Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-25
R. c. A. |SEXPECTED
TO GET PERMITS
Stations to Be Built to CON-
pete With Postal and
Western Union.
By MARTIN CODEL.

Permits authorizing the construction
Of radio stations for a radio telegraph
network linking at least % large cities
of the country will probably be issued
to r. c. A. Communications, Inc, the
newly formed subsidiary of the Radio
Corporation of America, shortly after
the Federal Radio Commission begins
10 function with its full membership.
Although most of the continental
short waves have already been allo-
Gated, the commissions engineers be-
lieve there are enough more to take
care of most of the expressed needs
of the two big companies, whose appli-
cations were temporarily passed over
last Christmas. These APPLICANTS are the
r. c. A., which seeks more continental
channels and proposes also to extend
its transoceanic channels for the in
land traffic, and the two Mackay radio
and telegraph companies.
It is now evident that the r. G. A.
intends to pursue its original plans OF
establishing radio stations in inland
cities to compete with the Western
Union and the Postal Telegraph COM
panies for intercity traffic and to serve
as pickup and delivery points for ra-
kilograms destined for or coming from
abroad On the other hand. it is I'M
derstood that Mackay interests have
practically abandoned their plan for an
inland radio system and intend rather
to inaugurate transocsanic radio services
on the wave lengths obtained from the
commission.
Universal Is Building.
In the meantime the Universal Wire
less Communications Co., granted 40
channels for another Nationwide radio
telegraph net. is going forwaSd with its
project. Two of the ITO stations 1t
proposes to erect have their buildings
the other at Chicago. The site for a
third, at Cincinnati. has been selected
Sites for other stations at Buffalo, Phil
adelphia and Washington are said to
have been obtained also.
The Universal company, newest en-
trant in the wireless field and dark
horse" in the competitive struggle that
has started between the radio companies
and between wire and radio companies,
has its engineers in the field testing for
sites for the IS stations it expects to
have completed by the end Of the year.
DR.. John Nathansohn, general manager,
has gone to Europe, but the technical
staff is under the direction OF Howard
Ford, chief engineer. The commission
has stipulated as condition of the
wave grants that the company have at
least 10 stations ready for operation this
year, and all the others within three
years.
The Radio Corporation and Mackay
engineers have been comforting with
the commissions short-wave engineers
on their respective projects. The
r. G. A., as far as can be learned, will
build stations as soon as 1t gets the
Federal licenses at New York, Chicago,
San Francisco, New Orleans, Detroit,
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Savannah, Nor
folk, Washington, Philadelphia. Pitts
burgh, Portland, Me-; Buffalo, Science
tady, Rochester, Boston, Los Angeles,
Seattle, Portland, Greg; Denver, Kan
sas City, st. Louis, Dallas. Houston,
Memphis, Minneapolis and Milwaukee.
Circuit as Experiment.
The r. G. A. already has an expert
mental circuit working between New
York and San Francisco. 1t is under
stood the Mackay radio group VIII seek
to establish similar transcontinental
circuit, and that this will be its only in
land radio service. 1t is emphasizing
its needs for radio channels to com
municate across the Atlantic and Pacific
and to South American points. Its cor
porate afiliation with the Postal Tele-
graph Co. and the International Tele-
phone g. Telegraph Co. give 1t adequate
inland wire extensions throughout the
United States and in most Latin Ameri-
can countries.
Thus the radio telegraph situation
promises to develop into four-cornered
competitive struggle. On the one hand
there will be the Western Union, whose
officials are avowedly scornful Of radio
competition and have assiduously kept
out Of the radio field. Then there are
the Mackay- Postal afiliated radio and
wire services, the Universal wireless
communication radio service between
most of the larger cities Of the country
and the Radio Corporation of America
radio service, linking at least 20 cities
and feeding" into transoceanic circuits
to about 80 foreign countries.
The Radio Corporation project is
being opposed by group Of radio manu-
facturers banded together as the Radio
Protective Association. Although none
of them is in either the radio tele-
graph or wire telegraph fields, they are
protesting in complaint just filed with
the commission that the company's
patent agreements with A. T. g. T.,
United Fruit, Tropical Radio, General
Electric, Westinghouse and Radio
Marine Corporation Of America will
mean restricted use" of the channels.
Downright, 1929, by North American News