Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-03
UNOFFICIAL RADIO
GROUP IS GROWING
International Committee on Wire.
less Promises to Become
Real Power.
BY MARTIN CODEL.

Membership in the American section
of the international committee on
wireless biography is growing. Organ
lied in Washington under the leader
ship of Representative Wallace H.
White. jr., of Maine. this group prom
ises to become real force in American
radio. particularly as it becomes inter-
nationally involved. 1t is paying atten-
ton to Americas position in interna-
tional radio biography, telephony and
program rebroadcasting.
Unofticial in character, but including
many Government officials in its ranks,
the American section is intended to
represent fair cross-Section of view
point on radio matters and will recon-
mend official action on serious problems,
its chairman IS Representative White.
Other officers are F. P. Guthrie, vice
president; William r. Valance, secre-
tary; H. S. LIE Roy, treasurer; L. G..
Caldwell, Col Samuel Reber and Col.
Joseph o. Mauborgne, executive council.
The international committee on wire
less biography has its headquarters in
Paris and holds an annual meeting
the most recent was held last october
at Rome and the next will be held at
Liege, Belgium, in 1880. 1t is sort
of world congress on radio. 1t was
founded in 1922 for "the elaboration
of international statutes of radio cleo
tricity, the study of judicial. admin
istrative and economic questions which
relate thereto. the concentration of the
documents on these subjects and the
establishment of a permanent organ
of Cancellation and arbitration
Question Of Ownership.
One of the vital questions that will
face the American section relates to
the problem of government versus
private ownership. With many Eu-
ropean nations operating their own
radio facilities and with radio waves
international in their effects, there Is
the government and private ownership
advocates in treaty making.
This country has held to the theory
of private operation under Government
license since radio became a force in
world communication. When the wash
ington convention of 1927 was drawn
UP. with about 80 signatory nations,
the United States delegation. headed
by Herbert Hoover. succeeded in obtain
ing special set of regulations to govern
private operations.
It is likely that meeting of the
American section will be called late
this month or early in September to
consider problems that will face the
American delegation appointed by
President Hoover to the important
technical consulting conference on radio
to be held at The Hague Holland, be-
ginning September 10. The American
delegates and staff experts are to be
named from the several Government
departments some time this month.
Private Interests to Attend.
Private interests will be separately
represented. The State Department
has been informed that the following
representatives of private companies
will go to The Hague: Lloyd Espenachied,
American Telephone & Telegraph Co.;
William Wilson. Bell Telephone Labra-
tories; Col. Samuel Reber. Radio Cor
poration of America: L. A. Briggs, Radio
Communications Co., Inc: Charles j.
Pennill, Radio Marine Corporation of
America; A. Y. Tuel, Mackay Radio &
Telegraph Co.; H. H. Buttmer, Inter-
national Telephone g. Telegraph Cor
poration: DR.. John Nathansohn. Uni
versal Wireless Communications Co.,
and j, w. Swanson. Southern Radio
Corporation.
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