Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-04
RADIO BODY FACED
BY TWO PROBLEMS
Broadcasting and CONNER
ciaI Wireless to Be ConSid-
cred by Commission.

Two major problems face the Fed.
naming few months of its existence
"a the Governments administrative
ana control authority over radio. One
pertains to radio hroadcasting and the
other to autobiography for CONNER
cial purposes.
The clearing of more wave channels
under the new broadcast licenses to
be issued February / constitutes the
problem of most vital interest TO radio
listeners, The commission must de-
eide before the Department of Com
merce takes over control. about March
Is, and il adverts to sort OF appeal
body, whether il should freeze the
broadcaSting situation by granting IL
oenses to broadcasting stations for
lonCer than Go days.
The Short-term licenses have hith-
erto prevailed in order To permit OF
elasticity in station assignments of
wave lengths. power and broadcast
hours The radio law provides that
licenses may be issued for terms up
to three years. The question now be-
fore the commission is whether the
stations in the recently cleared mon
heterodvne hand" should he granted
their present assignments for greater
periods Of time.
These stations are supposed TO be
among the best of those now operat-
ing. although many other stations
SITS rdirg high in public interest, con-
venience or necessity may obtain
similarly good places in the broadcast
band under the changes TO he made
after February !. These changes,
ike the last. will be designed further
TO improve long-distance reception by
clearing certain frequencies of the in
reference from the large number of
stations now operating on them.
The autobiography problem will
come before the commission at the
hearing on short waves TO he held in
the National Museum January Il and
IS
Commercial enterprises. ranging
from newspaper services to cannery
concerns. all applicants for permit to
construct radio stations to carry on
private communications on short
waves, will present their cases before
the commission. which hitherto has
refused such licenses for fear OF con-
costing the lower part of the radio
spectrum. Many of the applicants
want to communicate from their GEN.
trail Offices to their field forces, such
as packing plants, fleets, plantations
and the like, but others simply seek
the short wave for domestic CORE
spondence and for the purpose Of
economy in message tolls.
An example of the long distance use
OF short waves is furnished by the
experimental license sought by the
Frestone rubber concern at Akron to
utilize short-wave channels for com.
munication with its rubber planta-
tons in Liberia, which is not other
wise reached very readily by cable.
Radio Corporation of America has
just applied for construction permits
for short.wave stations at Rocky
Point, Long Island, and Bolinas,
Calf, to be used for a photoradio fac
smile service. with incidental tele-
graph channels multiplexed on the
same transmitter.
This service would permit the send
ing Of photographs and documents by
radio. and also the facsimile trans
mission Of messages between New
York and San Francisco, which the
Radio Corporation OF America in its
application TO Washington says would
answer a public need and demand
WIN Rogers. Fred and Dorothy
Stone, Al Jolson and Paul Whiteman
and his orchestra. in widely separated