Heinl radio business letter (July-Dec 1941)

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0/15/41 LaGuardia seemed to be as excited and pleased over the new device as the proverbial little boy with his first pair of red-topped boots. LaGuardia went so far as to say the ”alert” might replace all other air raid warnings. Mr. Samoff called it the modem "Paul Revere". The low frequency of the Alert Receiver, sent out simul¬ taneously with the regular broadcast, will not be heard on ordinary receivers but will ring a bell, siren, or light a light in the special set and so have the defense worker on the alert. Any spoken message would have to come via regular broadcast. The set is very simple, being made up of parts from a $9 set, but with a special relay system. xxxxxxxx COURT ORDERS NEWSPAPER WITNESS TO TESTIFY Deciding that the Federal Communications Commission had the power to require a witness to appear before it. Judge James W. Morris of the District Supreme Court last Friday ordered James G. Stahlman, publisher of the Nashville Banner to accept a subpoena issued by the Commission. The case had been argued earlier in the week. The court test came in the Commission* s inquiry into newspaper ownership of radio stations. Elisha Hanson, Counsel for the Merican Newspaper Publishers' Association, expressing the belief that the Commission was conducting an unlawful and illegal investigation, ordered LIr. Stahlman and several other newspaper witnesses not to appear. Whereupon Chairman Fly took legal steps. The other witnesses summoned were Edwin S. Friendly, Busi¬ ness ivlanager of the New York Sun, Arthur T. Robb, editor of the Editor & Publisher, and William Thomson, Director of the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association. It is assumed that now they will all appear to testify at the continua¬ tion of the FCC radio newspaper inquiry September 17th. Mr. Hanson asserted that a possible purpose of the investi¬ gators was to bar persons or firms engaged in the newspaper publish¬ ing business from taking part in the radio broadcasting business, which, he maintained, would be an unlawful enlargement of the Com¬ mission's powers. In a three-page typewritten memorandum ooinion, Justice Morris said: "The act (creating the FCC) authorizes the Commission to make recommendations for proposed legislation germane to the field which the Act gives it the power to regulate. Certainly such recom¬ mendations should not be made without diligently undertaking to secure relevant data and the informed thought of those likely to be affected. 9