February 26, 1927.
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PRESTO-TIMES
PIANO FACTORY M STORE SUPPLIES
SENATE PASSES RADIO BILL
Paul B. Klugh, Head of Broadcasters' Body, Says
That Much Depends on Its Administrators.
The Radio Control Bill was passed by the Senate
this week and sent to President Coolidge. It will
•take effect upon its approval by the White House.
All existing acts for radio regulation are automatically
repealed by the new act.
The new law will be administered for one year by a
presidential commission of five, with the Secretary of
Commerce acting in an administrative capacity and
after that by the Secretary, except as to revocation of
licenses and controversial matters which would be
referred to a permanent commission.
The President is expected to sign the bill next week
and at the same time submit to the Senate for approval
the names of the five members of 'the commission.
While the bill was not wholly satisfactory to the
House or the Senate, it was declared the best compro-
mise that could be obtained between the original Dill
and White bills.
Under 'the new law the presidential commission is
empowered to clear up the air by classifying broad-
casting stations, prescribing the nature of their serv-
ice, assigning wave bands, power and time, determin-
ing location, regulating the character of apparatus
used and controlling interference and chain broad-
casting.
All existing broadcasting licenses are supposed to
be renewed after the passage of act. Anti-monopolis-
tic provisions were placed in the bill. As a safe-
guard against foreign control, the bill forbids the
granting or transferring of a license to any alien, any
foreign government or any corporation in which an
alien is an officer or in which a fifth of the stock is
held by aliens.
Paul B. Klugh, executive chairman of the National
Association of Broadcasters, commenting on the Sen-
DELIVERS STANDARD FORK
ate's action, said:
"While the passage of the radio bill by the Senate
affords a moment of relief and celebration for the Master Fork, Assuring Absolute Pitch, Deposited in
entire radio industry and the 20,000,000 American lis-
Chamber Offices by School of Science.
teners, attention must not be diverted from the huge
task that awaits the administrators of this new law."
The new standard A-440 tuning fork has been de-
livered to the Music Industries Chamber of Com-
RADIO "THINKERS-IN."
merce by Dr. Dayton C. Miller, of the Case School
Impressions of more than 20,000 "thinkers-in" had of Applied Science, Cleveland, O., who was authorized
reached the experts of the Society for Psychological to prepare it by the special committee representing
Research, London. The experts handled various ob- musicians and the music industries. The master fork
jects in a padded room in London while Sir Oliver deposited with the Chamber assures an absolute
Lodge requested listeners-in over the radio to con- standard pitch.
centrate in an effort to name the objects. Letters
In addition to the A fork, a smaller one, calibrated
revealed a variety of bad guesses. One, however, at C-261.6, has been produced for the National Asso-
described almost accurately a mask which Dr. Wool- ciation of Piano Tuners and considered necessary
ley, Sir Oliver's assistant, donned, surmounted by a owing to the general practice among tuners of using
derby hat—while two or three others got the impres- the middle C as their pitch note.
sion of a derby hat alone. One thinker-in wrote that
The Bureau of Standards in Washington has
the fifth object was a dark cardboard box with a adopted the A-440 pitch and a set of the forks has
scarlet lid. Such a box was in the padded room. been sent there for deposit. The National Associa-
Sir Oliver Lodge is quoted as saying: "These are tion of Piano Tuners also received a set.
results I did not expect for a moment. I was inclined
to think that telepathy under these circumstances was
IMITATION IN TRADE NAMES.
impossible."
Where one imitates the product of another so as
cause confusion in the trade because of similarity
Q R S MUSIC CO. TO MAKE "VOCALSTYLE." to
of name and then, by dilatory tactics, causes the one
In a letter to dealers by the Q R S Music Co., injured to delay bringing suit for unfair competition,
Chicago, it is announced that the manufacture of it is held by the Court of Appeals that he cannot
Vocalstyle rolls in Cincinnati will be continued until plead such delay as laches in bar X>i suit subsequently
the materials there are used up, when the product brought for such unfair competition.
will be issued under the Q R S label. The Q R S
Music Co. recently purchased the master rolls and
A GULBRANSEN KEY PATENT.
materials in the factory of the Vocalstyle Music Co.
Christian Gulbransen, Chicago, has been granted a
In the master rolls are many types of music for
which the line of Vocalstyle is famous. Among them patent by the United States Patent Office on a piano
are negro spirituals, blues, hymns and minstrel rolls key, which has been assigned by him to the Gulbran-
which in future can be obtained through the Q R S sen Co., Chicago. Five claims for the patentability
of the device are cited in the application.
Music Co.
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