Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-24
R. c. A. WILL PRESS
SHORT WAVE PLEA.
Pioneer Company Wants to
Be Independent of Wire
Lines as Radio Feeders.
BY MARTIN CODEL.

Radio Corporation Of America, now
busily engaged in segregating its COM
munications business from its various
other lines of activity, will press its
claim for enough short waves to estab-
lish domestic radio telegraph system.
II wishes to be free from dependence
upon the wire companies as inland
feeders" for its transoceanic radio
Cir utS.
Col. Malcolm Davis, vice president
ard general attorney for the Radio Cor
poration OF America, declared yesterday
that his company was not concerned
about the grant of 40 short waves to
the Universal Wireless Communications
Co., tor the establishment of nation
wide wireless system. AS the pioneer
In American radio communications, the
RaAio Corporation of America only asks
for the right to engage in the domestic
field as well, he said.
The matter of the short waves is be-
ing brought before the House commit
tee during its current hearings on radio.
Col. DAVIS has asked to be heard on be-
half of his company. Meanwhile, an
American delegation is at Ottawa dis
cuSsing the division of the continental
short waves. Several members of the
Federal Radio Commission have indi-
Gated they will favor grant of chan
nelS to the Radio Corporation of
America, provide denough of the
exclusive frequencieS are allotted to this
country at the Canadian conference.
We raised before the Federal Radio
Commission" said Col. Davis, land we
feel disposed to discuss before the con-
gressional committee, the question OF
ALLEGATION of short waves, but the COM
petence of the Universal Co., whether
technical or financial, is matter we
have never discussed, nor Will we.
Seek Own Waves.
$50 far as concerns short wave allo-
cations for use in the domestic field,
we are interested in our own applica-
tons and our own needs. We are en-
gagged in the radio communication buSi-
ness and our great international Serv-
Ices need facillUleS by which traffic can
be handled to and from inland points
in order that we may be rid of depend
ence upon our competitors. The r. G. A.
has never been able to reach satiSfac-
tory agreement with either the Postal
or the Western Union for an inland
pickup Of messages to be routed via the
radio, now serious competitor OF the
cables operated by the telegraph COM
panleS.
I'VE have been the only American
company" Col. Davis continued, which
has ever virtually carried on a radio
communication public service on very
large scale. We feel that when the de-
velopment of the art, which our organ
ization more than any other in the
United States has furthered in Amer
lea, permits a domestic radio public
MA ho
United States Government into that
field rather than excluded from 1t.
so far as we are concerned, our need
TO enter this field and our just claim
for consideration therein are the only
matters we desire to discuss. Above all,
we have no desire to raise an issue con-
corning the technical or financial COM
petence Of Others"
The Universal grant, made to the ex-
clusion of application for similar prof.
ects entered by both the Mackay and
Radio Corporation of America system
was awarded by the Federal Radio Com
mission on the basis of the new con-
Germs claim to have perfected radically
new method of sharp tuning" by which
wave length may be utilized for at least
five code messages. The company's in
dependence from wire or radio afdlia-
tions and the fact that it proposes to
operate in every State in the Union,
whereas the other applicants offered to
cover comparatively few cities and
States, led to the commissions decision
in its favor.
No Stock Sales Planned.
From Buffalo, where nearly all the
hackers of the Universal project reside,
telegram today advises that William
H. Fitzpatrick, chairman of the board,
announces that no stock will be sold in
the Universal Wireless Communicat
Co. now or in the immediate future.
The present financial resources, Mr..
Fitzpatrick, building contractor Of
that city, stated, are adequate for .eX-
pansion without recourse to the pocket
book of the public for at least some
time to come.
"All financing the organization has
needed up to the present time or will
need as we go along, so far as we can
look ahead, will come from within our
group" MIR. Fitzpatrick said. Certain
~ at the present time no stock sale is
planned"
eve are building the two stations
that have been allowed to date. One,
in New York, is nearly finished. The
other, in Chicago, is being started. We
intend to push forward with the rest of
the stations as per the Government
schedule. This calls for 10 stations
completed by the end of the year. But
we intend to do better than that and
hope to have as many as 20 completed.
"On the completion of the years
work we expect to have transconti-
mental line in operation from New York
to the coast"
Names of the other cities where sta
tons will be erected this year have not
yet been made public, according to Mr..
Fitzpatrick. The Washington manager
of the enterprise, DR.. John Nathansohn,
has stated that test cars are now in
the field making signal tests at pros
pective sites.
Beyond this years line of stations
the methods of further financing have
not been settled upon, Mr.. Fitzpatrick
further reported. He said the COM
pany would decide when the time comes
whether it would be better to open the
stock to the public or continue fnan-
cling the concern from within the orig
inal group
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