bricker referred particularly to the cases of
Dr. Goodwin Watson, ^6,500 a year Chief Analyst of the Foreign
Broadcast Intelligence Service of the FCC, Dr. William E. Dodd, Jr.,
$3,800 a year Assistant News Editor of the same service, and Dr.
Robert Morss Lovett, Executive Assistant to the Governor of the
Virgin Islands,

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These men were denounced by a House Committee a year ago
as subversive. Subsequently the House as a whole attached a rider
to an urgent Deficiency Bill cutting off the pay of the employees
after November 15th of that year unless by that time President
Roosevelt had renominated them and their nominations had been con¬
firmed by the Senate. The Senate acceded to the rider in order to
get the appropriation measure enacted. The President, refusing to
renominate the men was compelled to sign the bill in order to make
funds available for various agencies and termed the measure "not
only unwise and discriminatory but unconstitutional". Chairman
James L, Fly and Secretary of the Interior Ickes likewise protested
loudly and even allowed the men to hold their Jobs without pay
after November 15th in their effort to establish certain legal
claims.

Therefore if Governor Dewey is elected or even if a
Republican House is elected - for all appropriations must originate
in the House - and the threat' of Governor Bricker is carried out, a
wholesale exodus of crackpots and radicals now fimly entrenched
in lucrative Government Jobs may be expected. And very likely with¬
out quite so much fonnality.

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WHAT WOULD DEWEY DO TO REP. COX IN GEORGIA RADIO CASE?

Drew Pearson speculates at some length as to the change of
policy there might be in the Justice Department if Dewey were elect¬
ed saying:

"Meanwhile, however, it has not acted in certain political
cases, one being that of Congressman Eugene Cox of Georgia, Democrat,
who was shown to have received $2500 in compensation for getting a
new wave length for a radio station in Albany, Georgia,

"This column is now in possession of certain hitherto un¬
published official documents in the Congressman Cox case,

"One document, a report signed by Wendell Berge, then
Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division, cate¬
gorically recommended that criminal action be taken against Congress¬
man Cox for violating Section 203, Title 18 of theU, S. Code, which
provides that a Congressman cannot receive payment for representing
anyone before a Government agency.

"Assistant Attorney General Berge recommended to his sup¬
eriors as follows:

"»The case is quite complete now; we are prepared for, and
I recommend, immediate presentation to the Grand Jury in Washington. ’

"Berge reported:

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'•'Receipt by registered mail of compensation in Washington
in the shape of a certificate for 25 shares of stock in the Herald
Broadcasting Company of the par value of ^100 per share is likewise
established, *

"'Venue, in my opinion, consequently lies in Washington,
although there is a "wash' transaction involving the exchange of
$2500 checks between Cox and the radio station in Georgia, which
the defense may argue demonstrates payment was made in Georgia, '

"Berge also transmitted to his supervisors a long report
prepared by an assistant, Raoul Berger, giving the detailed evidence
against Congressman Cox. Among other things, it stated:

"'The documentary evidence leaves no doubt that Cox's
clients regarded him as their legal representative, that they be¬
lieved Cox "compelled" the Federal Communications Commission to grant
the license - as, in fact, he did - and that he was paid for his
services. '

"However, Congressman Cox, an intimate poker-playing frienc
of Speaker Sam Rayburn, was never prosecuted. Should Governor Dewey
be elected, the statute of limitations will not have run on this case
It would be interesting to see what Dewey would do,

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NO EASING UP ON 2-WAY RADIO EQUIP I^NT ORDERS

There has been no relaxation of restrictions that would
allow the sale of two-way radio communication equipment on unrated
purchase orders, the War Production Board said last Saturday. Cer¬
tain manufacturers who have erroneously informed their customers
that they could make deliveries on unrated orders have been asked to
correct this impression, WpB continued.

Two-way emergency radio communication equipment is avail¬
able only in limited quantities for essential use by police depart¬
ments, public utilities, railroads and other essential industries
when the equipment is vital to their operation, WPB said.

Those who have need of such equipment should make applica¬
tion for priority assistance to 'J7PB, Public utilities should use
Form WPB-2774, which is filed in Washington. Other applicants
should use Form WPB-541, which should be filed in the nearest WPB
field office, from where it will be sent to Washington for process¬
ing, according to WPB,

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Herbert S. Moore, President of Transradio Press Service,
Inc, , is among tnose signing a plea in New York asking citizens to
vote for Roosevelt, Truman and Wagner on the Liberal Party line,

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COL. MITCI-ffiLL, R.C.A. COMMUNICATIONS, GETS LEGION OF MERIT

In the presence of Lieut. Gen. James G. Harbord, U, S. A,
retired, Chairman of the Board of the Radio Corporation of America,
Brig. Gen, Frank E. Stoner, Chief of the Signal Corps Communications
Service, presented Lieut. Col. Thompson H, Mitchell, Vice-President
and General Manager of R. C, A. Communications, Inc. , with the Legion
of Merit medal for '’conspicuous achievements” and contributions of
"lasting benefit to the military service" when Colonel Mitchell
served in the Army Communications Service,

Colonel Mitchell, a graduate of Annapolis, had previously
been in Washington as Chief of the Traffic Operational Engineering
Section of the Army Communications Service. He was assigned to in¬
active duty after serving 26 months in the Signal Corps, two of
which were spent in the European Theater.

First employed by RCA 17 years ago. Colonel Mitchell has
since served as RCAC Superintendent at Honolulu, as engineer in
charge of construction at Radiomarine’s coast station at Torrance,
Cal., and at RCAC’s stations at Marshall and Bollnas. He had been
Manager of our operations in Southern California, with his office
at Los Angeles, for 7 years when he went on Military Leave on May 21
1942.

Colonel Mitchell last July succeeded the late William
Winterbottom as Vice-President and General Manager of R. C. A. Communi'-
cations, Inc,

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SHOUSE, OF CROSLEY, IS NEW NAB DIRECTOR

James D. Shouse, Jr., Vice-President in charge of Broad¬
casting at Station WLW, Cincinnati, Ohio, was unanimously elected
Director of the Seventh (Ohio-Kentucky ) District of the National
Association of Broadcasters in Louisville, Kentucky. October 28, Mr.
Shouse, a veteran broadcaster and several times member of the NAB
Board, comes to the directorate now for the first time as a District
Director, His previous terms were as Director-at-Large, represent¬
ing large stations. He was unopposed for the District Job,

Nathan Lord, Manager of Station WAVE, Louisville, Kentucky,
is the retiring Director of District Seven,

The Ohio State Broadcasters' Association, in a meeting
preceding the District session, elected Robert T, Mason, WMRN,

Marion, Ohio, President; Arch Shawd, WTOL, Toledo, Vice-President
and Carl Everson, WHKC, Columbus, Secretary- Treasurer.

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MUTUAL ELECTS EDCAR KOBAK PRESIDENT

The appointment of Edgar Kobak as President, effective
November 20th, was announced Tuesday by the Board of Directors of
the Mutual Broadcasting System to succeed Miller McClintock, who
resigned last week,

Mr, Kobak was formerly Executive Vice President of the
Blue Network and before that Vice President of the National Broad¬
casting Company and played an Important part in their development.

His career started as a member of the Electrical Engineering Depart¬
ment of the Georgia Railway and Power Company of Atlanta, following
nis studies at Georgia Tech.

After five years with the utility company, he spent 18
years with the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. in the circulation, edi¬
torial and advertising departments. Later he became publisher of
electrical and radio publications, as well as a Director and Vice
President in Cha.rge of Sales of all McGraw-Hill publications.

In 1934, Mr. Kobak joined the National Broadcasting Company
as Vice-President in Charge of Sales. Then followed four years as
Vice-President of the advertising agency, Lord 8c. Thomas. He was
called back to NBC to assist in setting up the Blue Network as a
separate division of RCA, early in 1942, becoming its Executive Vice-
President and General Manager. To Mr. Kobak goes much of the credit
for building that organization and developing it to its present posi¬
tion.

On accepting his new duties, Mr, Kobak stated, ”1 feel
very humble about ray expanded opportunity to serve the listening
public in the new horizons and larger opportunities which lie ahead.
We have a free radio - it is up to us to keep it free in order to
make America a stronger and better informed nation. The challenge
is there - I will do ray best to help Mutual become the leader - to
work to make all broadcasting service better and build the industry.
The listener is my boss, I want to be a good servant. Our immedi¬
ate job is to help win the war. “

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F¥ NOT YET CLEARED WITH SIDNEY

Someone asked Sidney Hillman, who was speaking at the
National Press Club in Washington, if tne CIO intended entering the
FM field.

**Probably something should be done about it", Mr, Hillman
replied^ "We have no program for it. ^

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FCC ALLOCATIONS HEARINGS NEAR CLOSE; EARLY DECISION

Great pressure is being exerted to wind up the Federal
Communications Commission allocations hearings. Also it is expected
that contrary to its usual custom, the FCC will come through with a
prompt decision. Presumably this burst of speed has been caused by
tne reported retirement of Chairman James L. Fly week after next
wno, if he is going, naturally wants to dispose of any unfinished
business between now and then.

Former FCC Commissioner George Henry Payne, Vice-President
of Finch Telecommunications, testifying with regard to facsimile,
stated that his company was not seeking any bands of frequencies in
the spectrum,

Mr, Payne said: ”Our position is rather unique in that we
believe that separate and additional frequencies need not be alloc¬
ated for facsimile operation and that facsimile may be multiplexed
on existing frequencies allocated to existing services. If the
frequencies assigned to existing services are changed and if new
services are authorized, the situation with regard to multiplexing
of facsimile will not be altered, ”

Maj. Frank R. Brick, Jr., Vice-President, Finch Telecom¬
munications, stated that multiplexing, or the transmission of both
sound programs and facsimile on the same frequency without inter¬
ference one with the other, is entirely feasible. He urged that the
present band width of SOO kc for FM be maintained,

R. J, Rockwell, Technical Director of the Broadcast Divi¬
sion of the Crosley Radio Corporation, supported the Finch recommen¬
dations to continue facsimile multiplexing. Mr, Rockwell said that
shortly before the war, Crosley manufactured facsimile receiving
equipment for Finch and set up a news editing department by facsim¬
ile during the time WLW was not sound broadcasting. Fifty facsimile
receiving sets were installed in the Cincinnati area and on the basis
of this experiment, Crosley got an experimental license for a 1 KW
transmitter and used it for tests.

Former Commissioner T, A.M. Craven, Vice-President of the
Cowles Broadcasting Company, held that since no one now can esti¬
mate with precision the future of facsimile broadcasting, radio
spectrum space should be reserved to permit its development,

”We believe that facsimile broadcasting should not super¬
impose on FM or television broadcasting but should stand on its own
feet and be allotted its oim space”, he said,

John V, L. Hogan told the Commission that the demands for
facsimile by police, fire departments, public utilities, school
districts and others can be met by permitting transmission over
frequencies assigned for other uses, without Interference,

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Additional statements were made by George Lewis of the
Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation and J. E. Brown, Assistant
Vice-President and Chief Engineer of the Zenith Radio Corporation of
Chicago, Mr. Lewis said his company considered facsimile an import¬
ant medium for transmission of words and pictures.

Space in the spectrum for two-way frequency modulation
radio taxicab communication service was requested before the hearing
by representatives of the industry, and by Oliver W. Moore, Chairman
of the Radio Technical Planning Board’s Taxicab Committee.

The Taxicab subcommittee is composed of spokesmen from the
National Association of Taxicab Owners, operating about 17,000 cabs;
the Cab Research Bureau, Inc, , which has a membership of non-compet¬
ing operators in thirtj'’ cities; the American Taxicab Association of
Chicago, representing nearly 5,000 cabs, and representatives of three
manufacturers, the General Electric Company, the Galvin Manufacturing
Company and the Ra.dio Corporation of America,

Raymond M, Wilmotte, consulting radio engineer, who appear¬
ed on behalf of the National Association and Cab Research Bureau saic
that six channels at least were required to meet its present needs,
although this number would not take care of special conditions exist¬
ing in New York, Chicago and Washington, where service is largely on
the pick-up basis and if, owing to the advantages of radio which
have never before been available, the dispatching type of operations
were to be adopted in tliose three cities, then thirty channels would
be required.

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SHORTAGE OF WOIiEN IN RADAR PLANTS

There is a critical snortage of women workers in the 12
major plants producing radar tubes, the War Manpower Commission said
today (Wednesday).

WMC officials said they had been informed by the War
Production Board that tubes were the ’’bottleneck” in the lagging
radar program. A need for additional workers has been developing for
months, but did not become acute until September, when the 12 plants
reported 2,100 separations, chiefly women. The percentage of women
in the plants is from 75 to 80 percent. The work is comparatively
light and working conditions are excellent, two factors that have
served to attract women, WMC said. The plants made only minor
restrictions as to age and physical abilities to encourage the em¬
ployment of women.

Recently, however, women have been leaving in increasing
numbers. The majority, in giving their reason for leaving, say they
have home duties or merely that they are tired of working, WMC said.
Battle successes have made them over-optimistic, WJilC said.

Radar is on the production urgency List, the agency pointed
out, and it is vital to victory. The services of these women are
still desperately needed, WC said. The loss of women workers has
been made doubly serious by the additional loss in September of stu¬
dents and teachers returning to school,

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and of these 20,100 were women. WMC officials said that an addi¬
tional 3,300 workers must be found by December 1 if radar production
is to be brought up to schedule.

The plants are situated in New Jersey, Kentucky, Massa¬
chusetts and Pennsylvania, but not all are in tight labor areas.
Inter- regional recruitment is not entirely practical since the need
is for women. As a rule, women do not always find it possible to
leave their home areas,

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RADIO CANDIDATES COICENG DOWN ELECTIONS HOME STRETCH

Candidates who in one way or another are being watched by
the radio industry are now on the last lap.

The eleventh hour charge that was made against Hal Styles,
radio columnist of Los Angeles, Democratic nominee for Congress,
that he was a former Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan and that he was
once in Sing Sing for perjury, has now been hooked up with the charge
that the Democratic Vice-presidential nominee was also a Ku Kluxer.
The Chicago Tribune had a front page cartoon by Orr in color caption--
ed ’’The Man Who Might Become President Endorses a Candidate”, It
shows Senator Truman pointing to a Klansman saying, "We’re for him”.
The Klansman is designated: "Hal Styles, Ku Klux Klan Ringleader
and New Deal candidate for U. S. Congress in California supported by
Harry S. Truman. ”

Senator Bob Taft, of the Ohio broadcasting and publishing
family, is encountering stiff opposition for re-election, Homer
Capehart, Republican candidate for Senator in Indiana, is reported
to be having a tough fight against Governor Schricker, one of the
most popular men in the State. Republicans are counting on a Dewey
trend to pull Mr. Capehart through.

The return of Representative Eugene Cox ( D) , of Georgia,
foe of the Federal Communications Commission, appears to be certain.
Representative Lea ( D) , of California, age 70, Chairman of the House
FCC Investigating Committee being the nominee of both the Democratic
and Republican parties (as he has been for the past 24 years) is in
a unique position.

Charles H. Garland, Assistant Sales Manager of WBBM,
Chicago, who resigned after having been there 19 years, to accept
the Republican nomination for Congress from the 7th Illinois Con¬
gressional District, is making the fight of his life. His district,
said to be the largest in the U, S, is noraally Republican but dur¬
ing the New Deal it has been Democratic in a lessening degree each
election.

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Senator Clyde Reed (r), of Kansas, of the Senate Inter¬
state Commerce Committee, has the CIO on his neck, but reports are
that he is leading in the race by 3 to 2,

Nothing has been heard from Grlenn H, Taylor (D), cowboy
broadcaster, of Station KSEI, Pocatello, Idaho, who beat Senator
D. Worth Clark for the nomination by only 203 votes.

Luther Patrick ( D) , former commentator of WBRC, Birming¬
ham, for two terms Representative from the 9th Alabama District is
apparently assured of return,

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ROOSEVELT AND DEWEY TRAINS EQUIPPED WITH RADIO

Both President Roosevelt's and Governor Dewey's campaign
trains had special radio installations.

The recent installation of sound equipment on Governor
Thomas E, Dewey's private train makes the fourth national presi¬
dential campaign in which RCA has provided sound-equipped train ser¬
vice, The first RCA installation was made on President Roosevelt's
private train in the 1932 campaign. A similar installation was made
for the late Wendell L, Willkie.

Sound equipment services of RCA have ranged from the
installation and supervision of publis address systems at both Demo¬
cratic and Republican conventions to the installation and operation
of electronic sound equipment for the private trains of presidential
candidates on tour.

On September 19, when Governor Dewey' s train was in the
wreck of the Great Northern Railway near Castle Rock, Washington,
two RCA service engineers on board met the most challenging sound
problem to arise on a presidential tour. Considerably shaken by the
wreck themselves, they received first aid for bruises and lacera¬
tions, and turned at once to the Job of reassembling the sound equiD-
ment, which had shaken loose. They found damaged cases and dented
mechanisms which at first sight looked rather hopeless. Nevertheless,
it was still in operating condition and the two engineers were able
to quickly reassemble and readjust the apparatus.

Another engineering problem encountered by RCA sound engi¬
neers on the Dewey campaign trips was the frequent necessity for
changing the sound equipment from one car to another. The train used
by Governor Dewey on his West Coast trip could not be kept intact for
the West Virginia trip, which meant that RCA engineers had to dis¬
mantle the equipment and make new installations. The same problem
arose again in connection with the St, Louis-Pittsburgh trip.

The sound equipment installed on the Dewey campaign train
provided for amplifying or broadcasting speeches from the rear plat¬
form; and for transmitting speeches throughout the train to enable

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press representatives on board to obtain the full story, and for
stenographers to take dovm the speeches. Facilities were also in¬
stalled for the transmission of radio programs through the public
address system in order to give train coverage of any special broad¬
casts desired. During the trip, news broadcasts were frequently
picked up and broadcast throughout the train.

On the rear platform of the Dwewy train, the new RCA
Varicoustic microphone was used to pick up rear platform programs.

Tne system was one capable of covering the groups which assembled
to hear Dewey speak. The largest audience served was estimated to
be 14,000 persons.

Six RCA loudspeakers were installed on the roof of the
rear platform, two facing the rear and two on each side. In the
first compartment back of the observation lounge a motor generator
and a bO-watt amplifier was installed, wdth a second 50-watt ampli¬
fier as a spare. Throughout the train, six accordion-edge loud¬
speakers were installed; one in Governor Dewey’s private dining room,
one in his private observation car, one in the press car and another
in the lounge area of the press car, one in the club car, and a
monitor in the amplifier room.

Governor Bricker’s campaign train had a similar system
as that on the Dewey train with the exception of one additional
feature, a recorder which enabled Governor Brlcker to play back his
speeches for study after delivery.

On several occasions, Governor Dewey expressed appreciation
for the excellent performance of the RCA sound equipment on his
campaign trains, and gave the RCA field engineers special commenda¬
tion for their quick work in reassembling the sound system following
the railroad wreck at Castle Rock, Washington,

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RADIO EDITOR NORM-'J SIEGAL VS. ELLERY

Noraan Siegel, radio editor of the Cleveland Press, and a
syndicated radio columnist, will be the guest armchair detective
for Ellery Queen’s ’’The Adventure of the Election Day Murder",
Saturday, Nov, 4 (NBC, 7:30 P.M. , EWT).

The mystery begins late on Election Night at the head¬
quarters of a successful candidate with the Queens Joining in the
oelebration. But tragedy strikes in an adjacent Turkish bath with
Inspector Queen (Santos Ortega ) in somewhat of a Jam, and Nikki
Porter (Marian Shockley) a not too helpful assistant,

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Appeal For Money To Broadcast Roosevelt Speeches

A spontaneous movement to raise special funds for the
Democratic National Committee's use in broadcasting President Frank¬
lin E. Roosevelt's campaign addresses has spread to Indiana, It
costs $650 a minute if he uses only one network.

The movement started in New York had wide-spread and popu¬
lar appeal. Up to noon last Friday over $17,000, mostly in contri¬
butions of one dollar each, had been received in the "Radio Fund
Room", of national headquarters in New York,

Contributions to the fund in Indiana should be addressed
to Eugene B, Crowe, Democratic National Committee Finance Director
for Indiana, Room 525, Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis. Checks should
be made payable to the Roosevelt Radio Fund, Corporation checks can¬
not be accepted. All donations must be personal. While small con¬
tributions are suggested, the committee, of course, will appreciate
donations in any amount,

- (New Harmony (Indiana) Times)

Almost 2,000 Ra-dlo Distributors

1750 Distributors - that's our answer to recent request
for jobber statistics. These include 1000 radio-set distributors,
and 750 parts Jobbers,

- ( Radio Retailing)

An 3,0, S, For His Friend Petrillo

A cartoon in the Washington Daily News ( Scripps-Howard)
by Talburt showing a phonograph grinding out Dewey speeches labelled
"Facts and figures" from President Roosevelt's "record" and the Pre¬
sident appealing to Petrillo by telephone saying: "Listen, Jimmy,
can't you pull a strike on this fellow?"

Dewey Alms At Radio Audience

As a further indication that Mr. Dewey is counting on the
radio, over which his voice is widely regarded as quite effective -
those covering at the halls have no direct way of knowing - the
Republican National Committee has embarked on a novel method of
Introducing him. Instead of having the real announcement of Mr,
Dewey's address come from the hall, theradio audience is presented
first with a commercial announcer, hired by the Republican National
Committee (Ford Bond), The announcer gives about a one-minute intro¬
duction, the mike is switched to the hall, Mr, Dewey delivers his
speech, and any time left over is consumed by the commercial announc¬
er reading telegrams of congratulations, or other Republican campaign
material. Before and after the commercial announcer goes off the

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air the listening audience is told that the entire program was
sponsored by the Republican National Committee.

Mr. Dewey is deliberately keeping his speeches on the air
snort. He makes it no secret that he regards anything after twenty
minutes as wasted. No one is converted from that time on. This is
smart, and so are many other things about the trip,.

- (Warren Moscow in the New York Times)

Laugh On FCC For Giving Out Stale Jap War News

With Reuters News Service of London scoring one of the
war's greatest news beats with its exclusive pickup of General
Mac Arthur* 8 broadcast proclaiming defeat of the Jap fleet, FCC of¬
ficials blamed the weather for their own failure to make the news
known to the American public first.

But, even as Paul A., Walker, Assistant to James Fly, FCC
Chairman, disclaimed responsibility by saying "FCC doesn’t try to
give out news'* and, contradictorily, said the fault lay with the
Army Signal Corps, one fact leaked out which, apparently placed the
responsibility for the British "scoop" squarely in the lap of the
Commission.

The disclaimer of responsibility seemed particularly
strange in view of the fact that under the act creating the Comrais-.
Sion, it "regulates interstate and foreign commerce in communication
by wire and radio so as to make available to the people of the United
States rapid, efficient, nationwide and worldwide wire and radio
communications. "

- ( Washington Time s-He raid)

"No Time To Coast" - Gen. Harbord

In the remarks of General James G, ^*arbord at the recent
annual meeting of the New York Chapter of the Red Cross there was a
pointed suggestion for all Americans, Said General Harbord, "We
can't afford to coast now on the comfortable theory that with victory
assured the need for real sacrifice has passed. "

- ( New York Time s )

Facsimile For Railroad Train Orders

Radio- facsimile may find important use in railroad signal¬
ling where written train orders are required by law. Already, near
Chicago, the Rock Island is carrying on extensive experiments,

" ( Radio Retailing)

Senator Snort's Pauses

"Ah -f this radio time is costing the Party 150 bucks a
minute. Senator - stop making those significant pauses in your
speechj "

- (From a cartoon in the Chicago Times by Lichty)

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i Trade Notes

The Engineering Department and Parts Divisions of the
Radio Manufacturers' Association, have prepared for extensive
standardization of radio components for postwar civilian prodution.
Arrangements have been made for cooperation between company execu¬
tives of the Parts Division and the Engines ring Committees which have
been reorganized for the postwar standardization work.

A, R. Buckles has been appointed by Emerson Radio and
phonograph Corporation to the newly created post of Chief Inspector,
Mr. Buckles was with the War Department as Supervisor in charge of
the installation and maintenance of radar equipment and more recent¬
ly as field engineer responsible for the design and d evelopment of
radar equipment.

During the first nine months of 1944, the Blue Network
added 33 new national advertisers, as a result of which 92 percent
of all evening network optional time and 71 percent of all da.ytirae
network optional time is sold.

Foreign markets and promotion for American radio - sets,
tubes, parts and transmitting equipment - will be canvassed at a
meeting of TMA export managers which has been arranged for Thursday,
November 16th in New York City.

Ejnar 0. Sandstrom has been appointed Controller of
National Union Corporation, cathode ray and electronic tube manu¬
facturers, He was elected Assistant Secretary of the Corporation
in 1935 and Assistant Treasurer in 1 937. He will continue to serve
as Secretary, to which position he was elected in 1941,

As further proof of the existence of the One Thousand Club,
a letter was revealed from Representative Kefauver, of Tennessee, to
a Tennessee business man, a paragraph of which read:

”I don't know if you have heard much about the One Thousand
Club, but the idea is this - we want to get one thousand people will¬
ing to give $1,000 for the re-election of our President. The money
will be used for radio time to put him on the air. The suggestion
came from the President himself. He said he would like to have one
thousand business people who would show their interest in his re-
election by giving $1,000 and that he would like to counsel and ad¬
vise with them through the rest of his term, if he were re-elected***
Each member receives a copper-plated identification plate and certi¬
ficate which is all the pass they need here in Washington to go any¬
where, ”

With the armed forces demanding approximately 300,000 miles
of communications wire a month, the prospects are that manpower in
the producing plants will continue to be a problem indefinitely,

Paul V. McNutt, Chairman of the War Manpower Commission said.

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Nine members of the Overseas Branch of the Office of War
Information have been assigned to cover the International Civil
Affairs Aviation Conference in which delegates from 55 nations will
participate beginning today (November 1), in Chicago.

The OWI group will obtain material for short-wave radio
broadcasting and for newsreels for distribution outside the Western
Hemisphere. Developments will be reported by a direct telegraph line
to the New York headquarters of the Overseas Branch.

OWI personnel assigned include the following: J, Arthur
Lazell, Assistant Chief, Special Events Section, Radio Program
Bureau; Louis Danis, Multilingual Radio Producer and Sara Felsinger,
radio engineer.

Appointment of James H. Rasmussen as Greneral Sales Manager
of the Manufacturing Division of The Crosley Corporation was announc¬
ed yesterday by R. C. Cosgrove, Vice-President and General Manager.
Mr, Rasmussen has been with Crosley since 1941 and had been Commer¬
cial Manager of the Manufacturing Division before promotion to his
present post.

Lucien Fernand Felignes was sentenced to 20 years at hard
labor in Paris on a charge of collusion with the German occupants as
a radio commentator, Felignes repeatedly had urged exchange of pri¬
soners of war for French workers. Phonograph records made by a
patriotic engineer helped to convict him.

Any postwar prices above the 1942 level must be approved
first by OPA Administrator Bowles and afterm^ard by Economic Stabil¬
ization Director Vinson, This new procedure applies to radio pro¬
ducts.

At the recent meeting of the Set Industry Advisory Commit¬
tee, R, C. Cosgrove, of Cincinnati, RMA President, was elected
Chairman and Paul V. Galvin of Chicago, Vice Chairman, Others appoint¬
ed include E, E. Lewis, Camden, N. J, ; Chairman of the subcommittee,
as well as Ben Abrams, New York and A, S. Walls, Chicago, to draft
suggestions for a price formula, for submission to OPA as a basis
for further consultation.

Senator Harry S, Truman, of Missouri, Democratic vice-pre¬
sidential candidate, had this to say of radio, ’’Radio has made the
United States one great auditorium. In no other way can men instant¬
ly talk to all of this nation's 130 millions. To safeguard our basic
democratic principles, radio must be utilized to its fullest extent.
Then the ancient demagogues of theOld World will find no place in our
way of life. ”

Part 4 of the report of the hearings of the House Committee
investigating the Federal Communications Commission of which Repre¬
sentative Lea (D), of California, is Chaiman, has Just been publish¬
ed. It is entirely devoted to the investigation of the sale of
Station WFTL at Fort Lauderdale to Commander George B, Store r,

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WASHINGTON, D, C.

INDEX TO ISSUE OF NOVEMBER 8, 1944

New Congress Will Revamp 10-Year Old Communications Act 1

’•Newspapers O.K, ; May Have To Throw Presses Away” - Kobak . 3

Services Demand Many More Miniature Receiving Tubes . 4

Broadcasters’ Directors Post-Election Meeting In Chicago .

Back From The War, Brooks Watson Again At WJ^SBD, Peoria . . . 6

Some Things G-. E. Has Learned In 5 Years Of Televising . 7

Democrats Win Continued Radio Control In New Congress . 9

Ken Banghart Brings Annoimcer Honors To Capital . . . 9

FDR’s yictory Clinches Democrat As FCC Chairman . 10

Capt, Harry Butcher In Movies; Eisenhower Gets Station . 10

French Reported To Have Progressed In Television . .....11

CBS Issues Book "U.S, Radio Ovmership By Counties” . 11

Everitt, New IRE President; Van der Bijl, of Soutn Africa, V-P, ... 12
Two Parties Spent At Least 1-| Million Dollars On Radio,, . 12

Scissors And Paste . 13

Trade Note s . . . 15

No. 1655

November 8, 1944

NEW CONGRESS WILL REVAI’^ 10- YEAR-OLD COMUNI CATIONS ACT

One definite result of the election will be an up-to-date
radio law. Among the most important things facing the 79th Congress
will be the task of streamlining the old 1934 Communications Act,

Such an explosion followed the introduction of the Wheeler- White
bill last Jilay that It was decided to wait until after election and
then put the baby on the doorstep of the new Congress,

The thing that almost blew the lid off the Capitol Dome
in the Wheeler-White bill was the proposal to prohibit commercial
sponsorship of news broadcasts and radio commentators. This was
based on the charge that some commentators were secretly backed by
unscrupulous interests. However, there was an immediate denial that
there had been proof that any radio news reporter or commentator had
been unduly influenced in what he said by association with commer¬
cial interests.

’’Most radio commentators were schooled in newspaper
city rooms”, Editor and Publisher argued in their defense and it is
only fair to say that ”as a group they still retain the high ethics
of good newspaper reporters and editors. ”

Angered by the shower of brickbats which greeted the news
commentators clause, Senator Wheeler washed his hands of the entire
bill declaring that the broadcasting industry itself dldnH know
from day to day what it wanted. "They don’t want free speech”, the
Senator charged. ’’They want to control free speech. They don’t want
any regulation at all except regulation of interference with the
industry, ”

Senator Wheeler laid the blame on "a little handful of
people in New York”. It was apparent, however, that others in the
Senate, also the House ”had it in for” the commentators, notably
Walter Winchell, Drew Pearson, Fulton Lewis, Jr. and others. The
result was that several bills were introduced aimed solely at the
commentators, one of them by Senator Johnson (D), of Colorado, which
provided that every sponsored commentator would have to get a license
from the Federal Communications Commission and be subject to a code
of ethics written into the law. The Johnson bill likewise hasn’t
been heard of since.

Unquestionably news commentators and sponsored news broad¬
casters and what to do about them will come up heatedly when the
question of the new Radio bill is discussed.

Likewise numerous other features of the Wheeler-White bill
are apt to be reconsidered by the new Congress, some of which are
also liable to kick up quite a row. One of them will be the provi¬
sion #iich limits the power of standard broadcast stations on clear

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channels to 50,000 watts. If so, the clear channel people will
again hurl everything they have at that one.

With Chairman Fly out of the picture, there probably would
not be much opposition to the proposal to the rotation of the chair¬
manship. The Chairman would serve for one year and would be elected
by his fellow members.

Among the other provisions of the Wheeler- White proposal
which may find their way into the new Radio Bill are;

The clause which abolishes the present organization of
the FCC and creates a Commission of five (instead of seven as now).
Two separate autonomous divisions - one for broadcast matters and
the other for common carriers - which would be composed of two
Commissioners each, with the Chairman as ex-officio member on each
Division,

A provision which would provide equal time for both par¬
ties involved in controversial radio discussions,

A provision which would nullify tne Supreme Court ruling
which caused consternation to the industry. It forbids the FCC to
regulate the business of broadcasters, or to control or affect the
substance of the material to be broadcast,

A clause empowering the FCC to furnish uniform financial
reports for all classes of station operation but preventing it from
procuring from licensees detailed data as to business agreements or
other information not directly related to license qualifications.

In the Wheeler^ White bill, the method of granting licenses,
the procedure in adversary proceedings, and the whole process of
court review, was spelled out more exactly. It also provided for
cease and desist orders of rules and regulations so that a licensee
would not be in jeopardy of losing his license. Thereafter violation
of a cease and desist order would be grounds for revocation, but only
under court procedure on appeal.

The Wheeler-l^Jhite bill also would have x^rltten into the law
the substance of the FCC’s much discussed network monopoly regula¬
tions by banning exclusive affiliation contracts; limited network
affiliated contracts on a non-exclusive to three years; limited sta¬
tions to optioning of not more than 50^ of total license hours (12
out of the 24 for network programs for fulltime stations); provided
that not more than two hours in any consecutive three-hour period
may be optioned for network programs (presumably other time could be
devoted to network programs without option); specified notice of at
least 56 days on option time; limited network ownership to one net¬
work in a single broadcast band, which would permit one network or¬
ganization to maintain standard, FM, television and other networks.

Those and numerous other question will be the problems the
new Congress will have to worry about in framing an up-to-the-minute
fair and workable radio law.

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"NEWSPAPERS O.K. ; MAY HAVE TO THROW PRESSES AWAY" - KODAK

"I believe there will always be newspapers - but", Edgar
Kobak, President-elect of the Mutual Broadcasting System, smiled,
"they may have to throw the presses away.

"A little electronic tube, with more than a million men
in the Army and Navy trained to use it, is bound to change the pub¬
lishing business. "

Tlius Mr. Kobak was quoted as saying by Jerry Walker, in
the Editor and Publisher of November 4th. It was one of the first
interviews Mr. Kobak gave after being chosen to head MBS and he said
he believed that the whole radio picture is a challenge to the good
business Judgment of newspaper publishers. They are the proper ones
to be "broadcast publishers", the opportunities are here, and "there
are going to be a lot of surprises" in the whole publishing industry
after the war.

Broadcasting, Mr. Kobak believes, is Just another fora of
publishing and he gave reasons why newspaper publishers should regard
broadcasting as an adjunct to their business.

Radio ruled out editorial policies from the very beginning
said Mutual’s new chief, "because radio uses property that belongs to
all the people - the air, " The newspaper publisher, by contrast, may
do as he wishes with his own property. Except for aecond-class mail¬
ing privileges, Mr. Kobak remarked, the newspaper operates without
any government regulation, whereas broadcasting is subject to licens¬
ing.

Through the years, as an executive of McGraw-Hill Company,
as Vice-President of Lord & Thomas advertising agency, as President
of the Advertising Federation of America, as Vice-President of the
National Broadcasting Company and as Executive Vice-President of the
Blue Network, Mr, Kobak has sized up newspaper publishers as "good
businessmen" - "Just the men", he said in the next breath, "who are
the best-equipped to operate radio stations, "

He was aware, he said, that many newspaper publishers
laughed at radio in its early days, then worried over the advertising
competition, but today nearly all of them are getting interested in
the business because it’s so closely related to their own. He recit¬
ed the names of Mutual stations owned and controlled by newspapers -
"the ones", he said, "who have both feet in radio."

"All you have to add to the newspaper business to make a
successful operation in radio", Mr, Kobak described, "is showman¬
ship, " A publisher faces little difficulty, he said, in getting a
smart radio man to run his station.

"The publisher knows thekind of stuff that satisfies his
readers: it follows that he will be as good in Judging the kind of
broadcasts that win and hold listeners", he ventured.

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Mr. Kobak, who revamped the Blue Network's programs to
the extent that he washed out "soap operas" and tickled the audiences
with "giggles" and news, offered some "Inside" information that the
secret of many well-liked news periods is "a good voice".

One-time announcers, who have the gift of gab, the ability
to stand up to a microphone and tell stories, have become the more
popular news broadcasters, even from the war fronts, Mr. Kobak re¬
vealed.

"We can always give the news as compiled from the wire
dispatches - quicker than we can get broadcasts through sometimes -
but the listeners like a good voice and an easy story-telling style",
he commented,

Mr, Kobak disclosed how the pressure is on the radio time
salesman to build up the cooperative broadcasts, thus tapping retail
stores for sponsorship of big time programs.

However, he warned publishers who might be thinking radio
is an easy way to plug in the cash register, the local stations will
have to get on their toes after the war if they hope to stay in a
worthwhile network, for there will be plenty of competition - M
wl 11 see to that.

Frequency modulation. .. television. .. and facsimile, .. those
are the opportunities knocking at publishers' doors, according to
Mr. Kobak. He describes himself as "bullish" on facsimile, taking
issue with those who say the little machine in the closet will be
just a gadget, instead of something bringing the newspaper into the
home while the readers sleep.

When the paper problem is solved, then facsimile will have
arrived, he predicted. The technical side is well advanced in the
laboratories, and "we know it will work".

Television cries for publishers' adoption as a medium for
advertising where the voice and the printed page are inadequate to
describe the product, Mr. Kobak declared. In his view, the automob¬
ile merchants will clamor for television wnen they turn out new
models.

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SERVICES DEMiAND MANY MOF£ MINIATURE RECEIVING TUBES

The production of 9,100,000 miniature receiving tubes for
the Army, Navy and Lend-Lease in the first quarter of 1945 will be
necessary if present requirements are to be met, officials of the
War Production Board's Radio and Radar Division revealed.

Also military requirements for miniature vacuum tubes for
airborne radio and radar equipment during the first quarter of 1945
will increase considerably. War Production Board officials informed
the Bolybdenum and Tungsten Wire and Rod Industry Advisory Committee
at its meeting last week, WPB reported.

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Current production of miniature radio receiving tubes,
at approximately 2,600,000 tubes per month, indicates a serious
shortage of this type of tube used extensively by both the Array and
Navy, members of the Radio Receiver Vacuum Tube Industry Advisory
Committee were told at a meeting here November 2nd, The total
shortage was placed at 250,000 tubes per month, #iile monthly produc
tion of battery type miniature tubes was said to be 200,000 a month
short of essential requirements. Radio and Radar officials reported.

Demands for these tubes have increased Instead of fallen
off, largely as a result of battle losses and the development of new
electronic equipment for use in the war effort.

