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7/13/43
ARMY CURBS OVERSEAS VOICE DISKS
A ban on shipment of phonograph disks recording personal messages to soldiers overseas was announced last week by the War Department^
As a result of a plan adopted by several commercial com¬ panies, the department said, large numbers of such recordings addressed to soldiers are being received in the mails, although transmittal of such messages either to or from soldiers is prohibit¬ ed by War Department regulations.
"Strict enforcement of these regulations is necessary to safeguard against the transmitting of secret military Information through this medium", the department said.
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INCREASE IN RADIO OWNERSHIP IN SWITZERLAND
Radio-set owners in Switzerland numbered 729,231 at the end of 1942, an Increase of 48,925, or 7,2 percent, compared with 1941, The number of radio owners has mounted steadily since 1924, when approximately 17,000 were reported. By 1927 the total had drown to 39,000; by 1930, to 104,000; and by 1933, to 300,000,
Telephone broadcasting (wired wireless) was started in 1932, with 8,283 subscribers; last year the total was 70,657,
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DOESN'T FAVOR FCC DICTATING STATIONS' BUSINESS TERJ^S
Referring to the recent Supreme Court radio decision in an article generally condemning the New Deal, the Saturday Evening Post recently had this to say;
"If you are taking up the New Deal as a single and indiv¬ isible body of political doctrine, can you leave out the effort to pack the Supreme Court, purge senators who got off the party line, and through administration of the Wagner Act, deny to employers the right to ordinary expression of opinion. New Dealers are not very proud of these episodes at the moment, perhaps because they feel the chill of a new mood in the political wind. But, if you insist that the New Deal is all of a piece, and that it must be accepted or rejected in toto like the Koran or the Book of Mormon, then you must Include the apocryphal chapters along with the true revelation,
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