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Show Straightening Out Chaos in the Air RADIO chaos Is to be straightened out. The radio telephone conference called some time ago by Secretary Hoover to help solve the present chaos In the air has rendered Its final report, upon which will be based the control legislation to be asked of congress. Under the final report a wave band of l.TO-275 meter's Is assigned to amateur ama-teur telegraphy and telephony and for technical training schools, the amateur having exclusive rights to 150-200 meters, me-ters, while the truinlng schools must use 200-275. There Is also a restricted special wave of 310 meters for special amateur telegraphy. ' As the conference was designed primarily pri-marily to recommend government control, con-trol, It suggests that Secretary Hoover be given authority over the establishment establish-ment of till radio transmission stations except amateur, experimental and government, gov-ernment, and also the operation of nongovernmental non-governmental stations. These recommendations recom-mendations will be carried into legislation legisla-tion through n bill drafted by Representative Repre-sentative White of Maine. In addl'lon the conference passed resolutions declaring radio communication communica-tion a public titi;ity that should be controlled by the government and re mmcndlnx that "the type of rudlo apparatus most enective in reducing Interference should be made freely available to the public without restriction." restric-tion." "Point to point" comtunlcation, or communication between two fixed points Instead of general broadcasting, Is discouraged by the conference, which says this method of transmission transmis-sion should not be used when other means are available, for Instance the land telephone and telegraph. Recommendations are made that the secretary of commerce assign to each radio telephone broadcasting station a power range of 600 land miles for government stations, 250 miles for public broadcasting stations, and fifty miles for private and toll broadcasting stations. V. t |