Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-28
OTTAWA MEETING
FAILS TO AGREE
American Delegates to Radio
Conference Returning With
out Reaching Settlement.
BIZ MARTIN CODEL-

do Conference at Ottawa are return
ing without having reached either ;
tentative or final agreement on TIT
division of the continental short waves
the case for the Radio Corporation o.
America is being carried to Congress
Vigorous denials of charges of trust
and monopoly" are being entered be.
fore the House committee on radio thu:
week by Col. Manton Davis, vice presi-
dent and general attorney of the r
G. A.
Apparently denied the right to en-
gage in domestic autobiography
pending the possible allotment of more
exclusive continental channels to the
United States, the r. C. A. is charging
that persistent propaganda" and
political pressure" have led the Fed
eral Radio Commission to conclude
that an implicit congressional man
date exists to favor all others above Il
G. A.
Col. Davis made such an assertion
when he began teStifying Saturday by
reading a comprehensive statement in
which he defended the radio corpora
ton and its affiliated companies as the
creators Of radio" He told the COM
mittee the oft repeated story OF the
formation of the r. c. A. as an inter-
national communications enterprise
shortly after the war in order TO re-
tain to the United States certain basic
American patents, which the British
Marconi people were anxious to obtain
Radio Growth Described.
The mushroom and altogether I'M
expected growth Of program radio was
mraA kHAn
G.. A. in the manufacturing phase OF
the industry were characterized as "a
body of men seeking to use the inven-
tions of others without license" Prl-
marily concerned at this time with eX-
tending its worldwide wireless system,
the only one this country has other
than the Nays, Col. Davis maintained
that 1.-The propagandists do not even
claim to represent any one connecteo
with radio communication or radlo
broadcasting."
ing the manufacturing end of radio,
Col. Davis was hitting back at the
radio protective associations, groups OF
independent manufacturers organized
to combat in Congress and it the courts
the patent combination represented by
the r. C. A. When he spoke OF COM
munications and the alleged favoritism
shown by the Federal Radio Commits
sion, it was plain that he referred TO
the Universal Wireless Communications
"Who is behind this propaganda"
Col. Davis asked Their representatives
will not tell you gentlemen plainly.
They are body of men seeking to use
the inventions of others without IL
cense. They denounce and accuse In
order to build a smoke screen benm0
which to hide. And they seek the aid
of the Government to help them.
Seeking the aid of the law, they are
not willing to rely for protection upon
the law, but ask that their Identities
may remain undisclosed lest they be
brought to the bar of justice, wnere'
though they do business Of one hum
dred million dollars a year, they never
theless may not be able to protect them
selves"
Message Service Barred.
In communications, COL Davis / as
serted that the R. G.. A. has since the
war carried on competition with cables
and that its system now connect the
United States with 80 foreign countries:
This service has given the United
States the supremacy in international
radio. he said. Having been unable to
reach an agreement for inland pick
UPS" of overseas radio messages with
the Western Union and Postal, both OF
which operates cables, the r. G. A. is
now seeking short waves to establish a
domestic radio system OF It's own LOT
this purpose and for competition with
the wire services. :.
"The Federal Radio Commission"
said Col Davis, 'has declared its IN
tention to award to another organlza-
ton all the channels now at its disposal
for domestic service and has indicated
that the r. C. A. may be awarded no
channels permitting it to enter the held
of domestic telegraphy.
at is no answer to assert that the
r. C. A. applications have not actually
been denied. The r. G. A. was an ap-
plicant with the others and presented
its application at the same time as did
the others. All the facilities now avail
able have been awarded, but none to
the r. c. A. It Is no answer to assert
that as a result of negotiations with
Canada other channels may perhaps be
available"
Demonstrated Ability.
"The organization in whose interest
the Federal Radio Commission has in
dicated an intention to establish a
monopoly in domestic radio service" ne
said, has yet to demonstrate through
service it's ability technically and other
wise actually to serve. We do not assert
that il lacks that ability but We do
assert that no informed person in the
world doubts the ability of the r. c. A.
to carry on radio Geographic service
as we'll as any person or organization in
the world and that this has been dem
onstrated not by experiments but by
worldwide service successfully carried
on for years.
"The fact that practically every or
ganization manufacturing radio de-
vices in America is operating under IL
censes and utilizing the results obtained
in the laboratories of the r. c. A
group is conclusive proof that what
others in America can do in radio
r c. A. can equal or surpass." sale
Col. Davis in conclusion. THE R. G. A
was not asked to compete in laboratory
experiments, was not informed thai
such would be conducted was not asked
to observe or criticize experiments OF
to demonstrate in the laboratory o.
even in the field circuits what it coule
actually do with respect to radio com
munication" t
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