Evening star., 1927-11-30
RADIO SELECTION
OFFERS PROBLEM
Successor to BulIard Looms
as Real Issue for Presi-
dent to Decide.


1ard's succession, now leaving the Fed
sral Radio Commission shorn of most
Of its technical genius, presents a
perplexing problem for President Cool
idge. First, he must appoint sue
eessor TO the commissionership or the
second radio zone. Secondly, he must
determine whether it is within his
province to name the new chairman
or whether the commission itself
should choose its chairman.
z With death having called poth
Commissioners Billiard and Dillon in
q fieeting interval. it is regarded here
ns virtually a certainty that lecnri
cal man drawn from the wireless Heiu
will be chosen for the vacant post As
the commission is now constituted, It's
only engineering mind is Commission
ar o. III. Caldwell of New York, grad
uate electrical engineer, who has oeen
identified. however. chiefly with the
radio retailing trade in trade edito'
rial capacity. =
No inlSIing of possible selections is
Forthcoming, and it is beiieveo that
few choices are yet in President CoOi,
idge's mind. That an englneer W. Mouiu ~
be most desirable-and preferably "a
radio engineer and a man of rank,
prestige and independence. is patent.
Admiral Bullard, former chief of navai
communications of the United states
Navy. identified with wireless for
more than a score of years. was an
ideal man for the task to which he
was called last Spring from radio con-
aultant work in the Far East.
Judge Stephen B. Davis, former
solicitor of the Department of Com
snerce, vice chairman of the American
delegation to the recent international
Radiotelegraph Conference and an
authority on 10. has been mention
cd, But Juuge Davis is from New
Mexico, which is not in the second
zone: moreover, he is engaged in iu-
crative private enterprise in New York
which he has said he cannot afford to
forsake as yet.
Frank D. Scott, former member of
Congress from Michigan and now at.
torney for the National Association of
Broadcasters, who helped frame the
radio act of 1927 in Congress last ses-
sion, is from the proper zone and a
Republican of high standing. But
he also has said he is glad to be out
OF public life in order to repair his
private fortunes. He is not tech
nicai man, but he knows radio init
mately from the angle demanding
most of the attention of the Federal
Radio Commission and he might pos
sibiy be induced to accept an appoint
ment The second radio zone, from
which the new commissioner must be
selected, includes the States of Penn
sylvania. Virginia. West Virginia.
Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky.
The craftsmanship problem is COM
piicated by the fact that the law does
not stipulate that the President should
choose any but the first chairman of
the commission. Judge Eugene 0.
Sykes of Jackson, Miss. a Democrat.
fs acting chairman and the undoubted
choice of his colleagues for the per-
manent post. if the choice liz left to
them. But a Republican administra-
ton is hardly likely to be willing to
leave the chairmanship OF so impor-
tant body as the Federal Radio
Commission in the hands OF a Demo
crat ~
A variety of musical features. orig |
mating both in New York and Wash |
ineton, compose the, program tonight |
The attractions coming from the
stations own studio include the first |
radio concert of the season sof the
Choir Invisible which will be present
ID during the Kilt Hour of Music, a
concert by the W.. B. & A. String
Quartet. and the weekly resume of the
political situation In Washington by
Frederic William Vile, which will be
carried over the blue network of the
National Broadcasting Co.
@Onenbach's fanciful opera, "The
Tales of Hoffman," which will be sung
by the National Grand Opera en-
seinble. headlines the musical features
which WRC will draw from New York.
In addition, there will be the weekly
concerts of the Goodrich Zippers and
the Ipana Troubadours and another
Aeoiian recital.
The Upper Orchestra will play GIL
lsspie's "Tin Pan Parade" Dream
Kisses and March of the Spooks,"
will assist the orchestra, viii give
special rendition of Kreisler's Cradle
Song and did You Mean It?"
The Troubadours have arranged a
popular program. which win include
ssBlue Heaven" "Diane." Song of
India" .EstreIlita," There Must Be
Somebody Else" and "The Song Is
Ended The latter will be played az
q cello solo.
The Brunswick Panatrope Hour and
q concert by the Army Band Sym.
pfonet are the outstanding attractions
tonight of WMAL. The former will
be broadcast from 7:30 to $40 o'clock,
while the symphonies program is
scheduled to begin at 9:15.
A program of popular songs by
"Bob" Carbauh and a recital by
Juanita Froehlich, soprano, are
terspersing them will be a talk by
Dorsey w. Hyde. jr., secretary of the
Washington Chamber of Commerce,
on BUY i'm Washington"