Broadcasting (Oct 1931-Dec 1932)

We Pay Our Respects to — THADDEUS HAROLD BROWN WHEN the Radio Commission a ■ew days ago absorbed the Radio Oivision of the Department of l^ommerce, with its field force of s!90 and its branch offices scattered ; ver the country, the task of supervising and reorganizing that far l.ung service was delegated to ; 'olonel Thaddeus Harold Brown W unanimous vote of his colleagues. There was no dispute bout the assignment, for ComL-iissioner Brown had previously proved his mettle as an organizer, , dministrator and executive. ;t It was only five months ago that • 'ol. Brown ascended to a commis'ionership. His promotion followed ,wo years' service as the Commis" ion's general counsel. Those two [ears were crammed full of activ'j;y, and the success the Commission has attained in its litigation b attributed largely to Col. •rown's ability as organizer and •executive of its Legal Division, picking the right men for the right 'obs seems to be his forte. His i':hief lieutenant as general counsel— Duke M. Patrick — has since ucceeded to the helm of the Legal division, and is carrying on the ildministrative policies of his pred zessor : By virtue of its absorption of the :adio Division, as ordered by Congress and President Hoover, the ommission is now more than oubled in size and personnel. rIore than one-half of the organiation falls under the aegis of Col. >rown, since, in addition to his Supervision of the newly organized •ivision of Field Operations (the Drmer Radio Division), he also is i supervisory charge of the Examining Division. William D. Ter, ell, chief of the new Division of ield Operations, and former direcpr of the Radio Division, is direct*r responsible to Col. Brown. These i vo officials now are working out ^organization plans for the field ervice. Chief Examiner Ellis A. ost, similarly, is responsible to , ol. Brown. Col. Brown's rise in radio has ;een meteoric. Appointed to the : ommission as general counsel ■ee. 14, 1929, in succession to lethuel M. Webster, Jr., who had resigned, he was practically a newcomer in the radio field. Some years before he had been interested in a radio station at Cleveland but had not been engaged in its active management. He assimilated a knowledge of radio in an amazingly short time. When Judge Ira. E. Robinson, of West Virginia, resigned his second zone portfolio last January, Col. Brown, a native of Ohio, was considered the logical successor. He was sworn into office March 28 after a rather rigorous confirmation battle in the Senate. Col. Brown is a likely choice for the post of Commission chairman, in succession to Maj. Gen. Charles McK. Saltzman, who resigned July 19. He is a Republican, along with Commissioner Harold A. Lafount of Utah. Both are eligible, but the election of a chairman will await the appointment by President Hoover of the siiccessor to General Saltzman. Born in Lincoln Township, Morrow County, 0., Jan. 10, 1887, Col. Brown is an alumnus of Ohio Wesleyan University, class of 1909, and of the Ohio State University law school in 1912. He was a classmate at Ohio State of Senator Dill, (D.) Washington, co-author of the Radio Act. He was admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1912 and maintained his residence in Columbus. While attending law school, Brown served as journal clerk of the Ohio House of Representatives. He practiced law in Columbus from June, 1912, to July 13, 1917. He enlisted in the Army on April 3, 1917, several days before the World War was declared and was commissioned a captain June 12. Following his discharge in February, 1919, he was commissioned a major in the reserves and later was appointed a major in the Judge Advocate General's Reserve Corps. He now holds a commission of lieutenant colonel in that branch. Resuming: practice of law in Columbus following his Army discharge, he was appointed a member of the State Civil Service Commission on Feb. 1, 1920, and served until Dec. 15, 1922. He was elected Secretary of the State of Ohio in PERSONAL NOTES JOHN HENRY, general manager of KOIL, Council Bluffs-Omaha, announces the following appointments to its commercial staff: Ray Broholm, formerly with Broholm and Stevens, Omaha advertising agency; Miss Sarah Fitzgerald, formerly with the Omaha Bee-News, and Miss Frances McNei, formerly with KSTP, St. Paul. U.S. SENATOR C. C. DILL left Washington by plane July 14 for his home in Spokane, Wash. He may return East in August to participate in the campaign for Roosevelt. JOHN W. GUIDER, Washington radio attorney, is spending his vacation at Littleton, N. H., with his family. Regular operations of his office, however, are being carried on from that place. He will return to his office in Washington about Aug. 15 or Sept. 1. EARL G. THOMAS, formerly with CBS and the World Broadcasting System, has been appointed vice president in charge of the radio division of Hampton, Weeks & Marston, Inc., New York agency. J. M. GILLIAM is now general manager of KFDM, Beaumont, Tex., succeeding J. D. Hensley. Mr. Gilliam has leased the station from the Magnolia Petroleum Co. and has been operating it since May 1. November, 1922, and