Representatives of USPB indicated that the reduction in
tube requirements for Amy electronic equipment after ’’V-E” Day
would be only about 26 per cent. Instead of about 50 per cent, as
fomerly predicted. In view of continuing Navy equipment require¬
ments, the reduction in military tube demands after ’’V-E" Day is
expected to be very slight,

Amy officials also pointed out that the Army was in short
supply of five Important types of miniature tubes at its depots
where replacements are stored, and that current inventories showed
far less than the normal supply.

Members of the committee endorsed a plan for the organiza¬
tion of a sub-committee to meet in Washington each month with
officials of the Radio and Radar Division to study production and
scheduling of orders for all receiving tubes to maintain a free and
even flow of the necessary tubes to meet wartime demands. This com¬
mittee will be representative of the seven receiving tube manufactur
ing companies, and M, E, Lauer of WPB will be Chaiman. The first
meeting is scheduled for November 17, 1944,

When war demands for miniature receiving tubes are mater¬
ially reduced, WPB will authorize their manufacture for civilian use
WPB officials said, emphasizing the belief that there is little hope
for such action in the near future in view of new requirements and
continued demands for established standard tubes used by the Array,
Navy and for Lend-Lease,

The desirability of having a standard post-war AC/DC
miniature tube complement was pointed out. In view of the fact that
the 25 kinds of miniature tubes used in military equipment are not
applicable for civilian sets, it was indicated that some engineering
standards should be worked out for post-war civilian use.

Attention was called to the recent issuance of new Joint
Army and Navy Contract Terrainatlon Regulations, available from the
distribution section of the Industrial Readjustment Branch of the
Navy, 90 Church Street, Ne^r York.

A WPB Radio and Radar Division spokesman said emphasis now
is on construction of more complicated electronic equipment requir¬
ing finer wires and rods. Requirements for airborne radio and radar

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will remain high even after the defeat of Germany, he said. At
most, an overfall 15 per cent reduction in electronic production
would then result on "Vice tory- in- Europe ” Day as compared with a 40
per cent cutback predicted six weeks ago. The present rate of tube
attrition is twice the production level, he emphasized. Military
cutbacks will be replaced by a civilian demand for at least
115,000,000 radio receiving tubes, and wire and rod requirements
for these will not decrease for 18 months after "V-E" Day, he said.

Supplementary allocations, filed with WPB by suppliers
rather than by producers, would overcome time lags in securing
material, WPB pointed out.

Retention of Order M-369, which e stabli she s allocation
controls over tungsten and molybdenum products, was recommended by
industry members because only minor cutbacks are expected in fire
wire products after "V-E" Day,

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BROADCASTERS* DIRECTORS POST-ELECTION T^ETING IN CHICAGO

Results of the Presidential and Congressional elections
will be carefully gone over when the Board of Directors of the
National Association of Broadcasters meet in Chicago next Tuesday
and Wednesday, November 14th and 15th. Also there will be further
discussion of a candidate for President of the Association to suc¬
ceed J, Harold Ryan at the expiration of his present terra.

On the formal agenda is the Association's 1945 budget.
Creation of a bureau to measure station circulation, voted unani¬
mously by the membership and apo roved by ANA and AAAA, will receive
further attention.

Preliminary plans for a series of district meetings in
1945, as well as the next annual membership meeting, will be con¬
sidered by the Directors, who will also hear a report on the recent
FCC allocation hearings from Mr. Ryan.

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BACK FROM THE WAR, BROOKS WATSON AGAIN AT WPffiD, PEORIA

Edgar L. Bill, President of Station WRffiD, Peoria (or
Peoriarea as the station calls it) can take things a little easier
as Lieut, Col, Brooks Watson is returning after two years in the
armed services. Colonel Watson was Chief of the Radio Department,
Public Relations Section, European Theatre of Operations in London,

"Colonel Watson's return ushers in a new era of news ser¬
vice to prosperous Peoriarea", the station announces, "WMBD pro¬
grams already command more than twice the average listening audience
of the second most popular station in Illinois' leading market out¬
side Chicago, "

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SOME THINGS G.E. HAS LEARNED IN 5 YEARS OF TELEVISING

Explaining that after five years the television honeymoon
is over, the newness Is worn off, and their audience in the Schenec¬
tady- Albany -Troy area no longer looks and listens because of the
novelty of the new medium, Robert L, Gibson, Vice-president, Adver¬
tising and Publicity Department, of the General Electric Company,
got down to cases with regard to the results when he addressed the
American Marketing Association in New York last week. Mr, Gibson
said the general conclusion reached was that the public likes tele¬
vision even after the nevjiess has worn very thin,

"During these past five years, we have put on over 900 dif¬
ferent programs; we have tried everything that we could possibly
think of, and almost everything that anyone could suggest to us",

Mr. Gibson told the Marketing Association, "Each week, we send the
audience (there are only between 300 and 400 receiving sets in our
area) a business reply card and ask them to check those programs to
which they listen and indicate to what extent they like or dislike
each show. We get about a 20 percent return from these cards each
week. Last Winter we drafted a four-page questionnaire and had one
of our Market Research interviewers make personal interviews with
10 percent of our set owners; then we mailed a questionnaire to the
remaining 90 percent and received a 58 percent return. Three weeks
ago, we made a telephone survey.

"Here are some of the things we have learned?

Question; "How does the effectiveness of advertising over televi¬
sion compare with newspapers and magazines?"

Answer; "This shows that the public believes that advertising over
television will be considerably more effective than in
newspapers and magazines. I wouldn’t place much stock in
this particular information, since I don't think people
are in a position to know the answer, but I am showing it
to you for whatever interest it might be. "

Question: "What proportion of the receiving sets are tuned in for
the average broadcast?"

Answer: "This information was obtained during coincidental tele¬

phone surveys. It is interesting that when we asked
people the general question, ’What percentage of the time
is your television receiver tuned on during the shows?’,
they answered 90 percent. The actual figure is nearer
60 percent. In comparing this with radio, we should bear
in mind that we only have programs four evenings a week,
which would tend to make this a high percentage, but on
the other hand, we are, of course, unable to give the kind
of programs which will likely be available after the war. "

Question:

"What is the average home attendance for television pro¬
grams? "

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”In each of three surveys, the results showed an average
audience of between four and five persons per receiver, ”

'•What proportion of the television audience consists of
children? ”

’’In two coincidental checks, we asked how many boys and
girls under 17 years old were listening, with this result
(26 percent). When we made a personal interview study,
some months ago, we frequently found that the adults could
not answer the questions as well as the children - tele¬
vision has a tremendous appeal for children, as you would
expect. Not long ago we were trying to put on a show for
children - it was ’Torn Sawyer*, Everything went along
fine in rehearsals until about a week before the show was
to go on, when the boy playing the part of Tom was sent to
reform school, '*

”What time of day is preferred for programs? We put on
afternoon programs two days a week for more than a year
and found the afternoon audience to be about l/5 of the
evening audience. We cannot tell you exactly what even¬
ing hours are best, but accept without question the 8 to
10 P,M. period as the best time to get to the largest
audience. Sunday evenings, though, we start at 7 P,M. to
please the children. ”

’’Does the audience prefer motion pictures or live talent
shows ?”

52 percent say they prefer live talen shows and 27 percent
say motion pictures. But during the past six weeks the
average audience rating for about 25 motion pictures has
been but slightly less than the average rating for about
the same number of live talent shows (2.13 to 2,20), but I
hasten to add that this is not a necessarily true reflec¬
tion as to what the situation may be as time goes on.
Although the pictures we are getting are good, and I per¬
sonally enjly them very much, they, of course, are not
first- run pictures. This reply is also partially explainec

by the reply to the next question. '•

'•What type of program comes through most clearly?"

”67 percent tell us that the studio programs are received
more clearly than motion pictures - this is due to the
fact that motion pictures were not made especially for
television. If the pictures were made especially for
television (that is, with more close-ups and better con¬
trasts), there is no reason why they should not be receiv¬
ed fully as well, and in many cases, better than live
talent shows. We have had fair success with serials - we
have had 8 serials, usually 12 or 15 episodes, and with
one exception the average rating has increased over the
previous serial. The fact that there is less turnover in
the television audience than in the motion picture theater
audience may mean that serials will gain in popularity. "

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DEMOCRATS WIN CONTINUED RADIO CONTROL IN NEW CONGRESS

Early returns indicate that the Senate and the House will
continue Democratic which means that the heads of the Committees
having to do with radio in the new Congress will remain the same if
they desire to do so. Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D), of Montana,
will doubtless continue as Chairman of the Senate Interstate Com¬
merce Cbmmittee with Senator Wallace White ( R) , of Maine as ranking
Republican member.

Representative Schuyler Otis Bland (D), of Virginia, who
seems assured of re-election, will continue as head of the House
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, with Representative
Richard J. Welch (r), of California, as top man for the minority.
Representative Frank W. Boykin (D), of Alabama, will likely go on
as head of the House Patents Committee. The only change in Chairaen
in sight apparently - and this not due to the election - will be the
possibility of Senator Pepper ascending to No. 1 man on the Senate
Patents Committee due to Senator Homer T. Bone (D), of Washington,
being appointed a U. S. Judge.

Senator Bone wfill likewise be missing from the Senate
Interstate Commerce Committee as will Senator ”Cotton Ed” Smith (D) ,
of South Carolina, and Senator D. Worth Clark (D), of Idaho, who
were not renominated. Senator Truman's elevation to Vice-President
will necessitate his resigning from the Interstate Commerce Committee.
Otherwise, its personnel will probably remain about the same as
Senators Wagner ( D) , of New York; Alben W. Barkley { D) , of Kentucky;
Lister Hill (D), of Alabama; Charles W. To bey (r), of New Hampshire;
Clyde Reed (r), of Kansas, and Chan Gurney(R), of Idaho, all seem to
have been re-elected. Senator Donaher ( R) , has evidently been
defeated,

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KEN BANGHART BRINGS ANNOUNCER HONORS TO CAPITAL

In a list of prize winners headed by Ben Grauer, Kenneth
Banghart, of WRC, Washington, D. C. , was one of the four regional
winners of the 1944 H, P, Davis Memorial Announcers Awards, Mrs,

S. B. Rockwell, daughter of Mrs, Davis and Frank E. Mullen, Vice-
President and General Manager of the National Broadcasting Company,
made the presentations,

Mr, Banghart has been with WRC for three and a half years.
In addition to his news reports, he is extensively scheduled on the
network as a special events broadcaster. He covered the campaign of
the Republican presidential candidate, after acting as a staff com¬
mentator at the National Conventions this Summer,

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FDR*S VICTORY CLINCHES DEMOCRAT AS FCC CHAIRI'^AN

The reelection of President Roosevelt will Insure the
appointment of a Democrat as Chairman of the Federal Com.munlcations
Commission to succeed James L, Fly, whose resignation takes effect
next week. Also the appointment of a Democrat as a member of the
Commission to take the place of Tam Craven, now Vice-President of
the Cowles Broadcasting Company.

This will again bring up the names of J, Leonard Reinsch,
Fladio Director of the Democratic National Committee, and Paul A,
Porter, Publicity Director, of the Committee, both of whom have
been m entioned for the chairmanship. Mr. Reinsch is on leave from
his post as Managing Director of the stations of former Governor
Cox of Ohio - WSB, Atlanta, Ga. , WIOD, Miami, Fla., and HiiHIO,

Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Porter was formerly counsel for the Columbia
Broadcasting System in Washington. The name of Steve Early,
President Roosevelt's No, 1 Secretary, has also been added to the
list of probabilities.

Among others who at one time or another have been proposed
to succeed either Mr. Fly or Commander Craven have been Charles D.
Denny, General Counsel of the FCC, Leighton H. Peebles, Chief of
WpB Communications, John D. Diggers, Libby-Owens Co., Toledo, Ohio,
and "Cap" Krug, Chairman of the WPB and former common carrier
expert,

FCC Commissioners Durr and Jett have likewise been spoken
of to succeed Mr. Fly in the FCC chairmanship.

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CAPT. HARRY BUTCHER IN MOVIES; EISENHOWER GETS STATION

Friends had the pleasure of seeing Capt. Harry C. Butcher,
U. S.N.R. F, in a Pathe News Reel this week with General Eisenhower
greeting Gen, George C, Marshall and War Mobilization Director
James F. Byrnes, when the latter arrived in Paris on their non-stop
plane trip from Washington recently. Captain Butcher, aide to
General Eisenhower, and former Vice-President of the Columbia Broad¬
casting System, looked as natural as life and apparently was in the
best of health and spirits.

General Elsenhower is about to receive one of the biggest
and most practical gifts he ever has been given, according to a
recent broadcast by NBC war reporter Merrill Mueller. The present
comes from General Charles DeGaulle in the name of France, and is a
radio transmitter station installed in two railway cars. It was
built to German specifications by "Vichy engineers" prior to the
liberation of France. According to Mr. Mueller, the station will be
coupled to General Eisenhower's special train.

If the gift is forthcoming. General Eisenhower will have a
made— to— order manager for the new station as Captain Butcher for
years was in charge of Station WJSV in Washington (now WTOP) and
knows the business from the group uo.

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FRENCH REPORTED TO HAVE PROGRESSED IN TELEVISION

Edward R. Murrow, Chief of the European Staff of the
Columbia Broadcasting System, In his regular weekly broadcast from
London last Sunday, expressed the belief that great strides had
been made In France In the development of wlde-band, high-frequency
television,

••Paris today is a city of rumors '•, Mr, Murrow said. "I
encountered one, rather more incredible than most, and It turned out
to be true. The story was that even during German occupation, one
of the great arts of peace - television, had made surprising strides
and while television had more or less stood still in every other
belligerent country, it had gone swiftly forward in France, I*ve
not myself seen a demonstration of this development, but I have
talked with reliable observers who have seen it in Paris, and I*ve
had access to detailed, though confidential technical reports.

'•l don't know what the Germans have done with television
nor do I know what may be waiting to emerge from the laboratories in
the allied countries, but there has been developed in Paris televi¬
sion in which the picture is clearer, sharper, and larger than any
that was being transmitted in America or in Britain before the war.
The rumors turned out to be true, and it is mildly encouraging to
find evidence of progress in the midst of all the dying and destroy¬
ing that is going on in Europe, "

This brought forth the following comment from Columbia:

'•When CBS first announced its postwar television policy
(April 27), a brochure that accompanied the announcement included a
summary of reasons for moving television into wider bands and higher
frequencies. One of these reasons concerned foreign developments,
and w^as stated as follows:

"There is every possibility that television in foreign
countries will at least equal the postwar television standards pro¬
posed (by CBS), ••

Although further information is not yet available, Mr.
Murrow* s findings strongly Indicate that the CBS prediction made over
six months ago may be confirmed before the end of the war,

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CBS ISSUES BOOK "U.S, RADIO OWNERSHIP BY COUNTIES"

The Columbia Broadcasting System has issued in book form
the elaborate compilation of its research department, "U, S, Radio
Ownership by Counties - 1940-44", This includes an estimate of
radio homes by States, the total number of families by counties and
the total number of radio families by counties,

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Dr. William L. Everitt of Wasnington has been elected
President of The Institute of Radio Engineers for the coming year,
it was announced last week by the Board of Directors of that society.
Dr. Everitt, who is Chief of the Operational Research Branch, Office
of the Chief Signal Officer of the United States Array, succeeds
Professor Hubert M. Turner of the Department of Electrical Engineer¬
ing at Yale University, New Haven,

Dr, Everitt, who has been directing important research for
the Army at Washington since 1942, was recently appointed Professor
and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Univer¬
sity of Illinois, Urbana,

Dr, Everitt, a Fellow and a Director of the Institute, is
the author of several books and numerous technical magazine articles
on subjects relating to radio engineering, electronics and communica¬
tions. His experience includes research and consulting-engineering
work with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and various
manufacturing organizations. He is also the Inventor of a number of
radio and electronic devices.

The election of Dr. Hendrik J. Van der Bljl of Johannes¬
burg, Union of South Africa, as Vice-President, was announced
simultaneously. Dr, Van der Eijl, Fellow of the Institute since
1928, is Chairman of the Electricity Supply Commission and other
industrial corporations as well as Director of the S, A. Board
Barclays Bank, Director-General of War Supplies, and Chancellor of
the University of Pretoria, all of Johannesburg,

The three Directors elected for three-year terms, 1945-1947
were Stuart L, Bailey, Consulting Radio Engineer of Jansky and
Bailey, Washington, Keith Henney, Editor of "Electronics” magazine.
New York, and Dr, Benjarain E, Shackelford, Engineer- in- Charge of RCA
Frequency Bureau, Ra.dio Corporation of America.

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TWO PARTIES SPENT AT LEAST li MILLION DOLLARS ON RADIO

At least 1^ million dollars was spent for political broad¬
casts on the four major networks during the presidential election
campaign. This was the estimate of Larry Wolters of the Chicago
Tribune. "The total may be much higher when the final tabulations
are in*^, Mr. Wolters went on.

"CBS reported expenditures of $291,000 on behalf of the
major presidential candida.tes, including $181,000 for President
Roosevelt and $110,000 for Governor Dewey,

"The Mutual Network, pending a full compilation, estimated
its share at $400,000 split about equally between President Roosevelt
and Dewey,

"The Blue Network reported its figure, through November 1
only, as $263,868, with the Republicans spending $134,370 and the
Democrats $129,498. These figures did not include amounts spent by
groups other than the national committees.

"NBC reported that its figures were not available,"

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Sees Chairman Fly*s Departure A Public Loss

At times Mr, Fly has been criticized for exercising too
much control over the bipartisan FCC. The line between effective
leadership and dictation is a delicate one. In attempting to draw
it we must not lose sight of the virtue of keeping governmental
agencies operating smoothly in spite of difference of views, and in
this respect Mr. Fly must be put down as an extraordinary public ser¬
vant whose resignation will be a real loss,

- (Washington Post)

New Radio Servicing Tools

Servicing electronic equipment will in future require spe¬
cial apparatus not common on the average radio repairman* s bench.

For example, instruments for measuring high values of current, light
intensity, motor speed and other quantities, will be necessary in
order to do a Job in keeping the electronic equipment in many plants
operating satisfactorily,

- (Radio Retailing)

La Guardia Q-ives His Radio Audience The News Breaks

Mayor La Cuardia’s Sunda.y broadcasts generally contain
news for the Monday A. M, papers and he is not averse to withholding
from the newspaper reporters important announcements for his broad¬
casts,

- ( Editor & Publisher)

Sylvan la G-ives Its New Research Lab Campus Atmosphere

The Sylvania Electric Products Company, which is commer¬
cially exploiting developments in the field of electronics, and
especially fluorescent lighting, has determined to establish its
research laboratory in Queens, one of New York’s five boroughs. They
are building not only the laboratories and other buildings of the
research center on a plot of twenty-eight acres but they have acquir¬
ed as well a nice little six-acre estate, including a house, which is
to become a small country club for their plan. Provisionally, ther^
is a further plan. Twenty-two more acres included in the plot and
now in woodland must be kept, the company feels, as a barrier against
encroachments on the camous type of development, which they are
determined to have for their research organization. However, there
is a disposition, if the people who work there so desire, to let them
buy that land and develop it as a kind of self-contained village, a
neighborhood of their own where they would be entirely free from all
the usual harassing transportation problems of city life and work.

The company wanted the laboratory in New York so it would be not too

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far from Its main offices In Manhattan, and also because of the
character of the workers, most of whom will be scholarly people.

They hope to create for them and their families something like a
campus existence * *

In order to permit the establishment of a kind of garden
community for this company, the existing street pattern of parallel¬
ograms had to be washed out. Moreover, the city had to make a num¬
ber of other concessions.

New York has hopes now of attracting many other pay rolls
into the city by means of the advantages it has to offer, as against
the inconveniences of commuting. They believe that this tendency of
wartime can be fostered during peacetime by the attractiveness of
such places as the Sylvania Electric Products Company development
andStuyvesant Town,

-(From "Can Cities Come Bacl.?" in the
Saturday Evening Post of Nov. 4, 1944)

McDonald Looks to American Boy to Develop (Hiding

That glorious, incredible, creative young animal, the
American boy, will take up gliding on a large scale soon after the
war is over, and will maintain for us the leadership in aviation
that has cost so much effort.

Foremost among gliding pioneers is Col, Edward S. Evans.

^0 outstanding was his work that I felt impelled to call him the
"Father of American (Sliding and Soaring" in my book "Youth Must Ply'*.
I take this occasion to pay my respects to his early and continuing
vision and foresight,

- (E. F, McDonald, Jr., President of Zenith
Radio Corporation in Q-lider Magazine)

Television Wrist Watch

David Sarnoff, RCA President, predicts for the future a
television gadget that will be worn on the wrist like a watch but
containing a practical television screen,

- ( Wa shington Times-He raid)

Isn*t it a strange anomaly that radio which practically
guarantees the power to build listening audiences of millions has to
use other media, ' including newspapers, to tell the people about new
programs and program changes?

- (Editor & Publisher)

The Unseen Audience

Man to Wife (as he searches his library shelves) "Be sure to
get the repair man over here tomorrow. With the radio busted I*m so
desperate I’ve got to read a book. "

- (From a cartoon by Webster)

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TRADE NOTES

I An early report is expected by the Federal Communications

j Commission on the Allocations Hearings, which closed last Frida.y^

One of the reasons is that Chairman Fly's resignation will take
‘ effect next Wednesday, November 15th and the Commission desires to
i dispose of the report by tliat time if it is possible to do so,

: Having served abroad for a considerable period, Col, David

Samoff, President-on-leave from the Radio Corporation of America,
is again on duty in this country. He is Special Consultant to the
Communications Branch, Public Relations Office SHAEF.

I Colonel Sarnoff was awarded the War Department's Legion

of Merit for "exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance
of outstanding service".

Mrs, Robert E, Kintner, wife of the recently elected
Vice President of the Blue Network, sponsored the launching of the
Submarine Cutlass at the Portsmouth (N.H, ) Navy Yard. In command of
the CUTLASS will be Commander Herbert L. Jukes, who became famous in
the Navy while fighting the Japs in command of the Submarine KINGFISF

Three new directors of Finch Telecommunications are the
famous Jimmy Cromwell, who married into the Duke millions, and who
was former Ambassador to Canada, Ray Littlefield, a Providence, R. I.
banker, and George Henry Payne, former FCC Commissioner,

The Federal Communications Commission has oostponed until
Monday, November 27th, the hearing which was to have been held next
Friday, November 10th, to investigate the charge by labor unions that
certain stations failed to properly identify a transcribed broadcast
series of sustaining programs sent out by the National Association of
Manufacturers.

Stephen Chew, who has been with RCA Victor for the last yea
has rejoined Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corporation where he will
be in charge of cabinet design.

Belmont Radio Corporation - For 1943: Giving effect to
completion of war contract negotiations, net profit was $500,664, or
$1.67 a share on 300,000 common shares, comparing with $239,616, or
80 cents a share for 1942,

Addition of three new stations to the Mutual network, bring¬
ing the total of Mutual affiliates to 246, was announced with the
joining of WHLN, Harlan, Kentucky; WAOV, Vincennes, Indiana, and KIUL,
Garden City, Kansas, all 250 watters.

A final check by the Editor & Publisher showed that Governor
Dewey was supported by 60^ of the daily newspapers of the country,
President Roosevelt was backed by 22^ and 18^ remained independent.

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Postwar employment for an estimated 26,000 musically-
trained personnel as plant broadcast directors in the expanding
field of industrial music was forecast by Philip J. Jacoby, of the
RCA Industrial Music Service, in a public lecture In New York Univ¬
ersity's School of Education auditorium.

Robert M. Felsenthal has been named Manager of the Radio,
phonograph and Appliance's Division of the International Department
of the RCA VictorDivision, Radio Corporation of America,

Hubert H. Kronen, formerly an RCA Victor Regional Manager
and Export Specialist, was najned Sales Manager for the Division,

Mr, Felsenthal, a merchandising executive for Sears, Roe¬
buck & Company, and its export organization. Sears International,
before Joining RCA in 1942, will direct distribution abroad of the
company's radio receivers and record-playing instruments and house-
nold appliances.

Efficient production of radio waves many times the fre¬
quency of the shortest “short waves" used a few years ago, has been
one of the most important electronic developments of the war, said
William C, White, head of the Electronics Section of the General
Electric Research laboratory, speaking recently before the Philadel¬
phia section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.

The Federal Communications Commission in ten years has been
built up (largely through political natronage rather than necessity
for such a tremendous organization) into a bureau of 2,319 employees
calling for an annual appropriation of $7,610,000. It has proved to
be one of the New Deal's most richly laden political Christmas Trees.

Admiral Corporation, Chicago, manufacturer of radios,
filed last week in Philadelphia, with the Securities and Exchange Com¬
mission a registration statement covering 216,000 shares of $1 par
value capital stock to be offered by Dempsey & Co. , Chicago,

Proceeds from the 150,000 shares of previously unissued
stock will be added to working capital to finance the company's
expansion into the refrigerator, range and home freezer field, as
well as its radio business, the prospectus said.

The Defense Supplies Corporation has recently held three
meetings at which manufacturers of radio and radar end equipment
were invited to participate in the DSC plan for disposal of surplus
war products througn companies acting as agents for the Government.

The first meeting was held in Washington last Wednesday, November 1;
in New York on November 3rd and yesterday in Chicago, at which the
surplus property disposal plans were explained by Stuart K, Barnes,
Vice President of the DSC and by his assistant, Charles A, Jostes.

Officials said that the same general DSC plan for dispos¬
ition would apply to end products as to components and tubes but that
there probably would be some modification in the proposed contract for-
end equipment. Discussions have been going on for some time with
manufacturers of components and tubes, and officials say that approx¬
imately 60 companies have already signed a contract to act as agents
for the DSC,

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2400 CALIFORNIA STREET WASHINGTON, D. C.

INDEX TO ISSUE OF NOVEMBER 15, 1944

Feeling Is That Petrillo Put Over A Fast One On FDR . 1

Petrillo Sarcastically Assailed; Critics ”Hail Caesar,*'* . 2

Newspapers Consider Adopting Network Advertising Plan . 4

Fly Resigning Hints International Field; FDR "Furlough" . 5

Ellery Stone To Be Chief U.S, Commissioner In Italy . 6

Capehart, Senator- Elect, Proposes Phone Wire Tele Net . 7

Phil Carlin Leaves Blue; Reported Headed For MBS . 8

Hollywood Ra.dio Artist Defeated; Also WBBM Exec . ,,..,9

Agriculture, Industry And Labor Must Cooperate - Mullen . 9

Radio To Have Many New Uses In Telephony . 10

Would Modify Sound Equipment Controls . 11

RCA Transmitter Flown From Italy To France . 11

G-. E, And IBM G-ranted New Visual Experiment Permits . 12

Program For First Tele Broadcasters Conference Dec. 11 . 13

Action By The FCC . 14

Trade Notes . 16

No. 1656

November 15, 1944

FEELING IS THAT PETRILLO PUT OVER A FAST ONE ON FDR

Although James C, Petrillo is said to have worn one of the
largest Roosevelt campaign buttons in Chicago on Election Day, there
is a distinct impression that Petrillo did more to embarrass Presi¬
dent Roosevelt than anyone in the labor industry ever has except
Jonn L. Lewis. Also there was a general feeling that sooner or later
the President, who has a long memory, would in some way get back at
Mr. Petrillo, However, Just about the time a good many people
thought Mr. Roosevelt might be again getting around to Mr, Petrillo,
the la,tter, allowing no grass to grow under his feet, four days
after the election took the recording industry into camp. It was
one of the fastest and boldest moves Washington has ever seen. Even
yet nobody has found any definite legal measure to keep Petrillo from
getting away with it nor to block any other labor union which desires
to use petrillo’ s coup as a precedent.

Petrillo thus makes history in forcing an Industry to pay
a fee directly to a labor union on each piece of merchandise it
produces. This is expected to bring into his union ^4,000,000
annually, based on fees ranging from a quarter of a cent on a record
priced at 35 cents to 2 cents on a record priced at ^2,00, This is
to be done, however, without any increase in pay for the musicians.

Up to now over $100,000 has been received from the companies who
previously signed and this pool, along with the more important money
which will come in from the record manufacturing subsidiaries of the
Radio Corporation of America and the Columbia Broadcasting System
will be put into a special fund until Mr. Petrillo and his associates
decide what they will do with it. It was here that Jimmy declared,

"We will never make a WPA out of it. ”

Edward Wallterstein , President of the Columbia Recording
System, pointing a finger at the Administration, declared that the
economic pressure was such that the companies could no longer wait
on Washington and therefore they had to come to Petrillo *s terras or
go out of business. "We are finally accepting", Mr. Walleretein
declared, "because of the Government's unwillingness or Incapacity
to enforce its orders, "

So Mr, Petrillo, instead of being called into the White
House woodshed, apparently went to the head of the class. And, as
previously mentioned, nobody at this writing seems to know what can
be done about it. The only concrete suggestion is that there should
ce a new law covering such a case and that the whole matter should be
put up to Congress.

It remains to be seen after what happened to Senator D,
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went after Petrillo, just how many volunteers are going to step
forward to do the present job if the record and other manufactur¬
ers now likewise threatened, decide to seek Congressional relief.
Senator Clark is the man who hailed Petrillo to Washington a year
or two ago and for two of the most miserable days of the music
chieftain* s life .

Though he made it hot for Petrillo on the witness stand,
nothing particular came of the hearing and it looked like Senator
Clark's raund until the recent Idaho primaries were held. Then to
the amazement of everyone, Senator Clark was beaten for renomination
by 202 votes by Glenn H, Taylor, cowboy and later entertainer at
Station KSEI at Pocatello and other stations. Later Taylor defeated
Governor Bottolffsen and is now Senator-elect from Idaho. Whether
Mr. Petrillo had anything to do with Senator Clark's downfall isn't
known, but it will not be an inducement to any other member of
Congress to cross swords with the diminutive labor leader.

RCA Victor beat the Columbia Recording Company to the draw
by making its first record since August 1, 1942, last Sunday a few
hours after the agreement had been signed, Columbia followed suit
Monday, There is said to be an accumulation of orders for millions
of records by both companies and the first of these will be on sale
at an early date. The first RCA recording was Vaughn Monroe and his
orchestra and for Columbia one by Andre Kostelanetz.

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PETRILLO SARCASTICALLY ASSAILED; CRITICS ”HAIL CAESAR!"

One conclusion reached by this writer listening to James
C. Petrillo, testifying before the Senate Committee on the memorable
occasion that the music czar was put on the grill at the Capitol,
was that Mr. Petrillo felt very keenly the criticism of the press.

He referred to it time and again and it seemed to Irritate him more
than anything else. If that is true, Petrillo, despite his asser¬
tion that his victory over the record manufacturers is "the greatest
for a labor organization in the history of the labor movement" will
almost have to be put into a strait- jacket when he reads what some
of the leading newspapers have to say about it.

"Hail Caesar!" cries the Washington News ( Scripps-Howard) :

"Petrillo has established for the first time the principle
that employers can be compelled to collect money from the public and
pay it, not to employees in higher wages, but into the treasury of a
union which does not have to account even to the union's members for
what is done with it. In so doing, he has defeated -

"1. The entire record-making industry of the United

States.

"2, The National War Labor Board, which ordered the union
to rescind its ban on musical recordings, and Mr. Petrillo defied.

"3, The President of the United States, who asked Mr,

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Petrillo pretty-please to obey the War Labor Board as a wartime con¬
tribution to industrial peace, and to whom Mr. Petrillo said no,

"4. The public interest. The annual ^4,000,000 or more
in fees now to be received by the union treasury vrill be, actually,
a tax on the public - taxation without representation. Under his
union’s constitution Mr. Petrillo can spend the money, as he says
he will, to 'spread musical culture' and make Jobs for unemployed
musicians, or he can use it for any other purpose that pleases him.

In any case, the public has nothing whatever to say about how it
shall be used.

"What Mr. Petrillo has done officials of other unions can
do, and many doubtless will. The result may well be that hundreds
of millions of dollars a year will be taken from the public, in
higher prices for goods, and paid into union treasuries. "

Says the New York Times:

"If one union can force employers to supply the funds for
a private relief scheme, why can't other unions? If the officials
of one union can work out a scheme which makes them financially
independent even of their own union membership, why can't the offic¬
ials of other unions? Such precedents, once established, must in¬
evitably spread. ^ *

"The Petrillo record is not simply one of Government weak¬
ness or inaction. Mr. Petrillo' s irresponsible private dictatorship
has been made possible by positive Government help. Congress and the
Supreme Court between them have put into effect sweeping immunities
which make it perfectly legal for union officials to commit anti¬
social acts which would be illegal if committed by anyone else. As
long as this situation lasts, the Petrlllos wdll move from victory to
victory, "

Comments the New York Heral d- Tribune ;

"Meanwhile, a bit of rosemary for remembrance. When
Montgomery Ward 8c Co. refused to comply vrith a War Labor Board order
the President promptly sent in Federal troops to seize the plant.

The elderly Mr. Avery, its head, was ejected from it physically.

When Mr, Petrillo said no to the same agency, nothing happened for
some time, and then the President wrote him a personal letter asking
him please to obey the Board 'in the interest of orderly government.'
Petrillo, who is nobody's fool, simply said no again, so now he has
his reward.

"The contrast needs no elaboration. It epitomizes the
es^^egious favoritism with winich the Roosevelt administration from
the very beginning has treated labor, in the laws it has Jammed
through and in their enforcement. The present Supreme Court has
added its own contribution to a situation in which, as Petrillo has
dramatically demonstrated, the country is helpless against the
arrogant behavior and demands of a -labor czar, "

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The Washington Poet declared:

"The American people have a right to demand protection
against exactions of this sort, because it is they who pay in the
end in the form of higher prices. Moreover, we now have a system
of social Insurance that requires employers to make contributions
to funds for the unemployed. If there is to be an extension of that
system, it should be effected by legal process, not through the
bludgeoning methods of labor czars who indirectly tax the consuming
public without being under any obligation to render an accounting.

"Since there appears to be no way to thwart the activities
of Mr. Petrillo under existing law, the duty of Congress is plain.

It should act promptly to suppress anti-social rackets that can now
we worked with Impunity, provided they do not interfere with prose¬
cution of the war. "

Says the Washington Star:

"If the American Federation of Musicians, under the deter¬
mined leadership of Mr, Petrillo, can levy what amounts to a tax on
the public, so can any other union possessed of sufficient economic
power. And if Mr. Petrillo 's success remains unchallenged, the
strong probability is that other unions will follow his example.

"The remedy, if there is to be a remedy, lies with public
opinion and the Congress. The present Supreme Court has conferred
a virtually total grant of immunity on unions in matters of this kind,
and it is not in the least surprising that the President found noth¬
ing in the law books that would be useful against Mr. Petrillo, The
court, in effect, has nullified the laws which formerly might have
been invoked in a situation of this kind. And this means that noth¬
ing can or will be done unless and until an aroused oublic demands
that Congress enact legislation to forbid or to regulate union
practices that are inimical to the public interest but which, never¬
theless, are steadily gaining ground. "

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NEWSPAPERS CONSIDER ADOPTING NETWORK ADVERTISING PLAJJ

A Committee representing 16 large newspapers in the country
is studying the feasibility of selling advertising on the same prin¬
cipal as radio netx'^orks, A.s yet no newspaper network has been formed
but a study of the situation is being made which will cost between
$35,000 and $40,000 and take six months to complete.

Another big newspaper sales plan is an expansion of the
Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers' Associa¬
tion which calls for the establishment of a Sales Committee and a
Retail Advertising Department and an overall enlargement of the
Bureau's activities with a budget of $1,000,000 a year.

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FLY RESIGNING HINTS INTERNATIONAL FIELD; FDR "FURLOUGH”

One of the best things they do at the White House is to
write the letters to be signed by the President kissing the boys
good-bye. Some Presidents write their own letters, some only write
certain ones of these. Outside the inner circle, it is never known
exactly any more that is known who writes a President's speeches,
now much is ghosted or how much is the real thing.

Regardless of who actually writes the letters, reading
between the lines there is often a story in them. Sometimes they
mean good-bye forever, and frequently are for home consumption and
to hang framed in the office; other times, they forecase coming
events. An exchange causing more than passing attention was
letters m.ade public between Chairaan James L, Fly, Chairman of the
Federal Communications Commission, and President Roosevelt, Mr,

Fly's reference to the fact that there was still much work to be
done in the Communications field and especially to international
communications and that he stood ready in a "private capacity to
assist in any manner possible" and Mr, Roosevelt's response saying
that Mr. Fly was "only on a furlough", occasioned considerable
speculation.

Chairman Fly wrote the President:

"I hereby submit my resignation as a member of the Federal
Communications Commission, effective at the end of the fifteenth day
of November, 1944,

"Despite the personal reasons calling for this step - and
these you have recognized - I make the move only with great reluct¬
ance, The forward movement of electrical communications is freighted
with problems of broad and deep significance. In some real measure
the landmarks of principle have been established and the path rough
hewn. Yet much work remains to be done. The most urgent task is in
the field of international communications. In this regard I shall
stand ready from time to time and in a private capacity to assist in
any manner possible,

"I need hardly remind you of the deep gratitude I feel for
the faith you have held midst all the ill-winds of doctrine. My
deep personal regard and great confidence go with you in the most
significant work which lies ahead. "

In accepting Mr, Fly's resignation, the President wrote
as follows, addressing the letter "Dear Larry”:

"With great personal reluctance, I accept your resignation
as a member of the Federal Communications Commission.

"We have had long discussions of the personal reasons for
which you feel you have to return to private practice. And because
you have had only a few years of private life since you left the
Navy, after the last war, I feel I cannot deny you the 'furlough'.

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”You have given five years to the prosecution of monopol¬
ies in the anti-trust division of the Department of Justice, five
years to your brilliant defense of the Tennessee Valley Authority
as its General Counsel, and five years to the reorganization of the
Federal Communications Commission as its Chairman, These were all
extraordinarily difficult tasks - calling for technical competence
and strength of heart of the highest order - against powerful oppon¬
ents who did not always take your victories lightly. Few men have
so proud and effective a record in public service,

’’Indeed, it is a tribute to the call of public service upoa
young men that you were willing to persist for fifteen years in such
apparently thankless tasks. But you should take great satisfaction
from the knowledge that in all your public endeavors you have not
only advanced the public Interest, but in the end gained the respect
of most your opponents for requiring them to face, for the public
good, the need of adjustments necessary to protest their own long-
range interests.

"The Importance of the work of the Federal Communications
Commission is better appreciated today both by the public and by the
industries under its Jurisdiction than it has ever been before. The
Commission, working as a team under your chairmanship, has made not¬
able advances in safeguarding freedom of speech and Information and
in protecting competitive enterprise in the field of communications.

