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CONGRESS GROUP WILL NOT PROBE BLUE POLITICAL CHARGES
Representative Lea ( D) , of California, Chairman of the special ?CC Investigating Committee, said toda.y (Taesda.y) that his group would not investigate the Blue Network, He had previously been quoted as saying there would be an inquiry into the sale of the Blue Network in view of the charges made that Harry Hopkins and others of the White House palace guard and Wendell Willkie through the sale had gained the inside track.
The argument for this was that Edward J. Noble, controll¬ ing owner of the Blue, had formerly served as Secretary of .Commerce under Mr, Hopkins and that Henry R. Luce, a Willkie supporter, had been allowed to buy a substantial interest in the Blue,
"We are investigating the Federal Communications Commis¬ sion, not the broadcasters”, Representative Lea said.
Mr, Lea did say, however, that his Committee would make some inquiry into the sale to see if there were grounds for the cnarges that any particular group would be favored with regard to time. Representative Lea seemed to think even then that the matter of time allocation was a legislative question and should be dealt with by those framing the new Radio Act.
Eugene Garey, counsel for the Lea Committee, had been previously quoted as saying that an exhaustive Congressional inquiry had been launched into the Blue Net sale.
”A11 the circumstances involving the sale of the Blue network, subsequent developments, and also the purchase and sale by Noble of WMCA are being Investigated by the staff”, Mr, Garey declared, ’’The results of this inquiry will be presented to the Committee for its consideration at an appropriate time, ”
Also Blue Net officials in Washington refused to get excited over the political charges. It was said that it was doubt¬ ful if the Blue would even issue an official denial. Although much had been made of the fact that Lowell Thomas, commentator sponsored by the Sun Oil Co,, of which Joseph Pew of Pennsylvania, ”Angel” of the standpat Renubllcans had gone over to the Red Net, it was said that this "didn't mean a thing”. It was explained that Thomas changed to the Red because most of his other stations were on the Red and that in dividing the two networks, they had made the split as even as possible.
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Convalescent servicemen in isolated wards at the Naval Hospital in Washington, D. C. , will soon have their own radios, thanks to an unknown donor who presented a check for $500, with the stipulation that the Home Hospitality Committee match the amount, which they did, and radios will soon be installed in the hospital.
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