Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1929, Page 38

38 THE EVENING WIRELESS GRANT STILL UNDER FIRE Senator Dill Proposes Inquiry Into Patents of Communi- cations Company. BY MARTIN CODEL. All eyes in the wireless world are| focused upon the newly formed Univer- | sal Wireless Communications Co., backed by a group of Buffalo capitalists and recently alloted a parcel of 40 short| waves by the Federal Radio Commis- sion for the purposes of establishing a national radio-telegraph system serving | major cities in all States of the Union | and competing directly with the wire | systems. No aspersions have been cast upon | the directors of the huge project. Tkey appear to be men of high standing in | their community. Many questions are | being asked, however, about the quali-| fications of the enterprise at the cur-| rent hearings before the House com- mittee on radio. Searching inquiry into its technical equipment and finan- cial plans is proposed by Senator Dill of Washington when the Senate com- mittee hearings on radio get under way. The primary question is whether the company has at hand, as claimed, a combination of patents which can util- ize single radio channels to five times their normal capacity. Such technical strength may be expected to revolu- tionize the art of short-wave communi- cations. The next questions to be pursued in the course of the congressional inquiry | are whether the one technical demon-! stration conducted for the Federal Ra- dio Commission was conclusive and whether the company will be warranted #n floating a public stock issue. Members Are Puzzled. Further than this, the broad principle of governmental authorization of the use of the exceedingly scarce con*inental wave lengths for services where com- petitive wire services are already in operation, while apparently settled by ‘ the commission's grants of channels to the Universal company and the press group, will be a subject of scrutiny by | Congress. The purpose of inquiry is to determine whether radio-telegraph services are needed by the country or whether the precious wave lengths shall be preserved for other needs, chiefly those involving e: iergencies and safety of life. Members of Congress are frankly puzzled about the whole short wave sit- uation. Some of them, like Representa- tive White of Maine, Free of California and Reid of Illinois, are remarking that the broadcasting problem pales into in- significance beside the problems of eco- nomics and public policy presented by the short waves. Renresentative Free, who opened the House members’ inquiry into the Universal project, stated that he regards the 'stress by committee members upon broadcasting as “wag- ging the tail of the dog.” The moving spirit in the Universal project is Dr. John Nathansohn, a for- mer Buffalo medical practitioner, who informed the writer that he first became interested in radio while using electri- cal therapeutic methods with his patients. Although he is not an officer or director of the company, he is gen- erally accredited with the Tesponsibility for obtaining the channel grants from the commission. He maintains head- quarters as manager of the company in a large suite of rooms in the National Press Building and has spent most of the last six or eight months in Wash- ington. Patents Held Secrets. Dr. Nathansohn declared he is not at liberty to disclose the patents held by the company, for fear that they will be seized upon by the natural enemies of such a project as the Buffalo men have launched, namely, the radio in- terests, like the Radio Corporation of America and the Mackay Radio com- penies; and.the wire interests, like the Western Union and the Postal. He in- sists, however, that the company is able by its fivefold transmission method to do what no other radio communicating | = company can do. The demonstration of equipment took place early last month in a laboratory established at 1904 M street northwest, Washington, with all the members of the Federal Radio Commission present and some of their engineers and coun- sel. Present also were Senators Dill of Washington, Frazier of North Da- kota and Stephens of Mississippi, and Representatives Bloom of New York and Frear of Wisconsin. A second day’s demonstration was viewed by Senators ‘Watson of Indiana, Wheeler of Mon- tana, Sackett of Kentucky and Goff of West Virginia. The officials sent messages which were transmitted from the laboratory and received by radio back in the same room, but practically none of them was cognizant of the technical detail of the muitiple sending and receiving appara- tus, according to Senator Dill. The transmitter worked one short wave with only 5 watts of power. The five messages were paid to have been tuned- in also at the naval research laboratory at Anacostia, some 5 miles distant. Comdr. T. A. M. Cravin, U. 8. N,, engi- neer in charge of short waves for the Radio Commission, was present and reported to the commission the com- pany's engineers had done what they claimed. Nothing New, Is Claim. ‘The unsuccessful applicants for short ‘waves for a similar domestic radio net- work to feed into their transoceanic radio circuits are claiming that noth- | struction has progressed on a station at be duplicated with ordinary waves. Some Navy men say there is nothing radically new about the principle demonstrated, but they adniit they have not been given full details. Several members of Congress have indicated that they will inquir> why the commis- sion did not wait to conduct a more complete demonstration over a wider range of the erratic short waves under day and night conditions and with vary- ing power after the Universal company had completed the experimental sta- tions it was authorized last Summer to construct in New York and Chicago. Construction permits for two sta- tions, each to use 10,000 watts’ power and three different wave lengths, were issued to the Universal company last August 14, to be completed by February 14. According to Dr. Nathansohn, con- Scobeyville, N. J., while at Chicago a laboratory the company maintains on | Ravenswood road is said to be the projected site of the other station. Dr. Nathansohn insisted that the se- crecy required by the company is evi- denced by the fact that efforts have been made to break into its Washington laboratory and to gain eptry into his offices here. He declared a detective agency has been employed to maintain a guard, indicating that he believed rival radio interests were trying to find out about the company's equipment. The only patents he said he was at liberty to disclose are an oscillator, in- vented by Dr. Ross Gunn of the naval research laboratory, and a four-ele- ment tube, invented by Earl Koch, for- merly of Westinghouse and in