’’But much work remains to be done and in the doing of it,

I shall want your advice and counsel. You are only on ’furlough*,

I shall have to have your help from time to time, particularly in
the field of international communications, and know I can expect
you to respond, ”

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ELLERY STONE TO BE CHIEF U.S, COMMISSIONER IN ITALY

Advancement for Commodore Ellery Stone, U.S.N.R. , former
Vice-President of Mackay Radio, All America Cable and Radio, and
former President of the Postal Telegraph Company, was indicated in
tne following State Department bulletin:

"As already announced, the President of the United States
and the Prime Minister of (Great Britain recently reviewed the situa-
in Italy and agreed on a general policy to meet the many economic
and other difficulties of that country. In order to facilitate the
task they have agreed that the Right Honorable Harold MacMillan, M.P,
British Resident Minister at AFHQ,, Mediterranean, should, in addition
to his present post, become responsible head of the Allied Commis¬
sion, In order to effect this, General Wilson will delegate to Mr,
MacMillan his functions as President of the Commission, Commodore
Ellery Stone of the United States Navy, at present Acting Chief
Commissioner, will be appointed Chief Commissioner. Mr. MacMillan,
as Acting President, will be specially charged with the duty of super¬
vising development of new measures together with any change in
structure of commission necessary to carry them out. ’’

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CAPEHART, SENATOR-ELECT, PROPOSES PHONE WIRE TELE NET

Homer E. Capehart, who was elected Republican U. S. Senator
from Indiana last week with a majority believed to be between
20,000 and 30,000, though the count is still Incomplete, has announc¬
ed the development of a new method through which he says television
can be transmitted over a standard telephone circuit and recording
made of television programs. The technique, known as ”vldeo trans¬
mission”, not only solves one of the major difficulties which have
stood in the way of television development but also brings wide¬
spread domestic television entertainment years nearer,

Capehart engineers are also said to have made an import¬
ant advance in another phase of the commercial development of tele¬
vision, the company announces - a method for recording television
programs for rebroadcast as sound programs are now transcribed.

"It will enable advertising sponsors to prepare television
programs with professional talent and elaborate staging in enter¬
tainment centers for rebroadcast anywhere and at any time”, Mr,
Capehart said.

In a television transmission demonstration in Indianapolis
last week, Mr. Capehart, who is President of the Packard I«/Ianuf ac tur-
ing Company of Indianapolis, displayed for newspapermen and other
observers a mockup transmission system employing standard No, 19
gauge telephone wire.

It was reported that the transmission was carried over 10
miles of such landlines, and that there was no discernible differ¬
ence between the result and that presented by a corollary transmis¬
sion over a shorter length of coaxial cable,

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CORRECTION

We are indebted to B. J. Rowan, Assistant Manager of
Broadcasting, of the General Electric Company, Schenectady for this
correction :

"I have noted the following quotation from your Heinl
Communications Letter of October 15:

•"The General Electric Company estimates the

cost of operating a 250-watt FM station at as

little as ^5,500 a year; a 1,000-watt station at

$9,500 a year,*

”I felt sure the figures quoted were incorrect and called
the matter to the attention of our Electronics Department, and have
received from them the following information:

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*^*It is probable that the estimates attributed to
General Electric were obtained by a misreading of an
article beginning on Page 7 of "Editor & Publisher” for
February 26, 1944, The amounts quoted cover only the
estimate of the salary expense of a station manager,
announcer and stenographer. The author has convenient¬
ly omitted the estimates for other operating costs and
program production expense. *

"I am passing on the above information to you with the
thought that you may want to correct your earlier release. ”

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PHIL CARLIN LEAVES BLUE; REPORTED HEADED FOR MBS

There was another resignation at the Blue Network with
that of Phillips Carlin, Vice-President in Charge of Programs, a
radio veteran whose career in the industry began in 1982. Known
to be very close to Edgar Kobak, Blue Network Vice-President, who
becomes head of the Mutual Broadcasting System next Monday, November
20th, Mr, Carlin was likewise reported to be headed in that direc¬
tion.

Accepting Mr, Carlin's resignation, Mark Woods, President
of the Blue Network, wrote:

"Now thet you have finally determined to leave the Blue
Network, I wanted to tell you again how sorry Ed Noble, Chet
La Roche and I are,

"We had hoped you would continue in your present position
as a member of what we believe will be an outstanding network pro¬
gram and production department, or accept the role of chief officer
in charge of television, facsimile, and frequency modulation. Your
considered decision not to accept either of these important positions
is indeed a disappointment to all of us.

"We wish you great success and happiness in the future, "

Mr. Carlin became Manager of ^AF in New York in 1927,
and later assistant to the NBC Vice-President in Charge of Programs.
When the Blue Network was organized, Mr. Carlin transferred to it
as Vice-President in Charge of Programs.

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A new television program titled "The World In Your Home",
sponsored by the RCA Victor Division of the Radio Corporation of
America, will start Friday, November 17th, over NBC's television
station WNBT, The new series wall bring to television set owners in
the metropolitan area a well-rounded program of science, education,
entertainment, sports news and special events.

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HOLLYWOOD RADIO ARTIST DEFEATED; ALSO WBBM EXEC.

Although he had been warmly endorsed by Vice-President-
elect Harry S, Truman, Hal Styles, radio entertainer and Democratic
nominee for Congress from Hollywood, was badly beaten by Gordon L,
McDonough ( R) , Styles had defeated John M. Costello (D), of Cali¬
fornia, present incumbent. Shortly before the election, the Los
Angeles Examiner charged that Styles, who conducts a radio program
“Help Thy Neighbor'* and had the support of the PAC, was a former
Kleagle of the Ku Klux KLan and that he was once under sentence to
Sing Sing for perjury,

Charles Garland, former Assistant Sales Manager of WBBM,
Chicago, Republican candidate for Congress in the 7th Illinois
Congressional District, was defeated by William W. Link ( D) . The
7th, which is said to be the largest district in the United States,
is normally Republican but during the New Deal it has been Democratic
to a lessening degree in each election. The former incumbent, Leon¬
ard Scheutz, who died sometime before the election, won by only 890
votes out of a total of 374,000 in the 1942 election. Thus had it
not been for the Democratic tidal wave, Mr, Garland, who put up a
strong fight, would doubtless have been elected,

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AGRICULTURE, INDUSTRY AND LABOR MUST COOPERATE - MULLEN

The foundation of America’s post-w^ar economy will be secure
only to the extent that agriculture, industry and labor cooperate to
their mutual advantage, it was declared in Chicago on Monday by
Frank E, Mullen, Vice-President and General Manager of the National
Broadcasting Company, in an address before the Chicago Agricultural
Club.

According to Mr. Mullen’s thesis, agriculture, industry and
labor are the three major sources of the nation's economic power, and
the welfare of each depends on the welfare of the other.

“Farmers", he said, “wno clamor for high prices of farm
products while complaining about hign wages paid to their best cus¬
tomers, the factory workers, labor leaders who contend for wages or
restrictive arrangements which boost manufacturing costs to unecon¬
omic levels; employers who seek high prices or high profits by paying
subnormal wage scales - these are the individuals who need education
as to where their own best interest lie in the future,"

In seeking to build an economically strong America, the
lesson must be learned that class legislation obtained by a pressure
group with a sin^e eye to its own immediate advantage, is the most
dangerous of all solutions to the nation's economic problems, he
indicated. Mr. Mullen further stated his belief that it would be
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a tug-of-war strife for advantage over one another. ”In a tug-of-
war the strength on one side cancels an equal amount of strength on
the other side. Team work is vitally necessary, for in a team
strength is added to strength and the pull is doubled”, he stated.

With an eye to the future world, Mr. Mullen predicted that
television v/ill provide the most effective means for mass communica¬
tions ever created. He stated a belief that it would rank at the
top of new industries that will create Jobs for men and women and
capital, Mr, Mullen pointed out that television is not just a better
forra of an old product or a better way of doing a thing. That has
been done before.

•’Television is something totally new. It will grow on
soil where nothing ever grew before. From the employment standpoint
it will create new Jobs without abolishing any old ones. It will
add to employment without subtracting from it”, he declared.

During his visit to the Middle West, Mr, Mullen will del¬
iver talks before the Chamber of Commerce at Des Moines, Iowa, and
at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana.

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RADIO TO HAVE MANY NEW USES IN TELEPHONY

In an address ’’Telephone Regulatory Problems in the Trans¬
ition from War to Peace”, Commissioner Ray C. Wakefield of the
Federal Communications Commission, addressing the War Conference of
the National Association of Utilities Commissioners in Omaha, said:

’Tifany new uses of radio for urban and long distance tele¬
phony were suggested at the allocation hearings both by the Bell and
Independent telephone companies and by various interested industries.
Proposals were made for the adaptation of the walkie-talkie radio¬
phone for services between motorists and their homes or offices.
Mobile radiotelephony was proposed for reaching physicians and ambu¬
lances, for dispatching and controlling taxicabs, for delivery ser¬
vices of department stores, and for services now carried on by public
utilities in reaching their repair trucks and coordinating emergency
operations,

’’Whether such aervioss should be carried on by the individ¬
ual industries involved or as one general common carrier service con¬
ducted by a special company or the local telephone company remains to
be determined, but the probability of uses of radio to furnish tele¬
phone service of this nature is very great. Similarly, more distant
calling to control the movement of buses and trucks on the highways,
either directly by the industries involved or by the telephone com¬
panies in conjunction with their land lines service, was suggested, ”

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WOULD MODIFY SOUND EQUIPMENT CONTROLS

The Industrial Sound Equipment Industry Advisory Committee
believes that electronic equipment controls should not be revoked
until all military requirements can be met, but that controls should
be modified as war demands decrease and materials become more read¬
ily available, officials of the War Production Board’s Radio and
Radar Division said last week.

Revocation or modification of Limitation Order L-265 was
considered by the Committee, which met recently in Washington, Equip¬
ment used in public address systems, inter-communication systems and
other industrial sound amplifying equipment falls within the category
of electronic equipment involving the use of vacuum of gaseous tubes,
under L-265,

An amendment adopted last Saturday to the Electronic
Equipment Limitation Order L-265 exempts industrial instruments,
and their associated circuits, used for measuring or controlling
temperature, pressure, flow, liquid level, relative humidity, specif¬
ic gravity, acidity, alkilinlty, speed, and power load or frequency
of electric power generating stations from controls of the order.

None of these instruments is ordinarily considered to be within the
field of radio or electronic equipment, officials of the Radio and
Radar Division of WPB said.

The issuance of a pamphlet entitled ’’Guide of Industrial
Sound", designed to explain the uses and value of sound equipment,
was announced. This document will soon be put on sale by the Super¬
intendent of Documents,

The Committee vjill meet again during the second week of
January, it was announced.

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RCA TRANSMITTER FLOWN FROM ITALY TO FRANCE

A complete commercial short-wave radio station, weighing
twenty-five tons, has been transported hundreds of miles by air for
the first time in history, from Italy to "Somewhere in Southern
France", according to word received by R, C. A. Communications, Inc.

Moved at the request of the U. S. Array, the equipment was
transported within a few hours hj the coordinated efforts of the Army
Signal Corps and RCA technicians. I’^Fien the station goes into oper¬
ation, service will be limited to Government, Press, and EF^ (Exped¬
itionary Fbrce Message) traffic. No straight commercial messages may
be accepted.

In a radiogram describing the station’s movement by air,
Merrill Mueller, National Broadcasting Company correspondent said:

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"Fourteen 047' s moved entire twenty-five tons of equip¬
ment, which included generators so heavy it took heavy cranes to
load and unload them, in a few hours, whereas surface transportation
on both sea and land would have taken days and, perhaps, weeks. Thus,
another important step has been taken to facilitate communications
with Southern France within a few weeks throu^i the day and night¬
long work of all concerned, "

This is not the first time that this station has met an
Important wartime communications need, according to RCA officials.

It was shipped from New York last Winter, and went into service at
Naples transmitting Government and press messages. Its location was
then identified as "Somewhere in Southern Italy," More than twenty
RCA men, working with Mr. Thomas B. Meola, went along to install and
operate it.

On June 13, a second RCA station which had been shipped
from the United States, uent into operation at Rome,, first of Europe's
war capitals to fall to Allied armies. Its installation and opera¬
tion also were handled by the RCA staff working in cooperation with
the U, S, Signal Corns and the Board of War Communications,

Still another fast, direct communications link with the
European war front was established by R„C,A. Communications on
September 16, when a radio circuit between New York and Paris was re¬
opened after being closed since June, 1940,. by the Gerroan occupation.

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GE AND IBM GRANTED NEW VISUAL EXPE RIIilENT PE m ITS

The Commission last week granted the applications of
International Business Machines Corporation for construction permits
for two new Experimental Class 2 radio stations, and of General
Electric Company for construction permits for three such stations.

The applicants propose to develop a new system of point-to-
point communications, employing high-speed pulse transmissions in
connection with the operation of business machines as well as stand¬
ard emissions for the relaying of television and FI'^ programs. They
propose a program of experimentation directed toward the development
of an ultra-high frequency, wide band, communications system involv¬
ing the operation of a chain of experimental radio relay stations
extending from Washington, D. C, to New York City, and from New York
City to Schenectady and New Scotland, N. Y,

The International Business Machines Corporation applications
cover the terminal station at Washington, D, C, , and the combined
terminal station at New York for both links of the system. Three
transmitters and a directional antenna are to be Installed at Wash¬
ington to be located on the roof of the Mayflower Hotel, and the sta¬
tion will be operated by remote control from 1111 Connecticut Avenue,
N.W. The New York station is to be located at 490 Madison Avenue,
where six transmitters are to be installed, and the remote control
point will be located in the same building.

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teminal station at Schenectady and the relay station at New Scot¬
land, N, Y, At New Scotland four transmitters are to be mounted in
the existing towers of television relay station W2XI, where dir¬
ectional antennas will be Installed for maximum radiations toward
New York City and Schenectady, The Schenectady station and remote
control point will be located at 60 Washington Avenue, where two
transmitters and directional antenna systems will be mounted on the
existing tower of television relay station W2XGE.

Any and all frequencies within the following bands may be
used experimentally by the applicants: 1,900-1,960; 1,960-2020; 2020-
2080; 2120-2180; 2180-2240, and 2240-2500 megacycles, with 15 watts
power, using A2, A3, A4, A5 and special emission for experimental
radio communication, provided that all emissions shall be on fre¬
quencies within one or more of the above authorized bands.

In acting on these applications, the Commission considered
Western Union Telegraph Company objections to any commercial oper¬
ations by the I.B.M, and the G, E. The authorizations Issued are
expressly limited to purely experimental operations and prohibit
"the rendition of any communication service for hire” by means of
the facilities authorized,

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PROGRAM FOR FIRST TELE BROADCASTERS CONFERENCE DEC. 11

Revealing the program arranged for the First Annual Con¬
ference of the Television Broadcasters’ Association, Inc., which is
scheduled to be held at the Hotel Commodore in New York City on
Monday and Tuesday, December 11th and 12th, Jack R, Poppele, Chairman
of the Conference, indicated that the various sessions planned will
be of interest not only to those now operating, or who are planning
to operate television stations, but to manufacturers of television
and radio equipment; motion picture companies, newsoapers, advertis¬
ing agencies, stage, screen and radio entertainers and the public in
general.

Thousands of invitations for the Conference are in the maf^
the Chairman stated, adding that the affair is open to everyone. Ad¬
vance registrations are now being accepted at the Association* s
offices, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York City, he said, with a fee of ^15
covering all Conference activities.

The opening general session at 10 A. M, on December 11th,
will feature six talks by leaders in the television industry. "New
Horizons in Television” will serve as topics for talks by Dr, W. R. G,.
Baker, Vice-President in Charge of Electronics for the General
Electric Company, and by E, W. Engstrom, Director in Charge of the
RCA Laboratories at Princeton, N. J,

’’Television Programming”, exploring the possibilities of
the new art, will be discussed in talks by John F, Royal, Vice-Presi¬
dent in Charge of Television at the National Broadcasting Company;

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by Robert L, G-lbgon, a Director of TBA and Assistant to the Vice
President in Charge of Advertising and Publicity for the General
Electric Company, and by Thomas H, Hutchinson, In charge of produc¬
tion for the RKO Television Corporation.

Harold S. Osborne, Chief Engineer of the American Tele¬
phone and Telegraph Company will conclude the opening session when
he speaks on the subject: "Establishing Television Networks”.

The afternoon of Monday, December 11, 1944, will be devoted
primarily to Panel meetings. These meetings are being arranged by
Dorman D. Israel, Vice-President in Charge of Engineering for the
Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corporation, and will be conducted by
executives in various branches of the television, motion picture,
theatre, talent and newspaper industries. Mr, Poppele declared that
the purpose of these "individualized meetings" will be to provide
information on the role television will play in the future plans of
a host of industries.

Highlighting the Tuesday morning, December 18th session
will be a Round Table discussion by technical experts of the tele¬
vision industry. The discussion will be led by Dr, Alfred N, Gold¬
smith, consulting engineer and Vice Chairman of the Ra.dio Technical
Planning Board. Questions about television are being solicited from
all those planning to attend the conference, and these questions
will be answered by the following engineering experts:

0, B, Hanson of NBC; Allen B. DuMont, President, of TBA and
head of the Du Mont Laboratories; Dr. C. F. Jolliffe, of RCA; F. J.
Bingley of Philco; J. E. Keister of G.E.; Harry Lubcke of Don Lee;
Jack R, Poppele, WOR; A. H, Brolly of Balaban & Katz, and Klaus
Landsberg of Television Productions, Inc,

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ACTION BY THE FCG

Central Valleys Broadcasting Co. , Sacramento, Cal., grantee*
construction permit for new station to operate on 1340 kc. , 250 watt,
unlimited time, subject to January 26 policy; Lincoln Dellar, Sacra¬
mento, Cal, , granted construction permit for new station to operate
on 1490 kc, , 250 watts, unlimited time, subject to Jan. 26 policy;
Harrisburg Broadcasting Co. . Harrisburg, Pa,, granted construction
permit for a new station to operate on 1 400 kc, , 850 watts, unlimited
time, antenna site to be determined, subject to Jan. 26 policy;
American Colonial Broadcasting Corp. , Arecibo, P.R. granted construc¬
tion permit for a new station to operate on 1230 kc. , 250 watts, un¬
limited time, pursuant to January 26 policy; WDGY, Dr, George W,

Young, Minneapolis, Minn,, designated for hearing application for
modification of license to decrease night power from 500 to 250
watts, and change hours of operation from limited to unlimited time;
KFI, Earle C. Anthony, Inc, Los Angeles, Cal,, granted petition
requesting grant of application for renewal of station license (main
and auxiliary) on a regular basis, and application dismissed from
hearing docket.

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Also, WLIB, 'WLIB, Inc, , Brooklyn,. N. Y. , granted permis¬
sion to identify station as a "New York" instead of "Brooklyn" sta¬
tion; KQ,V, KQV Broadcasting Co,, Pittsburgh, Pa, (Licensee), granted
consent to transfer of control of KQV Broadcasting Co., licensee of
Station KQ,V, from H, J. Brennen, K, K, Brennen, Sara A, Brenne,
Margaret M. Brennen and Thelma B. Bregenser, to Allegheny Broadcast¬
ing Corp. , for a total consideration of $575,000 for 1000 shares, or
100^ of the no par issued and outstanding capital stock of licensee;
KWBU, Century Broadcasting Co, , Corpus Christi, Texas,, on considera¬
tion of petition to modify permit to specify 1030 in lieu of 1010 kc,
the Commission authorized issuance of Special Service authorization
for a period of 6 months on conditional basis, for operation of KWBU
on frequency 1030 kc. , daytime hours..

Also, KEEW, Brownsville, Texas, granted consent to volunt¬
ary assignment of license of Station KEEW from Eagle Broadcasting
Co, , Inc. , to Radio Station KEEW, Ltd. , a newly formed limited
partnership composed of E, E, "Jadt " Wilson end Ernest E, Wilson
(sole owners of stock of licensee corporation) and T. Frank Smith;

T, Frank Snlth to have 60^ interest for a cash consideration of
$8,500.

Applications Received: Nied and Stevens, Warren, Ohio,
construction pennit for a new High Frequency (FM) broadcast station
to be operated on 49,100 kc,, with 262 square miles; Wyandotte News
Company . Wyandotte, Mich,, construction permit for a new High Fre¬
quency (FLO broadcast station to be operated on 46,100 kc. , with
coverage of 775 sq, miles; KXOX, Sweetwater Radio, Inc,, Sweetwater,
Texas, acquisition of control of licensee corporation by J. S. and
Mittie Agnes McBeath by purchase of 75 shares of common stock (50^)
from Wendell Mayes; Valley Broadcasting Co. > Eugene, Oregon,, con¬
struction permit for a new standard broadcast station to be operated
on 1400 kc, , 250 watts power and unlimited hours of operation.

Also, Rebel Broadcasting Co. , Jackson, Miss,, construction
permit for a new standard broadcast station to be operated on 620 kc,
power of 1 KW night, 5 daytime, unlimited hours of operation,
employing directional antenna at night; Pennsylvania Broadcasting Co.
Philadelphia, Pa, , construction permit for a new commercial tele vi-
slon broadcast station to be operated on Channel #4 (78000-84000 kc) ,
ESR 1,760; Southern Minnesota Broadcasting Co. > Rochester, Minn.,
construction permit for a new High Frequency (FM) broadcast station
to be operated on 43,700 kc. , with coverage of 15,400 sq, miles;
Johnson Kennedy Radio Corp. , Chicago, Ill. , construction perait for a
new commercial television broadcast station to be operated on Cliannel
#7 (102000-108000 kc. ) ESR 2,150.

Also, Scripps-Howard Radio, Inc., Washington, D, C. , con¬
struction penult for a nev/ commercial television broadcast station
to be operated on Channel #1 (50000-56000 kc), ESR 1,650; same,
Cincinnati, Ohio, construction permit for a new High Frequency (FI*^)
broadcast station to be operated on 47,900 kc. with coverage of
13,700 sq. miles; KFRE, J. E. Rodnan, Fresno, Calif., construction
permit to change frequency from 1340 to 1060 kc. , increase power from
250 watts to 1 KW and install new transmitter; same, Bakersfield, Cal.
construction permit for a new standard broadcast station to be oper¬
ated on 1 340 kc. , power of 250 watts and unlimited hours of operatioi.

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TRADE NOTES : : J

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Announcement has been made by Rear Admiral Edward L,
Cochrane, U.S.N. , Chief of the Bureau of Ships, that Lieut, Comdr.
James L. Middlebrooks, U,S.N.R. , former engineer for the Columbia
Broadcasting System, has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal,

Commander Middlebrooks supervised the building of the WTOP
transmitter at Wheaton, Maryland, and the construction of the trans¬
mitters for the Columbia stations - WABC in New York, and KNX in
Hollywood.

Because of expanded production schedules and employment
declines, more than 11,000 jobs are now open in plants manufacturing
radar equipment for the armed forces, Paul V, McNutt, Chairman of
the War Manpower Commission, estimated,

Mr, McNutt emphasized that the majority of radar plants
are currently on schedule, but that additional workers are needed to
meet rising production requirements. Many plants have met produc-»
tlon schedules, he said, by transferring workers within the plant,
by increased efficiency and improved manpower utilization methods,
and in some cases by overtime work.

Upton Close, veteran radio nev>;s commentator, said in
Memphis Tuesday that "National Broadcasting Company, pressured by
various sources, has served notice on my radio sponsor, Shaefer Pen
Co., that it will no longer sell them time on the air if I am not
dropped. " Mr, Close said "certain radical and communistic elements'
were responsible. He was objectionable, he said, because of discus¬
sion on "The Dangers of Communism" on the radio.

The Blue Network confirmed that its contract with Henry J,
Taylor, commentator, \ms not being renewed, Chester J, LaRoclie ,

Vice Chairman of the Board of the Blue Network, explained that the
decision not to re-engage Mr. Taylor was solely for business reasons
and did not have any political significance. He said that the deci¬
sion was reached before election day.

The election of Andrew C, Jorgensen as Vice-President of
Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company, Inc,, affiliate of the Inter¬
national Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, was announced by
Admiral Luke McNamee, President, Mr. Jorgensen has been General
Manager since last April,

Definitions of nine ’’trade terms" describing mica used by
fabricators were proposed by V/PB and adopted this week at a meeting
of the Raw Mica Fabricating Industry Advisory Committee, the War
Production Board has reported. Larger working inventories of mica
which is used chiefly as an insulator in electrical and electronic
equipment would expedite military procurement of components, the
government presiding officer pointed out. However, spot orders,
contract tenninations and cancellations have made it difficult to
anticipate needs. In view of this situation, inventories are often
unbalanced being either greatly overstock or deficient in many items.

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2400 CALIFORNIA STREET

WASHINGTON, D. C.

INDEX TO ISSUE OF NOVEMBER 22,

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1944

FCC Commissioner Walker Looks At After- The- War Radio . 1

I. T. & T. Comes Through With A Radio System Of Its Own . 3

Kesten Back From England Proposes "Decensoring '• . . . 4

Television Will Pep Up A1.1 Advertising, Shouse Believes, . 5

Electronic Equipment Not Under WPB Spot Authorization, . . . 6

Appleby, Asst, U. S, Budget Director, To CtO Into Radio . 6

Porter Youngest FCC Cliairman; '’0,K, - No Stuffed Shirt” . 7

Democrats To Oppose Seating Senator-Elect Capehart . 9

Paul Ellison, Sylvania, Natl, Advertisers Vice-Chairman,, . 9

Disclaims Intention Of FTC Seeking To Enter FCC’ s Field . 10

National Press Club May Make Radio Men Active Members . 11

NBC Head Denies Pressure Caused Commentator’s Dismissal . 12

Scissors And Paste, . . . 13

Trade Notes . 15

No. 1657

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November 22, 1944

FCC COMMISSIONER WALKER LOOKS AT AFTER-THE-WAR RADIO

Addressing the Third Annual Radio Conference, sponsored by
Stephens College at Columbia, Mo. , Commissioner Paul A. Walker of
the Federal Communications Commission, predicted that radio after
the war will revolutionize and Improve American industry,

"The post-war expansion of radio should be financially
profitable for both industry and labor". Commissioner Walker declar¬
ed. "In 1937, the total broadcast revenue, including networks and
independent stations, was $114,222,906. In 1943, this figure had
leaped to $215,317,774, a gain of almost 100 per cent. Net revenue
from broadcast service in 1937, after all operating expenses but
before Federal income tax, was $22,566,595. Last year it was
$66,475,586, almost three times as much. With the tremendous ex¬
pansion of radio after the war, there is reason to believe that this
level of net revenue will be materially increased. Some manufactur¬
ers are estimating that 5,000,000 FM receiving sets will be made and
sold during the first five years after the war. Some ■ industrialists
believe we may have as many as 2000 FM stations operating within that
period. The fact that there are already 268 applications for FM
stations on file with the Federal Communications Commission tends to
confirm this prediction.

"Add to FM broadcasting, the expansion of television and
facsimile and the prospects for business enterprise in the radio
field are most encouraging. As I have previously mentioned, televi¬
sion is likely to move fast after the war. Some manufacturers are
Saying that they will be able to sell television receiving sets for
as low as $150 and predict that the price may drop even below this
figure. If this is true, there should be a good market for televi¬
sion receivers.

"The faith that industry has in television is evidenced by
the fact that as of November 15 of this year, there were 87 applica¬
tions for commercial television stations on file with the Federal
Communications Commission. "

"As to the place of government in the radio picture of the
future, we can travel one of three roads", Commissioner Walker went
on. "First, Management can be left free to operate without any pub¬
lic regulation. However, few seriously favor such a system of un¬
restrained operation. If for no other reason, the problem of electri¬
cal interference accentuated by a crowded spectrum would be too
great to make such a system feasible.

"The second road which seems attractive to some is that of
public ownership. Most countries have this system and private oper¬
ation in America is the exception rather than the rule. But there

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are dangers in this type of operation. We have seen them develop
In totalitarian states. It is imperative that we keep a free radio
if democracy is to endure, I do not believe that government owner¬
ship would be conducive to a free radio any more than I think mono¬
polistic control would be conducive to it. When one segment of
society, whether it be government or industry or some other, is
vested with unlimited authority over radio, then freedom is threat¬
ened and democracy suffers. It is diversification and balance of
control that we want in American radio.

"if we are to have this balance, I believe we must have
effective government regulation of the radio industry. I believe
that this is the road we must travel if the interests of those who
operate radio stations as well as the interests of the people are
to be served. I believe one of the best safe-guards against politi¬
cal control is effective government regulation,

"This system I favor operates on the principle that the
ether and the frequencies belong to the people, that they have a
rlgnt to set the general standards for the use of this ether and
these frequencies, but grants the privilege of management to those
I persons who have the qualifications and the desire to operate in
the public interest, and to give wortnwhile public service.

"To be effective, this system must have managers who are
more than dollar-rainded - who want radio to bring the maximum social
benefits. And it must have regulators who are democratic in outlook
and who are intensely devoted to the public interest, "

Commissioner Walker, whose address ran about 4,000 words,
cited the recent Allocations hearings for the assignment of frequen¬
cies to the various classes of non-govemraental services as the
source of many of his conclusions:

"The evidence showed that Frequency Modulation broadcasting
will expand rapidly". Commissioner Walker declared. "Better able to
avoid static than standard broadcasting, M is likely to have a
stronger appeal generally. Since a number of these stations can
operate in closer proximity on the same channel without objectionable
Interference than is possible with standard stations, can probably
be constructed more economically, many more localities will be able
to have them. This will provide a greater access to the microphone
among the masses of the people. An increase in the number of stations
will possibly mean a corresponding growth in the number of networks.

"There was considerable testimony at the hearing regarding
the future of television. I do not believe the average citizen is
fully aware of the technical progress made in this field in the last
few years. The television pictures after the war are expected to be
much better than those prior to Pearl Harbor, They are likely to
have superior definition, be much brighter and larger and may have
color as well. Witn the use of mobile television units, it will be
possible to send pictures of important events from many different
* places; and with the development of networks, large numbers of people
will be able to view these pictures,

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'•Add to Fli and television the possibilities of facsimile
and we have a most attractive outlook for communications. The trans¬
mission of writing, printing, photographs and other Images is now a
well-established art according to experts who appeared before the
Commission, While we are told there are still technical problems to
work out, progress is being made and we may soon have effective
simultaneous transmission of sound and facsimile Images.

"Out of this development will come new conveniences for the
American people. By means of facsimile the man in the office can
receive continuously complete and graphic news reports to aid him in
his business or profession. The rancher in Montana who now may wait
as long as a week to get his newspaper, may get the latest news with
pictures directly recorded in his home.

"Application of high frequency radio to industrial opera¬
tions has had a rapid growth in recent years. As a means of effect¬
ive, intensive heating, it is highly useful in woodwork, plastic,
textile, rubber and chemical industries. Experts urge that it will
become increasingly Important after the war as an aid to production.
In this connection, problems of radiation and interference with com¬
munications will call for careful study and may necessitate new
legislation,

"The telephone industry will make increasing use of radio.
For example, the Federal Communications Commission recently approved
conditional grants for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company
to construct two experimental stations which are to be used as term¬
inal points for a proposed wide-band, point-to-point radio repeater
circuit capable of relaying telephone and other types of communica¬
tion between New York and Boston, Similar grants have been made to
other industries.

"Under the proposed wide bands, many telephone conversa¬
tions can be carried on simultaneously over the same circuit. The
development of such a system may make possible a considerable expan¬
sion in telephone service at lower costs. "

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I.T.& T. COMES THROUGH WITH A RADIO SYSTEM OF ITS OWN

A new radio development that is said to surpass for certain
purposes the now standard amplitude modulation (Al'il) and fast-growing
frequency modulation (F!vO methods has been announced by the Federal
Telephone and Radio Laboratories, associated with the International
Telephone and Telegraph Corooration.

Called "Pulse Time Modulation", the new system* s advant¬
ages, I. T. & T, says, are simplification of repeaters, avoidance
of distortions and more efficient application to multi-channel, co¬
axial cable, telephone and facsimile transmission systems, televi¬
sion sound channels, and ultra-high frequency broadcasting.

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KESTEN BACK FROM ENGLAND PROPOSES "DECENSORING"

Just returned from England, Paul W, Kesten, Executive
Vice-President of the Columbia Broadcasting System, discussed post¬
war programs, international broadcasting and television, Mr. Kesten
said:

"Despite the best Job of reporting that any nation at arms
has ever received, America is not getting, and cannot get, the real
story of its men in action and its machines in action as long as
military secrecy is vital. We are detennined that this story shall
not be lost after the war, as it was in large part after the last
war. What I saw and heard from hundreds of GIs, Navy men and mer¬
chant seamen, and in conference with the CBS European staff, con¬
vinces me that the human story and the scientific story which cannot
yet be told contains the real secret of American success in the war.
American radio owes the 120,000,000 people who represent the fam¬
ilies, relatives and friends of our fighting men a vivid first hand
report of much that lies behind the curtain of censorship - as soon
as that curtain can be lifted. We are therefore planning a postwar
program series, which will reveal as rapidly as Government authority
will sanction it, a succession of individual stories which will prove
more thrilling than fiction and more informative than anything we
have been able to broadcast during hostilities. The tentative title
^Decensored* has been chosen for this series to give some hint of
its nature. We intend to invite the full cooperation of the Army and
Navy in as much advance planning as is feasible,

"No one can spend even a few weeks outside of the United
States without learning at first hand, how important American news
and American affairs are to foreign listeners, to say nothing of
American entertainment. The most popular American network programs
are now available in England and on the Continent, not only to our
troops but to civilian listeners,

"Some indication of the vital importance abroad of American
thinking and planning was evident in the fact that the United States
attitude toward international aviation and world shioping received
more time on the air in BBC news broadcasts than any other single
item in 24 hours of world news, although it was totally eclipsed in
American news broadcasting by events on the war front. There is no
question in my mind of the increasing importance to the United States
of international broadcasting from this country after the war. I am
more than ever convinced that the United States should maintain fully
the international broadcasting facilities that have been expanded dur¬
ing the war. The eyes and the ears of the rest of the world will be
trained on this country as never before.

"Television, although it has no present international trans¬
mission characteristics, has in itself a curious international aspect.
Six months ago, when CBS proposed radically improved television stand¬
ards for the United States, we said, with no notion of clairvoyance,
that other countries mlglit well adopt such higher standards, and
America should not lag behind. While I was abroad, the extraordinary

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news was cleared through censorship that French electronic engineers,
under the very noses of their German overlords during the occupation
of France, had in fact fulfilled this forecast. Shortly after France
was liberated, they were able to demonstrate actual pictures which
made our prewar television standards look wholly obsolete. The
leverage of this French development on American television planning
cannot be ignored. In turn, the combined effect on British televi¬
sion of improved standards here and in France is almost inevitable.
The keenest interest exists on the part of independent British engi¬
neers in the higher television standards. It is my personal impres¬
sion that, wholly as temporary measure, in view of the larger number
of prewar sets purchased in England, television may be resumed there
on prewar standards. But I would not be surprised at all to learn
that the British are setting their sights fully as high as the
improvements CBS has proposed here, and may emerge with a full-blown
television system which, except for one American advantage, might
set the pace for the rest of the world. That advantage is color. We
seem to be well ahead of any other country in color television. The
Germans, who were well advanced in television before the war, appar¬
ently lacked the imagination to develop color television. The
French, who have been c2?uelly excluded from the news of developments
in other countries, have apparently concentrated all their work on
black-and-white pictures.

•’The British have shown real interest in color television
and have conducted some experiments, but, to the best of my knowledge,
have not produced a practical full-color television system. Thus
the United States seems to be in the enviable position of having
world leadershin in television at its fingertips. It would, in my
opinion, be deplorable if, in America of all countries, a short¬
sighted clinging to the status quo should make us falter at this
point. '*

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TELEVISION WILL PE? UP ALL ADVERTISING, SHOUSE BELIEVES

James D. Shouse, Vice-President of the Crosley Radio Cor¬
poration of Cincinnati, addressing the Advertising and Sales Promo¬
tion Executives Conference at Ohio State University last week, ex¬
pressed the opinion that television would stimulate all forms of
adve rtising.

Television's ability to sell the manufacturer the style of
his merchandise, its appearance, its price and its use in the home
cannot fail to bring to the business of advertising more money,
because "the business of advertising can perfonn more functions than
it has ever been able to before", Mr, Shouse declared,

"Any business can grow, and does grow, only as it offers
more, and through television it is entirely conceivable that the
whole business of advertising will receive a tremendous impetus far
beyond anything that has been conceived before", the speaker said.

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ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT NOT Ul-JBER WPB SPOT AUTHORIZATION

Electronic equipment as defined in WPB Limitation Order
Lr-265 is not subject to the War Production Board spot authorization
plan, WPB said yesterday.

Electronic equipment as defined in Order L-265 means any
electrical apparatus or device involving the use of vacuum or gaseous
tubes and any associated or supplementary device, apparatus or com¬
ponent part therefor, and shall include any acoustic phonograph and
component parts therefor. The terra shall not Include: (1) hearing
aid devices; (2) Wire telephone and telegraph equipment; (3) elect¬
ric batteries; (4) power and light equipment; (5) medical, thera¬
peutic, X-Ray and fluoroscopic equipment other than replacement
electron tubes therefor; (6) phonograph records and needles; (7)
automotive maintenance equipment as defined in Limitation Order L-270
(8) Incandescent, fluorescent and other electric discharge lamps, as
definited in Limitation Order L-28, and rectifier tubes, as defined
in Limitation Order L-264; (9) Industrial type instruments and
associated circuit devices, for measuring or controlling temperature,
pressure, flow, liquid level, relative humidity, specific gravity,
acidity, alkalinity, speed, power load, or frequency of electric
power generating stations.

An amendment to the order provides that no producer shall
manufacture any electronic equipment except to fill preferred orders
or to fulfill, under Controlled Materials Plan, any authorized pro¬
duction schedule or authorized program as defined in Regulation 1
except a schedule or program authorized under Priorities Regulation
25 covering the spot authorization plan.

The purpose of the amendment ms said to be to remove any
ambiguity from Direction2 to Priorities Regulation 25, which is also
being amended.

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APPLEBY, ASST. U. S. BUDGET DIRECTOR, TO GO INTO RADIO

The White House announced last week that Paul H. Appleby,
Assistant Director of the Budget, is resigning to become Vice-Presi¬
dent and General Manager of the Queen City Broadcasting Company of
Seattle, Washington.

