Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1932, Page 11

THE EVENING U. 3. FACES FIGHT AT RADIO PARLEY Aotive Preparations Made for Conference, With Europe Wanting More Frequencies. BY A. G. WEST. Active preparations for the fight that looms on the international radio front will commence in the next few days with the selection of the American delegation to represent the United States at Madrid next Fall. The trans- lation of the first book of proposals, recently received from the Berne Con- ference Bureau, under the direction of Dr. Stewart at the State Department, and as soon as Undersecretary of State William R. Castle returns from his trip, Irvin B. following a recent illness, conferences | will be held to study the mass of mate- rial that has been assembled for this important parley As the United States now holds a considerable number of the world's fre- quencies on the radio bands that are coveted by the European administra- tions for their own use, and which for the past five years they have made energetic efforts to obtain, it is no secret that this Madrid conference promises to afford a display of fireworks that may have very far-reaching results. Others Dissatisfied. It will be recalled that the last ses- gion of this International Radio-Tele- graph Convention, which is held every five years, assembied here in Washing- ton in 1927. The outstanding diplo- matic victories obtained in certain im- portant bands by America were not at first appreciated, even by this Nation. With the subsequent development of this new art of communication, how- ever, in the two or three years that en- sued, and especlally with the increase | of (both commercial and military avia- | tian, with thelr radio traffic from air- | .. 3¢ 15 FEECRRTY 10 BHOR I e planes, considerable dissatisfaction was expressed by other nations. Germany in particular has hoped to obtain con- cesslons in the way of additional fre- quencies for her police and broadcast work, and only with the greatest diffi- culty has this drive on the United States allocation been diverted at the various meetings of the I. C. C. R, 8 technical committee of the interna- tional convention, that has met at re- cent parleys at Brussels, The Hague and at Copenhagen. Since esident Hoover during his has been completed | | | | | | | incumbency as the Secretary of the | United States Department of Commerce | beaded the American delegation at the 1927 conference, it is probable that an officlal of similar rank, possibly Secre- tary Lamont, or more likely Under- secretary of State Castle, will be ap- pointed for the present parley. Maj Gen. C. McK. Saltzman, chairman of the Federal Radio Commission, who has been on all the important radio con- ferences, together with either Senator White or Senator Dill, co-sponsors of most of the present effective radio legislation in this country, will un- doubtedly comprise the list of American delegates. Craven Is Included. The technical advisors for the Gov- ernment will include many of the fa- miliar faces at previous parleys, since the forthcoming struggle to m: 1tain tha United States supremacy in -adio will largely depend upon the si..l of | tho technical staff at the prelii aary | jons here in Washingtc », as in the subzommittes r00..s & g5 at Madrid minent in D of experts is the former chief | expert of the United States v, Lieut. Comdr. Tunis M. Craven, was recalled from sea duty at the | me cf the Washington Racio Confer- | ence to set up an allocation within a few days prior to the parley, and who | Jater represented the United States at | the ticklish conference in Canada in, 1929, where a diplomatic victory was achieved to the mutual satisfaction of both nations. Gerald C. Gross, radio | engineer at the Federal Radio Commis- | sion, who has officiated at all recent | international parlays, has been study- | ing the pres proposals for many | in the preliminary hearings | with both governmental and commer- | cial experts, and will probably act as! chief interpreter as well Other assistants to the American | delegation may incluce the names of the chief engineer of the Radio Com- | mission, Dr. C. B. Jolliffe; Dr. Irvin B. | Stewart, who has charge of this detail in the State Department since his ap- pointment, about a year ago, with par- ticular reference to the Madrid con- ference; Lieut. Comdr. Joseph Redman of Naval Communications and Lieut. W. T. Guest, Signal Corps, both of whom have done special work on the | preliminary studies for their depart- | ments. Other governmental bureaus, h as the Department of Commerce, | he Shipping Board. the Bureau of | Standards, the United States Coast | Guard and the Bureau of Navigation, | are vitally interested in the results to be obtained at the Madrid parley, and | had hoped to send the usual representa- tives. With the recent slash at the approprigtion of $135,000 that had been requested by the State Department, | however, it was stated that the funds | allowed by the House committee of $90,- 000 will be insufficient, and it is evi- dent that some of these experts may have to be omitted from the list that the Government had hoped to include for the American delegation. Bill Is High. However, it is stated that Senator White has included a raise in the esti- nate submitted by the House of Repre- | sentatives, so that if the present sug- | estion of $120.000 passes the Senate 1t will then be possible to have an ade- | quate representation of these technical | experts, as well as translators and | clerks. As the conference may last for | about_three months, and the prelimi- | nary bill for printing alone is around ! 