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CONGRESSIONAL PROBE OF FCC EXPECTED AT NEXT SESSION
Despite the preponderant New Deal majority in the 75th Congress, Washington observers are predicting that the longdelayed Congressional investigation of the Federal Communications Commission will occur.
House leaders, particularly Chairman John J. O'Connor, of the Rules Committee, were able to block several moves for a probe last session, but now they are said to be reconciled to an inquiry, confident that it can be kept under control.
The move for the investigation doubtless will originate in the Democratic ranks although many Republicans would be glad to sponsor it. At the last session Representative Connery (D. ), of Massachusetts, was the most persistent in his demands for a probe.
Although the FCC has been boldly pro-New Deal in its policies, it has stirred up bitter opposition among prominent Democrats, as well as Republicans, by its decisions in sectional or factional feuds.
With the Democrats in such a dominant position, it is not likely that the investigation will delve very deeply into the pro-New Deal actions of the Commission. It more probably will be confined to reversals of Examiner recommendations and questionable decisions removed from national politics.
Among the matters that probably will be aired in the event of a Congressional probe are the Knox Broadcasting Company case, together with the "Willard Hotel incident", the unsuccess¬ ful attempts of the Paulist Fathers to obtain full time for WLWL , New York, and the Brooklyn cases which the FCC has still not decided after more than two years.
The "Vandenberg incident" will doubtless be brought up and may lead to a chance in policy with regard to recorded broad¬ casting, but it is not likely that the FCC will be punished greatly for playing a hands-off policy in a row between the CBS network and the Republican National Committee.
The FCC is in a much more vulnerable position in its grant of facilities to the Star-Times Publishing Co., St. Louis, over the protest of WIL, St. Louis, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and the Republican National Committee. Although the issue is now in litigation, the litigants and the Republicans are still
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