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THE M U S I C TRADE REVIEW, May. 1932
RADIO TRADE FILES PROTEST AGAINST
DISCRIMINATORY FEDERAL SALES TAX
NFAIR discrimination against radio by
the proposed 5% special sales tax of the
House Revenue Bill was stressed by
leading Tadio manufacturers at a hearing be-
fore the Senate Finance Committee on April
18. The hearing was accorded the Radio
Manufacturers' Association, representing over
95% of radio manufacturers. Disaster as well
as discrimination would result from the House
bill, the Senate Committee was told at the
R. M. A. hearing. Reduction at least to 3%,
on the same basis as the proposed automobile
tax, was urged and the Senators were told
that a general sales tax, or a general manu-
facturers' tax, exempting food, clothing, medi-
cine, etc., would be distinctly preferable and
more fair than the proposed discriminatory tax
of the House bill. It was urged that the lat-
ter is an undeserved penalty on a few indus-
tries.
The radio industry hearing before the Sen-
ate Committee was in general charge of Mr.
Frank D. Scott, Washington legislative coun-
U
sel of the R. M. A. It followed a conference
in Washington last week of a large number
of leading receiving set and tube manufac-
turers of the R. M. A. The radio industry
hearing was represented by a committee in-
cluding Messrs. Frank D. Scott, James M.
Skinner, president of the Philadelphia Storage
Battery Company, and Paul B. Klugh, of the
Zenith Radio Corporation.
Following the Senate Committee hearings,
the R. M. A. Legislative Committee, of which
Mr. H. B. Richmond, of Cambridge, Mass.,
is chairman, arranged for organized industry
support against the discriminatory 5% tax by
radio trade leaders of the industry. Promi-
nent jobbers and dealers of the R. M. A. Leg-
islative Committee in States having Senators
on the Finance Committee were sent bulletins
by Chairman Richmond, urging them to pro-
test to their respective Senators against the
special discriminatory tax proposed on radio
and to recommend reduction at least to the
3% rate proposed for automobiles.
H. E. WARD NOW PRESIDENT
OF COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH
CAPEHART BUSINESS SHOWS
70 PER CENT GAIN IN MARCH
The Columbia Phonograph Co., Inc., has
announced the election of H. E. Ward of
Chicago as president and of H. Curtiss Ab-
bott of New York as vice-president in charge
of sales, merchandising and advertising. F. J.
Ames Temains treasurer. Messrs. Ward and
Abbott also were elected directors of the
company.
The voting trustees of the company an-
nounced at the close of 1931 that 78,000 of the
82,524 shares of the company's stock had been
sold to the Grigsby-Grunow Co. of Chicago
by an exchange of 4 4-10 shares of Grigsby-
Grunow stock for each share of Columbia
stock.
In connection with the reorganization of its
executive personnel, the Columbia Phonograph
Co., Inc., is entering into manufacturing and
merchandising of Tadio receiving sets. Mr.
Ward announced that the company had no
debts, that cash on hand was sufficient for
effective operation and that there were no
plant maintenance costs.
According to a report made by F. W.
Gigax, general manager of the recently re-
oTganized Capehart Corp., Fort Wayne, Ind.,
manufacturers of automatic record changing
phonographs and radio-phonographs, the
month of March, this year, saw a seventy
per cent increase in business over the pre-
vious month of February and was the largest
month in the last nine with the exception
of December and its holiday business.
This heavy increase in business is made
doubly impressive because the prices of the
Capehart products are in the higher brackets
and thus appeal primarily to the quality mar-
ket. Incidentally, the company's export mar-
kets are increasing steadily, with the demand
for both the phonographs and the radio com-
binations.
FADA RADIO & ELECTRIC
CORPORATION ORGANIZED
The Fada Radio & Electric Corp., recently
organized in New York with F. A. D.
Andrea as president, has announced the pur-
chase of the business and assets of the An-
drea Mfg. Co. and all the capital stock not
previously owned of Fada Radio, Ltd., To-
ronto, Can.
For the past eight years the Andrea Mfg.
