Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1929, Page 39

GENSUS OF RADIO BARRED BY HOUSE Enumeration of Sets and Lis- teners Desired by Makers ! and Dealers. | The hopes of radio leaders that & Nation-wide census of radio receiving sets and radio listeners would be under- | taken as a part of the 1930 decennial | Population census have gone glimmering | ~—for the time being at least. Just the opposite of what occurred | in the Senate when the measure Was | gonsidered happened in the House. In | @he Upper Branch there was scarcely @ord of opposition to the Dill ame; m]»‘ fent for the radio census. In the House | there was not & single word spoken in | its favor. i Senate leaders will make an effort to | have the radio provision restored to the | general ¢ - reapportionment bill when it goes to conference between the House and te to reconcile the dif- ferences between the two legislative bodies. It looks now as if the House judgment will prevail for the Census tself is opposed to the tacking | “riders” to the population census. House Removes Item. ‘When the House began consideration of Senate amendments to the bill, Rep- Tesentative Fenn, chairman of the cen- sus commitiee, moved that the words “radio sets” be stricken from that sec- tion of the bill calling for censuses of {tems other than population. Without a record vote the proposal was carried and | the action of the Sena fied Senator Dill of Washi , author of | the amendment, will try to force the in clusion of the radio provision in confer- | ence. He believes that the statistical information which would be procured is fundamental in the proper regulation of | Tadio and to the industry. That view is concurred in unqualifiedly by every one connected with radio, because the only information now available is the Tesult of more or less off-hand esti~ mal Uheuld the DIl amendment fail even g conference, there is no likelihood of y separate legislative proposal for a Cool Suits ~at a "hot” price radio census at the special session of Congress. Senator Dill may introduce a measure at the forthcoming session for & survey to be undertaken jointly by the Commerce and Postoffice Depart- ments, with the letter carriers doing the actual enumerating. however, is conjectural. The .easist and most effi- cient way the information could be ob- tained is by the appending of one or two qm’iflun! to the population census questionnaire, as Senator Dill proposes. Industry Wants Census. The radio industry has supported & radio census for a long time. Radio su- thorities have been just as ardent in their espousal of sucii a poil. First of all the knowledge of just how many listeners and how many receiving Sets are in a given area would enable the allocation ~of broadcasting _facilities | strictly in accordance with the “radio population.” Then it would give the industry definite information on radio use and the political campaigner or radio advertiser an Accurate account of the audience he reaches by using a particular station. Under the Dill proposal one or two simple questions would be added to | those on the population census sheets. The enumerator, in making his house- to-house call, merely would ask whether the particular household has a radio, and if so, the number of tubes in the set. By the latter question it could be learned whether the receiver is a loud- speaker or crystal type or whether it is up to date of not. The number of lis- teners to a particular set would be an- swered automatically when the question as to the number of residents in a home was answered. Meanwhile radio will plod along with the estimates by a leading radio publi- cation that there are within the country | 9,640,000 receiving sets of all kinds and | a total of 45,000,000 listeners. (Copyright, 1829, by the Consolidated Press.) Slayer Dlel of Wounds. CONTOOCOOK, N. H.. June 7 (@) .— Ralph Conway, 40, who shot and fatally wounded Ray Barton, 32, here yester- day, and wa later found badly wounded in his home after police had bombarded the house with tear gas bombs, died in a_hospital last night. MoCormich Medioa) Glassen Fitted " Baters " Hes Famined DR. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Speci Phone H 1 R THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1 BROTHERS REUNITED AFTER RUSSIAN TRAGEDY | Meeting in Chicago, 20 Years Later, Recalls Scene of Pil- laging by Cossacks. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO June 7.—Twenty years el w Rumnn village, breaking up the Torchin family. Albert Torchin, separated from his parents, made his way to America | Later his brother David arrived, seek- | ing his brother, finally abandoning the | search when police reported Albert lea Last night David Torchin stood in | ting with a friend who, like himsel had come here from Baltimore for the Radio Dealers’ Convention. Another man strolled by. Torchin’s friend recognized him as an acquaint- ance and called him over, introducing him. Thus after 20 years David and | As}l\)nh Torchin, brothers, found each other. Flavor! ing Cossacks descended on a | | the lobby of the Congress Hotel chat- | PENSION BUREAU HEAD WON WAR DECORATIONS Col. E. D. Church Served in Three Armies During World Conflict. HARTFORD, Conn. (#).—It was like | harking back to the days after the Civil War to have a President of the United States take out of civil life a battle-experienced veteran to head the Bureau of Pensions—as President Hoo- ver has done. | Col. Earl D. Church of Hartford, new commissioner of pensions, served with both the British and French armies as well as the American expeditionary | forces during the World War. He had more than two years of over- seas duty in many sectors of the Wes- tern front, notably at the Ypres salient, | | the_battle’ of Cambrai, on the Somme, at Verdun and the battles of St. Mihiei and the Argonne. 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