Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-12
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RADIO DELEGATION
Copenhagen Farley, May II,
AWaited-SaItzman Held
Excused by Request.


man back at his desk at the Federal
Radio Commission last week, after
nearly months vacation and after
the commissions one-week Easter re-
cess, attention Of the radio world turns
to the conference Of international radio
engineers scheduled to begin in Copen-
hagen May 81.
This conference, devoted entirely to
the engineering aspect of radio, will
bring together the government experts
formed as the International Technical
Consulting Committee on Radio Com
munications. Meeting under the provi-
sions Of the Washington radio conven-
| ton, these experts lay the technical
groundwork for the treaty-making con-
ference of all the worlds radio-using
| nations, held every five years, the last
| in Washington in 1927 and the next in
Madrid in 1892.
President Hoover this week named
DR.. C. B. Jolliffe, chief engineer of the
Federal Radio Commission, to head the
American delegation to the Copenhagen
meeting next month, although 1t had
been generally assumed that Gen. Saltz-
man, who headed the same delegation
to the conference at The Hague last
year, would again be chosen. Gen.
SaltZnan, who conferred with the
President before departing on his Flor
ida vacation last month, is believed to
have asked to be excused from the
mission.
other Delegates Named.
The other delegates named by Presi-
dent Hoover are Senator Wallace White,
jr., of Maine, and DR.. j. H. Dellinger,
! radio chief of the Bureau of Standards.
Six technical assistants were appointed,
as follows: DR.. Irwin Stewart, State
Department; Lieut.. Wesley P. Guest
and Lieut.. Thomas H. Maddocks, Army:
Lieut.. Comdr. Joseph r. Redman, Navy;
Or. c. G. McIlwraith, Bureau of Stand
ards, and Gerald C. Gross, Federal Ra-
dio Commission. The President also
named K. B. Warner, secretary of the
American Radio Relay League, the anna
teur organization, as a technical adj
wiser.
Gen. Saltzman. who replied last week
to published reports of his possible
resignation by saying that he has no
present intention of relinquishing his
radio commissionership, performed yeo-
man service at The Hague engineering
conference last year in adjusting the
American position to the conflicting
technical theories prevailing in many
Of the other countries represented there
1t Is known that he was extremely loath
TO undertake the arduous international
mission again especially in view of his
recent illness.
1t was probably this problem which
led to his conference March 10 with
President Hoover. although there are
grounds for believing that Chairman
SaltZnan indicated to the President his
desire to retire and was urged to remain
in office. 1t was President Hoover who
appointed Gen. Saltzman to the radio
post because he had been so impressed
with the ex-Army Signal Corps chiefs
work at the International Radio-Tele-
graph Conference In Washington in
1927.
U. 9. Proposals Completed.
American proposals for both the Co.
penhAgen and Madrid parleys have
practically been completed. The Mad
rid proposals were due TO be submitted
this month TO the clearing house for all
proposals Of the various nations at
Bern, Switzerland, but an extension in
time has been obtained by the United
States until after the Copenhagen
meeting.
The Copenhagen recommendations are
Of an unofhcial character, and, being
devoted purely TO the engineering as
poets Of radio, are intended primarily
to keep the radio experts of the nations
abreast Of the changes occurring in
radio technique. It Is at the treaty
making conference, called every 1--WE
years, that actual ALLEGATIONS, regula-
tons and international practices are
written into the law Of nations.
The Americans have been working on
both the Copenhagen and Madrid pro-
posalS for many months, and. with q
few exceptions, have them practically
completed. The various technical COM
nittees preparing for Madrid have been
meeting under auspices of the State
Department and under the chairman
ship Of Gen. Saltzman.
Subcommittee Formed.
Three subcommittee have been
formed, namely, regulations, under Dr.
j. H. Dellinger Of the Bureau of Stand
ards, chairman; ALLEGATIONS, under DR..
G. 3. Jolliffe. Federal Radio Commits
sion, chairman, and accounting and in
spection, under William D. Terrell, De-
partment of Commerce, chairman.
In addition the State Department also
has called Upon the representatives of
various interested parties to consider
revising the washington convention.
This committee Is headed by william r.
Castle, jr., Undersecretary of State
Then there Is q committee to consider
service regulations from the standpoint
OF the private operating companies,
whose interests are somewhat different
from those OF the government monopo-
lies that prevail in radio in most other
countries.
Judge Stephen B. Davis, former So
licitor OF the Department Of Commerce.
VINO was vice chairman of the Ameri-
can delegation to the Washington con-
ference, heads the latter committee.