Evening Star Newspaper, October 25, 1931, Page 57

District National Guard Commendation for the manner in| which the State staff of the Natlonal | Guard of the District of Columbia per- formed its dutles at the recent annual encampment at Camp Albert C. Ritchie at Cascade, Md., was contained in & report of the lar Army officers as- :md there for inspection duty, a copy which was sent to all officers of the “The manner in which sation carried out its work period of fleld - is In forwarding the report to the offi- cers concerned, Lieut. Col. J. 8. Upham, adjutant general, included the following statement: “The commanding general is pleased that the officers so conducted their work &s to warrant this commendation.” ‘The State staff includes Maj. George J. Allen, chief medical officer, who -had charge of the medical activities at the at which also was Maj. ?D";r 1t this - duflnlm":’u worthy of Maj. Sidney Morgan, general. The 29th Division Military Police Company was led out 1 lal i sing| cauld lor spec! inspector Pvt. ordered transferred from the Reserve the active list of Battery B, 260th Coast Artillery. Second Lieut. David W. Milne, Head- glllmrl Detachment, Special Troops, 9th Division, has been ordered to re- port_before a Board of Examiners for ition to all «ggggzfig. : &5 L : i : £ £ i, . n g i £ ¢ ik gi‘ § - Y S & 2 :E ] o2k i | ] g8 B& : | : : i i i £ : g s ¥ i 4 | EE | g i ez P g i i b ] g E g g e i H 2 E E 5% i i i 3 a§§ E g2 g i -4 £ 5? 1 §e ; | : die k 8 8 o | i E r o f e g i L EF ft g "“The following pistol matches, : members of those | was announced at THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, | vember 5; Company E, November 6: | | | vember 10 next, it was announced at brigade headquarters. The examina- tions are open to all enlisted men of the National Guard of this city who have completed six months’ service immedi- ately preceding the date of exanination. Applications to take the examination must be submitted on the regular form and must be sent through military channels, so as to reach the Adjutant General's Office by November 6 next. The instructions direct the examina- tion boards to give particular attention | to the selection of candidates who are possessed of command ability and are not alone satisfactory in theoretical examinations. Examining boards appointed by the Army Corps area commander for the respective branches of the service have | been designated to conduct the tests. Dates have been fixed by brigade | headquarters for the annual inspection of records and property of the 121st Engineer Regiment units by the United States Army instructor assigned here. They are as follows: Company F, No- Company D, November 7; Company C, November 9; Company B, November 10; Company A. November 11; Medical De- partment Detachment, November 12, and Headquarters and Service Com- | pany, November 13 The hours of the inspection are to be agreed upon between the instructor and the unit commander. Coast Artillery inspections will be held as follows: Battery E, October 28; Headquarters, 260tn Coast Artillery and Medical Department Detachment, | October 29: Battery A, October 30; Battery B, November 2; Battery C, No- vember 3, and Headquarters Detach- | ment and Combat Train, November 4. ‘The following have been ordered | honorably discharged on account of re- | moval from the city: Pvt. (First Class) | Harry R. Summers, Battery A, 260th | Coast Artillery, and Pvt. George P. | Chandler, Company F, 121st Engineers. Pvt. Thomas G. Oyster has been | ordered transferred from the reserve to | the active list of Company E, 121st En- gineers. Orders recently issued directing the honorable discharge of Pvt. (Pirst Class) Joseph M. Catchings, Company B, 121st Engineers, have been revoked. D. C. Naval Reserve Both officers and men of the Ist Battalion, United States Naval Reserves, of the District of Columbia, have dis-| played considerable interest in the re- | roposed cut in activities of the to the extent of about 11 of the President's Just what activity mm& event that Congress executive department'’s suggestions for reductions is a matter about which the local Reservists would | like definite information. About the only place that an 11 per | cent cut might hit here, it was sug- | gested, would be in the reduction of | personnel, as the local Reserve has no training ship assigned here, this fea- ture having been lopped off during an earlier economy move of the President when the U. 8. 