Mr, Appleby, 55 years old, and a native of Missouri, was
formerly an editorial writer on the Des Moines Register and Tribune
and an Executive Assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture 1933-40 at
which time he became Under Secretary of Agriculture. He was Chief of
Food Missions to Great Britain in 1941 and 1942, Chairman Interna¬
tional Wheat Conference in 1948-3 and Special Advisor to Lend-Lease
Administrator in 1948-43,

The Queen City Broadcasting Company operates KIRO, a 50 KW
in Seattle, President Roosevelt has accepted Mr. Appleby's resigna¬
tion effective December 1,

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PORTER YOUNGEST FCC CHAIRIjIAN; "O.K. - NO STUFFED SHIRT"

Paul A. Porter, 40 years, now up for confirmation by the
Senate, will be the youngest Chairman of the Federal Communications
Commission, Also if what his colleagues and friends say is true, he
may prove to be one of the most efficient and popular Chairmen the
Commission has ever had.

"Paul Porter is a New Dealer heart and soul and will Jump
through the White House hoop as fast as Larry Fly ever did", one
friend declared, "but he is not likely to prove to be the trust-
buster that Fly was. Paul nevertheless has positive views and if
he does decide to wield the big stick, he will have the courage to
do it but will do it in a nicer way* He is a man who will always be
accessible, open to reason, and I feel confident will give everyone
a run for his money. Because of Porter's radio and newspaper back¬
ground, both the broadcasters and the press will have a friend at
court. Unless the White House so orders, there will be no more kick¬
ing the newspapers around,

"Paul has plenty of ability and he is no stuffed shirt. He
doesn't take himself too seriously. I couldn't imagine him glaring
about the hearing room as Fly used to do to see if everybody was
standing up until the members of the Commission had been seated, I
don't believe there will be any of that Supreme Court stuff as far
as Paul is concerned. Nevertheless he is an A #1 lawyer, "

"If Porter was such an outstanding lawyer, why is he stick¬
ing to the Government service? Wasn't he making more money as CBS
Washington counsel?" was asked,

"Sure.' Paul was making good money with Columbia. He went
into Government work at a personal sacrifice for purely patriotic
reasons and because he thought it was the thing to do. "

There was a pleasant greeting from the Washington Post
which said editorially:

"Paul A. Porter, who has been nominated a member of the
Federal Communications Commission and will be appointed Chairman
when confirmed, is likely to prove a worthy successor to James Law¬
rence Fly. As a radio lawyer for a number of years, he gained an
acquaintance with the broadcasting industry. Yet most of his exper¬
ience since 1933 has been in Government service. He has done out¬
standing work in the AAA, the OPA and the Office of Economic Stabil¬
ization, Able, hard-working, and amiable, he will take to the FCC a
record of substantial achievements in spite of his comparative youth.

"The only unfortunate aspect of the appointment, as we see
it, is that Mr, Porter goes directly to the top position in the
agency which regulates broa.dcasting from the Job of directing public¬
ity for the Democratic National Committee. The chairmanship of the
FCC is an assignment that ought to be far removed from politics. But

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no doubt Mr, Porter will quickly shake himself free from the parti¬
san atmosphere of his most recent task. His experience in Govern¬
ment work and his widely recognized ability as an administrator
overshadow the element of political debt-paying in the appointment.
Nevertheless, it would be a sorry state of affairs for the FCC, the
broadcasting industry and the public if the chairroanship of that
agency should come to be looked upon as a reward for political pub¬
licity directors, as the postmaster generalship has come to be a
reward for the chairman of the national committee of the successful
party in national elections. **

The only protest against the nomination of Btr. Porter came
from the Socialist Party National Executive Committee in New York,

In a telegram to Senator Wheeler, (D), of Montana, Chair¬
man of the Interstate Commerce Committee, the Socialist Committee
said the protest was based on the manifest impropriety of elevation
of publicity manager in bitter political campaign and also former
counsel for a network to commission controlling radio and other com¬
munications, '•

On the other hand, there were already signs that Mr,
Porter* s nomination was causing Congressional hostility to the FCC
to quiet dov/n.

Representative Eugene E, Cox (D), of Georgia, probably the
most bitter Congressional critic of both the FCC and its former
Chairman, expressed approval of Mr, Porter’s appointment.

Chairman Clarence F. Lea ( D) , of California, of the House
FCC Investigating Committee, predicted that the Committee's stormy
inquiry into FCC activities, which has been underway for almost two
years, would end next month when a final report will be filed on the
5000 pages of testimony that have been taken.

There have been discrepancies in some of the blograohies
printed. Here is the one from the 1944-45 "Wlio's Who in America"
(which is really an autobiography as the information is furnished by
the author himself) :

"Porter, Paul Alderraandt, govt, official; b. Joplin, Bilo. ,
Oct, 6, 1904; s, John J, and Dolly (Carpenter) P. ; student Ky,
Wesleyan Coll, , 1925-26; ra, Bessie Edgar Benton, June 14, 1950;
children - Betsy Goodloe, Ann Covington. Began as newspaper report¬
er; city editor Lexington (Ky.) Herald, 1925-26; in practice of law,
Central Ky, , 1928-29; editor Mangura (okla, ) Daily News and LaGrande
( Ga. ) News, 1929-52; spl, counsel Dept, of Agr, , 1952-57; Washington
counsel Columbia Broadcasting System, 1957-42; lecturer on adminis¬
trative law. Law Coll, of Catholic U. , Washington, D.C, since 1941;
deputy adrainstr. in charge of new rent div. , Office of Price Admin¬
istration, 1942-45; asso. administr. War Food Adrainistrn. ; associate
dir. Office Economic Stabilization since July 1945. Mem. Nat. Press
Assn,, Federal Communications Bar Assn., N.Y, Bar Assn., Sigma Alpha
Epsilon, Phi Alpha Delta, Democrat. Baptist. Home: 6001 Broad
Branch Rd, , Address: Federal Reserve Bldg., Washington, D.C,

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DEMOCRATS TO OPPOSE SEATING SENATOR-ELECT CAPEHART

There will be vigorous opposition on the part of the Demo¬
crats to the seating of Republican Senator-Elect Homer Capehart, of
Indiana, if sufficient evidence is produced by the Senate Campaign
Expenditures Committee, whose investigators are now looking into the
situation. It is charged that Senator Capehart spent more in his
campaign than the legal limit of $25,000. According to official
returns, Mr. Capehart only spent $5,630,80,

Mr, Capehart, when visiting Washington yesterday and being
asked about his campaign expenditures, said he owed his election to
shaking hands with about a thousand voters a day.

It was hard work and organization, he declared, not money,
that elected him. He said that during a three and a half months
campaign he shook the hands of 100,000 voters - made about 300
speeches, which figures out to three speeches a day.

Regarding foreign policy, he first said he followed the
principles laid down by Gov, Thomas E, Dewey, head of the Republican
Party, during Dewey's campaign for the presidency. Later, however,
he said that he was undecided on delegating power to a U. S. deleg¬
ate to an international league to authorize use of force without the
consent of Congress, a point Dewey accepted.

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PAUL ELLISON, SYLVANIA, NATL. ADVERTISERS VICE-GHAIR?iAN

Paul S. Ellison, Director of Advertising and Sales Promo¬
tion of Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. , was elected a Vice-Chairman
of the Association of National Advertisers at its annual meeting in
New York last week.

New Directors elected were: Robert B. Brown, Bristol-Myers
Company; Ralph Winslow, Libby-Owens-Ford Glass Company; William
Connolly, S. C, Johnson & Son; D. H. Odell, General Motors Corpora¬
tion, and W. B, Potter, Eastman Kodak Company; re-elected as Direct¬
ors were Hugh Hitchcock, Packard Motor Company, and D, B, Statler,
Standard Brands, Inc.

The National Advertisers endorsed the Lanham Trade-Mark
Registration Bill, H. R, 82, which has passed the House and is now
pending in the Senate Patents Committee. Among the advantages of
the Lanham Bill are that it gives advertisers the privilege of reg¬
istering in the Patent Office slogans, titles, symbols, character
names and distinctive features of radio or other advertising used in
commerce, and provides for the registration of trade names.

One of the principal purposes of the bill is to establish
as complete a file of trade-marks as possible in the Patent Office.
"This", he contended, "will be a real improvement because at present
a trade-mark user can never be sure that he will be secure in his
rights to his trade-mark even though he has thoroughly searched the
Patent Office, "

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DISCLAIMS INTENTION OF FTC SEEKING TO ENTER FCC*S FIELD

R. E. Freer, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission,
spoke before the Radio Executives Club of New York last Monday on
’’Truth in Advertising" (with specific relation to the broadcasting
industry ) ,

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"Radio advertising, as shown by the recent report of the
Commission, now is at a most advantageous position, as to both pro-
fits and prestige. Networks and independent stations share in this
prosperity. Isn't this a good time to consider whether proper safe¬
guards may not be indicated to protect the whole industry from loss
of face through practices of an unethical minority?"

"Sometimes I wonder why the Federal Trade Commission
should be so closely associated in the public mind with the advertis¬
ing industry, or even why it should occupy the wide horizon it seems
to fill in the outlook of broadcasting. The Commission has manifold
duties beyond the prevention of unfair methods of competition and
unfair and deceptive acts and practices in commerce and the making
of general investigations of business conduct under the organic act. "

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"And I want to make a disclaimer ~~ the Federal Trade Com¬
mission does not seek to enter the field in which the Federal Com¬
munications Commission and other Government agencies exercise juris¬
diction, nor the sphere of the Better Business Bureaus; sufficient
unto us is the large field of commercial advertising which is parti¬
cularly our province, "

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"The Commission's report, essentially a study of peacetime
advertising methods and costs, was sent to Congress - and a summary
thereof published - on October 50th. I invite your reading of this
report, which speaks for itself,

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media, of advertising expenditures totaling $71,498,607 of 548 cor¬
porations in 17 industries for the year 1959, The proportional
amount spent on radio advertising, 18,5^ of the total, exceeded that
for any other media, although only one company out of four used radio.

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tained in 1792 editions of representative newspapers and 967 issues
of magazines and Journals. It examined also 627,719 broadcast con¬
tinuities consisting of network and Individual station scripts and
scripts representing the built-in advertising portions of transcrip¬
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broadcasts were marked for further study as containing representa¬
tions which might be false or misleading. ”

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’’Advertising marked for legal review by the Radio and
Periodical Division during the fiscal year related to 1902 commod¬
ities, Of these 55,9% were classed as drugs, 15.4^ as cosmetics
and 11,3^ as food designed for human or animal consumption. Since
these percentages add up to 82.6^, commodities other than those
within the special Wheeler-Lea provisions accounted for only 17.4^
of the total, "

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”A very large proportion of newspapers in the smaller
cities of our country; virtually all metropolitan Journals and the
better class of magazines scrutinize their advertising meticulously.
They try to anticipate and avoid warnings by Better Business Bureaus
or proceedings by the Commission by rejecting any suspicious or
shady advertising. There are more than rumors to the effect that
many radio executives are as farseelng in tnis respect as their news¬
paper competitors. ”

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single space - but apparently was pretty much a
rehash of the Federal Trade Commission’s last
annual report - R. D.H, )

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NATIONAL PRESS CLUB MAY MAKE RADIO MEN ACTIVE TIMBERS

Radio commentators may be admitted to active membership in
the National Press Club when a special meeting called for next Monda /
night votes on the following proposal for a constitutional change:

’’Admission of Radio News Men to Active Membership, - Your
committee felt that radio news was a kindred field to published news.
In drafting the language which would admit to active membership per¬
sons engaged strictly in the radio news field, the committee endeavoi^
ed to limit such admissions to those persons doing work comparable to
news reporters and columnists. It was not the intention of the com¬
mittee to admit to membership those persons who merely read scripts
furnished by press associations or syndicates to radio stations or to
admit those whose duties include the reading of commercial announce¬
ments. The committee believes that the number of persons eligible to
admission, under this proposed revision, would be few, certainly for
many years to come,”

Government press agents hereafter will be excluded from
active membership if the following proposal is carried:

’’Government Public Relations Chiefs, - Your committee,
after careful study, determined that it would be wise to stop the
further admission to Government Public Relations Chiefs and editors
to active membership in the club. When such officials first were

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admitted, there were only two or three. The number now eligible
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that all Government Public Relations Chiefs who now are active mem¬
bers of the club be continued in that status. Their successors
would not be eligible to active membership status. ”

XXXXXXXXX

NBC HEAD DENIES PRESSURE CAUSED COMMENTATOR'S DISMISSAL

Replying to the charges of Upton Close, radio commentator,
to the effect that his contract with the National Broadcasting Com¬
pany had been cancelled because of pressure brought on the network
by Communists and other groups, Niles Trammell, President of NBC,
countered Mr. Close's assertion with tne following statement :

"Recent statements appearing in the press that the cancel¬
lation of Upton Close as an NBC Commentator resulted from government¬
al pressure or outside influence are completely false.

"The National Broadcasting Company notified Mr, Close in
October that it would not renew a contract with him which expired
December 10th of this year. This notice was given to Mr. Close as a
decision of the National Broadcasting Company made during the summer
months as a matter of network operation. We decided to use instead
one of our full time staff commentators, Mr. Max Hill, former Tokyo
correspondent for the Associated Press who more recently has been
representing the National Broadcasting Company in the Mediterranean
and the Near East, and who has Just returned to this country with a
wealth of war time experience,

"This decision on our part to replace one commentator with
another does not involve, in the sliglitest degree, the principle of
free speech which we have always upheld. As a matter of fact, Mr,
Close is currently appearing weekly on a commercial program on a
competing network.

"In connection with all commercial commentators on NBC
facilities, it is a standing policy of the company which is under¬
stood by our clients, that the selection of such commentators rests
witn NBC, inasmuch as the balanced presentation of news and comments
is an obligation and responsibility of the broadcast station or net¬
work.

"We take full responsibility for the cancellation of our
contract with Mr. Close in accordance witn its terms. We shall con¬
tinue to exercise our best judgment in the selection of newscasters
and commentators in order that the listening public be adequately
served. "

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SCISSORS AND PASTE

Predicts FCC Congressional Investigation Will Fold

Tlie Lea Congressional Committee investigating the Federal
Communications Commission, has notified its employees that it is
through the first of the year, as Representative Lea doesn't want to
continue the probe. Final fireworks will be a blast at FCC for its
handling of the WMCA transfer, involving White House favorites,

- ( Washington Times-Herald )

Calls Petrillo Coddling "Sellout to Privileged Few”

Let the New Deal apologists cover up, if they can, the
method used by the administration to appease Petrillo and his hi¬
jacking union. This coddling of Petrillo by Mr. Roosevelt is a new
low in his appeasement of unions, a sell-out of the masses to the
privileged few.

- (Extract of letter to Editor, Washington Star)

India Selling U, S, Radio Sets

Radio sets totaling 40,917 have been imported from the
U. S, under Lend-Lease, according to a statement by the member for
supply. Sir Ramaswaral Mudallar, in the assembly today.

Of these, 27,701 have been sold commercially and dollars
paid for them,

- (Reuter's dispatch from New Delphi, India)

Oh Boy!

Television is grown up - it has on long pants and is Just
about ready to break into a run,

- (Robert L. G-ibson, Advertising and Publicity
Department, General Electric Company.)

Sees Fly Headed For $100,000 A Year

Paul Porter predicts his new Job as Chairman of FCC will
be his biggest headache. The Job was a headache to James L. Fly,
too, but it was also a stepping stone to what his friends estimate
will be a ^100,000-a-year law practice,

- (lll^shington Post)

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Ten Postwar FM Networks And 4,000 Stations Forecast

Industry leaders at the recent FCC Allocations Hearings
gave agreeing testimony to Indicate that the postwar M structure
will embrace as many as ten national networks where four now exist.
Paul W, Kesten, Columbia Vice-President, expects his FM network to
include 175 stations coast-to-coast. He asked the FCC to provide
facilities for 4,000 Fli stations,

T.A.M, Craven, of the Cowles Broadcasting Co., asked
spectirum space to accommodate at least another time that many sta¬
tions, These men and others visualize FM. stations in every commun¬
ity in the U. S, with as many as 25 or 50 in the larger metropolitan
areas.

The American Telephone and Telegraph Co. will be ready to
provide wire accommodations. It recently announced that, by chang¬
ing certain teimlnal equipment, it is able to pass all the frequen¬
cies necessary for full-fidelity FM over an existing network connect¬
ing all major cities in the U.S,

There are 46 FK4 stations now on the air with more than 300
already planned for after the war. A half million sets were sold
before the war and Industry predicts a post-war demand for as many as
10,000,000 in the first year after the war. Planning already pro¬
vides listenable FM for 80 percent of the nation’s buying power,

- (FM Broadcasters' Association Bulletin)

The Press, Radio And FCC

It's an acknowledged fact that radio did a hangup Job on
the 1944 elections. It's also more than clear by now that the in¬
fluence of the press has waned considerably in the oast few decades.
Witness, for example, the overwhelming support thrown by the na¬
tion' s newspapers to the Republican Party in the past few general
elections. Radio, as the chief competitor of the press, would do
well to stop and take note of where the publishers made their mistake.
Thus far radio stands solid with the public. So far, the
public knows that it can turn to radio to hear both sides of every
argument, without radio projecting itself as anything but a carrier.

As long as radio retains its position of presenting facts,
that is, all the facts, and steers clear of any prejudice or bias, it
will retain the respect of the public.

The Federal Communications Commission has kept radio owner-
snip from exercising the rights of "freedom" in the manner delineated
by the p2ress. Any tendency toward a tightening of monopolistic
practices in radio has been curbed under the regime of James L, Fly.
With the latter's departure from the FCC, it becomes obligatory on
broadcasting's officialdom, even without the benefit of such a mentor,
to self-discipline the industry so that it does not stray from the
path that, thus far, has given radio the public's confidence.

If radio becomes too greedy and its biggies lack the vision
to take a long-range viev\f, the industry can be stunted in the very
flower of its growth.

- (Variety)

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TRADE NOTES

WPB officials have disclosed that the production of radio
and radar transformers is being maintained at high levels. They urg¬
ed the industry to continue holding this production pace. Eight
power and distribution transformer shops have been producing close
to |;l, 500,000 worth of radio and radar transformers per month since
July,

FM Broadcasters, Inc. is listed by the Office of Defense
Transportation among 20 additional organizations that have acceded
to OTD* s request to cancel its annual meeting which was to have been
held in New York next January,

’’Frequencies For Television”, a statement by Niles Trammel,
President of the National Broadcasting Company before the FCC in
Allocations Hearings, has been reprinted by NBC in pamphlet form.

Providing its New York service area with frequency modula¬
tion reception three times more powerful than before, the Columbia
Broadcasting System begins operation today (Wednesday, Nov, 22) of
its new two way FM transmitting antenna 800 feet above street level
on the roof of 500 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

’’Termination Financing for War Contractors”, a new booklet
published by the Office of Contract Settlement, is now available for
distribution, Robert H, Hinckley, Director, has announced.

Copies are being distributed to war contractors and commer¬
cial banks through the cooperation of the War and Navy Departments,
United States Maritime Commission, Smaller War Plants Corporation and
other contracting agencies. Single copies are available in Washing¬
ton at the Office of Contract Settlement, Federal Reserve Building,
Washington 25, D. C. , and are for sale by the Superintendent of
Documents at 10 cents a copy.

Anyone turning to the Seagram’s ad on Page 74 of the cur¬
rent (November 20) issue of Life, will see how an advertiser is mak¬
ing use of television and facsimile to attract the reader* s atten¬
tion.

The Cowles Broadcasting Company has applied for FM licenses
for its stations in Washington, D, C, , Jersey City, N.J., Des Moines,
Iowa, Boston, Mass. , and Minneapolis, Minn,

The Madison Wisconsin State Journal joined the ranks of
newspapers experimenting with the handie-talkie technique. The two-
way radio was used in reporting an account of a firemen's practice
drill, anticipating the use of the equipment in covering fires and
similar stories in the future.

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Among those whose names were suggested for appointment
by President Roosevelt to the three-man Surplus Property Board
was Commissioner Clifford J, Durr of the Federal Communications
Commission. The surplus property assignment is supposed to be a
temporary one but believed by many to take a long time to complete.

Commissioner Durr’s FCC term expires in 1948,

Revocation of the mica order, M-lOl-a, designed to consep'
bookpacked muscovite splittings, which are used for electrical insui
ations, was recommended last week by the Built-up Mica Industry
Advisory Committee of the War Production Board.

Since production and consumption of bookpacked mica split--
tings are in balance, revocation of the order, and consequent in¬
creased uses of mica splittings, would not be harmful to the war
effort, the Government presiding officer pointed out,

RCA has had reprints made of an address at the National
Electronics Conference at Chicago on ’’Electronics Research Opens New
Frontiers" by Ralph R. Beal, Assistant to the Vice-President in
Charge of RCA Laboratories,

Fraud in connection with war contracts was charged to the
Stewart- Warner Corporation of Chicago and six individuals in indict¬
ments returned secretly by two Federal grand juries in New Orleans
according to an Associated Press dispatch from that city.

The alleged fraud involved costs for crane service, rig¬
gers and other labor, tractor service and the like and there was
declared to be "conspiracy" in making of some rates.

More than 50,000 questions have been received and answered
through the Farm Question Box by Ed W. Mitchell, WGY farm advisor,
since November 1925, when the General Electric Farm Forum and Farra-
Paper-of-the-Air programs were Inaugurated, The 19th birthday
anniversary of these agricultural programs, which are two of the
oldest farm radio services in existence, was celebrated recently ove_
WGY.

A topic being considered for a broadcast by America’s Town
Hall of the Air over the Blue Network is "Should the Proceedings of
Congress be Broadcast?”

"Variety" is withdrawing from the Radio Hall of Fame next
month when Philco moves, its program to the Coast. "This paper bowed
out when, for reasons of budget, the sponsor named a readjusted fee",
Variety explains.

After the show from New York Dec, 3, Paul Wliiteman, produc¬
er Tom McKnight, scrip ter Mort Lewis, et al. shift west where
Whiteman will recruit a Hollywood team of musicians for the winter
hiatus,

"It’s a thoroughly amicable parting between Philco and

’Variety’,"

Heinl Radio Business Letter

2400 CALIFORNIA STREET

WASHINGTON, D. C.

NOV 3^ 1944

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Congressman Denounces Petrillo Methods As Racketeering . 1

Bad Industrial Precedent Seen In Petrillo *s Coup . 3

Court Dismisses WOW’ s Triple Damage Suit Against ASCAP
Senate To Hear Capehart Campaign Expenditure Cnarges, ,

How About Saluting General Sarnoff?. . . .

No New Building For ASCAP - Yet .

Gardner Cowles Sees Rosy Postwar Advertising Picture . 6

Graves, Assistant Internal Revenue Chief, Goes To KIRO . 7

MBS Board To Meet New President December 9 . 7

Civilian Tube Shortage May Last Sometime After War . 8

"Take Petrillo* 8 Foot Off Children’s Neck” - Vandenbergh . 9

BBC Head Against Radio Becoming ’’Glorified Juke-Box” . 10

Promotion To Major For H, Leslie Atlass, Jr . 10

Maybe No FCC Allocations Until Jan, 1 . . . 11

Ryan Pledges Radio’s 25th Anniversary Year To Victory...., . .11

Blow-up Over WxMCA Secret Hearings Breaks Case Wide Open . 12

Noble Seeks Public Investigation; ”I Want No Whitewash”,,,, . 13

FCC Applications Received And Action . 16

Trade Notes . 17

No. 1658

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CONGRESSMAN DENOUNCES PETRILLO METHODS AS RACKETEERING

Fighting mad, Representative F. Edward Hebert ( D) , of
Louisiana, gave the American Federation of Musicians and James C.
Petrillo a vigorous going-over in a brand new Petrlllo row in
Washington this week. It followed closely the setback given to Mr.
Petrillo by the National Labor Relations Board in ruling that the
National Broadcasting Company and the Blue Network do not have to
employ musicians as ’’platter turners" except in Chicago where
Petrillo originally got away with it and under the present edict
will be allowed to continue to do so.

The latest blow-up over Petrillo in the Capital occurred
before a House subcommittee when AFM representatives denounced a
bill to authorize the use of city funds to support a band for the
Washington Police Department. Representative Hebert charged that
organized labor’s attempt to wreck the Washington Police Band was
the first move in an attempt to destroy 25 municipal bands through¬
out the country,

"If James Petrillo and his musicians’ union get away with
this window-dressing here in the Nation’s Capital", he declared, "it
will not be long before the rest of the country’s municipal bands
become victims of the union, "

AFM counsel remarked:

"You seem to have a hatred for the American Federation of
Musicians, "

The Louisianan, who explains that his name should be
pronounced "A- Bear" and who was formerly City Editor of the New
Orleans States, replied: "No, I do not. There is no one stronger
for the unions than I am, for collective bargaining - but I’m damned
if I am for racketeering, "

Robert Wilson, AFM lawyer and Paul Schwartz, president of
the local affiliate of the Federation, agreed the union had the self¬
ish interest of looking out for Jobs of 300 local members, now ovei>-
seas, who will need jobs when tiiey return to private life,

"Let’s leave the war out of this", Mr, Hebert retorted.

"You would be here opposing this bill if we had never heard of the
war, "

When a question was raised as to whether Mr. Wilson was
speaking for Mr. Petrillo as head of the Musicians' Federation, Mr.

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Hebert declared: ”1 wonder Just how far Petrillo Is going? He told
the l^Ihite House what to do - I want to know if he told you what to
do here, ” Later, Mr. Wilson agreed he was speaking for Joseph Padway
the Federation's General Counsel, who could not attend the session.

It was reported to the National Labor Relations Board that
Petrillo would be asked to call a sympathy strike in support of
four transmission engineers who quit work at Station WSIX, in Nash¬
ville, Tenn, last Thursday night about the time the station's trans¬
mitter went silent.

The station resumed operation and Sunday night, D. M.
Morris, representative of the Radio Broadcast Technicians branch of
the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (AFL), announced
his appeal to Mr. Petrillo had been made,

Mr. Morris declared the station returned to the air by
employing non-union workers, which he contended constituted a lock¬
out.

Mr. Morris said the dispute arose over negotiations for a
contract, in progress since November 4,

In its "platter turner" decision the National Labor Rela¬
tions Board concludes:

"The National Association of Broadcast Engineers and
Technicians contends that the two system-wide units of technical
employees should include 'on the air’ playback work in Chicago as
well as elsewhere because the turntable is technical equipment and
should be operated by a technical employee. The A.F.M. contends
that this work pertains to the musical craft because the records
played contain music and a musical background is helpful, and con¬
sequently the work should be performed by employees in musicians'
units everywhere, as it is in Chicago, There was considerable testi¬
mony offered to establish, on the one hand, that the operation of
turntables requires a knowledge of music and, on the other hand,
that it requires technical skill and training,

"The evidence reveals that the quality of turntable work is
equally good in Chicago, where it is performed by musicians, as it is
in the other stations of the Companies, where it is performed by
studio engineers. It also appears from the record that, in radio
stations operated by other broadcasting companies, this work is per¬
formed by other employees such as announcers, without any noticeable
deterioration of quality. Upon the entire record, we are satisfied
and find that neither a technical nor a musical skill is essential
for this operation.

"In the absence of other compelling circumstances, we are
of the opinion that the collective bargaining history is determinat¬
ive of the issue in this proceeding. The status of turntable oper¬
ating work has been crystallized by long-standing custom in the
Companies, On the one hand. Local 10 has had agreements in Chicago
from the very infancy of the radio broadcasting industry which have

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covered turntable operators and, In the development of broadcasting
techniques, the Companies have adjusted their operations in Chicago
by placing their turntables in the broadcasting studios where they
can be operated most conveniently by employees in musicians’ units.
On the other hand, studio engineers, employees in technical units,
members of the N.A.B.E.T, and its predecessor, have performed turn¬
table work outside Chicago for at least 4 years. The location of
the turntables in the engineer's booth v/as the Inevitable result of
this situation. We conclude that the turntable operators outside
Chicago should be included in units of technical employees, while
those in Chicago should be included in units of musicians, "

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BAD INDUSTRIAL PRECEDENT SEEN IN PETRILLO'S COUP

Considering the Petrlllo exactions from the record manu¬
facturers so important that he has devoted two articles to the sub¬
ject, Mark Sullivan wrote in his second article last Sunday:

"The Petrillo Case is Important in itself, Even more im¬
portant is the precedent established, and the application of it to
industry generally.

"The same demand now successfully made by Mr, Petrillo can
be made by unions in any industry. Unions in the airplane Industry
can demand a royalty on each plane. In the radio Industry the same.
Unions in the steel industry can demand a royalty on each ingot and
beam. This is likely to follow. Leaders of other unions cannot af¬
ford to see Mr, Petrillo make a demand and get it, without making
the same demand for their unions,

"Moreover, Mr. Petrillo' s device is a way of getting more
money for his union without any Increase in w^age rates. At a time
wnen wage rates are more or less frozen by the 'Little Steel* ceil¬
ing, set up by the War Labor Board, devices for getting around the
ceiling are eagerly sought. The Petrillo technique is likely to be
widely imitated,

"For the innovation Mr. Petrillo has thus introduced into
American industry he has a novel theory. Not that the theory matters
but it is interesting, Mr. Petrillo says that music records, so-
called ’mechanical music’, takes work away from musicians. If mech¬
anical music were not used by radio broadcasting stations, and others,
the music would have to be supplied by ’live’ musicians. So, Mr.
Petrillo claims that the musicians thus deprived of work are entitled
to compensation from the thing that displaced them. Hence Mr.

Petrillo says that on each music record the manufacturer must pay a
royalty into the union treasury. The royalties, Mr. Petrillo says,
are to be used in part to take care of unemployed musicians,

"By this theory, persons thro^^fn out of work by any mech¬
anical invention would become pensioners upon that invention.

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Drivers of horse-dra’m vehicles would have been entitled to compen-'
sation from manufacturers of automobiles, the compensation to be in
the form of royalty on each automobile. Drivers of ice wagons would
have been entitled to royalties on each mechanical refrigerator. ”

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COURT DISMISSES WOW'S TRIPLE DAMAGE SUIT AGAINST ASCAP

Judge James Fitzgerald of the Superior Court of Nebraska
Monday, November 27th, dismissed the triple damage suit against the
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) brought
by Station WOW of Omaha and Joseph Malec on behalf of twenty-four
tavern and hotel keepers. Plaintiffs sought to recover license fees
to ASCAP for the period from 1937 to 1941 in the amount of three
hundred fifty-seven thousand dollars ($357,000).

The case was tried last June before Judge Fitzgerald in
Omaha at which time Louis D, Frohlich of ASCAP* s General Counsel
staff, Herman Finkelstein, ASCAP Resident Counsel, and Yale appeared
on behalf of the Society,

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SENATE TO HEAR CAPEHART CAIjIPAIGN EXPENDITURE CHARGES

Charges that Republican election officials were in a con¬
spiracy to keep Democrats from voting and that Senator-elect Homer
Capehart spent more than the law allows, will be heard by the Senate
Committee Investigating Campaign Expenditures next Friday (Dec, 1).

Commenting upon Mr, Capehart* s recent visit to Washington,
Drew Pearson wrote:

"The Gentleman from Indiana, newly elected Senator "Music-
Box" Capehart, staging his first press conference in the Capital,
stepped into a tough grilling on his attitude toward a world peace
organi zation,

"At first, he said he would stand with Governor Dewey,

Then he backed away from Dewey’s declaration to the position: *0f
course I’m for the keeping of world peace,’

"Capehart refused to answer when asked whether he would
favor granting our representative on a world security council author¬
ity to act independently of Congress, said he didn't have enough
facts. This is considered the most important point of U, S. foreign
policy raised during the entire campaign. When he was asked if the
facts on which he had based his campaign speeches were insufficient,
his press adviser interjected:

"'How can anyone tell what may happen in the future? None
of us knows what may arise 18 or 20 years from now. '

"'I take it then. Senator', suggested a newsman, 'that you
will have the facts you need toward the end of your third term in
the Senate,*”

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HOW ABOUT SALUTING GENERAL SARNOFF?

David Sarnoff, President of the Radio Corporation of
America, has had quite a string of fancy titles and decorations
bestowed upon him as you may see in ”Who*s Who". These include
his nomination as Offl osr of the Order of the Oaken Crown of the
Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, Chevalier de L*0rdre National de la
Legion d'honneur (France), and Officer Order of Polonla Restituta
(Poland). Probably none of these honors pleased him nearly as much
as when he learned that his nomination was to be sent to the Senate
as a Brigadier General of the U. S, Army,

Colonel Sarnoff had previously been awarded the Legion of
Merit for "outstanding service", his citation reading:

"Col. David Sarnoff, Signal Corps, United States Army, for
exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding
service while serving as Assistant to the Deputy Chief Signal Offic¬
er, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, from 25 August
1944 to 16 September 1944, Col, Sarnoff was largely responsible for
reopening communications in Paris, thus enabling press communica¬
tions to resume both to the United Kingdom and to the United States.
His ingenuity and resourcefulness made it possible to restore cables
which had been severed by the enemy, and allowed French radio ex¬
perts who had not worked for many years during the occupation to
return to their former duties. Colonel Sarnoff s outstanding devo¬
tion to duty, courage, and great diplomacy in handling French citi¬
zens have aided materially in overcoming the great difficulties in
attaining this objective. Entered military service from New York. "

Thus the RCA will have the distinction of being headed by
two Generals - Lieut, Gen, James G. Harbord, U. S,A. retired, and
Brigadier General - you guessed it - our old friend Dave Sarnoff*

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NO NEW BUILDING FOR ASCAP - YET

The Board of Directors of the American Society of Composers
last week rejected the proposal to lease the former Anderson Art
Galleries building at 59th Street and Park Avenue,

No other plans concerning a change of address has been

proDOsed,

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Frank Mullen, Vice President and General Manager of the
National Broadcasting Company addressing the Chicago Agriculture
Club said: "Television is something totally new. It will grow on
soil where nothing ever grew before. From the standpoint of employ¬
ment, it will create new Jobs without abolishing any old ones. It
will add to employment without subtracting from it, "

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GARDNER COWLES SEES ROSY POSTWAR ADVERTISING PICTURE

The Cowles Broadcasting Company has grown to such propor¬
tions that a meeting of their staff as was held last week in New
York City was a news event of major importance. Furthermore, the
optimism of Gardner Cowles, Jr. , President, with regard to advertis¬
ing prospects after the war - radio, newspaper and magazine - was
music to the ears of those industries.

"The volume of postwar advertising in all three fields
will be terrific", Mr. Cowles declared. It was his opinion that the
period would be spread over at least two years and would establish
an all-time high.

The post-war period, Mr. Cowles said, will be "very com¬
petitive" in both publishing and radio and the Cowles policy is to do
the best Job of programming and public service possible with the
stations, newspapers and magazines now in hand. He included the
Minneapolis station for which application is pending.

With FM developing very rapidly, the Cowles stations are
planning frequency modulation programs along with the AM broadcasts
and Mr, Cowles said he visualizes a need for an FM network only if
the time comes when Fti stations must have separate programming.

As for television, the picture is "clouded" and there is a
lot of arithmetic, such as who is going to pay the bill, which Mr.
Cowles admitted is "too deep" for him. If the situation is clarified
his company v/ill probably seek television licenses for stations in
eastern markets.

It is doubtful, at the moment, he said, whether facsimile
will ever reach a mass programming basis. He views it as a specialty.

There will be a plethora, of radio stations after the war,
he predicted, and radio ivill have to do "a lot better Job than it
did before the war in the matter of programs". In this connection,
he said the idea that newspaper publishers should move into the radio
field "for protection" is "grossly exaggerated". For the number of
radio stations in the average to^m of 150,000 to 200,000 population
will multiply by three or four.

"I!i5y brother and I are very much sold on the future of
radio", Mr, Cowles commented, but he denied there was any plan for
setting up a new network. Acquisition of a new station in Boston
recently he described as merely "a good business venture - at the
price. "

At the New York meeting besides Gardner and his brother
John, Chairman of the Board, was Vice-President Tam Craven, Also
present were Phil Hoffman, Vice-President, in charge of operating
KRNT at Des Moines and WNAX at Yankton; Carl Koester, Treasurer;

Ted Enns, National Sales Manager; Craig Lax'^rence, Vice-President of
WHOM, Jersey City, and WCOP, Boston; A. N, Armstrong, Jr,, General

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Inman, Vice-President and General Manager, WNAX; James Milloy, Vice-
President of Look magazine; Karl Haase, Treasure, WHOM and WCOP;
and Eugene Katz, Secretary of the Katz Agency, sales representative
of the Cowles stations.

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GRAVES, ASSISTANT INTERNAL REVENUE CHIEF, GOES TO KIRO

Closely following the announcement that Paul H, Appleby,
Assistant Director of the Budget, is resigning to become Vice-Presi¬
dent and General Manager of the Queen City Broadcasting Company
(KIRO), Seattle, comes the news that Harold N. Graves, Assistant
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, has become an executive of that
company,

Mr. Graves entered Government employment as a school
teacher in the Philippines in 1908. He served in the old Bureau of
Efficiency, the old Personnel Classification Board, and was Assist¬
ant Secretary of Commerce under Herbert Hoover, assistant to former
Postmasters General Walter F, Brown and James A. Farley, and before
taking his present post on July 1, 1943, was assistant to Secretary
of the Treasury Morgenthau,

Mr. Graves also was Acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue
after Robert E. Hannegan resigned,

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MBS BOARD TO MEET NEW PPJ:SIDENT DECEMBER 9

Members of the Board of Directors, Shareholders, and Execu¬
tive Committee of the Mutual Broadcasting System, will gather for
their fourth meeting of the year in New York City, beginning Satur¬
day, December 9, when they will meet Edgar Kobak, the new MBS Presi¬
dent,

The Executive Committee includes Chesser Campbell, WGN,
Chicago; H, K, Carpenter, WHK, Cleveland; John Shepard III, Yankee
Network, Boston; Theodore C, Streibert, WOR, New York; Lewis Allen
Weiss, Don Lee, Hollywood, and Mr. Kobak,

On Sunday and Monday, the Board of Directors and Share¬
holders of the network will meet. Alfred J. McCosker, Chairman,
will preside.

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CIVILIAN TUBE SHORTAGE MAY LAST SOMETIIJIE AFTER WAR

Scarcely half enough radio receiving tubes have been
available during the last two years to replace those worn out in
civilian receiving sets, and the shortage is expected to continue
until several months after the defeat of Germany and Japan, the War
Production Board said today (Wednesday).

WPB explained the civilian replacement tube shortage by
the fact that military demands increased from 16 percent of the
total production in 1941 to 65 percent the next year, 82 percent in
1943, and 86 percent in 1944, Labor is in short supply, but suf¬
ficient facilities and materials are available so that if 6,000 more
female workers could be obtained, production of receiving tubes both
for military and civilian programs could be stepped up, allowing an
increase in civilian replacement tubes up to 4,000,000 a month, WPB
Radio and Re.dar Division officials said.

