Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-28
RADIO CHIEFS Plan
ANNUAL VACATIONS
Members of Commission and
Staff to Leave Capital
Until September /.

Federal surveillance over broadcast
ers and the broadcaSt wave lengths will
be relaxed 70 some extent during the
Summer, for July and August are to be
the vacation periods Of the rulers OF
American radio. Reeessing yesterday.
the Federal Radio Commission and It's
staff, not to forget the broadcasters VINO
come here in great numbers throughout
the year, will all but desert washington
until September J..
One or two of the commissioners Will
be on hand for routine matters about
which there is little or no dispute, but,
all will be gone on vacations some time
or other during the next two months.
No hearings will be held. and inasmuch
as the courts here also are adJourning
until Autumn, no appeals decisions may
be expected until, perhaps, next Oc-
tober.
will Inspect Zone.
Commissioner H. A. Lafount will be
the first to leave He plans to combine
an inspection tour Of his nth zone OF
Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast
States with his vacation, being gone 1or
six weeks. Leaving Washington June ~.
he goes directly to Denver, thence 70
his home in Salt Lake City and to- va
rious points in the West, returning via
Atlanta on August IA.
July will find Commissioner i. z.
Robinson mentioning at his home at
Adaland. w. Va, while Chairman
Charles NICK Saltzman goes on his va
cation to upstate New York. Both
Commissioners w. D. Starbuck and e.
o. Sykes will remain here during July,
Starbuck planning vacation in August
10 20 HE hnT11A
in Jackson, Miss, during the same
month.
Col. Thad Brown. general counsel OF
the commission, leaves July 20 for
visit with his mother on q farm near
Mount Gilead, Ohio, after which he will
take trip on the Great Lakes with his
son and go camping and fishing in the
Lake of the Woods country in Canada.
Duke Patrick, assistant general counsel,
plans to leave August 10 for trip to
Canada. Ben Fisher, assistant general
counsel, will motor through Virginia in
July with his family.
May Go to Canada.
Illness may preclude Paul DIP. Spear
man, the third assistant general coun-
sci, from carrying out his plan TO va
cation at his home In Mississippi in
August. He Is at present confined TO
local hospital. Chief Examiner Ellis
A. Yost has not decided upon his. va
cation plans, but may go to Canada.
DR.. c. B. Jolliffe, chief engineer, re-
turns from the Copenhagen radio con-
ference at the end Of this month along
with Gerald Gross, assistant engineer.
They may be here most Of the Summer.
v. Ford Greaves, broadcast engineer,
plans a tour to an unannounced desti-
nation in July, and in August Andrew
Ring, assistant broadcast engineer, goes
to his home in Franklin, Tenn, for
short visit before embarking on an au-
tomobile tour
William D. Terrell, chief Of the Radio
Division. Department of Commerce, will
spend several weeks on his farm in Vir-
ginia, his staff Of inspectors throughout
the country taking their vacations at
various intervals. Among the other no
tables of Washington radio, Louis G.
Caldwell former commission counsel, is
planning q trip to Europe. Philip G.
Loucks, managing director OF the Ma
| tional Association Of Broadcasters,
leaves here about July to visit broad
casters in Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake
City, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco
and Los Angeles. He will return in Au-
gust via the Southern States and
Atlanta.
A regional meeting of Pacific Coast
members of the association will take
place July 81 and % at the st. Francis
Hotel, San Francisco, with United States
Senator C. C. Dill and Commissioner
Lafount among the leaders of radio
planning to be present.