On November 27, 1922 U.S. Radio Inspectors Walter Butterworth and Charles A. Kolster signed off on an application by Doolittle Radio Corporation to obtain a federal license for a Class A /Limited Commercial land radio station. The applicant was Franklin Malcolm Doolittle, who planned to operate the station from 817 Chapel Street in New Haven. On December 2, the application was approved for a period of three months by Julius Klein, Acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce, who oversaw the Commissioner of Navigation. WPAJ was born! The original license appears below.