During 1944, replacement tubes available to civilians can¬
not exceed 19,000,000, as against demands exceeding 36,000,000, the
Division said. The 19,000,000 tubes should enable home owners to
maintain at least one radio receiver in operation, WPB said. No
tubes for new home radio receivers have been manufactured since 1942
owing to military demands on the electronics Industry,

The present schedule for the production of civilian receiv¬
ing tubes in the first quarter of 1945 is set tentatively at about
2,000,000 a month, an increase of about 500,000 tubes a month over
past WPB authorization. However, the estimated monthly production
can be attained only if increased labor is obtained and military
demands do not Increase, WPB said. If conditions are anticipated
correctly, it is hoped that civilian tubes may be produced at the
rate of 4,000,000 a month within about four months after "Victory in
Europe" Day, the agency added.

Total employment in radio receiving tube plants was only
15,000 in 1941, but has increased to 39,000 today.

Military radio tube requirements have been programmed at
the minimum realistic level sufficient to cover military equipment
needs and to prevent depot stocks from falling off dangerously, WPB
officials said.

According to Major W. A. Gray, of the Vacuum Tube Section,
Ra-dio and Radar Division, strenuous efforts have been made by the
tube industry to utilize all available labor efficiently. To this
end, the manufacturing companies in tight labor areas have establish¬
ed a total of 16 feeder plants outside those areas.

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ing tubes available for the public’s use dropped gradually from
30,000,000 in 1941 to present renewal shipments of 19,000,000 tubes
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quantities as replacements,

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’’TAKE PETRILLO'S FOOT OFF CHILDREN'S NECK” - VANDENBERGH

James C. Petrlllo came to the attention of Washington and
the country again Tuesday when the Senate Interstate Commerce Commit¬
tee by a unanimous vote approved a bill by Senator Arthur H. Vanden-
berg (r), of Michigan, making it unlawful for any person to "inter¬
fere with, intimidate . . , hinder, extort, delay, prevent or con¬
spire” for the purpose of preventing noncommercial educational or
cultural broadcasts presented by any academically accredited tax-
exempt institution. The bill was sponsotred by Senator Vandenbergh
as the outgrowth of Petrillo's two year ban on broadcasts by the
National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan,

Senator Vandenberg summed up the abstruse legislative
phraseology in ten words; ”It takes Petrillo’s foot off the necks
of our school children, ”

Petrillo’s opposition to "free broadcasts" of school music
was deep-seated, and it was against these that the AFM czar struck
first.

In July, 1942, one month before he moved against the manu¬
facture of recordings, he banned the broadcasting of non-commercial
radio programs by the children of the National ^^uslc Camp at Inter¬
lochen, Mich, , attended by student musicians carefully picked from
High Schools in every State,

In the Fall of 1942, he blocked broadcasts of music programs
by students of the Eastman School of Music and the Cincinnati Con¬
servatory of Music

In the January, 1944, issue of "The International Musician",
official publication of the AFM, he discussed the controversy stirred
up by his school music moves,

"However", he reported, "when all the shooting was over and
we came to the Summer of 1943, there was no Interlochen High School
student orchestra on the air. Nor was there in the year 1943 any
other school band or orchestra on the networks and there never will
be without the permission of the American Federation of Musicians. "

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BBC HEAD AGAINST RADIO BECOMING "GLORIFIED JUKE-BOX"

W. J. Haley, Director General of the British Broadcasting
Corporation, in an address before the Radio Industries Club in
London was quoted by the Associated Press as saying that in postwar
plans "we shall sacrifice nothing in the quality or quantity of our
entertainment, but we shall safeguard broadcasting from becoming a
glorified juke-box. "

Mr. Haley said that the future of international broadcast¬
ing must be a matter of major international policy. He added that
he believed that no great nation could act unilaterally in this
matter. He proposed the continuance of a "sensibly modified system
of world broadcasting", and he added:

"There are nations, as well as nature, who abhor a vacuum,
and, if the truth is removed from the international ether, someone
will eventually be tempted to see if a few half-truths can*t prevail.

All the B3C*s sister organizations in the Dominions will
confer in London in February, he said.

Mr, Haley also announced that, after the war, the BBC,
which carries no commercials or advertising, planned to operate three
separate simultaneous programs on three different wave-lengths. He
conceded that the BBC now had bad as well as good shows and that it
would be a mistake for Americans to believe that there was a contin¬
uous string of hit performances, just as it would be for "us to be¬
lieve every United States radio show is a Charlie McCarthy or a Bob
Hope. Until Britain has its Hollywood it is no use blaming the BBC
for not finding stars that are non-existent. "

He said that the BBC was about to try "one of the boldest
experiments ever made at the microphone" - an eight-night discussion
"of jobs for all" during the peak listening period,

Mr, Haley said "the spoken word can supplement the written
word; it cannot supplant the written word, "

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PROMOTION TO MAJOR FOR H. LESLIE ATLASS , JR.

Congratulations were being received by H. Leslie Atlass,
of Chicago, Vice-President in charge of the Columbia Broadcasting
System’s Western Division in Chicago, upon the promotion of his
son H, Leslie Atlass, Jr,, to the rank of Major.

Rfejor Atlass is overseas with the Army,

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MAYBE NO FCC ALLOCATIONS UNTIL JAN. 1

The Federal Communications Commission cannot announce its
postwar allocations for FM and television on December 1st, as hoped
for, and, according to a Radio Manufacturers’ Association bulletin,
it appears Improbable that the Commission will make any allocation
decisions before January 1st,

Despite Intensive work by the FCC staff on the voluminous
record and allocation recommendations made by the RTPB and industr¬
ial representatives during the Commission's hearings which concluded
November 2nd, RMA is officially advised that at least several weeks
or more will be required before FM, television or any other deci¬
sions are possible. Former Chairman Fly, in concluding the FCC
hearings, expressed a hope for FM and television decisions by
December 1st, so that manufacturers could prepare for FM and tele¬
vision production.

The State Department will hold another International
allocations conference early in December, but the FCC will advise
the Department that the problems and work involved from its recent
hearings are too heavy and that the FCC cannot now make any recom¬
mendations to the State Department conferees, FCC also will hold
preliminary conferences with IRAC before making any recommendations
to the State Department.

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RYAN PLEDGES RADICES 25TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR TO VICTORY

Radio's twenty-fifth anniversary year was pledged to vict¬
ory Tuesda.y by J. Harold Ryan, President of the National Association
of Broadcasters,

Calling on all stations and networks to observe the pro¬
gress and achievements of the first quarter century of broadcasting
in America, Mr, Ryan announced plans for dedicating 1945 anniversary
activities to the winning of the war.

The twenty-fifth anniversary symbol is ’’XXV”, which has
been designed with a dominant "V for Victory". A musical signature
is in process of preparation which will combine the now famous
musical "V" with the "XX", both taken from the Continental code.

Plans for extensive coordination of station and network
facilities beginning on New Year’s Day include dramatizations on the
historical side of radio, resurrection of early day programs and
appearances of veteran perfonners, all speaking on the theme of
Americanism and victory in the present world conflict,

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BLOW-UP OVER WMCA SECRET HEARINGS BREAKS CASE WIDE OPEN

It Is believed that the attempt of the House Committee
Investigating the Federal Cbramunications Commission put the soft
pedal on the probe of the sale of Station WAGA by closing the hear¬
ings to the public will have Just the opposite effect. There will
surely be further eruptions in the House and the Senate.

Charges of "whitewash" and "scandal" were quickly raised
when the story broke Tuesday and as a dramatic climax, John J.

Sirica, counsel for the Committee, resigned and the police had to
be called to drag Philip Handelraann, an attorney for Donald Flamra,
from the room as he explosively denounced the Congressional Committee
for voting to hold further sessions behind closed doors,

"There is great public Interest in this case", Mr. Sirica,
who had succeeded Eugene Garey as Committee counsel and who had like¬
wise resigned with a loud protest, declared. "I don’t want it on ray
conscience that I submitted to a whitewash. Therefore I am tender¬
ing my resignation effective at once. "

Mr, Sirica, who was accused of unfairness by Edward J,
Noble, who purchased WK'ICA from Mr. Flamra, was defended by Representa¬
tive Lea (D), of California, Chairman of the House Committee:

"In accepting the position of Committee counsel, which he
did not seek, Mr. Sirica who is ray appointee, said he would do so
only on the understanding that he would be permitted to * go down the
line, letting chips fall where they may’. He has done so, and in my
opinion justified abundantly my Judgment in appointing him,

"Since the charges were made in public, the vindication
they seek also should be sought in public, and my own feeling is that
in due respect not only to Congress but to public opinion in this
country our dealings with it should be open and above board. For
these reasons it is in ray opinion unfortunate to depart from the pol¬
icy of public hearings,

"It is in ray opinion unfortunate also for those charged
with what is, as I look at it, a serious offense. Where else than in
this forum could they have a better opportunity to enter a straight¬
forward, manly defense against these charges? Yet instead of welcom¬
ing it, they have walked away from it, "

Representative Wigglesworth ( R) , of Massachusetts, declared*

"How any one who has listened to the testimony during the
last three days * * can vote to close these hearings to the public

at this time is beyond my comprehension.

"Ever since the start of this investigation, this Committee
and its staff has met with constant obstruction, intimidation and
underhand tactics from those in high places in the attempt to ham¬
string its work and to suppress the truth, "

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Those who voted for the closed sessions were Representa¬
tives Edward J. Hart (D), of New Jersey; Percy Priest ( D) , of
Tennessee, and Louis E. Miller ( R) , of Missouri, Those who voted
against it were Chairman Lea and Mr. Wiggle sworth.

Things began to liven up at the sessions last week v^rhen
Gen. Edward M. Watson, aide to President Roosevelt, advised the
Committee that the President had sought a full Investigation of the
story that WCA had been sold "under pressure from the White House"
as has been charged. General Watson said, however, he had previous¬
ly discussed the matter with F, C. C. Commissioner Norman S. Case,

Then last Monday along came former F. C. C. Commissioner
George Henry Payne, who declared that the White House advised the
Federal Communications Commission to "forget" the accusations that
the station had been sold under "duress",

Mr, Payne said the allegations came from William Weismann,
an attorney for Donald Flamm. Mr. Payne quoted Weisemann as saying,
in substance, that there had been "persecutions, injustices, etc,",
attending the sale. That was after the FCG had approved the trans¬
fer, Mr. Payne said.

Members of the Commission, he testified, felt it best to
notify the White House of the charges to "see if it were interested"

Through an executive clerk of the White House, the late
Rudolph Forster, Mr. Payne added, the Commission was advised "to
forget all about it",

Leslie Roberts, former Public Relations Counsel of V/JilCA,
told the Committee he had participated in a conspiracy to force Mr.
Flamm to sell to Mr. Noble and at a reduced figure.

Mr, Noble made a sweeping denial of the charges saying
they had made this "the most astounding and astonishing day I have
ever experienced, "

Mr, Noble purchased the station in 1940 for $850,000, whic
did not include, he testified, fees and other expenses, which brougii
the total to $940,000. He said he received $1,225,000 when he sold
it last year to Nathan Straus, New York City financier,

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NOBLE SEEKS PUBLIC INVESTIGATION; "I WAiMT NO WHITEWASH"

Edward J. Noble, purchaser of Station Wli/ICA, lost no time
Tuesday stating his side of the case when the House Committee
Investigating the Federal Communications Commission, decided to
hold secret executive sessions. He said:

"I want the record to show that I strongly desire that all
pertinent facts to the House investigation be made public, I want
no whitewash, as has been charged, and I want an opportunity to
answer, fully and completely, Mr, Flamm^s allegations.

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’’However, I have not thought and I do not think now,
that it is proper for John Sirica, the Committee’s Counsel, to use
his position with the Committee to try a private law suit, wrhich
Flanira has brought against me. We have no opportunity to cross-
examine witnesses, no opportunity to present our side of this case.
The Committee’s Counsel has employed every e f fort and artifice to
build up the testimony of witnesses friendly to Flamm, and to under¬
mine the testimony of witnesses friendly to me. Even that might be
excusable, if the subject matter involved public officials and
accordingly the public interest. It does not, however, do that.

Both Flamm and Committee Counsel, as well as previous investigations,
have absolved the White House and the Federal Communications Commis¬
sion of any Impropriety,

"It becomes accordingly a travesty on the Americay way,
which Mr, Wigglesworth claims to defend, to pervert the processes of
a Congressional Committee to the trial of a private civil suit. That
is the province of the courts. It has been said that if there is a
good defense to that suit, no better place could be found to present
it. That might be true - were it possible - but it has become
abundantly clear, as ray. Counsel has repeatedly protested, that it is
not possible in these hearings, because of the prejudice and bias of
Sirica and his persistence, over the objections of the majority of
the Committee, in "prosecuting", as he says, matters solely germane
to the private civil suit. "

Prior to this, Franklin S. Wood, addressed the following
letter to Chairman Lea:

"As Counsel for Mr, Edward J. Noble, forraer owner of Radio
Station WMCA, I must protest vigorously against the prejudicial con¬
duct of Mr, John Sirica, Counsel to the House Select Committee
Investigating the Federal Communications Commission, at the current
Dublic hearings relating to the purchase of W?iICA by Mr, Noble from
Donald Flamm in 1940,

"JAr, Sirica, though nominally employed by your Committee to
conduct a fair and impartial investigation, has now shown, beyond a
shadow of a doubt, that he is prejudiced against Mr. Noble; that he
is sympathetic to Flamm, and that he is not only willing but anxious
to present to your Committee *hear-say’ evidence, without any attempt
to establish the facts,

"At the outset of these hearings, I protested that, since
this whole matter is essentially a private dispute and is the subject
of pending suit by the plaintiff Flamm in New York County Supreme
Court, any further hearings should be held in e xecutive sessions, if
prejudice to the defense of that action were to be avoided,

"That is now abundantly clear. The allegations of White
House interference and of improper action by the Federal Communica¬
tions Commission were never anything but wild charges by Flamm, to
arouse public interest and gain publicity and have now been disavowed
both by Flamm and by your counsel. There remains nothing but

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Flamra* s allegations of coercion and conspiracy with his employees -
which since the abandonment of his efforts at rescission, remains
the sole point of his pending court action,

"It has also become abundantly clear that your counsel
regards himself and is in truth and fact acting as Flamm’s attorney.
Any pretense at an impartial Investigation of the facts is gone.

In his opening statement Wednesday morning (November 22), your
counsel outlined his proposed proof of Flamm’s charges, and in the
Friday afternoon session he boasted that he is, in effect, prosecut¬
ing a case against Mr, Noble, The blunt question is; Is he prose¬
cuting a case against Mr, Noble or is he conducting an investigation
of the Federal Communications Commission? The facts speak for them¬
selves.

”I delayed this protest, during the first two days of hear¬
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restrain myself no longer, for the reputation and character of Mr,
Noble are being unfairly and prejudicially attacked by Mr, Sirica in
an obvious attempt to gain publ icity for himself at the expense of
Mr. Noble, Mr, Noble is a well-known citizen, of good repute and I
know you and your Committee do not wish to be parties to an unfair
attack on him, particularly in a matter of private rather than public
concern.

"In view of these facts, I respectfully request that your
Committee direct your counsel to refrain from his one-sided presenta¬
tion of matters relating to the civil suit, or that your Committee
hold these hearings in executive session with the understanding that
the testimony will be made public after the civil suit is tried, "

In response to inquiries concerning the action of the Sel¬
ect Committee in ordering executive sessions for further hearings on
WI\iICA, the Federal Communications Commission through its Chairman,

E. K, Jett, pointed out that it is publicly on record in several
instances as asking for a prompt and full investigation of the
charges in the WMCA matter,

"The manner of conducting the investigation is, of course,
for the Select Committee to determine and the Commission ha.s no com¬
ment concerning this action", Mr. Jett said, "As far as the Commis¬
sion is concerned, we are ready today as we have been for the two
years of the life of the investigation to present all the facts we
nave concerning the WJICA matter - either in public or executive ses¬
sion as the Select Committee sees fit. "

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With his being sworn in last Monday, the Senate gets anoth¬
er radio man in Wilton E, Hall of Anderson, S, C, , who has been named
to succeed the late "Cotton Ed" Smith, However, the appointment is
for a brief period - purely complimentary - as Senator Smithes terra
expires January 3rd at which time Gov, Olin D, Johnston, of South
Carolina, takes over for the six year term, Mr. Hall owns Station
WAIM, the CBS outlet at Anderson,

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FCC APPLICATIONS RECEIVED ; ACTION

Marcus Loew Booking; Agency, Wasnington, D. C. , construct io'
permit for a new commercial television broadcast station to be oper¬
ated on Channel #8 (162,p00-168, 000 kilocycles); Same Co,, New York,
N.Y. , construction permit for a new commercial television broadcast
station to be operated on Channel #17 (282,000-288,000 kilocycles);
Capitol Broadcasting Corp, , Charleston, W. Va, , construction permit
for a new standard broadcast station to be operated on 1240 kc, ,
power of 250 watts and unlimited hours of operation; Taylor Ra,dio &
Television Corp, , San Diego, Calif. , construction permit for a new
Standard Broadcast Station to be operated on 1000 kc, , power of 250
watts and unlimited hours of operation; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios,
Inc,, Los Angeles, Calif,, construction permit for a new Commercial
Television Broadcast Station to be operated on Channel #8 (162,000-
168,000 kc).

Also, Claremont Eagle, Inc., Claremont, N. H. , construction
permit for a new High Frequency ( FI^T Broadcast Station to be operated
on 48,900 kc. , with coverage of 5,100 sq, miles; also construction
permit for a new ST Broadcast Station to be operated on 337,000 kc. ,
power of 25 watts and Special Emission; The Crosley Corporation,
Cincinnati, Ohio, construction permit for a new Commerical Television
Broadcast Station to be operated on Channel #1 (50,000-56,000 kc, ) ;
Smoky Mountain Broadcasting Co. , Knoxville, Tenn, , construction per¬
mit for a new Standard Broadcast Station to be operated on 1 340 kc. ,
power of 250 watts and unlimited hours of operation; Capitol Broad¬
casting Co», Inc. (WRAL), construction permit to change frequency
from 1240 kc, , to 1230 kc.

Also, Jackson Broadcasting Co. , Jackson, Miss., construc¬
tion permit for a new Standard Broadcast Station to be operated on
620 kc, , power of 1 KW, unlimited hours of operation and employing
directional antenna for nigiit use; Calumet Broadcasting Corp.,
Hammond, Ind. , construction permit for a new Standard Broadcast
Station to be operated on 1520 kc. , power of 5 KW and daytime hours
of operated amended to corporate structure; KECA, Blue Network Co.,
Inc,, Los Angeles, Calif,, special service authorization to operate
on 770 kc, , power of 5 KW and unlimited hours of operation pending
completion of construction as contemplated; also construction permit
to change frequency from 790 kc. , to 770 kc, , increase power from
5 KW to 50 KW, install new transmitter, directional antenna for day
and night use, move studio and transmitter.

APPLICATIONS GRANTED: WFSA, New Hampshire Broadcasting
Co., Bilanche ster, N. H, , granted consent to transfer of control of
New Hampshire Broadcasting Co. , licensee of Station WFEA, from
Adeline B. Rines to H. M. Bitner, for a consideration of approxi¬
mately $150,000 for 1,000 shares, or 100^, of outstanding capital
stock of licensee. Commissioners Walker and Durr voted ”for a hear¬
ing"; KOBE. Eugene, Oregon, granted consent to involuntary assign¬
ment of license of Station KOPE from Frank L, Hill and Violet G-,

Hill, co-partners, d/b as Eugene Broadcast Station, to Violet Q,

Hill Iflotter and Violet G. Hill B/Iotter, Administratrix of the estate
of Frank L, Hill, deceased, d/b as Eugene Broadcast Station; no
monetary consideration.

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A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Radio Manu¬
facturers' Association, called by President R. C, Cosgrove, will be
held Wednesday, December 6 in Chicago, Director L. J, Chatten of
the WPB Radio & Radar Division will attent the meeting for an inform¬
al conference with the RJAA Executive Committee regarding the increas¬
ed industry war program and also the retarded future civilian recon¬
version plans of WPB.

Broadcasts originating from Columbia Broadcasting System's
huge million-and-a-half dollar shortwave transmitting plant at
Delano, Calif,, were beamed overseas for the first time Sunday,
November 86th,

Paul V, McNutt, Chairman of the War Manpower Commission,
yesterday reported that approximately 90,000 workers are required
immediately to man work stations in plants producing "topmust” war
items for which there are urgent needs resulting from combat oper¬
ations in the various theaters of war.

In addition to the small-arms ammunition program, Mr,
McNutt listed among the 17 critical war production programs in which
the need for workers is urgent - 3,000 in Radar,

Elmer H. Wavering has been appointed Vice President in
cnarge of the new Automotive Division, and Walter H. Stellner, Vice¬
-President in charge of the newHome Products Division of the Oalvin
Manufacturing Corporation of Chicago, makers of Motorola Radio,

Mr. Wavering joined the Motorola organization as an engi¬
neer in 1930, In 1 937 Motorola, entered the home radio field, and at
tnat time, Mr. Stellner was appointed Advertising Manager for the
Horae Radio Division.

Certain non-critical electronic equipment, parts and compon
ents are now available for domestic purchase and exoort out of idle
and excess stocks of war contractors, the War Production Board says.

The action of WPB now permits free sales and movement of
many non-critical materials out of war contractors' surplus. The
exceptions which now appear on PR 13 are still restricted and require
a priority rating of AA-5 or better.

In addition, radio tubes have become more critical than
heretofore and will require ratings as high as AA-1 in some cases.
Thirty types of tubes have been frozen and cannot be sold except on
specific authorization by WpB, It was also pointed out that produc¬
ers and reprocessors are not permitted to buy radio tubes except un¬
der the same conditions as affect war contractors.

Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation - Six months
to October 31: Net profit, after estimated taxes and possible reneg¬
otiation, $592,921, against net profit of $513,814 for similar perioi^
of 1943,

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2400 CALIFORNIA STREET WASHINGTON, D. C.

INDEX TO ISSUE OF DECEMBER 6, 1944

Tele To Put Best Foot Forward At 1st Annual Conference. . 1

Durr Urges Educators To Go To It On FM . 3

Noble Charges WlCk Foes With Even Trying To Reach FDR . 5

Kams Heads WPB Radio Division Products Branch . 6

Forecasts In 10 Years Almost Everything Will Be FM. . 7

AFL Plans Radio Expansion After The War . 8

Petrillo Thumbed On Police fend; He Threatens Benny . 9

Calls Vandenbergh .4nti-Petrillo Bill ”Only A Pinprick”. . . . 9

McDonald Sees Jap’s Radio Invention Boomerang . 10

Facsimile No Threat To Newspapers Yet, Says Craven . 11

Charges Corcoran Threatened Tax Squeeze In WiCA Case . 12

Scissors And Paste . 13

Trade Notes . 15

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TELE TO PUT BEST FOOT FORWARD AT 1ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Television will be on parade as never before next Monday
and Tuesday, December 11th and 12th, when the First ,/lnnual Confer¬
ence of the Television Broadcasters’ Association will be held in
New York City. The program, arranged by a Committee headed by J. R.
Poppele, is virtually complete.

Broadcasters, manufacturers of radio and television equip¬
ment, advertising agencies, motion picture companies and others will
be represented at the conference. Over 300 advance registrations
from all sections of the United States have been received and the
meeting is expected to attract two or three times that many people.

The opening program Monday morning at the Hotel Commodore
will include an Address of Welcome by Dr. Allen B. DuMont, President
of the Television Broadcasters' Association, Inc, , and the following

Report on Arrangements by J, R. Poppele, Chairroan, First Annual Con¬
ference of Television Broadcasters Association, Inc,

"New Horizons in Television", Dr. W. R, G-, Baker, Vice President,
General Electric Company; Chairman Ra.dio Technical Planning
Board.

E. W. Engstrom, Director of Research, RCA Laboratories, Prince¬
ton, N, J.

"Television Programming", John F. Royal, Vice President in Charge of
Television, National Broadcasting Company.

Robert L, Gibson, Assistant to the Vice President in Charge of
Advertising and Publicity, General Electric Company,

Thomas H. Hutchinson, in Charge of Production, RKO Television
Corporation,

"Establishing Television Networks", Harold 3. Osborne, Chief Engi¬
neer, American Telephone and Telegraph Co,

Lewis Allen Weiss, Executive Vice-President of the Don Lee
Broadcasting System will address the luncheon meeting Monday. His
topic will be "Television and the Broadcaster",

In the early part of the afternoon there will be panel
meetings to be summarized at a general meeting at 3:45. This will
be followed by a cocktail party sponsored by the First Television
Network - NBC, GE, and Piiilco,

Thirty television receivers will be installed in the ball¬
room of the Commodore on Monday evening to receive a special program
of entertainment to be televised in connection with the banquet, A
gala program of entertainment, presented entirely via television,
will feature the affair, which is expected to be attended by 1,000
persons.

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F. J. Bingley, Chief Television Engineer of the Philco
f Radio and Television Corporation, is in charge of set installations,

! Receivers are being supplied by RCA Victor, G-eneral Electric, DuMont,
Philco and Fada.

A full-hour program of entertainment will be telecast to
! tne ballroom by WN3T, the National Broadcasting station, and WABD,
operated by the Du Mont Laboratories. Ralph B. Austrian, executive
i Vice President of the RKO Television Corporation, will produce the
telecasts, which will include a remote pickup, a studio variety show
i and special films.

j An address "The U. S, Navy’s Electronic Training Program

I and Its Relation to Post-War Television", Commander William C. Eddy,

! U. S. Navy (Retired), will be heard Tuesda,y morning followed by a
Technical Roundtable Discussion and Quest ion-and-Answer period with
Dr, Alfred N, Goldsmith, Vice Chairman, Radio Technical Planning
Board as moderator.

At the luncheon following there mall be entertainment by
' stars of television, radio, stage and screen and the annual meet¬
ing will be held at 2:00 o'clock. Thereafter there will be visits to
j television studios at the National Broadcasting Coraoany, Du Mont
Television and Columbia Broj^dca sting System.

I Gold medals will be amr^rded 1, To an engineer for a techn-

' ical improvement, developm.ent or invention relating directly to tele¬
vision; 2. For the most outstanding television program of the year.

3, To a person for his individual contribution to television, not
necessarily of a technical or program nature, but for the active
interest he has taken in the general field of television.

The First Annual Conference of TBA marks the first event in
television history sponsored by a major video interest of the country.
Membership in the Association is comprised of the follomiing organiz¬
ations:

Active : General Electric Company, Crosley Corporation, Don Lee

Broadcasting System, Philco Radio and Television Corporation, Nation¬
al Broadcasting Co. , Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories; Television Pro¬
ductions, Inc. ; Earle C. Anthony, Inc. ; The Journal Company of Mil¬
waukee, Hughes Productions, Bamberger Broadcasting Service, Balaban
& Katz Corporation, WGN, Inc. , with an application pending from
Farnsworth Television and Radio CorT:>o ration.

Affiliate : RCA Victor, Capitol Radio Engineering Institute,

Western Electric Co., Midland Broadcasting Co., North American
Philips Co., Time, Inc,, Raytheon Manufacturing Co,, Emerson Radio
Phonograph Corp. , William Morris Agency, Cecil 3. DeMille Productions,
Buchanan & Co. Advertising; General Electric Co. , Electronics Depart¬
ment, Theatre Guild, RKO Television Corp,, and two applications now
pending from Federal Telephone and Radio Corp. and Rauland Corp,

The Association is nomr compiling its first official year
book "Television Today and Tomorrow", The price is $1,00,

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DURR URGES EDUCATORS TO GO TO IT ON FM

Educators having missed the boat in their failure to devel¬
op standard broadcast stations, FCC Commissioner Clifford J. Durr
at the annual meeting of the National Council of Chief State School
Officers in Baltimore told them opportunity again knocked at the
door - this time FM.

"In abandoning their own stations, many education institu¬
tions were influenced by the belief that their educational work
could be effectively carried on through the use of time donated by
the commercial stations", Commissioner Durr said, "This was true for
awhile, but as broadcasting grew in popularity as an advertising
medium, the time available for educational programs rapidly declined.
The demand for advertising has been stimulated still more by the war¬
time profits of business concerns, and there is no reason to believe
that advertising pressure upon broadcasting time will grow less when
the war is over.

"Now, happily, an educator has given education its second
chance. The imnortance of FM, or frequency modulation broadcasting,
developed by B/Iajor Edwin H, Armstrong, Professor of Electrical
Engineering at Columbia University, lies not merely in its high
fidelity and its comparative freedom from static and interference,
but even more in the new spaces it has opened up in the broadcasting
spectrum. When the wartime pressure upon critical materials has been
relaxed and radio equipment again made freely available, there will
be room for many new stations, both educational and commercial. If
I read the signs right, the educators are not going to let this
second chance go by.

"In the old recipe for rabbit stew, the first step recom¬
mended is to catch the rabbit. Educational stations must be estab¬
lished before there can be effective educational broadcasting. Even
this part of the Job is not a simple one, and the educational insti¬
tutions cannot count on others to do it for them. They must do the
job for themselves. "

Commissioner Durr said he thought that the entire Communi¬
cations Commission was impressed with the fact that this time the
educational institutions really mean business.

"The Chief State School Officers have a particular res¬
ponsibility with respect to assisting and encouraging coordinated
planning of the many educational FM stations which are now being
planned", the speaker continued. "In the educational portion of the
radio spectrum, as elsewhere througliout the spectrum, there will not
be enough room for all those who seek to broadcast unless spectrum
space is conserved by careful coordination of frequency assignments.
There was no such coordination in commercial broadcasting; and as a
result, after a quarter of a century one-third of the area of the
country is still without primary broadcast service. You can help
prevent a similar misfortune in the educational band by developing
statewide plans now. If you wait, the applications for frequencies

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now pending before the Federal Communications Commission will of
necessity be granted without respect to a statewide plan, and it may
be much more difficult thereafter to introduce coordination. I am
informed that some States, including Maryland, West Virginia, Ten¬
nessee, and perhaps others, have already adopted resolutions author¬
izing the Chief State School Officers to prepare statewide plans, I
am further informed that Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Con¬
necticut have set up State Radio Committees to prepare statewdde
plans. It is none too early; for if these plans are not ready when
equipment and materials become available, the foundations of educa¬
tional broadcasting may develop helter-skelter. It is always des¬
irable to complete your architectural blueprints before you lay the
cornerstone of an edifice, ”

"I do not believe the ultimate success of your educational
FM stations will depend merely on the program you broadcast for in¬
school listening. Nor will success depend merely upon the quality
of the transcriptions and the network programs which you bring into
the community from the outside. At least equally im.Dortant will be
the function of your educational FI^ stations as vehicles for local
self-expression for the community as a whole. The little red school-
house and the modern brick consolidated high-school alike have al¬
ways played a role as civic centers, and it is certainly appropriate
that the new educational FM stations should play a similar role in
the life of the whole community. By means of FM, you are enabled to
serve not merely the children in the schoolroom but the cultural,
Intellectual, and recreational needs of every man, woman, and child
I in your service area, I doubt whether there is any town, however
j small, which does not have a considerable untapped reservoir of
j talent suitable for broadcasting. Every educational institution has
; on its staff teachers and lecturers who can contribute much to the
! entire community as well as to their classroom students. * * *

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I "In addition to local dramatic possibilities, there is lo¬

cal music; here radio can be of particular service. And finally,
there is the discussion of local issues. It -is all very well, for
example, to hear Juvenile delinquency in your own home community?

Or housing in your community? Or public utility regulation?

"Perhaps such horae-groTi'n programs may not have the profes-
i sional polish of network programs; but it is at least possible that
! they wiil make up in local interest what they lack in professional
] craftsmanship, .4nd they will serve a most important cultural func-
1 tlon - the preservation and perhaps even the survival of those reg-
: lonal variations of culture without which our national life would be
’ the poorer.

"A democracy cannot rise above the level of the education
; of its citizens. The vistas which FM stations open for education are
I unlimited, and so are the vistas which they open up for our democracy
' as a TA/hole. A tool has been offered us; let us do our best to use it

well, "

(Note - Commissioner Durr's address "Education's Opportunities
in Radio" -was 11 typewritten pages in length, single-spaced.)

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NOBLE CHARG-ES WMCA FOES WITH EVEN TRYING TO REACH FDR

Countering on the attack made by Representative Richard B.
Wigglesworth ( R) , of Massachusetts, last week on the House floor in
connection with his purchase of Station W1'.5CA in New York, Edward J,
Noble hurled the charge of ”political pressure*^ in high quarters
back at his opponents.

"Congressman Wigglesworth is trying so desperately to con¬
jure up a public issue out of my purchase of Station W15CA four years
ago. In so doing, he carries a torch for a number of persons who
seek to extract from the situation personal profit for themselves at
my expense", Mr. Noble declared.

"One of this number, complaining he was forced to sell the
station to me at less than its value because of ’political pressure*,
has thus far displayed consummate skill in the use of political pres¬
sure for his own purposes, even to sending a political emissary to
see the President of the United States in his behalf. Another of
this number professes to have conspired against the seller of the
station when the latter was his own employer,

"They have had a field day peddling reckless charges but
their public campaign of defamation has now been curbed - at least
insofar as the House Select Committee is concerned. In determining
on executive hearings, a majority of the Committee simply refused to
permit it to be exploited for private gain. That the public inter¬
est, if there be any in the situation, has not been compromised is
evident from the fact that the investigation continues - though the
information it adduces relating to the private lawsuit, will not be
available for the present, and therefore cannot be used in the pend¬
ing court action for damages which the seller of the station initiat-
e d.

"That suit, which is awaiting trial in Supreme Court, New
York, represents a second try in the courts. The first action took
the form of injunction proceedings to prevent me from disposing of
the station a year ago; but the Judge threw that proceeding out of
court. "

Charging theuse of political pressure in connection with
the WMCA sale. Representative Wigglesworth had asked:

"What are these all-powerful forces?

"Is the administration seeking to protect and to keep under
cover the conduct and the doings of its ’sacred cows' and political
’parasites in private practice’ who are amassing fortunes at the
expense of the taxpayers?

"Is the administration trying to prevent the public dis¬
closure of the part played by Thomas G. Corcoran 'Tommy the Cork’,
William J. Dempsey, and William C. Koplowitz and other New Deal
officials, past and present, in connection with this case?

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"Did these persons conspire in the alleged enforced sale
of radio station WMCA by Donald Flamra to Edward J. Noble, another
former officeholder under the New Deal?'*

Deploring the fact that House Investigating Committee had
closed its doors to the public and the press, the Washington Post
noted;

"Members of the House who are protesting against the clos¬
ing of hearings on the sale of Station WMCA seem to us to have a good
case. The story of the transfer of this radio station from Donald
Flamra to Edward J. Noble, forrcer Undersecretary of Commerce, is long
and complicated. No doubt parts of it have been exaggerated by per¬
sons interested in making a case against txne Federal Communications
Commission, But that is no excuse for conducting the investigation
benind closed doors. If the hearing is to be held at all, its pro¬
ceedings should be open to the public,

"Since his transfer gave rise to a lawsuit, it is persuas¬
ively argued that the case should not be tried before a Congressional
Committee, Congress certainly ought not tointerfere in orivate
legal controversies. On the other hand, a Congressional Committee
cannot reasonably be asked to ignore oublic issues merely because
they may have a bearing upon a private suit. If the Committee makes
its investigation impartially, and seeks only to disclose the rela¬
tionship of the ^CC to the case, we cannot see that there will be
any reasonable ground for complaint.

"The most unfortunate aspect of the W,CA case seems to us
to be the part that two former FCC attorneys, who knew ofMr. Flamm's
difficulties with the FCC, played in connection with the sale. We
think all the facts should be explored by the Committee in the full
ligiit of day. "

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KAMS HEADS WpB MDIO DIVISION PRODUCTS BRANCH

The appointment of Melvin E, Earns, of Collingswood, N.J. ,
as Chief of the Products and Facilities Branch of the War Production
Board Radio and Radar Division, was announced Monday by Louis J,
Chatten, Director of the Division.

Besides directing the Products and Facilities Branch, Mr.
Earns will supervise the operations of the component and end products
sections of the Division,

Mr. Earns is a graduate of the Eansas State College and
nas been engaged in the engineering and manufacturing phases of the
radio industry for 18 years. Prior to joining the Pte.dio and Rader
Division staff of WPB, he served with the Radio Corporation of
America, as Staff Assistant to the Manager of Manufacturing of the
RCA Victor Division and was located at Camden, N. J.

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FORECASTS IN 10 YEARS ALMOST EVERYTHING WILL BE FM

If the Federal Communications Commission gives the green
light to frequency modulation as a result of the recent allocation
hearings in Washington, William B, Lewis, Vice President of Kenyon
Eckhardt, Inc. , Advertising Agency of New York, forecasts that with¬
in 10 years nearly all domestic broadcasting will utilize the FJA
method. Stating that the radio public will never know the real
value of FM reception until studios, records, wires and all other
technical facilities are geared up to match the fidelity of which
FM equipment is capable,

•'These technical facilities are ready for production when
the war ends", Mr. Lewis, who was a CBS Vice-President stated,
"Recordings have been developed which will carry 16,000 cycles. Tele¬
phone wires can now be leased which will carry 16,000 cycles, but at
such great cost that experiments are being carried forward to find a
more economical method of tying together an FJA network, either
tnrough the use of coaxial cable or the use of ultra high-frequency
relay systems.

"Orders are being taken on all sides for FM transmitters
and equipment, and the set manufacturers - almost without exception -
are ready to build and heavily promote complete lines of combination
AM-Flid sets. One manufacturer predicts that 20,000,000 sets capable
of receiving frequency modulation will be in use within four or five
years after the war's end, as compared with an estimated 30,000,000
AM sets in use today. "

It is his opinion that the four established networks wi 11
become FM webs, a change which "will bring about an improvement in
the radio structure that will be a boon to advertisers and to the
public. " All FM stations in one community will have approximately
the same coverage; there will be no such differentials in coverage
as exist between the 850-watt station and the 50,000-watt station in
AM broadcasting.

