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APRIL 27, 1929
The Music Trade Review
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The Stevens Hotel, Chicago. Which Will Be Headquarters for the Radio Convention Next June. At Extreme Right Is The Blackstone, An-
other Convention Hotel for Radio Men
Pacific Radio Trade Assn.
Sonora Officials Address
New Radio Association
Gets Thirty New Members
Sales Staff of Clark Co.
Organized in Cleveland
CLEVELAND, 0., April 23.—Radio jobbers and
dealers of Cleveland have formed an associa-
tion known as the Ohio Radio Trade Associa-
tion. Meetings are held each Friday at the
Chamber of Commerce. The following have
been named on the board of directors: Jobbers:
Howard Shartle, Cleveland Talking Machine
Co.; M. F. Morford, Stewart-Warner Sales Co.;
I. Bialosky, North American Radio Sales Co.;
J. A. Mihm, Rogers Philco Co. Director at
large, G. C. Skinner, Cleveland Distributing Co.
Manufacturers' representative, J. M. Bateman,
Bateman Arens Co. The directors for the.
dealer section of the organization arc yet to be
elected. Application is to be made for mem-
bership in the Federated Radio Trade Associa-
tion and this body is to be invited to hold its
1930 convention in Cleveland. A tentative date
for a radio show to be held at the Public
Auditorium was set for September 18 to 24 in-
clusive.
Radio Concerns to Merge
SPRINCFIKLD, OHIO, April 22.—Merger of the
Buckeye Incubator Co., of Springfield, manu-
facturer of radio cabinets and incubators, with
the United Reproducers Corp., of Rochester,
N. Y., has been approved by directors of the
Buckeye company. The merger will result in
the completion of the organization of one of
the largest radio manufacturing units in the
world.
The United Reproducers Corp. is a result of
a recent consolidation of the United Radio Co.,
of Rochester, N. Y.; Newcomb-Hawley Co., of
St. Charles, 111., and the Precision Products
Co., of Ann Arbor, Mich., one of the compa-
nies licensed to manufacture radio sets under
Radio Corp. of America patents. The merger
of these companies with the Buckeye Co., with
its facilities for manufacturing radio cabinets,
makes the United Reproducing Corp. a, self-
contained company for manufacturing complete
sets.
James L. Rusk and Mary Gow, partners do-
ing business as the Mariemont Radio Shop at
Mariemont, O., have filed voluntary proceed-
ings in bankruptcy, individually and as part-
ners, in the United District Court at Cincinnati.
Debts are listed at $12,392.64 and assets at
$3,099.70.
SYRACUSE, N. Y., April 11.—The Clark Music
Co., which holds frequent meetings of the sales
personnel, recently devoted one of these ses-
sions to the Sonora Phonograph Co. line of
which the speakers included W. W. Stratton,
Sonora representative for the territory; J. I).
Mugford, Sonora's director of publicity; and
W. J. Kierulff, of the engineering department,
the latter two making a special trip from New
York to attend the gathering.
Melville Clark, president of the Clark Music
Co., thanked the speakers for their attendance,
and, in expressing his pleasure at holding the
Sonora franchise, voiced his confidence that
his Company could do a "real job" with such
an excellent line of merchandise as Sonora.
Later in the day a further meeting was held
of the sales and service departments of the
Clark Music Co. This second meeting was ad-
dressed by W. W. Stratton, P. H. McCulloch,
Sonora's assistant sales manager in the Eastern
district, and W. ^J. Kierulff, the last named of
whom devoted his time entirely to a discussion
of the engineering and technical side of Sonora.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., April 20.—Thirty new
members joined the Pacific Radio Trade Asso-
ciation at the last meeting of the Board of
Directors. George H. Curtiss, executive secre-
tary of the Association and manager of 11 I• •
Pacific Radio Show, that will be held in th<
San Francisco Civic Auditorium, August 17 to
24, reports that plans for many attractive fea-
tures are being arranged. This show promises
to be the largest ever held on the Coast. Radio
interference will be the subject of the breakfast
meeting to be held by the radio retailers of
San Francisco on April 18 at the Bellevue
Hotel.
C. L. McWhortcr, Pacific Coast manager of
the Philadelphia Storage Battery Co., manu-
facturers of the line of Philco radio receivers,
left last Friday for an extended trip through
the Coast territory. Frank H. Barstow, North-
west representative of the Kolster radio, has
just been transferred to the main office in San
Francisco, where he has assumed the position
of assistant district manager. Mr. Barstow
states that the company has extensive plans for
an aggressive sales campaign.
Officers for Philadelphia
Radio Board of Trade Steinite Radio Co. Adds
New Export Department
PHILADKLPHIA, PA., April 23.—Following the
April meeting of the Philadelphia Radio Dis-
tributors' Board of Trade announcement was
made of the election of officers and various
committees to govern that organization. These
were elected: President, Charles Gomprecht,
Trilling and Montague; vice-president, Samuel
Schimmel, Schimmel Electric Co.; treasurer, G
W. Dickel, of the Dickel Distributing Co., and
acting secretary, David D. Goff, of the law firm
of Hirschwald, Goff & Davis, who is also acting
counsel for the Board of Trade.
The Steinite Radio Co. of Atchison, Kans.,
and Chicago, and Fort Wayne, Ind., has just
added an export department to its Chicago
office. This new department is in charge of
A. J. Hutter, a man of wide experience in the
export field, who will have at his command
a staff of correspondents in Spanish, French,
Portuguese and German. The export depart-
ment has been established as a result of the
increasing number of inquiries for Steinite
products that have come from foreign fields.
Columbia Wholesalers, Inc., Baltimore, Md.,
distributors for Columbia phonographs, Coluni-
bia-Kolster radio combinations, and other
products, had an elaborate display at the Bet-
ter Homes Exposition recently held in the
Fifth Regiment Armory in Baltimore. In ad-
dition to a complete showing of Columbia and
Kolster products, the display included the
demonstration of the various steps following
in the making of Columbia "new process"
records.
New Radio Store Opened
M II.H ACKKK, Wis., April 22.—The Kast Side
Radio Company has been formed at Milwaukee
to buy and deal in radios, etc., as w T ell as "all
kinds of real and personal property." The firm
is capitalized with 500 shares of common stock
at no par value. Incorporators include: J. ]..
Cleaveland, F. G. Cleaveland and 1.. A. Cleave-
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