37,000, it caused something like a pa in official quarters when it was realized that, though the conference at Geneva had some $4.000,000 to maintain it, this radio battle was to commence with nothing but the bare bones of the | amount it would require among the is that Kenn g the Amst Radio League, whose diplomatic eflc at past conferences, both at Washing- ton and abroad, have enabled the “ham” radio fans of America to main- tain their present perilous position on the Unites States radio bands, as against the encroachments of all for- | eign nations and commercial operators. The organization represented by Mr. Warner. whose publication, QST, is fa- miliar over the seven seas made many notable advances to the racio art. and this country has been prac- ! tically the only nation that has rei ateurs, or o 50 their § Iks over the et to strangle all future amateur develop ment. As the United States network of these young : operators that in time of | emergency in co-operation with the | ited States Army and Nevy Depart- | ments, it has been the policy of the | State Department to refuse to pre-empt | this space on the air European administrations Censorship Is Considered. This tendency to limit international radio is evident in the preliminary pro- posals that have just been translated at the State Department, and appear to reflect the attitude of certain foreign governments as regards the possibilities of censorship of repcrts in Europe from press correspondents stationei there The government of Czechoslovakia, for xample, wishes to insert after the word ‘secur. the words “good reputation, and after the word lic” the words “to economic interests” of the latest roposals, with the following explana- Zm to the buregu at Berne: 1. Forelen Press correspondents eften send telegrams of which the text The New Ford Appears FIRST PHOTO OF LONG-AWAITED AUTO. The New Ford Victoria V-8, HE new Ford car will make its long-awaited bow Thursday. Sa- lient features of the new « according to the Ford Mo Co., include an eight-cylinde: engine of 65 horsepower capable of de- veloping a speed of 75 miles per hour A four-cylinder car, .using practically the same body and chassis, of 50 horse- power and with a speed of 65 miles per hour, is also offered. ‘The eight embodies a silent sy nized gear shift and silent gear, rubber mounted, down-draft carbureto: and carburetor silencer, automatic spark control and & diaphragm type pump which_drives fuel from a tank in the rear. There are also soft, flexible trans- verse cantilever springs and a newl designed rear spring, self-ad double-acting hydraulic shock ers, large four-wheel brakes, newly de- signed electrically welded steel-spoke wheels with large hubs and hub caps and large tires. The chassis and = ning gear are cushioned by rubbe sulators in the spring shackles and is not dangerous to the security of the state, but which can be damaging to its good reputation. “2. It is necessary to prohibit tele- purpose of damaging the economic & uation of a country, city, etc. For | ample, a telegram which has | jeet to prevent the transpo: products to a city for the purpose of raising prices,” The United States proposals w change the present method to ir a suspension of international com cation service, either in whole part, for an indefinite perod if dee “necessary,” provided that other r are at once notified of this Whether this suggestion has any s lar censorship as indicated by the fo eign administrations is not but evidently Austria proposes to limit for- eign press reports in the same manner as desired by Czechoslovekia. as it has requested similar provision for “eco- nomic interests” and gives &s the rea- | son for this proposal that “telegrams | that are dangerous to the economic in- a5 urged by Ul!l terests of the states shbuld be dealt with on the same basis as telegrams that are dangerous to the security of the state.” China agrees to this same propos: | but with the further provision that is “necessary to add the withholding” of such telegrams, and likewise Hungary | wishes to limit her outgoing telegrams. Japan in particular appears to be in- terested in the right of the “high con- tracting parties to stop the transmise sion of any private telegram which might appear dangerous to the state, In addition the present and re- cent conflict on the Manchurian