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a seven-man commission began be-
fore the House committee early this
week, and are expected to continue
for perhaps two weeks. Following re-
cent Senate hearings on the Dill bill,
proposing flve-man commission, the
Senate Interstate Commerce Commit
tee this week was busy preparing
report to the Senate on the bill
Practically all of the companies
affected have indicated they favor
the proposed commission, but they
have urged that the present Congress
merely establish it and await the COM
missions recommendation for future
legislation before enlarging its scope
and powers.
Figures on Some Leaders.
Latest reported salaries of some of
the leading executive officers of the
companies we're stated as follows in
the Splawn report:
Walter S. Clifford. president, Ameri-
can Telephone & Telegraph Co., $685.
250; Sosthenes Behn, president, Inter-
national Telephone g. Telegraph Co.,
S48,585; Gen. James c. Harbord
chairman, Radio Corporation of
America, $4,000; David Sarnoff.
president, Radio Corporation Of
America, S51,250: M. H. Aylesworth
president, National Broadcasting Co.
S45000; William S. Paley, president,
Columbia Broadcasting System, S40,-
600, plus 21a per cent of profits up
to 100000 and per cent of profits
over 100000; Newcomb Carlton,
president of Western Union recently
succeeded by r. B. White), S75,000
Among other salaries in the radio
fields disclosed were: Richard c.
Patterson, jr.. executive vice president
of National Broadcasting Co., $22,500,
the same salary previously paid to
G.. F. McClelland, former executive
vice president, resigned; Edward
Klauber, first vice president, Columbia
Broadcasting System $3O,9l352; Will
liam A. Winterbottom, general man
ager, r. c. A. Communications, Inc,
$4,000; Charles j. Pannill, vice presi-
dent, Radiomarine Corporation Of
America, S13,5OO; J. R. McDonough,
former president, r. c. A.-Victor Co.
(now general manager of Radio
th-Orpheum) $4,000; E. T. Cum
ningham, president, R. c. A. Radio
tron Co., S28 1896; M. H. Aylesworth,
president, Radio Keith Orpheum,
none; Clarence H. Mackay, president,
Mackay Radio g. Telephone Co.. SAL
ESQ: A. Y. Tuel, vice president and
general manager, Mackay Radio &
Telegraph Co.. S10,540.
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CHALL 1t be "short-wave set" or
- "all-wave set" or combination
set" or what? The proper nomen-
clature for radio receivers that tune
beyond the broadcasting band, now
coming into great popularity, is both
ering the radio manufacturers consid-
erably, and they are decided to do
something about it. Not only should
the sets be named properly so as not
to mislead the public, but standards
must be fixed for the frequency or
wave length ranges they cover, say
the makers of radios.
Accordingly, the Radio Manufac-
turers Association will hold meetings
shortly to consider recommendations
that will be forwarded to the trade
and public.
"All-Wave sets" are miSnomers, in
a sense, in that they usually embrace
short waves and then not all of those.
They do not tune beyond the $50
kilocycle lower limit, which is re-
garded as the long wave band and on
which many stations, including over
a dozen broadcasting stations in
Europe regularly operate. Nor is
"short-wave set" quite right, for
broadcast receiver that also tunes in
the short waves is still broadcast
set covering the intermediate range
between $50 and 1900 kilocycles.
In the meantime, the Federal Radio
Commission has taken cognizance of
the growing interest in short-wave
reception by issuing a statement
again warning of the penalties of five
years Imprisonment or $4,000 fines
for abusing" the privilege of tuning
in the short waves. 1t referred par
ticularly to the misuse of information
heard on short-wave broadcasts by
police radio stations. Already one
person has been convicted in a Balti-
more court for intercepting a police
call and notifying the law violators
that officers were coming.
The commission Is urging that the
radio trade furnish each purchaser
of combination broadcast and short
wave receiver with excerpts of the
radio law concerning the secrecy of
radio messages and the penalties for
divulging them.
THOSE station breaks, or intervals
i between network programs, during
which local affiliated stations
often crowd in hastily worded adver-
tising announcements, are to be re-
duced materially by the N. B. c.,
starting June l. An official statement
from that network announces that
station breaks on that date will be cut
from 20 to 10 seconds, which in
actuaity will leave nine seconds for
the switchover after time Is taken out
for the usual chimes.
N. B. G. has also issued an order
designed to preclude repetition of the
same songs on successive network
programs. 1t has decreed that no
selection may be repeated the same
night between and II o'clock. AS
a precaution, it is requiring the sub
mission Of all programs in advance.
The rule is that the first to engage
to render a certain song sets preced-
ence; thereafter all succeeding pro-
grams must avoid that song.
MANY an American experimenter
4V1 and amateur claims the credit of
being the first to broadcast voice