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Smith, of South Caroline; Key Pittman, of Nevada; C. C. Dill, of Washington; Burton K. Wheeler, of Montana; Harry B. Hawes, of Missouri; Robert F. Wagner, of New York; Millard E. Tydings, of Maryland; Alben W. Barkley, of Kentucky; and W. M. Neely, of West Virginia.
There are but two new faces on the Committee Hatfield and Neely, both of West Virginia.
Senator Wallace White, of Maine, co-author of the Radio Act, was not appointed to the Interstate Commerce Committee as had Deen expected. His committees are Commerce, Civil Service, Labor and Education. Senator White will doubtless be heard on radio matters from the floor when the occasion arises.
The membership of the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Commit¬ tee of the House of Representatives, handling radio, includes:
Ewin L. Davis, of Tennessee; Schuyler Otis Bland, of Virgini Clay S. Briggs, of Texas; George W. Lindsay, of New York; Oscar L.
Auf der Heide, of New Jersey; Arthur P. Lamneck, of Ohio; Martin J. Kennedy, of New York; Robert D. Johnson, of Missouri; Frederick R. Lehlbach, of New Jersey; Arthur M. Free, of California; Frank Reed, of Illinois; Charles L. Gifford, of Massachusetts; Frederick W. Magrady, of Pennsylvania; Frank L. Bowman, of West Virginia; Robert Ho Clancy, of Michigan; Charles A. Kading, of Wisconsin; James Wolfenden, of Pennsylvania; Victor S. K. Houston, delegate from Hawaii; and James Wickersham, delegate from Alaska.
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RADIO INDUSTRY WILL OPPOSE SPECIAL SALES TAX
Opposition of the radio industry to the proposal in Congress of a sales tax of five per cent on radios, phonographs and accessories was announced this week. The Receiving Set Committee of the Radio Manufacturers' Association, the national industry organization, issued a statement detailing the industry's opposition to the proposed special tax on radios and phonographs.
"The radio industry recognizes the revenue necessities of the Government and also the difficulties of equitable taxation", the statement read.
"The radio industry always has placed its facilities freely at the disposal of Federal, State and local governments, their officials and representatives for free public service. It has borne and will cheerfully bear its fair share of taxation.
"The radio industry will, however, unitedly oppose the proposed discriminatory sales tax of five per cent as an unfair, oppressive burden on the radio industry and public. The radio industry would favor a general sales tax of a small fraction of a