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Helnl Radio News Service
1/3/46
NORMAN BAKER TRIES TO STAGE COMEBACK
Westbrook Pegler, writing in the Washington Times-Herald today, has this to say concerning Norman Baker, twice convicted by the Federal courts once for making and transporting across the border into Mexico without permission from the Federal Communications Com¬ mission a phonograph record, said to deal with a method by which Baker claims to have cured external cancer; and next convicted of using the mails to defraud in the operation of a hospital at Eureka Springs, Ark.
•'Norman Baker, of Laredo, Tex., has filed a petition with tne Federal Communications Commission, in Washington, charging that tne Alamo Broadcasting Company, of San Antonio, by underhanded meth¬ ods obtained physical possession of important broadcasting equipment, the property of CIA, Industrial Universal de Mexico, at Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
"The Alamo station is the most important single property of the Texas State Network, organized by Elliott Roosevelt. The net¬ work's stock, represented to be worthless in January 1942, recently was valued at $100 a share. Baker's petition alleges that on the basis of the acquisition of this equipment, the FCC "in an unpre¬ cedentedly short time, and without notice or opportunity for any interested parties to be heard, granted Alamo Broadcasting Company a construction permit. " Such equipment was frozen by war regulations at the time. Baker's petition charges that the FCC gave Alamo the permit on the understanding that Alamo would use in its improved station a transmitter and other apparatus acquired from the Mexican company whose station was known as XENT.
"Baker has a record of two convictions in the Federal courts, both set forth in the petition. In the first case, in 1936, he says the FCC instigated an indictment charging him with making and trans¬ porting across the border into Mexico without permission from the FCC a phonograph record which was played on XENT. He was sentenced to four months in Jail and fined $2,000. The petition says the convic¬ tion was reversed by the circuit court of appeals on the ground that FCC's regulation was invalid,
"Although he does not say so, there is reason to assume that the phonograph record dealt with a method by which Baker claims to have cured external cancer. He was next convicted of using the mails to defraud in the operation of a hospital at Eureka Springs,
Ark. He was sentenced in January 1940 to four years in prison and fined $4,000.
"He lay in jail 14 months, for which he received no credit, while his appeal was pending. He then went to Leavenworth on March 22, 1941, and he was released on July 19, 1944. At that time he was on probation and could be sent back to Leavenworth at the whim of the Department of Justice to serve out his remaining 11 months of 'good time', so he lay low until he was out of jeopardy. Baker in¬ sists that he had available as witnesses many persons whom he had cure d.
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