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PRESIDENT OMITS RADIO COMMISSION IN REORGANIZATION PLANS
President Roosevelt in submitting to Congress executive orders for reorganizing certain Government services, at a saving estimated at $25,000,000, omitted any reference to the Federal Radio Commission.
It has been generally understood that the President would merge the Commission into a Radio Bureau in the Department of Com¬ merce. The fact that he did not 6end his recommendations with regard to the Radio Commission to Congress at this time, leads to the con¬ clusion that there is a hitch in the matter and he desires to give it further consideration, or that the Commission may be allowed to go along in its present form at least until after the International Radio Conference in Mexico City in July. There are even some who declare that the Commission will be allowed to continue indefinitely.
This is all a surmise, however, as thus far the President is not known to have discussed the fate of the Commission with anyone.
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COMMISSION REFUSES TO ACT IN WIBO CASE
The petition filed with the Radio Commission requesting a reopening of the WIBO, Chicago, case, alleging ’'fraud" on the Radio Commission and the Supreme Court, was denied by the Commission. The grounds for the denial were that the Commission was without juris¬ diction in the matter.
At least that is the way it was the way it was dressed up legally but off the record one of the Commissioners is said to have remarked that the Commission had no desire to make a "spectacle" of itself by trying to overrule Chief Justice Hughes and the United States Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court on May 8th in a sweeping decision sus¬ tained the Commission^ original order that WIBO and WPCC, Chicago, be removed from the air and that their assignment of 560 kc to WJKS , Gary, be allowed to stand. The deletion of the two Chicago stations will now unquestionably be made. It will simply be a matter of carrying out the orders of the Commission and the Court.
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