Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1922, Page 5

HODVER ADDRESSES MEETING BY PHONE | Speaks io Electric Light Con- Secretary vention 200 Miles Away. of Commerce Herbert Hoover today lifted a recelver from a telephone and delivered an address to the Nutional ‘Electric Light Assocla- tion Convention in Atlantic City, more | - than 200 miles away. Hig vaice pissed over long distance telephone wires to the convention au- ditorlum, where it was amplified by a loud -speaker simiiar to the one used by President Harding in making his inaugural address. Huge Amplification Reported. A statistician at the local telephone company officially stated: “When Secretary Hoover spoke this morning he created an energy at the telephone which was amplified fifty thousand, billion times.” With this type of voice transmission Secretary Hoover centered his ad- dress on the prospects of development of electrical transmission of power, Wwhich he declared :would reach a ra- ;ilul of a thousand miles in the fu- ure. Superpower Time Here. “The time is ripe for a great na- tional program of superpower devel~ opment,” "Mr. Hoover said. “The stretch of economic transmission dis- tances has brought power develop- ment from the mouth of our coal Mmines and upon our streams to with- in the economic reach o? our indus- trial centers and our farms.” Mr. Hoover regretted his inability 1o appear in person, but told the cQn- ‘vention that “in securing successful outcome- to the negotiations to curb rising prices of coa! I hope 1 have erformed a service to the electric ight industry of much more practical Purpose than a speech.” —_— ALL SET FOR SHAD BAKE OF BOARD OF TRADE 400 Members and 100 Guests to Entrain for Annual Feast at Chesapeake Beach. Four hundred members of the ‘Washington Board of Trade and more than 100 guests en train tomorrow .far the twenty-eighth annual shad- bake of the organization, to be held @t Chesapeake Beach. This year's af- fair is expected to eclipse previous shadbakes by a wide margain. The first traim leaves the District line at 10:30 o'clock, while the afternoon “special” will leave at 2 o’clock. In order that the guests of the Board of Trad le—among whom are a number of members of the Senate and House of Representatives, District and federal officials—may be properly taken care of, President Thomas Bradley has appointed a reception committee. The members of this committee will extend the glad hand welcome to the members and guests, and see that everything possi- ble is done to insure a most pleasant day’'s outing and one long to be re- membered. The personnel of the committes is as follows: Thomas Bradley, chairman; E. of Brandenburg.-Charles S. Bundy, E. F. Colladay, Frank E. Cunningham, C. J. Harry Cunningham, M. O. Chance, CPris J. Gockeler, Harry V. Haynes, William F. Gude, Lewis Holmes, Franklin_H. Harper, M. A. Leese, George H. Macdonaid, Morton Macdonald, John T. Meany, Howard Moran, Maurice Otterback, H. Glenn Phelps, Samuel J. Prescott, Charles W. Semmes, H. C. C. Stiles, George C. Shaffer. Frank A. Sebring, Henry E. Stringer, W. B. Todd and Theodore W. Noyes. . 2 o The committee on arrangements in charge of the auting:calls attention that all tickets have been sold and that no one will be admitted on the trains or served with dinner at the Casino who is not in possession of a tioket. ¢ SEEK MERGER.ADVICE. Q. BSteel Men Ask Delay of Conference With Daugherty. Attorney General Daugherty was informed today by an officlal of one of the independent steel companies involved in the projected merger that the consolidation would be effected| ’ only after consultation with the De- partment of Justice. The official, whose name the At- torney General did not disclose, and who talked with Mr. Daugherty by long-distance telephone, requested a postponement until next Wednesday of the conference, which Mr. Daugh- erty has asked the officials of :the companies involved in the proposed|. merger to hold with him. The re- Quest was granted. 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