Evening star., 1927-10-06
HOOVER TO DIRECT
NEW RADIO PACT
Secretary Elected Head of
Conference Committee.
Other Groups Named.

Secretary of Commerce Hoover,
president OF the International Radio
Conference, was elected chairman of
the convention committee at the initial
meeting of the officers today. This
is the chief committee Of the confer.
ence and in addition to drafting the
for which it was called. it
will act as a committee of the whole.
A. Johnston. deputy minister of
marine Of Canada, was named vice
chairman. Col. Il. +. Purves of Great
Britain was chosen chairman of the
on general regulations. and
Antonio Nieto y Gil. inspector Of tele.
graph of Spain. was elected vice chair
man of the committee.
The board passed over selection of
a chairman of the committee which
will study the code language. Chair.
manship OF this committee will go to
one of the Italian delegates.
The convention committee. Of which
Mr.. Hoover is the head. will meet to.
morrow morning to begin work on the
preliminary phases of the convention,
which will supplant the international
agreement drawn up in London in
1912. This committee also probably
will decide whether the conference will
deal with problems affecting the vari
ous governments as communicating
agencies or whether they will be con
fined to problems affecting them only
as governments. The United States is
leader of A minority group Of nations
favoring the latter course.
Other Appointments Made.
Other committee appointments made
this morning follow: Mobile and spe.
cial service regulations, chairman, O.
Arendt of Germany; vice chairman,
Capt. FREDERICK Villar of Brazil.
Point-to-point and other service
regulations, chairman. DIR. ]. Varela
Of Uruguay; vice chairman to be ap-
pointed.
Tariffs word count and accounting,
chairman, Count Giuseppe Gneme of
Italy; vice chairman, II. =. Brown of
Australia.
Technical, chairman. Gen. Ferrie Of
France; vice chairman, T. Il. Krarupe
of Denmark.
Drafting, chairman, J. A. A. Pierart
of Belgium; vice chairman, Count
Henning Adolf Hamilton Of Sweden.
international code of signals, chair
man, Sannosuke Inada Of Japan; vice
chairman, Capt. J. c. NJ. Warnsinck
Of Holland.
Work Of the international bureau,
chairman, DR.. Chin.chun Wang Of
China; vice chairman, Oscar Rabasa
Of Mexico.
Committees to Report.
These committees will report the
first results OF their sessions to the
whole conference at a second plenary
session, which is expected to be
called by Secretary Hoover tomor-
row or Saturday. The first plenary
session yesterday afternoon cleared
up several preliminary problems, in
cludlng that OF the official language
of the conference. but left a much
disputed question. that of voting
power. for a later meeting.
1t was agreed that the debates
should be in English as well as
French. although the latter tongue
was adopted as the official language
Of the conference. and it's final find
ings will he in French.
This decision means that when de-
bates are carried On in French they
will be translated into English; at the
same time it will be proper to discuss
questions in English. provisions being
made for their translation into French
upon request. French was the Off
cal language OF the London conference
in 1912 and is regarded as the inter
national tongue.
The controverted question Of voting
power was avoided since all motions
We're carried practically unanimously
and no record vote was taken on any
subject. AS soon as the necessity for
record vote arises in a plenary ses-
sion the question will automatically
come to the front and the conference
will have TO decide on the claims of
Japan. Italy, Germany and other
countries. There is no dispute as to
voting power in committee meetings
since each country has only one vote