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OF THE TRY Alexanderson Patent Upheld According to the Radio Corporation of America, a decision has been handed down by the Privy Council, the highest appellate tribunal in the British Empire, upholding the Alexanderson tuned-radio-frequency patent as against the Schloemilch and Von Bronk patent. The case went to the Privy Council in London on appeal from the decision of the Supreme Court in Canada. In the Canadian litigation, the Alexanderson patent was sustained by the lower court, this decision was reversed by the Supreme Court of Canada, and after much contro- versy it was taken by the Privy Council in England. The two patents had already been con- sidered by two Federal District Courts of the United States both of which had decided in favor of the Alexanderson patent. Personal Notes R.M.A. Credit Service Expanded Leslie F. Muter, chairman of the R.M.A. Credit Committee, announced that the Association's credit and collection service is to be expanded in an effort to reduce further the credit losses of its members. These losses amount to several million dollars annually, according to the Com- mittee. Weekly bulletins giving complete credit and collection information in confidence are exchanged between the radio manu- facturers through the central office of the Radio Manufacturers' Association, and frequent meetings of the various regional credit committees of the R.M.A. are held. By centralizing collections, employment by manufacturers of individual attorneys is avoided with consequent economy in the collection of claims. New Radio for Chrysler Car Automobiles manufactured by the Chrysler Corporation will be equipped with a special radio receiving set through an arrangement made with the Transitone Company, in which Chrysler has acquired an interest. Vernoo W. CoHamore, Atwater Kent sales manager, left. New York on September 28 for a three-mont h vacation in Europe. Otto Paschkes, president of the Polymet Manu- facturing Corporation, sailed on the Bremen on October 4 for an extended tour of the Continent W. D. Powers has recently joined the CeCo Manufacturing Company, Inc. as merchandise manager, taking on some of the work formerly in the hands of the advertising and sales departments. Mr. Powers was sales manager of the Providence Company. W A. Brooks has just been appointed assistant to Alfred Marchev, pres'dent and general manager of the Templn Corporation. He will assume part of the responsibility now on Mr. Marchev's shoulders. J. B. MacQueen is now a special representative for the Crosley Radio Corporation in the Arkansas territory His headquarters will be at Little Hock. Taylor C. White is the manager of the Seattle Branch of the Edison Distributing Corporation He covers Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. F. Clifford Estey, who has the distinction of being the first radio sales manager in the United States, has been made assistant, to A. R. Hill, president of the United Reproducers Corporation. Mr. Estey was formerly assistant, to the president of Crosley Radio Corporation and for the last few months has served as radio counsel for the Geyer Advertising Company, Dayton, Ohio. Otto Schairer, formerly in the patent department of the Westiiighouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, succeeds Captain Howard Angus as director of patent developments of the Radio Corporation of America. He has also taken over the responsibility of the R. C. A. licenses. Morris S. Owens has been appointed field supervisor by Gross Biennan Inc. He will contact the entire New York and New England territories for Stromberg-Carlson. Mr. Owens entered the talking machine field in 1910 with the New York Talking Machine Company. He later owned several stores in Brooklyn. At a recent meeting of the Board of Directors of Electrad, Inc. Henry G. Richter was elected vice president in charge of engineering, and Edward Metzger, vice president and general manager in charge of credits, general office and factory super- vision. Alfred Suekoff has joined the Chas. Freshman Radio Stores, Inc. He will serve in the capacity of general sales manager with complete jurisdiction over the entire chain of 12 stores. F. J. Bull! vant has been appoin ted sales manager of the Trav-Ler Manufacturing Corporation. Mr. Bullivant in assuming his new duties will retain Rola Wins Over Lektophone The Circuit Court of Appeals for the ninth circuit has aflirmed the decision of the United States District Court for the northern district of California, southern division, which was to the effect that the Rola Company did not infringe the patents of the Lektophone Corporation in the design and construction of their loud speaker. The Southwest Radio Show The Fifth Annual Southwest National Radio Show was held hi St. Louis during the latter part of September. There were 52 exhibits of which 46 were radio manu- facturers. The jobbers in the St. Louis territory paid for eighty per cent, of the booth space and ninety-six per cent, of the decorating expense. The average daily attendance was 20,000. The maximum attendance for any single night was 26,954. From figures gathered it was estimated that over $750,000 worth of business was transacted consisting largely of set sales by jobbers to dealers. British Branch of R.F.L. L. M. Hull, vice president of Radio Fre- quency Laboratories, Inc., Boonton, N. J., has just returned from England where he established a sister laboratory to the R.F.L. The English company will be called Radio Frequency Laboratories, Ltd. It is planned to have an all-British technical personnel which will work in close cooperation with the American laboratories. active charge of the sales department of the B-L Electric Manufacturing Company, builders of rectifying devices. Henry W. Butterworth, formerly a salesman for Wilkening, Inc., Crpsley-Amrad distributors, of Philadelphia, has joined the staff of announcers for wjz of the National Broadcasting Company. Herbert E. Fenner, general service manager of the American Bosch Magneto Corporation at Spring- field, Mass., sailed for South America. Edmund O. Lesquier. general credit manager of the American Bosch Magneto Corporation and Herbert Shoemaker, Ch cago sales manager, recently flew to Minneapolis. Mr. Lesquier made first-hand contacts with distributors and dealers and gained special information for Bosch Radio Better Business Bulletin No. 7. Henry Wolff is directing radio sales for Frazar and Company t f San Francisco, who, as manufacturers' representatives, act as direct salesmen, calling on the larger domestic outlets on the Pacific Coast. department for Sherman Clay & Company. J. W. Hitchcock has been appointed assistant sales manager, in charge of Atwater Kent distri- butor relationships. E. E. Rhoads has been ap- pointed assistant sales manager in charge of Atwater Kent territory managers and senior and junior salesmen. He will direct the Atwater Kent sales organization n the field. A third new assistant sales manager is F. E. Basler, who is in charge of the home sales office. This display was used by the Radio Manufacturers' Association at the New York and Chicago radio shows to tell spectators how the association serves the radio industry and the public. Carl Dreher, formerly chief engineer of RCA Photophone, Inc., and for the past six months in charge of sound recording at the above company's studios in New York City, is on an extended trip to Hollywood. He is now associated with the technical side of this company's moving picture productions and will survey and technically supervise the many recording activities of RCA Photophone, Inc., in the leading West Coast studios. DECEMBER 1929 • 93