Evening star., 1923-10-14
RADIO GOSSIP AND NEWS

and finally, when atmospheric condi-
| tions were unusually favorable, a
| 500-word press message giving full
! details of exploration progress.
| Although he has himself been bound
| in the silence of the north, unable to
push signals from his powerful trans
| mitter past the radio absorbing cur
! tain of the aurora. Mix has success
! fully heard amateur stations in all of
| the nine United States districts.
The signals of amateur station
| 6CFU down in Hawaii. which is the
| extreme opposite in temperature, have
Mix, who sent a radiogram to the
| operator of that station. through
Barnsley. that his transmitter was
heard plainly while in communication
| with amateur radio station 6ARB.
With all the power available
through his two fifty-watt tubes. and
sticking by his set until early morn
! ing. Barnsley has been forwarding
nightly messages to and from the
| arctic schooner. several of which,
| United States, have been delivered al
! ready via the American Radio Relay
| League system.
Mr.. Barnsley has been advised
| through the A. r. r. l. headquarters
at Hartford. Conn, that he is the
winner of the Zenith receiver and
amplifier. offered by the Chicago
J Radio Laboratory to the first anna
| teur to receive a press message from
! wireless North Pole.
Uniting on concentrations.
The pan-Americas are planning to
! take a prominent place in world COM
munications in the near future. The
! government of the United States has
led in organizing an inter-American
| communications commission, and is
now urging the adoption of a conti-
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trical communication. including radio
! telegraph and telephone operation.
The next session of the inter-Amer-
| lean body, created at the fifth pam
American conference. Will probably be
held in Mexico City next spring. The
time and place, however. will not be
| known until the meeting of the Pan
| American Union here November z
when delegates Of the several coun-
ties will report on the attitude OF
| their governments.
| Meanwhile Secretary of State
| Hughes interdepartmental communi-
! cation committee is preparing data
and agenda on governmental commu-
(, nication policies in anticipation of
. calling in commercial interests at an
! early date for conference on the COM
: mercial phases of the question. AT
| last weeks session of the govern
1 mental committee, on which repre-
| sentatiyes of the State, War, Navy.
! Commerce and other departments are
| represented. Chairman Leland Harri-
son of the State Department appoint
| ed subcommitteeS to thrash out the
details of the several forms of COM
! munfcation. AS soon as the subcom-
mittees report back 1t is understood
| that the committee as a whole will
draw up definite governmental pol
! icy, subject to suggestions from
American cable. telegraph, telephone
| and radio organizations With the
| approval of commercial interests, in
! Guiding wire and apparatus manufac-
i.turers, and perhaps radio amateurs,
whose scope is becoming worldwide
! and may require International atten-
! tion, 1t is said, the United States
agenda will be used as the basis of
a pan-Amerlcan communications tract
J to be presented at the sessions of the
! inter-American communication com
| mittee.
| Once a policy for the Americas is
| adopted, representatives of these re-
| pubitcs Will go overseas next fall to
the next international communica-
| tions conference In Paris with a
united front. Led by the United
| States delegation. it Is believed they
i will get practically anything they
want or insist upon in the way of
communication rights in the air, over
the land or under the water
! 1t is known pretty definitely that
the United States government will
on her rights in internationl commu-
nfcations and also In the interests
of all the Americas, which countries,
| it is believed, will back her lead as
communication champion for the new
| world.