Evening star., 1944-02-06
|23 Pct. of Radiomen
Are Now Serving
In War Effort

More than % per cent OF radios
employed personnel Is serving in
the armed services, according to
Broadcasting Magazine, national
radio trade news weekly.
Based on survey conducted by
the publication, 5,813 of radios a..
500 employees are in the Army, Navy,
marines or Maritime Service. That
figure does not include hundreds
of executives and employees in civil
ian branches Of Government. Neither
does it take into account several
hundred fighting men from adver-
tising agencies, transcription firms,
talent organizations and other busi-
nesses directly affiliated with radio
in the production of programs.
Among the 5,813 are IS reported
killed or missing in action and 6
prisoners Of war. Among the latter
is Maj. George B. Hart of Cincin-
natl, formerly with WLW-WSAI
and WCPO, who twice was cited and
promoted by Gen. Macarthur.
Assigned to Owl.
Radio personnel include Elmer
Davis, director Office of War In
formation; Edward Klauber, deputy
director, both of the Columbia
Broadcasting System, and Phil
Cohen, director of the Owl Domes-
tic Radio Bureau, formerly of the
National Broadcasting Co., New
York. Also mentioned are William
S. Paley, president of CHS, now on
special assignment abroad for the
Owl; Niles Trammell, president.
and John F. Royal, vice president
of NBC, New York, and James D.
Shouse, vice president of the Cros-
ley Corp, Cincinnati, all of whom
have carried out overseas missions
for the Government.
Radio men holding key posts in
the armed services include Comar.
Harry c. Butcher, naval aide to
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and
the former CHS Washington vice
president; Col. Luther L. Hill, vice
president of the Iowa Broadcast
ing Co., now commanding officer of
the Army Air Forces Redistribution
Center, Miami, Fla; Col. j. Noel
Macy, White Plains, N. Y, broad
caster-publisher, chief of the War
Department Bureau of Public Re-
lations News Division, executive
officer, Capt. Frank Mayborn, broad
caster-publisher of Temple, Tex;
Col. E. M. Kirby, chief OF the Ar1nys
radio branch; Maj. Jack Harris, Col
Kirby's executive officer; 1t. Col
Albert Warner, chief of the Army
Press Branch, former head Of the
CBS news division in Washington,
and several others.
Tom Knode Listed.
Serving in the Navy, besides
Comdr Butcher, is Capt. John A.
Kennedy, widely known West Viz
ginia broadcaster; j. Harrison Hart
ley, chief of the Nays radio branch,
formerly of NBC; 1t. William J..
Bailey, also on duty in Washington
and former announcer of KYW,
Philadelphia; 1t. Comdr. George
Storer, president of the Fort In
dustry Co., operators of stations
in Toledo. Lima and GAINESVILLE in
Ohio, Wheeling and Fairmont in
West Virginia and Atlanta, Ga,
and 1t. Jack Howard, president of
Scripps-Howard Radio, Inc.
Two combat correspondents in the
marines, who entered the service
from radios ranks, are 1t. James
Hurlbut, formerly of WTOP-CBS.
Washington, now on duty in Wash
ington, and Sergt. Harold Azine Of
WBAL, Baltimore.
Mentioned by Broadcasting as
radios first hero to receive the Dis
tinguished Service Cross is Capt.
Thomas E. Knode, infantry, retired,
who despite two wounds in New
Guinea. refused to be evacuated
until he had instructed his platoon.