Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-23
RADIO INDUSTRY
Jobs AVAILABLE
President Soon to Appoint a
Commissioner for Each
of Five Zones.

with politics for places on the Fed
eral Radio Commission set up under
the radio act passed by Congress. In
fluences of every hue already are be-
| ing brought to bear at the White
House for various candidates.
President Coolidge must appoint
five commissioners, one from each of
five zones and no more than three
from his own party. Their terms are
| to be for two, three, four, five and six
years, respectively, but their success
sors are to be appointed for siX-year
terms, THUS creating annual changes
or appointments
| The commisSionShips pay $4,000
the first year, but advert to per
diem basis when control passes after
! the first year to the Secretary of Com
| merce and the commission becomes q
! board of review. Then the salary is
| to be $50 a day and expenses for each
day of official functioning. Thus the
| job can hardly be looked upon as a
| permanent Federal plum, and the ap-
! pointee must necessarily have an out
side source of income to hold it-at
| least, after the first year.
Prospective Nominees Cited.
| Numerous names of prospective APP
| ponteeS have been heard in Wash
| ingtOn, prominent among them being
certain lame ducks" who go out Of
office with the Sixty-ninth Congress
| March and who have served the adj
! ministratio faithfully and well. 1t is
| most likely, however. that the Presi-
| dent will be constrained to choose the
| commissioners chiefly from among
| men qualified in the field Of radio
| Perhaps the most eminently quail
| fed men for posts are Judge S. Is.
| Davis, ir.. solicitor of the Department
| Of Commerce, who handled legal phases
| Of radio for the department when 1t
exercised the control authority and
| who thus made himself = expert in
| every phase, legal and otherwise; w.
| ID. Terrell, chief radio supervisor Of
/ the Department of Commerce, prob
| ably the best informed man on the
| broadcast situation today. and DIR. J.
| Fl. Dellinger, chief of the radio re-
| search laboratory of the Bureau of
| Standards, as brilliant in the non
| technical phases of radio, which the
! commissions work necessarily will
| entail, as he is on the tech~ical side.
| But these men are not likely to &C.
| cept places, even if offered. Judge
| Davis. it is understood, does not want
| he post. Mr.. Terrell is too valuable
1
| Dellinger is in position where he
| would rather advise the commission
| han be part Of it. Three district
| radio supervisors of the government
| have been Neutrality-suspicious. F. Dillon
| of the San Francisco district: S. w.
| Edwards of the Detroit district, and
| Arthur Batcheller of the New York
district. So also has Sam Pickard.
radio director Of the Department Of
1 i 90 me Kov
sas with Secretary Jardine.
Candidates Already Endorsed.
| Several direct Endorsements have
| gone to the White House. Perhaps
| the strongest congressional indorse-
| ment has been given Lambdin Kay CT
| Station WSB, Atlanta, for whom both
The Georgia and South Carolina dele
cations in Congress have spoken per-
sonally to President Coolidge. The
Louisiana delegation has suggested
| Bradford Hearn Of Shreveport. and II.
| y. Bellows of WCCO in the Twin Cities.
| has also been brought to President
| Coolidge's attention.
From the field of radio invention
| the President might pick John Hays
| Hammond, jr. Of Gloucester, Mass.
| Maj. Gen. George o. Squier, retired,
| former head of the Army Signal Corps,
| and Maj e. Fl. Armstrong Of Columbia
| University, all of whom have been
| Endorsed. Robert H. Marriott of New
York, past president of the Institute
| Of Radio Engineers, has been backed
| for one of the places by the. Radio
| Club of America, and the American
| Radio Relay League offers it's presi-
dent. Hiram Percy Maxim. Another
| name frequently mentioned in Laurens
| Whittemore of New York, who was
| secretary of the first three radio con-
| ferences.
Possible appointees Of more definite
| political hue are being kept some
what lin the dark" by their sponsors.
| The only name heard very often Ia
! that of Frank Scott, retiring Repre-.
| sentative from Michigan, who was
/ chairman Of the House Committee on
| Merchant Marine and Fisheries, which
had charge Of radio matters and who
| helped frame the new la was a mem.
| helped frame the new law as a mem.
| there are others.
The University OF Maryland Glee
Club, which has made it custom to
| face the micrOphone once each year.
will give its 1927 radio concert tonight
| at WRC. DIR. Homer House, director
| of the club, will introduce his singers
on the air at $50 o'clock. Besides the
ensemble numbers there will be solos
| by Dr. Hale, baritone; Pyles, clarinet
| list; Goodyear, tenor: Barron, bass, and
RAIDER, pianist
The weekly concert of the United
States Army Band Is another OF t..., >
| features of local origin. The band will
play from z to o'clock ands during
| the last half hour, it's music will be