Co. has operated as a manufacturing organ-
ization producing products for sale by F. A.
D. Andrea, Inc. Henceforth both the manu-
facturing and marketing organizations will
operate as a single unit under the new name,
manufacturing and selling Fada radio and
other electrical products.
This change will in no way affect the pTes-
ent general policies, control or personnel, and
business •will continue as usual at the same
address.
RCA-VICTOR ANNOUNCES
NEW RADIO DEVELOPMENT
(Continued from page 16)
Output Radiotrons, a new R. F. Amplifier
Pentode, and the new General Purpose out-
put tube.
7. A new loudspeaker development pro-
vides for the greater output delivered to it
at peak loads by the new circuit.
8. A high-quality cabinet, of quilted
maple and butt walnut which provides an
acoustically correct baffle area that assists in
the creation of fine tone quality.
The new RCA Victor "Bi-Acoustic" R-78
will retail at a suggested list price of $139.50.
Its cabinet dimensions are: Height, 43 inches;
width, 2%% inches; depth, 13 15-16 inches.
It employs the following new Radiotrons: 4
RCA-58 Pentodes, 5 RCA-56 General Purpose
tubes, 2 RCA-46 Dual Grid Class "B" Am-
plifiers, and 1 RCA-82 Mercury Vapor Rec-
tifier.
T. K. Bellamy, factory representative of
the Kimball Piano Co., has opened a retail
store in Walla Walla, Wash.
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NBC MAKES AWARDS FOR
SYMPHONIC WORKS
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N May 8, five composers received
checks totaling $10,000, represent-
ing the NBC Awards for original
symphonic works by American musicians.
The awards were made by M. H. Ayles-
worth, president of the National Broadcast-
ing Co. The names of the composers—four
men and one woman—together with the
amounts of the awards, and the titles of the
compositions, follow:
1. Philip James, New York—"Station
WGZBX"—$5,000.
2. Max Wald, Paris—"The Dancer Dead"
$2,500.
3. Carl Eppert, Milwaukee—"Traffic"—
$1,250.
4. Florence Grandland Galajikian, May-
wood, 111.—"Symphonic Intermezzo"—
$750.
5. Nicolai Berezowsky, New York—"Sin-
fonietta"—$500.
All the composers are American citizens,
as stipulated in the rules governing the
awards. Berezowsky is a naturalized citizen,
having been born in Russia some thirty years
ago; the others are all native Americans.
The five manuscripts were chosen, after
months of study, from a total of 573 sub-
mitted. They were selected by a jury com-
posed of Walter Danvrosch, Tullio Serafin,
Nikolai Sokoloff, Frederick Stock and Leopold
Stokowski, but these famous musicians did
not rank them in order of merit. This diffi-
cult task was entrusted to a National Com-
mittee of Award, composed of 150 men and
women scattered all over the United States,
who were chosen as representing a cross-
section of the country's most enlightened
musical opinion.
These men and women sat before their
radios, in their own homes, on May 1, and
listened to the NBC Symphony Orchestra in
New York, which played the five symphonic
compositions under the direction of Eugene
Goossens, conductor of the Cincinnati Or-
chestra. Immediately after the broadcast the
members of the National Committee tele-
graphed their ranking of the works to the
NBC in New York, and their votes were
tabulated.
On May 8 the compositions were played
again, this time according to the order of
the award, and the composers spoke briefly
during the program over an NBC network.
Goossens again conducted and Aylesworth
presented the checks. Wald being in Paris,
it was necessary to bring his voice across the
Atlantic by short-wave, and the playing of
his composition was short-waved back to
Europe, so that he might hear it.
Myron E. McConagle, who has been en-
gaged in the sale of musical instruments in
Minneapolis for over thirty-five years, has
joined the staff of the Cable Piano Co.
Peter D'Amico and Angelo D'Amico, Jr..
have purchased the Sheridan Music Co.,
Sheridan, Wyo., from S. L. Caple. The name
of the store will be changed to the Sheridan
Melody Shop.
Trie Goetze Music Co. has moved to new
quarters at 100 North Fourth street, Mober-
ly, Mo.