charge of the Universal's Chicago laboratory. Seek Competent Men. The manager of the giant wireless project asserted that the company has “lines out” and commitments from highly competent men now employed by large wire and wireless concerns to join the company. But he said he was not at liberty to disclose their names because of their present affiliations. The | company has, however, employed Ar- | thur L. Morse, said to be a_ former | traffic chief of the Canadian Marconi company, he announced. Howard L. Ford, a Leland Stanford graduate, said to have constructed the wireless system of Mexico, is in its employ, and the application for the station construction permits reveal Milton Horn, formerly of Bell laboratories, as one of its en- gineers also. ‘Whether a stock issue will be floated is a matter the 15 members of the com- pany’s board of directors must decide, Dr. Nathansohn stated. At least three important brokerage houses have offered to undertake financing the project, he said. As far as he knew, no definite plans in this respect are under way. The company’s directorate alone is powerful enough financially to under- write the $25,000,000 capital, in the opinion of Dr. Nathansohn. The presi- dent of the company is John W. Henry, president of the Vim Cycle Auto Co., Buffalo, and the chairman of th2 board is Paul E. Fitzpatrick, Buffalo building contractor. The officers and directors are engaged in banking and various other enterprises in Buffalo. (Copyright, 1920. by North American Newspaper Alliance.) COMMITTEE TO SELECT STATUE OF CARDINAL Knights of Columbus to Display Five Clay Models at Mayflower. State Deputy Charles W. Darr of the Knights of Columbus has appointed a committee of six to arrange an exhibit at the Mayflower Hotel, between Feb- ruary 1 and 15, of five clay models of statues of the late Cardinal Gibbons. One of the models will be selected and the statue will be placed by the Knights of Columbus in front of the Sacred Heart Church on Sixteenth street. The names of the sculptors of the models are being withheld until after the selection is made. NEW CONGERN ASKS BANDS FOR TESTS Virginia Stations Plan to Link 200 Local Plants on One Channel. ————— STAR. WASHINGTON, D€ BEER REFERENDUM ASKED ‘Wisconsin Legislator Would Repeal State Dry Law. MADISON, Wis., January 18 (#).— Three proposals for modification of State and national prohibition laws were introduced in the State Senate yester- day by Senator Thomas W. Duncan, Milwaukee Socialist. The resolutions asked State referendums on the ques- tion of legalizing 2.75 per cent beer and on the question of repealing the Sever- son act, Wisconsin’s dry enforcement law. A memorial to Congress request- ing a national referendum on 2.75 per cent beer also is asked. HARPER GOLF CLUB NEARS COMPLETION Temporary .Buildjng to Be Finish- ed in March—Membership Nearly Filled. ‘The temporary clubhouse of the Har- per Country Club, located on the Rock- ville pike, is nearing completion and is expected to be finished in March. It will consist of a lounge and dining room equipped with open fireplaces, dining Linking of 200 local broadcasting stations on a single channel by means of a new process of short-wave syn- chronization is the ambitious enterprise of a new concern in the radio field, which is seeking experimental licenses from the Federal Radio Commission. The commission is disposed to approve the experimental grant to the com- pany, the Continental Broadcasting Corporation of New York, but the com- mission’s engineers thus far have re- fused to assent, holding that it is not feasible. The plan, according to P. M. Titus, vice president of the company, is to employ two short waves of 7,000 kilo- cycles and of 7,900 kilocycles, which differ in frequency, to create a broad- casting frequency falling about 900 kilocycles, or within the broadcast band. By local modulation of the waves at each station on the chain the high- frequency waves emanating from the two proposed super-power key stations would be picked up by the scores of small stations on the channel and am- plified to sufficient signal strength to serve the particular community. It is understood that the individual stations would put on specially recorded programs reproduced by phonograph records, and that each station would begin its broadcasting on the same channel at the exact time and with the exact phonographic reproductions. ‘There would be no program broad- cast from the two 50,000-watt key sta- tions under the plan as outlined to the commission. These stations would merely “manufacture” the carrier wave, and_the local stations on the channel would amplify this wave and broadcast their recorded program in synchronism. Because the company now is seeking only experimental licenses and con- struction permits, the commission sees no reason to disapprove its applica- ticns, although one or two of its mem- bers view the whole scheme with skep- ticism. Aside from the experimental channels, the company seeks four sta- tion construction permits. two for the short-wave stations at Fredericksburg, Va., and one each for broadcasting sta- tions at Richmond and Alexandria, Va. Titus says the company has devoted two years to laboratory work and de- sires actually to go on the air in order to put on a series of practical demon- strations for the benefit of the com- mission and its engineers. He would not divulee the names of the backers of the enterprise, but said they were “influential men.” and that once given authority they wonld acauire the own- ership of 200 stations throughout the country, raneing in power from 250 to 750 watts. These stations would serve as the local “repeaters” for the cen- trallv located kev stations, which would be_of 50,000 watts power. Highly enthusiastic, Titus declares the new system is going to be “an in- disnensable thing to the oublic.” Commissioner Caldwell, who always has encouraged experimentation of everv character, voted in favor of the aoplications. (Copyright, 1929, by the Consolidated Press.) o Prof. William Lyon Phelps of Yale University has been ordained as honor- ary pastor cf Calvary Baptist Church, New Haven. ties of the j Kent—its formance, i ties and its ])CI\\'{U](‘C< addition to we demons set to you Convenient arr Ma * ance of thes particularly RADIO GALLERI All friends of the late cardinal, pas- tors, assistants and leaders of the Knights of Columbus will be asked to view the statues and inform the com- mittee as to their views of the merits of each model submiticd. These views will be collected and used as an aid to determine the final selection of the model. On the committee, besides Mr. Darr, are J. Leo Kolb, A. J. Scullen, Walter 1. Plant, John E. 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