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Show RADIO Last week the President conferred with Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover picked well-trained minds of radio and one able jurist to reign over radio. They will form the commission, com-mission, created by the White-Dill Radio Bill (Time, Feb., 21) to rule for one year and have the last word in all disputes thereafter. For listeners, broadcasters, these five men are stars : Rear Admiral William Hannum Grubb Bullard, Republican, blunt strong-minded naval veteran of two wars is the President's choice for chairman; he will serve six years. Orestes H. Caldwell, Republican, is "the perfect radio fan." He will serve five years. (See below.) Eugene 0. Sykes, Democrat, gentleman-scholar, onetime (1916-24) Justice Jus-tice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, Missi-ssippi, knows little radio, will serve four years as the commission's legal mind. Henry A. Bellows, Democrat, Harvard Har-vard graduate and teacher, edited magazines until the Washburn-Crosby Co. saw in him broadcast genius, made him station . director of their radio mouthpiece, WCCO, at Minneapolis. Minne-apolis. . Col. John, F. Dillon, Republican, old array man, radio inspector first at Chicago and later district supervisor su-pervisor at San Francisco, punished many a radio- culprit under the old Hoover regime. He has the shortest term, two years. - " The Senate received the appointments, appoint-ments, confirmed Appointees Bullara, Sykes, Dillon refused to act on Appointees Ap-pointees Bellows and Caldwell, failed to vote an appropriation for the work of the commission. Senator Dill, co-author of the bill, led the op-popsition op-popsition to Appointees Bellows and Caldwell, said they are Mr. Hoover's , ''enchmen. Later, the President gave Messrs. Bellows and Caldwell recess appointments. appoint-ments. When the name of Orestes Hampton Caldwell, able editor, practical prac-tical engineer, appeared in the list of Presidential appointees to the new radio commission, radiophiles recognized recog-nized his name. "This man is one ef ns. Radio i shis hobby and his livli-hood." livli-hood." Newsgatherers hastened to hs home in Bronxville, N. Y.( investigated. investi-gated. At the door they found a doorbell surmounted by a pilot light to point it out to late callers; inside they saw a household in which elec-tricty elec-tricty is maid-of-all-owrk. Stoves dishwashers, bread-mixers, all are run by electricity. No one need shout up the stairs; a system of house telephones is available. The household works, eats, plays to broadcast broad-cast programs, for each room is wired for radio. In the morning an automatic auto-matic timing device turns on, the radio and wakes the Caldwells up to do their daily dozen; in the evening it turns the receiver off after they have gone to bed. Gas heats the house, but an electric thermostat regulates the heater. States Mrs. Caldwell: "We light the gas in the j fall and forget about it until spring." j Editor Caldwell, 88, is the young- j est commissioner. He is appointed: for five years. 1 If the Senate does not confirm their appointments when it recon- venes, they will get no pay for their j services. Commissioners Bullard, Sykes and Dillon also will receive no salary until Congress reconvenes and an appropriation is voted for that purpose. |