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conference of broadcast, marine and other radio interests in Washington, with Bond Geddes representing the RMA and supported the Federal Radio Commission, the National Association of Broad¬ casters, and other broadcast interests in the effort to widen the broadcast spectrum. Further disagreement followed at Madrid and the present outlook is for a North American conference of broadcasting interests to provide wave length facilities for Mexico, Cuba and Canada which may result in important changes in American channel allocations.
Problems of developing automobile receiving sets in coop¬ eration with the automobile industry will be considered at another meeting at Detroit, December 2, of the RMA Automotive Engineering Committee. The meeting will be confined to engi¬ neers, with Virgil M. Graham, of Rochester, chairman, presiding.
A questionnaire to RMA members regarding the effect of the discriminatory special tax on radio is being prepared by the Association, under Chairman Klugh of its Legislative Committee. Data on sales resistance which has developed, the expense to manu¬ facturers of tax collections and other effects regarding the actual burdens of the sales tax operations will be secured for presentation to Congress in connection with the widely discussed agitation for revision or repeal of the present discriminatory excise taxes.
Billboard advertising of radio by public utility com¬ panies, in conjunction with their extensive display advertise¬ ment of electric refrigerators, irons and similar devices to pro¬ mote use of electrical current, have just appeared in several sections of the country, according to reports to the RMA. The billboard advertising of the power companies followed recent ef¬ forts by the RMA to stimulate such display advertising by the
public utilities of radio. The National Electric Light Associa¬ tion has advised the RMA that use of radio in the home is re¬
sponsible roughly for nearly one-third of the sales of electri¬ cal current.
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CHURCH OPERATION OF BROADCASTING STATION DISCUSSED
That the little 250-watt "Pillar of Fire" religious station, WAWZ, at Zarophate, N.J. had reaped a fortune for its operators was charged by Judge Ira E. Robinson, former Commis¬ sioner, before the Federal Radio Commission.
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