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Heinl Radio News Service
12/19/45
5 FIRMS NAMED IN FIRST THEATRE TV MONOPOLY SUIT
The Government filed an anti-trust suit in New York Tuesday charging conspiracy which has caused delay in the develop¬ ment of television for use in theatres.
A civil injunction suit by the Department of Justice accus¬ ed Paramount Pictures, Inc., and others with antitrust violations in the manufacture and sale of "two revolutionary television systems".
"In addition to the usual restraints on competition which flow from illegal cartel arrangements, as a result of this conspir¬ acy commercial developments in this country of an important advance in the television art has been postponed and the opening of a new field of public entertainment and education has been unnecessarily delayed? " Josepn Borkin, Department of Justice attorney, said in a statement.
The Government declared that the systems, technically call¬ ed "supersonic" and "skiatron", involved the use of an outside source of light similar to that used in motion picture projection, thereby allowing television to be shown on screens as large as those in theaters. The images in this way would be enlarged greatly beyond those of the system now commonly in use, the Government added.
The other defendants named were Television Productions, Inc., and its President, Paul Raibourn; General Precision Equipment Coro., and its President, Earle G. Hines; Scophony Corp. of America and its President, Arthur Levey, and Socophony, Ltd., a British con¬ cern which took out the basic patents in 1957 and 1939.
The Government charged the defendants divided the world into two non-competitive areas so that Scophony, Ltd, would not com¬ pete within the Western Hemisphere; that General Precision & Televi¬ sion Productions would not compete within the Eastern, and that Scophony Corp. of America would not compete in either.
Attorney General Tom Clark, in whose name the suit was fil¬ ed, said Television Productions was wholly owned by Paramount, and that General Precision was the largest single stockholder in Twent¬ ieth Century-Fox Corp. He said stock of Scophony Corp. of America was owned and controlled by General Precision, Television Productions and Scophony, Ltd.
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TAM CRAVEN’ S FORBEAR * OWNED” THE WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
Changing the name of the Washington Navy Yard, one of the oldest in the country (which henceforth will be known as U. S. Naval Gun Factory), brougnt to mind an amusing story about Commodore Thomas Tingey, USN, first Commandant of the Yard, who was the great, great (maybe the great, great, great) grandfather of Commander T.A.M.
Craven, Vice-President of the Cowles Broadcasting Company,
Commodore Tingey was thoroughly imbued with the idea that tne Washington Navy Yard was not only his to command but that it really was his personal property. And, believe it or not, when he died, he willed it to his daughter.
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