The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-06-04
|RAD|O CONFERENCE
MEETS At LONDON
For the First Time the Unit
ed States Has Represen-
tativcs Present.
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- Irrational News AsSoc1aDonl
Z LONDON, June 4-For the first time
in. the history OF wireless communities
tion the United States was represented
at the opening of the Triennial Inter
national Radio-Telegraph Conference
here today
In all the previous conventions and
conferences, where the nations OF the
world gathered to formulate laws and
frame regulations for the transmission
OF messages through the air, the Unit
ed States was unrepresented, because
OF the power of the United Wireless
Company, and other like corporations
in America, to prevent Congress from
ratifying the Berlin Conference of
1905, wherein the European nations
pledged themselves to send delegates
to wireless conference, to be held
every three years But the United
i States Wireless Company having been
wrecked on the rocks of bankruptcy
and other large wireless concerns hay-
ing been closed by the department of
/ Justice and postoffice authorities, Con-
gress, in March last, ratified the Ber-
lin conference and accordingly eleven
representatives of the United States
appeared at the present conference.
Because of the Titanic disaster,
where wireless played a most prom
nent and important part, this meeting
OF the international conference is ex-
pected to be the most important ever
held.
Among the subjects to be discussed
during the coming two weeks are: In
ternational distress signals; conduct
of. operators in case of danger (wheth-
ey to wireless companies or to the
steamship companies on whose boats
they are working) Redistribution of
signals for international craft dnclud-
ing an entire re-districting of the Unit
nd States vessels, and an appeal to the
nations of the world to legislate
against amateurs being allowed to
break into messages, and use the air
during times of danger of great stress
OF business.
This last named provision is one of
the most important of the many which
the international delegates will dis
lcnss
The American delegates have also
expressed themselves as being partic-
sularly interested in the questions aris-
ing from the use of wireless in the ma
Wy and the adoption of an international
code which will do away with the fire.
quent confusion now arising because
of the use of several codes--(the Con-
tinental system and the Morse charac-
fers) by operators in various parts
OF the world. The Importance of one
cOde for important business, say the
majority of the delegates, cannot be
oyerestimated and it is certain that
the present conference will bend a
great part of it's energies in this direc-
tion.
An effort will also be made by the
American delegates to bring the next
meeting of the Conference-in 1916
to the United States. This will meet
with great deal of opposition from
the European countries both because
of. the hardness of the United States
in recognizing the conference and
sending delegates to it and because
Berne, Switzerland the headquarters
OF the International Radio-Telegraphic
convention, will probably be named
for the future meeting place for all
conferences. The American delegation,
however, is working under orders from
Washington to secure the 1915 confer
ence for the United States if possible
and they are doing large amount Of
lobbying with this end in view.
The conferences are held every three
years, but this one was postponed
from June, 1911, because of the coro-
nation Of King George V.
The American delegates to the pres
ent convention are:
Fro mthe Navy Department. Rear
Admiral John r. Edwards, U. S. N,