Evening star., 1933-11-12
RADIO TELEGRAPH
SERVICE GAINING
New Stations to Be Opened
in Chicago, New Orleans
and Seattle.

Domestic telegraph service by radio
once projected on Nationwide scale
by an independently formed concern,
only to meet financial disaster leading
to the surrender of its block Of 40
short waves back to the Federal Ra-
dio Commission, is quietly but steadily
being expanded in the United States
Word has been received here that the
Mackay Radio SL Telegraph Co., a
subsidiary of the International Tele-
phone & Telegraph Co., is about to
place In operation new radiotelegraph
stations at Chicago, New Orleans and
Seattle for intercity service
Since Postal Telegraph is also SUBJ
sidiary Of the I. T. & T., the Mackay
expansion, authorized by wave grants
from the commission, takes on added
significance. 1t means that, unlike
its competitors, the Western Union
Postal is not overlooking the posi-
bilities in supplementing its wire serv-
ice with radio. Western Union has
consistently refused to take radio Sc
riously either in the domestic or inter-
national fields, confining all its endea-
vors to wires and never asking the
Radio Commission for any wave
lengths.
Seven Domestic Stations.
Besides operating many shore and
ship stations in maritime service and
being sfhliated with international radio
services that parallel or supplement the
I. T. g. T. cable subsidiaries, Mackay
Radio for some time has also had
intercity radio stations in operation at
New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles
and Portland, Greg. The three new
stations will bring its total of domestic
stations to seven, using wave lengths
from 1000 klocycles upward in intra-
continental service. In some cases, de-
pending upon diurnal transmission and
reception conditions, the Mackay in
tercity stations will duplicate the use
of l. T. g. T. international waves.
Mackay's expansion in the domestic
field is considerably less than it origi-
nally proposed at the time both it and
the Radio Corporation of America
sought the recapture of the nl-starred
Universal Wireless Co.'S 40 continental
channels for intercity stations. Uni
versal proposed to establish 112 such
stations In almost as many cities.
Mackay wanted II, and r. c. A.
planned 30.
AppucatlOnS WltnoraWn.
R. C. A. later withdrew its applica-
tions for intercity stations, which it
claimed to need as feeders" for its
far-f1ung international radio circuits,
and said 1t would bide its time because
Of important new ultra-short wave de-
velopments. These, it was claimed,
will enable that company ultimately to
establish repeater facsimile stations
all over the country to carry telegraph
messages by means of pictures. In the
meantime. r. G. A. concluded a deal
with Western Union for pickup and
delivery service of its international ra-
dio messages sent from or destined to
interior cities.
r. c. A. itself has only one domestic
radiotelegraph circuit, that being its
New York-to-San Francisco service,
which has been in operation several
years.
When r. C. A. plans to begin in
stalling its own internal repeater
facsimile telegraph service has not yet
been announced, nor has Mackay in
dicated whether it will add to the
domestic stations 1t now has. Mean
while, another proposed big user of
domestic radio wave lengths, Press
Wireless, Inc, formed by a group of
newspapers to carry press traffic, has
abandoned all its construction permits
for new stations except the one to be
built in Washington. Press Wireless
now operates transmitters at Hicks
vile, N. Y; San Francisco and Homo
lulu