Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1929, Page 38

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1929.° B e e e e e e 1.3, AIDE FAVORS OPEN COMPETITION {Assistant Secretary of State Would Keep Radio and Wires Separate, BY MARTIN CODEL. America has exelusive arrangements for_the dispatch and rcceipt of radie | trae in foreign countries with which respoet. to actual operating circyits, the commission tcok cognizance of the fact | that an attaek upen this radio system was actually an attack upon America's | position 1n internatienal radie. Evade International Issue. Thus far, the Couzeps committee and | radio problem free from the seething maeistrom of prejudice that prevails fields. Senator Couzens is steering an astyte ceurse in this respeet, while the Federal Redio Commission now has an authority to guide it on international short-wave problems in the person ef Continued competition between radio ( Gen. Charlés MeK. Saltzman, the for- the cables in international com- for economic reasons and to meet competition, the American v of competitive servizes ought te | 2il in the international as well as mestic fleld, according to Mr. He expressed his opinions while testi. fying before the Senate committee con- # ducting hearings on the Couzens bill to establish a Federal communications “ commission. His testimony to this effect | the United States. - followed close upon that of Capt. S. C. % Hooper, chief of naval cammunications, who expressed doubt of the necessity of * combining the American radio system with this country's cables in order to meet the “cartelization” of communi- cations that has already been accom- . plished in the major -countries of the W having extensive radio and cable operations. The co-ordination of American ser 4ces was advocated by Gen. Gserge O. chief of the Army Signal Corps, ier stage of the braad inquiry | mmittee is conducting into nal international less system. Mr. Castle tioned at_length en the and ional situation beyond the fact | it Bbout America's eable licensing policy, | SF e developments and non-exclusive land- dng privileges in foreign countries, His remarks an the radio-cable situa- tion were chiefly to the effeet that he yegarded competition by types, or be- ‘tween one form of eemmunication as @gainst the other, more desirable than tompetition by greups er between rival ; companies utilizing both radio and tables. U. S. Companies Favor Mergers. ! Whether Mr. Castle's views represent those of the Department of State as an § American policy remains to be seen|Of nce is taken of the acute position the competing Amers can companies are being drawn inte as the result of unifications abroad. The tendency of Ameriean radio and eable companies is toward a merger in erder + to meet foreign competition, particu- larly from the recently unified British Eystem of cables and radio. A proposal i When executive of the International Telephene & Tele- | Ameri graph Co., which has subsidiary cable { eystems, to acquire the world-wide som- f munications facilities of the Radio Cor- ration of America if the preseht law amended has already been placed be- ore President Hoover. Z ‘While the Senate committee was pur- Buing its own inquiry, the international tuation was forcibly brought to the attention of the Federal Radio Com- milsion in the course of its hearings an l;:'rhcauon for short waves for domestie radiotelegraph projects pro- ed to compete with the land line legraph systems. Efforts to becloud e international situation, in which ' this country’s radio communications are wepresented by the Radio Corporation of America’s present monopoly of American transoceanic radio, were dis- Pelled by the commission. ‘The effort was directed by counsel Mer the Radio Protective Association, a up ef American equipment manufac- ., mone of whom is engaged in communications. An attempt was made to show that the Radio Corporation ef ey This Y2217 A heats Jnstantl; vV NEW and IMPROVED ATRON—ON THE AIR E'VEORY SUNDAY! mer chief of the Army Signal Corps, | now a radie commissioner. ‘The gravity of the international problem is accentuated by the fact that transoceanie channels are being pre- empted as fast as possible by foreign countries in order to gain e stanch foothold in the radie spectrum through priority. The eommission hearings yesterday were largely eoncerned with the appli- eations of the Radio Corporation ef America for more radio channels with | which to feed traffie into its trans- oceanie system from more points within Its proposed do- mestie radio-telegraph service would do this and also handle messages be- tween foreign eities and New York, Chi- eago, San Francisco, New Orleans, Seattle, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Denver, Miami, Cincinnati, Savannah, Detroit, Dallas, Kansas City, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Memphis, Pittsburgh, Houston, Norfolk, ffalo, Portland, hester, Washington, rtland, Oreg., The hearings wound up with con- sideratien of a similar application by the Mackay Redio & Telegraph Co. which preposes to link 16 aities by radio in addition to those it already serves on | the Pacific Coast. Following are the 2 New York, Chicago, Kansas Denver, San Franeisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Birmingham, Memphis, New Orleans, Dallas, Galveston, Jacksonville, Savannah, Nerfelk and Miami. Both companies selected these cities as the gapuud sites of their radio stations eause of the large amount of foreign and domestic telegraph business they originate. (Copyright, 1939, by North American News- per Alliance.) —a “Dragon’s Blood” in the Arts. The “Dragon’s Bloed” of commerce is & red made from the ripe fruit alm trees growing in Siam and the Dutch East Indies. It is used in the pharmaey and finds it way inte the arts as a means for coloring varnish and alse fer use in photo-engraving. 1t is secured from the nut ?' & process of steaming and erushing. The product is sent to Penang and Singapere and thenece it is shipped half way around the werld te pointa in Europe and ica. 17:4:1 POTOM Edq A Console as low as other popular models. Place Your Order Now —Terms See and Hear | it centracts. 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