Broadcasting (Oct 1931-Dec 1932)

We Pay Our Respects to— CLARENCE C. DILL .PITOL HILL has no one better tsed in the manifold ramificans of the radio art and industry \kn Senator Clarence C. Dill, Proessive Democrat, of Washingi. That is why his colleagues nerally look to him for advice radio matters. Whether they ree with his legislative views or t, they may always depend upon that Senator Dill knows whereof speaks. At this moment Senator Dill is sily engaged in a study of the ipyright situation, with a view to tming a bill that will be acceptle to copyright owners and oadcasters alike. Too, he is concting practically a one-man camign to shake the State Depart;nt out of its doldrums with react to the Mexican-Cuban radio uation — an issue fraught with :.*ious consequences to American d Canadian broadcasting because the rapid construction of stains in those countries primarily j American capital with its ob»us intention of "squatting" on nerican Canadian waves and ,'ving the American audience. jSenator Dill is one of the younger jjmbers of the upper house, and | own experiences with radio obably account in large part for 3 intense interest he has shown that subject from the start. His ,tl political campaigns have largei been conducted on the radio. In h 1928 elections, when President |>over was swept into office by a ritable landslide, Senator Dill {is reelected over his Republican opponent by a majority of about 35,000 votes, although Hoover's vote nearly doubled that of Alfred E. Smith in Washington. The junior Senator from Washington is perhaps best known for his coauthorship with Wallace White, Jr., then House committee chairman and now Senator from Maine, of the Radio Act of 1927, under which the Radio Commission was formed. He has had a leading part in the framing of all later radio legislation, and undoubtedly he will continue in that leadership. Born in Knox County, Ohio, on Sept. 21, 1884, he attended country schools and was graduated from the Fredericktown (0.) High School in 1901. He taught school two years, later attending Ohio Wesleyan University, from which he was graduated in 1907. He was a newspaper reporter for a time on the Cleveland Press and Cleveland Plain Dealer, leaving that work to teach high school for a year at Dubuque, la., then for two years in Spokane, Wash. Admitted to the bar in 1910, he served in the office of the prosecuting attorney at Spokane from 1911 to 1913 and for a year was secretary to Gov. Ernest Lister. That led him into active politics, and he was elected a Representative of Congress in 1914, reelected in 1916 and defeated in 1918. Then he practiced law in Spokane, until his election to the Senate in 1922. His present term is his second in the Senate and it expires March 3, 1935. ERSONAL NOTES I FDGE IRA E. ROBINSON, whose I signation as a Radio Commissioner j came effective Jan. 15, will specialI ! in radio matters as advisory counwith headquarters in Washington, is not yet prepared to announce 3 definite connection with a law firm, ■t is known to be considering a numr of offers. I H. AYLESWORTH, president of BC, has returned from a 10-day cation trip to Bermuda. HARRY M. BITNER, publisher of the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, was elected president of WCAE, Pittsburgh, at an organization meeting of the directors of WCAE, Inc. The station recently was acquired by the Hearst newspaper interests, which also owns the SunTelegraph. W. G. H. Finch, Hearst radio executive, was elected vice-president: McH. Browne, secretary and assistant treasurer and Austin W. Clark, treasurer. J. L. Kaufman is manager of the station. JOHN B. REYNOLDS, assistant secretary, Federal Radio Commission, became the father of 6 lb., 9 ounce boy on Jan. 13 — his own birthday. HARRY HOWLETT, commercial manager of WHK, Cleveland, addressed the radio division of the Cleveland Advertising Club at its first dinnerclinic Jan. 26 on "The Radio Station Looks at the Advertiser." KUNSKY TRENDLE Broadcasting Corp., operating WXYZ, Detroit, and WOOD-WASH, Grand Rapids, Mich., announces a change of officers effected at its annual meeting Jan. 18. George W. Trendle becomes president and general manager, and John H. Kunsky is vice-president and treasurer. Howard O. Pierce remains as secretary and general studio manager. J. R. McDONOUGH has been elected president of the RCA Victor Company to succeed E. E. Shumaker, according to announcement by David Sarnoff, president of RCA. Mr. McDonough, 37, entered the employ of RCA in 1924 and has recently been assistant to the president. Last year he became executive vice-president of RCA Victor. G. F. (JERRY) CROWLEY has been named publicity director of WIPWFAN, Philadelphia, following the resignation of Lawton Thomas, according to an announcement by Benedict Gimbel, Jr., president. Mr. Crowley formerly was associated with the Paramount Motion Picture Corporation in an advertising and publicity capacity. WILLIAM HARD and Frederick William Wile, Washington newspaper correspondents, sailed this month for Europe to act as representatives of NBC and