8. Abel P. Upshur was transferred to the Coast Guard for use in the Atlantic rum fleet of that serv- jce. Since that time the organization has not had a ship, but teok its annual cruises last year aboard the U. S. de- stroyer Hamilton, one of the ships as- signed to the Atlantic Training Squad- ron, which also has in it two battle- ips. 'I;’;n local Reserve Battalion now has in it 17 officers and 175 men of the Fleet Reserve. All of these men receive ay for attending the weekly drills and ?or the annual cruises, and a reduc- tion of this force by 11 per cent would save their pay for the year. This cut could be effected by transferring them to the volunteer branch of the Reserve, ‘where they are notsrequired to put in in training and where, of . ‘The next of the will not be held until that time. ne! the exception of one man kept at the armory for such work as is needed there from time to time and Reserve personnel and cut down 3 Reduction of drill pe- E for pay. the reduction of the Re- it was pointed out, also wi polmultuppolh kept aboard all for maintenance A number of the Reserve or- tions in the States also have Naval Reserve officers on indefinite periods connection with ac- in their respec- tive areas, and if the Wm bee reduc- rried through partment find it ne to eliminate them substitute in w officers of the Navy. also are Reserve on indefinite active duty in the Division of Reserve Affairs at the l‘la. Department. » iy o o mi years Yought for the right to have m‘wdmmm’&m - members situation ‘Three enlisted men of the local bat- talion accepted the invitation of the Navy Department to meke a cruise Yorktown, Va., to Galveston, and return to Philadelphia, it the local reserve last week. The three men , | headquarters were John W. Irwin, boatswain's mate, xpense | the ports of embarkation and debarka- | tion, nevertheless were to be relieved of | the cost of subsistence during the voy- | age, which will end November 21 next | at Philadelphia. The enlisted men re- ported aboard the Wyoming at York- | town last Monday. Stanley R. Chase, seaman, class, and Robert I Kelso, with the o same rating, have been ordered trans- ferred from the volunteer to the fleet *|reserve. The former was ordered as- Excellent—Headquarters Detachment, Special Troops, 29th Division, 87.50; Medical D.a.mnent Detachment, 121st . Engineers, 84.21; Headquarters Detach- ment and Combat Train, 260th Coast , 83.35. Very satisfactory—Headquarters and 1 i [ No elal 58 | the celebration, as has to the 1st Fleet Division and the to the 3d Fleet Division. ‘The following men, attached to the 24 Fleet Division, h'? been ordered transferred to the lunteer branch: Benjamin J. De Lacy, electrician’s mate, third class, and Carl B. Beckwith and Howard G. Bradford, both seamen, sec- ond class. ‘The local reserve battalion will not » | hold its usual drill tomorrow night, but has postponed it until Tuesday, when the o tion will celebrate Navy day. te plans have been made for ; | tice heretofore, but every effort will be “Company A, 3724 In- fantry, 69.56; Company F, 121st Engi- neers, 66.66; Company B, 13lst made to show friends and relatives of reservists just sailors do on their drill nights in order to prepare themselves for service at sea aboard ships of the Navy in time of war. Coast | It being the end of the month, Lieut. Richardson, Harold E. commanding of- ficer of the battalion, will make his usual inspection. Following this formal and men of the outfit demonstration of the activi- Division, under the of t. (Junior Grade! put on en in 1|ing units for would cut down theq id | d lumbia’s Wi been the prac- | what the citizen | ) Cle- s darill. This %mmon leet un- | der the command of Lieut. Willlams, will stage & destrover battle problem, featuring gunnery. This organization won the target competition during the annual cruise last Summer. The signal | gang _will show the various methods of visual signaling used on ships of the al\ay. A large crowd is expected to at- nd. Ensign Gordon Dykes, as officer-of- the-deck, will have charge of carrying out the details of the program. H. B. Berryhill, boatswain’s mate, first class, will be chief petty officer of the watch; P. W. Bogikes, seaman, second class, quartermaster of the watch; C. B. Beck- with, seaman, second class, ptain’s orderly, and C. E. Carter, seam sec- ond class, sentry. ‘The Naval Reserve Inspection Board, composed of officers of the regular es- tablishment, spent the greater part of this month on the West Coast. Since October 12 it has visited the battalions and divisions located at Santa Cruz, San Jose, Oakland, San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles, Calif. ‘The tion Board recently report- ed that the present plan of assigning a destroyer