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Show BOYS FILL AIR ' WITH 'CHATTER' Hoover Suggests 'Ether Cop to Prevent Further Wireless Confusion Washington. Feb 10 Control of tho wave lengths of tho air ina requlrs "an ether cop" to regulate the wireless vhutt.r of the American small boy' and other users of radio ( communication. Secretary KooveX said In discussing I h government's plans for rudio ri'gulation. At the request of President Hard- ; ing, Mr. Hoover said ho was calling together radio experts of tho army, navy, postofflce and commerce departments de-partments and radio engineers to met in about 10 days to work out! regulations governing usu of th air j for radio communication. Develop-, inent of the radio telephone, ho de- I scribed as one of tho most Important stops In the progress of eommunlca- i tlon. but the limited number of avail- I able wave lengths, he declared, was j causing congestion. Th ingenuity of the American small boy In the use of radio telephones, tele-phones, he explained, had .o filled th air with chatter" that commercial j and official communication had been Interfered with, while the practice of1 broadcasting sermons, music and oth-r oth-r matter was hindering the more important im-portant uses of the wireless tele-phono. tele-phono. Development of the nlr os a means of communication, he asserted, was projecting a new problem for con-(deration con-(deration in the light of the rights f persons to use of the ether siml- lar to property rights Inland and waterways wa-terways legislation may be required, he added. oo |