Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1942, Page 17

F.T.C. Again Urges Curb on Asquisifion 0f Corporate Assets Calls for Amendment Of Clayton Act to Preserve Competition The PFederal Trade Commission, in its annual report to Congress yesterday, renewed its previous rec- ommendation that the Clayton Act be ‘amended to outlaw the acquisi- tion of corporate assets under the same conditions that the acqusition of corporate stock has been unlawful since passage of this legislation in-1914. In urging amendment of the Clayton Act, the commission called attention to the conclusion of the | | concerning nine ealleged violations mittee that the process of corporate | ‘Temporary National Economic Com- merger and consolidation “has con- tributed in major part toward the elimination of competition,” and that the failure to prohibit the ac- quisition of corporate assets pro- vides “a convenient way of ecir- cumventing the obvious intention of the law.” The report indorsed the proposal of the T. N. E. O. that acquisitien of assets of competing tions over a certain size be forbidden without prior Gevernment appreval, as a means of insuring that the purpose and probable result of such acquisition would be in the public interests. “The commission is strongly in accord with the principie of thus limiting future expancion of the evil,” the report stated. During the year the commission issued 357 formal complaints charg- ing unlawful practices. It also is- sued 348 cease and desist orders, and accepted 532 stipulations to cease and desist from varicus flims against whom informal proceeGings had been instituted. Of the 532 stipulations accepted, 234 related to representations in radio and periodi- cal advertising matter. Of the 42 cases reaching the Fed- eral courts, 40 yere decided favorably to the commission, the report raid. The commission certified the facts of cease and desist orders to the Attorney General. Some variety of grouse is found in almost every wooded area of the United States and Canada. THE XVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1942. Where They - Yrem the National Successful oceusation of Sumatra, which the Japanise are reported to have bombed, wuuld offer the in- vaders a valuable war prize. Next to the la-gest and next to the richest®%f the Netherlands Indies Isignds, Sumatra faces also-threat- » | ened British Mal:ya across the vital Strait of Malaccs At the southern outlet of this stiait lies Singapore, less than 65 mil:s from the east- central coast of Sumatra. In the northern waters «f the strait is the formerly Britisk-held island of Penang, now ir Japanese hands, from which the sir-borne Japanese troops are believed to have taken off for their attemyted occupation of the Medan airpo't, near the north- east coast of Sumatra. Little Natuisl Proteetion. Roughly 1,000 riles long and some 250 miles across 1t its widest point, Sumatra offers Ittle in the way of natural protection against invasion from the east. Its mountains are in the north ane along the western coast. From a peint south of Medan, the eastern shores stretch in broad, seemingly endles; beaches to the tip of the island, off of which lies Java, Are Fighting the mest populous and impertant ef the Netherlands group. Hot -and moist, Sumatrs sits astride the Equator. Along its east- ern lowlands particularly it 1s plagued by an often’ fatal ferm of malaria that strikes at both Euro- peans and natives. Other tropical diseases are prevalent, and shij interests of ncrmal times long have geen warried to take special precau- tions to guard the health and lives of crews stopping there. Most of the important settle- ments of Sumatra are situated on the western side of the island, in- cluding the seat of the Netherlands west coast government at Padang, a city of ahout 50,000 inhabitants lying half way along the coast. There are few urban communities of any size on the island. The only city of more e ———— e Dr. John J. Field|| DENTIST 406 Tth ST. N.W. MEt. 9256 Third Floor, Weolworth Building than 100,000 peeple is inland Pa- outstandingly valuable te the nation which controls them. The island s one of the world's important rubber producers and experts large quan- eight | tities of petroleum annuslly. coffes and tea, pepper, fibers ard quinine play & significant rele in and | world markets, while fine wrapper- tain of these savage tribes, organ- ized in federated villages or under their own native rulers, regard themselves as independent of any foreign dominatien. Wealth in Oil, Rubber. For either peace or war activities, leaf tobacco from Sumatrs rer- mally fills more than four-fifths of the United States demand for this product. The island also mines coal, gold and silver, as well as some lead and considerable tin. On the other hand, the native agriculture is insufficient to feed iis own population, and many food and the natural resources of Sumstra are ,other necessary articles must be im- 15% 0dd lots samples, ons-of-«-ki.nds. All sales final . . . no phone, C. O. D., approvals or exchanges. quest of the mother country, Su- matra joined with other of the Netherlands Indies in a toward self-sufficiency. New fac- torfes for the production of high- octane gas and aluminum materials were reported put into operstion, as well as chemical and paper plants. 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