training squadron on the East Coast to provide week end cruises wowld prove beneficial, in its belief. The other smaller vessels assigned to the Naval Reserve units were reported to be in generally good condition. It added that the eagle boats so assigned are considered excellent training vessels for week end cruises in that they give train- ing to the engineer forces that cannot be had on the subchasers and motor launches. ‘The board reported that it still con- might bem“ln d in training l:y"n‘:jnl t be gaine - their training cruises to battleships or cruisers once every three or four years. Some of mmfl:zmann the East Coast.have already been des- " | added that it is visions of the 9th Naval District, which now cruise on the Great Lakes, are the one which would be mostly benefitted or cruiser experience. present system, these divi- sions, 52 in all, have no opportunity for actual contact with the regular Navy. A modification of the cruising scheduled contained in the report, it is suggested, would give these divisions this most es: sential contact and would serve to im- bue in officers and men more of the feeling that they are actually a part of the regular Navy. Data obtained for the calendar year 1930, just made public, reveals a of fleet reserve men, for all fleet di- visions, of 40.6 cent. This is de- clared to be a slight improvement over the previous year, when the loss \/as 41.9 per cent. It was pointed out that the turnover loss does not include men lost. h ition of enlistment, but consists of men lost through transfer to the volunteers. Generally, it was explained, these men are trans- ferred on account of failure to attend 8, 2 yisions have been able to keep the loss to a minimum and at the same time to keep up drill attendance. | The turnover losses in the twelfth dis- | trict, 54 per cent; ninth district, 48.4 | per cent, and fourth district, 46.9 per | cent, were considered by the board to be | exceptionally high and should be greatly | reduced during the calendar year 1931. | Certainly little real progress in mo- | bilization efficlency can be expected | with so many men entering and leav- ing the Reserve each year, the board commented. C. B. S. OFFICIAL DENIES ‘BOOSTER’ STATION RUMOR Lawrence Lowman, Station SBuper- visor, Repeats Assurances of Network Company. Repeating the assurances of the Co- lumbia Broadcasting System that it has no intention of erecting a Nation-wide system of “booster” stations, Lawrence W. Lowman, C. B. S. station super- visor, appeared before the Federal Radio Commission last week to ask for su- ‘thorlt)' to erect a 250-watt ‘“booster” |in Washington to operate in synchro- | nism with WABC, New York City, on the latter's clear channel. |, In collaboration with Bell Labora- | tories, Mr. Lowman said, simple but ];flecuve frequency control equrl‘pmmt | has been perfected making such syn- chra Is:ll.hll. Bfil-tl&n‘ww C%— ‘ashington outlet, 80 Of the network if the application, now un- der consideration of the commission, is granted, and may &u\b}y Join one | the N. B. C. networks. |, Mr. and engineers testified | that it would be im ible to erect a | national system of “I ters” rating on a single wave length under ?fifi pres- ent allocation. Even if it were, Mr. Lowman added, the Columbia network values its nt station affiliations too highly to do so. GIBBS HEADS POSTAL Retired Chief of Army Signal Corps ‘ to Direct Telegraph Company. Retiring as chief of the Army Signal |Corps less than four months ago to "I.)‘ecemo vice it of the Interna- lonal Telephone & | charge "of its tel | radio’ subsidiaries, Maj. | Gibbs, authority on co-ordinated com- munications, has just been elected g!;lldent of the Postal Tele‘np;){- able Co, succeeding Olarence H. Mackay, who becomes chairman of the | 'He will have charge of the various | expanding radio services of the I. T. & T, including the Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co., which is fast becoming a strong competitor of Radio Corpora- tion of America, both in the interna- tional and domestic communications reteung pea o o i Tecenly 4e- produci fleld now by - | quired hégnt.rol of the Kolster Co. | —- I R. C. A.-Victor Head Resigns. Edward E. Shumaker has resigned as Dmt&t of R.C.A.