Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-11
YOUNG MEN FILL
TELEWS|ON RANKS
Youth Holding Most Respon-
! sibIe Positions in New
Industry.
BY MARTIN CODEL

"A
Sadioteleeraphy and radiotelephony,
Youngsters predominant among the TO-
600 or so "lookers-in" estimated TO be
in the United States. What is more
interesting, however. is the TACT that
youth is so prominent among the men
holding high places in the technical
and administrative development OF
visual radio.
Old Heads Still Prominent.
Although many of radios older heads,
men who have played leading roles IN
bringing sound radio to its present
status. are now turning their attention
to television, some of the recognized
best minds in the visual radio. art are
mere youths in their twenties ana
Ehirties.
Youngest Of all the administrative
figures in television is George Gruskin,
who at % is president of the Sanabrla
Television Corp, Chicago, which has
demonstrated an auditorium televlSlon
protector capable of showing received
dmages in a 10-foot-square screen. U.
A. Sanabria, the inventor, who is re-
garded as one of the technical genluses
OF the new art is only "a.
In Boston, Hollis Baird, also "a, Is
the engineering chief of Short Wave
and Television Laboratories, which Is
producing and marketing short wave
. and television apparatus and dong
some significant developmental work on
1.-The transmitting side. Philo T. Farms
worth, of Salt Lake City, another "a
year-old lad, is the scientific mind OF
Television Laboratories, Ltd, of San
Francisco, and his patents on cathode
ray and narrow band of transmission
system are to be used by the Phila-
delphia Storage Battery Co., makers Of
Philco radio, in its proposed television
developments.
California Youngster Leads.
In his late twenties. Edwin L. Peter
eon of Ray-O-Vision Corporation OF
America, Hollywood, Calf, is securing
patents and working on still another
radically new television method, the
nature Of which is a guarded secret, and
Is now In the East to pursue his
laboratory work Peterson. like Sana-
bria, Baird and Farnsworth, Is amply
backed financially by men who have
high regard for his technical capacity.
At Camden, N. j.. where the r. C. A.
Victor Company has combined the tele-
vision resources of the r. G. A, General
Electric and Westinghouse companies,
the man in charge of the highly secret
cathode ray system being developed
there for production within the next
year or so is A. F. Murray, who is in
his thirties. G. T. Trainer. one of
the engineering heads of this work.
Is not more than 80 years old. r. M
Morris, in charge of the staff installing
the National Broadcasting Company's
television station atop the new Empire
State Building, where r. G. A. Victor
equipment will be used, is in his early
thirties
The Columbia Broadcasting Systems
felevision experiments are in charge of
Edwin K. Cohan, Columbias chief en-
mir Nv yo1l
Both are in their middle thirties. Bill
Schudt, jr., Columbia's acting director
of televiSion, who is staging the per-
2ormances being broadcast nightly over
the networks New York station, IS in
his late tWenties.
Directors Under 80.
Jenkins Television Corporation has
D. E. Replogle as its chief engineer.
One of the most popular young men in
radio. Replogla is about 36 years of
age. One of his best aides, Charles E.
Huffman. is only about %. At Wash
ington, C. Francis jenkins, himself one
of the older heads in radio, leaves most
of his laboratory work to Paul Thomson
and Stuart jerks, ex-amaCeurS, neither
Of whom has yet reached 30.
r. D. LeMert of Bakersfield, Calf,
who is working on a single side-band
method of transmitting television
recently licensed by the Federal Radio
Commission, is somewhere around 80;
he Is a former associate Of Farms
worth's. Harry Leubke, in charge of
television for Don Lees XIII, Los An
geles, the first broadcaster on the West
Coast to be authorized to install tele-
vision, is in his early twenties. So is
M. F. Marquard, who is chief engineer
for VIGIL, Chicago, which has been the
scene of television experiments for sew
eral years.
The Chicago Daily News, first news
paper to install televiSion station, has
been using the Sanabria system, under
license from Western Television Ger
poration, with which Sanabria for
wiser in Ken hathaway, man IN his
thirties.
Young Hoover in Ranks.
Out on the West Coast also, Herbert
Hoover, jr., %, once a foremost radio
amateur, has been turning his hobby
interests to televiSion. Donald Lippin-
colt, one-time Olympic Sprinting cham
pion, former chief engineer for Magma
vox, is now patent attorney deeply
interested in the Farnsworth system
of television. He is in his thirties.
At %, Gerald G. Gross, short-wave
engineer of the Federal Radio Commits
sion, has directly under his overlordship
L1le rGuGId1 "a UIlO IClC~
vision wave lengths. The chief of his
division is Lieut.. E. K. Jet, retired
Navy officer, recently named assistant
chief engineer of the commission, who
has not yet reached 40.
In Europe, John L. Baird, cousin OF
the American Baird, is England's out
standing television worker, and he is
a young man not yet 40. Germany
boasts a radio genius in the youthful
Baron Won Ardenne, who lately has
turned his attention to televiSion. He
IS in his middle twenties.
Some Older Leaders.
Not all the television workers are
SO young, of course. Outstanding in the
field are such men, well beyond their
meridian, as Vladimir zworkyn, for
merly of Westinghouse, now stationed
at Camden; DR.. E. F. w. Alexanderson
of General Electric; DR.. Frank Conrad
of Westinghouse; DR.. Herbert E. Ives of
Bell Laboratories; G. Francis jenkins,
the Washington inventor; DR.. Lee De
Forest, known as the father CT radio
for his invention of the vacuum tube,
and DR.. August KaroluS Of Leipzig, in
ventor of the cathode ray tube being
used in the r. c. A. development.
Men in their forties prominent in
televiSion research and development are
DR.. Alfred Goldsmith, chief engineer
of R. c. A.; John v. L. Hogan, New
York inventor and consultant; Els
worth D. Cook of United Research, a
Warner Brothers subsidiary in New
York, and Capt. Richard Ranger, for
merly of r. c. A., well known for his
facsimile apparatus. George Young, son
Of Owen D. Young, a youth bordering
en- his thirties, is carrying on the
Ranger facsimile work as an engineer
of the r. c. A. and associated COM
panies.