Evening star. [volume], November 13, 1939, Page A-6, Image 6

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|. T. C. Committee
To Begin Study of
Chain Broadcasting
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j Report of Hearings
} Will Be Placed Before
f Group This Week
j By WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY.
The Federal Communications
fcommission’s Monopoly Committee
is expected to start consideration
this week of the problems of chain
broadcasting as adduced during
Eiore than six months of public
earings. The factual report on
Which the staff of the commission
jhas been working for months, it
Was said, will be completed, and
.Will be submitted to the committee.
JThis report will not contain any
Recommendations, but will merely
Jay before the committee the staff's
conclusions as to what the evidence
lias indicated.
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i This report will not contain any
Preference to the investigation or
dered by the committee into the
broadcasting of the World Series
baseball games. It was said that
,this will be a matter of supplemen
tary investigation and report after
■ all of the radio stations have an
swered the questionnaire which was
sent out by the commission and the
.returns on which are to be in the
hands of the commission by closing
hours next Wednesday.
This inquiry will bring up the
question of exclusive contracts of
chain stations. There is a view in
some sections of the commission
that the exclusive contracts prevent
radio broadcast licensees from per
forming their duty to the public in
serving their particular communi
ties when they contract to sell their
time to the chains, and it is con
tended that the baseball broadcasts
Will serve to bring out this point.
There is little doubt that the com
mittee will have considerable to say
along this line and this is based on
the trend of questions during the
course of the inquiry and the sub
sequent action in calling for the in
formation about the baseball broad
casts.
There Is a view in the commis
sion that as the frequencies used
by broadcasting stations vest in the
Government and are loaned to the
broadcasters for specified periods to
service their communities, that in
granting or selling time to the
chains they are not carrying out
the contract involved in the grant
of the license. On the other hand
It was pointed out that there is a
view that the chains permit the sta
tions to serve the public interest
because they provide programs for
the smaller communities which the
stations in these areas could not
provide alone, because of the lack
of talent in the areas they serve
and the great expense that would
be Involved in bringing it in.
The action of the committee is
being awaited with a great deal of
interest in the industry, which ex
pects recommendations of some
changes in the system. However,
the committee s report will have to
come before the full commission be
fore any action is taken, either in
changing the rules of the commis
sion or recommendations for legis
lation either is found needed or de
sirable.
Fugitive Youths Found;
Face Auto Theft Quiz
By the Associated Press.
ST. IGNACE, Mich., Nov. IS,—
Two youthful fugitives who braved
the dangers of the deep woods in
a futile attempt to avoid recapture
today awaited a hearing and trans
fer to Wisconsin Rapids. Wis, on
charges of automobile theft.
State troopers and sheriff’s offi
cers tracked down the boys early
yesterday and ended a 300-mile
chase which left one police officer
dead of a heart attack.
The youths are Robert Noel, 17,
of Dearborn, Mich., and Nelson
Pasha of Mosinee, Wis., who said
he was 14 years old. The pair es
caped Friday night from Wisconsin
officers taking them from Plymouth,
Ind., to Wisconsin Rapids and fled
In the officers’ automobile across
Michigan's upper peninsula.
Police Chief Roland S. Payne of
Wisconsin Rapids suffered a fatal
heart seizure while grappling with
the boys.
Wisconsin authorities said they
would ask a murder warrant based
®n the death of Chief Payne.
In a recent week 321,424 national
•avings certificates were sold in
Britain.
One in 5,000 Able to Save
Leukemia Victim Sought
B» the Auoeltted Preu.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 13.—An
appeal was broadcast yesterday to
And one person In 5,000 who might
be able to provide life-saving blood
transfusions for 8-year-old Cath
erine Pelt.
8ince last July the child has lain
in bed, weakening slowly from acute
lymphatic leukemia—a disease in
which the white corpuscles of the
blood continuously destroy the red.
Her physician said she might have
a chance for life if given a trans
fusion by a person who has recovered
from the disease. Re estimated enlj
pne in 8,000 with the disease survives
Japanese Naval Officer
Greeted in California
S» the Auoelated Preu.
8AN PEDRO, Calif., Nov. 13.
Thousands of Japanese greeted
Admiral Maneo Osumi, 63, seniot
flag officer of the Japanese Navy,
when he arrived yesterday from
Italy aboard the liner Hakona Maru
Admiral Osumi, former Japanese
navil minister and member of the
Supreme War Council, started last
July for Berlin as guest of Chan
cellor Hitler to attend the Nazi
party convention at Nurenberg. The
war interrupted hi* plans, and ao
he visited Italy Instead. {
The squat, shorthaired officer told
interviewers that Japan would re
main neutral in the present Eu
ropean war.
“It used to be my personal con
viction that our empire should be
thus," he said. "Now the policy of
my government has borne me out.
I am glad. We will be neutral.”
He will reboard the Hakkona Maru
today for Kobe.
Brewers of Britain are trying to
ration beer.
Green Writes Book, !
'Labor and Democracy'
Bj the Associated Press.
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor,
turned author.
In a book entitled “Labor and
Democracy,” to be published Thurs
day, Mr. GBeen contends that or
ganized labor is democracy’s key
stone. He advocates:
1. That labor be given a strong
voice in industrial relationships,
government‘and all fields of human
welfare. In return, labor would keep
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ita unions free, devoted to the ideals
of democracy and dedicated to the
well-being of wage earners.
2. Collective bargaining on a con
tractual basis in private and public
industry during peace and war.
3. Adequate labor representation
on Government control or policy
making agencies.
4. Preventing the causes of social
and economic unrest.
5. No Government control over
the media of public opinion or over
dissemination of information.
South African cities may raise a
fund to present a destroyer to Great
Britain.
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Bird Creates Havoc
Electrocuted when it perched on
an electric power line, a rook fell
flaming on to a sheep, setting the
fleece ablaze, and all electric cookers
in Newhaven, England, lost their
current in the midst of cooking
Sunday dinners.
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for any government. One good
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soaps, pink soaps, plain soaps and scented
ones. No* good reason except one. You, my
dear lady, want them!
That blessed right of yours to choose
what you want is worth fighting for!
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