The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-27
Observations
Conference on
Communications
to be in June
By HELEN ESSARY
BY HELEN EssARY
Especial to Contra. Press


Preparations are under way for n
Pan-American conference on com
munications at Rio dc Janeiro in
June to be followed after the war
by world conference.
The Federal Communications
Commission revealed before the
House Appropriations committee
that It is engaged IN making stu
dies and preparing proposals for
the State Department which may
serve as a basis for negotiations
with other Western Hemisphere
nations, including Canada.
After the war said FEC Com
missioner +. X. Jet, there will be
A world conference to revise the
cairo general radio regulations,
which apply 10 all countries " the
world.
1t would be at that conference
that. We might consider revision
of the international worldwide
telecommunication convention that
was adopted in Madrid in 1882 and
also a revision OF the Cairo regula-
tions. which are annexed 10 the
convention itself,
FEC also IS planning TO allocate
70 commercial channels for estab.
lishment OF a nationwide teleyis-
ion system as soon as maupower
and materials are available.
Congress has been informed that
the big commercial areas will be
first 70 benefit.
Commissioner Jet has disclosed
that teleyision stations probably
will be limited in northeastern
United States TO such areas as Bos-
ton. Providence, New York, Phil.
adelphia, Baltimore and Washing
ton. Seven stations would be per-
mitted in New York.
In the south, middle west and
far west, he explained, where the
population is not so congested.
many small communities also will
be able TO receive televisiou ser
vice
Il may change again, but right
now the administration is planning
10 give In 10 demands in Congress
that the War Manpower Commits
sion be given control over indus
trial Job referrals which would be
made under the May labor draft
bill.
In this way administration fore
es hope 10 head off a substitute
bill which would scrap the labor
draft measure and simply give le-
gal backing to the VINO yolun-
tary manpower controls. The plan
is as follows:
The House bill would be amend
ed by placing responsibility over
labor draft and freezing" features
in the hands OF War Mobilizer
James F. Byrnes.
Byrnes would delegate to VINO
the job OF referring drafted labor
10 war plants: He would delegate
10 the War Food Administration
the task of assigning drafted labor
TO farm production. that Is. to the
extent the labor draft device would
be used TO aid essential food pro
duction or harvesting.
Local draft boards would have
responsibility of selecting men who
would be assigned to war jobs un-
der the bill. The administration
plan is calculated TO appeal to the
farm bloc.
A definite belief as to when the
war in Europe will be over is seen
in the announcements on the big
Three. conference at Ialta. This
possibility was raised when the
Allied leaders announced that 2
United Nations conference would
be held al San Francisco, April %.
President Roosevelt. Prime Minis
ter Churchill and Premier Stain
said the meeting would be held to
prepare a charter OF a world Sc.
curity organization This caused
many observers in Washington to
feel that the Big Three anticipates
the European war will be ended by
that time.
Postmaster General Frank Walk
er, recently sworn in TO head the
sprawling United states postal sys.
TEN for another four years. set a
new record He's the first post
master general to serve three con