CBS, respectively, in reporting daily the activities of the Disarmament Conference which starts at Geneva Feb. 2. R. V. O. SWARTWOUT, president and general manager of WCAO, Baltimore, has been elected chairman of the board of the station, and has been succeeded as president by L. M. Milbourne, formerly treasurer of the company. J. T. Lyons, vice-president, was elected vicepresident and general manager. Mr. Swartwout intends to devote most of his time to his citrus grove holdings in California. SAM PICKARD, CBS vice-president in charge of station relations and a former Radio Commissioner, returned to his desk Jan. 18 after an illness of two months. He motored back from Miami Beach, Fla. WILLIAM HAMILTON CLINE, for many years on the staff of the Times Mirror, printing and binding house, Los Angeles, and lately on the editorial staff of the Los Angeles Times, has been appointed radio editor of that newspaper. He will be heard on two of the thrice-daily news broadcasts over KHJ. FRED HEINITSH, formerly in newspaper advertising work, and Edgar S. Hess, formerly eastern sales representative for a lock manufacturing company, have been added to the commercial department of WGAL, Lancaster, Pa., which now has seven salesmen. JACK BEESON, formerly salesman for WSPA, Spartanburg, S. C, has been appointed advertising director of WNOX, Knoxville, Tenn. HOMER HOGAN, manager for the Chicago Herald and Examiner of Westinghouse's twin stations KYW and KFKX, is a commuter these days. After spending a couple of weeks in New York aiding in the reorganization of Mr. Hearst's recently purchased WINS (formerly WGBS) he has been called to Pittsburgh to carry on similar work with WCAE, which the Hearst interests have just purchased. The Hearst-owned stations now number three, the other being WISN, Milwaukee. WHITNEY J. CLEMENT, formerly of WIBO, Chicago, has joined KYW, Chicago. His task will be the servicing of advertisers and continuity work. GLENN W. HUTCHINSON, formerly manager of the St. Louis office of H. W. Kastor & Sons, advertising agency, has joined KMOX, St. Louis, as advertising and publicity director. C. M. C. RAYMOND, on the sales staff of KGER, Long Beach, Cal., and formerly KHJ commercial manager, has joined the sales force of KFAC, Los Angeles. RUDOLPH VAVEPETICH, in charge of NBC's artists' division in the west, is reported seriously ill with a heart ailment in San Francisco. Marks Levine was sent from New York to carry on his duties temporarily. JOSEPH C. MOLIN for the past eight years associated with the advertising staff of the Detroit Times, has joined the sales staff of WXYZ, Detroit. Widely known in advertising circles, Mr. Molin for the past five years has been manager of the automotive division of the Times' advertising department. WALTER DAMROSCH, dean of American conductors, and NBC musical counsel, observed his seventieth birthday on Jan. 30. He observed the occasion by working the whole day. "I don't feel old and I don't intend to quit," said the conductor. "There's still too much to be done." BEHIND THE MICROPHONE LUCREZIA BORI, Spanish prima donna of the Metropolitan, and Goeta Ljungberg, the Swedish soprano, who made her debut this month, have placed their activities outside the opera in the care of the Columbia Concerts Corporation for a term of years. JANE CARPENTER, talented pianist on WBBM, Chicago, was the 1932 Miss Radio Queen at the tenth annual Chicago Radio Electrical Show, Jan. 18-24. HAPPY-GO-LUCKY trio, known as such over KFVD, Culver City, Cal., for the past three years, has been renamed the "Sunshine Breakfast Club Trio." The combination plays a total of 53 instruments. CARMEL MYERS, of filmland, has succeeded Radie Harris for the speaking part of the Resinol program from KHJ to the coast Don Lee chain twice a week for 13 weeks. HARRY JACKSON, program manager of KFAC-KFVD, Los Angeles, and Culver City, Cal., handled the microphone for the three-day "Los Angeles $10,000 open" golf match in January. XAVIER CUGAT, lately with NBC, San Francisco, with his tango orchestra, and previously at KFWB and KMTR, Hollywood, has joined Anson Weeks' orchestra in the peacock room of the Hotel Mark Hopkins, San Francisco. GEORGE GRAMLICH, tenor, back from a European tour several months ago but not heard over radio lately, has joined KHJ, Los Angeles. He had previously been audition manager of KNX, Hollywood, and tenor singer at several other stations in California. CLIFF HOWELL, announcer at KFWB, Hollywood, and previously with KFI, has been elevated to the chief announcership. This had been held by commercial manager Bill Ray, who, because of pressure of business interests, will hereafter devote his entire time to new accounts. WILLIAM HARGRAVES, basso, joined the staff of KHJ, Los Angeles, late in January as a staff artist. JO ANN STONE, formerly with WGN, Chicago, and WMBC, Detroit, has opened an engagement with KFAC, Los Angeles. She will conduct the "Cinderella Hour," (shopping news), mornings and as the "Dyas girl," (blues songs) on the program for B. H. Dyas department store. ebruary 1, 1932 • BROADCASTING Page 17