Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1928, Page 10

Ty o E » 18 *® COURT OF APPEALS GETS RADID GASE Ownership of Ether Lanes Involved in WGY Suit Against Commission. Determination of the rights of radio and the fixing of the focal point for legal regulation, today went into the hands of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and with its decision rests the question of ownership of lanes ©of communication, vaster, perhaps, than the rights of way of railroads or the cable and wire lines of the telegraph 2nd telephone companies of the country. | supple- | Following the filing of a mentary brief by both sides containing a resume of the entire case within the next 20 days, the District Circuit Court will render its decision on the appeal of the General Electric Co., owner of radio broadcasting station WGY, which has brought for the first time into a court of the United States ¢he question | of who owns the lanes through which the mysterious electrical impulses which constitute radio travel i Like “a house of cards” in the face ! of any change is the present status of the wave-band allocations of the Fed- eral Radio Commission, the counsel for | the commission, Louis G. Caldwell, told | the Circuit Court judges this morning The court has heard in the past two days of matters relating oniy to. the long wave lengths used at present by broadcasting stations in the dissemina- tion of programs as they are heard at I 50 Years® Servic EDWARD M. HALL. tar Staff Thoto. FIFTY YEARS’ SERVICE AS ENGRAVER MARKED Fifty years-of service in the engrav- ing division of the Bureau of Engrav- ing and Printing, during which time he turned out engravings which appear on money, postage stamps and bonds of the United States, were observed by a special ceremony today in presenta- tion to Edward M. Hall of a gold watch from his associates. Mr. Hall entered the bureau as an apprentice engraver at the age of 16 and has sene continuous service there millions of firesides nightly, but their decision, it is admitted by both sides | of the controversy, will stretch into.| that vast field of radio, the shorter | wave lengths. 1 Charles Evans Hughes, chief counsel | for the General Electric Co., spent more | than two hours before the court yester- day afternoon arguing that in its prior | possession of a “clear channel” in radio | since 1923 had been established for | WGY a superior right to that channel, which, barring abuse of its right or vio- | lation of the law in its use, it is entitled | to as a matter of property right. It is in the defense of this claimed | since. The presentation was made in be- half of the engraver’s associates by the director of the bureau, -Alvin W. Hall The engraver, whose half century of { work was honored today, lives at 1407 Kennedy street. WGY is forbidden to broadcast are the most valuable ones to any broadcasting station. The Radio Commission contends that in its reallocation action establishing 40 clear channels in five zones, ¢ wa: | faced with problems which made it nec to give | essary, for the generz] good. EVENING 'ST;\T‘ WASHINGTON, .D. C., TUESDAY, DECEMB TIGHTER . . ENTRY LAWUP TOMORROW :House Committee Will Con- sider Proposal of Sec- retary Davis. By the Associated Press. The House immigration committee take up tomorrow the proposal etary Davis of Labor that Con- tighten the immigration laws of Ses | Canadian border to work or search for | employment in_the United States. | The Labor Secretary holds that re- | cent court decisions placed too, liberal | a construction on the law by allow- |ing two ali | working in this country and returning to Canada cach night, and the other | seeking employment, to enter as visit- | ors temporarily for business and there- | fore as non-quota immigrants. Chairman Johnson of the immigration committee said today he personally be- lieved the situation could be met by | an amendment defining the word “busi- ness,” which would allow differentia- | tion ' between persons coming here for | legitimate business under temporary | non-quota permits and those seeking | or working at odd jobs and requiring | quota visas. FARM PRICES DECLINE. The general level of farm prices de- clined 3 points during the perio¢ from October 15 to November 15. Th> Bu- reau of Agricultural Economics of the Department of Agriculture reported yes- terday that based on an index fixed at 134 per cent of pre-war level, the general level also had declined 3 points below that for the same period a year ago. Declines in cotton, corn, wheat, rye, potatoes, meat animals, horses, mules and chickens more than offset advances in oats, hay, apples, cottonseed, dairy and poultry products, | the report said. | — . Jury Fund Appropriated. CHICAGO, December 4 (#).—The right that the General Electric Co. has | WGY's channel to the fifth zone, in | finance committee of the Cook County filed its appeal from the decision of the | which Oakland is situated, and to allot Board of Commissioners yesterday ap- Federal Radio Commission which, in|the clear wave ~hannels in the first| propriated $225,000 to reimburse sub- its recent reallocation of wave channels, took from WGY the channel it had been using and gave it to a station owned by the same company on the Pacific Coast. The argument of the Federal Radio Commission has been based on the laws under which the commission was form- ed and upon the regulations which have been used to bring some semblance of order out of the chaos which came with the springing up all over the country of radio stations broadcasting and clut- tering the air to such an extent that the hearthside reception was, at times, | badly muddled and distorted. | The case in question itself is a big one, comparatively. The General Elec-/ trice Co. points out that capital of 81,500,000 has been invested in the powerful WGY station and that that juvestment is nullified by the action of the commission in its failure to renew ts full-time, clear channel license. It now has only a limited license and is | allowed to be on the air on its old wave channel of 790 kilocycles until ‘dark- ness would link it on the same band with the Oakland, Calif, station, KGO, ! to which the wave band has been al- lotted. 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