NAB reports (Mar-Dec 1933)

“In my opinion, the law requires the Commission to keep itself informed as to the actual ownership of stations, and, for the purpose of helping to produce this result, I move the adoption of the resolution.” WREC CASE ARGUED The Court of Appeals at its opening session on October 2 heard the appeal argued in Docket No. 5846 of Station WREC, Inc., against the Radio Commission. Dockets Nos. 5896 and 5917 of Station WJJD against the Commission which were to have been heard on the same date were postponed until next month. WLCI DEFAULT SUSTAINED The Radio Commission on Friday upheld Examiner George H. Hill in his Report No. 510 in which he declared the Lutheran Asso¬ ciation of Ithaca, Ithaca, N. Y., Station WLCI. in default because it failed to put in an appearance at a hearing called in connection with the license renewal of the station. SECURITIES ACT REGISTRATIONS The following companies filed registration statements with the Federal Trade Commission under the Securities Act during the current week: Alpha Distributors, Inc., New York City. (2-231) Basin Goldfields, Ltd., Butte, Mont. (2-242) James B. Beam Distilling Company. Clermont, Ky. (2-245) Bloom Lake Consolidated Mines, Ltd., Toronto, Canada. (2-237) Cariboo Amalgamated Gold Mines, Ltd., Vancouver, B. C. (2240) Chattanooga Brewing Company, Chattanooga, Tenn. (2-232) City Farmers Fund (C). Inc., New York City. (2-236) Fifteen West 81st Street Bondowners Elected Committee, New York City. (2-238) Miller-Rvan Trading Corporation, Denver, Colo. (2-241) Nevada Pacific Ranches, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah. (2-234) Penn-York Oil & Gas Corporation, Olean, N. Y. (2-243) Luther E. Todd and Others. St. Louis, Mo. (2-239) The Trinity Corporation, Kittery, Me. (2-233) United Capital Corporation, Augusta, Me. (2-244) United Investors Corporation, Des Moines, Iowa. (2-235) Western Reserve Brewing Company, Warren, Ohio. (2-230) American Gold Mines. Inc., Idaho Springs, Colo. (2-256) American Royalties, Inc., New York City. (2-257) Buttes Oldfields, Inc., Oakland, Calif. (2-255) Cummins Distilleries Corporation, Louisville, Ky. (2-253) Distilled Liquors Corporation, New York City. (2-249) Distributors Group. Inc., New York City. (2-246) F’rerichs Mining Company, Chicago, Ill. (2-250) Gyro Air Lines, Inc., Denver, Colo. (2-248) Kenilworth Brewing Company, Beaver Heights, Md. (2-259) Lock Nut Corporation of America, Chicago. Ill. (2-247) Philadelphia Protective Committee, Van Camp Products Co., Philadelphia. (2-252) Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Calif. (2-251) Shenandoah Valley Jockey Club, Charlestown, W. Va. (2-254) Sullivan Gold Mining Company, Spokane, Wash. (2-258) WWL APPEALS FROM F. R. C. DECISION Appeal was filed this week by Station WWL in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia against the Radio Commission because of a decision of the Commission rendered on September 15 refusing the application of the station for full-time operation on its frequency of 850 kilocycles. The station now operates part time. Protest was also made in the appeal that the Commission granted a license renewal to Station KWKH and that it granted the assign¬ ment of license of that station from the Hello World Broadcasting Corporation to the International Broadcasting Company. Among other things it is stated in the appeal that “the order of the Commission, if it could be sustained upon any facts or reasons at all, would be based upon facts and reasons not presented at any hearing at which appellant was present or represented or had an opportunity of cross-examination or of offering explanatory evidence or evidence in contradiction.” It is further contended in the anneal that “the order of the Com¬ mission denying appellant’s application is made contrary to the evidence, is without evidence to sustain it and is arbitrary, unreason¬ able and capricious.” COMMISSION ANSWERS RCA CASE The Radio Commission this week filed its answer in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to the case brought against it by one Gerald V. Moore, of this city, in which the Commission was alleged to have violated the law in granting renewal licenses to the National Broadcastine Company, subsidiary of the Radio Corpora¬ tion of America, on the basis that the parent organization had been adjudged guilty by a federal court of attempting monopoly. The petitioner asked for a writ of mandamus against the Commission in this case. In a lengthy answer the Commission points out that a similar case has already been decided by the Court and that the petitioner had an opportunity to intervene in a case. The petitioner, says the Commission, “having failed to avail himself of his plain, speedy and adequate remedy at law, cannot now obtain a review of said action and decision by a writ of mandamus.” Denial is made by the Commission in its answer that RCA has been finally adjudged guilty by “a federal court of entering into a contract with other firms in the radio apparatus field (to substan¬ tially lessen competition or attempting to create a monopoly in) the commerce in such radio vacuum tubes for radio broadcast receivers as alleged by the petitioner.” FEDERAL RADIO COMMISSION ACTION HEARING CALENDAR Friday, October 13, 1933 NEW— Joseph S. Crawford and Leigh E. Ore, Erie, Pa. — CP, 1420 kc., 100 watts, unlimited time. Page 188