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Heinl Radio News Service
8/14/46
* INTERNATIONAL RADIO CONFERENCE OF VALUE TO AIDS TO NAVIGATION
Commodore E. M. Webster, Chairman of the United States delegation to the International Meeting on Radio Aids to Marine Navigation, recently held in London, has returned to Headquarters and has submitted his report to the Secretary of State, according to an article in the Coast Guard Bulletin
The purpose of the meeting was to exchange views on navi¬ gational radio aids developments, witness demonstrations, take such steps as would lead eventually to the standardization of navigation¬ al radio aids throughout the world and to seek information on simi¬ lar work in other countries.
In addition to observing the practical demonstrations pro¬ vided by the United Kingdom government of navigational electronic apparatus and systems, the results of the meeting included agreement on the following matters:
Position of loran as only current long range vagiational aid recognized.
Medium frequency shore radio-beacons enthusiastically
endorsed.
General endorsement of shipborne direction finders.
Shore based direction finders should be maintained for distress and special usage.
Some interest shown in television pilotage device.
Conference recognized necessity for coordination between marine and airways users of navigational aids and, in particular, from the long distance search and rescue aspects.
Recognition that frequency allocations decisions can be made only through the International Telecommunications Union.
More attention must be given to the navigational aids of small craft, 1® 0 tons and less.
Radar offers ameans of reducing risk of collision; it has an application to coastal navigation and pilotage; and a universal performance specification is an essential prerequisite to the compul¬ sory fitting of radar by ships.
XXXXXXXXXX AFL WILL SUPPORT PETRILLO IN STRIKE
According to a United Press report from Chicago Tuesday, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor said Tuesday that the AFL would back James C. Petrillo fs .American Federa¬ tion of Musicians in its fight to have the Lea bill declared uncon¬ stitutional.
( WAAF)
Petrillo has called a strike against a Chicago radio/ sta¬ tion in admitted violation of the Lea bill, which forbids a Union to try to force a radio station to hire more employees than it needs or wants. XXXXXXXX
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