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June 20, 1931
PROPOSE SHORT WAVE SYSTEM
Plans for a world wide short wave broadcasting service on short waves are seen in the proposed merger of Aviation Radio Corporation, New York, and Short Wave and Television Corporation, also of New York. The proposal is now before the Commission as a result of a special hearing before Chief Examiner Yost on June 12. The Aviation company operates Station WRNY, New York, and the Short Wave corporation operates Station W2XAL. The hearing was on an application for extending the completion date of W2XAL, the construction of another short wave station, and removal of the station to Boston. The channels 6,040, 11,800 22,250, and 21,460 kc are sought. No report has as yet been issued.
ROOSEVELT URGES ADVERTISING
Expressing emphatically his belief in advertising, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, of New York, told the Aiyatasing Federation of America in New York last week, that advertising is badly needed for National, State, City and County governments. "You are a very integral part, individually and collective¬ ly, of the social and economic life of our nation," the Governor said. "You can do much to raise our standards and at the same time you can do much by tell¬ ing the truth. At the same time yours is a srreat responsibility, for during the past two years we have come to understand the dangers of overproduction the danger of making people buy things which they do not want or need and the necessity of planning on a national scale to avoid a recurrence of our present troubles."
COURTS CONFUSE COPYRIGHT
Two federal courts in two different jurisdictions decided tv;o copyright cases in two different ways last week. The question before both courts was whether an unauthorized exhibition of a copyrighted motion picture constitutes an infringement of copyright. Judge James M. Morton of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts, decided that the copyright statute does not give the owner of a copyrighted film a right of action for infringement based on the unauthorized showing of a film and Judge William C. Coleman of the District Court for the District of Maryland, arrived at the opposite conclusion. All of which goes to show that even jurists may honestly disagree upon the rights of copyright owners.
PAUL SPEARKIAN RECUPERATING
Paul D. P, Spearman, assistant general counsel of the Commission, is re¬ cuperating from an operation at the Episcopal Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital in Washington, Mr, Spearman’s condition is reported as satisfactory by hospital attendants, and continued improvement is expected.