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12/22/36
RADIO CELEBS ENJOY GRIDIRON ROASTING
Among the favored, few in the radio industry present at the winter dinner of the famous Gridiron Club, attended by President Roosevelt, former Governor Landon, in Washington last night (December 21) were:
Commander E. F. McDonald, Jr. , President, Zenith Radio Corp. ; Gene Buck, President, American Society of Composers;
J Louis G. Caldwell, former Federal Radio Commissioner; Maj. Gen. James G. Harbord, Chairman of the Board, Radio Corporation of America; Frank E. Mason, Vice-President, National Broadcast¬ ing Company, New York City; Anning S. ^rall, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission; David Sarnoff, President, Radio Corporation of America, New York City; Oswald F. Schuette, Washington, D. C. ; Maj. Lenox Lohr, President, National Broad¬ casting Company, New York.
Also, John F. Royal, Vice-President, National Broad¬ casting Company, New York City; Frank M. Russell,, Vice-Presi¬ dent, National Broadcasting Company, Washington, D. C. ; Kurt G. Sell, German News Agency, Washington, D. C. ; Judge E. 0. Sykes, Vice-Chairman, Federal Communications Commission; and Senator Wallace H. White, Jr., of Maine.
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A . C . SETS ARE BULK OF PLANNED RADIO PRODUCTION IN CANADA
Alternating current units represent approximately 75 percent of the radio receiving sets which Canadian manufactur¬ ers plan to produce between November 1 and January 31, 1937, ac
I cording to a report to the Commerce Department from Commercial Attache H. M. Bankhead, Ottawa.
Projected production by the Radio Manufacturers' Association of Canada is placed at 52,003 units of which 40,457 units will be alternating current chassis, the report shows.
Total dealer sales of radio receiving sets in Canada in October amounted to 37,768 units, valued at $3,591,096, a volume increase of 3 percent and a value increase of 6 percent compared with September. October sales this year showed a volume advance of 10 percent and a 6 percent value increase compared with sales in October, 1935. Sales of alternating current and battery sets recorded increases in October over the preceding month but sales of automobile sets decreased by approximately 100 percent, the report states.
Inventories reported by Canadian radio jobbers and manufacturers branches as of October 31 amounted to 44,452 units compared with 42,540 units in September and 33,747 units in October, 1935, according to the report.
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