Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1929, Page 43

1929." 43 teries in interstate commerce is admit- without authority to intervene in the tedly an infraction of the law. The case because of the clause of the law MAN KILLED IN BLAST. specifying that “no regulation or con- | ErEamiR dition shall be promulgated or fixed by | Si* £ r¢ Injured as Pittsburgh Meat the licensing authority which shall in- Market Is Wrecked. . lerfere with the right of free speech by | means of radio communication.” PITTSBURGH, March 28 (#).—One The Lord’s Day Alliance appealed to| man was killed and six others were hurt | Inst night when an_explosion | the commission for censorship of Sun- | -y sion an afidavit describing as accurate- | day programs to eliminate the “cheap. | wrecked a meat market. A number of | As a counter move, the | buildings were damaged by fire that fol- vertising is being accepted by radio 1y as possible the programs or practices |loud jazz.” As which are considered objectionable and | National Association Opposed to Blue | lowed. stations in his own State, as well as in The blast is believed to have beeni other parts of the country. On the caused by leaking gas. not in the public interest. Laws, Inc., filed with the commission a | This and other cases which constantly | petition to maintain the status quo. | other hand, he explained, newspapers |are brought before the commission in-|In 50 far as the commission was con-| The dead man was thought to be are prohibited from transmitting lot- | dicate the specfic need of some form of | cerned, the controversy ended there. | Joseph Leno, an employe of the etore. program regulation now absent in the | (Copyright, 1929, by the Consolidated Press.) Three of those injured were passing law. Radlo is interstate commerce, and | neither the commission nor any other Federal or State agency have specific Jjurisdiction over program matter, unless they be obscene, indecent or profane. It therefore is up to Congress itself to legislate so as to alleviate these evident infractions of Federal law, which were enacted before there was any thought | of radio as an instrument of interstate commerce. | kind of program matter under terms of | the same act, which forbids it to ex- v | ercise any power of censorship over | commission, however, can consider this | programs. question when acting upon the appli- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, THURSDAY, MARCH 928, | cation for renewal of the broadcasting U " Utah Editor Complains. Jicenses of the particular stations which 7| The latest complaint against lottery | have been accepting such advertising. | advertising is brought by & newspaper, J | the Standard Union of Ogden, Utah. in an automobile and were cut by fiying glass. others injured were residents of apartments in the butlding housing the market. v Major “Chain” Features ‘TONIGHT. Maxwell concert; Rosario Bourdon Orchestra—WJZ, WBZ, WEAL, WHAM, KDKA, WJR, WLW, | | WHAS, WwsM, | | WBT, WIAX, | | | LAFOUNT OPPOSES RADIO LIGENSE FEE Commissioner Doubts Tax on | Stations Is Desirable or Necessary. Sor BREAKFAST v PAPPYS ORANGE SMARMALADE 291 YOOR GROCER ¢ 9:30 He is suggesting to Mr. Casey that the James P. Casey, editor, in a letter to proper way to bring a complaint against . such stations s to file with the commis- Senator Smoot of Utah, called attention to the fact that this form of ad- WRVA, 10:10—Old Counselor;’ musical entertainment — WEAF, WEEI, WTIC, WJAR, WTAG, WCSH, WFI, WRC, WGY, WGR, WCAE, WWJ, - KYW, WHAS, WSB, WBT, WRVA, great Commission Is Powerless to Halt Advertising of Lot- 1 tery advertising through the mails, and terles by BroadcaSters‘ thus Ilcse an appreciable amount of ad- vertising. wish you would let me know just The lottery, long prohibited in the [ what provision, if any, has been made United States as a form of gambling, is |to permit lottery advertising to be WJAS. WADC., WEKRC. | finding in radio a new ally, and in some | broadcast over the radio,” writes Mr. \V’(tl(l’"‘ WSPf) WHK' | sections of the country is being ad- v. “As radlo is under Federal su- Wi WehL. + | | vertised via broadcasting stations, un- ision, it seems hardly fair to bar o i ' | molested by the law. this class of advertising from the news- |, The problem has been placed before | papers and permit it over the radio.” | the Federal Radio Commission, but | mmissioner Harold A. Le Fount, that body is pe\_verlrsfi to act. There | senting the Far Westorn radio zone, | Recently the commission was stump- {is no provision in the radio act pro-|to whom Senator Smoot referred the ed by a controversy between the pros | hibiting the broadcasting of lottery ad- | complaint, declares that the commis- [ and cons of “blue Sunday” as to the B At ey, SEEK TO END STRIKE | vertising. he commistion stoett s 7o- : . sion under the law can take no im-|type of programs that should be broad- . It costs the Federal Government ap- | stricted from issuing a regulation mediate action, although the practice of | cast on Sunday. The commission was 1,200 Employes Walk Out at Tex- eminating information about lot- | forced to notify both parties that it was annum to regulate and supe: tile Mill in Greenville as Protest | . according to Commissioner Lafount. Against Working Conditions, l lo t ...a long, long lis of Furniture Bargains Just Like this one on the Federal Radio Commission and on the radio division of the Department We're displaying this one item big, just to emphasize the BY MARTIN CODEL. Strong protest against any plan of levying the burden of proposed radio license fees upon broadcasting stations | is voiced by H. A. Lafount, the Far| Western member of the Federal Radio | Commission. e Latount expressed| SOUTH CAROLINIANS his doubts whether any collection of | Tevenue by the Government from radio 10:37—Musical episode; composers — WABC, WFAN, WNAC, WEAN, WFBL, WKBW, WCAO, o of Commerce and the general estimate