Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-15
UNIVERSAL ASKS
OVERSEAS WAVES
Wireless Firm, Through E. E
Gam, Wants 40 Trans
oceanic Channels.
BY MARTIN CODEL.

Successful in obtaining enough chan
nels to start Nationwide network of
| Acknowledgement stations to compete for
| traffic with the wire systems, the Uni
| Versal Wireless Communications Co. has
now come to the Federal Radio &C -
| mission with applications for 40 trans
oceanic channels with which to enter
| the international communications field.
! The applications for the new radio
company, which is backed largely by a
| closed corporation of Buffalo business
men, were submitted through its Wash
| ington counsel Edward E. Gam, the
| brother in-law of Vice President Charles
| Curtis.
THE decision of the Universal, the
dark horse" of radio, to enter the in
| ternational field came as a bombshell,
| especially in view of the tendency in
| this country to merge Americas inter-
national radio system with it's Compel
ing cables in order to present stronger
front in the struggle that is brewing in
| international communications between
the unified systems of foreign countries
and the competing systems OF this
| country.
The Universal's counsel told the COM
mission that its tranSoceanic circuits
would be used secondarily to the point
| to-0oint domestic system which it is
| establishing 10 serve 1lU ClIleS cover
| ing every State in the country. Forty
continental channels were allocated to
| the Buffalo company last December and
| specifically assigned only this week
DR.. John Nathonsohn, general repre-
| sentative of the company, said that
tests between the New York and Chi
cago terminal stations would begin over
the whole rance of frequencies about
July l and that a limited amount of
traffic will be carried thereafter.
Plans OF the company are to have
about Is of the stations completed and
in operation before the end of this year,
although the commission has required it
] to have only 10. All of the ITO sta
| tons must be completed and operating
| by the end of 1881.
internationally, the company says
that 1t has contractual arrangements
| al. eady for stations at Madrid and
Buenos Aires and certain other places
in South America. This is the Spanish
| speaking field, in which the Interna-
tional Telephone e Telegraph Co.,
which proposes to acquire the Radio
Corporation of America if Congress will
permit has virtual control of the do
nestle telephone, telegraph and radio
systems, so that the Universaps advent
into this field has occasioned great
surprise.
Mr. Gam cites as one reason for the
PROPOSAL to enter the transoceanic field
in extension of the domestic system the
fact that section II of the radio act
prescribes the maintenance of competi-
ton between cables and radio, and that
1T Is matter of common knowledge
that mercer of the Radio Corporation
OF America with the International Tele-
phone & Telegraph Co. is in prospect"
Universal, he states, proposes to
maintain the competition prescribed by
the law. Today the Radio Corporation
of America, through its subsidiary Ra-
dio Corporation of America Communi-
cations, Inc, has a monopoly of Ameri-
can international radio. 1t proposes
soon to enter the domestic radio-tele-
graph field in competition with the
Universal company by virtue of a grant
OF continental channels by the commits
sion this week.
(Copyright. 1922 by North American
NeYspaper Alliance)