Telephone service from land to ships at sea inaugurated from Capitol. The first commercial wireless telephone service between land and ships at sea was inaugurated today from the United States Capitol by Rep. Fred A. Britten, (R) Illinois, Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, Rep. Britten talked to Commodore Cunningham aboard the Leviathan. In the photograph, left to right: Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Admiral Navy Rep. Wallace White, Chairman of House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Rep. James V. McClinic, [...] Naval Affairs Committee


Telephone service from land to ships at sea inaugurated from Capitol. The first commercial wireless telephone service between land and ships at sea was inaugurated today from the United States Capitol by Rep. Fred A. Britten, (R) Illinois, Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, Rep. Britten talked to Commodore Cunningham aboard the Leviathan. In the photograph, left to right: Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Admiral Navy Rep. Wallace White, Chairman of House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Rep. James V. McClinic, [...] Naval Affairs Committee Rep. Fred A. Britten Admiral Charles F. Hughes, Chief of Operations, Navy and Samuel S. Sandberg, Shipping Board Commissioner


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