-Victor Co.,, Camden, N. J, effective January 1, 1932, in order $o retire from active business. No successor has been named. | | | second | T o & tub of buttermilk Te- centig —_—r 1 of | "na 18-month-6ld _son "‘“fl STATION CLOSINGS SEEN DRASTIC STEP Commission’s Authority Due for Test in Rulings on WIBO and WPCC. BY MARTIN CODEL. Those who rule the ether lanes for the Federal Government have just taken |one of the most drastic steps in the | history of broadcasting. Tney have | sentenced to death two radio statens in one State in order to make way on their jointly occupled wave length for a sta- tion in another State. Now arises the issue whether such action is within their scope of authority, particularly whether the so-called ‘“quota system” of measuring the due facilities of each State can hold legal water. Reversing the recommendations of Chief Examiner Ellis A. Yost, the Fed- eral Radio Commission has ordered WIBO, Chicago, owned by the Nelson Brothers Bond & Mortgage Co. and WPCC, also Chicago, owned by the North Shore Church, off the air to make way on the 560-kilocycle chan- nel for WJKS, Gary, Ind, controlled by Ralph Atlass. Arguments Heard. ‘The commission’s decision follows lengthy hearings before Mr. Yost, at which the relative public service merits of the several stations were argued on behalf of WJKS, on the one hand, by Mrs. Mahel Walker Willebrandt and on behalf of WIBO, on the other hand, by Levi Cooke. Both are prominent Wash- ington attorneys, Mrs. Willebrandt be- ing the former Assistant Attorney Gen-y| eral in charge of prohibition cases and now popularly identified with the Cali- fornia grape concentrate interests. Not only does the commission's ac- tion mean a reversal of Mr. Yost, who found that the public weifare would not be served by depriving the Chicago stations of their facilities and giving them to the nearby Gary station, but it represents a tremendous victory for Mrs. Willebrandt. There were political aspects to the case also, with Indiana interests lining up in favor of the Gary station’s plea. On Mr. Cooke's part, he minces no words in denouncing the decision and saying it will immediately be aj the stations cn the air pending appeal was to be sought immediatley. Station WIBO, a 1,000-watter, represents an in- vestment of $300,000 and its constitu- tional rights are being violated in that its property is being confiscated with- out due process, according to Mr. Cooke. ‘Withcut a wave assignment, its physical property, of course, is worthless, Chicago’s Quota Cied. Ostensibly the commission was moved to its action because it believes the rec- ord shows WJKS proved at the hear- ings before Mr. Yost that its services are more in the public interest than those of the two Chicago stations. Ac- tually, the commission’s technical grounds for decision will also state that Illinois, particularly Chicago, is greatly overquota in its due allotment of broad- vd | casting facilities, while Indiana is con- siderably underquota. But Gary is just on the border of Illinois and, with its 1,000 watts, WJKS will undoubtedly cover Chicago or the better part of Chicago. Nevertheless, the Davis equalization amendment to the radio act, prescribing that radio facilities be divided among zones equally and among States in proportion to their populations, leaves no recourse to the commission but to respect State de- niands. Since radio waves cannot be added or further crowded, the only way it away from another. That WJKS ap- pears to have succeeded in doing. General Order 102 of the commission loss | fixes quota allotments mathematically and that order will be the center of the court appeal. It is that order which has virtually “frozen” present radio assignments, since it renders practically impossible the change in the wave or facility sought is taken away from an- other station in an underquota State. Lawyers and broadoasters alike are eying this case with keen interest be- cause of the important precedents it involves, both as to the commission's exercise of power and as to the test it will bring of General Order 102. In the meantime, in another Chicago case in which the commission also ex- ercised summary sauthority, the Fed- eral board’s right to take a station off ppealed to the courts. An injunction to keep | P power status of any station unless the | court, D. C.. OCTOBER 25, 1931—PART FOUR. f‘BEHIND THE MICROPHONE ___ (Continued mfimfislx;h)h‘e,\_ 4 can radio factories are now at | their busiest period of the year, reports the Radio Manufacturers’ Association. Parts manufacturers are also especially active and wages for the most part are being sustained. The demand for tubes |as well as new sets has had its usual seasonal increase during September and October, and is ected to continue through the Winter months. The R. M. A. sees in the recent high-power grants of the Feaeral Radio Commission a stimulus for increased radio sales, especially |in the Southern States and in |the rural areas which