Phono Damages
Awarded
LOS ANGELES - In the Municipal
Court of the City of Los Angeles on June
2nd General Music Co. was .given judg-
ment for $167.00 and court costs against
a location owner who had placed a phono-
graph, installed by General, in the back
- yard of his establishment, permitting rain
to fall upon it and dogs to baptize it.
Location maintained that General had
been notified to remove the instrument
and repair it and when no action was taken
had a legal right to remove it from the
premises.
Judge Jefferson, colored judge hearing
the case, verbally spanked the location
owner and awarded General Music the
$100.00 damages asked plus $67.00 exem-
plary damages after William "Bud" Parr
had testified that the phonograph smelled
so badly it was impossible to bring it
into the store for a few days.
IIHit Parade Beefed
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NEW YORK-"The Hit Parade", long
considered unfair in its method of tabu-
lating the ten top tunes, ran into a direct
beef last month when Robbins Music wired
a protest on May 5th, protesting the omis-
sion of "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree"
from the pwgram of May 2nd.
Robbins pointed out that it had been No.
7 on the program the week before, and had
rated among the three top sheet music
sellers, fifth in records, and seventh in
radio plugs.
Down Beat sought out the story behind
the beef and American Tobacco, sponsors
of the show, replied that the tune had
missed by one, finishing 11th, and that this
was the same system of selection that had
kept "Elmer's Tune" (Robbi·n s) on top for
some weeks.
An official of the company said that this
was so much malarky, "because you can
travel to Chicago, from New York, by go-
ing East if you stick it out long enough."
He added that "Elmer's Tune" had sold
almost 70,000 copies in the Middle West
before it ever made the "Hit Parade," sur-
prising since 70,000 copies is usually half
the total sales on a hit today. He added that
Feist had sold 100,000 copies of "Jose·
phine" before the "Hit Parade" even ar-
ranged it, and painted out that he felt their
system of , selection was inadequate and
slow, and seemed to be based on "requests"
to leaders rather than any actual mechan-
ical sales figure.
This is not the first time this sentiment
has been heard about the program. The
tune was restored to the program in the
following tw.o weeks.
Badger Appoints Garrison
LOS ANGELES-William R. Happel, Jr.,
manager of Badger Sales Co., has appointed
Roy E. Garrison of Phoenix, Arizona,
representative for Charm Cabinets in that
area.
Mr. and Mrs. Happel made the trip to
Phoenix to make the appointment and help
Roy get started with the line. While in
Arizona they also called on several opera·
tors in the Tucson and Phoenix area in
behalf of other equipment carried by
Badger.
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. Philly Music Men Organize
Notion's First Mobile Defense Unit
Ariz. Phono Tax Nbed
PHOENIx', Ariz.-In an .opinion handed
down on May 22nd in Maricopa County,
Superior Court Judge M. T. Phelps ruled
that the state of Ari~ona is without legal
right to continue collecting as sales tax a
two per cent levy on the gross incomes of
music machines.
Ruling came as the finale to a suit in
which H. B. Jones, local music operator,
was accused of operating a string of mach-
ines without a privilege sales license from
the State Tax Commission.
Deputy County Attorney Scoville gave
immediate notice of appeal .of the decision
to the State Supreme Court. If the high
court sustains the decision of Judge Phelps
all operators in the state will be relieved of
the necessity of paying the tax.
Phono Ban Plu9ged
LOS ANGELES-That Local 47, Ameri-
can Federation of Labor is determined to
block the unrestricted use of phonograph
records on automatic machines is evidenced
by reports current in New York and Chi-
cago as voiced by an article in the June 1st
issue of Down Beat, published in Chicago.
Said the paper: . "Delegates from Local
47 to the AFM Convention, to be held this
month, will be instructed to make a vig.or-
ous attempt to convince the AFM repre-
sentatives gathered there that some strong
action is necessary to block the unrestricted
use of phonograph records for commercial
purposes by radio station and automatic
phonograph operators.
"Local 47's Sub-Committee .on Records
and Transcriptions, which is fighting for
the establishment of a plan by which royal-
ties would be collected by musicians
wherever their services are 're-sold but not
paid for,' hoped to have a special represen-
tative at the convention. Members.of the
committee were circulating a petition ask-
ing Local 47's President Wallace to appoint
one of their members as a special delegate
to the convention as this was written."
Artists Get Hea p Coin
WASHINGTON-Annual reports of the
Securities Exchange Commission show the
top dough being paid record recording ar-
tists. For example Bing Crosby received in
excess of $100,000 from Decca for his 1941
recording efforts.
Andrews Sisters registered with $34,235;
Jimmy Dorsey and his combo took home
$45,591; Ink Spots garnered $22,163; Guy
Lombardo didn't do bad on $20,693 and
W.oody Herman was mighty pleased with
his $24,903.
On the executive side Decca big wigs
fared as well. Jack Kapp, head of the firm,
got $44,285; E. F. Stevens, vice-prexy,
$42,085; and Milton Diamond, attorney,
$35,175.
PHILADELPHIA. - The cry that the
phonograph industry was not doing its share
for defense cannot be said of the local
Phonograph Operators Association, for they
have gone "all-out" to aid in selling Bonds.
and Stamps and also to make their ma-
chines real morale-boosters in every pos-
sible manner.
Fine illustration of the manner in which
the Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey
group went about their work was the tre-
mendous part assigned to plugging Bond
sales during the highly successful and well-
attended Fifth Annual Banquet .of the or-
ganization which was held on Sunday eve-
ning, May 3 at the snooty Club Bali, haunt
of Ph illy's s06alites. First act of the group
was to give each guest a War Stamp sav-
ing book with $1.00 worth of stamps al-
ready enclosed. In addition each plate con-
tained blanks for the purchase of Bonds
and toast-master business manager Jack
Cade announced that several thousand dol-
la rs had been subscribed that eveni ng.
Another recent move taken by the Pho-
nograph Operators Association to do their
all for defense is the entrance of all mem-
bers and their servicemen, 155 men with
trucks, pleasure cars and drivers, into the
first Mobile Electrkal Emergency Defense
Unit formed by any industrial group in
the United States. The entire membership
of this unit of the Central Committee for
Civilian Defense consists .of Operators and
their employees and covers the Eastern
Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey
area, which is divided into six different
districts.
Duties of the members .of the Emer-
gency Electrical Defense Unit are to func-
tion during air raids as electrical mechan-
ics and to enter any bombed area to discon-
nect all live wires and eliminate fire
hazards. The nerve centers from which the
men will operate will function on a twen-
ty-four hour basis and each person will be
in regular contact with his district head-
quarters so that he can be assigned an
emergency duty immediately in case of
actual raids. They will wear special insig-
nias during duty.
Head of the entire unit is Jack Cade,
business manager of the Association, who
was also appointed a member of the Cen-
tral Committee which will control all oper-
ations in the Philadelphia area in case of
actual air-raid attack. Roy Bernhardt, as-
sistant secretary, is personnel manager.
Members of the various district divisions
are: 1st District-Sam Weinstein, Captain;
Dave Klein, 1st Lieut., and Larry Yanks,
2nd Lieut.; 2nd District-Sam Stem, Cap-
tain; Ben Fireman, alternate, and Harry
Elkins, 2nd Lieut.; 3rd District- Sam Lern-
er, Captain; Meyer Cowan, alternate; 4th
District-William L. King, Captain; Jos-
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