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CAPT. SPARKS LEADS FIGHT FOR RADIO MANUFACTURERS’ CODE
With the same assurance with which he commands his famous company of Zouaves, Capt. William Sparks, of Jackson,
Mich. , led a spirited fight for a separate Code for the Radio Manufacturers at the public hearing in Washington yesterday (Monday., July 23). Captain Sparks, dressed in a white linen suit, the only person in the room who kept his coat on during one of the Capital’s hottest days, sat calmly in the thick of the fray, listening intently and seldom taking his eyes from his opponents.
At present the radio manufacturers are operating under the Electrical Code, the same as that governing the National Electrical Manufacturers' Association. In the effort to with¬ draw from the Electrical Code, Captain Sparks, as Chairman of the RMA Code Committee, met with opposition from representatives of the Electrical Manufacturers' Association so strong at the hearing that at times the exchanges became highly acrimonious.
Bond Geddes, Executive Vice-President of the RMA, and John W. Van Allen, General Counsel of the Association, likewise participated in the fireworks. A flareup between Mr. Van Allen and Frances E. Neagle, counsel for NEMA, caused by Judge Neagle turning on the former with, "Will counsel please quite interrupt¬ ing me?" had to be calmed down by Deputy Administrator Cowling.
Among those in attendance representing the radio industry were A. S. Wells, Chicago, of the Wells-Gardner Company*, Arthur Moss, New York, Electrad Company; Leslie F. Muter, Presi dent of the RMA; Arthur T. Murray, Springfield, Mass., United American Bosch Company; H. E. Ellig, Cincinnati, Crosley Radio Corporation; H. H. Eby, Philadelphia, Eby Company; George B, Deming, Philadelphia, Philco; and Fred D. Williams, Indianapolis, past President RMA.
A number of telegrams addressed to Col. J. G. Cowling, Deputy Administrator, who presided at the hearing, were received from concerns favoring a separate Code for the radio industry. Among these were Atwater Kent, American Electric Metal Corpora¬ tion, Hammerlin Mfg. Co. , Pilot Radio Corporation, Ferguson Radio Corporation, Fairbanks Morse Home Appliance Division, R. Kt Laboratories, Stewart-Warner, and the Continental Carbon Co.
The meeting was recessed subject to the call of the Administrator at about five o'clock in the afternoon, after hav¬ ing continued all day. No one would venture a guess as to when the NRA officials might reach a decision but the general opinion seemed to be that it would be at least two weeks and maybe considerably longer.
One got the idea, listening to the testimony, that the Electrical manufacturers were trying to use the Code Administr¬ ation as a lever to increase their membership* At any rate,
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