As he sees it: "With coverage more or less equalized,
the weaker networks will have a much better chance to compete with
the stronger networks on the basis of good management, to the profit
of advertisers; and good programming, to the profit of the public. "

"Regarding his idea of a newspaper- sponsored FM network,

Mr. Lewis told the marketing group: *I daresay there is not an
advertiser present ^vho would refuse advertising space in Reader^ s
Digest if it were available, or would object to paying for it a con¬
siderably higher rate per thousand than he pays for mass media, I
further predict that he would pay a relatively iilgher time rate to
the network which could demonstrably deliver the same market, "

"A fifth network", he said, "could establish such an edi¬
torial policy and could control its program balance much more easily
than one of the established networks could revise its present poli¬
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public is ripe for something new and better in radio and that such
a program policy might start a bandwagon rush. ”

To that ’’group of powerful and T/'.’ealthy newspaper publish¬
ers who passed up radio in the early days, and have lived to regret
it”, Mr. Lewis said he leaves the question of whether they, as they
obtain FM permits, will logically follow their own AP precedent and
establish their own network on a mutual, and, therefore, more econ¬
omical basis, or ’’wait instead for another privately-owned network
to sell them program service, ”

The full text of the address of Mr. Lewis may be had by
writing to the M Broadcasters, Inc. , 711 Colorado Building, Wash¬
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AFL PLANS RADIO EXPANSION AFTER THE WAR

The American Federation of Labor is planning expansion of
its press and radio activity but will delay positive action until
after the war.

This decision has been reached, A.FL announced, because
while ’’the frontal wave of anti-labor propaganda, collapsed of its
own sheer emptiness in the past year , . , the trade union movement
has been harassed by constant and repeated flanking attacks by power¬
ful and hostile interests, ”

’’Severe setbacks were administered to those who sought to
Inflame the minds of men in the armed forces against Labor (a capital
’L’ was used in the text)", the Executive Council informed the organ¬
ization’s annuan convention when it opened at New Orleans,

AFL evidently has no Intention to seek control of radio
outlets but will be content with time on the air reportedly already
promised by the networks,

(Sidney Hillman, Vice-President of the Congress of Indus¬
trial Organizations, and Chairman of the Political Action Committee,
when addressing the National Press Club before election was asked if
the CIO intended entering the FM field. He replied: ’’Probably some¬
thing should be done about it. We have no program for it, ”)

The printed AFL report to be placed in the hands of dele¬
gates in New Orleans said the plans for promotional work by way of
press and radio are designed to "enable Labor to take the offensive
instead of being forced to remain on the defensive. Foremost among
these plans is the development of expanded radio activities, ’’

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PETRILLO THUMBED ON POLICE BAND; HE THREATENS BENNY

Ignoring protests of James C. Petrlllo^s powerful music¬
ians union, a subcommittee of the House of Representatives govern¬
ing the District of Columbia, unanimously approved a bill to estab¬
lish a band for the Washington Police Department, Referring to
tne diminutive music leader as ’’Julius Caesar”, Representative
Hebert (D), of Louisiana, said that Petrillo had been seeking to
tnrottle music to a point where "no one could beat a note on the
piano or blow a toot on a horn unless he had obtained Julius
Caesar’s permission. I am not one to set by and let him do it."

Also despite the threat of Mr, Petrillo to keep the Jack
Benny show off the air last Sunday night because of a dispute with
the National Broadcasting Company, the program ^s heard as usual.

The word was passed around that if Benny went on with non-union
engineers that it might result in a strike which would tie up the
entire network.

Network officials declined to explain the exact nature of
I the A.F.M, complaint or how many employees were involved. Beverly
Fredenall, Vice President of the National Association of Broadcast
‘ Engineers and Technicians, said at Chicago that he had been informed
of the A.F.M. move and that it was prompted by the "fact that the
! technician responsible for the proper broadcast of the show is not
I a union man - that he is a N.A.B.E.T. man. "

N.A.B.E.T., he said, is an Independent union "governed and
I protected by the same laws that A.F.M. functions under." The attempt
I to stop the Benny show is "really a fight against N.A.B.E.T.", he
said.

There was another victory for Petrillo when approximately
1400 New York City musicians, members of the AFM, were given a 15^
Increase in wages last week by a Regional War Labor Board order re¬
troactive to last February 28th, The musicians are employed in
bands and orchestras which provide the music for thirty-nine members
of the Hotel Association of New York, twenty- three members of the
Cafe Owners Guild and thirty-five cafes and night clubs in New York
City.

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CALLS VANDENBERGH ANTI-PETRILLO BILL "ONLY A PINPRICK"

Although favoring the bill introduced by Senator Vanden-
bergh (r), of Michigan, which prohibits interference with the broad¬
casting of non-commercial cultural or educational programs, the
Washington Post calls the measure merely "a pinprick" and doesn’t
anticipate that Mr. Petrillo "will feel too distressed by this timid
challenge to his comprehensive authority, "

In an editorial "Curbing Caesar", the Post says:

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'•In our opinion it would be better not to legislate at
all until Congress is prepared to deal with the major abuses of
union leadership exemplified by Mr. Petrlllo's extreme demands.
Moreover, corrective legislation should not be aimed at Mr, Petrlllo
exclusively or specifically. He has operated within the law in his
successful campaign to impose his will upon the world of commercial¬
ized music. Maybe he is a little more colorful and more antisocial
than some of his fellow labor leaders. Undoubtedly he has done
pioneer work in proving how easy it is under existing law to hold
up employers and compel them to subsidize union treasuries under the
guise of making contributions to union unemployment funds. But he
is only one of tne many union officials who know how to apply pres¬
sure tactics in disregard of the public* s rights without coming into
conflict with our inadequate labor laws.

"We are not worried nearly so much by what Mr, Petrillo
has done or may do within his own domain as by the bad example he
has set for others. What we need is general legislation aimed at
suppression of the kind of antisocial union practices for which Mr.
Petrillo stands. The emancipation of high school bands from union
decrees disbarring broadcasting would still leave Mr. Petrillo
free to pursue his major ends, and wpuld impose no restraints at
all upon the exactions of like-minded labor czars. "

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MC DONALD SEES JAP*S RADIO INVENTION BOOMERANG

We are shooting back at the Jap every day of the week with
a major development that was created by a Jap, and - in radio - we
are using this same development to plaster him and to keep him from
plastering us with the iron and steel he bought from us in prev/ar
days, it was revealed by Commander E. F, McDonald, Jr. , President of
Zenith Radio Corporation, in an Associated Press dispatch from
Cnicago,

The material is a super-magnetic alloy that was developed
by Professor Tokushici Mishima of Tokyo Imperial University, intro¬
duced into this country shortly before the war under the narnie alnico
and is now used by every radionic manufacturer. It is a component
of radio and of other potent radionic weapons. Without it, Mr,
McDonald stated, some of our radionic devices would be impossible,
while others would be heavier, more costly, and less efficient,

"The little yellow Jap is being nicked daily with his own
alnico", said Mr. McDonald. "Little did Dr. Mishima think that we
would one day be shooting his own development back at his pals. But
we are - our fighters are using alnico every day of the week to sink
Jap ships and knock enemy planes from the skies, "

Alnico* s great value, he said, comes from its light weight,
great magnetic strength, and permanence. It will lift sixty times
its own weight of iron or steel. A piece of it the size of the

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eraser of a lead pencil makes a stronger magnet than the large
horseshoe magnets we played with as kids. It will retain Its mag-
netlc strength under medianlcal shock, vibration, and temperature
changes of several hundred degrees that would soon reduce old type
magnets to hunks of Inert metal.

”I believe we got more from the Jap In his discovery of
this super efficient magnet than the Jap got from us with all the
Iron, steel and gasoline we are charged with having sold him In pre¬
war days. ”

Mr. McDonald said he could not give further Information
about military applications of alnlco.

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FACSIMILE NO THREAT TO NEWSPAPERS YET, SAYS CRAVEN

Facsimile transmission of printed and Illustrated news by
radio has been highly developed but the cost ”50 upward” of receiv¬
ing sets Is so high that as yet newspapers do not appear threatened
with serious competition. Commander T. A. M. Craven, U. S, N. , retired,
said in outlining future aspects of radio broadcasting at a luncheon
of the Advertising Club of Washington Tuesday.

Comm.ander Craven, who left the Federal Communications
Commission in July to become Vice President of the Cowles Brothers
newspaper, magazine and radio Interests, spoke at a luncheon, held
in honor of their acquisition of Station WOL in Washington,

Commander Craven said frequency modulation (FIA) receivers,
like facsimile receivers sets, wall cost upwards of ^50 each when
they become available, but he predicted ready public acceptance of
FM sets because of the improvements in reception which provides.

He said television was now ”a technical practicability”
and that Washington will be ”one of the first cities in the country
to have television broadcast service. ” WOL and other local stations
have already applied for television transmitter rights.

In the facsimile field, he declared that it is now possible
to transmit letter-size sheets of illustrated news at the rate of one
page per minute, including pictures in color. But, he added, "until
the cost of these sets is low/ered, it is hard to see how printed
radio news of the future can compete with present methods of dis¬
tributing printed news in standard newspapers. ”

Sharing the platform wdth Commander Craven was the new
General Manager of WOL, Merle S. Jones, formerly of St. Louis, Mo. ,
wrho revealed that WOL this wreek wall announce increases in rates for
new advertisers, w'hile "protecting” its present contract advertisers
for a year.

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CHARGES CORCORAN THREATENED TAX SQUEEZE IN WMCA CASE

Colin Campbell Ives, an attorney for Donald Flamm, in a
statement in New York Monday charged that Thomas Corcoran, former
White House aide, threatened at one time to call in the Treasury
Department to bring pressure on Mr. Flamm to force him to sell WMCA
to Ed?/ard Noble.

Mr. Ives said in his statement he could not understand why
the Congressional Committee should exclude the public from the hear¬
ing because ”so many lawyers and business men throughout the country
have had first-hand experience with the Corcoran system that it is
now a matter of public kno'wledge.

He asserted that when he discussed with Corcoran "the
pressure used by Corcoran's henchmen, Dempsey and Koplovitz, Mr.
Corcoran, instead of being shocked of even sorry, informed me that
if I, in behalf of Mr. Flamm, would dare to take any steps in the
matter, he would utilize the Treasury Department. "

Mr. Ives' statement said that Corcoran said he would cause
Flamm "income tax troubles to such an extent that Mr. Flamm would
wish he had never been born, "

He asserted that Corcoran said the "boys" in the Treasury
Department "had been working on Flajnra's income tax statements and
were all prepared to move in. "

Suggested by a previous mention of Corcoran, Thomas L.
Stokes wrote in the Washington News ( Scripps-Howard) ;

"Tommy Corcoran is expected to appear in a few days before
a House Committee, the special committee which is investigating the
sale of radio station WiAC, New York, to former Assistant Secretary
of Commerce Edward J. Noble. This was a particularly smelly affair
involving inside pressure, in which the firm of Dempsey & Koplovitz
was employed. Both young men, William J. Dempsey and William
Koplovitz, formerly were employed by the Federal Communications Com¬
mission. Tommy has been associated with them.

"But Administration pressure resulted in closing the doors
of this committee, so that the public cannot get the story."

The Washington Post had this to say:

"The trail of Mr. Thomas G. Corcoran, once special attorney
of the RFC and former close confidant of the President, through the
corridors of Government departments and congressional halls re¬
appears in the newspaper reports of the Biddle-Littell feud and the
WMCA controversy. 'Tommy the Cork', as the President calls him, is
the most adept, active, and successful of the lawyer-lobbyists who
infest the Capital. He 'sells' the influence he accumulated in the
days when he was at the right hand of the President trying to make
America over, and, incidentally, planting his friends in favorable
locations. "

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SCISSORS AND PASTE

WBBM Holds The Bap; On LaQuardla's Chicago BroadcaBt

Said Mayor La Guardla delivering his regular WNYC, munici¬
pal radio station broadcast, from Chicago last Sunday:

•'Thanks to the courtesy of WBBM of the Columbia Broadcast¬
ing System I am able to talk to you this week. For a while, the day
before yesterday and yesterday, I thought I would have to cancel the
weekly talk, I met a New York salesman in the elevator who was on
his way home. He asked me if I was going home for the week-end. I
said, *No, it does not look like it', and he said, 'How about the
weekly talk?* I said, 'Well, I guess 1*11 have to cancel it,' *0h',
he said, 'don't cancel it,' I said, 'I may have difficulty in get¬
ting a line,* He answered, 'We think we can attend to that,*

"You see, I really am not broadcasting from Chicago, I am
talking on a line from here to our studio in the Municipal Building
and it is broadcast from there. The line costs $107,

"Of course someone will ask, 'Who is going to pay for it?'
Well, I guess you and I will have to pay for it. The traveling sales¬
man said he would contribute $1, so you had better send in your
dollars to make up the $107, If we do not get enough I guess I
will have to make up the difference. If we get too much we will
make a refund to you on a dollar basis, "

The Mayor' s office staff is looking forward to some busy
days handling the refunds.

- (New York Times)

New Cowboy- Radio Senator Ditched His 10-Callon Hat

Glenn H, Taylor, cowboy-radio entertainer of Idaho, who
defeated Senator D. Worth Clark, arrived unknown on the Idaho politi¬
cal horizon in 1938. He ran fourth in a large field, getting vmat
votes he could by trouping on horseback, wearing a sign bidding for
votes for the Ida.ho troubadour.

Two years later he ran for the Senate on the Democratic
ticket and offered a program he called "production for use".

Ten-gallon hat, high heels and flowing tie marked him as
an eccentric. Senator John Thomas, Republican, defeated him that
time but he came back again and in 1942 suffered a similar defeat.
This year Taylor abandoned his "outlandish" apparel,
appeared as a dapper businessman and managed for the first time to
secure support from old-line Democrats.

- (United Press)

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12/6/44

Rumor Note

It may be only talk but Niles Trammell is rumored about
to resign as President of National Broadcasting, If so, his succes¬
sor will be Sid Strotz,

- ( Danton Walker in Washington Time s-Herald)

Hails R, C, A, Communications 145,000,000 Word War Record

One hundred and forty- five million words transmitted over
the world-wide circuits of RCA during 1944 stand as a wartime record
of which the men and women of R. C.A. Comruuni cat ions may well be
proud. The efficiency of your service, day and night, has added to
the glory of the United States as the communications center of the
world. You have participated in communications history during a
dramatic period, the true significance of which will come to llglit
when military secrecy no longer prevails,

-(David Sarnoff in Relay magazine of R. C. A. Communica¬
tions )

BBC Cooperates in French Radio From London

One of the chief programmes in the daily broadcasts from
London since 1940 - which, as the people of France avow, have been
a potent force in keeping alive the faith of the French in them¬
selves not less than in Britain’s promise to "come back” - was
"Les Francais parlent aux Francais. ” In it, French listeners heard
the voices of Frenchmen, working in cooperation with the BBC, tell¬
ing them the truth about the war, about the world, and about France
itself. But for that radio link, the majority of the French would
have been the helpless dupes of Nazi lies,

- ( London Calling)

Metropolitan Auditions ’’Surprise and Delight” Sponsors

Arthur Kent is one among a score of able singers who have
come to us by way of the ’’Metropolitan Auditions of the Air”,

Frankly, the original virtue in this enterprise was contained in the
attention it directed to the Metropolitan, its value as another link
with the vast radio public, and not least of all, in the money it
added to our treasury. But these auditions have increasingly reveal¬
ed to us a quantity of vocal talent previously unsuspected in this
country, a range of possibility which continues to surprise and
delight us with every annual competition,

- (Edward Johnson, General Manager of the Metropolitan
Opera Company in New York Times)

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TRADE NOTES

Earl Gammons, Washington Columbia Broadcasting System
Vice President, will be host at a cocktail party to Edward R. Murrow
Chief of CBS European staff at the Carleton in Washington Friday
afternoon.

Potomac Broadcasting Corporation, Alexandria, Virginia,
has been granted construction permit for new station to operate on
730 kc, , 250 watts, daytime only, transmitter site to be determined,
subject to procedure under Commission policy of Jan. 26, 1944.
(Commissioner Walker voted for hearing ). As Alexandria is Just
down the river from Washington, this may be the beginning of a new
station for the Capital,

The Board of Directors of pnilco Co mo ration Monday de¬
clared a yeai>-end dividend of forty cents (40/) per share of com¬
mon stock payable December 27, 1944, to stockholders of record
December 15, 1944. This dividend brings total payments this year
to $1.20 per share, as compared with $1 per share in 1943,

The Radio Manufacturers’ Association is sending to its
members mimeographed copies of a detailed discussion of the present
and 1945 military electronic program by Director Louis J. Chatten
of the WPB Radio and Radar Division. Mr. Chatten' s address was
delivered at an RMA Export Committee meeting in New York City, and
discusses future civilian reconversion, the tube situation, and
other problems involved in the immediate and early 1945 production
programs.

The Association also sent out copies of a paper on
"Standardization of Fixed Capacitors for Civilian Supply", deliver¬
ed at the recent RMA-IRE Rochester Fall Meeting, by James I, Cornell,
Chairman of the Committee on Fixed Capacitors of the RMA Engineering
Department.

John D. Hymes, Chief of the Station Relations Division of
the Office of War Information's Radio Bureau, has resigned, effect¬
ive December 22nd. Mr. Hymes is resigning because of illness in his
family, who live at Manhasset, N. Y. He went to the Radio Bureau in
June, 1943, from Foote, Cone & Belding, New York City. Willett
Kerapton, Mr. Hymes' assistant, will, be Acting Chief.

Knovn to many in the broadcasting and communications indus¬
try who have had occasion to visit Senator Burton K. Wheeler's
office, WAC Private Celia Arnold, for 20 years the Senator's secre¬
tary, will be one of the first women to land on Weyte in the Phil¬
ippines. Miss Arnold, wno is 43 years old, and a member of the
District of Columbia Bar, gave up a Job as an Economic Analyst with
the Board of Economic Warfare, sold her house here, and used the
money to buy war bonds when she Joined the Wacs last March,

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”The Shocking Truth About Radio", an article by Senator
Burton K, Wheeler ( D) , in LaFollette’s Magazine, is reprinted in
the Congressional Record of December 5, page A4968,

Also in the same issue, page A4979, is an article
"Freedom of Speech for Whom" by FCC Commissioner Clifford J, Durr.

The Apex Electrical Manufacturing Co., of Cleveland, Ohio,
has completed arrangements with RCA Victor’s export organization
for the postwar distribution of its electrical products abroad.

Jack Skinner, formerly of NBC and CBS Press Departments,
has joined the Mutual network as Assistant to Jim O’Bryon, Publicity
Director, Mr, Skinner recently returned from field maneuvers with
tne New York G-uard, where, a First Lieutenant, he served as Assist¬
ant public Relations Officer,

Misrepresentation of the therapeutic properties of a med¬
icinal preparation called "Allen’s Nijara" is alleged by the Federal
Trade Commission in a complaint issued against Allen Products Co, ,
Inc., 602 Fifth St,, N. W, , Washington, D. C.

The complaint charges that the respondent company repre¬
sents in newspapers advertisements, radio continuities, folders and
circulars that the preparation, when used as directed, is a cure or
remedy and constitutes a competent and effective treatment for
rheumatism, arthritis, neuritis, sciatica, gout, lumbago and sinus
trouble. The preparation, the complaint alleges, has no therapeutic
value in the treatment of the conditions enumerated in the respond¬
ent’s advertising.

"Your Coming Radio", a booklet describing post-war radio
and television receivers, has been issued by the Electronics Depart¬
ment of the General Electric Company,

That 100 television stations will be operating in at least
29 States and in the District of Columbia Just as soon as wartime
restrictions on materials are relaxed and manufacture of equipment
can be started, appears to be a certainty, the Television Broad¬
casters’ Association say,

Thr^e additional applications for television stations were
filed with the Federal Communications Commission during the past
week bringing the total number of commercial video applications pend¬
ing to 91, With nine television stations now operating in the four
major market areas of the nation, plus the 91 applications no on
file, a total of 100 stations appears assured.

Prof, Conrad A. Elvenjera, head of the biochemistry at the
University of Wisconsin, takes a fall out of radio advertising say¬
ing it has done more to destroy faitn in nutrition research than any
other single cause.

"The pernicious type of commercial advertising and state¬
ments and articles by pseudo— nutritionists build up hopes unfounded
by scientific fact which when exploded, leads to a. loss of interest
in nutrition. Professor Elvehjem said,

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Heinl Radio Business Letter

Halifax Praises BBC And Radio; Also Attends CBS Party . 1

Bestowal Of FM Licenses Seen As New Deal Pork Barrel . 5

Radio Production Calls For $250,000,000 A Month . 4

Imagine The Radio Industry Naming An FCC ComraisslonerJ . 5

Ryan And NAB Offer Ouide For Radioes 25th Anniversary . 6

Ellery Stone Promoted To Reserve Rear Admiral . 6

Claims People Of The Country Want Congress On The Air . 7

War Progress To Forecast Future Radio At I.R.E, Meet . 7

Blue Network Accuses Petrillo Of Wildcat Strike Threat . 8

Ray Ellis Called Back To ^W’B Radio Division,, . 9

Weiss Believes Experts ''Too Olib On Tele Prospects'* . 10

I Use Of Tantalum Restrictions Removed . 11

Artnur Godfrey Goes To The Pacific Without Leaving Home . 12

"FM For Education" Just Published . 12

Action Taken And Applications Received By FCC . 13

Scissors And Paste . 14

Trade Notes . 16

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No. 1660

December 13, 1944

HALIFAX PRAISES BBC AND RADIO; ALSO ATTENDS CBS PARTY

Lord Halifax, the British Ambassador to the United States,
went to considerable length to pay tribute to radio in general and
the wartime service of the British Broadcasting Corporation in par¬
ticular last week in New York,

Following this, the British Ambassador honored radio further
by attending a reception in Washington tendered to Edward R. Murrow,
European Director for the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Lord Halifax was the principal speaker at a luncheon given
by the Radio Executives Club of New York at the Roosevelt Hotel in
honor of the wartime work of the British Broadcasting Corporation,

An address by William J, Haley, Director General of the BBC, was
heard by shortwave, John Salt, North American Director of BBC, was
presented with a scroll from the Radio Executives Club honoring the
BBC for its ’’unstinting cooperation” with American networks and
independent stations and "for inspiring radio through the world to
become a powerful voice which will declare ever loudly for all the
people their desire for everlasting peace. ” Lucille Manners sang
"God Save the King” and Lawrence Tibbett "The Star Spangled Banner”,

Lord Halifax expressed the hope that radio would be "first
and foremost, a pubL ic service, ”

"It may have plenty of objects", he said, "to amuse, to
Instruct, to advertise, to make money; but behind and above all these
purposes, and in the last resort overruling them, is a sense of duty
to the service of the public. With radio, as with the greater news¬
papers in your country and mine, in any grave issue that may arise
the public interest has the last word, "

It would be difficult to overestimate, he continued, the
"value of the work which radio may do, in both our countries, to edu¬
cate public opinion in the tasks of peace,

"For one thing is quite certain in the years that are to
come", he continued, "You may prepare the most admirable schemes for
disarming the aggressor nations. You may set up the most perfect
machinery for the prevention of war. You may reinforce that machin¬
ery with every sort of political and economic arrangement that the
wit of men can devise,

"But unless all that we can do has behind it the power of
an informed public opinion, all that we can do will not be enough.

The schemes will be waste paper, and the machinery will be scrap, "

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! Mr. Haley told how before D-day he had worked out with

the representatives of American radio a satisfactory system for
covering the invasion and of how successful their Joint efforts had
been,

"Since then, in those few months", he added, "the whole
of France has been liberated and now we stand near the Rhine, but
that cooperation which I have Just spoken about was not fixed for a
week or a month. It is still going on. So far as the BBC is con¬
cerned, I pledge it will go on until the final entry into Berlin and
Tokyo. "

By way of snowing the teamwork of the BBC with the U. S, ,
lAr. Salt spoke of a special hour program the BBC had provided the
United States War Department with which to transmit a program to
India, necessary because of the transmission difficulties between
nere and that area,

Elmer Davis of the Office of War Information, said that
the BBC was re-transmitting through its medium wave facilities in
England 660 radio program.s a week for the OWI. These program's are
in addition to OWI broadcasts originating in America that go into
I Europe via short-wave,

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!| Among the honor guests were the British Consul General of

New York, Niles Trammell, President of NBC; Mark Woods, President of
: the Blue Network; Edgar Kobak, President of the Mutual Broadcasting
System; Frank Stanton, Vice-President of the Columbia Broadcasting
System; J, H. Ryan, President of the National Association of Broad¬
casters; Robert Peare, Vice-President of General Electric Company,
j and James D, Shouse, Vice-President, Crosley Ra.dio Corporation,

At the Washington reception at the Carlton, in addition to
Lord Halifax, who had Just concluded his first conference with
Secretary of State Stettinius, there w'ere many other notables to
j greet Mr. Murrow, Earl C. Gammons, CBS Washington Vice President,
was the host of the oarty. He was assisted by Carl J. Burkland,
General Manager of WTOP,

Among the guests were: Acting Chairman of the Federal Com-
: raunications Commission E, K, Jett; Fee Commxissioners Case, Wakefield
and Walker; Admiral William D. Leahy, aide to President Roosevelt;
the Polish Ambassador Jan Cie chanowski ; Senator Chan Gurney (r),
j of South Dakota; Senator D. Worth Clark (d), of Idaho, and Representa¬
tive Alfred L. Bulwinkle (D), of North Carolina,

Also, Francis Colt de Wolf, Chief of the Telecommunications
, Division of the State Department; Harvey B. Otterraan, Assistant Chief
of the Telecommunications Division; Rear Admiral A, S, Merrill, Oiffee
of Public Relations, Navy Department; MaJ, Gen. Alexander D. Surles,

: Office of Public Relations, War Department; and Brig. Gen. Robert L,
Denig, Public Relations, Marine Corps.

Also J, Harold Ryan, President of the National Association
I of Broadcasters; Commander T. A. M. Craven, Vice-President Cowles

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Wasnington; John H. MacDonald, of New York, Vice-President, National
Broadcasting Company; Carleton D. Smith, General Manager, WRC,
Washington, D. C. ; John E. Fetzer, Assistant Director of Office of
Censorship in Charge of Broadcasting; Charles R, Denny, General
Counsel, Federal Communications Commission; Rossel K. Hyde, Assistant
General Counsel; Col, Albert Warner, War Department, Radio Division;
Commander Joiin W. Guider, Duke Patrick and Commander Mef Runyon,

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bestowal of FM licenses seen as new DEAL PORK BARREL

Radio - specifically FM and, to a lesser degree, tele -
may be the big pork barrel that Congressmen have been dreaming about,
many top radio men fear, according to Billboard. "Although nothing
is being said publicly, many in the industry are concerned that
Congressmen, looking about for new pap since the post offices were
virtually taken from under their noses, may find their out in the
handling of FM and tele licenses", the magazine of the entertainment
field goes on, "Fight against licenses being turned into patronage
for the boys may well develop into one of the big issues facing radio
in the not- too- distant future, in the opinion of those who should
know.

"The White House emphasized this industry feeling when it
assigned the FCC chairmanship to affable Paul Porter. While few will
argue about Porter's qualifications for the job, his radio savvy or
honesty, the fact remains that the appointment was a political plum.

"Porter, because he has just come from a job that demanded
that he be on intimate terms with political deadshots, is an open
target for the Capitol Hill sharpshooters. Fly, on the contrary,
made it a point to steer clear of the political marksmen, and those
wno camped on his doorstpe were usually given short-shift - one of
tne facts that contributed to the current select committee to investi¬
gate the FCC,

"It is an open secret among insiders here, at least, that
more and more license seekers are attempting to clear thier applica¬
tions thru their Congressmen - Senators preferred. When the lid is
taken off FM and tele, many here believe that the scramble will be
terrific and FCC Commissioners, knowing that their reappointments
are dependent upon the powerful U. S. Senate, will be reluctant to
give the boys a quick brush-off.

"Regardless of the merits of the current WIJICA 'conspiracy'
case, the argument brings out forcibly the fact that the Wliite House
can be 'reached' in a license dispute. Possibly, as is contended,
the White House brushed it off but Flaram, seeking advice, hustled to a
Brooklyn politico. Assemblyman Irwin Steingut, and Ste ingut used his
political prestige to carry the business right into the oval room
labeled 'Seat of the President of the United States.' There's no
argument on that point - Steingut admits it. "

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WAR RADIO PRODUCTION CALLS FOR $250,000,000 A MONTH

The new "Victory First" production program faced by the
radio and radar industry calls for maximum peak production of over¬
all products and equipment at the rate of $250,000,000 a month by
March 1, 1945, members of the Radio and Radar Industry Advisory
Committee were told by War Production Board officials at a recent
meeting in Washington, I'VPB reported Monday, The radio and radar
industry is making every effort to meet the increased demands of the
military forces for equipment required on the front lines. Committee
members said.

In view of increases in the Array and Navy requirements
since October 1, amounting to between 12 and 18 per cent, and antici¬
pated emergency procurement orders that will call for additional pro¬
duction early next year, the Committee pointed out the necessity of
retaining its present manpower and obtaining additional workers in
the near future. Despite reports of adequate labor in a few radio
and radar plants in some regions, a review of the over-all situation
in the industry as reported by eleven members of the committee indic¬
ated that a serious labor problem would confront the Industry unless
every effort to retain present workers and recruit and train new
employees were made throughout the country. It will be impossible
without additional employees to maintain present delivery schedules
of the essential electronic products required by the military forces
or start production on the new Array and Navy requirements to be
ordered shortly, members said.

The best information as to military requirements after
March 1, 1945, was that emergency procurements orders, not yet issued,
would probably approximate the March 1 level of about $250,000,000 a
month for several montiis, and counterbalance any tapering off of the
current orders expected in March through June, WPB reported.

Congratulating the industry on its past achievements, which
he termed "magnificent", Hiland G, Batcheller, WPB Operations Vice
Chairman, said producers of radio and radar equipment had carried on
successfully, maintining schedules in the face of changes in design,
and complicated production and labor problems. He said he believed
past perfomiances indicated that current schedules would be maintained

Both Army and Navy officers complimented the industry on
its achievements to date, and explained that changes in battle condi¬
tions required new and improved equipment without much advance notice
to the industry.

Ray Ellis, Acting Director of the Radio and Radar Division
and Government presiding officer, asked for suggestions as to how WPB
and the armed services could expedite action and ease industry’s job
of increased production. Members indicated the importance of main¬
taining their present manpower position on the critical list of the
War Rfenpower Commission if the radio and radar plants are to be kept
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The Committee urged that WPB and TOC confer on the task of
maintaining maximum production in radio and radar plants, with es¬
pecial regard to the manpower status in the industry. Other sugges¬
tions included the early filing of new orders by Army and Navy, at
least prior to March 1; the necessity of having time to work out new
engineering problems in each plant especially in view of shortage of
skilled engineers; that shortages in certain tight items and parts
not be allowed to develop and hamper over-all production; the re¬
scheduling of any delayed orders to plants open for additional work;
and the undertaking of a survey of the industry to establish a factual
background covering production, labor and other elements.

Mr, ^ Ellis promised that such a survey would be started im¬
mediately and’ the members present indicated their desire to cooperate.
The meeting adjourned subject to the call of the Government presiding
officer.

A suggested new plan to expedite component scheduling,
designed to aid the parts manufacturers in meeting the requirements of
equipment prime contractor and avoid the piling up of inventories of
component supplies prior to actual needs, v/as presented to the Com¬
mittee,

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IMAGINE THE RADIO INDUSTRY NAt/lING AN FCC COMIjIIS SIGNER*

If the report is true that President Roosevelt is willing
to name a new Secretary of Labor to replace Madam Perkins if the AFL
and CIO can agree on a candidate, should be food for thought for the
broadcasters. Fancy tie President waiting to appoint a member of the
Federal Communications Commission until the members of the radio and
communications industries could agree on a candidate. It is doubtful
of the radio industry could ever unite on o ne man but assuming busi¬
ness differences could be put aside and this miracle could happen,
the man they named would be looked upon with suspicion for the very
reason that the industry had agreed upon him.

Neither the broadcasting or the communications industries
have ever had a thing to do with naming a man either on the old Radio
Commission or the FCC and though they have the greatest mediums on
earth for creating public opinion, they stand helplessly by while the
President names one politician after another to the Commission,

FDR* s reportedly waiting for the CIO and AFL okeh for a
Secretary of Labor is another example of how he kisses labor all over
the place and a reminder of how he ignors the wishes of industry.

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RYAN AND NAB OFFER GUIDE FOR RADIO’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY

A complete format for nation-wide observance of a quarter
century of broadcasting in America in 1945 was outlined in bulletin
form last week by the National Association of Broadcasters, and its
president J, Harold Ryan.

The bulletin, enclosed with the December 8th copy of NAB
Reoorts, goes to all networks, all radio stations and hundreds of
others within the structure of American broadcasting, including set
manufacturers, advertising agencies, government officials, organiza¬
tions and individuals who are invited to participate in radio’s
silver anniversary, "Pledged to Victory’ "

Mr. Ryan urges all stations and networks to make this bul¬
letin the subject of immediate staff conferences, pointing to initial
broadcast activity beginning at midnight, December 51, supported by
the advertising, publicity, promotion, sales and public relations
departments,

Mr, Ryan and Willard Egolf, NAB Director of Public Rela¬
tions, met in New York City yesterday (Tuesday) with the Presidents
and department heads of the four major networks who have been invited
to discuss network twenty-fifth anniversary plans, with emphasis on
a redoubled war effort.

The front page of the bulletin features a symbol of radio’s
twenty-fifth anniversary, a banner suspended from a microphone, the
banner carrying the anniversary years "1920-1945" and the Roman numer¬
als "XXV", with a dominant "V for Victory", typifying the industry's
pledge in 1945. The bulletin also carries a musical signature of
"XXV", based on the Continental Code, with an adaptation of the famous
musical "V for Victor".

Eight pages of ideas for programs, publicity and promotion
I are woven around the war effort theme, central note of the entire
. anniversary year.

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ELLERY STONE PROMOTED TO RESERVE REAR ADMIRAL

President Roosevelt last week nominated Commodore Ellery W.
Stone of the Naval Reserve to be a Rear Admiral,

Commodore Stone, former Vice-President of the International
’Telephone and Telegraph Corporation and later President of the Postal
Telegraph Company, and now a member of the Italian Armistice Commis¬
sion, was nominated to be a Rear Admiral in June when he held the
rank of Captain, The nomination was never acted on and, in the mean-
!time, he was elevated to Commodore, It was because of his change in
rank from Captain to Commodore that it was necessary to send a, new
nomination to the Capitol,

Commodore Stone is Chief Commissioner of the Allied
'’v'lediterranean Commission,

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CLAIMS PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY WANT CONGRESS ON THE AIR

Criticism of the project apparently having gotten under hie
skin, Representative John M. Coffee ( D) , of the State of Washington,
declared that there is great sentiment throughout the country in
favor of putting Congress on the air.

”Let none of ray colleagues have any doubt about that”.
Representative Coffee said, in addressing the House. "There has been
much satirical comment concerning the crusading efforts of the dis¬
tinguished statesman from Florida, Senator Claude Pepper, and. of my¬
self in authoring and introducing a bill to provide for a broadcast
over the radio networks of pertinent, timely selections from Congres¬
sional proceedings.

"It has never been the purpose of Senator Pepper or myself
to provide for the broadcast of uninteresting congressional proceed¬
ings, which are confined to narrow or sectional lines or legislation
which is not of national or international importance. Nevertheless,
Senator Pepper and I feel that the people are entitled to know what
is going on in Congress, without editorial deletion and without expur¬
gation at the hands of radio or other commentators. Why should not
the people judge for themselves?

"The Bible says, 'Ye snail know the truth, and the truth
shall make you free. ’ Let the people from their own opinions as to
the worthiness of their representatives in Congress. Let them hear
their voices over the air waves and thus permit our constituents to
appraise us to some extent by the caliber of our activities on the
House floor. Why should anybody be hesitant about that? This is the
modern way. Even police courts broadcast their proceedings, "

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I WAR PROGRESS TO FORECAST FUTURE RADIO AT I.R.E. MEET

j The Winter Technical meeting of the Institute of Radio

Engineers will be held January 27-27 at the Hotel Commodore in New
I York, Austin Bailey, Chairman of the meeting's General Committee
announced. More than 2,500 engineers are expected to attend.

Many of the technical papers to be read and discussed during
^ the four-day session are expected to reveal for the first time some
; wartime developments that forecast future trends in radio and allied
electronic fields,

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A traveling television show covering 19 Oklahoma cities in
i behalf of the Sixth War Loan has been completed by Station WKY, own¬
ed and operated by the Oklahoma City Oklahoman and Times,

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BLUE NETWORK ACCUSES PETRILLO OF WILDCAT STRIKE THREAT

Wliether there will be a strike against the National Broad¬
casting Company and the Blue networks because of the disagreement
between the American Federation of Musicians and the National
Association of Broadcast Engineers and Technicians as to who will
turn the transcription platters, seems to be anyone's guess.

Petrillo, as usual, is believed to mean business and the situation
is very tense.

National Broadcasting officials were silent but Mark Woods,
president of the Blue Network, expressed himself as follows:

"In negotiating a new contract with James C. Petrillo, for
the American Federation of Musicians, last January, we agreed, effect¬
ive in June, 1944, to employ platter turners who are members of the
American Federation of Musicians. This agreement was part of a gen¬
eral contract, in which the AF of M made a number of concessions and
we in turn accepted the AF of M Jurisdiction over platter turners,
in order that a musicians* strike could be averted and the network
continued in orderly operation. We were acting in good faith, and
had been advised that we were within our legal rights to award this
Jurisdiction to the American Federation of Musicians,

"The National Association of Broadcast Engineers and Tech¬
nicians also claims Jurisdiction over the emoloyment of platter turn¬
ers. NABET appealed to the National Labor Relations Board, asking
that their rights to this Jurisdiction be upheld,

"The National Labor Relations Board decided that status quo
should be maintained, which meant that NABET would control the Juris¬
diction of platter turners, except in Chicago, in which city platter
turners have for many years been under the Jurisdiction of the AF of M.

"The Blue Network was and is perfectly willing to accept
the decision of the National Labor Relations Board, However, Mr,
Petrillo refuses to accept this decision and has warned our company
that if we do not keep our agreement with the AF of M, he will order
a series of wild cat strikes by withdrawing musicians from our prograr.:
at sporadic intervals. We would have no adequate relief from these
tactics and over a period of time it would be impossible for us to
broadcast our leading programs, due to the absence of musicians for
temporary periods.

"It is our hope that the courts will settle the dispute
between the American Federation of Musicians and the National Associ¬
ation of Broadcast Engineers and Technicians. Only in that way can
either the AF of M or NABET be forced to accent a conclusion to the
Jurisdictional dispute.

"The Blue Network finds itself in the middle of a Juris¬
dictional fi^t between the AF of M and the NABET. As between these
two unions, we do not favor one over the other. We desire that the
labor laws of the country be comnlied with, that our emnloyees be

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represented by unions of their own choosing, and that strikes against
the public interest be avoided.