of 40,000,000 persons in the radio audi- | ence. The United States Senate has called upon the Federal Radio Commission t0 draw up a tentative schedule of license |1 © 2 1 fees topbe charged against stations to |t end the third recent textile strike in | defray the expenses incurred by the| county—a strike involving the | Government in_radio administration, | Brandon Mill here, i and possibly also to glve the Govern-| py o mass meeting last night in the ment a direct return o base ball park, a committee was chosen o e o to sk A. W. Smith, president of the Against Radio Tax. mill, and C. E. Hatch, general manager, If license fees are to be imposed, Mr. | to meet with employes at 3 p.m. today Lafount would have them distributed [in an effort to iron out differences. equitably among various classes of radio| The strike started yesterday after- stations. Why should broadcasting be|noon when 1,200 employes walked out charged more, he asks, when most of | of the plant in protest against prevail- the time and attention of the Federal |ing wages and working conditions. Em- y the Associated Press. GREENV 8. C, March 28— An effort is to be made this afternoon radio authorities is taken up with such matters as point-to-point, transoceanic, marine, aircraft, television, experi- mental and other radio services? More- over, the radio commissioner indicated that he is not favorably disposed toward taxing amateur radio operators, whose contributions to the development of radio have been recognized on all sides. It would be possible to establish a graduate scale of taxes upon stations, dependent upon their size, power, wave length, etc., and it is apparent that this was in Senator Dill's mind when his resolution was passed during the recent Congress. Only nominal fees would be necessary if the 616 broadcasting sta- tions were thus taxed, in addition to the hundreds more that are in opera- tion for radio-telegraph and other serv- ioes, in order to repay the Government what it expends on radio administra- tion. Such a scale will probably be recommended to Congress, as directed by the Senate, for possible incorporation in later radio legislation. Speaking personally, Commissioner Lafount says that he believes broad- casting stations are thoroughly justify- ing their present non-taxed existence by virtue of the innumerable public wel- fare services they are rendering, aside from the sponsored entertainment pro- grams from which they derive their sustaining revenue. A large tax upon broadcasting stations, he thinks, will inevitably be passed on to the people of the country in the form of curtailed services, due to higher station operating expenses, 5 Fees Not Opposed. Among the brfoadcasters themselves Male opposition to Federal _license has been voiced since the sub- Jeck was first broached at the recent oongressional committee hearings on radio. The smaller stations would probably object strenuously, espec if the fee were substantial. al Association of Broadcasters in Chicago this week the sentiment was expressed that the large stations would welcome a scale of license fees, pro- viding the Govérnment would help s bilize broadcasting by grants of one- year licenses. At present licenses are g;m'ed for only three-month periods the Federal Radio Commission. This is required by the radio act. Short waves for relaying its programs to other American stations for rebroad- casting purposes were sought from the Federal Radio Commission yesterday by station WENR, Chicago. The station’s chief engineer, E. H. Gazer, told Com- missioners Rcbinson and Lafount that stations WWVA, Wheeling, W. Va., and WDRC, Ne': Hxl;('en. Cj(mn., had already arranged to pick up its programs and rebroadcast them to their audiences. Other stations that have indicated willingness to relay the Chicago sta- tion’s programs to their listeners were sald to be WEBR, Buffalo, N. Y., and WRFV, Gainesville, Fla. Both these cities were reported to be receiving WENR's programs _consistently and clearly on the regular wave lengths, and the stations were said to be anxious to pick them up either from the broad- cast or relay waves, Chairman Robinson remarked during the course of the hearing that it was apparent the Chicago station was pro- posing to establish its own network of | stations, eliminating telephone links by the use of the high-frequency relays. | (Copyrisht, 1829, by North American News- paper Alliance.) LONDON BIDS CORDIAL ADIEU TO HOUGHTONS By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 28.—United States Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton had a cordial send-off when he left Viec- toria Station this morning, with Mrs. Houghton and their daughter, for a three-weck stay at Baden-Baden be- fore proceeding to America. King George sent a special message | by Sir Hubert Montgomery, deputy | marshal of the diplomatic corps, wish- | ing the departing Ambassador bon Yoyage. Premier Baldwin and Forelgn Minister Sir Austen Chamberlain both sent representatives to the station, and the German, French and Turkish Am- bassadors, as well as other members of the diplomatic corps, were there themselves. The Marquesa Merry Del Val, wife of the Spanish Ambassador, came to the station, too, while the American colony turned out in force. Floral of- ferings made the salon in which the Houghtons traveled a bower of flow ployes declared the “stretch-over” sys- tem had caused the walk-out. system be discontinued early yesterday, the employes blew the mill whistle at 3 pm. and the various departments shut down soon after, last night were orderl After asking that the objectionable The walk-out and the mass meeting Squiss’s Sodium Bicax_'bonate SPECIAL refining proc- esses have taken out every impurity from Squibb’s Bicarbonate of Soda. That is why it is free from the usual bit- ter taste which you as- sociate with ordinary bicarbonate of soda. 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