and Shanghai fronts are unmistakably re- flected in these Japanese proposals for the radio convention, as she states that the nations which are party this convention should be able to ‘reserve their entire liberty with regard to radio installations not provided for in Article 2, and particularly with regard to in- ete.” stallations of military, naval and air| forces,” and gives as her reason that “it,_seems well to provide for installa- tions of air forces in addition to naval and military installations as covered in Article 22 of the CR.” Indicates Japanese Aims. This particular proposal aims in aircraft that have long been of special interest to foreign governments Within the last two or three years Japan has greatly inereased the scope of her air forces. as against the older arms of land and sea, and while it was markedly apparent to the naval and milita; experts that her recent air tactics at Shanghai afford nothing that the United States need envy in the way of ultra-mocern technique, and, indeed, the backwardness of Japan in this branch is frankly the greatest disclosure of the 8ino-Japanese war, yet it is ob- vious that future developments in radio for military craft are in her plans We do know that Japan has made tremendous strides in short-wave ra- dio—such strices as are believed by some observers to be far superior to those of any other nation in the world today. Great Britain has probably the best equipped radio sets now in use in any air force, and with these most ef- fective results. But within two or three years, as indicated by these Japanese proposals, the known development of Japan in her ground sets may well be incorporated in her aircraft sets as well Since the forthcoming parley 1s in par- Good Paint Costs Less, Because it Lasts Longer— ALWAYS INSIST ON 6‘\.; S BAINTs BUTLER-FLYNN P-A-I.N-T 607-609 C St. sentinel ather changes SPECIAL PRICE THIS MONTH nd forget | Convenient Terms | Ask Us About It MAURICE J. OLBERT 1908 M St N.W. NPrth 0402 Heating Homes for indicates { | something in regard to the Japanese shock absorber links. The.body is in- sulated from the frame by rubber pa The engine js of the 90-degree V- type, having an S. A. E. rating of 30 horsepower.” The 65-pound crankshaft is_of the 90-degree type, with four cranks at right angles to each other. The counter-weighted crankshaft is statically and dynamically balanced e gas is pre-heated in the intake manifold by a hot spot created by hot exhaust gases surging back and forth through a small passage in the mani- fold cover plate. The distributor oper- ates directly from the front end of the camshaft. ‘A fan of airplane propeller type and two centrifugal water pumps insure cooling. The double-drop frame is formed to the shape of the body, and, with the new low rear spring, provides a low center of gravity Brakes have a braking surface of 186 square inches. Whoels are 18 inches in diameter. Tires are 18 by inches. The drive is of the torque tube type, the driveshaft being of tubular construction ticular expected to bring to the surface the knotty problems of new allocations on the aircraft bands, if the European administrations are successful, the ad- vances of Japan in this particular fleld of research are of special interest and significance. Beacons’ Range Wanted. The United States airway beacons and teletype systems for her commer- cial transports across the continent are on a frequency range that has long been coveted by Europe for broadcast- ing. If these foreign nations should be u "~ ful in combining against us at Madrid, it is obvious that they might try to allocate about 12 wave lengths to Anferica, as against the number we now hold, as was pointed out by a technical advisor the other day. We divided up with Mexico and Canada such fre- quencies as were most likely to cause interference, but from recent indica- tions Europe is “digging in” to obtain a reallocation that will mean a tremen- dous additional expense to America for | new radio equipment over our airway and almost chaos in the present hook up. The proposal to combine the Interna- tional Telegraph Union with that of the International Radio-Telegraph Confer- ence has always been opposed by the United States, which has taken the stand, which it still holds, that the com- mercial operators should be able to work out their own difficulties in the telegraph field without requiring the active participation of the Government other than as an observer. Since the aircraft radlo frequencies are to be the chief point of attack by | foreign nations, it is rumored that spe- cial experts from the ranks of the field of aviation may be included with the technical advisors attached to the American delegation. In 1929 the air transport operators united to send Hugo Leuteritz, a noted aircraft radio engi- neer, in charge of the Pan-American Airways radio syitem, as their repre- sentative to the I. C. C. R. hearings at The Hague. 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