”We are, in truth, helpless in this situation, in that it
is one where we cannot bring the issue into the courts. We are faced
with interference or stoppage of broadcasting by one union or the
other, and until the courts decide the case, we will continue to be
faced with this threat, '*

A. T. Powley, President of NABET, said:

"NABET will not capitulate. NABET will abide by the deci¬
sion of the NLRB and is ready to continue negotiations for new con¬
tracts with NBC and the Blue,

”We have acted in good faith and will not capitulate,
Petrillo*s refusal to comply with the decision is an affront to the
NLRB, This is not a jurisdictional dispute between two unions. The
issue has been clearly defined and decided by the NLRB,

”The dispute is between the companies and the musicians.

If the musicians pull wildcat strikes, the companies should bring
this to the attention of the War Labor Board and not be asking NABET
to capitulate.

'’It is time for the networks to decide whether they should
be dominated by Petrillo or conduct a business free from holdups,

"Should NABET capitulate, we would, in effect, be penaliz¬
ing every radio station in the country. In fact, we would be crucify¬
ing some small independent stations who play records all day.

"Faced with the prospe ct of paying $90 per week for a 25-
hour week, the small stations would be forced out of business,

"Radio, with the help of the technicians, made the name
bands. By the same token radio can break them, NABET has stood
alone in this fight for the past 10 months. We have conducted it in
an nonest and straightforward way. Our only request is that justice
be served, "

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RAY ELLIS CALLED BACK TO WPB RADIO DIVISION

Ray Ellis, of Mew York City, formerly Director of the Radio
and Radar Division of the War Production Board, has been recalled as
Acting Director during the absence of Director L. J. Chatten, who is
on sick leave, Hiland G. Batcheller, Chief of Operations of WPB,
announced yesterday (Tuesday),

Mr. Ellis retired as Director of the division on October 1,
1944, to resume his association with the General Motors Corporation,
after active service with WPB for more than three years,

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WEISS BELIEVES EXPERTS ”100 GLIB ON TELE PROSPECTS"

Lewis Allen Weiss, Executive Vice-President of the Don Lee
Broadcasting System, which has been operating a television station in
Hollywood for many years, addressing the First Annual Television
Broadcasters’ Conference in New York City this week, landed on the
"research experts who glibly declare that six out of ten persons are
waiting to buy television sets immediately after the war".

Mr, Weiss cautioned against "over-enthusiastic forecasts
by some industry spokesmen" and even went so far as to say that
"television sets will face brisk competition in the consumer market
against new model refrigerators and indoor olumbing. "

! "To support a television station", Mr, Weiss continued, "a

: metropolitan area of not less than 500,000 persons is necessary, I
believe that only 10 per cent of the population will be in a position
to buy television sets in the immediate future. The remainder will
' not, either because of their inability to pay the price or the diffi¬
culty in obtaining satisfactory reception, "

' J. R, Poppele, Chief Engineer, of WOR, was elected President

of tne Telebroadcasters' Association for the coming year; Robert L,
i Gibson, of General Electric, Vice-President, and Will Baltin was re-
1 elected Secretary and Treasurer,

Prize awards were made to Dr, Vladimir K, Zworykin, Director
' of Electronic Research, R. C,A, Laboratories, for technical pioneering
in television engineering; to Station WABD of New York City, operated
by Allen B, D’uMont Laboratories; for television programs; and to Brig,
General David Sarnoff, on leave from the presidency of Radio Corpora¬
tion of America, for general contribution to television.

In presenting the technical and general awards, Paul Raiboun.,
: President of the Association, commented that they were for achievements
covering a period of years and that due to the requirements of milit-
I ary security it is impossible to make awards for 1944 similar to the
Hollywood "Oscars" as planned.

Coordinate awards were made to Philo T, Farnsworth, Farns-
I worth Radio and Television Corp, , Ft,' Wayne, Indiana, for work on
^ television scanning methods and the electron multiplier,

Lloyd Espenscheid, Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York
[ City, for adopting the co-axial cable to transmitting wide bands of
[ radio frequency suitable for modem television.

Dr, Peter Goldmark, Columbia Broadcasting System, New York
I City, for work in the development of motion picture pick-up equipment
I and electronic analysis and control of equipment for color television,

F, J. Bingley, Philco Radio and Television Corp,, Philadel-
•phia, Pa,, for improvement in contrast of television pictures through
i!flat face tubes and experiments on link operations particularly as
I regards outdoor events.

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Other awards Included:

W, R. G. Baker - Vice-President, General Electric Company,
Scnenectady, New York, for his leadership in standardizing television
through the National Television Systems Committee and supporting it
throu^ the Radio Technical Planning Board,

David B. Smith, philco Radio & Television Corporation,
pniladelphia, Pa. , for his work on the National Television Systems
Committee and his planning of television future as panel chairman
with the Radio Technical Planning Board,

Dr. A. N. Goldsmith, Consulting Engineer, New York City,
for his work on the N.T.S.C. and the R. T.P.B, and his vision of the
relationship of the motion picture and television,

Mr. Baker, of General Electric, who is also Chairman of the
Radio Technical Planning Board, predicted that five years after the
war there would be at least 100 active master television stations in
the country serving areas with 67,000,000 persons.

Ed Wynn, the comedian, described television as ”a thing
more dangerous than dynamite or' the quintessence of good depending
upon how it is managed, "

"I should like to advocate a Government- supported televi¬
sion thea.tre, to which the gr^at body of American actors and actresses
might look forward as the climax of their careers, and to which they
can adapt their art”, Mr. Wynn said.

0, B, Hanson, Chief Engineer of NBC, declared the "techni¬
cal costs of television are three to four times that of ordinary
sound broadcasting but that the impact of visual advertising is ten
times as great as sound radio, "

The first annual television convention w as attended by about
1000 persons and was declared to be such a success that it w/as decided
to hold a second one in December, 1945,

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USE OF TANTALUJ^ RESTRICTIONS REMOVED

All restrictions on the use of tantalum were removed by
revocation of Order M-156 by the War Production Board last week.

Tantalum is used as a filament in radio tubes, while fluor¬
ide of tantalum acts as a catalyst in the production of synthetic
rubber. Tantalum carbides are also used in cemented carbide cutting
tools,

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ARTHUR GODFREY GOES TO THE PACIFIC WITHOUT LEAVING HOMJE

One of the neatest applications of electrical transcrip¬
tion was that of Arthur Godfrey, star Washington CBS commentator,
recently honored for his splendid work of securing blood plasma
volunteers. The Navy sent Mr. Godfrey, who is a Lieutenant Commander
in the Naval Reserve, on the inactive list, on a special mission to
the Pacific combat zone to get first hand information on the needs of
blood plasma there.

Commander Godfrey was away from Washington for a month,
but during his absence kept his commercials going on WTOP in the
Capital, and WABC, New York, by transcriptions made in advance.
Although publicity was given to this, many of his listeners didn’t
know he had been away until he returned.

Mr. Godfrey, who organized the GAPSALS (Give A Pint, Save
A Life Society) went as far as Saipan. He v/as accompanied by Richard
Swift, Program Director of WABC. At Saipan they saw the return of
the first Superfortress mission which raided Tokyo from the Marianas
base.

Godfrey and Si?^dft saw Japanese planes knocked out of the
sky both by anti-aircraft fire and by American fighting pilots, and
have high praise for the spirit and morale of the American fighting
men.

Mr, Godfrey was particularly eloquent when talking about
she life-saving by blood donated in the American Red Cross centers
throughout the country. He said: ''If people here at home could only
stand over the bed of a wounded, unconscious boy as I did, and see
him literally snatched from death’s door as the life-giving plasma
poured into his body, there would be traffic jams before every blood
bank in tnis country. ”

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"H! FOR EDUCATION" JUST PUBLISHED

"FM for Education", a primer of facts and ideas about the
educational uses of frequency modulation broadcasting, has just been
published, the United States Office of Education, Federal Security
Agency, announced last week. The pamphlet, illustrated with photo¬
graphs, charts and diagrams, details suggestions for planning,
licensing, and utilizing educational frequency modulation radio
’stations owned and operated by school systems, colleges and univer¬
sities.

"M for Education" may be purchased from the Superintendent
of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D, C. , for
20 cents.

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ACTION TAKEN AND APPLICATIONS RECEIVED BY FCC

Henderson Radio Corp. , Henderson, N.C. , granted construc¬
tion pennit for new station to operate on 890 kc,, 250 watts, daytime
only, subject to policy of January 26, 1944; WAIT. Chicago, Ill,,
granted consent to voluntary assignment of license from the present
licensee partnerships (which own Stations WAIT, WOES and WSBC) to
newly fonned partnerships for the purpose of dividing their holdings
so as to comply with Commission order 84-A, thus separating the inter¬
ests of the partners in the two stations, WAIT and WGES, in a manner
60 that no individual partner would have any interest in more than
one station. The consideration to be paid is $100,000 for assets of
Station WAIT, and $100,000 for assets of Station WOES, and in each
instance including cash working capital of $15,000; WFEB, Alabajna
Broadcasting Co,, Inc,, Sylacauga , Ala., granted petition to remove
from the hearing docket, reconsider and grant without a hearing,
application for construction permit for a new station to operate on
1340 kc, , 250 watts, unlimited time, subject to Commission policy of
January 26, 1944 (Commissioner Durr not oarticlpating) .

Also, Augusta Broadcasting Co,, Charleston, S, C, , designat¬
ed for hearing application for new station to operate on 1450 kc, ,

250 watts, unlimited time; Greater Peoria Broadcasters, _ Inc, , Peoria,

Ill., designated for consolidated hearing with aopllcatlon of Ill,
Broadcasting Co., application for new station to operate on 1290 kc. ,

1 KW, unlimited time; Capital City Broadcasting Co. , Des Moines, la.,
designated for consolidated hearing with application of Capitol Radio
Corp,, application for new station to ooerate on 1600 kc, , 250 watts,
unlimited time; Capitol Radio Corp. , Des Moines, Iowa., designated
for consolidated hearing with application of Capital City Broadcasting
Co. , application for construction permit to use frequency 1600 with
power of 1 KW, unlimited time.

Applications Received: Television Productions, _ Inc, , has

applied for construction permits for new experimental relay broadcast
(television) stations in the areas of New York City, Buffalo, Detroit,
Peru Mountain, Vt. , El Paso, Des Moines, Los Angeles, and Chicago;
Associated Broadcasters, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind, , construction pe]>-
mit for a new standard broadcast station to be operated on 1550 kc. ,
power of 250 watts and daytime hours of ooeration; Myles H, Johns,
Milwaukee, Wis. , constnaction permit for a new standard broadcast
station to be operated on 1060 kc. , power of 1 KW and daytime hours
of operation; Times- Wo rid Corporation Roanoke, Va. , construction
permit for a new high frequency (FM) broadcast station to be operated
on 45,300 kc, , with coverage of 30,340 square miles,

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A handbook on the what, how and why of theatre television
has been prepared by the RCA Service Company for theatre managers
and projectionists. The book, which will be ready for distribution
before the end of December, is illustrated throughout,

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SCISSORS AND PASTE

« • «

Killing The Goose j

Gardner (Mike) Cowles’ observation, featured in "Variety”
last week, stirred up a lot of serious thinking among most of the
topflight radio stars, "We* re talking against ourselves", as one
put it, and this star summed up the general attitude, "but sure as
Hooper and Crossley, we're killing the goose that laid the golden
egg if this continues. Some of these guesters who couldn't shine
the shoes of a Barrymore or Hayes, get more for a fast 8-minute spot
than these greats got in a month in the legitimate theatre, "

Stars of their own programs this season, more than ever,
have seen $2,500 acts become $4,000; the $5,000 star now demanding -
and getting - $7,500. Abbott & Costello settle everything by stick¬
ing to a quote of $10,000, Others have solved it by swap deals.

The best answer to some of these guest- shot salaries is
the inconsistency where the budget, the rating or the prestige of a
program dictate the prices. Thus, the $5,000 name will accept the
$300 guest ceiling of an "Information Please", or the $1, 250-$l, 500
price on an Ed Gardner or Fred Allen show (when the latter was on);
but in these instances these stars reciprocate likewise for relat¬
ively nominal fees.

But the sura total is that this ever-mounting standard has
reached such proportions where, dollar-wise, the sponsor may be
forced to conclude it can never pay out. P. S, - ex-sponsor. And
the possible deterioration of a pretty important scientific-art form
of entertainment,

- ( Variety )

Chicago Papers Restoring Radio Columns

Increased recognition of the value of news about radio is
definitely under way in the newspapers of the Windy City. Chi, up to
a few months ago was one of the leading bulwarks behind which were
entrencxied newspaper publishers whicn were giving the cold shoulder
to radio, fignting it tooth and nail. The entrance into the realm
of local newspaper execs by John Knight, new owner and publisher of
The Chicago I^ily News, and Louis Ruppel, new editor of The Chicago
He raid- American, who used to be in charge of the CBS Press Department,
have broken down some of the barriers against the use of radio columns
in local sheets.

The Daily Times, of which Ruppel was the Managing Editor at
one time, has always kept its daily radio column even though other
papers have shut dovn on radio news. The Sun , a morning publication
is not expected to have more than its presently run listing and high¬
lights, because it recently got into paper quota trouble with the
WPB and cannot get all the newsprint it wants.

There is a possibility that Tne Chicago Tribune, which owns
WGN, local Mutual key station, might restore its daily radio column
under the editorship of Larry Wolters, its present radio ed, who is
one of the best known and most experienced radio writers in town,

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Sees Fly Cauainp; Embarrassment

Testifying before a Senate Committee on Saturday, Attorney
General Biddle said that Tommy Corcoran was his very good friend. He
went on to say that when this good friend had come to the Department
of Justice on business he, the Attorney General, had never granted
any of his requests.

Think of what that means, for a moment. Think of the
embarrassment that Corcoran must have caused his friend, Biddle,

Now is the time for him to come forv/ard with a proposal
for a law that would prevent lawyers serving in Government depart¬
ments from practicing before any Government department for a fixed
terra of years after they leave the Government service.

For example, James Lawrence Fly has recently resigned as
Chaiman of the Federal Communications Commission to practice law in
New York City, In ray estimation he was an honorable public servant
in a difficult position. He knows very well the embarrassment he
would cause his friends who are still members of the Commission if he
were to come before them with a plea for clients.

- (Marquis Childs in Washington Post)

Anticipates Radio Giving Newspapers FiRht Of Their Lives

By now publishers should have learned that the editorial
department is not the place to pinch pennies. Radio and magazines
are going to give newspapers the hottest competitive fight in their
lives after this war.

- ( Editor & Publisher)

Rep, Cox Opposes Investigating Mr. _ Biddle

The antipathy of Rep. Eugene Cox, Democrat, of Georgia., for
a Congressional investigation of Mr, Littel’s summary dismissal by
President Roosevelt as head of the Lands Division of the Department
of Justice, can be well understood. Not many months ago, Mr, Cox's
own questionable conduct in representing Georgia broadcasting inter¬
ests before the FCC was under investigation a.t the Department of
Justice. Kis receipt of a $2500 check for "legal services" rendered
to the Georgia concern was referred to the department by the FCC
because it is a violation of law for a Congressman to accept pay for
representation of a private interest before a governmental agency.

But the department took no action against Mr. Cox. Regardless of what
may have been the reason for this failure to act, it is a fair sup¬
position that it has left Congressman Cox with a feeling of gratitude
toward the Attorney General,

- ( Washington Post )

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Z. C. Barnes and Carl Haverlin, Sales Manager and Station
Relations Manager respectively of the Mutual Broadcasting System,
were elected Vice-Presidents in charge of Sales and of Station Rela¬
tions at the network’s Board meeting in New York, Edgar Kobak, Mutual
President and General Manager, announced on his closed circuit con¬
ference call to member stations Monday.

Mr, Barnes is a former Vice-President of Outdoor Advertis¬
ing, Inc, Mr. Haverlin was Vice-President of Broadcast Music, Inc. ,
after serving 14 years at KFI and KECA in Los Angeles,

James L. Fly, former FCC Chairman was one of the eight
major witnesses who testified before the Chicago University Commis¬
sion in the Freedom of the Press.

The 1944-45 annual HMA membership list and trade directory
has gone to press and copies soon will be sent to all members, govern¬
ment officials, the radio press and many other interests. A peak MA
membership is recorded, the largest in more than a decade, including
a 25 per cent increase during the last year.

The third concert of the Woman’s Symphony orchestra next
Monday night in Orchestra hall, Chicago, will present world premieres
of two compositions and the presence of the two composers, both
Chicagoans, The audience will hear for the first time "Romance”, by
Inez Riddle McDonald (Mrs, Eugene F, McDonald, Jr.), who is a talented
pianist, and whose earlier composition, "Cancion", will be included on
the program. The concert also will mark the first performance of John
Alden Carpenter’s "Dance Suite" since that composition, originally
written for the piano, was orchestrated.

New developments in electronics, air transportation and
automobile design, as well as the creation of improved materials for
textile, food and construction uses, will demand a large increase in
trained technical personnel - according to "Vocational-Technical
Training for Industrial Occupations", a survey report published by
the United States Office of Education reports.

The report may be purchased from the Superintendent of Docu¬
ments, U, S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. for 40/.

A vast new postwar market for electron tubes, far exceeding
the prewar demands of radio and communications, will be found in manu¬
facturing and processing industries as a result of increasing uses of
electronic power and electronic controls, according to L. W, Teegarden
General Manager of the Tube and Equipment Department of the RCA
Victor Division, Radio Corporation of America.

The rated power represented by a single order recently re¬
ceived by RCA for power oscillator tubes for electronic power heating,
Mr. Teegarden said, was equal to the combined rated power of all radio
stations in the United States,

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INDEX TO ISSUE OF DECEMBER 20, 1944

Durr Fears Advertising Is Jeopardizing Radio Freedom . 1

Frank C. Stanton Dies; Father Of CBS Official . 2

Blue, CBS, Cowles, Storer Shifts Are 1945 Curtain Raiser . 3

"Tele Coming Foster From Now On Than Radio" - Ben Abrams, . 4

Mackay Radio "Station 25" Delivers The Goods For Patton . 5

New RCA Retirement Plan Begins Among 40,000 Employees . ,,......6

Fireworks When FCC Probers Report To Congress Jan, 3 . 7

Civilian Ra.dio Tube Supply Less Than Expected,

Platter Turner Strike Threat Sleeping - With One Eye Open

McCosker New Bamberger Broadcasting Service Chairman

Senate By-Passes Paul Porter; Hyde Again Mentioned..

Washington Sends A Bit Of Home Overseas .

About That French 1,000 Line Television . . . 10

Radio Tube Advisory Committee Considers War Requirements . 11

Scissors And Paste . 12

Trade Notes . 14

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DURR FEARS ADVERTISING IS JEOPARDIZING RADIO FREEDOM

”How free is radio?” Commissioner C, J* Durr of the Feder¬
al Communications Commission ashs in the Journal of the National
Education Association, and then replies:

”If by *free radio* we mean a radio that will provide the
freest possible outlet for the widest possible range of information,
entertainment, and ideas, then it is not nearly as free as it should
be. It is rapidly becoming less free, as it demonstrates its
value as an effective and extremely profitable advertising medium, ”

Then Commissioner Durr goes on to say:

’’Advertising is a traditionally accepted and I think sound
feature of our system of broadcasting. Many of the finest musical
and entertainment programs would be impossible without it. However,
it is one thing for advertising to be used to support a vital instru¬
mentality of public service. It is an entirely different matter when
a vital instrumentality of public service becomes predominantly an
advertising medium - and that is 'what our broadcasting system is
becoming.

”We have received many solemn warnings during the past
year or so that despotic government 'bureaucrats’ are plotting to
snatch away from the people the freedom of speech guaranteed by the
First Amendment to the Constitution, and that the Supreme Court is
aiding and abetting the plot. I suggest that you get hold of a copy
of the Constitution, You will find that the First Amendment is
still there.

"But there are many restraints upon our freedom other
than through political restraints. With the concentration of econ¬
omic power which is increasing at a constantly accelerating pace,
our actions may be as effectively limited and directed by a system
of economic rewards and punishments as by duly enacted laws. More¬
over, there is no more effective way of distracting attention from
these economic restraints than by focusing it on t)olltical restraints,
real or imaginary.

"In testimony before the Senate Committee on Interstate
Commerce last December, President Niles Trammell of the National
Broadcasting Comoany said: ’ The argument is advanced that business
control of broadcasting operations has nothing to do with program
control. This is to forget that "he who controls the pocketbook
controls the man. " Business control means complete control and
there is no use arguing to the contrary. '

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"I won't argue to the contrary. That is why I believe a
free radio in this country is subject to dangers far more serious
and immediate than any threat from tne government.

••Today we have on the air about 900 standard broadcasting
stations. With the operators exercising independent Judgment it
should be expected that the prejudices, predilections, and mistakes
in one direction would be balanced by those in another, leading to
a fairly balanced presentation of points of view, information, and
entertainment,

••But do those operators exercise their free and independ¬
ent Judgment? About 600 are affiliated with one or more of the four
national networks. These affiliated stations together utilize
about 95 percent of the nighttime broadcasting power of the entire
country and over half their broadcasting time is devoted to national
network programs. They receive about 40 percent of their revenue
from the national networks - and this means more than 40 percent of
their profits, for the network programs are handed over ready-made
and there is little offsetting expense. Many stations could not
survive without network affiliation. If ’he who controls the pocket-
book controls the man*, four network corporations have a pretty
effective control over our broadcasting system,

••And the networks themselves are subject to ’pocketbook
control. * Of the hundreds of thousands of business concerns in this
country, only a select few reach the national networks. In 1943,
over 97 percent of the national networks’ advertising business came
from 144 advertisers. Ten accounted for nearly 60 percent of NBC^s
business, Tne same situation prevails in the case of the other net¬
works to a slightly less degree.

••Business concerns engaged in the same line of business
probably have similar interests. It is still more disturbing, there¬
fore, that in 1943 over 74 percent of the estimated total billings of
all four national net^'iorks was concentrated in four industry groups:
food, beverages, and confections; drugs; soaps, cleaners, etc. ;
tobacco.

••Thus we have moved from diversification to concentration.
Maybe this is the road to a free radio, but I doubt it. '•

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FRANK C. STANTON DIES; FATHER OF CBS OFFICIAL

Frank C. Stanton, 66, father of Frank N. Stanton, Vice-
President of the Columbia Broadcasting System, died last Sunday at
his home near Dayton, Ohio, He was a teacher in the Dayton public
school system for 37 years until his retirement in 1941 because of
ill health.

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BLUE, CBS, COWLES, STOBER SHIFTS ARE 1945 CURTAIN RAISER

It is believed the extensive and significant affiliated
broadcasting station changes affecting the Blue Network, Columbia
Broadcasting System, and the Cowles, Storer and other outlets are
Just a curtain raiser for others to come during 1945. That the
the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Comoany
will be heard from is a foregone conclusion.

Six important stations, three of which are now affiliated
with CBS and two with MBS will Join the Blue Network next June,

Three of the stations are owned and operated by John and Gardner
Cowles, Jr,, namely KRNT, Des Bfoines, Iowa, WCOP, Boston, Mass., and
WNAX, Sioux City, lowa-Yanktown, South Dakota. Coincidental with
the announcement, Gardner Cowles, Jr., said, ”We are proud to
affiliate three of our stations with the Blue Network, We have
growing respect for and confidence in the increasingly good Job be¬
ing done by the new management of the Blue, We think the Blue has
a great future and we are delighted to be able to bring to the
listeners of three of our stations the high quality Blue program
service. ”

Of equal importance is the new Blue affiliation of WFTL,
Miami, Fla,, one of seven important stations operated by George A.
Storer, who like the Cowles brothers, is one of America’s pioneers
in radio broadcasting. A leader in business and prominent in the
steel and manufacturing industries, Mr, Storer also will now have
tnree stations affiliated with the Blue Network,

"The Fort Industry Company management", Mr. Storer said,
"has watcned tne progress of the Blue Network, and believes in the
principles and methods of operation of the company. And, as evi¬
dence of our further endorsement, we are pleased to add WFTL to its
sister stations WWVA and WAGA in the Blue family, "

The other two stations which will shift to the Blue are
WLAW, of Lawrence, Mass,, headed by Irving E. Rogers, publisher of
the Lawrence Eagle and Lawre nc e Tribune , and WPDQ, at Jacksonville,
Fla.

At the same time, Chester J, LaRoche disclosed the new
Blue affiliations, Herbert B, Ackerberg made it known that CBS had
signed contracts which will add five new affiliates to the network.
The new stations are: KOTA, Rapid City, S. D. , expected to go up
to 5000 watts in February; KGKY, Scottsbluff, Nebr. , 250 watts;

KTYW, Yakima, Wash., 500 watts; WJEF, Grand Ra.pids, Mich,; and KERN,
Bakersfield, Calif, , 1000 watts.

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"TELE COMING FASTER FROM NOW ON THAN RADIO” BEN ABRAMS

From this point on, the perfection of television will be
much faster than was that of radio, Benjamin Abrams, President of
Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corporation, declared last week,

"In fact, television is already advanced far beyond the
stage to which radio had been developed at the time the same number
of receivers had been sold to the public”, Mr, Abrams said.

"These improvements in television will come faster for
three reasons. First, the war has greatly stimulated research in
all fields, and particularly in electronics; second, there has been
an improvement in research technique itself, so that engineers know
how to go about solving problems much faster than they did when
radio was in its infancy, and third, there is more Incentive now to
build television sets than there was twenty-five years ago to
develop the radio.

Expanding on this statement, Mr, Abrams pointed out that,
aside from the advances in the whole theory of scientific research,
there is the additional fact that many of the principles underlying
television are of the same electronic nature as those on which the
more recent radio receivers have been based. For this reason, he
said, there is no need for television to go through what would cor¬
respond to the "crystal set" period of radio,

"There is a much greater Incentive to develop television
than there was to perfect radio twenty years ago for the simple
reason that manufacturers, as well as the entertainment and adver¬
tising industries, know now what can be expected of television,

"Whereas advertisers twenty years ago did not even see
the possibility of sponsoring programs or even making announcements
over the air, advertisers of today have a fair idea of what tele¬
vision can do for tnem, Fbr one thing, it is much more effective to
show the customer what a package looks like than to attempt to des¬
cribe it with words.

"In much the same way the educational value of radio was
overlooked until recent years. Today, however, educators agree that
television holds great promise, since it is much easier to teach by
slgnt than by sound. "

Mr. Abrams said that Emerson had developed three basic
television receivers which would be put into production as soon as
wartime restrictions are lifted. One of the models, a table pro¬
jection-type receiver, will be priced to the consumer as low as $150.

"In designing these receivers, we have sought to give the
most television for the least money", Mr. Abrams said. "Our purpose
in doing so is obvious when it is considered that for television to
be a success there must first be developed a receiver that will fit
the pocketbook of the masses. In New York City, for example, it

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appears that 100,000 to 150,000 receivers will be needed to support
efficient commercial broadcasting stations,

•'Once television receivers are brought within the buying
reach of great numbers, advertisers will be attracted and the
resulting revenue will finance programs equivalent in value to radio
and motion picture entertainment and education. '•

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MACKAY RADIO "STATION 25" DELIVERS THE GOODS FOR PATTON

Mackay Radio "Station 25" which has followed the battle-
front all the way from the Norroandy beachhead to Germany, continues
to pump a steady stream of messages from directly behind the fight¬
ing front in Europe across the Atlantic to New York after ooening
the first radio telegraph service with i^rance at the 'time of the
Normandy invasion. Tlie man responsible for opening the circuit
on the beachhead and keeping it open while crashing through France
with Lieutenant General Patton's lightning Third Array is L. F.
Spangenberg, Assistant Vice President and a Director of Mackay Radio
and Telegraph Company, who has recently returned to this country.

Long before the invasion, Mackay Radio, an affiliate of
International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, undertook the
assignment of providing a complete radio station for the new Western
Front. To Federal Telephone and Radio Co rt^o ration, manufacturing
affiliate of I, T. & T, , was assigned the task of building a 15-kilo¬
watt transmitter. Countless associated items, such as sectional
antenna masts, insulators, wire and complete power plants, and a
vast amount of miscellaneous equipment were gathered together and
shipped to Great Britain, there to await transshipment to France.

With these materials went a goodly supply of other equipment to meet
emergencies over a long future period.

The station, before being shipped to England, was assembled
at a point on Long Island and given thorough trials before being
broken domn and crated for the ocean voyage. Its crew was made up
of carefully selected Mackay engineers, technicians and operators,
chosen from the more seasoned of Mackay Radio's long-time employees.
They were men who could be relied upon to know and do a Job quickly
and carefully, even under enemy fire. Transported to England, they
underwent battle training there while waiting for D-Day to arrive.

When General Eisenhower's vast armade moved across the
English Channel for the Normandy beaches, the crew was alerted for
the moment when our Army should reach "X" spot, the point selected
for erection of the station. Hardly had "X" spot been captured when
all the men and equipment were on the move to it.

At the last minute a change in plans obliged them to leave
behind the Federal-built equipment and adapt a one-kilowatt, station¬
ary Army set for mobile service direct to the Mackay home office at
67 Broad Street, New York City. Without the equipment with which

12/20/44

they had been trained,- subjected to severe beachhead battle condi¬
tions, Mr, Spangenberg' s crew functioned like veteran troops to get
the circuit opened. The odds were overcome, Mr. Spangenberg de¬
clares, only by the determination of his men to ”get the message
through”. Writing from the beachhead he said; "Our gear would make
Marconi turn over in his grave. A tree holds one end of our antenna,
a light pipe-mast the other. Guy wires stretch endlessly, and each
day the antenna sinks about 10 feet. No block and tackle; we just
pull the stranded steel field wire around the smooth limb that
holds the tree-end and hope that the mast wonH collapse at the
other end. No insulators to break uo the guy-wires on the mast,
and the transmission-line insulators are splinted together with
sticks and tape, ”

But the messages went through. Restricted to government
and press messages, they provided the headlines that the American
people read as they were thus enabled to follow the progress of the
crucial invasion.

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NEW RCA RETIREMENT PLAN BEGINS AMONG 40,000 EMPLOYEES

Enrollment in Radio Corporation of America's new employee
Retirement Plan, which provides pensions and annuities for life to
members, began last week among RCA* s more than 40,000 employees
throughout the country.

Membership in the plan, which became effective December
1st, subject to approval by RCA stockholders and the U. S. Treasury
Department, is open to all persons regularly employed by RCA and its
domestic subsidiaries who have reached the age of 25 and have com¬
pleted three years of service. Participation is voluntary.

Benefits, which are designed to supplement Social Security,
normally start at age 65 and consist of .*

1, The pension, which is to be financed entirely by the employ¬
er and amounts to 3/4 of 1 percent of the first ^250 of the member's
monthly earnings on November 30, 1944, plus lx percent of such earn¬
ings in excess of $250, for each year of continuous service prior to
December 1, 1944, up to 20 years after excluding the first three
years of service and any service rendered prior to age 25,

2, The contributor^'’ annuity, which depends upon the amount of
combined contributions of the employee and the employer made at each
age and the annuity rates then in effect. Each member will contri¬
bute 2 percent of the first $35 of basic weekly earnings, plus 4 per
cent of the next $25, plus 6 percent of basic weekly earnings in
excess of $60,

The Company contributes a like amount and the combined con¬
tributions will be used to purchase contributory annuities for each
member. The annuities will be purchased from The Equitable Life
Assurance Society of the United States, under the terms of a Group
Annuity Contract, and the pensions will be financed with J,P, Morgan
& Company, Inc., as Trustee, under a Pension Trust Agreement.

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12/20/44

FIREWORKS WHEN FCC PROBERS REPORT TO CONORESS JAN. 3

Unlike the proverbial month of March, m^hich goes in like
a lamb and comes out like a lion, the House Investigation of the
Federal Communications Commission, cerae in like a lion and went out
like a lion. During the only supposedly silent part of the hear¬
ings - the period during which the public was excluded - the
reverberations were the loudest.

There is bound to be a continuation of the same when the
new' Congress takes up the report wrhich is to be subnltted to them on
the opening day ’’Wednesday, January 3rd, The last hush-hush session
of the investigation - which has lasted almost two years and cost
$110,000 - was held last Friday and the last public session Saturday.

The final day included testimony regarding the sale of
Station WLWL, New York, owned by the Pauli st Fathers to Arde Bulove
in 1937 where it was alleged pressure had been exerted to lower the
sales price and hasten closing of the deal.

At the meeting of the House subcommittee Friday, they
again heard Edward J, Noble, who purchased WMCA from Donald Flarara
for $850,000, Mr. Noble said later:

"If my testimony doesn’t vindicate me, then I will have
lost faith in the value of the truth. " Mr. Noble told reporters he
had conferred wdth Thomas G-. Corcoran, formerly a White House advis¬
or, regarding the qualifications of William Dempsey, an attorney,
whom he subsequently retained to represent him in the WICA negoti¬
ations.

At the same time, Mr. Noble said, he asked Mr. Corcoran
if he thought "the fact that I had worked" for the late Wendell L.
Willkie in the 1940 presidential campaign would be "held against me"
by the FCC in considering authorization for purchase of the station.

He quoted Mr, Corcoran as replying:

"No, absolutely not. Forget it. "

Mr. Corcoran, whom Mr. Noble said he had known "for a good
many years", testified Thursday before the committee.

Mr. Noble said that in purchasing WTilCA he paid Mr. Flamra
"46 times earnings" and that w'hen ne sold it in 3942 to Nathan Straus,
New' York City financier, it was for "11 times earnings",

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12/S0/44

CIVILIAN RADIO TUBE SUPPLY LESS THAN EXPECTED

The shortage of radio receiving tubes for the maintenance
of Array and Navy electronic combat equipment and replacement of in¬
creasing battle losses must be made up at the expense of civilian
radio tube supplies, War Production Board Radio and Radar Division
officials said Monday.

It is now anticipated, therefore, that the number of re¬
ceiving tubes available for civilians will be much smaller in the
first quarter of 1945 than the hoped-for 2,000,000 tubes a month,
the officials explained,

A recommendation that all current military receiving tube
requirements and accumulated deficits be covered by scheduled pro¬
duction before any civilian tubes are made available in the first
quarter of 1945, was made by the Radio Receiver Vacuum Tube Industry
Advisory Committee at a recent meeting,

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PLATTER TURNER STRIKE THREAT SLEEPINO - WITH ONE EYE OPEN

The holiday season to the contrary notwithstanding, the
National Broadcasting Company and Blue network officials are ready
for anything in connection with the threatened Petrillo and National
Association of Broadcast Engineers and Technicians (NABET) strikes.

"There are no new developments in the situation", one of
them said, "but it is a thing that we always have with us, "

According to one informant, Petrillo is holding off hop¬
ing NABET will make the first move and NABET is hoping if there is a
strike they can pin the blame on Petrillo,

It is again reported that Petrillo may strike during the
Christmas hopida.ys and before the new Congress convenes January 5rd.
If and when either side strikes, one thing is sure, the networks
will not be caught napping. In the meantime every effort was being
made to settle the controversy,

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McCOSKER NEW BAI/iBERUER BROADCASTING SERVICE CHAIRMAN

Alfred J. McCosker has succeeded Jack I. Straus, President
of R, H, Macy & Company, New York, as Chairman of the Board of the
Bamberger Broadcasting Company, operator of Station WOR. Mr, Straus
will continue as a member of the Board.

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Mr, McCosker has resigned as President of WOR. Succeeding
to the presidency is- Theodore C. Streibert, formerly Vice-President
and General Manager,

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SENATE BY-PASSES PAUL PORTER; HYDE AGAIN MENTIONED

The Senate adjourned for Christmas without confirming the
nomination of Paul F. Porter, to succeed James L, Fly as Chairman
of the Federal Communications Commission. This will necessitate the
President renominating Mr. Porter to the new Congress which assembles
the first week in January,

No significance seemed to be placed upon the Senate not
taking up Mr, Porter's nomination, the reason being given simply
that the Senators had been so occupied with the confirmation of the
Assistant Secretaries of State and other matters and didn’t want
to be delayed furtner getting away for Christmas,

Senator Burton K, Wheeler, Chairman of the Interstate
Commerce Committee, assured Mr. Porter that the Committee would give
his nomination immediate attention if the President sends it up
again.

The only expressed opposition to Mr. Porter, former
Publicity Director of the Democratic National Committee and Washing¬
ton CBS counsel, was filed by the Socialist Party, raising the
question whether there should be "elevation of a Publicity Manager
in a bitter political campaign . . . also former counsel for a net¬
work, to a commission controlling radio and other communications,

The name of Rosel H. Hyde, FGC Assistant General Counsel,
has again been strongly mentioned as the successor of Commander
T. A, M, Craven on the Commission, Mr, Hyde was also proposed when
the President appointed E, K. Jett.

Mr. Hyde is 44 years old, was born in Idaho, and is a
Mormon, He is a Republican and Joined the old Radio Commission in
1928. He has been Assistant General Counsel for the past two years.

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WASHINGTON SENDS A BIT OF HOME OVERSEAS

Washington, D, C, radio artists and producers representing
all stations have completed the first of two transcribed feature
programs designed to give Washington men overseas a "little bit of
Hometown" wherever they are, it was announced .this week by Fred
Snawn, Program Manager for WRC,

Mr, Shawn is directing the preparation of the local series
at the request of the National Association of Broadcasters, General
Elsenhower suggested recently that American radio stations make
"hometown" programs about cities throughout the States and NAB
acted upon the suggestion Immediately,

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12/20/44

ABOUT THAT FRENCH 1,000 LINE TELEVISION

Evidently as a rejoinder to John F, Royal, Television Vice-
President of the National Broadcasting Company, who at the Televi¬
sion conference discounted the report, CBS came back with a state¬
ment Monday which read, in part, as follows:

”Rene Barthelemy, Chief Engineer of Compagnie Francaise
de Television at Paris, has confirmed the report that practical
1,000-line television has been developed in France.

