Broadcasting (Oct - Dec 1945)

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WLW 700 ON YOUR DIAL THE NATION'S MOST MERCHANDISE-ABLE STATION CHATTING INFORMALLY at opening of Senate radio gallery broadcast room last week were these notables (1 to r); Speaker Rayburn of the House; a Government employe; Leslie Biffle, Senate clerk; President Truman; Kenneth Berkeley, general manager, WMAL, back of President; Richard Harkness, NBC, president, Radio Correspondents Assn.; Mrs. Louise MacFarlane, WITH Baltimore; Sen. Maybank (D-S.C), back of Mrs. MacFarlane; Ian Ross MacFarlane, WITH-Associated; Bob Evans, WTOP-CBS; NAB President Justin Miller (handkerchief to mouth); FCC Chairman Paul A. Porter; Raine Bennett, WRC-NBC. Gallery (Continued from page 16) dedication was held up until National Radio Week. The room was first used, while work was still going on, to broadcast Senatorial comments on the death of the late President Roosevelt last April. First use of the network booths was made on V-E Day, but permanent installations then were lacking and the networks installed temporary lines. Sen. O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.) is the first Senator to broadcast from the new room. Several news broadcasts originate now from the Senate radio room and more are expected after the first of the year when Congress returns from Christmas vacation and ties into postwar legislation. Room in House A radio room comparable to that of the Senate is being installed in the House wing of the Capitol. Work will be completed late this year, according to Architect Lynn. Formal ceremonies opening the House radio room also are being planned by the Correspondents Assn., which now numbers more than 100 active members in Washington and some 400 associate members. Members of the executive committee who were hosts at Wednesday's formal opening of the Senate room are: Earl Godwin, American network, past president and ex-officio; Richard Harkness, NBC, president; Rex Goad, Transradio Px'ess, vice-president; William Costello, CBS, secretary; Al Warner, WOL-Mutual, treasurer; Rudolph Block, KIRO Seattle, member-atlarge. Guests included FCC Chairman Paul A. Porter, NAB President Justin Miller, Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach, Speaker Rayburn, Secretary Biffle of the Senate, Felton Johnson, secretary to the Majority; Carl Loeffler, secretary to the Minority; Wall Doxey, sergeant-at-arms; Mark Trice, assistant sergeant-at-arms; Ad Schneid Congressional Appeal Seen in Decision Of Court Against 1943 Deficiency Act CONGRESS is expected to appeal a U. S. Court of Claims decision of last week, awarding back salaries to three former government employes — two of the FCC — whose wages were cut off in 1943 urgent deficiency bill. John C. Gall, attorney retained to represent Congress, will confer this week with House Appropriations subcommittee, headed by Rep. Kerr (D-S.C), which initiated action to terminate salaries. WPAB Sale Approved CONSENT has been granted by the FCC to acquisition of control of WPAB Ponce. P. R.. by grouo of present stockholders through purchase by Alberto Wirshine: of 10% interest held by Pedro Juan Serralles. Amount involved is $4,050. Mr. Wirshing, Arturo Gallardo, Mrs. Porrata Doria, Charles Clavell and Rafael Lopez Zapata now hold total combined interest of 55%. Remaining stock is owned by Miguel Soltero Palermo. er, NBC New York; Cedric Foster, Mutual Boston; Robert Menaugh, superintendent, House radio gallery; Harold Beckley, superintendent, Senate press gallery, and the following Senators: Brewster (R-Me.), Byrd (DVa.), Capper (R-Kan.), Carville (D-Nev.), Connolly (D-Tex.), Cordon (R-Ore.), Donnell (R-Mo.), Ellender (D-La.), Ferguson (RMich.), Guffey (D-Pa.), Gurney (R-S. D.), Hart (R-Conn.), Hatch (D-N. M.), Hickenlooper (R-Ia.), Hill (D-Ala.) , Huffman (D-O.), Kilgore (D-W. Va.), Knowland (R-Cal.), Langer (R-N. D.) , Maybank (D-S. C), McMahon (DConn.). O'Mahoney (D-Wvo.), Peed (R-Kan.), Revercomb (R-W. Va.), Taylor (D-Ida.), Tunnell (D-Del.) , Wiley (R-Wis.), Willis (R-Ind.). Also invited were members of the trade press. Virtually all of the 106 members of Radio Correspondents Assn. attended. Affected are Dr. Goodwin Watson, former chief of analysis division, Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service, who was awarded $101.78; William E. Dodd Jr., former editor in FBIS, whose award was $59.83, and Robert Lovett, executive assistant to the Governor of the Virgin Islands, whose $1,996 claim was upheld. Congress attached a rider to the 1943 deficiency bill prohibiting use of appropriations for paying salaries of the three after Nov. 15, 1943. On recommendation of Charles R. Denny Jr., then FCC general counsel and now a Commissioner, and the Dept. of Justice, the three men worked an extra week to test the constitutionality of the rider. The Court of Claims held that the Congressional act was unconstitutional. In meantime both Dr. Watson's and Mr. Dodd's former jobs have been abolished. Congressional action followed charges by the old Dies group that the three were alleged "left wing radicals" and "fellow travelers". NORTHERN FLORIDA'S BEST RADIO "BUT • Send for Defalk • f Riprtsenlei by ■ ! II JOHN H. PERRY ASSOCIATES Page 90 • November 12, 1945 B R OAD>C A STL NG • .Broadcast Mv»r thing