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1/15/43
COX AGAIN OUT TO GET FLY; PREDICTS FCC PROBE
Representative Cox of Georgia, ranking Democrat on the Rules Committee, has resumed his old feud with Chairman James L.
Fly, of the Federal Communications Commission. He predicts that the House Rules Committee will report on Monday the Cox Resolution calling for investigation of the FCC. Representative Cox said further that the resolution would pass the House the following day and that there would "not be 20 votes against it".
The first signs of a resumption of the Cox-FLy fight was when Mr. Cox demanded in the House Thursday that impeachment pro¬ ceedings be instituted against unidentified Government officials.
He refused to amplify a half-minute speech in which he demanded the action, but predicted speedy Rules Committee approval of a resolution to investigate the Federal Communications Commission, headed by James L. Fly.
"You can draw your own inferences", he told reporters.
"The time has come", the Georgian told the House, "for this House to protect itself and the country against the scorn, the abuse and the dictatorship of tne bureaucrats by resorting to the process of impeachment. "
During tne day, Marcus Cohn, counsel of the FCC, denounced as "unsupported innuendoes and insinuations" the charges made by attorneys for an Albany, Ga. radio station that commission investi¬ gators were more interested in trying to "get something on" Repres¬ entative Cox than they were in the station’s business.
Cohn said that failure of the radio station' s records to show that Arthur Lucas and W. K. Jenkins, Georgians who operate several theatrical enterprises, had an interest as stockholders in the broadcasting company operating station WALB had prompted the com¬ mission' s inquiry, now in its fourth day of hearings.
H. T. McIntosh, President of the Albany Herald Publishing Co. and the Albany Herald Broadcasting Co. had testified that $2500 was paid Cox in whose district Albany lies, for legal services he could render "in an ethical and legal manner" which would not be in conflict with his status as a Congressman.
Mr. Cox told the Washington Post that the $2500 check was indorsed and sent back by him and there was then sent to him stock in a new corporation "which never has functioned" and that he trans¬ ferred the stock to a "private charity".
Delacey Allen, lawyer for WALB, told FCC Examiner Don Harris that he felt his previous charge that the Commission was prim¬ arily interested in "getting something on" Cox was supported while Conn contended that his statements as to the reason for the hearing answered Allen' s allegations.
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