'*In an interview with Charles Collingwood, CBS Paris cor-
resDondent, which was cabled to New York, the distinguished French
scientist said that Hhere is no longer any insurmountable technical
obstacle * to the general use of the nex”^ television which would pro¬
duce an image 'equivalent to w^hat you see on the movie screen,'

First public knowledge within the United States of the
revolutionary French development in the nexxr video science was con¬
tained in a broadcast from London (Nov. 5) six weeks ago when Edward
R. Murrow, CBS Eurooean Director, declared that French television
experts, under the very noses of the German occupation forces, had
perfected a system which would ti'^ansmit "clearer, sharper and larger
pictures than any that was being transmitted in America or Britain
before the war, "

The Murrow broadcast had special significance for the
United States television situation since CBS, in announcing its
postwar television policy and reasons for moving television into
wider bands and higner frequencies, had declared last Spring
(Apr. 27):

"There is every possibility that television in foreign
countries will at least equal the postwar television standards pro¬
posed (by CBS). "

Collingwood' s cabled interview^ with Barthelemy comes on
the heels of an address before the Television Broadcasters* Associ¬
ation purporting to cast doubt upon the existence of the French
development originally reported in this country over CBS,

"If it has been suggested in the United States", Barthelemy
said, "that the 1,000-line television which we have developed in the
Compagnie des Corapteurs (parent company of the Compagnie Francaise de
Television) laboratories is of no practical importance, I can only
say that I and the firm with which I am associated feel that 1,000-
line television is ready for exploitation and that it is perfectly
feasible. This is not to say that the nexn^ television will be avail¬
able to the public tomorrow or even in a fexp months. But there is
no longer any insurmountable technical obstacle to putting it into
general use. "

Barthelemy explained to Collingwood that he has been work¬
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time his company spent more than 10 million francs on the research
which led to the present development,

"Our idea”, he told Collingwood, "is to perfect a system
of television which would produce an image equivalent to what you
see on the movie screen. We consider that we have succeeded, "

Many British and American engineers serving with the
Allied forces in one capacity or another have seen 1,000-line tele¬
vision, Bartheleray said, adding:

"All were convinced of its practicability and several
official reports have been made, "

Barthelemy emphasized the fact that 1,000-line receiving
sets and cameras now are in a workable and finished state although
it may still be some time before the system is in general use.

"But I am convinced”, Barthelemy concluded, "that sooner
or later the world will change over to 1,000-line television. li/Iy
personal belief is that the change will be almost universal since
standards of criticism are the same in all countries and if one
country has better television all the rest will want it,

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RADIO TUBE ADVISORY COMMITTEE CONSIDERS WAR REQUIREMENTS

At its first meeting neld in Washington last week, the
newly appointed Receiving Tube Scheduling Industry Advisory Committee
reviewed all types of miniature, (G-T) glass and standard receiving
tube groups in connection with military requirements, officials of
the War Production Board’s Fiadio and Radar Division said yesterday.

Members of the Receiving Tube Scheduling Industry Advisory
Committee headed by Milton E, Layer of the Radio and Radar Division,
as Government Presiding Officer are;

William Hieatt, Ken-Rad Tube and Lamp Corp, , Owensboro, Ky. ;

G, C. Brewster and L, F, Holleran, Radio Corporation of America,
Camden, N. J, ; Ray Paret, National Union Radio Corp,, Newark, N.J. ;

K. Johnson and F. E. Anderson, Raytheon Manufacturing Co. , l^ewton,
Mass,; John Q, Adams, Hytron Corp,, Salem, Mass,; K. Morehead and

H, W. Van Twistern, Tung-Sol Lamp Works, Inc., Newark, N.J,; and
H. J. Klein, and A. L, Milk, Sylvania Electric Products, Inc.,
Emporium, Pa,

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We Hope Florella Paid WBBM Which Was Holding The Bag

Mayor LaCuardia, whose Sunday broadcast from Chicago
recently began with an appeal to hig fellow-townsmen for $1 contri¬
butions to meet a bill of $107 for wire charges, revealed that the
response was generous enough to warrant a refund of 84 cents on
every dollar contributed.

Although the Mayor did not revea.l the total of the contri¬
butions, unofficial mathematicians at City Hall fixed it at $668,
without making allowance for incidentals such as postage on the
refund letters. There was no way of telling how many individuals
contributed, because of the possibility that some persons might have
donated more than $1,

"• (New York Times)

Federal Radio Helps Wounded Vets

Federal Telephone and Ra.dio Corporation, in Newark, plans
to occupy Halloran wounded with light assembly work.

-(Ed Sullivan, Washington Times Herald)

Senator Clark and Tommy the Cork

Washington rumor says that U. S, Senator D. Worth Clark(D)>
from Idaho, will team up in law practice with Tommy Corcoran at the
end of Clark's terra. He was defeated in November by Republican
Glenn Taylor, the radio cowboy, but is remaining in Washington,
exhibits no desire to return to his Idaho law practice,

"Tommy the Cork" one time favorite of President Roosevelt,
has been feeling the heat as a result of the discharge of Norman
Littell as Assistant Attorney General by F, D, R. The report here is
that Corcoran, a Harvard Law School classmate of Senator Clark (1925),
is anxious to have him as a partner because Clark has many friends
in Congress, who would possibly listen to the ex-Senator when invest¬
igations of wartime deals were under way.

- (Bascom N. Timmons in Chicago Sun)

Editor's Note - Senator Clark, a member of the Interstate Com¬
merce Committee which handles radio legislation, has an interest in
Station KJBS in San Francisco, Cal. It was Clark wno hailed
Petrillo to Washington which has been given as one of the reasons
for the Senator's defeat.

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Publishers Shy of Television

Television was brought dovm to earth at the conference of
the Television Broadcasters’ Association in New York City, but there
weren’t many newspaper publishers around to see and hear what makes
it a potential news and advertising medium.

Are the publishers shying away from television because
they still think it's ’’only a toy”, or are they unwilling to face
the facts that here’s a new fonn of competition » for readers’ time.

The few newspaper men who were among the 1,000 or so per¬
sons attending the two-day television conference heard not only
engineers’ problems but commercial plans of department stores, and
otner retail businesses, to operate their own television stations.

Many publishers have been talking about getting into tele¬
vision, but few have chosen to get an education in it,

^ Editor and Publishe r )

$583,900,000 In Radio Time Sales

The broadcasting industry, according to official sources,
will close its books for 1944 with an estimated gross of $383,900,000
from time sales. Behind those stratospheric figures, representing
the heftiest take recorded in radio annals, is the story of an
industry that in 25 years has conclusively demonstrated to a not-so-
long ago skeptical public its power to emerge as perhaps the most
potent commercial force today,

- ( Variety )

Elmer Denies OWI Fell Down In France

A proposal has been made that the U. S. should get on the
Paris radio to its true war story across.

But, counters Elmer Davis, OWI already is sending several
hours of standard wave broadcast programs into France daily thru
ABSS - American Broadcasting Station in Europe, located in England,
It also is broadcasting by shortwave into France from New York, Ke
said he understood the French radio still is considerably disorgan¬
ized - that, in fact, the French had asked for some time on ABSE to
broadcast into France.

’’You can’t make a man listen to one of our broadcasts if
he doesn’t want to”, Mr. Davis said. ”0ur information is that we
are having at least fair success. ”

- (Charles T. Lucey in Washington News. )

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; ; : : TRADE NOTES; ; :

An amendment of the War Production Board (Limitation
Order L-Tl) deletes the provision prohibiting the distribution of
certain types of batteries for use in standard wave length radios.
However, production of all dry cell batteries is authorized on
Form WpB“2719, and WPB does not intend to permit at this time any
further expansion of production of these types of batteries for
use in standard xmve length radios. As before, WPB may direct any
manufacturer to distribute specified quantities of dry cell batter¬
ies and protable electric lights for certain purposes. This change
wi 11 have no effect upon the civilian market.

RCA will give its annual family Christmas party in the
Netherland Club, 10 Rockefeller Plaza in New York, Thursday,
December 21st at 7 o* clock.

The Federal Trade Commission has accepted from H, E. Ewart,
trading as Champion Company, 11'54 North Western Avenue, Los Angeles,
a stipulation to discontinue certain misrepresentations in connec¬
tion with the sale of a storage battery designated "Champion Battery
Service ",

Ewart agrees to cease and desist from representing that
his product makes an electric storage battery last longer; enables
a motorist to start his car as often as he wishes without fear of
battery trouble; permits the playing of an automobile or other type
radio without battery failure and may be depended upon to produce
longer battery life and infallible battery service.

Col, Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune
and owner of Station WG-N, will be married tomorrow (Thursda.y) to
Mrs. Maryland Mathison Hooper, former wife of Harry Hooper, Jr,,
President of the Lake Shore Coal Company. Colonel McCormick’s
former wife, Amie Irwin Adams died in 1915,

When the Conference Committee of the Television Broad¬
casters* Association, Inc, first began to plan the memorable two-
day event held last week, it estimated that about 3 50 persons prob¬
ably would attend.

"The fact that close to 800 registered for all activities
and well over 1,000 attended Monday's banquet is a testimonial not
only to the immense interest in television itself, but to the indust¬
ry leaders who took part in the Conference program", the Television
News Letter states.

"Tw’enty-eight video sets operated during the gala banquet
was the greatest mass demonstration of television ever undertaken. "

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David L. Herson, trading as Llanhattan Auto & Radio Co.,

1706 Seventh St., N. W, , Washington, D, C. , entered into a stipula¬
tion with the Federal Trade Commission to discontinue misrepresent¬
ing certain radio receiving sets with respect to the number of tubes
they contain.

Specifically, he agrees to cease and desist from repre¬
senting that any radio set contains a designated number of tubes
or is of a designated tube capacity, when one or more of the tubes
referred to do not perform the recognized and customary functions of
radio receiving set tubes in the detection, amplification and recep”
tion of radio signals.

The radio can be a potent instrument for good or ill,

Pope Pius told 800 employees of the Italian Government Radio Monopol.v
at an audience in Rome recently.

"In this grave moment”, said the Pontiff, ’’radio can
exercise the work of cohesion among the people, reconciliation and
love among all nations, but in the hands of perverse men it can
also transform itself into an Instrument of hatred and ruin, ”

As a music lover the Pope offered his advice that pro¬
grams should contain more good music.

Max E, ^'^larkell, for the past four years Chief of the Vacuum
Tube Section of the U. S. Signal Coros at Camp Evans, has joined
RCA’s Tube and Equipment organization as a specialist on industrial
tube applications.

For military applications alone, the electronic manu¬
facturers of the U.S. will, during the current year, have delivered
$4,623,000,000 of electronic- ra dio-rada r equipment , while civilian
radio business will roll up $700,000,000 additional. Dr. Orestes E,
Caldwell, Editor of Electronic Industries and former Federal Radio
Commissioner, told members of the New York Electrical & Gas Associ¬
ation last week.

According to estimates by the Philco Corporation, the
pent-up demand for radios at the end of 1944 will be between 20 and
25 million units, as compared witii the all-time record production of
13,000,000 units in 1941,

Distributors of electronic equipment should not engage in
the manufacturing of such equipment and parts, members of the
Electronic Distributors Industry Advisory Committee recommended to
the War Production Board recently. In the opinion of Committee mem¬
bers, the two businesses of manufacturing and distributing electronic
equipment should be kept separate, and if a distributor is inter¬
ested in manufacturing these products, he should apply to WPB for
authority to do so on the same basis as any other manufacturer,

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INDEX TO ISSUE OP DECEMBER 27,

•'U. S. Overseas Communications Merger Only Answer” - Page •••••• 1

Radio Industry Postwar Employment Will Jump; May Be 68^ . 5

Strike Threat Parleys Continue; Nets Ready For Anything 5

Judge Ewin L. Davis Again Heads Trade Commission . . 5

Capehart Election Found Apparently Free From Legality . . 6

American Broadcasting Company Supersedes Blue Network . . 6

General Electric to Purchase Ken-Rad Assets . . 6

F.C.C* Action . . . . 7

Diplomats Get Radio Pointers From Their Children . .......* 8

Senator Presents RCA Official’s Plan For Greater America . . 9

Phelan Retires; Half Century V/ith All America Radio . 9

Scissors and Paste . . . . . 10

Trade Notes . * . * . 15

No. 1662

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"U.S. OVERSEAS COMMUNICATIONS MERGER ONLY ANSV/ER" ’ - PAGE

There is only one answer -- consolidation of all our ex¬
ternal telegraph communications into one privately owned and operated
American company if we are to take our rightful position in the world
Frank C. Page, vice president of the International Telephone and
Telegraph Comoany told the National Foreign Trade Convention in New
York.

"It is in the international telegraph field that the United
States has no sound policy and is definitelv jeopardizing its oositlor
in the world picture," Mr. Page declared. "Over a period of the last
twenty years, under private initiative, the international telegraph
industry of the United States has nearly held its own, handicapped as
it was with intensive competition among American companies. I say
"nearly" advisedly for while it is equal to any in equipment and
technique, it has not held its own in certain phases important to
American trade and prestige.

"You can walk into any V/e stern Union office today and route
a message to Havana, Cuba, over the linos of any one of three prin¬
cipal American communication companies which now provide service to
that point. No one is any better than the others. No one is any
cheaper than the others. You send it one way or another because you
like the color of the hair of the solicitor who has come to see you
or because you are mad at one company because a message you sent
three years ago was delayed longer than you thought was proper, or
you may prefer cable over radio or vice versa. The result, of course
is a division of the business between the United States and Cuba
which has to support the overhead of the four companies, and is an
incentive to ruinous competition and declining profits. It also
causes the use of a multiplication of radio circuits and cables beyonf
the needs of the traffic. Y/ith respect to radio this is particularly
disturbing as the scarcity of frequencies available in the frequency
spectrum is making it exceedingly difficult to plan radio channels
for future communication needs. Cuba, of course is just one example.

"There has been nothing more inane than the necessity of
the Board of 7/ar Communications to attempt to be fair between America:
communication coraoanies in the war zones. There are three American
radio companies serving Europe and the Far East. For military reason,
and because we have had to deal with Administrations in .liberated
areas, it was almost necessary temporarily, that only one company
should be allowed to establish a circuit to go along with the troops.
So, for example, one company was given the rights in Algiers, another
company in Naples, and, at first, two of the three in France. These
companies will be scrambling to get the right to operate in Holland
and the Near East as the Armies advance.

12/27/44

”1 am not criticising the Board of War Communications; I
don’t know what else it could do. But I can assure you that if we
had had one consolidated American company we would have had immediate
and more efficient liaison with all government departments in giving
them communication assistance, and we would not have had the reper¬
cussion and recriminations that are still going on between companies.

"The American press has felt that it has been handicapped
in rates, principally because the companies have found it difficult
to meet the competition of subsidized press rates ^iven to European
news agencies. So part of the press set up an international tele¬
graph system for press. This added another American telegraph ser¬
vice to the international communication field. Since the war, this
service has run into certain other difficulties and therefore is now
attempting to enter into straight telegraph business. Again I am
not criticising; it is one of the logical developments of insistence
on competition between American companies in the foreign field.

"Our good British friends have used more sense. They con¬
solidated their communication services, radio and cable, into one
unit for the benefit of the Empire and its influence in the world.

If you live in Detroit, you can spend a few cents, go over to Windsor,
Ontario, and send a message to Australia for 20^ less th^ you could
send it from Detroit. The international telegraph rate structure is
established at international conventions at which the 7 American
companies, each in competition with other American companies, are met
by unified communication administrations of the other countries. Our
International competitors play one American company against the other,
never to the detriment of themselves.

"Over the period of the last 15 years, the American inter¬
national telegraoh industry - cable and radio - carrying American
communications over the world under private enterprise with no form
of government subsidy has been the subject of attack from American
business. (Actually the industry subsidizes government by carrying
government messages for half rate.) American business has only looked
for one thing, that is a reduction of rates regardless of the conse¬
quences to American communications or consequences to American foreign
trade policy. The whole pressure of business and industry and the
press has not been to supoort private enterprise in this industry,
but to get special services or rates. The industry shows improvement
today as you look at the balance sheets of the companies. They are
living on a war traffic composed of over 60^ government messages.
However, look at the balance sheets of these same companies in 1938
and you will see an entirely different picture. Unless the logical
step is taken now, within five years after the war, the 1938 picture
will be back again.

"There are only two alternatives today - consolidation into
one company in the international telegraph field, or government owner¬
ship.

"There are those that say the cable is obsolete. Over the
last four years our Armed Services and qll governments have become

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pretty well convinced that the cable is not obsolete. There are
those who say a unified company will retard radio or not put in new
developments. Imperial Cables and .Vireless have combined their cable
and radio telegraph interests into one great world-wide system and
operate it in such a manner that the two services supplement one
another and have equal opportunity of development. It is argued
that labor will suffer if consolidation takes place. The Western
Union and the Postal were merged and the labor problem is solving
itself without any great difficulty. It is argued that under a
consolidated company rates will be kept up and services will de¬
teriorate. Exactly the opposite will happen. Rates will come down
and services will improve. The Federal Ccramuni cations Commission
in 1936 nt.de an attempt to advocate consolidation of international
ser^rices and then for political reasons backed down, lyio present
Comriission, however, is definitely in favor of consolidation,

"The Government has logically and justifiably gone into
international communications since the war. The Array and the Navy
have built up two groat world-wide telegraph communication systems.
This was a logical development because the 7 American telegraph com¬
panies were not able to be nearly as valuable in this war as a uni¬
fied system would have been. In the United States, however, the
Services did not build up a telephone system over the United States
because the Tel-ephone Companies were able to give them oetter service
than they could have provided themselves. A unified American inter¬
national telegraph communication service would have done the same
thing. I doubt if the Armed Services will get out of the communi¬
cation business unless and until we consolidate our international
telegraph communications.

"So to recapitulate - under consolidation it will be
possible to improve the service, to reduce rates, including press
rates, to fully protect labor and wages and do this under private
management and without government subsidy. A consolidated private
company under government regulation can take its proper place in
International communication conventions and not be subservient to
foreign communication administrations. But more important, is that
a consolidated American International communication company will
present for American trade, for American international good will
and international understanding, a unified front. It will be an
instrument which our Administration can use to further its foreign
policy. And, if we are so unfortunate as to find out selves again
in a time of war, be of invaluable assistance to our Armed forces."

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RADIO INDUSTRY POSTWAR EldPLOYlylENT WILL JUMP; MAY BE 68^

If the calculations of the Radio Manufacturers Association
are correct there will be a big increase in employment of men and
women in the radio industry after the war, possibly as much as 6^.
Says the RMA:

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12/27/44

"Although the industry has expanded its war dollar volume
about 1300^ since 1940, its employment total is expected to decrease
only 39 #0^0 after return to peacetime production. This is due to
the huge pent-up demand for radios to replace worn-out sets, as well
as the anticipated, postwar popularity of FM receivers and, a little
later, of television. The RMA survey, made by the Association’s
Employment & Personnel Committee, showed that 202 of the major radio
companies expect to employ 145,266 persons during the first year of
postwar production, as compared with 86,173 in the prewar year of
1940« The 1944 war production employment, in the July-September
period covered by the survey, averaged 241,286*

"The survey was one of the first postwar employment studies
made by a large industry and for the first time developed figures on
the industry’s employees who have gone into the armed services,
numbering 36,374, or more than one-third of the industry’s prewar
total* The survey Included figures from 202 companies, representing
64,9% of the industry, including the largest and virtually all sub¬
stantial manufacturers and representing about 80^ of industry
employees* On an 80^ basis, about 181,500 persons would be the
estimated industry postwar employment* That the survey substantially
covered the industry is demonstrated by the total employment record
of 241,286 in the July-September 1944 period, compared with an
official WPB estimate of 300,000 employees for all electronic manu¬
facturers in war production (many of them not normally industry
factors) *

"That 28,5% of the present industry employees will be forc¬
ed to seek work in another field, due to war contract cutbacks and
the return of former employees now in the armed services, was in¬
dicated by the survey* There was an Increase of 180^ shown in 1944
employment over the average number employed prewar, in 1940* Estimat¬
ed employment by the end of the first twelve months’ postwar product¬
ion showed a decrease from the present level of 59,8%, but an increase
of 68*6^ over 1940* Employment of men has Increased 106.2^ over
1940 and is expected to decrease 30*4^ fran current employment. The
number of women employees, however, has increased 248.4^ over 1940
and is expected to decrease only 44,9%o postwar. The survey estimated
that 23*6% of the men and 27,9% of the women how employed will not
seek work in the industry, for various reasons, after the war. This
group includes housewives, school children, and women war workers*

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STRIKE THREAT PARLEYS CONTINUE; NETS READY FOR ANYTHING

Negotiations were resumed immediately after Christmas and
are now continuing in the hope of preventing the threatened strike
against the NBC and Blue Networks.

The threat of the National Association of Broadcast Engineers
and Technicians (NABET) that if the chains do not allow NABET to re¬
tain control of plotter turning it v/ill strike ¥\rithin 72 hours
still stands as does the Petrillo threat that wildcat strikes will
be called if his contract to take over the plotter turning is not
enforced©

The National Association of Broadcasters are likewise
participating in the parleys. Although there are reports that the
negotiations are progressing favorably it is known that the network
executives have made every preparation for a strike in case one
is called.

XXXXXXXXXX

JUDGE 0fVIN L. DAVIS AGAIN HEADS TRADE COIvnvIISSION

Ewin La Davis, who had a prominent part in writing the
rz'lginal Radio Act and is well known to the broadcasting industry,
will become Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission for the third
time January !« The che.lrmanship rotates annually among five
members, not more than three of whom may belong to the same political
party. Judge Davis served previously as chairman in 1955 1940*

Judge Davis was a member of Congress from Tennessee from
1918 to 1935* At the time the radio act was being framed he was
serving on the Merchant Marine & Fisheries Committee which passes
on all radio legislation in the House. Judge Davis was so outspoken
and such a defender of independent interests that one of the larger
alleged monopolistic groups was credited by some with bringing
about his defeat for re-election.

nil?. Davis, a brother of the late Norman Davis, Chairman
of the American Red Cross, after his retirement from Congress, was
appointed to the Trade Coimnission in 1935 sind re¬

appointed in 1939* A Democrat, he was a judge of the Seventh
Judicial Circuit of his home State from I9IO to I918.

Born in Bedford County in I876, he attended Webb School
and Vanderbilt University and was graduated from the law school of
Columbian University, now George V'fashington University, in l899*

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12/27M

CAPEHART ELECTION FOUND APPARENTLY FREE PROM
LEGALITY

Senator Ball (R., I, linn#), member of the Senate Subcommittee
which investigated alleged election irregulatiries in Indiana this
week, said "as far as I know” tho committee investigators

have found no evidence of excessive campaign expenditure by Senator-
elect Homer Capeharn®

Previously Capehart, a Republican, had declared that the
investigation was a "political red herring#"

The double-barreled inquiry also involved charge of fraud
in Marion County (Indianapolis)# Chairman Stewart (D# Tenn#) said
he would recommend that these findings be turned over to the Depart¬
ment of Justice#

"I do not believe there are any grounds for prosecution,"
Ball declared, adding that "nothing serious" had been found in
other Indiana districts checked following complaints of asserted
irregularities •

In Marion County it was said there was evidence that
65,000 voters or one out of every four had been struck from the
rolls and not counted# The charge was made that any time "Anyone
was suspected of being a Democrat" his vote was thrown out®

XXXXXXXXXX

AliERICAH BROADCASTING COMPAi^- SUPERCEDES BLUE NETWORK

The Blue Network, Inc# has been authorized to assign the
licenses of stations WJZ, New York, and others to the American
Broadcasting Co#o Inc#, corporate owner of the network#

Besides VifJZ, the transfer approved by the Federal Communica¬
tions Commission involves WENR, Chicago; KGO, San Francisco; KECA,

Los Angeles, and a number of associated relay stations# No money
was involved in the transaction#

A Washington spokesman for the network said that whether
the transaction will mean substitution of the American Broadcasting
Co# for the Blue Network in station announcements wl.ll be determined
by officials in New York#

XXXXXXXXXXX

GENERAL ELECTRIC TO PURCHASE KEN-RAD ASSETS

Ken-Rad stockholders have authorized the sale of all assets
used in connection with the manufacture and sale of radio tubes by
the Ken-Rad Tube & Lamp Corp# of Owensboro, Kentucky, tc the General
Electric Co# of Schenectady, N# Y#

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The corporation retained its lamp-making business with its
buildings and equipment in Owensboro, and sold to General Electric
the Ken-Rad radio tube manufacturing plants at Tell City, Rockport
and Huntingburg in Indiana and at Bowling Green and Owensboro in
Kentucky#

The price, expected to total more than five million dollars,
is subject to an inventory as of January 2, 19k3t when the transfer
becomes effective# Roy Burlew, Ken-Rad president, said this would
include manufacturing equipment, materials on hand in process,
finished products, all patent rights and trademarks#

XXXXXXXXXXX
F.C.C, ACTION

The Federal Communications Commission denied a petition of
the Cowles Broadcasting Company to amend the Commission’s chain
broadcasting regulations to make it possible for a station to enter
into an original affiliation agreement with a network more than six
months in advance of the effective date of the agreement#

The Commission denied a request by the National Broadcasting
Company to amend the regulations to permit a station which options
to a network less than the three hours option time allowed under
Section in the hours from 8 A#M# to 1 P#M# to option additional

time over and above the three hours allowed in the evening time
period from 6 P#M# to 11 P#M*

Television Productions, Inc#, area of Los Angeles, Calif.,
has applied for a construction permit for a new relay Experimental
Television Broadcast Station to be operated on Channels #9 and 10

(180000-192000 kilocycles.

KROW of Oakland, Calif, has been granted consent to volun¬
tary assignment of license of Station KROW from Educational Broad¬
casting Corp#, assignor to KROW, Inc#, assignee, for a consideration
of ^250,000 plus.

WILM, of V/ilmington, Dela. has been granted transfer of
control of Delaware Broadcasting Co#, licensee of Station V/ILM,
from J# Halo Stelnman and John F. Steinman, by the sale of i^Oif
shares, or 66 2/3 percent, of the voting stock, and 68 shares, or
66 2/3 percent of non-voting preferred stock, to Alfred G# Hill
for a consideration of $125,000.

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12/27M

DIPLOf.lATS GET RADIO POINTERS FROM THEIR CHILDREN

One got the idea listening to the Christmas broadcast of
the sons and daughters of the diplomats in Washington last Friday
that if the children were running things there might be more harmony
and good will throughout the world than their distinguished parents
have been able to bring about#

Forty-six children of 55 nations took part, including
those from seven occupied countries# It was the lOth annual inter¬
national children's Christmas party and the first since Pearl Harbor*
The broadcast, an exclusive feature of the Blue Network, was spon¬
sored by the Washington Board of Trade with Edgar Morris Chairman
of the Greater National Capitol Committee in charge# Kenneth H#
Berkeley, manager of Station WMAL in Washington did the honors
for the Blue# Standing by was Bryson B# Rash, special news and
events man of WMAL#

The broadcast would have been a natural for television
because of the bright colors of the native costumes of the children#

A surprising thing was that many of them spoke English without a
trace of an accent# A fine background was provided by Capt# William
Santelraann and the U# S# Marine Band#

The guests were welcomed by 7“y©s-r-old Virginia Patterson,
daughter of the Assistant Secretary of War# Among the children who
broadcast Christmas messages werejUsni, young son of the Thailand
minister. Mom Rajawpngse Seni Pramoj; from Denmark, Eric, Tove, and
Olaf, children of Carl A# C# Brun, Danish counsellor; from Holland,
Beppy Daubanton; from Czechoslovakia, Katka Palic, daughter of
Dr# Vladimer Palic; from Norway, Marjorie Bertha, daughter of
Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne, Ambassador from Norway; from Poland,
Charles Besterman of the Polish embassy; and from Yugoslavia, Sophie
Milovanovltch, daughter of the commercial attache#

Good wishes came, too, from Anna Marla Martins, daughter
of the Brazilian Ambassador, from Helvia Jones-Parra, representing
Venezuela, and from Rosario Calbo of Spain, shining under a head¬
dress of carnations# Long braids dwarfed Audrey Anne Hadow, clad
in Scottish kilts# Beppy Daubanton greeting the group on behalf
of the Netherlands, was scrubbed and shiny in her white cap, black
and white blouse and bright long skirt# Tuncay Aydlnalp, a chubby
little Turkish boy, sent his message without his brother, whom, he
said, wouldn't come up to the microphone#

Still other children colorfully costumed were Carraenclta
Garland of Peru, Olga and Beatriz Rodriquez from the Dominican
Republic, Nicholas Rivero, Cuba, Sophie Milovanovltch, Yugoslavia,
Ibrahim Bahghat, Egypt, and Norbet Le Gallais of Luxembourg#

Katherine Soong, daughter of Dr# T# V# Soong, brought a message from.
Chinese children expressing hearts full of hope for peace in
ar>other year#

The program will be rebroadcast in Europe, Larin-American
and other countries#

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PHELAN RETIRES; HALF CENTURY WITH ALL AMERICA RADIO

After fifty years of service Prank W» Phelan has retired
as President of All America Cables and Radio, Inc., an affiliate of
International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation.

A cable operator at the age of lli, Mr. Phelan has devoted
practically his entire life to telegraphy. He joined the Company in
1895 and, at one time or another, has been in charge of practically
every division of All America Cables and Radio. He was appointed
General Traffic Manager in 1922. In the following year he was
appointed Vice President. He was elected President of All America
Cables and Radio in 1959*

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SENATOR PRESENTS RCA OFFICIAL’S PLAN FOR GREATER AIIERICA

Senator Holman (R) of Oregon inserted in the Congressional
Record, a plan by Oswald F. Schuette of the Radio Corporation to
build a greater America.

Senator Holman saidi

"I have in my hand a proposal to solve these problems by
using the vast forces we have mobilized to win the war for the
building of a greater America, or, to put it more specifically, for
the creation in the States west of the Mississippi River of the
world’s greatest industrial empire.

"The end of the war - when it comes - will bring with it
the greatest crisis in American history. Only a program that en¬
visions a new continental empire can offer the hope of a successful
solution for the demobilization of 10,000,000 soldiers, and the
change of employment for 20,000,000 war workers, to say nothing of
finding profitable investment for $150,000,000,000 of war savings,
in the face of a national debt exceeding $250,000,000,000.

"The proposal to create such a postwar empire in the great
West comes from a newspaperman and counselor of public relations,
Oswald F. Schuette, of Chicago and l-Vashington. Mr. Schuette points
out that we used a similar solution once before, in the same kind
of crisis. We solved the post-war problems after the Civil War by
creating in these same V/estern States the world’s greatest agri¬
cultural empire. For i+O years that new frontier absorbed all our
surplus men, money and energy - and half of Europe’s. Now the new
frontier will be one far greater in its potentialities. It will
be an industrial frontier, backed by the greatest natural resources
available anywhere in the world."

(The plan referred to by Senator Holman is printed in detail
in the Congressional Record of December I3, page A5085. )

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12/27M

SCISSORS AND PASTE '

“Newspapers Should Protect Radio*', Publisher States

Roy D# Moore, Chairman of the Amorlcan Newspaper Publishers
Association Bureau of Advertising said, with a grin;

“Newspapers ought to protect the institution of
radio by preventing it from getting advertising
for which it can’t produce results •“

In support of newspapers as compared with
radio, fir# Moore continued, "A newspaper is an
institution which though it can be shared with
him, no one can take from the advertiser# Where
radio, on the other hand is concerned, anyone
who can offer a higher salary or other induce¬
ments to a Frank Sinatra or a Kate Smith can
take them away from the advertiser# “

(Editor and Publisher )

Television to Employ ij.. 600,000? Not a Chance
Says Critic

Although the age of television will provide an estimated
!{., 600, 000 new jobs, the part that advertising agencies will play
in the new industry is not assured, Richard H# Hooper, regional
advertising manager of RCA Victor Division, Radio Corp# of America,
and president of the National Television Council warned the Chicago
Federated Advertising Club#

Hooper predicted television will be big business after the
war# He said 2,500,000 to ^,^00,000 sets will be manufactured each
peace year, with 30,000,000 in use by 1955 • The question ’ViThen will
television arrive?’ is obsolete# Today 1^0 programs a week are sent
out on nine stations#

(Chicago Sun)

Editor’s note; Questioning fir# Hooper’s high television
employment figure, a subscriber writes;

“Here is the President of the National Television Council,
saying that television will supply employment for a volume equal to
50% of our Armed Forces, 4,600,000 new jobs#

“Gauge this television emplosrment prediction against the
latest figures we have on the total employment in the radio and
phonograph manufacturing industry of 119^000 people in 1943#
which time we were expanded for warwork and when we were at an all«»
time high#”

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The RI/IA employment survey, which is reported on another
page of this issue, gives a slightly higher figure
but nowhere near i4.,600,000» It states that 202 of the major radio
companies expect to employ 145^266 persons during the first year of
postwar production. The 1944 war production employment averaged

241,286.

^Pig Squeal* Radio Debated

National Association of Broadcasters having objected to
granting of radio wave bands to "Subscription Radio," the battleline
has been drawn before the Federal Communications Commission on
whether there will be radio entertainment v/ithout advertising or
commercial announcements.

Application to operate a three-channel radio service of
classical music, popular music, and educational programs - without
commercials but at a cost to the listener of 5 cents a day - was
put before the FCC last October. Joseph L. Wiener, appeared before
FCC as attorney for a group headed by V/illiam Benton, chairman of
the Encyclopaedia Brittanica board, Neardsly Ruml, and Robert
Hutchens, president of the University of Chicago. After the war it
is anticipated Chester Bowles, now head of UPA,will be associated.
James L. Fly, former FCC Chairman, will be the Company's counsel.

An original application to build an experimental station
to test their idea was made by Muzak, Inc., in 1941, materials
shortages delayed development.

Subscription Radio has plans to begin service in New York,
Chicago and possibly one other metropolitan center, offering pro¬
grams as a complete "family package" of entertainment giving the
subscription a l4-hours-a-day choice of two types of continuous
musical programs or a variety of feature programs.

To keep their programs from being swiped or listened-in on
by non-subscribers who have not kicked in their nickel a week, all
broadcasts would be "marked" with a distinguishing, shrill "pig
squeal" which would spoil the program for anyone whose FM set was
not equipped with a patented filter to eliminate the noise. It is
from this device that Subscription Radio has been christened pig
squeal radio, and it is from the licensed rental of the filter that
the service v/ould collect to finance its broadcasts and programs.

By putting the three pig squeal frequencies at one end of the FM
band of frequencies, a minimum of Interference would be given to
other FM broadcasts.

(Peter Edson in Washington News)

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The Communists* Broadcasting Plan

Inqui3?y into the plan of the Communists in the East to
take to the radio openly with their propaganda, has led to some in¬
teresting information. William S* Gailmor, 5^ years old, is a nows
commentator for the Electronics Corporation of America on New York
Station WJZ, of the Blue Network, from 11:05 to 11:15 three nights
a week and a systaining commentator employed by the network, two
nights a week. After January i|.. Electronics will be his sponsor
five nights a week.

Gailmor’s name formerly was William Margolis. He dropped
his old name and devised the new one by a rearrangement of the same
letters after he had pleaded guilty in the court of general sessions.
New York, to a charge of grand larceny. His crime was the theft
of an automobile and he confessed that he had actually stolen five
cars and had been caught on two occasions prior to the theft which
brought the indictment but had paid off the victims. Psychiatrists
examined Margolis and on their recommendations he was placed on
probation and went to an institution for treatment. He is still on
probation.

In giving his background to WJZ, Gailmor concealed essential
information, but on Wednesday, when summoned to the office, apparent¬
ly suspected the company had obtained the truth and thereupon told
them the whole story.

(Westbrook Peglar in V/ashington Times-Herald)

Time for a Showdown with Petrillo

Sooner or later the radio industry will realize that it
must have a showdown with Petrillo. No better opportunity has pre¬
sented itself than the current clash between Petrillo* s American
Federation of Musicians and the National Assn, of Broadcast Engin¬
eers and Technicians. It may mean headaches and grief galore, but
it has to be done.

Off-the-record other labor leaders agree that Petrillo is
going too far. They, too, realize that Petrillo 's attitude is one
wMch seriously injures the entire labor movement. Worst of it is
that Petrillo, in many cases, has been right. But in the NABET sit¬
uation he has gone off the deep end.

The way out is action through the appropriate legal channels
placing the issue before the WLB> and if necessary, the U. S.

Courts, for a final, binding showdown.

(Variety)

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TRADE NOTES::;

Preparations are under way for the Midwinter Conference
of the Radio Manufacturers which is schedules for Monday, Tuesday
and Fednesday, February 19 - 21. This is a yearly event and held
in New York.

The RM Board of Directors will meet on the 21st#

Given a good start by its first editor, Maj. George 0#
Gillingham, later in charge of the press section of the Federal
Communications Commission, the Chemical Warfare Bulletin of the
Army is. observing its 25th Anniversary®

The Bulletin v/hich began on the mimeograph but is now a
printed and handsomely illustrated ij.5 pag© bi-monthly, is sent to
Chemical Warfare Service officers all over the world* Major
Gillingham is expected to return to his old position at the FCC
after the war*

Emily A. Bates, 20 Park Avenue, New York, is charged in a
Federal Trade Commission complaint v/ith misrepresentation in conn¬
ection v/ith the sale of a book entitled "Perfect Sight Without
Glasses* "

The complaint alleges that the respondent disseminates
radio and periodical advertisements in which she represents that
perfect sight may be obtained without the use of glasses by follow¬
ing the courses set out in the book*

According to the complaint, it is not possible to obtain
perfect sight or improve sight by following the courses in the book,
of which 000 copies have been sold, and the respondent has no
authentic records to show that any definite total number of copies
has been sold#

Mrs# Gardner Cov/les, Jr*, wife of the president of the
Cowles Broadcasting Company was selected by the artists and sculpt¬
ors in New York as one of the 10 most glamorous women in 19Wl-« Tbe
list included Queen Elizabeth of England and Mrs# Winston Churchill#

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Brig, Gent Edgar Lt Clewell, formerly in command of the
Chicago Signal Depot, has been appointed Assistant Chief of the
Procurement & Distribution Service of the Army Signal Corps, with
offices in Washington* Gen® Clewell is 1].8 years old and from
Minnesota*

A year-end bonus to employees of the Emerson Radio and
Phonograph Corporation, amounted to approximately |ll{.9,000*

RCA has prepared a handbook for theatre managers and pro¬
jectionists on the what, how and why of theatre television, for
distribution by W* J* Jones, RCA Service Company executive*

Plans for a professional course in electronics, emphasiz¬
ing applications to television and highly developed production
methods in which the Philco Corporation of Philadelphia will co¬
operate, were announced today (Wednesday, Dec® 27) by Dr* Karl T*
Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology*

Under the new cooperative course, which follows a plan
established at tie Institute many years ago, leading to the master
of science degree, a selected group of students in the department of
electrical engineering will spend alternate terms at the Institute
and at the Philco plants*

John Cowles, vice president of the Cowles Broadcasting
Company and president of the Minneapolis Star Journal and Tribune
Company has been made a director of General Mills at Minneapolis*

A permit to operate a 25O watt station In Alexandria, Va®
has been granted by the Federal Communications Commission to the
Potomac Broadcasting Corp*, of which Howard B® Hayes, is president,
and Carl L® Lindberg, secretary-treasurer*

Since Alexandria Is across the river and only a few miles
from ^'ashington this Is considered the opening wedge for a new
station covering the National Capital area*

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