Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-08
YOUNG HOOVER TURNS TO RADIO
ASLIFE WORK, LEAVING HARVARD
Son of President-EIect to
Work With Air Ex-
press Line.
Herbert, Jr., Also to Study
Technical Aviation on
New lob.

Herbert Hoover, jr., radio ham," is
turning to the plaything of his child
hood days as his life work
Selecting for himself a career in
radio and aviation. the son of the
President-elect on February ] will be-
come affiliated with the Western Air
Express, Inc Of Los Angeles, one of
the pioneer commercial air transporta-
ton companies. AS technical assistant
to the president Harris M. Hanshue,
young Hoover, just rs, will direct the
radio telephone communications of that
company and also apply himself to
technical aviation.
To enter his chosen profession, Hoo
yer forSakes his profesSorship at the
Business School of Harvard, where he
is doing aviation research work under
fund created by the Guggenheim
fund for the promotion of aeronautics.
Like his father, he is an engineer and
a graduate of Stanford University at
Palo Alto, Calf.
Yesterday the junior Hoover, who
since his early school days has been a
student of radio, was a caller at the
Federal Radio Commission. 1t was his
second visit in the past month. He
discussed matters relative to his own
experimental license as radio amateur,
but also took up the pending application
of the Western Air Express to establish
radio telephone communication contacts
in the West.
For about two hours he was in con-
ference with DR.. j. H. Dellinger, the
commissions chief engineer, going over
technical details of the new field of
radio telephone communication between
plane and ground. Then he conferred
with Commissioner Harold A. Lafount,
representing the Pacific radio zone,
within whose jurisdiction the Western
Air Express is operated.
Two weeks ago, the Western Air Ex-
press was granted four channels in the
short wave spectrum for radio telephone
communication. These were granted on
temporary basis pending development
or anyways communication. The actual
channels have not yet been designated.
and HoOverS mission OStenSibly was to
discuss this matter, perhaps for his own
information, as he is not yet associated
with the company He also obtained
from the commissions licensing division
a number of license blanks, to be filed
by the air express for additional chan
rels that the company evidently pro-
poses to employ in the establishment of
its radio telephone network.
The President elects son has long
been active in radio. While Secretary
of Commerce, the senior Hoover once
said that it was Junior" who had
awakened in him the radio spirit
Herbert, jr., is listed in the amateur
radio log as operator of amateur Station
6-XH, Palo Alto, Calf, the Hoover
home. In 1921, he spent the entire
Summer at the radio laboratory of the
Bureau of Standards in experimental
shortwave work. During that period
he set up short-wave apparatus for
communicating with amateurs of Eu-
rope in those early days, when long
distance communication by short waves
was a real accomplishment. He is
credited with being pioneer in long
distance transmission and reception. by
dint of his constant activity in this line,
which now is shaping his career
Young Hoover is married and has a
daughter years old He left Washing
ton last night to return to Cambridge,
where he will bring to close his work
as an instructor. He will leave Harvard
toward the end of this month, passing
through Washington long enough to
say good-by TO his parents, and reach
Los Angeles by February l, to embark
on his new career.
Copyright, 1929