will be | better served by higher broad- casting powers. One of the in- ;teresnng current trade develop- ments is the adoption of radios as standard equipment for many utos. Another important development is the fact that electric light and Rower companies in some cities ave begun campaigns to stimu- late radio sales, not only because many utilities themselves are sell- ing sets, but because electric sets consume current and mean more use of home lighting. The R. M. A. | has decided to hold its next an- nual trade show in Chicago the week of May 23, 1932. * kK X MERICA'S—and probably the world’s—most gigantic single construction undertaking actual- 1y begins early in November when work on the superstructures of several of the 10 building units of Radio City starts in midtown Manhattan. The job of razing | the former buildings in the three- square-block area and of exca- vating for basements and founda- tions is practically completed. Contracts for erection of three of the units have been let at a nearly half the cost of the whole. Six thousand men will be em- loyed on the three buildings. In ovember, work is to begin on the International Music Hall, “the world’s largést theater,” to be operated y Radio-Keith-Or- eum, under “Roxy” Rothafel. It will be 31 stories high. At the same time work is to begin on a sound motion picture theater seating more than 3,500 persons. These buildings are scheduled for completion by October 1, 1932. About December 1, work begins on the central unit of the whole project, a 66-story office building containing 2,723,000 square feet of space, more than that of any ing 830 feet above the street level, it will have two basement levels, its east and west dimensions belng building that will house the of- fles and 27 studios of the National Broadcasting Co., the headquar- ters offices of Radio Corporation of America and the offices of Radio Corporation of America Photophone, Inc., which together will occupy more than 700,000 square feet. This building is scheduled for completion by De- cember, 1932. a station can get anything is to take | ordered area. Judge Wilkerson in Federal Dis- d the trict Court uphel vested and property cislon is now upheld and, unless carried to States Supreme Court, appe: tle any more question about the au- thority of Congress and the commis. sion to regulate broadcasting. ‘The court held in the property rights issue raised that “every mvestment in necessary " and that “as regulation there of in- regulation by Con{r against such mfl le ngxfi no right in favor Vi ¥ PLYMOUTH gives to each New Plymouth buyer a Service Policy which is a model of definiteness, thoroughness and liberality. This policy specifies that any defect of materials or workmanship will be made good without any charge either for labor or parts for a period of 90 days or 4000 miles. 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C., by reason of its recent pur- chase of the four stations of the North- west system, now has two networks of five stations each to replace its former single Pacific Coast network of nine stations. These nets are to be operated elther as regional units or as supple- ments to the basic N. B. C.-WEAF and N _B. C.-WJZ networks. The first line-up, known as the Orange network, consists of KGO, Oak- land, Calif., as key; KFI, Los Angeles; KGW, Portland; KOMO, Seattle, and KHQ, Spokane. The second line-up, known as the Gold network, consists of KPO, Sah Francisco, as key; KECA, Los Angeles; KEX, Portland; KJR, Seattle, and KGA, Spokane. To elther of these regular networks, the N. B, C. also links KFSD, San Diego, and KTAR, Phoenix, Ariz. Of these stations, KEX, KJR and KGA were in the Northwest group re- cently purchased. So also was KVA, San Francisco, but despite its N. B. C, ownership it will not join any network for the present. On Columbia’s spart, it still continues as one basic network, but it breaks that net into various groups for regional coverage, notably the New England, Dixie, Midwestern and Pacific Coast groups. On November 1, Columbia will add WGN of the Chicago Tribune to its®basic network, giving it an addi- tional outlet to WBBM, Chicago, which it owns. This will replace WMAQ of the Chicago Daily News, its former sec- ond Chicago affiliation, half interest in which was recently purchased by N. cost said to exceed $50,000,000, or | g G, Reports that N. B. C. may shortly acquire control and management of the Westinghouse group of stations, as it has of the General Electric group, are flatly denied by F. A. Merrick, Westing- house president. 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