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12/11/42
Industry are not financially able to make the best use of these valuable facilities.
"This legislation proposed to remedy this situation, not by making the best use of these facilities, but by Junking them so that a monopoly company, operating on a smaller scale than the two present companies, will be in a position to make a greater profit. Such a program might receive serious consideration by Congress in peacetime, but in a period of war the submission for serious con¬ sideration of such a proposal represents, to my mind, a scandalous situation, "
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THOMS P. LITTLEPAGE, PIONEER RADIO LAWYER, DIES
Thomas P. Llttlepage, Sr., prominent attorney in the National Capital, died last night (Thursday) at the age of 69. Mr. Littlepage was among the first lawyers in the country to interpret the radio laws following the passage of the Radio Act and the cre¬ ation of the Federal Radio Commission, forerunner of the Federal Communications Commission,
Cited by the Cosmopolitan Club as during the year of 1934 "the citizen who performed the most outstanding and unselfish ser¬ vice to the city", he was nevertheless a very modest man. This writer recalls at a radio hearing back in the days when Judge E, 0, Sykes was Chairman, the latter addressing Mr, Littlepage as "Con¬ gressman". Mr. Littlepage, who was of distinguished appearance, however never sailed under false colors on any occasion and quickly replied; "Mr, Chairman, I am not a Congressman. Nevertheless I appreciate the compliment you evidently intended to pay me, "
Mr, Littlepage was once President of the famous Alfalfa Club and long an active worker in civic and charity pursuits. He was at one time President of the Washington Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Littlepage was a kindly man and was deeply devoted to his native Hoosier State. He was born in Spencer County, Indiana. He attended the State Normal at Terre Haute. His farm, where he made his home near Bowie, Maryland, one of the finest in that sec¬ tion of the country, fairly breathed Hoosier hospitality. Mr. Littlepage raised prize winning products and in the Autumn "when the frost was on the punkln* and the fodder was in the shock" used to favor friends with huge baskets of apples and other things he knew so well how to grow.
His business interests extended to banking as well as to law, and he was Vice President of the Bank of Bowie and a Director of Liberty National Bank, He was a member, too, of several Masonic organizations, Including Temple-Noyes Lodge.
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