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COMPOSER HOWARD HANSON CRITICIZES RADIO INDUSTRY The radio industry in the United States is "capitulating to greed" according to a leading American composer conductor, Howard Hanson. In a lecture at Harvard University, Hanson said radio has taken network time formerly used for music and turned it over to advertisers and jazz orchestras. Hanson, director of the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, New York, also described a recent decision of the American Federation of Musicians as "unfortu¬ nate." He referred to the permission extended to broadcasters to duplicate or broadcast the same program simultaneously on AM and FM transmitters. As a result, he said, the same soap operas now may be heard on both AM and FM radio. NETWORK OFFICIALS DON’T WANT 1 STATE DEPARTMENT RADIO F.ESTOPS IBI LIT Y Ty/o radio network officials, Edmund Chester (CBS shortwave director) and William Brooks* turned down a suggestion that the chains take over the State Department’s foreigti broadcasts. Senator Joe Ball (Minnesota Republican) made the proposal at a Senate committee hearing into a State Department request for 34 million dollars to continue its information program. Ball said he would like to get the State Department out of the broadcasting business and suggested it be done by contrapt, Network officials said private business couldn't afford it, UNIQUE COMMERCIAL STATION POLICY Station TREX, new 10 KW Twin Ports, Wisconsin outlet announced it will function under the advisory surveillance of a committee of area leaders representing civic affairs, labor, industry, cultural interests, church and service organizations. This advisory board includes persons from Duluth, the Iron Range and outlying communities who will judge programs in the light of their educational and civic value as well as entertainment quality. MUTUAL GIVES TIME FOR AND AGAINST CIVIL RIGHTS Mutual Broadcasting System set aside three half-hour periods on successive Tuesdays for use by spokesmen of the southern opposition to President Truman’s civil liber¬ ties program with broadcasts scheduled for March 23, 30 and April 6 at 10:00 p.m. EST.Twenty-one southern senators asked for broadcasting time after the network began a series on which the civil liberties report was narrated. The Senators called the issue political. DOUBLE TROUBLE WITH DAYLIGHT TIME With Sunday, April 25 pegged as the normal network switch to daylight time, net¬ work trafficmen were giving California dour looks. The "golden state"adopted daylight savings time March 14 as a power-saving measure, six weeks ahead of the normal switch. Since a heavy percentage of network programs originate in Califor¬ nia it means they are performed one hour later there—by daylight time. It is hoped if all four networks adopt the plan of delayed broadcasts (to stand¬ ard time zones) followed last year, that on April 25 radio programs will be back on regular schedule. Meanwhile, broadcasters are giving considerable support to a measure now before Congress that would provide for uniform time all year. The idea would be either to eliminate daylight or else to make its observance uniform throughout the country to avoid the annual confusion with clocks*