entered that office in January of the following year. He was reelected in November, 1924, and continued in that office until Jan. 10, 1927. In 1926, he was a Republican candidate for nomination for governor, but was defeated in the primaries. Col. Brown then resumed practice of law in Columbus until September 13, 1929, at which time he was appointed chief counsel of the Federal Power Commission. He served at that post until his appointment as general counsel of the Radio Commission on Dec. 16, 1929. High in administration affairs, Col. Brown had the privilege of announcing Herbert Hoover's candidacy for the Republican nomination in 1928. He made public a letter he had received from the then Secretary of Commerce, setting forth Mr. Hoover's willingness to run in the Ohio primaries. This formally signalized the start of the Hoover presidential campaign. Col. Brown married Marie Thrailkill on Nov. 10, 1915. They have one son, Thaddeus, Jr., born Sept. 7, 1916. Thad, Jr., now is attending Columbus Academy, at Columbus. Always active in social, fraternal and civic affairs, Col. Brown is a member of the American Bar Association, the executive council of the Federal Bar Association and executive council of the International Committee on Radio. He is a charter member of Franklin Post No. 1, American Legion of Ohio, and is a past commander of the post. He also is a member of the 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Presbyterian Church. His college fraternities are Phi Kappa Psi, academic, and Phi Delta Phi, legal. He is a member of the Ohio Society of New York, the Union Club of Cleveland, the Columbus Athletic Club, the Sojourners, Columbus Country Club and Faculty Club of Ohio State University. His hobbies are fishing and horseback riding. LOUIS G. CALDWELL, Washington radio attorney, sailed for Europe on the S. S. Bremen July 27 to attend the International Congress of Cooperative Law at The Hague, Aug. 2-6, and the International Radio Conference at Madrid, starting Sept. 3. At the former meeting he will read a paper on "International Protection of Broadcasting Property" dealing with program piracies. At Madrid he will represent the NAB. He will first join his family, now at Juan les Pins, France. PAUL M. SEGAL, Washington radio attorney, sails for Europe aboard the S. S. Roosevelt Aug. 17, accompanied by Mrs. Segal, to attend the international Radio Conference at Madrid, beginning Sept. 3. He will be abroad for six weeks, representing the American Radio Relay League at the conference. In his absence, George S. Smith, who recently left his post as chief of the Radio Commission's License Division, to become associated with Mr. Segal, will handle the radio practice. G. COLBY BLACKWELL, formerly assistant secretary of the Radio Commission, later with various stations in New York and New England, has joined the commercial staff of WWVA, Wheeling, W. Va., which is now managed by Leigh Ore, formerly with WLBW, Oil City, Pa., and later with WJSV and WOL, Washington. DR. WALTER THORNTON, former general manager of the Los Angeles Community Chest and a professor of economics at Occidental College, has been appointed assistant general manager of KELW, Los Angeles, succeeding Miss Iris Parker, resigned. FRANK BISHOP, for the last three years with Gene O'Fallon as director of KFEL, Denver, has joined KVOR, Colorado Springs, as manager, succeeding Raymond Beckner. EXECUTIVES of WBZ and WEEI, Boston, engaged last month in their annual golf match at Rockport, Mass., and the WBZ team was victorious. WBZ was represented by Walter Myers, manager, and Babe Norris, commercial manager, and the WEEI team was composed of Charles Burton, manager, and Earl Jones, operator. H. M. MEACHAM has been named manager of WPHR, Petersburg, Va., with Riddick E. Hargrave as commercial manager and W. L. Davis as chief technician. Ed Schwarz is engineer in charge of operations. The announcing staff consists of Eric Lund, Robert Moody and Ben Allen. LLOYD E. YODER, head of NBC's press department in San Francisco, is spending two weeks in Los Angeles on a combined business and pleasure trip. Among other functions he was to attend the athletic directors meeting in Pasadena July 30 where the broadcasting of football games was to be discussed. KENNETH CARNEY, formerly president of the Kenneth Carney Agency, San Francisco, has joined the program and continuity staff of NBC in San Francisco. JOHN SWALLOW, former general manager of KFAC and KFVD, Los Angeles, has been signed as radio manager of RKO. His first assignment was the staging of the new "Hollywood Hour" for RKO over an NBC network keyed from KFI, Los Angeles, which started July 23. RALPH WONDERS, head of the CBS artists bureau, will go to Chicago about Aug. 1 to reorganize the branch there. H. A. HUTCHINSON has resigned as manager of KVOO, Tulsa, and has been succeeded by William B. Way. JACK JONES, formerly in radio in Cleveland, has been appointed to succeed William F. Copeland, resigned, as manager of WHBC, Canton, O. RALPH BRUNTON is back at his managerial desk of KJBS, San Francisco, after three weeks in the Northwest. August 1, 1932 • BROADCASTING Page 17